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Collaboration and License Agreement
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Collaboration and License Agreement

6. Collaboration and License Agreement

In May 2020, the Company entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (“Bristol Myers Squibb”), pursuant to which the Company and Bristol Myers Squibb have agreed to collaborate in the research and development of potential new product candidates for the treatment of cancer. The Company is providing Bristol Myers Squibb access to a selected number of its existing screening campaigns and novel campaigns. The Company is responsible for carrying out early-stage research activities directed to identifying potential targets for potential licensing by Bristol Myers Squibb, in accordance with a mutually agreed upon research plan, and will be solely responsible for such costs. The collaboration consists of programs directed to both druggable targets and to targets commonly considered undruggable to traditional small molecule approaches. Upon Bristol Myers Squibb’s election to exercise its option to obtain exclusive worldwide licenses for the subsequent development, manufacturing and commercialization of a program, Bristol Myers Squibb will then be solely responsible for all such worldwide activities and costs.

The collaboration term will expire 42 months after the effective date of the agreement. The agreement will expire, assuming that Bristol Myers Squibb has exercised at least one option for a program, on a licensed product-by-licensed product and country-by-country basis on expiration of the applicable royalty term and in its entirety upon expiration of the last royalty term. Either party may terminate earlier upon an uncured material breach of the agreement by the other party, or the insolvency of the other party. Additionally, Bristol Myers Squibb may terminate the agreement for any or no reason on a program-by-program basis upon specified written notice.

Under the terms of the agreement, Bristol Myers Squibb paid the Company an initial nonrefundable upfront fee of $50.0 million in June 2020. The Company is also entitled to receive up to $301.0 million in total milestones on a program-by-program basis, consisting of $176.0 million in the aggregate for certain specified research, development and regulatory milestones and $125.0 million in the aggregate for certain specified commercial milestones. The Company is further entitled to a tiered percentage royalty on annual net sales ranging from high-single digits to low-double digits, subject to certain specified reductions.

The Company assessed the collaboration and license agreement in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, and concluded that Bristol Myers Squibb is a customer based on the agreement structure. At inception, the Company identified several performance obligations under the agreement, being (i) research activities for each campaign over the collaboration term, as well as (ii) a selected number of material rights associated with options to obtain exclusive development, manufacturing, and commercial licenses to targets identified. The Company determined that the options to obtain the exclusive development, manufacturing and commercialization licenses were material rights under ASC 606 because there are minimal amounts to be paid to the Company upon exercise of such options.

The Company determined that the transaction price at the onset of the agreement is the total non-refundable upfront payment received of $50.0 million. Additional consideration is to be paid to the Company upon the exercise of options to license targets and future milestone payments. The Company utilized the most likely method approach and concluded that these amounts were constrained as they represent option fees and milestone payments that can only be achieved subsequent to option exercises. As such, the Company excluded this additional consideration from the transaction price.

The Company has allocated the transaction price of $50.0 million to each performance obligation based on the relative stand-alone selling price of each performance obligation at inception, which was determined based on each performance obligation’s estimated stand-alone selling price. The Company has determined the estimated stand-alone selling price at contract inception of the research activities based on internal estimates of the costs to perform the services, inclusive of a reasonable profit margin. Significant inputs used to determine the total costs to perform the research activities included the length of time required, the internal hours expected to be incurred on the services and the number and costs of various studies that will be performed to complete the research plan. The Company determined the estimated stand-alone selling price at contract inception of the material rights associated with options to obtain exclusive licenses to druggable targets and undruggable targets based on the fees Bristol Myers Squibb would pay to exercise these options, the probability-weighted value of expected future cash flows associated with each license related to each target and the probability that these options would be exercised by Bristol Myers Squibb. In developing such estimates, the Company also considered applicable market conditions and relevant entity-specific factors, including those factors contemplated in negotiating the agreement, probability of success and the time needed to commercialize a product candidate pursuant to the associated license. Based on the relative stand-alone selling price, the allocation of the transaction price to the separate performance obligations was as follows:

 

Performance obligation

 

Transaction price

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Research services

 

$

6,405

 

Options to license druggable target lesions

 

 

31,148

 

Options to license undruggable targets

 

 

12,447

 

Total transaction price

 

$

50,000

 

 

Revenue associated with the options has been deferred and will be recognized at the point in time when options to license are exercised by Bristol Myers Squibb or upon expiry of such options. Revenue associated with the research activities has been deferred and will be recognized on a proportional performance basis over the period of service for research activities, being the collaboration term, using input-based measurements of total costs of research incurred to estimated proportion performed. Progress towards completion is remeasured at the end of each reporting period.

The Company recognized $0.2 million and nil for three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, as revenue associated with the Bristol Myers Squibb collaboration in relation to research activities performed to date. As of March 31, 2021, no options have been exercised by Bristol Myers Squibb. As of March 31, 2021, there was $49.7 million (December 31, 2020 - $49.9 million) of deferred revenue related to the Bristol Myers Squibb collaboration and license agreement, of which $2.1 million (December 31, 2020 - $2.1 million) was classified as current and $47.6 million (December 31, 2020 - $47.8 million) was classified as non-current in the consolidated balance sheet based on the period the services are expected to be performed.