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Leases
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Leases [Abstract]  
Leases

Note 5. Leases

As described in “Note 2 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” the Company adopted Topic 842 as of January 1, 2019. Prior period amounts have not been adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with historic accounting under Topic 840.

Real Estate Operating Leases

In June 2018, the Company entered into a three-year lease agreement with no renewal options with a related party, one of the investors in the Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock. The lease began on July 16, 2018 and provides 3,185 square feet of office and laboratory space in South San Francisco, California. The Company issued 114,437 shares of its Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock with a fair value of $1.1 million in exchange for the leased facility. No other payments are due under the lease. The common area maintenance and other operating costs are included in the base rent. 100% of the issued shares were initially subject to a repurchase option. Pursuant to the terms of the lease, each month beginning on the one-month anniversary of the commencement date of the lease, 1/36th of the total shares are released from the repurchase option until all shares are released over the lease period of three years. The scheduled release of shares ceased immediately upon the IPO which was a terminating event.

The Company completed its IPO on May 13, 2019 and as a result, pursuant to the terms of the lease agreement, all previously unvested shares were fully vested and as part of the IPO process, all outstanding shares of the Company’s redeemable convertible preferred stock including the Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock issued in connection with the lease agreement were converted into shares of the Company’s common stock on a 1-for-1 basis and the operating lease liability was extinguished.

In May 2019 the Company entered into an amendment to the lease agreement to rent additional space in the same facility under the same terms as its existing facility lease except the terms of payment. Under the terms of the amendment, the Company paid a one-time fee of approximately $63,000 for the additional space and the lease agreement will terminate in July 2021. No other payments are due under the lease agreement and no renewal option is available. As the entire lease is prepaid, there is no associated lease liability.

The Company recognizes lease expense on a straight-line basis over the term of its operating lease. As of September 30, 2019, future rent expense of $723,000 will be recognized over the remaining term of 22 months on a straight-line basis over the respective lease period. Rent expense for the operating lease for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $103,000 and $287,000 respectively.

Clinical Equipment Financing Lease

During the second quarter, the Company began using certain vendor supplied equipment in connection with its on-going clinical trial. The Company analyzed the agreements and determined that they contained embedded leases. Under the agreements, the Company has prepaid for the use of the equipment through the initial lease term of approximately three years. As a result, the Company has no lease liability associated with these right of use assets. The Company recognizes the lease expense in research and development expenses in the statement of operations and recognizes expense on a straight-line basis starting when the equipment is placed into service until the end of the contract term. Equipment placed into service is amortized into expense over periods ranging from 28 to 34 months. Amortization expense of the financing lease right of use asset for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $38,000 and $53,000 respectively.

Operating and finance lease right of use asset amounts consist of the following as of September 30, 2019:

 

Right of use assets- operating lease

 

$

724

 

Right of use assets- financing lease

 

 

500

 

Less: accumulated depreciation

 

 

(53

)

Total right of use assets

 

$

1,171

 

 

The Company determined its operating and finance lease liabilities for operating lease using a discount rate of 4.00% based on the rate that the Company would have to pay to borrow on a collateralized basis for a similar lease an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment. As of September 30, 2019, the weighted-average remaining lease term for the operating leases was 1.8 years. The weighted-average remaining lease term for the finance leases was 2.25 years.