Significant Collaboration and Licensing Agreements	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
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Significant Collaboration and Licensing Agreements	2. Significant Collaboration and Licensing Agreements AbbVie. In June 2010, we entered into an exclusive worldwide collaboration with AbbVie to develop and commercialize elagolix and all next-generation gonadotropin-releasing factor antagonists for women’s and men’s health. In connection with the agreement, AbbVie made an upfront payment of $75.0 million and agreed to make additional development and regulatory event-based milestone payments of up to $480.0 million, of which $135.0 million has been earned, and up to an additional $50.0 million in commercial event-based milestone payments. Under the terms of the agreement, AbbVie is responsible for all third-party development, marketing, and commercialization costs. We will be entitled to a percentage of worldwide sales of GnRH Compounds for the longer of ten years or the life of the related patent rights. AbbVie may terminate the collaboration at its discretion upon 180 days’ written notice to us. We evaluated the terms of this agreement under Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, and determined that there is one performance obligation, the exclusive worldwide license with rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize elagolix. At execution, the transaction price included only the $75.0 million up-front consideration received. None of the development or regulatory milestones were included in the transaction price, as all milestone amounts were fully constrained. As part of our evaluation of the constraint, we considered numerous factors, including that achievement of the milestones is outside of our control and contingent upon success in future clinical trials and the licensee’s efforts. Any consideration related to sales-based milestones (including royalties) will be recognized when the related sales occur as they were determined to relate predominantly to the license granted to AbbVie and therefore have also been excluded from the transaction price. We will re-evaluate the transaction price in each reporting period and as uncertain events are resolved or other changes in circumstances occur. BIAL – Portela & Ca, S.A. In the first quarter of 2017, we entered into an exclusive license agreement with BIAL – Portela & Ca, S.A., or BIAL, for the development and commercialization of ONGENTYS for the treatment of human diseases and conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, in the US and Canada. In connection with the agreement, we paid BIAL an upfront license fee of $30.0 million and agreed to make additional regulatory event-based milestone payments of up to $40.0 million, of which $20.0 million has been paid, and up to an additional $75.0 million in commercial event-based milestone payments. In April 2020, we received FDA approval for ONGENTYS as an adjunctive therapy to levodopa/DOPA decarboxylase inhibitors in adult Parkinson's disease patients. FDA approval of ONGENTYS for Parkinson’s disease triggered a milestone payment of $20.0 million. Under the terms of the agreement, we are responsible for the commercialization of ONGENTYS in the US and Canada. Further, we will rely on BIAL for the commercial supply of ONGENTYS. Upon our written request prior to the estimated expiration of the term of a licensed product, the parties shall negotiate a good faith continuation of BIAL’s supply of such licensed product after the term. After the term, and if BIAL is not supplying a certain licensed product, we shall pay BIAL a trademark royalty based on the net sales of such licensed product. Upon commercialization of ONGENTYS, we will determine certain annual sales forecasts. In the event we fail to meet the minimum sales requirements for a particular year, we would be obligated to pay BIAL an amount equal to the difference between the actual net sales and minimum sales requirements for such year. Unless earlier terminated, the agreement will continue on a licensed product-by-product and country-by-country basis until a generic product in respect of such licensed product under the agreement is sold in a country and sales of such generic product are greater than a specified percentage of total sales of such licensed product in such country. Either party may terminate the agreement if the other party materially breaches the agreement and does not cure the breach within a specified notice period, or upon the other party’s insolvency. BIAL may terminate the agreement if we fail to use commercially reasonable efforts to submit an NDA for a licensed product by a specified date, in the event we fail to meet the minimum sales requirements for any two years, or under certain circumstances involving a change of control of Neurocrine Biosciences. Under certain circumstances where BIAL elects to terminate the agreement in connection with a change of control of Neurocrine Biosciences, BIAL would be obligated to pay us a termination fee. We may terminate the agreement at any time for any reason upon nine months’ written notice to BIAL. Voyager. In the first quarter of 2019, we entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Voyager, a clinical-stage gene therapy company. The agreement is focused on the development and commercialization of four programs using Voyager’s proprietary gene therapy platform. The four programs consist of the NBIb-1817 program for Parkinson’s disease, the Friedreich’s ataxia program and the rights to two undisclosed programs. In connection with the agreement, we paid Voyager $115.0 million upfront and purchased $50.0 million of Voyager’s common stock at $11.9625 per share, representing approximately 4.2 million shares. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Voyager may also be entitled to an additional $1.7 billion in development, regulatory, and commercial milestone payments, as well as royalties on net sales of any collaboration product. We accounted for the transaction as an asset acquisition as the set of acquired assets did not constitute a business. Our equity investment in Voyager was recorded at a fair value of $54.7 million after considering Voyager’s stock price on the date of closing and certain lock-up and voting provisions applicable to the acquired shares. The remaining $113.1 million of the purchase price, which includes the applicable transaction costs, was expensed as in-process research and development, or IPR&D, in the first quarter of 2019. In June 2019, we entered into an amendment to the collaboration and license agreement with Voyager. Under the terms of the amendment, we paid Voyager $5.0 million upfront to obtain rights outside the US to the Friedreich’s ataxia program in connection with the early return of those rights to Voyager pursuant to a restructuring of Voyager’s gene therapy relationship with Sanofi Genzyme. The upfront payment was expensed as IPR&D in the second quarter of 2019. Pursuant to development plans agreed to by us and Voyager, unless Voyager exercises its co-development and co-commercialization rights as provided for in the agreement, we will be responsible for all development costs. Further, upon the occurrence of a specified event for each program, we will assume responsibility for the development, manufacturing, and commercialization activities of such program. We may terminate the collaboration and license agreement with Voyager upon 180 days’ written notice to Voyager prior to the first commercial sale of any collaboration product or upon one year after the date of notice if such notice is provided after the first commercial sale of any collaboration product. Unless terminated earlier, the agreement will continue in effect until the expiration of the last to