Leases

9 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2022

Operating Leases

The Company currently leases certain office equipment and its office and laboratory facilities under non-cancelable operating leases. Rent expense for operating leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term from the lease commencement date through the scheduled expiration date. Rent expenses totaled $469,000 and $314,000 for the three months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively and $1.4 million and $942,000 for the nine months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The Company considers its facilities adequate for its current operational needs.

The Company leases the following facilities:

•One University Plaza, Suite 307, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601, which, since November 2011, serves as the Company’s corporate headquarters. The current lease expires in November 2026. The Company recognized $24,000 of rental costs relative to this lease for three months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, and $70,000 and $67,000 the nine months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

•1330 Piccard Drive Suite 025, Rockville, MD 20850, which consists of laboratory and office space where the Company conducts operations related to its primary service offerings. The Company executed this lease (the "Original Premises") on January 11, 2017. The operating commencement date was August 11, 2017. This lease was originally set to expire in August 2028.

◦On March 30, 2020, the Company executed the first amendment to this lease to expand the existing premises at 1330 Piccard Drive, Suite 025 ("Expansion Premises") to add on Suites 050 and 104. This amendment also extended the current lease term by six months. The Expansion Premises operating lease commencement date was June 1, 2020 and, under the amendment, both leases expire February 28, 2029.

◦The Company evaluated the first amendment and also performed a reassessment of the existing lease for Suite 025 to determine the impact of the six-month term extension. As a result of this assessment, the Company recognized an additional operating ROU asset and related operating lease liability for Suite 025 of $118,000 and $125,000, respectively, as well as an incremental net rent expense of $8,000 during the three months ended July 31, 2020.

◦Upon the Expansion Premises operating lease commencement date (June 1, 2020), the Company recognized an operating ROU asset and related operating lease liability for Suites 050 and 104 of $3.8 million, each, respectively.

◦For the leases related to the Original and Expansion Premises at Piccard Drive, the Company recognized $292,000 and $290,000 of rental expense for the three months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $881,000 and $832,000 for the nine months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

◦On December 22, 2020, the Company executed the second amendment to this lease to expand the existing premises at 1330 Piccard Drive, Suites 025, 050, and 104 ("Additional Expansion Premises") to add on Suite 201. The Additional Expansion Premises operating lease commencement date is April 1, 2021 and, under the second amendment, reaffirms that all three leases expire February 28, 2029.

◦Upon the Additional Expansion Premises operating lease commencement date (April 1, 2021), the Company recognized an operating ROU asset and related operating lease liability for Suite 201 of $3.3 million, each, respectively.

◦The Company recognized $130,000 and zero of rental expense for the three months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $390,000 and zero of rental expense for the nine months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, for the Additional Expansion Premises.

•1405 Research Boulevard, Suite 125, Rockville, Maryland 20850 (“New Location”), which consisted of laboratory and office space where the Company conducted operations related to its primary service offerings. The Company executed this lease on November 1, 2018. The operating commencement date was January 17, 2019. This lease was set to expire in April 2024. The Company terminated this lease on June 30, 2020 and transitioned its activities from this location to the Expansion Premises, as defined above, during the first quarter of fiscal 2021. Upon lease termination, the Company recognized a decrease in the related operating ROU asset and operating lease liability of approximately $850,000 and $926,000, respectively, as well as a gain on lease termination of $75,000. For the three month period ended January 31, 2022 and 2021 there was zero rent expense. The Company recognized zero and $43,000 of rental expense for the nine months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

•VIA LEONE XIII, 14, Milan, Italy, which consists of laboratory and office space where the Company has begun to conduct operations related to its flow cytometry service offerings. The Company executed the lease for its laboratory space in June 2021, and commenced occupancy during the three months ended October 31, 2021. The Company executed the lease for its office space on October 1, 2021.

◦The Company recognized an operating ROU asset and related operating lease liability for the lab and office space of $205,000 each, respectively.

◦The Company recognized rental costs associated with these leases of $23,000 and zero for the three months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $58,000 and zero for the nine months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

ROU assets and lease liabilities related to our current operating leases are as follows (in thousands):


	January 31, 2022		April 30, 2021
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net	$	8,418	$	8,521
Current portion of operating lease liabilities	1,014		818
Non-current portion of operating lease liabilities	8,618		8,783

As of January 31, 2022, the weighted average remaining operating lease term and the weighted average discount rate were 6.91 years and 5.73%, respectively.

Future minimum lease payments due each fiscal year as follows (in thousands):


Remainder of 2022	$	672
2023	2,743
2024	2,811
2025	2,850
2026	2,897
Thereafter	8,024
Total	$	19,997

Refer to Note 5, Property and Equipment, for information on financing leases.