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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Related Party Transactions
(A) Sumitomo Pharma
Sumitomo-Roivant Transaction
On December 27, 2019, the Company’s former controlling shareholder, Roivant Sciences Ltd. (“Roivant”), completed a transaction (the “Sumitomo-Roivant Transaction”) in which all of the Company’s outstanding common shares held directly or indirectly by Roivant and not already held by Sumitovant were transferred to Sumitovant, and Roivant transferred all of the outstanding equity of Sumitovant to Sumitomo Pharma, resulting in Sumitovant directly, and Sumitomo Pharma indirectly, owning 45,008,604, or approximately 50.2%, of the Company’s outstanding common shares on December 27, 2019. As of March 31, 2022, Sumitovant directly, and Sumitomo Pharma indirectly, own 50,041,181, or approximately 52.8%, of the Company’s outstanding common shares.
On December 27, 2019, the then existing Information Sharing and Cooperation Agreement between the Company and Roivant, the then existing Services Agreements between the Company and certain of its subsidiaries and Roivant and certain of its subsidiaries, and the then existing Option Agreement between the Company and Roivant were terminated. For the year ended March 31, 2020, the Company paid or reimbursed Roivant approximately $0.6 million under the terms of the then existing Services Agreements.
Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement
On December 27, 2019, the Company and one of its subsidiaries, MSG, entered into a Loan Agreement with Sumitomo Pharma (the “Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement”). Pursuant to the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement, Sumitomo Pharma agreed to make revolving loans to the Company in an aggregate principal amount of up to $400.0 million. On December 30, 2019, the Company borrowed an initial amount of $113.7 million under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement, the proceeds of which were used to repay all outstanding obligations of the Company to NovaQuest Capital Management (“NovaQuest”) and Hercules Capital, Inc. (“Hercules”) and to satisfy certain other fees and expenses (see Note 7). Funds may be drawn down by the Company once per calendar quarter, subject to certain terms and conditions, including consent of the Company’s board of directors. The maturity date of the loans under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement is December 27, 2024 or the date the outstanding principal of the loans is declared due and payable due to an event of default pursuant to the terms of the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement. In addition, if Sumitomo Pharma fails to own at least a majority of the outstanding common shares of the Company, it may become unlawful under Japanese law for Sumitomo Pharma to fund loans to the Company, and in which case the Company would not be able to continue to borrow under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement. Interest is due and payable quarterly, and the outstanding principal amounts are due and payable in full on the five-year anniversary of the closing date of the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement. Loans under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement are prepayable at any time without premium or penalty upon 10 business days’ prior written notice.
Loans under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement bear interest at a variable rate per annum equal to 3-month LIBOR plus a margin of 3% payable on the last day of each calendar quarter. Publication of 3-month LIBOR is currently expected to be discontinued on June 30, 2023. In the event that 3-month LIBOR becomes unavailable, the Company and Sumitomo Pharma will negotiate in good faith to select an alternative interest rate and, if applicable as a result of such alternative interest rate,
margin adjustment that is consistent with industry accepted successor rates for determining a LIBOR replacement. The Company’s obligations under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Company and its subsidiaries. The loans and other obligations are senior unsecured obligations of the Company, MSG, and subsidiary guarantees. The Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement includes customary representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants.
The Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement also includes customary events of default, including payment defaults, breaches of representations and warranties, breaches of covenants following any applicable cure period, cross acceleration to certain other debt, failure to pay certain final judgments, certain events relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, failure of material provisions of the loan documents to remain in full force and effect or any contest thereto by the Company or any of its subsidiaries and certain breaches by the Company under the Investor Rights Agreement. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, a default interest rate of an additional 5.0% will apply to the outstanding principal amount of the loans, Sumitomo Pharma may terminate its obligations to make loans to the Company and declare the principal amount of loans to become immediately due and payable, and Sumitomo Pharma may take such other actions as set forth in the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement. Upon the occurrence of certain bankruptcy and insolvency events, the obligations of Sumitomo Pharma to make loans to the Company would automatically terminate and the principal amount of the loans would automatically become due and payable. In addition, if it becomes unlawful for Sumitomo Pharma to maintain the loans under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement or within 30 days of a change of control with respect to the Company, the Company would be required to repay the outstanding principal amount of the Loans.