expire royalty term with respect to any collaboration product or the last expiration or termination of any exercised co-development and co-commercialization rights by Voyager as provided for in the agreement. Xenon. In December 2019, we entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., or Xenon, to identify, research, and develop sodium channel inhibitors, including clinical candidate NBI-921352 and three preclinical candidates, which compounds we will have the exclusive right to further develop and commercialize under the terms and conditions set forth in the agreement. We will be solely responsible, at our sole cost and expense, for all development and manufacturing of the compounds and any pharmaceutical product that contains a compound, subject to Xenon’s right to elect to co-fund the development of one product in a major indication and thus receive a mid-single digit percentage increase in royalties owed on the net sales of such product in the US. If Xenon exercises such option, the parties will share equally all reasonable and documented costs and expenses incurred in connection with the development of such product in the applicable indication, except costs and expenses that are solely related to the development of such product for regulatory approval outside the US. In connection with the agreement, we paid Xenon $30.0 million upfront and purchased $20.0 million of Xenon’s common stock at $14.196 per share, representing approximately 1.4 million shares. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Xenon may also be entitled to an additional $1.7 billion in development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments, as well as royalties on net sales of any collaboration product. Unless earlier terminated, the term of the license and collaboration agreement will continue on a product-by-product and country-by-country basis until the expiration of the royalty term for such product in such country. Upon the expiration of the royalty term for a particular product and country, the exclusive license granted by Xenon to us with respect to such product and country will become fully paid, royalty free, perpetual, and irrevocable. We may terminate the license and collaboration agreement by providing at least 90 days’ written notice, provided that such unilateral termination will not be effective for certain products until we have used commercially reasonable efforts to complete certain specified clinical studies. Either party may terminate the agreement in the event of a material breach in whole or in part, subject to specified conditions. Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation. In March 2015, we entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, or MTPC, for the development and commercialization of INGREZZA for movement disorders in Japan and other select Asian markets. In connection with the agreement, MTPC made an upfront payment of $30.0 million and agreed to make an additional $85.0 million in development and regulatory event-based milestone payments, payments for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products and royalties on product sales in select territories in Asia. Under the terms of the agreement, MTPC is responsible for all third-party development, marketing, and commercialization costs in Japan and other select Asian markets and we would be entitled to a percentage of sales of INGREZZA in Japan and other select Asian markets for the longer of ten years or the life of the related patent rights. Further, the collaboration effort between the parties to advance INGREZZA towards commercialization in Japan and other select Asian markets is governed by joint steering and development committees with representatives from both parties. There are no performance, cancellation, termination, or refund provisions in the agreement that would have a material financial consequence to us. We do not directly control when event-based payments will be achieved or when royalty payments will begin. MTPC may terminate the agreement at its discretion upon 180 days’ written notice to us. In such event, all INGREZZA product rights for Japan and other select Asian markets would revert to us. We assessed this arrangement in accordance with Topic 606 and identified the following performance obligations: (i) INGREZZA technology license and existing know-how; and (ii) development activities to initiate a clinical study of INGREZZA for Huntington’s chorea. We have the option to participate on the joint steering committee, but since participation is at our option it was deemed to not be a performance obligation. The option for MTPC to engage us to manufacture and supply pharmaceutical products, not at a discount, was not considered a material right and therefore not a performance obligation. Based on these assessments, we identified the license and the development activities as the only performance obligations at the inception of the agreement, which were both deemed to be distinct. To evaluate the appropriate transaction price, we determined that the up-front payment received constituted the entirety of the consideration to be included in the transaction price and to be allocated to the performance obligations based on our best estimate of their relative stand-alone selling prices. For the license, the stand-alone selling price was calculated using an income approach model and included the following key assumptions: the development timeline, revenue forecast, discount rate and probabilities of technical and regulatory success. The relative selling price of our development activities to initiate a clinical study of INGREZZA for Huntington’s chorea was based on an assessment of costs to perform the study, based upon a peer company analysis for similar studies. We believe a change in the assumptions used to determine our stand-alone selling price for the license most likely would not have a significant effect on the allocation of consideration received (or receivable) to the performance obligations. At execution, the transaction price included only the $30.0 million up-front consideration received. None of the development or regulatory milestones have been included in the transaction price, as all milestone amounts were fully constrained. As part of our evaluation of the constraint, we considered numerous factors, including that achievement of the milestones is outside of our control and contingent upon success in future clinical studies and the licensee’s efforts. Any consideration related to sales-based milestones (including royalties) will be recognized when the related sales occur as they were determined to relate predominantly to the license granted to MTPC and therefore have also been excluded from the transaction price. We will re-evaluate the transaction price in each reporting period and as uncertain events are resolved or other changes in circumstances occur. Under the terms of the agreement, any payment we receive is generally non-refundable. Since inception of the agreement, we have recognized revenue of $21.9 million associated with the delivery of a technology license and existing know-how and $15.0 million in development event-based payments resulting from MTPC’s initiation of Phase II/III development of INGREZZA in TD in Asia. In the first quarter of 2020, we recognized revenue of $1.3 million in connection with the ongoing KINECT-HD study, a placebo-controlled Phase III study of valbenazine in adult Huntington’s disease patients with chorea. In accordance with our continuing performance obligations, $8.1 million of the $30.0 million upfront payment received is being deferred and will be recognized as revenue over the KINECT-HD study period using an input method according to research and development, or R&D, costs incurred to date relative to estimated total R&D costs.

