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Subsequent Events
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events

NOTE 8—SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Acquisition of Ceregene

On August 23, 2013, Sangamo and its wholly-owned subsidiary CG Acquisition Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Ceregene, Inc., (“Ceregene”) and a stockholders’ representative. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the Company acquired all outstanding shares of Ceregene, a privately held biotechnology company focused on the development of adeno-associated virus (“AAV”) gene therapies. The acquired assets include all of Ceregene’s therapeutic programs, including CERE-110, an AAV vector delivery system for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease that is currently in a Phase 2 clinical trial, certain intellectual property rights relating to the manufacturing of AAV, and certain toxicology and safety data from Ceregene’s human clinical trials (the Acquisition). The Acquisition was closed on October 1, 2013 (the Closing Date).

On the Closing Date, Merger Sub merged with and into Ceregene, with Ceregene continuing as the surviving company and a wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company. On the Closing Date, each share of Ceregene’s issued and outstanding capital stock held by its stockholders converted to the right to receive a portion of the merger consideration for the Acquisition, which consists initially of (i) 100,000 shares of Sangamo common stock with a market value of approximately $1.2 million on the Closing Date, and (ii) amount of cash and cash equivalent of Ceregene on the Closing Date less certain liabilities and expenses. In addition to such initial merger consideration, during the term of the Merger Agreement, the Company is required to make contingent earn-out payments (the “Earn-Out Payments”) to the stockholders of Ceregene as follows:

 

    If the Company grants a third-party license to develop and commercialize Ceregene’s CERE-110 for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease or CERE-120 for the treatment of Parkinson’s diseases or Huntington’s disease (the “Earn-Out Products”), the Company is required to pay a double digit percentage of any upfront and milestone payments the Company receives for such license, subject to certain reductions based on expenses incurred by the Company in the development of the Earn-Out Products; and

 

    If the Company commercializes any Earn-Out Product itself, the Company is required to pay, for each Earn-Out Product, royalty-like earnout payments as a percentage of net sales that range in the low double digits depending upon the amount of net sales, subject to certain reductions by the Company.

Also on the Closing Date, the Company, Ceregene and certain of its stockholders entered into an indemnity escrow agreement, pursuant to which a portion of the purchase price was deposited in an escrow account for the benefit of the Company to satisfy indemnity obligations of the stockholders under the Merger Agreement. Due to the relatively short time from the Closing Date of the Acquisition to the completion of the accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements, the accounting for the initial purchase price allocation as well as certain required supplemental disclosures with respect to the Acquisition have not been completed.