10. SALE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSETS

9 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2018

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

SALE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSETS

Asset Assignment and Purchase Agreement

On February 12, 2018, we entered into an Asset Assignment and Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with a third-party oncology therapeutics company (the “Buyer”) pursuant to which we sold to the Buyer the majority of our research and development assets, which included the assignment of certain exclusive licenses related to our former PS-targeting program, as well as certain other licenses and assets useful and/or necessary for the potential commercialization of bavituximab. 

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, we expect to receive an aggregate of $8 million from the Buyer, payable in three installments over a period of approximately six and one-half months following the date of the Purchase Agreement, the first of which is due by March 14, 2018. We are also eligible to receive up to an additional $95 million in the event that the Buyer achieves certain development, regulatory and commercialization milestones with respect to bavituximab. In addition, we are eligible to receive royalties on net sales that are upward tiering into the mid-teens in the event that the Buyer commercializes and sells products utilizing bavituximab or the other transferred assets. The Buyer is responsible for all future research, development and commercialization of bavituximab, including all related intellectual property costs and all other future liabilities and obligations arising out of the ownership of the transferred assets (i.e., we remain obligated for all liabilities associated with the research and development assets associated with the Purchase Agreement incurred or arising prior to February 13, 2018). In addition, as part of the transaction, we and the Buyer agreed to diligently work in good faith to negotiate and enter into, within 90 days after the date of the Purchase Agreement, an agreement for us to provide future contract development and manufacturing activities to the Buyer in support of bavituximab.

Discontinued Operations

As a result of (i) the sale of our PS-targeting program, (ii) the held for sale classification of our R84 technology, (iii) the abandonment of our remaining research and development assets (including our intent to return the exosome technology back to the original licensor), and (iv) the strategic shift in our corporate direction to focus solely on our CDMO business that will have a major effect on our operations and financial results as we will no longer incur costs associated with research and development, the operating results from our research and development segment are reported as a loss from discontinued operations in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for all periods presented (Note 1). Accordingly, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended January 31, 2018 and 2017 reflect the operations of our research and development segment as a discontinued operation. The results of operations presented below include certain allocations that management believes fairly reflect the utilization of services to the research and development segment. The allocations do not include amounts related to general corporate administrative expenses or interest expense. Therefore, the results of operations from the research and development segment do not necessarily reflect what the results of operations would have been had the research and development segment operated as a stand-alone segment.

The following table summarizes the results of discontinued operations for the three and nine months ended January 31, 2018 and 2017:

	Three Months Ended January 31,				Nine Months Ended January 31,
	2018		2017		2018		2017
Operating expenses:
Research and development	$	374,000	$	5,912,000	$	7,590,000	$	21,347,000
Selling, general and administrative		1,315,000		293,000		2,097,000		1,256,000
Restructuring charges		–		–		330,000		–
Total operating expenses		1,689,000		6,205,000		10,017,000		22,603,000
Other expense		387,000		–		387,000		–
Loss from discontinued operations	$	2,076,000	$	6,205,000	$	10,404,000	$	22,603,000

We will complete the accounting for the Purchase Agreement during the fourth quarter of our current fiscal year ending April 30, 2018. In addition, we expect to use a portion of our net operating losses to offset the taxable gain from the Purchase Agreement, if any, which could result in a partial release of our valuation allowance.

Assets Held for Sale

The carrying value of the assets and liabilities deemed a component of the discontinued research and development segment were not classified as “assets held for sale” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets at January 31, 2018 and April 30, 2017 since there were no related assets reported as of the respective balance sheet dates and the Buyer did not assume any liabilities under the Purchase Agreement.