Significant Collaboration and Licensing Agreements

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Significant Collaboration and Licensing Agreements

2. Significant Collaboration and Licensing Agreements

AbbVie. In June 2010, we entered into an exclusive worldwide collaboration with AbbVie to develop and commercialize elagolix and all next-generation gonadotropin-releasing factor antagonists for women’s and men’s health. In connection with the agreement, AbbVie made an upfront payment of $75.0 million and agreed to make additional development and regulatory event-based milestone payments of up to $480.0 million, of which $135.0 million has been earned, and up to an additional $50.0 million in commercial event-based milestone payments.

Under the terms of the agreement, AbbVie is responsible for all third-party development, marketing, and commercialization costs. We will be entitled to a percentage of worldwide sales of GnRH Compounds for the longer of ten years or the life of the related patent rights. AbbVie may terminate the collaboration at its discretion upon 180 days’ written notice to us.

We evaluated the terms of this agreement under Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, and determined that there is one performance obligation, the exclusive worldwide license with rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize elagolix. At execution, the transaction price included only the $75.0 million up-front consideration received. None of the development or regulatory milestones were included in the transaction price, as all milestone amounts were fully constrained. As part of our evaluation of the constraint, we considered numerous factors, including that achievement of the milestones is outside of our control and contingent upon success in future clinical trials and the licensee’s efforts. Any consideration related to sales-based milestones (including royalties) will be recognized when the related sales occur as they were determined to relate predominantly to the license granted to AbbVie and therefore have also been excluded from the transaction price. We will re-evaluate the transaction price in each reporting period and as uncertain events are resolved or other changes in circumstances occur.

BIAL – Portela & Ca, S.A. In the first quarter of 2017, we entered into an exclusive license agreement with BIAL – Portela & Ca, S.A., or BIAL, for the development and commercialization of ONGENTYS for the treatment of human diseases and conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, in the US and Canada. In connection with the agreement, we paid BIAL an upfront license fee of $30.0 million and agreed to make additional regulatory event-based milestone payments of up to $40.0 million, of which $20.0 million has been paid, and up to an additional $75.0 million in commercial event-based milestone payments.

In April 2020, we received FDA approval for ONGENTYS as an adjunctive therapy to levodopa/DOPA decarboxylase inhibitors in adult Parkinson's disease patients. FDA approval of ONGENTYS for Parkinson’s disease triggered a milestone payment of $20.0 million.

