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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

(Mark One)

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2025

OR

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from ___ to ___

Commission File Number: 001-39219

 

Revolution Medicines, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware

47-2029180

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

700 Saginaw Drive

Redwood City, CA

94063

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (650) 481-6801

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading

Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock $0.0001 Par Value per Share

 

RVMD

 

The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

(Nasdaq Global Select Market)

Warrants to purchase 0.1112 shares of common stock expiring 2026

 

RVMDW

 

The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

(Nasdaq Global Select Market)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

 

 

 

 

Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emerging growth company

 

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

As of August 1, 2025, the registrant had 186,933,190 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, outstanding (excluding 2,173,917 shares underlying pre-funded warrants).

 

 

 


 

Table of Contents

 

Page

Special Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements

ii

PART I.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

1

Item 1.

Financial Statements (unaudited)

1

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

1

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss

2

 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

3

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

5

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

6

Item 2.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

19

Item 3.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

29

Item 4.

Controls and Procedures

29

 

 

 

PART II.

OTHER INFORMATION

30

Item 1.

Legal Proceedings

30

Item 1A.

Risk Factors

30

Item 2.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

78

Item 3.

Defaults Upon Senior Securities

78

Item 4.

Mine Safety Disclosures

78

Item 5.

Other Information

79

Item 6.

Exhibits

80

 

Signatures

81

 

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements concerning our business, operations and financial performance and condition, as well as our plans, objectives and expectations for our business, operations and financial performance and condition. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that are in some cases beyond our control and may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “aim,” “anticipate,” “assume,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “due,” “estimate,” “expect,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “objective,” “plan,” “predict,” “potential,” “positioned,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” and other similar expressions that are predictions of or indicate future events and future trends, or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:

the scope, progress, results and costs of developing our product candidates or any other future product candidates, and conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials;
the scope, progress, results and costs related to the research and development of our pipeline;
the timing of and costs involved in obtaining and maintaining regulatory approval for any of current or future product candidates, and any related restrictions, limitations and/or warnings in the label of an approved product candidate;
our expectations regarding the potential market size and size of the potential patient populations for our product candidates and any future product candidates, if approved for commercial use;
our ability to maintain and establish new collaborations, licensing or other arrangements and the financial terms of any such agreements;
our commercialization, marketing and manufacturing capabilities and expectations;
the rate and degree of market acceptance of our product candidates, as well as the pricing and reimbursement of our product candidates, if approved;
the implementation of our business model and strategic plans for our business, product candidates and technology, including additional indications for which we may pursue;
the scope of protection we are able to establish and maintain for intellectual property rights covering our product candidates, including the projected term of patent protection;
our expectations regarding our ability to obtain, maintain, enforce and defend our intellectual property protection for our product candidates;
estimates of our expenses, future revenue, capital requirements, our needs for additional financing and our ability to obtain additional capital;
developments and projections relating to our competitors and our industry, including competing therapies and procedures;
regulatory and legal developments in the United States and foreign countries;
the performance of our third-party suppliers and manufacturers;
our ability to attract and retain key scientific or management personnel; and
other risks and uncertainties, including those listed under the caption “Risk Factors.”

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We have based these forward-looking statements largely on management’s current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about our business and the industry in which we operate and management’s beliefs and assumptions and are not guarantees of future performance or development and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are in some cases beyond our control. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions described in the section titled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Because forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The events and circumstances reflected in our forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur and actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Except as required by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein until after we distribute this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, whether as a result of any new information, future events or otherwise.

In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and while we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain, and you are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.

Investors and others should note that we may announce material business and financial information to our investors using our investor relations website (ir.revmed.com), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, webcasts, press releases and conference calls. We use these mediums, including our website, to communicate with our members and public about our company, our products and other issues. It is possible that the information that we make available may be deemed to be material information. We therefore encourage investors and others interested in our company to review the information that we make available on our website.

 

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PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements.

REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

(unaudited)

 

 

June 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

402,438

 

 

$

543,064

 

Marketable securities

 

 

1,734,733

 

 

 

1,746,235

 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

 

 

39,268

 

 

 

38,333

 

Total current assets

 

 

2,176,439

 

 

 

2,327,632

 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

33,049

 

 

 

24,289

 

Operating lease right-of-use asset

 

 

114,000

 

 

 

117,534

 

Intangible assets, net

 

 

56,136

 

 

 

56,670

 

Goodwill

 

 

14,608

 

 

 

14,608

 

Restricted cash

 

 

3,916

 

 

 

3,698

 

Other noncurrent assets

 

 

31,420

 

 

 

13,870

 

Total assets

 

$

2,429,568

 

 

$

2,558,301

 

Liabilities and stockholdersʼ equity

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$

56,761

 

 

$

54,427

 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

 

 

114,685

 

 

 

96,615

 

Operating lease liability, current

 

 

13,088

 

 

 

12,872

 

Total current liabilities

 

 

184,534

 

 

 

163,914

 

Deferred tax liability

 

 

2,353

 

 

 

2,353

 

Operating lease liability, noncurrent

 

 

119,699

 

 

 

122,971

 

Liability related to the sale of future royalties

 

 

245,081

 

 

 

 

Warrant liability

 

 

5,328

 

 

 

3,189

 

Other noncurrent liabilities

 

 

7,204

 

 

 

670

 

Total liabilities

 

 

564,199

 

 

 

293,097

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 7)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholdersʼ equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively; none issued and outstanding at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock, $0.0001 par value; 300,000,000 shares authorized as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively; 186,901,268 and 185,896,625 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively

 

 

18

 

 

 

18

 

Additional paid-in capital

 

 

4,063,053

 

 

 

4,001,666

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income

 

 

1,302

 

 

 

1,321

 

Accumulated deficit

 

 

(2,199,004

)

 

 

(1,737,801

)

Total stockholdersʼ equity

 

 

1,865,369

 

 

 

2,265,204

 

Total liabilities and stockholdersʼ equity

 

$

2,429,568

 

 

$

2,558,301

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

(unaudited)

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

 

$

224,134

 

 

$

134,932

 

 

$

429,883

 

 

$

252,953

 

General and administrative

 

 

40,580

 

 

 

21,711

 

 

 

75,591

 

 

 

44,549

 

Total operating expenses

 

 

264,714

 

 

 

156,643

 

 

 

505,474

 

 

 

297,502

 

Loss from operations

 

 

(264,714

)

 

 

(156,643

)

 

 

(505,474

)

 

 

(297,502

)

Other income (expense), net:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

 

22,404

 

 

 

21,487

 

 

 

47,319

 

 

 

45,247

 

Interest and other income (expense), net

 

 

(899

)

 

 

16

 

 

 

(909

)

 

 

(2,793

)

Change in fair value of warrant liabilities and contingent earn-out shares

 

 

(4,578

)

 

 

1,907

 

 

 

(2,139

)

 

 

5,812

 

Total other income, net

 

 

16,927

 

 

 

23,410

 

 

 

44,271

 

 

 

48,266

 

Loss before income taxes

 

 

(247,787

)

 

 

(133,233

)

 

 

(461,203

)

 

 

(249,236

)

Net loss

 

$

(247,787

)

 

$

(133,233

)

 

$

(461,203

)

 

$

(249,236

)

Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted

 

$

(1.31

)

 

$

(0.81

)

 

$

(2.45

)

 

$

(1.51

)

Weighted-average common shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted

 

 

188,583,288

 

 

 

165,141,936

 

 

 

188,365,805

 

 

 

164,935,542

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

$

(247,787

)

 

$

(133,233

)

 

$

(461,203

)

 

$

(249,236

)

Other comprehensive loss:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Unrealized loss on investments, net

 

 

(405

)

 

 

(665

)

 

 

(19

)

 

 

(2,407

)

Comprehensive loss

 

$

(248,192

)

 

$

(133,898

)

 

$

(461,222

)

 

$

(251,643

)

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(in thousands, except share data)

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional

 

 

Other

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

Common Stock

 

 

Paid-in

 

 

Comprehensive

 

 

Accumulated

 

 

Stockholdersʼ

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Amount

 

 

Capital

 

 

Income/ (Loss)

 

 

Deficit

 

 

Equity

 

Balance at December 31, 2024

 

 

185,896,625

 

 

$

18

 

 

$

4,001,666

 

 

$

1,321

 

 

$

(1,737,801

)

 

$

2,265,204

 

Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock option exercises

 

 

90,043

 

 

 

 

 

 

891

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

891

 

Issuance of common stock related to vesting of restricted stock units

 

 

271,536

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exercise of warrants

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25,084

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25,084

 

Net unrealized gain on marketable securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

386

 

 

 

 

 

 

386

 

Net loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(213,416

)

 

 

(213,416

)

Balance at March 31, 2025

 

 

186,258,206

 

 

 

18

 

 

 

4,027,642

 

 

 

1,707

 

 

 

(1,951,217

)

 

 

2,078,150

 

Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock option exercises

 

 

121,103

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,937

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,937

 

Issuance of common stock related to vesting of restricted stock units

 

 

361,975

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock related to employee stock purchase plan

 

 

159,984

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,644

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,644

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

28,830

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

28,830

 

Net unrealized loss on marketable securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(405

)

 

 

 

 

 

(405

)

Net loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(247,787

)

 

 

(247,787

)

Balance at June 30, 2025

 

 

186,901,268

 

 

$

18

 

 

$

4,063,053

 

 

$

1,302

 

 

$

(2,199,004

)

 

$

1,865,369

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(in thousands, except share data)

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional

 

 

Other

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

Common Stock

 

 

Paid-in

 

 

Comprehensive

 

 

Accumulated

 

 

Stockholdersʼ

 

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Amount

 

 

Capital

 

 

Loss

 

 

Deficit

 

 

Equity

 

Balance at December 31, 2023

 

 

 

164,674,594

 

 

$

16

 

 

$

2,963,342

 

 

$

544

 

 

$

(1,137,708

)

 

$

1,826,194

 

Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock option exercises

 

 

 

73,342

 

 

 

 

 

 

810

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

810

 

Issuance of common stock related to vesting of restricted stock units

 

 

 

165,078

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16,208

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16,208

 

Net unrealized loss on marketable securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,742

)

 

 

 

 

 

(1,742

)

Net loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(116,003

)

 

 

(116,003

)

Balance at March 31, 2024

 

 

 

164,913,014

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

2,980,360

 

 

 

(1,198

)

 

 

(1,253,711

)

 

 

1,725,467

 

Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock option exercises

 

 

 

238,793

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,340

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,340

 

Issuance of common stock related to vesting of restricted stock units

 

 

 

303,953

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock related to employee stock purchase plan

 

 

 

190,748

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,164

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,164

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19,775

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19,775

 

Net unrealized loss on marketable securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(665

)

 

 

 

 

 

(665

)

Net loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(133,233

)

 

 

(133,233

)

Balance at June 30, 2024

 

 

 

165,646,508

 

 

$

16

 

 

$

3,007,639

 

 

$

(1,863

)

 

$

(1,386,944

)

 

$

1,618,848

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

Cash flows from operating activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

$

(461,203

)

 

$

(249,236

)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Loss on disposal of fixed assets

 

 

 

 

 

116

 

Amortization of intangible assets

 

 

534

 

 

 

534

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

53,914

 

 

 

35,983

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

3,450

 

 

 

3,182

 

Change in fair value of warrant liabilities and contingent earn-out shares

 

 

2,139

 

 

 

(5,812

)

Non-cash interest expense on liability related to sale of future royalties

 

 

866

 

 

 

 

Net amortization of premium or discount on marketable securities

 

 

(17,560

)

 

 

(26,146

)

Amortization of operating lease right-of-use asset

 

 

3,534

 

 

 

1,844

 

Impairment of assets

 

 

 

 

 

2,761

 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivable

 

 

 

 

 

1,254

 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

 

 

(935

)

 

 

(8,943

)

Accounts payable

 

 

491

 

 

 

(33,040

)

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

 

 

12,369

 

 

 

(6,594

)

Operating lease liability

 

 

(3,056

)

 

 

(533

)

Other noncurrent assets

 

 

(16,508

)

 

 

(4,002

)

Other noncurrent liabilities

 

 

5,773

 

 

 

(95

)

Net cash used in operating activities

 

 

(416,192

)

 

 

(288,727

)

Cash flows from investing activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of marketable securities

 

 

(1,039,327

)

 

 

(1,076,536

)

Maturities of marketable securities

 

 

1,061,986

 

 

 

942,080

 

Sales of marketable securities

 

 

6,384

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property and equipment

 

 

(10,716

)

 

 

(5,566

)

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

 

18,327

 

 

 

(140,022

)

Cash flows from financing activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from issuance of common stock under equity incentive plans

 

 

2,828

 

 

 

5,150

 

Proceeds from issuance of common stock related to employee stock purchase plan

 

 

4,644

 

 

 

3,164

 

Proceeds from the sale of future royalties

 

 

250,000

 

 

 

 

Exercise of warrants

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

Deferred offering costs

 

 

(16

)

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

 

 

257,457

 

 

 

8,314

 

Net decrease in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash

 

 

(140,408

)

 

 

(420,435

)

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash - beginning of period

 

 

546,762

 

 

 

699,179

 

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash - end of period

 

$

406,354

 

 

$

278,744

 

Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash to consolidated balance sheets

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

 

402,438

 

 

 

275,713

 

Restricted cash

 

 

3,916

 

 

 

3,031

 

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash - end of period

 

$

406,354

 

 

$

278,744

 

Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property and equipment in accounts payable and accrued expenses and other current liabilities

 

$

2,907

 

 

$

2,762

 

Unpaid issuance costs on the liability related to the sale of future royalties

 

 

5,785

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.

Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

1.
Organization

Revolution Medicines, Inc. (the Company) is a clinical-stage precision oncology company developing novel targeted therapies for RAS-addicted cancers. The Company was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Liquidity

The Company has incurred net operating losses in each year since inception. As of June 30, 2025, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $2.2 billion. Management believes that its existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities will enable the Company to fund its planned operations for at least 12 months following the issuance date of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

2.
Summary of significant accounting policies

Basis of presentation

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP) and applicable rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding interim financial reporting and, in the opinion of management, include all normal and recurring adjustments which are necessary to state fairly the Company’s financial position and results of operations for the reported periods. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related financial information should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2024 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the SEC on February 26, 2025 (the 2024 Form 10-K). Certain information and note disclosures normally included in the financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted in accordance with such rules and regulations. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the periods ended June 30, 2025 and June 30, 2024 include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The functional and reporting currency of the Company and its subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar.

Use of estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates, including the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed and related purchase price allocation, revenue recognition, clinical accruals, valuation of in-process research and development and developed technologies, income taxes, useful lives of property and equipment and intangible assets, impairment of goodwill and intangibles, impairment of in-process research and development and developed technologies, the incremental borrowing rate for determining operating lease assets and liabilities, warrant liabilities, stock-based compensation, the liability related to the sale of future royalties including the estimation of future payments and the related non-cash interest expense. Estimates are based on historical experience, complex judgments, facts and circumstances available at the time and various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances but are inherently uncertain and unpredictable. Actual results could materially differ from the Company’s estimates, and there may be changes to the estimates in future periods.

Concentration of credit risk and other risks and uncertainties

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentration of credit risk consist of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. The Company maintains bank deposits in federally insured financial institutions and these deposits may exceed federally insured limits. The Company is exposed to credit risk in the event of a default by the financial institutions holding its bank deposits and issuers of its investments. The Company’s investment policy limits investments to money market funds, certain types of debt securities issued by the U.S. government and its agencies, certificates of deposit, corporate debt and commercial paper, and places restrictions on the credit ratings, maturities and concentration by type and issuer. The Company has not experienced any significant losses on its deposits of cash and cash equivalents or investments.

Liability related to the sale of future royalties

The Company accounts for the revenue participation right purchase and sale agreement with Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV (Royalty Pharma), pursuant to which Royalty Pharma purchased the right to receive tiered royalty payments with respect to worldwide net product sales of (i) the Company’s RAS(ON) multi-selective inhibitor, daraxonrasib (together with certain potential future products having the same mechanism of action as daraxonrasib, collectively, RMC-6236 Products) and (ii) the Company’s RAS(ON)

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G12D-selective inhibitor, zoldonrasib (together with certain potential future products having the same mechanism of action as zoldonrasib, RMC-9805 Products), if an RMC-9805 Product is approved for the same indication or subset of the same indication for which an RMC-6236 Product is approved, as a debt financing under ASC Topic 470, Debt (“ASC 470”) to be amortized over the estimated life of the royalty term arrangement using the effective interest method. Non-cash interest expense is recognized in the consolidated statements of operations as a component of interest expense.

The liability related to the sale of future royalties and the related interest expense is based on the Company’s current estimates of future royalties. These estimates involve significant judgment and are based on a number of factors, including expected commercial launch timelines, regulatory approval probabilities, and projected net product sales over the term of the purchase and sale agreement. These assumptions are subject to change and are reassessed each reporting period. As none of our compounds have been commercialized, these estimates are highly subjective.

For additional information regarding the Royalty Purchase Agreement (including information regarding the trigger events related to particular tranches and the applicable tiered revenue payments), see “Note 8. Liability related to the sale of future royalties”.

Segment reporting

The Company determines its operating segments based on how the chief operating decision maker (CODM) views and analyzes the segment’s operations and performance and allocates resources. The President and Chief Executive Officer is the CODM. The CODM utilizes net loss as the measure of segment profit or loss. The Company has one operating and reportable segment. The Company’s CODM manages the Company’s operations on a consolidated basis for the purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance. The CODM assesses performance for and decides how to allocate resources based on the company’s cash and investment balance, periodic changes in cash and investments, and net loss, all of which are reported on the company’s consolidated balance sheets, statements of operations and/or statements of cash flows. The measure of segment assets is reported on the consolidated balance sheets as total consolidated assets. All of the Company’s long-lived assets are located in the United States.

In addition to the significant expense categories included within consolidated net loss presented on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations, see below for disaggregated amounts that comprise research and development expenses:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Third-party research and development expenses(a)

 

$

144,138

 

 

$

81,657

 

 

$

276,881

 

 

$

150,926

 

Salaries and other employee-related expenses

 

 

41,170

 

 

 

26,328

 

 

 

78,364

 

 

 

51,490

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

19,126

 

 

 

12,775

 

 

 

35,505

 

 

 

23,020

 

Amortization of intangible assets

 

 

267

 

 

 

267

 

 

 

534

 

 

 

534

 

Other research and development costs

 

 

19,433

 

 

 

13,905

 

 

 

38,599

 

 

 

26,983

 

Total research and development expense

 

$

224,134

 

 

$

134,932

 

 

$

429,883

 

 

$

252,953

 

(a) Third-party research and development expenses are comprised primarily of external costs incurred under agreements with third-party contract organizations, investigative clinical trial sites that conduct research and development activities on the Company’s behalf and consultants; costs related to the production of preclinical, clinical and pre-launch materials, including fees paid to contract manufacturers; and laboratory and vendor expenses related to the execution of discovery programs, preclinical and clinical trials.

Recent accounting pronouncements

From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), under its ASC or other standard setting bodies, and adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date. No new pronouncements have been adopted by the Company for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025.

Recently announced accounting pronouncements

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740), Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (ASU 2023-09). ASU 2023-09 relates to rate reconciliation and income taxes paid disclosures. The guidance is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early application is permitted. The Company will be adopting the standard for the year ended December 31, 2025. The Company is currently evaluating the standard and does not expect it to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (DISE). The new standard requires disclosures about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the income statement as well as disclosures about selling expenses. The guidance is effective for public business entities for fiscal years (clarified as annual reporting periods by ASU 2025-01, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures Subtopic 220-40 issued in January 2025) beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027.

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Early adoption is permitted. The guidance is to be applied prospectively, with the option for retrospective application. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the standard on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

3.
Fair value measurements

The carrying amounts of certain of the Company’s financial instruments, including cash equivalents, marketable securities, accounts payable and accrued expenses and other current liabilities approximate fair value due to their relatively short maturities and market interest rates, if applicable. For more information, refer to “Note 4. Available-for-sale-securities” regarding the fair value of the Company’s available-for-sale securities.

Assets and liabilities recorded at fair value on a recurring basis in the consolidated balance sheets are categorized based upon the level of judgment associated with the inputs used to measure their fair values. Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or an exit price that would be paid to transfer a liability in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. Valuation techniques used to measure fair value must maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. The authoritative guidance on fair value measurements establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements as follows:

Level 1—Observable inputs such as unadjusted, quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities at the measurement date;

Level 2—Inputs (other than quoted prices included in Level 1) are either directly or indirectly observable for the asset or liability. These include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets and quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active; and

Level 3—Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

The following table presents information about the Company’s financial assets that are measured at fair value and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation:

 

 

 

June 30, 2025

 

 

 

Total

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money market funds

 

$

350,642

 

 

$

350,642

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Commercial paper

 

 

159,293

 

 

 

 

 

 

159,293

 

 

 

 

Certificates of deposit

 

 

3,833

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,833

 

 

 

 

U.S. government and agency securities

 

 

867,787

 

 

 

 

 

 

867,787

 

 

 

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

754,880

 

 

 

 

 

 

754,880

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

2,136,435

 

 

$

350,642

 

 

$

1,785,793

 

 

$

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warrant liabilities

 

 

5,328

 

 

 

2,981

 

 

 

2,347

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

5,328

 

 

$

2,981

 

 

$

2,347

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2024

 

 

 

Total

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money market funds

 

$

409,233

 

 

$

409,233

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Commercial paper

 

 

245,658

 

 

 

 

 

 

245,658

 

 

 

 

Certificates of deposit

 

 

9,048

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,048

 

 

 

 

U.S. government and agency securities

 

 

1,051,754

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,051,754

 

 

 

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

571,654

 

 

 

 

 

 

571,654

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

2,287,347

 

 

$

409,233

 

 

$

1,878,114

 

 

$

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warrant liabilities

 

 

3,189

 

 

 

1,784

 

 

 

1,405

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

3,189

 

 

$

1,784

 

 

$

1,405

 

 

$

 

 

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Money market funds are measured at fair value on a recurring basis using quoted prices. U.S. government debt securities, government agency bonds, certificates of deposit, commercial paper and corporate bonds are measured at fair value, which is derived from independent pricing sources based on quoted prices in active markets for similar securities.

There were no transfers between Levels 1, 2 or 3 for any of the periods presented.

The fair value of the warrant liabilities was based on observable listed prices for such warrants. The fair value of the public warrants is categorized as Level 1. The fair value of the private warrants is categorized as Level 2 as they are equivalent to the public warrants as they have substantially the same terms; however, they are not actively traded.

4.
Available-for-sale securities

The following tables summarize the amortized cost and estimated fair value of the Company’s available-for-sale marketable securities and cash equivalents and the gross unrealized gains and losses:

 

 

 

June 30, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortized

 

 

unrealized

 

 

unrealized

 

 

Estimated

 

 

 

cost

 

 

gain

 

 

loss

 

 

fair value

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Marketable securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial paper

 

$

122,245

 

 

$

2

 

 

$

(39

)

 

$

122,208

 

Certificates of deposit

 

 

3,832

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,833

 

U.S. government and agency securities

 

 

853,298

 

 

 

710

 

 

 

(196

)

 

 

853,812

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

754,048

 

 

 

882

 

 

 

(50

)

 

 

754,880

 

Total marketable securities

 

 

1,733,423

 

 

 

1,595

 

 

 

(285

)

 

 

1,734,733

 

Cash equivalents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money market funds

 

 

350,642

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

350,642

 

Commercial paper

 

 

37,092

 

 

 

 

 

 

(7

)

 

 

37,085

 

U.S. government and agency securities

 

 

13,976

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

 

 

 

13,975

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cash equivalents

 

 

401,710

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

(7

)

 

 

401,702

 

Total available-for-sale securities

 

$

2,135,133

 

 

$

1,594

 

 

$

(292

)

 

$

2,136,435

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortized

 

 

unrealized

 

 

unrealized

 

 

Estimated

 

 

 

cost

 

 

gain

 

 

loss

 

 

fair value

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Marketable securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial paper

 

$

158,838

 

 

$

72

 

 

$

(17

)

 

$

158,893

 

Certificates of deposit

 

 

9,039

 

 

 

10

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

9,048

 

U.S. government and agency securities

 

 

1,011,019

 

 

 

1,123

 

 

 

(382

)

 

 

1,011,760

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

566,008

 

 

 

657

 

 

 

(131

)

 

 

566,534

 

Total marketable securities

 

 

1,744,904

 

 

 

1,862

 

 

 

(531

)

 

 

1,746,235

 

Cash equivalents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money market funds

 

 

409,233

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

409,233

 

Commercial paper

 

 

86,778

 

 

 

 

 

 

(13

)

 

 

86,765

 

U.S. government and agency securities

 

 

39,991

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

39,994

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

5,120

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,120

 

Total cash equivalents

 

 

541,122

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

(14

)

 

 

541,112

 

Total available-for-sale securities

 

$

2,286,026

 

 

$

1,866

 

 

$

(545

)

 

$

2,287,347

 

 

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The amortized cost and estimated fair value of the Company’s available-for-sale securities by contractual maturity are summarized below as of June 30, 2025:

 

 

 

June 30, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortized

 

 

unrealized

 

 

unrealized

 

 

Estimated

 

 

 

cost

 

 

gain

 

 

loss

 

 

fair value

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Mature in one year or less

 

$

1,694,180

 

 

$

891

 

 

$

(283

)

 

$

1,694,788

 

Mature after one year through two years

 

 

440,953

 

 

 

703

 

 

 

(9

)

 

 

441,647

 

Total available-for-sale securities

 

$

2,135,133

 

 

$

1,594

 

 

$

(292

)

 

$

2,136,435

 

 

5.
Balance sheet components

Property and equipment, net

Property and equipment, net consisted of the following:

 

 

 

June 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Laboratory equipment

 

$

28,045

 

 

$

25,192

 

Leasehold improvements

 

 

21,341

 

 

 

14,280

 

Computer equipment and software

 

 

6,536

 

 

 

5,046

 

Furniture and fixtures

 

 

1,655

 

 

 

1,200

 

Construction in progress

 

 

500

 

 

 

394

 

 

 

58,077

 

 

 

46,112

 

Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization

 

 

(25,028

)

 

 

(21,823

)

Property and equipment, net

 

$

33,049

 

 

$

24,289

 

 

Depreciation expense for property and equipment amounted to $1.7 million and $1.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $3.3 million and $3.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following:

 

 

 

June 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Accrued compensation

 

$

21,726

 

 

$

30,774

 

Accrued research and development

 

 

89,583

 

 

 

63,635

 

Accrued professional services

 

 

2,914

 

 

 

1,623

 

Other

 

 

462

 

 

 

583

 

Total accrued expenses and other current liabilities

 

$

114,685

 

 

$

96,615

 

 

6.
Intangible assets and goodwill

Intangible assets, net

Intangible assets, net consisted of the following as of June 30, 2025:

 

 

 

Gross value

 

 

Accumulated
amortization

 

 

Net book
value

 

 

Weighted-
average
remaining
useful life

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

(in years)

 

In-process research and development — RAS Programs

 

$

55,800

 

 

$

 

 

$

55,800

 

 

n/a

 

Developed technology — tri-complex platform

 

 

7,480

 

 

 

(7,144

)

 

 

336

 

 

 

0.4

 

Total

 

$

63,280

 

 

$

(7,144

)

 

$

56,136

 

 

 

 

 

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Amortization expense for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 was $0.3 million and for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 was $0.5 million.

As of June 30, 2025, future amortization expense was as follows:

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2025 (remaining four months)

 

$

336

 

Total

 

$

336

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intangible assets, net consisted of the following as of December 31, 2024:

 

 

 

Gross value

 

 

Accumulated
amortization

 

 

Net book
value

 

 

Weighted-
average
remaining
useful life

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

(in years)

 

In-process research and development — RAS Programs

 

$

55,800

 

 

$

 

 

$

55,800

 

 

n/a

 

Developed technology — tri-complex platform

 

 

7,480

 

 

 

(6,610

)

 

 

870

 

 

 

0.9

 

Total

 

$

63,280

 

 

$

(6,610

)

 

$

56,670

 

 

 

 

 

Goodwill

The following summarizes the change in the carrying value of goodwill for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025:

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Balance at December 31, 2024

 

$

14,608

 

Adjustment

 

 

 

Balance at June 30, 2025

 

$

14,608

 

 

No impairment had been recognized as of June 30, 2025. Goodwill recorded is not deductible for income tax purposes.

7.
Commitments and contingencies

Leases

In January 2015, as amended in September 2016, the Company entered into an operating lease for approximately 42,000 square feet of office, laboratory and research and development space located at 700 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, California (the 700 Building). In April 2020, the Company amended the lease to lease an additional 19,000 square feet of office, laboratory and research and development space located at 300 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, California (the 300 Building). In November 2021, the Company amended the lease to lease an additional 41,000 square feet of office, laboratory and research and development space located at 800 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, California (the 800 Building). In March 2023, the Company amended the lease to lease an additional approximately 40,000 square feet of office, laboratory and research and development space located at 900 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, California (the 900 Building), and to extend the lease term through December 31, 2035. The Company obtained possession of the 900 Building in October 2023. In July 2024, the Company amended the lease to lease an additional approximately 43,000 square feet of office, laboratory and research and development space located at 500 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, California (the 500 Building). In November 2024, the Company amended the lease to lease an additional approximately 46,961 square feet of office, laboratory and research and development space located at 600 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, California (the 600 Building). The Company has the option to extend the lease for the Buildings for an additional ten years after December 31, 2035. Additionally, in November 2024, the Company also entered into a sublease agreement pursuant to which approximately 23,481 square feet of office space located on the first floor of the 600 Building was subleased. The term of the sublease is through October 2027, with no options to extend. The sublease is accounted for as an operating lease.

The Company maintains letters of credit for the benefit of the landlord which are classified as restricted cash in the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. Restricted cash related to letters of credit due to the landlord was $3.7 million as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

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Through June 30, 2025, the landlord had provided the Company with $16.3 million in tenant improvement allowances, which were recognized as lease incentives. The lease incentives are being amortized as an offset to rent expense over the lease term in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.

Upon the execution of the lease amendment in March 2023, which was deemed to be a lease modification, the Company re-evaluated the assumptions used during the lease amendment in November 2021. The Company determined the amendment consists of two separate contracts under ASC 842. One contract is related to a new right-of-use asset for the 900 Building, which is being accounted for as an operating lease, and the other is related to the modification of the lease term, as amended in November 2021, for the 700 Building, 300 Building and 800 Building. As a result, the Company recorded a right-of-use asset and a lease liability of $25.0 million for the 900 Building and an aggregate increase of $0.3 million to the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for the 700 Building, 300 Building and 800 Building upon execution of the lease amendment. The Company is recognizing rent expense for the buildings on a straight-line basis through the remaining extended term of the lease.

Upon the execution of the lease in July 2024, the Company determined that the contract is related to a new right-of-use asset for the 500 Building, which is being accounted for as an operating lease under ASC 842. Upon obtaining possession of the building in October 2024, the Company recorded a right-of-use asset of $18.2 million, a lease liability of $21.8 million and a lease receivable of $3.6 million for the 500 Building. The Company is recognizing rent expense for the buildings on a straight-line basis through the term of the lease.

Upon the execution of the lease in November 2024, the Company determined that the contract is related to a new right-of-use asset for the 600 Building, which is being accounted for as an operating lease under ASC 842. The Company recorded a right-of-use asset and a lease liability of $26.3 million for the 600 Building. The Company is recognizing rent expense for the buildings on a straight-line basis through the remaining extended term of the lease.

The balance sheet classification of the Company’s operating lease liabilities was as follows:

 

 

 

June 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Operating lease liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Operating lease liability – current

 

$

13,088

 

 

$

12,872

 

   Operating lease liability – noncurrent

 

 

119,699

 

 

 

122,971

 

      Total operating lease liabilities

 

$

132,787

 

 

$

135,843

 

The components of lease costs for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were as follows (in thousands):

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Operating lease cost

 

$

4,262

 

 

$

2,798

 

 

$

9,085

 

 

$

5,595

 

Less: Sublease income

 

 

(610

)

 

 

 

 

 

(1,878

)

 

 

 

   Total operating lease cost, net(1)

 

$

3,652

 

 

$

2,798

 

 

$

7,207

 

 

$

5,595

 

(1) Net lease cost does not include short-term lease and variable lease costs, which were immaterial.

As of June 30, 2025, the maturities of the Company’s operating lease liabilities were as follows (in thousands):

 

2025 (remaining six months)

 

$

10,028

 

2026

 

 

17,048

 

2027

 

 

17,554

 

2028

 

 

17,695

 

2029

 

 

18,314

 

Thereafter

 

 

124,123

 

Total undiscounted lease payments

 

$

204,762

 

Less: Imputed interest

 

 

(65,315

)

Less: Lease receivable

 

 

(6,660

)

      Total operating lease liabilities

 

$

132,787

 

 

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Operating lease liabilities are based on the net present value of the remaining lease payments over the remaining lease term. In determining the present value of lease payments, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate. The weighted-average discount rate used to determine the operating lease liability was 7.64%. As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the weighted-average remaining lease term was 10.5 years and 11.0 years, respectively.

 

Legal matters

From time to time, the Company may be involved in litigation related to claims that arise in the ordinary course of its business activities. Defending such proceedings is costly and can impose a significant burden on management and employees. The results of any current or future litigation cannot be predicted with certainty, and regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on the Company because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, and other factors. The Company accrues for these matters when it is probable that losses will be incurred and these losses can be reasonably estimated.

On December 9, 2024, Nemeth v. Casdin, et al., Case No. 2024-1268-KSJM (Del. Ch.), was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the Complaint) arising from CM Life Sciences III., Inc.’s (CMLS III) December 17, 2021 merger with EQRx, Inc. (Legacy EQRx) (the Merger). The Complaint was filed by former stockholders of CMLS III and brings claims for breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment against members of CMLS III’s board of directors, CMLS III’s officers, and CMLS III’s sponsor in connection with the Merger. The Complaint also brings claims for aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary duties against certain investment firms involved with the merger process, the Company, solely as successor-in-interest to EQRx, and Legacy EQRx’s former Executive Chairman and CEO, Alexis Borisy, who is also on the Company’s board of directors. Defendants moved to dismiss the Complaint in February 2025. This motion is now fully briefed, and a hearing on the motion is currently scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2025.

At this juncture, the Company does not believe this action will have a material adverse impact on its operations or financial position. The Company is currently unable to predict the outcome of this lawsuit and therefore cannot determine the likelihood of loss, if any, nor estimate a range of possible loss.

Indemnification

The Company enters into standard indemnification arrangements in the ordinary course of business. Pursuant to these arrangements, the Company indemnifies, holds harmless and agrees to reimburse the indemnified parties for losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified party, in connection with any trade secret, copyright, patent or other intellectual property infringement claim by any third party with respect to its technology. The term of these indemnification agreements is generally perpetual any time after the execution of the agreement. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these arrangements is not determinable. The Company has not incurred costs to defend lawsuits or settle claims related to these indemnification agreements. As a result, the Company believes the fair value of these agreements is minimal.

Other

The Company enters into agreements in the ordinary course of business with contract research organizations for clinical trials, contract manufacturing organizations to provide clinical trial materials and with vendors for preclinical studies and other services and products for operating purposes, which are generally cancelable at any time by the Company upon 30 to 90 days’ prior written notice.

8.
Liability related to the sale of future royalties

In June 2025, the Company entered into a revenue participation right purchase and sale agreement with Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV (the Royalty Purchase Agreement). Pursuant to the Royalty Purchase Agreement, Royalty Pharma purchased from the Company the right to receive tiered revenue payments with respect to worldwide net product sales of (i) RMC-6236 Products and (ii) RMC-9805 Products, if an RMC-9805 Product is approved for the same indication or subset of the same indication for which an RMC-6236 Product is approved (the Royalty Payments). In exchange for an upfront payment of $250.0 million, Royalty Pharma is entitled to receive Royalty Payments equal to 2.55% of annual worldwide net sales up to $2.0 billion, 1.50% of annual net sales between $2.0 billion and $4.0 billion, 0.60% of annual net sales between $4.0 billion and $8.0 billion, and no Royalty Payments on sales in excess of $8.0 billion.

The Royalty Purchase Agreement provides for up to an additional $1.0 billion of potential purchases of additional Royalty Payments if the following criteria are met: (i) an additional Royalty Payment from the Company in exchange for a payment from Royalty Pharma of $250.0 million, if, prior to January 1, 2028, there is a positive data readout from RASolute 302, the Company’s ongoing Phase 3 registrational trial in the second-line treatment of patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) showing that RMC-6236 meets an agreed-upon endpoint in a statistically significant manner and the earlier of (A) the Company’s determination to proceed with the preparation and submission of a New Drug Application to the U.S.

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the basis of such readout or (B) the submission of a New Drug Application on the basis of such readout (Tranche 2) and (ii) in each case of the following, at the Company’s election, Royalty Pharma will purchase the rights to additional Royalty Payments in exchange for (x) a payment of up to $250.0 million, if, prior to July 1, 2028, RMC-6236 receives FDA approval for the second-line treatment of patients with metastatic PDAC (Tranche 3), (y) a payment of up to $250.0 million, if the Company meets a specified net sales milestone prior to January 1, 2029 (Tranche 4), and (z) payments of (1) up to $100.0 million, if prior to January 1, 2030, there is a positive data readout from a potential Phase 3 clinical trial for the first-line treatment of metastatic PDAC involving either an RMC-6236 Product or an RMC-9805 Product, in each case, showing that the applicable Company compound meets an agreed-upon endpoint in a statistically significant manner and the FDA accepts a New Drug Application (or a supplemental application or an amendment to an existing application) on the basis of such readout, and (2) a payment of up to the difference of (I) $250.0 million and (II) the purchase price of any Royalty Payments purchased pursuant to clause (z)(1) above, if prior to January 1, 2030, there is a positive data readout from a potential Phase 3 clinical trial for the first-line treatment of metastatic PDAC involving either an RMC-6236 Product or an RMC-9805 Product, in each case, showing that the applicable Company compound meets an agreed-upon endpoint in a statistically significant manner and the earlier of (A) the Company’s determination to proceed with the preparation and submission of an application for marketing approval to the FDA, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or the United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on the basis of such readout or (B) the submission of an application for marketing approval to the FDA, EMA or MHRA on the basis of such readout (Tranche 5).

If Tranches 2 through 5 are all purchased in their entirety, Royalty Pharma would be entitled to receive total Royalty Payments equal to 7.80% of annual worldwide net sales up to $2.0 billion, 4.55% of annual net sales between $2.0 billion and $4.0 billion, 2.40% of annual net sales between $4.0 billion and $8.0 billion, and no Royalty Payments on sales in excess of $8.0 billion. If the Company elects not to draw the full amount of any of the optional tranches, the associated royalty rates would be lower for each of the net sales tiers.

Additionally, the Royalty Purchase Agreement provides for an upward adjustment to the Royalty Payment rates in the years from 2030 to 2041 in the event that annual net sales in the immediate prior year are below an agreed-upon threshold. The upward adjustment to the Royalty Payment rates applies only to the $0 to $2 billion annual net sales tier, and the adjusted total Royalty Payment rate for this tier remains in the single digits. Any upward adjustment will revert back to the original Royalty Payment rates in the event that Annual Net Sales are above a different agreed-upon threshold.

The Company’s obligations under the Royalty Purchase Agreement will terminate upon the fifteenth anniversary of the first commercial sale of an RMC-6236 Product in the United States (or in the European Union for ex-U.S. sales).

The Royalty Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and indemnities of the Company and Royalty Pharma, and customary covenants on the part of the Company.

The Company has accounted for the Royalty Purchase Agreement as a debt financing, primarily because it has significant continuing involvement in generating the future revenue on which the Royalty Payments are based. The financing liability associated with the Royalty Payments and the related interest expense are measured based on our current estimate of the timing and amount of expected future Royalty Payments expected to be paid over the estimated term of the Royalty Purchase Agreement. The liability is amortized using the effective interest rate method, resulting in recognition of interest expense over the estimated term of the Royalty Purchase Agreement.

The upfront $250.0 million received was recorded as a liability and measured at amortized cost. Debt issuance costs of $5.8 million were recorded as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the liability and are amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the estimated term of the arrangement. The effective interest rate for the initial tranche was determined based on the Company’s projections of future Royalty Payments. The Company will evaluate the estimated timing and amount of future Royalty Payments for each reporting period and will revise the effective interest rate prospectively if those estimates change materially.

The carrying value of the liability related to the sale of future royalties approximates fair value as of June 30, 2025 and is classified as either current or noncurrent based on the estimated timing of future Royalty Payments. The Company’s projections of future Royalty Payments are subject to significant estimation uncertainty and are based on various assumptions, including expected commercial launch timelines, regulatory approval probabilities, and projected net product sales over the term of the agreement. These inputs are considered to be Level 3 inputs in the fair value hierarchy, as they involve significant unobservable inputs and judgment. Changes in these assumptions could have a material impact on the effective interest rate.

The following table shows the activity of the liability related to the sale of future royalties as of June 30, 2025:

 

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Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Liability related to the sale of future royalties - beginning balance

 

$

 

Proceeds from the sale of future royalties

 

 

250,000

 

Issuance costs

 

 

(5,785

)

Non-cash interest expense associated with the sale of future royalties

 

 

846

 

Amortization of issuance costs

 

 

20

 

Liability related to the sale of future royalties - ending balance

 

$

245,081

 

 

9.
Term loan facility

In June 2025, the Company entered into a senior secured term loan agreement with Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC, as a lender and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as administrative agent (the Loan Agreement). The Loan Agreement provides for up to $750.0 million in term loans, consisting of three tranches of $250.0 million each. The first tranche is required to be drawn in full by the Company within 45 days following receipt of FDA marketing approval for daraxonrasib for any indication related to metastatic PDAC, if such approval occurs on or before January 1, 2028, unless the Company has previously elected to terminate the Loan Agreement. The second and third tranches are optional and may be drawn in whole or in part upon achievement of specified commercial milestones prior to January 1, 2028.

The maturity date of the facility is the earlier of (i) six years after the funding of the first tranche of term loans and (ii) December 31, 2032. The term loans bear interest at a floating rate equal to the three-month term SOFR (subject to a SOFR floor of 3.5%) plus 5.75%, payable on a quarterly basis. The Company is required to pay an upfront fee equal to 2.0% of the applicable tranche of loans drawn on each funding date. There are no scheduled principal amortization payments prior to maturity.

The Loan Agreement permits voluntary prepayment in full at any time, and also requires mandatory prepayment in connection with a change of control. Prepayments made prior to the second anniversary of the applicable funding date for the applicable tranche of loans are subject to a make-whole premium equal to the foregone interest through the second anniversary, as well as a prepayment premium of 3.00%. Prepayments made on or after the second anniversary but before the third anniversary are subject to a 3.00% prepayment premium, and prepayments made on or after the third anniversary are subject to a 1.00% prepayment premium. No make-whole or prepayment premium is due if repayment occurs at maturity.

The Loan Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants on the part of the Company but does not include any financial covenants.

The Loan Agreement provides an enumerated list of customary events of default whereby certain actions could be exercised against the Company (including, without limitation, (i) the acceleration of all amounts due under the Term Loan Facility; (ii) the application of default rate interest; (iii) the exercise of powers of attorney, voting proxies and other similar rights; (iv) the foreclosure and sale of property and assets and (v) other actions permitted to be taken by a secured creditor).

The term loans are secured by a lien on substantially all of the Company’s assets.

As of June 30, 2025, no amounts had been drawn under the Loan Agreement, and no liability was recorded.

10.
Common stock

As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company’s certificate of incorporation authorized the Company to issue 300,000,000 shares of common stock, at a par value of $0.0001 per share. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote. The holders of common stock are also entitled to receive dividends whenever funds are legally available and when declared by the Board of Directors. As of June 30, 2025, no dividends had been declared to date.

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The Company evaluated the pre-funded warrants issued in conjunction with the December 2024 underwritten public offering and concluded that they met the criteria to be classified as equity within additional paid-in-capital.

The Company has reserved shares of common stock for future issuance as follows:

 

 

 

June 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

Outstanding options to purchase common stock

 

 

17,272,317

 

 

 

13,985,538

 

Unvested restricted stock units of common stock

 

 

3,808,980

 

 

 

2,850,112

 

Available for future issuance under the 2020 Incentive Award Plan

 

 

3,855,287

 

 

 

8,945,644

 

Available for issuance under the 2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

 

 

5,794,632

 

 

 

3,775,682

 

Pre-funded warrants issued and outstanding

 

 

2,173,917

 

 

 

2,173,917

 

Total

 

 

32,905,133

 

 

 

31,730,893

 

 

11.
Stock-based compensation

2020 Incentive Award Plan

In February 2020, the Company adopted the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2020 Plan). The 2020 Plan became effective on February 11, 2020. The 2020 Plan provides for a variety of stock-based compensation awards, including stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock unit awards, performance bonus awards, performance stock unit awards, dividend equivalents, or other stock or cash based awards. Under the 2020 Plan, the Company generally grants stock-based awards with service-based vesting conditions only. Options and restricted stock unit awards granted typically vest over a four-year period, but may be granted with different vesting terms.

Following the effectiveness of the 2020 Plan, the Company ceased making grants under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2014 Plan). However, the 2014 Plan continues to govern the terms and conditions of the outstanding awards granted under it. Shares of common stock subject to awards granted under the 2014 Plan that are forfeited or lapse unexercised and which following the effective date of the 2020 Plan were not issued under the 2014 Plan are available for issuance under the 2020 Plan.

2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

In February 2020, the Company adopted the 2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the ESPP). Under the ESPP, employees have the ability to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock through payroll deductions at a discount during a series of offering periods of 24 months, each comprised of four six-month purchase periods. The purchase price will be the lower of 85% of the closing trading price per share of the Company’s common stock on the first day of an offering period in which an employee is enrolled or 85% of the closing trading price per share on the purchase date, which will occur on the last trading day of each purchase period.

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, there were 159,984 shares of common stock purchased under the ESPP. As of June 30, 2025, a total of 5,794,632 shares of common stock were available for future issuance under the ESPP. As of June 30, 2025, there was $3.2 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to the ESPP.

Stock options

The following summarizes option activity under both the 2020 Plan and the 2014 Plan:

 

 

 

Number of
Shares
underlying
options

 

 

Weighted-
average
exercise price

 

 

Weighted-
average
remaining
contractual
term

 

 

Aggregate
intrinsic
value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in years)

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Balance, December 31, 2024

 

 

13,985,538

 

 

$

24.25

 

 

 

7.36

 

 

$

276,335

 

Options granted

 

 

3,634,086

 

 

 

40.20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options exercised

 

 

(211,146

)

 

 

13.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options cancelled and forfeited

 

 

(136,161

)

 

 

37.12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, June 30, 2025

 

 

17,272,317

 

 

$

27.64

 

 

 

7.45

 

 

$

185,316

 

Options vested and exercisable as of June 30, 2025

 

 

8,966,252

 

 

$

21.00

 

 

 

6.13

 

 

$

147,533

 

 

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As of June 30, 2025, there was $178.5 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to unvested stock options that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.85 years.

Restricted stock units

Activity under the 2020 Plan with respect to the Company’s restricted stock units (RSUs) during the six months ended June 30, 2025 was as follows:

 

 

 

Number of
Shares

 

 

Weighted-
average
grant date fair value per share

 

 

Weighted-
average
remaining contractual term

 

 

Aggregate intrinsic value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in years)

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Balance, December 31, 2024

 

 

2,850,112

 

 

$

30.87

 

 

 

1.49

 

 

$

124,664

 

RSUs granted

 

 

1,677,033

 

 

 

40.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSUs vested

 

 

(633,511

)

 

 

29.28

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSUs forfeited

 

 

(84,654

)

 

 

34.70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, June 30, 2025

 

 

3,808,980

 

 

$

35.20

 

 

 

1.57

 

 

 

140,132

 

Expected to vest as of June 30, 2025

 

 

3,808,980

 

 

$

35.20

 

 

 

1.57

 

 

 

140,132

 

 

The number of RSUs vested includes shares of common stock that the Company withheld to satisfy the minimum statutory tax withholding requirements. As of June 30, 2025, there was $127.0 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to RSUs that is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.96 years.

Stock-based compensation expense

Total stock-based compensation expense related to stock options, RSUs and the ESPP by function was as follows:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Research and development

 

$

19,126

 

 

$

12,775

 

 

$

35,505

 

 

$

23,020

 

General and administrative

 

 

9,704

 

 

 

7,000

 

 

 

18,409

 

 

 

12,963

 

Total

 

$

28,830

 

 

$

19,775

 

 

$

53,914

 

 

$

35,983

 

 

12.
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

 

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

Numerator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss attributable to common stockholders

 

$

(247,787

)

 

$

(133,233

)

 

$

(461,203

)

 

$

(249,236

)

Denominator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted

 

 

188,583,288

 

 

 

165,141,936

 

 

 

188,365,805

 

 

 

164,935,542

 

Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted

 

$

(1.31

)

 

$

(0.81

)

 

$

(2.45

)

 

$

(1.51

)

 

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The following outstanding potentially dilutive shares have been excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share for the periods presented due to their anti-dilutive effect:

 

 

 

As of June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

Options to purchase common stock

 

 

17,272,317

 

 

 

13,811,570

 

Unvested restricted stock units of common stock

 

 

3,808,980

 

 

 

3,032,583

 

Expected shares to be purchased under ESPP

 

 

694,578

 

 

 

408,311

 

Warrants outstanding

 

 

2,194,340

 

 

 

2,194,342

 

Earn-out shares

 

 

 

 

 

973,976

 

Total

 

 

23,970,215

 

 

 

20,420,782

 

 

13.
Subsequent events

One Big Beautiful Bill Act

On July 4, 2025, the United States enacted into law new tax legislation, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the OBBBA). The OBBBA includes provisions modifying the corporate income tax code. As the legislation was not signed into law until the Company’s third quarter of 2025, the impacts are not included in its operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025. The Company is currently assessing the potential impact of this legislation on its financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.

Lease agreement

In July 2025, the Company amended its Redwood City lease to lease an additional approximately 60,841 square feet of office, laboratory and research and development space located at 400 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, California (the 400 Building). The Company will pay an initial annual base rent of approximately $3.9 million, which is subject to scheduled 3.5% annual increases, plus certain operating expenses. The Company has been provided a tenant improvement allowance of $4.1 million. The Company expects to take possession of the 400 Building in August 2025. The Company has the option to extend the lease for an additional ten years after the first anniversary of the lease commencement date of the 400 Building.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. In addition to historical financial information, this discussion contains forward-looking statements based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in the “Risk Factors” section of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our actual results could differ materially from the results described or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis.

Overview

We are a clinical-stage precision oncology company developing novel targeted therapies for RAS-addicted cancers. We possess sophisticated structure-based drug discovery capabilities built upon deep chemical biology and cancer pharmacology know-how and innovative, proprietary technologies that enable the creation of small molecules tailored to unconventional binding sites. Guided by our understanding of genetic drivers and adaptive resistance mechanisms in cancer, we deploy precision medicine approaches to inform innovative monotherapy and combination regimens.

Our research and development pipeline comprises RAS(ON) inhibitors that bind directly to RAS variants, which we refer to as RAS(ON) Inhibitors, and RAS companion inhibitors that target key nodes in the RAS pathway or associated pathways. Our RAS(ON) Inhibitors are designed to be used as monotherapy, in combination with other RAS(ON) Inhibitors and/or RAS companion inhibitors or other therapeutic agents.

RAS(ON) Inhibitors

Our RAS(ON) Inhibitors are based on our proprietary tri-complex technology platform, which enables a highly differentiated approach to inhibiting the active, GTP-bound form of RAS, which we refer to as RAS(ON). We are developing a portfolio of compounds that we believe were the first RAS(ON) Inhibitors to use this mechanism of action. We believe that direct inhibitors of RAS(ON) suppress cell growth and survival and are less susceptible to adaptive resistance mechanisms recognized for RAS inhibitors that target the inactive, GDP-bound form of RAS, which we refer to as RAS(OFF) inhibitors.

We are evaluating our RAS(ON) Inhibitors alone and in combination with other drugs and investigational drug candidates, particularly in pathway agents. We believe tailored RAS(ON) Inhibitors will be useful to serve the diverse landscape of RAS-addicted cancers optimally. We believe that in some cases, patients may experience maximal clinical benefit from the broad activity of our RAS(ON) multi-selective inhibitor, daraxonrasib (RMC-6236), if approved. In others, we believe treatment with a RAS(ON) mutant-selective inhibitor may be optimal. We further believe that in some cases, it could be beneficial to combine daraxonrasib with a RAS(ON) mutant-selective inhibitor, with daraxonrasib functioning as the backbone of these RAS(ON) Inhibitor doublets. In addition, we believe that in some cases, combination of our RAS(ON) Inhibitors with standard of care therapies, including immunotherapies, may be optimal.

We are advancing a deep pipeline of RAS(ON) Inhibitors, including daraxonrasib, elironrasib (RMC-6291), our G12C-selective inhibitor, and zoldonrasib (RMC-9805), our G12D-selective inhibitor. Together, we consider these three clinical-stage candidates as the first wave of RAS(ON) Inhibitors that we are advancing through clinical development. We also currently plan to advance RMC-5127 (G12V) into clinical development. In addition, we have other preclinical-stage RAS(ON) Inhibitor clinical development opportunities, including the RAS(ON) mutant-selective inhibitors RMC-0708 (Q61H) and RMC-8839 (G13C).

 

Daraxonrasib

Daraxonrasib (RMC-6236), our RAS(ON) multi-selective inhibitor, is designed as an oral, RAS-selective tri-complex inhibitor of multiple RAS(ON) variants containing cancer driver mutations at all three of the major RAS mutation hotspot positions, G12, G13, and Q61. Daraxonrasib inhibits all three major RAS isoforms, suppressing the mutant cancer driver and cooperating wild-type RAS proteins. In June 2025, daraxonrasib received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the FDA) for previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in patients with KRAS G12 mutations.

A global, randomized Phase 3 registrational trial of daraxonrasib in the second-line (2L) treatment of patients with metastatic PDAC, which we call the RASolute 302 study, is ongoing. In the RASolute 302 study, we are randomizing patients in a 1:1 ratio to receive either daraxonrasib at a dose of 300 mg daily or the investigator’s choice of chemotherapy. We currently expect to complete enrollment of the RASolute 302 study in 2025, to enable an expected clinical readout in 2026.

A global, randomized Phase 3 registrational trial comparing daraxonrasib versus docetaxel in patients with locally advanced or metastatic RAS-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have been treated with immunotherapy and platinum-containing chemotherapy, which we call the RASolve 301 study, is ongoing. In the RASolve 301 study, we are randomizing patients in a 1:1 ratio to receive either daraxonrasib or docetaxel.

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We currently expect to initiate a global, randomized Phase 3 daraxonrasib monotherapy study in patients with first-line (1L) metastatic PDAC in the second half of 2025 and to share the clinical combination data that informed this planned study in 2025.

We currently expect to initiate a global, randomized Phase 3 monotherapy study of daraxonrasib as adjuvant treatment for patients with resectable PDAC in the second half of 2025.

We currently expect to initiate a global, randomized Phase 3 study of daraxonrasib in patients with 1L RAS mutant NSCLC in 2026.

On December 2, 2024, we reported updated clinical safety, tolerability, and activity data for daraxonrasib from our first-in-human monotherapy study of daraxonrasib, which we refer to as the RMC-6236-001 study, in patients with previously treated RAS-mutant PDAC as of a data cutoff date of July 23, 2024. We believe these data showed that daraxonrasib was generally well tolerated and demonstrated encouraging antitumor activity that supported our initiation of the RASolute 302 study.

Also on December 2, 2024, we reported clinical safety and tolerability data as of a data cutoff date of September 30, 2024 for daraxonrasib from the RMC-6236-001 study in patients with NSCLC with tumors harboring RAS mutations. We also reported clinical activity data as of a data cutoff date of September 30, 2024 for daraxonrasib from the RMC-6236-001 study in patients with NSCLC with tumors harboring RAS G12X mutations who had received one or two prior lines of therapy which must have included prior immunotherapy and platinum chemotherapy administered either concurrently or sequentially, but not docetaxel, a study population matching the planned RASolve 301 enrollees. We believe these data showed that daraxonrasib was generally well tolerated and demonstrated encouraging antitumor activity that supported our initiation of the RASolve 301 study.

Based on our observations from the RMC-6236-001 study and our preclinical observations, we believe there is a potential opportunity to evaluate daraxonrasib combinations in earlier lines of therapy in multiple tumor types, and we are currently evaluating several exploratory combination regimens that include daraxonrasib in order to assess the potential for development in these settings. These combinations include daraxonrasib with pembrolizumab, daraxonrasib with elironrasib, daraxonrasib with zoldonrasib, daraxonrasib with standard of care chemotherapy agents, and daraxonrasib with TNG462, a PRMT5 inhibitor. We are also planning a combination study of daraxonrasib with ivonescimab, a PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody.

On December 2, 2024, we disclosed initial clinical safety and tolerability data as of a data cutoff date of October 28, 2024 from our clinical study of the combination of daraxonrasib with pembrolizumab in patients with previously treated NSCLC, which we believe showed the combination was generally well tolerated with limited hepatotoxicity. On May 7, 2025, we disclosed clinical safety, tolerability and antitumor activity data as of a data cutoff date of February 10, 2025 from this study for patients with 1L NSCLC, which we believe showed that the combination of daraxonrasib with pembrolizumab, with or without chemotherapy, demonstrated acceptable tolerability and encouraging preliminary antitumor activity for this doublet in these patients.

On December 2, 2024, we disclosed initial clinical safety, tolerability and activity data as of a data cutoff date of October 28, 2024 from our clinical study of the combination of daraxonrasib with elironrasib, which we believe showed the combination was generally well tolerated and provided initial proof-of-mechanism for a RAS(ON) inhibitor doublet in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) who were previously treated with KRAS(OFF) G12C inhibitors. On May 7, 2025, we disclosed clinical safety, tolerability and activity data as of a data cutoff date of February 10, 2025 from this study in patients with 2L or later NSCLC who were previously treated with KRAS(OFF) G12C inhibitors, which we believe showed acceptable tolerability and encouraging preliminary antitumor activity in these patients.

We believe these preliminary data observations collectively support continued development of RAS(ON) inhibitor doublets in a broad range of tumor types and earlier lines of therapy, including patients with 1L KRAS G12C NSCLC.

 

Elironrasib

Elironrasib (RMC-6291) is designed as a RAS(ON) oral tri-complex G12C-selective inhibitor. It is designed to exhibit subnanomolar potency for suppressing RAS pathway signaling and growth of RAS G12C-bearing cancer cells and is engineered to be highly selective for RAS G12C over wild-type RAS and other cellular targets. Elironrasib is designed to be differentiated from first-generation KRAS(OFF) G12C inhibitors, which sequester the KRAS(OFF) G12C form, by its mechanism of directly inhibiting the RAS(ON) G12C form. In July 2025, elironrasib received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the FDA for the treatment of adult patients with KRAS G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC who have received prior chemotherapy and immunotherapy but have not been previously treated with a KRAS G12C inhibitor.

On May 7, 2025, we reported clinical safety, tolerability and antitumor activity data from our first-in-human monotherapy study of elironrasib in patients with solid tumors harboring RAS G12C mutations, which we refer to as the RMC-6291-001 study, as of a data cutoff date of April 7, 2025, for patients with previously treated NSCLC. We believe these data showed acceptable tolerability and encouraging preliminary antitumor activity in these patients.

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We are evaluating several exploratory combination regimens that include elironrasib in order to assess the potential for development in earlier lines of therapy. These combinations include elironrasib with pembrolizumab and, as referenced in the “Daraxonrasib” section above, elironrasib with daraxonrasib. We are also planning a combination study of elironrasib with both daraxonrasib and pembrolizumab and a combination study of elironrasib with ivonescimab.

On December 2, 2024 and May 7, 2025, we disclosed clinical safety, tolerability and activity data for the combination of daraxonrasib with elironrasib, as referenced in the “Daraxonrasib” section above.

On December 2, 2024, we disclosed clinical safety and tolerability data in patients with previously treated NSCLC as of a data cutoff date of October 28, 2024 for the combination of elironrasib with pembrolizumab, which we believe showed the combination was generally well tolerated with limited hepatotoxicity. On May 7, 2025, we disclosed clinical safety, tolerability and antitumor activity data as of a data cutoff date of February 10, 2025 from this study for patients with 1L NSCLC, which we believe showed that the combination demonstrated acceptable tolerability and encouraging preliminary antitumor activity in these patients.

Zoldonrasib

Zoldonrasib (RMC-9805) is designed as a RAS(ON) oral tri-complex G12D-selective inhibitor. It is designed to exhibit low nanomolar potency for suppressing RAS pathway signaling and growth of RAS G12D-bearing cancer cells and is engineered to covalently inactivate RAS G12D irreversibly.

On October 25, 2024, we reported preliminary clinical safety, tolerability and activity data as of a data cutoff date of September 2, 2024 from our first-in-human monotherapy study of zoldonrasib in patients with previously treated solid tumors harboring KRAS G12D mutations, which we refer to as the RMC-9805-001 study. We believe these data showed acceptable tolerability and encouraging initial antitumor activity in patients with 2L or later PDAC. On May 7, 2025, we reported updated clinical safety and tolerability data from the RMC-9805-001 study at the candidate recommended Phase 2 dose of 1200 mg once daily (QD) as of a data cutoff date of December 2, 2024, which we believe showed acceptable tolerability. Also on May 7, 2025, we reported antitumor activity from the RMC-9805-001 study for patients with previously treated NSCLC at the 1200 mg QD dose as of a data cutoff date of December 2, 2024, which we believe showed encouraging initial antitumor activity in these patients.

We believe that these data collectively support our ongoing development of zoldonrasib as a single agent and in combination with other therapies. These combinations include zoldonrasib with standard of care chemotherapy agents, zoldonrasib with TNG462 and, as referenced in the “Daraxonrasib (RMC-6236)” section above, zoldonrasib with daraxonrasib. An exploratory combination study of zoldonrasib with daraxonrasib is ongoing. We are also planning a combination study of zoldonrasib with ivonescimab.

We currently expect to initiate one or more pivotal combination studies in 2026 that incorporate either zoldonrasib or elironrasib.

RMC-5127

RMC-5127 is designed as a RAS(ON) oral G12V-selective inhibitor. It is designed to exhibit picomolar potency for suppressing RAS pathway signaling and growth of RAS G12V-bearing cancer cells and is engineered for selective inhibition of RAS G12V over other RAS isoforms via non-covalent binding interactions. In April 2025, RMC-5127 was highlighted in a New Drugs on the Horizon presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting. We currently expect to advance RMC-5127 to a clinic-ready stage in 2025 and to initiate a first-in-human dose escalation clinical trial of RMC-5127 in 2026.

RMC-0708

RMC-0708 is designed as a RAS(ON) oral Q61H-selective inhibitor. It is designed to exhibit picomolar potency for suppressing RAS pathway signaling and growth of RAS Q61H-bearing cancer cells and is engineered for selective inhibition of RAS Q61H over other RAS isoforms via non-covalent binding interactions. Clinical development of RMC-0708 is subject to our continuing assessment of our portfolio priorities.

RMC-8839

RMC-8839 is designed as a RAS(ON) oral G13C-selective inhibitor. It is designed to exhibit picomolar potency for suppressing RAS pathway signaling and growth of KRAS G13C-bearing cancer cells and is engineered to covalently inactivate KRAS G13C for irreversible inhibition. Clinical development of RMC-8839 is subject to our continuing assessment of our portfolio priorities.

Other Development Opportunities

 

We have developed RAS companion inhibitors that are designed to suppress cooperating targets and pathways that sustain RAS-addicted cancers. These compounds include RMC-4630, which is designed as a potent and selective inhibitor of SHP2; RMC-5552, which is designed as a selective inhibitor of mTORC1 signaling in tumors; and RMC-5845, which is designed to target SOS1, a protein that plays a key role in converting RAS(OFF) to RAS(ON) in cells. Additional clinical development of our RAS companion inhibitors is subject to our continuing assessment of our portfolio priorities.

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We are also developing preclinical next-generation programs that are designed to sustain our innovation platform beyond our current development-stage assets.

 

Tango Collaboration

 

In November 2024, we entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Tango Therapeutics, Inc. (Tango) pursuant to which Tango plans to sponsor clinical trials investigating its compound TNG462, a PRMT5 inhibitor, with each of daraxonrasib and zoldonrasib (the Tango Collaboration Agreement). Under the Tango Collaboration Agreement, Tango is generally responsible for conducting the trials and all associated costs and expenses (other than the supply of our compounds), and we will supply our compounds. Each party will retain commercial rights to its respective compounds, and the agreement is mutually non-exclusive.

 

Summit Collaboration

 

In June 2025, we entered into a clinical collaboration with Summit Therapeutics, Inc. (Summit) pursuant to which we plan to evaluate the safety and efficacy in multiple solid tumor settings of our clinical-stage RAS(ON) inhibitors, including daraxonrasib, elironrasib and zoldonrasib, in combination with Summit’s ivonescimab, a PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody. Under the terms of the agreement, Summit will supply ivonescimab for clinical research and we will be the study sponsor. Each company will retain commercial rights to their respective compounds, and the agreement is mutually non-exclusive.

 

Aethon Collaboration

 

In March 2024, we entered into a collaboration agreement with Aethon Therapeutics, Inc. (Aethon) pursuant to which Aethon is conducting research related to use of novel bispecific antibodies to mount an immune attack directed at the cancer cells targeted by our RAS(ON) Inhibitors (the Aethon Collaboration Agreement). Pursuant to the Aethon Collaboration Agreement, we agreed to reimburse Aethon for preclinical activities, and we have an option to conduct any clinical or commercial development that may arise from the collaboration.

 

Break Through Cancer Collaboration

 

In November 2024, we entered into a collaboration with Break Through Cancer. The collaboration is designed to assess biopsy samples taken from patients receiving daraxonrasib in the investigational setting, with the goal of identifying biomarkers that could predict tumor response and how cancer cells adapt to the therapy. We believe this approach has the potential to provide important insights into the complex interplay of tumor biology and daraxonrasib response.

 

Iambic Collaboration

 

In May 2025, we entered into a collaboration with Iambic Therapeutics (Iambic), pursuant to which Iambic will use its artificial intelligence capabilities to generate customized models through training with our proprietary data. Our aim in this collaboration is to enhance our lead discovery and optimization processes directed against both current and new drug targets to enable continued development of our pipeline.

Financial Operations Overview

Research and development expenses

We substantially rely on third parties to conduct our preclinical studies, clinical trials and manufacturing. We estimate research and development expenses based on estimates of services performed, and we rely on third party contractors and vendors to provide us with timely and accurate estimates of expenses of services performed to assist us in these estimates. Research and development expenses consist primarily of costs incurred for the development of our product candidates and costs associated with identifying compounds through our discovery platform, which include:

external costs incurred under agreements with third-party contract organizations, investigative clinical trial sites that conduct research and development activities on our behalf and consultants;
costs related to the production of preclinical, clinical and pre-launch materials, including fees paid to contract manufacturers;
laboratory and vendor expenses related to the execution of discovery programs, preclinical and clinical trials;
employee-related expenses, which include salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation; and
facilities and other expenses, which include allocated expenses for rent and maintenance of facilities, depreciation and amortization expense, information technology and other supplies.

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We expense all research and development costs in the periods in which they are incurred. Costs for certain development activities are recognized based on an evaluation of the progress to completion of specific tasks using information and data provided to us by our vendors, collaborators and third-party service providers. Nonrefundable advance payments for goods or services to be received in future periods for use in research and development activities are deferred and recorded as prepaid assets. The prepaid amounts are then expensed as the related goods are delivered or as services are performed.

We expect our research and development expenses to increase for the foreseeable future as we continue to invest in discovering and developing product candidates and advancing product candidates into later stages of development, which may include conducting larger clinical trials. The process of conducting the necessary research and development and clinical trials to seek regulatory approval for product candidates is costly and time-consuming, and the successful development of our product candidates is highly uncertain. As a result, we are unable to determine the duration and completion costs of our research and development projects or clinical trials or if and to what extent we will generate revenue from the commercialization and sale of any of our product candidates, if approved.

General and administrative expenses

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related costs, consultants and professional services expenses, including legal, audit, accounting and human resources services, insurance, commercial preparation activities, allocated facilities and information technology costs, and other general operating expenses not otherwise classified as research and development expenses. Personnel-related costs consist of salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation. Facilities costs consist of rent, utilities and maintenance of facilities. We expect our general and administrative expenses to increase for the foreseeable future due to anticipated increases in operating and commercial preparation activities, which may result in increases in personnel-related costs associated with increased headcount, other administrative and professional services, and related overhead needed to support these efforts.

Interest income

Interest income primarily consists of interest earned on and accretion of our cash equivalents and marketable securities.

Interest and other income (expense), net

Interest and other income (expense), net, consists of non-cash interest expense associated with the sale of future royalties, and miscellaneous income and expenses unrelated to our core operations, including the impact of foreign currency exchange differences.

Results of operations

Comparison of the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

Increase/
(decrease)

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

Increase/
(decrease)

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

 

$

224,134

 

 

$

134,932

 

 

$

89,202

 

 

$

429,883

 

 

$

252,953

 

 

$

176,930

 

General and administrative

 

 

40,580

 

 

 

21,711

 

 

 

18,869

 

 

 

75,591

 

 

 

44,549

 

 

 

31,042

 

Total operating expenses

 

 

264,714

 

 

 

156,643

 

 

 

108,071

 

 

 

505,474

 

 

 

297,502

 

 

 

207,972

 

Loss from operations

 

 

(264,714

)

 

 

(156,643

)

 

 

(108,071

)

 

 

(505,474

)

 

 

(297,502

)

 

 

(207,972

)

Other income (expense), net:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

 

22,404

 

 

 

21,487

 

 

 

917

 

 

 

47,319

 

 

 

45,247

 

 

 

2,072

 

Interest and other income (expense), net

 

 

(899

)

 

 

16

 

 

 

(915

)

 

 

(909

)

 

 

(2,793

)

 

 

1,884

 

Change in fair value of warrant liabilities and contingent earn-out shares

 

 

(4,578

)

 

 

1,907

 

 

 

(6,485

)

 

 

(2,139

)

 

 

5,812

 

 

 

(7,951

)

Total other income, net

 

 

16,927

 

 

 

23,410

 

 

 

(6,483

)

 

 

44,271

 

 

 

48,266

 

 

 

(3,995

)

Loss before income taxes

 

 

(247,787

)

 

 

(133,233

)

 

 

(114,554

)

 

 

(461,203

)

 

 

(249,236

)

 

 

(211,967

)

Net loss

 

$

(247,787

)

 

$

(133,233

)

 

$

(114,554

)

 

$

(461,203

)

 

$

(249,236

)

 

$

(211,967

)

 

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Research and development expenses

Our research and development efforts during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 were focused on our clinical development programs and our preclinical programs. The following table sets forth the components of our research and development expenses for the periods indicated:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

Increase/
(decrease)

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

Increase/
(decrease)

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Third-party research and development expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clinical Development Programs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daraxonrasib (RMC-6236)

 

$

76,907

 

 

$

30,220

 

 

$

46,687

 

 

$

144,382

 

 

$

57,218

 

 

$

87,164

 

Zoldonrasib (RMC-9805)

 

 

23,515

 

 

 

14,715

 

 

 

8,800

 

 

 

47,983

 

 

 

26,675

 

 

 

21,308

 

Elironrasib (RMC-6291)

 

 

18,192

 

 

 

15,754

 

 

 

2,438

 

 

 

37,208

 

 

 

25,684

 

 

 

11,524

 

RAS companion inhibitors

 

 

67

 

 

 

1,601

 

 

 

(1,534

)

 

 

498

 

 

 

3,910

 

 

 

(3,412

)

Preclinical programs

 

 

25,457

 

 

 

19,367

 

 

 

6,090

 

 

 

46,810

 

 

 

37,439

 

 

 

9,371

 

Total third-party research and development expenses

 

 

144,138

 

 

 

81,657

 

 

 

62,481

 

 

 

276,881

 

 

 

150,926

 

 

 

125,955

 

Salaries and other employee-related expenses

 

 

41,170

 

 

 

26,328

 

 

 

14,842

 

 

 

78,364

 

 

 

51,490

 

 

 

26,874

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

19,126

 

 

 

12,775

 

 

 

6,351

 

 

 

35,505

 

 

 

23,020

 

 

 

12,485

 

Amortization of intangible assets

 

 

267

 

 

 

267

 

 

 

 

 

 

534

 

 

 

534

 

 

 

 

Other research and development costs

 

 

19,433

 

 

 

13,905

 

 

 

5,528

 

 

 

38,599

 

 

 

26,983

 

 

 

11,616

 

Total research and development expense

 

$

224,134

 

 

$

134,932

 

 

$

89,202

 

 

$

429,883

 

 

$

252,953

 

 

$

176,930

 

Research and development expenses increased by $89.2 million, or 66%, during the three months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. The increase in research and development expenses during the three months ended June 30, 2025 was primarily due to a $46.7 million increase in daraxonrasib expenses, primarily attributable to higher clinical trial expenses and manufacturing expenses for clinical and pre-commercial supply; a $14.8 million increase in salaries and other employee-related expenses due to increased headcount to support our research and development programs; a $8.8 million increase in zoldonrasib expenses, primarily attributable to higher clinical trial and clinical supply manufacturing expenses; a $6.4 million increase in stock-based compensation; a $6.1 million increase in preclinical research portfolio expenses; a $5.5 million increase in other research and development costs as a result of higher rent, utilities and information technology expenses associated with increased headcount; and a $2.4 million increase in elironrasib expenses, primarily attributable to higher clinical trial expenses; partially offset by a $1.5 million decrease in RAS companion inhibitor program costs.

Research and development expenses increased by $176.9 million, or 70%, during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. The increase in research and development expenses during the six months ended June 30, 2025 was primarily due to a $87.2 million increase in daraxonrasib expenses, primarily attributable to higher clinical trial expenses and manufacturing expenses for clinical and pre-commercial supply; a $26.9 million increase in salaries and other employee-related expenses due to increased headcount to support our research and development programs; a $21.3 million increase in zoldonrasib expenses, primarily attributable to higher clinical trial and clinical supply manufacturing expenses; a $12.5 million increase in stock-based compensation; a $11.6 million increase in other research and development costs as a result of higher rent, utilities and information technology expenses associated with increased headcount; a $11.5 million increase in elironrasib expenses, primarily attributable to higher clinical trial expenses; and a $9.4 million increase in preclinical research portfolio expenses; partially offset by a $3.4 million decrease in RAS companion inhibitor program costs.

General and administrative expenses

General and administrative expenses increased by $18.9 million, or 87%, during the three months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. The increase in general and administrative expenses during the three months ended June 30, 2025 was primarily due to a $6.5 million increase in salaries and other employee-related expenses due to increased headcount; a $5.3 million increase in commercial preparation expenses; a $2.7 million increase in stock-based compensation expense; a $1.7 million increase in facilities and other allocated expenses as a result of higher rent, utilities and information technology expenses associated with increased headcount; a $1.3 million increase in other administrative costs; and a $1.0 million increase in legal fees.

General and administrative expenses increased by $31.0 million, or 70%, during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. The increase in general and administrative expenses during the six months ended June 30, 2025 was primarily due to a $10.2 million increase in salaries and other employee-related expenses due to increased headcount; a $8.9 million increase in commercial preparation expenses; a $5.4 million increase in stock-based compensation expense; a $2.6 million increase in facilities and other allocated expenses as a result of higher rent, utilities and information technology expenses associated with increased headcount; a $1.4 million increase in recruiting fees; and a $1.3 million increase in legal fees.

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Interest income

Interest income increased by $0.9 million during the three months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 and increased by $2.1 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 due to a larger cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities balance.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

In November 2021, we entered into a sales agreement with TD Securities (USA) LLC (f/k/a Cowen and Company LLC) (TD Cowen), as amended in March 2024, to sell shares of our common stock, from time to time, with aggregate gross proceeds of up to $250 million, through an at-the-market equity offering program (the 2021 ATM). During the year ended December 31, 2024, we sold an aggregate of 1,294,050 shares of common stock under the 2021 ATM, resulting in gross proceeds of $60.8 million. In August 2024, we terminated the 2021 ATM and entered into a new sales agreement with TD Cowen to sell shares of our common stock, from time to time, with aggregate gross proceeds of up to $500 million, through an at-the-market equity offering program (the 2024 ATM). Through December 31, 2024, we have sold an aggregate of 1,147,893 shares of common stock under the 2024 ATM, resulting in gross proceeds of $60.4 million. During the six months ended June 30, 2025, we did not sell any shares of common stock in ATM offerings.

