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Related Party Transactions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

3. Related Party Transactions

Frazier is a principal stockholder of the Company and is represented on the Company’s board of directors. The Company has conducted operations within office space controlled by Frazier and Frazier allocated a portion of the costs associated with this office space to the Company. In addition, Frazier paid for various goods and services, such as employee wages, insurance and expense reimbursements and various administrative services associated with the operations of the Company and charged the Company for those expenses. As of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company had outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses due to Frazier in the amount of $35,000 and $0.1 million, respectively, related to these shared operating expenses. For the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company incurred $62,000 and $0.2 million, respectively, of shared operating expenses. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company incurred $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively, of shared operating expenses. In addition to the shared operating expenses, the Company issued convertible promissory notes to Frazier during 2018 and 2019 (see Note 5).

Frazier is a principal stockholder in PCI Pharma Services (“PCI”). In the third quarter of 2019, the Company engaged PCI for clinical manufacturing services. As of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company had $0.6 million and $0.3 million, respectively, outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses related to these manufacturing services.  For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company incurred $0.9 million and $1.5 million, respectively, of expenses related to services performed by PCI. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company incurred $0.2 million of expenses related to services performed by PCI.    

Mountain Field LLC (“Mountain Field”) is an entity owned by the chairman of the Company’s board of directors. During 2019, the Company charged Mountain Field for certain rent and payroll related expenses. These shared expenses were allocated based on usage of the related facilities and time incurred by personnel. For the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company charged Mountain Field  $0.1 million for shared expenses. There were no such expenses for the three month periods ended September 30, 2019 and 2020 or the nine months ended September 30, 2020.

Takeda became a common stockholder of the Company in connection with the May 2019 license agreement (see Note 4). In conjunction with this license, Takeda provides proprietary supplies for the Company’s ongoing clinical development of vonoprazan in addition to the exclusive license for the commercialization of vonoprazan in the United States, Canada and Europe. As of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company had $22,000 and $0.1 million, respectively, in outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses related to these supply services. The Company did not have any such expenses incurred for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 related to services performed by Takeda.

On May 5, 2020, the Company entered into a Commercial Supply Agreement (the “Commercial Supply Agreement”) with Takeda, pursuant to which Takeda will supply commercial quantities of vonoprazan bulk drug product. Pursuant to the Commercial Supply Agreement, Takeda has agreed to supply the Company with and the Company has agreed to purchase from Takeda certain quantities of vonoprazan bulk drug product according to approved specifications at a fixed price per batch of bulk drug product in order to commercialize vonoprazan in accordance with the Takeda License. Unless terminated earlier, the term of the Commercial Supply Agreement extends for a period of two years from the date the Company places an order for bulk drug product for the first commercial launch of vonoprazan in any jurisdiction in the licensed territory, provided that this two-year period will expire no later than December 31, 2023. The Commercial Supply Agreement will terminate immediately upon the termination of the Takeda License in accordance with its terms. As of September 30, 2020, the Company had $0.1 million in outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses related to these bulk drug product costs. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company incurred $0.1 million of expenses related to the Commercial Supply Agreement. The Company has a remaining minimum purchase obligation of approximately $2.4 million related to this agreement.