Under the terms of the agreement, we are responsible for the commercialization of ONGENTYS in the US and Canada. Further, we will rely on BIAL for the commercial supply of ONGENTYS. Upon our written request prior to the estimated expiration of the term of a licensed product, the parties shall negotiate a good faith continuation of BIAL’s supply of such licensed product after the term. After the term, and if BIAL is not supplying a certain licensed product, we shall pay BIAL a trademark royalty based on the net sales of such licensed product.

Upon commercialization of ONGENTYS, we will determine certain annual sales forecasts. In the event we fail to meet the minimum sales requirements for a particular year, we would be obligated to pay BIAL an amount equal to the difference between the actual net sales and minimum sales requirements for such year.

Unless earlier terminated, the agreement will continue on a licensed product-by-product and country-by-country basis until a generic product in respect of such licensed product under the agreement is sold in a country and sales of such generic product are greater than a specified percentage of total sales of such licensed product in such country.

Either party may terminate the agreement if the other party materially breaches the agreement and does not cure the breach within a specified notice period, or upon the other party’s insolvency. BIAL may terminate the agreement if we fail to use commercially reasonable efforts to submit an NDA for a licensed product by a specified date, in the event we fail to meet the minimum sales requirements for any two years, or under certain circumstances involving a change of control of Neurocrine Biosciences. Under certain circumstances where BIAL elects to terminate the agreement in connection with a change of control of Neurocrine Biosciences, BIAL would be obligated to pay us a termination fee. We may terminate the agreement at any time for any reason upon nine months’ written notice to BIAL.

Voyager. In the first quarter of 2019, we entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Voyager, a clinical-stage gene therapy company. The agreement is focused on the development and commercialization of four programs using Voyager’s proprietary gene therapy platform. The four programs consist of the NBIb-1817 program for Parkinson’s disease, the Friedreich’s ataxia program and the rights to two undisclosed programs.

In connection with the agreement, we paid Voyager $115.0 million upfront and purchased $50.0 million of Voyager’s common stock at $11.9625 per share, representing approximately 4.2 million shares. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Voyager may also be entitled to an additional $1.7 billion in development, regulatory, and commercial milestone payments, as well as royalties on net sales of any collaboration product. We accounted for the transaction as an asset acquisition as the set of acquired assets did not constitute a business. Our equity investment in Voyager was recorded at a fair value of $54.7 million after considering Voyager’s stock price on the date of closing and certain lock-up and voting provisions applicable to the acquired shares. The remaining $113.1 million of the purchase price, which includes the applicable transaction costs, was expensed as in-process research and development, or IPR&D, in the first quarter of 2019.

In June 2019, we entered into an amendment to the collaboration and license agreement with Voyager. Under the terms of the amendment, we paid Voyager $5.0 million upfront to obtain rights outside the US to the Friedreich’s ataxia program in connection with the early return of those rights to Voyager pursuant to a restructuring of Voyager’s gene therapy relationship with Sanofi Genzyme. The upfront payment was expensed as IPR&D in the second quarter of 2019.

Pursuant to development plans agreed to by us and Voyager, unless Voyager exercises its co-development and co-commercialization rights as provided for in the agreement, we will be responsible for all development costs. Further, upon the occurrence of a specified event for each program, we will assume responsibility for the development, manufacturing, and commercialization activities of such program.

We may terminate the collaboration and license agreement with Voyager upon 180 days’ written notice to Voyager prior to the first commercial sale of any collaboration product or upon one year after the date of notice if such notice is provided after the first commercial sale of any collaboration product. Unless terminated earlier, the agreement will continue in effect until the expiration of the last to expire royalty term with respect to any collaboration product or the last expiration or termination of any exercised co-development and co-commercialization rights by Voyager as provided for in the agreement.

Xenon. In December 2019, we entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., or Xenon, to identify, research, and develop sodium channel inhibitors, including clinical candidate NBI-921352 and three preclinical candidates, which compounds we will have the exclusive right to further develop and commercialize under the terms and conditions set forth in the agreement.

We will be solely responsible, at our sole cost and expense, for all development and manufacturing of the compounds and any pharmaceutical product that contains a compound, subject to Xenon’s right to elect to co-fund the development of one product in a major indication and thus receive a mid-single digit percentage increase in royalties owed on the net sales of such product in the US. If Xenon exercises such option, the parties will share equally all reasonable and documented costs and expenses incurred in connection with the development of such product in the applicable indication, except costs and expenses that are solely related to the development of such product for regulatory approval outside the US.

