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Apeiron Acquisition
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Business Combination, Asset Acquisition, Transaction between Entities under Common Control, and Joint Venture Formation [Abstract]  
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On July 15, 2024, we acquired all the outstanding shares of Apeiron Biologics AG (“Apeiron”), including the royalty rights to Qarziba® (dinutuximab beta) for the treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma (the “Apeiron Acquisition”) for $100.5 million base consideration. We funded the Apeiron Acquisition from our available cash on hand.
In addition to base consideration, we would also pay Apeiron shareholders an additional consideration based on future commercial and regulatory events, including up to $28 million if Qarziba royalties exceed certain predetermined thresholds by either 2030 or 2034, and pay additional earn-outs on specific future events, primarily related to Qarziba regulatory approval and commercialization in the USA.
We evaluated this acquisition in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations, to discern whether the assets and operations of Apeiron met the definition of a business. We accounted for this transaction as an asset acquisition.
We incurred $4.9 million of transaction costs related to the Apeiron Acquisition, which were included in the amount of total purchase consideration. Financial assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the Apeiron Acquisition were recognized at their fair values. The remaining assets acquired were recognized on a relative fair value basis.
The amount of purchase consideration was allocated to the acquisition date fair values of acquired assets and assumed liabilities as follows (in thousands):
Cash and cash equivalents$13,437 
Contract assets (financial royalty assets)
106,156 
Other assets8,965 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
(3,740)
Income tax payable(1,276)
Deferred tax liabilities, net(18,109)
     Total fair value of net assets acquired$105,433 
Contract assets acquired are accounted for as financial royalty assets, similar to loans receivable, and are measured at amortized cost using the prospective effective interest method described in ASC 835-30. The acquired contracts assets include Qarziba and other development phase contract assets.
As Qarziba is a commercial phase program, we are able to reasonably estimate future cash flows and, as such, we recognize income from Qarziba financial royalty assets starting from the Apeiron Acquisition effective date, which is calculated by multiplying the carrying value of the financial royalty asset by the periodic effective interest rate. As described in Note 1, Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies, the effective interest rate is calculated by forecasting the expected cash flows to be received over the life of the asset relative to the initial invested amount. The effective interest rate is recalculated in each reporting period as the differences between expected cash flows and actual cash flows are realized and as there are changes to expected future cash flows. We account for other Apeiron development phase financial royalty assets on a non-accrual basis as there is a higher level of uncertainty over the related expected cash flows.
For tax purposes this transaction is treated as a stock purchase. As a result, we will not obtain a tax stepped-up basis in Apeiron’s underlying assets and will assume the carryover tax basis. As part of the tax purchase price accounting, deferred tax liabilities of $18.1 million have been recorded to reflect the difference between the book and tax basis of the acquired assets.
We account for the earnout liabilities in the Apeiron Acquisition in accordance with ASC450, Contingencies, and we will recognize respective liability when the contingency is resolved, and the liability becomes payable. No earnout liability was recognized as of September 30, 2025 or as of December 31, 2024.
In conjunction with the Apeiron Acquisition, we have also invested $4.2 million (including $0.2 million transaction costs) in common shares of InvIOs Holding AG (“InvIOs”), a privately held spin-off of Apeiron. This investment was part of an €8 million (approximately $8.8 million) round with other investors which would help finance the research and development of three innovative early-stage immuno-oncology assets. Apeiron has previously outlicensed these assets to InvIOs and is entitled to future royalties and milestone payments.
As the result of this investment, we did not obtain control or significant influence over InvIOs. We determined that common stock of InvIOs did not have a readily determinable fair value and therefore elected the measurement alternative in ASC 321 to subsequently record the investment at cost, less any impairments, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for identical or similar investments of the same issuer. When fair value becomes determinable, from observable price changes in orderly transactions, our investment will be marked to fair value.