As of March 31, 2022, approximately $41.3 million of borrowing capacity remains available to the Company, subject to the terms of the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement, and the outstanding loan balance of $358.7 million is classified as a long-term liability on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets under the caption long-term debt, less current maturities (related party). Interest expense under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement was $11.6 million, $9.8 million, and $1.4 million for the years ended March 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively, and is included in interest expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
Annual maturities of amounts outstanding as of March 31, 2022, under the Sumitomo Pharma Loan Agreement are as follows (in thousands):
Year Ended March 31,
2023$— 
2024— 
2025358,700 
Total$358,700 
Sumitomo Pharma Loan Commitment
On August 5, 2020, the Company obtained a debt commitment letter from Sumitomo Pharma, as amended by a letter dated September 29, 2020, and then further amended by a letter dated December 22, 2020 (the “2020 Commitment Letter”), pursuant to which, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, Sumitomo Pharma committed to enter into a new $200.0 million unsecured, low-interest, five-year term loan facility. The 2020 Commitment Letter expired in March 2021.
Investor Rights Agreement
On December 27, 2019, the Company entered into an Investor Rights Agreement with Sumitomo Pharma and Sumitovant (the “Investor Rights Agreement”). Pursuant to the Investor Rights Agreement, among other things, the Company agreed, at the request of Sumitovant, to register for sale, under the Securities Act of 1933, common shares beneficially owned by Sumitovant, subject to specified conditions and limitations. In addition, the Company agreed to periodically provide Sumitovant (i) certain financial statements, projections, capitalization summaries and other information and (ii) access to the Company’s books, records, facilities and employees during the Company’s normal business hours as Sumitovant may reasonably request, subject to specified limitations.
The Investor Rights Agreement also contains certain protections for the Company’s minority shareholders for so long as Sumitomo Pharma or certain of its affiliates beneficially owns more than 50% of the Company’s common shares. These protections include: (i) a requirement that Sumitovant vote its shares for the election of independent directors in accordance with the recommendation of the Company’s board of directors (the “board”) or in the same proportion as the shareholders not affiliated with Sumitovant vote their shares; (ii) a requirement that the audit committee of the Company’s board be composed solely of three independent directors; (iii) a requirement that any transaction proposed by Sumitomo Pharma or certain of its
affiliates that would increase Sumitomo Pharma’s beneficial ownership to over 60% of the outstanding voting power of the Company must be approved by the Company’s audit committee (if occurring prior to December 27, 2022), and be conditioned on the approval of shareholders not affiliated with Sumitovant approving the transaction by a majority of the common shares held by such shareholders; and a requirement that any related person transactions between Sumitomo Pharma or certain of its affiliates and the Company must be approved by the Company’s audit committee.
Pursuant to the Investor Rights Agreement, the Company also agreed that at all times that Sumitomo Pharma beneficially owns more than 50% of the Company’s common shares, Sumitomo Pharma, by purchasing common shares in the open market or from the Company in certain specified circumstances, will have the right to maintain its percentage ownership in the Company’s common shares in the event of a financing event or acquisition event conducted by the Company, or specified other events, subject to specific conditions.
(B) Sumitovant
On May 18, 2020, the Company and Sumitovant entered into a consulting agreement, as amended on November 9, 2020, pursuant to which Sumitovant provided consulting services to the Company and its subsidiaries to support commercial planning, commercial launch, and implementation activities. Adele Gulfo, Sumitovant’s Chief Business and Commercial Development Officer and a member of the Company’s board of directors, provided services to the Company on behalf of Sumitovant under this agreement. The term of the consulting agreement with Sumitovant expired on March 31, 2021. For the year ended March 31, 2021, the Company incurred $0.8 million of expense under this consulting agreement, which is included in SG&A expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
In addition, for the year ended March 31, 2021, the Company agreed to reimburse Sumitovant for certain other third-party pass-through expenses that it incurred on behalf of the Company. These expenses, totaling $0.7 million, are included in SG&A expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. The Company reimbursed Sumitovant less than $0.1 million of third-party pass-through expenses that it incurred on behalf of the Company for the year ended March 31, 2022.