In connection with the agreement, we paid Xenon $30.0 million upfront and purchased $20.0 million of Xenon’s common stock at $14.196 per share, representing approximately 1.4 million shares. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Xenon may also be entitled to an additional $1.7 billion in development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments, as well as royalties on net sales of any collaboration product.

Unless earlier terminated, the term of the license and collaboration agreement will continue on a product-by-product and country-by-country basis until the expiration of the royalty term for such product in such country. Upon the expiration of the royalty term for a particular product and country, the exclusive license granted by Xenon to us with respect to such product and country will become fully paid, royalty free, perpetual, and irrevocable. We may terminate the license and collaboration agreement by providing at least 90 days’ written notice, provided that such unilateral termination will not be effective for certain products until we have used commercially reasonable efforts to complete certain specified clinical studies. Either party may terminate the agreement in the event of a material breach in whole or in part, subject to specified conditions.

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation. In March 2015, we entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, or MTPC, for the development and commercialization of INGREZZA for movement disorders in Japan and other select Asian markets. In connection with the agreement, MTPC made an upfront payment of $30.0 million and agreed to make an additional $85.0 million in development and regulatory event-based milestone payments, payments for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products and royalties on product sales in select territories in Asia.

Under the terms of the agreement, MTPC is responsible for all third-party development, marketing, and commercialization costs in Japan and other select Asian markets and we would be entitled to a percentage of sales of INGREZZA in Japan and other select Asian markets for the longer of ten years or the life of the related patent rights. Further, the collaboration effort between the parties to advance INGREZZA towards commercialization in Japan and other select Asian markets is governed by joint steering and development committees with representatives from both parties. There are no performance, cancellation, termination, or refund provisions in the agreement that would have a material financial consequence to us. We do not directly control when event-based payments will be achieved or when royalty payments will begin. MTPC may terminate the agreement at its discretion upon 180 days’ written notice to us. In such event, all INGREZZA product rights for Japan and other select Asian markets would revert to us.

We assessed this arrangement in accordance with Topic 606 and identified the following performance obligations: (i) INGREZZA technology license and existing know-how; and (ii) development activities to initiate a clinical study of INGREZZA for Huntington’s chorea. We have the option to participate on the joint steering committee, but since participation is at our option it was deemed to not be a performance obligation. The option for MTPC to engage us to manufacture and supply pharmaceutical products, not at a discount, was not considered a material right and therefore not a performance obligation. Based on these assessments, we identified the license and the development activities as the only performance obligations at the inception of the agreement, which were both deemed to be distinct.

To evaluate the appropriate transaction price, we determined that the up-front payment received constituted the entirety of the consideration to be included in the transaction price and to be allocated to the performance obligations based on our best estimate of their relative stand-alone selling prices. For the license, the stand-alone selling price was calculated using an income approach model and included the following key assumptions: the development timeline, revenue forecast, discount rate and probabilities of technical and regulatory success. The relative selling price of our development activities to initiate a clinical study of INGREZZA for Huntington’s chorea was based on an assessment of costs to perform the study, based upon a peer company analysis for similar studies. We believe a change in the assumptions used to determine our stand-alone selling price for the license most likely would not have a significant effect on the allocation of consideration received (or receivable) to the performance obligations.

At execution, the transaction price included only the $30.0 million up-front consideration received. None of the development or regulatory milestones have been included in the transaction price, as all milestone amounts were fully constrained. As part of our evaluation of the constraint, we considered numerous factors, including that achievement of the milestones is outside of our control

and contingent upon success in future clinical studies and the licensee’s efforts. Any consideration related to sales-based milestones (including royalties) will be recognized when the related sales occur as they were determined to relate predominantly to the license granted to MTPC and therefore have also been excluded from the transaction price. We will re-evaluate the transaction price in each reporting period and as uncertain events are resolved or other changes in circumstances occur. Under the terms of the agreement, any payment we receive is generally non-refundable.

Since inception of the agreement, we have recognized revenue of $21.9 million associated with the delivery of a technology license and existing know-how and $15.0 million in development event-based payments resulting from MTPC’s initiation of Phase II/III development of INGREZZA in TD in Asia. In the first quarter of 2020, we recognized revenue of $1.3 million in connection with the ongoing KINECT-HD study, a placebo-controlled Phase III study of valbenazine in adult Huntington’s disease patients with chorea. In accordance with our continuing performance obligations, $8.1 million of the $30.0 million upfront payment received is being deferred and will be recognized as revenue over the KINECT-HD study period using an input method according to research and development, or R&D, costs incurred to date relative to estimated total R&D costs.