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Restructuring Liability
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
Restructuring Liability
Restructuring Liabilities
2003 Kendall Restructuring
In 2003, the Company adopted a plan to restructure its operations to coincide with its increasing internal emphasis on advancing drug candidates through clinical development to commercialization. The restructuring liability relates to specialized laboratory and office space that is leased to the Company pursuant to a 15-year lease that terminates in 2018. The Company has not used more than 50% of this space since it adopted the plan to restructure its operations in 2003. This unused laboratory and office space currently is subleased to third parties.
In estimating the expense and liability under its lease obligations, the Company estimated (i) the costs to be incurred to satisfy rental and build-out commitments under the lease (including operating costs), (ii) the lead-time necessary to sublease the space, (iii) the projected sublease rental rates and (iv) the anticipated durations of subleases. The Company uses a credit-adjusted risk-free rate of approximately 10% to discount the estimated cash flows. The Company reviews its estimates and assumptions on at least a quarterly basis, intends to continue such reviews until the termination of the applicable lease, and will make whatever modifications the Company believes necessary, based on the Company’s best judgment, to reflect any changed circumstances.
The activities related to the restructuring liability for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 were as follows:
 
Three Months Ended March 31,
 
2014
 
2013
 
(in thousands)
Liability, beginning of the period
$
19,115

 
$
23,328

Cash payments
(3,862
)
 
(3,573
)
Cash received from subleases
2,689

 
2,665

Restructuring expense
382

 
39

Liability, end of the period
$
18,324

 
$
22,459


Fan Pier Move Restructuring
In connection with the relocation of its Massachusetts operations to Fan Pier in Boston, Massachusetts, the Company is incurring restructuring charges related to its remaining lease obligations at its facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which will include lease obligations related to the 120,000 square feet of the Kendall Square facility that the Company continued to use for its operations following the 2003 restructuring event. The Company started incurring these charges in the fourth quarter of 2013 and expects them to continue through April 2018. Most of these restructuring charges relate to cease use charges that the Company expect to incur during the first half of 2014. In the first quarter of 2014, the Company incurred $5.2 million of charges related to this restructuring. Once the Company completes the relocation, the continuing charges will relate to the difference between the Company’s estimated future cash flows related to its lease obligations and the actual cash flows that it incurs.
Strategic Restructuring
In October 2013, the Company adopted a restructuring plan. The restructuring plan included (i) a workforce reduction primarily related to the commercial support of INCIVEK following the continued and rapid decline in the number of patients being treated with INCIVEK as new medicines for the treatment of HCV infection neared approval and (ii) the write-off of certain assets. This action resulted from the Company's decision to focus its investment on future opportunities in cystic fibrosis and other research and development programs.
The activities related to the restructuring liability for the three months ended March 31, 2014 were as follows:
 
Three Months Ended March 31, 2014
 
(in thousands)
Liability, beginning of the period
$
8,441

Cash payments
(7,267
)
Restructuring expense
647

Liability, end of the period
$
1,821