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Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

Note 6. Commitments and Contingencies

Hedging arrangements

The Company’s subsidiary in the United Kingdom ("UK") previously entered into foreign currency forward contracts to mitigate the foreign exchange risk arising from the fluctuations in the value of U.S. dollar denominated transactions entered into by our UK subsidiary. These foreign currency forward contracts were designated as cash flow hedges and were carried on the Company’s balance sheet at fair value with the effective portion of the contracts’ gains or losses included in accumulated other comprehensive loss and subsequently recognized in revenue/expense in the same period the hedged items are recognized. The fair values of these contracts in place at March 31, 2022, were $0 and at March 31, 2021 amounted to assets of $355.

Ortho Arbitration and Settlement

 

The Company’s subsidiaries, Quotient Suisse and QBD (QS-IP) Limited were party to the Prior Ortho Agreement with Ortho related to the commercialization and distribution of certain MosaiQ products. See Note 1, "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies—Revenue Recognition," for information regarding the Prior Ortho Agreement. The Company and an affiliate of Ortho also entered into a subscription agreement pursuant to which the affiliate subscribed for newly issued ordinary shares of the Company and newly issued 7% cumulative redeemable preference shares, of no par value, of the Company for an aggregate subscription price of approximately $25 million.

 

On November 27, 2019, the Company delivered a notice to Ortho that it had terminated the Prior Ortho Agreement, effective as of December 27, 2019. The Company did not realize any revenue under the Prior Ortho Agreement prior to its termination.

 

On or about November 17, 2019, Ortho initiated an arbitration proceeding in which it sought a declaration that the Company did not have the right to terminate the Prior Ortho Agreement, specific performance of certain provisions of the Prior Ortho Agreement, and damages including in respect of the difference in amounts Ortho invested in the Company’s shares and their market value. The Company pursued counterclaims against Ortho, including that it had the right to terminate the Prior Ortho Agreement and damages that included the milestone payments due under the Prior Ortho Agreement (see Note 1, "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies—Revenue Recognition," for details). In addition, on December 20, 2019, the Company entered into an agreement with Ortho pursuant to which it agreed, while the arbitration was pending, not to grant commercialization rights in respect of products that overlapped with Ortho’s rights under the Prior Ortho Agreement without prior written notice to Ortho.

On September 4, 2020, the Company and Ortho entered into the Letter Agreement, pursuant to which the Company and Ortho agreed to confirm the termination of the Prior Ortho Agreement and various related contracts and to end the parties’ disputes regarding the Prior Ortho Agreement by executing mutual releases and terminating their pending arbitration proceeding related to the Prior Ortho Agreement.

The Company and Ortho also agreed to negotiate in good faith, and use their respective reasonable best efforts to execute, the New Distribution Agreement based on the terms set forth in the Letter Agreement, but if for any reason no such definitive agreement is reached, the Letter Agreement will govern the parties’ respective rights and obligations as a binding contract. See Note 1, "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies—Revenue Recognition," for further details regarding the commercial terms included in the Letter Agreement.

 

Royalty Agreements

 

The Company is also party to certain royalty arrangements related to net sales of MosaiQ products. These include a low single digit royalty to TTP plc based on our net sales of certain MosaiQ products for 20 years from first commercialization, or for so long as the licensed intellectual property is protected by patent in the country of sale, and a low single digit royalty to Catalloid Products, Inc. on net sales of MosaiQ Microarrays that would be covered by that royalty agreement, for a period of 10 years post launch of that Microarray.