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Commitments and Contingencies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Commitments And Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

10.

Commitments and Contingencies

Pfizer

Pursuant to the termination agreement entered on December 8, 2016, in connection with the termination of a prior license and development agreement, Pfizer granted the Company an exclusive license to Pfizer’s proprietary rights for manufacturing materials and processes that apply to Factor VIIa variants, CB 813a and marzeptacog alfa (activated) (“MarzAA”). Pfizer also transferred to the Company the IND application and documentation related to the development, manufacturing and testing of the Factor VIIa products as well as the orphan drug designation. The Company agreed to make contingent cash payments to Pfizer in an aggregate amount equal to up to $17.5 million, payable upon the achievement of clinical, regulatory and commercial milestones. Following commercialization of any covered product, Pfizer would also receive a single-digit royalty on net product sales on a country-by-country basis for a predefined royalty term. During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company paid Pfizer a $1 million milestone payment based on the dosing of the first patient in the ongoing Phase 2 study, recorded as a R&D expense.

Manufacturing Agreements

On May 20, 2016, the Company signed a development and manufacturing services agreement with AGC Biologics, Inc. (“AGC”), formerly known as CMC ICOS Biologics, Inc., pursuant to which AGC will conduct manufacturing development and, and together with AGC the Company has successfully manufactured MarzAA for the Phase 2 portion of a planned Phase 2/3 clinical trial. The Company has agreed to a total of $3.8 million in payments to AGC pursuant to the initial statement of work under the Agreement, subject to completion of applicable work stages. As of March 31, 2018, the Company has $0.6 million in payment obligations to AGC remaining under the initial statement of work for MarzAA.

On February 21, 2018, the Company and AGC entered into a new statement of work under the development and manufacturing services agreement dated May 20, 2016, between the Company and AGC. Under the new statement of work, the Company has engaged AGC for the process transfer and commercial scale cGMP manufacturing of CB 2679d/ISU 304, Catalyst’s highly potent next-generation coagulation FIX variant being developed for the treatment of severe hemophilia B. The Company has agreed to a total of approximately $5.6 million in payments pursuant to the new statement of work, including the commercial scale manufacturing of CB 2679d/ISU 304, subject to completion of applicable work stages. As of March 31, 2018, the Company has $5.6 million in payment obligations to AGC remaining under the initial statement of work for CB 2679d/ISU 304.

Operating Leases

The Company leases office and research space under operating leases that expired in February 2018. In November 2017, we entered into a new office lease agreement to lease approximately 8,606 rentable square feet of space located in South San Francisco, California. The term of the lease is five years and two months, starting February 16, 2018. We relocated our corporate headquarters into this new space in February 2018.

Future minimum lease payments under all non-cancelable operating leases as of March 31, 2018, were as follows (in thousands):

 

 

 

Minimum Lease Payments

 

2018

 

$

310

 

2019

 

 

488

 

2020

 

 

499

 

2021

 

 

510

 

2022

 

 

522

 

2023

 

 

177

 

Total future minimum lease payments

 

$

2,506