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Commitments and Contingencies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Commitments and Contingencies  
Commitments and Contingencies

H.       Commitments and Contingencies

 

Leases

 

The Company currently has a lease agreement with CRP/King 830 Winter L.L.C. for the rental of approximately 110,000 square feet of laboratory and office space at 830 Winter Street, Waltham, MA through March 2026. The Company uses this space for its corporate headquarters and other operations. The Company may extend the lease for two additional terms of five years. Pursuant to lease amendments executed in December 2013, April 2014, and December 2015, the Company received construction allowances of approximately $746,000, $1.1 million, and $186,000, respectively, to build out office and lab space to the Company’s specifications. The Company is required to pay certain operating expenses for the leased premises subject to escalation charges for certain expense increases over a base amount.

 

In February 2016, the Company entered into a lease agreement with PDM 930 Unit, LLC for the rental of 10,281 square feet of additional office space at 930 Winter Street, Waltham, MA through August 31, 2021. The Company received approximately $617,000 as a construction allowance to build out the office space to the Company’s specifications. The Company is required to pay certain operating expenses for the leased premises based on its pro-rata share of such expenses for the entire rentable space of the building. The Company is actively seeking to sub-lease this space.

 

The Company also leases manufacturing and office space at 333 Providence Highway, Norwood, MA under an agreement through 2018 with an option to extend the lease for an additional term of five years. The Company is required to pay certain operating expenses for the leased premises subject to escalation charges for certain expense increases over a base amount.

 

Effective April 2013, the Company entered into a lease agreement with River Ridge Limited Partnership for the rental of 7,507 square feet of additional office space at 100 River Ridge Drive, Norwood, MA. The initial term of the lease is for five years and two months commencing in July 2013 with an option for the Company to extend the lease for an additional term of five years. The Company is required to pay certain operating expenses for the leased premises subject to escalation charges for certain expense increases over a base amount. The Company entered into a sublease in December 2014 for this space, effective from January 2015 through July 2018. That sublease is in process of being terminated due to payment delinquency.  Due to the short span of time remaining on the lease and the estimated amount of time it would take to find another sub-tenant, the remainder of this lease was accrued as a charge in the quarter in the amount of $169,000.

 

The minimum rental commitments for the Company’s facilities, including real estate taxes and other expenses, for the next five fiscal years and thereafter under the non-cancelable operating lease agreements discussed above are as follows (in thousands):

 

 

 

 

 

 

2017 (nine months remaining)

    

$

5,959

 

2018

 

 

7,736

 

2019

 

 

7,235

 

2020

 

 

7,283

 

2021

 

 

7,107

 

Thereafter

 

 

30,794

 

Total minimum lease payments

 

$

66,114

 

 

There are no obligations under capital leases as of March 31, 2017, as all of the capital leases were single payment obligations which have all been made.

 

Collaborations

 

The Company is contractually obligated to make potential future success-based development, regulatory or sales milestone payments in conjunction with certain collaborative agreements. These payments are contingent upon the occurrence of certain future events and, given the nature of these events, it is unclear when, if ever, the Company may be required to pay such amounts. Further, the timing of any future payment is not reasonably estimable. As of March 31, 2017, the maximum amount that may be payable in the future under the Company’s current collaborative agreements is $161.8 million, $1.2 million of which is reimbursable by a third party under a separate agreement.

 

The Company is party to a license agreement covering the manufacture of the antibodies used in certain of product candidates which, under certain circumstances, requires periodic payments once the product reaches a specified stage of clinical development, and royalties on commercial sales of the product. The Company believes that the license agreement, by its terms, does not obligate it to make any further payments thereunder and accordingly, has not accrued a potential payment of £300,000 for one of its product candidates that has reached this stage.

Manufacturing Commitments

As of March 31, 2017, the Company has noncancelable obligations under several agreements related to in-process and future manufacturing of antibody and cytotoxic agents required for clinical supply of the Company’s product candidates totaling $8.6 million, of which $6.8 million will be paid in 2017 and $1.8 million will be paid in 2018.

In February 2017, the Company executed a letter agreement with one of its antibody manufacturers to reserve capacity through calendar 2021. The total commitment over the five-year term of the agreement is €46.2 million, however only €6.3 million euros is noncancelable as of March 31, 2017.