Business and Organization

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Business and Organization

Business and Organization

We are a diversified healthcare company that seeks to establish industry-leading positions in large and rapidly growing medical markets. Our diagnostics business includes BioReference Health, LLC (“BioReference”), one of the nation’s largest full service laboratories with a 180-person sales and marketing team to drive growth and leverage new products, and we offer our 4Kscore prostate cancer test through BioReference. Our pharmaceutical business features Rayaldee, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved treatment for secondary hyperparathyroidism (“SHPT”) in adults with stage 3 or 4 chronic kidney disease (“CKD”) and vitamin D insufficiency, and Somatrogon (hGH-CTP), a once-weekly human growth hormone injection for which we completed a successful phase 3 study in August 2019 and is partnered with Pfizer Inc. (“Pfizer”). Regulatory applications for Somatrogon (hGH-CTP) have been submitted to the applicable regulatory bodies for review in several countries around the world. In February 2022, the European Commission granted marketing authorization in the European Union for Somatrogon (hGH-CTP) under the brand name NGENLA® to treat children and adolescents from as young as 3 years of age with growth disturbance due to insufficient secretion of growth hormone and has been granted pricing approval in Germany. NGENLA® has also been approved in Japan, Canada, and Australia. We also submitted the initial Biologics License Application (“BLA”) with the FDA for approval of Somatrogon (hGH-CTP) in the United States and Pfizer received a complete response letter in January 2022. Pfizer and OPKO have evaluated the FDA’s comments and will work with the agency to determine an appropriate path forward for the advancement of Somatrogon (hGH-CTP). In May 2022, we acquired ModeX Therapeutics, Inc. (“ModeX”), a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative multi-specific immune therapies for cancer and infectious diseases candidates. ModeX has a robust early-stage pipeline with assets in key areas of immuno-oncology and infectious diseases, and we intend to further expand our pharmaceutical product pipeline through ModeX’s portfolio of development candidates.

Through BioReference, we provide laboratory testing services, primarily to customers in the larger metropolitan areas in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Maryland, California, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington, DC, Illinois and Massachusetts, as well as to customers in a number of other states. We offer a comprehensive test menu of clinical diagnostics for blood, urine and tissue analysis. This includes hematology, clinical chemistry, immunoassay, infectious disease, serology, hormones, and toxicology assays, as well as Pap smear, anatomic pathology (biopsies) and other types of tissue analysis, as well as testing for COVID-19. We market our laboratory testing services directly to physicians, geneticists, hospitals, clinics, correctional and other health facilities.

We operate established pharmaceutical platforms in Spain, Ireland, Chile, and Mexico, which are generating revenue and from which we expect to generate positive cash flow and facilitate future market entry for our products currently in development. We have a development and commercial supply pharmaceutical company as well as a global supply chain operation. We also own a specialty active pharmaceutical ingredients (“APIs”) manufacturer in Israel, which we expect will facilitate the development of our pipeline of molecules and compounds for our proprietary molecular diagnostic and therapeutic products.

Our research and development activities are primarily performed at facilities in Woburn, MA, Waterford, Ireland, Kiryat

Gat, Israel, and Barcelona, Spain.

On May 9, 2022 (the “Closing Date”), the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ModeX Merger Agreement”), in accordance with which we acquired ModeX pursuant to a merger in which ModeX survived as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The Company paid the entirety of the $300.0 million purchase price pursuant to the issuance of an aggregate of 89,907,310 shares (the “Consideration Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), of which 10% were deposited in a twelve-month escrow for purposes of satisfying the potential indemnity obligations of the sellers under the ModeX Merger Agreement. Additionally, the Company issued equity awards to ModeX employees in an amount equal to $12.4 million, which was deducted from the consideration payable on the Closing Date. If any of such awards are forfeited or otherwise remain unvested on the four-year anniversary of the Closing Date, up to 812,792 shares of Common Stock may be distributed pro rata to ModeX’s former stockholders in respect of such forfeited or unvested awards. Shares of Common Stock with respect to such potential distribution have been escrowed and will remain escrowed for such four-year period. For accounting purposes, the Consideration Shares were valued at $219.4 million, based on the closing price per share of our Common Stock of $2.44 as reported by NASDAQ Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”) on the Closing Date. Included in the total fair value of consideration transferred of $221.7 million were $2.3 million of fully vested equity awards.

