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License and Collaboration Agreements
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
License And Collaboration Agreement [Abstract]  
License and Collaboration Agreements
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License and Collaboration Agreements

License Development and Commercialization Agreement with BMS

On May 12, 2022, BridgeBio and our subsidiary, Navire Pharma, Inc. (“Navire”), entered into an exclusive license development and commercialization agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (“BMS”) (the “Navire-BMS License Agreement”), pursuant to which Navire granted BMS exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Navire’s product candidate, BBP-398, in all indications worldwide, except for the People’s Republic of China, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, and South Korea (the “Asia Region”). The development and commercialization of BBP-398 within the Asia Region is governed under the Navire-LianBio License Agreement (as discussed below). The Navire-BMS License Agreement expands an earlier agreement between Navire and BMS that was executed in July 2021 to study BBP-398 in a combination therapy trial to treat advanced solid tumors with KRAS mutations (the “2021 Navire-BMS Agreement”). The Navire-BMS License Agreement does not alter the terms of the 2021 Navire-BMS Agreement.

Under the terms of the Navire-BMS License Agreement, Navire was entitled to receive a non-refundable, upfront payment of $90.0 million, which Navire collected in full in June 2022. Additionally, Navire is eligible to receive additional payments totaling up to approximately $815.0 million in the aggregate, subject to the achievement of development, regulatory and commercial milestones, as well as tiered royalties in the low-to-mid teens as a percentage of adjusted net sales by BMS of the licensed products sold worldwide, outside of the Asia Region. Navire will retain the option to acquire higher royalties in the United States in connection with funding a portion of development costs upon the initiation of registrational studies. Based on the terms of the Navire-BMS License Agreement, Navire will continue to lead its ongoing Phase 1 monotherapy and combination therapy trials (collectively, the “Phase 1 Trials”), and BMS will lead and fund all other development and commercialization activities. Navire is fully funding the Phase 1 trials with the exception of the combination therapy governed under the 2021 Navire-BMS Agreement. In accordance with the 2021 Navire-BMS Agreement, both parties are sharing all research and development costs equally for this trial. We have recorded all research and development costs for the Phase 1 Trials, as well as the reimbursement for the costs associated with the trial governed by the 2021 Navire-BMS Agreement within research and development in our condensed consolidated statement of operations.

We determined that the Navire-BMS License Agreement falls within the scope of ASC 606 as BMS is a customer in this arrangement, and we identified the following performance obligations in the agreement:

an exclusive license to develop and commercialize BBP-398 and the related know-how; and
research and development services to complete the Phase 1 Trials for BBP-398 (expected to be completed in 2025).

We determined that the performance obligations outlined above are capable of being distinct and distinct with the context of the contract given such rights and activities are independent of each other. The license can be used by BMS without the research and development services. Similarly, those services provide a distinct benefit to BMS within the context of the contract, separate from the license, as the services could be provided by BMS or another third party without our assistance. Options for additional goods or services were not considered material rights, and as such not performance obligations, at the inception of the Navire-BMS License Agreement as the additional goods or services were not offered at a discount.

As of June 30, 2022, we determined the transaction price for the Navire-BMS License Agreement to be $90.0 million, which is comprised of the fixed and non-refundable upfront payment. No additional development, regulatory, or sales milestone payments are included in the transaction price, as all such payments are variable consideration that were fully constrained as of June 30, 2022. We include variable consideration in our transaction price to the extent that it is probable that it will not result in a significant revenue reversal when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved. As part of management’s evaluation of the variable consideration, we considered numerous factors, including the fact that achievement of the milestones is outside of our control, contingent upon the success of our existing and future clinical trials, BMS’ efforts, and receipt of regulatory approval that is subject to scientific risks of success. We expect that the royalty arrangements and commercial-based milestones will be recognized when the sales occur or the milestones are achieved pursuant to the sales-based royalty exception under ASC 606 because the license is the predominant item to which the royalties or commercial-based milestones relate. We will re-evaluate the transaction price at each reporting period and as uncertain events are resolved or other changes in circumstances occur.

We allocated the transaction price of $90.0 million based on the stand-alone selling prices (“SSP”) of each of the performance obligations as follows:

$70.2 million for the upfront transfer of the license; and
$19.8 million for ongoing research and development services.

The SSP for the license was determined using an approach that considered discounted, probability-weighted cash flows related to the license transferred. The SSP for the ongoing research and development services were based on estimates of the associated effort and cost of these services, adjusted for a reasonable gross profit margin that would be expected to be realized under similar contracts.

We are recognizing revenue for each of the two performance obligations as follows:

We recognized revenue related to the license at a point in time upon transfer of the rights and control of the license to BMS. The transfer of the rights and control of the license occurred in June 2022, thus we recognized the full amount allocated to the license and related know-how for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
The research and development services performance obligation consists of our completion of the Phase 1 Trials. We are recognizing revenue related to the research and development services over time using an input method to measure progress by utilizing costs incurred to-date relative to total expected costs. We expect to complete the Phase 1 Trials in 2025. Revenue recognized related to this performance obligation for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 was $3.2 million.

