Share-Based Compensation

6 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Share-based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]

(A) Myovant 2016 Equity Incentive Plan

In June 2016, the Company adopted its 2016 Equity Incentive Plan, or as amended, the 2016 Plan, under which 4.5 million common shares were originally reserved for issuance. Pursuant to the “evergreen” provision contained in the 2016 Plan, the number of common shares reserved for issuance under the 2016 Plan automatically increases on April 1 of each year, commencing on (and including) April 1, 2017 and ending on (and including) April 1, 2026, in an amount equal to 4% of the total number of shares of capital stock outstanding on March 31 of the preceding fiscal year, or a lesser number of shares as determined by the Company’s board of directors. On April 1, 2019, the number of common shares authorized for issuance increased automatically by 2.9 million shares in accordance with the evergreen provision of the 2016 Plan. As of September 30, 2019, a total of 1.5 million common shares were available for future issuance under the 2016 Plan.

The Company’s employees, directors, officers and consultants are eligible to receive non-qualified and incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock unit awards, and other share awards under the 2016 Plan.

(B) Stock Option Repricing

On August 26, 2019 (the “repricing date”), the Company’s Board of Directors approved a stock option award repricing program (the “repricing”) whereby certain previously granted and still outstanding vested and unvested stock option awards held by current employees and certain executives were repriced on a one-for-one basis to $7.78 per share, which represented the closing market price of the Company’s common shares on the repricing date. To be eligible to participate in the stock option repricing program, 735,428 vested stock option awards to certain executives as of the repricing date are subject to a one-year exercise restriction period beginning from the repricing date. No other terms of the repriced stock options were modified, and the repriced stock options will continue to vest according to their original vesting schedules and will retain their original expiration dates. As a result of the repricing, 5,095,013 vested and unvested stock options outstanding with original exercise prices ranging from $8.82 to $24.44, and a median exercise price of $17.28 per share, were repriced under this program.

The repricing resulted in incremental stock-based compensation expense of $9.2 million, of which $0.8 million related to vested employee stock option awards and was expensed on the repricing date, $1.1 million related to vested executive stock option awards and is being amortized over a one-year exercise restriction period beginning from the repricing date, and $7.3 million related to unvested stock option awards and is being amortized on a straight-line basis over the approximately 3.2 year remaining weighted average vesting period of those awards.

A summary of stock option activity under the Company’s 2016 Plan is as follows:



	Number of Options
Options outstanding at March 31, 2019	5,396,465
Granted	2,470,900
Exercised	(33,461	)
Forfeited	(187,444	)
Options outstanding at September 30, 2019	7,646,460
Options vested and expected to vest at September 30, 2019	7,646,460
Vested options subject to one-year exercise restriction period beginning on August 26, 2019	735,428
Options exercisable at September 30, 2019	1,684,887

(D) Restricted Stock Awards and Restricted Stock Units

A summary of restricted stock award and restricted stock unit activity under the Company’s 2016 Plan is as follows:



	Number of Shares
Unvested balance at March 31, 2019	956,066
Granted	724,554
Vested	(142,904	)
Forfeited	(8,345	)
Unvested balance at September 30, 2019	1,529,371

(E) Performance Stock Units

On August 26, 2019, the Company’s Board of Directors granted performance stock units covering a total of 408,510 common shares, of which two-thirds of the shares (272,338 shares) subject to each performance stock unit vests based upon the passage of time, and the remaining one-third of the shares (136,172 shares) subject to each performance stock unit vests only if the Company achieves certain clinical trial and regulatory milestones. Total share-based compensation expense associated with the performance stock units is based on the fair value of the Company’s common shares on the grant date, which equals the closing market price of the Company’s common shares on the grant date. The Company recognizes the share-based compensation expense related to the performance stock unit awards subject to time-based vesting on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period of the respective awards. The Company will recognize the share-based compensation expense related to the performance stock unit awards subject to vesting based upon the achievement of certain clinical trial and regulatory milestones only if such milestones are achieved. As of September 30, 2019, the performance conditions had not been met and were deemed not probable of being met.

(F) Share-Based Compensation Expense

Share-based compensation expense was as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2019		2018
Share-based compensation expense recognized as:
R&D expenses	$	3,618	$	1,846
G&A expenses	4,313		2,879
Total	$	7,931	$	4,725



	Six Months Ended September 30,
	2019		2018
Share-based compensation expense recognized as:
R&D expenses	$	6,166	$	3,407
G&A expenses	8,217		5,562
Total	$	14,383	$	8,969

Share-based compensation expense is included in R&D and G&A expenses in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations consistent with the grantee’s salary. Share-based compensation expense presented in the table above includes share-based compensation expense allocated to the Company by RSL as described in Note 7(B). Total unrecognized share-based compensation expense was approximately $78.2 million as of September 30, 2019 and is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.9 years.

(G) RSL RSUs

The Company’s Principal Executive Officer was granted 66,845 RSL RSUs during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017. These RSUs will vest to the extent certain RSL performance criteria are achieved and certain RSL liquidity conditions are satisfied within specified years of the grant date, provided that the Company’s Principal Executive Officer has provided continued service to RSL or its subsidiaries through such date. As of September 30, 2019, the performance conditions had not been met and were deemed not probable of being met. For the three and six months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded no share-based compensation expense related to these RSL RSUs. As of September 30, 2019, there was $0.9 million of unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested RSL RSUs. The Company will recognize this share-based compensation expense upon achievement of the performance and market conditions through the requisite service period.