Related Party - Gilead Sciences, Inc. |
3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2026 | |
| Related Party Transactions [Abstract] | |
| Related Party - Gilead Sciences, Inc. | Related party - Gilead Sciences, Inc. In 2020, we and Gilead Sciences, Inc. ("Gilead") entered into an Option, License and Collaboration Agreement (the "Gilead Collaboration Agreement"), Common Stock Purchase Agreement (the "Stock Purchase Agreement"), and Investor Rights Agreement (the "Investor Rights Agreement"). The Gilead Collaboration Agreement was amended in 2021 (the "First Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment"), in 2023 (the "Second Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment"), in 2024 (the "Third Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment") and (the "Fourth Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment"), and in 2025 (the "Fifth Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment"). The Stock Purchase Agreement was amended in 2021 (the "First Stock Purchase Agreement Amendment"), in 2023 (the "Second Stock Purchase Agreement Amendment"), and was amended and restated in 2024 (the "Third Stock Purchase Agreement Amendment"). The Investor Rights Agreement was amended in 2022 (the "First Investor Rights Agreement Amendment") and was amended and restated in 2024 (the "Second Investor Rights Agreement Amendment"). We refer to these agreements collectively as the "Gilead Agreements". Stock Purchase and Investor Rights Agreements In the first quarter 2025, through our underwritten offering, Gilead purchased 1.4 million shares of our common stock for total gross proceeds of $15 million. Under the Investor Rights Agreement entered into in 2020 and subsequent amendments, Gilead has the right to designate three members of our board of directors and registration rights for shares that it purchases. Gilead has exercised its rights to appoint all three board members and we have registered all shares purchased to date. As of March 31, 2026, Gilead held approximately 25.0% of our outstanding common stock. Collaboration Agreements In 2020, we entered into the Gilead Collaboration Agreement, which gave Gilead an exclusive license to develop and commercialize zimberelimab (the anti-PD-1 program) in certain markets and time-limited options to acquire exclusive licenses to develop and commercialize any of our then-current and future clinical programs arising during the 10-year collaboration term, contingent upon $100 million option continuation payments payable on each of the second, fourth, sixth and eighth anniversaries of the agreement. The period to determine Gilead's option rights under the Gilead Collaboration Agreement will end on July 14, 2026, following Gilead’s decision to not make the option continuation payment due on the sixth anniversary. Upon closing of the transaction in 2020, Gilead made an upfront payment of $175 million. In 2021, we entered into the First Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment pursuant to which Gilead exercised its option to three programs—providing Gilead with exclusive licenses to develop and commercialize domvanalimab and AB308 (collectively, the anti-TIGIT program), etrumadenant (the adenosine receptor antagonist program) and quemliclustat (the CD73 program), in certain markets—for a total payment of $725 million that was received in 2022. The amendment also (i) provided for a slight reduction in the royalties for these three programs, such that Gilead will pay us tiered royalties as a percentage of revenues ranging from the mid-teens to the low twenties; and (ii) removed the $100 million option continuation payment that was otherwise due on the second anniversary of the Gilead Collaboration Agreement. With respect to domvanalimab, we are also eligible to receive up to $500 million in potential U.S. regulatory approval milestones. Gilead's option to acquire exclusive licenses to develop and commercialize AB801 (an investigational small molecule AXL inhibitor) and AB598 (an investigational anti-CD39 monoclonal antibody), will expire after a prescribed period following the achievement of a clinical development milestone in such program and our delivery to Gilead of the requisite data package. Gilead may exercise its option to these programs at any time prior to expiration of the option and will pay Arcus an option fee of $150 million per program. For each program that Gilead opts in to, both companies will co-develop and equally share global development costs, subject to certain opt-out rights that we have, caps on our spending and related subsequent adjustments, and certain other exceptions. For each program, provided we have not exercised our opt-out rights, we have the option to co-promote in the U.S. with equal sharing of related profits and losses. Gilead has the right to exclusively commercialize outside of the U.S., subject to the rights of our existing partners in any territories and will pay us tiered royalties as a percentage of revenues ranging from the high teens to the low twenties. Under the First Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment, Gilead also has option rights to two oncology research programs for which we will lead discovery and early development activities. With respect to these two research programs, Gilead has the right to exercise its option, on a program-by-program basis, either (i) upon our completion of certain investigational new drug ("IND")-enabling activities for an option payment of $60 million or (ii) following the achievement of a clinical development milestone for an option payment of $150 million. In 2023, we entered into the Second Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment pursuant to which we expanded our collaboration to provide Gilead with options to license up to four jointly selected research-stage programs that target inflammatory diseases for which we will lead discovery and early development activities. We will receive an upfront payment of $17.5 million for each initiated program and Gilead will have an option to license each program at two separate, prespecified time points. We received a total upfront payment of $35 million for an initial two research programs in 2023. Gilead’s options to the other two research programs, as amended under the Fourth Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment expired in May 2025. For the two research programs, including AB102 (an investigational MRGPRX2 antagonist), Gilead has the right, on a program-by-program basis, either (i) to exercise its option upon our completion of certain IND-enabling activities for an option payment of $45 million or (ii) to extend its option and exercise it following the achievement of a clinical development milestone for an option payment of $150 million. If Gilead exercises its option at the earlier time point for the first two programs, we would be eligible to receive up to $375 million in regulatory and commercial milestone payments as well as tiered royalties for each optioned program. For any other program option exercise by Gilead, the parties would have rights to co-develop and share global development costs and to co-promote and share profits in the U.S. for that program. In 2024, we entered into the Third Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment. The Third Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment, among other things, (i) required Gilead to pay the $100 million option continuation payment due on the fourth anniversary of the Gilead Collaboration Agreement, which was received in 2024, (ii) provides that we will operationalize and fund the Phase 3 PRISM-1 study evaluating quemliclustat in pancreatic cancer subject to Gilead's right to reinstate the study as part of the parties' joint development activities upon regulatory approval, (iii) provides that we will solely fund our share of PACIFIC-8, subject to Gilead’s right to reinstate PACIFIC-8 as part of the parties’ joint development activities for the TIGIT Program upon regulatory approval, and (iv) provides that we will fund certain other activities. All other terms of the existing collaboration agreements, remain unchanged. As of March 31, 2026, Gilead has licenses to domvanalimab, AB308, quemliclustat and zimberelimab. In the second quarter 2025, Gilead returned its license to the adenosine receptor antagonist program, which includes etrumadenant. After July 14, 2026, Gilead will maintain its existing time-limited options to programs including AB801, AB598, AB102 and an investigational TNF small molecule inhibitor. For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, under the Gilead Agreements we recognized revenue of $15 million and $28 million, respectively. For a more detailed discussion on revenues recognized under the Gilead Agreements, see Note 5, Revenues, for more information. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, we recognized net reimbursements from Gilead of $5 million. Expenses and reimbursements from Gilead are recognized in Operating expense, allocated between Research and Development ("R&D") and General and Administrative ("G&A") based upon the activity that generated the net expense or reimbursement. At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, we had net payables to Gilead of $11 million and $24 million, respectively, recorded in Accounts payable on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.
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