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Related Party License Agreement
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party License Agreement

11. Related Party License Agreement

Amgen, Inc.

In July 2020, the Company entered into an Exclusive License Agreement and Letter Agreement (collectively, the “Amgen Agreement”) with Amgen, pursuant to which the Company has been granted an exclusive, royalty-bearing sublicensable license to certain intellectual property rights owned or controlled by Amgen, to commercially develop, manufacture, use, distribute and sell therapeutic products containing compounds that bind to Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 (“TREM2”).

As initial consideration for the license, the Company made a one-time, non-creditable, non-refundable upfront payment of $0.5 million. As additional consideration for the license, the Company is required to pay Amgen up to $80.0 million in the aggregate upon the achievement of specified regulatory milestones for the first monoclonal antibody agonist of TREM2 agonist (“mAb”) product and the first small molecule TREM2 agonist product and aggregate milestone payments of up to $350.0 million upon the achievement of specific commercial milestones across all mAb products and small molecule products. No regulatory or commercial milestones have

been achieved to date under the Amgen Agreement. The Company is also required to pay tiered royalties of low to mid single-digit percentages on annual net sales of the products covered by the license. In the event that the exploitation of a product is not covered by a valid claim within the licensed patent rights, then the royalty rate with respect to the net sales shall be subject to a customary reduction by a certain percentage. The royalty term will terminate on a country-by-country basis on the later of (i) the expiration date of the last valid claim within the licensed patent rights, and (ii) the tenth (10th) anniversary of the first commercial sale of such product in such country. Further, the Company was required to reimburse Amgen for amounts it paid to its contract manufacturers on the Company’s behalf. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company incurred $2.4 million in contract manufacturing costs. No additional costs were incurred during the six months ended June 30, 2022. These costs are recognized as research and development expense over the period that the goods are provided, as applicable.

In addition to the cash consideration described above, the Company agreed to issue Series A convertible preferred stock to Amgen in an amount equal to 25% of the Company’s capital stock on a fully diluted basis (the “Related Party Antidilution Obligation”) until the Company has raised an aggregate of $45.0 million net cash proceeds from equity financings. The Company determined that the Related Party Antidilution Obligation was required to be recorded as a liability because it was a freestanding instrument that would require the Company to transfer assets to settle the obligation and it is indexed to an obligation to contingently redeem the Company’s equity shares. Accordingly, the Company recognized the liability at fair value on the acquisition date and recognizes changes in the fair value of the anti-dilution rights at each subsequent reporting period in the change in fair value of the Related Party Antidilution Obligation in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss (see Note 3).

On September 18, 2020, the Company completed the first closing pursuant to the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement which triggered the Related Party Antidilution Obligation resulting in the issuance of 6,928,566 Series A convertible preferred stock to Amgen with a fair value of $17.5 million.

On May 28, 2021, the Company completed the second closing pursuant to the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement which resulted in the Company raising net cash proceeds from financing activities in excess of the $45.0 million Related Party Antidilution Obligation cap. Amgen received an additional 1,963,093 Series A convertible preferred stock with a fair value of $5.1 million.

As of June 30, 2022, Amgen owned approximately 11.34% of the Company’s outstanding shares of capital stock.

Amounts paid with respect to goods provided by Amgen on the Company’s behalf under the Amgen Agreement are recognized as research and development expense as such amounts are incurred. For the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company recognized $0 and $2.4 million, respectively, of expense in connection with goods provided by Amgen.