Commitments and Contingencies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Commitments and Contingencies [Abstract]

Operating Lease Obligations: A Lexicon subsidiary leases office space in Basking Ridge, New Jersey under a lease agreement, the term of which began in June 2015 and terminates in December 2022. As disclosed in Note 3, Lexicon adopted ASU 2016-02, "Leases", on January 1, 2019. As of December 31, 2019, the office space lease right-of-use (ROU) asset had a balance of $1.7 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 $1.1 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 Lexicon's estimated borrowing rate of 9%. Lexicon 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 December 31, 2019:



	(in thousands)
2020	$	620
2021	632
2022	645
2023	—
2024	—
Thereafter	—
Total undiscounted operating lease liability	1,897
Less: amount of lease payments representing interest	(242)
Present value of future lease payments	1,655
Less: short-term operating lease liability	(553)
Long-term operating lease liability	$	1,102

Employment Arrangements: Lexicon has entered into employment arrangements with certain of its corporate officers. Under the arrangements, each officer receives a base salary, subject to adjustment, with an annual discretionary bonus based upon specific objectives to be determined by the compensation committee. The employment arrangements are at-will and some contain non-competition agreements. Some of the arrangements also provide for certain severance payments for either six or 12 months and, in some cases, payment of a specified portion of the officer’s bonus target for such year, in the event of a specified termination of the officer’s employment.

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. A first amended complaint was filed on July 30, 2019 and Lexicon filed a motion to dismiss such first amended complaint on September 30, 2019. The plaintiff filed an opposition to Lexicon's motion to dismiss on November 14, 2019 and Lexicon filed a reply in support of its motion to dismiss on December 13, 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.