Note 14 - Acquisitions |
3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2026 | |
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Note 14 – Acquisitions
On February 14, 2025 (the “Closing Date”), the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (as amended, the “Agreement”) with IconOVir Bio, Inc. (“IconOVir”), pursuant to which the Company purchased and acquired certain assets of IconOVir (the “Transferred Assets”), including the product candidate ICVB-1042 and certain contracts, intellectual property rights, regulatory applications, submissions and registrations, and data and other rights related thereto, and assumed certain liabilities and obligations of IconOVir arising under certain contracts of IconOVir acquired by the Company.
As consideration for the Transferred Assets and subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement, on the Closing Date the Company (i) issued 374,843 ordinary shares of the Company (the “Company Shares”) to IconOVir, which represented a purchase price of $4.0 million divided by the volume-weighted average closing price of the Company Shares on The Nasdaq Stock Market over the 30 consecutive trading days ending on (and including) the trading day immediately prior to the Closing Date, (ii) agreed to pay IconOVir a one-time payment of $15.0 million in cash upon the achievement of a cumulative aggregate worldwide net sales milestone for all products, including combination products, that incorporate or comprise ICVB-1042 (“ICVB Products”), (iii) agreed to pay IconOVir a low, single-digit percentage royalty, on an ICVB Product-by-ICVB Product basis, on the annual, worldwide net sales of such ICVB Product during the royalty term, subject to certain reductions as set forth in the Agreement, and (iv) agreed to assume certain immaterial liabilities arising under certain acquired contracts ((i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) collectively, the “Purchase Price”).
Entities affiliated with Arie Belldegrun, M.D., the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Company, held certain promissory notes of IconOVir at the time, that may entitle such entities to receive, in the aggregate, approximately 28.3% of the Purchase Price paid to IconOVir pursuant to the Agreement.
The Company evaluates acquisitions of assets and other similar transactions to assess whether the transaction should be accounted for as a business combination or asset acquisition by first applying a screen test to determine whether substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired is concentrated in a single identifiable asset or group of similar identifiable assets. If so, the transaction is accounted for as an asset acquisition. The cost of an asset acquisition is allocated to identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on a relative fair value basis. Goodwill is not recognized in an asset acquisition. Any contingent consideration in an asset acquisition is recognized only when amounts are both probable and estimable, at which point the consideration is allocated to the assets acquired on a relative fair value basis. Based on the Company's assessment of the value of the assets acquired as well as consideration of the inputs, processes and outputs, the Company concluded that this represented an asset acquisition. When a transaction accounted for as an asset acquisition includes IPR&D, the IPR&D asset is only capitalized as an intangible asset if it is determined to have an alternative future use other than in a particular research and development project. Otherwise, amounts allocated to the IPR&D are recognized as research and development expenses in the period. The Company accounted for the acquisition of the Transferred Assets from IconOVir as an asset acquisition. The Company determined the fair value of the consideration transferred was $3.1 million, which represented the fair value of the unregistered shares at issuance date. Given the early-stage nature of such assets and level of further development necessary to produce an output, the Company recognized the cost of the acquisition as a research and development expense in 2025.
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