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Related Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

13. Related Party Transactions

During the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company entered into transactions with individuals and companies that have financial interests in the Company. Related party transactions included the following:

a)
In June 2018, the Company entered into two in-licensing agreements with Avalon BioMedical (Management) Limited and its affiliates (“Avalon”) wherein the Company obtained certain IP from Avalon to develop and commercialize the underlying products. Under these agreements the Company is required to pay upfront fees and future milestone payments and sales-based royalties. During the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, no fees were paid to Avalon in connection with the license agreements. Certain members of the Company’s board and management collectively have a controlling interest in Avalon. The Company does not hold any interest in Avalon and does not have any obligations to absorb losses or any rights to receive benefits from Avalon. As of June 30, 2022, and December 31, 2021, Avalon held 786,061 shares of the Company’s common stock, which represented less than 1% of the Company’s total issued shares for both periods. Balances due from Avalon recorded on the condensed consolidated balance sheets were not significant. In July 2021, the Company made $2.0 million milestone payment to Avalon pursuant to its license agreement. No such payments were made during the six months ended June 30, 2022.

In June 2019, the Company entered into an agreement whereby Avalon would hold a 90% ownership interest and the Company would hold a 10% ownership interest of the newly formed entity under the name Nuwagen Limited (“Nuwagen”), incorporated under the laws of Hong Kong. Nuwagen is principally engaged in the development and commercialization of herbal medicine products for metabolic, endocrine, and other related indications. The Company contributed nonmonetary assets in exchange for the 10% ownership interest. In July 2020, the transaction closed. The activities of Nuwagen were not material to the financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 or 2021.

b)
The Company earns licensing revenue from PharmaEssentia, an entity in which the Company has an investment classified as available-for-sale (see Note 8—Fair Value Measurements). During the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, the Company recorded $0 and a $0.5 million milestone fee earned from PharmaEssentia under a license agreement. The Company received less than $0.1 million under the cost-sharing agreements during the six months ended June 30, 2022. There were no funds paid to PharmaEssentia under the cost-sharing agreements for the six months ended June 30, 2022 or 2021.

In September 2020, Axis Therapeutics Limited (“Axis”), a majority-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a collaboration agreement with PharmaEssentia, pursuant to which Axis granted to PharmaEssentia an exclusive, non-transferrable and revocable sublicense of TCR-engineered T-Cell therapy for the development of the technology in Taiwan. Axis received license fees of $1.0 million, net of $0.3 million withholding tax, in each of the fourth quarter of 2020 and the third quarter of 2021. These fees, amounting to $2.0 million, were recorded as deferred revenue as of June 30, 2022.

c)
Certain directors and family members of executives perform consulting services for the Company. Such services were not significant to the condensed consolidated financial statements.