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Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies Commitments and Contingencies
Leases
Redwood City
The Company has a lease for facilities in Redwood City, California (“Redwood City Premises”), which expires December 31, 2031, with an option to extend for a period of eight years. The lease includes an additional tenant improvement allowance of up to $2.0 million to be used at the Company’s discretion. Any amounts drawn would be amortized over the remaining lease term at 9% per annum, not subject to annual base rent increases. Under this lease, the Company provided the landlord of the Redwood City Premises with a letter of credit in the amount of $2.0 million, which is classified as restricted cash under long-term assets on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets. As of June 30, 2025, the Company had a total future rent obligation of $44.0 million related to this lease.
North Carolina
On January 8, 2021, the Company entered into an operating lease agreement for a building in North Carolina (“NC Premises”). The lease commenced in April 2021, when the Company obtained control of the NC Premises, and the lease term expires in October 2037 with two options to extend the lease term for a period of five years each.
On October 26, 2021, the Company entered into a sublease agreement with Jaguar Gene Therapy, LLC (“Jaguar”) for the NC Premises through October 2037, the remainder of the lease term, and concurrently changed the terms of the head lease. In addition, the remainder of the tenant improvement allowance under the original lease of approximately $22.7 million was transferred to Jaguar.
On April 3, 2023, the Company entered into an amendment of the lease of its NC Premises with the landlord and subtenant. Under this amendment, the parties agreed to substantially reduce the total tenant improvement allowance in exchange for lower monthly rent. The Company accounted for this amendment as a lease modification under ASC 842. The Company remeasured the lease liability, resulting in an increase in the lease liability with a corresponding increase of the right-of-use asset of $0.3 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2023. There was no charge recognized in the consolidated statement of operations.
In April 2023, Jaguar assigned the sublease to Advanced Medicine Partners, LLC (at that time, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jaguar, “AMP” or the “subtenant”) as the subtenant for the NC Premises for the remainder of the lease term. Pursuant to the sublease and the notice and waiver of assignment (the “assignment agreement”), Jaguar remained obligated for AMP’s proper performance under the sublease.
In the first quarter of 2025, the subtenant made payments totaling $1.4 million for January and February 2025 rent and drew $2.4 million from the available tenant improvement allowance, after which the subtenant failed to remit the March 2025 and subsequent rent payments. As a result, the subtenant and Jaguar defaulted, and failed to cure such defaults under the sublease and the assignment agreement for the NC Premises. The Company assumed responsibility for rent payments beginning in March 2025.
In February 2025, a lien totaling $4.8 million was filed by a third-party contractor against the subtenant’s interest in the NC Premises. The Company discharged the lien in March 2025 by depositing cash in the full amount with the applicable court in order to avoid a default under the head lease. On July 23, 2025, the Company and the third-party contractor resolved the third-party contractor’s and subcontractors’ lien claims against the NC Premises and the $4.8 million deposited by the Company with the court.
The Company remains obligated under the head lease and as of June 30, 2025, had a total future rent obligation of $118.3 million. As a result of the uncured defaults, the Company terminated the sublease and on April 10, 2025 initiated a lawsuit against the subtenant and Jaguar in the Superior Court of Wake County, North Carolina to enforce its rights under the sublease and to seek recovery of losses and damages incurred due to the defaults by the subtenant and Jaguar.
The Company recorded a sublease loss of zero and $1.0 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively. The Company recorded a sublease loss of $3.7 million and $4.8 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. Sublease loss was recognized in general and administrative expense.