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, we recognized an aggregate of $73.4 million of revenue from the Navire-BMS License Agreement. Our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2022 includes a deferred revenue balance of $16.6 million ($7.2 million presented as “Deferred revenue, current portion” and $9.4 million included in “Other long-term liabilities”) related to our research and development services obligation.

License and Collaboration Agreement with Helsinn

On March 29, 2021, QED entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Helsinn Healthcare S.A. (“HHC”) and Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. (“HTU”, and collectively with HHC, “Helsinn”) (the “QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement”), pursuant to which QED granted to HHC exclusive licenses to develop, manufacture and commercialize QED’s product candidate, infigratinib, in oncology and all other indications except achondroplasia or any other skeletal dysplasias, worldwide, except for the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macau (“Greater China”), and under which QED received a co-exclusive license to co-commercialize infigratinib in the United States in the licensed indications. Under this agreement, Helsinn is likewise entitled to a right of first negotiation with respect to specific territories subject to the occurrence of a contingent event. As part of this agreement, QED was also required to transfer inventory within the transitional period, as described in the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement. The QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement became effective on April 16, 2021. Under the terms of the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement, QED was eligible to receive payments totaling up to approximately $2.45 billion in the aggregate, including over $100.0 million in upfront, regulatory and launch milestone payments, and the remainder subject to the achievement of specified commercial milestones, as well as tiered royalties in the high teens as a percentage of adjusted net sales by Helsinn of the licensed products sold worldwide, outside of the United States and Greater China. Upon approval by the FDA, QED and HTU will co-commercialize infigratinib in the licensed indications in the United States and will share profits and losses on a 50:50 basis. In May 2021, we received such FDA approval for an oncology indication in the United States and effective as of that date, sharing of profits and losses commenced. QED and Helsinn will share global, excluding Greater China, research and development costs for infigratinib in the licensed indications at a rate of 40% for QED and 60% for Helsinn.

On February 28, 2022, QED and Helsinn amended the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement (the “Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement”) effective as of March 1, 2022. Under the terms of the Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement, Helsinn will gain an exclusive license to commercialize infigratinib in the U.S. and will be responsible for developing, manufacturing and commercializing infigratinib in oncology indications except for achondroplasia or any other skeletal dysplasias worldwide, outside of Greater China. QED will retain all rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize infigratinib in skeletal dysplasia, including achondroplasia.

Pursuant to the Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement, QED will no longer share in the commercialization of infigratinib in the licensed indications in the United States or be responsible for any global development costs for infigratinib in the licensed indications.

Additionally, under the Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement, QED is eligible to receive regulatory and sales-based milestone payments of up to $66.0 million, as well as tiered royalties in the low to mid-teens as a percentage of adjusted net sales by Helsinn of the licensed products sold worldwide, outside of Greater China.

The Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement also provides for a transitional period, which is expected to end in August 2022, for which QED has been contracted to assist in research and development and commercialization activities. The costs related to QED’s contracted activities incurred during the transitional period are fully reimbursed by Helsinn and will be paid to QED subsequent to the transitional period.

Both the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement and the Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement are considered to be within the scope of ASC 808 as the parties are active participants and are exposed to the significant risks and rewards of the collaborative activity, and partially within the scope of ASC 606 for the units of account where Helsinn is identified as a customer. For the units of account in the collaboration arrangement that do not represent a vendor-customer relationship, including the performance of collaborative research and development and commercialization services, we determined that ASC 606 is not appropriate to apply by analogy and applied a reasonable and rational accounting policy election that faithfully depicts the transfer of services to the collaboration partner over the estimated performance period. Reimbursement payments from Helsinn associated with the collaborative research and development and commercialization services are recognized as the related expense is incurred and classified as an offset to the underlying expense and excluded from the transaction price.

We evaluated the terms of the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement and identified Helsinn as a customer with the following two distinct performance obligations: (1) exclusive licenses to develop, manufacture, and commercialize the underlying product, and (2) transfer of inventory within the transitional supply period. The Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement did not give rise to any additional performance obligations.

We consider the future potential regulatory milestones to be a variable consideration fully constrained as of June 30, 2022. We constrain variable consideration to the extent that it is probable that it will not result in a significant revenue reversal when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved. We recognize consideration related to sales-based milestone and royalties when the subsequent sales occur pursuant to the royalty exception under ASC 606 because the license is the predominant item to which the royalties or sales-based milestone relate. We began to receive royalties for net sales of the licensed products sold in the United States upon the effective date of the Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement.

We determined the initial transaction price at inception of the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement to be $46.0 million, comprised of a $20.0 million nonrefundable upfront license fee, $1.0 million for the sale of certain existing inventory, and a $25.0 million launch milestone for the first launch of the first indication of infigratinib in the United States. In the fourth quarter of 2021, we received validation from the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”) for our marketing authorization for infigratinib. Since the uncertainty of the variable consideration related to the regulatory milestone was resolved, we updated the transaction price to include this consideration, and accordingly, we increased our transaction price by $10.0 million to $56.0 million. The Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement did not affect the transaction price as the modifications to the transaction price related solely to variable consideration, consisting of regulatory and sales-based milestone payments and royalties. The remaining future potential regulatory milestone payments are not included in the transaction price as they are determined to be fully constrained under ASC 606. We determined that the achievements of such regulatory milestones are contingent upon success in future clinical trials and regulatory approvals, which are not within our control and are uncertain at this stage. We will continue to reassess the transaction price, including estimated variable consideration included in the transaction price and all constrained amounts, in each reporting period and as uncertain events are resolved or other changes in circumstances occur.