In November 2023, we completed the acquisition (the EQRx Acquisition) of EQRx, Inc. (EQRx) and issued 54,786,528 shares of common stock in the transaction in which we received $1.1 billion in net cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities after deducting EQRx wind-down and transition costs.

In December 2024, we issued and sold in an underwritten public offering (i) 16,576,088 shares of our common stock at a price to the public of $46.00 per share and (ii) pre-funded warrants to certain investors to purchase an aggregate of 2,173,917 shares of our common stock at a price of $45.9999 per pre-funded warrant. Each pre-funded warrant is exercisable from the date of issuance until fully exercised, subject to an ownership limitation. Total net proceeds from the offering were $823.0 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $38.8 million and expenses of $0.6 million.

In June 2025, we entered into a revenue participation right purchase and sale agreement (the Royalty Purchase Agreement) with Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV (Royalty Pharma). Pursuant to the Royalty Purchase Agreement, in exchange for an upfront payment of $250.0 million, Royalty Pharma purchased from us the right to receive royalty payments with respect to worldwide net product sales in a calendar year (Annual Net Sales) of (a) RMC-6236 Products and (b) RMC-9805 Products, if an RMC-9805 Product is approved for the same indication or subset of the same indication for which an RMC-6236 Product is approved. In addition, under the Royalty Purchase Agreement, Royalty Pharma has agreed to purchase up to an additional $1.0 billion in synthetic royalty funding divided into four additional tranches of up to $250.0 million. Each of these tranches is subject to the satisfaction of certain triggers, and three of these tranches, or $750.0 million in the aggregate, are available at our election, provided the relevant trigger events have occurred.

The Royalty Payments (if any) in respect of Annual Net Sales of RMC-6236 Products in the United States will end 15 years after the first commercial sale of an RMC-6236 Product in the United States. The Royalty Payments (if any) in respect of Annual Net Sales of RMC-9805 Products in the United States will end 15 years after the earlier to occur of (i) the date that an RMC-9805 Product is approved in an overlapping indication with an RMC-6236 Product in the United States and (ii) the first commercial sale of an RMC-6236 Product in the United States. The Royalty Payments (if any) in respect of Annual Net Sales of RMC-6236 Products outside the United States will end 15 years after the first commercial sale of an RMC-6236 Product in the European Union. The Royalty Payments (if any) in respect of Annual Net Sales of the RMC-9805 Products outside the United States will end 15 years after the earlier to occur of (i) the date that an RMC-9805 Product is approved in an overlapping indication with an RMC-6236 Product by the European Medicines Agency and (ii) the first commercial sale of an RMC-6236 Product in the European Union.

For additional information regarding the Royalty Purchase Agreement (including information regarding the trigger events related to particular tranches and the applicable tiered revenue payments), see “Note 8. Liability related to the sale of future royalties” in the “Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

In June 2025, we entered into a loan agreement (the Loan Agreement) with Wilmington Trust, National Association as administrative agent and Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC, as a lender. The Loan Agreement provides for a term loan facility of up to $750.0 million (the Term Loan Facility), consisting of three tranches, one of which must be drawn and the other two of which may be drawn at our option during certain commitment periods, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain terms and conditions.

The Term Loan Facility matures on the earlier of (i) the six-year anniversary of the date on which the first tranche is funded, and (ii) December 31, 2032. The term loans bear interest at a floating per annum rate equal to (a) the three-month term SOFR (subject to a 3.5% floor), plus (b) 5.75%, payable on a quarterly basis. We are required to pay an upfront fee equal to 2.0% of the term loans drawn on each funding date.

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For additional information regarding the Term Loan Facility (including information regarding the terms and conditions related to the three tranches of funding), see “Note 9. Term loan facility” in the “Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

To date, our operations have been financed primarily by our public offerings of common stock, the EQRx Acquisition, the Royalty Purchase Agreement, and $188.7 million received under the Sanofi Agreement from June 2018 through June 2023 for upfront payments and for research and development cost reimbursement.

As of June 30, 2025, we had $2.1 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.

As of June 30, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $2.2 billion. Our primary use of cash is to fund operating expenses, which consist primarily of research and development expenditures related to our product candidates and our pre-clinical research portfolio, and to a lesser extent, general and administrative and commercial preparation expenditures. We expect our expenses to continue to increase in connection with our ongoing activities, particularly as we continue to advance our product candidates into later stages of development, which includes conducting larger clinical trials, and increase our efforts to prepare to become a commercial-stage company.

We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities will enable us to fund our planned operations for at least 12 months following the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The timing and amount of our future funding requirements depends on many factors, including:

the scope, progress, results and costs of researching and developing our product candidates and programs, and of conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials;
the cost of manufacturing our current and future product candidates for clinical trials in preparation for marketing approval and in preparation for commercialization;
the timing of, and the costs involved in, obtaining marketing approvals for our product candidates if clinical trials are successful;
the cost of commercialization activities for our product candidates, whether alone or in collaboration, including marketing, sales and distribution costs if any product candidate is approved for sale;
our ability to establish and maintain strategic licenses or other arrangements and the financial terms of such agreements;
the costs involved in preparing, filing, prosecuting, maintaining, expanding, defending and enforcing patent claims, including litigation costs and the outcome of such litigation;
the timing, receipt and amount of sales of, profit share or royalties on, our product candidates, if approved;
the emergence of competing cancer therapies or other adverse market developments; and
any plans to acquire or in-license other programs or technologies.

We will require substantial additional funds for our development efforts for our current and future programs and to prepare for their potential commercialization. Other than the Royalty Purchase Agreement and the Term Loan Facility (which provide for additional funding subject to certain terms and conditions and trigger events), we do not have any committed external source of funds or other support for these activities, and we may finance our cash needs through additional funding under the Royalty Purchase Agreement, the Term Loan Facility and/or a combination of public or private equity offerings, debt financings, other credit or loan facilities, acquisitions, collaborations, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements and other marketing or distribution arrangements. In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans. If we need to raise additional capital to fund our operations, funding may not be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing when needed, we may have to (i) delay, limit, reduce the scope of or terminate one or more of our preclinical studies, clinical trials, or other research and development activities or eliminate one or more of our development programs altogether; or (ii) delay, limit, reduce the scope of or terminate our efforts to establish manufacturing and sales and marketing capabilities or other activities that may be necessary to commercialize any future approved products, or reduce our flexibility in developing or maintaining our sales and marketing strategy.

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Cash Flows

The following table summarizes our consolidated cash flows for the periods indicated:

 

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Net cash provided by (used in):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating activities

 

$

(416,192

)

 

$

(288,727

)

Investing activities

 

 

18,327

 

 

 

(140,022

)

Financing activities

 

 

257,457

 

 

 

8,314

 

Net change in cash and cash equivalents

 

$

(140,408

)

 

$

(420,435

)

 

Cash used in operating activities

During the six months ended June 30, 2025, cash used in operating activities of $416.2 million was attributable to a net loss of $461.2 million and a net change of $1.9 million in our operating assets and liabilities and $46.9 million in non-cash charges. The change in operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to a $12.4 million increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities, a $5.8 million increase in noncurrent liabilities and a $0.5 million increase in accounts payable, offset by a $16.5 million increase in other noncurrent assets, a $3.1 million decrease in operating lease liability and a $0.9 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets. The non-cash charges primarily consisted of stock-based compensation expense of $53.9 million, depreciation and amortization of $4.0 million, amortization of operating lease right-of-use asset of $3.5 million, a $2.1 million change in fair value of warrant liability and a $0.9 million non-cash interest expense on liability related to sale of future royalties, offset by net amortization of premium on marketable securities of $17.6 million.

During the six months ended June 30, 2024, cash used in operating activities of $288.7 million was attributable to a net loss of $249.2 million and a net change of $52.0 million in our operating assets and liabilities and $12.5 million in non-cash charges. The change in operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to a $33.0 million decrease in accounts payable; an $8.9 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets; a $6.6 million decrease in accrued expenses and other current liabilities; and an increase in other noncurrent assets by $4.0 million, offset by a $1.3 million decrease in accounts receivable. The non-cash charges primarily consisted of stock-based compensation expense of $36.0 million; depreciation and amortization of $3.7 million; a $2.8 million impairment of a long term asset acquired as part of the EQRx Acquisition; amortization of operating lease right-of-use asset of $1.8 million, offset by net amortization of premium on marketable securities of $26.1 million and a $5.8 million change in fair value of warrant liabilities and contingent earn-out shares.

Cash provided by (used in) investing activities

During the six months ended June 30, 2025, cash provided by investing activities of $18.3 million was comprised of maturities of marketable securities of $1.1 billion and sale of marketable securities of $6.4 million partially offset by purchases of marketable securities of $1.0 billion and purchases of property and equipment of $10.7 million.

During the six months ended June 30, 2024, cash used in investing activities of $140.0 million was comprised of maturities of marketable securities of $942.1 million partially offset by purchases of marketable securities of $1.1 billion and purchases of property and equipment of $5.6 million.

Cash provided by financing activities

During the six months ended June 30, 2025, cash provided by financing activities comprised primarily of $250.0 million in proceeds from the sale of future royalties, $4.6 million in proceeds from the issuance of common stock related to our 2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the ESPP) and $2.8 million in proceeds from the issuance of common stock upon the exercise of stock options.

During the six months ended June 30, 2024, cash provided by financing activities comprised of $5.2 million in proceeds from the issuance of common stock upon the exercise of stock options and $3.2 million in proceeds from the issuance of common stock related to our ESPP.

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Contractual Obligations and Commitments

We have contractual obligations related to our office and laboratory space lease in Redwood City, California, described in “Note 7. Commitments and contingencies” in the “Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

We enter into agreements in the ordinary course of business with contract research organizations for clinical trials, contract manufacturing organizations to provide clinical trial materials and with vendors for preclinical studies and other services and products for operating purposes which are generally cancelable at any time by us upon 30 to 90 days prior written notice.

In June 2025, the Company entered into the Royalty Purchase Agreement with Royalty Pharma. Pursuant to the Royalty Purchase Agreement, Royalty Pharma purchased from the Company the right to receive tiered royalty payments on worldwide net product sales of daraxonrasib and zoldonrasib, if zoldonrasib is approved for the same indication or subset of the same indication for which daraxonrasib is approved. For additional information regarding the Royalty Purchase Agreement, see “Note 8. Liability related to the sale of future royalties” in the “Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Indemnification Agreements

We enter into standard indemnification arrangements in the ordinary course of business. Pursuant to these arrangements, we indemnify, hold harmless and agree to reimburse the indemnified parties for losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified party, in connection with any trade secret, copyright, patent or other intellectual property infringement claim by any third party with respect to its technology. The term of these indemnification agreements is generally perpetual any time after the execution of the agreement. The maximum potential amount of future payments we could be required to make under these arrangements is not determinable. We have never incurred costs to defend lawsuits or settle claims related to these indemnification agreements. As a result, we believe the fair value of these agreements is minimal.

Critical Accounting Policies, Significant Judgments and Use of Estimates

Our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP). The preparation of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, as well as the reported expenses incurred during the reporting periods. Our estimates are based on our historical experience and on various other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

For a discussion of our critical accounting estimates, see Part II, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in the 2024 Form 10-K. There have been no material changes to these critical accounting estimates since the 2024 Form 10-K apart from the estimates for future royalties as described in “Note 8. Liability related to the sale of future royalties” in the “Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Recent accounting pronouncements

For a description of the expected impact of recent accounting pronouncements, see “Note 2. Summary of significant accounting policies” in the “Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

Interest rate risk

We are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. These risks primarily include interest rate sensitivities. The primary objective of our investment activities is to preserve capital to fund our operations. We also seek to maximize income from our investments without assuming significant risk. To achieve our objectives, we maintain a portfolio of investments in a variety of securities of high credit quality and short-term duration, invested in compliance with our policy.

We held cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $2.1 billion and $2.3 billion as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, which consisted of bank deposits, money market funds, U.S. government debt securities, U.S. government agency bonds, commercial paper and corporate bonds. Such interest-earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk; however, historical fluctuations in interest income have not been significant for us. Due to the short-term maturities of our cash equivalents and marketable securities, an immediate one percent change in interest rates would not have a material effect on the fair value of our cash equivalents and marketable securities.

Foreign currency risk

Our expenses are generally denominated in U.S. dollars. However, we have entered into a limited number of contracts with vendors for research and development services with payments denominated in foreign currencies, including the Euro, British Pound and Chinese Yuan. We are subject to foreign currency transaction gains or losses on our contracts denominated in foreign currencies. To date, foreign currency transaction gains and losses have not been material to our consolidated financial statements, and we have not had a formal hedging program with respect to foreign currency. A 10% increase or decrease in current exchange rates would not have a material effect on our financial results.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures.

Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures

Our management, with the participation of our President, Chief Executive Officer and Director and our Chief Financial Officer, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively, have evaluated our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) as of June 30, 2025. Based on the evaluation, our President, Chief Executive Officer and Director and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of June 30, 2025, our disclosure controls and procedures were, in design and operation, effective to the reasonable assurance level.

Changes in internal control over financial reporting

There were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Inherent limitation on the effectiveness over financial reporting

The effectiveness of any system of internal control over financial reporting, including ours, is subject to inherent limitations, including the exercise of judgment in designing, implementing, operating, and evaluating the controls and procedures, and the inability to eliminate misconduct completely. Accordingly, any system of internal control over financial reporting, including ours, no matter how well designed and operated, can only provide reasonable, not absolute assurances. In addition, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. We intend to continue to monitor and upgrade our internal controls as necessary or appropriate for our business, but there can be no assurance that such improvements will be sufficient to provide us with effective internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II—OTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, we may become involved in litigation or other legal proceedings. We are not currently a party to any litigation or legal proceedings that, in the opinion of our management, are likely to have a material adverse effect on our business. Regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

 

Summary of Material Risks Associated with Our Business

 

The principal risks and uncertainties affecting our business include the following:

We are a clinical-stage precision oncology company with a limited operating history and no products approved for commercial sale. We have incurred significant losses since our inception. We expect to incur losses for at least the next several years and may never achieve or maintain profitability, which, together with our limited operating history, makes it difficult to assess our future viability.
We have never generated revenue from product sales and may never be profitable.
We will require substantial additional financing to achieve our goals, which may not be available on acceptable terms, or at all. A failure to obtain this necessary capital when needed could force us to delay, limit, reduce or terminate our product development or commercialization efforts.
Our business is dependent on the successful development of our current and future product candidates. If we are unable to advance our current or future product candidates through clinical trials, obtain marketing approval and ultimately commercialize any of our product candidates, or we experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.
Preclinical development is uncertain. Our preclinical programs may experience delays or may never advance to clinical trials, which would adversely affect our ability to obtain regulatory approvals or commercialize our product candidates on a timely basis or at all, which would have an adverse effect on our business.
Historically, direct inhibition of any RAS protein has been challenging due to a lack of tractable, or “druggable,” binding pockets. Given this approach is unproven, it may not be successful.
The results of preclinical studies and early-stage clinical trials may not be predictive of future results.
If we encounter difficulties enrolling patients in our clinical trials, our clinical development activities could be delayed or otherwise be adversely affected.
We and our collaborators are currently developing and may in the future develop, our product candidates in combination with other therapies, which exposes us to additional risks.
We face significant competition, and if our competitors develop and market products that are more effective, safer or less expensive than our product candidates, our commercial opportunities will be negatively impacted.
If we and our collaborators are unable to obtain and maintain sufficient patent and other intellectual property protection for our product candidates and technology, our competitors could develop and commercialize products and technology similar or identical to ours, and we may not be able to compete effectively in our market or successfully commercialize any of our current or future product candidates.

 

The summary risk factors described above should be read together with the text of the full risk factors below in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including our condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes, as well as in other documents that we file with the SEC. The risks summarized above or described below are not the only risks that we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not precisely known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial may also materially and adversely affect our business, competitive position, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and growth prospects.

 

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below, as well as the other information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including our financial statements and the related notes and the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” before deciding whether to invest in our common stock. The occurrence of any of the events or developments described below or other risks we face could materially

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and adversely affect our business, competitive position, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and growth prospects. In such an event, the market price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial also may impair our business operations and the market price of our common stock.

Risks related to our limited operating history, financial position and need for additional capital

We are a clinical-stage precision oncology company with a limited operating history and no products approved for commercial sale. We have incurred significant losses since our inception. We expect to incur losses for at least the next several years and may never achieve or maintain profitability, which, together with our limited operating history, makes it difficult to assess our future viability.

Biopharmaceutical product development is a highly speculative undertaking and involves a substantial degree of risk. We are a clinical-stage precision oncology company, and we have only a limited operating history upon which you can evaluate our business and prospects. We currently have no products approved for commercial sale, have not generated any revenue from sales of products and have incurred losses in each year since our inception in October 2014. In addition, we have not yet demonstrated an ability to successfully overcome many of the risks and uncertainties frequently encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving fields, particularly in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Since our inception, we have incurred significant net losses. Our net losses were $600.1 million, $436.4 million and $248.7 million, for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. As of June 30, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $2.2 billion. We have funded our operations to date primarily with proceeds from the sale of common stock and preferred stock, the acquisition of EQRx, Inc. (EQRx), and the Royalty Purchase Agreement, as well as upfront payments and research and development cost reimbursement received under our collaboration agreement with Genzyme Corporation, an affiliate of Sanofi (the Sanofi Agreement). The Sanofi Agreement was terminated in June 2023, and Sanofi has no further reimbursement obligations following this termination. To date, we have devoted substantially all of our resources to organizing and staffing our company, business planning, raising capital, acquiring and discovering development programs, securing intellectual property rights and conducting discovery, research and development activities for our programs. We have not yet demonstrated our ability to successfully complete any clinical trials, including pivotal clinical trials, obtain marketing approvals, manufacture a commercial-scale product, or arrange for a third party to do so on our behalf, or conduct sales and marketing activities necessary for successful product commercialization. Our product candidates will require substantial additional development time and resources before we will be able to apply for or receive regulatory approvals and, if approved, begin generating revenue from product sales. We expect to continue to incur significant expenses and operating losses for the foreseeable future.

We have never generated revenue from product sales and may never be profitable.

Our ability to generate revenue from product sales and achieve profitability depends on our ability, alone or with our collaboration partners, to successfully complete the development of, and obtain the regulatory approvals necessary to commercialize, our development programs. We do not anticipate generating revenue from product sales for the next several years, if ever. Our ability to generate future revenue from product sales depends heavily on our, and any potential future collaborators’, success in:

completing clinical and preclinical development of product candidates and programs and identifying and developing new product candidates;
seeking and obtaining marketing approvals for our product candidates;
launching and commercializing product candidates for which we obtain marketing approval by establishing a sales force, marketing, medical affairs and distribution infrastructure or, alternatively, collaborating with a commercialization partner;
achieving adequate coverage and reimbursement by third-party payors for our product candidates;
establishing and maintaining supply and manufacturing relationships with third parties that can provide adequate, in both amount and quality, products and services to support clinical development and the market demand for our product candidates, if approved;
obtaining market acceptance of our product candidates as viable treatment options, if approved;
addressing any competing technological and market developments;
negotiating favorable terms in any collaboration, licensing or other arrangements into which we may enter and performing our obligations under such collaborations;
maintaining, protecting, enforcing and expanding our portfolio of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets and know-how; defending against third-party interference, infringement or other intellectual property-related claims, if any; and

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attracting, hiring and retaining qualified personnel.

Even if one or more of our product candidates is approved for commercial sale, we anticipate incurring significant costs associated with commercializing any approved product candidate, including prior to a potential launch of any approved product candidate. Our expenses could increase beyond expectations if we are required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the FDA), the European Medicines Agency (the EMA) or other regulatory agencies to perform clinical trials or studies in addition to those that we currently anticipate. Even if we are able to generate revenue from the sale of any approved products, we may not become profitable and may need to obtain additional funding to continue operations.

We will require substantial additional financing to achieve our goals, which may not be available on acceptable terms, or at all. A failure to obtain this necessary capital when needed could force us to delay, limit, reduce or terminate our product development or commercialization efforts.

Our operations have consumed substantial amounts of cash since our inception. Since our inception, we have invested a significant portion of our efforts and financial resources in research and development activities for our initial preclinical and clinical product candidates.

Preclinical studies, clinical trials and additional research and development activities will require substantial funds to complete. As of June 30, 2025, we had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $2.1 billion. Through June 30, 2025, we have raised $2.1 billion in underwritten public offerings, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses and have completed sales generating $246.4 million in gross proceeds pursuant to at-the-market equity offering programs. In June 2025, we received $250.0 million of gross proceeds under the Royalty Purchase Agreement, and subject to our meeting certain terms and conditions, including certain commercial milestones and other trigger events, additional capital may be available under the Loan Agreement and the Royalty Purchase Agreement (see Notes 8 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information). The EQRx Acquisition added $1.1 billion to our working capital in 2023. We expect to continue to spend substantial amounts to continue the preclinical and clinical development of our current and future programs and to prepare for their potential commercialization. If we are able to gain marketing approval for our product candidates, we will require significant additional amounts of cash in order to launch and commercialize our product candidates, if approved, to the extent that their launch and commercialization are not the responsibility of another collaborator that we may contract with in the future. In addition, other unanticipated costs may arise. Because the design and outcome of our current, planned and potential future clinical trials is highly uncertain, we cannot reasonably estimate the actual amounts necessary to successfully complete the development and commercialization of our product candidates.

The timing and amount of our future funding requirements depends on many factors, including:

the scope, progress, results and costs of researching and developing our product candidates and programs, and of conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials;
the cost of manufacturing our current and future product candidates for clinical trials in preparation for marketing approval and in preparation for commercialization;
the timing of, and the costs involved in, obtaining marketing approvals for our product candidates if clinical trials are successful;
the cost of commercialization activities for our product candidates, whether alone or in collaboration, including marketing, sales and distribution costs if any product candidate is approved for sale;
our ability to establish and maintain strategic licenses or other arrangements and the financial terms of such agreements;
the costs involved in preparing, filing, prosecuting, maintaining, expanding, defending and enforcing patent claims, including litigation costs and the outcome of such litigation;
the timing, receipt and amount of sales of, profit share or royalties on, our product candidates, if approved;
the emergence of competing cancer therapies or other adverse market developments; and
any plans to acquire or in-license other programs or technologies.

We will require substantial additional funds for our development efforts for our current and future programs and to prepare for their potential commercialization. Other than the Royalty Purchase Agreement and the Term Loan Facility (which provide for additional funding subject to certain terms and conditions and trigger events), we do not have any committed external source of funds or other support for these activities, and we may finance our cash needs through additional funding under the Royalty Purchase Agreement, the Term Loan Facility and/or a combination of public or private equity offerings, debt financings, other credit or loan facilities, acquisitions, collaborations, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements and other marketing or distribution arrangements.

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In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans.

Our ability to raise additional funds will depend on financial, economic and other factors, many of which are beyond our control.

If we need to raise additional capital to fund our operations, funding may not be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing when needed, we may have to:

delay, limit, reduce the scope of or terminate one or more of our preclinical studies, clinical trials, or other research and development activities or eliminate one or more of our development programs altogether; or
delay, limit, reduce the scope of or terminate our efforts to establish manufacturing and sales and marketing capabilities or other activities that may be necessary to commercialize any future approved products, or reduce our flexibility in developing or maintaining our sales and marketing strategy.

The Royalty Pharma Agreements place restrictions on our operating and financial flexibility. If we fail to comply with certain covenants in the Royalty Pharma Agreements, our financial condition and results of operations may be harmed.

In June 2025, we entered into the Royalty Purchase Agreement with Royalty Pharma and the Loan Agreement with an affiliate of Royalty Pharma and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the administrative agent (collectively, the Royalty Pharma Agreements). The Royalty Pharma Agreements contain various customary covenants that impose on us certain obligations with respect to payment, reporting, intellectual property, certain license agreements, and certain other actions, as well as indemnification obligations. Compliance with these covenants may limit our flexibility in operating our business and our ability to take actions that might otherwise be advantageous to us and our stockholders.

Under the Royalty Purchase Agreement, we have diligence obligations with respect to certain clinical trials, regulatory submissions and marketing approvals. There are also covenants that, among other things and subject to certain conditions, limit our ability to create or incur certain liens or dispose of certain assets related to the RMC-6236 Products. Pursuant to the Royalty Purchase Agreement, we have granted to Royalty Pharma a back-up security interest in certain assets to secure our obligations under the Royalty Purchase Agreement. If we are unable to comply with our obligations, Royalty Pharma may be entitled to take possession of such assets, which could significantly harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

The Loan Agreement also subjects us to various customary covenants that limit our ability to, among other activities (but subject to certain customary exceptions): (i) pay dividends, redeem stock or make other distributions or investments; (ii) incur additional debt; (iii) transfer or sell assets; (iv) create liens; (v) engage in certain transactions with affiliates; (vi) create restrictions on dividends or other payments by our subsidiaries; and (vii) merge, consolidate or effect other fundamental changes.

 

Any indebtedness we incur, including under the Loan Agreement, combined with our other financial obligations and contractual commitments could have significant adverse consequences, including:

requiring us to dedicate a portion of our cash resources to the payment of interest and principal, reducing money available to fund working capital, capital expenditures, product candidate development and other general corporate purposes;
increasing our vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and market conditions;
subjecting us to restrictive covenants that may reduce our ability to take certain corporate actions or obtain further debt or equity financings;
increasing our need to meet minimum net sales requirements when our future sales are uncertain;
limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the industry in which we compete; and
placing us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that have less debt or better debt servicing options.

We intend to satisfy our current and future debt service obligations with our then-existing cash and cash equivalents. However, we may not have sufficient funds, and may be unable to arrange for additional financing, to pay the amounts due under the Loan Agreement or any other debt instruments. Failure to satisfy our current and future debt obligations, including covenants to take or avoid specific actions, under the Loan Agreement could result in an event of default and, as a result, the lender(s) could accelerate all of the amounts due, and the lender(s) could seek to enforce their security interests in any collateral securing such indebtedness. The lender(s) under the Loan Agreement have rights senior to our stockholders in receiving proceeds from a liquidation. In addition, the covenants under the Loan Agreement, and the pledge of our assets (including our intellectual property) as collateral could limit our ability to obtain additional debt financing. If we raise any additional debt financing, the terms of such additional debt could further restrict our operating and financial flexibility.

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Our operating results may fluctuate significantly, which will make our future results difficult to predict and could cause our results to fall below expectations.

 

Our quarterly and annual operating results may fluctuate significantly, which will make it difficult for us to predict our future results. These fluctuations may occur due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control and may be difficult to predict, including:

the timing and cost of, and level of investment in, research, development and commercialization activities, which may change from time to time;
the timing and status of enrollment for our clinical trials;
the timing of regulatory approvals, if any, in the United States and internationally;
the timing of expanding our operational, financial and management systems and personnel, including personnel to support our clinical development, quality control, manufacturing and commercialization efforts and our operations as a public company;
the cost of manufacturing, as well as building out our supply chain, which may vary depending on the quantity of productions, the terms of any agreements we enter into with third-party suppliers and tariffs that may apply;
the timing and amount of any milestone, royalty or other payments due under any current or future collaboration or license agreements;
the timing and level of royalty payments under the Royalty Purchase Agreement;
coverage and reimbursement policies with respect to any future approved products, and potential future drugs that compete with our products;
the timing and costs to establish sales, marketing, medical affairs and distribution infrastructure to commercialize any products for which we may obtain marketing approval and intend to commercialize on our own or jointly with one or more collaborators;
expenditures that we may incur to acquire, develop or commercialize additional products and technologies;
the level of demand for any future approved products, which may vary significantly over time;
future accounting pronouncements or changes in our accounting policies; and
the timing and success or failure of preclinical studies and clinical trials for our product candidates or competing product candidates, or any other change in the competitive landscape of our industry, including consolidation among our competitors or collaboration partners.

The cumulative effects of these factors could result in large fluctuations and unpredictability in our quarterly and annual operating results. As a result, comparing our operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful. Investors should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance.

This variability and unpredictability could also result in our failing to meet the expectations of industry or financial analysts or investors for any period. If our revenue or operating results fall below the expectations of analysts or investors or below any forecasts we may provide to the market, or if the forecasts we provide to the market are below the expectations of analysts or investors, the price of our common stock could decline substantially. Such a stock price decline could occur even when we have met any previously publicly stated revenue or operating guidance we may provide.

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Risks related to product development and regulatory process

Our business is dependent on the successful development of our current and future product candidates. If we, alone or in collaboration, are unable to advance our current or future product candidates through clinical trials, obtain marketing approval and ultimately commercialize any of our product candidates, or we experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.

Our business is dependent on the successful development of our current and future product candidates. We are evaluating certain of our product candidates in exploratory clinical trials, both as monotherapy and in combination regimens, and currently plan to conduct pivotal clinical trials for our RAS(ON) inhibitors, including the RASolute 302 study and the RASolve 301 study with daraxonrasib, both of which we recently initiated. The remainder of our programs are in the preclinical stage, and the clinical development of these programs is subject to our continuing assessment of our portfolio priorities. The success of our business, including our ability to finance our company and generate revenue from products in the future, which we do not expect will occur for several years, if ever, will depend heavily on the successful development and eventual commercialization of our product candidates, which may never occur. Our current product candidates, and any of our future product candidates, will require additional preclinical and clinical development, management of clinical, preclinical and manufacturing activities, marketing approval in the United States and other markets, demonstrating effectiveness to pricing and reimbursement authorities, obtaining sufficient manufacturing supply for both clinical development and commercial production, building of a commercial organization, and substantial investment and significant marketing efforts before we generate any revenues from product sales.

We have not previously submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA or similar applications to a comparable foreign regulatory authority, for any product candidate. An NDA or other relevant regulatory application must include extensive preclinical and clinical data and supporting information to establish that the product candidate is safe and effective for each desired indication. The NDA or other relevant application must also include significant information regarding the CMC for the product. We cannot be certain that our current or future product candidates will be successful in clinical trials or receive regulatory approval. Further, even if they are successful in clinical trials, our product candidates or any future product candidates may not receive regulatory approval. If we do not receive regulatory approvals for current or future product candidates, we may not be able to continue our operations. Even if we successfully obtain regulatory approval to market a product candidate, our revenue will depend, in part, upon the size of the markets in the territories for which we or collaborators gain regulatory approval and have commercial rights, as well as the availability of competitive products, whether there is sufficient third-party reimbursement and adoption by physicians.

We plan to seek regulatory approval to commercialize our product candidates both in the United States and in select foreign countries, alone or in collaboration. While the scope of regulatory approval generally is similar in other countries, in order to obtain separate regulatory approval in other countries we must comply with numerous and varying regulatory requirements of such countries regarding safety and efficacy. Other countries also have their own regulations governing, among other things, clinical trials and commercial sales, as well as pricing and distribution of drugs, and we may be required to expend significant resources to obtain regulatory approval and to comply with ongoing regulations in these jurisdictions.

The success of our current and future product candidates will depend on several factors, including the following:

successful completion of clinical trials and preclinical studies;
sufficiency of our financial and other resources to complete the necessary preclinical studies and clinical trials;
allowance to proceed with clinical trials under Investigational New Drug applications (INDs) by the FDA or under comparable applications by comparable regulatory authorities for our planned clinical trials or future clinical trials;
successful enrollment and completion of clinical trials, particularly where competitors may also be recruiting patients;
data from our clinical programs that supports an acceptable risk-benefit profile of our product candidates in the intended populations;
receipt and maintenance of marketing approvals from applicable regulatory authorities;
establishing agreements with third-party manufacturers for clinical supply for our clinical trials and commercial manufacturing, if one of our product candidates is approved;
entry into collaborations to further the development of our product candidates;
obtaining and maintaining our portfolio of intellectual property rights, including patents, trade secrets and know-how;
enforcing and defending intellectual property rights and claims;
obtaining and maintaining regulatory exclusivity for our product candidates; successfully launching commercial sales of our product candidates, if approved;

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acceptance of the product candidate’s benefits and uses, if approved, by patients, the medical community and third-party payors;
the prevalence, duration and severity of potential side effects or other safety issues experienced with our product candidates prior to or following any approval;
effectively competing with other therapies; and
obtaining and maintaining healthcare coverage and adequate reimbursement from third-party payors.

If we or our collaborators are not successful with respect to one or more of these factors in a timely manner or at all, we could experience significant delays or an inability to successfully commercialize our current or future product candidates, which would materially harm our business. If we or our collaborators do not receive marketing approvals for any of our product candidates, we may not be able to continue our operations.

Preclinical development is uncertain. Our preclinical programs may experience delays or may never advance to clinical trials, which would adversely affect our ability to obtain regulatory approvals or commercialize our product candidates on a timely basis or at all, which would have an adverse effect on our business.

In order to obtain approval from the FDA or comparable foreign authorities to market a new small molecule product, we must demonstrate proof of safety and efficacy in humans. To meet these requirements, we will have to conduct adequate and well-controlled clinical trials. Before we can commence clinical trials for a product candidate, we must complete extensive preclinical studies that support our planned INDs in the United States. We cannot be certain of the timely completion or outcome of our preclinical studies and cannot predict if the FDA or foreign authorities will accept our proposed clinical programs or if the outcome of our preclinical studies will ultimately support further development of our programs. As a result, we cannot be sure that we will be able to submit INDs or similar applications on the timelines we expect, if at all, and we cannot be sure that submission of INDs or similar applications will result in the FDA or other regulatory authorities allowing additional clinical trials to begin.

Conducting preclinical testing is a lengthy, time-consuming and expensive process. The length of time may vary substantially according to the type, complexity and novelty of the program, and often can be several years or more per program. Delays associated with programs for which we are directly conducting preclinical studies may cause us to incur additional operating expenses. Moreover, we may be affected by delays or decisions to discontinue development associated with the studies of certain programs that are the responsibility of our current or potential future collaborators over which we have no control. The commencement and rate of completion of preclinical studies and clinical trials for a product candidate may be delayed by many factors, including, for example:

inability to generate sufficient preclinical or other in vivo or in vitro data to support the initiation of clinical studies;
delays in reaching a consensus with regulatory agencies on study design and obtaining regulatory allowance or authorization to commence clinical trials; and
obtaining sufficient quantities of starting materials, intermediate materials and our product candidates for use in preclinical studies and clinical trials from third-party suppliers on a timely basis.

 

Moreover, even if clinical trials do begin for our preclinical programs, our development efforts may not be successful, and clinical trials that we conduct or that third parties conduct on our behalf may not demonstrate sufficient safety or efficacy to obtain the requisite regulatory approvals for any of our product candidates. Even if we obtain positive results from preclinical studies or initial clinical trials, we may not achieve the same success in future trials.

 

Historically, direct inhibition of any RAS protein has been challenging due to a lack of tractable, or “druggable,” binding pockets. Given this approach is unproven, it may not be successful.

Historically, direct inhibition of any RAS protein has been challenging due to a lack of tractable, or “druggable,” binding pockets. Our tri-complex technology has enabled us to design potent, cell-active inhibitors of multiple mutant RAS(ON) proteins. We are not aware of any programs in clinical development that have successfully targeted any RAS(ON) protein. We cannot be certain that our approach will lead to the development of approvable or marketable products, alone or in combination with other therapies.

The results of preclinical studies and early-stage clinical trials may not be predictive of future results.

The results of preclinical studies may not be predictive of the results of clinical trials, and the results of early-stage clinical trials may not be predictive of the results of the later-stage clinical trials. Product candidates in later stages of clinical trials may fail to show the desired safety and efficacy despite having progressed through preclinical studies and initial clinical trials. For example, historically, targeted therapies have been susceptible to resistance mutations in cancer cells that facilitate escape from anti-tumor response.

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Should such resistance mutations arise in patients being treated with our product candidates, the clinical benefit associated with those candidates may be compromised.

 

We recently initiated the RASolute 302 study and the RASolve 301 study with daraxonrasib, and are currently planning additional registrational clinical trials for RMC-6236 and our other RAS(ON) inhibitors. These studies may not produce results that are consistent with expectations or that are predicted by our earlier clinical observations for these compounds. Our plans for these and future planned registrational trials are, and will be based on our observations from the results of early-stage clinical trials using the same product candidates. Based on data from early-stage clinical trials, we will select, subject to regulatory feedback, the proposed indication, line of therapy, study design and dose and dose schedule for our registrational studies. However, these registrational studies, if initiated, may not be successful and may not produce results that are consistent with our expectations, based on our earlier clinical observations, including because other trial designs may have greater likelihood of development success.

There can be no assurance that any of our current or future clinical trials will ultimately be successful or support further clinical development of any of our product candidates. There is a high failure rate for product candidates proceeding through clinical trials. A number of companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries have suffered significant setbacks in clinical development even after achieving promising results in earlier studies. Even if clinical trials with our product candidates are completed, the results may not be sufficient to obtain regulatory approval of any products.

If we encounter difficulties enrolling patients in our clinical trials, our clinical development activities could be delayed or otherwise adversely affected.

The timely completion of clinical trials in accordance with their protocols depends, among other things, on the ability to enroll a sufficient number of patients who remain in the trial until its conclusion. We may not be able to initiate or continue clinical trials for our product candidates if we are unable to locate and enroll a sufficient number of eligible patients to participate in these trials to such trial’s conclusion as required by the FDA or other comparable regulatory authorities. We or our future collaborators may experience difficulties in patient enrollment in our clinical trials for a variety of reasons. The enrollment of patients depends on many factors, including:

the patient eligibility criteria defined in the protocol;
our ability to enroll a sufficient number of patients with mutations in the signaling pathways that our therapies are designed to target;
the size of the patient population required for analysis of the trial’s primary endpoints;
the proximity of patients to study sites;
the design of the trial;
the ability to recruit clinical trial investigators with the appropriate competencies and experience;
clinicians’ and patients’ perceptions as to the potential advantages of our product candidate being studied in relation to other available therapies, including any new products that may be approved for the indications we are investigating;
the ability to obtain and maintain patient consents for participation in our clinical trials and, where appropriate, biopsies for future patient enrichment efforts;
the risk that patients enrolled in clinical trials will not remain on the trial through the completion of evaluation; and
the ability of clinical trial investigators to enroll patients in cases of outbreak of disease, geopolitical or other conflicts or natural disasters, including as a result of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine or escalation of conflicts in the Middle East.

In addition, our clinical trials will compete with approved therapies, including sotorasib and adagrasib, as well as other clinical trials for product candidates that are in the same therapeutic areas (and that seek to evaluate patients with cancer cells having the same mutations), particularly for patients having KRAS G12C or KRAS G12D mutations, as our current and potential future product candidates. This competition and competition with approved therapies will reduce the number and types of patients available for clinical trials involving our product candidates, because some patients who might have opted to enroll in our trials may instead opt to pursue a treatment regimen using an approved therapy or enroll in a trial conducted by one of our competitors. Because the number of qualified clinical investigators is limited, we conduct some of our clinical trials at the same clinical trial sites that some of our competitors use, which will reduce the number of patients who are available for our clinical trials at such sites. Moreover, because our current and potential future product candidates may represent a departure from more commonly used methods for cancer treatment, potential patients and their doctors may be inclined to use conventional therapies, such as chemotherapy, rather than enroll patients in our ongoing or any future clinical trials.

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Delays in patient enrollment may result in increased costs or may affect the timing or outcome of clinical trials, which could prevent completion of these trials and adversely affect our ability to advance the development of our product candidates.

 

We and our collaborators are currently developing, and may in the future develop, our product candidates in combination with other therapies, which exposes us to additional risks.

 

Some of our or our collaborators’ development efforts involve combinations of our product candidates with therapeutics that have been approved for marketing by the FDA. For example, the development of our RAS(ON) inhibitors includes combinations with existing therapies, including chemotherapy agents, an anti-EGFR agent and a PD-1 inhibitor. In the future our product candidates may be developed in combination with one or more additional approved therapies. Even if any of our product candidates were to receive marketing approval or be commercialized for use in combination with other existing therapies, we would continue to be subject to the risks that the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside of the United States could revoke approval of the other therapy used in combination with our product candidate, or that safety, efficacy, manufacturing or supply issues could arise with these other therapies. Combination therapies are commonly used for the treatment of cancer, and we would be subject to similar risks if we develop any of our product candidates for use in combination with other drugs or for indications other than cancer. This could result in our own products being removed from the market or being less successful commercially. In addition, developing combination therapies using approved therapeutics, which we are doing and may continue to do for our product candidates, exposes us to additional clinical risks, such as the requirement that we demonstrate the safety and efficacy of each active component of any combination regimen we may develop, including any incremental benefits associated with our product candidates, which may prove challenging.

 

We or our collaborators may also evaluate our current or future product candidates in combination with one or more other cancer therapies that have not yet been approved for marketing by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside of the United States or with approved cancer therapies at an unapproved dose and/or schedule, and/or with approved cancer therapies in unapproved indications. For example, the development of our RAS(ON) inhibitors includes combinations with other product candidates in our portfolio, including other RAS(ON) inhibitors. We will not be able to market and sell any of our product candidates in combination with any such cancer therapies, outside existing approved labels that do not ultimately obtain marketing approval.

 

If the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside of the United States do not approve the other therapies we choose to evaluate in combination with any of our product candidates or revoke their approval of these other therapies, or if safety, efficacy, manufacturing or supply issues arise with these other therapies, we may be unable to obtain approval of or market or our product candidates.

We face significant competition, and if our competitors develop and market products that are more effective, safer or less expensive than our product candidates, our commercial opportunities will be negatively impacted.

 

The life sciences industry is highly competitive. We are currently developing therapies that will compete, if approved, with other products and therapies that currently exist or are being developed. Products we may develop in the future are also likely to face competition from other products and therapies, some of which we may not currently be aware of. We have competitors both in the United States and internationally, including major multinational pharmaceutical companies, established biotechnology companies, specialty pharmaceutical companies, universities and other research institutions. Many of our competitors have significantly greater financial, manufacturing, marketing, product development, technical and human resources than we do. Large pharmaceutical companies, in particular, have extensive experience in clinical testing, obtaining marketing approvals, recruiting patients and manufacturing pharmaceutical products. These companies also have significantly greater research and marketing capabilities than we do and may also have products that have been approved or are in late stages of development, and collaborative arrangements in our target markets with leading companies and research institutions. Established pharmaceutical companies may also invest heavily to accelerate discovery and development of novel compounds or to in-license novel compounds that could make our product candidates obsolete. Mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries may result in even more resources being concentrated among a smaller number of our competitors. As a result of all of these factors, our competitors may succeed in obtaining patent protection and/or marketing approval or discovering, developing and commercializing products in our field before we do.

 

There are a number of companies developing or marketing treatments for cancer, including many major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. These treatments consist of small molecule drug products, biologics, cell-based therapies and traditional chemotherapy. Smaller and other early-stage companies may also prove to be significant competitors. In addition, academic research departments and public and private research institutions may be conducting research on compounds that could prove to be competitive.

 

There are several programs in clinical development targeting KRAS G12C, including programs directed at KRAS(OFF) G12C being conducted by Allist Pharmaceuticals (licensed from Jacobio Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd.), Amgen Inc., Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Chengdu Huajian Future Technology Co. Ltd., D3 BIO, Inc., Eli Lilly, GenEros Biopharma Ltd., Genhouse Bio Co.

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Ltd., Guangzhou BeBetter Medicine Technology Co., Ltd., HUYA Bioscience (Jemincare), Innovent Biologics, Inc. (licensed from Genfleet Therapeutics), InventisBio, Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Sharpe & Dohme LLC, Roche, Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd., Shanghai YingLi Pharmaceutical, Shouyao Holdings (Beijing) Co. Ltd. and Suzhou Zelgen Biopharmaceuticals., BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. and Frontier Medicines each have a dual KRAS(ON/OFF) G12C program in the clinic. There are also several clinical programs directed at KRAS G12D, including those being conducted by Allist Pharmaceuticals, Arvinas, Astellas Pharma Inc., AstraZeneca, Chengdu Hyperway, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Genfleet Therapeutics, Incyte Corporation, Jiangsu Hansoh, Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Company Ltd, Jiangxi Kerui, PAQ Therapeutics, Qilu Pharmaceutical, Quanta Therapeutics, Ranok Therapeutics, Tyligand Bioscience and Verastem Oncology. Zelgen Biopharmaceuticals. In addition, there are a few clinical programs directed at KRAS G12V, including those being conducted by Affini-T Therapeutics, Anocca, ImmuXell, Neowise Biotechnology, and Yingkai Saiwei (Beijing) Biotechnology. Other clinical programs directed at mutant RAS, including pan-RAS or pan-KRAS inhibitors and Plk1 inhibitors, are being conducted, including those by Alaunos Therapeutics, Inc., Alterome, BeOne Medicines (previously known as BeiGene), Boehringer Ingelheim, BridgeBio, Cardiff Oncology, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly, Elicio Therapeutics, Erasca, Gritstone bio, Inc., Jacobio, Moderna, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., Quanta Therapeutics, RasCal Therapeutics, Shanghai YingLi Pharmaceutical, Silenseed Ltd., Silexion Therapeutics and Circio Holding (previously known as Targovax ASA). There are several programs in clinical development targeting SHP2, including those being conducted by Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Etern BioPharma (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Genhouse Bio Co. Ltd., Hutchmed Ltd., HUYA Bioscience, InnoCare Pharma Ltd., Jacobio Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., Nanjing Sanhome Pharmaceutical, Navire Pharma, Inc., a BridgeBio company (licensed to Bristol Myers Squibb Company), Novartis AG, Relay Therapeutics, Inc. (licensed to Roche), Shanghai Gopherwood Biotech Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Ringene Biopharma Co., Ltd. The above list includes corporate competitors that we are currently aware of and that are currently conducting clinical trials or marketing in geographies where we currently anticipate conducting clinical trials for our product candidates. However, companies operating in other geographies, smaller companies and companies with earlier stage programs may also prove to be significant competitors. In addition, academic research departments and public and private research institutions may be conducting research on compounds that could prove to be competitive.

 

Our commercial opportunity could be reduced or eliminated if our competitors develop and commercialize products that are safer, more effective, have fewer or less severe effects, are more convenient, have a broader label, are marketed more effectively, are reimbursed or are less expensive than any products that we may develop. Our competitors also may obtain FDA, EMA or other marketing approval for their products more rapidly than we may obtain approval for ours, which could result in our competitors establishing a strong market position before we are able to enter the market. Even if our product candidates achieve marketing approval, they may be priced at a significant premium over competitive products if any have been approved by then, resulting in reduced competitiveness.

 

Third parties compete with us in recruiting and retaining qualified scientific and management personnel, establishing clinical trial sites and patient registration for clinical trials, as well as in acquiring technologies complementary to, or necessary for, our programs. In addition, the biopharmaceutical industry is characterized by rapid technological change. If we fail to stay at the forefront of technological change, we may be unable to compete effectively. Technological advances or products developed by our competitors may render our product candidates obsolete, less competitive or not economical.

 

Some of our programs focus on the discovery and development of “Beyond Rule of 5” small molecules. Such molecules can be associated with longer development timelines and greater costs compared to traditional small molecule drugs. Our “Beyond Rule of 5” product candidates may take longer to develop and/or manufacture relative to traditional small molecules, and we may not be able to formulate “Beyond Rule of 5” candidates for certain routes of administration.

 

We enlist various technologies and capabilities that give us chemical access to challenging sites on target proteins that generally are not accessible using conventional small molecule drug discovery approaches. For each target, we consider the specific structural, physico-chemical, functional and dynamic properties of the target and deploy the approach or approaches that appear most likely to yield viable development candidates. The “Rule of 5” is a set of criteria used in pharmaceutical drug development to determine whether chemical compounds have certain physico-chemical properties that make them likely to be orally active drugs in humans. In some instances, the compounds we discover and develop are traditional small molecules (i.e., less than 500 daltons) with properties that generally satisfy conventional pharmaceutical “Rule of 5” criteria, while in other cases, they are larger (i.e., more than 500 daltons) “Beyond Rule of 5” (BRo5) compounds that do not satisfy these criteria. For example, our mTORC1 program and our RAS(ON) inhibitors each include pursuit of BRo5 compounds.

 

BRo5 compounds have been successfully pursued by many pharmaceutical companies. Examples of BRo5 compounds include natural products and semi-synthetic derivatives, peptidomimetics, macrocycles and degraders. However, larger molecular weight small molecules often cannot be formulated into orally absorbed drugs and also often face solubility, potency, bioavailability and stability challenges, among others. In addition, many of the commonly used predictive and other drug development tools are designed specifically for traditional “Rule of 5” small molecule drugs rather than BRo5 molecules, contributing to the difficulty and uncertainty of development of BRo5 compounds.

 

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Due to their size and complexity, drug development of our BRo5 compounds may be slower and/or more expensive than drug development of traditional “Rule of 5” compounds, resulting in program delays, increased costs or failure to obtain regulatory approval in a commercially reasonable timeframe, if at all. Our competitors developing traditional small molecules in areas where we are developing BRo5 compounds could obtain regulatory approval and reach the market before we do. Even if we succeed in generating an approved drug from a BRo5 compound, it may be less convenient to administer, have higher grade and/or more frequent side effects or be more costly to manufacture and formulate than competing products on the market. The discovery and development of BRo5 small molecules may pose risks to us such as:

BRo5 small molecules may present difficult synthetic chemistry and manufacturing challenges, including with any scale-up of our product candidates in sufficient quality and quantity;
BRo5 small molecules may be challenging to purify, including with any scale-up of our product candidates in sufficient quality and quantity;
BRo5 small molecules may present solubility challenges;
BRo5 small molecules may present oral absorption challenges due to low passive permeability, and may not achieve acceptable oral bioavailability for development and may result in poor pharmaceutical properties for formulation development;
BRo5 small molecules may present cell permeability challenges, especially with regards to lipophilicity, hydrogen bond donor and rotatable bond count, and high topological polar surface area;
BRo5 small molecules may have a propensity to be substrates for efflux proteins such as the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) binding cassette (ABC) transporter protein family, including multidrug resistance protein 1. Cancer cells may overexpress these transporter proteins causing an increase in expulsion of BRo5 small molecules from the cell. For example, as the site of action of our RAS(ON) inhibitors is inside the cell, expulsion by these transporter proteins may decrease the effective concentration in the cell sufficiently to reduce target inhibition and thereby render a RAS-dependent tumor less susceptible to the inhibitory activity of a BRo5 small molecule, such as our product candidates;
BRo5 small molecules may present central nervous system (CNS) penetration challenges due to low passive permeability and/or interaction with efflux transporters at the blood-brain barrier and this could limit sensitivity of CNS tumors to BRo5 small molecules;
BRo5 small molecules may present formulation vehicle challenges for administration, such as intravenous and subcutaneous administration, due to aspects such as solubility and hydrophobicity;
BRo5 small molecules may present stability and shelf-life limitations due to the incorporation of labile functionality in their scaffolds, including for example in the development of RMC-5552 which currently requires a cold chain storage of zero degrees Celsius; and
BRo5 small molecules may present off-target toxicities due to physico-chemical properties such as lipophilicity, which is the ability to dissolve fats, oils and lipids, the presence of off-target pharmacophores in the molecule that can interact with other cellular proteins, or other characteristics that have not been fully characterized within a novel chemical scaffold or platform.

These and other risks related to our research and development of BRo5 small molecules may result in delays in development, an increase in development costs and/or the failure to develop any BRo5 small molecule to approval. As a result, our competitors may develop products more rapidly and cost effectively than we do if they are able to target the same indications as our product candidates using conventional small molecules. In particular, competitors may develop and commercialize products that compete with our RAS(ON) inhibitor product candidates.

The regulatory approval processes of the FDA, the EMA and comparable foreign authorities are lengthy, time-consuming and inherently unpredictable, and if we or our potential future collaboration partners are ultimately unable to obtain regulatory approval for our product candidates, our business will be substantially harmed.

The time required to obtain approval by the FDA, the EMA and comparable foreign authorities is unpredictable but typically takes many years following the commencement of clinical trials and depends upon numerous factors, including the substantial discretion of the regulatory authorities. In addition, approval policies, regulations, or the type and amount of clinical data necessary to gain approval may change during the course of a product candidate’s clinical development and may vary among jurisdictions. We have not obtained regulatory approval for any product candidate, and it is possible that none of our current or future product candidates will ever obtain regulatory approval.

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Our current and future product candidates could fail to receive regulatory approval for many reasons, including the following:

the FDA, the EMA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may disagree with the design or implementation of our clinical trials;
we may be unable to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA, the EMA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities that a product candidate is safe or effective for its proposed indication or indications;
the results of clinical trials may not meet the level of statistical significance required by the FDA, the EMA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities for approval;
we may be unable to demonstrate that a product candidate’s clinical and other benefits outweigh its safety risks;
the FDA, the EMA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may disagree with our interpretation of data from clinical trials or preclinical studies;
the data collected from clinical trials of our product candidates may not be sufficient to support the submission of an NDA to the FDA or other submission or to obtain regulatory approval in the United States, the European Union (EU) or elsewhere;
the FDA, the EMA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may find deficiencies with or fail to approve the manufacturing processes or facilities of third-party manufacturers with which we contract for clinical and commercial supplies; and
the approval policies or regulations of the FDA, the EMA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may significantly change in a manner rendering our clinical data insufficient for approval.

This lengthy approval process as well as the unpredictability of clinical trial results may result in our or our future collaborators’ failure to obtain regulatory approval to market any of our product candidates. The FDA, the EMA and other comparable foreign authorities have substantial discretion in the approval process, and determining when or whether regulatory approval will be obtained for any product candidate that we develop. Even if we believe the data collected from future clinical trials of our product candidates are promising, this data may not be sufficient to support approval by the FDA, the EMA or any other regulatory authority.

In addition, even if we or our future collaborators were to obtain approval, regulatory authorities may approve any of our product candidates for fewer or more limited indications than we have sought, may not approve the prices we may desire to charge for our products, may grant approvals contingent on the performance of costly post-marketing clinical trials, or may approve a product candidate with a label that does not include the labeling claims necessary or desirable for the successful commercialization of that product candidate. Any of the foregoing scenarios could materially harm the prospects for our product candidates.

Further, we have not previously submitted an NDA to the FDA, or a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the EMA or any other regulatory authority. We cannot be certain that any of our programs will be successful in clinical trials or receive regulatory approval. Further, our product candidates may not receive regulatory approval even if they are successful in clinical trials. If we do not receive regulatory approvals for our product candidates, we may not be able to continue our operations.

Clinical product development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with uncertain outcomes. We or our potential future collaboration partners may experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our current and future product candidates.

To obtain the requisite regulatory approvals to commercialize any of our product candidates, we must demonstrate through extensive preclinical studies and clinical trials that our products are safe or effective in humans. Clinical testing is expensive and can take many years to complete, and its outcome is inherently uncertain. Failure can occur at any time during the clinical trial process, and future clinical trials involving our product candidates may not be successful.

We may experience delays in completing our clinical trials or preclinical studies and initiating or completing additional clinical trials. We may also experience numerous unforeseen events during our clinical trials that could delay or prevent our ability to complete these clinical trials on the timelines we expect or otherwise delay or prevent our ability to receive marketing approval or commercialize our product candidates, including:

actions by regulators, institutional review boards (IRBs) or ethics committees, which may cause us or our investigators to not commence or conduct a clinical trial at a prospective trial site or at all sites and cause us to pause or stop an in-process clinical trial;
delays in reaching, or failing to reach, agreement on acceptable terms with prospective trial sites and prospective contract research organizations (CROs); delays in identifying, recruiting and training suitable clinical investigators;

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the number of patients required for clinical trials being larger than we anticipate;
difficulty enrolling a sufficient number of patients for our clinical trials or enrollment in our trials being slower than we anticipate, including in both cases because appropriate patients must have the relevant mutations in the signaling pathways our therapies are designed to target;
participants dropping out of our clinical trials or failing to return for post-treatment follow-up at a higher rate than we anticipate;
patients or investigators not complying with our clinical trial protocols, particularly with respect to intermittent dosing, which we are evaluating for our product candidates;
subjects experiencing severe or serious unexpected drug-related adverse effects;
occurrence of serious adverse events in trials of the same class of agents conducted by other companies that could be considered similar to our product candidates;
selection of clinical endpoints that require prolonged periods of clinical observation or extended analysis of the resulting data;
our third-party contractors may fail to comply with regulatory requirements or meet their contractual obligations to us in a timely manner, or at all, or may deviate from the clinical trial protocol or drop out of the trial, which may require that we add new clinical trial sites or investigators;
the supply or quality of materials for our product candidates or other materials necessary to conduct clinical trials may be insufficient or inadequate;
lack of adequate funding to continue a clinical trial, or costs being greater than we anticipate; and
our collaborators may delay the development process by waiting to take action or focusing on other priorities.

We could encounter delays if a clinical trial is suspended or terminated by us, by the IRBs or ethics committees of the institutions in which any such trial is being conducted, by the data safety monitoring board for such trial or by the FDA or other regulatory authorities. Such authorities may impose such a suspension or termination due to a number of factors, including failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols, inspection of the clinical trial operations or trial site by the FDA or other regulatory authorities resulting in the imposition of a clinical hold, unforeseen safety issues or adverse side effects, failure to demonstrate a benefit from using a product, changes in government regulations or administrative actions or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial. Many of the factors that cause, or lead to, a delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the denial of marketing approval of our product candidates.

 

Further, conducting clinical trials in foreign countries, as we or our collaborators may do for our current or future product candidates, presents additional risks that may delay completion of our clinical trials. These risks include the failure of enrolled subjects in foreign countries to adhere to clinical protocols as a result of differences in healthcare services or cultural customs, managing additional administrative burdens associated with foreign regulatory schemes, and political and economic risks, including war, relevant to these foreign countries.

 

Principal investigators for our clinical trials may serve as scientific advisors or consultants to us from time to time and receive compensation in connection with their services. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to report some of these relationships to the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities. The FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authority may conclude that a financial relationship between us and a principal investigator has created a conflict of interest or otherwise affected interpretation of the study. The FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authority may therefore question the integrity of the data generated at the applicable clinical trial site and the utility of the clinical trial itself may be jeopardized. This could result in a delay in approval, or rejection, of marketing applications by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authority, as the case may be, for our product candidates and may ultimately lead to the denial of regulatory approval of one or more of our product candidates.

If we or our collaborators experience delays in the completion of, or termination of, any clinical trial of our product candidates, the commercial prospects of our product candidates will be harmed, and our ability to generate revenues from any of these product candidates will be delayed. In addition, any delays in completing clinical trials for our product candidates will increase our costs, slow down our product candidate development and approval process and jeopardize our ability to commence product sales and generate revenues. Clinical trial delays could also allow our competitors to bring products to market before we do or shorten any periods during which we have the exclusive right to commercialize our product candidates and impair our ability to commercialize our product candidates.

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In addition, the FDA’s and other regulatory authorities’ policies with respect to clinical trials may change, and additional government regulations may be enacted. For instance, the regulatory landscape related to clinical trials in the EU recently evolved. The EU Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR), which was adopted in April 2014 and repealed the EU Clinical Trials Directive, became applicable on January 31, 2022, with a three-year transition period. The CTR provides for a centralized process and only requires the submission of a single application for multi-center trials. The CTR allows sponsors to make a single submission to both the competent authority and an ethics committee in each member state, leading to a single decision per member state. The assessment procedure of the clinical trial application (CTA) has been harmonized as well, including a joint assessment by all member states concerned, and a separate assessment by each member state with respect to specific requirements related to its own territory, including ethics rules. Each member state’s decision is communicated to the sponsor via the centralized EU portal. Once the CTA is approved, clinical study development may proceed. As of February 1, 2025, all clinical trials (including those which are ongoing) in the EU are subject to the provisions of the CTR. Compliance with the CTR requirements by us and our third-party service providers, such as our CROs, may impact our development plans.

 

The United Kingdom’s (UK) regulatory framework in relation to clinical trials is derived from pre-existing EU legislation (as implemented into UK law, through secondary legislation). Whether the regulation of clinical trials in the UK will mirror the (EU) CTR in the long term is not yet certain; however, in December 2024, the UK government introduced a legislative proposal, the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Amendment Regulations 2024, that, if implemented, will replace the current regulatory framework for clinical trials in the UK. The legislative proposal aims to provide a more flexible regime to make it easier to conduct clinical trials in the UK, increase the transparency of clinical trials conducted in the UK and make clinical trials more patient centered. The UK government has provided the legislative proposal to the UK Parliament for its review and approval. Once the legislative proposal is approved (with or without amendment), it will be adopted into UK law which is expected in early 2026. A decision by the UK government not to closely align any new legislation with the new approach that has been adopted in the EU may have an effect on the cost of conducting clinical trials in the UK as opposed to countries in the EU.

 

If we are slow or unable to adapt to changes in existing requirements or the adoption of new requirements or policies governing clinical trials, our development plans may be impacted.

Many of the factors described above that cause, or lead to, a delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the denial of regulatory approval of our product candidates or result in the development of our product candidates being stopped early.

Interim, “topline” and preliminary data from our clinical trials may differ materially from the final data.

From time to time, we may disclose interim data from our clinical trials. For example, we have reported interim Phase 1 single agent clinical data for daraxonrasib, elironrasib and zoldonrasib. In each case, this interim data included a limited number of patients and time of exposure to the study drug. Interim data from clinical trials are subject to the risk that one or more of the clinical outcomes may materially change as patient enrollment continues and more data on existing patients become available. When a clinical trial is ongoing, the final results from the trial may be materially different from those reflected in any interim data we report.

From time to time, we may also publicly disclose preliminary or “topline” data from our clinical trials, which are based on a preliminary analysis of then-available data, and the results and related findings and conclusions are subject to change following a more comprehensive review of the data related to the particular trial. We also make assumptions, estimations, calculations and conclusions as part of our analyses of data, including decisions to initiate pivotal clinical trials based on then-available data, and we may not have received or had the opportunity to fully and carefully evaluate all data. As a result, the topline results that we report may differ from future results of the same clinical trials, or different conclusions or considerations may qualify such topline results once additional data have been received and fully evaluated. Topline data also remain subject to audit and verification procedures that may result in the final data being materially different from the preliminary data we previously published. As a result, topline data should be viewed with caution until the final data are available.

Further, others, including regulatory agencies, may not accept or agree with our assumptions, estimates, calculations, conclusions or analyses or may interpret or weigh the importance of data differently, which could impact the value of the particular program, the approvability or commercialization of the particular product candidate or product and the value of our company in general. In addition, the information we choose to publicly disclose regarding a particular study or clinical trial is typically a summary of extensive information, and you or others may not agree with what we determine is the material or otherwise appropriate information to include in our disclosure. Any information we determine not to disclose may ultimately be deemed significant with respect to future decisions, conclusions, views, activities or otherwise regarding a particular product, product candidate or our business. If the topline data that we report differ from actual results, or if others, including regulatory authorities, disagree with the conclusions reached, our ability to obtain approval for, and commercialize, our product candidates may be harmed.

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Our current or future product candidates may cause undesirable side effects or have other properties when used alone or in combination with other approved products or investigational new drugs that could delay or halt their clinical development, prevent their marketing approval, limit their commercial potential or result in significant negative consequences.

Results of our trials could reveal a high and unacceptable severity and prevalence of side effects or unexpected characteristics. Undesirable or clinically unmanageable side effects could occur and cause us or regulatory authorities to interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials and could result in a more restrictive label or the delay or denial of marketing approval by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities. Any treatment-related side effects could also affect patient recruitment in the relevant trial or other current or future trials involving the same product candidate or other product candidates, or the ability of enrolled patients to complete the trial, and could result in potential product liability claims.

For example, the safety and tolerability data we have released from the daraxonrasib, elironrasib and zoldonrasib studies included adverse events (AEs), including serious adverse events (SAEs) and AEs that led to dose interruption or reduction.

Although our current and future product candidates will undergo safety testing to the extent possible and, where applicable, under such conditions discussed with regulatory authorities, not all adverse effects of drugs can be predicted or anticipated.

 

Unforeseen side effects could arise either during clinical development or, if such side effects are rarer, following approval or commercialization after exposure to additional patients. So far, we have not demonstrated that our product candidates are safe in humans, and we cannot predict if ongoing or future clinical trials will do so.

Furthermore, certain of our product candidates are currently being, and may in the future be, co-administered with approved or experimental therapies. These combinations may have additional side effects, including those that could lead us to discontinue the studies. The uncertainty resulting from the use of our product candidates in combination with other therapies may make it difficult to accurately predict side effects in future clinical trials.

If any of our product candidates receives marketing approval and we or others later identify undesirable side effects caused by such products, a number of potentially significant negative consequences could result, including:

regulatory authorities may withdraw their approval of the product;
we may be required to recall a product or change the way such product is administered to patients;
additional restrictions may be imposed on the marketing of the particular product or the manufacturing processes for the product or any component thereof;
regulatory authorities may require the addition of labeling statements, such as a “black box” warning or a contraindication;
we may be required to implement a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) or create a medication guide outlining the risks of such side effects for distribution to patients;
we could be sued and held liable for harm caused to patients;
the product may become less competitive; and
our reputation may suffer.

Any of the foregoing events could prevent us from achieving or maintaining market acceptance of the particular product candidate, if approved. In addition, if one or more of our product candidates prove to be unsafe, our entire technology platform and pipeline could be affected.

Even if we complete the necessary preclinical studies and clinical trials, the marketing approval process is expensive, time-consuming and uncertain and may prevent us or any of our existing or potential future collaboration partners from obtaining approvals for the commercialization of any of our product candidates.

Any of our current or future product candidates and the activities associated with their development and commercialization, including their design, testing, manufacture, safety, efficacy, recordkeeping, labeling, storage, approval, advertising, promotion, sale, and distribution, are subject to comprehensive regulation by the FDA and other regulatory authorities in the United States and by comparable authorities in other countries. Failure to obtain marketing approval for a product candidate will prevent us from commercializing the product candidate in a given jurisdiction. We have not received approval to market any product candidates from regulatory authorities in any jurisdiction, and it is possible that none of our current or future product candidates will ever obtain regulatory approval. We have no experience submitting and supporting the applications necessary to gain marketing approvals and expect to rely on third-party CROs or regulatory consultants to assist us in this process.

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Securing regulatory approval requires the submission of extensive preclinical and clinical data and supporting information to the various regulatory authorities for each therapeutic indication to establish the product candidate’s safety and efficacy. Securing regulatory approval also requires the submission of information about the product manufacturing process to, and inspection of manufacturing facilities by, the relevant regulatory authority. Any of our product candidates may not be effective, may be only moderately effective, or may prove to have undesirable or unintended side effects, toxicities or other characteristics that may preclude our obtaining marketing approval or prevent or limit commercial use.

The process of obtaining marketing approvals, both in the United States and abroad, is expensive, may take many years if additional clinical trials are required, if approval is obtained at all, and can vary substantially based upon a variety of factors, including the type, complexity, and novelty of the product candidates involved. Changes in marketing approval policies during the development period, changes in or the enactment of additional statutes or regulations, or changes in regulatory review for each submitted product application, may cause delays in the approval or rejection of an application. For instance, the EU pharmaceutical legislation is currently undergoing a complete review process, in the context of the Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe initiative, launched by the European Commission in November 2020. The European Commission’s proposal for revision of several legislative instruments related to medicinal products was published in April 2023, and would, among other things, potentially reduce the duration of regulatory data protection and revise the eligibility for expedited pathways. The proposed revisions remain to be agreed and adopted by the European Parliament and European Council, and the proposals may therefore be substantially revised before adoption, which is not anticipated before early 2026. The revisions may, however, have a significant long-term impact on the biopharmaceutical industry.

 

The FDA and comparable authorities in other countries have substantial discretion in the approval process and may refuse to accept any application or may decide that our data are insufficient for approval and require additional preclinical, clinical or other studies. In addition, varying interpretations of the data obtained from preclinical and clinical testing could delay, limit, or prevent marketing approval of a product candidate. Any marketing approval we or our potential future collaboration partners ultimately obtain may be limited or subject to restrictions or post-approval commitments that render the approved product not commercially viable.

If we or potential future collaboration partners experience delays in obtaining approval or if we fail to obtain approval of any of our current or future product candidates, the commercial prospects for those product candidates may be harmed.

Obtaining and maintaining marketing approval of our current and future product candidates in one jurisdiction does not mean that we or our potential future collaboration partners will be successful in obtaining marketing approval of our current and future product candidates in other jurisdictions.

Obtaining and maintaining marketing approval of our current and future product candidates in one jurisdiction does not guarantee that we or our potential future collaboration partners will be able to obtain or maintain marketing approval in any other jurisdiction, while a failure or delay in obtaining marketing approval in one jurisdiction may have a negative effect on the marketing approval process in others. For example, even if the FDA grants marketing approval of a product candidate, comparable regulatory authorities in foreign jurisdictions must also approve the manufacturing, marketing and promotion of the product candidate in those countries. Approval procedures vary among jurisdictions and can involve requirements and administrative review periods different from, and greater than, those in the United States, including additional preclinical studies or clinical trials as clinical studies conducted in one jurisdiction may not be accepted by regulatory authorities in other jurisdictions. In many jurisdictions outside the United States, a product candidate must be approved for reimbursement before it can be approved for sale in that jurisdiction. In some cases, the price that may be charged for the products is also subject to approval.

We and our potential future collaboration partners may also submit marketing applications in other countries. Regulatory authorities in jurisdictions outside of the United States have requirements for approval of product candidates with which we must comply prior to marketing in those jurisdictions. Obtaining foreign marketing approvals and compliance with foreign regulatory requirements could result in significant delays, difficulties and costs for us and could delay or prevent the introduction of our products in certain countries. If we or our potential future collaboration partners fail to comply with the regulatory requirements in international markets or receive applicable marketing approvals in international markets, the target market for our product candidates will be reduced, and our ability to realize the full market potential of our product candidates will be harmed.

Adverse events in the field of oncology or the biopharmaceutical industry could damage public perception of our current or future product candidates and negatively affect our business.

The commercial success of our products will depend in part on public acceptance of the use of targeted cancer therapies. While a number of targeted cancer therapies have received regulatory approval and are being commercialized, our approach to targeting cancer cells carrying tumor causing mutations, including oncogenic RAS(ON) pathway mutations, is novel and unproven. Adverse events in clinical trials of our product candidates, or post-marketing activities, or in clinical trials of others developing similar products or that are related to approved targeted therapies, particularly those targeting oncogenic RAS pathway mutations, including sotorasib and adagrasib and the resulting publicity, as well as any other adverse events in the field of oncology that may occur in the future, could result in a decrease in demand for any product that we may develop.

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If public perception is influenced by claims that the use of cancer therapies is unsafe, whether related to our therapies or those of our competitors, our product candidates or products, if approved, may not be accepted by the general public or the medical community.

Future adverse events in oncology or the biopharmaceutical industry could also result in greater government regulation, stricter labeling requirements and potential regulatory delays in the testing or approvals of our products. Any increased scrutiny could delay or increase the costs of obtaining marketing approval for our current or future product candidates.

Even if we or our potential future collaboration partners receive marketing approval of a product candidate, we will be subject to ongoing regulatory obligations and continued regulatory review, which may result in significant additional expense, and we may be subject to penalties if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or experience unanticipated problems with our products, if approved.

Any marketing approvals that we or our potential future collaboration partners receive for any current or future product candidate may be subject to limitations on the approved indicated uses for which the product may be marketed or the conditions of approval, or contain requirements for potentially costly post-market testing and surveillance to monitor the safety and efficacy of the product candidate. The FDA may also require REMS as a condition of approval of any product candidate, which could include requirements for a medication guide, physician communication plans or additional elements to ensure safe use, such as restricted distribution methods, patient registries and other risk minimization tools. In addition, if the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority approves a product candidate, the manufacturing processes, labeling, packaging, distribution, adverse event reporting, storage, advertising, promotion, import and export and record keeping for the product will be subject to extensive and ongoing regulatory requirements. These requirements include submissions of safety and other post-marketing information and reports, registration, as well as continued compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) or similar foreign requirements and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) for any clinical trials that we conduct post-approval. Later discovery of previously unknown problems with any approved candidate, including adverse events of unanticipated severity or frequency, or with our third-party manufacturers or manufacturing processes, or failure to comply with regulatory requirements, may result in, among other things:

restrictions on the marketing or manufacturing of the product, withdrawal of the product from the market, or product recalls;
restrictions on product distribution or use, or requirements to conduct post-marketing studies or clinical trials;
fines, untitled and warning letters, or holds on clinical trials;
refusal by the FDA or comparable foreign authorities to approve pending applications or supplements to approved applications or suspension or revocation of approvals;
product seizure or detention, or refusal to permit the import or export of the product; and
injunctions or the imposition of civil or criminal penalties.

The occurrence of any event or penalty described above may inhibit our or our potential future collaboration partners’ ability to commercialize our product candidates and generate revenue and could require us to expend significant time and resources in response and could generate negative publicity.

 

The FDA’s and other regulatory authorities’ policies may change, and additional government regulations may be enacted that could prevent, limit or delay marketing approval of a product. We cannot predict the likelihood, nature or extent of government regulation that may arise from future legislation or administrative action, either in the United States or abroad. If we or our collaborators are slow or unable to adapt to changes in existing requirements or the adoption of new requirements or policies, or are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, we may lose any marketing approval that we may have obtained.

Even if a current or future product candidate receives marketing approval, it may fail to achieve the degree of market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.

If any of our current or future product candidates receives marketing approval, whether as a single agent or in combination with other therapies, it may nonetheless fail to gain sufficient market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors, and others in the medical community to be a viable product. For example, current approved immunotherapies, and other cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy, are well established in the medical community, and doctors may continue to rely on these therapies. The degree of market acceptance of any product candidate, if approved for commercial sale, will depend on a number of factors, including:

efficacy and potential advantages compared to alternative treatments;
the ability to offer our products, if approved, for sale at competitive prices;
convenience and ease of administration compared to alternative treatments; the willingness of the target patient population to try new therapies and of physicians to prescribe these therapies;

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the strength of marketing and distribution support;
the ability to obtain sufficient third-party coverage and adequate reimbursement, including with respect to the use of the approved product as a combination therapy;
adoption of a companion diagnostic and/or complementary diagnostic (if any); and
the prevalence and severity of any side effects.

The market opportunities for any of our current or future product candidates, if and when approved, may be limited to those patients who are ineligible for established therapies or for whom prior therapies have failed, and may be small.

Cancer therapies are sometimes characterized as first-line, second-line or third-line. When cancer is detected early enough, first-line therapy— usually chemotherapy, hormone therapy, surgery, radiation therapy or a combination of these— is sometimes adequate to cure the cancer or prolong life without a cure. Second- and third-line therapies are administered to patients when prior therapy is not effective. We expect to initially seek approval of our product candidates as a therapy for patients who have received one or more prior treatments. Subsequently, for those products that prove to be sufficiently beneficial, if any, we would expect to seek approval potentially as a first-line therapy, but there is no guarantee that our product candidates, even if approved, would be approved for first-line therapy, and, prior to any such approvals, we may have to conduct additional clinical trials.

The number of patients who have the cancers we are targeting, including those with the necessary mutations, may turn out to be lower than expected. Additionally, the potentially addressable patient population for our current programs or future product candidates may be limited, if and when approved. Even if we obtain significant market share for any product candidate, if and when approved, if the potential target populations are small, we may never achieve commercial success without obtaining marketing approval for additional indications, including to be used as first-line therapy.

Even if we are able to commercialize any product candidates, such products may become subject to unfavorable pricing regulations or third-party coverage and reimbursement policies.

The regulations that govern marketing approvals, pricing and reimbursement for new products vary widely from country to country. Some countries require approval of the sale price of a product before it can be marketed. In many countries, the pricing review period begins after marketing approval is granted. In some foreign markets, prescription pharmaceutical pricing remains subject to continuing government control even after initial approval is granted. As a result, we or our potential future collaboration partners might obtain marketing approval for a product candidate in a particular country, but then be subject to price regulations that delay the commercial launch of the product candidate, possibly for lengthy time periods, and negatively impact the revenues we are able to generate from the sale of the product candidate in that country. Adverse pricing limitations may hinder our ability to recoup our investment in one or more product candidates, even if our product candidates obtain marketing approval.

Our and our potential future collaboration partners’ ability to commercialize any product candidates, whether as a single agent or combination therapy, successfully will also depend in part on the extent to which coverage and reimbursement for these product candidates and related treatments will be available from government authorities, private health insurers and other organizations. Government authorities and third-party payors, such as private health insurers and health maintenance organizations, decide which medications they will pay for and establish reimbursement levels.

