Collaboration and License Agreements and Acquisition

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2023

Collaboration and License Agreements and Acquisition

Collaboration Agreement

Amyris Joint Venture

In December 2021, ImmunityBio and Amyris, Inc. (Amyris) entered into a 50:50 joint venture arrangement and formed a new limited liability company to conduct the business of the joint venture. The purpose of the joint venture is to accelerate commercialization of a next-generation COVID-19 vaccine utilizing an RNA vaccine-platform. As part of the limited liability agreement, Amyris contributed $1.0 million in cash and rights to its license agreement with the Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI) for an RNA platform for the field of COVID-19. ImmunityBio contributed $1.0 million in cash and priority access to its manufacturing capacity for the joint venture product. Both parties agreed to enter into a separate manufacturing and supply agreement and a sublicense agreement following the execution of the joint venture agreement.

The joint venture agreement stipulates the initial terms for equal representation in the management of the newly-formed joint venture. The joint venture is managed by a board of directors consisting of four directors: two appointed by the company and two appointed by Amyris. Both parties agreed to make additional capital contributions in cash, in proportion to their respective interests, as determined by the board of directors of the joint venture.

We considered the joint venture entity as a VIE and determined that we are not the primary beneficiary of the VIE. In February 2022, we made a cash investment totaling $1.0 million in the joint venture’s common stock. We account for our investment in the joint venture using the equity method of accounting and recorded our 50% share of the net loss from the joint venture totaling $6.3 million and $4.1 million during the six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, in other (expense) income, net, on the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Such losses incurred during the six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022 were attributed to expenses incurred by us on behalf of the joint venture. We are not obligated to fund the joint venture’s potential future losses. As of June 30, 2023, the carrying amount of our equity investment in the joint venture was zero.

License Agreements

3M Innovative Properties Company (3M IPC) and AAHI License Agreement

We have licensed rights to 3M-052, a synthetic TLR7/8 agonist, 3M-052 formulations and related technology from 3M IPC and its affiliates and AAHI. In November 2021 we obtained nonexclusive rights in the field of SARS-CoV-2 and in June 2022 we modified those rights and expanded the scope of the license to include (1) SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases including malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, hookworm and varicella zoster on an exclusive basis in countries other than low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), and (2) oncology applications, when used in combination with our proprietary technology and/or IL-15 agonists. In consideration for the license, we agreed to make certain periodic license payments, including $2.25 million each year through June 2025, with the June 2022 payment being partially offset by the $0.5 million previously paid under the initial November 2021 license agreement. We have also agreed to make payments upon the achievement of certain regulatory milestone events and tiered royalties ranging from the low to high single-digits as a percentage of net sales. Beginning in April 2026, the annual minimum licensing payment is $1.0 million, which can be credited against any royalty payments due under this agreement.

In June 2023, we made an annual license maintenance fee payment of $2.25 million. We expensed $0.9 million and $0.1 million during the six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, in research and development expense, on the condensed consolidated statements of operations.

AAHI License Agreements

In May 2021, we entered into two license agreements with AAHI pursuant to which we received a license to certain patents and know-how relating to AAHI’s (i) adjuvant formulations for the treatment, prevention and/or diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 (the AAHI Adjuvant Formulation License Agreement) and (ii) RNA vaccine platform as further described below (the AAHI RNA License Agreement). Under both agreements, we were obligated to pay one-time, non-creditable, non-refundable upfront cash payments totaling $2.0 million. In addition, under the AAHI Adjuvant Formulation License Agreement we owe milestone payments to a total of up to $2.5 million based on the achievement of certain development and regulatory milestones for the first licensed product and royalties on annual net sales of licensed products on a country-by-country and product-by-product basis of a low-single digit percentage, subject to certain royalty-reduction provisions. No milestone fees were incurred during the six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

In September 2021, we amended and restated the AAHI RNA License Agreement, pursuant to which AAHI granted us an exclusive, worldwide, sublicensable license to AAHI’s rights to an RNA vaccine platform for the development and commercialization of certain therapeutic, diagnostic or prophylactic products for the prevention, treatment or diagnosis of any indication, other than those subject to pre-existing third-party license grants, including, without limitation, SARS-CoV-2. Pursuant to the terms of the amended and restated AAHI RNA License Agreement, we made a one-time, non-creditable, non-refundable, upfront payment to AAHI of $1.5 million and a license maintenance fee of $3.0 million in June 2022. The company is

required to pay license maintenance fees to AAHI of $5.5 million annually from 2023 through 2030. The company may terminate the restated agreement without cause by paying AAHI a $10.0 million one-time early termination fee. In addition, the milestone payments to AAHI based on the achievement of certain development and regulatory milestones for the first licensed product were amended to a total of up to $4.0 million. We are required to pay royalties on annual net sales of licensed products on a country-by-country and product-by-product basis of a low- to mid-single digit percentage. As of June 30, 2023, we recorded $0.5 million of license payable in accrued expenses and other liabilities, on the condensed consolidated balance sheet. We recorded $1.7 million and $0.3 million during the six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, in research and development expense, on the condensed consolidated statements of operations related to the license agreement.

