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CSL Behring collaboration
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022
CSL Behring collaboration  
CSL Behring collaboration

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CSL Behring collaboration

On June 24, 2020 (the “Signing Date”), uniQure biopharma B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of uniQure N.V., entered into a commercialization and license agreement (the “CSL Behring Agreement”) with CSL Behring, pursuant to which CSL Behring received exclusive global rights to etranacogene dezaparvovec, the Company’s investigational gene therapy for patients with hemophilia B.

The transaction became fully effective on May 6, 2021, one day after the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the “HSR Act”) expired on May 5, 2021 (“Closing”).

The Company, as of the effective date, identified two material performance obligations related to the CSL Behring Agreement:

(i)Sale of the exclusive global rights to the Product (“License Sale”); and
(ii)Generate information to support the regulatory approval of the current and next generation manufacturing process of the Product and to provide any such information generated to CSL Behring (“Manufacturing Development”).

License Sale

The Company continued to develop the Product between the Signing Date and Closing and performed certain reimbursable activities to fulfill the transfer of the global rights (“Additional Covenants” that are included as part of the “License Sale”). The Additional Covenants are not considered distinct from the performance obligation to sell the license to CSL Behring as CSL Behring could not benefit from the Additional Covenants on their own, or have these activities be performed with readily available resources.

The Company determined that the fixed upfront payment of $450.0 million and the $12.4 million that the Company received in relation to the Additional Covenants should be allocated to the License Sale. The Company determined that the License Sale was completed on May 6, 2021, when it transferred the license and CSL Behring assumed full responsibility for the development and commercialization of the Product. At Closing, the Company evaluated the amounts of potential payments and the likelihood that the payments will be received. The Company utilized the most likely amount method to estimate the variable consideration to be included in the transaction price. Since the Company cannot control the achievement of regulatory and first commercial sales milestones, the Company concluded that the potential payments are constrained as of Closing. The Company determined that it would recognize revenue related to these payments only to the extent that it becomes probable that no significant reversal of recognized cumulative revenue will occur thereafter. Similarly, the Company records expenses related to its existing license and other agreements as well as its financial advisor for a mid-single digit percentage of any such revenue recognized associated to meeting a milestone. The Company includes payments related to sales milestones in the transaction price when their achievement becomes probable, and it will include royalties on the sale of the Product once these have been earned. The Company recognized nil and $462.4 million of license revenue in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 related to the License Sale. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company did not recognize any license revenue.

Collaboration Services

The Company recognized $0.7 million and $2.1 million of collaboration revenue in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to $0.5 and $0.9 million in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021. The Company generates such collaboration revenue from services rendered in relation to completing the HOPE-B clinical trial on behalf of CSL Behring as well as additional development services that CSL Behring requested. These collaboration services are reimbursed at the pre-agreed full-time-employee rate (“FTE-rate”).

Contract Manufacturing

The Company commenced capitalizing inventory in April 2022 for the Product to be sold to CSL Behring.

On September 6, 2022, CSL Behring notified the Company of its intent to transfer manufacturing technology related to the Product to a third-party contract manufacturer designated by CSL Behring. CSL Behring also requested that the Company continue to serve as a manufacturer of the Product after the Company completes the technology transfer to a third party. The Company and CSL Behring are in the process of negotiating the terms of the transfer of manufacturing responsibility pursuant to the CSL Behring Agreement.

Accounts Receivable and Contract Asset

As of December 31, 2021, the Company recorded accounts receivable of $2.9 million from CSL Behring related to collaboration services as well as a contract asset of $55.0 million associated with milestone payments due upon CSL Behring’s global regulatory submissions for etranacogene dezaparvovec, which were deemed to be probable. In March and April 2022, CSL Behring submitted marketing applications in the United States and European Union, and as of March and April 2022, the Company had collected the $55.0 million owed. As of September 30, 2022, the Company had accounts receivable of $3.0 million from CSL Behring.