It is difficult to predict at this time what government authorities and third-party payors will decide with respect to coverage and reimbursement for our programs.

There may be significant delays in obtaining coverage and reimbursement for newly approved drugs, as the process is time-consuming and costly, and coverage may be more limited than the purposes for which the drug is approved by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities. Additionally, no uniform policy requirement for coverage and reimbursement for drug products exists among third-party payors in the United States, which may result in coverage and reimbursement for drug products that can differ significantly from payor to payor. Moreover, eligibility for reimbursement does not imply that any drug will be paid for in all cases or at a rate that covers our costs, including research, development, manufacture, sale and distribution. Interim reimbursement levels for new drugs, if applicable, may also not be sufficient to cover our costs and may not be made permanent. Reimbursement rates may vary according to the use of the drug and the clinical setting in which it is used, may be based on reimbursement levels already set for lower cost drugs and may be incorporated into existing payments for other services. Net prices for drugs may be reduced by mandatory discounts or rebates required by government healthcare programs or private payors and by any future relaxation of existing laws that restrict imports of drugs from countries where they may be sold at lower prices than in the United States. Third-party payors often rely upon Medicare coverage policy and payment limitations in setting their own reimbursement policies.

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A primary trend in the U.S. healthcare industry and elsewhere is cost containment. Government authorities and third-party payors have attempted to control costs by limiting coverage and the amount of reimbursement for particular products and requiring substitutions of generic products and/or biosimilars. Increasingly, third-party payors are requiring that drug companies provide them with predetermined discounts from list prices and are challenging the prices charged for drugs. We cannot be sure that coverage will be available for any of our product candidates, even if approved, and, if coverage is available, the level of reimbursement. These third-party payors are also examining the cost-effectiveness of drugs in addition to their safety and efficacy. Reimbursement may impact the demand for, or the price of, any product candidate for which we obtain marketing approval. If reimbursement is not available or is available only to limited levels, we or our potential third party collaborators may not be able to successfully commercialize any product candidate even if approved.

We may fail to select or capitalize on the most scientifically, clinically and commercially promising or profitable drug candidates including mutant RAS(ON) targets.

We have limited technical, managerial and financial resources to determine which of our potential assets, including our RAS(ON) inhibitors, should be advanced into further preclinical development, initial clinical trials, later-stage clinical development and potential commercialization. From our RAS(ON) inhibitors, we have selected RMC-6236, our RAS(ON) multi-selective inhibitor, RMC-6291, our RAS(ON) G12C-selective inhibitor and RMC-9805, our inhibitor targeting KRAS(ON) G12D as the first RAS(ON) inhibitor candidates for clinical evaluation. In making these prioritization decisions and selecting development candidates from our preclinical assets, we may make incorrect determinations. Our decisions to allocate our research and development, management and financial resources toward particular development candidates or therapeutic areas, including the RASolute 302 study, the RASolve 301 study and other pivotal trials, may not lead to the development of viable commercial products and may divert resources from better opportunities. Similarly, our decisions to delay or terminate development programs may also be incorrect and could cause us to miss valuable opportunities.

We may not be successful in our efforts to identify or discover other product candidates and may fail to capitalize on programs, product candidates or indications or lines of therapy for which there is a greater likelihood of success or that may present a greater commercial opportunity.

The success of our business depends upon our ability to identify, develop and commercialize product candidates. Research programs to identify new product candidates require substantial technical, financial and human resources, and we may fail to identify potential product candidates for numerous reasons.

Additionally, because we have limited resources and because of the decisions we make based on our observations from the results of earlier-stage clinical trials, we may forego or delay pursuit of opportunities with certain programs or product candidates or for indications or lines of therapy that later prove to have a greater likelihood of success or for which there is greater commercial potential. For example, we may design our clinical trials, including our pivotal clinical trials, based on our observations from earlier-stage clinical trials. In doing so, we may make decisions regarding our study design, including our selection of the inclusion and exclusion criteria and endpoints, as well as our selection of dose and dose schedule and other factors, for those trials, while other study designs and dosing regimens may have a greater likelihood of success.

However, the advancement of a particular product candidate may ultimately prove to be unsuccessful or less successful than another program in our pipeline that we might have chosen to pursue on a less aggressive basis. Our estimates regarding the potential market for our product candidates could be inaccurate, and our spending on current and future research and development programs may not yield any commercially viable products. If we do not accurately evaluate the commercial potential for a particular product candidate, we may relinquish valuable rights to that product candidate through collaboration, licensing or other arrangements in cases in which it would have been more advantageous for us to retain sole development and commercialization rights to such product candidate. Alternatively, we may allocate internal resources to a product candidate in a therapeutic area in which it would have been more advantageous to enter into a partnering arrangement.

 

If any of these events occur, we may be forced to abandon or delay our development efforts with respect to a particular product candidate or fail to develop a potentially successful product candidate.

We may need to use existing commercial diagnostic tests or develop, or enter into a collaboration or partnership to develop, novel complementary diagnostics and/or novel companion diagnostics for some of our current or future product candidates. If we or our partners are unable to successfully develop these companion diagnostics or complementary diagnostics, or experience significant delays in doing so, we may not realize the full commercial potential of our future product candidates.

As one of the key elements of our product development strategy, we seek to identify cancer patient populations that may derive meaningful benefit from our current or future product candidates. Because predictive biomarkers may be used to identify the right patients for our programs and our current or future product candidates, we believe that our success may depend, in part, on our ability to use existing diagnostic tests from third parties or develop novel complementary diagnostics and/or novel companion diagnostics in collaboration with partners.

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In the event that novel tests will need to be developed, we have little experience in the development of diagnostics. We expect to rely on partners in developing appropriate diagnostics to pair with our current or future product candidates. We may be unsuccessful in entering into or maintaining collaborations for the development of companion diagnostics for use with our current or future product candidates in our markets of interest.

Complementary diagnostics and companion diagnostics are subject to regulation by the FDA and similar regulatory authorities outside the United States as medical devices and require separate regulatory approval, clearance or certification prior to commercialization. In addition, if the FDA determines that a companion diagnostic device is essential to the safe and effective use of a novel therapeutic product or indication, the FDA generally will not approve the therapeutic product or new therapeutic product indication if the companion diagnostic is not also approved or cleared for that indication. Companion diagnostics are developed in conjunction with clinical programs for the associated therapeutic product, and the FDA has generally required premarket approval of companion diagnostics for cancer therapies. The approval or clearance of a companion diagnostic as part of the therapeutic product’s further labeling limits the use of the therapeutic product to only those patients who express the specific characteristic, such as a biomarker, that the companion diagnostic was developed to detect.

 

If we, our partners, or any third parties that we engage to assist us, are unable to successfully develop complementary diagnostics and/or companion diagnostics for our product candidates and any future product candidates, or we experience delays in doing so:

the development of our product candidates and any other future product candidates may be adversely affected if we are unable to appropriately select patients for enrollment in our clinical trials;
we may be unable to obtain approval for any of our product candidates for which the FDA or foreign regulatory authority has determined a companion diagnostic is required; and
we may not realize the full commercial potential of our product candidates and any other future product candidates that receive marketing approval if, among other reasons, we are unable to appropriately identify, or it takes us longer to identify, patients who are likely to benefit from therapy with our products, if approved.

 

Even if we or our current or future partners are successful in the development of diagnostics for use with our current or future product candidates, there are also risks associated with the commercial supply of these diagnostics.

We may seek and fail to obtain fast track or breakthrough therapy designations for our current or future product candidates. Even if we are successful, these programs may not lead to a faster development or regulatory review process, and they do not guarantee we will receive approval for any product candidate.

If a product is intended for the treatment of a serious or life-threatening condition, and preclinical or clinical data demonstrate the potential to address an unmet medical need for this condition, the product sponsor may apply for fast track designation. Specifically, drugs are eligible for fast track designation if they are intended, alone or in combination with one or more drugs or biologics, to treat a serious or life-threatening disease or condition and demonstrate the potential to address unmet medical needs for the disease or condition. Fast track designation applies to the combination of the product candidate and the specific indication for which it is being studied. The sponsor of a fast track product candidate has opportunities for more frequent interactions with the applicable FDA review team during product development and, once an NDA is submitted, the application may be eligible for priority review. An NDA submitted for a fast track product candidate may also be eligible for rolling review, where the FDA may consider for review sections of the NDA on a rolling basis before the complete application is submitted, if the sponsor provides a schedule for the submission of the sections of the NDA, the FDA agrees to accept sections of the NDA and determines that the schedule is acceptable, and the sponsor pays any required user fees upon submission of the first section of the application.

The FDA has broad discretion whether to grant fast track designation, so, even if we believe a particular product candidate is eligible for this designation, the FDA may reach a different conclusion and not grant it. Even if we do receive fast track designation, we may not experience a faster development process, review or approval compared to conventional FDA procedures. The FDA may rescind any fast track designation if it believes that the designation is no longer supported by data from our clinical development program.

 

We may also seek breakthrough therapy designation for our product candidates. A breakthrough therapy is defined as a drug that is intended, alone or in combination with one or more other drugs, to treat a serious or life-threatening disease or condition, and preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug may demonstrate substantial improvement over currently existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints, such as substantial treatment effects observed early in clinical development. For product candidates that have been designated as breakthrough therapies, increased interaction and communication between the FDA and the sponsor of the trial can help to identify the most efficient path for clinical development while minimizing the number of patients placed in ineffective control regimens. Drugs and biologics designated as breakthrough therapies also receive the same benefits associated with fast track designation, including eligibility for rolling review of a submitted NDA, if the relevant criteria are met.

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Like fast track designation, breakthrough therapy designation is within the discretion of the FDA. Accordingly, even if we believe one of our product candidates meets the criteria for designation as a breakthrough therapy, the FDA may disagree and instead determine not to make such designation. In any event, the receipt of breakthrough therapy designation for a product candidate may not result in a faster development process, review or approval compared to drugs considered for approval under conventional FDA procedures and does not assure ultimate approval by the FDA. In addition, even if a product candidate qualifies as a breakthrough therapy, the FDA may later decide that the drug no longer meets the conditions for qualification and rescind the designation.

Jurisdictions where we may seek to pursue product candidates outside of the United States have processes similar to the breakthrough designation and fast track processes described above, and to the extent we or our collaborators desire to enter these markets, we will face similar risks and challenges as those described in the United States.

We may attempt to secure approval from the FDA through the use of the accelerated approval pathway. If we are unable to obtain this approval, we may be required to conduct additional preclinical studies or clinical trials beyond those that we contemplate, which could increase the expense of obtaining, and delay the receipt of, necessary regulatory approvals. Even if we receive accelerated approval from the FDA, if our confirmatory trials do not verify clinical benefit, or if we do not comply with rigorous post-marketing requirements, the FDA may seek to withdraw any accelerated approval we have obtained.

 

We may in the future seek accelerated approval for one or more of our product candidates. Under the accelerated approval program, the FDA may grant accelerated approval to a product candidate designed to treat a serious or life-threatening condition that provides meaningful therapeutic benefit over available therapies upon a determination that the product candidate has an effect on a surrogate endpoint or intermediate clinical endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit. The FDA considers a clinical benefit to be a positive therapeutic effect that is clinically meaningful in the context of a given disease, such as irreversible morbidity or mortality. For the purposes of accelerated approval, a surrogate endpoint is a marker, such as a laboratory measurement, radiographic image, physical sign, or other measure that is thought to predict clinical benefit, but is not itself a measure of clinical benefit. An intermediate clinical endpoint is a clinical endpoint that can be measured earlier than an effect on irreversible morbidity or mortality that is reasonably likely to predict an effect on irreversible morbidity or mortality or other clinical benefit.

 

The accelerated approval pathway may be used in cases in which the advantage of a new drug over available therapy may not be a direct therapeutic advantage, but is a clinically important improvement from a patient and public health perspective. If granted, accelerated approval is usually contingent on the sponsor’s agreement to conduct, in a diligent manner, additional confirmatory studies to verify and describe the drug’s clinical benefit. If such post-approval studies fail to confirm the drug’s clinical benefit or are not completed in a timely manner, the FDA may withdraw its approval of the drug on an expedited basis. In addition, in December 2022, President Biden signed an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the U.S. government through fiscal year 2023. The omnibus bill included the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022, which, among other things, provided the FDA new statutory authority to mitigate potential risks to patients from continued marketing of ineffective drugs previously granted accelerated approval. Under these provisions, the FDA may require a sponsor of a product seeking accelerated approval to have a confirmatory trial underway prior to such approval being granted.

 

Prior to seeking accelerated approval for any of our product candidates, we intend to seek feedback from the FDA and will otherwise evaluate our ability to seek and receive accelerated approval. There can be no assurance that after our evaluation of the feedback and other factors we will decide to pursue or submit an NDA for accelerated approval or any other form of expedited development, review or approval. Furthermore, if we decide to submit an application for accelerated approval for our product candidates, there can be no assurance that such application will be accepted or that any expedited development, review or approval will be granted on a timely basis, or at all. The FDA or other comparable foreign regulatory authorities could also require the conduct of further studies prior to considering our (or one of our potential future collaboration partners’) applications or granting approval of any type. A failure to obtain accelerated approval or any other form of expedited development, review or approval for our product candidate would result in a longer time period until commercialization of such product candidate, if at all, could increase the cost of development of such product candidate and could harm our competitive position in the marketplace.

 

We may seek orphan drug designation for our product candidates, and we may be unsuccessful or may be unable to maintain the benefits associated with orphan drug designation, including the potential for market exclusivity.

As part of our business strategy, we may seek orphan drug designation for our product candidates. Regulatory authorities in some jurisdictions, including the United States, may designate drugs for relatively small patient populations as orphan drugs or, in the EU, orphan medicinal products. Under the Orphan Drug Act, the FDA may designate a drug as an orphan drug if it is a drug intended to treat a rare disease or condition, which is generally defined as a patient population of fewer than 200,000 individuals annually in the United States, or a patient population greater than 200,000 in the United States where there is no reasonable expectation that the cost of developing the drug will be recovered from sales in the United States. In the United States, orphan drug designation entitles a party to financial incentives such as opportunities for grant funding towards clinical trial costs, tax advantages and user-fee waivers.

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Similarly, in the EU, the European Commission grants orphan medicinal product designation after receiving the opinion of the EMA Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products on an orphan medicinal product designation application. Orphan medicinal product designation is intended to promote the development of medicines (1) that are intended for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of life-threatening or chronically debilitating conditions where (2) either (a) such conditions affect no more than 5 in 10,000 persons in the EU when the application is made, or (b) the product, without the benefits derived from orphan status, would not generate sufficient return in the EU to justify the investment needed for its development; and (3) for which no satisfactory method of diagnosis, prevention, or treatment has been authorized (or if such method exists, the product would be a significant benefit to those affected). In the EU, orphan designation entitles a party to a number of incentives, such as protocol assistance and scientific advice specifically for designated orphan medicines, and potential fee reductions depending on the status of the sponsor.

Generally, if a drug with an orphan drug designation subsequently receives the first marketing approval for the disease or condition for which it has such designation, the drug is entitled to a period of marketing exclusivity, which precludes the FDA or foreign authorities from approving another marketing application for the same drug for the same disease or condition for that time period, except in limited circumstances. The applicable period is seven years in the United States and ten years in the EU. The European exclusivity period can be reduced to six years if a drug no longer meets the criteria for orphan drug designation or if the drug is sufficiently profitable such that market exclusivity is no longer justified.

We may be unsuccessful in obtaining orphan drug designation for our product candidates. In addition, even if we obtain orphan drug exclusivity for a product candidate, that exclusivity may not effectively protect the product candidate from competition because different therapies can be approved for the same disease or condition. Even after an orphan drug is approved, the FDA or comparable foreign authorities can subsequently approve the same drug for the same disease or condition if the FDA or comparable foreign authorities conclude that the later drug is clinically superior in that it is shown to be safer, more effective or makes a major contribution to patient care. In addition, a designated orphan drug may not receive orphan drug exclusivity if it is approved for a use that is broader than the disease or condition for which it received orphan designation. Moreover, orphan drug exclusive marketing rights in the United States may be lost if the FDA later determines that the request for designation was materially defective or if the manufacturer is unable to assure sufficient quantity of the drug to meet the needs of patients with the rare disease or condition. Orphan drug designation neither shortens the development time or regulatory review time of a drug nor gives the drug any advantage in the regulatory review or approval process. While we may seek orphan drug designation for applicable indications for our current and any future product candidates, we may never receive such designations. Even if we do receive such designations, there is no guarantee that we will enjoy the benefits of those designations, including marketing exclusivity.

If product liability lawsuits are brought against us, we may incur substantial liabilities and may be required to limit commercialization of any approved products.

We face an inherent risk of product liability as a result of the clinical testing of product candidates and will face an even greater risk if we commercialize any products. For example, we may be sued if any of our product candidates causes or is perceived to cause injury or is found to be otherwise unsuitable during clinical testing, manufacturing, marketing or sale. Any such product liability claims may include allegations of defects in manufacturing, defects in design, a failure to warn of dangers inherent in the product, negligence, strict liability or a breach of warranties. Claims could also be asserted under state consumer protection acts. If we cannot successfully defend ourselves against product liability claims, we may incur substantial liabilities or be required to limit commercialization of any approved products. Even successful defense would require significant financial and management resources.

Regardless of the merits or eventual outcome, liability claims may result in:

decreased demand for any approved product;
injury to our reputation;
withdrawal of clinical trial participants;
initiation of investigations by regulators;
costs to defend the related litigation;
a diversion of management’s time and our resources;
substantial monetary awards to trial participants or patients;
product recalls, withdrawals or labeling, marketing or promotional restrictions;
exhaustion of available insurance and our capital resources and potential increases in our insurance premiums and/or retention amounts; and
our inability, or limitations on our ability, to commercialize any product.

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Our inability to obtain sufficient product liability insurance at an acceptable cost to protect against potential product liability claims could prevent or inhibit the commercialization of products we develop, alone or with collaboration partners.

Insurance coverage is increasingly expensive. We may not be able to maintain insurance at a reasonable cost or in an amount adequate to satisfy any liability that may arise, if at all. Our insurance policy contains various exclusions, and we may be subject to a product liability claim for which we have no coverage. We may have to pay any amounts awarded by a court or negotiated in a settlement that exceed our coverage limitations or that are not covered by our insurance, and we may not have, or be able to obtain, sufficient capital to pay such amounts. Even if our agreements with any current or future collaborator entitle us to indemnification against losses, such indemnification is limited and may not be available or adequate should any claim arise.

 

Healthcare legislative reform measures may significantly impact our business and results of operations.

In the United States, there have been and continue to be a number of legislative initiatives to contain healthcare costs. For example, in March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the ACA) was passed, which substantially changed the way healthcare is financed by both government and private insurers, and significantly impacts the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The ACA, among other things, increased the minimum Medicaid rebates owed by manufacturers under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and extended the rebate program to individuals enrolled in Medicaid managed care organizations, established annual fees and taxes on manufacturers of certain branded prescription drugs.

Since its enactment, there have been judicial, executive and Congressional challenges to certain aspects of the ACA. In June 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the most recent judicial challenge to the ACA brought by several states without specifically ruling on the constitutionality of the ACA.

Other legislative changes have been proposed and adopted in the United States since the ACA was enacted. In March 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was signed into law, which eliminated the statutory cap on the Medicaid drug rebate beginning January 1, 2024. The rebate was previously capped at 100% of a drug’s average manufacturer price.

Moreover, payment methodologies may be subject to changes in healthcare legislation and regulatory initiatives. In August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) was signed into law. Among other things, the IRA requires manufacturers of certain drugs to engage in price negotiations with Medicare (beginning in 2026), with prices that can be negotiated subject to a cap; imposes rebates under Medicare Part B and Medicare Part D to penalize price increases that outpace inflation (first due in 2023); and replaces the Part D coverage gap discount program with a new manufacturer discounting program (which began in 2025). The IRA permits the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement many of these provisions through guidance, as opposed to regulation, for the initial years. HHS has and will continue to issue and update guidance as these programs are implemented. In August 2024, HHS announced the negotiated prices for the initial ten drugs, which will first be effective in 2026, and in January 2025, HHS announced the second set of drugs that will be subject to price negotiations. Because the Medicare drug price negotiation program is currently subject to legal challenges, and for other reasons, it is currently unclear how the IRA will be effectuated, and the impact of the IRA on our business and the pharmaceutical industry cannot yet be fully determined.

 

We expect that additional state and federal healthcare reform measures will be adopted in the future, any of which could limit the amounts that federal and state governments will pay for healthcare products and services, which could result in reduced demand for our product candidates, complementary diagnostics or companion diagnostics, or impose additional pricing pressures.

 

Additionally, there has been increasing legislative and enforcement interest in the United States with respect to specialty drug pricing practices. Specifically, there have been several recent Congressional inquiries and proposed and enacted federal and state legislation designed to, among other things, bring more transparency to drug pricing, reduce the cost of prescription drugs under Medicare, review the relationship between pricing and manufacturer patient programs, and reform government program reimbursement methodologies for drugs.

In addition, FDA regulations and guidance may be revised or reinterpreted by the FDA in ways that may significantly affect our business. Any new regulations or guidance, or revisions or reinterpretations of existing regulations or guidance, may impose additional costs or lengthen FDA review times for our product candidates. We cannot determine how changes in regulations, statutes, policies, or interpretations when and if issued, enacted or adopted may affect our business in the future.

Disruptions at the FDA and other government agencies caused by funding shortages, staffing limitations or global health concerns could hinder their ability to hire and retain key leadership and other personnel, prevent new products and services from being developed or commercialized in a timely manner or otherwise prevent those agencies from performing normal business functions on which the operation of our business may rely, which could negatively impact our business.

The ability of the FDA and foreign regulatory agencies to review and approve new products can be affected by a variety of factors, including government budget and funding levels, ability to hire and retain key personnel and accept the payment of user fees, and statutory, regulatory, and policy changes.

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Average review times at the FDA and foreign regulatory agencies have fluctuated in recent years as a result.

Disruptions at the FDA and other agencies may also slow the time necessary for new drugs to be reviewed and/or approved by necessary government agencies, which would adversely affect our business. For example, in recent years, the U.S. government has shut down several times and certain regulatory agencies, such as the FDA, have had to furlough critical employees and stop critical activities. In addition, the current U.S. Presidential administration has issued certain policies and Executive Orders directed towards reducing the employee headcount and costs associated with U.S. administrative agencies, including the FDA, and it remains unclear the degree to which these efforts may limit or otherwise adversely affect the FDA’s ability to conduct routine activities. Separately, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA postponed most inspections of domestic and foreign manufacturing facilities at various points. More recently, there have been layoffs and resignations at the FDA and other federal agencies. If a prolonged government shutdown occurs or the FDA or other agencies experiences other delays due to funding shortages, staffing shortages or otherwise, it could significantly impact the ability of those agencies to timely review and process our regulatory submissions.

We are subject to stringent privacy laws, information security policies and contractual obligations governing the use, processing and transfer of personal information.

The global data protection landscape is rapidly evolving, and we are or may become subject to numerous, federal, state and foreign laws, requirements and regulations governing the collection, use, disclosure, retention and security of personal information, such as information that we may collect in connection with clinical trials in the United States and abroad. Implementation standards and enforcement practices are likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future, and we cannot yet determine the impact future laws, regulations, standards or perception of their requirements may have on our business. This evolution may create uncertainty in our business, affect our ability to operate in certain jurisdictions or to collect, store, transfer use and share personal information, necessitate the acceptance of more onerous obligations in our contracts, result in liability or impose additional costs on us. The cost of compliance with these laws, regulations and standards is high and is likely to increase in the future. Any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with federal, state or foreign laws or regulations, our internal policies and procedures or our contracts governing our processing of personal information could result in negative publicity, government investigations and enforcement actions, claims by third parties and damage to our reputation.

As our operations and business grow, we may become subject to or affected by new or additional data protection laws and regulations and face increased scrutiny or attention from regulatory authorities. In the United States, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) imposes, among other things, certain standards relating to the privacy, security, transmission and breach reporting of individually identifiable health information. We may obtain health information from third parties (including research institutions from which we obtain clinical trial data) that are subject to privacy and security requirements under HIPAA. While we do not believe that we are currently acting as a covered entity or business associate under HIPAA and thus are not directly regulated under HIPAA, any person may be prosecuted under HIPAA’s criminal provisions either directly or under aiding-and-abetting or conspiracy principles. Consequently, depending on the facts and circumstances, we could face substantial criminal penalties if we knowingly receive individually identifiable health information from a HIPAA-covered healthcare provider or research institution that has not satisfied HIPAA’s requirements for disclosure of individually identifiable health information.

Further, various states have implemented certain data privacy and security laws and regulations that impose restrictive requirements regulating the use and disclosure of health-related and other personal information. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the CCPA) requires certain businesses that process personal information of California residents to, among other things: provide certain disclosures to California residents regarding the business’s collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information; receive and respond to requests from California residents to access, delete and correct their personal information, or opt-out of certain disclosures of their personal information; and enter into specific contractual provisions with service providers that process California resident personal information on the business’s behalf. Similar laws have been passed in other states, and are continuing to be proposed at the state and the federal level, reflecting a trend toward more stringent privacy legislation in the United States. The enactment of such laws could have potentially conflicting requirements that would make compliance challenging. In the event that we are subject to or affected by HIPAA or the CCPA or other domestic privacy and data protection laws, any liability from failure to comply with the requirements of these laws could adversely affect our financial condition.

State laws and regulations are not necessarily preempted by federal laws and regulations, such as HIPAA, particularly if a state affords greater protection to individuals than federal law. Where state laws are more protective, we must comply with the stricter provisions. In addition to fines and penalties imposed upon violators, some of these state laws also afford private rights of action to individuals who believe their personal information has been misused. The interplay of federal and state laws may be subject to varying interpretations by courts and government agencies, creating complex compliance issues for us and data we receive, use and share, potentially exposing us to additional expense, adverse publicity and liability. Legal requirements relating to the collection, storage, handling, and transfer of personal information and personal data continue to evolve and may result in increased public scrutiny and escalating levels of enforcement, sanctions and increased costs of compliance.

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The processing of personal data in the European Economic Area (EEA) is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR). The GDPR imposes stringent requirements for controllers and processors of personal data. The GDPR applies extraterritorially, and we may be subject to the GDPR because of our data processing activities that involve the personal data of individuals located in the EEA, or in the context of our activities within the EEA, such as in connection with any EEA clinical trials. The GDPR may impose additional obligations and liability in relation to the personal data that we process, and we may be required to put in place additional mechanisms to ensure compliance with its requirements. This may be onerous and may interrupt or delay our development activities. If we or our vendors fail to comply with the GDPR and the applicable national data protection laws of the EEA member states, or if regulators assert we have failed to comply with these laws, it may lead to regulatory enforcement actions, which can result in, among other things, monetary penalties of up to €20,000,000 or up to 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the noncompliant undertaking for the preceding financial year, whichever is higher, and other administrative penalties. The GDPR also imposes strict rules on the transfer of personal data out of the EEA to the United States and other third countries that have not been found to provide adequate protection to such personal data, and the efficacy and longevity of current transfer mechanisms between the EEA and the United States remains uncertain. Case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union states that reliance on the standard contractual clauses – a standard form of contract approved by the European Commission as an adequate personal data transfer mechanism – alone may not necessarily be sufficient in all circumstances, and that transfers must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

 

The European Commission adopted its Adequacy Decision in relation to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the DPF) in July 2023, rendering the DPF effective as a GDPR transfer mechanism to U.S. entities self-certified under the DPF. We currently rely in part on the EU standard contractual clauses and the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses, as relevant, to transfer personal data outside the EEA and the UK, including to the United States. We expect the existing legal complexity and uncertainty regarding international personal data transfers to continue. In particular, we expect the DPF Adequacy Decision to be challenged and international transfers to the U.S. and to other jurisdictions more generally to continue to be subject to enhanced scrutiny by regulators. As a result, we may have to make certain operational changes, and we will have to implement revised standard contractual clauses and other relevant documentation for existing data transfers within required timeframes.

 

We must also comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation, which, together with the UK Data Protection Act 2018, retains the GDPR in UK national law (collectively, the UK GDPR). The UK GDPR mirrors the fines under the GDPR, i.e., fines up to the greater of £17.5 million or 4% of global turnover of a noncompliant undertaking’s global annual revenue for the preceding financial year. On October 12, 2023, the UK Extension to the DPF came into effect (as approved by the UK Government), as a data transfer mechanism from the UK to U.S. entities self-certified under the DPF. We may incur liabilities, expenses, costs and other operational losses under the GDPR and privacy laws of the applicable EU and EEA Member States and the UK in connection with any measures we take to comply with them. As we continue to expand into other foreign countries and jurisdictions, we may also be subject to additional laws and regulations that may affect how we conduct business.

Compliance with U.S. and international data protection laws and regulations could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business practices and compliance procedures in a manner adverse to our business. Penalties for violations of these laws vary and may be significant. Moreover, complying with these various laws could require us to take on more onerous obligations in our contracts, restrict our ability to collect, use and disclose data, or in some cases, impact our ability to operate in certain jurisdictions. In addition, we rely on third-party vendors to collect, process and store data on our behalf and we cannot guarantee that such vendors are in compliance with all applicable data protection laws and regulations. Our or our vendors’ failure to comply with U.S. and international data protection laws and regulations could result in government investigations and enforcement actions (which could include civil or criminal penalties), private litigation and adverse publicity. Claims that we have violated individuals’ privacy rights, failed to comply with data protection laws, or breached our contractual obligations, even if we are not found liable, could be expensive and time consuming to defend and could result in adverse publicity.

Our business and operations, or those of our CROs or other third parties, may suffer in the event of information technology system failures, cyberattacks or deficiencies in our cybersecurity, which could materially affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We receive, generate and store significant and increasing volumes of sensitive information, such as health-related information, clinical trial data, proprietary business information and the personal information of our employees and contractors (collectively, Confidential Information). We face a number of risks related to protecting the information technology systems we rely on and this Confidential Information, including loss of access risk, inappropriate use or disclosure, inappropriate modification and the risk of our being unable to adequately monitor, audit and modify our controls over our Confidential Information. This risk extends to the information technology systems and information of any collaboration partners, medical institutions, clinical investigators, CROs, contract laboratories and other third parties involved in our business. There can be no assurance that our cybersecurity risk management program and processes, including our policies, controls or procedures, will be fully implemented, complied with or effective in protecting our systems and Confidential Information.

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Despite the implementation of security measures, our information technology systems, as well as those of CROs or other third parties with which we have relationships, are vulnerable to attack, interruption and damage from computer viruses and malware (e.g., ransomware), malicious code, misconfigurations, “bugs” or other vulnerabilities, unauthorized access, natural and manmade disasters, terrorism, war and telecommunication and electrical failures, malfeasance by external or internal parties, fraud, denial or degradation of service attacks, sophisticated nation-state and nation-state-supported actors and human error (e.g., social engineering and phishing). Attacks upon information technology systems are increasing in their frequency, levels of persistence, sophistication and intensity, and are being conducted by sophisticated and organized groups and individuals with a wide range of motives and expertise. Furthermore, because the technologies used to obtain unauthorized access to, or to sabotage or disrupt, systems change frequently and often are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventative measures. We may also experience security breaches that may remain undetected for an extended period. We may not be able to anticipate all types of security threats, and, even if identified, we may be unable to adequately investigate or remediate incidents or breaches due to attackers increasingly using tools and techniques that are designed to circumvent controls, to avoid detection, and to remove or obfuscate forensic evidence. We may also face increased cybersecurity risks due to our reliance on internet technology and the number of our and our service providers’ employees who are (and may continue to be) working remotely, which may create additional opportunities for cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities. The White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) and other regulators have also increased their focus on companies’ cybersecurity vulnerabilities and risks. Further, although we have implemented policies regarding limited permitted use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) by our employees, Confidential Information could be leaked, disclosed or revealed as a result of or in connection with our employees’ use of generative AI technologies.

We, our CROs and certain of our service providers are, from time to time, subject to cyberattacks and security incidents. While we have not to our knowledge experienced any significant system failure, accident or security breach to date, if such an event were to occur and cause interruptions in our or our critical third parties’ operations, it could result in delays and/or material disruptions of our research and development programs, our operations and ultimately, our financial results. For example, the loss of clinical trial data from completed, ongoing or planned clinical trials could result in delays in our regulatory approval efforts and significantly increase our costs to recover or reproduce the data. Likewise, we rely on third parties for the manufacture of our product candidates and to conduct clinical trials, and similar events relating to their information technology systems could also adversely impact our business. Further, due to the current political uncertainty involving Russia and Ukraine, there is an increased likelihood that the tensions could result in cyberattacks or cybersecurity incidents that could either directly or indirectly impact our or our critical third parties’ operations. To the extent that any disruption or security breach were to result in a loss of or damage to data or applications, or inappropriate disclosure of Confidential Information, the costs associated with the investigation, remediation and potential notification of the breach to counterparties and data subjects could be material, we could incur liability due to delays in the development and commercialization of our product candidates or other business activities, and we may be exposed to reputational harm, litigation, regulatory investigations and enforcement, fines and penalties, or increased costs of compliance and system remediation.

 

Our existing general liability and cyber liability insurance policies may not cover, or may cover only a portion of, any potential claims related to security breaches to which we are exposed or may not be adequate to indemnify us for all or any portion of liabilities that may be imposed. We also cannot be certain that our existing insurance coverage will continue to be available on acceptable terms or in amounts sufficient to cover the potentially significant losses that may result from a security incident or breach or that the insurer will not deny coverage of any future claim. If the information technology systems of our CROs or other service providers were to fail, or become subject to disruptions or security breaches, we may have insufficient recourse against such third parties and we may have to expend significant resources to mitigate the impact of such an event, and to develop and implement protections to prevent future events of this nature from occurring.

Risks related to reliance on third parties

We may depend on collaborations with other third parties for the development and commercialization of our product candidates in the future. If our collaborations are not successful, we may not be able to capitalize on the market potential of these product candidates.

In the future, we may form or seek other strategic alliances, joint ventures or collaborations, or enter into additional licensing arrangements with third parties that we believe will complement or augment our development and commercialization efforts with respect to our product candidates.

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Collaborations involving our current and future product candidates may pose the following risks to us:

collaborators have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations and may have incentives that are different than ours;
collaborators may delay clinical trials, provide insufficient funding for a clinical trial program, stop a clinical trial, abandon a product candidate, repeat or conduct new clinical trials or require a new formulation of a product candidate for clinical testing;
collaborators could independently develop, or develop with third parties, products that compete directly or indirectly with our products or product candidates;
collaborators with marketing, manufacturing or distribution rights to one or more products may not commit sufficient resources to or otherwise not perform satisfactorily in carrying out these activities as it relates to our product candidates or products;
collaborators may not properly prosecute, maintain, enforce or defend our intellectual property rights or may use our proprietary information in a way that gives rise to actual or threatened litigation that could jeopardize or invalidate our intellectual property or proprietary information or expose us to potential litigation, or other intellectual property proceedings;
collaborators may own or co-own intellectual property covering products that result from our collaboration with them, and in such cases, we may not have the exclusive right to develop, license or commercialize this intellectual property;
disputes may arise with respect to ownership of any intellectual property developed pursuant to our collaborations;
disputes may arise between a collaborator and us that cause the delay or termination of the research, development or commercialization of the product candidate, or that result in costly litigation or arbitration that diverts management attention and resources; and
if a current or future collaborator of ours were to be involved in a business combination, the continued pursuit and emphasis on our product development or commercialization program under our collaboration could be delayed, diminished or terminated, including if the partner in such a business combination has products that compete with ours.

As a result, if we enter into additional collaboration agreements and strategic partnerships or license our intellectual property, products or businesses, we may not be able to realize the benefit of such transactions if we are unable to successfully integrate them with our or their existing operations, which could delay our timelines or otherwise adversely affect our business. We also cannot be certain that, following entry into a strategic transaction or license, we will achieve the revenue or specific net income that justifies such transaction. Any delays in entering into new collaborations or strategic partnership agreements related to our current or future product candidates could delay the development and commercialization of our product candidates, which would harm our business prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

We may seek to establish additional collaborations, and, if we are not able to establish them on commercially reasonable terms, we may have to alter our development and commercialization plans.

The advancement of our product candidates and development programs and the potential commercialization of our current and future product candidates will require substantial additional cash to fund expenses. For some of our programs, we may decide to collaborate with additional pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with respect to development and potential commercialization. Any of these relationships may require us to incur non-recurring and other charges, increase our near- and long-term expenditures, issue securities that dilute our existing stockholders, or disrupt our management and business.

We face significant competition in seeking appropriate strategic partners, and the negotiation process is time-consuming and complex. Whether we reach a definitive agreement for other collaborations will depend, among other things, upon our assessment of the collaborator’s resources and expertise, the terms and conditions of the proposed collaboration and the proposed collaborator’s evaluation of a number of factors. Those factors may include the design or results of clinical trials, the progress of our clinical trials, the likelihood of approval by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside the United States, the potential market for the subject product candidate, the costs and complexities of manufacturing and delivering such product candidate to patients, the potential of competing products, the existence of uncertainty with respect to our ownership of technology, which can exist if there is a challenge to such ownership without regard to the merits of the challenge and industry and market conditions generally. The collaborator may also consider alternative product candidates or technologies for similar indications that may be available to collaborate on and whether such a collaboration could be more attractive than the one with us for our product candidate. Further, we may not be successful in our efforts to establish one or more strategic partnerships or other alternative arrangements for future product candidates because they may be deemed to be at too early of a stage of development for collaborative effort and third parties may not view them as having the requisite potential to demonstrate safety and efficacy.

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The terms of any collaboration agreement we enter into may restrict us from entering into future agreements on certain terms with potential collaborators, which may limit our ability to find additional collaborators in the future or adversely impact the terms of these future collaborations.

In addition, business combinations among pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies have in the past and may in the future result in a reduced number of potential future collaborators.

We may not be able to negotiate collaborations on a timely basis, on acceptable terms, or at all. If we are unable to do so, we may have to curtail the development of the product candidate for which we are seeking to collaborate, reduce or delay its development program or one or more of our other development programs, delay its potential commercialization or reduce the scope of any sales or marketing activities, or increase our expenditures and undertake development or commercialization activities at our own expense. If we elect to increase our expenditures to fund development or commercialization activities on our own, we may need to obtain additional capital, which may not be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. If we do not have sufficient funds, we may not be able to further develop our product candidates or bring them to market and generate product revenue.

If conflicts arise between us and our collaborators or strategic partners, these parties may act in a manner adverse to us and could limit our ability to implement our strategies.

If conflicts arise between our corporate or academic collaborators or strategic partners and us, the other party may act in a manner adverse to us and could limit our ability to implement our strategies. Amgen or future collaborators or strategic partners may develop, either alone or with others, products in related fields that are competitive with the products or potential products that are the subject of these collaborations. Competing products, either developed by the collaborators or strategic partners or to which the collaborators or strategic partners have rights, may result in the withdrawal of partner support for our product candidates. Our current or future collaborators or strategic partners may preclude us from entering into collaborations with their competitors, fail to obtain timely regulatory approvals, terminate their agreements with us prematurely, or fail to devote sufficient resources to the development and commercialization of products. Any of these developments could harm our product development efforts.

We rely on third parties to conduct the clinical trials for our product candidates. If these third parties do not successfully carry out their contractual duties, comply with regulatory requirements or meet expected deadlines, we may not be able to obtain marketing approval for or commercialize our product candidates.

We do not have the ability to independently conduct clinical trials. We and any collaboration partners who may conduct clinical trials involving our product candidates rely on medical institutions, clinical investigators, CROs, contract laboratories, and other third parties to conduct or otherwise support these clinical trials, all of which we refer to herein as our clinical trials. We and our collaborators rely heavily on these parties for execution of clinical trials and control only certain aspects of their activities. In addition, we have limited control over the activities of our collaborators who may conduct clinical trials involving our product candidates. Nevertheless, we are responsible for ensuring that each of our clinical trials is conducted in accordance with the applicable protocol, legal and regulatory requirements and scientific standards, and our reliance on third parties does not relieve us of these responsibilities. For any violations of laws and regulations during the conduct of our clinical trials, we could be subject to untitled and warning letters or enforcement actions that may include civil penalties or criminal prosecution.

We, our collaborators and the other third parties involved in our clinical trials are required to comply with regulations and requirements, including GCP, for conducting, monitoring, recording and reporting the results of clinical trials to ensure that the data and results are scientifically credible and accurate, and that the trial patients are adequately informed of the potential risks of participating in clinical trials and their rights are protected. These regulations are enforced by the FDA, the competent authorities of the EU member states and comparable foreign regulatory authorities for any drugs in clinical development. The FDA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities enforce GCP requirements through periodic inspections of clinical trial sponsors, principal investigators and trial sites. If we, our collaborators or other third parties fail to comply with applicable GCP, the clinical data generated in our clinical trials may be deemed unreliable, and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may require us to perform additional clinical trials before approving our marketing applications. Upon inspection, the FDA or comparable foreign authorities may determine that any of our current or future clinical trials do not comply with GCP. In addition, our clinical trials must be conducted with product candidates produced under cGMP regulations and similar regulatory requirements outside the United States. Our failure or the failure of third parties to comply with these regulations may require us to repeat clinical trials, which would delay the marketing approval process and could also subject us to enforcement action. We also are required to register certain ongoing clinical trials and provide certain information, including information relating to the trial’s protocol, on a United States government-sponsored database, ClinicalTrials.gov, within specific timeframes. Similar disclosure requirements may exist in foreign jurisdictions. Failure to do so can result in fines, adverse publicity and civil and criminal sanctions.

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We have participated and in the future may participate in clinical collaborations where a partner is responsible for conducting a clinical trial involving our product candidates. These collaborators may be commercial entities or investigator-sponsored or initiated studies that use our product candidates. Although we intend to design the clinical trials for our product candidates, or be involved in the design when other parties sponsor the trials, because these collaborators will have primary responsibility for the conduct of these trials, many important aspects of our clinical development for these trials, including their conduct and timing, is outside of our direct control.

 

Our reliance on third parties to conduct future clinical trials will also result in less direct control over the management of data developed through clinical trials than would be the case if we were relying entirely upon our own staff. Communicating with third parties can also be challenging, potentially leading to mistakes as well as difficulties in coordinating activities. Third parties may:

have staffing difficulties;
fail to comply with contractual obligations;
experience regulatory compliance issues;
have incentives that are different than ours;
undergo changes in priorities or become financially distressed; or
form relationships with other entities, some of which may be our competitors.

These factors may materially adversely affect the willingness or ability of third parties to conduct our clinical trials and may subject us to unexpected cost increases that are beyond our control. If the CROs or other third parties involved in our clinical trials do not perform these trials in a satisfactory manner, breach their obligations to us, or fail to comply with regulatory requirements, the development, marketing approval and commercialization of our product candidates may be delayed, we may not be able to obtain marketing approval and commercialize our product candidates, or our development program may be materially and irreversibly harmed. If we are unable to rely on clinical data collected by third parties involved in our clinical trials, we could be required to repeat, extend the duration of, or increase the size of our clinical trials and this could significantly delay commercialization and require significantly greater expenditures.

If any of our relationships with our CROs or other third parties involved in our clinical trials terminate, we may not be able to enter into arrangements with alternative CROs or other third parties on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If CROs or other third parties do not successfully carry out their contractual duties or obligations or meet expected deadlines, if they need to be replaced or if the quality or accuracy of the clinical data they obtain are compromised due to the failure to adhere to our clinical protocols, regulatory requirements or for other reasons, any clinical trials such CROs or other third parties are associated with may be extended, delayed or terminated, and we may not be able to obtain marketing approval for or successfully commercialize our product candidates.

We rely on third parties to manufacture preclinical and clinical drug supplies, and we intend to rely on third parties to produce commercial supplies of any approved product, which increases the risk that we will not have sufficient quantities of these product candidates or products or such quantities at an acceptable cost, which could delay, prevent or impair our development or commercialization efforts.

We do not own or operate manufacturing facilities for the production of preclinical, clinical or commercial supplies of the product candidates that we are developing or evaluating in our development programs. We have limited personnel with experience in drug manufacturing and lack the resources and the capabilities to manufacture any of our product candidates on a preclinical, clinical or commercial scale. We rely on third parties for supply of our preclinical and clinical drug supplies (including key starting and intermediate materials), and our strategy is to outsource all manufacturing of our product candidates and products to third parties.

In order to conduct clinical trials of product candidates, we will need to have them manufactured in potentially large quantities. Our third-party manufacturers may be unable to successfully increase the manufacturing capacity for any of our clinical drug supplies (including key starting and intermediate materials) in a timely or cost-effective manner, or at all. In addition, quality issues may arise during scale-up activities and at any other time. For example, ongoing data on the stability of our product candidates may shorten the expiry of our product candidates and lead to clinical trial material supply shortages, and potentially clinical trial delays. Further, the current U.S. Presidential administration has announced significant tariffs on imports from other countries on a wide range of goods. Any such tariffs that apply to drug supplies that we or our third-party suppliers import would result in our clinical trials being more costly to run than anticipated, and could have a substantial impact on our financial projections as well as timelines and plans for our clinical trials and commercialization efforts. If these third-party manufacturers are unable to successfully scale up the manufacture of our product candidates in sufficient quality and quantity, the development, testing and clinical trials of that product candidate may be delayed or infeasible, and regulatory approval or commercial launch of that product candidate may be delayed or not obtained.

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Some of our third-party suppliers are currently our sole source of drug supplies (including key starting and intermediate materials) and, as a result, an issue with one of these suppliers may impact our development or commercial plans. Our use of new third-party manufacturers or suppliers increases the risk of delays in production or insufficient supplies of our product candidates (and the key starting and intermediate materials for such product candidates) as we transfer our manufacturing technology to these manufacturers or suppliers and as they gain experience manufacturing or producing our product candidates (and the key starting and intermediate materials for these product candidates).

Even after a third-party manufacturer has gained significant experience in manufacturing our product candidates (or the key starting and intermediate materials for such product candidates), or even if we believe we have succeeded in optimizing the manufacturing process, there can be no assurance that such manufacturer will produce sufficient quantities of our product candidates (or the key starting and intermediate materials for such product candidates) in a timely manner or continuously over time, or at all. We may be delayed if we need to change the manufacturing process used by a third party. Further, if we change an approved manufacturing process, then we may be delayed if the FDA or a comparable foreign authority needs to review the new manufacturing process before it may be used.

 

Reliance on third-party manufacturers for preclinical, clinical and commercial supplies entails risks, including:

reliance on the third party for regulatory compliance and quality assurance;
the possible breach of the manufacturing agreement by the third party;
the possible misappropriation of our proprietary information, including our trade secrets and know-how; and
the possible termination or non-renewal of the agreement by the third party at a time that is costly or inconvenient for us.

We do not currently have any agreements with third-party manufacturers for long-term commercial supply. In the future, we may be unable to enter into agreements with third-party manufacturers for commercial supplies of any of our product candidates, or may be unable to do so on acceptable terms. Even if we are able to establish and maintain arrangements with third-party manufacturers for commercial supply, reliance on third-party manufacturers entails risks, including those described above.

Third-party manufacturers may not be able to comply with cGMP requirements or similar regulatory requirements outside the United States. Our failure, or the failure of our third-party manufacturers, to comply with applicable requirements could result in sanctions being imposed on us, including fines, injunctions, civil penalties, delays, suspension or withdrawal of approvals, license revocation, seizures or recalls of product candidates or products, operating restrictions and/or criminal prosecutions, any of which could significantly and adversely affect supplies of our product candidates.

Our future product candidates and any products that we may develop may compete with other product candidates and products for access to manufacturing facilities. There are a limited number of manufacturers that operate under cGMP requirements particularly for the development of monoclonal antibodies, and that might be capable of manufacturing for us.

Additionally, in January 2024, there was Congressional activity, including the introduction of the BIOSECURE Act in the House of Representatives and a substantially similar Senate bill. In September 2024, the House of Representatives of the prior Congress (the 118th Congress) passed the BIOSECURE Act, but the Senate never voted on it. It is unclear whether the current Congress (the 119th Congress) will introduce the BIOSECURE Act or similar legislation in this congressional session and, if so, how the scope, prohibitions or designated biotechnology companies of concern may differ from the version of the BIOSECURE Act passed by the House in the prior 118th Congress. If these bills became law, or similar laws are passed, they would have the potential to severely restrict the ability of U.S. biopharmaceutical companies like us to purchase services or products from, or otherwise collaborate with, certain Chinese biotechnology companies “of concern” without losing the ability to contract with, or otherwise receive funding from, the U.S. government. We do business with companies in China, including some named in these bills, and it is possible some of our contractual counterparties could be impacted by the legislation described above.

 

If the third parties that we engage to supply any materials or manufacture product for our preclinical tests and clinical trials should cease to continue to do so for any reason, we likely would experience delays in advancing these tests and trials while we identify and qualify replacement suppliers or manufacturers, and we may be unable to obtain replacement supplies on terms that are favorable to us or at all. In addition, if we are not able to obtain adequate supplies of our product candidates or the substances used to manufacture them, it will be more difficult for us to develop our product candidates and compete effectively.

Our current and anticipated future dependence upon others for the manufacture of our product candidates (or the key starting and intermediate materials for such product candidates) may adversely affect our future profit margins and our ability to develop product candidates and commercialize any products that receive marketing approval on a timely and competitive basis.

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Our future relationships with customers and third-party payors in the United States and elsewhere may be subject, directly or indirectly, to applicable anti-kickback, fraud and abuse, false claims, transparency, and other healthcare laws and regulations, which could expose us to criminal sanctions, civil penalties, contractual damages, reputational harm, administrative burdens and diminished profits and future earnings.

Healthcare providers, physicians and third-party payors in the United States and elsewhere will play a primary role in the recommendation and prescription of any product candidates for which we obtain marketing approval. Our future arrangements with third-party payors and customers may expose us to broadly applicable fraud and abuse and other healthcare laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the federal False Claims Act (FCA), which may constrain the business or financial arrangements and relationships through which we sell, market and distribute any products for which we obtain marketing approval. The applicable federal, state and foreign healthcare laws and regulations that may affect our ability to operate include:

the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits, among other things, knowingly and willfully soliciting, receiving, offering or paying any remuneration (including any kickback, bribe or rebate), directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in kind, to induce, or in return for, either the referral of an individual, or the purchase, lease, order or recommendation of any good, facility, item or service for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under the Medicare and Medicaid programs or other federal healthcare programs. A person or entity can be found guilty of violating the statute without actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it. The Anti-Kickback Statute has been interpreted to apply to arrangements between pharmaceutical manufacturers on the one hand and prescribers, purchasers and formulary managers on the other. There are a number of statutory exceptions and regulatory safe harbors protecting some common activities from prosecution;
the federal civil and criminal false claims laws, including the FCA, and civil monetary penalty laws, which prohibit any person or entity from, among other things, knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, a false, fictitious or fraudulent claim for payment to, or approval by, the federal government or knowingly making, using or causing to be made or used a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim to the federal government. In addition, the government may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the FCA;
HIPAA, which created federal criminal statutes that prohibit knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program or obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, any of the money or property owned by, or under the custody or control of, any healthcare benefit program, regardless of the payor (e.g., public or private) and knowingly and willfully falsifying, concealing or covering up by any trick or device a material fact or making any materially false statements in connection with the delivery of, or payment for, healthcare benefits, items or services relating to healthcare matters. Similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, a person or entity can be found guilty of violating HIPAA without actual knowledge of the statutes or specific intent to violate them;
the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, created under the ACA, and its implementing regulations, which requires manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (with certain exceptions) to report annually to CMS information related to payments or other transfers of value made to physicians (defined to include doctors, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors), certain non-physician practitioners (defined to include physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse anesthetists, anesthesiologist assistants and certified nurse midwives), and teaching hospitals, as well as ownership and investment interests held by physicians and their immediate family members;
federal consumer protection and unfair competition laws, which broadly regulate marketplace activities and activities that potentially harm consumers; and
analogous or related foreign, state or local laws and regulations, including anti-kickback and false claims laws, which may apply to sales or marketing arrangements and claims involving healthcare items or services reimbursed by non-government third-party payors, including private insurers; state laws that require pharmaceutical companies to comply with the pharmaceutical industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government or otherwise restrict payments that may be made to healthcare providers; and state laws that require drug manufacturers to report information related to payments and other transfers of value to physicians and other healthcare providers or marketing expenditures.

Because of the breadth of the laws described above and the narrowness of the statutory exceptions and regulatory safe harbors available under them, it is possible that some of our business activities could be subject to challenge under one or more of these laws.

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The scope and enforcement of each of these laws is uncertain and subject to rapid change in the current environment of healthcare reform, especially in light of the lack of applicable precedent and regulations. Federal and state enforcement bodies have recently increased their scrutiny of interactions between healthcare companies and healthcare providers, which has led to a number of investigations, prosecutions, convictions and settlements in the healthcare industry. Ensuring that our business arrangements with third parties comply with applicable healthcare laws, as well as responding to investigations by government authorities, can be time- and resource-consuming and can divert management’s attention from the business.

If our operations are found to be in violation of any of the laws described above or any other government regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to penalties, including civil, criminal and administrative penalties, damages, fines, disgorgement, individual imprisonment, possible exclusion from participation in federal and state funded healthcare programs, contractual damages and the curtailment or restricting of our operations, as well as additional reporting obligations and oversight if we become subject to a corporate integrity agreement or other agreement to resolve allegations of non-compliance with these laws, any of which could harm our ability to operate our business and our financial results. Further, if the physicians or other providers or entities with whom we expect to do business are found not to be in compliance with applicable laws, they may be subject to criminal, civil or administrative sanctions, including exclusions from government funded healthcare programs. In addition, the approval and commercialization of any of our product candidates outside the United States will also likely subject us to foreign equivalents of the healthcare laws mentioned above, among other foreign laws.

Risks related to intellectual property

If we and our collaborators are unable to obtain and maintain sufficient patent and other intellectual property protection for our product candidates and technology, our competitors could develop and commercialize products and technology similar or identical to ours, and we may not be able to compete effectively in our market or successfully commercialize any of our current or future product candidates.

Our success depends in significant part on our ability and the ability of our collaborators to obtain, maintain, enforce and defend patents and other intellectual property rights with respect to our product candidates and technology and to operate our business without infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating the intellectual property rights of others. If we and our collaborators are unable to obtain and maintain sufficient intellectual property protection for our product candidates or the product candidates that we may identify, or if the scope of the intellectual property protection obtained is not sufficiently broad, our competitors and other third parties could develop and commercialize product candidates similar or identical to ours, and our ability (and the ability of our collaborators) to successfully commercialize our product candidates may be impaired. Our patent coverage with respect to our clinical and preclinical programs is limited, and we can provide no assurance that any of our current or future patent applications will result in issued patents or that any issued patents will provide us with any competitive advantage. Failure to obtain such issued patents could negatively impact our and our collaborators’ ability to develop or commercialize any of our product candidates or technology.

We seek to protect our proprietary positions by, among other things, filing patent applications in the United States and abroad related to our current product candidates and the product candidates that we may identify. Obtaining, maintaining, defending and enforcing pharmaceutical patents is costly, time consuming and complex, and we may not be able to file and prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications, or maintain, enforce and license any patents that may issue from such patent applications, at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner. It is also possible that we have failed or will fail to identify patentable aspects of our research and development output before it is too late to obtain patent protection. We may not have the right to control the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of patent applications, or to maintain the rights to patents licensed to or from third parties.

Although we enter into confidentiality agreements with parties who have access to confidential or patentable aspects of our research and development output, such as our employees, collaborators, CROs, contract manufacturers, consultants, advisors and other third parties, any of these parties may breach the agreements and disclose such output before a patent application is filed, thereby jeopardizing our ability to seek patent protection. Further, we may not be aware of all third-party intellectual property rights potentially relating to our product candidates. Publications of discoveries in the scientific literature often lag behind the actual discoveries, and patent applications in the United States and other jurisdictions are typically not published until approximately 18 months after filing or, in some cases, not at all. Therefore, we cannot know with certainty whether we were the first to make the inventions claimed in our patents or pending patent applications, or that we were the first to file for patent protection of such inventions.

The patent position of pharmaceutical companies generally is highly uncertain, involves complex legal, technological and factual questions and has, in recent years, been the subject of much debate and litigation throughout the world. In addition, the laws of foreign countries may not protect our rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, or vice versa. As a result, the issuance, scope, validity, enforceability and commercial value of our patent rights are highly uncertain. The subject matter claimed in a patent application can be significantly reduced before the patent is issued, and its scope can be reinterpreted after issuance. Therefore, our pending and future patent applications may not result in patents being issued in relevant jurisdictions that protect our product candidates, in whole or in part, or which effectively prevent others from commercializing competitive product candidates, and, even if our patent applications issue as patents in relevant jurisdictions, they may not issue in a form that will provide us with any meaningful protection for our product candidates or technology, prevent competitors from competing with us or otherwise provide us with any competitive advantage.

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Additionally, our competitors may be able to circumvent our patents by developing similar or alternative product candidates or technologies in a non-infringing manner.

The issuance of a patent is not conclusive as to its inventorship, scope, validity or enforceability, and our patents may be challenged in the courts or patent offices in the United States and abroad. We may be subject to a third-party pre-issuance submission of prior art to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) or become involved in opposition, derivation, revocation, reexamination, inter partes review, post-grant review or interference proceedings challenging our patent rights or the patent rights of others, or other proceedings in the USPTO or applicable foreign offices that challenge priority of invention or other features of patentability. An adverse determination in any such submission, proceeding or litigation could result in loss of exclusivity or freedom to operate, patent claims being narrowed, invalidated or held unenforceable, in whole or in part, or limits on the scope or duration of the patent protection of our product candidates, all of which could limit our ability to stop others from using or commercializing similar or identical product candidates or technology to compete directly with us, without payment to us, or result in our inability to manufacture or commercialize products without infringing third-party patent rights. In addition, if the breadth or strength of protection provided by our patents and patent applications were threatened, regardless of the outcome, it could dissuade companies from collaborating with us to license, develop or commercialize current or future product candidates, or could negatively impact our ability to raise funds necessary to continue our research programs or clinical trials. Such proceedings could also result in substantial cost and require significant time from our scientists and management, even if the eventual outcome is favorable to us.

In addition, given the amount of time required for the development, testing and regulatory review of new product candidates, patents protecting such candidates might expire before or shortly after such candidates are commercialized. As a result, our patent portfolio may not provide us with sufficient rights to exclude others from commercializing products or technology similar or identical to ours for a meaningful amount of time, or at all. Moreover, some of our owned or licensed patents and patent applications are, and may in the future be, co-owned with third parties. If we are unable to obtain exclusive licenses to any such co-owners’ interest in such patents or patent applications, such co-owners may be able to license their rights to other third parties, including our competitors, and our competitors could market competing products and technology. In addition, we may need the cooperation of any such co-owners in order to enforce such patents against third parties, and such cooperation may not be provided to us. Any of the foregoing could harm our competitive position, business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

We have entered into license agreements with third parties. If we or a third party fail to comply with the obligations in the agreements under which we license intellectual property rights to or from third parties, or these agreements are terminated, or we otherwise experience disruptions to business relationships with our licensors or licensees, our competitive position, business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be harmed.

In addition to patent and other intellectual property rights we own or co-own, we have licensed, and may in the future license, patent and other intellectual property rights to and from other parties. Licenses may not provide us with exclusive rights to use the applicable intellectual property and technology in all relevant fields of use and in all territories in which we may wish to develop or commercialize our products and technology in the future. As a result, we may not be able to prevent competitors from developing and commercializing competitive products or technologies.

In addition, in some circumstances, we may not have the right to control the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications or to maintain, defend and enforce the patents that we license to or from third parties, and we may have to rely on our partners to fulfill these responsibilities.

If we fail to comply with our obligations in the agreements under which we license intellectual property rights from third parties, the licensor may have the right to terminate the license. If these agreements are terminated, the underlying patents fail to provide the intended exclusivity or we otherwise experience disruptions to our business relationships with our licensors, we could lose intellectual property rights that are important to our business or be prevented from developing and commercializing our product candidates, and competitors could have the freedom to seek regulatory approval of, and to market, products identical to ours. Termination of these agreements or reduction or elimination of our rights under these agreements may also result in our having to negotiate new agreements with less favorable terms, cause us to lose our rights under these agreements, including our rights to important intellectual property or technology, or impede, delay or prohibit the further development or commercialization of one or more product candidates that rely on such agreements. It is possible that we may be unable to obtain any additional licenses at a reasonable cost or on reasonable terms, if at all. In that event, we may be required to expend significant time and resources to redesign our product candidates or the methods for manufacturing them or to develop or license replacement technology, all of which may not be feasible on a technical or commercial basis.

In addition, if any of the research resulting in certain of our owned and/or in-licensed patent rights and technology were funded in part by the U.S. federal or state governments, the government would have certain rights, including march-in rights, to such patent rights and technology. When new technologies are developed with government funding, the government generally obtains certain rights in any resulting patents, including a non-exclusive license authorizing the government to use the invention for noncommercial purposes.

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These rights may permit the government to disclose our confidential information to third parties or allow third parties to use our licensed technology. The government can exercise its march-in rights if it determines that action is necessary because we fail to achieve practical application of the government-funded technology, because action is necessary to alleviate health or safety needs, to meet requirements of federal regulations, or to give preference to U.S. industry. In addition, our rights in such inventions may be subject to certain requirements to manufacture products embodying such inventions in the United States. Any of the foregoing could harm our competitive position, business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Licensing of intellectual property is of critical importance to our business and involves complex legal, business and scientific issues and certain provisions in intellectual property license agreements may be susceptible to multiple interpretations. Disputes may arise between us and our licensing partners regarding intellectual property subject to a license agreement, including:

the scope of rights granted under the license agreement and other interpretation-related issues;
whether and the extent to which technology and processes of one party infringe on intellectual property of the other party that are not subject to the license agreement;
rights to sublicense patent and other rights to third parties;
rights to transfer or assign the license;
any diligence obligations with respect to the use of the licensed technology in relation to development and commercialization of our product candidates, and what activities satisfy those diligence obligations;
the ownership of inventions and know-how resulting from the joint creation or use of intellectual property; and
the effects of termination.

The resolution of any contract interpretation disagreement that may arise could narrow what we believe to be the scope of our rights to the relevant intellectual property or technology, or increase what we believe to be our financial or other obligations under the relevant agreement, either of which could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Moreover, if disputes over intellectual property that we have licensed prevent or impair our ability to maintain our current licensing arrangements on acceptable terms, we may be unable to successfully develop and commercialize the affected product candidates.

In addition, if our licensors or licensees failed to abide by the terms of the license or failed to prevent infringement by third parties or if the licensed patents or other rights were found to be invalid or unenforceable, our business, competitive position, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially harmed.

If we are unable to obtain licenses from third parties on commercially reasonable terms or at all, our business could be harmed.

It may be necessary for us to use the patented or proprietary technology of third parties to commercialize our products, in which case we would be required to obtain a license from these third parties. The licensing of third-party intellectual property rights is a competitive area, and more established companies may pursue strategies to license or acquire third-party intellectual property rights that we may consider attractive or necessary. More established companies may have a competitive advantage over us due to their size, capital resources and greater development and commercialization capabilities. In addition, companies that perceive us to be a competitor may be unwilling to assign or license rights to us. We also may be unable to license or acquire third-party intellectual property rights on terms that would allow us to make an appropriate return on our investment or at all. If we are unable to obtain a necessary license, we may be unable to develop or commercialize the affected product candidates, and the third parties owning such intellectual property rights could seek either an injunction prohibiting our sales, or, with respect to our sales, an obligation on our part to pay royalties or other forms of compensation. Even if we are able to obtain a license, it may be non-exclusive, thereby giving our competitors access to the same technologies licensed to us. If we are unable to license needed technology, or if we are forced to license this technology on unfavorable terms, our business could be materially harmed.

We may not identify relevant third-party patents or may incorrectly interpret the relevance, scope or expiration of a third-party patent, which might subject us to infringement claims or adversely affect our ability to develop and market our product candidates.

We cannot guarantee that any of our or our licensors’ patent searches or analyses, including the identification of relevant patents, the scope of patent claims or the expiration of relevant patents, are complete or thorough, nor can we be certain that we have identified each and every third-party patent and pending patent application in the United States and abroad that is relevant to or necessary for the commercialization of our product candidates in any jurisdiction. For example, U.S. patent applications filed before November 29, 2000 and certain U.S. patent applications filed after that date that will not be filed outside the United States remain confidential until patents issue. Patent applications in the United States and elsewhere are published approximately 18 months after the earliest filing for which priority is claimed, with the earliest filing date being commonly referred to as the priority date. Therefore, patent applications covering our product candidates could have been filed by third parties without our knowledge. Additionally, pending patent applications that have been published can, subject to certain limitations, be later amended in a manner that could cover our product candidates or the use of our product candidates.

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The scope of a patent claim is determined by an interpretation of the law, the written disclosure in a patent and the patent’s prosecution history. Our interpretation of the relevance or the scope of a patent or a pending application may be incorrect, which may negatively impact our ability to market our product candidates. We may incorrectly determine that our product candidates are not covered by a third-party patent or may incorrectly predict whether a third party’s pending application will issue with claims of relevant scope. Our determination of the expiration date of any patent in the United States or abroad that we consider relevant may be incorrect, which may negatively impact our ability to develop and market our product candidates. Our failure to identify and correctly interpret relevant patents may negatively impact our ability to develop and market our product candidates.

If we fail to identify and correctly interpret relevant patents, we may be subject to infringement claims. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to successfully settle or otherwise resolve any infringement claims. If we fail in any of these disputes, in addition to being forced to pay damages, which may be significant, we may be temporarily or permanently prohibited from commercializing any of our product candidates that are held to be infringing. We might, if possible, also be forced to redesign product candidates so that we no longer infringe the third-party intellectual property rights. Any of these events, even if we were ultimately to prevail, could require us to divert substantial financial and management resources that we would otherwise be able to devote to our business.

Patent terms may be inadequate to protect our competitive position on our product candidates for an adequate amount of time.

Patents have a limited lifespan. In the United States, if all maintenance fees are timely paid, the natural expiration of a patent is generally 20 years from its earliest U.S. non-provisional filing date. Various extensions may be available, but the life of a patent, and the protection it affords, is limited. Even if patents covering our current and future product candidates are obtained, once the patent life has expired for a product candidate, we may be open to competition from competitive medications, including generic medications and biosimilars. Given the amount of time required for the development, testing and regulatory review of new product candidates, patents protecting such product candidates might expire before or shortly after such product candidates are commercialized. As a result, our owned and licensed patent portfolio may not provide us with sufficient rights to exclude others from commercializing product candidates similar or identical to ours for a meaningful amount of time, or at all.

Depending upon the timing, duration and conditions of any FDA marketing approval of our product candidates, one or more of our owned or licensed U.S. patents may be eligible for limited patent term extension under the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, referred to as the Hatch-Waxman Amendments, and similar legislation in the European Union and certain other countries. The Hatch-Waxman Amendments permit a patent term extension of up to five years for a patent covering an approved product as compensation for effective patent term lost during product development and the FDA regulatory review process. However, we may not receive an extension if we fail to exercise due diligence during the testing phase or regulatory review process, fail to apply within applicable deadlines, fail to apply prior to expiration of relevant patents or otherwise fail to satisfy applicable requirements. Moreover, the length of the extension could be less than we request. Only one patent per approved product can be extended, the extension cannot extend the total patent term beyond 14 years from approval and only those claims covering the approved drug, a method for using it or a method for manufacturing it may be extended. If we are unable to obtain patent term extension or the term of any such extension is less than we request, the period during which we can enforce our patent rights for the applicable product candidate will be shortened and our competitors may obtain approval to market competing products sooner. As a result, our revenue from applicable products could be reduced. Further, if this occurs, our competitors may take advantage of our investment in development and trials by referencing our clinical and preclinical data and launch their product earlier than might otherwise be the case.

In addition, there are detailed rules and requirements regarding the patents that may be submitted to the FDA for listing in the Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (the Orange Book). We may be unable to obtain patents covering our product candidates that contain one or more claims that satisfy the requirements for listing in the Orange Book. Even if we submit a patent for listing in the Orange Book, the FDA may decline to list the patent, or a manufacturer of generic drugs may challenge the listing. If one of our product candidates is approved and a patent covering that product candidate is not listed in the Orange Book, a manufacturer of generic drugs would not have to provide advance notice to us of any abbreviated NDA filed with the FDA to obtain permission to sell a generic version of such product candidate.

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights throughout the world.

Filing, prosecuting, maintaining, defending and enforcing patents on our product candidates in all countries throughout the world would be prohibitively expensive, and our intellectual property rights in some countries outside the United States can be less extensive than those in the United States. In addition, the laws and enforcement practices of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as federal and state laws in the United States. The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine may also make it difficult or impossible to continue to prosecute patent applications or maintain patents in those countries or other affected territories. For example, in March 2022, a decree was adopted by the Russian government allowing Russian companies and individuals to exploit inventions owned by patentees from the United States without consent or compensation.

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Consequently, we may not be able to prevent third parties from practicing our inventions in all countries outside the United States, or from selling or importing products made using our inventions in and into the United States or other jurisdictions. Competitors may use our technologies in jurisdictions where we have not obtained patent protection to develop their own products and may export otherwise infringing products to territories where we have patent protection, but enforcement rights are not as strong as those in the United States. These products may compete with our product candidates and our patents or other intellectual property rights may not be effective or sufficient to prevent them from competing.

Many companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in foreign jurisdictions. The legal systems of some countries do not favor the enforcement or protection of patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property, which could make it difficult for us to stop the infringement of our patents or marketing of competing products in violation of our intellectual property and proprietary rights generally. We may need to share our trade secrets and proprietary know-how with current or future partners, collaborators, contractors and others located in countries at heightened risk of theft of trade secrets, including through direct intrusion by private parties or foreign actors, and those affiliated with or controlled by state actors. Proceedings to enforce our intellectual property rights in foreign jurisdictions could result in substantial costs and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business, could put our patents at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and our patent applications at risk of not issuing and could provoke third parties to assert claims against us. We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate, and the damages or other remedies awarded, if any, may not be commercially meaningful.

Many foreign countries, including some European Union countries, India, Japan and China, have compulsory licensing laws under which a patent owner may be compelled under specified circumstances to grant licenses to third parties. In addition, many countries limit the enforceability of patents against government agencies or government contractors. In those countries, we may have limited remedies if patents are infringed or if we (or one of our collaborators) are compelled to grant a license (or sublicense) to a third party, which could materially diminish the value of the applicable patents. This could limit our potential revenue opportunities. Accordingly, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights around the world may be inadequate to obtain a significant commercial advantage from the intellectual property that we develop or license.

Changes in patent law could diminish the value of patents in general, thereby impairing our ability to protect our product candidates.

Obtaining and enforcing patents in the pharmaceutical industry is inherently uncertain, due in part to ongoing changes in the patent laws. For example, in the United States, depending on decisions by Congress, the federal courts and the USPTO, the laws and regulations governing patents, and interpretation thereof, could change in ways that could weaken our and our licensors’ or collaborators’ ability to obtain new patents or to enforce existing or future patents, or that affect the term of our or our licensors’ or collaborators’ patents. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on several patent cases in recent years, either narrowing the scope of patent protection available in certain circumstances or weakening the rights of patent owners in certain situations. Therefore, there is increased uncertainty with regard to our and our licensors’ or collaborators’ ability to obtain patents in the future, as well as uncertainty with respect to the value of patents once obtained.

Patent reform legislation could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of our and our licensors’ or collaborators’ patent applications and the enforcement or defense of our or our licensors’ or collaborators’ issued patents. For example, assuming that other requirements for patentability are met, prior to March 2013, in the United States, the first to invent the claimed invention was entitled to the patent, while outside the United States, the first to file a patent application was entitled to the patent. After March 2013, under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (the Leahy-Smith Act) enacted in September 2011, the United States transitioned to a first inventor to file system in which, assuming that other requirements for patentability are met, the first inventor to file a patent application will be entitled to the patent on an invention regardless of whether a third party was the first to invent the claimed invention. The Leahy-Smith Act also includes a number of significant changes that affect the way patent applications are prosecuted and may also affect patent litigation. These include allowing third-party submission of prior art to the USPTO during patent prosecution and additional procedures to challenge the validity of a patent by USPTO-administered post-grant proceedings, including post-grant review, inter partes review and derivation proceedings. The USPTO has developed regulations and procedures to govern administration of the Leahy-Smith Act, and many of the substantive changes to patent law associated with the Leahy-Smith Act, particularly the first inventor-to-file provisions. Accordingly, it is not clear what, if any, impact the Leahy-Smith Act will have on the operation of our business. However, the Leahy-Smith Act and its implementation could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of our or our licensors’ patent applications and the enforcement or defense of our or our licensors’ issued patents. Similarly, statutory or judicial changes to the patent laws of other countries may increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of patent applications and the enforcement or defense of issued patents.

On June 1, 2023, the European Patent Package (the EU Patent Package) regulations were implemented with the goal of providing a single pan-European Unitary Patent and a new European Unified Patent Court (the UPC), for litigation involving European patents.

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Under the UPC, all European patents, including those issued prior to ratification of the European Patent Package, will by default automatically fall under the jurisdiction of the UPC. The UPC provides our competitors with a new forum to centrally revoke our European patents, and allows for the possibility of a competitor to obtain pan-European injunctions. It will be several years before we will understand the scope of patent rights that will be recognized and the strength of patent remedies provided by the UPC. As the UPC is a relatively new court system, there is limited precedent for the court, increasing the uncertainty of any litigation. We will have the right to opt our patents out of the UPC over the first seven years of the court’s existence, but doing so may preclude us from realizing the benefits, if any, of the new unified court.

 

Obtaining and maintaining our patent protection depends on compliance with various procedural, document submission, fee payment and other requirements imposed by government patent agencies, and our patent protection could be reduced or eliminated if we fail to comply with these requirements.

Periodic maintenance fees, renewal fees, annuity fees and various other fees are required to be paid to the USPTO and foreign patent agencies in several stages over the lifetime of a patent. In certain circumstances, we rely on our licensors and collaborators to pay these fees. The USPTO and various foreign patent agencies also require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment and other similar requirements during the patent application and prosecution process. Non-compliance events that could result in abandonment or lapse of a patent or patent application include failure to respond to official communications within prescribed time limits, non-payment of fees and failure to properly legalize and submit formal documents. While an inadvertent lapse can in some cases be cured by payment of a late fee or by other means in accordance with the applicable rules, there are situations in which non-compliance can result in irrevocable abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction. If we or our licensors or collaborators fail to maintain the patents and patent applications covering our product candidates, our competitors might be able to enter the relevant market(s) with similar or identical products or technology, which would harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

We may become involved in lawsuits to protect or enforce our patents or other intellectual property, which could be expensive, time-consuming and unsuccessful, and issued patents covering our technology and product candidates could be found invalid or unenforceable if challenged.

Competitors and other third parties may infringe or otherwise violate our issued patents or other intellectual property or the patents or other intellectual property of our licensors. In addition, our patents or the patents of our licensors may become involved in inventorship or priority disputes. Our pending patent applications cannot be enforced against third parties practicing the technology claimed in such applications unless and until a patent issues from such applications. To counter infringement or other unauthorized use, we may be required to file infringement claims, which can be expensive and time-consuming. Our ability to enforce patent rights also depends on our ability to detect infringement. It may be difficult to detect infringers who do not advertise the components or methods that are used in connection with their products and services. Moreover, it may be difficult or impossible to obtain evidence of infringement in a competitor’s or potential competitor’s product or service. Any claims we assert against perceived infringers could provoke these parties to assert counterclaims against us alleging that we infringe their patents or that our patents are invalid or unenforceable. In a patent infringement proceeding, a court may decide that a patent of ours is invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, construe the patent’s claims narrowly or refuse to stop the other party from using the technology at issue on the grounds that our patents do not cover the technology. An adverse result in any litigation proceeding could put one or more of our owned or licensed patents at risk of being invalidated, held unenforceable or interpreted narrowly. Additionally, we may determine it is impractical or undesirable to enforce our intellectual property against some third parties.