We allocated the $56.0 million transaction price based on relative SSPs of each of our performance obligations as $54.4 million for the licenses and $1.6 million for the transfer of inventory. For the delivery of the licenses, we based the SSP on a discounted cash flow approach and considered several factors including, but not limited to, forecasted revenue and costs, development timelines, discount rate and probabilities of clinical and regulatory success. For the transfer of inventory, we based the SSP on the actual costs incurred by us to purchase or manufacture the inventory as well as the average compensation of employees estimated to be incurred over the performance period.

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, we recognized $44.4 million in license revenue relating to the delivery of licenses. We determined that the license was a right to use the intellectual property of QED and as of June 30, 2021, we had provided all necessary information to Helsinn for it to benefit from the license under the license term. The remaining $1.6 million relating to the transfer of certain existing inventory was recognized in July 2021 when the inventory was delivered. Total receivables relating to this unit of account accounted for under ASC 606 amounted to $0.2 million and $10.0 million as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, and are shown as part of “Receivable from licensing and collaboration agreements” in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

For the unit of account that is within the scope of ASC 808 relating to collaborative research and development services, pursuant to the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement, we have recognized Helsinn’s share of research and development expenses of nil and $2.9 million as reduction of research and development expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, respectively. We recognized Helsinn’s share of research and development expenses of $19.5 million as a reduction of research and development expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. In accordance with the Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement, we have recognized $9.5 million and $12.8 million as reduction of research and development expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, which represent 100% reimbursement of research and development costs incurred during the transitional period relating to infigratinib in the licensed indications. Total receivables from Helsinn relating to this unit of account accounted for under ASC 808 amounted to $15.5 million and $5.9 million as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, and are shown as part of “Receivable from licensing and collaboration agreements” in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

Following the FDA approval of TRUSELTIQ (infigratinib) in May 2021, we were the principal selling party of this product in the United States and recognized product sales in the condensed consolidated statement of operations. Commencing in January 2022, we sold the remaining transitional supply of TRUSELTIQ to Helsinn, and Helsinn became the principal selling party. Accordingly, beginning in 2022, we no longer recognized product sales associated with TRUSELTIQ, although we continued to share profits and losses on a 50:50 basis through February 28, 2022 in accordance with the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement. Pursuant to the QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement, we accounted for Helsinn’s share of the co-commercialization loss of $0.2 million and $1.3 million as reduction to selling, general and administrative expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, respectively. We accounted for Helsinn’s share of the co-commercialization loss of $4.1 million as a reduction to selling, general and administrative expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. In accordance with the Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement, we have recognized $0.4 million and $0.5 million as reduction to selling, general and administrative expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, respectively, which represent 100% reimbursement of commercial activity costs incurred during the transitional period relating to infigratinib in the licensed indications in the United States. Total receivables from Helsinn relating to this unit of account accounted for under ASC 808 amounted to $0.6 million as of June 30, 2022 and are shown as part of “Receivable from licensing and collaboration agreements” in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. There were no receivables outstanding relating to this unit of account as of December 31, 2021.

As of June 30, 2022, we also recognized a receivable from Helsinn of $12.5 million ($4.0 million presented as part of “Receivable from licensing and collaboration agreements” and $8.5 million presented as part of “Other assets” in our condensed consolidated balance sheet), which represents QED’s obligation to FMI described in Note 8, that will be reimbursed by Helsinn as part of the Amended QED-Helsinn License and Collaboration Agreement. In recording the receivable, we recognized a corresponding gain that is recorded as part of “Other income (expense), net” in our condensed consolidated statement of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2022. We continue to carry the associated liability in our condensed balance sheet until the formal assignment of such liability to Helsinn is finalized with FMI.

License Agreement with LianBio

In August 2020, Navire entered into an exclusive license agreement with LianBio (the “Navire-LianBio License Agreement”). Pursuant to the Navire-LianBio License Agreement, Navire granted to LianBio an exclusive, sublicensable license under the licensed patent rights and know-how to develop, manufacture and commercialize SHP2 inhibitor BBP-398 (“BBP-398”), for tumors driven by RAS and receptor tyrosine kinase mutations. Under the terms of the Navire-LianBio License Agreement, LianBio will receive commercial rights in China and selected Asian markets and participate in clinical development activities for BBP-398. In consideration for the rights granted to LianBio, we received a nonrefundable $8.0 million upfront payment, which we recognized as license revenue in 2020. We will also have the right to receive future development and sales milestone payments of up to $382.1 million, and tiered royalty payments from single-digit to low-teens on net sales of the product in licensed territories. There was no license revenue recognized for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 under this agreement. We recognized $8.5 million in license revenue, representing a regulatory milestone payment, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021.