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Related party disclosures
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Related party disclosures  
Related party disclosures

17. Related party disclosures

Dietmar Hopp

During fiscal 2019, Dietmar Hopp, principal of dievini Hopp BioTech holding GmbH & Co. KG (dievini), the largest shareholder of the Group, granted two convertible loans to the Group, which were repaid in 2020. Additionally, in August 2020, DH-LT Investments GmbH, a company beneficially owned by Dietmar Hopp, managing director of dievini, the Groups largest shareholder, purchased EUR 100,000k of the Groups common shares at a price of USD 16.00 per share.

Antony Blanc

In 2020, a consulting agreement between CureVac AG and Clarentis SRL was made. Clarentis SRL is a wholly owned consulting company of Antony Blanc, PhD, the CBO of CureVac. After the transition of Antony Blanc to the Management Board in February 2021, the contract was no longer active, and no new orders were placed. In Q3 2021, a milestone payment, which related to the submission of the EMA dossier for CVnCoV and amounts to EUR 100k was made to fulfil a contractual obligation from the consulting agreement in place before Antony Blanc joined the Management Board. In addition to his Management Board position at CureVac NV, Antony also took over the role as Management Director at CureVac Belgium SA. This function he executes by using Clarentis SRL. Related to these services CureVac paid until June 2022 an amount of EUR 34k. The amounts invoiced for this function/services will be offset/deducted from his base compensation for his function on the Board of Management of CureVac N.V.

BePharBel Manufacturing S.A.

In December 2020, CureVac Real Estate GmbH and BePharBel Manufacturing S.A., entered into a commercial supply agreement to develop and manufacture the diluent that was expected to be used to dilute the Group’s first concentrated COVID-19 vaccine candidate, CVnCoV, to the amount specified by each dose level. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, it was intended that BePharBel

Manufacturing would manufacture and deliver to CureVac Real Estate GmbH a low seven figure amount of commercial batches of diluent per year, in 2021 and 2022. Following the withdrawal of the CVnCoV in October 2021 due to COVID-19 virus drift, WHO COVID vaccine efficiency recommendation and market expectations, CureVac Real Estate GmbH terminated the commercial and supply agreement with BePahrBel and entered into negotiations on a structured and rapid wind-down of the ordered production. The Parties agreed on a settlement in May 2022 of all claims resulting from the commercial and supply agreement for an amount of €3.9 million, which had been already recognized in provisions, based on an estimate, as of December 31, 2021. Baron Jean Stéphenne, our supervisory board member, holds directly and indirectly 15.61% of BePharBel Manufacturing’s equity and is a director of BePharBel Manufacturing, and Baron Jean Stéphenne’s son, Vincent Stéphenne, holds 1.43% of BePharBel Manufacturing’s equity and is a managing director of BePharBel Manufacturing.