If we were to initiate legal proceedings against a third party to enforce a patent directed to our product candidates, or one of our future product candidates, the defendant could counterclaim that our patent is invalid or unenforceable. In patent litigation in the United States, defendant counterclaims alleging invalidity or unenforceability are commonplace. Grounds for a validity challenge could be an alleged failure to meet any of several statutory requirements, including lack of novelty, obviousness, non-enablement or insufficient written description. Grounds for an unenforceability assertion could be an allegation that someone connected with prosecution of the patent withheld relevant information from the USPTO or made a misleading statement during prosecution. Third parties may also raise similar claims before the USPTO or an equivalent foreign body, even outside the context of litigation. Potential proceedings include re-examination, post-grant review, inter partes review, interference proceedings, derivation proceedings and equivalent proceedings in foreign jurisdictions (e.g., opposition proceedings). Such proceedings could result in the revocation of, cancellation of, or amendment to our patents in such a way that they no longer cover our technology or any product candidates that we may develop. The outcome following legal assertions of invalidity and unenforceability is unpredictable. With respect to the validity question, for example, we cannot be certain that there is no invalidating prior art of which we and the patent examiner were unaware during prosecution. If a defendant were to prevail on a legal assertion of invalidity or unenforceability, we would lose at least part, and perhaps all, of the patent protection on the applicable product candidates or technology covered by the patent rendered invalid or unenforceable.

Interference proceedings provoked by third parties or brought by us or declared by the USPTO may be necessary to determine the priority of inventions with respect to our patents or patent applications. An unfavorable outcome could require us to cease using the related technology or to attempt to license rights to it from the prevailing party. Our business could be materially harmed if the prevailing party does not offer us a license on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

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Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential information could be compromised by disclosure during this type of litigation.

Some of our competitors are larger than we are and have substantially greater resources. They are, therefore, likely to be able to sustain the costs of complex patent litigation or proceedings more effectively than we can because of their greater financial resources and more mature and developed intellectual property portfolios. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may not be able to prevent third parties from infringing upon, misappropriating or otherwise violating our intellectual property. Even if resolved in our favor, litigation or other legal proceedings relating to intellectual property claims could result in substantial costs and diversion of management attention and other resources, which could harm our business. In addition, the uncertainties associated with litigation could compromise our ability to raise the funds necessary to continue our clinical trials, continue our internal research programs, or in-license needed technology or other product candidates. There could also be public announcements of the results of the hearing, motions, or other interim proceedings or developments. If securities analysts or investors perceive those results to be negative, it could cause the price of shares of our common stock to decline.

Third parties may initiate legal proceedings alleging that we are infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating their intellectual property rights, the outcome of which would be uncertain and could negatively impact the success of our business.

Our commercial success depends upon our ability to develop, manufacture, market and sell our product candidates and use our proprietary technologies without infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating the intellectual property and other proprietary rights of third parties. There is considerable intellectual property litigation in the pharmaceutical industry.

We may become party to, or threatened with, future adversarial proceedings or litigation regarding intellectual property rights with respect to our product candidates and their manufacture and our other technology, including re-examination, interference, post-grant review, inter partes review or derivation proceedings before the USPTO or an equivalent foreign body. Numerous U.S. and foreign issued patents and pending patent applications owned by third parties exist in the fields in which we are developing our product candidates. Third parties may assert infringement claims against us based on existing patents or patents that may be granted in the future, regardless of their merit.

Even if we believe third-party intellectual property claims are without merit, there is no assurance that a court would find in our favor on questions of infringement, validity, enforceability or priority. A court of competent jurisdiction could hold that third-party patents asserted against us are valid, enforceable and infringed, which could materially and adversely affect our ability to commercialize any of our product candidates and any other product candidates or technologies covered by the asserted third-party patents. In order to successfully challenge the validity of a U.S. patent in federal court, we would need to overcome a presumption of validity. As this burden is a high one requiring us to present clear and convincing evidence as to the invalidity of a U.S. patent claim, there is no assurance that a court of competent jurisdiction would invalidate the claims of any such U.S. patent. If we are found to infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate a third party’s intellectual property rights, and we are unsuccessful in demonstrating that these rights are invalid or unenforceable, we could be required to obtain a license from such a third party in order to continue developing and marketing our products and technology. However, we may not be able to obtain any required license on commercially reasonable terms or at all. Even if we were able to obtain a license, it could be non-exclusive, thereby giving our competitors access to the same technologies licensed to us. We could be forced, including by court order, to cease commercializing the infringing technology or product. A finding of infringement could prevent us from commercializing our product candidates or force us to cease some of our business operations. In the event of a successful claim of infringement against us, we may have to pay substantial damages, including treble damages and attorneys’ fees for willful infringement, pay royalties and other fees, redesign our infringing product candidate or obtain one or more licenses from third parties, which may be impossible or require substantial time and monetary expenditure. Claims that we have misappropriated the confidential information or trade secrets of third parties could have a similar negative impact on our business.

We may be subject to claims by third parties asserting that we or our employees have infringed upon, misappropriated or otherwise violated their intellectual property rights, or claiming ownership of what we regard as our own intellectual property.

Many of our employees were previously employed at other biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies, and our consultants and advisors may work for other biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies in addition to us. Although we try to ensure that our employees, consultants and advisors do not use the proprietary information or know-how of others in their work for us, we may be subject to claims that we or these individuals have used or disclosed intellectual property, including trade secrets or other proprietary information, of any of these individuals’ former or concurrent employers or clients. We may also be subject to claims that patents and applications we have filed to protect inventions of our employees, consultants and advisors, even those related to one or more of our product candidates, are rightfully owned by their former or concurrent employer. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these claims.

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If we fail in prosecuting or defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights or personnel. Even if we are successful in prosecuting or defending against these claims, litigation could result in substantial costs, delay development of our product candidates and be a distraction to management.

We may be subject to claims challenging the inventorship of our patents and other intellectual property.

We or our licensors may be subject to claims that former employees, collaborators or other third parties have an interest in our owned or in-licensed patents, trade secrets, or other intellectual property as an inventor or co-inventor. For example, we or our licensors may have inventorship disputes that arise from conflicting obligations of employees, consultants or others who are involved in developing our product candidates. While it is our policy to require our employees and contractors who may be involved in the development of intellectual property to execute agreements assigning this intellectual property to us, we may be unsuccessful in executing such an agreement with each party who in fact develops intellectual property that we regard as our own. Our and their assignment agreements may not be self-executing or may be breached, and litigation may be necessary to defend against these and other claims challenging inventorship or our or our licensors’ ownership of our owned or in-licensed patents, trade secrets or other intellectual property. If we or our licensors fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights, such as exclusive ownership of, or right to use, intellectual property that is important to our product candidates. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management and other employees.

If we are unable to protect the confidentiality of our trade secrets, our business and competitive position would be harmed.

We rely on trade secrets and confidentiality agreements to protect our unpatented know-how, technology and other proprietary information (including unpatented know-how associated with Warp Drive Bio, Inc.) and to maintain our competitive position. Trade secrets and know-how can be difficult to protect. We seek to protect these trade secrets and other proprietary technology, in part, by entering into non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements with parties who have access to them, such as our employees, collaborators, CROs, contract manufacturers, consultants, advisors and other third parties. We also enter into confidentiality and invention or patent assignment agreements with our employees and consultants. We cannot guarantee that we have entered into these agreements with each party that may have or has had access to our trade secrets or proprietary technology and processes. Despite our efforts, any of these parties may breach the agreements and disclose our proprietary information, including our trade secrets, and we may not be able to obtain adequate remedies for such breaches. Unauthorized parties may also attempt to copy or reverse engineer certain aspects of our products that we consider proprietary. Monitoring unauthorized uses and disclosures is difficult, and we do not know whether the steps we have taken to protect our proprietary information will be effective.

We also seek to preserve the integrity and confidentiality of our confidential proprietary information by maintaining physical security of our premises and physical and electronic security of our information technology systems, but it is possible that these security measures could be breached. Enforcing a claim that a party illegally disclosed or misappropriated a trade secret is difficult, expensive and time-consuming, and the outcome is unpredictable. In addition, some courts inside and outside the United States are less willing or unwilling to protect trade secrets. If any of our trade secrets were to be lawfully obtained or independently developed by a competitor or other third party, we would have no right to prevent them from using that technology or information to compete with us. If any of our trade secrets were to be disclosed to, or independently developed by, a competitor or other third party, our competitive position would be materially and adversely harmed.

If our trademarks and trade names are not adequately protected, then we may not be able to build name recognition in our markets of interest, and our business may be adversely affected.

Our registered and unregistered trademarks and trade names may be challenged, infringed, circumvented or declared generic or determined to be infringing on other marks. We may not be able to protect our rights to these trademarks and trade names, which we need to build name recognition among potential collaborators or customers in our markets of interest. At times, competitors may adopt trade names or trademarks similar to ours, thereby impeding our ability to build brand identity and possibly leading to market confusion. In addition, there could be potential trade name or trademark infringement claims brought by owners of other trademarks or trademarks that incorporate variations of our registered or unregistered trademarks or trade names. Over the long term, if we are unable to establish name recognition based on our trademarks and trade names, then we may not be able to compete effectively, and our business may be adversely affected. We may license our trademarks and trade names to third parties, such as distributors or licensees. Although these license agreements may provide conditions and guidelines for how our trademarks and trade names may be used, a breach of these agreements or misuse of our trademarks and tradenames by these third parties may jeopardize our rights in or diminish the goodwill associated with our trademarks and trade names. Our efforts to enforce or protect our proprietary rights related to trademarks, trade names, trade secrets, domain names, copyrights or other intellectual property may be ineffective and could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources.

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Intellectual property rights do not necessarily address all potential threats.

The degree of future protection afforded by our intellectual property rights is uncertain because intellectual property rights have limitations and may not adequately protect our business or permit us to maintain our competitive advantage. For example:

others may be able to make products that are similar to our current or future product candidates or utilize similar technology but that are not covered by the claims of our patents or the patents that we license or may own in the future;
we, or our current or future collaborators might not have been the first to make the inventions covered by an issued patent or pending patent application that we license or may own in the future;
we or our current or future collaborators might not have been the first to file patent applications covering certain of our or their inventions;
others may independently develop similar or alternative technologies or duplicate any of our technologies without infringing our owned or licensed intellectual property rights;
generative AI technologies are a relatively novel development with evolving regulatory regimes that may not offer intellectual property protections;
our pending owned or licensed patent applications or those that we may own or license in the future may not lead to issued patents;
issued patents that we hold rights to may be held invalid or unenforceable, including as a result of legal challenges by our competitors;
our competitors might conduct research and development activities in countries where we do not have patent rights and then use the information learned from such activities to develop competitive products for sale in our major commercial markets;
we may not develop additional proprietary technologies that are patentable;
the patents of others may harm our business; and
we may choose not to file a patent in order to maintain certain trade secrets or know-how, and a third party may subsequently file a patent covering such intellectual property.

Risks related to employee matters and managing our growth

We are highly dependent on our key personnel, and if we are not successful in attracting, motivating and retaining highly qualified personnel, we may not be able to successfully implement our business strategy.

We are highly dependent on members of our executive team. The loss of the services of any of them may adversely impact the achievement of our objectives. Any of our executive officers could leave our employment at any time, as all of our employees are “at-will” employees. We currently do not have “key person” insurance on any of our employees. The loss of the services of one or more of our key personnel might impede the achievement of our research, development and commercialization objectives.

Recruiting and retaining qualified employees, consultants and advisors for our business, including scientific and technical personnel, is critical to our success. Competition for skilled personnel is intense and the turnover rate can be high. We may not be able to attract and retain personnel on acceptable terms given the competition among numerous pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and academic institutions for skilled individuals. In addition, failure to succeed in preclinical studies, clinical trials or applications for marketing approval may make it more challenging to recruit and retain qualified personnel. The inability to recruit, or the loss of services of certain executives, key employees, consultants or advisors may impede the progress of our research, development and commercialization objectives.

 

We will need to increase the size of our organization, and we may experience difficulties in managing this growth.

 

As of June 30, 2025, we had 700 full-time employees, including 544 employees engaged in research and development. As our development and commercialization plans and strategies develop, and as we operate as a public company, we expect to need additional managerial, research and development, operational, sales, marketing, financial and other personnel. Future growth would impose significant added responsibilities on members of management, including:

identifying, recruiting, integrating, retaining and motivating additional employees;
managing our internal development efforts effectively, including the clinical and FDA review process for our product candidates, while complying with our contractual obligations to contractors and other third parties; and
improving our operational, financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures.

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Our future financial performance and our ability to advance development of and, if approved, commercialize our product candidates will depend, in part, on our ability to effectively manage any future growth, and our management may also have to divert a disproportionate amount of its attention away from day-to-day activities in order to devote a substantial amount of time to managing these growth activities.

 

We currently rely, and for the foreseeable future will continue to rely, in substantial part on certain independent organizations, advisors and consultants to provide certain services, including substantially all aspects of marketing approval, clinical management and manufacturing. The services of these independent organizations, advisors and consultants may not continue to be available to us on a timely basis when needed, on economically reasonable terms, or at all, and we may be unable to find qualified replacements. In addition, if we are unable to effectively manage our outsourced activities or if the quality or accuracy of the services provided by consultants is compromised for any reason, our clinical trials may be extended, delayed or terminated, and we may not be able to obtain marketing approval of any current or future product candidates or otherwise advance our business.

 

If we are not able to effectively expand our organization by hiring new employees and expanding our groups of consultants and contractors, we may not be able to successfully implement the tasks necessary to further develop and commercialize any of our product candidates and, accordingly, may not achieve our research, development and commercialization goals.

 

We currently have a limited commercial organization. If we are unable to establish sufficient sales and marketing capabilities on our own or through third parties, we may not be able to market and sell any products effectively, if approved, or generate product revenue.

We currently have a limited commercial organization. In order to commercialize any product, if approved, in the United States and foreign jurisdictions, we must build our marketing, sales, distribution, market access, analytics, managerial and other non-technical capabilities or make arrangements with third parties to perform these services, and we may not be successful in doing so. In advance of any of our product candidates receiving regulatory approval, we expect to establish a sales organization with technical expertise as well as supporting distribution capabilities to commercialize each such product candidate, which will be expensive and time-consuming. Our Company has no prior experience in the marketing, sale and distribution of pharmaceutical products, and there are significant risks involved in building and managing a sales organization, including our ability to hire, retain, and incentivize qualified individuals, generate sufficient sales leads, provide adequate training to sales and marketing personnel, and effectively manage a geographically dispersed sales and marketing team. Any failure or delay in the development of our internal sales, marketing and distribution capabilities would adversely impact the commercialization of these products. We may choose to collaborate with third parties that have direct sales forces and established distribution systems, either to augment our own sales force and distribution systems or in lieu of our own sales force and distribution systems. If we are unable to enter into such arrangements on acceptable terms or at all, we may not be able to successfully commercialize our product candidates.

We have in the past engaged and may in the future engage in strategic transactions; these transactions could affect our liquidity, dilute our existing stockholders, increase our expenses and present significant challenges in focus and energy to our management or prove not to be successful.

From time to time, we may consider strategic transactions, such as acquisitions of companies, asset purchases and out-licensing or in-licensing of intellectual property, products or technologies. For example, in October 2018, we acquired all of the outstanding shares of Warp Drive Bio, Inc., which became our direct wholly owned subsidiary, and in November 2023, we completed the EQRx Acquisition.

Additional potential transactions that we may consider in the future include a variety of business arrangements, including spin-offs, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, restructurings, divestitures, business combinations and investments. Any future transactions could result in potentially dilutive issuances of our equity securities, including our common stock, or the incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities, amortization expenses or acquired in-process research and development expenses, any of which could affect our financial condition, liquidity and results of operations. Future acquisitions may also require us to obtain additional financing, which may not be available on favorable terms or at all. These transactions may never be successful and may require significant time and attention of management. In addition, the integration of any business that we may acquire in the future may disrupt our existing business and may be a complex, risky and costly endeavor for which we may never realize the full benefits of the acquisition.

If we fail to comply with environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, we could become subject to fines or penalties or incur costs that could negatively impact our business.

We are subject to numerous environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, including those governing laboratory procedures and the handling, use, storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous materials and wastes. Our operations involve the use of hazardous and flammable materials, including chemicals and biological and radioactive materials. Our operations also produce hazardous waste products.

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We generally contract with third parties for the disposal of these materials and wastes. We cannot eliminate the risk of contamination or injury from these materials. In the event of contamination or injury resulting from our use of hazardous materials, we could be held liable for any resulting damages, and any liability could exceed our resources. We also could incur significant costs associated with civil or criminal fines and penalties.

Although we maintain workers’ compensation insurance to cover us for costs and expenses we may incur due to injuries to our employees resulting from the use of hazardous materials, this insurance may not provide adequate coverage against potential liabilities. We do not maintain insurance for environmental liability or toxic tort claims that may be asserted against us in connection with our storage or disposal of biological, hazardous or radioactive materials.

We or the third parties upon whom we depend are subject to risk from earthquakes, outbreak of disease, other natural disasters and catastrophic events and may be subject to disruption as a result of war, terrorism, political unrest and other causes.

Our corporate headquarters and other facilities are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, which in the past has experienced severe earthquakes, wildfires and flooding. We do not carry earthquake insurance. Earthquakes, wildfires or other natural disasters could severely disrupt our operations, and negatively impact our business.

A significant natural disaster, power outage, or other catastrophic event, such as telecommunications failure, cyberattack, war, terrorist attack, sabotage, geopolitical event, pandemic, or other public health crisis or other catastrophic occurrence that prevented us from using all or a significant portion of our headquarters, that damaged critical infrastructure, such as our enterprise financial systems or manufacturing resource planning and enterprise quality systems, or that otherwise disrupted operations, may make it difficult or, in certain cases, impossible, for us to continue our business for a substantial period of time. The disaster recovery and business continuity plans we have in place currently are limited and are unlikely to prove adequate in the event of a serious disaster or similar event. We may incur substantial expenses as a result of the limited nature of our disaster recovery and business continuity plans, which, particularly when taken together with our lack of earthquake insurance, could negatively impact our business.

 

Furthermore, escalation of geopolitical tensions, including as a result of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine or escalation of conflicts in the Middle East, could impact our current or planned clinical operations and our business partners and suppliers, which could adversely affect our business, partners, suppliers or the economy as a whole. The extent and duration of the military action, sanctions and resulting market disruptions could be significant and have substantial impact on the global economy and our business for an unknown period of time, including limiting our ability to include European or Middle Eastern sites as clinical trial locations in the future, as a result of which we may have to delay, reduce the scope of or suspend one or more of our clinical trials.

Despite any precautions we may take, the occurrence of a natural disaster or other unanticipated problems could result in lengthy interruptions to our business or disruptions in our activities or the activities of our partners, suppliers or the economy as a whole. All of the aforementioned risks may be further increased if our disaster recovery plans prove to be inadequate.

Our employees, independent contractors, vendors, principal investigators, CROs and consultants may engage in misconduct or other improper activities, including non-compliance with regulatory standards and requirements and insider trading.

We are exposed to the risk that our employees, independent contractors, vendors, principal investigators, CROs and consultants may engage in fraudulent conduct or other illegal activity. Misconduct by these parties could include intentional, reckless or negligent conduct or disclosure of unauthorized activities to us that violate the regulations of the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities, including those laws requiring the reporting of true, complete and accurate information to such authorities; healthcare fraud and abuse laws and regulations in the United States and abroad; or laws that require the reporting of financial information or data accurately. In particular, sales, marketing and business arrangements in the healthcare industry are subject to extensive laws and regulations intended to prevent fraud, misconduct, kickbacks, self-dealing and other abusive practices. These laws and regulations may restrict or prohibit a wide range of pricing, discounting, marketing and promotion, sales commission, customer incentive programs and other business arrangements. Activities subject to these laws also involve the improper use of information obtained in the course of clinical trials or creating fraudulent data in our preclinical studies or clinical trials, which could result in regulatory sanctions and cause serious harm to our reputation. It is not always possible to identify and deter misconduct by employees and other third parties, and the precautions we take to detect and prevent this activity may not be effective in controlling unknown or unmanaged risks or losses or in protecting us from government investigations or other actions or lawsuits stemming from a failure to comply with these laws or regulations. Additionally, we are subject to the risk that a person could allege fraud or other misconduct, even if none occurred. If any such actions are instituted against us, and we are not successful in defending ourselves or asserting our rights, those actions could have a significant impact on our business, including the imposition of civil, criminal and administrative penalties, damages, monetary fines, possible exclusion from participation in Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs, contractual damages, reputational harm, and curtailment of our operations.

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Risks related to our common stock and warrants

The price of our common stock is volatile and fluctuates substantially, which could result in substantial losses for investors.

Our stock price is highly volatile. The stock market in general, and the market for biopharmaceutical companies in particular, have experienced extreme volatility that has often been unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies.

The market price for our common stock may be influenced by many factors, including:

our research and development efforts and our ability to discover and develop product candidates;
results of our clinical trials and preclinical studies or those of our competitors;
the success of competitive products or technologies;
regulatory or legal developments in the United States and other countries;
developments or disputes concerning patent applications, issued patents or other proprietary rights;
the recruitment or departure of key personnel;
the level of expenses related to our product candidates or clinical development programs;
the results of our efforts to discover, develop, acquire or in-license product candidates or companion diagnostics;
any adverse developments or disagreements or perceived adverse developments or disagreements with our partners;
actual or anticipated changes in estimates as to financial results, development timelines or recommendations by securities analysts;
variations in our financial results or those of companies that are perceived to be similar to us;
changes in the structure of healthcare payment systems;
market conditions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors; and
general economic, industry and market conditions.

In addition, stock markets with respect to public companies, particularly companies in the biotechnology industry, have experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect, the stock prices of these companies. Stock prices of many companies, including biotechnology companies, have fluctuated in a manner often unrelated to the operating performance of those companies. In the past, companies that have experienced volatility in the trading price of their securities have been subject to securities class action litigation.

 

An active and liquid market for our common stock may not be sustained.

Our common stock is currently listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “RVMD”. The price for our common stock may vary, and an active and liquid market in our common stock may not be sustained. The lack of an active market may impair the value of your shares, your ability to sell your shares at the time you wish to sell them and the prices that you may obtain for your shares. An inactive market may also impair our ability to raise capital by selling our common stock and our ability to acquire other companies, products or technologies by using our common stock as consideration.

We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock so any returns will be limited to the value of our stock.

We do not currently intend to pay any cash dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future. We currently intend to invest our future earnings, if any, to fund our growth. Additionally, the terms of our Loan Agreement restrict our ability to pay dividends, except for certain customary exceptions. Therefore, stockholders are not likely to receive any dividends on their common stock for the foreseeable future. Since we do not intend to pay dividends, stockholders’ ability to receive a return on their investment will depend on any future appreciation in the market value of our common stock. There is no guarantee that our common stock will appreciate or even maintain the price at which our holders have purchased it.

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Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could cause our stock price to fall.

If our existing stockholders sell, or indicate an intention to sell, substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market, the market price of our common stock could decline.

As of June 30, 2025, 32.9 million shares of common stock were subject to outstanding options, warrants or restricted stock units and were eligible, or expected to become eligible, for sale in the public market to the extent permitted by the provisions of various vesting schedules, lock-up agreements and Rule 144 and Rule 701 under the Securities Act. If these additional shares of common stock are sold, or if it is perceived that they will be sold, in the public market, the market price of our common stock could decline.

There is no guarantee that our public and private warrants will ever be in the money, and they may expire worthless.

 

We have public and private warrants that were issued in registered form under a warrant agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, and EQRx (the Warrant Agreement). Following the EQRx Acquisition, these warrants became exercisable for shares of our common stock, and we appointed Equiniti Trust Company, LLC as the warrant agent. These warrants entitle registered holders to purchase 0.1112 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per such fractional share of common stock. There is no guarantee that these warrants will ever be in the money prior to their expiration, and as such, these warrants could expire worthless.

 

We may amend the terms of our public and private warrants in a manner that may be adverse to holders with the approval by the holders of at least 50% of the then-outstanding warrants. As a result, the exercise price of a holder’s warrants could be increased, the exercise period could be shortened and the number of shares of our common stock purchasable upon exercise of a warrant could be decreased, all without the approval of that warrant holder.

 

The Warrant Agreement provides that the terms of our public and private warrants may be amended without the consent of any holder to cure any ambiguity or correct any defective provision, but requires the approval by the holders of at least 50% of the then-outstanding warrants to make any change that adversely affects the interests of the registered holders. Accordingly, we may only amend the terms of these warrants in a manner adverse to a holder if holders of at least 50% of the then-outstanding warrants approve of the amendment, including to, among other things, increase the exercise price of the warrants, convert the warrants into cash or stock, shorten the exercise period or decrease the number of shares of common stock purchasable upon exercise of a warrant.

 

We may redeem unexpired public and private warrants prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to warrant holders, thereby making their warrants worthless.

 

We have the ability to redeem our outstanding public warrants at any time prior to their expiration (A) at a price of $0.01 per public warrant; provided that the last reported sales price of our common stock equals or exceeds $161.87 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading-day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which we give notice of such redemption to the public warrant holders and provided certain other conditions are met, and (B) at a price of $0.10 per public warrant; provided that (i) holders will be able to exercise their public warrants on a cashless basis prior to redemption and receive that number of shares determined by reference to an agreed table based on the redemption date and the “fair market value” of the common stock, (ii) if the last reported sales price of Common Stock equals or exceeds $89.93 per share (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a public warrant as described in the “Description of Securities” filed as Exhibit 4.3 to the 2024 Form 10-K under the heading “Public warrants — Anti-dilution Adjustments”) for any 20 trading days within the 30-trading day period ending three trading days before we send the notice of redemption to the public warrant holders, (iii) if the closing price of our common stock for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending three trading days before we send the notice of redemption to the public warrant holders is less than $161.87 per share (as adjusted), the private warrants must also be concurrently called for redemption on the same terms as the outstanding public warrants and (iv) provided certain other conditions are met. A redemption in accordance with (B) above may result in public warrant holders having to exercise the public warrants at a time when they are out-of-the-money or receive nominal consideration from us for them.

 

The terms of the private warrants are substantially the same as the public warrants; provided, that, except as described above in the discussion of the redemption of public warrants when the price per share of our common stock equals or exceeds $89.93, the private warrants are exercisable on a cashless basis and are non-redeemable for cash so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees. If the private warrants are held by someone other than the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees, the private warrants are redeemable by us and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the public warrants. Please see Exhibit 4.3 “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Warrants” filed with the 2024 Form 10-K for additional information.

 

If and when these warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws.

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Redemption of the outstanding public and private warrants could force the warrant holders: (i) to exercise their warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for them to do so; (ii) to sell their warrants at the then-current market price when they might otherwise wish to hold their warrants; or (iii) to accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding warrants are called for redemption, is likely to be substantially less than the market value of their warrants.

 

Our ability to utilize our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes has been limited by “ownership changes” and may be further limited.

Under Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), and corresponding provisions of state law, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change” (generally defined as a greater than 50 percentage point change (by value) in its equity ownership over a rolling three-year period), the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change net operating loss carryforwards and other pre-change tax attributes (such as research and development tax credits) to offset its post-change income or taxes may be limited. We have experienced ownership changes in the past, and we may experience ownership changes in the future as a result of our public offerings or other changes in our stock ownership (some of which are not in our control). Use of our federal and state net operating loss carryforwards has been limited as a result of ownership changes and could be further limited if we experience additional ownership changes.

Provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could discourage a takeover that stockholders may consider favorable and may lead to entrenchment of management.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could delay or prevent changes in control or changes in our management without the consent of our board of directors. These provisions include the following:

a classified board of directors with three-year staggered terms, which may delay the ability of stockholders to change the membership of our board of directors;
no cumulative voting in the election of directors, which limits the ability of minority stockholders to elect director candidates;
the exclusive right of our board of directors to appoint a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of the board of directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director, which prevents stockholders from being able to fill vacancies on our board of directors;
the ability of our board of directors to authorize the issuance of shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquiror;
the ability of our board of directors to alter our amended and restated bylaws without obtaining stockholder approval;
the required approval of at least 66 2/3% of the shares entitled to vote at an election of directors to adopt, amend or repeal our amended and restated bylaws or repeal the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation regarding the election and removal of directors;
a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent, which forces stockholder action to be taken at an annual or special meeting of our stockholders;
the requirement that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by our chief executive officer or president or by our board of directors, which may delay the ability of our stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or to take action, including the removal of directors; and
advance notice procedures that stockholders must comply with in order to nominate candidates to our board of directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which may discourage or deter a potential acquiror from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquiror’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us.

We are also subject to the anti-takeover provisions contained in Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. Under Section 203, a corporation may not, in general, engage in a business combination with any holder of 15% or more of its capital stock unless the holder has held the stock for three years or, among other exceptions, the board of directors has approved the transaction.

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Claims for indemnification by our directors and officers may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us and may reduce the amount of money available to us.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

In addition, as permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, our amended and restated bylaws and our indemnification agreements that we have entered into with our directors and officers provide that:

we will indemnify our directors and officers for serving us in those capacities or for serving other business enterprises at our request, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Delaware law provides that a corporation may indemnify such person if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to our best interests and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful;
we may, in our discretion, indemnify employees and agents in those circumstances where indemnification is permitted by applicable law;
we are required to advance expenses, as incurred, to our directors and officers in connection with defending a proceeding, except that such directors or officers shall undertake to repay such advances if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification;
we are not obligated pursuant to our amended and restated bylaws to indemnify a person with respect to proceedings initiated by that person against us or our other indemnitees, except with respect to proceedings authorized by our board of directors or brought to enforce a right to indemnification;
the rights conferred in our amended and restated bylaws are not exclusive, and we are authorized to enter into indemnification agreements with our directors, officers, employees and agents and to obtain insurance to indemnify such persons; and
we may not retroactively amend our amended and restated bylaws to reduce our indemnification obligations to our directors, officers, employees and agents.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide for an exclusive forum in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware for certain disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for any state law derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty, any action asserting a claim against us arising pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, any action to interpret, apply, enforce, or determine the validity of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws, or any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine; provided that, the exclusive forum provision will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act) or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction; and provided further that, if and only if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware dismisses any such action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, such action may be brought in another state or federal court sitting in the State of Delaware. Our amended and restated bylaws also provide that the federal district courts of the United States of America will be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause or causes of action under the Securities Act. Such provision is intended to benefit and may be enforced by us, our officers and directors, the underwriters to any offering giving rise to such complaint and any other professional or entity whose profession gives authority to a statement made by that person or entity and who has prepared or certified any part of the documents underlying the offering. Nothing in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws precludes stockholders that assert claims under the Exchange Act from bringing such claims in state or federal court, subject to applicable law.

We believe these provisions may benefit us by providing increased consistency in the application of Delaware law and federal securities laws by chancellors and judges, as applicable, particularly experienced in resolving corporate disputes, efficient administration of cases on a more expedited schedule relative to other forums and protection against the burdens of multi-forum litigation. This choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or any of our directors, officers, other employees or stockholders, which may discourage lawsuits with respect to such claims, although our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. Furthermore, the enforceability of similar choice of forum provisions in other companies’ certificates of incorporation has been challenged in legal proceedings, and it is possible that a court could find these types of provisions to be inapplicable or unenforceable. While the Delaware courts have determined that such choice of forum provisions are facially valid, a stockholder may nevertheless seek to bring a claim in a venue other than those designated in the exclusive-forum provisions, and there can be no assurance that such provisions will be enforced by a court in those other jurisdictions.

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If a court were to find the choice of forum provision in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

General risk factors

Raising additional capital may cause dilution to our stockholders, restrict our operations or require us to relinquish rights to our technologies.

To date, we have primarily financed our operations through the sale or issuance of preferred stock and common stock and upfront payments and research and development cost reimbursement received in connection with our prior collaboration with Sanofi and the EQRx Acquisition. We will be required to seek additional funding in the future to achieve our goals and may do so through a combination of public or private equity offerings, debt financings, credit or loan facilities, collaborations, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements and other marketing or distribution arrangements. If we raise additional capital through marketing and distribution arrangements or other collaborations, strategic alliances or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish certain valuable rights to our product candidates, technologies, future revenue streams or research programs or grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us. If we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, our stockholders may suffer dilution and the terms of any financing may adversely affect the rights of our stockholders. For example, the EQRx Acquisition, an all-stock transaction pursuant to which we issued shares of our common stock according to a blended formula, resulted in substantial dilution to our stockholders. In addition, as a condition to providing additional funds to us, future investors may demand, and may be granted, rights superior to those of existing stockholders. Debt financing, if available, is likely to involve restrictive covenants limiting our flexibility in conducting future business activities, and, in the event of insolvency, debt holders would be repaid before holders of our equity securities would receive any distribution of our corporate assets. Attempting to secure additional financing may also divert our management from our day-to-day activities, which may adversely affect our ability to develop our product candidates.

Litigation or other legal proceedings, including proceedings related to intellectual property and securities class action lawsuits and derivative lawsuits, could cause us to spend substantial resources and distract our personnel from their normal responsibilities.

 

Even if resolved in our favor, litigation or other legal proceedings, may cause us to incur significant expenses, and could distract our technical and management personnel from their normal responsibilities. There is considerable intellectual property litigation in the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, securities class action lawsuits and derivative lawsuits are often brought against public companies that have entered into merger agreements or as a result of stock price volatility. In addition, there could be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions or other interim proceedings or developments, and if securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have a substantial adverse effect on the price of our common stock. Such litigation or proceedings could result in substantial costs and monetary damages and thus substantially increase our operating losses and reduce the resources available for development activities or any future sales, marketing or distribution activities. We may not have sufficient financial or other resources to conduct such litigation or proceedings adequately. As noted above, some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of such litigation or proceedings more effectively than we can because of their greater financial resources. Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of patent litigation or other proceedings could compromise our ability to compete in the marketplace, including compromising our ability to raise the funds necessary to continue our clinical trials, continue our research programs, license necessary technology from third parties, or enter into development collaborations that would help us commercialize our product candidates, if approved. See the description of certain current legal proceedings in “Legal Proceedings” contained in Item 3 of the 2024 Form 10-K.

 

We are subject to certain U.S. and foreign anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, export control, sanctions, and other trade laws and regulations. We can face serious consequences for violations.

Among other matters, U.S. and foreign anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, export control, sanctions, and other trade laws and regulations (collectively, Trade Laws), prohibit companies and their employees, agents, clinical research organizations, legal counsel, accountants, consultants, contractors, and other partners from authorizing, promising, offering, providing, soliciting, or receiving directly or indirectly, corrupt or improper payments or anything else of value to or from recipients in the public or private sector. Violations of Trade Laws can result in substantial criminal fines and civil penalties, imprisonment, the loss of trade privileges, debarment, tax reassessments, breach of contract and fraud litigation, reputational harm, and other consequences. We have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or government-affiliated hospitals, universities, and other organizations. We also expect our non-U.S. activities to increase in time. We plan to engage third parties for clinical trials and/or to obtain necessary permits, licenses, patent registrations, and other regulatory approvals and we can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of our personnel, agents, or partners, even if we do not explicitly authorize or have prior knowledge of such activities.

 

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We may be adversely affected by events in the global economy and events adversely affecting the financial services industry.

 

We may be adversely affected by general conditions in the global economy and in the global financial markets, including the current inflationary environment and the imposition of tariffs and other trade protection measures. Increased inflation and costs of production may result in decreased demand for our products (if approved), increased operating costs (including our labor costs), reduced liquidity and limitations on our ability to access credit or otherwise raise debt and equity capital. In addition, the U.S. Federal Reserve has raised, and may again in the future raise, interest rates in response to inflation. Increases in interest rates, especially if coupled with reduced government spending and volatility in financial markets, could have the effect of further increasing economic uncertainty and heightening these risks.

 

Adverse developments that affect financial institutions or concerns or rumors about these events have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems. For example, in March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank was closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which appointed the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. Similarly, other institutions have been and may continue to be swept into receivership. Uncertainty may remain over liquidity concerns in the broader financial services industry, and there may be unpredictable impacts to our business and our industry. We cannot anticipate all the ways in which the global financial market conditions could adversely impact our business in the future.

 

Although we assess our banking relationships as we believe necessary or appropriate, our access to deposits or other financial assets on a timely basis or in adequate amounts could be significantly impaired by factors that affect the financial institutions with which we have banking relationships or the financial markets or financial services industry generally. These factors could include, among others, events such as liquidity constraints or failures, the ability to perform obligations under various types of financial, credit or liquidity agreements or arrangements, disruptions or instability in the financial services industry or financial markets, or concerns or negative expectations about the prospects for companies in the financial services industry.

 

We maintain our cash at financial institutions, in balances that may exceed federally insured limits.

 

We maintain the majority of our cash and cash equivalents in accounts at banking institutions in the United States that we believe are of high quality. Cash held in these accounts may exceed the FDIC insurance limits. If these banking institutions were to fail, we could lose all or a portion of amounts held in excess of these insurance limitations. In the event of failure of any of the financial institutions where we maintain our cash and cash equivalents, there can be no assurance that we would be able to access uninsured funds in a timely manner or at all.

We incur significantly increased costs as a result of operating as a public company, and our management devotes substantial time to new compliance initiatives. We may fail to comply with the rules that apply to public companies, including Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley), which could result in sanctions or other penalties that would harm our business.

We incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses as a public company, including costs resulting from public company reporting obligations under the Exchange Act, and regulations regarding corporate governance practices. The listing requirements of the Nasdaq Global Select Market and the rules of the SEC require that we satisfy certain corporate governance requirements relating to director independence, filing annual and interim reports, stockholder meetings, approvals and voting, soliciting proxies, conflicts of interest and a code of conduct. Our management and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to comply with all of these requirements. Moreover, the reporting requirements, rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time-consuming and costly. Any changes we make to comply with these obligations may not be sufficient to allow us to satisfy our obligations as a public company on a timely basis, or at all. These reporting requirements, rules and regulations, coupled with the increase in potential litigation exposure associated with being a public company, could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors or board committees or to serve as executive officers, or to obtain certain types of insurance, including directors’ and officers’ insurance, on acceptable terms. Stockholder activism, the current political environment and the current high level of government intervention and regulatory reform may lead to substantial new regulations and disclosure obligations, which may lead to additional compliance costs and impact the manner in which we operate our business in ways we cannot currently anticipate.

Our current shares outstanding and resulting market valuation do not reflect shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants that are exercisable at the discretion of the holders of such warrants. If we sell shares of our common stock in future financings, stockholders may experience immediate dilution and, as a result, our stock price may decline.

We have issued in the past, and may from time to time issue, additional shares of common stock at a discount from the current trading price of our common stock. As a result, our stockholders would experience immediate dilution upon the purchase of any shares of our common stock sold at such discount. In addition, as opportunities present themselves, we may enter into financing or similar arrangements in the future, including the issuance of debt securities, preferred stock or common stock. For example, in August 2024, we entered into a sales agreement with TD Securities (USA) LLC (TD Cowen), to sell shares of our common stock, from time to time, with aggregate gross proceeds of up to $500 million, through an at-the-market equity offering program (the 2024 ATM) under which TD Cowen agreed to act as our sales agent.

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During the year ended December 31, 2024, we sold an aggregate of 1,147,893 shares of common stock under the 2024 ATM, resulting in gross proceeds of $60.4 million. In November 2023, we completed the EQRx Acquisition, which was an all-stock transaction pursuant to which we (i) issued shares of our common stock according to a blended formula, resulting in substantial dilution to our stockholders, and (ii) assumed public and private warrants to purchase shares of our common stock. Additionally, in December 2024, we completed an underwritten public offering that included the sale of pre-funded warrants to purchase 2,173,917 shares of our common stock. Until exercised, the shares issuable upon the exercise of the warrants are not included in the number of our outstanding shares of common stock. If we issue common stock or securities convertible into common stock in the future, our common stockholders would experience additional dilution and, as a result, our stock price may decline.

If securities analysts do not continue to publish research or reports about our business or if they publish negative evaluations of our stock, the price of our stock could decline.

The trading market for our common stock relies, in part, on the research and reports that industry or financial analysts publish about us or our business. If few analysts publish research or reports about us, the trading price of our stock would likely decrease. If one or more of the analysts covering our business downgrades their evaluations of our stock, the price of our stock could decline. If one or more of these analysts ceases to cover our stock, we could lose visibility in the market for our stock, which, in turn, could cause our stock price to decline.

If we fail to maintain proper and effective internal controls over financial reporting, our ability to produce accurate and timely financial statements could be impaired, investors may lose confidence in our financial reporting and the trading price of our common stock may decline.

As a public company, we are subject to Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley and the related rules of the SEC, which generally require our management and independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.

 

In order to provide the reports required by these rules we must conduct reviews and testing of our internal controls. During the course of our review and testing, we may identify deficiencies and be unable to remediate them before we must provide the required reports. Furthermore, if we have a material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting, we may not detect errors on a timely basis, and our financial statements may be materially misstated. Further, failure to remedy any material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, or to implement or maintain other effective control systems required of public companies, could also restrict our future access to the capital markets. We or our independent registered public accounting firm may not be able to conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal control over financial reporting, which could harm our operating results, cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information and cause the trading price of our stock to fall. In addition, as a public company, we are required to file accurate and timely quarterly and annual reports with the SEC under the Exchange Act. In order to report our results of operations and financial statements on an accurate and timely basis, we will depend on third-party vendors to provide timely and accurate notice of their costs to us. Any failure to report our financial results on an accurate and timely basis could result in sanctions, lawsuits, delisting of our shares and public warrants from the Nasdaq Global Select Market or other adverse consequences.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

 

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

Not applicable.

Use of Proceeds from the Sale of Registered Securities

Not applicable.

 

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Not applicable.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.

Not applicable.

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Item 5. Other Information.

None.

 

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Item 6. Exhibits.

 

Exhibit

Number

Exhibit Description

Incorporated by Reference

Provided

Herewith

 

 

Form

Date

Number

 

3.1

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.

8-K

2/18/2020

3.1

3.2

Amended and Restated Bylaws.

8-K

3/8/2021

3.1

10.1†+

Revenue Participation Right Purchase and Sale Agreement dated June 23, 2025, by and between Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV and the Company.

 

 

 

 

 

X

10.2†+

Loan Agreement dated June 23, 2025, by and among Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC, and the Company.

 

 

 

 

 

X

31.1

Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

X

31.2

Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

X

32.1*

Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

X

32.2*

Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

X

101.INS

Inline XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.

 

 

 

 

 

X

101.SCH

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema With Embedded Linkbase Documents.

 

 

 

 

 

X

104

The cover page from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2025 has been formatted in Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101.

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

*

The certifications attached as Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 that accompany this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are deemed furnished and not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of Revolution Medicines, Inc. under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in such filing.

Portions of the exhibit, marked by asterisks, have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K because the omitted information (i) is not material and (ii) is the type that the Company treats as private or confidential. A copy of the omitted portions will be furnished supplementally to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.

+

Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. The registrant undertakes to furnish a copy of all omitted schedules and exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

Revolution Medicines, Inc.

 

 

 

Date: August 6, 2025

By:

/s/ Mark A. Goldsmith

 

 

Mark A. Goldsmith, M.D., Ph.D.

 

 

Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revolution Medicines, Inc.

 

 

 

Date: August 6, 2025

By:

/s/ Jack Anders

Jack Anders

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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EX-10.1 2 rvmd-ex10_1.htm EX-10.1 EX-10.1

 

Exhibit 10.1

CERTAIN IDENTIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE EXHIBIT BECAUSE IT IS BOTH (I) NOT MATERIAL AND (II) IS THE TYPE THAT THE COMPANY TREATS AS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL.

 

Revenue Participation Right

Purchase and Sale Agreement

By and Between

Revolution Medicines, Inc.

and

Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV

Dated as of June 23, 2025

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS

1

Section 1.1

Definitions

1

Section 1.2

Certain Interpretations

23

Section 1.3

Headings

24

ARTICLE 2 PURCHASE, SALE AND ASSIGNMENT OF THE REVENUE PARTICIPATION RIGHT

24

Section 2.1

Purchase, Sale and Assignment

24

Section 2.2

No Assumed Obligations, Etc

24

Section 2.3

True Sale

24

ARTICLE 3 CLOSINGS; PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE

26

Section 3.1

Initial Closing

26

Section 3.2

Payment of Upfront Purchase Price

26

Section 3.3

Bill of Sale

26

Section 3.4

Seller Form W-9

26

Section 3.5

Buyer Form W-8BEN-E

26

Section 3.6

Legal Opinion

26

Section 3.7

Tranche Closings; Incremental Revenue Participation Rights

26

ARTICLE 4 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLER

30

Section 4.1

Existence; Good Standing

30

Section 4.2

Authorization

30

Section 4.3

Enforceability

30

Section 4.4

No Conflicts

30

Section 4.5

Consents

31

Section 4.6

No Litigation

31

Section 4.7

Compliance; Regulatory Interactions

31

Section 4.8

Licenses

32

Section 4.9

Data

32

Section 4.10

Intellectual Property

32

Section 4.11

Title to Revenue Participation Right; No Liens

33

Section 4.12

Indebtedness

33

Section 4.13

Lien Related Representation and Warranties

33

Section 4.14

Brokers’ Fees

33

Section 4.15

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

33

ARTICLE 5 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE BUYER

34

Section 5.1

Existence; Good Standing

34

Section 5.2

Authorization

34

Section 5.3

Enforceability

34

Section 5.4

No Conflicts

34

Section 5.5

Consents

35

Section 5.6

No Litigation

35

Section 5.7

Financing

35

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Section 5.8

Brokers’ Fees

35

ARTICLE 6 NO OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

35

ARTICLE 7 COVENANTS

35

Section 7.1

Seller Diligence Requirements; Conduct of RASolute 302 Clinical Trial, the RASolve 301 Clinical Trial and the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial

35

Section 7.2

Quarterly Calls; Reporting

36

Section 7.3

Revenue Payments; Revenue Payment Details

37

Section 7.4

Inspections and Audits of the Seller

38

Section 7.5

Intellectual Property Matters

39

Section 7.6

In-Licenses

40

Section 7.7

Out-Licenses

41

Section 7.8

Disclosures

42

Section 7.9

Data Room

42

Section 7.10

[Reserved]

42

Section 7.11

Further Assurances

42

Section 7.12

Late Payments

43

Section 7.13

Negative Pledge; Preservation of Assets

43

ARTICLE 8 INDEMNIFICATION

44

Section 8.1

General Indemnity

44

ARTICLE 9 CONFIDENTIALITY

46

Section 9.1

Confidentiality

46

Section 9.2

Authorized Disclosure

47

ARTICLE 10 TERMINATION

48

Section 10.1

Term and Expiration; Surviving Payments

48

Section 10.2

Mutual Termination

48

Section 10.3

Survival

48

ARTICLE 11 MISCELLANEOUS

48

Section 11.1

Notices

48

Section 11.2

Expenses

49

Section 11.3

Assignment; Transfer Restrictions

49

Section 11.4

Amendment and Waiver

50

Section 11.5

Entire Agreement

51

Section 11.6

No Third Party Beneficiaries

51

Section 11.7

Governing Law

51

Section 11.8

Jurisdiction; Venue

51

Section 11.9

Severability

52

Section 11.10

Specific Performance

52

Section 11.11

Counterparts

52

Section 11.12

Relationship of the Parties; Tax Treatment; Cooperation

52

 

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Index of Exhibits

Exhibit A: Payment Instructions

Exhibit B: Form of Bill of Sale

Exhibit C: Form of Senior Debt Intercreditor Agreement

 

Exhibit D: Clinical Trial Success Criteria

 

Exhibit E: Revenue Percentage Schedule

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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REVENUE PARTICIPATION RIGHT PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT

Exhibit F: Specified Patent Rights This REVENUE PARTICIPATION RIGHT PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of June 23, 2025 (the “Effective Date”), is made and entered into by and between Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV, an Irish collective asset-management vehicle (the “Buyer”), and Revolution Medicines, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Seller”).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Seller is in the business of, among other things, developing and Commercializing the Products;

WHEREAS, the Buyer desires to purchase the Initial Revenue Participation Right and each Incremental Revenue Participation Right and receive the Revenue Payments from the Seller, in each case on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Seller desires to use the proceeds from the Upfront Purchase Price and, if funded, the Tranche 2 Purchase Price, for [***];

WHEREAS, the Seller desires to sell the Initial Revenue Participation Right and each Incremental Revenue Participation Right and make the Revenue Payments to the Buyer, in each case on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the parties intend to close the transactions contemplated by this Agreement substantially concurrently with the entry into the Loan Agreement.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth herein and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Seller and the Buyer hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1 Definitions. The following terms, as used herein, shall have the following meanings:

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any particular Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such particular Person. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the term “control” means direct or indirect ownership of (a) fifty percent (50%) or more, including ownership by trusts with substantially the same beneficial interests, of the voting and equity rights of such Person, firm, trust, corporation, partnership or other entity or combination thereof, or (b) the power to direct the management of such Person, firm, trust, corporation, partnership or other entity or combination thereof, by contract or otherwise. For purposes hereof, any Person shall be deemed to control a partnership, limited liability company, association or other business entity if such Person, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, shall be allocated a majority of partnership, limited liability company, association or other business entity gains or losses or shall be or control the managing director or general partner of such partnership, limited liability company, association or other business entity.

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“Additional Monetization” is defined in Section 7.13(b).

“Adjusted Revenue Percentage Year” is defined on Exhibit E.

“Agreement” is defined in the preamble.

“Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales” is defined in Exhibit E.

“Applicable RMC-9805 Overlap Date” means (a) with respect to any Product containing the Initial RMC-9805 Compound, the Initial RMC-9805 US Overlap Date or the Initial RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date, as applicable and (b) with respect to any Product containing a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound, the Subsequent RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date or the Subsequent RMC-9805 US Overlap Date, as applicable, for such Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound.

“Audit Arbitrator” is defined in Section 7.4(d).

“Back-Up Security Interest” is defined in Section 2.3.

“Bankruptcy Laws” means, collectively, bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally.

“Base Revenue Percentage” means the rates in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales set forth in the “Base Revenue Percentage” column on Exhibit E.

“Bill of Sale” is defined in Section 3.3.

“Business Day” means any day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday or (b) a day on which banking institutions located in New York are permitted or required by applicable law or regulation to remain closed.

“Buyer” is defined in the preamble.

“Buyer Indemnified Parties” is defined in Section 8.1(a).

“Calendar Quarter” means a period of three (3) consecutive months ending on the last day of March, June, September, or December, respectively.

“Calendar Year” means a period of twelve (12) consecutive months commencing on January 1 of any year.

“CDx Agreement” means any agreement or arrangement between the Seller or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and any Third Party, on the other hand, for the development or commercialization of companion diagnostics for use with a Product.

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“Change of Control” means (a) a transaction or series of related transactions that results in the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Seller’s and its Affiliates’ assets, on a consolidated basis; (b) a merger or consolidation of the Seller (or a parent entity) with a Third Party in which the Seller (or a parent entity) is not the surviving corporation or in which, if the Seller (or its parent entity) is the surviving corporation, the stockholders of the Seller (or its parent entity) immediately prior to the consummation of such merger or consolidation do not, immediately after consummation of such merger or consolidation, possess, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, and acting jointly, a majority of the voting power of all of the surviving entity’s outstanding stock and other securities and the power to elect a majority of the members of the Seller’s (or its parent entity’s) board of directors (or equivalent governing body); or (c) a transaction or series of related transactions with one or more Third Parties (which may include a tender offer for the Seller’s (or its parent entity’s) stock or the issuance, sale or exchange of stock of the Seller (or its parent entity)) if the stockholders of the Seller (or its parent entity) immediately prior to such transaction(s) do not, immediately after consummation of such transaction(s), possess, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, and acting jointly, a majority of the voting power of all of the Seller’s (or its parent entity’s) or its successor’s outstanding stock and other securities and the power to elect a majority of the members of the Seller’s (or its parent entity’s) or its successor’s board of directors (or equivalent governing body).

“Clinical Trial” means a clinical study involving human subjects intended to support the Marketing Approval or Commercialization of a Product.

“CMC Activities” means those manufacturing activities and regulatory activities designed to support preparation of the chemistry, manufacturing and controls sections of any regulatory materials or Marketing Approval for the Products.

“Combination Product” means a co-formulated product that includes a Product and at least one additional active pharmaceutical ingredient that is not a Product. Pharmaceutical dosage form vehicles, buffers, diluents, adjuvants, excipients and similar inert materials shall not be deemed to be “active ingredients”, except in the case where such vehicle, buffer, diluent, adjuvant, excipient or similar inert material is recognized by the FDA as an active ingredient in accordance with 21 C.F.R. § 210.3(b)(7).

“Commercialization” means any and all activities directed to the marketing, detailing, promotion, commercial launching, selling and securing of reimbursement of a product (including using, importing, selling and offering for sale of the product ), and shall include post-Marketing Approval studies, post-launch marketing, promoting, detailing, marketing research, customer service, selling a product, importing, exporting, and regulatory compliance with respect to the foregoing. When used as a verb, “Commercialize” and “Commercializing” shall mean to engage in Commercialization. For clarity, “Commercialization” excludes Manufacturing activities.

“Commercially Reasonable Efforts” means, with respect to the efforts to be expended by the Seller and its Affiliates with respect to any objective, such reasonable and diligent efforts to accomplish such objective (or to cause their respective Licensees to accomplish such objective, as applicable) as a pre-commercial stage or recently commercial stage, as applicable, biopharmaceutical enterprise would normally use to accomplish a similar objective under similar circumstances. It is understood and agreed that with respect to the Exploitation of a Product by the Seller and its Affiliates (including through their respective Licensees), such efforts shall be substantially equivalent to those efforts and resources commonly used by a pre-commercial stage or recently commercial stage, as applicable, biopharmaceutical enterprise for pharmaceutical products owned by it, which product is at a similar stage in its product life and is of similar market potential as a Product, taking into account efficacy, safety, approved labeling, the competitiveness of alternative products in the marketplace, the patent and other proprietary position of the product, and the profitability of the product (excluding the amounts payable to the Buyer pursuant to this Agreement).

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“Confidential Information” is defined in Section 9.1.

“Contract Manufacturing Agreement” means any agreement or arrangement between the Seller or any of its Affiliates and any Third Party for the Manufacture of a Product, including bulk drug product, bulk drug substance and finished product, for Commercialization.

“Customary Additional Monetization Senior Intercreditor Agreement” means, with respect to any Additional Monetization at any time during which Senior Debt is outstanding, such customary intercreditor agreement in form and substance that is reasonably satisfactory to the Buyer, [***], on the one hand, of the holders of Senior Debt (or their Representative) on a senior-priority basis, and on the other hand, of the Buyer and the provider of Additional Monetization on a junior-priority basis.

“Customary Additional Monetization Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement” means, with respect to any Additional Monetization, such customary intercreditor agreement in form and substance that is reasonably satisfactory to the Buyer and the provider of Additional Monetization allocating the rights of such provider and the Buyer in the RMC-6236 Product Rights on a pari passu basis (provided that the Buyer will have control of enforcement rights with respect to Liens on the RMC-6236 Product Rights subject to customary standstills without corresponding payment seniority [***].

“Customary Senior Debt Intercreditor Agreement” means, with respect to any Senior Debt, (a) an intercreditor agreement with substantially the same terms as the form of Intercreditor Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit C[***].

“Data Room” is defined in Section 7.9.

“Disclosing Party” is defined in Section 9.1.

“Disclosure Schedule” means the Disclosure Schedule, dated as of the Effective Date, delivered to the Buyer by the Seller concurrently with the execution of this Agreement.

“EBITDA” means the Net Income of the Seller and its consolidated subsidiaries, plus (i) Interest Expense deducted in the calculation of Net Income, plus (ii) all consolidated income taxes, whether paid, payable or accrued, in each case, deducted in the calculation of such Net Income, plus (iii) depreciation expense deducted in the calculation of such Net Income, plus (iv) amortization expense deducted in the calculation of such Net Income, plus (v) other non-cash charges reducing Net Income (excluding any such non-cash charge to the extent that it represents an accrual or reserve for a potential cash charge in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash charge that was paid in a prior period), minus (vi) non-cash gains increasing Net Income (excluding any such non-cash gain to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash gain in any prior period).

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“Effective Date” is defined in the preamble.

“EMA” means the European Medicines Agency, or any successor agency thereto; provided, that for purposes of the definitions of “Initial RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date”, “Initial RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication”, “Subsequent RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date”, and “Subsequent RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication”, “EMA” shall mean the European Medicines Agency, any successor agency thereto, or any other Regulatory Authority having jurisdiction over one or more countries in the European Union.

“European Union” means the countries of the European Union, as it is constituted on the Effective Date and as it may be modified from time to time after the Effective Date; provided that, for purposes of the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term and the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term definitions, the definition of “European Union” shall not reflect the removal of any country after the applicable First Commercial Sale of the first applicable Product. For clarity, for purposes of this definition, any country that is in the European Union as of the Effective Date, or joins the European Union after the Effective Date, shall be deemed to be in the European Union even if it secedes from the European Union during the Revenue Payment Term.

“Existing Patents” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.10(a).

“Exploitation” means any and all activities directed to the research, development, importation, exportation, use, registration, modification, enhancement, improvement, optimization, seeking of Marketing Approvals and pricing and reimbursement approvals for, Commercialization, or other exploitation of a Product. “Exploit” shall mean to engage in Exploitation. “Exploitation” excludes Manufacturing activities.

“EU Start Date” is defined in the definition of “Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term”.

“Ex-US RMC-6236 Net Sales” means Net Sales of all Products containing RMC-6236 in all countries and jurisdictions other than the United States.

“Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term” means the period commencing on the First Commercial Sale of a Product containing RMC-6236 in any country in the European Union (the “EU Start Date”) and ending on the date that is the fifteenth (15th) anniversary of the EU Start Date.

“Ex-US RMC-9805 Net Sales” means Net Sales of all Products containing RMC-9805 in all countries and jurisdictions other than the United States.

“Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term” means, with respect to any Product containing the Initial RMC-9805 Compound or a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound, the period commencing on the Initial RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date or the Subsequent RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date, as applicable, and ending on the earlier to occur of (i) the fifteenth (15th) anniversary of the earlier to occur of (A) the Initial RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date and (B) the Subsequent RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date and (ii) the date that the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term ends.

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For the avoidance of doubt, in no case shall the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term exceed fifteen (15) years after the date on which Revenue Payments are first payable to Buyer in respect of Ex-US RMC-6236 Net Sales or Ex-US RMC-9805 Net Sales.

“FCPA” is defined in Section 4.14.

“FDA” means the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or any successor agency thereto.

“First Commercial Sale” means, with respect to a Product, the first sale that will result in any Net Sales in any jurisdiction of the world after Marketing Approval of such Product has been granted in such jurisdiction, or after marketing and sale of such Product is otherwise permitted in such jurisdiction, by the applicable Regulatory Authority.

“G12D Mutation Subset” is defined in the definition of “Initial RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication”.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, as consistently applied by the applicable Related Party in accordance with its implemented accounting practices.

“Governmental Entity” means any: (a) nation, principality, republic, state, commonwealth, province, territory, county, municipality, district or other jurisdiction of any nature; (b) federal, state, local, municipal, foreign or other government; (c) governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental division, subdivision, department, agency, bureau, branch, office, commission, council, board, instrumentality, officer, official, representative, organization, unit, body or other entity and any court, arbitrator or other tribunal); (d) multi-national organization or body; or (e) individual, body or other entity exercising, or entitled to exercise, any executive, legislative, judicial, administrative, regulatory, police, military or taxing authority or power of any nature.

“Gross Sales” is defined in the definition of “Net Sales”.

“Incremental Revenue Participation Right” means each of the Tranche 2 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, the Tranche 3 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, the Tranche 4 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, the Tranche 5 Sub Incremental Revenue Participation and the Tranche 5 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, as applicable.

“IND” means an Investigational New Drug application.

“Indebtedness” means any indebtedness for borrowed money, obligation evidenced by a note, bond, debenture or similar instrument, or guarantee of any of the foregoing.

“Indemnified Party” is defined in Section 8.2.

“Indemnifying Party” is defined in Section 8.2.

“Initial Closing Date” is defined in Section 3.1.

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“Initial RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date” means the first date on which there is an Initial RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication approved by the EMA.

“Initial RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication” means an indication for which a Product containing the Initial RMC-9805 Compound has received Marketing Approval by the FDA or the EMA that is (1) the same indication (or substantially equivalent terminology commonly used in regulatory labeling), or (2) a subset of the same indication (or substantially equivalent terminology commonly used in regulatory labeling) for patients carrying a KRAS G12D or RAS G12D mutation (“G12D Mutation Subset”), for which a Product containing RMC-6236 has received Marketing Approval by the same Regulatory Authority (i.e., the FDA or the EMA, as the case may be), [***]. For purposes of the foregoing:

(a) there shall be an Initial RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication in the event [***]; and

(b) there shall be no Initial RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication in the event [***].

“Initial RMC-9805 US Overlap Date” means the first date on which there is an Initial RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication approved by the FDA.

“Initial Revenue Participation Right” means the Revenue Participation Right in respect of the Base Revenue Percentage.

“Initial RMC-6236 Compound” means the chemical compound with the International Nonproprietary Name “daraxonrasib”.

“Initial RMC-9805 Compound” means the chemical compound with the International Nonproprietary Name “zoldonrasib”.

“In-License” means any (a) in-license or (b) settlement agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement, in each case of (a) and (b), between the Seller or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and any Third Party, on the other hand, pursuant to which the Seller or any of its Affiliates obtain an in-license or a covenant not to sue or similar grant of rights under any Patents, Know-How, or other intellectual property rights owned or controlled by such Third Party that are necessary or actually used for the Exploitation of a Product; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, no CDx Agreement shall be deemed to be an In-License.

“Intellectual Property Rights” means any and all of the following owned or in-licensed by the Seller or its Affiliates or their respective Licensees, as they exist throughout the world at any time: (a) the Patent Rights; (b) rights in registered and unregistered trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, logos, packaging design, slogans and Internet domain names, and registrations and applications for registration of any of the foregoing, in each case, as specifically related to any Product; (c) copyrights in both published and unpublished works, including all compilations, databases and computer programs, manuals and other documentation and all copyright registrations and applications, and all derivatives, translations, adaptations and combinations of the above, in each case, as specifically related to any Product; (d) rights in all Know-How specifically related to any Product or necessary or actually used for the Manufacture or Exploitation of any Product; (e) any and all other intellectual property rights or proprietary rights, whether or not patentable, specifically relating to any of the foregoing ((a)-(d)); and (f)

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intellectual property rights in regulatory filings, submissions, applications, registrations and approvals specifically related to any Product.

“Interest Expense” means, for the applicable period, for the Seller and its consolidated subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, total interest expense (including interest attributable to capitalized leases in accordance with GAAP) and fees with respect to outstanding Indebtedness.

“IP Data Room” is defined in Section 7.9.

“Judgment” means any judgment, order, writ, injunction, citation, award or decree of any nature.

“Know-How” means any and all proprietary or confidential information, know-how and trade secrets, including processes, formulae, models and techniques, rights in research in progress, algorithms, data, databases, data collections, chemical and biological materials (including any compounds, DNA, RNA, clones, vectors, cells and any expression product, progeny, derivatives or improvements thereto), and the results of experimentation and testing, and samples.

“Lien” means a claim, mortgage, deed of trust, levy, charge, pledge, security interest or other encumbrance of any kind or assignment for security purposes, whether voluntarily incurred or arising by operation of law or otherwise against any property or assets.

“Licensee” means any Third Party that is a counterparty to an Out-License, or any downstream (sub)licensee of such Third Party under such Out-License.

“Loan Agreement” means that certain Loan Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, by and among the Seller (as borrower thereunder), Wilmington Trust, National Association (as the administrative agent thereunder) and Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC (as a lender thereunder), and the other parties thereto from time to time.

“Logistics Agreement” means any agreement between the Seller or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and a Third Party acting solely as a Logistics Provider, on the other hand.

“Logistics Provider” means a Third Party that has the right, option or obligation to distribute, transport, warehouse, package, import, or provide similar logistics services with respect to Product on behalf of a Related Party.

“Loss” means any and all Judgments, damages, losses, claims, costs, liabilities and expenses, including reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of counsel.

“Major Market” means each of the United States, the [***].

“Manufacturer” means a Third Party that is a party to any Contract Manufacturing Agreement.

“Manufacturing” means manufacturing, production, formulating, processing, filling, finishing, quality control, quality assurance, stability testing, packaging, labeling, shipping, importing, storage and similar activities with respect to a product (and components thereof or therefor), and regulatory compliance with respect to the foregoing.

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“Manufacture” shall mean to engage in Manufacturing.

“Marketing Approval” means, with respect to any Product, any and all approvals (including drug or device approval applications), licenses, registrations or authorizations sufficient to Commercialize such product in accordance with applicable laws (excluding any compassionate or emergency use or similar approval or authorization and excluding pricing and reimbursement approvals).

“Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse effect on (i) the Manufacture or Exploitation of the Products, taken as a whole, (ii) the Intellectual Property Rights, taken as a whole, (iii) the Marketing Approvals owned or controlled by the Seller or its Affiliates or their respective Licensees directly related to the Products, taken as a whole, (iv) the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement, (v) the ability of the Seller to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement, or (vi) the rights or remedies of the Buyer under this Agreement; or (b) an adverse effect in any material respect on the timing, duration, or amount of the payment of any of the Revenue Payments.

“Material Breach” means (i) a breach by Seller of Section 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7 or 7.13 of this Agreement or (ii) a breach of any other provision of Section 7 hereof by the Seller that has not been cured or waived by the Buyer within thirty (30) days.

“Maximum Revenue Participation Right” is defined in Exhibit E.

“Maximum Revenue Percentage” is defined in Exhibit E.

“MHRA” means the United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, or any successor agency thereto.

“Net Income” means, for the applicable period, for the Seller and its consolidated subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as applicable, the net income (or loss) of the Seller and its consolidated subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, for such period, calculated in accordance with GAAP.

“Net Sales” means the gross amount invoiced, billed or otherwise recorded for sales of a Product anywhere in the world by or on behalf of the Seller (or any permitted assignee), its Affiliates, or any Licensee, in each case, to a Third Party in accordance with GAAP consistently applied (“Gross Sales”), less the following amounts, to the extent actually deducted in calculating revenue from sales of the applicable Product in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, and not reimbursed by or recovered from such Third Party; provided, that any given amount may be taken as a permitted deduction only once:

(a) reasonable and customary rebates, chargebacks, retroactive price reductions, quantity, trade and similar discounts, credits and allowances (including rejected goods, damaged or defective goods and returned goods) and other price reductions reasonably granted, allowed, incurred or paid in so far as they are applied to such sales of the applicable Product, provided that (i) retroactive price reductions with respect to sales of a Product containing the Initial RMC-9805 Compound or a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound for any reporting period occurring prior to the Applicable RMC-9805 Overlap Date for the Initial RMC-9805 Compound or such Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound shall not be deducted from the Gross Sales of such Product for any reporting period following the Applicable RMC-9805 Overlap Date and (ii) retroactive price reductions with respect to sales of a Product containing RMC-6236 outside the United States for any reporting period occurring prior to the EU Start Date shall not be deducted from the Gross Sales of such Product for any reporting period following the EU Start Date;

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(b) discounts (including cash discounts and quantity discounts), coupons, retroactive price reductions, charge back payments and rebates granted to managed care organizations or to federal, state and local governments, or to their agencies (including payments made under the “Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Discount Program” and the “Annual Fee for Branded Pharmaceutical Manufacturers”), in each case, as applied to such sales of the applicable Product and actually given to customers;

(c) reasonable and customary freight and insurance costs incurred for such sales with respect to the shipment of the applicable Product to customers, in each case if charged separately and invoiced to the customer;

(d) customs duties, surcharges and other similar governmental charges incurred in connection with such sales of the applicable Product to the extent included in the gross amount invoiced;

(e) commissions allowed or paid for sales of the applicable Product to Logistics Providers (other than sales personnel, sales representatives and sales agents employed or engaged by Seller, its Affiliates, or any Licensee);

(f) actual bad debt expenses recorded in accordance with GAAP, from customers related to sales of the applicable Product;

(g) sales, use, value-added, excise and other similar Taxes (excluding income Taxes), and that portion of annual fees due under Section 9008 of the United States Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Pub. L. No. 111-48 specific to the applicable Product) and any other fee imposed by any equivalent applicable law, in each of the foregoing cases, that the Seller allocates to such sales of the applicable Product in accordance with the Seller’s standard policies and procedures consistently applied across its products, as adjusted for rebates and refunds, imposed in connection with such sales of the applicable Product to any Third Party, to the extent such Taxes are not paid by the Third Party; and

(h) any other similar and customary deductions that are actually deducted in accordance with GAAP, but which may not be duplicative of the deductions specified in (a) – (g) above.

Net Sales shall be determined in U.S. dollars. If Seller, its Affiliates, or any Licensee effects a sale, disposition, or transfer of a Product to a Third Party other than on customary commercial terms or for non-monetary consideration, the Net Sales of such Product to such Third Party shall be deemed to be “the fair market value” of such Product. For purposes of the foregoing, “fair market value” means the value that would have been derived had such Product been sold as a separate product to another customer on customary commercial terms.

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Net Sales will not include (i) any sale among Related Parties; (ii) any sale to a Logistics Provider unless such sale is an arm’s length sale to a non-Related Party wholesale distributor of the Product, (iii) any sale for use of the Product in clinical or non-clinical development activities, or (iv) disposal or transfer of the Product for a bona fide charitable purpose, compassionate use or samples. Net Sales shall also include any recovered monetary damages treated as Net Sales in accordance with Section 7.5(d).

Net Sales for any Combination Product shall be calculated by multiplying actual Net Sales of such Combination Product by the fraction A/(A+B) where “A” is the weighted average invoice price of the Product(s) contained in such Combination Product when sold separately during the applicable accounting period in which the sales of the Combination Product were made, and “B” is the combined weighted average invoice prices of all of the active ingredients other than the Product(s) contained in such Combination Product sold separately during such same accounting period. If any Product contained in such Combination Product is not sold separately in finished form, the Seller and the Buyer shall reasonably determine Net Sales for such Product by mutual agreement based on the relative contribution of the Product and each such other active ingredient in such Combination Product in accordance with the above formula.

“NSCLC” means non-small cell lung cancer.

“Out-License” means any license between the Seller or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and any Third Party, on the other hand, pursuant to which the Seller or any of its Affiliates grants a license or sublicense of any Intellectual Property Rights to Commercialize one or more Products in all or any portion of the world. Out-License excludes any Logistics Agreement or Contract Manufacturing Agreement; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, no CDx Agreement shall be deemed to be an Out-License.

“Patents” means any and all patents and patent applications, including any continuation, continuation-in-part, division, provisional or any substitute applications, any patent issued with respect to any of the foregoing patent applications, any certificate, reissue, reexamination, renewal or patent term extension or adjustment (including any supplementary protection certificate) of any such patent or other governmental actions which extend any of the subject matter of a patent, and any substitution patent, confirmation patent or registration patent or patent of addition based on any such patent, and all foreign counterparts of any of the foregoing.

“Patent Rights” means any and all Patents owned or in-licensed by the Seller or any of its Affiliates or their respective Licensees or under which the Seller or any of its Affiliates or their respective Licensees is or may become empowered to practice, the subject matter of which is necessary or actually used for the Manufacture or Exploitation of any Product.

“PDAC” means pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

“Permitted Liens” means any of the following:

(a) Any Liens existing on the Effective Date and any Lien granted as a replacement or substitute therefor; provided that any such replacement or substitute Lien (i) does not secure an aggregate amount of Indebtedness or other obligations, if any, greater than that secured on the Effective Date (plus any reasonable amount of premium (if any), interest (including post-petition interest), fees, expenses, charges or additional or contingent interest reasonably incurred in connection with such replacement or substitution), (ii) does not encumber any property that is not subject thereto on the Effective Date or at the time of such replacement or substitution (plus improvements and accessions to such property), and (iii) if the indebtedness secured by such Lien is Senior Debt, the Seller has complied with Section 7.13(b) with respect thereto;

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(b) Liens for taxes not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted;

(c) statutory or common law Liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, repairmen, construction contractors or other like Liens that secure amounts not overdue for a period of more than 60 days (or, if more than 60 days overdue, that are unfiled and no other action has been taken to enforce such Lien) or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted;

(d) any Liens permitted under, or subject to, any Customary Additional Monetization Senior Intercreditor Agreement, Customary Additional Monetization Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement or Customary Senior Debt Intercreditor Agreement entered into as provided in and in compliance with this Agreement, including Section 7.13;

(e) the Back-Up Security Interest;

(f) Liens arising from attachments or judgments, orders, or decrees not constituting an Event of Default (or other equivalent term) under Senior Debt; and

(g) licenses, sublicenses or similar grants of rights in connection with licensing or collaboration transactions otherwise permitted by this Agreement.

“Permitted Out-License” means a written Out-License between the Seller or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and a Permitted Transferee on the other hand.

“Permitted Transferee” means a biopharmaceutical company [***].

“Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, company, partnership, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, estate, trust, Governmental Entity or other entity, enterprise, association or organization.

“Phase 3 Clinical Trial” means a Clinical Trial that incorporates accepted endpoints for confirmation of safety and statistical significance of efficacy with the aim to generate data and results that can be submitted to obtain Marketing Approval as described in 21 C.F.R. 312.21(c), or a comparable Clinical Trial prescribed by the relevant Regulatory Authority in a country other than the United States.

“Platform Intellectual Property Rights” means any Intellectual Property Rights relating to the Seller’s tri-complex inhibitor platform to target RAS(ON) proteins [***]. The Patent Rights set forth on Exhibit F (collectively, the “Specified Patent Rights”) are deemed not to be Platform Intellectual Property Rights (i.e. are Specified Patent Rights) as of the Effective Date.

(x) Provided, and notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, any Specified Patent Rights shall no longer constitute Specified Patent Rights (i.e.

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will constitute Platform Intellectual Property Rights) if such Specified Patent Rights [***].

(y) Provided further, any Patents Rights that are Platform Intellectual Property Rights shall constitute Specified Patent Rights if such Platform Intellectual Property Rights are determined to [***].

(z) Seller shall reasonably determine (subject to consultation with Buyer) what constitutes Specified Patent Rights and Platform Intellectual Property Rights under this definition after the Effective Date for purposes of [***].

“Prime Rate” means the prime rate published by The Wall Street Journal, from time to time, as the prime rate.

“Product” means any product that contains (a) RMC-6236 or RMC-9805 as an active ingredient, alone or in combination with one or more other active ingredients, including in any preparation, strength, form, or formulation, or (b) [***].

“Product Rights Lien” is defined in Section 7.13(a).

“Quarterly Call” is defined in Section 7.2(a).

“RASolute 302 Clinical Trial” means the Phase 3 Clinical Trial entitled “RASolute 302: A Phase 3 Multicenter, Open-label, Randomized Study of Daraxonrasib (RMC-6236) Versus Investigator's Choice of Standard of Care Therapy in Patients With Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC)”, clinicaltrials.gov identifier # NCT06625320.

“RASolve 301 Clinical Trial” means the Phase 3 Clinical Trial entitled “RASolve 301: Phase 3 Multicenter, Open Label, Randomized Study of RMC-6236 Versus Docetaxel in Patients With Previously Treated Locally Advanced or Metastatic RAS[MUT] NSCLC”, clinicaltrials.gov identifier # NCT06881784.

“Receiving Party” is defined in Section 9.1.

“Regulatory Authority” means any Governmental Entity, including the FDA, which has responsibility in granting a Marketing Approval.

“Related Party” means each of the Seller, its Affiliates, and their respective Licensees, as applicable.

“Representative” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any direct or indirect member or partner of such Person and (b) any manager, director, trustee, officer, employee, agent, advisor or other representative (including attorneys, accountants, consultants, contractors, actual and potential lenders, investors, co-investors and assignees, bankers and financial advisers) of such Person.

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“Revenue Participation Right” means the right to receive payment in full of all Revenue Payments, and an undivided ownership interest of all accounts (as defined in the UCC), general intangibles (as defined in the UCC), payment intangibles (as defined in the UCC) and all other rights to payment on account of Net Sales, and all proceeds thereof, in an amount equal to the Revenue Percentage multiplied by the sum of: (a) US RMC-6236 Net Sales during the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term; plus (b) Ex-US RMC-6236 Net Sales during the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term; plus (c) US RMC-9805 Net Sales during the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term; plus (d) Ex-US RMC-9805 Net Sales during the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term. For clarity, following a Tranche Closing, the Revenue Participation Right shall include the applicable Incremental Revenue Participation Right resulting from such Tranche Closing. For clarity, the Revenue Percentage shall be calculated in accordance with Exhibit E based on Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales.