On January 14, 2022, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the “GeneDx Merger Agreement”) with Sema4 Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Sema4”), pursuant to which Sema4 acquired the Company’s former subsidiary, GeneDx LLC, (f/k/a GeneDx, Inc. “GeneDx”), in a transaction (the “GeneDx Transaction”) that closed on April 29, 2022 (the “GeneDx Closing”).

Upon the GeneDx Closing, GeneDx Holdings paid to the Company aggregate consideration of $150 million in cash (before deduction of transaction expenses and other customary purchase price adjustments), together with 80.0 million shares (the “Closing Shares”) of GeneDx Holdings’ Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“GeneDx Holdings Common Stock”). Additionally, subject to GeneDx achieving certain revenue targets for the fiscal years ending December 31, 2022 and 2023, we are eligible to receive an earnout payment in cash or stock (at GeneDx Holdings’ discretion) equal to a maximum of 30.9 million shares of GeneDx Holdings’ Class A common stock if paid in stock. Based on the closing price of GeneDx Holdings Common Stock on April 29, 2022, the total upfront consideration was approximately $322 million, and the total aggregate consideration, including the potential Milestone Consideration, was approximately $447 million.

In connection with the transactions contemplated by the GeneDx Merger Agreement, on January 14, 2022, the Company entered into a Shareholder Agreement (the “GeneDx Holdings Shareholder Agreement”) with GeneDx Holdings, pursuant to which the Company has agreed to, among other things, be subject to a lock-up period with respect to its shares of GeneDx Holdings Common Stock, which expires on April 29, 2023 with respect to the Closing Shares, and, if earned and received, would extend for periods of one-year and six-months from the date of issuance of such shares in respect of the first and second potential Milestone Consideration payments, respectively.

Pursuant to the GeneDx Merger Agreement, the Company designated, and GeneDx Holdings nominated for election an individual to serve on the board of directors of GeneDx Holdings, and such nominee was elected by GeneDx Holdings’ stockholders to serve as a director until GeneDx Holdings’ 2024 annual meeting of stockholders. In addition, the Company has further agreed to certain standstill provisions whereby, subject to certain exceptions, it is obligated to refrain from taking certain actions with respect to the GeneDx Holdings Common Stock. The Company has also agreed to vote its shares of GeneDx Holdings Common Stock in accordance with the recommendations of GeneDx Holdings’s board of directors for so long as it continues to hold at least 5% of the outstanding shares of GeneDx Holdings Common Stock. Further, GeneDx Holdings has also granted the Company certain customary shelf, piggyback and demand registration rights that require GeneDx Holdings to register the shares of the Company’s shares of GeneDx Holdings Common Stock for resale under the Securities Act. OPKO intends to have a designee serving on GeneDx Holdings’s board of directors through the lock-up period applicable to the Company’s shares of GeneDx Holdings Common Stock. Such designee may continue to sit on the GeneDx Holdings board if elected by the GeneDx Holdings stockholders. Therefore, OPKO is not actively participating in the policy-making process of GeneDx Holdings. We recognized a $18.6 million gain on the sale of GeneDx during the year ended December 31, 2022.

As of December 31, 2021, GeneDx met the held-for-sale accounting criteria and the related assets and liabilities are classified as held for sale in the consolidated balance sheet. GeneDx was included in our diagnostics segment as of December 31, 2021.

In June 2021, EirGen Pharma Limited (“EirGen”), our wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a definitive agreement to sell one of its facilities in Waterford, Ireland to Horizon Therapeutics plc for $65 million in cash less certain assumed and accrued liabilities relating to transferred employees. The facility, which was formerly included in our pharmaceutical segment, housed EirGen’s sterile-fill-finish business and was no longer a core component of our ongoing operations and business strategy. The transaction closed in the third quarter of 2021. We recognized a $31.5 million gain on the sale of the facility during the year ended December 31, 2021.