YourChoice
License Agreement
In connection with the 2020
Merger, the Company assumed the license agreement between ANA and
Your Choice Therapeutics, Inc. (the “YourChoice Agreement”). Prior
to the 2020 Merger, YourChoice Therapeutics, Inc. granted to ANA,
during the term of the YourChoice Agreement, an exclusive,
worldwide, fee-bearing license derived from the licensed
intellectual property throughout the world. The fees due under the
YourChoice Agreement include royalty payments of 0.5% of
annual worldwide net sales of each Niclosamide Product (as defined
in the 2020 Merger Agreement) and milestone payments in the
aggregate of $19.5 million. The first milestone payment due is $5
million upon first receipt of Marketing Approval (as defined in the
2020 Merger Agreement) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(“FDA”) for any Niclosamide Product (as defined by the 2020 Merger
Agreement), followed by sales milestones of $1 million, $1.5
million, $4 million, and $8 million if worldwide cumulative net
sales of a Niclosamide Product are equal to or greater than $500
million, $1, billion, $3, billion, and $5 billion, respectively.
The term of the YourChoice Agreement will expire on the expiration
or invalidation of the last of the licensed patents under the
YourChoice Agreement. As of September 30, 2022, there was
sufficient uncertainty with regard to both the outcome of the
clinical trials and the ability to obtain sufficient funding to
support any of the cash milestone payments under the YourChoice
Agreement, and as such, no liabilities were recorded.
Gemphire
Contingent Value Rights Agreement.
On December 30, 2019, the Company was party to a definitive merger
agreement (the “2019 Merger”) with Gemphire Therapeutics, Inc.
(“Gemphire”). In connection with the 2019 Merger, Gemphire entered
into the Contingent Value Rights Agreement (the “CVR Agreement”)
with Grand Rapids Holders’ Representative, LLC, as representative
of Gemphire’s stockholders prior to the 2019 Merger (the “Holders’
Representative”), and Computershare Inc. and Computershare Trust
Company, N.A. as the rights agents (collectively, the “Rights
Agent”). Under the CVR Agreement, which NeuroBo assumed in
connection with the 2019 Merger, the holders of Gemphire shares at
the time of the 2019 Merger (collectively, the “CVR Holders”) were
entitled to receive 80% of the proceeds from the grant, sale, or
transfer of rights to Gemcabene.
On March 23, 2021, NeuroBo, the Holders’ Representative, and the
Rights Agent entered into the First Amendment to Contingent Value
Rights Agreement (the “CVR Amendment”) to amend the CVR Agreement.
Pursuant to the CVR Amendment, (i) the CVR Holders will continue to
have the right to receive 80% of the proceeds from the grant, sale,
or transfer of rights to Gemcabene as a treatment for
cardiovascular conditions and (ii) the CVR Holders will now also
receive 10% of the proceeds from the grant, sale, or transfer of
rights to Gemcabene as a treatment for any indication outside of
treating cardiometabolic diseases, including COVID-19.
As of September 30, 2022, no obligations had been accrued as there
were no potential payments under the CVR Agreement or the CVR
Amendment that were yet considered probable.
Pfizer License
Agreement
Upon the close of the 2019 Merger, an exclusive license agreement
with Pfizer, Inc. (“Pfizer”) for the clinical product
candidate Gemcabene (the “Pfizer Agreement”) was assumed by the
Company. Under the Pfizer Agreement, in exchange for this worldwide
exclusive right and license to certain patent rights to make, use,
sell, offer for sale and import the clinical product Gemcabene, the
Company has agreed to certain milestone and royalty payments on
future sales.
The Company agreed to make milestone payments totaling up to
$37 million upon the achievement of certain milestones,
including the first new drug application (or its foreign
equivalent) in any country, regulatory approval in each of the
United States, Europe and Japan, the first anniversary of the first
regulatory approval in any country, and upon achieving