“Revenue Payment” means:

(a) for each Calendar Quarter occurring (in whole or in part) during the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, an amount payable to the Buyer equal to the product of (i) US RMC-6236 Net Sales during such Calendar Quarter (or, for any Calendar Quarter occurring in part during the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, US RMC-6236 Net Sales for the calendar days falling within the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term during such Calendar Quarter) and (ii) the applicable Revenue Percentage; plus

(b) for each Calendar Quarter occurring (in whole or in part) during the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, an amount payable to the Buyer equal to the product of (i) Ex-US RMC-6236 Net Sales during such Calendar Quarter (or, for any Calendar Quarter occurring in part during the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, Ex-US RMC-6236 Net Sales for the calendar days falling within the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term during such Calendar Quarter) and (ii) the applicable Revenue Percentage; plus

(c) for each Calendar Quarter occurring (in whole or in part) during the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, an amount payable to the Buyer equal to the product of (i) US RMC-9805 Net Sales during such Calendar Quarter (or, for any Calendar Quarter occurring in part during the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, US RMC-9805 Net Sales for the calendar days falling within the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term during such Calendar Quarter) and (ii) the applicable Revenue Percentage; plus

(d) for each Calendar Quarter occurring (in whole or in part) during the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, an amount payable to the Buyer equal to the product of (i) Ex-US RMC-9805 Net Sales during such Calendar Quarter (or, for any Calendar Quarter occurring in part during the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, Ex-US RMC-9805 Net Sales for the calendar days falling within the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term during such Calendar Quarter) and (ii) the applicable Revenue Percentage.

For clarity, the Revenue Percentage shall be calculated in accordance with Exhibit E based on Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales.

“Revenue Payment Term” means the period commencing on the first to commence of the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term and Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, and ending on the last to expire of the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term and Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term.

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“Revenue Percentage” is defined on Exhibit E.

“Revenue Percentage Adjustment Trigger Year” is defined on Exhibit E.

“Revenue Percentage Reversion Year” is defined on Exhibit E.

“Revenue Report” is defined in Section 7.3(c).

“RMC-[***]” means the chemical compound with the chemical structure disclosed in Data Room document [***].

“RMC-[***]” means the chemical compound with the chemical structure disclosed in Data Room document [***].

“RMC-6236” means (a) the Initial RMC-6236 Compound, (b) RMC-[***], (c) RMC-[***], and (d) any chemical compound owned or controlled by the Seller for which an IND is filed with the FDA on or before [***] that (i) has the same mechanism of action as the Initial RMC-6236 Compound, and (ii) [***]. For purposes of the foregoing, the parties agree that RMC-[***] and RMC-[***] each have the same mechanism of action and [***] as the Initial RMC-6236 Compound.

“RMC-6236-001 Clinical Trial” means the Phase 1/1b Clinical Trial entitled “A Multicenter Open-Label Study of RMC-6236 in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors Harboring Specific Mutations in RAS”, clinicaltrial.gov identifier # NCT05379985.

“RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial” means [***].

“RMC-6236 Product Rights” means any and all of the following, as they exist throughout the world: (a) the Intellectual Property Rights specifically related to, or necessary or actually used for the Manufacture or Exploitation of, any Product containing RMC-6236, but excluding the Platform Intellectual Property Rights, (b) regulatory filings, submissions and approvals, including Marketing Approvals and pricing and reimbursement approvals, with or from any Regulatory Authorities related to RMC-6236, (c) In-Licenses related to RMC-6236 and (d) Out-Licenses specifically related to RMC-6236.

“RMC-9805” means (a) the Initial RMC-9805 Compound and (b) each Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound.

“RMC-9805 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial” means [***].

“Safety Event” means a determination by a Regulatory Authority, the Seller’s clinical safety adjudication committee (acting in good faith and in accordance with its charter), or a data monitoring review board (or similar entity) that, in connection with a Clinical Trial for a given Product: (a) such Product presents an unreasonable and significant risk of death, a life-threatening condition or other serious safety concern or (b) [***] to patients such that such Product should not continue to be administered to the patient population being studied in such Clinical Trial.

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“Safety Notices” means any recalls, field alert reports, market withdrawals, “dear doctor” letters, safety alerts or other notices of action relating to a material alleged lack of safety or regulatory compliance of a Product.

“Seller” is defined in the preamble.

“Seller Indemnified Parties” is defined in Section 8.1(b).

“Senior Debt” means (x) the Indebtedness under the Loan Agreement, and any refinancing thereof and (y) any other secured credit facility (including any working capital or revolving loan facility), term loan, or other Indebtedness (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, an Additional Monetization) that is secured by a Lien on any Revenue Participation Right or any “proceeds” (as defined in the UCC) thereof or the RMC-6236 Product Rights or any “proceeds” (as defined in the UCC) thereof.

“Specified Clinical Trials” means the RASolve 301 Clinical Trial, the RASolute 302 Clinical Trial, the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial, and the RMC-9805 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial.

“Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound” means any chemical compound (other than the Initial RMC-9805 Compound) owned or controlled by the Seller for which an IND is filed with the FDA on or before [***] that (a) has the same mechanism of action as the Initial RMC-9805 Compound, and (b) [***]. For purposes of the foregoing, the phrases “the same mechanism of action” and [***] shall have the same interpretation when used to compare such chemical compound and the Initial RMC-9805 Compound as they do when used to compare the Initial RMC-6236 Compound with RMC-[***] or RMC-[***] in the definition of “RMC-6236”.

“Subsequent RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date” means, for any Product containing a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound, the first date on which there is a Subsequent RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication approved by the EMA for such Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound.

“Subsequent RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication” means an indication for which a Product containing a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound has received Marketing Approval by the FDA or the EMA that is (1) the same indication (or substantially equivalent terminology commonly used in regulatory labeling), or (2) a subset of the same indication (or substantially equivalent terminology commonly used in regulatory labeling) for patients carrying a G12D Mutation Subset, for which a Product containing RMC-6236 has received Marketing Approval by the same Regulatory Authority (i.e., the FDA or the EMA, as the case may be), [***]. For purposes of the foregoing:

(a) there shall be a Subsequent RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication in the event [***]; and

(b) there shall be no Subsequent RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication in the event [***].

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“Subsequent RMC-9805 US Overlap Date” means, for any Product containing a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound, the first date on which there is a Subsequent RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication approved by the FDA for such Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which more than fifty percent (50%) of whose shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference to a Subsidiary herein shall be a reference to a Subsidiary of the Seller.

“Tax” or “Taxes” means any federal, state, local or foreign income, gross receipts, license, payroll, employment, excise, severance, occupation, premium, windfall profits, environmental, customs duties, capital stock, franchise, profits, withholding, social security, unemployment, disability, real property, personal property, abandoned property, value added, alternative or add-on minimum, estimated or other tax of any kind whatsoever, including any interest, penalty or addition thereto, whether disputed or not.

“Third Party” means any Person that is not the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller.

“Tranche 2 Cancellation Notice” is defined in Section 3.7(a)(ii).

“Tranche 2 Closing” is defined in Section 3.7(a)(i).

“Tranche 2 Incremental Revenue Participation Right” means the portion of the Revenue Participation Right in respect of the Tranche 2 Revenue Percentage.

“Tranche 2 Purchase Price” means $250,000,000.

“Tranche 2 Revenue Percentage” means, from and after the Tranche 2 Closing, the rates in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales set forth in the “Tranche 2 Revenue Percentage” column on Exhibit E.

“Tranche 2 Trigger” means the occurrence of each of the following prior to January 1, 2028: (a) a positive data readout from the RASolute 302 Clinical Trial meeting the success criteria set forth on Exhibit D and (b) the earlier to occur of (x) a determination by the board of directors (or other equivalent governing body) of a Related Party, subject to Section 7.1(a)(iii), to proceed with the preparation and submission of an application to the FDA for Marketing Approval for RMC-6236 on the basis of such positive data readout or (y) the submission by a Related Party of an application for Marketing Approval to the FDA for RMC-6236 on the basis of such positive data readout.

“Tranche 3 Closing” is defined in Section 3.7(b).

“Tranche 3 Incremental Revenue Participation Right” means the portion of the Revenue Participation Right in respect of the Tranche 3 Revenue Percentage.

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“Tranche 3 Notice” is defined in Section 3.7(b).

“Tranche 3 Maximum Purchase Price” means $250,000,000.

“Tranche 3 Purchase Price” is defined in Section 3.7(b).

“Tranche 3 Revenue Percentage” means, from and after the Tranche 3 Closing, the rates in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales set forth in the “Tranche 3 Revenue Percentage” column on Exhibit E (subject to proportional adjustment in accordance with Exhibit E if the Tranche 3 Purchase Price is less than the Tranche 3 Maximum Purchase Price).

“Tranche 3 Trigger” means receipt of Marketing Approval by the FDA of RMC-6236 for the second-line (or substantially equivalent terminology commonly used in regulatory labeling) treatment of RAS G12 mutated metastatic PDAC or metastatic PDAC prior to July 1, 2028.

“Tranche 4 Closing” is defined in Section 3.7(c).

“Tranche 4 Incremental Revenue Participation Right” means the portion of the Revenue Participation Right in respect of the Tranche 4 Revenue Percentage.

“Tranche 4 Notice” is defined in Section 3.7(c).

“Tranche 4 Maximum Purchase Price” means $250,000,000.

“Tranche 4 Purchase Price” is defined in Section 3.7(c).

“Tranche 4 Revenue Percentage” means, from and after the Tranche 4 Closing, the rates in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales set forth in the “Tranche 4 Revenue Percentage” column on Exhibit E (subject to proportional adjustment in accordance with Exhibit E if the Tranche 4 Purchase Price is less than the Tranche 4 Maximum Purchase Price).

“Tranche 4 Trigger” means aggregate Net Sales of all Products during the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term and the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term exceeding $[***] in any period of [***] consecutive Calendar Quarters prior to January 1, 2029.

“Tranche 5A Closing” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(i)(2).

“Tranche 5A Notice” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(i)(2).

“Tranche 5A Purchase Price” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(i)(2).

“Tranche 5A Sub Closing” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(i)(1).

“Tranche 5A Sub Notice” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(i)(1).

“Tranche 5A Sub Purchase Price” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(i)(1).

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“Tranche 5A Sub Trigger” means the occurrence of each of the following prior to January 1, 2030: (a) a positive data readout from the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial that is substantially similar to the design disclosed in the Data Room as of the Effective Date (provided that, notwithstanding such design disclosed in the Data Room as of the Effective Date but otherwise subject to the parameters referenced in this definition, Seller may conduct such Clinical Trial as a [***]), meeting the respective success criteria set forth on clause (ii)(a) (but not clause (ii)(b)) of Exhibit D in a statistically significant manner as set forth on Exhibit D and (b) acceptance by the FDA of an application (or a supplemental application or an amendment to an existing application) for Marketing Approval on the basis of such positive data readout.

“Tranche 5A Trigger” means the occurrence of each of the following prior to January 1, 2030: (a) a positive data readout from the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial that is substantially similar to the design disclosed in the Data Room as of the Effective Date (provided that, notwithstanding such design disclosed in the Data Room as of the Effective Date but otherwise subject to the parameters referenced in this definition, Seller may conduct such Clinical Trial as a [***]), meeting the success criteria set forth in Exhibit D, and (b) the earlier to occur of (x) a determination by the board of directors (or other equivalent governing body) of a Related Party, subject to Section 7.1(a)(iii), to proceed with the preparation and submission of an application (or supplemental application) for Marketing Approval for RMC-6236 on the basis of such positive data readout or (y) the submission by a Related Party of an application (or supplemental application) for Marketing Approval for RMC-6236 on the basis of such positive data readout.

“Tranche 5B Closing” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(ii)(2).

“Tranche 5B Notice” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(ii)(2).

“Tranche 5B Purchase Price” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(ii)(2).

“Tranche 5B Sub Closing” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(ii)(1).

“Tranche 5B Sub Notice” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(ii)(1).

“Tranche 5B Sub Purchase Price” is defined in Section 3.7(d)(ii)(1).

“Tranche 5B Sub Trigger” means the occurrence of each of the following prior to January 1, 2030: (a) a positive data readout from the RMC-9805 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial meeting the respective success criteria set forth on clause (ii)(a) (but not clause (ii)(b)) of Exhibit D in a statistically significant manner as set forth on Exhibit D and (b) acceptance by the FDA of an application (or a supplemental application or an amendment to an existing application) for Marketing Approval on the basis of such positive data readout.

“Tranche 5B Trigger” means the occurrence of each of the following prior to January 1, 2030: (a) a positive data readout from the RMC-9805 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial meeting the success criteria set forth in Exhibit D; (b) the earlier to occur of (x) a determination by the board of directors (or other equivalent governing body) of a Related Party, subject to Section 7.1(a)(iii), to proceed with the preparation and submission of an application for Marketing Approval for RMC-9805 on the basis of such positive data readout or (y) the submission by a Related Party of an application for Marketing Approval for RMC-9805 on the basis of such positive data readout; and (c) such application for Marketing Approval in subsection (b) is for an Initial RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication or a Subsequent RMC-9805 Overlapping Indication.

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“Tranche 5 Closing” means the Tranche 5A Closing or the Tranche 5B Closing, as the case may be.

“Tranche 5 Incremental Revenue Participation Right” means the portion of the Revenue Participation Right in respect of the Tranche 5 Revenue Percentage.

“Tranche 5 Maximum Purchase Price” means (a) if there has been a Tranche 5A Sub Closing or Tranche 5B Sub Closing, the difference between $250,000,000 and the Tranche 5A Sub Purchase Price or Tranche 5B Sub Purchase Price, as the case may be, and (b) if there has not been a Tranche 5A Sub Closing or Tranche 5B Sub Closing, $250,000,000.

“Tranche 5 Purchase Price” means the Tranche 5A Purchase Price or the Tranche 5B Purchase Price, as the case may be.

“Tranche 5 Revenue Percentage” means, from and after the Tranche 5 Closing, the rates in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales set forth in the “Tranche 5 Revenue Percentage” column on Exhibit E (subject to proportional adjustment in accordance with Exhibit E if the Tranche 5 Purchase Price is less than the Tranche 5 Maximum Purchase Price).

“Tranche 5 Sub Closing” means the Tranche 5A Sub Closing or the Tranche 5B Sub Closing, as the case may be.

“Tranche 5 Sub Incremental Revenue Participation Right” means the portion of the Revenue Participation Right in respect of the Tranche 5 Sub Revenue Percentage.

“Tranche 5 Sub Maximum Purchase Price” means $100,000,000.

“Tranche 5 Sub Purchase Price” means the Tranche 5A Sub Purchase Price or the Tranche 5B Sub Purchase Price, as the case may be.

“Tranche 5 Sub Revenue Percentage” means, from and after the Tranche 5 Sub Closing, the rates in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales set forth in the “Tranche 5 Sub Revenue Percentage” column on Exhibit E (subject to proportional adjustment in accordance with Exhibit E if the Tranche 5 Sub Purchase Price is less than the Tranche 5 Sub Maximum Purchase Price).

“Tranche Closing” means each of Tranche 2 Closing, the Tranche 3 Closing, Tranche 4 Closing, the Tranche 5 Sub Closing and the Tranche 5 Closing, as applicable.

“Tranche Maximum Purchase Price” means the Tranche 3 Maximum Purchase Price, the Tranche 4 Maximum Purchase Price, the Tranche 5 Sub Maximum Purchase Price and the Tranche 5 Purchase Price, as applicable.

“Tranche Payments” means the Tranche 2 Purchase Price, the Tranche 3 Purchase Price, the Tranche 4 Purchase Price, the Tranche 5 Sub Purchase Price and the Tranche 5 Purchase Price, as applicable.

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“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement and each Bill of Sale.

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code in the State of New York; provided, that, if with respect to any financing statement or by reason of any provisions of law, the perfection, priority or the effect of perfection, priority or non-perfection of the security interests granted to the Buyer pursuant to this Agreement is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code in a jurisdiction of the United States other than New York, then “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions of this Agreement and any financing statement relating to such perfection, priority or effect of perfection, priority or non-perfection.

“United States” means the United States of America (including its territories and possessions).

“Upfront Purchase Price” means $250,000,000.

“US Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“US RMC-6236 Net Sales” means Net Sales of all Products containing RMC-6236 in the United States.

“US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term” means the period commencing on the First Commercial Sale of a Product containing RMC-6236 in the United States and ending on the date that is the fifteenth (15th) anniversary of the First Commercial Sale of such Product containing RMC-6236 in the United States.

“US RMC-9805 Net Sales” means Net Sales of all Products containing RMC-9805 in the United States.

“US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term” means, with respect to any Product containing the Initial RMC-9805 Compound or a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound, the period commencing on the Initial RMC-9805 US Overlap Date or the Subsequent RMC-9805 US Overlap Date, as applicable, and ending on the earlier to occur of (i) the fifteenth (15th) anniversary of the earlier to occur of (A) the Initial RMC-9805 US Overlap Date and (B) the Subsequent RMC-9805 US Overlap Date and (ii) the date that the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term ends. For the avoidance of doubt, in no case shall the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term exceed fifteen (15) years after the date on which Revenue Payments are first payable to Buyer in respect of US RMC-6236 Net Sales or US RMC-9805 Net Sales.

Section 1.2 Certain Interpretations. Except where expressly stated otherwise in this Agreement, the following rules of interpretation apply to this Agreement:

(a) “either” and “or” are not exclusive and “include,” “includes” and “including” are not limiting and shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation;”

(b) “extent” in the phrase “to the extent” means the degree to which a subject or other thing extends, and such phrase does not mean simply “if;”

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(c) “hereof,” “hereto,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement;

(d) references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns, and references to a Governmental Entity are also to its succeeding governing entity in the relevant jurisdiction;

(e) definitions are applicable to the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms;

(f) references to an “Article,” “Section” or “Exhibit” refer to an Article or Section of, or an Exhibit to, this Agreement, and references to a “Schedule” refer to the corresponding part of the Disclosure Schedule;

(g) provisions referring to matters that would or could have, or would or could reasonably be expected to have, or similar phrases, shall be deemed to have such result or expectation with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both;

(h) accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement or any related document shall be prepared in conformity with GAAP;

(i) for covenants that are to be undertaken “reasonably” by the Seller or its Affiliates, such actions (or inactions) shall take into account the Buyer’s economic interest in the Revenue Participation Right and the Revenue Payments and the impact of the applicable action (or inaction) on such interest;

(j) references to a law include any amendment or modification to such law and any rules and regulations issued thereunder, whether such amendment or modification is made, or issuance of such rules and regulations occurs, before, on, or after the Effective Date; and

(k) references to “$” or otherwise to dollar amounts refer to the lawful currency of the United States.

Section 1.3 Headings. The table of contents and the descriptive headings of the several Articles and Sections of this Agreement and the Exhibits and Schedules are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not control or affect, in any way, the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

ARTICLE 2
PURCHASE, SALE AND ASSIGNMENT OF THE REVENUE PARTICIPATION RIGHT

Section 2.1 Purchase, Sale and Assignment. On the Effective Date and upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, in exchange for the Upfront Purchase Price, the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from the Seller, the Initial Revenue Participation Right free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens). From and after the Effective Date, the Seller relinquishes all of the Seller’s and its Affiliates’ right, title and interest in and to the Initial Revenue Participation Right, and all such right, title and interest shall vest in the Buyer.

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In addition, the Seller hereby agrees to pay to the Buyer the Revenue Payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

Section 2.2 No Assumed Obligations, Etc. Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, the Buyer is, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, only purchasing, acquiring and accepting the Initial Revenue Participation Right and, at each Tranche Closing, the applicable Incremental Revenue Participation Right, and is not assuming any liability or obligation of the Seller or its Affiliates of whatever nature, whether presently in existence or arising or asserted hereafter. Except as specifically set forth herein in respect of the Initial Revenue Participation Right or any Incremental Revenue Participation Right, the Buyer does not, by such purchase, acquisition and acceptance of the Initial Revenue Participation Right and, at each Tranche Closing, the applicable Incremental Revenue Participation Right, acquire any other rights of the Seller or its Affiliates, or any other assets of the Seller or its Affiliates, in each case, other than to the extent of the Back-Up Security Interest granted pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing in this provision limits any other obligation of the Buyer or the Seller under this Agreement or otherwise, including any indemnity obligations under ARTICLE 8.

Section 2.3 True Sale. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Initial Revenue Participation Right and each Incremental Revenue Participation Right contemplated by this Agreement be, and is, a true, complete, absolute and irrevocable sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance by the Seller to the Buyer of all of the Seller’s rights, title and interests in and to the Initial Revenue Participation Right and each Incremental Revenue Participation Right. Neither the Seller nor the Buyer intends the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to be, or for any purpose characterized as, a loan from the Buyer to the Seller, or a pledge, a financing transaction or a borrowing. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the beneficial interest in and title to the Initial Revenue Participation Right and each Incremental Revenue Participation Right and any “proceeds” (as such term is defined in the UCC) thereof shall not be part of the Seller’s estate in the event of the filing of a petition by or against the Seller or any of its Affiliates under any Bankruptcy Laws. The Seller hereby waives, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any right to contest or otherwise assert that each sale contemplated by this Agreement does not constitute a true, complete, absolute and irrevocable sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance by the Seller to the Buyer of all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Initial Revenue Participation Right and each Incremental Revenue Participation Right under applicable law, which waiver shall, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, be enforceable against the Seller and its Affiliates in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding relating to the Seller or any of its Affiliates. Accordingly, the Seller shall treat the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Initial Revenue Participation Right and each Incremental Revenue Participation Right as a sale of “accounts,” or “payment intangibles” (as appropriate) and the proceeds thereof in accordance with the UCC, and the Seller hereby authorizes the Buyer and its representatives to file one or more financing statements or any amendments to financing statements previously filed by the Buyer (and continuation statements with respect to such financing statements when applicable) naming the Seller as the “seller” and the Buyer as the “buyer” in respect of the Initial Revenue Participation Right at any time on or after the Effective Date and each applicable Incremental Revenue Participation Right at any time on or after the consummation of each respective Tranche Closing.

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Not in derogation of the foregoing statement of the intent of the parties hereto in this regard, and for the purposes of providing additional assurance to the Buyer, including in the event that, despite the intent of the parties hereto, any sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance contemplated hereby is hereafter held not to be a sale, the Seller hereby grants to the Buyer a security interest in, to and under [***] as security for all of the Seller’s obligations under the Transaction Documents, including the obligations to pay the Revenue Payments (the “Back-Up Security Interest”). In furtherance of the foregoing the Seller hereby authorizes the Buyer and its representatives to file one or more financing statements (and continuation statements and any amendments with respect to such financing statements when applicable) in such manner and such jurisdictions as are necessary or appropriate to perfect such Back-Up Security Interest; provided, that [***].

ARTICLE 3
CLOSINGS; PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE

Section 3.1 Initial Closing. The purchase and sale of the Initial Revenue Participation Right shall take place remotely via the exchange of documents and signatures on the Effective Date or such other place, time and date as the parties hereto may mutually agree (such date, the “Initial Closing Date”).

Section 3.2 Payment of Upfront Purchase Price. On the Initial Closing Date, the Buyer shall pay to the Seller the Upfront Purchase Price by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified on Exhibit A, without set-off, reduction or deduction, or withholding for or on account of any Taxes, provided that the Seller has complied with its obligations under Section 3.4 of this Agreement.

Section 3.3 Bill of Sale. On the Initial Closing Date, upon confirmation of the receipt of the Upfront Purchase Price, the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a duly executed bill of sale evidencing the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Initial Revenue Participation Right in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Bill of Sale”).

Section 3.4 Seller Form W-9. On or prior to the Initial Closing Date, the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a valid, properly executed IRS Form W-9 certifying that the Seller is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. The Seller shall update any such form provided to the Buyer pursuant to the preceding sentence promptly (i) upon reasonable request by the Buyer or (ii) upon any such form previously provided by the Seller becoming obsolete, incorrect or ineffective.

Section 3.5 Buyer Form W-8BEN-E. On or prior to the Initial Closing Date, the Buyer shall deliver to the Seller a valid, properly executed IRS Form W-8BEN-E or other applicable form certifying that the Buyer is exempt from U.S. federal withholding and backup withholding tax with respect to the Revenue Payments. The Buyer shall update any such form provided to the Seller pursuant to the preceding sentence promptly (i) upon reasonable request by the Seller or (ii) upon any such form previously provided by the Buyer becoming obsolete, incorrect or ineffective.

Section 3.6 Legal Opinion. On the Initial Closing Date, the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer the legal opinion(s) of Latham & Watkins LLP, as corporate counsel to the Seller in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Seller and Buyer.

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Section 3.7 Tranche Closings; Incremental Revenue Participation Rights.

(a) Tranche 2 Closing.

(i) The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) notify the Buyer in writing upon the occurrence of the Tranche 2 Trigger and provide reasonable documentation of the same. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, then following such notice the Buyer shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days following such notice) pay to the Seller the Tranche 2 Purchase Price (the “Tranche 2 Closing”). At the Tranche 2 Closing, the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from the Seller, free and clear of all Liens (except for Permitted Liens), all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Tranche 2 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, and the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a Bill of Sale duly executed by the Seller evidencing the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Tranche 2 Incremental Revenue Participation Right.

(ii) Notwithstanding Section 3.7(a)(i) above, if at any time prior to the Tranche 2 Trigger, the Seller or one or more of its Affiliates enters into a definitive agreement for a Change of Control, the Seller shall provide prompt (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days) written notice thereof to the Buyer, which notice shall include reasonable detail as to the Change of Control, including the parties to such Change of Control. If the Tranche 2 Closing has not occurred, the Seller shall have the option (but not the obligation), by irrevocable written notice to the Buyer (the “Tranche 2 Cancellation Notice”) at least three (3) Business Days prior to the consummation of such Change of Control, to elect to cancel the Tranche 2 Closing. If the Seller exercises such option to cancel the Tranche 2 Closing, then upon the closing of such Change of Control, all obligations set forth in Section 3.7(a)(i) above shall terminate, and the Seller shall have no obligation to sell, transfer, assign or convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall have no obligation to purchase, acquire or accept the Tranche 2 Incremental Revenue Participation Right. For the avoidance of doubt, if, notwithstanding the Seller’s delivery of a Tranche 2 Cancellation Notice, such Change of Control does not occur for any reason, then Section 3.7(a)(i) shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with its terms, including the obligation to consummate the Tranche 2 Closing upon the occurrence of the Tranche 2 Trigger.

(b) Tranche 3 Closing. The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) notify the Buyer in writing upon the occurrence of the Tranche 3 Trigger and provide reasonable documentation of the same. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, the Seller shall have the option (but not the obligation) by irrevocable written notice to the Buyer (the “Tranche 3 Notice”) no later than forty-five (45) days following the occurrence of the Tranche 3 Trigger, to require the Buyer to pay to the Seller an amount up to the Tranche 3 Maximum Purchase Price, which amount shall be in an increment of $50,000,000 (the “Tranche 3 Purchase Price”). Such Tranche 3 Notice shall set forth the Tranche 3 Purchase Price the Seller is electing the Buyer to pay. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, the Buyer shall promptly (and in any event within twenty (20) Business Days following receipt of the Tranche 3 Notice) pay to the Seller the Tranche 3 Purchase Price (the “Tranche 3 Closing”). At the Tranche 3 Closing, the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from the Seller, free and clear of all Liens (except for Permitted Liens), all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Tranche 3 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, and the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a Bill of Sale duly executed by the Seller evidencing the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Tranche 3 Incremental Revenue Participation Right.

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(c) Tranche 4 Closing. The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days following the closing of the Seller’s books for the Calendar Quarter in which such the Tranche 4 Trigger occurred) notify the Buyer in writing upon the occurrence of the Tranche 4 Trigger and provide reasonable documentation of the same. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, the Seller shall have the option (but not the obligation) by irrevocable written notice to the Buyer (the “Tranche 4 Notice”) no later than forty-five (45) days following the occurrence of the Tranche 4 Trigger, to require the Buyer to pay to the Seller an amount up to the Tranche 4 Maximum Purchase Price, which amount shall be in an increment of $50,000,000 (the “Tranche 4 Purchase Price”). Such Tranche 4 Notice shall set forth the Tranche 4 Purchase Price the Seller is electing the Buyer to pay. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, the Buyer shall promptly (and in any event within twenty (20) Business Days following receipt of the Tranche 4 Notice) pay to the Seller the Tranche 4 Purchase Price (the “Tranche 4 Closing”). At the Tranche 4 Closing, the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from the Seller, free and clear of all Liens (except for Permitted Liens), all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Tranche 4 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, and the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a Bill of Sale duly executed by the Seller evidencing the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Tranche 4 Incremental Revenue Participation Right.

(d) Tranche 5 Closings.

(i) Tranche 5A Closings.

(1) Tranche 5A Sub Closing. The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) notify the Buyer in writing upon the occurrence of the Tranche 5A Sub Trigger and provide reasonable documentation of the same. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, and if the Seller has not delivered a Tranche 5A Notice, a Tranche 5B Sub Notice or a Tranche 5B Notice to the Buyer, then the Seller shall have the option (but not the obligation) by irrevocable written notice to the Buyer (the “Tranche 5A Sub Notice”) no later than forty-five (45) days following the occurrence of the Tranche 5A Sub Trigger, to require the Buyer to pay to the Seller an amount up to the Tranche 5 Sub Maximum Purchase Price, which amount shall be in an increment of $50,000,000 (the “Tranche 5A Sub Purchase Price”). Such Tranche 5A Sub Notice shall set forth the Tranche 5A Sub Purchase Price the Seller is electing the Buyer to pay. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, the Buyer shall promptly (and in any event within twenty (20) Business Days following receipt of the Tranche 5A Sub Notice) pay to the Seller the Tranche 5A Sub Purchase Price (the “Tranche 5A Sub Closing”). At the Tranche 5A Sub Closing, the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from the Seller, free and clear of all Liens (except for Permitted Liens), all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Tranche 5 Sub Incremental Revenue Participation Right, and the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a Bill of Sale duly executed by the Seller evidencing the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Tranche 5 Sub Incremental Revenue Participation Right.

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(2) Tranche 5A Closing. The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) notify the Buyer in writing upon the occurrence of the Tranche 5A Trigger and provide reasonable documentation of the same. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, and if the Seller has not delivered a Tranche 5B Sub Notice or a Tranche 5B Notice to the Buyer, then the Seller shall have the option (but not the obligation) by irrevocable written notice to the Buyer (the “Tranche 5A Notice”) no later than forty-five (45) days following the occurrence of the Tranche 5A Trigger, to require the Buyer to pay to the Seller an amount up to the Tranche 5 Maximum Purchase Price, which amount shall be in an increment of $50,000,000 (the “Tranche 5A Purchase Price”). Such Tranche 5A Notice shall set forth the Tranche 5A Purchase Price the Seller is electing the Buyer to pay. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, the Buyer shall promptly (and in any event within twenty (20) Business Days following receipt of the Tranche 5A Notice) pay to the Seller the Tranche 5A Purchase Price (the “Tranche 5A Closing”). At the Tranche 5A Closing, the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from the Seller, free and clear of all Liens (except for Permitted Liens), all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Tranche 5 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, and the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a Bill of Sale duly executed by the Seller evidencing the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Tranche 5 Incremental Revenue Participation Right.

(ii) Tranche 5B Closings.

(1) Tranche 5B Sub Closing. The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) notify the Buyer in writing upon the occurrence of the Tranche 5B Sub Trigger and provide reasonable documentation of the same. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, and if the Seller has not delivered a Tranche 5B Notice, a Tranche 5A Sub Notice or a Tranche 5A Notice to the Buyer, the Seller shall have the option (but not the obligation) by irrevocable written notice to the Buyer (the “Tranche 5B Sub Notice”) no later than forty-five (45) days following the occurrence of the Tranche 5B Sub Trigger, to require the Buyer to pay to the Seller an amount up to the Tranche 5 Sub Maximum Purchase Price, which amount shall be in an increment of $50,000,000 (the “Tranche 5B Sub Purchase Price”). Such Tranche 5B Sub Notice shall set forth the amount of the Tranche 5B Sub Purchase Price the Seller is electing the Buyer to pay. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, the Buyer shall promptly (and in any event within twenty (20) Business Days following receipt of the Tranche 5B Sub Notice) pay to the Seller the Tranche 5B Sub Purchase Price (the “Tranche 5B Sub Closing”). At the Tranche 5B Sub Closing, the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from the Seller, free and clear of all Liens (except for Permitted Liens), all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Tranche 5 Sub Incremental Revenue Participation Right, and the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a Bill of Sale duly executed by the Seller evidencing the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Tranche 5 Sub Incremental Revenue Participation Right.

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(2) Tranche 5B Closing. The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) notify the Buyer in writing upon the occurrence of the Tranche 5B Trigger and provide reasonable documentation of the same. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, and if the Seller has not delivered a Tranche 5A Sub Notice or a Tranche 5A Notice to the Buyer, the Seller shall have the option (but not the obligation) by irrevocable written notice to the Buyer (the “Tranche 5B Notice”) no later than forty-five (45) days following the occurrence of the Tranche 5B Trigger, to require the Buyer to pay to the Seller an amount up to the Tranche 5 Maximum Purchase Price, which amount shall be in an increment of $50,000,000 (the “Tranche 5B Purchase Price”). Such Tranche 5B Notice shall set forth the amount of the Tranche 5B Purchase Price the Seller is electing the Buyer to pay. So long as a Material Breach is not continuing or uncured, the Buyer shall promptly (and in any event within twenty (20) Business Days following receipt of the Tranche 5B Notice) pay to the Seller the Tranche 5B Purchase Price (the “Tranche 5B Closing”). At the Tranche 5B Closing, the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from the Seller, free and clear of all Liens (except for Permitted Liens), all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Tranche 5 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, and the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a Bill of Sale duly executed by the Seller evidencing the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Tranche 5 Incremental Revenue Participation Right.

(iii) For the avoidance of doubt, (1) if there is either a Tranche 5A Sub Closing or a Tranche 5A Closing, then in no event will there be either a Tranche 5B Sub Closing or a Tranche 5B Closing and (2) if there is either a Tranche 5B Sub Closing or a Tranche 5B Closing, then in no event will there be either a Tranche 5A Sub Closing or a Tranche 5A Closing.

ARTICLE 4
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLER

Except as set forth on the Disclosure Schedule attached hereto, the Seller represents and warrants to the Buyer that as of the Effective Date:

Section 4.1 Existence; Good Standing. The Seller is a corporation, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Delaware. The Seller is duly licensed or qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted by it or the character or location of the properties and assets owned, leased or operated by it makes such licensing or qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so licensed or qualified and in good standing has not and would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.2 Authorization. The Seller has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Seller.

Section 4.3 Enforceability. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Seller and constitutes the valid and legally binding obligation of the Seller, enforceable against the Seller in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by applicable Bankruptcy Laws or by general principles of equity (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

Section 4.4 No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Seller of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby do not and will not (a) contravene or conflict with the organizational documents of the Seller, (b) contravene or conflict with or constitute a material default under any material provision of any law binding upon or applicable to the Seller or Maximum Revenue Participation Right or (c) contravene or conflict with or constitute a material default under any material agreement or Judgment binding upon or applicable to the Seller or any of its Affiliates.

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Section 4.5 Consents. Except for any filings required by the federal securities laws or stock exchange rules, no consent, approval, license, order, authorization, registration, declaration or filing with or of any Governmental Entity or other Person is required to be done or obtained by the Seller or any of its Affiliates in connection with (a) the execution and delivery by the Seller of this Agreement, (b) the performance by the Seller of its obligations under this Agreement, or (c) the consummation by the Seller of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

Section 4.6 No Litigation. Neither the Seller nor any of its Affiliates is a party to, and, since June 1, 2022, none has received any written notice of, any action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding pending before any Governmental Entity and, to the knowledge of the Seller, no such action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding has been threatened against the Seller or any of its Affiliates since June 1, 2022, that, either individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.7 Compliance; Regulatory Interactions.

(a) All applications, submissions, information and data related to a Product submitted or utilized as the basis for any request to any Regulatory Authority by or on behalf of the Seller or any of its Affiliates were, to the knowledge of the Seller, true and correct in all material respects as of the date of such submission or request, and any material updates, changes, corrections or modification to such applications, submissions, information or data have been submitted to the necessary Regulatory Authorities, except to the extent that failure to make such updates, changes, corrections or modification would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) The Seller has made available to the Buyer, prior to the Effective Date, in the Data Room, to the knowledge of the Seller, true, correct and complete copies of all material communications (other than investigational new drug applications for the Products) sent or received since January 1, 2023 by the Seller and any of its Affiliates to or from any Regulatory Authorities related to the Exploitation of a Product.

(c) Since June 1, 2022, to the knowledge of the Seller, neither the Seller nor any of its Affiliates has committed any act, made any statement or failed to make any statement in respect of a Product that would reasonably be expected to provide a basis for the FDA to invoke its policy with respect to “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities”, or any other Regulatory Authority to invoke similar policies, set forth in any applicable laws or regulations.

(d) Since June 1, 2022, (i) there have been no Safety Notices, (ii) to the knowledge of the Seller, there are no unresolved material product complaints with respect to a Product, which would result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (iii) to the knowledge of the Seller, there are no facts currently in existence that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in (1) a material Safety Notice with respect to any Product or (2) a material change in the anticipated labeling of a Product.

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(e) To the knowledge of the Seller, the Seller and its Affiliates are, and, since June 1, 2022, have been, in compliance with all applicable laws administered or issued by the FDA or any similar Regulatory Authority in each country where a Product has been, or is intended to be, Manufactured or Exploited, including the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health Service Act, applicable requirements in FDA regulations, and any orders issued by FDA or similar Regulatory Authorities in each country where a Product has been, or is intended to be, Manufactured or Exploited, and all other laws regarding ownership, developing, testing, Manufacturing, disposal, Commercializing, and complaint handling or adverse event reporting for the products of the Seller or its Affiliates, except to the extent that such failure to comply with such applicable laws would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(f) The list of regulatory interactions in the Data Room document number 7.3.3.11 is, to the knowledge of the Seller, true, correct and complete in all material respects, and, to the knowledge of the Seller, none of the Seller or its Affiliates is in possession of any additional material regulatory interactions regarding the Specified Clinical Trials.

Section 4.8 Licenses. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.8 of the Disclosure Schedule, there are no In-Licenses or Out-Licenses currently in effect.

Section 4.9 Data. The efficacy data disclosed in the Data Room are, to the knowledge of the Seller, true, correct and complete in all material respects.

Section 4.10 Intellectual Property.

(a) Schedule 4.10(a) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all of the currently existing Patents included within the Patent Rights (“Existing Patents”). Schedule 4.10(a) of the Disclosure Schedule specifies the respective patent or patent application numbers as to each listed Patent or patent application within the Existing Patents. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(a) of the Disclosure Schedule, the Seller is the sole and exclusive registered owner of all the Existing Patents. Schedule 4.10(a) of the Disclosure Schedule specifies any Person other than the Seller owning or having an interest in any Existing Patent, including the nature of such interest.

(b) Except as set forth in Schedule 4.10(b) of the Disclosure Schedule, none of the Seller nor any of its Affiliates is a party to any pending, and, to the knowledge of the Seller, there is no threatened litigation, interference, reexamination, post-grant proceeding, opposition or like procedure involving any of the Existing Patents or other existing Intellectual Property Rights.

(c) All of the issued Patents within the Existing Patents are in full force and effect, and have not lapsed, expired or otherwise terminated and, to the knowledge of the Seller, are valid and enforceable. None of the Seller nor any of its Affiliates has received any written notice relating to the lapse, expiration or other termination of any of the issued Patents within the Existing Patents. None of the Seller nor any of its Affiliates has received any written notice or written legal opinion from a Third Party that alleges that any of the Existing Patents or other existing Intellectual Property Rights is invalid or unenforceable.

(d) None of the Seller nor any of its Affiliates has received any written notice that there is any, and, to the knowledge of the Seller, there is no, Person who is or claims to be an inventor under any Existing Patent who is not a named inventor thereof.

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(e) The Seller or its Affiliate has paid all maintenance fees, annuities and like payments required with respect to all of the Existing Patents, thereof, except as would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(f) Except as set forth in Schedule 4.10(f) of the Disclosure Schedule, to the knowledge of the Seller, (i) the Manufacture or Exploitation of a Product has not infringed misappropriated or otherwise violated, and will not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate, any issued Patent or other intellectual property rights of any Third Party (without reference to any safe harbor), and (ii) no Person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating, or threatening to infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate, any Existing Patents or other existing Intellectual Property Rights.

Section 4.11 Title to Revenue Participation Right; No Liens. The Seller holds all rights, interests, and title necessary to sell, transfer, assign and convey the Maximum Revenue Participation Right to the Buyer. From and after the Effective Date, the Buyer will have acquired, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, good and marketable title to the Initial Revenue Participation Right and the corresponding Revenue Payments, in each case free and clear of all Liens (other than the Back-Up Security Interest, which shall be a first priority Lien, and any other Permitted Liens). From and after each Tranche Closing, the Buyer will have acquired, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, good and marketable title to the applicable Incremental Revenue Participation Right corresponding to such Tranche Closing and the corresponding Revenue Payments, in each case free and clear of all Liens (other than the Back-Up Security Interest, which shall be a first priority Lien, and any other Permitted Lien). None of the property or assets of the Seller or any of its Affiliates is subject to, or encumbered by, any Lien, other than the Maximum Revenue Participation Right and the Revenue Payments, which are covered by the immediately preceding sentence, or any other Permitted Liens.

Section 4.12 Indebtedness. Schedule 4.12 of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a complete list of the outstanding Indebtedness of, or incurred by, the Seller and its Affiliates.

Section 4.13 Lien Related Representation and Warranties. The Seller’s exact legal name (as defined in Section 9-503 of the UCC) is, and for the immediately preceding ten (10) years has been, “Revolution Medicines, Inc.”. The Seller is, and for the immediately preceding ten (10) years has been, a corporation and incorporated in Delaware. The Seller’s chief executive office is (and for the immediately preceding ten (10) years has been) located at 700 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, California 94063. The Seller does not own any real property.

Section 4.14 Brokers’ Fees. Except for TD Securities (USA) LLC, there is no investment banker, broker, finder, financial advisor or other intermediary who has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of the Seller or any of its Affiliate who might be entitled to any fee or commission in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

Section 4.15 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. None of the Seller or its Affiliates nor, to the knowledge of Seller, any of its or their directors, officers, employees or agents have, directly or indirectly, made, offered, promised or authorized any payment or gift of any money or anything of value to or for the benefit of any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the U.S.

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”)), foreign political party or official thereof or candidate for foreign political office for the purpose of (a) influencing any official act or decision of such official, party or candidate, (b) inducing such official, party or candidate to use his, her or its influence to affect any act or decision of a foreign governmental authority, or (c) securing any improper advantage, in the case of (a), (b) and (c) above in order to assist the Seller or any of its Affiliates in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person. None of the Seller or any of its Affiliates nor, to the knowledge of Seller, any of its or their directors, officers, employees or agents have made or authorized any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment of funds or received or retained any funds in violation of any law, rule or regulation. The Seller further represents that it has maintained, and has caused each of its Affiliates to maintain, systems of internal controls (including, but not limited to, accounting systems, purchasing systems and billing systems) and written policies designed to ensure compliance with the FCPA or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law. To the knowledge of the Seller, neither the Seller nor any of its Affiliates or its or their officers, directors or employees are the subject of any allegation, voluntary disclosure, investigation, prosecution or other enforcement action related to the FCPA or any other anti-corruption law.

 

 

ARTICLE 5
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE BUYER

The Buyer hereby represents and warrants to the Seller that as of the Effective Date:

Section 5.1 Existence; Good Standing. The Buyer is an Irish collective asset-management vehicle duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Ireland. The Buyer is duly licensed or qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted by it or the character or location of the properties and assets owned, leased or operated by it makes such licensing or qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so licensed or qualified and in good standing has not and would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the Buyer.

Section 5.2 Authorization. The Buyer has the requisite right, power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Buyer.

Section 5.3 Enforceability. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by an authorized Person of the Buyer and constitutes the valid and binding obligation of the Buyer, enforceable against the Buyer in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by applicable Bankruptcy Laws or by general principles of equity (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

Section 5.4 No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Buyer of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby do not and will not (a) contravene or conflict with the organizational documents of the Buyer, (b) contravene or conflict with or constitute a material default under any material provision of any law binding upon or applicable to the Buyer or (c) contravene or conflict with or constitute a material default under any material agreement or Judgment binding upon or applicable to the Buyer.

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Section 5.5 Consents. Except for the filing of financial statement(s) in accordance with Section 2.3 or any filings required by the federal securities laws or stock exchange rules, no consent, approval, license, order, authorization, registration, declaration or filing with or of any Governmental Entity or other Person is required to be done or obtained by the Buyer in connection with (a) the execution and delivery by the Buyer of this Agreement, (b) the performance by the Buyer of its obligations under this Agreement or (c) the consummation by the Buyer of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

Section 5.6 No Litigation. There is no action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Buyer, threatened before any Governmental Entity to which the Buyer is a party that would reasonably be expected to prevent or materially and adversely affect the ability of the Buyer to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

Section 5.7 Financing. The Buyer has sufficient cash, or access to sufficient immediately available cash under committed credit facilities, to pay the Upfront Purchase Price on the Initial Closing Date and will have sufficient cash, or access to sufficient immediately available cash under committed credit facilities, to pay the applicable Tranche Payment at the applicable Tranche Closing. The Buyer acknowledges that its obligations under this Agreement are not contingent on obtaining financing.

Section 5.8 Brokers’ Fees. There is no investment banker, broker, finder, financial advisor or other intermediary who has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of the Buyer who might be entitled to any fee or commission in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

ARTICLE 6
NO OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

EXCEPT FOR THE EXPRESS WARRANTIES SET FORTH IN ANY TRANSACTION DOCUMENT AND ANY DOCUMENTS OR INSTRUMENTS DELIVERED THEREUNDER, NONE OF THE PARTIES HERETO MAKES ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR GRANTS ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, EITHER IN FACT OR BY OPERATION OF LAW, BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE, AND EACH PARTY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY OTHER WARRANTIES, WHETHER WRITTEN OR ORAL, OR EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE OR ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE VALIDITY OF ANY PATENT RIGHTS OR THE NON-INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES.

ARTICLE 7
COVENANTS

Section 7.1 Seller Diligence Requirements; Conduct of RASolute 302 Clinical Trial, the RASolve 301 Clinical Trial and the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial.

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(a) The Seller shall, directly or indirectly through its Affiliates or any Licensees:

(i) complete each of the RASolute 302 Clinical Trial and the RASolve 301 Clinical Trial, in each case in a manner substantially consistent with the plan for such Clinical Trials disclosed to the Buyer prior to the Effective Date, unless there is a Safety Event in respect of such Clinical Trial, provided that, if and when such Safety Event is resolved, Seller shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to satisfy such obligation;

(ii) (x) use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to complete the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial, unless there is a Safety Event in respect of such Clinical Trial, provided that such obligation shall resume if and when such Safety Event is resolved, and (y) (1) obtain the FDA’s guidance on the design of, and endpoints for, the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial, including the dosing strength and schedule of RMC-6236 in such trial and (2) conduct the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial in a manner reasonably consistent with such guidance as the FDA may provide (unless there is a Safety Event in respect of such Clinical Trial, provided that, if and when such Safety Event is resolved, Seller shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to satisfy such obligation); and

(iii) if any of (a) the RASolute 302 Clinical Trial, (b) the RASolve 301 Clinical Trial or (c) the RMC-6236 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial, meets its respective success criteria set forth on Exhibit D, (x) submit, on a reasonably timely basis, an application for Marketing Approval of RMC-6236 on the basis of such positive data readout from such Clinical Trial to the FDA, EMA, and MHRA, as applicable, including obtaining approval from the applicable Related Party’s board of directors (or equivalent governing body) to make the requisite submission for Marketing Approval upon such Clinical Trial meeting such respective success criteria, and (y) use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to obtain such Marketing Approval of RMC-6236 for the indication studied in such Clinical Trial in the United States, European Union and United Kingdom;

(iv) if the Tranche 5B Closing occurs, (x) submit, on a reasonably timely basis, an application for Marketing Approval of RMC-9805 on the basis of the positive data readout from the RMC-9805 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial to the FDA, EMA, and MHRA, including obtaining approval from the applicable Related Party’s board of directors (or equivalent governing body) to make the requisite submission for Marketing Approval upon such Clinical Trial meeting such respective success criteria, and (y) use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to obtain such Marketing Approval of RMC-9805 for the indication studied in the RMC-9805 First-Line PDAC Clinical Trial in the United States, European Union and United Kingdom.

Section 7.2 Quarterly Calls; Reporting.

(a) From and after the Effective Date, the Seller shall offer to Buyer promptly following the end of each Calendar Quarter, but in any event no later than sixty (60) calendar days after the end of such Calendar Quarter, an opportunity for a conference call with members of management of the Seller to occur at a reasonable time during normal business hours, and with reasonable prior notice (each, a “Quarterly Call”) at which Quarterly Call the Seller shall provide updates with respect to such period to the Buyer regarding [***].

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(b) In addition to the information provided in the Quarterly Calls, the Seller shall provide the Buyer with:

(i) with respect to each Specified Clinical Trial: [***];

(ii) a draft of any press release or other public disclosure containing [***];

(iii) prompt (and in any event within [***]) written notice of [***];

(iv) such additional information [***];

(v) if requested by the Buyer following the end of a Calendar Quarter, [***]; and

(vi) no later than [***] after the end of the last Calendar Quarter of each Calendar Year, [***].

Section 7.3 Revenue Payments; Revenue Payment Details.

(a) For each Calendar Quarter occurring (in whole or in part) during the Revenue Payment Term, the Seller shall pay to the Buyer the Revenue Payment for each such Calendar Quarter promptly, but in any event no later than sixty (60) calendar days after the end of each such Calendar Quarter.

(b) Provided that the Buyer has complied with its obligations under Section 3.5 of this Agreement (and, if applicable, any assignee has provided Seller with a valid and properly executed IRS Form W-9 or applicable IRS Form W-8 confirming that no withholding is required for U.S. federal income tax purposes and otherwise complied with Section 3.5), the Seller shall make all payments required to be made by it to the Buyer pursuant to this Agreement in U.S. dollars by wire transfer of immediately available funds, without set-off, reduction or deduction, or withholding for or on account of any U.S. federal withholding Taxes, to the bank account designated in writing from time to time by the Buyer. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate to eliminate or reduce any withholding Taxes applicable to any payments under this Agreement.

(c) For each Calendar Quarter occurring (in whole or in part) during the Revenue Payment Term, the Seller shall provide the Buyer promptly following the end of such Calendar Quarter, but in any event no later than sixty (60) calendar days after the end of such Calendar Quarter, a report (a “Revenue Report”) setting forth in reasonable detail on a Product-by-Product and country-by-country basis: (i) Gross Sales and Net Sales for such Calendar Quarter and Calendar Year to date (including a detailed break-down of all permitted deductions from Gross Sales used to determine Net Sales and any Net Sales described in Section 7.5(d)), and (ii) the calculation of the Revenue Payment payable to the Buyer for the applicable Calendar Quarter, identifying the number of units of each Product sold by the Seller, its Affiliates and each Licensee.

Section 7.4 Inspections and Audits of the Seller.

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(a) Upon reasonable prior written notice and during normal business hours, the Buyer may cause an inspection or audit, by an independent public accounting firm reasonably acceptable to the Seller and subject to a confidentiality agreement between the Seller and such public accounting firm reasonably acceptable to the Seller, the Buyer and such independent public accounting firm, of the Seller’s and its Affiliates’ books of account, for the sole purpose of determining the correctness of the Revenue Payments made under this Agreement.

(b) Any such inspection or audit shall be permitted with respect to the Revenue Payments no more frequently than once per Calendar Year for the Seller’s and its Affiliates’ books of account for any period commencing no earlier than January 1st of the third (3rd) full Calendar Year preceding the Calendar Year in which the Buyer submits the written request for such inspection or audit. In connection with any such inspection or audit, upon the Buyer’s request, the Seller and its Affiliates shall exercise any rights it may have under any Out-License to cause an inspection or audit by an independent public accounting firm to be made of the books of account of the applicable Licensee for the purpose of determining the correctness of the Revenue Payments made under this Agreement.

(c) All of the expenses of any inspection or audit requested by the Buyer hereunder (including the fees and expenses of such independent public accounting firm designated for such purpose) shall be borne by (i) the Buyer, if the independent public accounting firm determines that the Revenue Payments previously paid were incorrect by an amount less than or equal to five percent (5%) of the Revenue Payments actually paid or (ii) the Seller, if the independent public accounting firm determines that the Revenue Payments previously paid were incorrect by an amount greater than five percent (5%) of the Revenue Payments actually paid. Any such independent public accounting firm shall not disclose to the Buyer the confidential information of the Seller or any of its Affiliates or their respective Licensees except to the extent such disclosure is either necessary to determine the correctness of a Revenue Payment or otherwise would be included in a Quarterly Call, any of the deliverables pursuant to Section 7.2(b) or a Revenue Report. All information obtained by the Buyer as a result of any such inspection or audit shall be Confidential Information subject to ARTICLE 9.

(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event Seller disputes any of the inspection or audit results of Section 7.4(a), the parties shall work in good faith to resolve the dispute. If the parties are unable to reach a mutually acceptable resolution of any such dispute within sixty (60) days, the dispute shall be submitted for resolution to an independent certified public accounting firm jointly selected by each party’s certified public accountants or to such other Person as the parties shall mutually agree (the “Audit Arbitrator”). The decision of Audit Arbitrator shall be final, and the costs of such arbitration as well as the initial audit shall be borne between the parties consistent with Section 7.4(c). Not later than sixty (60) days after such decision and in accordance with such decision, the audited party shall pay the additional amounts, with interest from the date originally due in accordance with Section 7.12, or the auditing party shall reimburse the excess payments, as applicable.

Section 7.5 Intellectual Property Matters.

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(a) Infringement Notice. The Seller shall provide to the Buyer a copy of any written notice received by any Related Party or Manufacturer from a Third Party alleging or claiming that the Exploitation of a Product or the Manufacture of a Product infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any Patents or other intellectual property rights of a Third Party, together with copies of material correspondence sent or received by any Related Party or Manufacturer related thereto, as soon as practicable and in any event not more than [***] following such delivery or receipt.

(b) Enforcement Actions. The Seller shall promptly inform the Buyer after the filing or other submission by a Related Party of a written claim to a Third Party of any infringement, misappropriation, or violation by such Third Party of any Patent Right or other Intellectual Property Right, or if any Related Party receive a written notice from a Third Party alleging that any such Patent Right or other Intellectual Property Right is invalid or unenforceable; provided, that, promptly after the Seller’s or any of its Affiliate’s initiating, or permitting a Licensee to initiate, an enforcement action regarding any suspected infringement, misappropriation, or other violation by a Third Party of any such Patent Right or other Intellectual Property Right, except as the Seller may otherwise determine in its reasonable business judgment (including taking into account any attorney-client privilege, conflicts of interests, confidentiality obligations, protective orders or other similar considerations), the Seller shall provide the Buyer with written notice of such enforcement action and thereafter shall provide the Buyer with such additional information (to the extent permissible under any applicable protective order and obligations of confidentiality) on a regular basis.

(c) Prosecution. The Seller shall, or shall cause another Related Party to, diligently file, prosecute, and maintain all material Patent Rights with respect to (i) RMC-6236 within the Major Markets, (ii) after the Initial RMC-9805 US Overlap Date, the Initial RMC-9805 Compound within the United States, (iii) after the Subsequent RMC-9805 US Overlap Date, each Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound within the United States, (iv) after the Initial RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date, the Initial RMC-9805 Compound within the Major Markets other than the United States and (v) after the Subsequent RMC-9805 EU Overlap Date, each Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound within the Major Markets other than the United States.

(d) Recovery. If the Seller or any of its Affiliates or their respective Licensees recover monetary damages from a Third Party, where such damages, whether in the form of judgment or settlement, result from any infringement, misappropriation, or other violation by such Third Party of any Intellectual Property Rights (a) in a manner that is competitive to any Product containing RMC-6236 (x) in the United States during the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term or (y) outside of the United States during the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, or (b) in a manner that is competitive to any Product containing RMC-9805 (x) in the United States during the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term or (y) outside of the United Stated during the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, then, in each case ((a) and (b)), such recovery will be allocated first to the reimbursement of any expenses incurred by the Seller and its Affiliates or their respective Licensees in bringing such action (including all reasonable attorneys’ fees), and any remaining amounts will be treated as Net Sales of a Product containing RMC-6236 or a Product containing RMC-9805, as applicable, in the country in which, and in the Calendar Year during which, such infringing, misappropriating, or violating activity occurred. If any such amounts are recovered after the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term, the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, or the Ex-US RMC-9805

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Revenue Payment Term, as applicable, Seller shall pay to Buyer the Revenue Payment attributable to such amounts within thirty (30) days following the Seller’s actual receipt of such amounts.

Section 7.6 In-Licenses.

(a) The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within [***]) provide the Buyer with (i) executed copies of any In-License entered into by the Seller or any of its Affiliates, (ii) executed copies of each material amendment, supplement, modification or written waiver of any provision of any In-License, and (iii) copies of all material reports provided by the Seller or any of its Affiliates to the counterparty to any In-License or provided in writing by the counterparty to any In-License to the Seller or any of its Affiliates, subject, in each case, to any confidentiality requirements existing as of the Effective Date (in which case versions of such documents redacted to the extent necessary (in the reasonable determination of the Seller) for the Seller to comply with such confidentiality requirements shall be provided). The Seller shall not, and shall cause its Affiliates not to, amend or modify, terminate or assign, any In-License that would materially and adversely affect the Buyer’s rights or economic interests under this Agreement. The Seller shall provide the Buyer with written notice promptly (and in any event within [***]) following the assignment or termination of any In-License.

(b) The Seller shall, or shall cause its Affiliates (as applicable) to, comply in all material respects with its and their obligations under each In-License and shall not take any action or forego any action that would reasonably be expected to result in a material breach thereof. Promptly, and in any event within [***], after receipt by Seller or any of its Affiliates of any (written or oral) notice from a counterparty to any In-License of an alleged material breach under such In-License by Seller or its Affiliates, the Seller shall provide the Buyer with a copy (or, in the case of an oral notice, a reasonably detailed summary) thereof (subject to any confidentiality requirements existing as of the Effective Date (in which case versions of such documents redacted to the extent necessary (in the reasonable determination of the Seller) for the Seller to comply with such confidentiality requirements shall be provided).

(c) The Seller shall provide the Buyer with written notice after becoming aware of a counterparty’s material breach of its obligations under any In-License. Promptly, and in any event within [***] following the Seller’s or its Affiliate’s notice to a counterparty to any In-License of an alleged material breach by such counterparty, the Seller shall provide the Buyer with a copy thereof (in each case, subject to any confidentiality requirements existing as of the Effective Date (in which case versions of such documents redacted to the extent necessary (in the reasonable determination of the Seller) for the Seller to comply with such confidentiality requirements shall be provided).

(d) With respect to each In-License entered into by the Seller or its Affiliates after the Effective Date, the Seller shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, include a provision in such In-License permitting the Seller and its Affiliates to disclose to Buyer the information, notices and correspondence contemplated by this Section 7.6.

Section 7.7 Out-Licenses.

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(a) Except for a Permitted Out-License, the Seller shall not, and shall not permit any of its Affiliates to, enter into an Out-License to Commercialize a Product containing RMC-6236 in the United States, United Kingdom or European Union without the Buyer’s prior written consent. The Seller shall notify the Buyer in writing at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the issuance of any public announcement by Seller regarding any Out-License of RMC-6236 in the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union, which notice shall include a copy of the draft public announcement.

(b) The Seller shall promptly (and in any event within [***]) provide the Buyer with (i) executed copies of any Out-License entered into by the Seller or any of its Affiliates for Commercialization of a Product in the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union, (ii) executed copies of each material amendment, supplement, modification or written waiver of any provision of any such Out-License, and (iii) copies of all material reports provided by the Seller or any of its Affiliates to the counterparty to any such Out-License or provided in writing by the counterparty to any such Out-License to the Seller or any of its Affiliates in each case, subject to any confidentiality requirements existing as of the Effective Date (in which case versions of such documents redacted to the extent necessary (in the reasonable determination of the Seller) for the Seller to comply with such confidentiality requirements shall be provided). The Seller shall not, and shall cause its Affiliates not to, amend, modify, terminate, or assign any such Out-License in a manner that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Seller shall provide the Buyer with written notice promptly (and in any event within [***]) following the assignment or termination of any such Out-License.

(c) The Seller shall, or shall cause its Affiliates (as applicable) to, comply in all material respects with its and their obligations under each Out-License and shall not take any action or forego any action that would reasonably be expected to result in a material breach thereof. Promptly, and in any event within [***], after receipt of any (written or oral) notice from a counterparty to any Out-License or any of its Affiliates of an alleged material breach under such Out-License by Seller or its Affiliates, the Seller shall provide the Buyer with a copy (or, in the case of an oral notice, a reasonably detailed summary) thereof, in each case, subject to any confidentiality requirements existing as of the Effective Date (in which case versions of such documents redacted to the extent necessary (in the reasonable determination of the Seller) for the Seller to comply with such confidentiality requirements shall be provided). The Seller shall, or shall cause its Affiliates (as applicable) to, use its or their Commercially Reasonable Efforts to cure any breaches by it under such Out-License and shall give written notice to the Buyer upon curing any such material breach.

(d) The Seller shall provide the Buyer with written notice following becoming aware of a counterparty’s material breach of its obligations under any Out-License for Commercialization of a Product in the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union.

(e) With respect to each Out-License entered into by the Seller or its Affiliates after the Effective Date, the Seller shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, include a provision in such Out-License permitting the Seller and its Affiliates to disclose to Buyer the information, notices and correspondence contemplated by this Section 7.7.

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Section 7.8 Disclosures. Except for a press release previously approved in form and substance by the Seller and the Buyer or any other public announcement using substantially the same text as such press release, neither the Buyer nor the Seller shall, and each party shall cause its respective Representatives, Affiliates and Affiliates’ Representatives not to, issue a press release or other public announcement or otherwise make any public disclosure with respect to this Agreement or the subject matter hereof without the prior written consent of the other party except as may be required by applicable law or stock exchange rule (in which case either party required to make the press release or other public announcement or disclosure shall allow the other party reasonable time to comment on, and, if applicable, reasonably request the disclosing party to seek confidential treatment in respect of portions of, such press release or other public announcement or disclosure in advance of such issuance).

Section 7.9 Data Room. The Seller shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Buyer within [***] after the Effective Date, a copy of the contents of the data room hosted by [***] (“Data Room”) and the data room hosted by [***] (“IP Data Room”) for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, via encrypted CD or USB drive or other mutually agreed method, and shall maintain the Data Room and IP Data Room until such delivery. For the avoidance of doubt, the contents of the Data Room and the IP Data Room, however and in whatever format delivered to the Buyer, are Confidential Information of the Seller and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Section 7.10 [Reserved].

Section 7.11 Further Assurances. The Seller and the Buyer agree to execute and deliver such other documents, certificates, agreements and other writings and to take such other actions as may be reasonably necessary in order to give effect to and carry on the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

Section 7.12 Late Payments. A late fee of the lesser of (a) four percent (4%) over the Prime Rate, and (b) the highest rate permitted under applicable law shall accrue on all unpaid amounts with respect to any payment owed to either party hereunder, including the Tranche Payments or any Revenue Payment, from the date such obligation was due until the date payment is made. The imposition and payment of a late fee shall not constitute a waiver of the rights of either party with respect to such payment default. In no event shall any late fee interest owed or paid under this Section 7.12 be counted, in the case of the Buyer, towards its obligations to pay any Tranche Payment or, in the case of the Seller, towards its obligation to pay the Revenue Payments.

Section 7.13 Negative Pledge; Preservation of Assets.

(a) The Seller shall not, and shall not permit any of its Affiliates to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on the Maximum Revenue Participation Right, the Revenue Payments, the RMC-6236 Product Rights or any “proceeds” (as defined in the UCC) of each of the Maximum Revenue Participation Right, the Revenue Payments and the RMC-6236 Product Rights except for (a) the Back-Up Security Interest and (b) as applicable, any Permitted Lien.

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(b) If the Seller or its Affiliates enters into a transaction to assign, convey, monetize, or otherwise transfer or loan against the Seller’s retained interest in Net Sales of any Product (an “Additional Monetization”) and such Additional Monetization transaction is secured by a Lien on any RMC-6236 Product Rights (or any “proceeds” (as defined in the UCC) thereof) then (i) the Seller and the Buyer will enter into an amendment or supplement hereto, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Seller and the Buyer, [***] (the “Product Rights Lien”), (ii) the Buyer and the counterparty to such Additional Monetization shall enter into a Customary Additional Monetization Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement and (iii) the Buyer shall be permitted to [***].

(c) The Seller and its Subsidiaries shall not enter into any Senior Debt unless, concurrently with the entry by the Seller and its Subsidiaries into such Senior Debt, the Buyer and the counterparty to such Senior Debt enters into a Customary Senior Debt Intercreditor Agreement.

(d) If any Senior Debt is outstanding and the Seller enters into an Additional Monetization secured by a Lien on RMC-6236 Products Rights (or any proceeds (as defined in the UCC) thereof) then, concurrently with the effectiveness of such Additional Monetization transaction and the attachment and effectiveness of Buyer’s Product Rights Lien on such RMC-6236 Product Rights (and proceeds thereof) pursuant to the amendment or supplement to this Agreement described in preceding clause (b), the Buyer, the counterparty to such Additional Monetization and the counterparty to such Senior Debt shall enter into a Customary Additional Monetization Senior Intercreditor Agreement.

(e) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Seller nor any of its Affiliates shall take any actions, fail to take any actions, permit any actions, fail to permit any actions, enter into any contracts or arrangements, or amend, restate, supplement, waive any rights under or otherwise modify any contracts or arrangements in a manner that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to adversely affect in any material respect the Initial Revenue Participation Right, any Incremental Revenue Participation Right, the Revenue Payments, the Commercialization of a Product or the Buyer’s rights under this Agreement, with the intent to circumvent the provisions of, or obligations under, this Agreement.

(f) For clarity, subject to Section 7.7, this Agreement shall not be construed, understood, or interpreted to limit the Seller’s or its Affiliates’ rights to enter into any Out-License or any other license, sublicense or other similar arrangements between the Seller or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and any Third Party, on the other hand, pursuant to which the Seller or any of its Affiliates grants a license, sublicense or other similar rights under any assets or property of Seller and its Affiliates, including Intellectual Property Rights.

ARTICLE 8
INDEMNIFICATION

Section 8.1 General Indemnity. Subject to Section 8.3, from and after the Effective Date:

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(a) The Seller hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Buyer and its Affiliates and its and their directors, managers, trustees, officers, agents, employees and advisors (the “Buyer Indemnified Parties”) from, against and in respect of all Losses suffered or incurred by the Buyer Indemnified Parties to the extent arising out of or resulting from (i) any breach of any of the representations or warranties (in each case, when made) of the Seller in any Transaction Document and (ii) any breach of any of the covenants or agreements of the Seller in any Transaction Document; provided, however, that the foregoing shall exclude any indemnification to any Buyer Indemnified Party to the extent resulting from the gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud of any Buyer Indemnified Party.

(b) The Buyer hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Seller and its Affiliates and its and their directors, managers, trustees, officers, agents, employees and advisors (the “Seller Indemnified Parties”) from, against and in respect of all Losses suffered or incurred by the Seller Indemnified Parties to the extent arising out of or resulting from (i) any breach of any of the representations or warranties (in each case, when made) of the Buyer in any Transaction Document and (ii) any breach of any of the covenants or agreements of the Buyer in any Transaction Document; provided, however, that the foregoing shall exclude any indemnification to any Seller Indemnified Party to the extent resulting from the gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud of any Seller Indemnified Party.

Section 8.2 Notice of Claims. If either a Buyer Indemnified Party, on the one hand, or a Seller Indemnified Party, on the other hand (such Buyer Indemnified Party on the one hand and such Seller Indemnified Party on the other hand being hereinafter referred to as an “Indemnified Party”), has suffered or incurred any Losses for which indemnification may be sought under this ARTICLE 8, the Indemnified Party shall so notify the other party from whom indemnification is sought under this ARTICLE 8 (the “Indemnifying Party”) promptly in writing describing such Loss, the amount or estimated amount thereof, if known or reasonably capable of estimation, and the method of computation of such Loss, all with reasonable particularity and containing a reference to the provisions of the relevant Transaction Document in respect of which such Loss shall have occurred. If any claim, action, suit or proceeding is asserted or instituted by or against a Third Party with respect to which an Indemnified Party intends to claim any Loss under this Section 8.2, such Indemnified Party shall promptly notify the Indemnifying Party of such claim, action, suit or proceeding and tender to the Indemnifying Party the defense of such claim, action, suit or proceeding. A failure by an Indemnified Party to give notice and to tender the defense of such claim, action, suit or proceeding in a timely manner pursuant to this Section 8.2 shall not limit the obligation of the Indemnifying Party under this ARTICLE 8, except to the extent such Indemnifying Party is actually prejudiced thereby.

Section 8.3 Limitations on Liability. No party hereto shall be liable (and no claim for indemnification hereunder shall be asserted) for any indirect, consequential, punitive, special or incidental damages, including loss of profits, under this ARTICLE 8 as a result of any breach or violation of any covenant or agreement of such party (including under this ARTICLE 8) in or pursuant to any Transaction Document. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Buyer shall be entitled to make indemnification claims, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this ARTICLE 8, for Losses consisting of any portion of the Revenue Payments that the Buyer was entitled to receive but did not receive timely or at all due to any indemnifiable events under any Transaction Document, and such portion of the Revenue Payments shall not be deemed indirect, consequential, punitive, special or incidental damages, including loss of profits, for any purpose of any Transaction Document and (ii) any indirect, consequential, punitive, special or incidental damages, including loss of profits awarded to a Third Party in connection with a claim pursuant to Section 8.4 shall be considered Losses for purposes of this ARTICLE 8.

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Section 8.4 Third Party Claims. Upon providing notice to an Indemnifying Party by an Indemnified Party pursuant to Section 8.2 of the commencement of any action, suit or proceeding against such Indemnified Party by a Third Party with respect to which such Indemnified Party intends to claim any Loss under this ARTICLE 8, such Indemnifying Party shall have the right to defend such claim, at such Indemnifying Party’s expense and with counsel of its choice reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party. If the Indemnifying Party assumes the defense of such claim, the Indemnified Party shall, at the request of the Indemnifying Party, use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate in such defense; provided, that the Indemnifying Party shall bear the Indemnified Party’s reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with such cooperation. The Indemnified Party may retain separate co-counsel at its expense and may participate in the defense of such claim. The Indemnifying Party shall not consent to the entry of any Judgment or enter into any settlement with respect to such claim without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party unless such Judgment or settlement (A) provides for the payment by the Indemnifying Party of money as the sole relief (if any) for the claimant (other than customary and reasonable confidentiality obligations relating to such claim, Judgment or settlement), (B) results in the full and general release of the Indemnified Party from all liabilities arising out of, relating to or in connection with such claim and (C) does not involve a finding or admission of any violation of any law, rule, regulation or Judgment, or the rights of any Person, and has no effect on any other claims that may be made against the Indemnified Party. In the event the Indemnifying Party does not or ceases to conduct the defense of such claim in compliance with this Section 8.4, (i) the Indemnified Party may defend against, and consent to the entry of any reasonable Judgment or enter into any reasonable settlement with respect to, such claim in any manner such Indemnified Party reasonably deems appropriate, (ii) subject to the limitations in Section 8.3, the Indemnifying Party shall reimburse the Indemnified Party promptly and periodically for the reasonable out-of-pocket costs of defending against such claim, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses against reasonably detailed invoices, and (iii) the Indemnifying Party shall remain responsible for any Losses the Indemnified Party may suffer as a result of such claim to the full extent provided in this ARTICLE 8.

Section 8.5 Exclusive Remedy. Except as set forth in Section 11.10, from and after the Effective Date, the rights of the parties hereto pursuant to (and subject to the conditions of) this ARTICLE 8 shall be the sole and exclusive remedy of the parties hereto and their respective Affiliates with respect to any claims (whether based in contract, tort or otherwise) resulting from or relating to any breach of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made under any Transaction Document or any certificate, document or instrument delivered under any Transaction Document, and each party hereto hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, and agrees not to assert any other claim or action in respect of any such breach. Notwithstanding the foregoing, claims for fraud shall not be waived or limited in any way by this ARTICLE 8.

Section 8.6 Tax Treatment of Indemnification Payments. Any indemnification payments made pursuant to this ARTICLE 8 will be treated as a purchase price adjustment for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, except to the extent otherwise required pursuant to a “determination,” within the meaning of Section 1313(a) of the US Code.

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ARTICLE 9
CONFIDENTIALITY

Section 9.1 Confidentiality. Except as provided in this ARTICLE 9 or otherwise agreed in writing by the parties, the parties agree that, during the term of this Agreement and for ten (10) years thereafter, each party (the “Receiving Party”) shall (a) keep confidential and shall not publish or otherwise disclose, except as permitted pursuant to Section 9.2, any information furnished to it by or on behalf of the other party (the “Disclosing Party”) pursuant to this Agreement (such information, “Confidential Information” of the Disclosing Party), and (b) shall not use the Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party for any purpose other than as provided for in this Agreement (which includes the exercise of any rights or the performance of any obligations hereunder), except in each case ((a) and (b)) for that portion of such information that the Receiving Party can demonstrate by competent proof:

(a) was already known to the Receiving Party, other than under an obligation of confidentiality, at the time of disclosure by the Disclosing Party;

(b) was generally available to the public or otherwise part of the public domain at the time of its disclosure to the Receiving Party;

(c) became generally available to the public or otherwise part of the public domain after its disclosure and other than through any act or omission of the Receiving Party in breach of any confidentiality obligation (including under the Transaction Documents);

(d) is independently developed by the Receiving Party or any of its Affiliates without the use of the Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party; or

(e) is subsequently disclosed to the Receiving Party on a non-confidential basis by a Third Party who did not receive such Confidential Information from the Disclosing Party and without obligations of confidentiality with respect thereto.

Section 9.2 Authorized Disclosure. Either party may disclose Confidential Information to the extent such disclosure is reasonably necessary in the following situations:

(a) prosecuting or defending litigation between the parties hereto;

(b) complying with applicable laws and regulations, including regulations promulgated by securities exchanges;

(c) complying with a valid order of a court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction or other Governmental Entity;

(d) disclosure to its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ Representatives; provided, that each recipient of Confidential Information must be bound by obligations of confidentiality and non-use at least as stringent as those set forth in this Agreement prior to any such disclosure;

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(e) disclosure to its actual or potential investors, lenders or acquirers, and their respective accountants, financial advisors and other professional representatives, provided, that such disclosure shall be made only to the extent customarily required to consummate such investment, financing transaction or acquisition and that each recipient of Confidential Information must be bound by obligations of confidentiality and non-use at least as stringent as those set forth in this Agreement prior to any such disclosure; or

(f) upon the prior written consent of the Disclosing Party.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the Receiving Party is required to make a disclosure of the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information pursuant to Section 9.2(b) or (c), it will, except where impracticable, give reasonable advance notice to the Disclosing Party of such disclosure and use reasonable efforts to secure confidential treatment of such information. Without limiting the foregoing, a party may disclose the other party’s Confidential Information, without the other party’s prior written permission, to the extent it is required to do so by law, regulation, or a court or administrative order or an order of another Governmental Entity; however, prior to such disclosure, the compelled party shall notify the other party (which notice shall include a copy of the relevant portion of any applicable subpoena or order) as promptly as possible after it learns of such requirement to disclose, except to the extent such notification would be impractical or legally impermissible (in which event notification shall be made as soon as reasonably practicable and permissible), provide the other party with reasonable opportunity to pursue legal action to prevent or limit the required disclosure, and, if requested, provide reasonable assistance at the other party’s expense in undertaking reasonable legal action to prevent or limit the required disclosure. In the event of any such required disclosure, the party required to disclose the other party’s Confidential Information shall disclose only that portion of the other party’s Confidential Information that it is legally required to disclose based on the advice of its counsel. The Receiving Party shall continue to hold in confidence hereunder any such disclosed Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party unless and until such information is no longer required to be held in confidence under the terms of this Agreement.

The Buyer shall not seek, because of, or based upon, any Confidential Information of the Seller, Patent or any other form of intellectual property protection with respect to, or related to, any such Confidential Information or use the Confidential Information of the Seller to obtain, or seek to obtain, a commercial advantage over the Seller. Without limiting the foregoing, the Buyer shall not file any Patent application based upon, disclosing or using any of the Confidential Information of the Seller provided hereunder.