(C) Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Market Access Services Agreement
On August 1, 2020, one of the Company’s subsidiaries, MSG, entered into a Market Access Services Agreement, as amended (“Market Access Services Agreement”), with Sunovion. Pursuant to the Market Access Services Agreement, among other things, Sunovion agreed to provide to MSG certain market access services with respect to the distribution and sale of ORGOVYX (“Prostate Cancer Product”) and MYFEMBREE (“Women’s Health Product,” and collectively with Prostate Cancer Product, the “Products”, and each a “Product”), including, among other things: (i) adding the Products to Sunovion’s agreements with its third party logistics providers; (ii) adding the Women’s Health Product to certain of Sunovion’s contracts with wholesalers, group purchasing organizations and integrated delivery networks and negotiating rates for the Products with certain market access customers; (iii) providing order-to-cash services; (iv) providing certain employees to provide market access account director services; (v) performing activities required in connection with supporting and maintaining contracts between the Company and market access customers for the coverage, purchase, or dispensing of the Products; (vi) managing the validation, processing and payment of rebates, chargebacks, and certain administrative, distribution and service fees related to the Products; (vii) providing MSG with price reporting metrics and other information required to allow the Company to comply with applicable government price reporting requirements; (viii) coordinating with MSG and any applicable wholesalers and distributors to address any recalls, investigations, or product holds; (ix) configuring, or causing to be configured, the appropriate software systems to enable Sunovion to perform its obligations under the Market Access Services Agreement; and (x) providing training and certain other ancillary support services to facilitate the foregoing. Pursuant to this agreement, Sunovion will also provide certain services to the Company to enable the Company to comply with its obligations under the State Transparency Laws.
MSG, in turn, appointed Sunovion as the exclusive distributor of the Women’s Health Product and a non-exclusive distributor of the Prostate Cancer Product, each in the United States, including all of its territories and possessions.
In order to facilitate Sunovion’s provision of these services, MSG agreed, among other things, to: (i) grant Sunovion a non-exclusive license under all intellectual property owned or controlled by MSG, solely for Sunovion’s use in connection with its performance of the contemplated services; (ii) provide Sunovion periodic reports of sales projections and estimated volume requirements, as well as such other information as Sunovion reasonably requests or may need to perform the services; (iii) comply with the provisions of any agreements between Sunovion and third parties pursuant to which the Products will be distributed or sold; (iv) cooperate with certain investigations related to orders and audits of MSG’s quality systems solely related, as reasonably determined by Myovant, to Sunovion’s performance of certain regulatory services, at Sunovion’s costs; and (v) promptly notify Sunovion in the event relugolix is recalled.
As consideration for the services, MSG has paid and will continue to pay Sunovion an agreed-upon monthly service charge for each of the first two years of the Market Access Services Agreement term and any agreed regulatory and training service charges. After the second year of the Market Access Services Agreement term, the monthly service charges will be determined by the parties. In addition, MSG also agreed to (x) reimburse Sunovion for any pass-through expenses it incurs while providing the services, and (y) establish an escrow fund for use by Sunovion to manage payments for rebates, chargebacks and similar fees. For the years ended March 31, 2022, and 2021, the Company incurred $4.8 million and $3.8 million, respectively, under this agreement (inclusive of third-party pass-through costs billed to the Company) of which $4.8 million and $3.7 million, are included in SG&A expenses, in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, and $0.1 million of expenses are included in R&D expenses for the year ended March 31, 2021. There were no expenses included in R&D expenses for the year ended March 31, 2022.
The Market Access Services Agreement also contains customary representations and warranties by the parties and customary provisions related to confidentiality, indemnification and insurance. The initial term of the Market Access Services Agreement is three years. Thereafter, the term will be automatically extended for one-year periods, unless either party provides notice of its intent not to renew the Market Access Services Agreement at least nine (9) months prior to the expiration of the applicable term. Either party may also terminate the Market Access Services Agreement prior to the end of its term in the event of an uncured material breach by the other party, if there are certain changes of law, or if such other party becomes insolvent or undergoes a change of control. MSG may also terminate the Market Access Services Agreement with respect to one or both Products if Sunovion fails to satisfy certain market access milestones or for convenience upon payment of a break-up fee.
(D) Amended and Restated Bye-Laws
On December 22, 2019, the Company’s board of directors approved, subject to the closing of the Sumitomo-Roivant transaction and shareholder approval and certain other conditions, the adoption of the Company’s Fifth Amended and Restated Bye-Laws (the “New Bye-Laws”), which amended and restated the Company’s bye-laws to, among other things, (i) remove the procedures established in June 2019 providing Roivant with the power, under certain circumstances, to appoint a majority of directors on the Company’s board and related powers, (ii) revise certain other aspects of the Company’s corporate governance and (iii) make other minor wording changes and additions, removal and revisions of defined terms. The New Bye-Laws became effective on January 23, 2020.