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Royalty Financing Agreement
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Royalty Financing Agreement  
Royalty Financing Agreement

8Royalty Financing Agreement

In May 2023, the Company entered into a royalty purchase agreement (the “Royalty Financing Agreement”) with the Purchaser. Under the terms of the Royalty Financing Agreement, the Company received an upfront payment of $375.0 million in exchange for its rights to the lowest royalty tier on CSL Behring LLC’s (“CSL Behring”) worldwide net sales of etranacogene dezaparvovec-drlb (HEMGENIX®) for certain current and future royalties due to the Company. The Company will be obligated to pay $25.0 million of the first worldwide sales milestone payment from CSL Behring, if received, to the Purchaser.

The Purchaser will receive 1.85 times the upfront payment (or $693.8 million) until June 30, 2032 (“First Hard Cap Date”) if such thresholds are met or, if such cap is not met by June 30, 2032, up to 2.25 times of the upfront through December 31, 2038 (“Second Hard Cap Date”). If, on or prior to the defined dates for each cap amount, the total amount of royalty payments received by the Purchaser equals or exceeds the cap amount applicable to such date, the Royalty Financing Agreement will automatically terminate and all rights to the HEMGENIX® royalty payments will revert back to the Company. The Company has no obligation to repay any amounts received from the Purchaser in the event that the applicable cap amount is not reached during the term of the Royalty Financing Agreement.

The Company has retained the rights to all other royalties, as well as contractual milestones totaling up to $1.3 billion, under the terms of the commercialization and license agreement with CSL Behring (the “CSL Behring Agreement”).

Net proceeds from the Royalty Financing Agreement were $370.1 million. The Company initially recorded these net proceeds as “Liability from royalty financing agreement” at their fair market value on its consolidated balance sheet as of closing of the transaction on June 5, 2023. Following the initial recognition, the Company records the debt at amortized cost.

As of June 30, 2025 the Company expects to satisfy its commitment to the Purchaser prior to the Second Hard Cap Date. The Company recorded the difference of $473.7 million between the total expected payments of $843.8 million to the Purchaser and the $370.1 million net proceeds as interest expense using the effective interest rate method. The Company determined the effective interest rate based on the projected cash flows up to the Second Hard Cap Date. Based on the Company’s projections, the effective interest rate is expected to be within a range of 12.0% to 13.5% per annum. The Company would have recorded the following amounts of interest expense if it had used the effective interest rate at the lower and upper end of this range:

Three months ended June 30, 

Six months ended June 30, 

    

2025

    

2024

2025

    

2024

(in millions)

(in millions)

Interest expenses at effective interest rate of 12.0% per annum

$

13.7

$

12.4

$

26.9

$

24.5

Interest recorded in the statement of operations and comprehensive loss and income

13.8

12.4

27.1

24.8

Interest expenses at effective interest rate of 13.5% per annum

15.5

14.0

30.3

27.7

The Company prospectively updates the effective interest rate at each reporting date based on updated cash flow projections.

The following table presents the movement in the liability related to the Royalty Financing Agreement  between December 31, 2024 and June 30, 2025:

    

Amount of liability

(in thousands)

Balance as of December 31, 2024 (includes $5.0 million presented as "Accrued expenses and other current liabilities)

$

439,881

Royalty payments to the Purchaser

(6,453)

Interest expense for the period

27,079

Balance as of June 30, 2025 (includes $5.2 million presented as "Accrued expenses and other current liabilities)

$

460,507