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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Preparation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”).

In the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary to present fairly the results of the interim periods have been included and consist of normal and recurring adjustments. Certain information and footnote disclosures have been condensed or omitted as permitted under GAAP. As such, the information included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto as of and for the year ended December 31, 2025 included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements as well as the reported amounts of income, revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from those estimates. The results for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year.
Basis of Consolidation
Basis of Consolidation

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Royalty Pharma and all majority-owned and controlled subsidiaries, as well as variable interest entities, where we are the primary beneficiary. We consolidate based upon evaluation of our power, through voting rights or similar rights, to direct the activities of another entity that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance. For consolidated entities where we own or are exposed to less than 100% of the economics, we record Net income attributable to non-controlling interests in our condensed consolidated statements of operations equal to the percentage of the economic or ownership interest retained in such entities by the respective non-controlling parties, except for the RP Holdings Class C Interests (as defined below), which are recorded based on their rights.

RP Holdings is owned by Royalty Pharma plc and, indirectly, by various partnerships (the “Continuing Investors Partnerships”) and, post-Internalization, by the Holders of RP Holdings Class E Interests (as defined below). RP Holdings is the sole owner of Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV (“RPI 2019 ICAV”), which is an Irish collective asset management vehicle and is the successor to Royalty Pharma Investments, an Irish unit trust. In 2022, we became an indirect owner of an 82% economic interest in Royalty Pharma Investments ICAV, which was previously owned directly by Royalty Pharma Investments. In connection with the Internalization, Royalty Pharma Investments distributed all of its assets to Royalty Pharma Investments 2011 ICAV (together with Royalty Pharma Investments ICAV, “Old RPI”).
We consummated an exchange offer on February 11, 2020 (the “Exchange Offer”) to facilitate our initial public offering (“IPO”). Prior to the Exchange Offer, Royalty Pharma Investments was owned by various partnerships (the “Legacy Investors Partnerships”). Through the Exchange Offer, investors, which represented 82% of the aggregate limited partnership in the Legacy Investors Partnerships, exchanged their limited partnership interests in the Legacy Investors Partnerships for limited partnership interests in RPI US Partners 2019, LP and RPI International Holdings 2019, LP which are part of the Continuing Investors Partnerships. Following the Exchange Offer, we became the indirect owner of an 82% economic interest in Royalty Pharma Investments which entitled us to 82% of the economics of its wholly-owned subsidiary RPI Finance Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (“RPIFT”), and 66% of Royalty Pharma Collection Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (“RPCT”). In December 2023, we acquired the remaining interest in RPCT owned by Royalty Pharma Select Finance Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (“RPSFT”).

We report four non-controlling interests:

1.The Legacy Investors Partnerships’ ownership of approximately 18% in Old RPI, which is the only remaining historical non-controlling interest that existed prior to our IPO.
2.The Continuing Investors Partnerships’ indirect ownership in RP Holdings through their indirect ownership of RP Holdings’ Class B ordinary shares (the “RP Holdings Class B Interests”).
3.Pablo Legorreta’s ultimate ownership of the RP Holdings’ Class C ordinary share (the “RP Holdings Class C Special Interest”) which entitles him to receive Equity Performance Awards (the “Founder’s Equity”). See discussion in Note 5–Shareholders’ Equity.
4.The Sellers’ (as defined in Note 3–Internalization) indirect ownership in RP Holdings through their indirect ownership of RP Holdings’ Class E ordinary shares (the “RP Holdings Class E Interests”). In connection with the Internalization, we issued 24.5 million RP Holdings Class E Interests to the Sellers (the “Holders of RP Holdings Class E Interests”), subject to vesting conditions, as part of the transaction consideration.

The Continuing Investors Partnerships, the Founder’s Equity and the Holders of RP Holdings Class E Interests, collectively, are referred to as the “continuing non-controlling interests.”

All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
Concentrations of Credit Risk
Concentrations of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that subject us to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of financial royalty assets and available for sale debt securities. The majority of our financial royalty assets arise from contractual royalty agreements that entitle us to royalties on the sales of underlying biopharmaceutical products in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world, with concentrations of credit risk limited due to the broad range of marketers responsible for paying royalties to us and the variety of geographies from which our royalties on product sales are derived. The products in which we hold royalties are marketed by leading industry participants, including, among others, Vertex, GSK, Biogen, Roche, Astellas, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Servier, Gilead, Amgen and Alnylam. As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, Vertex, as the marketer and payor of our royalties on the cystic fibrosis franchise, accounted for 31% and 32% of our current portion of financial royalty assets, respectively, and represented the largest individual marketer and payor of our royalties.

We monitor the financial performance and creditworthiness of the counterparties to our royalty agreements so that we can properly assess and respond to changes in their credit profile. To date, we have not experienced any significant credit losses with respect to the collection of income on our royalty assets.
Recently Adopted and Issued Accounting Standards
Recently Adopted and Issued Accounting Standards

In September 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued amendments which refine the scope of the guidance on derivatives in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 815 and clarify the guidance on share-based payments from a customer in ASC 606 (“ASU 2025-07”). ASU 2025-07 adds a new scope exception to the derivative guidance for contracts, such as certain research and development funding arrangements, that are not traded on an exchange and contain an underlying that is based on the operations or activities specific to one of the parties involved. ASU 2025-07 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, with early adoption permitted in any interim or annual period for which financial statements have not yet been issued or made available for issuance.
We adopted ASU 2025-07 in the fourth quarter of 2025 using the modified retrospective transition method, effective January 1, 2025. The only impact of adopting this standard related to the CK-586 research and development (“R&D”) funding arrangement, which we entered into in 2024 and had previously accounted for as a derivative. Upon reassessment under the new guidance, we concluded that the CK-586 funding arrangement qualifies for the derivative scope exception. Accordingly, we recorded a $12.0 million cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings as of January 1, 2025 to derecognize the derivative asset and reflect the CK-586 funding arrangement as R&D expense. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2025 have been recast to reflect the adoption of ASU 2025-07 by removing the losses previously recognized on such derivative. Accordingly, the recast amounts differ from those previously reported in the Company’s Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Segment Information
Segment Information

Our chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) is our Chief Executive Officer, who reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis to allocate resources, evaluate financial performance and make overall operating decisions. As such, we concluded that we operate as one single reportable segment, which is primarily focused on acquiring biopharmaceutical royalties. The measure of segment profit or loss that is most consistent with our condensed consolidated financial statements is consolidated net income. The accounting policies of our single reportable segment are the same as those for the condensed consolidated financial statements. The level of disaggregation and amounts of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the CODM are the same as those presented in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Likewise, the measure of segment assets is reported on the condensed consolidated balance sheets as total assets.