ARTICLE 10
TERMINATION

Section 10.1 Term and Expiration; Surviving Payments. Unless earlier terminated as provided in Section 10.2, this Agreement shall be effective as of the Effective Date and shall continue in full force and effect until the expiration of the Revenue Payment Term, at which time this Agreement shall automatically terminate, except in each case with respect to any rights or obligations that accrued or arose prior to such termination (including the right to receive any Revenue Payments).

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Section 10.2 Mutual Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by mutual written agreement of the Buyer and the Seller.

Section 10.3 Survival. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this ARTICLE 10, the following provisions shall survive termination of this Agreement: Section 7.4 (Inspections and Audits of the Seller) (provided the Buyer provides notice of any final audit no later than one year following the Buyer’s receipt of the final Revenue Payment); Section 7.5(d) (Recovery); Section 7.12 (Late Payments); ARTICLE 8 (Indemnification); ARTICLE 9 (Confidentiality); Section 10.1 (Term and Expiration; Surviving Payments); Section 10.3 (Survival); ARTICLE 11 (Miscellaneous) and ARTICLE 1 (Definitions) to the extent applicable to one of the foregoing surviving sections. Termination of this Agreement shall not relieve any party of liability in respect of breaches under this Agreement by any party on or prior to termination.

ARTICLE 11
MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.1 Notices. All notices and other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be by email with PDF attachment, courier service or personal delivery to the following addresses, or to such other addresses as shall be designated from time to time by a party hereto in accordance with this Section 11.1:

If to the Seller, to it at:

Revolution Medicines, Inc.

700 Saginaw Drive

Redwood City, CA 94063

Attention: Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel

Email: ###########

 

With a copy to:

 

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, California 94025

Attention: Mark Roeder

Email: ############

 

If to the Buyer, to it at:

 

Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV

110 E. 59th Street, Suite 3300

New York, New York 10022

Attention: General Counsel

Email: ###############

 

With a copy to:

 

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Goodwin Procter LLP

100 Northern Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02210

Attention: Robert M. Crawford and Jacqueline Mercier

Email: ############ ; ############

 

All notices and communications under this Agreement shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when delivered by hand, if personally delivered, (ii) when received by a recipient, if sent by email, with an acknowledgement of receipt being produced by the recipient’s email account, or (iii) one (1) Business Day following sending within the United States by overnight delivery via commercial one-day overnight courier service.

 

Section 11.2 Expenses. Except as otherwise provided herein, all fees, costs and expenses (including any legal, accounting and banking fees) incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby shall be paid by the party hereto incurring such fees, costs and expenses.

Section 11.3 Assignment; Transfer Restrictions.

(a) Neither the Seller nor any of its Affiliates shall sell, assign or otherwise transfer, including by asset sale, merger, change of control, operation of law, or otherwise, this Agreement or any portion of the RMC-6236 Product Rights to any Person without the prior written consent of the Buyer (not to be unreasonably conditioned, withheld or delayed) except (i) to an Affiliate if such Affiliate transferee agrees in a writing reasonably acceptable to the Buyer that such Affiliate assumes all of the obligations of the Seller to the Buyer under the Transaction Documents and the Seller guarantees the performance of such Affiliate or (ii) in connection with a Change of Control. Further, the Seller and its Affiliates shall be permitted to assign all or substantially all of the RMC-6236 Product Rights to a Permitted Transferee if such Permitted Transferee agrees in a writing reasonably acceptable to the Buyer that it assumes all of the obligations of the Seller related to RMC-6236 to the Buyer under this Agreement. For clarity, nothing in this Section 11.3 shall prohibit any Out-Licenses permitted by and entered into in accordance with Section 7.7, or the grant of a Lien on the RMC-6236 Product Rights (or any “proceeds” (as defined in the UCC) thereof) in connection with Senior Debt or an Additional Monetization incurred in accordance with Section 7.13. In connection with any Change of Control of the Seller, (i) the Buyer shall cooperate with the Seller to transfer the Transaction Documents and the obligation to make the Revenue Payments to any acquiror and (ii) the Seller shall cause the ultimate parent of such acquiror to agree to perform all the required obligations under the Transaction Documents and the obligation to make the Revenue Payments under the Transaction Documents, following the sale, assignment or other transfer of this Agreement or any portion of the RMC-6236 Product Rights, pursuant to documentation reasonably acceptable to the Buyer, the Seller and such acquiror.

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(b) The Buyer may assign its rights under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Seller if the Buyer provides a prior written notice to the Seller regarding such assignment. Upon the Buyer’s request, the parties hereto agree to timely negotiate in good faith (i) separate agreements with respect to the Tranche 3 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, Tranche 4 Incremental Revenue Participation Right, the Tranche 5 Sub Incremental Revenue Participation Right or the Tranche 5 Incremental Revenue Participation Right that do not (A) modify the terms set forth herein except to allocate such terms across this Agreement and such separate agreements as long as such allocation does not modify the terms as a whole or (B) otherwise adversely affect the Seller with respect to its Tax or financial reporting position(s) for this Agreement and (ii) an amendment to this Agreement to effectuate the foregoing. The Buyer may not assign its obligations under this Agreement except to (x) an Affiliate with sufficient resources to perform the obligations of the Buyer hereunder, and for which Buyer has provided to Seller evidence of such resources reasonably acceptable to Seller, (y) any Person so long as the Buyer remains liable for such obligations, or (z) any Person with the prior written consent of the Seller (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

(c) A party assigning this Agreement as set forth in this Section 11.3 will promptly notify the other party of such assignment.

(d) Any purported sale, assignment or transfer in violation of this Section 11.3 shall be null and void.

This Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by, the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns.

Section 11.4 Amendment and Waiver.

(a) This Agreement may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented only in a writing signed by each of the Seller and the Buyer. Any provision of this Agreement may be waived only in a writing signed by the parties hereto granting such waiver.

(b) No failure or delay on the part of any party hereto in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. No course of dealing between the parties hereto shall be effective to amend, modify, supplement or waive any provision of this Agreement.

Section 11.5 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the Exhibits annexed hereto, the Disclosure Schedule and the other Transaction Documents constitute the entire understanding between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all other understandings and negotiations with respect thereto.

Section 11.6 No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is for the sole benefit of the Seller and the Buyer and their permitted successors and assigns and nothing herein expressed or implied shall give or be construed to give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and such successors and assigns, any legal or equitable rights hereunder, except that the Indemnified Parties shall be third party beneficiaries of the benefits provided for in ARTICLE 8.

Section 11.7 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ANY CHOICE OR CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISION OR RULE THAT WOULD CAUSE THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

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Section 11.8 Jurisdiction; Venue.

(a) EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS RESPECTIVE PROPERTY AND ASSETS, TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MANHATTAN, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT IN RESPECT THEREOF, AND THE BUYER AND THE SELLER EACH HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREE THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN ANY SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. THE BUYER AND THE SELLER EACH HEREBY AGREE THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EACH OF THE BUYER AND THE SELLER HEREBY SUBMITS TO THE EXCLUSIVE PERSONAL JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH NEW YORK STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE BUYER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT AGAINST THE SELLER OR ITS AFFILIATES OR ITS OR THEIR PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION. THE BUYER AND THE SELLER EACH AGREE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THAT PROCESS MAY BE SERVED ON THE BUYER OR THE SELLER IN THE SAME MANNER THAT NOTICES MAY BE GIVEN PURSUANT TO SECTION 11.1 HEREOF.

(b) EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY LEGALLY AND EFFECTIVELY DO SO, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT IN ANY NEW YORK STATE OR FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE BUYER AND THE SELLER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.

(C)EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY WITH RESPECT TO ANY PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 11.9 Severability. If any term or provision of this Agreement shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any situation in any jurisdiction, then, to the extent that the economic and legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in a manner that is materially adverse to either party hereto, all other terms and provisions of this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect and the enforceability and validity of the offending term or provision shall not be affected in any other situation or jurisdiction.

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Section 11.10 Specific Performance. Each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that the other party may be damaged irreparably in the event any of the provisions of this Agreement are not performed in accordance with their specific terms or otherwise are breached or violated. Accordingly, notwithstanding Section 8.5, each of the parties agrees that, without posting bond or other undertaking, the other party shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches or violations of the provisions of this Agreement and to enforce specifically this Agreement and the terms and provisions hereof in any action, suit or other proceeding instituted in any court of the United States or any state thereof having jurisdiction over the parties and the matter in addition to any other remedy to which it may be entitled, at law or in equity. Each party further agrees that, in the event of any action for specific performance in respect of such breach or violation, it shall not assert that the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

Section 11.11 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Copies of executed counterparts transmitted by telecopy, facsimile or other similar means of electronic transmission, including “PDF,” shall be considered original executed counterparts, provided receipt of such counterparts is confirmed.

Section 11.12 Relationship of the Parties; Tax Treatment; Cooperation. The relationship between the Buyer and the Seller is solely that of purchaser and seller, and neither the Buyer nor the Seller has any fiduciary or other special relationship with the other party or any of its Affiliates. This Agreement is not a partnership or similar agreement, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed to constitute the Buyer and the Seller as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity or legal form for any purposes, including any Tax purposes. The Buyer and the Seller acknowledge and agree that the Buyer’s interests hereunder (including the Revenue Participation Right) are not equity interests. The Buyer and the Seller agree to treat the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as a sale of the Revenue Participation Right for U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. Tax purposes, and that they shall not take any position that is inconsistent with this Section 11.12 in any filing with any Governmental Entity or any audit or other tax-related administrative or judicial proceeding unless the other party hereto has consented in writing to such actions or to the extent otherwise required pursuant to a “determination,” within the meaning of Section 1313(a) of the US Code, or a comparable provision of non-U.S. law. If there is an inquiry by any Governmental Entity of the Buyer or the Seller related to the treatment described in this Section 11.12, the parties hereto shall cooperate with each other in responding to such inquiry in a reasonable manner which is consistent with this Section 11.12.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered by their respective representatives thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER

REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.

By:

/s/ Mark A. Goldsmith

 

Name: Mark A. Goldsmith, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

BUYER

Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV

By:

Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC, its Manager and lawfully appointed attorney

 

 

By:

/s/ George W. Lloyd

 

Name: George W. Lloyd

 

Title: EVP, Investments & Chief Legal Officer

 

 

 

 


 

Exhibit E

 

Revenue Percentage Schedule

 

Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales:

“Base Revenue Percentage”

“Tranche 2 Revenue Percentage”

“Tranche 3 Revenue Percentage”*

“Tranche 4 Revenue Percentage”*

“Tranche 5 Sub Revenue Percentage”*

“Tranche 5 Revenue Percentage”*

“Maximum Revenue Percentage”*

 

up to and including $2,000,000,000

 

2.55% (or [***]% for any Adjusted Revenue Percentage Year)

 

 

2.00% (or [***]% for any Adjusted Revenue Percentage Year)

 

1.50%

 

1.00%

 

0.30%

 

0.45% (or 0.75% if there is no Tranche 5 Sub Closing)

 

7.80% (or [***]% for any Adjusted Revenue Percentage Year)

 

in excess of $2,000,000,000, but less than or equal to $4,000,000,000

 

 

1.50%

 

1.00%

 

0.80%

 

0.75%

 

0.20%

 

0.30% (or 0.50% if there is no Tranche 5 Sub Closing)

 

4.55%

 

in excess of $4,000,000,000, but less than or equal to $8,000,000,000

 

 

0.60%

 

0.40%

 

0.40%

 

0.50%

 

0.20%

 

0.30% (or 0.50% if there is no Tranche 5 Sub Closing)

 

2.40%

 

* The above percentages reflect Tranche Payments in amounts equal to the Tranche Maximum Purchase Price at each Tranche Closing. In the event that any Tranche Payment is less than the Tranche Maximum Purchase Price, then each of the percentages applicable to such Tranche Closing shall be adjusted proportionately to the percentage obtained by dividing the applicable Tranche Payment by the Tranche Maximum Purchase Price and multiplying such amount by each of percentages applicable to such Tranche Closing.

 

 


 

By way of example only, if the Tranche 3 Purchase Price is $150,000,000, then the Tranche 3 Revenue Percentage would be three-fifths (i.e., $150,000,000 / $250,000,000) of the rates listed above for the Tranche 3 Revenue Percentage, such that the rates for the Tranche 3 Revenue Percentage would be (a) 0.90% in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales of up to and including $2,000,000,000, (b) 0.48% in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales in excess of $2,000,000,000 but less than or equal to $4,000,000,000 and (c) 0.24% in respect of Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales in excess of $4,000,000,000 but less than or equal to $8,000,000,000.

 

“Adjusted Revenue Percentage Year” means each Calendar Year following a Revenue Percentage Adjustment Trigger Year until the end of a Revenue Percentage Reversion Year. For clarity, an Adjusted Revenue Percentage Year may occur more than once.

“Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales” means, for a given Calendar Year, the sum of: (a) aggregate US RMC-6236 Net Sales during the portion of such Calendar Year within the US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term; plus (b) aggregate US RMC-9805 Net Sales during the portion of such Calendar Year within the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term; plus (c) aggregate Ex-US RMC-6236 Net Sales during the portion of such Calendar Year within the Ex-US RMC-6236 Revenue Payment Term; plus (d) aggregate Ex-US RMC-9805 Net Sales during the portion of such Calendar Year within the Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term. For the avoidance of doubt, following the Applicable RMC-9805 Overlap Date for any Product containing the Initial RMC-9805 Compound or a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound, all Net Sales of any Product containing such Initial RMC-9805 Compound or a Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound, as applicable, shall be US RMC-9805 Net Sales or Ex-US RMC-9805 Net Sales, as applicable, and therefore included as Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales until the expiration of the US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term or Ex-US RMC-9805 Revenue Payment Term, as applicable, regardless of whether such Net Sales of such Product are in the same indication that caused the Applicable RMC-9805 Overlap Date for such Initial RMC-9805 Compound or Subsequent RMC-9805 Compound to occur.

“Maximum Revenue Participation Right” means the Revenue Participation Right that would result in the event the Revenue Percentage equals the Maximum Revenue Percentage.

“Revenue Percentage Adjustment Trigger Year” means any Calendar Year from 2029 through and including 2040 in which Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales are less than or equal to $[***]. For clarity, a Revenue Percentage Adjustment Trigger Year may occur more than once.

“Revenue Percentage Reversion Year” means any Calendar Year from and after 2031 in which Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales are greater than $[***]. For clarity, a Revenue Percentage Reversion Year may occur more than once.

“Revenue Percentage” means the sum of the applicable Base Revenue Percentage, Tranche 2 Revenue Percentage, Tranche 3 Revenue Percentage, Tranche 4 Revenue Percentage, Tranche 5 Sub Revenue Percentage and Tranche 5 Revenue Percentage in respect of the applicable portion of Annual Aggregate Net Sales as set forth in the table above.

 


 

For clarity, the Revenue Percentage shall be calculated in accordance with this Exhibit E based on Annual Aggregate Product Net Sales; provided that, with respect to any Calendar Quarter in which a Tranche Closing occurs, the applicable Revenue Percentage for such Calendar Quarter shall be calculated as follows: [(r * X) + (R * Y)] / [X + Y], where “r” is the applicable Revenue Percentage immediately prior to the applicable Tranche Closing, “R” is the applicable Revenue Percentage immediately following such Tranche Closing, “X” is the number of days in the Calendar Quarter prior to the applicable Tranche Closing, and “Y” is the number of days in the Calendar Quarter from and after the applicable Tranche Closing.

 

 


EX-10.2 3 rvmd-ex10_2.htm EX-10.2 EX-10.2

 

Exhibit 10.2

CERTAIN IDENTIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE EXHIBIT BECAUSE IT IS BOTH (I) NOT MATERIAL AND (II) IS THE TYPE THAT THE COMPANY TREATS AS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL.

 

 

 

 

LOAN AGREEMENT

dated as of June 23, 2025

among

REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.


(as Borrower),

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

(as Administrative Agent),

and

ROYALTY PHARMA DEVELOPMENT FUNDING, LLC

(as a Lender)

 

 


 

LOAN AGREEMENT

This LOAN AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of June 23, 2025 (the “Effective Date”) by and among REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC., a Delaware corporation (as “Borrower”), WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (as the “Administrative Agent”) and Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC (as a “Lender”), provides the terms on which each Lender shall make, and Borrower shall repay, the Credit Extensions (as hereinafter defined). The parties hereto agree as follows:

1.
ACCOUNTING AND OTHER TERMS

Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all accounting terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them in conformity with Applicable Accounting Standards. Calculations and determinations must be made following Applicable Accounting Standards. If at any time any change in Applicable Accounting Standards would affect the computation of any financial requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either Borrower or the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) shall so request, the Administrative Agent and Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in Applicable Accounting Standards; provided, that, until so amended, such requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards prior to such change therein. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in Section 13. All other terms contained in this Agreement, unless otherwise indicated, shall have the meaning provided by the Code to the extent such terms are defined therein. All references to “Dollars” or “$” are United States Dollars, unless otherwise noted.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made without giving effect to any treatment of Indebtedness in respect of convertible debt instruments under Accounting Standards Codification 470-20 (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any such Indebtedness in a reduced or bifurcated manner as described therein, and such Indebtedness shall at all times be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof. For the avoidance of doubt, and without limitation of the foregoing, Permitted Convertible Indebtedness shall at all times be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof and shall not include any reduction or appreciation in value of the shares deliverable upon conversion thereof.

For purposes of determining compliance with Section 6 with respect to the amount of any Indebtedness in a currency other than Dollars, no Default or Event of Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of currency exchange occurring after the time such Indebtedness is incurred, made or acquired (so long as such Indebtedness, at the time incurred, made or acquired, was permitted hereunder).

The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept responsibility for, and the Administrative Agent shall not have any liability with respect to (a) the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of or any other matter related to Term SOFR or the Term SOFR Reference Rate, or any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or any alternative, successor or replacement rate thereto (including any Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as Term SOFR or the Term SOFR Reference Rate or any other Benchmark prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Conforming Changes. The Administrative Agent and its Affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of Term SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to Borrower.

 


 

The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain Term SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate or any other Benchmark, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to Borrower, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.

2.
LOANS AND TERMS OF PAYMENT
2.1.
Promise to Pay. Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay Lenders the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans advanced to Borrower by Lenders and accrued and unpaid interest thereon and any other amounts due hereunder as and when due in accordance with this Agreement.
2.2.
Term Loans.
(a)
Availability. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement:
(i)
Each Lender severally agrees to make, prior to the Tranche A Commitment Termination Date, a term loan to Borrower on the Tranche A Closing Date in an original principal amount equal to such Lender’s Tranche A Loan Commitment (collectively, the “Tranche A Loan”);
(ii)
Each Lender severally agrees to make, prior to the Tranche B Commitment Termination Date, a term loan to Borrower on the Tranche B Closing Date in an original principal amount that does not exceed such Lender’s Tranche B Loan Commitment (collectively, the “Tranche B Loan”); and
(iii)
Each Lender severally agrees to make, prior to the Tranche C Commitment Termination Date, a term loan to Borrower on the Tranche C Closing Date in an original principal amount that does not exceed such Lender’s Tranche C Loan Commitment (collectively, the “Tranche C Loan”).

After repayment or prepayment (in whole or in part), no Term Loan (or any portion thereof) may be re-borrowed. Each Lender’s Tranche A Loan Commitment shall terminate immediately and without further action on the earlier of (a) after giving effect to the funding of such Lender’s Tranche A Loan Commitment during the Tranche A Commitment Period and (b) the Tranche A Commitment Termination Date. Each Lender’s Tranche B Loan Commitment shall terminate immediately and without further action on the earlier of (a) after giving effect to the funding of all or a portion of such Lender’s Tranche B Loan Commitment during the Tranche B Commitment Period and (b) the Tranche B Commitment Termination Date. Each Lender’s Tranche C Loan Commitment shall terminate immediately and without further action on the earlier of (a) after giving effect to the funding of all or a portion of such Lender’s Tranche C Loan Commitment during the Tranche C Commitment Period and (b) the Tranche C Commitment Termination Date.

(b)
Repayment. All unpaid principal with respect to the Term Loans is due and payable in full on the Term Loan Maturity Date. The Term Loans may be prepaid only in accordance with Section 2.2(c), except as provided in Section 8.1.
(c)
Prepayment of Term Loans.

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(i)
Borrower shall have the option, at any time, to prepay in whole the Term Loans advanced by Lenders under this Agreement; provided that (A) Borrower provides written notice to the Administrative Agent of its election (which shall be irrevocable unless the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) otherwise consents in writing) to prepay all of the Term Loans, which such notice shall be delivered at least three (3) Business Days prior to such prepayment, and (B) such prepayment shall be accompanied by any and all accrued and unpaid interest on the outstanding Term Loans to the date of prepayment and any amounts payable solely with respect to the prepayment of such principal amount under this Section 2.2(c)(i) pursuant to Section 2.2(e) or Section 2.2(f) (as applicable), and all other amounts payable or accrued and not yet paid under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of such notice, and the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such prepayment. Borrower’s notice may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, sale transactions, equity financings or other event(s) specified therein, in which case such notice may be revoked by Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.
(ii)
(A) To the extent a Change in Control has occurred on or after the Tranche A Closing Date, Borrower shall promptly, and in any event no later than ten (10) days after the consummation of such Change in Control, notify the Administrative Agent in writing of the occurrence of a Change in Control, which notice shall include reasonable detail as to the nature, timing and other circumstances of such Change in Control (such notice, a “Change in Control Notice”). Borrower shall prepay in full all outstanding Term Loans advanced by Lenders under this Agreement, no later than ten (10) Business Days after delivery to the Administrative Agent of the Change in Control Notice, an amount equal to the sum of (x) all unpaid principal and any and all accrued and unpaid interest with respect to the Term Loans (or such remaining outstanding portion thereof), (y) any applicable amounts payable with respect to the prepayment of such principal amount under this Section 2.2(c)(ii)(A) pursuant to Section 2.2(e) or Section 2.2(f) (as applicable) and (z) all other amounts payable or accrued and not yet paid under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(B)
To the extent a Change in Control has occurred prior to the Tranche A Closing Date, Borrower shall promptly, and in any event no later than ten (10) days after the consummation of such Change in Control, deliver a Change in Control Notice to the Administrative Agent. Borrower shall pay, no later than ten (10) Business Days after delivery to the Administrative Agent of the Change in Control Notice, an amount equal to the sum of (x) the amount that would be due to Lenders pursuant to Section 2.2(c)(iii) had the Borrower terminated the Tranche A Commitments on such date and (y) all other amounts payable or accrued and not yet paid under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(C)
The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of the Change in Control Notice, and the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such prepayment.
(iii)
Prior to the Tranche A Closing Date, Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, terminate in whole, the Term Loan Commitments; provided that (A) Borrower provides written notice to the Administrative Agent of its election (which shall be irrevocable unless the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) otherwise consents in writing) to terminate the Term Loan Commitments, which such notice shall be delivered at least three (3) Business Days prior to such termination, and (B) such termination shall be accompanied by (x) a termination fee in an amount equal to $2,500,000 (i.e.

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1.00% of the Tranche A Commitment), (y) the amount that would be due to Lenders pursuant to Section 2.2(e) and Section 2.2(f), calculated on the assumption that the Tranche A Loan was drawn in full on the date of such termination, and (z) all other amounts payable or accrued and not yet paid under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. On and after the Tranche A Closing Date, Borrower may, upon not less than three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent (which notice the Administrative Agent will promptly transmit to each applicable Lender), at any time and from time to time, terminate in whole or permanently reduce in part, without premium or penalty, the Tranche B Commitment and/or the Tranche C Commitment. Borrower’s notice to the Administrative Agent shall designate the date (which shall be a Business Day) of such termination or reduction and the amount of any partial reduction, and such termination or reduction of the Tranche B Commitment or the Tranche C Commitment, as applicable, shall be effective on the date specified in Borrower’s notice and shall reduce Tranche B Commitment or the Tranche Commitment of each Lender proportionately to its Applicable Percentage thereof, as applicable. Borrower’s notice may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, sale transactions, equity financings or other event(s) specified therein, in which case such notice may be revoked by Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.
(iv)
If the Tranche A Commitment Start Date has occurred and to the extent that the conditions precedent in Sections 3.3(a) and Section 3.3(b) (only with respect to Defaults) cannot be met and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have agreed to waive such conditions precedent, and Borrower still fails to draw the entire Tranche A Loan on or prior to the Tranche A Commitment Termination Date, Borrower shall pay, on the Tranche A Commitment Termination Date, a fee equal to (A) to $2,500,000 (i.e. 1.00% of the Tranche A Commitment), (B) the amount that would be due to Lenders pursuant to Section 2.2(e) and Section 2.2(f), calculated on the assumption that the Tranche A Loan was drawn in full on such date, and (C) all other amounts payable or accrued and not yet paid under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(d)
Prepayment Application. Any prepayment of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.2(c) (together with the accompanying Makewhole Amount or Prepayment Premium that is payable pursuant to Section 2.2(e) or Section 2.2(f), as applicable) shall be paid to Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages for application to the Obligations in the following order: (i) first, to due and unpaid Lender Expenses, (ii) second, to accrued and unpaid interest, if any, (iii) third, to the Prepayment Premium, if applicable, (iv) fourth, to the Makewhole Amount, if applicable, (v) fifth, to the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans being prepaid, and (vi) sixth, to any remaining amounts then due and payable under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(e)
Makewhole Amount.
(i)
(I) Any prepayment of the Tranche A Loan by Borrower (A) pursuant to Section 2.2(c)(i) or (ii), or (B) as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), in each case occurring prior to the second anniversary of the Tranche A Closing Date, or (II) any termination of Tranche A Commitment pursuant to Sections 2.2(c)(iii) or (iv), shall, in any such case, be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the Tranche A Makewhole Amount.
(ii)
Any prepayment of the Tranche B Loan by Borrower (A) pursuant to Section 2.2(c), or (B) as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), in each case occurring prior to the second anniversary of the Tranche B Closing Date shall, in any such case, be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the Tranche B Makewhole Amount.

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(iii)
Any prepayment of the Tranche C Loan by Borrower (A) pursuant to Section 2.2(c), or (B) as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), in each case occurring prior to the second anniversary of the Tranche C Closing Date shall, in any such case, be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the Tranche C Makewhole Amount.
(f)
Prepayment Premium.
(i)
(I) Any prepayment of the Tranche A Loan by Borrower (A) pursuant to Section 2.2(c)(i) or (ii), or (B) as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), or (II) any termination of Tranche A Commitment pursuant to Sections 2.2(c)(iii) or (iv) shall, in any such case, be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the Tranche A Prepayment Premium.
(ii)
Any prepayment of the Tranche B Loan by Borrower (A) pursuant to Section 2.2(c), or (B) as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), shall, in any such case, be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the Tranche B Prepayment Premium.
(iii)
Any prepayment of the Tranche C Loan by Borrower (A) pursuant to Section 2.2(c), or (B) as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), shall, in any such case, be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the Tranche C Prepayment Premium.
2.3.
Payment of Interest on the Credit Extensions.
(a)
Interest Rate.
(i)
Subject to Section 2.3(b), the principal amount outstanding under each Term Loan shall accrue interest at a per annum rate equal to the Term SOFR for the Interest Period therefor plus five and seventy-five hundredths of a percent (5.75%), which interest shall be payable quarterly in arrears in accordance with this Section 2.3.
(ii)
Interest shall accrue on each Term Loan commencing on, and including, the day on which such Term Loan is made, and shall not accrue on such Term Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which such Term Loan or such portion is paid; provided, that any Term Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall bear interest for one day.
(b)
Default Rate. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, Borrower shall pay interest on any past due principal, interest, fees and other amounts owing by it hereunder at a rate per annum which is three percentage points (3.00%) above the rate that is otherwise applicable thereto (the “Default Rate”), and, with respect to past due Obligations, if any, such interest shall be payable entirely in cash on demand of the Administrative Agent or any Lender. Payment or acceptance of the increased interest rate provided in this Section 2.3(b) is not a permitted alternative to timely payment and shall not constitute a waiver of any Event of Default or otherwise prejudice or limit any rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
(c)
360-Day Year. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and the actual number of days elapsed.

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(d)
Payments. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all Term Loan payments and any other payments hereunder by (or on behalf of) Borrower shall be made on the date specified herein to such bank account of each applicable Lender as such Lender (or the Administrative Agent) shall have designated in a written notice to Borrower delivered on or before the Effective Date (which such notice may be updated by such Lender (or the Administrative Agent) by written notice to Borrower from time to time after the Effective Date). Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, interest shall be due and payable by Borrower in arrears on each Interest Date. Payments of principal or interest received after 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on such date are considered received at the opening of business on the next Business Day. When any payment is due on a day that is not a Business Day, such payment is due the immediately preceding Business Day. All payments to be made by Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document, including payments of principal and interest made hereunder and pursuant to any other Loan Document, and all fees, expenses, indemnities and reimbursements, shall be made without set-off, recoupment or counterclaim, in lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds.
(e)
Conforming Changes. In connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR, the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify Borrower and the Lenders of the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR.
(f)
Benchmark Replacement Setting.
(i)
Benchmark Replacement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (a) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders. If the Benchmark Replacement is Daily Simple SOFR, all interest payments will be payable on a quarterly basis.
(ii)
Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

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(iii)
Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. The Administrative Agent will notify Borrower of the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to Section 2.3(f)(iv). Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 2.3(f), including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.3(f).
(iv)
Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(g)
Illegality. If any Lender determines that any Requirement of Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable lending office to make, maintain or fund Term Loans whose interest is determined by reference to SOFR or Term SOFR, or to determine or charge interest based upon SOFR or Term SOFR, then, upon notice thereof by such Lender to Borrower (through the Administrative Agent) (an “Illegality Notice”), (a) any obligation of the Lenders to make Term Loans whose interest is determined by reference to SOFR or Term SOFR, and any right of Borrower to continue such Term Loans, shall be suspended. Upon receipt of an Illegality Notice, Borrower shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, upon demand from any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay, or, if applicable, convert all SOFR Loans to ABR Loans, on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if all affected Lenders may lawfully continue to maintain Term Loans whose interest is determined by reference to SOFR or Term SOFR to such day, or immediately, if any Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Term Loans to such day. Upon any such prepayment, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid.
2.4.
Expenses. Borrower shall pay to or reimburse (or pay directly on behalf of) each Lender and the Administrative Agent, as applicable, all of such Person’s Lender Expenses incurred through and after the Effective Date, promptly after receipt of a written demand therefor by such Lender or the Administrative Agent (with, in the case of any Lender, a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), setting forth in reasonable detail such Person’s Lender Expenses; provided, however, that Borrower’s obligations to pay or reimburse Lender Expenses incurred through the Effective Date with respect to Goodwin Procter LLP as U.S. transaction counsel under this Section 2.4 shall not exceed $[***] in the aggregate without the prior written consent of Borrower.

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2.5.
Requirements of Law; Increased Costs. In the event that any applicable Change in Law:
(a)
does or shall subject any Lender to any Tax with respect to this Agreement or the Term Loans made hereunder (except, in each case, Indemnified Taxes, Taxes described in clause (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes, and Connection Income Taxes);
(b)
does or shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, capital requirement, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirements against assets held by, or deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances or loans by, or other credit extended by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any Lender; or
(c)
does or shall impose on any Lender any other condition (other than Taxes); and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith using calculation methods customary in the industry) of making, renewing or maintaining the Term Loans or to reduce any amount receivable in respect thereof or to reduce the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any Person controlling such Lender,

then, in any such case, Borrower shall promptly pay to the applicable Lender, within thirty (30) days of its receipt of the certificate described below, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such additional cost or reduced amounts receivable or rate of return as reasonably determined by such Lender with respect to this Agreement or the Term Loans made hereunder. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.5, it shall promptly notify Borrower in writing of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled (with a copy of such notice to the Administrative Agent), and a certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to the foregoing sentence containing the calculation thereof in reasonable detail submitted by such Lender to Borrower (with a copy of such certificate to the Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. The provisions hereof shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the outstanding Term Loans and all other Obligations. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation for any increased costs or reduction in amounts received or receivable or reduction in return on capital under this Section 2.5 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that Borrower shall not be under any obligation to compensate such Lender under this Section 2.5 with respect to increased costs or reductions with respect to any period prior to the date that is 180 days prior to the date of the delivery of the notice required pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this paragraph; provided, further, that if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

2.6.
Taxes; Withholding, Etc.
(a)
All sums payable by any Credit Party hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall (except to the extent required by Requirements of Law) be paid free and clear of, and without any deduction or withholding on account of, any Tax imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority. In addition, Borrower agrees to pay, and shall indemnify and hold the Administrative Agent and each Lender harmless from, Other Taxes, and as soon as practicable after the date of paying such sum, Borrower shall furnish to each Lender (as applicable, with a copy to the Administrative Agent) the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of such payment and of the remittance thereof to the relevant taxing or other Governmental Authority.

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(b)
If any Credit Party or any other applicable Person (“Withholding Agent”) is required by Requirements of Law to make any deduction or withholding on account of any Tax (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) from any sum paid or payable by a Withholding Agent to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under any of the Loan Documents: (i) the applicable Withholding Agent shall notify Borrower and the Administrative Agent of any such requirement or any change in any such requirement promptly after the applicable Withholding Agent becomes aware of it; (ii) the applicable Withholding Agent shall make any such withholding or deduction; (iii) the applicable Withholding Agent shall pay any such Tax before the date on which penalties attach thereto in accordance with Requirements of Law; (iv) if the Tax is an Indemnified Tax, the sum payable by the applicable Credit Party in respect of which the relevant deduction, withholding or payment of Indemnified Tax is required shall be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that, after the making of that deduction, withholding or payment (including any deductions for Indemnified Taxes applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.6(b)), such Lender (or where the Administrative Agent receives the payment for its own account, the Administrative Agent) receives on the due date a net sum equal to what it would have received had no such deduction, withholding or payment of Indemnified Tax been required or made; and (v) as soon as practicable after paying any sum from which it is required by Requirements of Law to make any deduction or withholding, Borrower shall deliver to such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of such deduction, withholding or payment and of the remittance thereof to the relevant taxing or other Governmental Authority.
(c)
Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.6(c)) paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as applicable and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. Any indemnification payment pursuant to this Section 2.6(c) shall be made to the applicable Lender within [***] from written demand therefor.
(d)
Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, such Lender, if reasonably requested by Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by Borrower as will enable Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.6(d)(i), (ii) or (iv) below) shall not be required if in such Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender. For avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of this Section 2.6(d), the term “Lender” shall include each applicable assignee. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(i)
If any Lender is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the IRC, such Lender shall deliver to Borrower and the Administrative Agent two (2) executed copies of Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax.

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(ii)
If any Lender is a Foreign Lender, such Lender shall deliver, and shall cause each applicable assignee thereof to deliver, to Borrower and the Administrative Agent, on or prior to the Effective Date and, the date on which a Lender Transfer involving such Lender occurs, as applicable, and at such other times as may be necessary in the determination of Borrower or the Administrative Agent (in the reasonable exercise of its respective discretion):
(1)
in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, a properly completed and duly executed copy of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, a properly completed and duly executed copy of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;
(2)
a completed and duly executed copy of IRS Form W-8ECI;
(3)
to the extent that such Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, a properly completed and duly executed copy of IRS Form W-8IMY and a withholding statement, along with IRS Form W-9, W-8BEN-E, W-8BEN, W-8ECI and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a certificate referenced in Section 2.6(d)(ii)(4) below on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner; or
(4)
in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for “portfolio interest” under Section 881(c) of the IRC, it shall provide Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and duly executed copy of IRS Form W-8BEN-E or IRS Form W-8BEN, as applicable, and a certificate reasonably satisfactory to Borrower and Administrative Agent to the effect that any interest received by such Foreign Lender is not received by a “bank” on “extension of credit made pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business” within the meaning of 881(c)(3)(A) of the IRC, a “10 percent shareholder” of Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the IRC, or a “controlled foreign corporation” related to Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the IRC.
(iii)
If any Lender is a Foreign Lender it shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such its becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.
(iv)
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federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the IRC, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by Borrower such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the IRC) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that Lender has complied with its obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (iv), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Effective Date.
(v)
If any Lender is required to deliver any forms, statements, certificates or other evidence with respect to United States federal Tax or backup withholding matters pursuant to this Section 2.6(d), such Lender hereby agrees, from time to time after the initial delivery by such Lender of such forms, certificates or other evidence, whenever a lapse in time, change in circumstances or law, or additional guidance by a Governmental Authority renders such forms, certificates or other evidence obsolete or inaccurate in any material respect, to update such form or certification or promptly notify Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(e)
In addition, the Administrative Agent (or any successor Administrative Agent) shall, on or before the Date on which it becomes a Party, provide the Borrower duly completed and executed copies of IRS forms certifying that it is either (i) a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the IRC or (ii) a “U.S. branch” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1441-1(b)(2)(iv)(A) or “qualifying intermediary” that assumes primary withholding responsibility under Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of the IRC and primary Form 1099 reporting and backup withholding responsibility for payments it receives for the account of others, with the effect that the Credit Parties will be entitled to make payments hereunder to the Administrative Agent (or any successor Administrative Agent) without withholding or deduction on account of U.S. federal taxes.
(f)
If any party hereto determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes or a credit or offset for any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 2.6 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.6), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund, credit or offset (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, under this Section 2.6 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this clause (f) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay, credit or offset such refund to such Governmental Authority and the requirement to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority is not due to the indemnified party’s failure to timely provide complete and accurate IRS forms and other documentation required pursuant to Section 2.6(d) or Section 2.8. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause (f), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this clause (f) if the payment of such amount would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such tax had never been paid. This clause (f) shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

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2.7.
Draw Fees. As additional consideration for the obligation to make the Term Loans and the making of the Term Loans, (a) on the Tranche A Closing Date, Borrower shall pay to each Lender who has advanced a Tranche A Loan an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the product of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Tranche A Loan multiplied by (ii) two percent (2.0%), (b) on the Tranche B Closing Date, Borrower shall pay to each Lender who has advanced a Tranche B Loan an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the product of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Tranche B Loan multiplied by (ii) two percent (2.0%), and (iii) on the Tranche C Closing Date, Borrower shall pay to each Lender who has advanced a Tranche C Loan an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the product of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Tranche C Loan multiplied by (ii) two percent (2.0%), (each such product, in the foregoing clauses (a) through (c), the “Draw Fees”). The Draw Fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever and such Draw Fees shall be treated as original issue discount for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
2.8.
Evidence of Debt; Register; Administrative Agent’s Books and Records; Term Loan Notes.
(a)
Evidence of Debt; Register. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Borrower hereby designates the Administrative Agent to serve as Borrower’s agent solely for purposes of maintaining at all times at the Administrative Agent’s principal office a “book entry system” as described in Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103-1(c)(1)(ii) that identifies each beneficial owner that is entitled to a payment of principal and stated interest on each Term Loan (the “Register”) so that each Term Loan is at all times in “registered form” as described in IRC Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103-1(c) or Proposed Section 1.163-5(b) (or, in each case, any amended or successor version). The Administrative Agent is hereby authorized by Borrower to record in the manual or data processing records of the Administrative Agent, the date and amount of each advance and the amount of the outstanding Obligations and the date and amount of each repayment of principal and each payment of interest or otherwise on account of the Obligations. Absent manifest error, such records of the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive as to the outstanding principal amount of the total outstanding Obligations, and the payment of interest, principal and other sums due hereunder; provided, however, that the failure of the Administrative Agent to make any such record entry with respect to any payment shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of Borrower under the Loan Documents. Each Term Loan: (i) shall, pursuant to this clause (a), be also registered as to both principal and any stated interest with Borrower or its agent, and (ii) may be transferred by any Lender only by (1) surrender of the old instrument and either (x) the reissuance by Borrower of the old instrument to the new Lender or (y) the issuance by Borrower of a new instrument to the new Lender, or (2) confirmation with Borrower that the right to the principal and stated interest on such Term Loan is maintained through the book entry system kept by the Administrative Agent. Each Lender, severally and not jointly, represents that any interest that may become due and owing under this Agreement qualifies for the portfolio interest exception from withholding on interest payments pursuant to IRC Sections 871(h) and 881(c).
(b)
Term Loan Notes. Borrower agrees that, upon the request to the Administrative Agent by any Lender, Borrower will promptly execute and deliver to each Lender a promissory note of the Borrower evidencing any Term Loans of such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit B (each, a “Term Loan Note”).

 

3.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
3.1.
Conditions Precedent to Effective Date. This Agreement shall become effective on the date each of the following conditions are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 11.5 hereof):

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(a)
The Administrative Agent’s and each Lender’s receipt of (i) copies of the Loan Documents (including the Intercreditor Agreement, the Perfection Certificate and the Collateral Documents, but excluding any Loan Document described in Schedule 5.14 of the Disclosure Letter) executed and delivered by each applicable Credit Party (in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders) and (ii) a Payment/Advance Form as required by Section 3.4;
(b)
The Administrative Agent’s and each Lender’s receipt of a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of each Credit Party and certifying (i) that attached thereto are true, correct and complete copies of the Operating Documents of such Credit Party, (ii) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the Borrowing Resolutions of such Credit Party, (iii) that attached thereto is a good standing certificate for such Credit Party (where applicable), certified by the Secretary of State (or the equivalent thereof) of the jurisdiction of incorporation or formation of such Credit Party as of a date no earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the Effective Date, and (iv) as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each Person authorized to execute any Loan Document or any other document delivered in connection;
(c)
The Administrative Agent’s and each Lender’s receipt of (i) the results of a recent lien, tax lien, judgment and litigation search in each of the jurisdictions or offices (including, without limitation, in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office) in which UCC financing statement or other filings or recordations should be made to evidence or perfect security interests in all assets of the Credit Parties, and such search shall reveal no Liens or judgments on any of the assets of the Credit Parties, except for Permitted Liens or Liens and judgments to be terminated on the Effective Date pursuant to documentation satisfactory to the Required Lenders and (ii) evidence that each Credit Party shall have authorized, made or caused to be made any other filing and recording required under the Collateral Documents, and each UCC financing statement shall have been filed, registered or recorded or shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent and shall be in proper form for filing, registration or recordation;
(d)
The Administrative Agent’s and each Lender’s receipt of an opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP, counsel to the Credit Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders;
(e)
The Administrative Agent’s and each Lender’s receipt of (i) evidence that the products liability and general liability insurance policies maintained regarding any Collateral are in full force and effect and (ii) appropriate evidence showing loss payable or additional insured clauses or endorsements in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders and the other Secured Parties (such evidence to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders) to the extent required by Section 5.4;
(f)
Each Credit Party shall have obtained all Governmental Approvals and all consents of other Persons, if any, in each case that are necessary in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents and each of the foregoing shall be in full force and effect and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders;
(g)
The Administrative Agent’s receipt of all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the U.S.A. Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L.

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(h)
Payment of Lender Expenses and other fees then due as specified in Section 2.4 hereof and in the Agency Fee Letter; and
(i)
107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Patriot Act”); The Administrative Agent’s receipt of a certificate, dated as of the Effective Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of Borrower (i) confirming there is no Adverse Proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 of the Disclosure Letter and (ii) confirming satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.1(f) and Section 3.3.
3.2.
Conditions Precedent to Each Credit Extension After the Effective Date. Each Lender’s obligation to advance its Applicable Percentage of the Tranche A Loan Amount, the Tranche B Loan Amount, and the Tranche C Loan Amount is subject to the satisfaction (or waiver in accordance with Section 11.5 hereof) of the following conditions as of the applicable Closing Date:
(a)
Each Lender’s receipt of (i) a Term Loan Note, as applicable, so long as such Lender’s request as set forth in Section 2.8(b) was made at least three Business Days prior to the applicable Closing Date and (ii) a Payment/Advance Form as required by Section 3.4;
(b)
After making the Credit Extensions requested on such Closing Date, the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Credit Extensions shall not exceed the applicable Term Loan Commitments;
(c)
Payment of Lender Expenses and other fees then due as specified in Section 2.4 hereof and in the Agency Fee Letter; and
(d)
The Administrative Agent’s and each Lender’s receipt of a certificate, dated as of the applicable Closing Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of Borrower, (i) confirming there is no Adverse Proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 of the Disclosure Letter or advised pursuant to Section 5.2(c), and (ii) confirming satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.3.

In the event the Lenders fail to advance the Tranche A Loan Amount in full despite Borrower’s receipt of Tranche A Approval or the Tranche A Closing Date otherwise fails to occur on or prior to the Tranche A Commitment Termination Date (other than as described in Section 2.2(c)(iv)), this Agreement and all other Loan Documents shall automatically terminate and Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall release all Liens in accordance with Section 12.8. In the event that the actions described in Section 2.2(c)(iv) occur, this Agreement and all other Loan Documents shall automatically terminate and Administrative Agent and Lenders shall release all Liens in accordance with Section 12.8, provided that all amounts payable under Sections 2.2(c)(iv) shall have been paid in full.

3.3.
Additional Conditions Precedent to Term Loans. The obligation of each Lender to advance its Applicable Percentage of each Term Loan is subject to the following additional conditions precedent as of the Effective Date and the applicable Closing Date:
(a)
subject to the lead-in paragraph of Section 4 herein, the representations and warranties made by the Credit Parties in Section 4 of this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Effective Date and the applicable Closing Date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date); provided that any representation and warranty that is qualified by “materiality”, “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects;

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(b)
no Default or Event of Default shall exist or would result from such Term Loan or from the application of the proceeds thereof;
(c)
in the case of the Tranche A Loan, such borrowing shall be during the Tranche A Commitment Period and Borrower shall have delivered a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of Borrower, certifying that the Tranche A Approval has been received;
(d)
in the case of the Tranche B Loan, such borrowing shall be during the Tranche B Commitment Period; and
(e)
in the case of the Tranche C Loan, such borrowing shall be during the Tranche C Commitment Period.
3.4.
Procedures for Borrowing. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of all other applicable conditions to the making of each Term Loan set forth in this Agreement, to obtain any Term Loan, Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail a completed Payment/Advance Form for such Term Loan executed by a Responsible Officer of Borrower (which notice shall be irrevocable on and after the date on which such notice is given and Borrower shall be bound to make a borrowing in accordance therewith), in which case each Lender agrees to advance its Applicable Percentage of such Term Loan to Borrower on the Tranche A Closing Date, Tranche B Closing Date or Tranche C Closing Date, as applicable, by wire transfer of same day funds in Dollars, to such account(s) as designated in the applicable Payment/Advance Form; provided, however, that Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent and Lenders by electronic mail, such completed Payment/Advance Form on such date that is at least seven (7) days (or such shorter period as may be agreed to by Lenders and the Administrative Agent) prior to the date set forth in such notice.
4.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

In order to induce each Lender and the Administrative Agent to enter into this Agreement and for each Lender to make the Credit Extensions to be made on each Closing Date, each Credit Party, jointly and severally, represents and warrants to each Lender and the Administrative Agent on the Effective Date and on each Closing Date:

4.1.
Due Organization, Power and Authority. Each of Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries: (a) is duly incorporated, organized or formed, and validly existing and, where applicable, in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation; (b) has all requisite power and authority to (i) own, lease, license and operate its assets and properties and to carry on its business as currently conducted in the ordinary course of business and (ii) execute and deliver the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to perform its obligations thereunder and otherwise carry out the transactions contemplated thereby; (c) is duly qualified and, where applicable, in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease, license or operation of assets or properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification; and (d) has all requisite Governmental Approvals to operate its business as currently conducted; except in each case referred to clauses (a) (other than with respect to Borrower and any other Credit Party), (b)(i), (c) or (d) above, to the extent that failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
4.2.
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4.3.
Authorization; No Conflict. The execution, delivery and performance by each Credit Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, (a) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action and (b) do not and will not (i) contravene the terms of any of such Credit Party’s Operating Documents, (ii) violate or result in a default or require any consent or approval under any indenture, instrument, agreement or other document binding up any Credit Party or its property or to which any Credit Party or its property is subject, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by any Credit Party, (iii) result in the creation of any Lien (other than under the Loan Documents) or (iv) violate any Requirements of Law, except, in the cases of clauses (b)(ii) and (b)(iv) above, to the extent that such conflict, breach, contravention, payment, default, violation or the creation of such rights could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
4.4.
Government Consents; Third Party Consents. No Governmental Approval or other approval, consent, exemption or authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person (including any counterparty to any Current Company IP Agreement or other Material Contract) is necessary or required in connection with (a) the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Credit Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, (b) the grant by any Credit Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (c) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents (including the priority thereof) or (d) the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents, except for (i) filings necessary to perfect the Liens on the Collateral granted by the Credit Parties to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties, (ii) the approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations, actions, notices and filings which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect, (iii) filings under state or federal securities laws and (iv) those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions, notices or filings, the failure of which to obtain or make could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
4.5.
Binding Obligation. Each Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Credit Party that is a party thereto and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Credit Party, enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with its respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by general principles of equity.
4.6.
Collateral. Each Credit Party, jointly and severally, represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (it being understood that the references to the Perfection Certificate in this Section 4.6 refer to (x) the most recent Perfection Certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date this representation and warranty is being made, and (y) such Perfection Certificate as amended, updated, supplemented or otherwise modified by any update, notice or certificate delivered pursuant to the Loan Documents on or prior to the date this representation and warranty is being made):
(a)
(i) its exact legal name is that indicated on the Perfection Certificate; (ii) it is an organization of the type and is organized in the jurisdiction set forth in the Perfection Certificate; (iii) the Perfection Certificate accurately sets forth its organizational identification number or accurately states that it has none; (iv) the Perfection Certificate accurately sets forth its place of business, or, if more than one, its chief executive office as well as its mailing address (if different than its chief executive office); (v) it (and each of its predecessors) has not, in the five (5) years prior to the Effective Date, changed its jurisdiction of formation, organizational structure or type, or any organizational number assigned by its jurisdiction; and (vi) all other information set forth on the Perfection Certificate pertaining to it and each of its Subsidiaries is accurate and complete in all material respects. If any Credit Party is not now a Registered Organization but later becomes one, it shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of such occurrence and provide the Administrative Agent with such Credit Party’s organizational identification number.

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(b)
(i) it has good title to, has rights in, and the power to transfer each item of the Collateral upon which it purports to grant a Lien under any Collateral Document, free and clear of any and all Liens except Permitted Liens, except for such minor irregularities or defects in title as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change and (ii) it has no deposit accounts maintained at a bank or other depository or financial institution located in the United States other than the deposit accounts described in the Perfection Certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent in connection herewith.
(c)
a true, correct and complete list of each material pending, registered, issued or in-licensed Patent, Copyright and Trademark within the Company IP as of the Effective Date or as updated or supplemented by any update, notice or certificate delivered pursuant to the Loan Documents (collectively, the “Current Company IP”), including its name/title, current owner or co-owners (including ownership interest), registration, patent or application number, and registration or application date, issued or filed, is set forth on Schedule 4.6(c) of the Disclosure Letter (as such schedule is as updated or supplemented by any update, notice or certificate delivered pursuant to the Loan Documents). Except as set forth on Schedule 4.6(c) of the Disclosure Letter (as such schedule is as updated or supplemented by any update, notice or certificate delivered pursuant to the Loan Documents), to the Knowledge of Borrower, (i) (A) each item of owned Current Company IP is valid, subsisting and enforceable and no such item of Current Company IP has lapsed, expired, been cancelled or invalidated or become abandoned or unenforceable, and (B) no written notice has been received challenging the inventorship or ownership, or relating to any lapse, expiration, invalidation, abandonment or unenforceability, of any such item of Current Company IP, and (ii) to the Knowledge of Borrower, (A) each such item of Current Company IP which is licensed from another Person is valid, subsisting and enforceable and no such item of Current Company IP has lapsed, expired, been cancelled or invalidated, or become abandoned or unenforceable, and (B) no written notice has been received challenging the inventorship or ownership, or relating to any lapse, expiration, invalidation, abandonment or unenforceability, of any such item of Current Company IP. To the Knowledge of Borrower, there are no published Patents, articles or prior art references that would reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the exploitation of any Company Product. To the Knowledge of Borrower, except as set forth on Schedule 4.6(c) of the Disclosure Letter (as such schedule is as updated or supplemented by any update, notice or certificate delivered pursuant to the Loan Documents), (x) each Person who has or has had any rights in or to owned Current Company IP or any trade secrets owned by any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, including each inventor named on the Patents within such owned Current Company IP filed by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, has executed an agreement assigning his, her or its entire right, title and interest in and to such owned Current Company IP and such trade secrets, and the inventions, improvements, ideas, discoveries, writings, works of authorship, information and other Intellectual Property embodied, described or claimed therein, to the stated owner thereof, and (y) no such Person has any contractual or other obligation that would preclude or conflict with such assignment or entitle such Person to ongoing payments.
(d)
(i) Each of Borrower and its Subsidiaries possesses valid title to the Current Company IP for which it is listed as the owner or co-owner, as applicable, on Schedule 4.6(c) of the Disclosure Letter (as such schedule is as updated or supplemented by any update, notice or certificate delivered pursuant to the Loan Documents); and (ii) there are no Liens on any Current Company IP, other than Permitted Liens.
(e)
There are no maintenance, annuity or renewal fees that are currently overdue beyond their allotted grace period for any of the Current Company IP which is owned by or, to the Knowledge of the Borrower, licensed to Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse impact on Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries’ rights to such Current Company IP, nor have any applications or registrations therefor lapsed or become abandoned, been cancelled or expired.

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(f)
There are no unpaid fees or royalties under any Current Company IP Agreement that have become due or are expected to become overdue. Each Current Company IP Agreement is in full force and effect and is legal, valid, binding, and enforceable against the Credit Party or its applicable Subsidiary (as applicable) and, to the Knowledge of Borrower, the counterparty thereto in accordance with its respective terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.6(f) of the Disclosure Letter, neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, is in material breach of any Current Company IP Agreement and to the Knowledge of Borrower, no circumstances or grounds exist that would give rise to a claim of breach or right of rescission, termination, non-renewal, revision or amendment of any of the Current Company IP Agreements, including the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(g)
To the Knowledge of Borrower, no payments by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries are due to any other Person in respect of the Current Company IP, other than pursuant to the Current Company IP Agreements and those fees payable to patent offices in connection with the prosecution and maintenance of the Current Company IP, any applicable taxes and associated attorney fees.
(h)
No Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries has undertaken or omitted to undertake any acts that would invalidate or reduce, in whole or in part, the enforceability or scope of (i) the Current Company IP in any manner that could reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect any Company Product, or (ii) in the case of Current Company IP owned or co-owned or exclusively or non-exclusively licensed by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries, except as set forth on Schedule 4.6(h) of the Disclosure Letter, such Credit Party’s or Subsidiary’s entitlement to own or license and exploit such Current Company IP in any material respects.
(i)
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 of the Disclosure Letter or advised pursuant to Section 5.2(b), there is no pending, decided or settled opposition, interference proceeding, reissue proceeding, reexamination proceeding, inter-partes review proceeding, post-grant review proceeding, cancellation proceeding, injunction, litigation, paragraph IV patent certification or lawsuit under the Hatch-Waxman Act, hearing, investigation, complaint, arbitration, mediation, demand, International Trade Commission investigation, decree, or any other dispute, disagreement, or claim, in each case, alleged in writing to Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (collectively referred to hereinafter as “Specified Disputes”), nor to the Knowledge of Borrower, has any such Specified Dispute been threatened in writing, in each case, challenging the legality, validity, enforceability or ownership of any Current Company IP; in each case, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
(j)
In each case where an issued Patent within the Current Company IP is owned or co-owned by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries by assignment, the assignment has been duly recorded with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
(k)
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.6(k) of the Disclosure Letter, there are no pending or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened claims against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries alleging (i) that any research, development, manufacture, production, use, commercialization, marketing, importing, storage, transport, offer for sale, distribution or sale of any Company Product infringes or violates (or in the past infringed or violated) the rights of any third parties in or to any Intellectual Property (“Third Party IP”), except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change or constitutes a misappropriation of (or in the past six (6) years has constituted a misappropriation of) any Third Party IP, or (ii) that any Current Company IP is invalid or unenforceable.

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(l)
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.6(l) of the Disclosure Letter, the manufacture, production, use, commercialization, marketing, importing, storage, transport, offer for sale, distribution or sale of any Company Product does not, to the Knowledge of Borrower, infringe or violate (or has not in the past six (6) years infringed or violated) any issued or registered Third Party IP (including any issued Patent within the Third Party IP) or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, constitutes a misappropriation of (or has not in the past six (6) years constituted a misappropriation of) any Third Party IP, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
(m)
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.6(m) of the Disclosure Letter, there are no settlements, covenants not to sue, consents, judgments, orders or similar obligations which: (i) restrict in any material respect the rights of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to use any Current Company IP (in order to accommodate any Third Party IP or otherwise), or (ii) grant any third parties exclusive rights to use any Current Company IP.
(n)
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.6(n) of the Disclosure Letter, to the Knowledge of Borrower (i) there is no, nor has there been any, infringement or violation by any Person of any of the Current Company IP or the rights therein, and (ii) there is no, nor has there been any, misappropriation by any Person of any of the Current Company IP, in each case of the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change or the subject matter thereof.
(o)
Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has taken commercially reasonable measures customary in the pharmaceutical industry to protect the confidentiality and value of all trade secrets owned by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or used or held for use by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case, relating to the research, development, manufacture, production, use, commercialization, marketing, importing, storage, transport, offer for sale, distribution or sale of any Company Product.
(p)
Solely as to the Tranche B Closing Date and the Tranche C Closing Date, to the Knowledge of Borrower, at the time of any shipment of any Company Product occurring prior to the Tranche B Closing Date or the Tranche C Closing Date, the units thereof so shipped complied in all material respects with their relevant specifications and were manufactured in all material respects in accordance with current FDA Good Manufacturing Practices.
4.7.
Adverse Proceedings, Compliance with Laws. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 of the Disclosure Letter or advised pursuant to Section 5.2(c), there are no Adverse Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened in writing, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of the their respective assets or properties or revenues that, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. Neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries (a) is in violation of any Requirements of Law (including Environmental Laws) except for such violations that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, or (b) is subject to or in default with respect to any final judgments, orders, writs, injunctions, decrees, rules or regulations of any court or any federal, state, municipal or other governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

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4.8.
Financial Statements; Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change; Books and Records.
(a)
As of the Effective Date and each applicable Closing Date, the documents filed by Borrower with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act since January 1, 2025 (the “Exchange Act Documents”), when they were filed with the SEC, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act, and as of the time they were filed with the SEC, none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein (excluding any projections and forward-looking statements, estimates, budgets and general economic or industry data of a general nature), in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, that, with respect to projected financial information, Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time (it being understood that such projections are not a guarantee of financial performance and are subject to uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of Borrower and its Subsidiaries, that neither Borrower nor any Subsidiary can give any assurance that such projections will be attained, that actual results may differ in a material manner from such projections and that any failure to meet such projections shall not be deemed to be a breach of any representation or covenant herein);
(b)
The financial statements (including the related notes thereto) of Borrower and its Subsidiaries included in the Exchange Act Documents present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial condition of Borrower and such Subsidiaries and their consolidated results of operations as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified. Such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with Applicable Accounting Standards applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby, except as otherwise disclosed therein and, in the case of unaudited, interim financial statements, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the exclusion of certain footnotes, and any supporting schedules included in the Exchange Act Documents present fairly in all material respects the information required to be stated therein (subject to the proviso in Section 4.8(a) above with respect to projections);
(c)
Since December 31, 2024, there has not occurred or failed to occur any change or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have, either alone or in conjunction with any other change(s), event(s) or failure(s), a Material Adverse Change, except as has been disclosed in the Exchange Act Documents; and
(d)
The Books of Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries in existence immediately prior to the Effective Date contain full, true and correct entries of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities in conformity with Applicable Accounting Standards and all Requirements of Law.
4.9.
Solvency. Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, there has been no proposal made or resolution adopted by any competent corporate body for the dissolution or liquidation of Borrower, nor do any circumstances exist which may result in the dissolution or liquidation of Borrower.
4.10.
Payment of Taxes. All U.S. federal and state income and other material Tax returns and reports (or extensions thereof) of each Credit Party and each of its Subsidiaries required to be filed by any of them have been timely filed and correct in all material respects, and all material Taxes which are due and payable by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries and all material assessments, fees and other governmental charges upon any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries and upon their respective properties, assets, income, businesses and franchises which are due and payable have been paid when due and payable except where the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; provided that (a) the applicable Credit Party has set aside on its books adequate reserves therefor in conformity with Applicable Accounting Standards and (b) the failure to pay such Taxes, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

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4.11.
Environmental Matters. Neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any of their respective Facilities or operations is subject to any outstanding written order, consent decree or settlement agreement with any Person relating to any Environmental Law, any Environmental Claim, or any Hazardous Materials Activity that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. There are and, to the Knowledge of Borrower, have been, no conditions, occurrences, or Hazardous Materials Activities that would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. To the Knowledge of Borrower, no predecessor of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has filed any notice under any Environmental Law indicating past or present treatment of Hazardous Materials at any Facility, which would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change (but, for the avoidance of doubt, Borrower has not undertaken any investigation of or made any inquiries to, or relating to, any of its or its Subsidiaries’ predecessors), and neither Borrower’s nor any of its Subsidiaries’ operations involves the generation, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous waste, as defined under 40 C.F.R. Parts 260 through 270 or any state equivalent, which would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. No event or condition has occurred or is occurring with respect to any Credit Party relating to any Environmental Law, any Release of Hazardous Materials, or any Hazardous Materials Activity that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Change.
4.12.
Material Contracts. As of the Effective Date and each applicable Closing Date, after giving effect to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except as described on Schedule 4.12 of the Disclosure Letter, each Material Contract is a valid and binding obligation of the applicable Credit Party and, to the Knowledge of Borrower, each other party thereto, and is in full force and effect, and neither the applicable Credit Party nor, to the Knowledge of Borrower, any other party thereto is in material breach thereof or default thereunder, except where such breach or default (which default has not been cured or waived) could not reasonably be expected to give rise to any cancellation, termination or acceleration right of the applicable counterparty thereto or result in the invalidation thereof. No Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice from any party thereto asserting or, to the Knowledge of Borrower threatening to assert, circumstances that could reasonably be expected to result in the cancellation, termination or invalidation of any Material Contract or the acceleration of such Credit Party’s or Subsidiary’s obligations thereunder.
4.13.
Regulatory Compliance; ERISA. No Credit Party is or is required to be, or is a company “controlled” by, an “investment company” as defined in, or is subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Except as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, each Credit Party has complied with the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Except as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, each Plan is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the IRC and other U.S. federal or state Requirements of Law, respectively. (a) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (b) neither any Credit Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any liability (and no event has occurred which, with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA, would result in such liability) under Section 4201 et seq. or 4243 of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan; and (c) neither any Credit Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that would be subject to Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA, except, with respect to each of clauses (a), (b) and (c) above, as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Change.

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4.14.
Margin Stock. No Credit Party is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in extending credit for the purpose of, whether immediate or ultimate, of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock. No Credit Party owns any Margin Stock. No Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries has taken or permitted to be taken any action that might cause any Loan Document to violate Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
4.15.
Subsidiaries. As of the Effective Date and each applicable Closing Date, Schedule 4.15 of the Disclosure Letter sets forth (a) the name and jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation of Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries and (b) the ownership interest of Borrower and any other Credit Party in each of their respective Subsidiaries, including the percentage of such ownership. All Equity Interests of each Credit Party are duly and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable. Each Credit Party is the record and beneficial owner of, and has good and marketable title to, the Equity Interests pledged by (or purported to be pledged by) it under the Collateral Documents, free of any and all Liens, rights or claims of other persons (other than Permitted Liens), and, as of the Effective Date and each applicable Closing Date, there are no outstanding warrants, options or other rights (including derivatives) to purchase, or shareholder, voting trust or similar agreements outstanding with respect to, or property that is convertible into, or that requires the issuance or sale of, any such Equity Interests (or any economic or voting interests therein).
4.16.
Employee Matters. Neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. There is (a) no unfair labor practice complaint pending against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened in writing against any of them before the National Labor Relations Board, and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement that is pending against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened in writing against any of them, (b) no strike or work stoppage in existence or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened in writing involving Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and (c) to the Knowledge of Borrower, no union representation question existing with respect to the employees of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and, to the Knowledge of Borrower, no union organization activity that is taking place that in each case specified in any of clauses (a), (b) and (c), individually or taken together with any other matter specified in clause (a), (b) or (c), could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
4.17.
Full Disclosure. None of the documents, certificates or written statements (excluding any projections and forward-looking statements, estimates, budgets and general economic or industry data of a general nature) furnished or otherwise made available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by or on behalf of any Credit Party for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (in each case, taken as a whole and as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished promptly after the same becomes available) contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein or therein, as of the time when made or delivered, not misleading in light of the circumstances in which the same were made; provided, that, with respect to projected financial information, Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time (it being understood that such projections are not a guarantee of financial performance and are subject to uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of Borrower or any Subsidiary, that neither Borrower nor any Subsidiary can give any assurance that such projections will be attained, that actual results may differ in a material manner from such projections and that any failure to meet such projections shall not be deemed to be a breach of any representation or covenant herein). To the Knowledge of Borrower, there are no facts (other than matters of a general economic or industry nature) that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change and that have not been disclosed herein or in such other documents, certificates and written statements furnished or made available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.

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4.18.
FCPA; Patriot Act; OFAC; Outbound Investment.
(a)
None of Borrower, its Subsidiaries or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, any director, officer, agent or employee of Borrower or any Subsidiary of Borrower has (i) used any corporate funds of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity, (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee or any person from corporate funds of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”) or the U.K. Bribery Act (“UKBA”) or (iv) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment, and no part of the proceeds of any Credit Extension will be used, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business, or to obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the FCPA, UKBA or any other applicable anti-corruption laws;
(b)
(i) The operations of Borrower and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, as amended by the Patriot Act and the anti-money laundering laws, rules and regulations of each jurisdiction (foreign or domestic) in which Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is subject to such jurisdiction’s Requirements of Law (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”) and (ii) no action, suit or proceeding by or before any Governmental Authority or any arbitrator involving Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened in writing; and
(c)
None of Borrower, its Subsidiaries or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, any director, officer, agent or employee of Borrower or any Subsidiary of Borrower is, or is owned or controlled by individuals or entities that are the target or subject of any sanctions administered and enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”), the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, or His Majesty’s Treasury (collectively “Sanctions”). Borrower will not, directly or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, indirectly through an agent, use the proceeds of the Credit Extension, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person, for the purpose of financing the activities of any Person that is the target or subject of Sanctions or in any country or territory that at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions.
(d)
The Borrower, its Subsidiaries, and, to the Knowledge of Borrower, their respective directors, officers, agents and employees are in compliance with all applicable Sanctions. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have instituted and maintain procedures reasonably designed to ensure compliance with applicable Sanctions.
(e)
Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is a ‘covered foreign person’ as that term is used in the Outbound Investment Rules. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries currently engages, or has any present intention to engage in the future, directly or indirectly, in (i) a “covered activity” or a “covered transaction”, as each such term is defined in the Outbound Investment Rules, (ii) any activity or transaction that would constitute a “covered activity” or a “covered transaction”, as each such term is defined in the Outbound Investment Rules, if the Borrower were a U.S.

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Person or (iii) any other activity that would cause the Administrative Agent or the Lenders to be in violation of the Outbound Investment Rules or cause the Administrative Agent or the Lenders to be legally prohibited by the Outbound Investment Rules from performing under this Agreement.
4.19.
Health Care Matters.
(a)
Compliance with Health Care Laws. Each of Borrower and its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Health Care Laws.
(b)
Compliance with FDA Laws. Each of Borrower and its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable FDA Laws.
(c)
Material Statements. Within the past three (3) years, neither Borrower nor, to the Knowledge of Borrower, any Subsidiary or any officer, Affiliate, employee or agent of Borrower or Subsidiary in its capacity as an officer, Affiliate, employee or agent of Borrower or Subsidiary (as applicable), (i) has made an untrue statement of a material fact or a fraudulent statement to any Governmental Authority, (ii) has failed to disclose a material fact to any Governmental Authority, or (iii) has otherwise committed an act, made a statement or failed to make a statement that, at the time such statement or disclosure was made (or, in the case of such failure, should have been made) or such act was committed, could reasonably be expected to constitute a material violation of any Health Care Law.
(d)
Proceedings; Audits. Except as has been disclosed in the Exchange Act Documents or as set forth on Schedule 4.19(d) of the Disclosure Letter: (i) there is no Adverse Proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened in writing, against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries relating to any allegations of non-compliance with any Health Care Laws or FDA Laws in any material respect; and (ii) to the Knowledge of Borrower, there are no facts, circumstances or conditions that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to form the basis for any such Adverse Proceeding that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
(e)
Safety Notices. Within the past three (3) years, neither any Credit Party nor any of its Subsidiaries has initiated or otherwise engaged in any recalls, field notifications, safety warnings, “dear doctor” letters, investigator notices, safety alerts or other notices of action relating to an alleged lack of safety or regulatory compliance of a Company Product that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
(f)
[Reserved]
(g)
Exclusion. Within the past three (3) years (or, with respect to any Company Product that has been acquired by a Borrower or its Subsidiary, from the date of such acquisition), neither Borrower nor, to the Knowledge of Borrower, any Subsidiary or any officer, Affiliate or employee having authority to act on behalf of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary, is or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, has been threatened in writing to be: (i) debarred, disqualified, suspended or excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other Governmental Payor Program or is listed on the General Services Administration list of excluded parties; or (ii) a party to any other action or proceeding by any Governmental Authority that would prohibit the Borrower or applicable Subsidiary from distributing or selling the Company Product in or providing any services to any governmental or other purchaser pursuant to any Health Care Laws.
(h)
[Reserved]
(i)
Corporate Integrity Agreement. Neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party or is otherwise subject to any order, individual integrity agreement, or corporate integrity agreement with any U.S. Governmental Authority concerning compliance with any laws, rules, or regulations, issued under or in connection with a Governmental Payor Program.

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4.20.
Regulatory Approvals.
(a)
Each Credit Party and each Subsidiary, as applicable, has all Regulatory Approvals material to the conduct of its business and operations, except as would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
(b)
Each of Borrower and each Subsidiary (as applicable) is in compliance with, and at all times during the past three (3) years (or, with respect to any Company Product that has been acquired by a Borrower or its Subsidiary, from the date of such acquisition), has complied with, all applicable Requirements of Law governing the research, development, manufacture, production, use, importing, or distribution of the Company Product, including all such regulations promulgated by each applicable Regulatory Agency, except where any instance of failure to comply with any such laws, rules or regulations would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. During the past three (3) years, neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice from any Regulatory Agency citing action or inaction by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that would constitute a violation of any applicable Requirements of Law, including a Warning Letter from FDA, which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
4.21.
Supply and Manufacturing.
(a)
Solely as to the Tranche B Closing Date and the Tranche C Closing Date, to the Knowledge of Borrower, as of the Tranche B Closing Date and the Tranche C Closing Date, as applicable, each Company Product has, within the past three (3) years, been manufactured in sufficient quantities and of a sufficient quality to satisfy a material portion of the sales demand for such Company Product in the United States, without the occurrence of any event causing inventory of such Company Product to have become exhausted prior to satisfying such material portion of the sales demand or any other event in which the manufacture and release to the market of such Company Product in the United States does not satisfy a material portion of the sales demand for such Company Product in the United States.
(b)
Except as disclosed in the Exchange Act Documents or set forth on Schedule 4.21(b) of the Disclosure Letter, to the Knowledge of Borrower, (i) no manufacturer of the Company Product has received in the past three (3) years (or, with respect to any Company Product that has been acquired by a Borrower or its Subsidiary, on the date of such acquisition) a Form 483 or is currently subject to a Form 483 impacting any Company Product with respect to any Facility manufacturing such Company Product, and (ii) with respect to each such Form 483 received (if any), all scientific and technical violations or other issues relating to good manufacturing practice requirements documented therein, and any disputes regarding any such violations or issues, have been corrected or otherwise resolved, except as would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
4.22.
Cybersecurity and Data Protection.
(a)
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.22(a) of the Disclosure Letter, the information technology systems used in the business of Borrower and its Subsidiaries (“Systems”) operate and perform in all material respects as required to permit Borrower and its Subsidiaries to conduct their business as presently conducted. To the Knowledge of such Credit Party, no System contains any material ransomware, disabling code or instructions, spyware, Trojan horses, worms, viruses or other software routines that are designed or intended to delete, destroy, disable, interfere with, perform unauthorized modifications to, or provide unauthorized access to Sensitive Information.

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Borrower and its Subsidiaries have and maintain back-up systems, consistent with the industry in which Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries operate and the size and condition of Borrower and its Subsidiaries, designed to provide continuing availability of the material functionality provided by the Systems in the event of any malfunction of, or other event materially interrupting access to or the functionality of, such Systems. Borrower and its Subsidiaries use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly implement material security patches that are generally available for the Systems.
(b)
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.22(b) of the Disclosure Letter, Borrower and its Subsidiaries have implemented and maintain a commercially reasonable enterprise-wide privacy and information security program (“Security Program”), with plans, policies, and procedures for privacy, physical and cyber security, disaster recovery, business continuity, incident detection, and incident response, and that includes commercially reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the integrity and availability of the Systems, consistent with the industry in which Borrower and its Subsidiaries operate and the size and condition of Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and designed to protect against (i) any material unauthorized or unlawful access to or acquisition, use, disclosure, transmission, processing, loss, destruction, or modification of Personal Data that would require notification to any affected individuals or any Governmental Authority under any applicable Data Protection Laws (each, a “Personal Data Breach”), and (ii) any security incidents that would result in unauthorized or unlawful access to or acquisition, use, control, disruption, destruction, or modification of any of the Systems (including cyber-attacks) that would result in a Material Adverse Change on the operation of Borrower and its Subsidiaries’ business operations as currently conducted (sub-clauses (i) through (ii), collectively, “Security Incidents”).
(c)
In the past three (3) years, Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has conducted commercially reasonable privacy and security tests, as well as penetration tests on Systems that maintain, store, access, or process Personal Data. To the Knowledge of Borrower, Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has addressed and remediated all material issues identified as “critical,” “high risk,” or similar level of risk rating raised in any such audits or penetration tests (including any third party audits of the Systems).
(d)
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.22(c) of the Disclosure Letter, and except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, to the Knowledge of Borrower, neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has, in the past three (3) years, suffered any Security Incidents or received any notice from any vendor that such vendor experienced a Security Incident impacting Borrower’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ Sensitive Information.
(e)
To the Knowledge of Borrower, Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is in material compliance with the requirements of (i) their respective Security Programs, (ii) applicable Data Protection Laws, (iii) their respective Material Contracts regarding the privacy, security, and notification of breaches of Personal Data, and (iv) their respective published privacy policies.
(f)
(i) Solely on the Effective Date, except as set forth on Schedule 4.22(e) of the Disclosure Letter, in the past three (3) years: (x) neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written third party claims or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, any threat (in writing) of a third party claim, related to any Personal Data Breaches; and (y) neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice of any claims, investigations (including investigations by any Governmental Authority), or alleged violations relating to any Personal Data Breaches and (ii) solely on the Tranche A Closing Date, the Tranche B Closing Date or the Tranche C Closing Date, as applicable, except as set forth on Schedule 4.22(e) of the Disclosure Letter, in the past three (3) years: (x) neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written third party claims or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, any threat (in writing) of a third party claim, related to any Personal Data Breaches; and (y) neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice of any claims, investigations (including investigations by any Governmental Authority), or alleged violations relating to any Personal Data Breach, in each case of the foregoing clauses (ii)(x) and (ii)(y), except as would not have a Material Adverse Change.

