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Related Parties
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Related Parties  
Related Parties

12. Related Parties

Joint Venture

On February 11, 2018, the Company entered into a Joint Venture (“JV”) Agreement with Hepalink which is a related party and principal shareholder in the Company, pursuant to which the Company formed a JV Entity for developing and commercializing products for infectious diseases in the greater China territories. It was agreed by the parties that the Company shall be reimbursed for certain legal and contract manufacturing expenses related to the clinical drug supply for a Phase 3 clinical study of AR-301 and the clinical drug supply for a clinical study of AR-105. For the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded approximately $1.5 million and $360,000, respectively, as a reduction to operating expenses in the consolidated statement of operations for amounts reimbursed to the Company by the JV Entity under this arrangement. As of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company recorded approximately $152,000 and $360,000,  respectively, in other receivables on the consolidated balance sheets for amounts owed to the Company by the JV Entity under this arrangement and the Company expects the amounts to be collectable and as a result, no reserve for uncollectability was established.

Serum International B.V.

In July 2019, the Company issued 801,820 shares of its restricted common stock in a private placement to Serum International B.V. (“SIBV”), an affiliate of Serum Institute of India Private Limited, for total gross proceeds of $10 million (see Note 9). As a result of this transaction, SIBV and its affiliates, are considered related parties to the Company. In September 2019, the Company and Serum AMR Products (“SAMR”), a party under common ownership of SIBV, entered into a License, Development and Commercialization Agreement (the “ License Agreement”)(see Note 6).

The Company determined that no performance obligations were satisfied as of December 31, 2019, and therefore, no revenue related to the License Agreement was recognized for the year ended December 31, 2019.  The Company has recorded contract liabilities resulting from the License Agreement of approximately $14.6 million to deferred revenue, current, and approximately $5.0 million to deferred revenue, noncurrent, on its consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2019. The Company capitalized a contract asset resulting from the License Agreement of approximately $2.1 million related to the incremental costs of obtaining the License Agreement on its consolidated balance sheet, of which approximately $1.5 million is classified as current, and approximately $526,000 million is classified as noncurrent, as of December 31, 2019.