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Asset Acquisitions and Collaboration Agreements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Asset Acquisition [Abstract]  
Asset Acquisitions and Collaboration Agreements

9. aSSET aCQUISITIONS AND COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS

Eiger Asset Acquisition

On July 9, 2024, the Company completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets and interests in the development, manufacture and commercialization of avexitide from Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc., or Eiger, for $35.1 million, or the Eiger Acquisition. The Eiger Acquisition includes the acquisition of all of Eiger’s owned and co-owned patents and applications directed to avexitide, as well as the assumption of Eiger’s licenses to patents and applications directed to avexitide and owned and co-owned by other entities, and the samples, retains, raw materials and active pharmaceutical ingredients in Eiger’s possession and control.

The transaction was accounted for as an asset acquisition as the acquired assets did not meet the definition of a business. The Company did not acquire any outputs and there was not an acquired substantive process in place to create outputs. The total purchase consideration of $36.2 million was composed of cash paid at closing of $35.1 million and direct transaction costs of $1.1 million.

The fair value was allocated to acquired in-process research and development, or IPR&D, assets with no alternative future use for these assets at the closing of the acquisition. As a result, the Company recorded a charge of $36.2 million related to acquired IPR&D expense on the consolidated statements of operations during the year ended December 31, 2024, and no IPR&D expense was recorded during the year ended December 31, 2025.

As part of the transaction, the Company assumed royalty obligations between 4% and 7% on future sales owed to certain academic institutions and individuals. The Company will recognize these royalty payments related to avexitide in the period in which the achievement of the underlying milestones becomes probable. There were no other contingent obligations or assumed liabilities from the acquisition as of December 31, 2025 or December 31, 2024.

Gubra A/S Collaboration and License Agreement

On December 23, 2024, the Company entered into a collaboration and license agreement, or the Gubra Agreement, with Gubra pursuant to which the parties will perform research and discovery activities for the development of a potential novel long-acting GLP-1 receptor antagonist, under the oversight of a joint research committee. The collaboration provides the Company an exclusive license to develop, manufacture, commercialize and otherwise exploit any development candidate and product(s) arising in the performance of activities under the agreement.

The Company made an immaterial upfront payment in January 2025, which became due upon the effective date of the Gubra Agreement. Since the payment was made for the use of Gubra’s intellectual property and research and development services and there is no alternative use, the Company recorded the upfront payment to research and development expense on the consolidated statements of operations in 2024. Gubra is eligible to receive an additional $53.5 million upon the achievement of certain development, regulatory and commercial milestones, as well as tiered royalties on future sales from any products that result from the agreement. Certain milestones were met and paid in the first quarter of 2026, specifically the selection and handover of the development candidate, which provided a milestone payment of $4 million to Gubra. The Company has agreed to make quarterly payments to fund Gubra's ongoing research activities, which are not expected to be material.