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(g)
In the past three (3) years, Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has conducted commercially reasonable privacy and data security diligence, to the extent required by applicable Data Protection Laws, on material vendors (including CROs, CMSs and other service providers and contractors) that (i) collect, create, receive, access, maintain, store, or otherwise process Personal Data for or on behalf of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) access or maintain the Systems.
5.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, until Payment in Full, each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:

5.1.
Maintenance of Existence. (a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its and all its Subsidiaries’ legal existence under the Requirements of Law in their respective jurisdictions of organization, incorporation or formation, other than as otherwise expressly permitted hereunder; (b) take all commercially reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges (including its good standing), permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable for it and all of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of its business, except in the case of clause (a) (other than with respect to Borrower) and clause (b) above, (i) to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change or (ii) pursuant to a transaction permitted by this Agreement; and (c) comply with all Requirements of Law of each Governmental Authority to which it is subject, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Change.
5.2.
Financial Statements, Notices. Deliver to the Administrative Agent:
(a)
Financial Statements.
(i)
Annual Financial Statements. As soon as available, but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of Borrower (or such earlier date on which Borrower is required to file a Form 10-K under the Exchange Act, as applicable), beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, a consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income, cash flows and stockholders’ equity for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all prepared in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards, with such consolidated financial statements to be audited and accompanied by (x) a report and opinion of Borrower’s independent certified public accounting firm of recognized national standing (which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards [***]), stating that such financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the dates and for the periods specified in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards, and (y) if and only if Borrower is required to comply with the internal control provisions pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requiring an attestation report of such independent certified public accounting firm, an attestation report of such independent certified public accounting firm as to Borrower’s internal controls pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 attesting to management’s assessment that such internal controls meet the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; provided, however, that Borrower shall be deemed to have made such delivery of such consolidated financial statements if such consolidated financial statements shall have been made available within the time period specified above on the SEC’s EDGAR system (or any successor system adopted by the SEC);

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(ii)
Quarterly Financial Statements. As soon as available, but in any event within forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of Borrower (or such earlier date on which Borrower is required to file a Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act, as applicable), beginning with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2025, a consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related consolidated statements of income and cash flows and for such fiscal quarter and (in respect of the second and third fiscal quarters of such fiscal year) for the then-elapsed portion of Borrower’s fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the comparable period or periods in the previous fiscal year, all prepared in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of disclosures normally made in footnotes; provided, however, that Borrower shall be deemed to have made such delivery of such consolidated financial statements if such consolidated financial statements shall have been made available within the time period specified above on the SEC’s EDGAR system (or any successor system adopted by the SEC). Such consolidated financial statements shall be certified by a Responsible Officer of Borrower as, to his or her knowledge, fairly presenting, in all material respects, the consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the dates and for the periods specified in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards consistently applied, and on a basis consistent with the audited consolidated financial statements referred to under Section 5.2(a)(i), subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes; provided, however, that such certification by a Responsible Officer of Borrower shall be deemed to have made if a similar certification is required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and such certificate shall have been made available within the time period specified above on the SEC’s EDGAR system (or any successor system adopted by the SEC);
(iii)
Quarterly Compliance Certificate. At any time that Borrower is not required to disclose to the SEC information on an on-going basis under U.S. federal securities laws (including annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, proxy reports on Form DEF 14A or current events on Form 8-K), upon delivery (or within five (5) Business Days of any deemed delivery) of financial statements pursuant to Section 5.2(a)(i) and Section 5.2(a)(ii), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer, certifying, among other things, that (i) such financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of applicable the dates and for the applicable periods in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards consistently applied and (ii) no Event of Default or Default has occurred or, if such an Event of Default or Default has occurred, specifying the nature and extent thereof and any corrective action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto;
(iv)
Information During Event of Default. As promptly as practicable (and in any event within five (5) Business Days of the request therefor), such additional information regarding the business or financial affairs of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or compliance with the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may from time to time reasonably request during the existence of any Event of Default (subject to reasonable requirements of confidentiality, including requirements imposed by Requirements of Law or contract; provided that Borrower shall not be obligated to disclose any information that is reasonably subject to the assertion of attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product); and Milestone Certificates.

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(v)
Concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements required by Section 5.2(a)(i) or (ii), (x) with respect to the first fiscal quarter in which the Tranche B Milestone is satisfied, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that the Tranche B Milestone has occurred and (y) with respect to the first fiscal quarter in which the Tranche C Milestone is satisfied, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that the Tranche C Milestone has occurred.
(b)
Notice of Defaults or Events of Default, ERISA Events and Material Adverse Changes. Written notice as promptly as practicable (and in any event within [***]) after a Responsible Officer of Borrower shall have obtained Knowledge thereof, of the occurrence of any (i) Default or Event of Default, (ii) ERISA Event or (iii) Material Adverse Change.
(c)
Legal Action Notice. Prompt written notice (which shall be deemed given to the extent reported in the Borrower’s periodic reporting under the Exchange Act and available on the SEC’s EDGAR system (or any successor system adopted by the SEC)) of any legal action, litigation, investigation or proceeding pending or threatened in writing against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary (i) that could reasonably be expected to result in uninsured damages or costs to such Credit Party or such Subsidiary in an amount in excess of the materiality thresholds applied by Borrower in accordance with the Exchange Act and related regulations and standards for purposes of its Exchange Act reporting or (ii) which alleges potential violations of the Health Care Laws, the FDA Laws or any applicable Requirements of Law, which, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change; and in each case, provide such additional information (including any material development therein) as the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may reasonably request in relation thereto; provided that Borrower shall not be obligated to disclose any information that is reasonably subject to the assertion of attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product.
5.3.
Taxes. Timely file all required U.S. federal and state income and other material Tax returns and reports or extensions therefor and timely pay all material foreign, federal, state and local Taxes, assessments, deposits and contributions imposed upon it or any of its properties or assets or in respect of any of its income, businesses or franchises before any penalty or fine accrue thereon; provided, however, that no such Tax or any claim for Taxes that have become due and payable and have or may become a Lien on any Collateral shall be required to be paid if (a) it is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted, so long as adequate reserves therefor have been set aside on its books and maintained in conformity with Applicable Accounting Standards, and (b) solely in the case of a Tax or claim that has or may become a Lien against any Collateral, such contest proceedings conclusively operate to stay the sale or forfeiture of any portion of any Collateral to satisfy such Tax or claim.
5.4.
Insurance. Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons of comparable size engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance reasonable and customary for similarly situated Persons of comparable size engaged in the same or similar businesses as Borrower and its Subsidiaries) as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons. Any products liability or general liability insurance maintained in the United States regarding Collateral shall name the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders and the other Secured Parties, as additional insured or loss payee, as applicable. So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may retain all or any portion of the proceeds of any insurance of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (and each Lender shall promptly remit to the Borrower any proceeds with respect to any insurance received by it).

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5.5.
Operating Accounts. For each Collateral Account maintained with a bank, or other depository or financial institution located in the United States, each Credit Party shall cause such bank, or other depository or financial institution to execute and deliver a Control Agreement. The provisions of the previous sentence shall not apply to (a) accounts exclusively used for payroll, payroll Taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Credit Party’s employees; provided that the aggregate balance in all such accounts does not exceed the amount necessary to make the next two immediate succeeding payroll, payroll tax or benefit payment (and such minimum amount as may be required by any Requirement of Law or financial institution with respect to such accounts), (b) zero balance accounts, (c) accounts (including trust accounts) used exclusively for escrow, customs, insurance or fiduciary purposes, (d) merchant accounts, (e) accounts used exclusively for compliance with any Requirements of Law to the extent such Requirements of Law prohibit the granting of a Lien thereon, (f) accounts which constitute cash collateral in respect of a Permitted Lien, (g) accounts opened with any bank or other depository or financial institution and used exclusively to consummate (i) the disposal, transfer, monetization, lease or license of, (ii) the granting of a Permitted Lien on or (iii) the securing or financing of, in each case of sub-clause (i), (ii) or (iii) any program or transaction solely with respect to any Permitted Royalty Transaction, and (f) any other accounts designated as an Excluded Account by a Responsible Officer of Borrower in writing delivered to the Administrative Agent, the cash balance of which such accounts does not exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate at any time (all such accounts in clauses (a) through (g) above, collectively, the “Excluded Accounts”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Credit Parties shall have until the date that is ninety (90) days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may agree in its sole discretion) following (i) the Effective Date to comply with the provisions of this Section 5.5 with regards to Collateral Accounts of the Credit Parties in existence on the Effective Date and (ii) the creation or acquisition of any Collateral Account or the Borrower’s designation of any prior Excluded Account to a non-Excluded Account, to comply with the provisions of this Section 5.5.
5.6.
Compliance with Laws. Comply in all respects with the Requirements of Law and all orders, writs, injunctions, decrees and judgments applicable to it or to its business or its assets or properties (including Environmental Laws, ERISA, Anti-Money Laundering Laws, OFAC, FCPA, Health Care Laws, FDA Laws, Data Protection Laws and the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and any foreign equivalents thereof), except if the failure to comply therewith would not, individually or taken together with any other such failures, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
5.7.
Protection of Intellectual Property Rights.
(a)
Except as could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, (i) protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of the Company IP, including defending any future or current oppositions, interference proceedings, reissue proceedings, reexamination proceedings, inter-partes review proceedings, post-grant review proceedings, cancellation proceedings, injunctions, lawsuits, paragraph IV patent certifications or lawsuits under the Hatch-Waxman Act, hearings, investigations, complaints, arbitrations, mediations, demands, International Trade Commission investigations, decrees, or any other disputes, disagreements, or claims, challenging the legality, validity, enforceability or ownership of any Company IP; (ii) maintain the confidential nature of any material trade secrets within the Company IP; and (iii) not allow any Company IP to be abandoned, forfeited or dedicated to the public or any Current Company IP Agreement to be terminated by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed); provided, however, that with respect to any such Company IP that is not owned by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, the obligations in clauses (i) and (iii) above shall apply only to the extent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries have the right to take such actions or to cause any licensee or other third party to take such actions pursuant to applicable agreements or contractual rights.

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(b)
Except as Borrower may otherwise determine in its reasonable business judgment or as otherwise set forth in its license agreements, use commercially reasonable efforts (i) at its (or its Subsidiaries’, as applicable) sole expense, either directly or indirectly, with respect to any licensee or licensor under the terms of any Credit Party’s (or any of its Subsidiary’s) agreement with the respective licensee or licensor, as applicable, to take any and all actions (including taking legal action to specifically enforce the applicable terms of any license agreement) and prepare, execute, deliver and file agreements, documents or instruments which are necessary or desirable to (A) prosecute and maintain the Company IP and (B) diligently defend or assert the Company IP against material infringement, misappropriation, violation or interference by any other Persons and, in the case of Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents within the Company IP, against any claims of invalidity or unenforceability (including by bringing any legal action for infringement, dilution, violation or defending any counterclaim of invalidity or action of a non-Affiliate third party for declaratory judgment of non-infringement or non-interference); and (ii) to cause any licensee or licensor of any Company IP not to, and such Credit Party shall not, disclaim or abandon, or fail to take any action necessary or desirable to prevent the disclaimer or abandonment of Company IP.
(c)
Except as Borrower may otherwise determine in its reasonable business judgment and as required pursuant to any applicable license or other binding agreement, protect, defend and maintain market exclusivity for the manufacture, production, use, commercialization, marketing, importing, storage, transport, offer for sale, distribution or sale of Company Products. Except as Borrower may otherwise determine in its reasonable business judgment (including without limitation taking into account any attorney-client privilege, conflicts of interests, confidentiality obligations, protective orders or other similar considerations), Borrower agrees to notify the Administrative Agent in writing and keep the Administrative Agent reasonably informed of any material filings in any opposition, interference proceeding, reissue proceeding, reexamination proceeding, inter-partes review proceeding, post-grant review proceeding, cancellation proceeding, injunction, lawsuit, paragraph IV patent certification or lawsuits under the Hatch-Waxman Act, hearing, investigation, complaint, arbitration, mediation, demand, International Trade Commission investigation, decree, or any other dispute, disagreement, or claim, in each case, challenging the legality, validity, enforceability or ownership of any Company IP.
5.8.
Books and Records. Maintain proper Books, in which entries that are full, true and correct in all material respects and are in conformity with Applicable Accounting Standards consistently applied shall be made of all material financial transactions and matters involving the assets, properties and business of such Credit Party (or such Subsidiary), as the case may be.
5.9.
Access to Collateral; Audits. Allow the Administrative Agent, or its agents or representatives, at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice, to visit and inspect the Collateral and inspect, copy and audit any Credit Party’s Books. The foregoing inspections and audits shall be at the relevant Credit Party’s expense.
5.10.
Use of Proceeds. (a) Use the proceeds of the Term Loans to fund its general corporate requirements, and (b) not use the proceeds of the Term Loans or any other Credit Extensions, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock, for the purpose of reducing or retiring any Indebtedness that was originally incurred to purchase or carry any Margin Stock, for the purpose of extending credit to any other Person for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock or for any other purpose that might cause any Term Loan or other Credit Extension to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meaning of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
5.11.
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Promptly upon the reasonable written request of the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders), execute, acknowledge and deliver such further documents and do such other acts and things in order to effectuate or carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents at its expense, including after the Effective Date taking such steps as are reasonably deemed necessary or desirable by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) to maintain, protect and enforce its Lien in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties on Collateral securing the Obligations created under the Security Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with the terms of the Security Agreement and the other Loan Documents, subject to Permitted Liens.
5.12.
Additional Collateral; Guarantors. From and after the Effective Date, except as otherwise approved in writing by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) and subject to the terms and limitations set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, each Credit Party shall cause each of its Subsidiaries (other than Excluded Subsidiaries) to guarantee the Obligations and to cause each such Subsidiary to grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties a first priority security interest in and Lien upon, and pledge to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties, subject to Permitted Liens, all of such Subsidiary’s properties and assets constituting Collateral, including all of such Subsidiary’s Equity Interests (other than Excluded Equity Interests), whether now existing or hereafter acquired or existing, to secure such guaranty; provided, that (i) such Credit Party’s obligations to cause any Subsidiaries formed or acquired after the Closing Date to take the foregoing actions shall be subject to the timing requirements of Section 5.13 and (ii) to the extent that such new Subsidiary is formed or organized in a jurisdiction outside of the United States, the parties hereto agree that the guarantee and the security provided to the Administrative Agent in such case shall be what is customarily granted to secured lenders in such jurisdiction on terms and subject to limitations customary for this type of transaction. Subject to Section 5.13, Section 5.14 and the terms and limitations in the Loan Documents (including clause (ii) of the foregoing proviso) in connection with each pledge of certificated Equity Interests required under the Loan Documents, the Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Administrative Agent, such certificate(s) together with stock powers or assignments, as applicable, properly endorsed for transfer to the Administrative Agent or duly executed in blank, in each case reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
5.13.
Formation or Acquisition of Subsidiaries. If Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries at any time after the Effective Date forms or acquires a Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) (including by division), as promptly as practicable but in no event later than ninety (90) days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may agree in its sole discretion) after such formation, acquisition or division: (a) without limiting the generality of clause (d) below, Borrower will cause such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a joinder to the Security Agreement in the form attached thereto and any relevant IP Agreement or other Collateral Documents, as applicable; (b) Borrower will cause such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent (i) true, correct and complete copies of the Operating Documents of such Subsidiary, (ii) a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer of such Subsidiary, certifying that the copies of such Operating Documents are true, correct and complete and (iii) a good standing certificate for such Subsidiary certified by the Secretary of State (or the equivalent thereof) of its jurisdiction of organization, incorporation or formation (if applicable); (c) Borrower will cause such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Perfection Certificate; and (d) Borrower will cause such Subsidiary to satisfy all requirements contained in this Agreement (including Section 5.12) and each other Loan Document if and to the extent applicable to such Subsidiary; provided, that to the extent that such new Subsidiary is formed or organized in a jurisdiction outside of the United States, the parties hereto agree that the guarantee and the security provided to the Administrative Agent in such case shall be what is customarily granted to secured lenders in such jurisdiction on terms and subject to limitations customary for this type of transaction. Borrower, Lenders and the Administrative Agent hereby agree that any such Subsidiary shall constitute a Credit Party for all purposes hereunder as of the date of the execution and delivery of the joinder contemplated by clause (a)

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above. Any document, agreement or instrument executed or issued pursuant to this Section 5.13 shall be a Loan Document.
5.14.
Post-Closing Requirements. Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, take each of the actions set forth on Schedule 5.14 of the Disclosure Letter within the time period prescribed therefor on such schedule (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may agree in its sole discretion). All representations and warranties and covenants contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to take the actions set forth on Schedule 5.14 of the Disclosure Letter within the time periods set forth therein, rather than elsewhere provided in the Loan Documents, such that to the extent any such action set forth in Schedule 5.14 of the Disclosure Letter is not overdue, the applicable Credit Party shall not be in breach of any representation or warranty or covenant contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document applicable to such action for the period from the Effective Date until the date on which such action is required to be fulfilled as set forth on Schedule 5.14 of the Disclosure Letter.
5.15.
Environmental.
(a)
Deliver to the Administrative Agent:
(i)
as soon as practicable following receipt thereof, copies of all environmental audits, investigations, analyses and reports of any kind or character, whether prepared by personnel of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or by independent consultants, Governmental Authorities or any other Persons, with respect to significant environmental matters at any Facility or with respect to any material Environmental Claims;
(ii)
promptly upon a Responsible Officer of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries obtaining knowledge of the occurrence thereof, written notice describing in reasonable detail (A) any Release required to be reported to any federal, state or local governmental or regulatory agency under any applicable Environmental Laws, (B) any remedial action taken by any Credit Party or any other Person in response to (x) any Hazardous Materials Activities, the existence of which, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in one or more Environmental Claims resulting in a Material Adverse Change, or (y) any Environmental Claims that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, and (C) any Credit Party’s discovery of any occurrence or condition on any real property adjoining or in the vicinity of any Facility that could cause such Facility or any part thereof to be subject to any material restrictions on the ownership, occupancy, transferability or use thereof under any Environmental Laws, provided that, with respect to real property adjoining or in the vicinity of any Facility, Borrower shall have no duty to affirmatively investigate or make any efforts to become or stay informed regarding any such adjoining or nearby properties;
(iii)
as soon as practicable following the sending or receipt thereof by any Credit Party, a copy of any and all written communications with respect to (A) any Environmental Claims that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, (B) any Release required to be reported to any federal, state or local governmental or regulatory agency, or (C) any request for information from any Governmental Authority that suggests such Governmental Authority is investigating whether any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries may be potentially responsible for any Hazardous Materials Activity that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change;
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prompt written notice describing in reasonable detail (A) any proposed acquisition of stock, assets, or property by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to (x) expose Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to, or result in, Environmental Claims that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change or (y) affect the ability of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to maintain in full force and effect all material Governmental Approvals required under any Environmental Laws for their respective operations, and (B) any proposed action to be taken by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to modify current operations in a manner that, individually or taken together with any other such proposed actions, could reasonably be expected to subject Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to any additional material obligations or requirements under any Environmental Laws; and
(v)
with reasonable promptness, such other documents and information as from time to time may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) in relation to any matters disclosed pursuant to this Section 5.15(a).
(b)
Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, promptly take any and all actions reasonably necessary to (i) cure any violation of applicable Environmental Laws by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, and (ii) make an appropriate response to any Environmental Claim against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and discharge any obligations it may have to any Person thereunder where failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
5.16.
Inventory; Returns; Maintenance of Properties. Keep all Inventory in good and marketable condition, free from material defects and otherwise keep all Inventory in material compliance with all applicable FDA Good Manufacturing Practices. Returns and allowances between Borrower and its Account Debtors shall follow Borrower’s customary practices as they exist at the Effective Date or any new returns and allowances practices established thereafter in good faith by Borrower. Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain or cause to be maintained in good repair, working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear, casualty and condemnation excepted, all material tangible properties used or useful in its respective business, and from time to time will make or cause to be made all appropriate repairs, renewals and replacements thereof except where failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
5.17.
Outbound Investment. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) be or become a “covered foreign person”, as that term is defined in the Outbound Investment Rules, or (b) engage, directly or indirectly, in (i) a “covered activity” or a “covered transaction”, as each such term is defined in the Outbound Investment Rules, (ii) any activity or transaction that would constitute a “covered activity” or a “covered transaction”, as each such term is defined in the Outbound Investment Rules, if the Borrower were a U.S. Person or (iii) any other activity that would cause Administrative Agent or the Lenders to be in violation of the Outbound Investment Rules or cause the Administrative Agent or the Lenders to be legally prohibited by the Outbound Investment Rules from performing under this Agreement.
6.
NEGATIVE COVENANTS

Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, until Payment in Full, such Credit Party shall not, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries not to:

6.1.
Dispositions. Convey, sell, lease, transfer, assign, enter into a coexistence agreement, exclusively license out, or otherwise dispose of (including any sale-leaseback or any transfer of assets pursuant to a plan of division), directly or indirectly and whether in one or a series of transactions (collectively, “Transfer”), all or any part of its properties or assets constituting Collateral under the Loan Documents (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Equity Interests constituting Collateral issued by any Subsidiary which are owned or otherwise held by such Credit Party), except for Permitted Transfers.

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6.2.
Fundamental Changes.
(a)
Without at least ten (10) days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period agreed to by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) in its sole discretion), solely in the case of a Credit Party: (i) change its jurisdiction of organization, incorporation or formation, (ii) change its organizational structure or type, (iii) change its legal name, or (iv) change any organizational number (if any) assigned by its jurisdiction of organization, incorporation or formation.
6.3.
Mergers, Acquisitions, Liquidations or Dissolutions.
(a)
Merge, divide itself into two (2) or more entities, consolidate, liquidate or dissolve, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to merge, divide itself into two (2) or more entities, consolidate, liquidate or dissolve with or into any other Person, except that:
(i)
any Subsidiary of Borrower may merge or consolidate with or into Borrower; provided that Borrower is the surviving entity,
(ii)
any Subsidiary of Borrower may merge or consolidate with any other Subsidiary of Borrower; provided that if any party to such merger or consolidation is a Credit Party, that either (x) a Credit Party is the surviving entity or (y) the surviving or resulting entity executes and delivers to the Administrative Agent a joinder to the Security Agreement in the form attached thereto and any relevant IP Agreement or other Collateral Documents, as applicable, and otherwise satisfies the requirements of Section 5.13 substantially contemporaneously with the completion of such merger or consolidation;
(iii)
any Subsidiary of Borrower may divide itself into two (2) or more entities or be dissolved or liquidated, provided that if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party, then the properties and assets of such Subsidiary are allocated or distributed to an existing or newly-formed Credit Party; and
(iv)
any Permitted Investment may be structured as a merger or consolidation; or
(b)
Make, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to make, Asset Acquisitions or Stock Acquisitions, other than Permitted Acquisitions or Permitted Investments.
6.4.
Indebtedness. Directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or guaranty, or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, any Indebtedness that is not Permitted Indebtedness; provided, however, that the accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value and the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 6.4.
6.5.
Encumbrances. Except for Permitted Liens, (a) create, incur, allow, or suffer to exist any Lien on any Collateral, or (b) permit (other than pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents) any material portion of the Collateral not to be subject to the first priority security interest granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents, in each case of this clause (b), other than as a direct result of any action by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or failure of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to perform an obligation thereof under the Loan Documents.

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6.6.
No Further Negative Pledges. Enter into any agreement, document or instrument directly or indirectly prohibiting (or having the effect of prohibiting) or limiting the ability of (a) such Credit Party or Subsidiary to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any Collateral, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure the Obligations or (b) any Subsidiary of Borrower to pay any dividends or make any distribution or payment on or redeem, retire or purchase any Equity Interests of such Subsidiary held by Borrower or any other Subsidiary, other than, in the cases of the foregoing clauses (a) and (b), Permitted Negative Pledges.
6.7.
Maintenance of Collateral Accounts. Maintain any Collateral Account except pursuant to the terms of Section 5.5 hereof.
6.8.
Distributions; Investments.
(a)
Pay any dividends or make any distribution or payment on or redeem, retire or purchase any Equity Interests, other than Permitted Distributions.
(b)
Directly or indirectly make any Investment (including any loans), other than Permitted Investments.
(c)
Repay or prepay any Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary to Borrower or any other Subsidiary of Borrower, unless such payment or prepayment (i) is made directly or indirectly to a Credit Party, (ii) is made from a non-Credit Party to another non-Credit Party or (iii) is a Permitted Investment.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, and for the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6.8 shall not prohibit (i) the conversion by holders and settlement thereof of (including any cash payment upon conversion), optional payment of principal or premium on, or required payment of any principal or premium on (solely limited, in the case of required payments of principal, to an amount not exceeding exceed the sum of (a) the principal amount of such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness plus (b) any payments received pursuant to the exercise, settlement or termination of any related Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction) or required payment of any interest with respect to, any Permitted Convertible Indebtedness in each case, in accordance with the terms of the indenture governing such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness, (ii) the entry into (including the payment of premiums in connection therewith) or any required payment with respect to, or required early unwind or settlement of, any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or Permitted Warrant Transaction, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the agreement governing such Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or Permitted Warrant Transaction, (iii) any repurchase, exchange or induced conversion of Permitted Convertible Indebtedness by (1) delivery of shares of Borrower’s common stock, (2) a different series of Permitted Convertible Indebtedness or (3) payment of cash (in an amount that does not exceed the proceeds received by Borrower from the substantially concurrent issuance of shares of Borrower’s common stock plus the net cash proceeds, if any, received by the Borrower pursuant to the related exercise or early unwind or termination of the related Permitted Bond Hedge Transactions and Permitted Warrant Transactions, if any, pursuant to the immediately following proviso); provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, substantially concurrently with, or a commercially reasonable period of time before or after, the related settlement date for the Permitted Convertible Indebtedness that are so repurchased, exchanged or converted, Borrower may exercise or unwind or terminate early (whether in cash, shares or any combination thereof) the portion of the Permitted Bond Hedge Transactions and Permitted Warrant Transactions, if any, corresponding to such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness that is so repurchased, exchanged or converted, or (iv) any cash payments for accrued interest or in lieu of any fractional shares, in each case, with respect to Permitted Convertible Indebtedness.

 

6.9.
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6.10.
[Reserved]
6.11.
Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents. Amend, restate, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive, any provision of its Operating Documents in a manner that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
6.12.
Compliance.
(a)
Become an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or undertake as one of its important activities extending credit to purchase or carry margin stock (as defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), or use the proceeds of any Credit Extension for that purpose.
(b)
No ERISA Affiliate shall cause (i) any event that would result in the imposition of a Lien on any assets or properties of any Credit Party or a Subsidiary of a Credit Party with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or (ii) any other ERISA Event that, in each case of this clause (b), could reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change.
(c)
The Administrative Agent and each Lender hereby notifies each Credit Party that pursuant to the requirements of Anti-Terrorism Laws, and such Person’s policies and practices, the Administrative Agent and each Lender is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies each Credit Party and its principals, which information includes the name and address of each Credit Party and its principals and such other information that will allow the Administrative Agent and each Lender to identify such party in accordance with Anti-Terrorism Laws. No Credit Party will, nor will any Credit Party permit any of its Subsidiaries or controlled Affiliates to, directly or indirectly, knowingly enter into any documents or contracts with any Person listed on the OFAC Lists. Each Credit Party shall promptly (but in any event within [***]) notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender in writing upon any Responsible Officer of Borrower having knowledge that any Credit Party or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of any Credit Party is listed on the OFAC Lists or (a) is convicted on, (b) pleads nolo contendere to, (c) is indicted on, or (d) is arraigned and held over on charges involving money laundering or predicate crimes to money laundering. No Credit Party will, nor will any Credit Party permit any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates to, directly or indirectly, (i) conduct any business or engage in any transaction or dealing with any Blocked Person, including the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) engage in or conspire to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids or violates, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in Executive Order No. 13224 or other Anti-Terrorism Law.
6.13.
Amendments or Waivers of Current Company IP Agreements. (a) Waive, amend, cancel or terminate, exercise or fail to exercise, any material rights constituting or relating to any of the Current Company IP Agreements or (b) breach, default under, or take any action or fail to take any action that, with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both, would constitute a default or event of default under any of the Current Company IP Agreements, in each case of the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) of this Section 6.13, which would, individually or taken together with any other such waivers, amendments, cancellations, terminations, exercises or failures, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

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7.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT

Any one of the following shall constitute an event of default (an “Event of Default”) under this Agreement:

7.1.
Payment Default. Any Credit Party fails to (a) make any payment of any principal of the Term Loans when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof (including pursuant to Section 2.2(c)), at a date fixed for prepayment (whether voluntary or mandatory) thereof, or by acceleration thereof or otherwise; or (b) within five (5) Business Days after the same becomes due, any payment of interest or premium pursuant to Section 2.2, including any applicable Draw Fees, Makewhole Amount or Prepayment Premium, or any other Obligations (which five (5) Business Day cure period shall not apply to any such payments due on the Term Loan Maturity Date, such earlier date pursuant to Section 2.2(c)(ii) hereof or the date of acceleration pursuant to Section 8.1(a) hereof). A failure to pay any such interest, premium or Obligations pursuant to the foregoing clause (b) prior to the end of such five (5) Business Day-period shall not constitute an Event of Default (unless such payment is due on the Term Loan Maturity Date, such earlier date pursuant to Section 2.2(c)(ii) hereof or the date of acceleration pursuant to Section 8.1(a) hereof).
7.2.
Covenant Default.
(a)
The Credit Parties: (i) fail or neglect to perform any obligation in Sections 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.10, 5.12, 5.13, or 5.14 or (ii) violate any covenant in Section 6; or
(b)
The Credit Parties fail or neglect to perform, keep, or observe any other term, provision, condition, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document on its part to be performed, kept or observed and such failure continues for thirty (30) days, after the earlier of the date on which (i) a Responsible Officer of any Credit Party becomes aware of such failure and (ii) written notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent or any Lender. Cure periods provided under this Section 7.2(b) shall not apply to any of the covenants referenced in clause (a) above.
7.3.
Material Adverse Change. On or after the Tranche A Closing Date, a Material Adverse Change occurs.
7.4.
Attachment; Levy; Restraint on Business.
(a)
(i) The service of process seeking to attach, by trustee or similar process, any funds of any Credit Party or of any entity under the control of such Credit Party in excess of $20,000,000 on deposit or otherwise maintained with the Administrative Agent, or (ii) a notice of lien or levy is filed against any of material portion of Collateral by any Governmental Authority, and the same under sub-clauses (i) and (ii) hereof are not, within thirty (30) days after the occurrence thereof, discharged or stayed (whether through the posting of a bond or otherwise); provided, however, that no Credit Extensions shall be made during any thirty (30) day cure period; or
(b)
(i) Any material portion of Collateral is attached, seized, levied on, or comes into possession of a trustee or receiver, or (ii) any court order enjoins, restrains, or prevents Borrower and its Subsidiaries from conducting any material part of their business, taken as a whole.
7.5.
Insolvency.
(a)

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An involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction seeking: (i) relief in respect of any Credit Party, or of a substantial part of the property of any Credit Party, under the Bankruptcy Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any other federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law; (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for any Credit Party or for a substantial part of the property or assets of any Credit Party; or (iii) the winding-up or liquidation of any Credit Party, and such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed or unstayed for sixty (60) days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered; or
(b)
Any Credit Party shall: (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking relief under the Bankruptcy Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any other federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law; (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or the filing of any petition described in clause (a) above; (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for any Credit Party or for a substantial part of the property or assets of any Credit Party; (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding; (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; (vi) become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; (vii) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; or (viii) wind up or liquidate (except as otherwise expressly permitted hereunder).
7.6.
Other Agreements. Any Credit Party fails to pay any Indebtedness (other than the Indebtedness represented by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) or any amount due under the Royalty Purchase Agreement within any applicable grace period after such payment is due and payable (including at final maturity) or after the acceleration of any such Indebtedness by the holder(s) thereof because of a default, in each case, if the total amount of such Indebtedness or such amount under the Royalty Purchase Agreement unpaid or accelerated exceeds $20,000,000.
7.7.
Judgments. One or more final, non-appealable judgments, orders, or decrees for the payment of money in an amount in excess of $20,000,000 (but excluding any final judgments, orders, or decrees for the payment of money that are covered by independent third-party insurance as to which liability has not been denied by such insurance carrier or by an indemnification claim against a solvent and unaffiliated Person that is not a Credit Party as to which such Person has not denied liability for such claim) shall be rendered against one or more Credit Parties and the same are not, within thirty (30) days after the entry thereof, discharged or execution thereof stayed or bonded pending appeal, or such judgments are not discharged prior to the expiration of any such stay.
7.8.
Misrepresentations. Any Credit Party or any Person acting for any Credit Party makes or is deemed to make any representation, warranty, or other statement now or later in this Agreement, any other Loan Document or in any writing delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender or to induce the Administrative Agent or any Lender to enter this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and such representation, warranty, or other statement is incorrect in any material respect (or, to the extent any such representation, warranty or other statement is qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Change, in any respect) when made or deemed to be made.
7.9.
Loan Documents; Collateral. Any material provision of any Loan Document shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof or Payment in Full) cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against any Credit Party, or any Credit Party shall so state in writing or bring an action to limit its obligations or liabilities thereunder; or any Collateral Document shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof or Payment in Full) cease to create a valid security interest in any material portion of the Collateral purported to be covered thereby or such security interest shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents or Payment in Full) cease to be a perfected and first priority security interest in any material portion of the Collateral subject thereto, subject only to Permitted Liens, in each case, other than as a direct result of any action by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or failure of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to perform an obligation thereof under the Loan Documents.

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7.10.
ERISA Event. An ERISA Event occurs that, individually or taken together with any other ERISA Events, results or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
7.11.
Market Authorization. The withdrawal or removal of, or loss of marketing authorization (including any receipt of written notice of a pending recommendation or final decision to withdraw marketing authorization) of RMC-6236 in any Major Market.
8.
RIGHTS AND REMEDIES UPON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT
8.1.
Rights and Remedies. While an Event of Default occurs and continues, the Administrative Agent may, or at the request of the Required Lenders shall, without notice or demand:
(a)
declare all Obligations (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Makewhole Amount or Prepayment Premium that is payable pursuant to Section 2.2(e) and Section 2.2(f), as applicable) immediately due and payable (but if an Event of Default described in Section 7.5 occurs, all Obligations, including any Makewhole Amount and Prepayment Premium that is payable pursuant to Section 2.2(e) and Section 2.2(f), as applicable, shall automatically and immediately be due and payable without any action by the Administrative Agent or any Lender), whereupon all Obligations for principal, interest, premium or otherwise (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Makewhole Amount and Prepayment Premium that is payable pursuant to Section 2.2(e) and Section 2.2(f), as applicable) shall become due and payable by Borrower without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, which are all expressly waived by the Credit Parties hereby;
(b)
stop advancing money or extending credit for Borrower’s benefit under this Agreement;
(c)
settle or adjust disputes and claims directly with Account Debtors for amounts on terms and in any order that the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) considers advisable, notify any Person owing Borrower money of the Administrative Agent’s security interest in favor and for the benefit of the Lenders and the other Secured Parties in such funds, and verify the amount of the Collateral Accounts;
(d)
make any payments and do any acts it considers necessary or reasonable to protect the Collateral or the Administrative Agent’s security interest in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties in the Collateral. Borrower shall assemble the Collateral if the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders requests and make it available as the Administrative Agent designates or the Required Lenders designate. The Administrative Agent or its agents or representatives may enter premises where the Collateral is located, take and maintain possession of any part of the Collateral, and pay, purchase, contest, or compromise any Lien which appears to be prior or superior to its security interest in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties and pay all expenses incurred. Borrower grants the Administrative Agent a license to enter and occupy (and for its agents or representatives to enter and occupy) any of its premises, without charge, for a reasonable period of time in order to exercise any of the Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s rights or remedies;
(e)
apply to the Obligations (i) any balances and deposits of Borrower it holds, or (ii) any amount held by the Administrative Agent owing to or for the credit or the account of Borrower; ship, reclaim, recover, store, finish, maintain, repair, prepare for sale, advertise for sale, and sell the Collateral.

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(f)
With respect to any and all Intellectual Property owned or held by any Credit Party and included in Collateral, each Credit Party hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties, to the maximum extent permitted: an irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, royalty-free license or other right to use (and for its agents or representatives to use), without charge (subject, in the case of Trademarks, to sufficient rights to quality control and inspection in favor of such Credit Party to avoid the risk of invalidation of such Trademarks), including the right to sublicense, use and practice, any and all of such Credit Party’s rights to such Intellectual Property in order to take possession of, collect, receive, assemble, process, appropriate, remove, realize upon, advertise for sale, sell, assign, license out, convey, transfer or grant options to purchase any such Intellectual Property, and access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all Software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof; and in connection with the Collateral Agent’s exercise of its rights or remedies under this Section 8.1 (including in order to take possession of, collect, receive, assemble, process, appropriate, remove, realize upon, sell, assign, license out, convey, transfer or grant options to purchase any Collateral), each Credit Party’s rights under all licenses and all franchise contracts inure to the benefit of all Secured Parties;
(g)
place a “hold” on any account maintained with the Administrative Agent or deliver a notice of exclusive control, any entitlement order, or other directions or instructions pursuant to any Control Agreement or similar agreements providing control of any Collateral;
(h)
demand and receive possession of Borrower’s Books regarding Collateral; and
(i)
exercise all rights and remedies available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Collateral Documents or any other Loan Documents or at law or equity, including all remedies provided under the Code (including disposal of the Collateral pursuant to the terms thereof).

The Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees that in connection with any foreclosure or other exercise of rights under this Agreement or any other Loan Document with respect to any Intellectual Property included in the Collateral, the rights of the licensees under any license of such Intellectual Property will not be terminated, limited or otherwise adversely affected so long as no default exists thereunder in a way that would permit the licensor to terminate such license (commonly termed a non-disturbance). Without limitation to any other provision herein or in any other Loan Document, while an Event of Default occurs and continues, at the Administrative Agent’s or the Required Lenders’ request, Borrower shall, promptly following the receipt of such request, take such commercially reasonable actions as are required or necessary to allow the Administrative Agent to collect, receive, appropriate and realize upon Borrower’s rights and interests in, to and under any Current Company IP Agreement, including in connection with any foreclosure or other exercise of the Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s rights with respect thereto (including, for the avoidance of doubt, using reasonable best efforts to obtain the written consent of any counterparty to the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of any and all rights and remedies under this Agreement or any other Loan Document with respect to any Current Company IP Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent).

8.2.
Power of Attorney. Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent and any Related Party thereof as its lawful attorney-in-fact, exercisable upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to: (a) endorse Borrower’s name on any checks or other forms of payment or security; (b) sign Borrower’s name on any invoice or bill of lading for any Account or drafts against Account Debtors; (c) settle and adjust disputes and claims about the Collateral Accounts directly with depository banks where the Collateral Accounts are maintained, for amounts and on terms the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) determines reasonable; (d) make, settle, and adjust all claims under Borrower’s products liability or general liability insurance policies maintained in the United States regarding Collateral; (e) pay, contest or settle any Lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, and adverse claim in or to the Collateral, or any judgment based thereon, or otherwise take any action to terminate or discharge the same; and (f) transfer the Collateral into the name of the Administrative Agent or a third party as the Code permits.

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Borrower hereby appoints the Administrative Agent and any Related Party thereof as its lawful attorney-in-fact to file or record any documents necessary to perfect or continue the perfection of the Administrative Agent’s security interest in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties in the Collateral regardless of whether an Event of Default has occurred until Payment in Full. The foregoing appointment of the Administrative Agent and any Related Party thereof as Borrower’s attorney in fact, and all of the Administrative Agent’s (or such Related Party’s) rights and powers, coupled with an interest, are irrevocable until Payment in Full.
8.3.
Application of Payments and Proceeds Upon Default. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall apply any funds in its possession, whether from Credit Party account balances, payments, proceeds realized as the result of any collection of Collateral Accounts or disposition of any other Collateral, or otherwise, to the Obligations in such order as the Administrative Agent shall determine in its sole discretion; provided that the Administrative Agent shall first apply any such funds to that portion of the Obligations constituting Lender Expenses then due to the Administrative Agent and its Related Parties. Any surplus shall be paid to Borrower or other Persons legally entitled thereto; Borrower shall remain liable to Lenders for any deficiency. If the Administrative Agent or any Lender directly or indirectly enters into a deferred payment or other credit transaction with any purchaser at any sale of Collateral, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as applicable, shall have the option, exercisable at any time, of either reducing the Obligations by the principal amount of the purchase price or deferring the reduction of the Obligations until the actual receipt by the applicable Lender(s) of cash therefor.
8.4.
Administrative Agent’s Liability for Collateral. So long as the Administrative Agent complies with Requirements of Law regarding the safekeeping of the Collateral in the possession or under the control of the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall not be liable or responsible for: (a) the safekeeping of the Collateral; (b) any loss or damage to the Collateral; or (c) any act or default of any other Person. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any Lender have any liability for any diminution in the value of the Collateral for any reason.
8.5.
No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative. The Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s failure, at any time or times, to require strict performance by Borrower of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall not waive, affect, or diminish any right of the Administrative Agent or any Lender thereafter to demand strict performance and compliance herewith or therewith. No waiver hereunder shall be effective unless signed by the party granting the waiver and then is only effective for the specific instance and purpose for which it is given. Each of the Administrative Agent’s and Lender’s rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are cumulative. Each of the Administrative Agent and Lenders has all rights and remedies provided under the Code, by law, or in equity. The exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of one right or remedy is not an election and shall not preclude the Administrative Agent or any Lender from exercising any other remedy under this Agreement or other remedy available at law or in equity, and the waiver by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of any Event of Default is not a continuing waiver. The Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s delay in exercising any remedy is not a waiver, election, or acquiescence.
8.6.
Demand Waiver; Makewhole Amount; Prepayment Premium. Borrower waives demand, notice of default or dishonor, notice of payment and nonpayment, notice of any default, nonpayment at maturity, release, compromise, settlement, extension, or renewal of accounts, documents, instruments, chattel paper, and guarantees held by the Administrative Agent on which Borrower is liable.

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Borrower acknowledges and agrees that if the maturity of all Obligations shall be accelerated pursuant to Section 8.1(a) by reason of the occurrence of an Event of Default, any Makewhole Amount or Prepayment Premium, as applicable, that is payable pursuant to Section 2.2(e) or Section 2.2(f), as the case may be, shall become due and payable by Borrower upon such acceleration, whether such acceleration is automatic or is effected by the Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s declaration thereof, as provided in Section 8.1(a), and Borrower shall pay the Makewhole Amount or Prepayment Premium, as applicable, that is payable pursuant to Section 2.2(e) or Section 2.2(f), as the case may be, as compensation to Lenders for the loss of its investment opportunity and not as a penalty, and Borrower waives any right to object thereto in any voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding or otherwise.
9.
NOTICES

All notices, consents, requests, approvals, demands, or other communication by any party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document must be in writing and shall be deemed to have been validly served, given, or delivered: (a) upon the earlier of actual receipt and three (3) Business Days after deposit in the U.S. mail, first class, registered or certified mail return receipt requested, with proper postage prepaid; (b) upon transmission, when sent by electronic mail; or (d) when delivered, if hand-delivered by messenger, all of which shall be addressed to the party to be notified and sent to the address or email address (if any) indicated below. Any party to this Agreement may change its mailing or electronic mail address by giving all other parties hereto written notice thereof in accordance with the terms of this Section 9.

If to Borrower or any other Credit Party:

Revolution Medicines, Inc.
700 Saginaw Drive

Redwood City, CA 94063
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Telephone: ###########

Email: ###########

 

with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Latham & Watkins LLP
140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attn: Mark Roeder
Telephone: ###########

Email: ############

 

If to the Administrative Agent:

 

Wilmington Trust, National Association

50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290

Minneapolis, MN 55402

Attention: Revolution Medicines Loan Administrator

Phone: ###########

Email: ###############

 

with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice) to:

 

Seward & Kissel LLP

One Battery Park Plaza

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New York, NY 10004

Attention: Ronald Hewitt

Phone: ###########

Email: ###########

 

with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice) to:

 

Goodwin Procter LLP

100 Northern Avenue

Boston, MA 02210

Attention: Jacqueline Mercier and Reid Bagwell

Phone: ########### and ###########

Email: ############ and ############

 

with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC
110 E. 59th Street, Suite 3300

New York, NY 10022

Attn: General Counsel

Email: ############

 

If to any Lender: To the address set forth on Exhibit F attached hereto.

 

10.
CHOICE OF LAW, VENUE, AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER

THE LOAN DOCUMENTS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW THAT WOULD REQUIRE THE APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. Each party hereto submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York sitting in the borough of Manhattan, and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, and agrees that all claims in respect of any such action, litigation or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the fullest extent permitted by Requirements of Law, in such federal court; provided, however, that nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to operate to preclude the Administrative Agent or any Lender from bringing suit or taking other legal action in any other jurisdiction to realize on the Collateral or any other security for the Obligations, or to enforce a judgment or other court order in favor of the Administrative Agent or any Lender. Each party hereto expressly submits and consents in advance to such jurisdiction in any action or suit commenced in any such court, and each party hereto hereby waives any objection that it may have based upon lack of personal jurisdiction, improper venue, or forum non conveniens and hereby consents to the granting of such legal or equitable relief as is deemed appropriate by such court. Each party hereto hereby waives personal service of the summons, complaints, and other process issued in such action or suit and agrees that service of such summons, complaints, and other process may be made by registered or certified mail addressed to such party at the address set forth in (or otherwise provided in accordance with the terms of) Section 9 of this Agreement and that service so made shall be deemed completed upon the earlier to occur of such party’s actual receipt thereof or three (3) Business Days after deposit in the U.S. mails, proper postage prepaid.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EACH PARTY HERETO WAIVES ITS RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR BASED UPON THIS AGREEMENT, THE LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY

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CONTEMPLATED TRANSACTION, INCLUDING CONTRACT, TORT, BREACH OF DUTY AND ALL OTHER CLAIMS. THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR ALL PARTIES HERETO TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY HERETO HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS COUNSEL.

11.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
11.1.
Successors and Assigns.
(a)
This Agreement binds and is for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
(b)
No Credit Party may transfer, pledge or assign this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any rights or obligations hereunder or thereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (which assignments may, with respect to each of the Tranche A Loan or Tranche A Commitments, Tranche B Loan or Tranche B Commitments, or Tranche C Loan or Tranche C Commitments, be on a non-pro rata basis with each other such tranches or commitments). Lenders may at any time sell, transfer, assign, pledge or collaterally assign this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any of its rights or obligations hereunder or thereunder (including, subject to the provisions of Section 11.1(c), by granting a participation in all or any part of, or any interest in, such Lender’s obligations, rights or benefits under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including with respect to any Term Loan (or any portion thereof)), to any Eligible Assignee without the consent of any other party (any such sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, collateral assignment or grant of a participation, a “Lender Transfer”); provided, however, that after the occurrence and during the continuance of a payment or bankruptcy Event of Default, each Lender may make a Lender Transfer to a vulture or distressed debt fund without Borrower’s consent. For the avoidance of doubt, no Lender may make a Lender Transfer to any Competitor without the prior written consent of Borrower.
(c)
In the case of a Lender Transfer in the form of a participation granted by any Lender to any third party, (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of its obligations hereunder, (iii) Borrower shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (iv) any agreement or instrument pursuant to which such Lender sells such participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification, or other modification hereto, in each case subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Borrower agrees that each participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.5 and 2.6 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.6(d) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.6(d) shall be delivered to the applicable Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Person that had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to clause (b) above; provided that, with respect to any participation, such participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 2.5 or 2.6 than the applicable Lender (i.e., the party that participated the interest) would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent of any entitlement to receive a greater payment resulting from a Change in Law that occurs after such participant acquired the applicable participation.
(d)
The Administrative Agent shall record any Lender Transfer in the Register. Each Lender shall provide Borrower and the Administrative Agent with written notice of a Lender Transfer delivered no later than five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which such Lender Transfer is consummated. The parties to each Lender Transfer shall (1) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance via an electronic settlement system acceptable to the Administrative Agent or (2) if previously agreed with the Administrative Agent, manually execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, in each case together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (which fee may be waived or reduced in the reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent).

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The assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire and any tax documentation required to be delivered pursuant to Section 2.6. For the avoidance of doubt, if any Lender sells a participation, such Lender shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each participant and principal amounts (and stated interest) of each participant’s interest in the Term Loan(s) or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided, however, that such Lender shall have no obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any participant or any information relating to a participant’s interest in any commitments, loans or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) or Proposed Section 1.163-5(b) of the Treasury Regulations (or, in each case, any amended or successor version). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.
(e)
Any attempted transfer, pledge or assignment of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any rights or obligations hereunder or thereunder in violation of this Section 11.1 shall be null and void ab initio and of no effect.
(f)
Any corporation or association into which the Administrative Agent may be converted or merged, or with which it may be consolidated, or to which it may sell or transfer all or substantially all of its corporate trust business and assets as a whole or substantially as a whole, or any corporation or association resulting from any such conversion, sale, merger, consolidation or transfer to which the Administrative Agent is a party, will be and become the successor Administrative Agent under this Agreement and will have and succeed to the rights, duties, benefits, powers, privileges, indemnities and immunities as its predecessor, without the execution or filing of any instrument or paper or the performance of any further act.
11.2.
Indemnification; Expenses Incurred by Credit Parties.
(a)
Borrower agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each of the Administrative Agent, Lenders and its and their respective Affiliates (and its or their respective successors and assigns) and each manager, member, partner, controlling Person, director, officer, employee, agent or sub-agent, advisor and affiliate thereof (each such Person, an “Indemnified Person”) from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities; provided, however, that (i) Borrower shall have no obligation to any Indemnified Person hereunder with respect to any Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities arise from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Person (or any of such Indemnified Person’s Affiliates, controlling Persons or any of its and their respective directors, officers, employees, managers, partners, members, agents, sub-agents or advisors), in each case, as determined by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, (ii) Borrower shall have no obligation to any Indemnified Person hereunder (other than the Administrative acting in its capacity as such) with respect to any Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities arise from a material breach of any obligation of such Indemnified Person hereunder as determined by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, and (iii) Borrower shall have no obligation to any Indemnified Person hereunder with respect to any Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities arise from any claim by one Indemnified Person against another Indemnified Person that does not relate to any act or omission of any Credit Party (other than against the Administrative Agent or any other agent appointed under the Loan Documents (including any agent under any intercreditor agreement) in its capacity as such), and (iv) no Credit Party shall be liable for any settlement of any claim or proceeding effected by any Indemnified Person without the prior written consent of such Credit Party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), but if settled with such consent or if there shall be a final judgment against an Indemnified Person, each of the Credit Parties shall, jointly and severally, indemnify and hold harmless such Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment in the manner set forth in this Agreement.

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This Section 11.2(a) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, costs, expenses and disbursements arising from any non-Tax claim.
(b)
To the extent permitted by Requirements of Law, no party to this Agreement shall assert, and each party to this Agreement hereby waives, any claim against any other party hereto (and its or their successors and assigns), and each manager, member, partner, controlling Person, director, officer, employee, agent or sub-agent, advisor and Affiliate thereof, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) (whether or not the claim therefor is based on contract, tort or duty imposed by any applicable legal requirement) arising out of, in connection with, arising out of, as a result of, or in any way related to, this Agreement or any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby or referred to herein or therein, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, the Term Loans or the use of the proceeds thereof or any act or omission or event occurring in connection therewith, and each party to this Agreement hereby waives, releases and agrees not to sue upon any such claim or any such damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor.
(c)
Any action taken by any Credit Party under or with respect to any Loan Document, even if required under any Loan Document or at the request of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, shall be at the expense of such Credit Party, and neither the Administrative Agent nor any Secured Party shall be required under any Loan Document to reimburse any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party therefor except as expressly provided therein.
11.3.
Severability of Provisions. In case any provision in or obligation hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
11.4.
Correction of Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) or Required Lenders may correct patent errors and fill in any blanks in the Loan Documents consistent with the agreement of the parties hereto so long as the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) or Required Lenders, as applicable, provides the Credit Parties and the other parties hereto with written notice of such correction and allows the Credit Parties at least ten (10) days to object to such correction in writing delivered to the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) and each Lender. In the event of such objection, such correction shall not be made except by an amendment to this Agreement in accordance with Section 11.5.
11.5.
Amendments in Writing; Integration.
(a)
No amendment, restatement or modification of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or waiver, discharge or termination of any obligation hereunder or thereunder, no approval or consent hereunder or thereunder (including any consent to any departure by Borrower or any other Credit Party herefrom or therefrom), shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by Borrower (on its own behalf and on behalf of each other Credit Party) and the Required Lenders; provided, however, that no such amendment, restatement, modification, waiver, discharge, termination, approval or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent, affect the rights, duties, benefits, privileges, protections, indemnities or immunities of, or any amounts payable to, the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

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Any such waiver, approval or consent granted shall be limited to the specific circumstance expressly described in it, and shall not apply to any subsequent or other circumstance, whether similar or dissimilar, or give rise to, or evidence, any obligation or commitment to grant any further waiver, approval or consent.
(b)
This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the entire agreement about this subject matter and supersede prior negotiations or agreements. All prior agreements, understandings, representations, warranties, and negotiations among the parties hereto about the subject matter of this Agreement and the Loan Documents merge into this Agreement and the Loan Documents.
11.6.
Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. The words “execution,” “execute,” “signature” and words of like import in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
11.7.
Survival. All covenants, representations and warranties made in this Agreement continue in full force until this Agreement has terminated pursuant to its terms and the Payment in Full (other than any obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement). The obligation of Borrower or any other the Credit Parties in Section 11.2 to indemnify Indemnified Persons shall survive until the statute of limitations with respect to such claim or cause of action shall have run.
11.8.
Confidentiality. Any information regarding the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries and their businesses provided to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by or on behalf of any Credit Party pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be deemed “Confidential Information”; provided, however, that Confidential Information does not include information that is either: (i) in the public domain or in the possession of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates when disclosed to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates, or becomes part of the public domain after disclosure to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates, in each case, other than as a result of a breach by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates of the obligations under this Section 11.8; or (ii) disclosed to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates by a third party if the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Affiliate, as applicable, does not know that the third party is prohibited from disclosing the information. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall disclose any Confidential Information to a third party or use Confidential Information for any purpose other than the exercise of its rights and the performance of its duties or obligations under the Loan Documents. The foregoing in this Section 11.8 notwithstanding, the Administrative Agent and each Lender may disclose Confidential Information: (a) to any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates; (b) to prospective transferees or purchasers of any interest in the Credit Extensions (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in connection with any proposed Lender Transfer); (c) as required by law, regulation, subpoena, or other order, provided, that (x) prior to any disclosure under this clause (c), the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as applicable, endeavors to provide Borrower with prior written notice thereof and with respect to any law, regulation, subpoena or other order, to the extent that the Administrative Agent or such Lender is permitted to provide such prior notice to Borrower pursuant to the terms hereof, and (y) any disclosure under this clause (c) shall be limited solely to that portion of the Confidential Information as may be specifically compelled by such law, regulation, subpoena or other order; (d) to the extent requested by regulators having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent or such Lender or as otherwise required in connection with the Administrative Agent’s or such Lender’s examination or audit by such regulators; (e) as the Administrative Agent or such Lender considers reasonably necessary in exercising remedies under the Loan Documents; (f) to third-party service providers of the Administrative Agent or such Lender; and (g) to any of the Administrative Agent’s or such Lender’s Related Parties; provided, however, that the third parties to which Confidential Information is disclosed pursuant to clauses (a), (b), (f) and (g) are bound by obligations of confidentiality and non-use that are no less restrictive than those contained herein.

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The provisions of this Section 11.8 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
11.9.
Attorneys’ Fees, Costs and Expenses. In any action or proceeding between any Credit Party and any Lender arising out of or relating to the Loan Documents, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred, in addition to any other relief to which it may be entitled.
11.10.
Right of Set-Off. In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under Requirements of Law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and at any time thereafter during the continuance of any Event of Default, each Lender is hereby authorized by each Credit Party at any time or from time to time, without prior notice to any Credit Party, any such notice being hereby expressly waived by Borrower (on its own behalf and on behalf of each other Credit Party), to set off and to appropriate and to apply any and all deposits (general or special, including Indebtedness evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether matured or unmatured, but not including trust accounts) and any other Indebtedness at any time held or owing by such Lender to or for the credit or the account of any Credit Party against and on account of the obligations and liabilities of any Credit Party to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, including all claims of any nature or description arising out of or connected hereto or with any other Loan Document, irrespective of whether (a) the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall have made any demand hereunder or (b) the principal of or the interest on the Term Loans or any other amounts due hereunder shall have become due and payable pursuant to Section 2 and although such obligations and liabilities, or any of them, may be contingent or unmatured. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such set off and application made by such Lender; provided, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set off and application.
11.11.
Marshalling; Payments Set Aside. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Credit Party or any other Person or against or in payment of any or all of the Obligations. To the extent that any Credit Party makes a payment or payments to any Lender, or the Administrative Agent or any Lender enforces any Liens or exercises its rights of setoff, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or setoff or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party under any bankruptcy law, any other state or federal law, common law or any equitable cause, then, to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor or related thereto, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment or payments had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
11.12.
Captions. Section headings herein are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part hereof for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect.
11.13.
Construction of Agreement. The parties hereto mutually acknowledge that they and their respective attorneys have participated in the preparation and negotiation of this Agreement. In cases of uncertainty, this Agreement shall be construed without regard to which of the parties hereto caused the uncertainty to exist.

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11.14.
Third Parties. Nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, is intended to: (a) except as expressly provided in Section 11.2(a), confer any benefits, rights or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement on any Persons other than the express parties to it and their respective successors and permitted assigns; (b) relieve or discharge the obligation or liability of any Person not an express party to this Agreement; or (c) give any Person not an express party to this Agreement any right of subrogation or action against any party to this Agreement.
11.15.
No Advisory or Fiduciary Duty. The Administrative Agent and each Lender may have economic interests that conflict with those of the Credit Parties. Each Credit Party agrees that nothing in the Loan Documents will be deemed to create an advisory, fiduciary or agency relationship or fiduciary or other implied duty between any Lender or the Administrative Agent, on the one hand, and such Credit Party, its Subsidiaries, and any of their respective stockholders or Affiliates, on the other hand. Each Credit Party acknowledges and agrees that (i) the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents are arm’s-length commercial transactions between each Lender and the Administrative Agent, on the one hand, and such Credit Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective Affiliates, on the other hand, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction, the Administrative Agent and each Lender is acting solely as a principal and not the advisor, agent or fiduciary of such Credit Party, its Subsidiaries or their respective affiliates, management, stockholders, creditors or any other Person, (iii) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of any Credit Party, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent or any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates has advised or is currently advising such Credit Party, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates on other matters) or any other obligation to such Credit Party, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates except the obligations expressly set forth in the Loan Documents and (iv) each Credit Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective Affiliates have consulted their own legal and financial advisors to the extent each deemed appropriate. Each Credit Party further acknowledges and agrees that it is responsible for making its own independent judgment with respect to such transactions and the process leading thereto. Each Credit Party agrees that it will not claim that the Administrative Agent or any Lender has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to such Credit Party, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.
12.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
12.1.
Appointment and Authority. Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints Wilmington Trust, National Association to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Except as otherwise provided in Section 12.6 and Section 12.8, the provisions of this Section 12 are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and neither Borrower nor any other Credit Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions. It is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” herein or in any other Loan Documents (or any other similar term) with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any Requirements of Law. Instead such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties. Subject to Section 12.8 and Section 11.5, any action required or permitted to be taken by the Administrative Agent hereunder shall be taken with the prior approval of the Required Lenders.

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12.2.
Rights as a Lender. The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder (if a Lender) shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
12.3.
Exculpatory Provisions.
(a)
The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations to the Lenders except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, and its duties hereunder and thereunder shall be administrative in nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, with respect to the Lenders, the Administrative Agent:
(i)
shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(ii)
shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents to which it is a party that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in such other Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or Requirements of Law, including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any debtor relief law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a defaulting Lender in violation of any debtor relief law;
(iii)
shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to Borrower or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity;
(iv)
shall not have any liability for any action taken, or errors in judgment made, in good faith by it or any of its officers, employees or agents, unless it shall have been negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts. The permissive rights of an Agent to do things enumerated in this Agreement shall not be construed as a duty and, with respect to such permissive rights, such Agent shall not be answerable in respect thereof other than for its gross negligence or willful misconduct. Nothing in this Agreement shall require any Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder;
(v)
shall not be responsible for nor have any duty to monitor the performance or any action of Borrower, or any of their directors, members, officers, agents, affiliates or employee, nor shall it have any liability in connection with the malfeasance or nonfeasance by such party.

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(vi)
The Administrative Agent may assume performance by all such Persons of their respective obligations; and shall not be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its control, including without limitation, any act or provision of any present or future law or regulation or governmental authority; acts of God; earthquakes; fires; floods; wars; terrorism; civil or military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics; pandemics; riots; interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communications service; accidents; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authority or governmental actions; or the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or telex or other wire or communication facility.
(b)
The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Section 11.5) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all or other Lenders) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless and until notice describing such Default or Event of Default is given to the Administrative Agent in writing by Borrower or a Lender. Notwithstanding anything herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary, and without limiting any rights, benefits, privileges, protections, immunities or indemnities of the Administrative Agent hereunder, phrases such as “satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,” “approved by the Administrative Agent,” “acceptable to the Administrative Agent,” “as determined by the Administrative Agent,” “in the Administrative Agent’s discretion,” “selected by the Administrative Agent,” “elected by the Administrative Agent,” “requested by the Administrative Agent,” and phrases of similar import that authorize and permit the Administrative Agent to approve, disapprove, determine, act or decline to act in its discretion shall be subject to the Administrative Agent receiving written direction from the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents) to take such action or to exercise such rights.
(c)
The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Section 3 or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
(d)
The Administrative Agent shall not have any obligation to give, execute, deliver, file, record, authorize or obtain any financing statements, notices, instruments, documents, agreements, consents or other papers as shall be necessary to (i) create, preserve, perfect or validate the security interest granted to the Administrative Agent or (ii) enable the Administrative Agent to exercise and enforce its rights with respect to such pledge and security interest, unless, in each case, requested by the Required Lenders in writing (in which case such actions shall be taken at the sole cost and expense of the Loan Parties).

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12.4.
Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, order, judgement, document or other writing (including any electronic message, internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
12.5.
Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Section 12 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their activities as Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agent except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and nonappealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agent.
12.6.
Resignation of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders and Borrower. Upon the receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with Borrower’s prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders) (the “Resignation Effective Date”), then the retiring Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to), on behalf of the Lenders, with Borrower’s prior written consent so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, appoint a successor Administrative Agent; provided, however, that whether or not a successor has been appointed or has accepted such appointment, such resignation shall become effective in accordance with such notice on the Resignation Effective Date. With effect from the Resignation Effective Date (i) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder ad under the Loan Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (ii) except for any indemnity payments owed to the retiring Administrative Agent, all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, or to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly, until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent (other than any rights to indemnity payments owed to the retiring Administrative Agent), and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section 12.6). After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation, the provisions of this Section 12 and Section 10 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

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Upon any resignation by the Administrative Agent, all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by, to or through each Lender directly, until such time as a Person accepts an appointment as Administrative Agent in accordance with this Section 12.6.
12.7.
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their respective Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement and make Credit Extensions hereunder. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their respective Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.
12.8.
Collateral and Guaranty Matters. Each Lender agrees that any action taken by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or of the other Loan Documents, and the exercise by the Administrative Agent or Required Lenders of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Lenders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Lenders irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its discretion, and the Administrative Agent agrees, upon the written request of Borrower:
(a)
to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Collateral Document (i) upon Payment in Full, (ii) that is sold, transferred, disposed or to be sold, transferred, disposed as part of or in connection with any sale, transfer or other disposition (other than any sale to a Credit Party) permitted hereunder, (iii) subject to Section 11.5, if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders, (iv) to the extent such property is owned by a Guarantor upon the release of such Guarantor from its obligations under the Loan Documents pursuant to clause (c) below, or (v) in the event this Loan Agreement and all other Loan Documents are terminated pursuant to the ultimate sentence in Section 3.2 hereof;
(b)
to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by clause (b), (d), (i), (j), (k), (m), (n), (p) and (v) of the definition of “Permitted Liens” (solely with respect to modifications, replacements, extensions or renewals of Liens permitted under clause (b), (d), (i), (j), (k), (m), (n) and (p) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”);
(c)
to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Loan Documents (i) if such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder, (ii) upon Payment in Full, or (iii) in the event this Loan Agreement and all other Loan Documents are terminated pursuant to the ultimate paragraph in Section 3.2 hereof;
(d)
to enter into non-disturbance and similar agreements in connection with the licensing of Intellectual Property permitted pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; and
(e)
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Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Security Agreement pursuant to this Section 12.8.

In each case as specified in this Section 12.8, the Administrative Agent will (and each Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to), at Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Credit Party such documents as such Credit Party may reasonably request (i) to evidence the release or subordination of such item of Collateral from the Liens and security interests granted under the Collateral Documents, (ii) to enter into non-disturbance or similar agreements in connection with the licensing of Intellectual Property, (iii) to enter into an Intercreditor Agreement and/or a Working Capital ICA, or (iv) to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its obligations under the Loan Documents, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 12.8 and in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

Without limiting the generality of Section 12.10 below, the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Lenders notice of any action taken by it under this Section 12.8 promptly after the taking thereof; provided that delivery of or failure to deliver any such notice shall not affect the Administrative Agent’s rights, benefits, indemnities, immunities, powers, privileges and protections under this Section 12.

12.9.
Reimbursement by Lenders. To the extent that Borrower for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under Section 2.4 to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share (based upon the percentages as used in determining the Required Lenders as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount; provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) in its capacity as such or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent) in connection with such capacity.
12.10.
Notices and Items to Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Lenders each notice, report, statement, approval, direction, consent, exemption, authorization, waiver, certificate, filing or other item received by it pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including any item received by it pursuant to Section 3 or set forth on Schedule 5.14 of the Disclosure Letter); provided, that any delivery of or failure to deliver any such notice, report, statement, approval, direction, consent, exemption, authorization, waiver, certificate, filing or item shall not otherwise alter or effect the rights of the Lenders or the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the validity of such item. In addition, to the extent the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders deliver any notices, approvals, authorizations, directions, consents or waivers to Borrower pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, as applicable, will also deliver such notice, approval, authorization, direction, consent or waiver to the other Lenders on or about the same time such notice, approval, authorization, direction, consent or waiver is provided to Borrower; provided, that the delivery of or failure to deliver such notice, approval, authorization, direction, consent or waiver to the other Lenders shall not in any way effect the obligations of Borrower, or the rights of the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, in respect of such notice, approval, authorization, direction, consent or waiver or the validity thereof.
12.11.
Erroneous Payments.

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(a)
If the Administrative Agent (x) notifies a Lender or Secured Party, or any Person who has received funds on behalf of a Lender or Secured Party (any such Lender, Secured Party or other recipient (and each of their respective successors and assigns), a “Payment Recipient”) that the Administrative Agent has determined in its sole discretion (whether or not after receipt of any notice under immediately succeeding clause (b)) that any funds (as set forth in such notice from the Administrative Agent) received by such Payment Recipient from the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates were erroneously or mistakenly transmitted to, or otherwise erroneously or mistakenly received by, such Payment Recipient (whether or not known to such Lender, Secured Party or other Payment Recipient on its behalf) (any such funds, whether transmitted or received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise, individually and collectively, an “Erroneous Payment”) and (y) demands in writing the return of such Erroneous Payment (or a portion thereof), such Erroneous Payment shall at all times remain the property of the Administrative Agent pending its return or repayment as contemplated below in this Section 12.11 and held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, and such Lender or Secured Party shall (or, with respect to any Payment Recipient who received such funds on its behalf, shall cause such Payment Recipient to) promptly, but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, specify in writing), return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made, in same day funds (in the currency so received), together with interest thereon (except to the extent waived in writing by the Administrative Agent) in respect of each day from and including the date such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Payment Recipient to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in same day funds at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time to time in effect. A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Payment Recipient under this clause (a) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(b)
Without limiting the immediately preceding clause (a), each Lender, Secured Party or any Person who has received funds on behalf of a Lender or Secured Party (and each of their respective successors and assigns), agrees that if it (or a Payment Recipient on its behalf) receives a payment, prepayment or repayment (whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise) from the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) (x) that is in a different amount than, or on a different date from, that specified in this Agreement or in a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment, (y) that was not preceded or accompanied by a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates), or (z) that such Lender or Secured Party, or other such recipient, otherwise becomes aware was transmitted, or received, in error or by mistake (in whole or in part), then in each such case:
(i)
it acknowledges and agrees that (A) in the case of immediately preceding clauses (x) or (y), an error and mistake shall be presumed to have been made (absent written confirmation from the Administrative Agent to the contrary) or (B) an error and mistake has been made (in the case of immediately preceding clause (z)), in each case, with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment; and
(ii)
such Lender or Secured Party shall (and shall cause any other recipient that receives funds on its respective behalf to) promptly (and, in all events, within one Business Day of its knowledge of the occurrence of any of the circumstances described in immediately preceding clauses (x), (y) and (z)) notify the Administrative Agent of its receipt of such payment, prepayment or repayment, the details thereof (in reasonable detail) and that it is so notifying the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 12.11(b).

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For the avoidance of doubt, the failure to deliver a notice to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 12.11(b) shall not have any effect on a Payment Recipient’s obligations pursuant to Section 12.11(a) or on whether or not an Erroneous Payment has been made.

(c)
Each Lender or Secured Party hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off, net and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender or Secured Party under any Loan Document, or otherwise payable or distributable by the Administrative Agent to such Lender or Secured Party under any Loan Document or from any other source against any amount that the Administrative Agent has demanded to be returned under the immediately preceding clause (a).
(d)
The parties hereto agree that (x) irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent may be equitably subrogated, in the event that an Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) is not recovered from any Payment Recipient that has received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) for any reason, the Administrative Agent shall be subrogated to all the rights and interests of such Payment Recipient (and, in the case of any Payment Recipient who has received funds on behalf of a Lender or Secured Party, to the rights and interests of such Lender or Secured Party, as the case may be) under the Loan Documents with respect to such amount (the “Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights”) and (y) an Erroneous Payment shall not pay, prepay, repay, discharge or otherwise satisfy any Obligations owed by the Borrower or any other Loan Party; provided that this Section 12.11 shall not be interpreted to increase (or accelerate the due date for), or have the effect of increasing (or accelerating the due date for), the Obligations of the Borrower or any other Loan Party relative to the amount (and/or timing for payment) of the Obligations that would have been payable had such Erroneous Payment not been made by the Administrative Agent; provided, further, that for the avoidance of doubt, the immediately preceding clauses (x) and (y) shall not apply to the extent any such Erroneous Payment is, and solely with respect to the amount of such Erroneous Payment that is, comprised of funds received by the Administrative Agent from, or on behalf of (including through the exercise of remedies under any Loan Document), the Borrower for the purpose of making a payment on the Obligations.
(e)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, and for the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the occurrence of an Erroneous Payment (or the existence of any Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights or other rights of the Administrative Agent in respect of an Erroneous Payment) result in the Administrative Agent becoming, or being deemed to be, a Lender hereunder or the holder of any Loans hereunder.
(f)
To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Payment Recipient shall assert any right or claim to an Erroneous Payment, and hereby waives, and is deemed to waive, any claim, counterclaim, defense or right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any demand, claim or counterclaim by the Administrative Agent for the return of any Erroneous Payment received, including, without limitation, any defense based on “discharge for value” or any similar doctrine.
(g)
Each party’s obligations, agreements and waivers under this Section 12.11 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any transfer of rights or obligations by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and/or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations (or any portion thereof) under any Loan Document.
13.
DEFINITIONS
13.1.
Definitions.

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For the purposes of and as used in the Loan Documents: (a) references to any Person include its successors and assigns and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any Person succeeding to its functions and capacities; (b) except as the context otherwise requires (including to the extent otherwise expressly provided in any Loan Document), (i) references to any law, statute, treaty, order, policy, rule or regulation include any amendments, supplements and successors thereto and (ii) references to any contract, agreement, instrument or other document include any amendments, restatements, supplements or modifications thereto or thereof from time to time to the extent permitted by the provisions thereof; (c) the words “shall” and “will” are mandatory and are interchangeable with one another; (d) the word “may” is permissive; (e) the word “or” has the inclusive meaning represented by the phrase “and/or”; (f) the words “include”, “includes” and “including” are not limiting; (g) the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular; (h) numbers denoting amounts that are set off in parentheses are negative unless the context dictates otherwise; (i) each authorization herein shall be deemed irrevocable and coupled with an interest; (j) references to any time of day shall be to New York time, unless otherwise expressly provided; (k) the words “herein”, “hereof”, “hereby”, “hereto” and “hereunder” refer to this Agreement as a whole; and (l) unless otherwise expressly provided, references to specific sections, articles, clauses, sub-clauses, annexes and exhibits are to this Agreement and references to specific schedules are to the Disclosure Letter. As used in this Agreement, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:

“ABR” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, or (b) the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus 0.50%. Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Rate.

“ABR Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the ABR.

“Account” means any “account” as defined in the Code with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made, and includes all accounts receivable, book debts, and other sums owing to Credit Parties.

“Account Debtor” means any “account debtor” as defined in the Code with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.

“Acquisition” means (a) any Stock Acquisition, or (b) any Asset Acquisition.

“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in the form supplied by the Administrative Agent or another form acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

“Adverse Proceeding” means any action, suit, proceeding, hearing (whether administrative, judicial or otherwise), governmental investigation or arbitration (whether or not purportedly on behalf of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries) at law or in equity, or before or by any Governmental Authority, domestic or foreign (including any Environmental Claims), whether pending or, to the Knowledge of Borrower, threatened against or adversely affecting any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any property of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries.

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, each other Person that owns or controls directly or indirectly the Person, any Person that controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the Person, and each of that Person’s senior executive officers, directors, partners and, for any Person that is a limited liability company or limited liability partnership, that Person’s managers and members. As used in this definition, “control” means (a) direct or indirect beneficial ownership of at least fifty percent (50%) (or such lesser percentage which is the maximum allowed to be owned by a foreign corporation in a particular jurisdiction) of the voting share capital or other equity interest in a Person or (b) the power to direct or cause the direction of the management of such Person by contract or otherwise. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any Lender be deemed to be an Affiliate of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

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“Agency Fee Letter” means that certain Agency Fee Letter, dated as of the Effective Date, among the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Agreement” is defined in the preamble hereof.

“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” is defined in Section 4.18(b).

“Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any Anti-Money Laundering Laws or other laws relating to terrorism or money laundering, including Executive Order No. 13224 (effective September 24, 2001), the Patriot Act, the laws comprising or implementing the Bank Secrecy Act, and the laws administered by OFAC.

“Applicable Accounting Standards” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other Person as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied.

“Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to all payments, computations and other matters relating to the Term Loans of any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) the Total Credit Exposure of such Lender by (b) the aggregate Total Credit Exposures of all Lenders.

“Asset Acquisition” means, with respect to Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, any purchase, in-license or other acquisition of any properties or assets of any other Person (including any purchase or other acquisition of any business unit, line of business or division of such Person).

“Assignment and Acceptance” shall mean an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender and an assignee, and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit G or such other form (including electronic documentation generated by use of an electronic platform) as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent.

“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (a) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period pursuant to this Agreement or (b) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to Section 2.3(f)(iv).

“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute.

“Benchmark” means, initially, the Term SOFR Reference Rate; provided, that if a Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” shall mean the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 2.3(f)(i).

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“Benchmark Replacement” means, with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:
(a)
Daily Simple SOFR; or
(b)
the sum of: (i) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) and Borrower giving due consideration to (A) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (B) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement to the then-current Benchmark for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities and (ii) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and Borrower giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time.
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means a date and time determined by the Administrative Agent, (at the direction of the Required Lenders) which date shall be no later than the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(a)
in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(b)
in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be non-representative; provided, that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (c) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.
For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a) or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

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“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(a)
a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(b)
a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(c)
a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified future date will not be, representative.
For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Blocked Person” means (a) any Person listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (b) a Person fifty percent (50%) or more owned by, or acting for or on behalf of, any Person that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (c) a Person with which the Administrative Agent or any Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law, (d) a Person that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports “terrorism” as defined in Executive Order No. 13224, or (e) a Person that is named a “specially designated national” or “blocked person” on the most current list published by OFAC or other similar list.

“Board of Directors” means, with respect to any Person, (a) in the case of any corporation, the board of directors of such Person or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such board, (b) in the case of any limited liability company, the managing member or members or any controlling committee or board of directors of such company or the sole member or the managing member thereof, (c) in the case of any partnership, the Board of Directors of the general partner of such Person and (d) in any other case, the functional equivalent of the foregoing.

“Board of Governors” means the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, or any successor thereto.

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“Books” means all books and records including ledgers, records regarding a Credit Party’s assets or liabilities, the Collateral, business operations or financial condition, and all computer programs or storage or any equipment containing such information.

“Borrower” is defined in the preamble hereof.

“Borrowing Resolutions” means, with respect to any Person, those resolutions adopted by such Person’s Board of Directors and delivered by a Responsible Officer of such Person to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 3.1 approving the Loan Documents to which such Person is a party and the transactions contemplated thereby.

“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday or a Sunday or a day on which banks are authorized or required to be closed in New York, New York or San Francisco, California.

