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Third Party Agreements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
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Third Party Agreements

9. Third Party Agreements

Regeneron

On July 29, 2016, the Company entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Regeneron, which was amended in April 2019, with such amendment becoming effective in connection with Regeneron’s investment in the Company’s Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock private placement transaction in July 2019 (as amended, the Regeneron Agreement).

Financial Terms. The Company received a non-refundable upfront payment of $25.0 million from Regeneron upon execution of the Regeneron Agreement and an aggregate of $20.0 million of additional payments for research funding from Regeneron as of March 31, 2026. In addition, Regeneron may have to pay the Company additional amounts in the future consisting of up to an aggregate of $80.0 million of option exercise fees, as specified in the Regeneron Agreement. Per the terms of the agreement, Regeneron must pay the Company high single digit royalties as a percentage of net sales for immune cell products (ICPs) to targets for which it has exclusive rights, and low single digit royalties as a percentage of net sales on any non-ICP product comprising a targeting moiety generated by the Company through the use of Regeneron’s proprietary mice. The Company must pay Regeneron mid-single to low double digit, but less than teens, of royalties as a percentage of net sales of ICPs to targets for which the Company has exercised exclusive rights, and low to mid-single digit of royalties as a percentage of net sales of targeting moieties generated from the Company’s license to use Regeneron’s proprietary mice. Royalties are payable until the longer of the expiration or invalidity of the licensed patent rights or twelve (12) years from first commercial sale. No royalties have been earned or paid under the Regeneron Agreement through March 31, 2026.

On January 28, 2022, Regeneron exercised its option to license the exclusive, worldwide rights to ADI-002, an allogeneic gamma delta CAR T cell therapy directed against Glypican-3, pursuant to the Regeneron Agreement. In conjunction with the exercise of the option, Regeneron paid an exercise fee of $20.0 million to the Company on January 28, 2022, and the Company completed the transfer of the associated license rights to Regeneron during the first quarter of 2022. The $20.0 million option exercise fee, plus $5.0 million of revenue recognized relating to the combined performance obligation, resulted in an aggregate of $25.0 million recorded as revenue for the year ended December 31, 2022. The Company's obligations under the combined performance obligation were completed during the year ended December 31, 2022.

Regeneron is responsible, at its sole cost, for all development, manufacturing and commercialization of ADI-002 and must pay the Company high single digit royalties as a percentage of any net sales of ADI-002 for a period commencing on the first commercial sale until the longer of (i) the expiration or invalidity of the licensed patent rights or (ii) a low double digit amount of years from first commercial sale.

Twist Bioscience

In March 2021, the Company entered into an Antibody Discovery Agreement (the Twist Agreement) with Twist Bioscience Corporation (Twist). Under the terms of the Twist Agreement, Twist will utilize its proprietary platform technology to assist the Company with the discovery of novel antibodies related to target antigens selected by the Company. The Company maintains the sole and exclusive rights to any program antibodies discovered under the Twist Agreement and has the right to patent, assign, license or transfer any work product under the agreement. Furthermore, the Company has the right to sublicense its rights to program antibodies to third parties. The Company may terminate the Twist Agreement at any time, with or without cause, upon a specified period advance written notice.

Per the terms of the agreement, the Company will pay Twist an upfront, non-refundable project initiation fee, a technology access fee, as well as a project fee for each project entered into under the agreement. Additionally, the Company will pay fees for development and regulatory milestones in the tens of millions of dollars and low single digit royalties on net sales to Twist for programs initiated under the agreement. In November 2022, the Company entered into an amendment to the Twist Agreement (the Twist Amendment). The Twist Amendment updates the language associated with Twist's audit rights as well as the amounts associated with technology access fees.

On a cumulative basis as of March 31, 2026, the Company has incurred and expensed $1.1 million related to project initiation fees, technology access fees and projects fees as research and development expense related to this agreement.

CRISPR

On May 16, 2023, the Company entered into a license and collaboration agreement with CRISPR Therapeutics AG (CRISPR Agreement) to non-exclusively license CRISPR’s gene editing technology (CRISPR Technology) for use in up to a specified number of gamma delta licensed products. CRISPR also has an option to co-develop and co-commercialize a future gamma delta product (the Option Product). Additionally, the parties have agreed on prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) as a collaboration target that the Company will develop an Option Product against. CRISPR has opt-in rights to participate in a 50/50 cost and profit split for the Option Product. If CRISPR elects to opt-in, the Option Product would be designated a collaboration product. If CRISPR elects to not opt-in, the Option Product becomes a licensed product. The Company will lead and be primarily responsible for the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of the Collaboration Product in accordance with plans agreed upon by both parties.

For each licensed product, the Company will retain worldwide rights and may be required to make potential future payments based on the achievement of development and regulatory approval milestones totaling low double digit million dollars for each non-collaboration product, sales milestones totaling low double digit million dollars for each non-collaboration product, and tiered royalties up to low-single digit percentages on net product sales of such product. Unless earlier terminated, the term of the CRISPR Agreement will terminate (i) on a country-by-country basis with respect to each licensed product until the end of the last royalty term in such country for such licensed product and (ii) when a party opts out for collaboration products.

As of March 31, 2026, the Company has not paid any amounts nor are any amounts owed by the Company under the CRISPR Agreement, and no milestones have been achieved.

 

City of Hope

 

On July 9, 2024, City of Hope (COH) and the Company entered into a license agreement (COH Agreement) under which COH granted the Company a non-exclusive, worldwide license to patent rights related to its membrane-bound IL12 technology for use in gamma delta T cell products (Licensed Products). The Company may sublicense Licensed Products through multiple tiers. Unless earlier terminated, the term of the COH Agreement continues, on a country-by-country and Licensed Product-by-Licensed Product basis, until the royalty expiration date for each Licensed Product in each country. The Company may terminate the COH Agreement at any time, with or without cause, upon advance written notice.
 

As consideration for the license, the Company may pay fees for development and regulatory milestones that together total in the single digit millions of dollars and sales milestones in the low-to-mid double digit millions of dollars. Additionally, the Company will pay low single digit percentage royalties on net sales to COH for licensed products covered under the COH Agreement. The Company will pay COH a portion of all consideration received for sublicensing a Licensed Product, ranging from low double digit percentage to a low single digit percentage, such percentage decreasing as development advances for the Licensed Product.

 

As of March 31, 2026, the Company has incurred no payments under the COH agreement.