Commitments and Contingencies

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Commitments and Contingencies

Commitments and Contingencies

11.  Commitments and Contingencies

The Company has concurrent leases for office and lab space that extend through April 2020. The Company may elect to extend the term of the leases for an additional five-year term. The leases provide for a tenant improvement allowance of approximately $2.1 million in aggregate. During the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, none of the allowance was utilized.  As of March 31, 2015, $0.7 million is available for tenant improvements. Rent expense for the leased facilities and leased vehicles for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 was approximately, $0.7 million, and $0.5 million, respectively.

Future minimum lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases as of March 31, 2015 are as follows, in thousands:

Year ending December 31:
2015 (remaining)	$	1,311
2016	1,287
2017	1,291
2018	1,314
Thereafter	1,795
	$	6,998

The Company has obtained exclusive licenses from third parties for proprietary rights to support the product candidates in the Company’s psychiatry portfolio. Under license agreements with Afecta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Afecta”), the Company has an exclusive option to evaluate Afecta’s CNS pipeline and to obtain exclusive worldwide rights to selected product candidates, including an exclusive license to SPN-810. The Company does not owe any future milestone payments for SPN-810. The Company is obligated to pay royalties to Afecta based on worldwide net sales of each of these products in the low-single digits.

The Company has also entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Rune Healthcare Limited (“Rune”), where the Company obtained the exclusive worldwide rights to a product concept from Rune. There are no future milestone payments due to Rune under this agreement. If the Company receives approval to market and sell any products based on the Rune product concept for SPN-809, the Company is obligated to pay royalties to Rune based on net sales worldwide in the low single digits.