“Capital Lease” means, as applied to any Person, any lease of any property by that Person as lessee which, in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards, is required to be accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.

“Capital Lease Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any Capital Lease, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as Capital Leases on a balance sheet of such person under Applicable Accounting Standards, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards.

“Cash Equivalents” means

(a) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States government or by the government of any other member country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States or such other member country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, as applicable, is pledged in support of those securities), in each case, having maturities of not more than two (2) years from the date of acquisition;

(b) certificates of deposit, time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding one year and overnight bank deposits and demand deposits, in each case, with any commercial bank having (i) capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 in the case of U.S. banks or (ii) capital and surplus in excess of $100,000,000 (or the U.S. dollar equivalent as of the date of determination) in the case of non-U.S. banks;

(c) commercial paper or marketable short-term money market or readily marketable direct obligations and similar securities having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from Moody’s Investors Services, Inc. or S&P Global Ratings and, in each case, maturing within two (2) years after the date of acquisition;

(d) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven (7) days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (a) and (c) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (b) above;

(e) investments in money market funds rated “AAA” (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P Global Ratings or “Aaa” (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moody’s Investors Services, Inc. (or, if at any time neither Moody’s Investors Services, Inc. nor S&P Global Ratings shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another rating agency) and that have portfolio assets of at least $1,000,000,000;

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(f) investment funds investing ninety-five percent (95.0%) of their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (a) through (e) above; and

(g) other investments in accordance with the Borrower’s investment policy as of the Effective Date or otherwise approved by its Board of Directors.

“Change in Control” means: (a) a transaction or series of transactions (including any merger or consolidation with Borrower) in which any “person” or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such Person or its Subsidiaries, and any Person acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of a majority of shares of the then outstanding capital stock of Borrower ordinarily entitled to vote in the election of directors; (b) a sale of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of Borrower and its Subsidiaries in one transaction or a series of transactions (whether by way of merger, stock purchase, asset purchase or otherwise); or (c) a merger or consolidation involving Borrower in which Borrower is not the surviving Person.

“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Effective Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking into effect of any law, treaty, order, policy, rule or regulation, (b) any change in any law, treaty, order, policy, rule or regulation or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

“Closing Date” means the Tranche A Closing Date, Tranche B Closing Date or the Tranche C Closing Date, as applicable.

“Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as the same may, from time to time, be enacted and in effect in the State of New York; provided, that, to the extent that the Code is used to define any term herein or in any Loan Document and such term is defined differently in different Articles of the Code, the definition of such term contained in Article 9 of the Code shall govern; provided, further, that in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the attachment, perfection, or priority of, or remedies with respect to, the Administrative Agent’s Lien in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties on any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “Code” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted and in effect in such other jurisdiction solely for purposes of the provisions thereof relating to such attachment, perfection, priority, or remedies and for purposes of definitions relating to such provisions.

“Collateral” means, collectively, “Collateral” (as such term is defined in the Security Agreement) and all other property of whatever kind and nature subject or purported to be subject from time to time to a Lien under any Collateral Document, but in any event excluding all Excluded Property.

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“Collateral Account” means any Deposit Account of a Credit Party maintained with a bank or other depository or financial institution located in the United States, any Securities Account of a Credit Party maintained with a securities intermediary located in the United States, or any Commodity Account of a Credit Party maintained with a commodity intermediary located in the United States, in each case, other than an Excluded Account.

“Collateral Documents” means the Security Agreement, the Control Agreements, the IP Agreements, any Mortgages and all other instruments, documents and agreements delivered by any Credit Party pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, in each case, in order to grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties or perfect a Lien on any Collateral as security for the Obligations, and all amendments, restatements, modifications or supplements thereof or thereto.

“Commodity Account” means any “commodity account” as defined in the Code with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.

“Company IP” means all Intellectual Property that is currently owned by (or purported to be owned by) or licensed to (or purported to be licensed to) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or acquired, developed or obtained by, or otherwise controlled by, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries on or after the date hereof.

“Company Product” means (i) the Product, (ii) any product or product candidate contained in, arising from or related to the Company’s clinical development programs, and (iii) any other product or product candidate developed or acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is, in each case, material to the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.

“Competitor” means, at any time of determination, any Person that is an operating company directly and primarily engaged in the same or substantially the same line of business as Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such time, and any Affiliate thereof.

 

“Compliance Certificate” means that certain certificate in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D.

 

“Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).

 

“Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.

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“Contingent Obligation” means, with respect to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”), any obligation of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another Person (including any bank under any letter of credit), if to induce the creation of which the guaranteeing person has issued a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, in either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the “primary obligations”) of any other third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (A) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (B) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, that the term “Contingent Obligation” shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Contingent Obligation of any guaranteeing person (the “Guarantee Obligation”) shall be deemed to be the lower of (1) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made and (2) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by Borrower in good faith. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction and any Permitted Warrant Transaction shall not constitute Contingent Obligations of Borrower.

“Control Agreement” means, with respect to any Credit Party, any control agreement entered into among such Credit Party, the Administrative Agent and, (a) in the case of a Deposit Account, the bank or other depository or financial institution located in the United States at which such Credit Party maintains such Deposit Account, or, (b) in the case of a Securities Account or a Commodity Account, the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary located in the United States at which such Credit Party maintain such Securities Account or Commodities Account, in either case, pursuant to which the Administrative Agent obtains control (within the meaning of the Code) over such Collateral Account.

“Copyrights” means any and all copyright rights, copyright applications, copyright registrations and like protections in each work of authorship and derivative work thereof, whether published or unpublished and whether or not the same also constitutes a trade secret (and all related IP Ancillary Rights).

“Credit Extension” means any Term Loan or any other extension of credit by any Lender for Borrower’s benefit pursuant to this Agreement.

“Credit Party” means Borrower and each Guarantor.

“Current Company IP” is defined in Section 4.6(c).

“Current Company IP Agreement” means any Material Contract set forth in the Perfection Certificate, the focus of which is the in-license, out-license, disposition, transfer or exploitation of Company IP.

“Daily Simple SOFR” shall mean, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for Dollar-denominated bilateral business loans; provided that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.

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“Data Protection Laws” means any and all legally binding foreign or domestic, statutes, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, judgments, or Governmental Approvals relating to the privacy, security, or confidentiality of Personal Data (including individually identifiable information) including HIPAA and Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. § 45).

“Default” means any breach of or default under any term, provision, condition, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other event, in each case that, with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

“Deposit Account” means any “deposit account” as defined in the Code with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.

“Disclosure Letter” means the disclosure letter, dated as of the Effective Date.

“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests that, by their terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which they are convertible or for which they are exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition, (a) require the payment of any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in shares of Qualified Equity Interests), (b) mature or are mandatorily redeemable or subject to mandatory repurchase or redemption or repurchase at the option of the holders thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), in each case in whole or in part and whether upon the occurrence of any event, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation on a fixed date or otherwise (including as the result of a failure to maintain or achieve any financial performance standards) or (c) are or become convertible into or exchangeable for, automatically or at the option of any holder thereof, any Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other assets other than Qualified Equity Interests, in the case of each of clauses (a), (b) and (c), prior to the date that is 91 days after the Term Loan Maturity Date at the time of issuance of such Equity Interests (other than (i) following Payment in Full or (ii) upon a Change in Control”; provided that any payment required pursuant to this clause (ii) is subject to the prior Payment in Full; provided, however, that if such Equity Interests are issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees of Borrower or the Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because they may be required to be repurchased by Borrower or such Subsidiary in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, death or disability.

“Dollars,” “dollars” or use of the sign “$” means only lawful money of the United States and not any other currency, regardless of whether that currency uses the “$” sign to denote its currency or may be readily converted into lawful money of the United States.

“Draw Fees” is defined in Section 2.7.

“Effective Date” is defined in the preamble hereof.

“Eligible Assignee” means any of the following (a) any commercial banks, finance companies, insurance companies and other financial institutions and funds (whether a corporation, partnership or other entity) engaged generally in making, purchasing or otherwise investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course of its business, provided that any such entity shall be entitled, as of the date such entity becomes a Lender, to receive payments under its Term Loan Note without deduction or withholding with respect to United States federal income tax, (b) each of the Lenders and (c) any Affiliate of a Lender.

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In no event shall an Eligible Assignee include a Competitor or a vulture or distressed debt fund.

“Environmental Claim” means any investigation, notice, notice of violation, claim, action, suit, proceeding, demand, abatement order or other order or directive (conditional or otherwise), by any Governmental Authority or any other Person, arising (a) pursuant to or in connection with any actual or alleged violation of any Environmental Law; (b) in connection with any Hazardous Material or any actual or alleged Hazardous Materials Activity; or (c) in connection with any actual or alleged damage, injury, threat or harm to health, safety, natural resources or the environment.

“Environmental Laws” means any and all current or future, foreign or domestic, statutes, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, judgments, Governmental Approvals, or any other requirements of Governmental Authorities relating to (a) environmental matters, including those relating to any Hazardous Materials Activity; (b) the generation, use, storage, transportation or disposal of Hazardous Materials; or (c) occupational safety and health, industrial hygiene, land use or the protection of human, plant or animal health or welfare, in each case, in any manner applicable to any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Facility.

“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in such Person (other than a corporation), including partnership interests and membership interests, and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase or other arrangements or rights to acquire (by purchase, conversion, dividend, distribution or otherwise) any of the foregoing (and all other rights, powers, privileges, interests, claims and other property in any manner arising therefrom or relating thereto).

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and its regulations.

“ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with Borrower or such Subsidiary, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the IRC or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the IRC, Section 412(m) or (o) of the IRC.

“ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event,” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived by regulation); (b) with respect to a Plan, the failure by Borrower or its Subsidiaries or their ERISA Affiliates to satisfy the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the IRC and Section 302 of ERISA, whether or not waived; (c) the failure by Borrower or its Subsidiaries or their ERISA Affiliates to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the IRC with respect to any Plan or to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (d) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the IRC or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (e) the incurrence by Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (f) the receipt by Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (referred to and defined in ERISA) or a plan administrator of any notice relating to the intention to terminate any Plan or Plans under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan under Section 4042 of ERISA; (g) the incurrence by Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the complete or partial withdrawal (within the meaning of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any Multiemployer Plan; (h) the receipt by Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Section 4245 or Section 4241, respectively, of ERISA; (i) the “substantial cessation of operations” by Borrower or its Subsidiaries or their ERISA Affiliates within the meaning of Section 4062(e) of ERISA with respect to a Plan that is treated as a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; or (j) the occurrence of a nonexempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the IRC or Section 406 of ERISA) which would reasonably be expected to result in material liability to Borrower or its Subsidiaries.

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“Erroneous Payment” is defined in Section 12.11(a).

“Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights” is defined in Section 12.11(a).

“Event of Default” is defined in Section 7.

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

“Exchange Act Documents” is defined in Section 4.8(a).

“Excluded Accounts” is defined in Section 5.5.

“Excluded Equity Interests” means, collectively: (a) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary with respect to which the grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of a security interest in and Lien upon, and the pledge to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of, such Equity Interests, to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) are validly prohibited by Requirements of Law; (b) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary with respect to which the grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of a security interest in and Lien upon, and the pledge to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of, such Equity Interests, to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) require the consent, approval or waiver of any Governmental Authority or other third party; (c) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that is a non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary with respect to which the grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of a security interest in and Lien upon, and the pledge to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of, such Equity Interests, to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) are validly prohibited by, or would give any third party (other than Borrower or an Affiliate of Borrower) the right to terminate its obligations under, the Operating Documents or the joint venture agreement or shareholder agreement with respect to, or any other contract with such third party relating to such non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, including any contract evidencing Indebtedness of such non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary (other than customary non-assignment provisions which are ineffective under Article 9 of the Code or other Requirements of Law), but only, in each case, to the extent, and for so long as such Operating Document, joint venture agreement, shareholder agreement or other contract is in effect; (d) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary organized or acquired and used exclusively to consummate (i) the disposal, transfer, monetization, lease or license of, (ii) the granting of a Permitted Lien on or (iii) the securing or financing of, in each case any Permitted Royalty Transaction solely with respect to, any assets and/or property underlying such transaction; and (e) any Equity Interests of any other Subsidiary with respect to which, Borrower and the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) reasonably determine by mutual agreement that the cost of granting the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties a security interest, in and Lien upon, and pledging to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties, such Equity Interests, to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) are excessive, relative to the value to be afforded to the Secured Parties thereby.

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“Excluded Property” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.

“Excluded Subsidiaries” means, collectively: (a) any Subsidiary with respect to which the grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of a security interest in and Lien upon, and the pledge to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of, such Subsidiary’s properties and assets subject or purported to be subject from time to time to a Lien under any Collateral Document and the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) are validly prohibited by Requirements of Law; (b) any Subsidiary with respect to which the grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of a security interest in and Lien upon, and the pledge to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of, such Subsidiary’s properties and assets subject or purported to be subject from time to time to a Lien under any Collateral Document and the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) require the consent, approval or waiver of any Governmental Authority or other third party (other than Borrower or an Affiliate of Borrower); (c) any Subsidiary that is a non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, with respect to which, the grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of a security interest in and Lien upon, and the pledge to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of, the properties and assets of such non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) are validly prohibited by, or would give any third party (other than Borrower or an Affiliate of Borrower) the right to terminate its obligations under, such non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary’s Operating Documents or the joint venture agreement or shareholder agreement with respect thereto or any other contract with such third party relating to such non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, including any contract evidencing Indebtedness of such non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary (other than customary non-assignment provisions which are ineffective under Article 9 of the Code or other Requirements of Law), but only, in each case, to the extent, and for so long as such Operating Document, joint venture agreement, shareholder agreement or other contract is in effect; (d) any Immaterial Subsidiary; (e) any Subsidiary with respect to which the grant to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of a security interest in and Lien upon, or the pledge to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties of, such Subsidiary’s properties and assets subject or purported to be subject from time to time to a Lien under any Collateral Document or the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) would result in material adverse tax consequences to Borrower (as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of Borrower); (f) any Subsidiary organized or acquired and used exclusively to consummate (i) the disposal, transfer, monetization, lease or license of, (ii) the granting of a Permitted Lien on or (iii) the securing or financing of, in each case any Permitted Royalty Transaction solely with respect to, any of the assets and/or property securing such transaction; and (g) any other Subsidiary with respect to which, Borrower and the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) reasonably determine by mutual agreement that the cost of granting the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties a security interest in and Lien upon, and pledging to the Administrative Agent in favor and for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties, such Subsidiary’s properties and assets subject or purported to be subject from time to time to a Lien under any Collateral Document and the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary to secure the Obligations (and any guaranty thereof) are excessive relative to the value to be afforded to the Secured Parties thereby.

“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed by the United States or as a result of a Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S.

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federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to any Obligation pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in any Obligation or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.6, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.6(d) or Section 2.6(e), as applicable, and (d) any withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

“Facility” means, with respect to any Credit Party, any real property (including all buildings, fixtures or other improvements located thereon) now, hereafter or heretofore owned, leased, operated or used by such Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective predecessors, in each case, solely with respect to the manufacture, production, storage or distribution of any Company Product.

“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the IRC, as of the Effective Date (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any agreements between the governments of the United States and the jurisdiction in which the applicable Lender is resident implementing such provisions), or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with, and any current or future regulations promulgated thereunder or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the IRC, any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of the foregoing sections of the IRC and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, regulations, rules or practices adopted pursuant to, or official interpretations implementing such Sections of the IRC or intergovernmental agreements.

“FCPA” is defined in Section 4.18(a).

“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the rate calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on such day’s Federal funds transactions by depositary institutions (as determined in such manner as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the Federal funds effective rate and (b) 0%.

“FDA” means the United States Food and Drug Administration, or any successor agency thereto.

“FDA Good Manufacturing Practices” means the standards set forth in 21 C.F.R. Parts 210 and 211.

“FDA Laws” means (1) the FDCA, (2) those sections of the Public Health Service Act that are both administered by FDA and applicable Company Products, if any; and (3) applicable rules, and regulations promulgated under either statute or that are otherwise implemented, administered or enforced by the FDA.

“FDCA” is the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.) and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

“Floor” shall mean a rate of interest equal to 3.50%.

“Foreign Lender” means a Lender that is not a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the IRC.

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“Governmental Approval” means any consent, authorization, approval, order, license, franchise, permit, certificate, accreditation, registration, filing or notice, of, issued by, from or to, or other act by or in respect of, any Governmental Authority.

“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency (including Regulatory Agencies), government department, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, any securities exchange and any self-regulatory organization.

“Governmental Payor Programs” means all governmental third party payor programs in which any Credit Party or its Subsidiaries participates, including Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE or any other federal or state health care programs.

“guaranteeing person” as defined in the defined term “Contingent Obligation”.

“Guarantor” means any Subsidiary that is a present or future guarantor of the Obligations.

“Hazardous Materials” means any chemical, material or substance, exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any Governmental Authority or which may or could pose a hazard to the health and safety of the owners, occupants or any Persons in the vicinity of any Facility or to the indoor or outdoor environment.

“Hazardous Materials Activity” means any past, current, proposed or threatened activity, event or occurrence involving any Hazardous Materials, including the use, manufacture, possession, storage, holding, presence, existence, location, Release, threatened Release, discharge, placement, generation, transportation, processing, construction, treatment, abatement, removal, remediation, disposal, disposition or handling of any Hazardous Materials, and any corrective action or response action with respect to any of the foregoing.

“Health Care Laws” means, collectively: (a) applicable Requirements of Law issued under or in connection with any Governmental Payor Program, in each case, in any manner applicable to any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries; (b) applicable federal, state and local fraud and abuse Requirements of Law, including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)), the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq.), Sections 1320a-7 and 1320a-7a of Title 42 of the United States Code and the regulations promulgated pursuant to such statutes; (c) the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7h); and (d) any other applicable health care Requirements of Law relating to the manufacture and distribution of Company Products.

“Hedging Agreement” means any interest rate, currency, commodity or equity swap, collar, cap, floor or forward rate agreement, or other agreement or arrangement designed to protect a Person against fluctuations in interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity or equity prices or values (including any option with respect to any of the foregoing and any combination of the foregoing agreements or arrangements), and any confirmation execution in connection with any such agreement or arrangement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction and any Permitted Warrant Transaction, in each case, shall not constitute Hedging Agreements of the Borrower.

“HIPAA” means the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of 2009, any and all rules or regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder, and any state or federal laws with regards to the security, privacy, or notification of breaches of the confidentiality of health information which are not preempted pursuant to 45 C.F.R.

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Part 160, Subpart B.

“Immaterial Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary designated by Borrower as an Immaterial Subsidiary if and for so long as such Immaterial Subsidiary, together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries so designated as Immaterial Subsidiaries, does not have (a) total assets at such time exceeding $20,000,000 or (b) total revenues for the most recent 12-month period for which financial statements are available exceeding $20,000,000; provided that Borrower may designate any Immaterial Subsidiary as a Guarantor in order to cause the above required terms to be satisfied.

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication: (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of assets, property or services, including seller notes or earn-out obligations appearing on such Person’s balance sheet in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards (other than (i) accrued expenses and trade payables entered into in the ordinary course of business, (ii) obligations to pay for services provided by employees and individual independent contractors in the ordinary course of business, (iii) liabilities associated with customer prepayments and deposits and (iv) prepaid or deferred revenue arising in the ordinary course of business); (c) all obligations of such Person, contingent or otherwise, as an account party or applicant under bankers’ acceptance, letter of credit or similar facilities; (d) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other debt securities or similar instruments (including debt securities convertible into Equity Interests); (e) all indebtedness of such Person created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, in either case with respect to property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property); (f) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person; (g) all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests of such Person; (h) all obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above secured by (or for which the holder of such obligation has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon its assets or properties (including accounts and contracts rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such obligation; and (i) all Contingent Obligations of such Person in respect of obligation of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction and any Permitted Warrant Transaction, in each case, shall not constitute Indebtedness of Borrower.

“Indemnified Liabilities” means, collectively, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments, suits, costs, reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever (including the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of one counsel for Indemnified Persons plus, if required, one local legal counsel in each relevant material jurisdiction, and in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, one additional counsel for such affected Indemnified Persons, in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding or hearing commenced or threatened in writing by any Person, whether or not any such Indemnified Person shall have commenced such proceeding or hearing or be designated as a party or a potential party thereto, and any fees or expenses incurred by Indemnified Persons in enforcing the indemnity hereunder), whether direct, indirect or consequential and whether based on any federal, state or foreign laws, statutes, rules or regulations, on common law or equitable cause or on contract or otherwise, that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against any such Indemnified Person, in any manner relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including any Lender’s agreement to make Credit Extensions or the use or intended use of the proceeds thereof, or any enforcement of any of the Loan Documents (including any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon any of the Collateral or the enforcement of any guaranty of the Obligations)).

“Indemnified Person” is defined in Section 11.2(a).

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“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a) above, Other Taxes.

“Insolvency Proceeding” means, with respect to any Person, any proceeding by or against such Person under the United States Bankruptcy Code, or any other bankruptcy or insolvency law, including assignments for the benefit of creditors, compositions, extensions generally with its creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, arrangement, or other relief.

“Intellectual Property” means all:

(a) Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents;

(b) trade secrets and trade secret rights, including any rights to unpatented inventions, know-how, show-how and operating manuals;

(c) (i) all computer programs, including source code and object code versions, (ii) all data, databases and compilations of data, whether machine readable or otherwise, and (iii) all documentation, training materials and configurations related to any of the foregoing (collectively, “Software”);

(d) all right, title and interest arising under any contract or Requirements of Law in or relating to Internet domain names;

(e) design rights;

(f) IP Ancillary Rights (including all IP Ancillary Rights related to any of the foregoing); and

(g) any similar or equivalent rights to any of the foregoing anywhere in the world.

“Intercreditor Agreement” means an intercreditor agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit E to be entered into by and among Borrower, the other Credit Parties from time to time party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the trustee, purchaser, agent, or similar party under the agreement pursuant to which such Permitted Royalty Transaction is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.

“Interest Date” means the first day of each fiscal quarter.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to the Term Loans, (a) the period commencing on (and including) the Tranche A Closing Date, the Tranche B Closing Date or the Tranche C Closing Date, as applicable, and ending on (and not including) the last day of the fiscal quarter including such date, and (b) thereafter, each period beginning on (and including) the first day following the end of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the earlier of (and not including) (i) the last day of the fiscal quarter including such first day and (ii) the Term Loan Maturity Date.

“Inventory” means all “inventory” as defined in the Code in effect on the date hereof with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made, and includes all merchandise, raw materials, parts, supplies, packing and shipping materials, work in process and finished products, including such inventory as is temporarily out of a Credit Party’s or Subsidiary’s custody or possession or in transit and including any returned goods and any documents of title representing any of the above.

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“Investment” means (a) any beneficial ownership interest in any Person (including Equity Interests), (b) any Acquisition or (c) the making of any advance, loan, or capital contribution in or to, any Person.

“IP Agreements” means, collectively, (a) those certain Intellectual Property Security Agreements entered into by and between Borrower and the Administrative Agent, each dated as of the Effective Date, and (b) any Intellectual Property Security Agreement entered into by and between Borrower and the Administrative Agent after the Effective Date in accordance with the Loan Documents.

“IP Ancillary Rights” means, with respect to any Copyright, Trademark, Patent, Software, trade secrets or trade secret rights, including any rights to unpatented inventions, know-how, show-how and operating manuals, all income, royalties, proceeds and liabilities at any time due or payable or asserted under or with respect to any of the foregoing or otherwise with respect thereto, including all rights to sue or recover at law or in equity for any past, present or future infringement, misappropriation, dilution, violation or other impairment thereof, and, in each case, all rights to obtain any other intellectual property right ancillary to any Copyright, Trademark, Patent, Software, trade secrets or trade secret rights.

“IRC” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“IRS” is defined in Section 2.6(d)(i)

“Knowledge” of Borrower means the actual knowledge, after reasonable investigation, of the Responsible Officers of Borrower or such other Credit Party, as the context dictates.

“Lender” means each Person signatory hereto as a “Lender” and its successors and assigns.

“Lender Expenses” means (a) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses of the Administrative Agent and each Lender for developing, preparing, amending, modifying, negotiating, syndicating, executing and delivering, and interpreting and administering the Loan Documents or any other document prepared in connection therewith or the consummation and administration of any transaction contemplated therein or any modification of any term or provision of or the termination of, any Loan Document or otherwise incurred with respect to the Credit Parties in connection with the Loan Documents, including any filing or recording fees and expenses (including the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses of (i) a single legal counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (or, if the Administrative Agent is not the same as and is not an Affiliate of any Lender, one additional legal counsel for the Lenders), (ii) if required, one local legal counsel in each relevant material jurisdiction, and (iii) in the case of an actual or potential conflict of interest, where the party affected by such conflict informs Borrower of such conflict, one additional counsel for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders), and (b) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and each Lender (including the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses of (i) a single legal counsel to the Administrative Agent and Lenders (or, if the Administrative Agent is not the same as and is not an Affiliate of any Lender, one additional legal counsel for the Lenders), (ii) if required, one local legal counsel in each relevant material jurisdiction, and (iii) in the case of an actual or potential conflict of interest, where the party affected by such conflict informs Borrower of such conflict, one additional counsel to the Administrative Agent and Lenders), in connection with (i) any refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided hereunder in the nature of a “work-out”, (ii) the enforcement or preservation of any right or remedy under any Loan Document, any Obligation, with respect to the Collateral or any other related right or remedy or (iii) the commencement, defense, conduct of, intervention in, or the taking of any other action with respect to, any proceeding (including any Insolvency Proceeding) related to any Credit Party, any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, Loan Document or Obligation (or the response to and preparation for any subpoena or request for document production relating thereto).

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“Lender Transfer” is defined in Section 11.1(b).

“Lien” means a claim, mortgage, deed of trust, levy, charge, pledge, security interest or other encumbrance of any kind or assignment for security purposes, whether voluntarily incurred or arising by operation of law or otherwise against any property or assets.

“Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the Disclosure Letter, the Term Loan Notes, the Security Agreement, the IP Agreements, the Perfection Certificates, the Agency Fee Letter, any flow of funds direction letter, any Control Agreement, any other Collateral Document, any guaranties executed by a Guarantor in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of Lenders and the other Secured Parties in connection with this Agreement, each Intercreditor Agreement and/or Working Capital ICA to the extent then in effect, and any other present or future agreement between or among a Credit Party, the Administrative Agent and any Lender in connection with this Agreement, including in each case, for the avoidance of doubt, any annexes, exhibits or schedules thereto.

“Major Market” means each of the United States, the [***].

“Makewhole Amount” means the Tranche A Makewhole Amount, Tranche B Makewhole Amount or the Tranche C Makewhole Amount (as applicable) or any combination thereof, as the context dictates.

“Margin Stock” means “margin stock” within the meaning of Regulations U and X of the Federal Reserve Board as now and from time to time hereafter in effect.

“Marketing Approval” means, with respect to any product, any and all approvals (including drug and/or device approval applications), licenses, registrations or authorizations sufficient to commercialize such product in accordance with applicable laws (excluding any compassionate or emergency use or similar approval or authorization and excluding pricing or reimbursement approvals).

“Material Adverse Change” means any material adverse change in or effect on: (a) the business, financial condition, properties or assets (including all or any portion of Collateral), liabilities (actual or contingent), operations, or performance of the Credit Parties, taken as a whole, since December 31, 2024; (b) the ability of Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to fulfill the payment or performance obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or (c) the binding nature or validity of, or the ability of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to enforce, the Loan Documents or any of its rights or remedies under the Loan Documents. For the avoidance of doubt, the non-occurrence of any of the Tranche A Commitment Period, the Tranche B Commitment Period and/or the Tranche C Commitment Period and the non-occurrence of any milestone events commencing such periods do not, in and of themselves, constitute a Material Adverse Change.

“Material Contract” means any contract or other arrangement to which any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries is a party (other than the Loan Documents) or by which any assets or properties constituting Collateral under the Loan Documents are bound, for which the breach of, default or nonperformance under, cancellation or termination of or the failure to renew could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. For the avoidance of doubt, the Revenue Purchase Agreement is a Material Contract.

“Medicaid” means the health care assistance program established by Title XIX of the SSA (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).

“Medicare” means the health insurance program for the aged and disabled established by Title XVIII of the SSA (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.).

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“Mortgage” means any deed of trust, mortgage, deed to secure debt, or other document creating a Lien on real estate or any interest in real estate.

“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) or Section 3(37) of ERISA (a) to which Borrower or its Subsidiaries or their respective ERISA Affiliates is then making or accruing an obligation to make contributions; (b) to which Borrower or its Subsidiaries or their respective ERISA Affiliates has within the preceding five (5) plan years made contributions; or (c) with respect to which Borrower or its Subsidiaries would reasonably be expected to incur material liability.

“Obligations” means, collectively, the Credit Parties’ obligations to pay when due any and all debts, principal, interest, Lender Expenses, the Draw Fees, the Makewhole Amount (if applicable), the Prepayment Premium (if applicable) and any other fees, expenses, indemnities and amounts any Credit Party owes any Lender or the Administrative Agent now or later, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including interest accruing after Insolvency Proceedings begin (whether or not allowed), and to perform Borrower’s duties under the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Obligations shall not include (i) any warrants or other equity instruments or (ii) any obligations owed by Borrower to any other party hereto, or any Affiliate thereof, pursuant to the Revenue Purchase Agreement.

“OFAC” is defined in Section 4.18(c).

“OFAC Lists” means, collectively, the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by OFAC pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, 66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (Sept. 25, 2001) or any other list of terrorists or other restricted Persons maintained pursuant to any of the rules and regulations of OFAC or pursuant to any other applicable Executive Orders.

“Operating Documents” means, collectively with respect to any Person, such Person’s formation documents as certified with the Secretary of State or other applicable Governmental Authority of such Person’s jurisdiction of formation and, (a) if such Person is a corporation, its bylaws (or similar organizational regulations), (b) if such Person is a limited liability company, its limited liability company agreement (or similar agreement), and (c) if such Person is a partnership, its partnership agreement (or similar agreement), in each case, with all current amendments, restatements, supplements or modifications thereto.

“Ordinary Course Acquisition” means, with respect to Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, any purchase, in-license or other acquisition of any properties or assets of any other Person in any related line of business.

“ordinary course of business” means, in respect of any transaction involving any Person, the ordinary course of such Person’s business, undertaken by such Person in good faith and not for purposes of evading any covenant, prepayment obligation or restriction in any Loan Document.

“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection (including present or former connection of its agents) between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising solely from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Term Loan or Loan Document).

“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing, mortgage or property Taxes, charges or similar levies or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made hereunder, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment.

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“Outbound Investment Rules” means the regulations administered and enforced, together with any related public guidance issued, by the United States Treasury Department under U.S. Executive Order 14105 of August 9, 2023, or any similar law or regulation; as of the date of this Agreement, and as codified at 31 C.F.R. § 850.101 et seq.

“Participant Register” is defined in Section 11.1(d).

“Patents” means any and all patents and patent applications, including any continuation, continuation-in-part, division, provisional or any substitute applications, any patent issued with respect to any of the foregoing patent applications, any certificate, reissue, reexamination, renewal or patent term extension or adjustment (including any supplementary protection certificate) of any such patent or other governmental actions which extend any of the subject matter of a patent, and any substitution patent, confirmation patent or registration patent or patent of addition based on any such patent, and all foreign counterparts of any of the foregoing.

“Patriot Act” is defined in Section 3.1(g).

“Payment/Advance Form” means that certain form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

“Payment in Full” means (a) the termination of all Term Loan Commitments and (b) the payment in full in cash of all Term Loans and other amounts owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent in respect of the Obligations other than contingent or indemnification obligations not then due, including any amounts payable under Sections 2.2(c), 2.2(e), and 2.2(f).

“Payment Recipient” is defined in Section 12.11(a).

“PDAC” means pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

“Perfection Certificate” means a certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that provides information with respect to the assets of the Credit Parties or a Credit Party, as applicable.

“Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day” shall have the meaning specified in the definition of “Term SOFR”.

“Permitted Acquisition” means any Asset Acquisition or Stock Acquisition, so long as:

(a)
no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of, or could reasonably be expected to result from, the consummation of such Acquisition;
(b)
in the case of an Asset Acquisition, the subject assets are being acquired or licensed by a Credit Party, and such Credit Party shall have executed and delivered or authorized, as applicable, any and all security agreements, financing statements and any other documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders), in order to include the newly acquired or licensed properties or assets within the Collateral, as applicable, to the extent required by Section 5.12;
(c)

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(d)
in the case of a Stock Acquisition, the subject Equity Interests (other than de minimis amounts) are being acquired in such Acquisition directly by a Credit Party, and such Credit Party shall have complied with its obligations under Section 5.13; the aggregate amount of the consideration paid for all Permitted Acquisitions (and for the avoidance of doubt, Ordinary Course Acquisitions shall be uncapped) since the Effective Date shall not exceed $20,000,000; provided that no Equity Interests constituting all or a portion of such acquisition consideration shall require any payments or other distributions of cash or property in respect thereof, or any purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions thereof for cash or property, in each case prior to the 91st day following the Term Loan Maturity Date; and
(e)
any Indebtedness or Liens assumed in connection with such Acquisition are otherwise permitted under Section 6.4 or 6.5, respectively.

“Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction” means any call or capped call option (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) relating to Borrower’s common stock (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock of Borrower) and/or cash (in an amount determined by reference to the price of the Borrower’s common stock or such other securities or property) purchased by Borrower in connection with the issuance of any Permitted Convertible Indebtedness; provided that the purchase price for such Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction, less the proceeds received by Borrower from the sale of any related Permitted Warrant Transaction, does not exceed the net proceeds received by Borrower from the issuance of such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness in connection with such Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or result in the incurrence of additional Indebtedness by Borrower (other than such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness).

“Permitted Convertible Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of Borrower that is convertible into common stock of Borrower (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock of Borrower), cash or any combination thereof (with the amount of such cash or such combination determined by reference to the market price of such common stock or such other securities); provided that (i) the terms, conditions and covenants of such Indebtedness shall be customary for convertible Indebtedness of such type (as reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of Borrower in good faith); (ii) such Indebtedness has a scheduled maturity date that is no earlier than ninety one (91) days after the Term Loan Maturity Date; (iii) such Indebtedness is an unsecured obligation of Borrower that is not guaranteed by any Subsidiary of Borrower that is not a Credit Party (or such Subsidiary shall, concurrently with becoming a guarantor of such Indebtedness, become a Credit Party), (iv) immediately prior to and after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (v) at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Borrower certifying as to the foregoing.

“Permitted Distributions” means:

(a)
dividends, distributions or other payments by any Subsidiary on its Equity Interests to, or the redemption, retirement or purchase by any Subsidiary of its Equity Interests from, Borrower, any other Subsidiary or each other owner of such Subsidiary’s Equity Interests based on their relative ownership interests of the relevant class of such Equity Interests;
(b)
redemptions by Borrower in whole or in part any of its Equity Interests for another class of its Equity Interests, rights to acquire its Equity Interests or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests);
(c)
any payments arising from a Permitted Acquisition, Permitted Transfer, Permitted Investment, or by any transaction permitted by Section 6.3(a); payments by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party to any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party pursuant to Tax sharing agreements among the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Credit Party and their Subsidiaries;

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(d)
(e)
the payment of dividends by Borrower solely in non-cash pay and non-redeemable capital stock (including, for the avoidance of doubt, dividends and distributions payable solely in Equity Interests);
(f)
cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares arising out of stock dividends, splits or combinations or in connection with the exercise of warrants, options or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for Equity Interests;
(g)
in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or other Investment by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (i) the receipt or acceptance of the return to Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of Equity Interests of Borrower constituting a portion of the purchase price consideration in settlement of indemnification claims, or as a result of a purchase price adjustment (including earn-outs or similar obligations) and (ii) payments or distributions to equity holders pursuant to appraisal rights required under Requirements of Law;
(h)
the distribution of rights pursuant to any shareholder rights plan or the redemption of such rights for nominal consideration in accordance with the terms of any shareholder rights plan;
(i)
(i) non-cash repurchases of Equity Interests of Borrower deemed to occur upon exercise of stock options or warrants or the settlement or vesting of other equity awards and (ii) purchases of Equity Interests of Borrower or its Subsidiaries in connection with the exercise of stock options by way of cashless exercise, or in connection with the satisfaction of withholding tax obligations therefrom;
(j)
issuance to directors, officers, employees or contractors of Borrower of common stock of Borrower upon the vesting of restricted stock, restricted stock units, or other rights to acquire common stock of Borrower pursuant to plans or agreements approved by Borrower’s Board of Directors or stockholders;
(k)
any payments used for the purchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries held by any future, present or former employee, consultant, agent, officer or director (or spouse, ex-spouse or any lineal descendants thereof and/or estate or trust for the benefit of any of the foregoing) of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of the applicable employee, consultant, agent, officer or director; provided, that the aggregate payments made under this clause (l) do not exceed in any calendar year the sum of (i) $5,000,000 plus (ii) the amount of any payments received in such calendar year under key-man life insurance policies;
(l)
dividends or distributions on any class of Equity Interests of Borrower payable solely in the form of Equity Interests of Borrower (other than Disqualified Equity Interests); and
(m)
Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make dividends, distributions or other payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000.

“Permitted Hedging Agreement” means a Hedging Agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business solely in connection with foreign exchange or interest rate hedging transactions and not for speculative purposes.

“Permitted Indebtedness” means:

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(a)
Indebtedness of the Credit Parties to Secured Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
(b)
Indebtedness existing on the Effective Date and shown on Schedule 13.1 of the Disclosure Letter;
(c)
Indebtedness of Borrower in the form of a working capital or revolving loan facility with a maximum credit line of no more than $[***] (plus any ordinary course interest, fees and other amounts) at any time; provided, that such Indebtedness may be secured on a first-priority basis by Liens on any Collateral constituting assets over which an asset-based revolving lender would customarily have a first priority Lien to secure the obligations under such facility, pursuant to a customary subordination, intercreditor, or other similar agreement among the Administrative Agent, Borrower and the lender (or representative or agent thereof) under such facility, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such parties (such agreement, the “Working Capital ICA”); provided, further, that no Subsidiary shall guarantee, or provide a Lien to secure, the obligations under such facility if such Subsidiary is not a Guarantor hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders);
(d)
Indebtedness not to exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding, consisting of (i) Indebtedness incurred to finance the purchase, construction, repair, or improvement of fixed assets and (ii) Capital Lease Obligations;
(e)
Indebtedness in connection with corporate credit cards, purchasing cards, commercial cards or bank card products;
(f)
guarantees of Permitted Indebtedness;
(g)
Indebtedness assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or Permitted Investment, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000; provided, that (i) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Acquisition or Permitted Investment is consummated and is not created or incurred in connection therewith or in contemplation thereof, (ii) no Credit Party (other than such Person so acquired in such Acquisition or any other Person that such Person merges with or that acquires the assets of such Person in connection with such Acquisition or Permitted Investment) shall have any liability or other obligation with respect to such Indebtedness and (iii) if such Indebtedness is secured, no Lien thereon shall extend to or cover any other assets other than the assets acquired in such Acquisition or Permitted Investment (other than the proceeds or products thereof, accessions or additions thereto and improvements thereon) or attach to any other property of any Credit Party;
(h)
Indebtedness of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to letters of credit outstanding and secured solely by cash or Cash Equivalents entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(i)
Indebtedness owed (i) by a Credit Party to another Credit Party, (ii) by a Subsidiary of Borrower that is not a Credit Party to another Subsidiary of Borrower that is not a Credit Party, (iii) by a Credit Party to a Subsidiary of Borrower that is not a Credit Party or (iv) by a Subsidiary of Borrower that is not a Credit Party to a Credit Party, in the case of this clause (i)(iv), to the extent permitted by clause (n)(v) of the defined term “Permitted Investments”;
(j)
[reserved];
(k)
(i) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the form of earn-outs, indemnification, incentive, non-compete, consulting or other similar arrangements and other contingent obligations in respect of Permitted Acquisitions or any other Investments permitted by this Agreement (both before and after any liability associated therewith becomes fixed), not to exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding and (ii) Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries arising from agreements providing for indemnification related to sales of goods or adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations in any case incurred in connection with the disposition of any business, assets or Subsidiary;

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(l)
[reserved];
(m)
(i) Indebtedness with respect to workers’ compensation claims, payment obligations in connection with health, disability or other types of social security benefits, unemployment or other insurance obligations, reclamation and statutory obligations, (ii) Indebtedness related to employee benefit plans, including annual employee bonuses, accrued wage increases and 401(k) plan matching obligations; in each case, incurred in the ordinary course of business and (iii) Indebtedness representing deferred compensation or stock-based compensation to employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(n)
Indebtedness in respect of performance bonds, bid bonds, customs bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds, performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations arising in the ordinary course of business;
(o)
(i) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently drawn by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business against insufficient funds, so long as such Indebtedness is repaid within five Business Days and (ii) Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protection and other cash management services, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(p)
Indebtedness consisting of the financing of insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business;
(q)
Indebtedness consisting of guarantees resulting from endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection by any Credit Party in the ordinary course of business;
(r)
unsecured Indebtedness incurred in connection with any items of Permitted Distributions in clause (j) of the definition of “Permitted Distributions”;
(s)
Permitted Convertible Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed (i) prior to the Tranche A Closing Date, $[***] at any time outstanding and (ii) on and after the Tranche A Closing Date, $[***] at any time outstanding;
(t)
Permitted Hedging Agreements;
(u)
Permitted Royalty Transactions;
(v)
additional Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of (i) $25,000,000 and (ii) ten percent (10%) of Trailing 4Q Sales as of the last day of the most recent fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as applicable, for which financial statements are available (it being agreed that for the purposes of this clause (v), Trailing 4Q Sales shall be capped at $1,000,000,000); and
(w)
subject to the proviso immediately below, extensions, refinancings, modifications, amendments and/or restatements (and, in the case of any items of Permitted Indebtedness in clause (b) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” or Permitted Indebtedness constituting notes governed by an indenture, exchanges) of any items of Permitted Indebtedness in clauses (a) through (v) above, provided, that in the case of clauses (b) and (g) above, the principal amount thereof is not increased (other than by any reasonable amount of premium (if any), interest (including post-petition interest), fees, expenses, charges or additional or contingent interest reasonably incurred in connection with the refinancing of the same and the terms thereof).

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“Permitted Investments” means:
(a)
Investments (including Investments in Subsidiaries) existing on the Effective Date and shown on Schedule 13.2 of the Disclosure Letter, and any extensions, renewals or reinvestments thereof;
(b)
Investments consisting of cash and Cash Equivalents;
(c)
Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of UCC Article 3 endorsements for collection or deposit and UCC Article 4 customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices;
(d)
subject to Section 5.5, Investments consisting of deposit accounts or securities accounts;
(e)
Investments in connection with Permitted Transfers and Permitted Indebtedness;
(f)
Investments consisting of (i) travel advances, employee relocation loans and other employee advances in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) loans or advances to employees, officers and/or directors relating to the purchase of Equity Interests of Borrower pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or agreements approved by Borrower’s Board of Directors;
(g)
Investments (including debt obligations and Equity Interests) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of customers or suppliers, and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, suppliers and customers arising out of the ordinary course of business or upon the foreclosure with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment;
(h)
(i) Investments consisting of notes receivable of, or prepaid royalties and other credit extensions to customers and suppliers who are not Affiliates in the ordinary course of business; provided that this clause (h) shall not apply to Investments of any Credit Party in any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors and other credits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business;
(i)
Investments by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in joint ventures or similar entities (other than in connection with arrangements related to the research, development, manufacture or commercialization of Company Products that do not constitute Permitted Licenses) not to exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year;
(j)
Permitted Acquisitions;
(k)
Investments constituting the formation of any Subsidiary for the purpose of consummating a transaction permitted by Section 6.3(a) hereof, which such transaction is otherwise a Permitted Investment;
(l)
Investments of any Person that (i) becomes a Subsidiary of Borrower (or of any Person not previously a Subsidiary of Borrower that is merged or consolidated with or into a Subsidiary of Borrower in a transaction permitted hereunder) after the Effective Date, or (ii) are assumed after the Effective Date by any Subsidiary of Borrower in connection with a Permitted Acquisition; provided, that in each case, any such Investment (x) exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of Borrower (or is merged or consolidated with or into a Subsidiary of Borrower) or such assets are acquired, (y) was not made in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary of Borrower (or merging or consolidating with or into a Subsidiary of Borrower) or such acquisition of assets, and (z) could not reasonably be expected to result in a Default or an Event of Default;

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(m)
Investments arising as a result of the grant of a Permitted License;
(n)
Investments by (i) any Credit Party in any other Credit Party, (ii) any Subsidiary of Borrower which is not a Credit Party in another Subsidiary of Borrower which is not a Credit Party, (iii) any Subsidiary of Borrower which is not a Credit Party in any Credit Party, (iv) and between or among the Credit Parties and/or their Subsidiaries pursuant to cost-plus agreements, transfer pricing arrangements and/or similar arrangements in accordance with local Requirements of Law with respect to taxes, and (v) any Credit Party in a Subsidiary of Borrower which is not a Credit Party not to exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year;
(o)
[reserved];
(p)
repurchases of capital stock of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries deemed to occur upon the exercise of options, warrants or other rights to acquire capital stock of Borrower or such Subsidiary solely to the extent that shares of such capital stock represent a portion of the exercise price of such options, warrants or such rights;
(q)
guarantees by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of leases (other than Capital Leases) or of other obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that do not constitute Indebtedness, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(r)
Investments to the extent that payment for such Investments is made solely with Equity Interests of Borrower (other than Disqualified Equity Interests), solely to the extent not previously applied for any other purpose;
(s)
Investments in any Permitted Hedging Agreements;
(t)
to the extent constituting Investments, purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or purchases of contract rights or licenses or leases of Intellectual Property, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(u)
additional Investments in an aggregate amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the greater of (i) $25,000,000 and (ii) ten percent (10%) of Trailing 4Q Sales as of the last day of the most recent fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as applicable, for which financial statements are available (it being agreed that for the purposes of this clause (u), Trailing 4Q Sales shall be capped at $1,000,000,000); and
(v)
Investments by the Credit Parties in any Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party so long as such Investment is a part of a series of simultaneous Investments by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in other Subsidiaries that result in all proceeds of such intercompany Investment being invested in one or more Credit Parties; and
(w)
Borrower’s entry into (including payments of premiums in connection therewith), and the performance of obligations under, any Permitted Convertible Indebtedness, Permitted Bond Hedge Transactions and Permitted Warrant Transactions, in each case in accordance with its terms; provided, however, that, none of the foregoing Investments shall be a “Permitted Investment” if any Indebtedness or Liens assumed in connection with such Investment are not otherwise permitted under Section 6.4 or 6.5, respectively.

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“Permitted License” means any (a) exclusive or non-exclusive license or grant of rights by a Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries for manufacture, production, wholesale distribution or other similar purposes to third parties so long as no such license or grant of right involves any exclusive or co-exclusive rights with respect to the Intellectual Property of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) exclusive licenses by a Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries for the use of Intellectual Property of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries if the territorial scope of such license is outside of the United States, and (c) non-exclusive licenses by a Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries for the use of Intellectual Property of any Credit Party or its Subsidiaries (other than in connection with a co-commercialization agreement in the United States).
“Permitted Liens” means:
(a)
Liens pursuant to any Loan Document;
(b)
Liens existing on the Effective Date and set forth on Schedule 13.3 of the Disclosure Letter; and any Lien granted as a replacement or substitute therefor; provided that any such replacement or substitute Lien (i) does not secure an aggregate amount of Indebtedness or other obligations, if any, greater than that secured on the Effective Date and (ii) does not encumber any property other than the property subject thereto on the Effective Date (plus improvements and accessions to such property);
(c)
Liens for Taxes, assessments or governmental charges (i) which are not yet delinquent or (ii) which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted; provided that adequate reserves therefor have been set aside on the books of the applicable Person and maintained in conformity with Applicable Accounting Standards, if required; provided, further, that in the case of a Tax, assessment or charge that has or may become a Lien against any Collateral, such contest proceedings conclusively operate to stay the sale or forfeiture of any portion of any Collateral to satisfy such Tax, assessment or charge;
(d)
(i) pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business (other than Liens imposed by ERISA) in connection with workers’ compensation, payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, or other similar social security legislation, (ii) pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business securing liability for reimbursement or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees for the benefit of) insurance carriers providing property, casualty or liability insurance to Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) statutory or common law Liens of landlords, and (iv) pledges, deposits and/or other Liens to secure the performance of tenders, bids, trade contracts, and other similar contracts (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money), leases, subleases, statutory or regulatory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, stay bonds, judgment bonds, government contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other obligations of like nature, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e)
Liens arising from attachments or judgments, orders, or decrees in circumstances not constituting an Event of Default under either Section 7.4 or 7.7;
(f)
(i) Liens that are contractual or common law rights of set-off relating to the establishment of depository relations in the ordinary course of business with banks not given in connection with the issuance of Indebtedness, (ii) other Liens securing cash management obligations (that do not constitute Indebtedness) in the ordinary course of business, (iii) Liens encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes, and (iv) Liens of a collection bank arising under Section 4-208 or Section 4-210 of the UCC on items in the course of collection;

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(g)
Liens that are contractual or common law rights of set-off (i) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business or (ii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(h)
Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement with respect to any Permitted Acquisition or Permitted Investment;
(i)
Liens existing on assets or properties at the time of its acquisition or existing on the assets or properties of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of Borrower, in each case after the Effective Date; provided that (i) such Lien was not created in contemplation thereof, (ii) such Lien does not extend to or cover any other assets or properties (other than the proceeds or products thereof and other than after-acquired assets or properties subject to a Lien securing Indebtedness and other obligations incurred prior to such time and which Indebtedness and other obligations are permitted hereunder that requires, pursuant to its terms and conditions, a pledge of after-acquired assets or properties), and (iii) the Indebtedness and other obligations secured thereby is permitted under Section 6.4 hereof;
(j)
Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under clause (c) or (w) (solely with respect to extensions, refinancings, modifications, amendments and restatements of Indebtedness permitted under clause (c) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”;
(k)
Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under clause (d)(i) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” (including any extensions, refinancings, modifications, amendments or restatements of such Indebtedness permitted under clause (w) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”); provided, that such Lien does not extend to or cover any assets or properties other than those described in clause (d)(i) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”;
(l)
servitudes, easements, encroachments, protrusions, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business and encumbrances consisting of zoning or building restrictions, licenses, restrictions on the use of property or minor defects or other irregularities in title which, in the aggregate, do not materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(m)
(i) to the extent constituting a Lien, escrow arrangements securing indemnification obligations associated with any Permitted Acquisition or Permitted Investment and (ii) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business permitted by this Agreement;
(n)
(i) licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases of personal property (other than relating to Intellectual Property) granted to third parties and (ii) to the extent constituting a Lien, the granting of a Permitted License;
(o)
Liens on cash or other current assets pledged to secure (i) Indebtedness in respect of corporate credit cards, purchasing cards or bank card products, (ii) Indebtedness in the form of letters of credit or bank guarantees, or (iii) Permitted Hedging Agreements; Liens on any properties or assets of Borrower securing Permitted Royalty Transactions; provided that such Liens shall be subject to an Intercreditor Agreement;

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(p)
(q)
Liens on properties or assets of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries imposed by statutory or common law, including landlords’, carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, contractors’, suppliers of materials’, architects’ and repairmen’s Liens, and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business; provided that such Liens are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, which conclusively operate to stay the sale or forfeiture of any portion of such properties or assets subject thereto and for which adequate reserves have been set aside on the books of the applicable Person and maintained in conformity with Applicable Accounting Standards, if required;
(r)
Liens on insurance policies and proceeds thereof securing the financing of the premiums with respect thereto;
(s)
Liens on equipment arising from precautionary UCC financing statements regarding operating leases of equipment;
(t)
(i) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure the payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the ordinary course of business and (ii) Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds thereof of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances or letters of credit permitted hereunder issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods in the ordinary course of business;
(u)
Liens on cash or Cash Equivalents used to defease or to satisfy and discharge Indebtedness; provided that such defeasance or satisfaction and discharge is permitted by this Agreement;
(v)
Liens on Equity Interests in joint ventures securing obligations of such joint venture;
(w)
Liens not otherwise permitted by this definition, so long as (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby does not exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) ten percent (10%) of Trailing 4Q Sales as of the last day of the most recent fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as applicable, for which financial statements are available (it being agreed that for the purposes of this clause (w), Trailing 4Q Sales shall be capped at $1,000,000,000) and (ii) such Liens are on specific assets and not an “all assets” lien over all or substantially all of the Collateral; and
(x)
subject to the provisos immediately below, the modification, replacement, extension or renewal of the Liens described in clauses (a) through (w) above.
“Permitted Negative Pledges” means:
(a)
prohibitions or limitations with regards to specific properties or assets encumbered by Permitted Liens, if and only to the extent each such prohibition or limitation applies only to such properties or assets;
(b)
prohibitions or limitations set forth in any lease, sublease, license or other similar agreement not prohibited hereunder;
(c)
prohibitions or limitations relating to Permitted Indebtedness, in the case of each such agreement if and only to the extent such prohibitions or limitations, taken as a whole, are not materially more restrictive than the prohibitions and limitations set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, taken as a whole (as reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of Borrower in good faith); customary provisions restricting assignments, subletting, sublicensing or other transfer of properties or assets subject thereto set forth in leases, subleases, licenses and other similar agreements that are not otherwise prohibited under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, if and only to the extent each such restriction applies only to the properties or assets subject to such leases, subleases, licenses or agreements, and customary provisions restricting assignment, pledges or transfer of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business;

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(d)
(e)
prohibitions or limitations imposed by Requirements of Law;
(f)
prohibitions or limitations that exist as of the Effective Date, and to the extent restrictions permitted by this clause (f) are set forth in an agreement evidencing Indebtedness, are set forth in any agreement evidencing any refinancing of such Indebtedness in respect thereto, so long as such restrictions are not (taken as a whole) materially less favorable to the Lenders than those in the original Indebtedness;
(g)
customary prohibitions or limitations arising in connection with any Permitted Transfer or Permitted Royalty Transaction or contained in any agreement relating to any Permitted Transfer pending the consummation of such Permitted Transfer;
(h)
customary provisions in shareholders’ agreements, joint venture agreements, organizational documents or similar agreements relating to, or any agreement evidencing Indebtedness of, any joint venture entity or non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary and applicable solely to such joint venture entity or non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary and the Equity Interests issued thereby;
(i)
customary net worth provisions set forth in real property leases entered into by Subsidiaries of Borrower, so long as such net worth provisions could not reasonably be expected to impair the ability of Borrower or its Subsidiaries to meet their ongoing obligations (as reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of Borrower in good faith);
(j)
customary net worth provisions set forth in customer agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business that are not otherwise prohibited under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, so long as such net worth provisions could not reasonably be expected to impair the ability of Borrower or its Subsidiaries to meet their ongoing obligations (as reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of Borrower in good faith);
(k)
restrictions on cash or other deposits (including escrowed funds) imposed by agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business that are not otherwise prohibited under this Agreement or any other Loan Document;
(l)
prohibitions or limitations set forth in any agreement in effect at the time any Person becomes a Subsidiary (but not any amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, extension, supplement or replacement expanding the scope of any such restriction or condition); provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary and each such prohibition or limitation does not apply to Borrower or any other Subsidiary (other than such Person and any other Person that is a Subsidiary of such first Person at the time such first Person becomes a Subsidiary);
(m)
prohibitions or limitations imposed by any Loan Document;
(n)
customary provisions set forth in joint venture agreements or agreements governing minority investments that are not otherwise prohibited by this Agreement or any other Loan Document, if and only to the extent each such prohibition or limitation applies only to the joint venture entity or minority investment that is the subject of such agreement;
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(p)
limitations imposed with respect to any license acquired in a Permitted Acquisition; customary provisions restricting assignments or other transfer of properties or assets subject thereto set forth in any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business, if and only to the extent each such restriction applies only to the properties or assets subject to such agreement;
(q)
prohibitions or limitations imposed by any agreement evidencing any Permitted Indebtedness of the type described in any of clause (d) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”; and
(r)
prohibitions or limitations imposed by any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, extensions, supplements or replacements of any of the agreements referred to in clauses (a) through (r) above, provided that such amendments, modifications, restatements, refinancings or renewals, taken as a whole, are not materially more restrictive with respect to such encumbrances and restrictions than those contained in such predecessor agreements, contracts or instruments.

“Permitted Royalty Transaction” means any sale of a synthetic royalty not prohibited in the Royalty Purchase Agreement in respect of a Company Product (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Product); provided, that (i) such sale (together with the sale(s) under all other Permitted Royalty Transactions previously entered into with respect to such Company Product and, in the case of the Product, the Revenue Purchase Agreement) shall not exceed [***] percent ([***]%) of the worldwide product net sales of such Company Product (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Product), (ii) the documentation governing such transaction shall provide that Borrower and/or the applicable Subsidiary may not make catch-up or make-whole payments (other than true up payments for payments missed, mistakes in calculations or the like, that are not independent payment obligations), and (iii) the trustee, purchase, agent or similar party of such transaction shall become party to an Intercreditor Agreement, with such changes as agreed to by the parties thereto or as needed for the structure of the applicable transaction.

“Permitted Transfers” means:
(a)
Transfers of any properties or assets in connection with any Permitted Royalty Transaction;
(b)
Transfers of Inventory in the ordinary course of business;
(c)
(i) Transfers of surplus, damaged, worn out or obsolete property and property that is, in the reasonable judgment of Borrower exercised in good faith, no longer economically practicable to maintain or useful in the ordinary course of business, (ii) Transfers of condemned property or assets as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar policies to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and (iii) Transfers of properties that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such property or assets as part of an insurance settlement;
(d)
Transfers made in connection with Permitted Liens, Permitted Distributions, Permitted Investments or permitted by Section 6.3(a);
(e)
Transfers of cash and Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business in a manner that is not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;
(f)
Transfers (i) between or among Credit Parties; provided that, with respect to any Collateral (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Equity Interests constituting Collateral issued by any Subsidiary which are owned or otherwise held by a Credit Party), any and all steps as may be required to be taken under the Collateral Documents to create and maintain a first priority security interest in and Lien upon such Collateral have been or are taken contemporaneously with the completion of any such Transfer, (ii) between or among non-Credit Parties, and (iii) from a non-Credit Party to a Credit Party; the sale or issuance of Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of Borrower to any Credit Party or Subsidiary, provided, that any such sale or issuance by a Credit Party shall be to another Credit Party, provided, further, that, with respect to any such Equity Interests which constitute Collateral with the completion of such sale or issuance, any and all steps as may be required to be taken under the Collateral Documents to create and maintain a first priority security interest in and Lien upon such Equity Interests in are taken contemporaneously with the completion of any such sale or issuance;

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(g)
(h)
the discount without recourse, sale or other disposition of overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the compromise, collection or settlement thereof and not part of a financing transaction;
(i)
any lapse, abandonment, cancellation, non-renewal or discontinuance of use or maintenance of Company IP that Borrower reasonably determines in good faith is no longer economically practicable to maintain or useful in the ordinary course of business;
(j)
any Permitted License;
(k)
intercompany licenses or grants of rights of distribution, co-promotion or similar commercial rights (i) between or among the Credit Parties, or (ii) between or among the Credit Parties and Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties entered into prior to the Effective Date, and renewals, replacements and extensions thereof (including additional licenses or grants in relation to new territories) on comparable terms in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
(l)
Transfers of Investments in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell arrangements between the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture agreements and similar binding agreements;
(m)
Transfers of leases, subleases, licenses and sublicenses not involving Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
(n)
Transfers of property or assets (other than Equity Interests or all or substantially all of the assets of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property;
(o)
the unwinding of any Permitted Hedging Agreement in accordance with its terms; and
(p)
any Transfer not otherwise permitted by this definition, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000.

“Permitted Warrant Transaction” means any call option, warrant or right to purchase (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) relating to Borrower’s common stock (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock of Borrower) or cash or any combination thereof (with the amount of such cash or such combination determined by reference to the market price of such common stock or other securities) sold by Borrower substantially concurrently with any purchase by Borrower of a related Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction.

“Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, company, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation, institution, public benefit corporation, firm, joint stock company, estate, entity or government agency.

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“Personal Data” means information that is defined as “personally identifiable information,” “personal information,” or “personal data,” under applicable Data Protection Laws.

“Personal Data Breach” is defined in Section 4.22(b).

“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the IRC or Section 302 of ERISA which is maintained or contributed to by Borrower or its Subsidiaries or their respective ERISA Affiliates or with respect to which Borrower or its Subsidiaries have any liability (including under Section 4069 of ERISA).

“Prepayment Premium” means the Tranche A Prepayment Premium, Tranche B Prepayment Premium or the Tranche C Prepayment Premium (as applicable) or any combination thereof, as the context dictates.

“primary obligations” as defined in the defined term “Contingent Obligation”.

“primary obligor” as defined in the defined term “Contingent Obligation”.

“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the U.S. or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Administrative Agent). Any change in the Prime Rate shall take effect at the opening of business on the day such change is publicly announced or quoted as being effective.

“Private Third Party Payor Programs” means all U.S. third party payor programs in which any Credit Party or its Subsidiaries participates, including managed care plans, or any other private insurance programs, but excluding all Governmental Payor Programs.

“Product” means any product which contains RMC-6236.

“Qualified Equity Interests” shall mean Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.

“Recipient” means (a) the Administrative Agent or (b) any Lender, as applicable.

“Register” is defined in Section 2.8(a).

“Registered Organization” means any “registered organization” as defined in the Code with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.

“Regulatory Agency” means a Governmental Authority with responsibility for the approval, clearance, or other authorization regarding the marketing and sale of pharmaceuticals or other regulation of pharmaceuticals, including the FDA.

“Regulatory Approval” means all approvals, clearances, product or establishment licenses, registrations or authorizations of any Regulatory Agency necessary for the manufacture, use, storage, import, export, transport, offer for sale, or sale of any Company Product

“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors and representatives of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

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“Release” means any release, spill, emission, leaking, pumping, pouring, injection, escaping, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, dumping, leaching or migration of any Hazardous Material into the indoor or outdoor environment (including the abandonment or disposal of any barrels, containers or other closed receptacles containing any Hazardous Material), including the movement of any Hazardous Material through the air, soil, surface water or groundwater, in each case, in the United States.

“Relevant Governmental Body” shall mean the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.

“Required Lenders” means Lenders having Total Credit Exposures representing more than 50% of the Total Credit Exposures of all Lenders.

“Requirements of Law” means, as to any Person, any law (statutory or common), treaty, order, policy, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority (including Health Care Laws, Data Protection Laws, FDA Laws, and all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, and orders administered or issued by any foreign Governmental Authority), in each case, applicable to and binding upon such Person or any of its assets or properties or to which such Person or any of its assets or properties are subject.

“Responsible Officers” means, with respect to Borrower or any other Credit Party, collectively, the President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, and Chief Financial Officer.

“Revenue Purchase Agreement” means the Revenue Participation Right Purchase and Sale Agreement by and between Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV and Borrower dated as of June 23, 2025.

“RMC-6236” means the chemical compound with the International Nonproprietary Name “daraxonrasib”.

“Sanctions” is defined in Section 4.18(c).

“SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

“Secured Parties” means each Lender, the Administrative Agent and any of their respective successors and permitted transferees or assigns.

“Securities Account” means any “securities account” as defined in the Code with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933.

“Security Agreement” means the Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, by and among the Credit Parties and the Administrative Agent, in form and substance substantially similar to Exhibit C attached hereto or in such form or substance as the Credit Parties and the Administrative Agent may otherwise agree.

“Security Incidents” is defined in Section 4.22(b).

“Security Program” is defined in Section 4.22(b).

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“Sensitive Information” means, collectively, (a) any confidential information in which Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries have IP Ancillary Rights or any other Intellectual Property rights (including Company IP), (b) any information with respect to which Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries have contractual non-disclosure obligations, and (c) nonpublic regulatory submission materials.

“SOFR” means a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator.

“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).

“Software” is defined in the defined term “Intellectual Property”.

“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person, as of any date of determination, (a) the amount of the “present fair saleable value” of the assets of such Person will, as of such date, exceed the amount of all “liabilities of such Person, contingent or otherwise,” as of such date, (b) the “present fair saleable value” of the assets of such Person will, as of such date, be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the liability of such Person on its debts as such debts become absolute and matured, (c) such Person will not have, as of such date, an unreasonably small amount of capital with which to conduct its business, (d) such Person will be able to pay its debts as they mature and (e) such Person is not insolvent within the meaning of any applicable Requirements of Law. For purposes of this definition, (i) “debt” shall mean liability on a “claim,” (ii) “claim” shall mean any (A) right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured or (B) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured or unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured and (iii) such other quoted terms used in this definition shall be determined in accordance with applicable federal and state laws governing determinations of the insolvency of debtors.

“Specified Disputes” is defined in Section 4.6(i).

“SSA” means the Social Security Act of 1935, codified at Title 42, Chapter 7, of the United States Code.

“Stock Acquisition” means the purchase or other acquisition by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of all of the Equity Interests (by merger, stock purchase or otherwise) of any other Person.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the Board of Directors of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference to a Subsidiary herein shall be a reference to a Subsidiary of Borrower.

“Systems” is defined in Section 4.22(a).

“Tax” means any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

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“Term Loan” means each of the Tranche A Loan, the Tranche B Loan and the Tranche C Loan, as applicable, and “Term Loans” means, collectively, the Tranche A Loan, the Tranche B Loan and the Tranche C Loan.

“Term Loan Commitment” mean each of the Tranche A Loan Commitment, the Tranche B Loan Commitment and the Tranche C Loan Commitment, as applicable, and “Term Loan Commitments” means, collectively, the Tranche A Loan Commitment, the Tranche B Loan Commitment and the Tranche C Loan Commitment.

“Term Loan Maturity Date” means the earlier of (a) the six year anniversary of the Tranche A Closing Date and (b) December 31, 2032.

“Term Loan Note” is defined in Section 2.8(b).

“Term SOFR” means for any calculation, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of three (3) months on the day (such day, the “Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, that (a) if as of 5:00 p.m. on any Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day and (b) if Term SOFR as so determined shall ever be less than the Floor, then Term SOFR shall be deemed to be the Floor.
“Term SOFR Administrator” shall mean CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).

“Term SOFR Reference Rate” shall mean the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.

“Third Party IP” is defined in Section 4.6(k).

“Total Credit Exposure” shall mean, as to any Lender at any time, the unused Term Loan Commitments, and outstanding Term Loans of such Lender at such time.

“Trademark License” means any agreement, whether written or oral, providing for the grant by or to a Person of any right to use any Trademark.

“Trademarks” means (a) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, service marks, elements of package or trade dress of goods or services, logos and other source or business identifiers, together with the goodwill associated therewith, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States or any state thereof or in any similar office or agency anywhere in the world in which foreign counterparts are registered or issued, and (b) all renewals thereof.

“Trailing 4Q Product Sales” means, as of any date of determination, Net Sales (as defined in the Revenue Purchase Agreement) of the Product during the immediately preceding four (4) fiscal quarters.

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“Trailing 4Q Sales” means, as of any date of determination, the worldwide sales by Borrower and its Subsidiaries of all Company Products, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with Applicable Accounting Standards, as set forth in Borrower’s financial statements or as otherwise evidenced in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders.

“Tranche A Closing Date” means the date on which all the conditions precedent in Section 3.2 are satisfied or waived and the Tranche A Loan is advanced by Lenders.

“Tranche A Commitment” means, with respect to any Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make the Credit Extensions relating to the Tranche A Loan on the Tranche A Closing Date in the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Exhibit F attached hereto.

“Tranche A Commitment Period” means the time period commencing on Borrower’s receipt of Marketing Approval from the FDA for RMC-6236 for any indication or treatment related to metastatic PDAC (such approval, the “Tranche A Approval”) (provided that the Tranche A Approval is received on or prior to January 1, 2028) (the “Tranche A Commitment Start Date”) and ending on the date that is 45 days from the Tranche A Commitment Start Date (such date, the “Tranche A Commitment Termination Date”).

“Tranche A Commitment Start Date” as defined in the defined term “Tranche A Commitment Period”.

“Tranche A Commitment Termination Date” as defined in the defined term “Tranche A Commitment Period”.

“Tranche A Loan” is defined in Section 2.2(a)(i).

“Tranche A Loan Amount” means an original principal amount equal to Two Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars ($250,000,000.00).

“Tranche A Makewhole Amount” means, as of any date of determination occurring prior to the second anniversary of the Tranche A Closing Date, an amount equal to the sum of all interest that would have accrued and been payable from such date to (but excluding) the second anniversary of the Tranche A Closing Date on the amount of principal prepaid.

“Tranche A Note” means a promissory note in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Tranche A Prepayment Premium” means, with respect to any prepayment of the Tranche A Loan by Borrower pursuant to Section 2.2(c) or as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), an amount equal to the product of:

(i)
the amount of such prepayment, multiplied by:
(ii)
(a) if such prepayment occurs prior to the third anniversary of the Tranche A Closing Date, 0.03; or

(b) if such prepayment occurs on or after the third anniversary of the Tranche A Closing Date but prior to the Term Loan Maturity Date, 0.01.

For the avoidance of doubt, no Tranche A Prepayment Premium shall be due and owing for any payment of the Tranche A Loan made on the Term Loan Maturity Date.

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“Tranche B Closing Date” means the date on which all the conditions precedent in Section 3.2 are satisfied or waived and the Tranche B Loan is advanced by Lenders.

“Tranche B Commitment” means, with respect to any Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make the Credit Extensions relating to the Tranche B Loan on the Tranche B Closing Date in the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Exhibit F attached hereto.

“Tranche B Commitment Milestone” means the occurrence of a fiscal quarter ending prior to January 1, 2028 with respect to which Trailing 4Q Product Sales is greater than or equal to [***] Dollars ($[***]).

“Tranche B Commitment Period” means the time period commencing with the Tranche B Commitment Start Date and ending with the Tranche B Commitment Termination Date.

“Tranche B Commitment Start Date” means the date on which the following conditions are satisfied: the Tranche B Commitment Milestone has occurred and (ii) the Borrower has provided a certificate under Section 5.2(a)(v) certifying as the occurrence of the Tranche B Milestone.

“Tranche B Commitment Termination Date” means the date 45 days from the Tranche B Commitment Start Date.

“Tranche B Loan” is defined in Section 2.2(a)(ii).

“Tranche B Loan Amount” means an original principal amount equal to Two Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars ($250,000,000.00).

“Tranche B Makewhole Amount” means, as of any date of determination occurring prior to the second anniversary of the Tranche B Closing Date, an amount equal to the sum of all interest that would have accrued and been payable from such date through the second anniversary of the Tranche B Closing Date on the amount of principal prepaid.

“Tranche B Note” means a promissory note in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Tranche B Prepayment Premium” means, with respect to any prepayment of the Tranche B Loan by Borrower pursuant to Section 2.2(c) or as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), an amount equal to the product of:

(i) the amount of such prepayment, multiplied by:

(ii) (a) if such prepayment occurs prior to the third anniversary of the Tranche B Closing Date, 0.03; or

(b)
if such prepayment occurs on or after the third anniversary of the Tranche B Closing Date but prior to the Term Loan Maturity Date, 0.01.

For the avoidance of doubt, no Tranche B Prepayment Premium shall be due and owing for any payment of the Tranche B Loan made on the Term Loan Maturity Date.

“Tranche C Closing Date” means the date on which all the conditions precedent in Section 3.2 are satisfied or waived and the Tranche C Loan is advanced by Lenders.

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“Tranche C Commitment” means, with respect to any Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make the Credit Extensions relating to the Tranche C Loan on the Tranche C Closing Date in the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Exhibit F attached hereto.

“Tranche C Commitment Milestone” means the occurrence of a fiscal quarter ending prior to January 1, 2028 with respect to which Trailing 4Q Product Sales is greater than or equal to [***] Dollars ($[***]).

“Tranche C Commitment Period” means the time period commencing with the Tranche C Commitment Start Date and ending with the Tranche C Commitment Termination Date.

“Tranche C Commitment Start Date” means the date on which the following conditions are satisfied: the Tranche C Commitment Milestone has occurred and (ii) the Borrower has provided a certificate under Section 5.2(a)(v) certifying as the occurrence of the Tranche C Milestone.

“Tranche C Commitment Termination Date” means the date 45 days from the Tranche C Commitment Start Date.

“Tranche C Loan” is defined in Section 2.2(a)(iii).

“Tranche C Loan Amount” means an original principal amount equal to Two Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars ($250,000,000.00).

“Tranche C Makewhole Amount” means, as of any date of determination occurring prior to the second anniversary of the Tranche C Closing Date, an amount equal to the sum of all interest that would have accrued and been payable from such date through the second anniversary of the Tranche C Closing Date on the amount of principal prepaid.

“Tranche C Note” means a promissory note in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Tranche C Prepayment Premium” means, with respect to any prepayment of the Tranche C Loan by Borrower pursuant to Section 2.2(c) or as a result of the acceleration of the maturity of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 8.1(a), an amount equal to the product of:

(i) the amount of such prepayment, multiplied by:

(ii) (a) if such prepayment occurs prior to the third anniversary of the Tranche C Closing Date, 0.03; or

(b) if such prepayment occurs on or after the third anniversary of the Tranche C Closing Date but prior to the Term Loan Maturity Date, 0.01.

For the avoidance of doubt, no Tranche C Prepayment Premium shall be due and owing for any payment of the Tranche C Loan made on the Term Loan Maturity Date.

“Transfer” is defined in Section 6.1.

“Treasury Regulations” mean those regulations promulgated pursuant to the IRC.

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“TRICARE” means a program of medical benefits covering former and active members of the uniformed services and certain of their dependents, financed and administered by the United States Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services and Transportation.

“UKBA” is defined in Section 4.18(a).

“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” shall mean any day except for (a) a Saturday, (b) a Sunday or (c) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.

“U.S. Person” means any United States citizen, lawful permanent resident, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States, including any foreign branch of any such entity, or any person in the United States.

“United States” or “U.S.” means the United States of America, its fifty (50) states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico or any other jurisdiction within the United States of America.

“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, a Subsidiary of such Person, all of the Equity Interests of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares or nominee or other similar shares required pursuant to Requirements of Law) are owned by such Person or another Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of such Person. Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference to a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary herein shall be a reference to a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of a Credit Party.

“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

“Working Capital ICA” is defined in clause(c) of the defined term “Permitted Indebtedness”.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the Effective Date.

 

REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC.,
as Borrower

 

 

By: /s/ Mark A. Goldsmith Name: Mark A. Goldsmith, M.D., Ph.D. Title: President and Chief Executive Officer WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent

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By: /s/ David Bergstrom Name: David Bergstrom Title: Vice President Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC, as a Lender

Signature Page to Loan Agreement

 

 


 

 

 

By: /s/ George W. Lloyd Name: George W. Lloyd Title: Director of Royalty Pharma Holdings Limited, the Sole Member and Manager of Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC I, Mark A. Goldsmith, certify that:

Signature Page to Loan Agreement

 

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EX-31.1 4 rvmd-ex31_1.htm EX-31.1 EX-31.1

Exhibit 31.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULES 13a-14(a) AND 15d-14(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

1.
I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Revolution Medicines, Inc.;
2.
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3.
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4.
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
(a)
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
(b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c)
Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d)
Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5.
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a)
All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b)
Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: August 6, 2025

By:

/s/ Mark A. Goldsmith

Mark A. Goldsmith, M.D., Ph.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

 


EX-31.2 5 rvmd-ex31_2.htm EX-31.2 EX-31.2

Exhibit 31.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULES 13a-14(a) AND 15d-14(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Jack Anders, certify that:

1.
I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Revolution Medicines, Inc.;
2.
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3.
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4.
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
(a)
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
(b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c)
Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d)
Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5.
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a)
All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b)
Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: August 6, 2025

By:

/s/ Jack Anders

Jack Anders

 

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 


EX-32.1 6 rvmd-ex32_1.htm EX-32.1 EX-32.1

 

Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Revolution Medicines, Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2025, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1)
The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
(2)
The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.

 

Date: August 6, 2025

By:

/s/ Mark A. Goldsmith

Mark A. Goldsmith, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 


EX-32.2 7 rvmd-ex32_2.htm EX-32.2 EX-32.2

 

Exhibit 32.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Revolution Medicines, Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2025, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1)
The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
(2)
The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.

 

Date: August 6, 2025

By:

/s/ Jack Anders

Jack Anders

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)