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Related Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

15. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Master Strategic Affiliation Agreement

Under the Master Strategic Affiliation Agreement with OpenBiome (the “Strategic Agreement”), OpenBiome and the Company reimbursed one another for certain administrative expenses. The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board is the spouse of the co-founder and former executive director of OpenBiome, and certain of the OpenBiome directors are stockholders of the Company.

The Company did not record any reimbursements to or from OpenBiome under the Strategic Agreement during the three months ended June 30, 2022. For the three months ended June 30, 2021, the Company reimbursed OpenBiome $0.1 million, and OpenBiome reimbursed the Company $0.1 million under the Strategic Agreement. As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the Company recorded zero payable balance due to OpenBiome. The Strategic Agreement was amended and restated in its entirety upon execution of the OpenBiome Agreement in November 2020 (as amended, the "A&R Strategic Agreement").

Until December 31, 2021, OpenBiome subleased office and lab space from the Company (see Note 5). The Company’s rent income under the sublease was $0.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. As of June 30, 2022 the Company had not recorded rent income under the sublease and no longer had an outstanding receivable due from OpenBiome.

Clinical Supply and Services Agreement

On February 10, 2020, the Company entered into a Clinical Supply and Services Agreement (the “CSA”) with OpenBiome, which terminated upon closing of the OpenBiome Agreement in March 2021. In accordance with the CSA, OpenBiome agreed to supply the Company with certain manufactured material and to provide additional support services to the Company. In consideration for these materials and services, the Company agreed to pay a monthly platform fee of $0.2 million, all direct employee overhead costs, and variable costs for consumables. Under a related payment agreement executed concurrently with the CSA, the Company paid a $0.5 million security deposit in the event of cost overruns under the CSA arrangement and approximately $1.6 million in prepaid fees. The $0.5 million security deposit was returned to the Company during the same period. The Company paid OpenBiome $1.1 million under the CSA for the six months ended June 30, 2021.

OpenBiome Agreement

On November 19, 2020, the Company entered into the OpenBiome Agreement in order to obtain OpenBiome’s CMC manufacturing process to enhance its current manufacturing capabilities for its lead program, CP101; the OpenBiome Agreement was fully executed and closed on March 1, 2021. Simultaneously with entering into the OpenBiome Agreement, the Company terminated the MAL Agreement and the APL Agreement, as well as certain subject matter agreements, and executed the A&R Strategic Agreement. Upon the closing of the OpenBiome Agreement on March 1, 2021, the CSA was also terminated, and the Company will not incur any additional expense to be paid to OpenBiome.

Pursuant to the OpenBiome Agreement, the Company acquired certain biological samples, software, and a non-exclusive license to OpenBiome’s CMC technology upon signing in November 2020, and acquired certain biological samples, a commercial lease, contract services intellectual property and capital equipment upon the closing of the transaction in March 2021. The Company previously licensed the biological samples and OpenBiome’s CMC technology under various historical agreements with OpenBiome which terminated upon signing of the OpenBiome Agreement. As such, the acquisition of the CMC technology license was a continuation of previously granted rights. Under the A&R Strategic Agreement, the OpenBiome Agreement releases, for a one-year period from signing, a hiring restriction under the A&R Strategic Agreement (i.e., non-solicitation) such that the Company may hire, at its discretion, certain OpenBiome employees. The Company did not acquire any such employees as part of the transaction.

In connection with the OpenBiome Agreement, the Company paid $1.2 million for the acquisition of certain assets in November 2020, which was capitalized as property and equipment as software on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2020, and paid $3.8 million upon the closing of the OpenBiome Agreement on March 1, 2021, for the remaining assets. The Company accounted for the OpenBiome Agreement as an asset acquisition and capitalized $5.0 million of property and equipment on the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2021 for the acquired software and property and equipment. The Company did not assign any value to biological samples, contract services intellectual property, or the CMC technology license, as the Company did not acquire any additional rights that were not previously granted under the legacy agreements.

The Company is also required to pay certain milestones of up to $26.0 million upon the occurrence of certain R&D events, regulatory approvals, and commercial sales, and low single digit royalties on net sales of products on a product-by-product and country-by-country basis, as well as a mid-single digit royalties on sublicensing revenue related to such products.

The Company previously granted OpenBiome a royalty-bearing, non-exclusive license to its intellectual property under the APL Agreement, which terminated upon the signing of the OpenBiome Agreement. The Company will continue to earn royalties under the OpenBiome Agreement based on sales of fecal microbiota transplantation ("FMT") materials.