In connection with the license agreements, in May 2021 we also entered into a sponsored research agreement with AAHI pursuant to which we will fund continued research of at least $2.0 million per year, payable in four equal quarterly installments each year until May 2024, or such year of earlier termination. We recorded $0.2 million during the six months ended June 30, 2023 in research and development expense, on the condensed consolidated statement of operations related to the sponsored research agreement.

Acquisition

Dunkirk Facility Leasehold Interest

On February 14, 2022, we completed the acquisition of the Dunkirk Facility (approximately 409,000 rentable square feet of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) ISO Class 5 pharmaceutical manufacturing space) from Athenex, Inc. (Athenex) (the Seller), which we believe will provide us with a state-of-the-art biotech production center that will substantially expand and diversify our manufacturing capacity in the U.S. and ability to scale production associated with certain of our product candidates. The company accounted for the transaction as an asset acquisition because the Dunkirk Facility’s integrated set of assets and activities did not meet the definition of a business.

The total consideration for the acquisition was approximately $40.5 million, including a cash payment of $40.0 million, and transaction costs of approximately $0.5 million. The following table summarizes the fair value of assets acquired as of the acquisition date (in thousands):


Construction in progress	$	10,043
Leasehold improvements	6,253
Finite-lived intangible assets (1)	21,229
Other depreciable assets and prepaid expenses	2,983
Total consideration	$	40,508

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(1)See Note 3, Financial Statement Details—Intangible Assets, Net, for further information.

Upon the closing of the Dunkirk transaction, the company became the tenant of the Dunkirk Facility under the Fort Schuyler Management Corporation Lease, dated October 1, 2021 and as amended as of the February 14, 2022 closing date (as amended, the Dunkirk Lease), with Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the State of New York (FSMC) as landlord. The Dunkirk Facility, as well as certain equipment, is owned by FSMC and is leased to us under the Dunkirk Lease. Our annual lease payment is $2.00 per year for an initial 10-year term, with one option to renew the lease under substantially the same terms and conditions for an additional 10-year term. As part of the transaction, we assumed certain of the Seller’s obligations under various third-party agreements (the Facility Agreements), subject to the terms and conditions of the purchase agreement by and between the company and the Seller dated as of January 7, 2022, and committed to spend an aggregate of $1.52 billion on operational expenses during the initial term, and an additional $1.50 billion on operational expenses if we elect to renew the lease for one additional 10-year term. We also committed to hiring 450 employees at the Dunkirk Facility within the first five years of operations, with 300 such employees to be hired within the first 2.5 years of operation. We are eligible for certain sales-tax exemption savings during the development of the Dunkirk Facility, and certain

property tax savings over the next 20 years, subject to certain terms and conditions, including performance of certain of the obligations described above. Failure to satisfy the obligations over the lease term may give rise to certain rights and remedies of governmental authorities including, for example, termination of the Dunkirk Lease and other Facility Agreements and potential recoupment of a percentage of the grant funding received by the Seller for construction of the facility and other benefits received, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable agreements.

Although we believe that governmental funding will assist in funding a portion of the further build-out of the Dunkirk Facility, which we estimate to be approximately $8.0 million to $10.0 million of governmental funding remaining available as of June 30, 2023, there can be no assurance as to the final acceptance and timing of the requests for governmental funding that we submit, and we will need to plan and fund most of the additional build-out of, and purchase additional equipment for, the Dunkirk Facility in connection with our planned full operations. In addition, any future governmental funding will be subject to the eligibility of submitted expenses, as well as our compliance with the obligations that we are subject to pursuant to the agreements with parties regarding the Dunkirk Facility as described above. Further, on May 14, 2023, Athenex, together with certain of its subsidiaries, filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the Athenex Proceedings). We do not know what, if any, impact the Athenex Proceedings will have on any portion of the potential governmental funding remaining for the Dunkirk Facility.