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Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Commitments and Contingencies [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure
Commitments and Contingencies
 
Operating Lease Obligations:  A Lexicon subsidiary leases office space in Basking Ridge, New Jersey under an operating lease agreement, the term of which began in June 2015 and terminates in December 2022. As disclosed in Note 2, the Company adopted ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), on January 1, 2019. As of June 30, 2019, the office space lease right-of-use (ROU) asset had a balance of $1.9 million, which is included in other assets in the consolidated balance sheet, and current and non-current liabilities relating to the ROU asset were $0.6 million and $1.3 million, respectively, which are included in accrued liabilities and other long-term liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet, respectively. The discount rate used to record the office space lease was the Company’s estimated borrowing rate of 9%. Additionally, Lexicon leases certain office equipment under operating leases. The Company elected to apply the short-term lease exception to all leases one year or less.

The following table reconciles the undiscounted cash flows of the operating lease liability to the recorded lease liability at June 30, 2019:

 
(in thousands)
2019
$
304

2020
620

2021
632

2022
645

2023

Total undiscounted operating lease liability
2,200

Less: amount of lease payments representing interest
(322
)
Present value of future lease payments
1,878

Less: short-term operating lease liability
(553
)
Long-term operating lease liability
$
1,325



 
Legal Proceedings.  On January 28, 2019, a purported securities class action complaint captioned Daniel Manopla v. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Lonnel Coats, Jeffrey L. Wade and Pablo Lapuerta, M.D. was filed against the Company and certain of its officers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. An amended complaint was filed on July 30, 2019. The lawsuit purports to be a class action brought on behalf of purchasers of the Company’s securities during the period from March 11, 2016 through July 29, 2019. The complaint alleges that the defendants violated federal securities laws by making materially false and misleading statements and/or omissions concerning data from its Phase 3 clinical trials of sotagliflozin in type 1 diabetes patients and the prospects of FDA approval of sotagliflozin for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The complaint purports to assert claims for violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder. The complaint seeks, on behalf of the purported class, an unspecified amount of monetary damages, interest, fees and expenses of attorneys and experts, and other relief.

In addition, Lexicon is from time to time party to claims and legal proceedings that arise in the normal course of its business and that it believes will not have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on its results of operations, financial condition or liquidity.