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Warrant Liabilities
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Disclosure of Warrant Liabilities [Abstract]  
Warrant Liabilities
9.
WARRANT LIABILITIES

 

The following table summarizes the Company’s outstanding warrant liabilities by warrant type as of June 30, 2026 and 2025:

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

 

BCA Warrants

 

 

Amended BlackRock Warrant

 

 

Total Warrant Liabilities

 

 

BCA Warrants

 

 

BlackRock Warrant

 

 

Total Warrant Liabilities

 

Balance as of January 1,

 

13,881

 

 

 

597

 

 

 

14,478

 

 

 

19,390

 

 

 

461

 

 

 

19,851

 

Fair value (gain) loss on warrant liability

 

(3,824

)

 

 

(293

)

 

 

(4,117

)

 

 

12,145

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

12,145

 

Exercise of public and private warrants

 

(2,542

)

 

 

-

 

 

 

(2,542

)

 

 

(16,886

)

 

 

-

 

 

 

(16,886

)

Balance as of June 30,

 

7,515

 

 

 

304

 

 

 

7,819

 

 

 

14,649

 

 

 

461

 

 

 

15,110

 

 

The BCA warrants represent public and private placement warrants assumed from European Biotech Acquisition Corp. as part of the BCA (“BCA Warrants”). The fair value of the public BCA Warrants, which are traded on Nasdaq, is based on the quoted Nasdaq market prices at the end of the reporting period for such warrants. Since the private placement BCA Warrants have identical terms to the public BCA Warrants, the Company determined that the fair value of each private placement BCA Warrant is equivalent to that of each public BCA Warrant. The public BCA Warrants are included in Level 1 and the private placement BCA Warrants in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. BCA Warrants are classified as short-term liabilities given that the Company cannot defer the settlement for at least 12 months.

The Company’s Amended BlackRock Warrant, described in Note 4, is classified as a liability because its exercise prices are fixed in USD, which is not the functional currency of the Company and therefore it does not meet the requirements to be classified as equity under IFRS. The fair value of the Amended BlackRock Warrant is determined using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and is included in Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

 

The following assumptions were used in the Black-Scholes option-pricing model for determining the fair value of the Amended BlackRock Warrant as of June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

 

 

 

June 30, 2026

 

December 31, 2025

Share price on valuation date

 

$13.87 (CHF 11.22

)

 

$19.97 (CHF 15.83

)

Range of expected volatility (%)(1)

 

67.90 - 68.92

 

 

82.52 - 85.13

 

Range of expected term (years)(2)

 

2.46 - 3.05

 

 

2.71 - 3.29

 

Range of risk-free interest rate (%)(3)

 

4.14 - 4.15

 

 

3.53 - 3.58

 

Dividend yield (%)

 

0.00

 

 

0.00

 

(1) The expected volatility was derived from the historical stock volatilities of the Company, as well as comparable peer public companies within the Company’s industry.

(2) The expected term represents the period that the Amended BlackRock Warrant is expected to be outstanding.

(3) The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the measurement date with maturities approximately equal to the expected terms.

 

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, the Company recognized fair value gains of CHF 12.1 million and CHF 4.1 million, respectively, which were attributable to the decreasing market price of outstanding public warrants during the period. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company recognized fair value losses of CHF 0.2 million and CHF 12.1 million, respectively, which were attributable to the increasing market price of outstanding public warrants during the period.

 

In the event of exercise, warrant liabilities are reduced by the fair value on the date of exercise. The resulting fair value adjustment and cash received are recorded to share premium within the Statements of Changes in Equity. The movement of the warrant liability during the six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 is illustrated below:

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

 

Warrant
liabilities

 

 

Number of
outstanding
warrants

 

 

Warrant
liabilities

 

 

Number of
outstanding
warrants

 

Balance as of January 1,

 

14,478

 

 

 

2,104,906

 

 

 

19,851

 

 

 

4,018,384

 

Fair value (gain) loss on warrant liability

 

(4,117

)

 

 

-

 

 

 

12,145

 

 

 

-

 

Exercise of public and private warrants

 

(2,542

)

 

 

(186,929

)

 

 

(16,886

)

 

 

(1,817,063

)

Balance as of June 30,

 

7,819

 

 

 

1,917,977

 

 

 

15,110

 

 

 

2,201,321