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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

NOTE 15 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

License Agreements

 

In August 2015, BA Ltd. entered into an Option Agreement (the “Option Agreement”) with Pulmonox whereby BA Ltd. acquired the option (the “Option”) to purchase certain intellectual property assets and rights. On January 13, 2017, the Company exercised the Option and paid $500 thousand to Pulmonox. The Company becomes obligated to make certain one-time development and sales milestone payments to Pulmonox, commencing with the date on which the Company receive regulatory approval for the commercial sale of the first product candidate qualifying under the Option Agreement. These milestone payments are capped at a total of $87 million across three separate and distinct indications that fall under the agreement, with the majority of them, approximately $83 million, being sales-related based on cumulative sales milestones for each of the three products. The Company is not currently developing any qualifying products.

 

 

BEYOND AIR, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

NOTE 15 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (continued)

 

On January 31, 2018, the Company entered into an agreement (the “NitricGen Agreement”) with NitricGen, Inc. (“NitricGen”) to acquire a global, exclusive, transferable license and associated assets including intellectual property, know-how, trade secrets and confidential information from NitricGen related to the LungFit®. The Company acquired the licensing right to use the technology and agreed to pay NitricGen a total of $2.0 million in future payments based upon achieving certain milestones, as defined in the NitricGen Agreement, and single-digit royalties on sales of the LungFit®. The Company paid NitricGen $100 thousand upon the execution of the NitricGen Agreement, $100 thousand upon achieving the next milestone, accrued $1.5 million in March 2022 (which was paid in January 2023, six months after approval of the LungFit® by the FDA) and issued 100,000 warrants to purchase the Company’s common stock valued at $295 thousand upon executing the NitricGen Agreement. The remaining future milestone payments are $0.3 million.

 

Supply Agreement and Purchase Order

 

In August 2020, the Company entered into a supply agreement expiring on December 31, 2024. The agreement will renew automatically for successive three-year periods unless and until the Company provides twelve months’ notice of intent not to renew. The Company has opened several non-cancellable purchase orders and the outstanding amount remaining under the purchase order as of March 31, 2023 was approximately $4.8 million with this supplier.

 

Contingencies

 

On March 23, 2023, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department (the “Appellate Court”), rendered its opinion in Empery Asset Master, Ltd., et. al. vs. AIT Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Empery Suit”). The Appellate Court opinion affirmed the judgment by the Supreme Court of the State of New York against the Company. In connection with the appeal, the Company had used approximately $7.4 million of cash as collateral to secure a supersedeas bond for the full amount of damages and interest in case it was unsuccessful in its appeal. The Company accrued a total of $7.6 million for damages and interest as of March 31, 2023. As a subsequent event to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, the Company paid a total of $7.6 million including damages and interest in satisfaction of judgment.

 

On December 28, 2021 Hudson Bay Master Fund (“Hudson”) filed a lawsuit against the Company related to the notice of adjustment of the exercise price of and the number of warrant shares issuable under warrants issued to Hudson in January 2017. Hudson received 83,334 warrants in connection with the January 2017 offering. Hudson’s complaint alleges breach of contract and that Hudson is entitled to damages estimated at approximately $2.6 million as a result of certain adjustments to the exercise price and number of warrant shares issuable following a February 2018 financing transaction. The Company accrued a total of $2.7 million as of March 31, 2023, reflecting management’s estimate of most likely outcome of the lawsuit.

 

 

BEYOND AIR, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS