UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

(Mark One)

 

 

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2021

OR

 

 

For the transition period from               to               

 

Commission File Number: 001-37746

 

APTEVO THERAPEUTICS INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (206) 838-0500

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.     Yes  ☒    No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    Yes  ☒    No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act).     ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ☐    No  ☒

As of May 10, 2021, the number of shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding was 4,449,535.

 

 

 

 

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Table of Contents

 

 

In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, “we,” “our,” “us,” “Aptevo,” and “the Company” refer to Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. and, where appropriate, its consolidated subsidiaries.

 

 

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PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements.

Aptevo Therapeutics Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share and per share amounts, unaudited)

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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Aptevo Therapeutics Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except share and per share amounts, unaudited)

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

 

 

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Aptevo Therapeutics Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in thousands, unaudited)

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

 

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Aptevo Therapeutics Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(in thousands, except share amounts, unaudited)

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Aptevo Therapeutics Inc.

Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

 

 

Note 1. Nature of Business and Significant Accounting Policies

Organization and Liquidity

Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. (Aptevo, we, us, or the Company) is a clinical-stage, research and development biotechnology company focused on developing novel immunotherapeutic candidates for the treatment of different forms of cancer. We have developed two versatile and enabling platform technologies for rational design of precision immune stimulatory drugs. Our lead clinical candidate, APVO436, and preclinical candidates, ALG.APV-527 and APVO603, were developed using our ADAPTIR™ modular protein technology platform. Our preclinical candidate APVO442 was developed using our ADAPTIR-FLEX™ modular protein technology platform.  

We are currently trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “APVO.”

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared on a basis that assumes we will continue as a going concern and which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, we had a net loss of $7.3 million and net income of $2.9 million, respectively. We had an accumulated deficit of $192.9 million as of March 31, 2021. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, net cash used in our operating activities was $7.5 million. We have suffered recurring losses from operations and negative cash flows from operating activities. We believe that our existing cash resources, the cash to be generated from future deferred payments and milestones, the cash generated from warrant exercises, access to cash under the purchase agreement with Lincoln Park Financial LLC (Lincoln Park), and release of restricted cash securing letters of credit, will be sufficient to meet our projected operating requirements and debt service for at least twelve months from the date of issuance of these financial statements. We may choose to raise additional funds to support our operating and capital needs.

We continue to face significant challenges and uncertainties and, as a result, our available capital resources may be consumed more rapidly than currently expected due to: (a) changes we may make to the business that affect ongoing operating expenses; (b) changes we may make in our business strategy; (c) changes we may make in our research and development spending plans; (d) potential decreases in our expected milestone and deferred payments from Medexus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Medexus) with respect to IXINITY; (e) whether and to what extent future proceeds are received under our Royalty Purchase Agreement; and (f) other items affecting our forecasted level of expenditures and use of cash resources. We may attempt to obtain additional funding through our existing equity sales agreement with Lincoln Park or our Equity Distribution Agreement with Piper Sandler & Co (Piper Sandler), or other public or private financing, collaborative arrangements with strategic partners, or through credit lines or other debt financing sources to increase the funds available to fund operations. However, we may not be able to secure such funding in a timely manner or on favorable terms, if at all. Furthermore, if we issue equity or debt securities to raise additional funds, our existing stockholders may experience dilution, and the new equity or debt securities may have rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of our existing stockholders. If we raise additional funds through collaboration, licensing, or other similar arrangements, it may be necessary to relinquish valuable rights to our potential products or proprietary technologies, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us. Without additional funds, we may be forced to delay, scale back, or eliminate some of our research and development activities or other operations and potentially delay product development in an effort to provide sufficient funds to continue our operations. If any of these events occurs, our ability to achieve our development and commercialization goals may be adversely affected. Given the global economic climate and additional or unforeseen effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, we may experience delays or difficulties to the financing environment and raising capital due to economic uncertainty.  

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments, which include normal recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair presentation of the Company’s financial position. These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020, and the notes thereto, which are included in the Company’s Annual Report on the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates and changes in these estimates are recorded when known.

The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and our wholly owned subsidiaries: Aptevo Research and Development LLC and Aptevo BioTherapeutics LLC (for the period prior to its sale on February 28, 2020). All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

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In March 2020, we effected a 1-for-14 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Split”) of our common stock pursuant to which every 14 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding as of March 26, 2020 were automatically combined into one issued and outstanding share of common stock. No fractional shares were issued as a result of the reverse stock split. Stockholders of record who would otherwise have been entitled to receive a fractional share received a cash payment in lieu thereof.  All share and per share information with respect to our common stock have been restated to reflect the effect of the Reverse Split for all periods presented.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent liabilities in the condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Estimates are used for, but not limited to, forecasted royalties, effective interest rates, clinical accruals, useful lives of equipment, commitments and contingencies, and stock-based compensation forfeiture rates. Given the global economic climate and additional or unforeseen effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, these estimates are becoming more challenging, and actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

Significant Accounting Policies

Liability Related to Sale of Future Royalties and Non-Cash Interest Expense

On March 30, 2021, the Company entered into and closed a royalty purchase agreement (the Royalty Purchase Agreement) with an entity managed by HealthCare Royalty Management, LLC (HCR) pursuant to which the Company sold to HCR the right to receive all royalty payments made by Pfizer Inc. (Pfizer) in respect of net sales of RUXIENCE. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company received $35 million (the Investment Amount) at closing and the Company is eligible to receive additional payments in aggregate of up to an additional $32.5 million based on the achievement of sales milestones in 2021, 2022, and 2023 (collectively, the Milestone Amounts). The Royalty Purchase Agreement further provides that, once HCR reaches aggregate royalty payments totaling 190% of the Investment Amount plus the Milestone Amounts to the extent paid by HCR to the Company, Aptevo will be entitled to receive 50% of royalty interest payments thereafter.

We treat the Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR (see Note 7) as a debt financing, amortized under the effective interest rate method over the estimated life of the related expected royalty stream. The liabilities related to sale of future royalties and the debt amortization are based on our current estimates of future royalties expected to be paid over the life of the arrangement. To the extent total future royalties collected are an amount less than the liability, the Company is not obligated to fund any such shortfall. We will periodically assess the expected royalty payments using projections from external sources. To the extent our estimates of future royalty payments are greater or less than previous estimates or the estimated timing of such payments is materially different than previous estimates, we will adjust the effective interest rate and recognize related non-cash interest expense on a prospective basis. We are not obligated to repay the proceeds received under the Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR. Due to our continuing involvement under the Definitive Agreement originally between Trubion and Wyeth, we continue to recognize royalty revenue on net sales of RUXIENCE and record the royalty payments to HCR as a reduction of the liability when paid. As such payments are made to HCR, the balance of the liability will be effectively repaid over the life of the Royalty Purchase Agreement.

Debt Modification

On March 30, 2021, we amended our Credit Agreement with MidCap Financial and used $10 million of the proceeds received from the Royalty Purchase Agreement to pay down the outstanding principal under the Credit Agreement from $25 million to $15 million. The amended Credit Agreement was accounted for under ASC 470-50, Debt Modifications and Extinguishments as a debt modification, rather than an extinguishment, based on a comparison of the present value of the cash flows under the terms of the debt immediately before and after the amendment, which resulted in a change of less than 10%. Unamortized issuance costs as of the date of modification will be amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the repayment term.

Other Significant Accounting Policies

Our other significant accounting policies were reported in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 that was filed with the SEC on March 31, 2021. Our other significant accounting policies have not changed materially from the policies previously reported.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

ASU 2020-04, “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848)” provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying GAAP to loan and lease agreements, derivative contracts, and other transactions affected by the anticipated transition away from LIBOR toward new interest rate benchmarks. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”), which regulates LIBOR, has announced that it intends to phase out LIBOR by the end of 2021. It is unclear if at that time LIBOR will cease to exist or if new methods of calculating LIBOR will be established such that it continues to exist after 2021. In addition, on March 25, 2020, the FCA stated that although the central assumption that firms cannot rely on LIBOR being published after the end of 2021 has not changed, the outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted the timing of many firms’ transition planning, and the FCA will continue to assess the impact of the

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COVID-19 pandemic on transition timelines and update the marketplace as soon as possible. At this time, it is not possible to predict the effect of any such changes, any establishment of alternative reference rates or any other reforms to LIBOR that may be enacted. An entity may elect to apply the amendments prospectively from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Our credit agreement with MidCap Financial currently references LIBOR and also provides that we may amend the credit agreement to reflect an alternative rate of interest upon the phase out of LIBOR. We are currently evaluating the impact that ASU 2020-04 may have on our consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2020-10, “Codification Improvements” which makes changes to clarify the Codification, corrects unintended application of guidance, and makes minor improvements to the Codification that are not expected to have a significant effect on current accounting practice. The transition and effective date guidance in the ASU is based on the facts and circumstances of each amendment. We are currently evaluating the impact that ASU 2020-10 may have on our consolidated financial statements.

Note 2. Discontinued Operations

The accompanying financial statements include discontinued operations from two separate transactions: the sale of our hyperimmune business in 2017, from which we received a payment in 2021 related to the collection of a certain accounts receivable, and our Aptevo BioTherapeutics LLC business, which was sold in 2020.

On February 28, 2020, we entered into an LLC Purchase Agreement with Medexus, pursuant to which we sold all of the issued and outstanding limited liability company interests of Aptevo BioTherapeutics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aptevo. As a result of the transaction, Medexus obtained all rights, title and interest to the IXINITY product and the related Hemophilia B business and intellectual property.

The net gain on sale of Aptevo BioTherapeutics, totaling $14.3 million, was calculated as the difference between the fair value of the consideration received for Aptevo BioTherapeutics, less the net carrying value of the assets transferred to Medexus, less the transaction costs incurred and a working capital adjustment. We recorded the gain on sale in quarter ended March 31, 2020.

The following table represents the components attributable to income from discontinued operations in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations (in thousands):

 

The LLC Purchase Agreement with Medexus entitles us to future deferred payments and royalties. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, we collected $0.2 million related to the collection of certain accounts receivable from the sale of the hyperimmune business to Saol, and a deferred payment of $0.2 million received from Medexus in March 2021 related to fourth quarter 2020 IXINITY sales. Medexus communicated their first quarter 2021 net IXINITY sales to Aptevo in April and expects to make a deferred payment, within 45 days after quarter-end per the LLC Purchase Agreement, to Aptevo of approximately $0.1 million. As such, we will record the deferred payment amount related to Medexus’ first quarter sales of IXINITY as a gain when collected.    

There was no amortization for Aptevo BioTherapeutics in March 31, 2021 and amortization was $0.1 million in March 31, 2020. There was no depreciation or capital expenditures for the three months ended March 31, 2021 or March 31, 2020. Significant operating non-cash items include the gain on sale of Aptevo BioTherapeutics of $14.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. There were no significant investing non-cash items for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020.

Note 3. Collaboration Agreements

Alligator

On July 20, 2017, our wholly owned subsidiary Aptevo Research and Development LLC (Aptevo R&D), entered into a collaboration and option agreement (the Collaboration Agreement) with Alligator Bioscience AB (Alligator), pursuant to which Aptevo and Alligator will collaboratively develop ALG.APV-527, a lead bispecific antibody candidate simultaneously targeting 4-1BB (CD137), a member of the TNFR superfamily of a costimulatory receptor found on activated T-cells, and 5T4, a tumor antigen widely overexpressed in a number of different types of cancer.

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We assessed the arrangement in accordance with ASC 606 and concluded that the contract counterparty, Alligator, is not a customer. As such the arrangement is not in the scope of ASC 606 and is instead treated as a collaborative agreement under ASC 808 – Collaborative Arrangements (ASC 808). In accordance with ASC 808, we concluded that because the Collaboration Agreement is a cost sharing agreement, there is no revenue.

We recorded a $0.1 million increase and an immaterial increase in research and development expense related to the Collaboration Agreement, for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020, respectively.  

Note 4. Fair Value Measurements

The Company’s estimates of fair value for financial assets and financial liabilities are based on the framework established in the fair value accounting guidance. The framework is based on the inputs used in valuation, it gives the highest priority to quoted prices in active markets and requires that observable inputs be used in the valuations when available. The disclosure of fair value estimates in the fair value accounting guidance hierarchy is based on whether the significant inputs into the valuation are observable. In determining the level of the hierarchy in which the estimate is disclosed, the highest priority is given to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs that reflect the Company’s significant market assumptions. The level in the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement is reported is based on the lowest level input that is significant to the measurement in its entirety. The three levels of the hierarchy are as follows:

Level 1— Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities;

Level 2— Inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable; and

Level 3— Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

At March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had $30.9 million and $35.4 million in Level 1 money market funds, respectively. The carrying amounts of our money market funds approximate their fair value. At March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we did not have any Level 2 or Level 3 assets.

Note 5. Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash

 

The Company’s cash equivalents are highly liquid investments with a maturity of 90 days or less at the date of purchase and include time deposits and investments in money market funds. Restricted cash - current includes $1.3 million securing letters of credit.

The following table shows our cash, cash equivalents and current restricted cash as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020:

 

 

Note 6. Debt

Credit Agreement

On August 5, 2020, we entered into a Credit and Security Agreement (the Credit Agreement), with MidCap Financial. The Credit Agreement provided us with up to $25.0 million of available borrowing capacity under a term loan facility. The full $25.0 million was drawn on the closing date of the Credit Agreement. The term loan facility has a 48 month term, is interest-only for the first 18 months, with straight-line amortization for the remaining 30 months and bears interest at a rate of one month LIBOR plus 6.25% per annum, subject to a 1.50% LIBOR floor and a 2.50% LIBOR cap. The term loan facility includes additional repayment provisions should either or both of the royalties or milestones related to IXINITY or royalties related to RUXIENCE be sold during the term of the loan. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”), which regulates LIBOR, has announced that it intends to phase out LIBOR by the end of 2021. It is unclear if at that time LIBOR will cease to exist or if new methods of calculating LIBOR will be established such that it continues to exist after 2021. Our credit agreement with MidCap Financial currently references LIBOR and also provides that we may amend the credit agreement to reflect an alternative rate of interest upon the phase out of LIBOR.

On November 6, 2020, Kevin Tang and his related entities filed a statement on Schedule 13D to report the purchase of 1,760,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, which at the time represented approximately 54% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock. This acquisition of voting stock triggered a change in control, resulting in an Event of Default under Section 10.1(a)(ii) of the Credit Agreement. On November 10, 2020, the Company obtained a waiver from

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MidCap Financial pursuant to which, among other things, MidCap Financial waived such Event of Default and MidCap Financial and the Company agreed that an immediate event of default under the Credit Agreement will be deemed to have occurred in the event that (a) a majority of the seats on the Company’s board of directors are occupied by persons who were neither (i) nominated by the Company’s board of directors nor (ii) appointed by the directors so nominated, and (b) Tang has appointed the majority of the Company’s board of directors. No other events of default have occurred with respect to the Credit Agreement.

On March 30, 2021, we amended our Credit Agreement with MidCap Financial and used $10.0 million of the proceeds received from the Royalty Purchase Agreement to pay down the outstanding principal under the Credit Agreement from $25.0 million to $15.0 million. $10.0 million of the remaining $15.0 million principal balance will be payable on March 31, 2022.  Beginning March 1, 2022, monthly repayment of the remaining $5.0 million of principal will commence and continue for the final 30 months of the loan term. If the Company sells the IXINITY deferred payment stream and milestones prior to full repayment of this $5.0 million principal amount, under the agreement with MidCap Financial, we will be required to use the proceeds from the sale to pay down the outstanding loan principal balance. MidCap Financial also released its security interest in the RUXIENCE royalty payments. A fee of $0.6 million was paid by the Company to MidCap Financial in connection with the amendment in lieu of the formula-based fee previously required.

The amended Credit Agreement was accounted for as a debt modification, rather than an extinguishment, based on a comparison of the present value of the cash flows under the terms of the debt immediately before and after the amendment, which resulted in a change of less than 10%. Unamortized issuance costs as of the date of modification will be amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the repayment term.

As of March 31, 2021, we classified $10.2 million of the remaining $15.0 million principal of the amended Credit Agreement to current portion of long-term debt on the condensed consolidated balance sheet. The amended Credit Agreement states $10.0 million of the remaining $15.0 million principal balance will be payable on March 31, 2022. Additionally, we will pay $0.2 million to MidCap Financial for the first monthly repayment of outstanding principal on March 1, 2022.

This facility is subject to a subjective acceleration clause that could be invoked by MidCap Financial upon the occurrence of any event MidCap Financial deems to have a material adverse effect on our ability to repay the lender.

Note 7. Liability Related to Sale of Future Royalties

In March 2021, we entered into and closed the Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR pursuant to which we sold to HCR the right to receive all royalty payments made by Pfizer in respect of global net sales of RUXIENCE. Under the terms of the agreement, we received $35.0 million (the Investment Amount) at closing and we are eligible to receive additional payments in aggregate of up to an additional $32.5 million based on the achievement of sales milestones in 2021, 2022, and 2023 (collectively, the Milestone Amounts). The Royalty Purchase Agreement further provides that, once HCR reaches aggregate royalty payments totaling 190% of the amount paid at closing plus Milestone Amounts to the extent paid by HCR to the Company, Aptevo will be entitled to receive 50% of royalty interest payments thereafter.

The proceeds received from HCR of $35.0 million were recorded as a liability, net of transaction costs of $1.1 million, which will be amortized over the estimated life of the arrangement using the effective interest method. In order to determine the amortization of the liability, we are required to estimate the total amount of future royalty payments to be received by HCR over the life of the arrangement. The total amount of royalty payments received by HCR under the Royalty Purchase Agreement, less the net proceeds we received of $33.9 million, is recorded as non-cash interest expense over the life of the arrangement using the effective interest method. We maintain our rights under the Definitive Agreement originally between Trubion and Wyeth, with the exception of the cash flows of the RUXIENCE royalty payments purchased by HCR. Due to our continuing involvement under the Definitive Agreement originally between Trubion and Wyeth, we continue to recognize royalty revenue on net sales of RUXIENCE and record the royalty payments to HCR as a reduction of the liability when paid. As such payments are made to HCR, the balance of the liability will be effectively repaid over the life of the Royalty Purchase Agreement. To the extent total future royalties collected are an amount less than the liability, the Company is not obligated to fund any such shortfall.

We estimate the effective interest rate used to record non-cash interest expense under the Royalty Purchase Agreement based on the estimate of future royalty payments to be received by HCR. As of March 31, 2021, the estimated effective interest rate under the agreement was 21.9%. Over the life of the arrangement, the actual effective interest rate will be affected by the amount and timing of the royalty payments received by HCR and changes in our forecasted royalties. At each reporting date, we will reassess our estimate of total future royalty payments to be received by HCR, and prospectively adjust the effective interest rate and amortization of the liability as necessary.

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The following table presents the changes in the liability related to the sale of future royalties under the Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR (in thousands):

 

Note 8. Leases

 

Office Space Lease - Operating

 We have an operating lease related to our office and laboratory space in Seattle, Washington. This lease was amended and extended in March 2019. The term of the amended lease is through April 2030 and we have two options to extend the lease term, each by five years, as well as a one-time option to terminate the lease in April 2023. The lease was further amended, effective August 2019, to reduce the square footage of our rented area.  

 The amended lease has a renewal option of two five-year renewals at fair market value as determined at the time of renewal, and a termination option after month thirty-six with nine months written notice. The termination option also requires a penalty equal to the unamortized tenant improvement allowance at 8% interest, the unamortized real estate taxes at 8% interest, and the equivalent of four-months’ rent at the base rent price at the time of termination. The estimated termination penalty has been recorded in our lease payments. We determined we should not include any periods after the termination option when evaluating this amendment as we are not reasonably certain to not exercise the option, therefore we are recording our liability through April 30, 2023.

For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020, we recorded $0.2 million and $0.1 million, respectively, related to variable expenses.

Equipment Leases - Operating

As of March 31, 2021, we have operating leases for one piece of lab equipment and four copiers in our Seattle, Washington headquarters. The future expense for these leases will be straight-line and will include any variable expenses that arise.

Equipment Lease – Financing

As of March 31, 2020, we had one equipment lease classified as a financing lease as the lease transferred ownership of the underlying asset to us at the end of the lease term in 2020. The lease has no remaining expense obligation. There were no financing lease payments in the three months ended March 31, 2021.  

 

Components of lease expense:

 

 

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Right of use assets acquired under operating leases:

 

 

Lease payments:

 

 

 

The long-term portion of the lease liabilities included in the amounts above is $2.1 million and the remainder of our lease liabilities are included in other current liabilities on our condensed consolidated balance sheets.

As of March 31, 2021, the weighted average remaining lease term and weighted average discount rate for operating leases was 2.05 years and 14.50%. As of March 31, 2020, the weighted average remaining lease term and weighted average discount rate for operating leases was 3.02 years and 14.55%.

Note 9. Net Income (Loss) per Share

Basic net income (loss) per share is calculated by dividing the net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted net income (loss) per share is computed by dividing the net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common share equivalents outstanding for the period using the as-if converted method. For the purpose of this calculation, warrants, stock options and restricted stock units (RSUs) are only included in the calculation of diluted net income (loss) per share when their effect is dilutive.

We utilize the control number concept in the computation of diluted earnings per share to determine whether potential common stock instruments are dilutive. The control number used is loss from continuing operations or income from discontinued operations. The control number concept requires that the same number of potentially dilutive securities applied in computing diluted earnings per share from continuing operations be applied to all other categories of income or loss, regardless of their anti-dilutive effect on such categories. Therefore, no dilutive effect has been recognized in the calculation of income from discontinued operations per share.

Common stock equivalents include warrants, stock options and unvested RSUs.

The following table presents the computation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share (in thousands, except share and per share amounts):

 

 

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The following table represents all potentially dilutive shares, which were all anti-dilutive and therefore excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share:

 

 

Note 10. Equity

Equity Distribution Agreement

 

On December 14, 2020, we entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (the Equity Distribution Agreement) with Piper Sandler. The Equity Distribution Agreement provides that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, we may issue and sell through Piper Sandler, acting as sales agent, shares of our common stock, $0.001 par value per share having an aggregate offering price of up to $50.0 million. This offering supersedes and replaces the program we commenced in December 2017. We have no obligation to sell any such shares under the Equity Distribution Agreement. The sale of such shares of common stock by Piper Sandler will be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 which we filed on December 14, 2020. We did not issue any shares under the Equity Distribution Agreement in the first quarter of 2021.

Purchase Agreement

On December 20, 2018, we entered into the Purchase Agreement, and a registration rights agreement, with Lincoln Park. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, Lincoln Park has committed to purchase up to $35.0 million worth of our common stock over a 36-month period commencing on February 13, 2019, the date the registration statement covering the resale of the shares was declared effective by the SEC. Under the Purchase Agreement, on any business day selected by us, we may direct Lincoln Park to purchase shares of our common stock provided that Lincoln Park’s maximum commitment on any single day does not exceed $2.0 million. The purchase price per share will be based off of prevailing market prices of our common stock immediately preceding the time of sale; provided, however, that we cannot direct any such purchase if the prevailing market price is less than $1.00.

Rights Plan

On November 8, 2020, our Board of Directors (Board) approved and adopted a Rights Agreement, dated as of November 8, 2020, by and between the Company and Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc., as rights agent, pursuant to which the Board declared a dividend of one preferred share purchase right (each, a Right) for each outstanding share of the Company’s common stock held by stockholders as of the close of business on November 23, 2020.  When exercisable, each right initially would represent the right to purchase from the Company one one-thousandth of a share of a newly-designated series of preferred stock, Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company, at an exercise price of $400.00 per one one-thousandth of a Series A Junior Participating Preferred Share, subject to adjustment. Subject to various exceptions, the Rights become exercisable in the event any person (excluding certain exempted or grandfathered persons) becomes the beneficial owner of ten percent (10%) or more of the Company’s common stock without the approval of the Board.

 

Converted Equity Awards Incentive Plan

In connection with the spin-off from Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. (Emergent) in August 2016, we adopted the Converted Equity Awards Incentive Plan (Converted Plan) and outstanding equity awards of Emergent held by Aptevo employees were converted into or replaced with equity awards of Aptevo (Conversion Awards) under the Converted Plan and were adjusted to maintain the economic value before and after the distribution date using the relative fair market value of the Emergent and Aptevo common stock based on the closing prices as of August 1, 2016. A total of 0.1 million shares of Aptevo common stock have been authorized for issuance under the Converted Plan. Options issued as Conversion Awards were priced according to the Converted Plan. RSUs issued as part of the Converted Plan provide for the issuance of a share of Aptevo’s stock at no cost to the holder.

2016 Stock Incentive Plan

On August 1, 2016, the Company adopted the 2016 Stock Incentive Plan (2016 SIP). A total of 0.2 million shares of Aptevo common stock have been authorized for issuance under the 2016 SIP in the form of equity stock options.

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Stock options under the 2016 SIP generally vest pro rata over a three-year period and terminate ten years from the grant date, though the specific terms of each grant are determined individually. The Company’s executive officers and certain other employees may be awarded options with different vesting criteria, and options granted to non-employee directors also vest over a three-year period. Option exercise prices for new options granted by the Company equal the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market on the date of grant.

The equity compensation awards granted by the Company generally vest only if the employee is employed by the Company (or in the case of directors, the director continues to serve on the Board) on the vesting date.

On May 31, 2017, at the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (Annual Meeting), the Company’s stockholders approved the amendment and restatement of the Company’s 2016 SIP (Restated 2016 Plan) to, among other things, increase the number of authorized shares issuable by 0.1 million shares of Aptevo common stock. The Restated 2016 Plan was previously approved, subject to stockholder approval, by the Board of Directors of the Company.

2018 Stock Incentive Plan

 

On June 1, 2018, at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Shareholders, the Company’s stockholders approved a new 2018 Stock Incentive Plan (2018 SIP), which replaced the Restated 2016 Plan on a go-forward basis. All stock options, RSUs or other equity awards granted subsequent to June 1, 2018 have been and will be issued out of the 2018 SIP, which has 0.3 million shares of Aptevo common stock authorized for issuance. The 2018 Plan became effective immediately upon stockholder approval at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Shareholders. Any shares subject to outstanding stock awards granted under the 2016 SIP that (a) expire or terminate for any reason prior to exercise or settlement; (b) are forfeited because of the failure to meet a contingency or condition required to vest such shares or otherwise return to the Company; or (c) otherwise would have returned to the 2016 SIP for future grant pursuant to the terms of the 2016 Plan (such shares, the “Returning Shares”) will immediately be added to the share reserve under the 2018 SIP as and when such shares become Returning Shares, up to a maximum of 0.3 million shares. As of March 31, 2021, there are 0.1 million shares available to be granted under the 2018 SIP.

Stock options under the 2018 SIP generally vest pro rata over a three-year period and terminate ten years from the grant date, though the specific terms of each grant are determined individually. The Company’s executive officers and certain other employees may be awarded options with different vesting criteria, and options granted to non-employee directors also vest over a three-year period. Option exercise prices for new options granted by the Company equal the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market on the date of grant.

 

Stock-Based Compensation Expense

Stock-based compensation expense includes amortization of stock options and RSUs granted to employees and non-employees and has been reported in our condensed consolidated statements of operations as follows:

 

 

The Company accounts for stock-based compensation by measuring the cost of employee services received in exchange for all equity awards granted based on the fair value of the award as of the grant date. The Company recognizes the compensation expense over the vesting period.

Stock Options

Aptevo utilizes the Black-Scholes valuation model for estimating the fair value of all stock options granted. Set forth below are the assumptions used in valuing the stock options granted:

 

 

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Management has applied an estimated forfeiture rate of 26% for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 8% for the three months ended March 31, 2020. Expected volatility increased, as our stock price fluctuated from a low of $27.86 to a high of $40.59 for the three months ended March 31, 2021, compared to a low of $3.29 and high of $9.73 for the three months ended March 31, 2020.

The following is a summary of option activity for the three months ended March 31, 2021:

 

 

As of March 31, 2021, we had $4.6 million of unrecognized compensation expense related to options expected to vest over a weighted average period of 2.6 years. The weighted average remaining contractual life of outstanding and exercisable options is 8.8 years.

The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above represents the total pretax intrinsic value (the difference between the closing stock price of Aptevo’s common stock on the last trading day of March 2021 and the exercise price, multiplied by the number of in the money options) that would have been received by the option holders had all the option holders exercised their options on the last trading day of the quarter.

Restricted Stock Units

The following is a summary of RSU activity for the three months ended March 31, 2021:

 

 

As of March 31, 2021, there was $2.0 million unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to unvested RSUs.

The fair value of each RSU has been determined to be the closing trading price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant as quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

Warrants

In March 2019, as part of a public offering, we issued warrants to purchase up to 1,725,000 shares of our common stock, 1,571,429 of which have an exercise price of $18.20 per share and have a five-year life, and 153,571 of pre-funded warrants with an exercise price of $0.14 per share. The pre-funded warrants have a ten-year life and would have expired on March 11, 2029; however, all of the pre-funded warrants were exercised in March 2019. We determined the warrants do not meet liability classification pursuant to ASC 480 – Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity. These are therefore included within equity on our condensed consolidated balance sheet. As of March 31, 2021, there were warrants to purchase 376,866 shares of common stock outstanding.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

You should read the following Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (this MD&A) together with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. This MD&A contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as those set forth in the sections of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q captioned “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” “Risk Factors” and elsewhere. As a result, our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.

Overview

We are a clinical-stage, research and development biotechnology company focused on developing novel immunotherapeutic candidates for the treatment of different forms of cancer. We have developed two versatile and enabling platform technologies for rational design of precision immune modulatory drugs. Our lead clinical candidate, APVO436, and preclinical candidates, ALG.APV-527 and APVO603, were developed using our ADAPTIR™ modular protein technology platform. Our preclinical candidate APVO442, was developed using our ADAPTIR-FLEX™ modular protein technology platform.  

The versatile and robust ADAPTIR and ADAPTIR-FLEX platforms are designed to generate monospecific, bispecific, and multispecific antibody candidates that are capable of enhancing the human immune system against cancer cells. ADAPTIR and ADAPTIR-FLEX are both modular platforms, which gives us the flexibility to generate immunotherapeutic candidates with a variety of mechanisms of action. This flexibility in design allows us to potentially generate novel therapeutic candidates that may provide the foundation for the establishment of effective strategies against difficult to treat, as well as advanced forms of cancer. We have successfully designed and constructed numerous investigational-stage prototype product candidates based on our ADAPTIR and ADAPTIR FLEX platforms. The ADAPTIR platform technology is designed to generate monospecific and bispecific immunotherapeutic proteins that specifically bind to one or more targets, for example, bispecific therapeutic molecules, which may have structural and functional advantages over monoclonal antibodies. The structural differences of ADAPTIR molecules over monoclonal antibodies allow for the development of ADAPTIR immunotherapeutics that are designed to engage immune effector cells and disease targets in a novel manner to produce unique signaling responses and ultimately kill tumors or modulate the immune system to kill tumors. The ADAPTIR FLEX platform technology is designed to generate bispecific and multispecific immunotherapeutic proteins and uses heterodimer technology so that two or more targets can be engaged simultaneously.

We are skilled at candidate generation, validation, and subsequent preclinical and clinical development using the ADAPTIR platform and have added the ADAPTIR-FLEX platform to generate multispecific candidates or other candidates to our platform capabilities.  We have developed preclinical candidates based on the ADAPTIR-FLEX platform which are advancing in our pipeline. We are developing our ADAPTIR and ADAPTIR-FLEX molecules by way of our protein engineering, preclinical development, process development, and clinical development capabilities.

Corporate Highlights:

Recent Developments:

On November 6, 2020, Tang Capital Partners LP, Tang Capital Management, LLC and Kevin Tang (collectively, “Tang”) jointly filed a statement on Schedule 13D to report that Tang had purchased 1,760,000 shares of our common stock, representing approximately 54% of our issued and outstanding shares of common stock as of the date of filing such Schedule 13D.  As of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, Tang has subsequently been diluted to a 39.6% beneficial ownership position, primarily through the exercise of certain warrants that were issued and outstanding prior to Tang acquiring its ownership position in Aptevo. Further, on February 9, 2021, Tang announced its intention to nominate two candidates for election to our board of directors at our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders and submitted an advisory stockholder proposal for consideration at our 2021 annual meeting to commence a process to sell Aptevo to the highest bidder. We have incurred and may continue to incur additional expenses by retaining the services of various professionals to advise us on responding to these matters.

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Results of Operations

Except as otherwise stated below, the following discussions of our results of operations reflect the results of our continuing operations, excluding the results related to Aptevo BioTherapeutics LLC (Aptevo BioTherapeutics), which has been separated from continuing operations and reflected as a discontinued operation.  See Note 2 – Discontinued Operations to the accompanying financial statements for additional information.

Comparison of the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020

Royalty Revenue

We recorded royalty revenue of $2.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. This increase is related to a 2.5% royalty we are entitled to receive from Pfizer related to global net sales of RUXIENCE (rituximab biosimilar), which was approved by the United States Federal Drug Administration in July 2019 and launched by Pfizer in early 2020. The payment from Pfizer relates to an agreement acquired by Aptevo as part of our spin-off from Emergent in 2016. The agreement was originally executed by Trubion Pharmaceuticals, which was subsequently acquired by Emergent, and Wyeth, a wholly-own subsidiary of Pfizer. The royalty term runs through January 2027, which is the seventh anniversary of the first commercial sale of the CD20 biosimilar. On March 30, 2021, we entered into the Royalty Purchase Agreement pursuant to which we sold to HCR the right to receive all royalty payments made by Pfizer in respect of net sales of RUXIENCE. We maintain our rights under the Definitive Agreement originally between Trubion and Wyeth, with the exception of the cash flows of the RUXIENCE royalty payments purchased by HCR. Due to our continuing involvement under the Definitive Agreement originally between Trubion and Wyeth, we continue to recognize royalty revenue on net sales of RUXIENCE and record the royalty payments to HCR as a reduction of the liability when paid. As such payments are made to HCR, the balance of the liability will be effectively repaid over the life of the Royalty Purchase Agreement. To the extent total future royalties collected are an amount less than the liability, the Company is not obligated to fund any such shortfall.

Research and Development Expenses

We expense research and development costs as incurred. These expenses consist primarily of the costs associated with our research and discovery activities, including conducting pre-clinical studies and clinical trials, fees to professional service providers for analytical testing, independent monitoring or other administration of our clinical trials and obtaining and evaluating data from our clinical trials and non-clinical studies, as well as costs of contract manufacturing services for clinical trial material, and costs of materials used in clinical trials and research and development. Our research and development expenses primarily consist of:

We expect our research and development spending will be dependent upon such factors as the results from our clinical trials, the availability of reimbursement of research and development spending, the number of product candidates under development, the size, structure and duration of any clinical programs that we may initiate, and the costs associated with manufacturing our product candidates on a large-scale basis for later stage clinical trials. We may experience interruption of key clinical trial activities, such as patient enrollment and clinical trial site monitoring, and key non-clinical activities due to COVID-19. While programs are still in the pre-clinical trial phase, we do not provide a breakdown of the initial associated expenses as we are often evaluating multiple product candidates simultaneously. Costs are reported in pre-clinical research and discovery until the program enters the clinic.

Our research and development expenses by program for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 are shown in the following table:

 

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Research and development expenses increased by $1.4 million, to $5.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 from $4.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. Research and development expenses increased as we continue to invest in the APVO436 clinical trial and our preclinical candidates, including ALG.APV-527, APVO603 and APVO442.

General and Administrative Expenses

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related costs and professional fees in support of our executive, business development, finance, accounting, information technology, legal and human resource functions. Other costs include facility costs not otherwise included in research and development expenses.

For the three months ended March 31, 2021, general and administrative expenses increased by $0.3 million, to $3.9 million from $3.6 million for March 31, 2020. This increase was primarily due to higher costs for professional services, including costs related to shareholder activism.

Other Expense, Net

Other expense, net consists primarily of gains or losses realized on foreign currency revaluation, costs related to debt extinguishment, accrued exit fees on debt, and interest on debt. Other expense, net was $0.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and $2.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. A slight increase in interest expense this quarter was offset by a significant decrease due to a loss on extinguishment of debt of $2.1 million recognized in the first quarter of 2020 when we repaid our previous loan to Midcap Financial using the proceeds from the sale of Aptevo BioTherapeutics LLC.

Discontinued Operations

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include discontinued operations from two separate transactions: the sale of hyperimmune business to Saol International Limited in September 2017, from which we received a payment in 2021 related to the collection of a certain accounts receivable, and the sale of Aptevo BioTherapeutics in 2020.

The following table represents the components attributable to income from discontinued operations in the condensed consolidated statements of operations (in thousands):

 

Income from discontinued operations was $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and $12.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, we collected $0.2 million related to the sale of the hyperimmune business to Saol as a result of the collection of certain accounts receivable and a deferred payment of $0.2 million received from Medexus in March 2021 related to fourth quarter 2020 IXINITY sales. For the three months ended March 31, 2020, we recognized net income from discontinued operations totaling $12.9 million. This included the gain on the sale of Aptevo BioTherapeutics of $14.3 million and net operating losses from Aptevo BioTherapeutics of $1.6 million related to the period prior to the sale on February 28, 2020.

Medexus communicated their first quarter 2021 net IXINITY sales to Aptevo in April and expects to make a deferred payment, within 45 days after quarter-end per the LLC Purchase Agreement, to Aptevo of approximately $0.1 million. As such, we will record the deferred payment amount related to Medexus’ first quarter sales of IXINITY as a gain when collected.    

Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates

The preparation of our condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP, requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other factors. Although we believe that our judgments and estimates are appropriate, actual results may differ materially from our estimates and changes in these estimates are recorded when known. An accounting policy is considered critical if it is important to a company’s financial condition and results of operations and if it requires the exercise of significant judgment and the use of estimates on the part of management in its application.

Refer to Note 1 for discussion of our accounting policies, significant judgments, and estimates.

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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as of March 31, 2021.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Cash Flows

The following table provides information regarding our cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

 

Net cash used in operating activities of $7.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was primarily due to our net loss of $7.3 million and changes in working capital accounts. Net cash used in operating activities of $11.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was primarily due to our net income of $2.9 million, gain on sale of Aptevo BioTherapeutics of $14.3 million, and changes in working capital accounts.

Net cash used in investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2021, was due to purchases of property and equipment. For the three months ended March 31, 2020, net cash provided by investing activities was due to the cash received from the sale of Aptevo BioTherapeutics, net of transaction fees.

Net cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2021 is primarily due to the $35.0 million received from The Royalty Purchase Agreement, offset by the $10.5 million repayment of the MidCap Financial term loan. Net cash used in financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2020 is primarily due to the $22.1 million repayment of long-term debt.

Sources of Liquidity

Equity Distribution Agreement

On December 14, 2020, we entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement with Piper Sandler & Co (Piper Sandler). The Equity Distribution Agreement provides that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, we may issue and sell through Piper Sandler, acting as sales agent, shares of our common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $50 million. We have no obligation to sell any such shares under the Equity Distribution Agreement. The sale of the shares of our common stock by Piper Sandler, if any, will be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 which we filed on December 14, 2020. We did not issue any shares under the Equity Distribution Agreement in the first quarter of 2021.

The Equity Distribution Agreement will terminate upon the issuance and sale of all shares under the Equity Distribution Agreement or upon the earlier termination thereof at any time by us or Piper Sandler upon notice to the other party.

 

Registration Statement

We previously filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 13, 2017, amended on December 6, 2017 and declared effective on December 15, 2017 (the Prior Registration Statement). The Prior Registration Statement registered the offer and sale of an indeterminate number of shares of common stock and preferred stock, an indeterminate principal amount of debt securities and an indeterminate number of warrants to purchase common stock, preferred stock, and various series of debt securities and/or warrants to purchase any of such securities, having an aggregate initial offering price of $150 million, of which an aggregate of $127.8 million remained unsold as of the December 14, 2020. On December 14, 2020, we filed a new registration statement covering the offering, issuance, and sale up to $200 million in common stock, preferred stock, and various series of debt securities and/or warrants to purchase any of such securities, which included the unsold securities from the Prior Registration Statement.

Purchase Agreement

 

On December 20, 2018, we entered into a purchase agreement, and a registration rights agreement with Lincoln Park Financial LLC (Lincoln Park). Pursuant to the purchase agreement, Lincoln Park has committed to purchase up to $35.0 million worth of our common stock over a 36-month period commencing on February 13, 2019, the date the registration statement covering the resale of the shares was declared effective by the SEC.

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Under the purchase agreement, on any business day selected by us, we may direct Lincoln Park to purchase shares of our common stock provided that Lincoln Park’s maximum commitment on any single day does not exceed $2.0 million. The purchase price per share will be based off of prevailing market prices of our common stock immediately preceding the time of sale; provided, however, that we cannot direct any such purchase if the prevailing market price is less than $1.00. In addition, we may also direct Lincoln Park to purchase other amounts as accelerated purchases or as additional accelerated purchases if the closing sale price of our common stock exceeds certain threshold prices as set forth in the purchase agreement. We have not sold any shares under the purchase agreement through the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020.

Actual sales of shares of our common stock to Lincoln Park under the purchase agreement will occur at our discretion from time to time and depend on a variety of factors, including, among others, market conditions, the trading price of our common stock and additional determinations as to the appropriate sources of funding for our operations. Lincoln Park has no right to require any sales, but is obligated to make purchases as we direct, in accordance with the Purchase Agreement.

Warrants

 

On March 11, 2019, we completed a public offering of common stock and warrants, as follows:

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2021, certain of the holders of our warrants exercised warrants with a strike price of $18.20 per share, resulting in the issuance of 27,828 shares of our common stock and aggregate proceeds to the Company of approximately $0.5 million. As of March 31, 2021, there were warrants to purchase 376,866 shares of our common stock outstanding.

Liquidity

We have financed our operations to date primarily through revenue generated from our commercial products, the Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR, royalty payments from Pfizer, deferred payments from Medexus, the sale of our hyperimmune products business in September 2017, the sale of Aptevo BioTherapeutics on February 28, 2020, public offerings of our common stock, loan proceeds, milestone payments, research and development funding from strategic partners, and funds received at the date of our spin-off from Emergent. We had a net loss of $7.3 million and net income of $2.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020, respectively. We had cash and cash equivalents of $57.5 million, restricted cash of $1.3 million and an accumulated deficit of $192.9 million as of March 31, 2021.

For the three months ended March 31, 2021, net cash used in our operating activities was $7.5 million.

Our future success is dependent on our ability to develop our product candidates and ultimately upon our ability to attain profitable operations. We anticipate that we will continue to incur significant operating losses for the next several years as we incur expenses to continue to execute on our development strategy to advance our preclinical and clinical stage assets. We will not generate revenues from our development stage product candidates unless and/or until we or our collaborators successfully complete development and obtain regulatory approval for such product candidates, which we expect will take a number of years and is subject to significant uncertainty. If we obtain regulatory approval for one of our development stage product candidates, we expect to incur significant commercialization expenses related to sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution, to the extent that such costs are not paid by collaborators. We do not have sufficient cash to complete the clinical development of any of our development stage product candidates and will require additional funding in order to complete the development activities required for regulatory approval of such product candidates. We will require substantial additional funds to continue our development programs and to fulfill our planned operating goals.

Due to COVID-19, we may experience delays in opportunities to partner our product candidates, due to financial and other impacts on potential partners. Additionally, we may experience potential impacts on our future deferred payments and milestones from Medexus due to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which may impact Medexus’ ability to continue to successfully commercialize the IXINITY businesses. Additionally, we may experience potential impacts on our future milestones, which are based on global net sales of RUXEIENCE, from HCR due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which may impact Pfizer’s ability to continue to successfully commercialize the RUXIENCE business. We believe that our existing cash resources, the Investment Amount from the Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR, the cash to be generated from future IXINITY deferred payments, access to cash under the Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park, release of restricted cash securing letters of credit, and funds available to us from

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the remaining principal balance of the credit agreement with Midcap Financial, will be sufficient to meet our projected operating requirements and debt service for at least twelve months from the date of this filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

There are numerous risks and uncertainties associated with research, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products. Accordingly, our future funding requirements may vary from our current expectations and will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to:

If we are unable to raise substantial additional capital in the next year, whether on terms that are acceptable to us or at all, then we may be required to:

The sale of additional equity or convertible debt securities may result in additional dilution to our stockholders. If we raise additional funds through the issuance of debt securities or preferred stock or through credit facilities, these securities and/or the loans under credit facilities could provide for rights senior to those of our common stock and could contain covenants that would restrict our operations. Additional funds may not be available when we need them, on terms that are acceptable to us, or at all. We also expect to seek additional funds through arrangements with collaborators, licensees or other third parties. These arrangements would generally require us to relinquish or encumber rights to some of our technologies or drug candidates, and we may not be able to enter into such arrangements on acceptable terms, if at all. Due to COVID-19, we may experience delays in clinical trials and pre-clinical work, and opportunities to partner our product candidates, due to financial and other impacts on potential partners.

 

Contractual Obligations

We have an operating lease related to our office and laboratory space in Seattle, Washington. This lease was amended and extended in March 2019. The term of the amended lease is through April 2030 and we have two options to extend the lease term, each by five years, as well as a one-time option to terminate the lease in April 2023.

In January 2020, we entered into a contract with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to be part of an ongoing national AML master clinical trial called the ‘Beat AML Master Clinical Trial.’ The Beat AML Master Clinical Trial provides access to leading academic cancer centers and allows us to study APVO436 in a front-line AML setting. Our purchase obligation for the Beat AML Master Clinical Trial totals $8.1 million over the next four years, with payments anticipated to begin in 2021. The Clinical Trial Participation Agreement contains a termination for convenience clause where we may terminate the agreement with 180 days prior written notice.

On August 5, 2020, we entered into a new Credit and Security Agreement (Credit Agreement), with MidCap Financial. The Credit Agreement provided us with up to $25 million of available borrowing capacity. The MidCap Financial loan has a 48 month term, is interest-only for the first 18 months, with straight-line amortization for the remaining 30 months and bears interest at a rate of one month LIBOR plus 6.25% per annum, subject to a 1.50% LIBOR floor and a 2.50% LIBOR cap. Additionally, on March 30, 2021, we amended our Credit Agreement with MidCap Financial and used $10 million of the proceeds received from the Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR to pay down the outstanding principal under this agreement from $25 million to $15 million. The

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Company’s Credit Agreement currently references LIBOR. Contract language is expected to be incorporated into these agreements to address the transition to an alternative reference rate. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that ASU 2020-04 may have on its consolidated financial statements.

On March 30, 2021, we entered into the Royalty Purchase Agreement pursuant to which the Company sold to HCR the right to receive all royalty payments made by Pfizer in respect of net sales of RUXIENCE.

Our principal commitments include obligations under vendor contracts to purchase research services and other purchase commitments with our vendors. In the normal course of business, we enter into services agreements with contract research organizations, contract manufacturing organizations and other third parties. Generally, these agreements provide for termination upon notice, with specified amounts due upon termination based on the timing of termination and the terms of the agreement. The actual amounts and timing of payments under these agreements are uncertain and contingent upon the initiation and completion of the services to be provided.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

As of March 31, 2021, there was no material changes to the information provided under Item 7A, Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 and filed on March 31, 2021.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As of March 31, 2021, management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, performed an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of March 31, 2021, the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and to provide reasonable assurance that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended March 31, 2021, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Because of inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

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PART II—OTHER INFORMATION

 

 

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

We may from time to time be named as a party to legal claims, actions and complaints, including matters involving employment claims, our intellectual property or other third-party claims. Our management believes that there are currently no claims or actions pending against us, the ultimate disposition of which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

We are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that could impact the Company’s businesses, results of operations and financial condition, including by causing our actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements. Additional risks and uncertainties that are not currently known to the Company or management or that are not currently believed by the Company or management to be material may also harm the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operation. You should carefully consider the following risks and other information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q in evaluating us and our common stock.

RISK FACTOR SUMMARY

The following is a summary of the material risks to our business, operations, and ownership of our common stock:

RISKS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS

Financial Risks

We have a history of losses and may not be profitable in the future.

We have experienced significant operating losses and we may not achieve profitability in the future. For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, we had net loss of $7.3 million and net income of $2.9 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2021, we had an accumulated deficit of $192.9 million. We expect to continue to incur annual net operating losses, and will require substantial resources over the next several years as we expand our efforts to discover, develop and commercialize immunotherapeutic candidates, for the foreseeable future. While we believe our existing cash and cash equivalents and the funding provided by our IXINITY deferred payment streams, the Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR, credit agreement, our Equity Distribution Agreement with Piper Sandler & Co (Piper Sandler) entered into in December 2020 (the Equity Distribution Agreement) and our Purchase Agreement with

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Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (Lincoln Park), entered into in December 2018 (the Purchase Agreement), and exercises of warrants will provide us with sufficient liquidity to meet our cash requirements through 2021, our future success and ability to attain profitability will depend upon our ability to develop and take to market our product candidates.

We will require additional capital and may be unable to raise capital when needed or on acceptable terms.

As of March 31, 2021, we had cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash in the amount of $58.8 million. We will require additional funding to grow our business including to develop additional products, support commercial marketing activities or otherwise provide additional financial flexibility. In October 2019, we implemented an expense reduction plan that reduced annual expenditures by approximately 30%, including streamlining research and development programs, through reducing investment in certain programs; cut-backs in legal, professional and consulting expenses; reduction of leased space, cut-backs in non-commercial headcount; and reductions in executive and board cash compensation, with such compensation restored to previous levels in August 2020. If we are not able to secure adequate additional funding, we may need to make further reductions in spending. This may include extending payment terms with suppliers, liquidating assets, and suspending or curtailing planned programs. We may also have to further delay, reduce the scope of, suspend or eliminate one or more research and development programs. A failure to raise the additional funding or to effectively implement cost reductions could harm our business, results of operations and future prospects. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including:

If our capital resources are insufficient to meet our future capital requirements, we will need to finance our cash needs through bank loans, public or private equity or debt offerings, collaboration and licensing arrangements, or other strategic transactions. Future issuances of common stock may include (i) any sale of up to the remaining $50.0 million worth of shares of our common stock pursuant to our Equity Distribution Agreement with Piper Sandler & Co entered into in December 2020, (ii) any sale of up to $35.0 million worth of shares of our common stock in a private placement pursuant to our Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC, or Lincoln Park, entered into in December 2018, and (iii) the issuance of up to 376,866 remaining outstanding shares of common stock upon the exercise of warrants issued in connection with our March 2019 public offering of common stock and warrants. Public or bank debt financing, if available, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures, pursuing acquisition opportunities, or declaring dividends. If we raise funds by issuing equity securities, our stockholders will experience dilution. If we raise funds through collaboration and licensing arrangements with third parties or enter into other strategic transactions, it may be necessary to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies or product candidates or grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us.

Current economic conditions, including the impact of COVID-19 on our operations or on the global economy and capital markets, may make it difficult to obtain additional financing on attractive terms, or at all. If financing is unavailable or lost, our business, results of operations, financial condition and financial prospects would be adversely affected and we could be forced to delay, reduce the scope of or eliminate many of our planned activities.

Actions of an activist stockholder against us have been disruptive and costly and the notice the activist stockholder has sent indicating he will wage a proxy contest and seek representation on our Board could cause uncertainty about the strategic direction of our business.

On November 6, 2020, Tang filed a statement on Schedule 13D to report that Tang had purchased 1,760,000 shares of our common stock, representing at the time approximately 54% of our issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock (the Tang Ownership Change), although Tang has subsequently been diluted to a 39.6% beneficial ownership position, primarily through the exercise of certain warrants that were issued and outstanding prior to Tang acquiring its ownership position in Aptevo.  

On November 18, 2020, our Board received a written unsolicited, non-binding indication of interest from Tang, proposing to acquire all of the outstanding shares of our common stock not already beneficially owned by Tang for $50.00 per share in cash, subject to confirmatory due diligence conducted under a customary non-disclosure agreement. We have had a series of communications with Tang during which we attempted to negotiate a non-disclosure agreement to permit discussions covering our nonpublic information and our operations.

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The Aptevo Board was open to exploring the indication of interest from Tang and made earnest efforts to evaluate it. However, it was unable to do so because it was unable to reach agreement with Tang on the terms of a customary non-disclosure agreement, including limitations on the use of confidential information by Tang.  Had agreement on the terms of a non-disclosure agreement been reached, it would have permitted the exchange of confidential information and would have enabled both parties to conduct due diligence.  In this early stage of the Company’s development, the Aptevo Board believes it is difficult for the market to accurately value the potential of Aptevo’s proprietary platform technologies and therapeutic candidates, which have just begun to demonstrate their effectiveness and potentially life-saving capabilities to the Company’s patients, shareholders and other stakeholders. The Board will continue to carefully evaluate any indications of interest and proposals for strategic transactions that it receives from current shareholders or otherwise, in line with its fiduciary duties and commitment to acting in the best interests of all of the Company’s shareholders.

On February 9, 2021, Tang announced its intention to nominate two candidates for election to our board of directors at our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders and submitted an advisory stockholder proposal for consideration at our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders to commence a process to sell Aptevo to the highest bidder. We have incurred and may continue to incur additional expenses by retaining the services of various professionals to advise us on responding to these matters.

The Board and management team strive to maintain constructive communications with our stockholders, including Tang, and welcomes their views and opinions with the goal of enhancing value for all stockholders. However, an activist campaign that seeks to replace members of our Board or changes in our strategic direction could have an adverse effect on us because:

The Initial Proposal, the Tang Stockholder Proposals and similar proposals from other third-parties, and our responses thereto, may cause volatility in the trading price of our common stock and interfere with our efforts to raise capital.

We have retained Piper Sandler to assist and advise the Board in its evaluation of the Initial Proposal, as well as our other strategic alternatives, including remaining independent and executing our existing strategic plans. The Board has met on a number of occasions to carefully evaluate and consider the Initial Proposal and representatives of the Company have discussed the Initial Proposal directly with representatives of Tang.

The Aptevo Board was open to exploring the indication of interest from Tang and made earnest efforts to evaluate it. However, it was unable to do so because it was unable to reach agreement with Tang on the terms of a customary non-disclosure agreement, including limitations on the use of confidential information by Tang.  Had agreement on the terms of a non-disclosure agreement been reached, it would have permitted the exchange of confidential information and would have enabled both parties to conduct due diligence.  In this early stage of the Company’s development, the Aptevo Board believes it is difficult for the market to accurately value the potential of Aptevo’s proprietary platform technologies and therapeutic candidates, which have just begun to demonstrate their effectiveness and potentially life-saving capabilities to the Company’s patients, shareholders and other stakeholders. The Board will continue to carefully evaluate any indications of interest and proposals for strategic transactions that it receives from current shareholders or otherwise, in line with its fiduciary duties and commitment to acting in the best interests of all of the Company’s shareholders.

As a result of the uncertainty surrounding the Tang Stockholder Proposals, our response to the Initial Proposal, and similar proposals from other third-parties, the future trading price of our common stock is likely to be volatile and could be subject to wide price fluctuations.

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Our operating results are unpredictable and may fluctuate.  

Our operating results are difficult to predict and will likely fluctuate from quarter to quarter and year to year, as a result of a variety of factors, including:

Due to COVID-19, we may experience delays in opportunities to partner our product candidates, due to financial and other impacts on potential partners. Additionally, we may experience potential impacts on our future milestone or deferred payments from Medexus, which may impact Medexus’ ability to continue to successfully commercialize the IXINITY businesses. In 2020, we did see an impact of COVID-19 on our business as some of our clinical sites were at reduced capacity or closed, as well as our participation in the BEAT AML trial being delayed by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. These and other factors may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our future income will depend, in part, on the ability of Medexus to successfully further develop, market and commercialize IXINITY, resulting in milestone payments and deferred payments to the Company by Medexus.

On February 28, 2020, we entered into an LLC Purchase Agreement with Medexus, pursuant to which we sold all of the issued and outstanding limited liability company interests of Aptevo BioTherapeutics, a subsidiary of Aptevo that wholly owns the IXINITY and related Hemophilia B business. We are entitled to receive future potential payments to the extent of the achievement of certain regulatory and commercial milestones and through deferred payments based on net sales of IXINITY. Royalties are earned at the rate of 2% of net revenue through the earlier of June 2022 or completion of the IXINITY pediatric trial being run by Medexus.  After that, the royalty rate will increase to 5%. We no longer control the development, marketing, and commercialization of IXINITY and are dependent on Medexus to successfully do so.  Although Medexus has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to commercialize IXINITY in the ordinary course of business in good faith, Medexus may not commit adequate resources to the further development, marketing, and commercialization of IXINITY, may experience financial difficulties, may face competition, or may prioritize other products or initiatives.  Due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the current and future environment for clinical development and regulatory approval, Medexus’ ability to continue to successfully commercialize the IXINITY business may be effected, and we may experience potential impacts on our future deferred payments from Medexus. The failure of Medexus to successfully market and commercialize IXINITY, including because of factors outside of Medexus’ control, could result in lower than expected milestone or deferred payments to us and negatively impact our future financial and operating results.

Our future income will depend, in part, on the ability of Pfizer to successfully sell RUXIENCE and our receipt of milestone and royalty payments from HCR in connection therewith. If Pfizer is unable, or does not devote sufficient resources, to maintain or continue increasing sales of RUXIENCE, or if HCR does not comply with the Royalty Purchase Agreement, our results of operations will be adversely affected.

On June 25, 2020, we announced that we will receive royalty payments from Pfizer related to sales of a rituximab biosimilar product, RUXIENCE (Rituximab-pvvr), which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in July 2019 and launched by Pfizer in the United States and Japan in early 2020, and the European Union in the third quarter of 2020. The payments from Pfizer relate to a collaboration and license agreement acquired by us as part of our spin-off from Emergent in 2016, which applies a fixed royalty rate of 2.5% on global net sales. The agreement was originally executed by Trubion Pharmaceuticals (which was subsequently acquired by Emergent) and Wyeth (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pfizer). The royalty term runs until the seventh anniversary of the first commercial sale of the biosimilar. Royalty payments to us are due within 60 days after the end of each quarter. Although the agreement was terminated in 2012, the royalty obligation thereunder survived.

On March 30, 2021, we entered into and closed a Royalty Purchase Agreement with HCR (Royalty Purchase Agreement) pursuant to which we sold to HCR the right to receive all royalty payments made by Pfizer in respect of net sales of RUXIENCE. Under the terms of the Royalty Purchase Agreement, we received $35 million (the Investment Amount) at closing and we are eligible to receive additional payments in aggregate of up to an  $32.5 million based on the achievement of sales milestones in 2021, 2022, and 2023 (collectively, the Milestone Amounts). The Royalty Purchase Agreement further provides that, once HCR reaches aggregate royalty payments totaling 190% of the Investment Amount plus the Milestone Amounts to the extent paid to us by HCR, we will be entitled to receive 50% of any additional royalty payments by Pfizer thereafter.

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We have no control over the sales of RUXIENCE and are therefore dependent on the efforts and ability of Pfizer to generate net sales of RUXIENCE sufficient for us to receive Milestone Payments and additional royalty payments under the Royalty Purchase Agreement.  The failure of Pfizer to successfully generate such net sales could negatively impact our future financial and operating results and our results of operations could therefore be adversely affected. Additionally, even if Pfizer is able to generate net sales of RUXIENCE sufficient for us to receive such payments, if HCR breaches the Royalty Purchase Agreement (for example, by not making required payments when due, or at all), disputes or litigation may arise. Such disputes or litigation could be time-consuming and expensive and could adversely affect our business.

We face product liability exposure, which could cause us to incur substantial liabilities and negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The nature of our business exposes us to potential liability inherent in pharmaceutical products, including with respect to the testing of our product candidates in clinical trials and any product candidates that we successfully develop. Product liability claims might be made by patients in clinical trials, consumers, health care providers or pharmaceutical companies or others that sell any products that we successfully develop. These claims may be made even with respect to those products that are manufactured in licensed and regulated facilities or otherwise possess regulatory approval for study or commercial sale. We cannot predict the frequency, outcome or cost to defend any such claims.

If we cannot successfully defend ourselves against future claims that our product candidates caused injuries, we may incur substantial liabilities. Regardless of merit or eventual outcome, product liability claims may result in:

The amount of insurance that we currently hold may not be adequate to cover all liabilities that may occur. Further product liability insurance may be difficult and expensive to obtain. We may not be able to maintain insurance coverage at a reasonable cost and we may not be able to obtain insurance coverage that will be adequate to satisfy all potential liabilities. Claims or losses in excess of our product liability insurance coverage could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. The cost of defending any product liability litigation or other proceeding, even if resolved in our favor, could be substantial. Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of product liability litigation or other proceedings could have a material adverse effect on our ability to compete in the marketplace. Product liability claims, regardless of merit or eventual outcome, may absorb significant management time and result in reputational harm, potential loss of revenue from decreased demand for any product candidates we successfully develop, withdrawal of clinical trial participants and potential termination of clinical trial sites or entire clinical programs, and could cause our stock price to fall.

Our success is dependent on our continued ability to attract, motivate and retain key personnel, and any failure to attract or retain key personnel may negatively affect our business.

Because of the specialized scientific nature of our business, our ability to develop products and to compete with our current and future competitors largely depends upon our ability to attract, retain and motivate highly qualified managerial and key scientific and technical personnel. If we are unable to retain the services of one or more of the principal members of senior management, including our Chief Executive Officer, Marvin L. White, our Chief Financial Officer, Jeffrey G. Lamothe, our Chief Scientific Officer, Jane Gross Ph.D., or other key employees, our ability to implement our business strategy could be materially harmed. We face intense competition for qualified employees from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, research organizations and academic institutions. Attracting, retaining or replacing these personnel on acceptable terms may be difficult and time-consuming given the high demand in our industry for similar personnel. We believe part of being able to attract, motivate and retain personnel is our ability to offer a competitive compensation package, including equity incentive awards. If we cannot offer a competitive compensation package or otherwise attract and retain the qualified personnel necessary for the continued development of our business, we may not be able to maintain our operations or grow our business. A novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19 has spread through the world, including the United States.  We have experienced and may experience an impact on the health of key personnel due to COVID-19.

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COVID-19 could adversely impact our business, including our clinical trials.

Since March of 2020, a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, has spread through the world, including the United States. The COVID-19 outbreak has caused severe global economic and societal disruptions and uncertainties, and we have experienced disruptions that have impacted our business and clinical trials, including, limitation of company operations, including implementing work from home policies and office closures; delays or difficulties in receiving deliveries of critical experimental materials; delays or difficulties in enrolling patients in our clinical trials; delays or difficulties in clinical site initiation, including difficulties in recruiting clinical site investigators and clinical site staff; diversion of healthcare resources away from the conduct of clinical trials, including the diversion of hospitals serving as our clinical trial sites and hospital staff supporting the conduct of our clinical trials; delay in participation of APVO436 in the Beat AML trial; interruption of key clinical trial activities, such as patient enrollment and clinical trial site monitoring; and, limitations in employee resources that would otherwise be focused on our business, including the conduct of our research and development activities and process development activities, due to the illness of employees or their families, or the preference of employees to avoid contact with large groups of people.

We may continue to experience disruptions in the future, or additional disruptions that could severely impact our business, such as delays or difficulties to the financing environment and raising capital due to economic uncertainty; delays in opportunities to partner our product candidates, due to financial and other impacts on potential partners; diversion of healthcare resources away from the conduct of clinical trials, including the diversion of hospitals serving as our clinical trial sites and hospital staff supporting the conduct of our clinical trials; potential impacts on our future deferred payments and milestones from Medexus due to the environment which may impact Medexus’ ability to continue to successfully commercialize the IXINITY business; and negative impacts on suppliers and licensees. The global outbreak of COVID-19 continues to rapidly evolve. The COVID-19 pandemic may also result in the need to suspend enrollment into studies, patient withdrawals, postponement of preclinical studies, study modification, suspension, or termination, the introduction of remote study procedures and modified informed consent procedures, study site changes, direct delivery of investigational products to patient homes requiring state licensing, study deviations or noncompliance, and changes or delays in site monitoring.  The foregoing may require that we consult with relevant review and ethics committees and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities.  The foregoing may also impact the integrity of our study data. The pandemic could further impact our ability to interact with the FDA or other regulatory authorities, and may result in delays in the conduct of inspections or review of pending submissions.

The COVID-19 pandemic may further impact our suppliers and manufacturers.  If any of our suppliers or manufacturers are adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic or the restrictions resulting from the outbreak, if they cannot obtain the necessary supplies, or if such third parties need to prioritize other products or customers over us, including under the Defense Production Act, we may experience delays or disruptions in our supply chain, which could have a material and adverse impact on our business and development plans. Third party manufacturers may also need to implement measures and changes, or deviate from typical requirements, because of the COVID-19 pandemic that may otherwise adversely impact our supply chains or the quality of the resulting products or supplies.  Depending on the change, we may need to obtain FDA pre-approval or otherwise provide FDA with a notification of the change.

The COVID-19 pandemic may result in changes in laws, policies, and regulations.  By example, due to the potential impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on clinical trials, drug development, and manufacturing, FDA issued a number of guidances concerning how sponsors and investigators may address these challenges.  FDA’s guidance is continually evolving.  By further example, in March 2020, the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, which includes various provisions regarding FDA drug shortage reporting requirements, as well as provisions regarding supply chain security, such as risk management plan requirements, and the promotion of supply chain redundancy and domestic manufacturing.  This and any future changes in law may require that we change our internal processes and procedures to ensure continued compliance.

The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic may impact our business and clinical trials will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, such as the ultimate geographic spread of the disease, the duration of the outbreak, travel restrictions and social distancing in the United States and other countries, business closures or business disruptions and the effectiveness of actions taken in the United States and other countries to contain and treat the disease, including the effectiveness of vaccination programs.

The terms of our credit agreement may restrict the operation of our business and limit the cash available for investment in our business operations.

In August 2020, we entered into a Credit and Security Agreement (the Credit Agreement), by and among us and certain of our subsidiaries as borrowers, MidCap Financial, as agent, and the lenders from time to time party thereto. The terms of the Credit Agreement and borrowings we may make under the Credit Agreement in the future, could have significant adverse consequences for our business, including:

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We may not have sufficient funds or be able to obtain additional financing to pay the amounts due under the Credit Agreement. In addition, failure to comply with the covenants under the Credit Agreement, including those outside of our control, such as the appointment by Tang of a majority of directors to our board, could result in an event of default, notwithstanding the initial waiver and consent obtained upon the Tang Ownership Change. An event of default could result in the acceleration of amounts due under the Credit Agreement, and we may not be able to obtain additional financing to make any accelerated payments. Under these circumstances, our lenders could seek to enforce security interests in our assets securing our indebtedness, including our intellectual property.

We believe it is likely that we experienced by virtue of the Tang Ownership Change, an “ownership change” as defined in Section 382 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), and, if we are correct, the tax benefits of our pre-“ownership change” net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes will be subject to annual limitation under Sections 382 and 383 of the Code.  

In general, a corporation undergoes an “ownership change” under Section 382 of the Code if, among other things, the stockholders who own, directly or indirectly, 5% or more of the corporation’s stock (by value), or are otherwise treated as “5% shareholders” under Section 382 of the Code and the Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, increase their aggregate percentage ownership (by value) of the corporation’s stock by more than 50 percentage points over the lowest percentage of value owned by the 5% shareholders at any time during the applicable testing period, which is generally the rolling three-year period preceding the potential ownership change.  Such potential ownership change testing events include changes involving a shareholder becoming a 5% shareholder or arising from a new issuance of capital stock or share repurchases by the corporation, subject to certain exceptions.

In the event of an “ownership change,” Sections 382 and 383 of the Code impose an annual limitation on the amount of taxable income a corporation may offset with pre-change net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes. The annual limitation is generally equal to the value of the outstanding stock of the corporation immediately before the ownership change (excluding certain capital contributions), multiplied by the long-term tax-exempt rate as published by the IRS for the month in which the ownership change occurs (the long-term tax-exempt rate for November 2020 is 0.89%).  Any unused annual limitation may generally be carried over to subsequent years until the pre-ownership change net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes expire or are fully utilized by the corporation.  Similar provisions of state tax law may also apply to limit the use of state net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes.

Additionally, Section 382 of the Code includes special rules that apply to a corporation with a significant amount of net unrealized built-in gains or net unrealized built-in losses in its assets immediately prior to an ownership change under Section 382 of the Code. In general, certain built-in gains recognized during the five-year period beginning on the date of the ownership change increases the corporation’s annual limitation under Section 382 and 383 of the Code in the taxable year that such built-in gains are recognized or deemed recognized (but only up to the amount of the net unrealized built-in gain), while certain built-in losses recognized during such five-year period is subject to the annual limitation under Section 382 of the Code (but only up to the amount of the net unrealized built-in loss). 

As of December 31, 2020, we had approximately $162.5 million and $68.1 million of federal and state net operating loss carryforwards, respectively, available to reduce future taxable income that will begin to expire in 2037 for federal purposes. These net operating loss carryforwards could expire unused and be unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities. Under the newly enacted federal income tax, federal net operating loss carryforwards incurred in 2018 and in future years may be carried forward indefinitely, but the deductibility of such federal net operating losses is limited. It is still uncertain if and to what extent various states will conform to the enacted tax law. We are in the process of completing an IRC Section 382/383 study on our federal and state tax attributes  in connection with the acquisition by Tang of 1,760,000 shares of our common stock in order to determine whether our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes in existence prior to the Tang Ownership Change will be subject to an annual limitation under Sections 382 and 383 of the Code as described above.

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We cannot predict or control the occurrence or timing of another ownership change under Section 382 of the Code in the future. In addition, it is possible that any offering of securities by us could result in an ownership change.  If another ownership change were to occur, future limitations could apply to our net operating losses and certain other tax attributes, which could result in a material amount of our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes becoming unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities.

The realization of all or a portion of our deferred income tax assets (including net operating loss carryforwards) is dependent upon the generation of future income during the statutory carryforward periods. Our inability to utilize our limited pre-ownership change net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes, or the occurrence of a future ownership change and resulting additional limitations to these tax attributes, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Product Development Risks

 

The results of our current and planned clinical trials may not satisfy the requirements of the FDA or non-U.S. regulatory authorities.  Interim or top line data may be subject to change or qualification based on the complete analysis of data.

Clinical failure can occur at any stage of clinical development. Clinical trials may produce negative or inconclusive results.  The FDA or a non-US regulatory authority may require us, to conduct additional clinical or preclinical testing. Success in early clinical trials does not mean that future larger registration clinical trials will be successful because product candidates in later-stage clinical trials may fail to demonstrate sufficient safety and efficacy to the satisfaction of the FDA and non-U.S. regulatory authorities despite having progressed through initial clinical trials. A number of companies in the pharmaceutical industry, including those with greater resources and experience than us, have suffered significant setbacks in advanced clinical trials, even after obtaining promising results in earlier clinical trials.

We may publicly disclose top line or interim data from time to time, which is based on a preliminary analysis of then-available data, and the results and related findings and conclusions are subject to change following a more comprehensive review of the data related to the particular study or trial. The top line or interim results that we report may differ from future results of the same studies, or different conclusions or considerations may qualify such results once additional data have been received and fully evaluated. Even in situations where a clinical stage candidate appears to be benefiting a patient, that benefit may not be of a permanent nature.  For example, we have previously reported on a patient in cohort 4 of our APVO 436 Phase 1/1b clinical trial who showed a complete marrow response.  That patient dropped out of the trial during the eleventh cycle of treatment because his/her disease progressed. Additionally, we previously reported on two patients in cohort 6 of our APVO 436 Phase 1/1b clinical trial who had a complete remission status. Both patients are no longer in a complete remission status and discontinued therapy due to progression in their disease. Top line and interim data also remain subject to audit and verification procedures, that may result in the final data being materially different from the preliminary data we previously published. In addition, the achievement of one primary endpoint for a trial does not guarantee that additional co-primary endpoints or secondary endpoints will be achieved.

Our future clinical trials may not be successful. Moreover, should there be a flaw in a clinical trial, it may not become apparent until the clinical trial is well advanced. We may also experience numerous unforeseen events during, or as a result of, clinical trials that could delay or prevent our ability to receive marketing approval or commercialize our product candidates, including:

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Further, our product candidates may not be approved even if they achieve their primary endpoints in Phase 3 clinical trials or registration trials. Regardless of any advisory committee recommendation, the FDA may decline to approve the BLA for a number of reasons including, if the clinical benefit, safety profile or effectiveness of the drug is not deemed by the FDA to warrant approval. The FDA or other non-U.S. regulatory authorities may disagree with our trial design, and our interpretation of data from preclinical studies and clinical trials. In particular, the FDA may not view our data as being clinically meaningful or statistically persuasive. In addition, any of these regulatory authorities may change requirements for the approval of a product candidate even after reviewing and providing comments or advice on a protocol for a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial. Any of these regulatory authorities may also approve a product candidate for fewer or more limited indications than we request or may grant approval contingent on the performance of costly post-marketing clinical trials. The FDA or other non-U.S. regulatory authorities may not approve the labeling claims that we believe would be necessary or desirable for the successful commercialization of our product candidates.

If we experience delays or difficulties in the enrollment of patients in clinical trials, the time to reach critical trial data and receipt of any necessary regulatory approvals could be delayed.

We may not be able to initiate or continue clinical trials for our product candidates if we are unable to locate and enroll a sufficient number of eligible patients to participate in these trials as required by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside the United States. In addition, some of our competitors have ongoing clinical trials for product candidates that treat the same indications as our product candidates, and patients who would otherwise be eligible for our clinical trials may instead enroll in clinical trials of our competitors’ product candidates.  In addition, the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic makes it more difficult to initiate studies and enroll patients.

Patient enrollment is affected by other factors including:

Our inability to enroll a sufficient number of patients for clinical trials could result in significant delays and could require us to abandon one or more clinical trials altogether. Enrollment delays in our clinical trials may result in increased development costs for our product candidates and in delays to commercially launching our product candidates, if approved, which may cause the value of our company to decline and limit our ability to obtain additional financing.

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Serious adverse events, undesirable side effects or other unexpected properties of our product candidates may be identified that could delay, prevent, or cause the withdrawal of regulatory approval, limit the commercial potential, or result in significant negative consequences following marketing approval.

Serious adverse events or undesirable side effects caused by, or other unexpected properties of any of our product candidates could cause us or regulatory authorities to interrupt, delay or halt our manufacturing and distribution operations and could result in a more restrictive label, the imposition of distribution or use restrictions or the delay or denial of regulatory approval by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities. If any of our product candidates are associated with serious adverse events or undesirable side effects or have properties that are unexpected, we may need to abandon their development or limit development to certain uses or subpopulations in which the undesirable side effects or other characteristics are less prevalent, less severe or more acceptable from a risk-benefit perspective. Many compounds that initially showed promise in clinical or earlier stage testing have later been found to cause undesirable or unexpected side effects that prevented further development of the compound.

As we continue developing our product candidates and initiate clinical trials of our additional product candidates, serious adverse events, or SAEs, undesirable side effects, relapse of disease or unexpected characteristics may emerge causing us to abandon these product candidates or limit their development to more narrow uses or subpopulations in which the SAEs or undesirable side effects or other characteristics are less prevalent, less severe or more acceptable from a risk-benefit perspective or in which efficacy is more pronounced or durable. Undesirable side effects, or other unexpected adverse events or properties of any of our product candidates, could arise or become known either during clinical development or, if approved, after the approved product has been marketed. If such an event occurs during development, our trials could be suspended or terminated, and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities could order us to cease further development of or deny approval of our other product candidates. If such an event occurs, a number of potentially significant negative consequences may result, including:

Any of these events could prevent us from achieving or maintaining market acceptance of the affected product candidate, or could substantially increase commercialization costs and expenses, which could delay or prevent us from generating revenue from the sale of our products and materially harm our business and results of operations.

We depend on third parties to conduct our clinical and non-clinical trials.

We do not have the ability to independently conduct the clinical and non-clinical trials required to obtain regulatory approval for our product candidates. We depend on third parties, such as independent clinical investigators, contract research organizations, or CROs, and other third-party service providers to conduct the clinical and non-clinical trials of our product candidates, and we expect to continue to do so. For example, Dr. Scott Stromatt, our former full-time Chief Medical Officer, is now providing clinical trial and medical affairs oversight duties as an independent consultant. We rely heavily on Dr. Stromatt and these other third parties for successful execution of our clinical and non-clinical trials, but we do not exercise day-to-day control over their activities.

While we have agreements governing the activities of third parties, we have limited influence and control over their actual performance and activities. For instance, our third-party service providers are not our employees, and except for remedies available to us under our agreements with such third parties we cannot control whether or not they devote sufficient time and resources to our ongoing clinical, non-clinical, and preclinical programs. Our third-party service providers may also have relationships with other entities, some of which may be our competitors, for whom they may also be conducting trials or other therapeutic development activities that could harm our competitive position.  If these third parties do not successfully carry out their contractual duties, meet expected deadlines or conduct our preclinical studies or clinical trials in accordance with regulatory requirements or our stated protocols, if they need to be replaced or if the quality or accuracy of the data they obtain is compromised due to the failure to adhere to our protocols, regulatory requirements or for other reasons, our trials may be repeated, extended, delayed, or terminated, we may not be able to obtain, or may be delayed in obtaining, marketing approvals for our product candidates, we may not be able to, or may be delayed in our efforts to, successfully commercialize our product candidates, or we or they may be subject to regulatory enforcement actions.

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Our reliance on third-party service providers does not relieve us of our regulatory responsibilities, including ensuring that our trials are conducted in accordance with the FDA-approved good clinical practices, or GCPs, and the plans and protocols contained in the relevant regulatory application. In addition, these organizations and individuals may not complete these activities on our anticipated or desired timeframe. We also may experience unexpected cost increases that are beyond our control. Problems with the timeliness or quality of the work of a contract research organization may lead us to seek to terminate the relationship and use an alternative service provider, which may prove difficult and/or costly and result in a delay of our trials. In addition, business disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic could negatively affect the ability of some of the independent clinical investigators, contract research organizations and other third-party service providers that conduct our clinical and non-clinical trials of our product candidates. Any delay in or inability to complete our trials could delay or prevent the development, approval, and commercialization of our product candidates.

If CROs or other third parties assisting us or our study sites fail to comply with applicable GCPs, the clinical data generated in our clinical trials may be deemed unreliable and the FDA or its non-U.S. counterparts may require us to perform additional clinical trials before approving our marketing applications. We or they may also face regulatory enforcement action.  We cannot assure you that, upon inspection, the FDA or non-U.S. regulatory agencies will determine that any of our clinical trials comply with GCPs. In addition, our clinical trials must be conducted with product produced under GMPs and similar regulations outside of the United States. Our failure, or the failure of our product manufacturers, to comply with these regulations may require us to repeat or redesign clinical trials, or conduct additional trials, which would increase our development costs and delay or impact the likelihood of regulatory approval.

If third parties do not carry out their duties under their agreements with us, if the quality or accuracy of the data they obtain is compromised due to the failure to adhere to our clinical protocols, including dosing requirements, or regulatory requirements, or if they otherwise fail to comply with clinical trial protocols or meet expected deadlines, our clinical trials may not meet regulatory requirements. If our clinical trials do not meet regulatory requirements or if these third parties need to be replaced, our clinical trials may be extended, delayed, suspended or terminated.

Agreements with third parties conducting or otherwise assisting with our clinical or preclinical studies might terminate for a variety of reasons, including a failure to perform by the third parties. If any of our relationships with these third parties terminate, we may not be able to enter into arrangements with alternative providers or to do so on commercially reasonable terms. Switching or adding additional third parties involves additional cost and requires management time and focus. In addition, there is a natural transition period when a new third party commences work. As a result, if we need to enter into alternative arrangements, it could delay our product development activities and adversely affect our business. Though we carefully manage our relationships with our third parties, there can be no assurance that we will not encounter challenges or delays in the future or that these delays or challenges will not have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and prospects, and results of operations.

If any of these events occur, we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval of our product candidates or succeed in our efforts to create approved line extensions for certain of our existing products or generate additional useful clinical data in support of these products. Moreover, if we are unable to obtain any necessary third-party services on acceptable terms or if these service providers do not successfully carry out their contractual duties or meet expected deadlines, our efforts to obtain regulatory approvals for our product candidates may be delayed or prevented.

Certain of our product candidates have received orphan drug designation from the FDA. However, there is no guarantee that we will be able to maintain this designation, receive this designation for any of our other product candidates, or receive or maintain any corresponding benefits, including periods of exclusivity.

Certain of our product candidates have received orphan drug designation. We may also seek orphan drug designation for our other product candidates, as appropriate. While orphan drug designation does provide us with certain advantages, it neither shortens the development time or regulatory review time of a product candidate nor gives the product candidate any advantage in the regulatory review or approval process.

Generally, if a product candidate with orphan drug designation subsequently receives marketing approval before another product considered by the FDA to be the same for the same orphan indication, the product is entitled to a period of marketing exclusivity, which precludes the FDA from approving another marketing application for the same drug or biologic for the same indication for a period of seven years in the United States.

We may not be able to obtain any future orphan drug designations that we apply for. Orphan drug designations do not guarantee that we will be able to successfully develop our product candidates, and there is no guarantee that we will be able to maintain any orphan drug designations that we receive. For instance, orphan drug designations may be revoked if the FDA finds that the request for designation contained an untrue statement of material fact or omitted material information, or if the FDA finds that the product candidate was not eligible for designation at the time of the submission of the request.

Moreover, even if we are able to receive and maintain orphan drug designations, we may ultimately not receive any period of regulatory exclusivity if our product candidates are approved. For instance, we may not receive orphan product regulatory exclusivity

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if the indication for which we receive FDA approval is broader than the orphan drug designation. Orphan exclusivity may also be lost for the same reasons that orphan drug designation may be lost. Orphan exclusivity may further be lost if we are unable to assure a sufficient quantity of the product to meet the needs of patients with the rare disease or condition.

Even if we obtain orphan exclusivity for any of our current or future product candidates, that exclusivity may not effectively protect the product from competition as different products can be approved for the same condition or products that are the same as ours can be approved for different conditions. Even after an orphan product is approved, the FDA can also subsequently approve a product containing the same principal molecular features for the same condition if the FDA concludes that the later product is clinically superior. The FDA may further grant orphan drug designation to multiple sponsors for the same compound or active molecule and for the same indication. If another sponsor receives FDA approval for such product before we do, we would be prevented from launching our product in the United States for the orphan indication for a period of at least seven years, unless we can demonstrate clinical superiority. Moreover, third-party payors may reimburse for products off-label even if not indicated for the orphan condition.

Commercialization Risks

Our ability to grow revenues and execute on our long-term strategy depends heavily on our ability to discover, develop, and obtain marketing approval for our product candidates.

We currently have no products approved for commercial distribution. We have invested a significant portion of our efforts and financial resources in the development of our product candidates.  Our business depends on the successful development and commercialization of our product candidates, which will require additional clinical and non-clinical development, regulatory approval, commercial manufacturing arrangements, establishment of a commercial organization, significant marketing efforts, and further investment, which may never occur. Our ability to generate revenues is substantially dependent on our ability to develop, obtain regulatory approval for, and then successfully commercialize our product candidates. Except for the revenues from previously sold products, we currently generate no revenues from sales of any products, and we may never be able to develop or commercialize a marketable product.

In order for us to achieve our long-term business objectives, we will need to successfully discover and/or develop and commercialize our product candidates. Although we have made, and expect to continue to make, significant investments in research and development, we have had only a limited number of our internally-discovered product candidates reach the clinical development stage. We currently have one clinical-stage candidate, APVO436, which is built on the ADAPTIR platform. Drug discovery and development is a complex, time-consuming and expensive process that is fraught with risk and a high rate of failure. Our product candidates are susceptible to the risks of failure inherent at any stage of product development, including the appearance of unexpected or unacceptable adverse events or failure to demonstrate efficacy in clinical trials.  For example, in 2018, we announced the discontinuation of development of APVO414 and otlertuzumab as a result of clinical trial results. In addition, in October 2019, we announced our decision to discontinue development of APVO210, a novel investigational bispecific antibody candidate under development for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. The decision followed the review of data from Phase 1 multiple ascending dose (MAD) clinical study of APVO210 in healthy volunteers that suggests that APVO210 would not meet the desired target product profile for future commercialization. Specifically, the clinical data showed evidence of increasing titers of ADA with repeated doses of APVO210, which had varying impact on APVO210 drug levels in subjects’ blood. Failure to successfully discover and/or develop, obtain marketing approval for and commercialize additional products and product candidates would likely have a material adverse effect on our ability to grow revenues and improve our financial condition. If we are required to conduct additional clinical trials or other testing of our product candidates that we develop beyond those that we currently expect, if we are unable to successfully complete clinical trials of our product candidates or other testing, if the results of these trials or tests are not positive or are only modestly positive, or if there are safety concerns, we may be delayed in obtaining marketing approval for our product candidates, not obtain marketing approval at all, obtain approval for limited indications or patient populations, with a label without claims necessary for us to successfully market or products, or with significant labeled warnings. We may also be subject to additional post-marketing testing requirements, surveillance requirements, or REMS. To the extent any of the foregoing should occur, our business may be materially harmed.

We may not be successful in our efforts to use and further develop our ADAPTIR or ADAPTIR-FLEX platforms.

A key element of our strategy is to expand our product pipeline of immunotherapeutics based on our ADAPTIR and ADAPTIR-FLEX platform technologies. We plan to select and create product candidates for early development, potentially with other collaborative partners. We expect to continue to develop the platform to address unmet medical needs through directed cytokine delivery via monospecifics and bispecifics in areas including oncology, and multispecific molecules in oncology and other therapeutic areas. Our goal is to leverage this technology to make targeted investment in monospecific, bispecific, and multispecific ADAPTIR and ADAPTIR-FLEX therapeutics. Even if we are successful in continuing to build our pipeline, the potential product candidates that we identify may not be suitable for clinical development, including as a result of being shown to have harmful side effects or other characteristics that indicate that they are unlikely to be products that will receive marketing approval and achieve market acceptance.

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If we do not successfully develop and commercialize product candidates based on our ADAPTIR and ADAPTIR-FLEX platform technologies, our ability to obtain product revenues in future periods may be adversely affected, which likely would result in harm to our financial position and our financial prospects, and adversely affect our stock price.

We face substantial competition.

The development and commercialization of new biotechnology products is highly competitive and subject to rapid technological advances. We may face future competition with respect to our current product candidates and any product candidates we may seek to develop or commercialize in the future obtained from other companies and governments, universities, and other non-profit research organizations. Our competitors may develop products that are safer, more effective, more convenient, or less costly than any products that we may develop or market, or may obtain marketing approval for their products from the FDA, or equivalent foreign regulatory bodies more rapidly than we may obtain approval for our product candidates. Our competitors may have greater resources and may devote greater resources to research and develop their products, research and development capabilities, adapt more quickly to new technologies, scientific advances or patient preferences and needs, initiate or withstand substantial price competition more successfully, or more effectively negotiate third-party licensing and collaborative arrangements.

We believe that our most significant competitors in the oncology market include: AbbVie Inc., Aduro, Inc., Affirmed, Amgen Inc., AnaptysBio, Inc., Astellas Pharma Inc., Bayer AG, Biogen Idec Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, F-Star Biotechnology Ltd., Genentech Inc. (a subsidiary of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.), Genmab A/S, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Grifols USA LLC, Bristol Myers Squibb, ImmunoGen, Inc., Immunomedics, Inc., Janssen BioTech Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Macrogenics, Inc., Novartis International AG, Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Sanofi-Aventis US LLC, Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc., Teneobio, Inc., Xencor, Inc. and Zymeworks Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. We expect to compete on the basis of product efficacy, safety, ease of administration, price and economic value compared to drugs used in current practice or currently being developed. If we are not successful in demonstrating these attributes, physicians and other key healthcare decision makers may choose other products over any products we successfully develop, switch from our products, to new products or choose to use our products only in limited circumstances, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Any of our product candidates, if approved, may become subject to unfavorable pricing regulations or third-party coverage and reimbursement policies, which would harm our business.

The success of our product candidates, if approved, will depend upon, among other things, their acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors, and other members of the medical community as a therapeutic and cost-effective alternative to competing products and treatments. If any of our product candidates do not achieve and maintain an adequate level of acceptance, we may not generate material revenues from sales of these products. The degree of market acceptance of our products will depend on a number of factors, including: our ability to provide acceptable evidence of safety and efficacy; the prevalence and severity of any side effects; availability, relative cost and relative efficacy of alternative and competing treatments; the ability to offer our products for sale at competitive prices; our ability to continuously supply the market without interruption; the relative convenience and ease of administration; the willingness of the target patient population to try new products and of physicians to prescribe these products; the strength of marketing and distribution support; publicity concerning our products or competing products and treatments; and the sufficiency of coverage or reimbursement by third parties.

Legislative or healthcare reform measures may have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

In the United States, there have been and continue to be a number of legislative initiatives to contain healthcare costs. For example, in March 2010, the ACA was enacted, which substantially changed the way health care is financed by both governmental and private insurers, and significantly impacted the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. However, some provisions of the ACA have yet to be fully implemented and certain provisions have been subject to legal and political challenges, as well as efforts to repeal, replace delay, circumvent, or loosen certain aspects of the ACA or mandates required thereby. Additionally, Congress has considered legislation that would repeal or repeal and replace all or part of the ACA. While Congress has not passed comprehensive repeal legislation, it has enacted laws that modify certain provisions of the ACA, such as removing penalties as of January 1, 2019 for not complying with the ACA’s individual mandate to carry health insurance, delaying the implementation of certain ACA-mandated fees, and increasing the point-of-sale discount that is owed by pharmaceutical manufacturers who participate in Medicare Part D. Additionally, on December 14, 2018, a Texas U.S. District Court Judge ruled that the ACA is unconstitutional in its entirety because the individual mandate was repealed by Congress as part of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act and the case is currently pending before the United States Supreme Court. It is unclear how this decision, subsequent appeals, and other efforts to repeal and replace the ACA will impact the ACA and our business. We continue to evaluate how the ACA and recent efforts to repeal and replace or limit the implementation of the ACA will impact our business.

In addition, other legislative changes have been proposed and adopted in the United States since the ACA was enacted. On August 2, 2011, the Budget Control Act of 2011 among other things, created measures for spending reductions by Congress. A Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, tasked with recommending a targeted deficit reduction of at least $1.2 trillion for the years

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2013 through 2021, was unable to reach required goals, thereby triggering the legislation’s automatic reduction to several government programs. This includes aggregate reductions of Medicare payments to providers of 2 percent per fiscal year. These reductions went into effect on April 1, 2013 and, due to subsequent legislative amendments to the statute, will remain in effect through 2030 unless additional Congressional action is taken.

Additionally, there has been heightened governmental scrutiny recently over the manner in which manufacturers set prices for their marketed products. For example, there have been several recent Congressional inquiries and proposed and enacted federal and state legislation designed to, among other things, bring more transparency to drug pricing, review the relationship between pricing and manufacturer patient programs, and reform government program reimbursement methodologies for drug products, including by tying reimbursement to the price of products in other developed countries. For example, proposals have been made to increase drug manufacturer competition, increase the negotiating power of certain federal healthcare programs, incentivize manufacturers to lower the list price of their products, and reduce the out of pocket costs of drug products paid by consumers. Individual states in the United States have also become increasingly active in passing legislation and implementing regulations designed to control pharmaceutical product pricing, including price or patient reimbursement constraints, discounts, restrictions on certain product access and marketing cost disclosure and transparency measures, and, in some cases, designed to encourage importation from other countries and bulk purchasing. On January 21, 2021, Joe Biden was sworn in as the U.S. president, and the Democratic Party obtained an equal number of seats in the U.S. Senate as the Republican Party, as well as maintained control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Many expect that the Biden administration will pursue stronger healthcare consumer protections, and it may act to overturn some of the prior Trump administration initiatives; however, the legislative and regulatory agendas, as they relate to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries and the economy as a whole, of the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress currently remain uncertain. Any new laws and initiatives may result in additional reductions in Medicare and other healthcare funding or impose additional regulatory requirements on drug development or approval, which could have a material adverse effect on our future customers and accordingly, our financial operations.

We expect that additional state and federal healthcare reform measures will be adopted in the future, any of which could limit the amounts that federal and state governments will pay for healthcare products and services, which could result in reduced demand for any product candidates we successfully develop or additional pricing pressures.

Manufacture of our product candidates, especially in large quantities, is complex and time consuming. The loss of any of our third-party manufacturers, or delays or problems in the manufacture our product candidates, could result in product shortages and/or delays in clinical development.

We do not have manufacturing capabilities and do not plan to develop such capacity in the foreseeable future. We depend on a limited number of sole source third-party suppliers for our product candidates. Accordingly, our ability to develop and deliver products in a timely and competitive manner and to enable us to conduct our development programs depends on our third-party manufacturers being able to continue to meet our ongoing clinical trial needs and perform their contractual obligations. In order to successfully develop and commercialize our product candidates in a timely manner, we and our third-party manufacturers must be able to develop and execute on manufacturing processes and reach agreement on contract terms.

Our current and anticipated future dependence upon others for the manufacture of our product candidates or any product that we develop may adversely affect our future profit margins and our ability to commercialize any products that receive marketing approval on a timely and competitive basis. In addition, any performance failure on the part of our existing or future manufacturers could delay clinical development or marketing approval.

If these third-party manufacturers do not successfully carry out their contractual duties, meet expected deadlines or manufacture our product candidates in accordance with regulatory requirements, if there are disagreements between us and such parties, or if such parties are unable to expand capacities to support commercialization of any of our product candidates for which we obtain marketing approval, we may not be able to produce, or may be delayed in producing sufficient product candidates to meet our supply requirements. Any delays in obtaining adequate supplies with respect to our product candidates and components may delay the development or commercialization of our product candidates.

We may not succeed in our efforts to establish manufacturing relationships or other alternative arrangements for any of our product candidates, components, and programs. Our product candidates may compete with other products and product candidates for access to manufacturing facilities. There are a limited number of manufacturers that operate under GMP regulations and that are both capable of manufacturing for us and willing to do so.

If our existing third-party manufacturers, or the third parties that we engage in the future to manufacture a product or component for commercial sale or for our clinical trials should cease to continue to do so for any reason, we likely would experience delays in obtaining sufficient quantities of our product candidates for us to meet commercial demand or to advance our clinical trials while we identify and qualify replacement suppliers. These third-party facilities may also be affected by natural disasters, such as floods or fire, or such facilities could face manufacturing issues, such as contamination or regulatory findings following a regulatory inspection of such facility. In such instances, we may need to locate an appropriate replacement third-party relationship, which may not be readily

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available or on acceptable terms, which would cause additional delay and increased expense. The addition of a new or alternative manufacturer may also require FDA approvals and may have a material adverse effect on our business.

If for any reason we are unable to obtain adequate supplies of our product candidates or the components used to manufacture them, it will be more difficult for us to develop our product candidates and compete effectively. Further, even if we do establish such collaborations or arrangements, our third-party manufacturers may breach, terminate, or not renew these agreements.

We or our third-party manufacturers may also encounter shortages in the raw materials or therapeutic substances necessary to produce our product candidates in the quantities needed for our clinical trials or, if our product candidates are approved, in sufficient quantities for commercialization or to meet an increase in demand. Such shortages may occur for a variety of reasons, including capacity constraints, delays or disruptions in the market, and shortages caused by the purchase of such materials by our competitors or others. We may also not be able to obtain such materials on favorable terms as a result of global trade policies.  Our or our third-party manufacturers’ failure to obtain the raw materials, therapeutic substances, or active pharmaceutical ingredients necessary to manufacture sufficient quantities of our product candidates may have a material adverse effect on our business.

All of our current product candidates are biologics. Our product candidates must be made consistently and in compliance with a clearly defined manufacturing process. Problems may arise during manufacturing for a variety of reasons, including problems with raw materials, equipment malfunction or replacement and failure to follow specific protocols and procedures. Slight deviations anywhere in the manufacturing process, including obtaining materials, maintaining master seed or cell banks and preventing genetic drift, seed or cell growth, fermentation and contamination including from, among other things, particulates, filtration, filling, labeling, packaging, storage and shipping, and quality control testing, may result in lot failures or manufacturing shut-down, delays in the release of lots, product recalls, spoilage or regulatory action. Due to COVID-19, our third-party manufacturers may experience difficulties that impact our product candidates.

Additionally, our development and commercialization strategy involves entering into arrangements with corporate and academic collaborators, contract research organizations, distributors, third-party manufacturers, licensors, licensees and others to conduct development work, manage or conduct our clinical trials, manufacture our product candidates and market and sell our products outside of the United States and maintaining our existing arrangements with respect to the commercialization or manufacture of our products. We may not have the expertise or the resources to conduct all of these activities for all products and product candidates on our own and, as a result, are particularly dependent on third parties in many areas. Any current or future arrangements for development and commercialization may not be successful, as the amount and timing of resources that third parties devote to developing, manufacturing, and commercializing our products candidates are not within our control. If we are not able to establish or maintain agreements relating to our product candidates in development, our results of operations and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.

Any loss of a third-party manufacturer, any delays, or problems in the manufacture of our products, or termination of any arrangements for development and commercialization of our products could have a material adverse effect on our business, operations, results of operations and financial condition. We may be required to replace our manufacturer and if this were to occur, we may incur added costs and delays in identifying and qualifying any such replacements. We may also not be able to enter into such arrangements on favorable commercial terms.

Failure of our third-party manufacturers to successfully manufacture material that conforms to our specifications and the FDA’s or foreign regulatory authorities’ strict regulatory requirements, may prevent regulatory approval of those manufacturing facilities.

We rely on third parties to manufacture all clinical trial materials for our product candidates, and we will rely on third parties to manufacture commercial supplies, if any such product candidates are ultimately approved for commercial sale. Manufacturers of our product candidates and therapeutic substances must comply with GMP requirements enforced by the FDA that are applicable to both finished products and their active components used both for clinical and commercial supply. The FDA enforces these requirements through its facilities inspection program. Our product candidates, including APVO436 and ALG.APV-527 will not be approved for marketing by the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities unless the FDA or their foreign equivalents also approve the facilities used by our third-party manufacturers to produce them for commercialization. If our third-party manufacturers cannot successfully manufacture material that conforms to our specifications and the FDA’s or foreign regulatory authorities’ strict regulatory requirements, the FDA or their foreign counterparts will not approve their manufacturing facilities, which would result in significant delays in obtaining FDA or foreign marketing approvals for our product candidates.   If this were to occur, we may also never receive marketing approval, we may need to repeat clinical trials, we may need to undertake costly corrective actions, including product recalls, we may risk harm to subjects or patients, and we may face enforcement actions.  

While we are ultimately responsible for the manufacture of our product candidates, other than through our contractual arrangements, we have little control over our manufacturers’ compliance with these regulations and standards. If the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority does not approve these facilities for the manufacture of our product candidates or if it withdraws any such approval in the future, we may need to find alternative manufacturing facilities, which would significantly impact

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our ability to develop, obtain and maintain regulatory approval for or market our product candidates, if approved. Any new manufacturers would need to either obtain or develop the necessary manufacturing know-how, and obtain the necessary equipment and materials, which may take substantial time and investment. We must also receive FDA approval for the use of any new manufacturers for commercial supply.

We and our third-party manufacturers may not be able to meet these manufacturing process requirements for any of our current product candidates, all of which have complex manufacturing processes, which make meeting these requirements even more challenging. Due to COVID-19, our third-party manufacturers may experience difficulties that impact our product candidates. If we are unable to develop manufacturing processes for our clinical product candidates that satisfy these requirements, we will not be able to supply sufficient quantities of test material to conduct our clinical trials in a timely or cost effective manner, and as a result, our development programs will be delayed, our financial performance will be adversely impacted and we will be unable to meet our long-term goals.

Changes in product candidate manufacturing or formulation may result in additional costs or delay.

As product candidates are developed through preclinical studies to late-stage clinical trials toward approval and commercialization, it is common that various aspects of the development program, such as manufacturing methods, manufacturing sites, and formulation, are altered along the way in an effort to optimize processes and results. Any of these changes could cause our product candidates to perform differently and affect the results of planned clinical trials or other future clinical trials conducted with the altered materials. Such changes may also require additional testing, clinical trials, FDA notification, or FDA approval. Any of the foregoing could limit our future revenues and growth.

Regulatory and Compliance Risks

Our long-term success depends, in part, upon our ability to develop, receive regulatory approval for and commercialize our product candidates.

Our product candidates and the activities associated with their development, including testing, manufacture, recordkeeping, storage, and approval, are subject to comprehensive regulation by the FDA and other regulatory agencies in the United States and by comparable authorities in other countries. Failure to obtain regulatory approval for a product candidate will prevent us from commercializing the product candidate. We have limited resources for use in preparing, filing, and supporting the applications necessary to gain regulatory approvals and expect to rely on third-party contract research organizations and consultants to assist us in this process.

The FDA and other comparable regulatory agencies in foreign countries impose substantial and rigorous requirements for the development, production, marketing authorization and commercial introduction of drug products. These requirements include pre-clinical, laboratory and clinical testing procedures, sampling activities, clinical trials, and other costly and time-consuming procedures. In addition, regulation is not static, and regulatory authorities, including the FDA evolve in their staff interpretations and practices and may impose more stringent or different requirements than currently in effect, which may adversely affect our planned and ongoing drug development and/or our sales and marketing efforts.

In the United States, to obtain approval from the FDA to market any of our future biologic products, we will be required to submit a BLA to the FDA. Ordinarily, the FDA requires a sponsor to support a BLA with substantial evidence of the product’s safety, purity, and potency in treating the targeted indication based on data derived from adequate and well-controlled clinical trials, including Phase 3 safety and efficacy trials conducted in patients with the disease or condition being targeted.

Developing and obtaining regulatory approval for product candidates is a lengthy process, often taking a number of years, is uncertain and is expensive. All of the product candidates that we are developing, or may develop in the future, require research and development, pre-clinical studies, nonclinical testing, and clinical trials prior to seeking regulatory approval, and commencing commercial sales. In addition, we may need to address a number of technological challenges in order to complete development of our product candidates. As a result, the development of product candidates may take longer than anticipated or not be successful at all.

Our product candidate development costs will also increase if we experience delays in testing or approvals, and we may not have sufficient funding to complete the testing and approval process for any of our product candidates. We may be required to obtain additional funds to complete clinical trials and prepare for possible commercialization of our product candidates. We do not know whether any preclinical tests or clinical trials above what we currently have planned will be required, will begin as planned, will need to be restructured, or will be completed on schedule, or at all. Significant delays relating to any preclinical or clinical trials also could shorten any periods during which we may have the exclusive right to commercialize our product candidates or allow our competitors to bring products to market before we do. This may prevent us from receiving marketing approvals and impair our ability to successfully commercialize our product candidates and may harm our business and results of operations. In addition, many of the factors that cause, or lead to, delays in clinical trials may ultimately lead to the denial of marketing approval of any of our product candidates. If any of this occurs, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects will be materially harmed.

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Generally, no product can receive FDA approval, marketing authorization from the European Commission or the competent authorities of the EU Member States, or approval from comparable regulatory agencies in foreign countries unless data generated in human clinical trials demonstrates both safety and efficacy for each target indication in accordance with such authority’s standards.

The large majority of product candidates that begin human clinical trials fail to demonstrate the required safety and efficacy characteristics necessary for marketing approval. Failure to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of any of our product candidates for each target indication in clinical trials would prevent us from obtaining required approvals from regulatory authorities, which would prevent us from commercializing those product candidates. Negative or inconclusive results from the clinical trials or adverse medical events during the trials could lead to requirements that trials be repeated or extended, or that additional trials be conducted, any of which may not be clinically feasible or financially practicable, that the conduct of trials be suspended, or that a program be terminated.

Any regulatory approval we ultimately obtain may limit the indicated uses for the product or subject the product to restrictions or post-approval commitments that render the product commercially non-viable. Securing regulatory approval requires the submission of extensive non-clinical and clinical data, information about product manufacturing processes and inspection of facilities and supporting information to the regulatory authorities for each therapeutic indication to establish the product’s safety and efficacy. If we are unable to submit the necessary data and information, for example, because the results of clinical trials are not favorable, or if the applicable regulatory authority delays reviewing or does not approve our applications, we will be unable to obtain regulatory approval.

Delays in obtaining or failure to obtain regulatory approvals may: delay or prevent the successful commercialization of any of the products or product candidates in the jurisdiction for which approval is sought; diminish our competitive advantage; and defer or decrease our receipt of revenue.

Some of our product candidates previously in development experienced regulatory and/or clinical setbacks. Clinical development has been discontinued for product candidates otlertuzumab, APVO414, and APVO210. Both APVO414 and APVO210 were discontinued after patients developed ADA. Most recently, in 2019, we elected to discontinue the APVO210 development program following the review of data from the Phase 1 multiple ascending dose (MAD) clinical study of APVO210 in healthy volunteers that suggests that APVO210 would not meet the desired target product profile for future commercialization. Specifically, the clinical data showed evidence of increasing titers of ADA with repeated doses of APVO210, which had varying impact on APVO210 drug levels in subjects’ blood.  The cause of the ADA is uncertain; however, we believe that appearance of ADA is related to the mechanism of action of APVO210, and not due to the structure, or sequences characteristic of the ADAPTIR platform.   Although we have re-designed certain components of the ADAPTIR platform based on what we have learned in prior clinical, trials, there is no guarantee that the occurrence of ADA or other clinical setbacks will not occur in the development of our existing and future ADAPTIR product candidates.

The procedures to obtain marketing approvals vary among countries and can involve additional clinical trials or other pre-filing requirements. The time required to obtain foreign regulatory approval may differ from that required to obtain FDA approval. The foreign regulatory approval process may include all the risks associated with obtaining FDA approval, or different or additional risks. Regulatory agencies may have varying interpretations of the same data, and approval by one regulatory authority does not ensure approval by regulatory authorities in other jurisdictions. Accordingly, approval by the FDA does not ensure approval by the regulatory authorities in other countries, and approval by one foreign regulatory authority does not ensure approval by the FDA or regulatory authorities in other foreign countries. Failure to obtain regulatory approval in one jurisdiction, however, may impact the decision of other jurisdictions.  We may not be able to file for regulatory approvals and may not receive necessary approvals to commercialize our products and products in development in any market on a timely basis, if at all.

Our product candidates are and will continue to be subject to ongoing obligations and continued regulatory review, which may result in significant additional expense.  We may be subject to penalties if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or experience unanticipated problems with our products.

We and our product candidates are subject to extensive and ongoing requirements of and review by the FDA and other regulatory authorities, including requirements related to the conduct of clinical and pre-clinical studies, manufacturing processes, post-approval clinical data, labeling, packaging, distribution, adverse event reporting, storage, recordkeeping, export, import, advertising, marketing, and promotional activities for such products. These requirements further include submissions of safety and other post-marketing information, including manufacturing deviations and reports, registration and listing requirements, the payment of annual fees, continued compliance with GMP-requirements relating to manufacturing, quality control, quality assurance, and corresponding maintenance of records and documents, and requirements regarding the distribution of samples to physicians.

FDA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities will continue to closely monitor the safety profile of any product even after approval. If the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities become aware of new safety information after approval of any of our product candidates, they may, among other actions, withdraw approval, require labeling changes or establishment of a REMS or similar strategy, impose significant restrictions on a product’s indicated uses or marketing, or impose ongoing requirements for potentially costly post-approval studies or post-market surveillance. Any such restrictions could limit sales of the product.

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We and any of our collaborators could be subject to periodic unannounced inspections by the FDA to monitor and ensure compliance with GMPs and other FDA regulatory requirements. Application holders must further notify the FDA, and depending on the nature of the change, obtain FDA pre-approval for product and manufacturing changes.  In addition, later discovery of previously unknown adverse events or that the product is less effective than previously thought or other problems with our products, manufacturers or manufacturing processes, or failure to comply with regulatory requirements both before and after approval, may yield various results, including:

Any of these events could prevent us from achieving or maintaining product approval and market acceptance of the particular product candidate, if approved, or could substantially increase the costs and expenses of developing and commercializing such product, which in turn could delay or prevent us from generating significant revenues from its sale. Any of these events could further have other material and adverse effects on our operations and business and could adversely impact our stock price and could significantly harm our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.

The FDA’s policies may change and additional government laws and regulations may be enacted that could prevent, limit, or delay regulatory approval of our product candidates, that could limit the marketability of our product candidates, or that could impose additional regulatory obligations on us. By example, the change in the U.S. administration that occurred on January 20, 2021, may result in new or revised laws, regulatory requirements, and associated compliance obligations, as well as postponed or frozen regulatory requirements.  Changes in medical practice and standard of care may also impact the marketability of our product candidates. If we are slow or unable to adapt to changes in existing requirements, standards of care, or the adoption of new requirements or policies, or if we are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, we may lose any marketing approval that we may have obtained and be subject to regulatory enforcement action.

Should any of the above actions take place, they could adversely affect our ability to achieve or sustain profitability. Further, the cost of compliance with post-approval regulations may have a negative effect on our operating results and financial condition.

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If we fail to comply with foreign, federal, state, and local healthcare laws, including fraud and abuse and health information privacy and security laws, we could face substantial penalties and our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects could be adversely affected.

As a biotechnology company, even though we do not provide healthcare services or receive payments directly from or bill directly to Medicare, Medicaid, or other third-party payors for our products, certain federal, state, local and foreign healthcare laws and regulations pertaining to fraud and abuse and patients’ rights are applicable to our business. We are subject to healthcare fraud and abuse and patient privacy regulation by both the federal government and the states in which we conduct our business. The laws that may affect our ability to operate include:

Because of the breadth of these laws and the narrowness of the statutory exceptions and safe harbors available under the U.S. federal Anti-Kickback Statute, it is possible that some of our business activities could be subject to challenge under one or more of such laws. Moreover, recent health care reform legislation has strengthened these laws. For example, the ACA, among other things, amends the intent requirement of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and criminal health care fraud statutes, so that a person or entity no longer needs to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it. In addition, the ACA provides that the

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government may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the False Claims Act.

Recently, several pharmaceutical and other healthcare companies have been prosecuted under the federal false claims laws for allegedly inflating drug prices they report to pricing services, which in turn are used by the government to set Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates, and for allegedly providing free product to customers with the expectation that the customers would bill federal programs for the product. In addition, certain marketing practices, including off-label promotion, interactions with specialty pharmacies, and patient assistance programs may also violate fraud and abuse laws. To the extent that any product we make is sold in a foreign country, we may be subject to similar foreign laws and regulations.

In addition, certain state and local laws mandate that we comply with a state code of conduct, adopt a company code of conduct under state criteria, disclose marketing payments made to health care professionals and entities, disclose drug pricing information and/or report compliance information to the state authorities. The shifting compliance environment and the need to build and maintain robust and expandable systems to comply in multiple jurisdictions with different compliance and reporting requirements increase the possibility that a pharmaceutical company may violate one or more of the requirements. Any failure to comply with these reporting requirements could result in significant fines and penalties.

The risks of complying with these laws cannot be entirely eliminated. The risk of violation of such laws is also increased because many of them have not been fully interpreted by the regulatory authorities or the courts, and their provisions are open to a variety of interpretations. Any action against us for violation of these laws, even if we successfully defend against it, could cause us to incur significant legal expenses and divert our management’s attention from the operation of our business. Moreover, achieving and sustaining compliance with applicable federal, state, local and foreign privacy, security, fraud and transparency laws may prove costly. If our past or present operations, or those of our distributors are found to be in violation of any of the laws described above or any other governmental regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to sanctions, including civil and administrative penalties, criminal fines, damages, disgorgement, exclusion from participation in U.S. federal or state health care programs, individual imprisonment, integrity obligations, and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, any of which could materially adversely affect our ability to operate our business and our financial results. Similarly, if healthcare providers, distributors or other entities with whom we do business are found to be out of compliance with applicable laws and regulations, they may be subject to sanctions, which could also have a negative impact on us.

Our employees, independent contractors, consultants, commercial partners, principal investigators, or CROs may engage in misconduct or other improper activities, including noncompliance with regulatory standards and requirements, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

We are exposed to the risk of employee fraud or other misconduct. Misconduct by employees, independent contractors, consultants, commercial partners, manufacturers, investigators, or CROs could include intentional, reckless, negligent, or unintentional failures to comply with FDA regulations or applicable fraud and abuse laws, provide accurate information to the FDA, properly calculate pricing information required by federal programs, comply with federal procurement rules or contract terms, report financial information or data accurately or disclose unauthorized activities to us. This misconduct could also involve the improper use or misrepresentation of information obtained in the course of clinical trials, which could result in regulatory sanctions and serious harm to our reputation. It is not always possible to identify and deter this type of misconduct, and the precautions we take to detect and prevent this activity may not be effective in controlling unknown or unmanaged risks or losses or in protecting us from governmental investigations or other actions or lawsuits stemming from a failure to be in compliance with such laws or regulations. Moreover, it is possible for a whistleblower to pursue a False Claims Act case against us even if the government considers the claim unmeritorious and declines to intervene, which could require us to incur costs defending against such a claim. Further, due to the risk that a judgment in a False Claims Act case could result in exclusion from federal health programs or debarment from government contracts, whistleblower cases often result in large settlements. If any such actions are instituted against us, and we are not successful in defending ourselves or asserting our rights, those actions could have a significant impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations, including the imposition of significant fines or other sanctions.

Our operations, including our use of hazardous materials, chemicals, bacteria, and viruses, require us to comply with regulatory requirements and expose us to significant potential liabilities.

Our operations involve the use of hazardous materials, including chemicals, and may produce dangerous waste products. Accordingly, we, along with the third parties that conduct clinical trials and manufacture our products and product candidates on our behalf, are subject to federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations that govern the use, manufacture, distribution, storage, handling, exposure, disposal and recordkeeping with respect to these materials. We are also subject to a variety of environmental and occupational health and safety laws. Compliance with current or future laws and regulations can require significant costs and we could be subject to substantial fines and penalties in the event of noncompliance. In addition, the risk of contamination or injury from these materials cannot be completely eliminated. In such event, we could be held liable for substantial civil damages or costs associated with the cleanup of hazardous materials.

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Intellectual Property Risks

If we are unable to protect our intellectual proprietary rights, our business could be harmed.

Our commercial success will depend, in large part, on our ability to obtain and maintain protection in the United States and other countries for the intellectual property covering or incorporated into our technology, products and product candidates. Obtaining and maintaining this protection is very costly. The patentability of technology in the biotechnology field generally is highly uncertain and involves complex legal and scientific questions. We cannot be certain that our patents and patent applications, including our own and those that we have rights through licenses from third parties, will adequately protect our intellectual property. Our success protecting our intellectual property depends significantly on our ability to:

We may not be able to obtain issued patents relating to our technology or product candidates. Even if issued, patents may inadvertently lapse or be challenged, narrowed, invalidated, or circumvented, which could limit our ability to stop competitors from marketing similar products or limit the duration of patent protection we may have for our product candidates. Further, patents may lapse prior to the regulatory approval of the underlying product in one or more territories. In the past, we have abandoned the prosecution and/or maintenance of patent applications related to patent families in the ordinary course of business. In the future, we may choose to abandon such prosecution and/or maintenance in a similar fashion. If these patent rights are later determined to be valuable or necessary to our business, our competitive position may be adversely affected. Changes in patent laws or administrative patent office rules or changes in interpretations of patent laws in the United States and in other countries may diminish the value of our intellectual property or narrow the scope of our patent protection, or result in costly defensive measures.

Patent and other intellectual property laws outside the United States are even more uncertain than in the United States and are continually undergoing review and revisions in many countries. Further, the laws of some foreign countries may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. For example, certain countries do not grant patent claims that are directed to business methods and processes. In addition, we may have to participate in additional opposition proceedings, like the proceedings described above, to determine the validity of our foreign patents or our competitors’ foreign patents, which could result in substantial costs and diversion of our efforts.

Our collaborative partners and licensors may not adequately protect our intellectual property rights. These third parties may have the first right to maintain or defend intellectual property rights in which we have an interest and, although we may have the right to assume the maintenance and defense of such intellectual property rights if these third parties do not do so, our ability to maintain and defend such intellectual property rights may be compromised by the acts or omissions of these third parties.

The cost of litigation to uphold the validity of patents, once obtained, to prevent infringement or to otherwise protect or enforce our proprietary rights could be substantial and, from time to time, our patents are subject to patent office proceedings. Some of our competitors may be better able to sustain the costs of complex patent litigation because they may have substantially greater financial resources. Intellectual property lawsuits are expensive and unpredictable and would consume management’s time and attention and other resources, even if the outcome were successful. In addition, there is a risk that a court would decide that our patents are not valid and that we do not have the right to stop the other party from using the inventions covered by or incorporating them. There is also a risk that, even if the validity of a patent were upheld, a court would refuse to stop the other party from using the invention(s), including on the grounds that its activities do not infringe the patent. If any of these events were to occur, our business, financial condition and operating results could be materially and adversely affected.

In addition to patent litigation, we may be a party to adversarial proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), or the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office (EPO). Potential proceedings before the PTAB include inter partes review proceedings, post-grant review proceedings and interference proceedings. Depending on our level of success at the PTAB and Opposition Division of the EPO, these proceedings could adversely impact our intellectual property rights with respect to our products and technology.

In addition, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on several patent cases in recent years, either narrowing the scope of patent protection available in certain circumstances or weakening the rights of patent owners in certain situations. This combination of events has created uncertainty with respect to the value of patents, once obtained, and with regard to our ability to obtain patents in the future. Depending on decisions by the U.S. Congress, the federal courts, and the USPTO, the laws and regulations governing patents could

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change in unpredictable ways that would weaken our ability to obtain new patents or to enforce our existing patents and patents that we might obtain in the future. Patent and intellectual property laws outside of the United States may also change and be uncertain.

Our patents, once obtained, also may not afford us protection against competitors with similar technology. Because patent applications in the United States and many foreign jurisdictions are typically not published until eighteen months after filing, or in some cases not at all, and because publications of discoveries in the scientific literature often lag behind actual discoveries, neither we nor our licensors can be certain that others have not filed or maintained patent applications for technology used by us or covered by our pending patent applications without our being aware of these applications.

We also will rely on current and future trademarks to establish and maintain recognized brands, including APTEVO THERAPEUTICS, APTEVO BIOTHERAPEUTICS, APTEVO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, the Aptevo logo, ADAPTIR, and ADAPTIR-FLEX in relevant jurisdictions. If we fail to acquire and protect such trademarks, our ability to market and sell our products, if approved for marketing, will be harmed. In addition, our current and future trademarks may be challenged, infringed, circumvented, declared generic, lapsed or determined to be infringing on or dilutive of other marks and we may not be able to protect our rights in these trademarks, which we need in order to build name recognition. Any of the foregoing cold have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.  

Third parties may choose to file patent infringement claims against us.

Our development and commercialization activities, as well as any product candidates or products resulting from these activities, may infringe or be claimed to infringe patents and other intellectual property rights of third parties under which we do not hold sufficient licenses or other rights. Third parties may be successful in obtaining patent protection for technologies that cover development and commercialization activities in which we are already engaged. These third parties may have substantially greater financial resources than us and could bring claims against us that could cause us to incur substantial expenses to defend against these claims and, if successful against us, could cause us to pay substantial damages. If a patent infringement or other similar suit were brought against us, we could be forced to stop or delay development, manufacturing or sales of the product or product candidate that is the subject of the suit. Intellectual property litigation in the biotechnology industry is common, and we expect this trend to continue.

As a result of patent infringement or other similar claims, or to avoid potential claims, we may choose or be required to seek a license from the third party and be required to pay license fees or royalties or both. These licenses may not be available on acceptable terms, or at all. Even if we were able to obtain a license, the rights may be non-exclusive, which could result in our competitors gaining access to the same intellectual property. Ultimately, we could be prevented from commercializing a product, or be forced to cease some aspect of our business operations, if, as a result of actual or threatened patent infringement claims, we are unable to enter into licenses on acceptable terms, if at all, or if an injunction is granted against us, which could harm our business significantly.

There has been substantial litigation and other proceedings regarding patent and other intellectual property rights in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. In addition to infringement claims against us, we may become a party to other patent litigation and other adversarial proceedings such as proceedings before the Patent Trial Appeals Board and opposition proceedings in the European Patent Office, regarding intellectual property rights that could impact our products and technology.

Patent litigation and other proceedings may also absorb significant management time. The cost to us of any patent litigation or other proceeding, even if resolved in our favor, could be substantial. Some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of such litigation or proceedings more effectively than we can because of their substantially greater financial resources. Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of patent litigation or other proceedings could have a material adverse effect on our ability to compete in the marketplace. Patent litigation and other proceedings may also absorb significant management time.

Our Aptevo trademarks may be opposed which could have a material and adverse effect on our business.

We have applications pending that cover the APTEVO THERAPEUTICS, APTEVO BIOTHERAPEUTICS, and APTEVO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT trademarks. We refer to these trademarks as our house marks. If a third party opposes any of these house marks and we are unable to reach settlement prior to the commencement of an opposition proceeding, we may incur significant expense in the course of participating in the opposition process, which can be expensive and lengthy. Any settlement with a third party may result in our agreeing to be subject to restrictions on our use of the relevant house mark. In addition, if we are unsuccessful in an opposition against a house mark, we would lose the ability to obtain trademark registration for one or more uses of the relevant mark both in the United States and in other territories which could have a material and adverse effect on our business.

We may be subject to claims that our employees have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets of their former employers.

As is common in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, we employ individuals who were previously employed at other biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies, including our competitors or potential competitors. We may be subject to claims that these employees or we have inadvertently or otherwise used or disclosed trade secrets or other proprietary information of their former employers. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these claims. Even if we are successful in defending against these claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management.

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Failure to comply with our obligations in our intellectual property licenses with third parties, could result in loss of license rights or other damages.

We are a party to a number of license agreements and expect to enter into additional license agreements in the future. Our existing licenses impose, and we expect future licenses will impose, various diligence, milestone payment, royalty, insurance, and other obligations on us. If we fail to comply with these obligations, the licensor may have the right to terminate the license in whole or in part, terminate the exclusive nature of the license and/or sue us for breach, which could cause us to not be able to market any product that is covered by the licensed patents and may be subject to damages.

If we are unable to protect the confidentiality of our proprietary information and know-how, the value of our technology and product candidates could be adversely affected.

In addition to patented technology, we rely upon unpatented proprietary technology, information processes and know-how. These types of trade secrets can be difficult to protect. We seek to protect this confidential information, in part, through agreements with our employees, consultants and third parties as well as confidentiality policies and audits, although these may not be successful in protecting our trade secrets and confidential information. These agreements may be breached, and we may not have adequate remedies for any such breach. In addition, our trade secrets may otherwise become known, including through a potential cyber security breach, or may be independently developed by competitors. If we are unable to protect the confidentiality of our proprietary information and know-how, competitors may be able to use this information to develop products that compete with our products, which could adversely impact our business.

Risk Related to Collaborations and Other Agreements

We may not be successful in establishing and maintaining collaborations that leverage our capabilities in pursuit of developing and commercializing our product candidates.

For each of our product candidates we plan to evaluate the merits of entering into collaboration arrangements with third parties, including leading biotechnology companies or non-governmental organizations. In July 2017, we entered into a collaboration agreement with Alligator pursuant to which Aptevo R&D and Alligator will collaboratively develop ALG.APV-527, a lead bispecific antibody candidate simultaneously targeting 4-1BB (CD137), a member of the TNFR superfamily of a costimulatory receptor found on activated T-cells, and 5T4, a tumor antigen widely overexpressed in a number of different types of cancer. We intend to pursue collaboration arrangements with third parties that have particular technology, expertise or resources for the development or commercialization of our product candidates or for accessing particular markets. We face, and will continue to face, significant competition in seeking appropriate partners for our product candidates. If we are unable to identify partners whose capabilities complement and integrate well with ours and reach collaboration arrangements with such partners on a timely basis, on acceptable terms or at all, or if the arrangements we establish are unproductive for us, we may fail to meet our business objectives for the particular product candidate. Our ability to enter into such arrangements with respect to products in development that are subject to licenses may be limited by the terms of those licenses.

Our collaboration agreement with Alligator, or any collaboration agreement we may consider entering into, may not be successful and the success of our collaboration arrangements will depend heavily on the efforts and activities of our collaborative partners. It is likely that our collaborative partners will have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations.

The risks that we are subject to in any of our collaborations include, among others:

The failure of any of our current or future collaboration partners to perform as expected could place us at a competitive disadvantage and adversely affect us financially, including delay and increased costs of development, loss of market opportunities, lower than expected revenues and impairment of the value of the related product candidate. A loss of our collaboration agreement with Alligator would result in a burden of locating a replacement partner under potentially less favorable terms at an additional cost. Collaborations are a critical part of our business strategy, and any inability on our part to establish and successfully maintain such arrangements on terms favorable to us or to work successfully with our collaborative partners could have an adverse effect on our operations and financial performance. Due to COVID-19, we may experience delays in opportunities to develop our product candidates, due to financial and other impacts on potential partners.

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In connection with our separation from Emergent, we and Emergent agreed to indemnify the other party for certain liabilities. The Emergent indemnity may not be sufficient to hold us harmless from the full amount of liabilities for which Emergent will be allocated responsibility, and Emergent may not be able to satisfy its indemnification obligations in the future.

Pursuant to the separation agreement and certain other agreements with Emergent, Emergent has agreed to indemnify us for certain liabilities, and we agreed to indemnify Emergent for certain liabilities. Indemnities that we may be required to provide Emergent are not subject to any cap, may be significant and could negatively impact our business, particularly indemnities relating to our actions that could impact the tax-free nature of the distribution. Third parties could also seek to hold us responsible for any of the liabilities that Emergent has agreed to retain. Any amounts we are required to pay pursuant to these indemnification obligations and other liabilities could require us to divert cash that would otherwise have been used in furtherance of our operating business. Further, the indemnity from Emergent may not be sufficient to protect us against the full amount of such liabilities, and Emergent may not be able to fully satisfy its indemnification obligations. Moreover, even if we ultimately succeed in recovering from Emergent any amounts for which we are held liable, we may be temporarily required to bear these losses ourselves. Each of these risks could negatively affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Risks Related to Our Common Stock and General Risks

Our stock price may be volatile.

Our stock price has fluctuated in the past and is likely to be volatile in the future. Since August 1, 2016, the reported closing price of our common stock has fluctuated between $3.29 and $112 per share (as adjusted to reflect our 1-for-14 reverse stock split of our outstanding common stock that was effective on March 26, 2020). The stock market in general, and the market for biotechnology companies in particular, have experienced extreme volatility that has often been unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies. The market price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly due to a number of factors, some of which may be beyond our control or unrelated to our operations, including, among others:

Biotechnology company stock prices have declined significantly in certain instances where companies have failed to obtain FDA or foreign regulatory authority approval of a product candidate or if the timing of FDA or foreign regulatory authority approval is delayed. If the FDAs or any foreign regulatory authority’s response to any application for approval is delayed or not favorable for any of our product candidates, our stock price could decline significantly.

In addition, when the market price of a company’s common stock drops significantly, stockholders often institute securities class action lawsuits against the company. A lawsuit against us could cause us to incur substantial costs and could divert the time and attention of our management and other resources.

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In the event that coverage under our directors’ and officers’ liability insurance is reduced or terminated as a result of the Tang Ownership Change or otherwise, our indemnification obligations and limitations of our directors’ and officers’ liability insurance may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Under Delaware law, our certificate of incorporation, and our bylaws and certain indemnification agreements to which we are a party, we have an obligation to indemnify, or we have otherwise agreed to indemnify, certain of our current and former directors and officers with respect to past, current, and future investigations and litigation. In order to reduce the risk of expense of these obligations, we maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance. However, as a result of the Tang Ownership Change, the cost to us of our directors’ and officers’ liability insurance coverage has increased, and it may continue to increase in the future, or the coverage thereunder may be reduced or terminated in full. In the event that the coverage under our directors’ and officers’ liability insurance is reduced or terminated, we will be required to pay the expenses of indemnifying our current and former directors and officers in their defense of current and future investigations and litigation, which expenses may be significant. The increased costs to us of our directors’ and officers’ liability insurance coverage, or our indemnification obligations if our directors’ and officers’ liability insurance coverage is reduced or terminated, could result in the diversion of our financial resources, and may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

If we do not maintain effective internal controls, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results and our business could be harmed.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we assess the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting annually and the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures quarterly. In particular, Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or Section 404, requires us to perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management to report on, and our independent registered public accounting firm potentially to attest to, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. As an emerging growth company, we have availed ourselves of the exemption from the requirement that our independent registered public accounting firm attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404. However, we may no longer avail ourselves of this exemption when we cease to be an emerging growth company. When our independent registered public accounting firm is required to undertake an assessment of our internal control over financial reporting, the cost of our compliance with Section 404 will correspondingly increase. Our compliance with applicable provisions of Section 404 will require that we incur substantial accounting expense and expend significant management time on compliance-related issues as we implement additional corporate governance practices and comply with reporting requirements. Moreover, if we are not able to comply with the requirements of Section 404 applicable to us in a timely manner, or if we or our independent registered public accounting firm identifies deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses, the market price of our stock could decline and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources.

Investor perceptions of our company may suffer if material weaknesses are found, and this could cause a decline in the market price of our common stock. Irrespective of compliance with Section 404, any failure of our internal control over financial reporting could harm our operating results and reputation. If we are unable to implement these requirements effectively or efficiently, it could harm our operations, financial reporting, or financial results and could result in an adverse opinion on our internal controls from our independent registered public accounting firm.

The public announcement of data from clinical trials or news of any developments related to our product pipeline may cause significant volatility in our stock price.

The announcement of data from clinical trials by us or our collaborative partners or news of any developments related to our key pipeline product candidates may cause significant volatility in our stock price. Furthermore, the announcement of any negative or unexpected data or the discontinuation of development of any of our key pipeline product candidates, or any delay in our anticipated timelines for filing for regulatory approval, could cause our stock price to decline significantly. There can be no assurance that data from clinical trials will support a filing for regulatory approval or even if approved, that any of our key pipeline products will become commercially successful.

Our common stock may be at risk for delisting from the Nasdaq Capital Market in the future. Delisting could adversely affect the liquidity of our common stock and the market price of our common stock could decrease.

Our common stock is currently listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC has minimum requirements that a company must meet in order to remain listed on Nasdaq, including corporate governance standards and a requirement that we maintain a minimum closing bid price of $1.00 per share.  If we fail to maintain such minimum requirements and a final determination is made by Nasdaq that our common stock must be delisted, the liquidity of our common stock would be adversely affected and the market price of our common stock could decrease. In addition, if delisted, we would no longer be subject to Nasdaq rules, including rules requiring us to have a certain number of independent directors and to meet other corporate governance standards. Our failure to be listed on Nasdaq or another established securities market would have a material adverse effect on the value of your investment in us.

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If our common stock is not listed on Nasdaq or another national exchange, the trading price of our common stock is below $5.00 per share and we have net tangible assets of $6,000,000 or less, the open-market trading of our common stock will be subject to the “penny stock” rules promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. If our shares become subject to the “penny stock” rules, broker-dealers may find it difficult to effectuate customer transactions and trading activity in our securities may be adversely affected. Under these rules, broker-dealers who recommend such securities to persons other than institutional accredited investors must:

As a result of these requirements, the market price of our securities may be adversely impacted, and current stockholders may find it more difficult to sell our securities.

Your percentage of ownership in Aptevo may be diluted in the future.

In the future, your percentage ownership in Aptevo may be diluted because of equity issuances for acquisitions, capital market transactions or otherwise, including, but not limited to, equity issuances under our existing equity sales agreement with Lincoln Park Financial LLC, under our Equity Distribution Agreement with Piper Sandler, under our Rights Plan with Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc., upon the exercise of warrants issued in connection with our March 2019 public offering, and equity awards to our directors, officers and employees. Our employees have options to purchase shares of our common stock and from time to time, we expect to issue additional options, restricted stock units, or other stock-based awards to our employees under our employee benefits plans.

In addition, our restated certificate of incorporation authorizes us to issue, without the approval of our stockholders, one or more classes or series of preferred stock having such designation, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, including preferences over our common stock respecting dividends and distributions, as our board of directors generally may determine. The terms of one or more classes or series of preferred stock could dilute the voting power or reduce the value of our common stock. For example, we could grant the holders of preferred stock the right to elect some number of our directors in all events or on the happening of specified events or the right to veto specified transactions. Similarly, the repurchase or redemption rights or liquidation preferences we could assign to holders of preferred stock could affect the residual value of the common stock.

Provisions under Delaware law and in our restated certificate of incorporation, amended and restated by-laws and rights agreement may discourage acquisition proposals, delay a change in control or prevent transactions that stockholders may consider favorable.

Certain provisions in our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated by-laws, and under Delaware law, may discourage, delay, or prevent a merger, acquisition or other changes in control that stockholders may consider favorable, including transactions in which stockholders might otherwise receive a premium for their shares. These provisions may also prevent or frustrate attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our incumbent directors and management.

These provisions include:

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The affirmative vote of holders of our capital stock representing at least 75% of the voting power of all outstanding stock entitled to vote is required to amend or repeal the above provisions of our certificate of incorporation. The affirmative vote of either a majority of the directors present at a meeting of our Board of Directors or holders of our capital stock representing at least 75% of the voting power of all outstanding stock entitled to vote is required to amend or repeal our by-laws.

In addition, Section 203 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware prohibits a corporation from engaging in a business combination with an interested stockholder, generally a person which, together with its affiliates, owns or within the last three years has owned 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock, for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. Accordingly, Section 203 may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of us. Tang is an interested stockholder for purposes of Section 203.

Moreover, we currently have a short-term stockholder rights agreement in effect. This rights agreement could render more difficult, or discourage a merger, tender offer, or assumption of control of the Company that is not approved by our Board that some stockholders may consider favorable. The rights agreement, however, should not interfere with any merger, tender or exchange offer or other business combination approved by our Board. Nor does the rights agreement prevent our Board from considering any offer that it considers to be in the best interest of our stockholders.

Our bylaws include a forum selection clause, which may impact your ability to bring actions against us.

Subject to certain limitations, our bylaws provide that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware will be the sole and exclusive forum for any stockholder (including a beneficial owner) to bring: (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf; (b) any action asserting a claim of breach of fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees or our stockholders; (c) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or our certificate of incorporation or bylaws; or (d) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine. In addition, our bylaws provide that unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the federal securities laws of the United States against us, our officers, directors, employees or underwriters. These limitations on the forum in which stockholders may initiate action against us could create costs, inconvenience or otherwise adversely affect your ability to seek legal redress.

Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. As a result, a court may decline to enforce these exclusive forum provisions with respect to suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or any other claim for which the federal and state courts have concurrent jurisdiction, and our stockholders may not be deemed to have waived our compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. If a court were to find the exclusive forum provisions to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions.

We may be subject to periodic litigation, which could result in losses or unexpected expenditure of time and resources.

From time to time, we may be called upon to defend ourselves against lawsuits relating to our business. Any litigation, regardless of its merits, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources that are needed to successfully run our business. Due to the inherent uncertainties of litigation, we cannot accurately predict the ultimate outcome of any such proceedings. An unfavorable outcome in any such proceedings could have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. If our stock price is volatile, we may become involved in securities class action lawsuits in the future.

Our failure to comply with data protection laws and regulations could lead to government enforcement actions and significant penalties against us, and adversely impact our operating results.

EU Member States, Switzerland and other countries have adopted data protection laws and regulations, which impose significant compliance obligations. For example, European Union, or EU, member states and other foreign jurisdictions, including Switzerland, have adopted data protection laws and regulations which impose significant compliance obligations. Moreover, the collection and use of personal health data in the EU is now governed under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, or the GDPR, effective in May 2018. The GDPR, which is wide-ranging in scope, imposed several requirements relating to the consent of the individuals to whom the personal data relates, the information provided to the individuals, the security and confidentiality of the personal data, data breach notification and the use of third-party processors in connection with the processing of personal data. The GDPR also imposes strict rules on the transfer of personal data out of the EU to the U.S., provides an enforcement authority and imposes large penalties for noncompliance, including the potential for fines of up to €20 million or 4% of the annual global revenues of the noncompliant company, whichever is greater. The GDPR requirements apply not only to third-party transactions, but also to transfers of information between us and our subsidiaries, including employee information. The GDPR increases our responsibility and liability in relation to personal data that we process, including in clinical trials, and we may be required to put in place additional mechanisms to ensure compliance with the GDPR, which could divert management’s attention and increase our cost of doing

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business. In addition, new regulation or legislative actions regarding data privacy and security (together with applicable industry standards) may increase our costs of doing business. However, despite our ongoing efforts, we may not be successful either due to various factors within our control, such as limited financial or human resources, or other factors outside our control. It is also possible that local data protection authorities may have different interpretations of the GDPR, leading to potential inconsistencies amongst various EU member states. Any failure or alleged failure (including as a result of deficiencies in our policies, procedures, or measures relating to privacy, data security, marketing, or communications) by us to comply with laws, regulations, policies, legal or contractual obligations, industry standards, or regulatory guidance relating to privacy or data security, may result in governmental investigations and enforcement actions, litigation, fines and penalties or adverse publicity. In addition, we expect that there will continue to be new proposed laws, regulations and industry standards relating to privacy and data protection in the United States, the EU and other jurisdictions, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which has been characterized as the first “GDPR-like” privacy statute to be enacted in the United States, and we cannot determine the impact such future laws, regulations and standards may have on our business.

If we experience a significant disruption in our information technology systems or breaches of data security, including due to a cyber-security incident, our business could be adversely affected.

We rely on information technology systems to keep financial records, capture laboratory data, maintain clinical trial data and corporate records, communicate with staff and external parties and operate other critical functions. Our information technology systems are potentially vulnerable to disruption due to breakdown, malicious intrusion and computer viruses or other disruptive events including but not limited to natural disaster. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic also poses an increased security risk, due to the remote working environment.

We also face the challenge of promptly detecting and remediating any cyber-security breaches.  Our information technology systems security measures are focused on the prevention, detection and remediation of damage from computer viruses, unauthorized access, cyber-attack and other similar disruptions. However, our information technology systems protection measures may not be successful in preventing unauthorized access, intrusion and damage. Threats to our systems can derive from human error, fraud or malice on the part of employees or third parties, including computer hackers, encryption by ransomware, or may result from technological failure.  

If we were to experience a prolonged system disruption in our information technology systems or those of certain of our vendors, it could delay or negatively impact our development and commercialization of our product candidates, which could adversely impact our business. If operations at our facilities were disrupted, it may cause a material disruption in our business if we are not capable of restoring function on an acceptable timeframe.

In addition, as discussed above, our information technology systems are potentially vulnerable to data security breaches—whether by employees or others, intentionally or unintentionally—which may expose sensitive or personal data to unauthorized persons. Such data security breaches could lead to the loss of trade secrets or other intellectual property, or could lead to the public exposure of personal information (including sensitive personal information) of our employees, patients in our clinical trials, customers and others, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Moreover, a security breach or privacy violation that leads to destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized use or access, disclosure or modification of, personally identifiable information or personal data, could harm our reputation, compel us to comply with federal, state and/or international breach notification laws, subject us to mandatory corrective or regulatory action, require us to verify the correctness of database contents and otherwise subject us to liability under laws and regulations that protect personal data, including the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which could disrupt our business, result in increased costs or loss, and/or result in significant legal and financial exposure. In addition, a data security breach could result in loss of clinical trial data or damage to the integrity of that data.

If we are unable to implement and maintain adequate organizational and technical measures to prevent such security breaches or privacy violations, or to respond adequately in the event of a breach, our operations could be disrupted, and we may suffer loss of reputation, problems with regulatory authorities, financial loss and other negative consequences. In addition, these breaches and other inappropriate access can be difficult to detect, and any delay in identifying them may lead to increased harm of the type described above.

If a breach of our information technology systems occurs, we may incur additional costs related to rebuilding our internal systems, defending legal claims or proceedings, responding to regulatory actions, incurring penalties, and paying damages. Moreover, it may be determined that as a result of such a breach there was a material weakness or significant deficiency in our internal controls or other failure of our control environment.  If such a breach occurs, it may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition, and it may also negatively impact our reputation.

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A significant portion of our shares may be sold into the market at any time which could depress our stock price

If our stockholders sell a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market, our market price could decline. In connection with the transaction with Lincoln Park, we have agreed to register under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the resale of shares of common stock that have been and may be issued under the Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park. Any such sales by Lincoln Park, or the perception that such sales may occur, could decrease the market price of our common stock. In addition, holders of an aggregate of approximately three million shares of our common stock have the right to require us to register these shares of common stock under specified circumstances.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

Not applicable.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Other Information.

Not applicable.

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Item 6. Exhibits

Exhibit Index

 

 

 

 

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

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Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROYALTY Purchase Agreement

By and Between

Aptevo therapeutics Inc.

and

 

HealthCare Royalty Partners IV, L.P.

Dated as of March 30, 2021

 

 

THIS DOCUMENT SHALL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THE CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO BETWEEN THE SELLER AND THE RECIPIENT HEREOF AND, IF APPLICABLE, ITS AFFILIATES, WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF

 

 

 

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Table of Contents

 

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List of Exhibits

ABill of Sale and Assignment

BDisclosure Schedules

CPfizer Instruction Letter

DLegal Opinion

EEscrow Agreement

FLicense Agreement

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ROYALTY Purchase Agreement

This Royalty Purchase Agreement is dated as of March 30, 2021 (this “Agreement”), by and between Aptevo Therapeutics Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Seller”), and Healthcare Royalty Partners IV, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Buyer”).

Recitals

WHEREAS, Seller (as assignee of Emergent BioSolutions Inc., the successor to Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) entered into that certain Collaboration and License Agreement, dated as of December 19, 2005, as amended or modified by (i) that certain Amendment No. 1 to the Collaboration and License Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2006, (ii) that certain Amendment No. 2 to the Collaboration and License Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2010, (iii) that certain Amendment No. 3 to the Collaboration and License Agreement, dated as of May 18, 2011, (iv) that certain Amendment No. 4 to the Collaboration and License Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2011 and (v) that certain termination notice from Pfizer Inc. (as successor and assign of all of the rights, obligations and interests of Wyeth LLC, acting through its Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Division) (“Pfizer”) dated June 22, 2012 and received by Seller on June 25, 2012 (the “License Agreement Termination Notice”) and as further amended, restated, supplemented or modified from time to time (the “License Agreement”) pursuant to which Pfizer obtained from Seller certain exclusive rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize certain licensed products, as more fully set forth therein; and

WHEREAS, Seller desires to sell, transfer, assign and convey to Buyer, and Buyer desires to purchase, acquire and accept from Seller, all of Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Purchased Assets (as defined below), for the consideration and on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth herein and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, intending to be legally bound, Seller and Buyer hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions; Interpretation

Section 1.1Definitions.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls, or is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, such first Person.

“Additional Amounts” means any additional amounts paid to the Buyer pursuant to Section 6.3 in respect of Indemnified Taxes.

 

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“Applicable Law” means, with respect to any Person, all laws, rules, regulations, codes and orders of Governmental Authorities applicable to such Person or any of its properties or assets.

“Applicable Percentage” means, (i) from the date of this Agreement until the Buyer receives the Cap Amount, 100% and (ii) from and after receipt by Buyer of the Cap Amount, 50%. For the avoidance of doubt, in determining whether the Buyer has received the Cap Amount, the amount received by the Buyer will include any Additional Amounts received by the Buyer and will not include any Indemnified Taxes payable (whether payable through withholding or directly by the Buyer) in respect of any amounts payable to the Buyer under this Agreement (including in respect of any Additional Amounts).

“Applicable Withholding Certificate” means a valid and properly executed IRS Form W-9 (or any applicable successor form) certifying that Buyer is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) and is exempt from United States federal backup withholding (including backup withholding) tax with respect to all payments in respect of the Purchased Assets.

“Bill of Sale and Assignment” means that certain bill of sale and assignment, substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto, entered into by Seller and Buyer as of the Closing.

“Business Day” means any day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday or (b) a day on which banking institutions located in New York, New York, are permitted or required by Applicable Law to remain closed.

“Buyer Material Adverse Effect” means any material adverse effect on any one or more of the following: (a) the ability of Buyer to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents or (b) the validity or enforceability of the Transaction Documents against Buyer or the rights of Seller thereunder.

“Cap Amount” means an amount equal to 190% of the Purchase Price

“CD20 Biosimilar Product Net Sales” has the meaning given to such term in the License Agreement.

“CD20 Biosimilar Products” has the meaning given to such term in the License Agreement.

“CD20 Biosimilar Royalty Period” has the meaning given to such term in the License Agreement.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Commercially Reasonable Efforts” means the efforts Seller would reasonably be expected to expend if Seller had the sole right, title and interest in and to the Purchased Asset to which such efforts relate.

 

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“Consent” means any consent, approval, license, permit, order, authorization, registration, filing or notice.

“Contract” means any contract, license, indenture, instrument, arrangement, understanding or agreement.

“Control” and its derivatives mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or other voting interests, by contract or otherwise.  

“Escrow Account” means that certain bank account established pursuant to the Escrow Agreement and controlled by the Escrow Agent.

“Escrow Agent” means Citizens Bank, N.A., as escrow agent.

“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority (including supranational authority), branch, commission, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, tribunal or arbitral or judicial body or other Person exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

“Indemnified Tax” means any withholding tax imposed by any Governmental Authority in any jurisdiction as a result of any action or inaction of Seller, including (i) a redomiciling of Seller to another jurisdiction and (ii) any failure of Seller to provide any applicable documentation permitting such payments to be made without (or at a reduced rate of) withholding that is reasonably requested by Buyer and that Seller is legally eligible to provide.

“Judgment” means any judgment, order, writ, stipulation, consent order, injunction or decree.

“Knowledge of Seller” means the actual knowledge of each of the following officers of Seller: the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Vice President, Finance, and such knowledge as would be imputed to such individuals upon due inquiry; provided, however, that due inquiry shall not require Seller to contact Pfizer.

“MidCap” means MidCap Financial Trust, a Delaware statutory trust.

“MidCap Collateral Assignment” means that certain Collateral Assignment, dated as of August 5, 2020, by Seller and Aptevo Research & Development LLC in favor of MidCap, as agent for the lenders from time to time party to the MidCap Credit Agreement.

“MidCap Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of August 5, 2020, by and among Seller and Aptevo Research & Development LLC, as borrowers, the financial institutions from time to time a party thereto, as lenders, and MidCap, as agent.

“Milestone Payment” means the amount based on the applicable level of Net Sales in a calendar year as set forth in the chart below:

 

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“Net Sales” has the meaning given to such term in the License Agreement.

“Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, unincorporated organization, Governmental Authority or other entity or organization.

“Relevant Obligations” means confidentiality obligations of Disclosing Party or any of its Affiliates under any agreement with a third party (including, without limitation, the License Agreement) to which any Confidential Information is subject.

“Representatives” means, collectively, with respect to any Person (a) any direct or indirect stockholder, member or partner of such Person and (b) any directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors or other representatives (including attorneys, accountants, consultants, scientists and financial advisors, lenders and investors) of such Person.

“Royalty Payment” means each royalty payment payable by Pfizer pursuant to Section 5.4.7 of the License Agreement in respect of the aggregate CD20 Biosimilar Product Net Sales obtained by Pfizer and its sublicensees from the sale of CD20 Biosimilar Products during the CD20 Biosimilar Royalty Period.  

“Royalty Reports” means the quarterly reports described in Section 5.5.2 of the License Agreement in respect of CD20 Biosimilar Product Net Sales of the CD20 Biosimilar Products.

“Seller Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse effect on any one or more of the following: (i) the ability of Seller to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and perform its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents or

 

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the License Agreement, (ii) the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the License Agreement, (iii) the rights or remedies of Buyer under any of the Transaction Documents, (iv) the rights or remedies of Seller under the License Agreement, or (v) the legal obligations of Pfizer to pay the Royalty Payments under the License Agreement; or (b) an adverse effect in any respect on the value of the Purchased Assets (including the timing, amount or duration thereof), or the timing, amount or duration of the payments to be made to Buyer in respect of any portion of the Purchased Assets or the right of Buyer to receive such payments.

“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature, (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital and (e) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the ordinary course of business.  For purposes of the definition of “Solvent,” (i) “debt” means liability on a “claim,” (ii) “claim” means any right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured and (iii) the amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

“Surviving Obligations” means Sections 5.4.7 and 5.5 of the License Agreement and all other provisions of the License Agreement that survive termination pursuant to Section 9.9 of the License Agreement.

“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Bill of Sale and Assignment, the Pfizer Instruction Letter, and the Escrow Agreement.

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York; provided, that, if, with respect to any financing statement or by reason of any provisions of applicable Law, the perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection of the back-up security interest or any portion thereof granted pursuant to Section 2.1(b) is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of New York, then “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions of this Agreement and any financing statement relating to such perfection or effect of perfection or non-perfection.

In the event a capitalized term used herein is defined in both this Agreement and the License Agreement, the meaning given to such term in this Agreement shall control.

Section 1.2Certain Interpretations.  Except where expressly stated otherwise in this Agreement, the following rules of interpretation apply to this Agreement:

 

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(a)“include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”;

(b)“hereof,” “hereto,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement;

(c)references to a Contract mean such Contract as from time to time amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, in each case to the extent not prohibited by such Contract or this Agreement;

(d)references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns;

(e)references to an “Article,” “Section” “Exhibit” or “Schedule” refer to an Article or Section of, or an Exhibit or Schedule to, this Agreement, unless otherwise specified;

(f)references to “$” or otherwise to dollar amounts refer to the lawful currency of the United States;

(g)references to an Applicable Law include any amendment or modification to such Applicable Law and any rules and regulations issued thereunder, whether such amendment or modification is made, or issuance of such rules and regulations occurs, before, on or after the date of this Agreement; and

(h)references to this “Agreement” shall include a reference to all Schedules and Exhibits attached to this Agreement (including the Disclosure Schedules attached hereto as Exhibit B), all of which constitute a part of this Agreement and are incorporated herein for all purposes.

 

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ARTICLE II

Purchase and Sale of Purchased Assets

Section 2.1Purchase and Sale of Purchased Assets.

(a)Purchase and Sale.  Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, at the Closing, Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and convey to Buyer, and Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from Seller, free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, all of Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the following (collectively, the “Purchased Assets”):

(i)Seller’s entitlement to receive the Applicable Percentage of each Royalty Payment that becomes due and payable following the date of this Agreement (including on account of Net Sales made prior to the date of this Agreement), any payments to Seller under the License Agreement in lieu of such Royalty Payments, and any overdue interest on any of the above payments payable to Seller by Pfizer pursuant to Section 5.5.6 of the License Agreement (collectively, the “Purchased Receivables”);

(ii)the right to receive all Royalty Reports due for delivery following the date of this Agreement and the audit rights pursuant to Section 5.6.2 of the License Agreement; and

(iii)the right to enforce all rights of Seller with respect to receipt of the Purchased Receivables and the Royalty Reports against Pfizer under the License Agreement, including the audit rights of Seller pursuant to Section 5.6.2 of the License Agreement.

For the avoidance of doubt, in determining whether the amount received by Buyer in respect of the Purchased Receivables exceeds the Cap Amount, such amount will include any Additional Amounts received by the Buyer and not include any Indemnified Taxes payable (whether payable through withholding or directly by the Buyer) in respect of any amounts payable to the Buyer under this Agreement (including in respect of any Additional Amounts).

(b)Purchase Price.  In full consideration for the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Purchased Assets, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, Buyer shall pay Seller the following amounts (collectively, the “Purchase Price”) by wire transfer of immediately available funds as directed by Seller:

(i)on the Closing Date, an amount equal to $35,000,000 (the “Investment Amount”); and

(ii)within 15 Business Days after Buyer receives the final Royalty Report for a calendar year that, together with the other Royalty Reports received in respect of such calendar year, evidences that annual Net Sales are equal to or exceed the applicable Sales Tier in the aggregate during the applicable calendar year, an amount equal to the applicable Milestone

 

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Payment for such Sales Tier. For the avoidance of doubt, each Milestone Payment, if and when due and payable, will only be paid once.¹  

Section 2.2Excluded Assets.  Buyer does not, by purchase, acquisition or acceptance of the rights, title or interest granted hereunder or otherwise pursuant to any of the Transaction Documents, purchase, acquire or accept any assets or contract rights of Seller, other than the Purchased Assets (the “Excluded Assets”). For the avoidance of doubt, the Excluded Assets include Seller’s rights under Sections 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 9.7.2(a)(ii), 9.7.7 and 9.7.10(a) of the License Agreement (the “Retained Rights”).

Section 2.3No Obligations Transferred. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (a) the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance to Buyer of the Purchased Assets pursuant to this Agreement shall not in any way subject Buyer to, or transfer, affect or modify, any obligation or liability of Seller or Seller’s Affiliates of whatever nature, whether presently in existence or arising or asserted hereafter, whether known or unknown (the “Excluded Liabilities and Obligations”) and (b) Buyer expressly does not assume or agree to become responsible for any of the Excluded Liabilities and Obligations.  All Excluded Liabilities and Obligations shall be retained by and remain liabilities and obligations of Seller or Seller’s Affiliates, as the case may be.

Section 2.4Sale.  It is the intention of the parties hereto that the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance contemplated by this Agreement be, and is, a true, complete absolute and irrevocable sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance by Seller to Buyer of all of Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Purchased Assets. Neither Seller nor

 

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Buyer intends the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to be, or for any purpose characterized as, a loan from Buyer to Seller or a pledge, a security interest, a financing transaction or a borrowing. Seller hereby waives, to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, any right to contest or otherwise assert that this Agreement does not constitute a true, complete, absolute and irrevocable sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance by Seller to Buyer of all of Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Purchased Assets under Applicable Law, which waiver shall, to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, be enforceable against Seller in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding relating to Seller. Accordingly, Seller will treat the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Purchased Assets as sales of “accounts” or “payment intangibles” (as appropriate) in accordance with the UCC, and Seller hereby authorizes Buyer, from and after the Closing, to file financing statements (and continuation statements with respect to such financing statements when applicable) (the “Financing Statements”) naming Seller as the debtor and Buyer as the secured party in respect of the Purchased Assets.  Not in derogation of the foregoing statement of the intent of the parties hereto in this regard, and for the purposes of providing additional assurance to Buyer, if, notwithstanding the intent of the parties hereto, the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance contemplated hereby is hereafter held not to be a sale, this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement and Seller does hereby grant to Buyer, as security for the payment to Buyer of amounts equal to the Purchased Assets as they becomes due and payable, a first priority security interest in and to all right, title and interest of Seller in, to and under the Purchased Assets and any “proceeds” (as such term is defined in the UCC) thereof, and Seller does hereby authorize Buyer to file such financing statements (and continuation statements with respect to such financing statements when applicable) in such manner and such jurisdiction as may be necessary or appropriate to perfect such security interests.

Section 2.5Payments.  Any payments to be made by a party to this Agreement shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such party in accordance with written instructions provided from time to time by one party to the other.  A late fee of 4% over the prime rate published by the Wall Street Journal, from time to time, as the prime rate shall accrue on all unpaid undisputed amounts on an annualized basis with respect to any Milestone Payment payable by Buyer under Section 2.1(b)(ii) beginning ten Business Days after such Milestone Payment is due to Seller.

 

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ARTICLE III

Closing; Deliverables

Section 3.1Closing.  The closing of the purchase and sale of the Purchased Assets (the “Closing”) shall take place at such place, time and date as the parties hereto may mutually agree. The date on which the Closing occurs is referred to in this Agreement as the “Closing Date.”

Section 3.2Payment of Investment Amount.  At the Closing, Buyer shall deliver to Seller payment of the Investment Amount by wire transfer of immediately available funds as directed by Seller.  

Section 3.3Closing Certificates.

(a)Seller’s Closing Certificate. At the Closing, Seller shall deliver to Buyer a certificate of the Secretary or another officer of Seller, dated the Closing Date, certifying as to (i) the incumbency of the officers of Seller executing the Transaction Documents and (ii) the attached copies of Seller’s organizational documents and resolutions adopted by Seller’s Board of Directors authorizing the execution and delivery by Seller of the Transaction Documents and the consummation by Seller of the transactions contemplated thereby.

(b)Buyer’s Closing Certificate.  At the Closing, Buyer shall deliver to Seller a certificate of the Secretary or another officer of Buyer’s general partner, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance as mutually agreed by Buyer and Seller.

Section 3.4Bill of Sale and Assignment.  At the Closing, Seller and Buyer shall each deliver to the other party hereto a duly executed counterpart to the Bill of Sale and Assignment, evidencing the sale and assignment to Buyer of the Purchased Assets.

Section 3.5Tax Forms.  Prior to the Closing, Buyer shall have delivered to Seller an Applicable Withholding Certificate.

Section 3.6Pfizer Instruction Letter.  At the Closing, Seller shall deliver to Pfizer a duly executed letter of instruction, substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto (the “Pfizer Instruction Letter”).

Section 3.7Legal Opinion.  At the Closing, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, as counsel to Seller, shall deliver to Buyer a duly executed legal opinion in substantially the form of Exhibit D attached hereto.

Section 3.8Financing Statements.  At the Closing, Seller shall deliver to Buyer such Financing Statements, executed by Seller as applicable, in a form reasonably acceptable to Buyer to create, evidence and perfect the first-priority security interest granted pursuant to Section 2.4.

 

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Section 3.9Escrow Agreement. At the Closing, Seller and Buyer shall each deliver to the other party a duly executed counterpart to the Escrow Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto.

Section 3.10MidCap Release.  At the Closing, Seller shall deliver to Buyer a release by MidCap of the security interest granted to MidCap in the License Agreement and the Purchased Assets pursuant to the MidCap Credit Agreement and the MidCap Collateral Assignment, which release shall be in a form reasonably acceptable to Buyer (the “MidCap Release”).

Section 3.11Lien Searches.  Prior to the Closing, Buyer shall have received (a) the results of a recent search in the state of Delaware of all effective financing statements made against Seller, together with copies of all such filings disclosed by such search and (b) termination statements and amendment statements, as applicable, in each case in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Buyer to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware as may be necessary to terminate or amend, as applicable, any effective financing statements that involve or relate to the Purchase Receivables that are disclosed by the search referred to in the immediately preceding clause (a) or as otherwise in existence (including, without limitation, any effective financing statements in favor of Midcap that involve or relate to the Purchased Assets or the License Agreement), which termination statements and amendment statements, as applicable, shall be filed concurrently with the consummation of the Closing.

 

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ARTICLE IV

Seller’s Representations and Warranties

Except as set forth in the disclosure schedules attached hereto (the “Disclosure Schedules”), Seller hereby represents and warrants to Buyer as of the date hereof as set forth below.  The Disclosure Schedules have been arranged and numbered in sections and subsections corresponding to each Section or subsection of this Article IV as to which Seller is limiting or otherwise qualifying its representations and warranties (without any need for reference of any kind in Article IV hereof to such Section or subsection of the Disclosure Schedules); provided, however, that any information disclosed in the Disclosure Schedules under any such Section or subsection shall be deemed to be disclosed and incorporated in only the specifically identified Section or subsection of the Disclosure Schedules.

Section 4.1Organization.  Seller is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.  Seller is duly licensed or qualified to do business and is in corporate good standing in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted by it or the character or location of the properties and assets owned, leased or operated by it makes such licensing or qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so licensed or qualified and in corporate good standing has not and would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Seller Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.2Authorization.  Seller has the requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents and to consummate the transactions contemplated thereby.  The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on part of Seller.

Section 4.3Enforceability.  Each of the Transaction Documents has been duly executed and delivered by Seller, and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of Seller, enforceable against Seller in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity) and by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium and other similar laws of general application relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally.

Section 4.4Absence of Conflicts.  The execution, delivery and performance by Seller of the Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby do not and shall not (a) conflict with, constitute a breach of or default under any provision of (i) the articles of organization or bylaws of Seller or (ii) the License Agreement, the MidCap Credit Agreement, or the MidCap Release; or (b) conflict with, constitute a material breach of or material default under any provision of (i) any Applicable Law or Judgment applicable to Seller or (ii) any Contract (other than the License Agreement) to which Seller is a party or by which Seller is bound.

Section 4.5Consents.  No Consent of any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required, or will be required, by or with respect to Seller in connection with the execution and delivery by Seller of the Transaction Documents, the performance by Seller of its obligations

 

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under the Transaction Documents or the consummation by Seller of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except for such Consents as shall have been obtained on or prior to the date hereof.

Section 4.6Litigation.  No (a) action, suit, proceeding, claim, demand, citation, summons, subpoena, investigation, or other proceeding (whether civil, criminal, administrative, regulatory, investigative or informal) is pending, or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened, by or against Seller, at law or in equity, or (b) inquiry, or investigation (whether civil, criminal, administrative, regulatory, investigative or informal) by or before any Governmental Authority is pending, or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened, against Seller that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Seller Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.7Compliance with Laws.  Seller (a) has not violated, is not in violation of, has not been given written notice that it has violated, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, Seller is not under investigation with respect to its violation of, and has not been threatened to be charged with any violation of, any Applicable Law or any Judgment of any Governmental Authority, and (b) is not subject to any Judgment of any Governmental Authority; in each case that would reasonably be expected to result in a Seller Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.8Brokers’ Fees.  There is no investment banker, broker, finder, financial advisor or other intermediary who has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of Seller who is entitled to any fee or commission in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, other than Piper Sandler, whose fees and expenses shall be paid by Seller.

Section 4.9License Agreement.

(a)License Agreement; Royalty Reports; Material Notices.  Attached hereto as Exhibit E is a true, correct and complete copy of the License Agreement.  Seller has made available to Buyer true, correct and complete copies of: (i) the Royalty Reports in respect of each calendar quarter ended since the date of the License Agreement Termination Notice that have been received by Seller prior to the date hereof; and (ii) all material written notices delivered to Pfizer by Seller, or by Pfizer to Seller, relating to, or involving, the Purchased Assets pursuant to the License Agreement since January 1, 2019.

(b)Validity and Enforceability of License Agreement.  The Surviving Obligations are valid and binding obligations of Seller and Pfizer, enforceable against each of Seller and Pfizer in accordance with their terms, except as may be limited by general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity) and by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium and other similar laws of general application relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally.  The Surviving Obligations will continue to be valid, binding and enforceable on identical terms immediately after the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  Seller has not received any written notice from Pfizer challenging the validity, enforceability or interpretation of the Surviving Obligations or any obligation of Pfizer to pay the Royalty Payments thereunder.  

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Pfizer (or any Affiliate thereof) relating to the subject matter thereof, and there are no other agreements, instruments, arrangements, waivers or understandings between Seller (or any Affiliate thereof) and Pfizer (or any Affiliate thereof) that relate to the Surviving Obligations, the Purchased Assets, or the Royalty Payment or that would reasonably be expected to result in a Seller Material Adverse Effect. Since the date of the License Agreement Termination Notice, Seller has not received from Pfizer any written proposal, and has not made any proposal to Pfizer, to amend or waive any provision of the License Agreement.  Other than the MidCap Credit Agreement and the MidCap Collateral Agreement, there is no contract, agreement or other arrangement (whether written or oral) to which Seller is a party or by which any of their respective assets or properties is bound or committed (i) that creates a lien on the Purchased Assets or the Surviving Obligations; (ii) that materially affects the Purchased Assets or (iii) for which breach thereof, nonperformance thereof, cancellation thereof or failure to renew would reasonably be expected to have a Seller Material Adverse Effect.

(d)No Termination, Force Majeure, etc.  Other than the License Agreement Termination Notice, Seller has not (i) given Pfizer any notice of termination pursuant to Section 9.5 or 9.6 of the License Agreement or (ii) received from Pfizer any written notice of termination pursuant to Section 9.5 or 9.6 of the License Agreement.  No event has occurred, and there is no event that upon notice or the passage of time, or both, would reasonably be expected to give Seller or Pfizer the right to terminate or delay the Surviving Obligations, or cease or delay paying the Royalty Payment.

(e)No Breaches.  There is and has been no material breach of any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement by Seller, and there is no event that upon notice or the passage of time, or both, would reasonably be expected to give rise to any material breach by Seller of any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement. There is and has been no material breach of any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement by Pfizer, and there is no event that upon notice or the passage of time, or both, would reasonably be expected to give rise to any such material breach by Pfizer.  Seller has not received any notice that Seller or Pfizer is in default of, or of an intention by Pfizer to breach, any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement.

(f)Royalty Payments.  Seller has received all amounts owed to it (including the Royalty Payments) under the License Agreement, to the extent such amounts have come due.  

(g)No Waivers, Releases or Amendments.  Seller has not granted any material waiver of any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement or released Pfizer, in whole or in part, from any of its Surviving Obligations. There are no oral waivers or modifications (or pending requests therefor) in respect of any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement. Since June 22, 2012, Seller has not received from Pfizer any proposal, and has not made any proposal to Pfizer, to amend or waive any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement.

(h)No Sublicenses.  There are no licenses or sublicenses entered into by Pfizer or any other Person (or any predecessor or Affiliate thereof) in respect of the CD20 Biosimilar Product or any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement.  Seller has not received any notice from Pfizer relating to any prospective licenses or sublicenses in respect of the CD20 Biosimilar Product or any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement.

 

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(i)Audits.  Seller has not exercised its rights to conduct an audit under Section 5.6.2 of the License Agreement.

(j)Set-Offs.  Pfizer is not owed any amount by Seller, under the License Agreement or otherwise, that Pfizer would have the right to set-off against the Royalty Payments or any other amounts payable to Seller under the Surviving Obligations. Pfizer has not in the past exercised any set-off against the Royalty Payments or any other amounts payable to Seller under the License Agreement.

(k)No Indemnity Claims. As of the date of this Agreement, neither Seller nor Pfizer has made or provided any notice of an indemnity claim under the License Agreement or the Surviving Obligations.

(l)No Assignments.  Seller has not consented to, and Seller has not been notified of, any assignment or other transfer by Pfizer of any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement.  Pfizer has not assigned or otherwise transferred any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement to any Person. Seller has not assigned or otherwise transferred, in whole or in part, any Surviving Obligation under the License Agreement or any of Seller’s right, title or interest in and to the Purchased Assets.

(m)Royalty Term.  To the Knowledge of Seller, (i) the first commercial sale of a CD20 Biosimilar Product in Japan occurred on January 21, 2020; and (ii) the first commercial sale of a CD20 Biosimilar Product in the United States occurred on February 3, 2020.

(n)CD20 Biosimilar Products.  To the Knowledge of Seller, Pfizer has not developed or commercialized, and Pfizer is not developing or commercializing, any products that would be considered a CD20 Biosimilar Product had the Development or Commercialization (each as defined in the License Agreement) of such product first commenced or was first conducted during the CD20 Biosimilar Product Applicability Period.

(o)Freedom-to-operate.  No legal opinion concerning or with respect to any third party intellectual property rights relating to the CD20 Biosimilar Products, including any freedom-to-operate, product clearance, patentability or right-to-use opinion, has been delivered to Seller or, to the Knowledge of Seller, to Pfizer.  To the Knowledge of Seller, There is no patent owned or exclusively controlled by a third party which Pfizer does not have the right to use and that would be infringed by Pfizer’s sale of the CD20 Biosimilar Products.

(p)BPCIA Litigation.  To the Knowledge of Seller, (i) there is no pending Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) litigation regarding any CD20 Biosimilar Products; (ii) any litigation involving the BRCIA arising out of, relating to or in connection with any CD20 Biosimilar Product has been settled or discharged and no action, suit, proceeding, claim, demand, citation, summons, subpoena, investigation, or other proceeding (whether civil, criminal, administrative, regulatory, investigative or informal) is pending or threatened involving the BPCIA arising out of, relating to or in connection with any CD20 Biosimilar Product, and (iii) no event has occurred, and there is no event that upon notice or the passage of time, or both, would reasonably be expected to result in any action, suit, proceeding, claim, demand, citation, summons, subpoena, investigation, or other proceeding (whether civil,

 

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criminal, administrative, regulatory, investigative or informal) involving the BPCIA arising out of, relating to or in connection with any CD20 Biosimilar Product.

Section 4.10Title to Purchased Assets.  Seller has good and valid title to the Purchased Assets, free and clear of all liens and encumbrances other than liens in favor of MidCap pursuant to the MidCap Credit Agreement and MidCap Collateral Assignment.  Upon payment of the Purchase Price by Buyer and delivery of the MidCap Release, Buyer will have acquired, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, good and valid title to the Purchased Assets, free and clear of all liens and encumbrances.  Upon the filing by Buyer of the Financing Statements with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and to the extent the Purchased Assets constitute an asset of Seller that has not been sold as contemplated by the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.10, the security interest in the Purchased Assets granted by Seller to Buyer pursuant to Section 2.4 shall be perfected and prior to all other liens thereon to the extent that such security interest in the Purchased Assets can be perfected under the UCC by the filing of the Financing Statements in such filing office.

Section 4.11UCC Matters.  Seller’s exact legal name is, and since its organization has been, “Aptevo Therapeutics Inc.”  Seller’s jurisdiction of organization is, and since its organization has been, the State of Delaware.  Seller’s principal place of business is, and since its organization has been, located in Seattle, Washington.

Section 4.12Taxes.  No deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax has been or was required to be made from any payment by Pfizer to Seller under the License Agreement and no such deduction or withholding would have been required even if Seller were ineligible for any income tax treaty benefits.  Following the Closing Date, to Knowledge of Seller, no deduction or withholding on account of any tax will be required by Applicable Law (determined without regard to any tax treaty) to be made from any payment to Buyer under the License Agreement or this Agreement.  Seller has filed (or caused to be filed) all material tax returns and material tax reports required to be filed under Applicable Law and has paid all material taxes required to be paid by Seller (including, in each case, in its capacity as a withholding agent), except for any such taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles applicable to Seller, as in effect from time to time.  There are no existing Liens for taxes on the Purchased Assets (or any portion thereof).

Section 4.13Solvency.  Seller is, individually and together with its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, Solvent, and will be Solvent after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

Section 4.14Disclosure.  None of the representations or warranties of Seller contained in this Agreement or any Transaction Document and none of the information contained in any schedule, certificate, or other document delivered by or on behalf of Seller pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements herein or therein not misleading.

 

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ARTICLE V

Buyer’s Representations and Warranties

Buyer hereby represents and warrants to Seller that as of the date hereof:

Section 5.1Organization.  Each Buyer is an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the respective jurisdiction in which it is organized.

Section 5.2Authorization.  Buyer has the requisite organizational power and authority to execute, deliver and perform the Transaction Documents and to consummate the transactions contemplated thereby. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on part of Buyer.

Section 5.3Enforceability.  Each of the Transaction Documents has been duly executed and delivered by Buyer, and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of Buyer, enforceable against Buyer in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity) and by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium and other similar laws of general application relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally.

Section 5.4Absence of Conflicts.  The execution, delivery and performance by Buyer of the Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby do not and shall not (a) conflict with, constitute a breach or default under any provision of the organizational documents of Buyer, or (b) conflict with, constitute a material breach of or material default under any provision of (i) any Applicable Law or Judgment applicable to Seller or (ii) any Contract to which Buyer is a party or by which Buyer is bound, except for such breaches or defaults that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Buyer Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.5Consents.  No Consent of any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required by or with respect to Buyer in connection with the execution and delivery by Buyer of the Transaction Documents, the performance by Buyer of its obligations under the Transaction Documents or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except for (a) such Consents, the failure of which to be obtained or made, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Buyer Material Adverse Effect, and (b) such Consents as shall have been obtained on or prior to the date hereof.

Section 5.6Litigation.  No action, suit, proceeding or investigation before any Governmental Authority, or, to the knowledge of Buyer, threatened, against Buyer that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Buyer Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.7Brokers’ Fees.  There is no investment banker, broker, finder, financial advisor or other intermediary who has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of Buyer who is entitled to any fee or commission in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

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Section 5.8Financing.  Buyer has, and will have as of the Closing, sufficient cash on hand or binding and enforceable commitments to provide it with funds sufficient to satisfy its obligations to pay the Purchase Price.  Buyer acknowledges that its obligations under this Agreement are not contingent on obtaining financing.

Section 5.9Tax Status.  Buyer is a “United States person”, as defined in section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

 

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ARTICLE VI

General Covenants

Section 6.1Confidentiality.

(a)Confidentiality.  Except as set forth in Section 6.1(c) below, each party (“Receiving Party”) shall keep confidential and not disclose to any Person (other than its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ Representatives), and shall cause its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ Representatives to keep confidential and not disclose to any Person, any Confidential Information.  Receiving Party shall, and shall cause its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ Representatives to, use the Confidential Information solely in connection with Receiving Party’s administration of, and exercising of rights and performance of obligations under, the Transaction Documents (and not for any other purpose).  The foregoing obligations shall continue until the later of (x) the date of termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.14(a) and (y) the date of expiration of the last to expire of the Relevant Obligations.

(b)Confidential Information.  “Confidential Information” means, collectively, all information (whether written or oral, or in electronic or other form, and whether furnished before, on or after the date of this Agreement) concerning, or relating in any way, directly or indirectly, to the other party (“Disclosing Party”), the License Agreement or the Purchased Assets, including any Royalty Reports, notices, requests, correspondence or other information furnished pursuant to this Agreement and any other reports, data, information, materials, notices, correspondence or documents of any kind relating in any way, directly or indirectly, to the Purchased Assets.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Confidential Information” shall not include the existence or terms of this Agreement, or any information that (A) was known by Receiving Party at the time such information was disclosed to Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives in accordance herewith or in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement, as evidenced by its written records; (B) was or becomes generally available to the public or part of the public domain (other than as a result of a disclosure by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives in violation of this Agreement or the Confidentiality Agreement) prior to any disclosure of such information by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives; (C) becomes known to Receiving Party on a non-confidential basis from a source other than Disclosing Party and its Representatives (and without any breach of this Agreement or the Confidentiality Agreement by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives); provided, that such source, to the knowledge of Receiving Party, had the right to disclose such information to Receiving Party (without breaching any legal, contractual or fiduciary obligation to Disclosing Party); or (D) is or has been independently developed by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives without use of or reference to the Confidential Information (as evidenced by contemporaneous written records).

(c)Permitted Disclosures.  

(i)In the event that Receiving Party or its Affiliates or any of its or its Affiliates’ Representatives are requested by a governmental or regulatory authority or required by Applicable Law (as reasonably determined by the Disclosing Party after consulting with legal counsel), legal process, or the regulations of a stock exchange or governmental or regulatory

 

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authority or by the order or ruling of a court, administrative agency or other government body of competent jurisdiction to disclose any Confidential Information, Receiving Party shall promptly, and, in any event, use reasonable efforts to, promptly upon learning of such requirement, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, notify Disclosing Party in writing of such requirement so that Disclosing Party may seek an appropriate protective order or other appropriate remedy (and if Disclosing Party seeks such an order or other remedy, Receiving Party will provide such cooperation, at Disclosing Party’s expense, as Disclosing Party shall reasonably request).  If no such protective order or other remedy is obtained and Receiving Party or its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives are, in the view of their respective counsel (which may include their respective internal counsel), legally compelled to disclose Confidential Information, Receiving Party or its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives, as the case may be, shall only disclose that portion of the Confidential Information that their respective counsel advises that Receiving Party or its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives, as the case may be, are compelled to disclose and will exercise reasonable efforts, at Disclosing Party’s expense, to obtain reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded to that portion of the Confidential Information that is being disclosed.  In any event, Receiving Party will not oppose action by Disclosing Party to seek an appropriate protective order or other reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded the Confidential Information.  

(ii)Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing in this Section 6.1 shall be construed to restrict Receiving Party from disclosing Confidential Information to Receiving Party’s Affiliates, Representatives, existing or prospective lenders, acquirors, investors, partners, assignees and other sources of funding, including underwriters, debt financing or co-investors, or direct or indirect beneficial owners or limited partners, and the Representatives of the foregoing, provided that the recipient of Confidential Information agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 6.1 or are otherwise subject to reasonable restrictions of confidentiality.

(d)Termination of Confidentiality Agreement.  Effective upon the date hereof, the Confidentiality Agreement, dated July 22, 2020 (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), between Buyer and Seller shall terminate and be of no further force or effect, and shall be superseded by the provisions of this Section 6.1.

(e)Specific Enforcement.  Receiving Party acknowledges and agrees that remedies at law may not be adequate to protect Disclosing Party against any actual or threatened breach of this Section 6.1 by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives, and that Disclosing Party shall be entitled to seek specific performance and temporary and permanent injunctive relief or other equitable relief as a remedy for any such actual or threatened breach.

Section 6.2Public Announcements.  Seller and Buyer shall consult with each other in good faith regarding the form and content of any press release or other public announcement or otherwise make any public disclosure with respect to this Agreement or the subject matter hereof (“Public Announcement”) to be issued or made by Seller or Buyer at or following the Closing relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and no party shall, and each party shall instruct its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ Representatives not to issue any Public Announcement without reasonable time to comment on such proposed Public Announcement in advance of such issuance and prior consent of the other party (which consent

 

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shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), except as may be required by Applicable Law, regulation or stock exchange rule (in which case the party required to make the Public Announcement shall (i) allow the other party reasonable time to comment on such Public Announcement in advance of such issuance and (ii) if such Public Announcement involves a public disclosure of a copy of this Agreement or any exhibit or schedule hereto, the party hereto making such disclosure shall first use reasonable efforts to redact from such copy of this Agreement or such exhibit or schedule, as the case may be, such portions as reasonably requested by the other party hereto before making such public disclosure, provided that such redactions are consistent with Applicable Law).  

Section 6.3Taxes.  Seller and Buyer agree that for United States federal, state, local and non-United States tax purposes, (a) Seller and Buyer shall treat the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents as a sale of the Purchased Assets and (b) any and all amounts remitted by Seller to Buyer after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 7.2(a) or otherwise under this Agreement shall be treated as received by Seller as agent for Buyer.  Buyer agrees (i) to notify Seller promptly in writing if (A) Buyer becomes ineligible to use or deliver any Applicable Withholding Certificate or other tax form previously delivered pursuant to this Agreement, or (B) any Applicable Withholding Certificate or other tax form previously delivered pursuant to this Agreement ceases to be accurate or complete, and (ii) to provide (to the extent it is legally eligible to do so) any additional tax forms that Seller may reasonably request.  Buyer agrees to notify Seller promptly if the statements in Section 5.8 (if made as of any date after the Closing Date) cease, or because of any change of Applicable Law or any act or omission planned, suffered or performed by Buyer, would in the future cease, to be true.  Seller shall be entitled to deduct (or cause to be deducted) from any amount payable under this Agreement (but for this sentence) to Buyer any income or other tax that Seller determines that it is required to withhold with respect to such amount payable to Buyer under this Agreement prior to remittance to Buyer; provided that if Seller, Pfizer or any other applicable withholding agent shall be required to withhold or deduct any such tax, (1) the applicable withholding agent shall remit (or cause to be remitted) any amount withheld or deducted pursuant to this Section 6.3 to the relevant taxing authority and (2) if such tax is an Indemnified Tax Seller shall make a payment to Buyer so that, after all such required deductions and withholdings are made by any applicable withholding agent (including any deductions and withholdings required with respect to any additional payments under this Section 6.3), Buyer receives an amount equal to the amount that it would have received had no deductions or withholdings on account of Indemnified Taxes been made. Seller shall give, or cause to be given, to Buyer such assistance as may reasonably be necessary to enable Buyer to claim exemption therefrom or credit therefor, and in each case shall furnish Buyer proper evidence of the taxes paid by Seller to the relevant taxing authority on its behalf.

Section 6.4Further Actions.  

(a)From and after the Closing, each of Buyer and Seller shall, at the expense of the requesting party, execute and deliver such additional documents, certificates and instruments, and perform such additional acts, as may be reasonably requested and necessary or appropriate to carry out all of the provisions of this Agreement and to give full effect to and consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including to (a) perfect the sale, assignment, transfer and conveyance of the Purchased Assets to Buyer pursuant to this Agreement, (b) create, evidence and perfect Buyer’s security interest granted pursuant to Section 4 and (c)

 

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enable Buyer to exercise or enforce any of Buyer’s rights under any Transaction Document to which Buyer is party.

(b)From and after the Closing, Buyer shall, at Seller’s cost and expense, use commercially reasonable efforts to execute and deliver such additional documents, certificates and instruments, and perform such additional acts, as may be reasonably requested and necessary or appropriate to allow Seller to exercise and enforce the Retained Rights.

Section 6.5Distribution of Purchased Receivables; Escrow Matters.

(a)Deposit of Purchased Receivables. In accordance with the Pfizer Payment Instructions, from and after the date of this Agreement, Seller shall direct Pfizer to deposit all Purchased Receivables in the Escrow Account.

(b)Release of Royalty Payments from Escrow Account. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Escrow Agreement, the parties hereto agree and shall direct the Escrow Agent to:

(i)Promptly, but in any event within two (2) Business Days of receipt of deposit of Purchased Receivables in the Escrow Account, disburse such Purchased Receivables (together with any interest thereon, if applicable) to Buyer without any further action of the parties hereto.

(ii)Notwithstanding Section 6.4(b)(i), if and when the aggregate amount of Purchased Receivables deposited in the Escrow Account exceeds the Cap Amount, then the parties shall provide joint written instructions to the Escrow Agent directing the Escrow Agent to promptly, but in any event within two (2) Business Days of receipt of deposit of Royalty Payments in the Escrow Account, disburse 50% of the amount of such Royalty Payments (together with any interest thereon, if applicable) to Buyer and 50% of the amount of such Royalty Payments (together with any interest thereon, if applicable) to Seller. For the avoidance of doubt, in determining whether the Purchased Receivables exceeds the Cap Amount, such amount will include the amount received by Buyer in respect of any Additional Amounts received by the Buyer and will not include any Indemnified Taxes payable (whether payable through withholding or directly by the Buyer) in respect of any amounts payable to the Buyer under this Agreement (including in respect of any Additional Amounts).

Section 6.6Pfizer Payments Instructions.  Prior to the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.14(a), Seller shall not, without Buyer’s prior written consent, deliver any further directions to Pfizer.

 

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ARTICLE VII

Covenants Relating to the LICENSE AGREEMENT

Section 7.1Performance of License Agreement.  

(a)Seller agrees that it shall (i) not take any action or forego any action that would reasonably be expected to constitute a material breach or default under the Surviving Obligations and (ii) use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to cure any such breach by Seller of the License Agreement, (iii) not forgive, release or compromise any amount owed to or becoming owed to Seller under the Surviving Obligations in respect of the Royalty Payments and (iv) not, without the prior written consent of Buyer, (A) exercise any right to offset, modify or terminate the Surviving Obligations, in whole or in part, (B) agree with Pfizer to offset, modify or terminate the Surviving Obligations, in whole or in part, or (C) take, or permit any Affiliate or sublicensee to take, any action that would reasonably be expected to give Pfizer the right to offset, modify or terminate the Surviving Obligations, in whole or in part. Subject to the foregoing, promptly, and in any event within five Business Days, following receipt by Seller of any notice of breach of termination of the Surviving Obligations, Seller shall furnish a true, correct and complete copy of the same to Buyer.

(b)Seller shall not, without the prior written consent of Buyer, grant or withhold any consent, exercise or waive any right, obligation or option or fail to exercise any right, obligation or option in respect of, affecting or relating to the Purchased Assets, the Product, the Surviving Obligations in any manner that would reasonably be expected (with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both) to have a Seller Material Adverse Effect or conflict with, or cause a termination, material breach or default under the Surviving Obligations.

Section 7.2Misdirected Royalty Payments.  

(a)Misdirected Royalty Payments.  If Seller shall, notwithstanding the provisions of the Pfizer Instruction Letter, receive any Purchased Receivables, Seller shall promptly, and in any event no later than five Business Days, remit to the Escrow Agent such Purchased Receivables for deposit in the Escrow Account.

(b)Setoffs by Pfizer.  If Pfizer sets off against the Purchased Receivables any amount owing from Seller, then Seller shall promptly, and in any event no later than five Business Days, pay to Buyer a sum equal to the amount of such set-off.  After Seller makes the payment referred to in the first sentence of this Section 7.2(b), Seller shall be entitled to, and Buyer shall not be entitled to, any amounts recovered from Pfizer in respect of such set-off.

(c)Remittances.  All remittances pursuant to this Section 7.2 shall be made (i) without set-off or deduction of any kind (except as required by Applicable Law) and (ii) by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account as Buyer may designate in writing (such designation to be made at least three Business Days prior to any such payment), as the case may be.

 

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(d)Payments Held In Trust.  Seller agrees that it shall hold any amounts received by it to which Buyer is entitled under this Agreement in trust and agrees that it shall have no right, title or interest whatsoever in such amounts.

(e)A late fee of 4% over the prime rate published by the Wall Street Journal, from time to time, as the prime rate shall accrue on all unpaid amounts on an annualized basis with respect to any sum payable under Section 7.2 beginning ten Business Days after receipt of such payment received in error.

Section 7.3Reports; Notices; Correspondence.  

(a)Promptly, and in any event no later than five Business Days, following the receipt by Seller of (a) a Royalty Report required to be delivered pursuant to the License Agreement or (b) any material written notice or material written correspondence relating to, or involving the Purchased Receivables, Seller shall furnish a true, correct and copy of the same to Buyer.

(b)Seller shall not send any material written notice or correspondence to Pfizer relating to, or involving, the Purchased Receivables pursuant to the License Agreement without the prior written consent of Buyer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).  Seller shall promptly, and in any event no later than five Business Days, provide to Buyer a copy of any material notice or correspondence sent by Seller to Pfizer relating to, or involving, the Purchased Receivables pursuant to the License Agreement.  Seller shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to respond to any reasonable inquiries of Buyer related to or involving the Purchased Receivables.

Section 7.4Preservation of Rights; Assignments.  Seller shall not hereafter sell, transfer, hypothecate, delegate, assign or in any manner convey or mortgage, pledge or grant a security interest or other encumbrance of any kind in any of its rights, title or interest in and to, or duties under, all or any portion of the Surviving Obligations without the prior written consent of Buyer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).  Promptly, and in any event within five Business Days following receipt by Seller of a written request from Pfizer for consent to, or prior written notice of, assignment of the Surviving Obligations (in whole or in part), Seller shall provide notice thereof to Buyer.  Promptly (and in any event no later than five Business Days) following Seller’s receipt of any fully executed assignment of the Surviving Obligations by Pfizer, Seller shall furnish a copy of such assignment to Buyer.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

Indemnification

Section 8.1Obligation of Parties to Indemnify.

(a)Indemnification by Seller.  Subject to the limitations set forth in this ARTICLE VIII, from and after the Closing, Seller shall indemnify Buyer, its Affiliates, and their Representatives (each, a “Buyer Indemnified Party”) against any and all losses, liabilities, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses in connection with any third party action, suit or proceeding) and damages (collectively, “Losses”) incurred by such Buyer Indemnified Party, to the extent arising or resulting from any of the following:

(i)any breach of any representation or warranty made by Seller in the Transaction Documents;

(ii)any breach of any covenant or agreement of Seller contained in the Transaction Documents; and

(iii)the Excluded Assets, including from Seller’s exercise of the Retained Rights, and the Excluded Liabilities and Obligations.

(b)Indemnification by Buyer.  Subject to the limitations set forth in this ARTICLE VIII, from and after the Closing, Buyer shall indemnify Seller, its Affiliates, and their Representatives (each, a “Seller Indemnified Party”) against any and all Losses incurred by such Seller Indemnified Party, to the extent arising or resulting from any of the following:

(i)any breach of any representation or warranty made by Buyer in the Transaction Documents; and

(ii)any breach of any covenant or agreement of Buyer contained in the Transaction Documents.

Section 8.2Procedures Relating to Indemnification for Third Party Claims.

(a)Notice of Third Party Claim.  In order for a party (an “Indemnified Party”) to be entitled to any indemnification under this ARTICLE VIII in respect of Losses arising out of or involving a claim or demand made by any Person other than Buyer or Seller against a Buyer Indemnified Party or a Seller Indemnified Party, as applicable (a “Third Party Claim”), the Indemnified Party must notify the party from whom indemnification is sought under this ARTICLE VIII (the “Indemnifying Party”) promptly in writing (including in such notice a brief description of the Third Party Claim, including damages sought or estimated, to the extent actually known or reasonably capable of estimation by the Indemnified Party); provided, however, that the failure to promptly provide such notice shall not affect the indemnification provided under this ARTICLE VIII except to the extent that the Indemnifying Party has been actually prejudiced as a result of such failure.  Thereafter, the Indemnified Party shall deliver to the Indemnifying Party, promptly after the Indemnified Party’s receipt thereof, copies of all documents (including court papers) received by the Indemnified Party relating to the Third Party Claim.  

 

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(b)Defense of Third Party Claims.  The Indemnifying Party shall be entitled to participate in the defense of the Third Party Claim and, if it so chooses, to assume the defense thereof, at its own expense, with counsel selected by the Indemnifying Party; provided, that such counsel is not reasonably objected to by the Indemnified Party.  If the Indemnifying Party elects to assume the defense of any Third Party Claim, the Indemnifying Party shall not be liable to the Indemnified Party for legal expenses subsequently incurred by the Indemnified Party in connection with the defense thereof, except that, if the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party have conflicting interests or different defenses available with respect to such Third Party Claim, the Indemnified Party may hire its own separate counsel (provided that such counsel is not reasonably objected to by the Indemnifying Party) with respect to such Third Party Claim and the related action or suit, and the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel shall be considered Losses for purposes of this Agreement.  The Indemnifying Party shall permit the Indemnified Party to participate in, but not control, the defense of any such action or suit through counsel chosen by the Indemnified Party, provided that such counsel is not reasonably objected to by the Indemnifying Party and, except in the circumstances described in the immediately preceding sentence, the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be borne by the Indemnified Party.  The Indemnifying Party shall be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel employed by the Indemnified Party in the defense of a Third Party Claim (which shall all be considered Losses for purposes of this Agreement) for any period during which the Indemnifying Party has not assumed the defense thereof (other than during the period prior to the time the Indemnified Party shall have notified the Indemnifying Party of such Third Party Claim).

(c)Cooperation.  The parties hereto shall cooperate in the defense or prosecution of any Third Party Claim, with such cooperation to include (i) the retention of and the provision to the Indemnifying Party of records and information that are reasonably relevant to such Third Party Claim and (ii) the making available of employees on a mutually convenient basis for providing additional information and explanation of any material provided hereunder.  Neither the Indemnified Party nor the Indemnifying Party shall consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to the entry of any judgment, settlement, compromise or discharge of such Third Party Claim without the prior written consent of the other; provided that the consent of the Indemnified Party shall not be required if such judgment, settlement, compromise or discharge (A) does not involve any non-monetary penalties (other than customary and reasonable confidentiality obligations relating to such claim, judgment, settlement, compromise or discharge), (B) results in the complete and unconditional release of the Indemnified Party from all liabilities arising out of, relating to or in connection with such Third Party Claim and (C) does not involve a finding or admission of any fault, culpability, failure to act, violation of any law, rule, regulation or judgment, or the rights of any Person, and has no effect on any other claims that may be made against the Indemnified Party.    

Section 8.3Procedures Relating to Indemnification for Other Claims.  In order for an Indemnified Party to be entitled to any indemnification under this ARTICLE VIII in respect of Losses that do not arise out of or involve a Third Party Claim, the Indemnified Party must notify the Indemnifying Party promptly in writing (including in such notice a brief description of the claim for indemnification and the Loss, including damages sought or estimated, to the extent actually known or reasonably capable of estimation by the Indemnified Party); provided, however, that the failure to promptly provide such notice shall not affect the indemnification provided under

 

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this ARTICLE VIII except to the extent that the Indemnifying Party has been actually prejudiced as a result of such failure.

Section 8.4Limitations on Indemnification.  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the aggregate amount of all Losses for which Seller or Buyer shall be liable hereunder pursuant to Section 8.1(a)(i) or Section 8.1(b)(i), respectively, shall not exceed an amount equal to the sum of: (a) 190% of the Purchase Price, minus the Royalty Payments actually received by Buyer, and (b) fees and expenses incurred by Buyer in enforcing its rights hereunder; provided that the limitations set forth in this Section 8.4 shall not apply to breaches of any Fundamental Representations or Losses arising out of any fraud, intentional misrepresentation or willful misconduct.

Section 8.5Survival of Representations and Warranties.  The representations and warranties contained in this Agreement shall survive the Closing solely for purposes of Section 8.1 and shall terminate on the date that is the third anniversary of the Closing Date; provided, however, that (i) the representations and warranties in Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.8, 4.11, 4.12, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.7 and 5.9 (the “Fundamental Representations”) shall survive until ninety (90) days following the expiration of all applicable statutes of limitations (giving effect to any waiver, mitigation or extension thereof). No party hereto shall have any liability or obligation of any nature with respect to any representation or warranty after the termination thereof, unless the other party hereto shall have delivered a notice to such party, pursuant to Section 8.2(a) or Section 8.3, claiming such a liability or obligation under Section 8.1, prior to such third anniversary or prior to the expiration of such ninety (90)-day period, as applicable.

Section 8.6No Implied Representations and Warranties.  Buyer acknowledges and agrees that, other than the representations and warranties of Seller specifically contained in ARTICLE IV, there are no representations or warranties of Seller or any other Person either expressed or implied with respect to the Royalty Payments, the Purchased Assets or the License Agreement or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the License Agreement and that it does not rely on, and shall have no remedies in respect of, any representation or warranty not specifically set forth in ARTICLE IV, except in the case of fraud, intentional misrepresentation or willful misconduct. Except in the case of fraud, intentional misrepresentation or willful misconduct, Buyer acknowledges and agrees that (a) Buyer, together with its Affiliates and Representatives, have made their own investigation of the Royalty Payments, the Purchased Assets, the License Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the License Agreement and are not relying on, and shall have no remedies in respect of, any implied warranties or upon any representation or warranty whatsoever as to the future amount or potential amount of the Royalty Payments and the Purchased Assets, or as to the creditworthiness of Pfizer (or any of its Affiliates) and (b) except as expressly set forth in any representation or warranty in ARTICLE IV, Buyer shall have no claim or right regarding losses or damages pursuant to this ARTICLE VIII (or otherwise) with respect to any information, documents or materials (including the LEK data and report) furnished or made available to Buyer or any of its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives in any data room, presentation, interview or in any other form or manner relating to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the License Agreement.

 

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Section 8.7Exclusive Remedy.  Other than for breaches of any covenants or agreements set forth in Section 6.1, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, from and after the Closing, this ARTICLE VIII shall provide such parties’ sole and exclusive remedy with respect to any breached representation or warranty set forth in the Transaction Documents, except that any such claim or matter based upon bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct shall not be subject to or limited by this ARTICLE VIII.

Section 8.8Limitations on Damages.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, in no event shall either party hereto be liable (including, without limitation, under Section 8.1) for any (a) special, indirect, incidental, exemplary, punitive, multiple or consequential damages or (b) loss of use, business interruption, loss of any contract or other business opportunity or good will, in each case, of the other party hereto (other than any such damages or losses for the net present value of all expected payments to Buyer hereunder or occasioned by any breach of the covenants or agreements set forth in Section 6.1), whether or not caused by or resulting from the actions of such party or the breach of its covenants, agreements, representations or warranties under any of the Transaction Documents (except as aforesaid) and whether in contract, tort or breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if such party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.  In connection with the foregoing, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that (i) Buyer’s damages, if any, for any such action or claim will include Losses for Royalty Payments that Buyer was entitled to receive or would have received absent such breach, in each case in respect of its ownership of the Royalty Payments, as well as expenses incurred in connection with enforcement of this Agreement, and (ii) Buyer shall be entitled to make claims for all such missing, delayed or diminished Royalty Payments as Losses hereunder, and such missing, delayed or diminished payments shall not be deemed (A) special, indirect, incidental, exemplary, punitive, multiple or consequential damages or (B) loss of use, business interruption, loss of any contract or other business opportunity or good will.

 

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ARTICLE IX

Miscellaneous

Section 9.1Headings.  The captions to the Articles, Sections and subsections hereof are not a part of this Agreement but are for convenience only and shall not be deemed to limit or otherwise affect the construction thereof.

Section 9.2Notices.  All notices and other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sent by email with PDF attachment, courier or personal delivery to the following addresses, or to such other addresses as shall be designated from time to time by a party hereto in accordance with this Section 9.2.

 

 

All notices and communications under this Agreement shall be effective upon receipt by the addressee.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 9.2, all notices and communications under Section 8.2(a) and Section 8.3 and all service of legal process shall be sent by courier or personal delivery.

Section 9.3No Personal Liability.  It is expressly understood and agreed by Seller and Buyer that:

 

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(a)each of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements in the Transaction Documents made on the part of Seller is made by Seller and is not intended to be nor is a personal representation, warranty, covenant or agreement of any other Person, including those Persons named in the definition of “Knowledge of Seller” and any other Representative of Seller or Seller’s Affiliates (the “Non-Warranting Parties”);

(b)other than Seller, no Person, including the Non-Warranting Parties, shall have any liability whatsoever for breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made in the Transaction Documents on the part of Seller or in respect of any claim or matter arising out of, relating to or in connection with the Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby; and

(c)the provisions of this Section 9.3 are intended to benefit each and every one of the Non-Warranting Parties and shall be enforceable by each and every one of them to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law.  

Section 9.4Expenses.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or any Transaction Document, each of Seller and Buyer shall bear its own fees and expenses with respect to this Agreement and the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction documents, provided, however, that the Seller shall reimburse the Buyer for fees and expenses relating to this Agreement not to exceed $100,000.

Section 9.5Assignment.  The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.  Seller shall not be entitled to assign any of its obligations and rights under this Agreement to any non-Affiliate of Seller without: (a) the prior written consent of Buyer, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and (b) requiring any such non-Affiliate to agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. Buyer may assign this Agreement and all of Buyer’s rights, interests and obligations hereunder, in whole or in part, provided that the Buyer promptly thereafter notifies the Seller and any such assignee agrees in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. Any purported assignment in violation of this Section 9.5 shall be null and void. For the avoidance of doubt, no assignment by Buyer will operate to expand the obligations of Seller under this Agreement, including with respect to Indemnified Taxes.

Section 9.6Amendment and Waiver.

(a)This Agreement may be amended, modified or supplemented only in a writing signed by all of the parties hereto.  Any provision of this Agreement may be waived only in a writing, which writing may be signed only by the party granting such waiver.

(b)No failure or delay on the part of any party hereto in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy.  No course of dealing between the parties hereto shall be effective to amend, modify, supplement or waive any provision of this Agreement.

 

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Section 9.7Entire Agreement.  This Agreement, including the Exhibits and Schedules attached to this Agreement, sets forth the entire agreement and understanding between the parties hereto as to the subject matter hereof.  All express or implied agreements, promises, assurances, arrangements, representations, warranties and understandings as to the subject matter hereof, whether oral or written, heretofore made are superseded by this Agreement.

Section 9.8Independent Contractors.  The parties hereto recognize and agree that each is operating as an independent contractor and not as an agent, partner or fiduciary of any other.

Section 9.9No Third Party Beneficiaries.  Except to the extent otherwise contemplated by Section 9.3, this Agreement is for the sole benefit of Seller and Buyer and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and nothing herein expressed or implied shall give or be construed to give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and such successors and assigns, any legal or equitable rights hereunder.  For the avoidance of doubt, indemnification under ARTICLE VIII in respect of Losses incurred by a Buyer Indemnified Party or a Seller Indemnified Party may only be enforced by Buyer or Seller, respectively, and not by any other Person.

Section 9.10Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the State of New York, United States of America, without regard to any conflict of law provisions that would dictate the application of the law of another jurisdiction.

Section 9.11Jurisdiction; Venue; Service Of Process.  Each party hereto irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of (a) the Civil Branch of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County and (b) the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for the purposes of any action, suit or other proceeding arising out of, relating to or in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby.  Each party hereto agrees to commence any action, suit or other proceeding arising out of, relating to or in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby in the Civil Branch of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, or, if such action, suit or other proceeding may not be brought in such court for jurisdictional reasons, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Each party hereto further agrees that service of any process, summons, notice or document by courier or personal delivery in accordance with Section 9.2 shall be effective service of process for any action, suit or other proceeding in New York with respect to any matters to which it has submitted to jurisdiction in this Section 9.11.  Each party hereto irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any action, suit or other proceeding arising out of, relating to or in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby in (i) the Civil Branch of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County or (ii) the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives, and shall not assert by way of motion, defense, or otherwise, in any such action, suit or other proceeding, any claim that it is not subject personally to the jurisdiction of the above-named courts, that its property is exempt or immune from attachment or execution, that such action, suit or other proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of such action, suit or other proceeding is improper, or that this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby may not be enforced in or by any of the above-named courts.

 

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Section 9.12Severability.  If any term or provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court or other Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect, and the parties hereto shall replace such term or provision with a new term or provision permitted by Applicable Law and having an economic effect as close as possible to the invalid, illegal or unenforceable term or provision.  The holding of a term or provision to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in a jurisdiction shall not have any effect on the application of the term or provision in any other jurisdiction.

Section 9.13Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.  Copies of executed counterparts transmitted by email with PDF attachment shall be considered original executed counterparts.

Section 9.14Termination of Agreement.

(a)Subject to Section 9.14(b), this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect until 120 days after the date that the CD20 Biosimilar Royalty Period ends pursuant to the terms of the License Agreement, at which point this Agreement shall terminate, save for any rights, obligations or claims of any party hereto which have accrued prior to such termination (along with any corresponding limitations of liability in respect thereof).

(b)The following provisions shall survive any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.14:  Section 6.1 (Confidentiality), Section 6.2 (Public Announcements; Use of Names), Section 7.2 (Misdirected Royalty Payments), Section 7.3 (Reports; Notices; Correspondence), ARTICLE VIII (Indemnification) and ARTICLE IX (Miscellaneous).

(c)If, upon the termination of this Agreement, any Royalty Payments or other amounts are payable to Buyer hereunder, this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect until any and all such payments have been made in full, and (except as provided in this Section 9.14) solely for that purpose.

(d)Nothing contained in this Section 9.14 shall relieve either party from liability for any breach of this Agreement that occurs prior to termination.

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In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective representatives thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit A

to Royalty Purchase Agreement

Bill of Sale and Assignment

Bill of Sale and Assignment made as of March 30, 2021, by and between Aptevo THERAPEUTICS INC., a Delaware corporation (“Seller”), and HEALTHCARE ROYALTY PARTNERS IV, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Buyer”)

WHEREAS, Seller and Buyer have entered into that certain Royalty Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2021 (the “Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, Seller has agreed to sell, transfer, assign and convey to Buyer all of Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Purchased Assets.  Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Purchase Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and obligations set forth herein and in the Purchase Agreement and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as set forth below.

Section 1.Sale and Assignment of Assets.  Upon the terms of and subject to the conditions of the Purchase Agreement and the License Agreement, Seller hereby sells, transfers, assigns and conveys to Buyer all of its right, title and interest in and to the Purchased Assets.

Section 2.Acceptance.  Buyer hereby purchases, acquires and accepts such right, title and interest in and to the Purchased Assets.

Section 3.Excluded Assets.  The parties hereto hereby agree that none of the Excluded Assets or the Excluded Liabilities and Obligations are sold, transferred, assigned or conveyed hereby, all of which are retained by Seller.

Section 4.Other.  This Bill of Sale and Assignment (i) is made pursuant to, and is subject to the terms of, the Purchase Agreement and (ii) shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by, the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Agreement.  This Bill of Sale and Assignment is for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns and not for the benefit of any third party.

Section 5.Governing Law.  This Bill of Sale and Assignment shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to any conflict of law provisions that would dictate the application of the laws of another jurisdiction.

Section 6.Counterparts.  This Bill of Sale and Assignment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.  Copies of executed counterparts transmitted by email with PDF attachment shall be considered original executed counterparts.

 

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In Witness Whereof, the undersigned have caused this Bill of Sale and Assignment to be executed by their respective representatives thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit B

to Royalty Purchase Agreement

 

Disclosure ScheduleS

These Disclosure Schedules to the representations and warranties of Seller have been prepared in connection with the Royalty Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2021 (the “Agreement”), between Aptevo THERAPEUTICS INC., a Delaware corporation (“Seller” or “Aptevo”), and HEALTHCARE ROYALTY PARTNERS IV, L.P. (“Buyer”).

1.Definitions; Interpretation.

(a)Unless otherwise defined in these Disclosure Schedules, terms defined in the Agreement shall have the same meanings when used herein.

(b)Certain matters set forth in these Disclosure Schedules are included for informational purposes only, notwithstanding the fact that, because they do not rise above applicable materiality thresholds or otherwise, they would not be required to be set forth herein by the terms of the Agreement.  Identification of such matters shall not be taken as an admission by Seller that such disclosure is required to be made under the terms of any provision of the Agreement, and in no event shall the disclosure of such matters be deemed or interpreted to broaden or otherwise amend the representations, warranties or covenants contained in the Agreement or the scope of Seller’s disclosure obligations under the Agreement.

(c)The Disclosure Schedules have been arranged and numbered in sections and subsections corresponding to each Section or subsection of this Article IV as to which Seller is limiting or otherwise qualifying its representations and warranties (without any need for reference of any kind in Article IV hereof to such Section or subsection of the Disclosure Schedules); provided, however, that any information disclosed in the Disclosure Schedules under any such Section or subsection shall qualify only the specifically identified sections or subsections of the Disclosure Schedules and shall not qualify any other provision.

2.Exceptions.

 

Section 4.9(a). Seller does not have a copy of the original Amendment No. 1 to the License Agreement.  Buyer has been provided with the version of Amendment No. 1 available on Edgar.

Section 4.9(n). Seller is only aware of RUXIENCE, including RUXIENCE products subject to customary rebranding for ex-US territories. For avoidance of doubt, Seller is not aware of any CD20 Biosimilar Products being developed or commercialized by Pfizer that would compete with RUXIENCE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit C

to Royalty Purchase Agreement

March 30, 2021

PFIZER INSTRUCTION LETTER

VIA E-MAIL AND FAX

 

Pfizer Inc.

235 East 42nd Street

New York, NY 10017

Attention: Kathy Yang, Assistant General Counsel

Email: katherine.lee.yang@pfizer.com

Ladies and Gentlemen:

1.Reference is hereby made to that certain Collaboration and License Agreement dated as of December 19, 2005 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, including by the notice of termination dated as of June 22, 2012 (the “License Agreement”), by and between Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. (“Aptevo”) and Pfizer Inc. (“Pfizer”, “you” or “your”)).

2.Effective as of the date hereof, Aptevo has sold, transferred, assigned and conveyed to HealthCare Royalty Partners IV, LP (“Buyer”) all of Aptevo’s right, title and interest in and to the surviving provisions under the License Agreement.

3.Accordingly, you are hereby directed to pay 100% of all payments due to Aptevo under the License Agreement to Citizens Bank, N.A., as escrow agent.  

4.All payments to Buyer should be made by wire transfer of United States dollars to the account set forth below.  

 

 

  

5.In addition, you are hereby directed, beginning with the royalty report for the calendar quarter ending March 31, 2021, to send a copy of each Royalty Report to be furnished pursuant to Section 5.5.2 of the License Agreement to Buyer by e-mail at the following addresses:

 

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Clarke.Futch@hcroyalty.com

Matthew.Bullard@hcroyalty.com

For clarity, you will continue to send each Royalty Report to be furnished pursuant to Section 5.5.2 of the License Agreement to Aptevo in addition to Buyer.  

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Thank you very much for your cooperation regarding this matter.

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Page to Pfizer Instruction Letter

 

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cc:

 

Pfizer / Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

500 Arcola Road

Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426

Attn: Senior Vice President, Corporate Business Development

Fax: 484-865-6476

 

 

 

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Exhibit D

to Royalty Purchase Agreement

 

 

LEGAL OPINION

 

Omitted.

 

 

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Exhibit E

to Royalty Purchase Agreement

 

 

Escrow agreement

Omitted.

 

 

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Exhibit F

to Royalty Purchase Agreement

 

 

License Agreement

 

Omitted.

 

 

Exhibit 10.2

Execution Version

FIRST AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

This FIRST AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of March 30, 2021, by and among Aptevo Therapeutics inc., a Delaware corporation (“Aptevo Therapeutics”), and APTEVO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Aptevo R&D”, and together with Aptevo Therapeutics, each individually, a “Borrower” and collectively, the “Borrowers”), MIDCAP FINANCIAL TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust, as Agent (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, “Agent”) and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties to the Credit Agreement referenced below, each as a Lender.

RECITALS

A.Agent, Lenders and Borrowers have entered into that certain Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of August 5, 2020 (as amended, modified, supplemented and restated prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement” and as the same is amended hereby and as it may be further amended, modified, supplemented and restated from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the Lenders have agreed to make certain advances of money and to extend certain financial accommodations to Borrowers in the amounts and manner set forth in the Credit Agreement.

B.Borrowers have requested, and Agent and Lenders have agreed, to amend certain provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement to (i) modify the amortization schedule set forth therein, (ii) modify certain prepayment provisions relating to the Permitted Royalty Stream Dispositions, and (iii) modify certain other terms and provisions relating to the foregoing, in each case, in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Agent, Lenders and Borrowers hereby agree as follows:

1.Recitals.  This Agreement shall constitute a Financing Document and the Recitals and each reference to the Credit Agreement, unless otherwise expressly noted, will be deemed to reference the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.  Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement (including those capitalized terms used in the Recitals hereto).

2.Amendment to the Existing Credit Agreement; Consent; Release.  Subject to satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 3 of this Amendment, on the First Amendment Effective Date:

(a)the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example:  stricken text) and to add the underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example:  underlined text) as set forth in the pages attached hereto as Exhibit A;

 

 

MidCap / Aptevo / First Amendment to Credit Agreement

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Exhibit A to First Amendment to Credit and Security Agreement

 

(b)the Agent and the Required Lenders hereby consent to the Permitted Ruxience Royalty Stream Disposition in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement; and

(c)the Agent and Borrowers shall timely execute and deliver or cause to be delivered to the Borrowers a duly executed lien release (the “Lien Release”) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B promptly on the date hereof.

3.Representations and Warranties. Each Borrower hereby confirms that each of the representations and warranties set forth in the Credit Agreement is true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty) with respect to such Borrower as of the date hereof except to the extent that any such representation or warranty relates to a specific date in which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty). Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Credit Agreement, the other Financing Documents and this Agreement constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Borrower, and are enforceable against such Borrower in accordance with their terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles.  

4.Conditions to Effectiveness.  This Agreement shall become effective as of the date on which each of the following conditions has been satisfied (or waived in writing by the Agent and the Required Lenders):

(a)Borrowers, Agent and Lenders shall have delivered to Agent this Agreement, executed by an authorized officer of each such Person;

(b)Agent shall have a received fully executed and effective copies of the Ruxience Sale Agreement and all material agreements, documents and instruments executed in connection therewith, each in form and substance acceptable to Agent;

(c)Agent shall have received a fully executed copy of that certain Amended and Restated Fee Letter, dated as of the date hereof, between Agent and Borrowers and Borrower shall have paid to Agent all fees set forth therein and required to be paid on the First Amendment Effective Date;

(d)Agent shall receive, concurrently with the First Amendment Effective Date, a Term Loan prepayment in the amount set forth in and as otherwise required pursuant to Section 2.1(a)(ii)(B)(v) of the Credit Agreement on the First Amendment Effective Date;

(e)all representations and warranties of Borrowers contained herein shall be true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty) as of the date hereof except to the extent that any such representation or warranty relates to a specific date in which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty) (and such parties’ delivery of their respective signatures hereto shall be deemed to be its certification thereof); and

(f)prior to and after giving effect to the agreements set forth herein, no Default or Event of Default shall exist under any of the Financing Documents.

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5.Release.  In consideration of the agreements of Agent and Lenders contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, Borrower, voluntarily, knowingly, unconditionally and irrevocably, with specific and express intent, for and on behalf of itself and all of its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, members, managers, predecessors, successors, and assigns, and each of their respective current and former directors, officers, shareholders, agents, and employees, and each of their respective predecessors, successors, heirs, and assigns (individually and collectively, the “Releasing Parties”) does hereby fully and completely release, acquit and forever discharge each of Agent, Lenders, and each their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, members, managers, shareholders, directors, officers and employees, and each of their respective predecessors, successors, heirs, and assigns (individually and collectively, the “Released Parties”), of and from any and all actions, causes of action, suits, debts, disputes, damages, claims, obligations, liabilities, costs, expenses and demands of any kind whatsoever, at law or in equity, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, vested or contingent, choate or inchoate, known or unknown that the Releasing Parties (or any of them) has against the Released Parties or any of them (whether directly or indirectly), based in whole or in part on facts, whether or not now known, existing on or before the date hereof (and not, for the avoidance of doubt, arising at any time hereafter).  Each Borrower acknowledges that the foregoing release is a material inducement to Agent’s and each Lender’s decision to enter into this Agreement and agree to the modifications contemplated hereunder, and has been relied upon by Agent and Lenders in connection therewith.

6.No Waiver or Novation.  The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Agreement shall not, except as expressly provided in this Agreement, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of Agent, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of the Credit Agreement, the Financing Documents or any other documents, instruments and agreements executed or delivered in connection with any of the foregoing.  Nothing herein is intended or shall be construed as a waiver of any existing Defaults or Events of Default under the Credit Agreement or the other Financing Documents or any of Agent’s rights and remedies in respect of such Defaults or Events of Default.  This Agreement (together with any other document executed in connection herewith) is not intended to be, nor shall it be construed as, a novation of the Credit Agreement.

7.Affirmation.  Except as specifically amended pursuant to the terms hereof, each Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Credit Agreement and all other Financing Documents (and all covenants, terms, conditions and agreements therein) shall remain in full force and effect, and are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects by such Borrower.  Each Borrower covenants and agrees to comply with all of the terms, covenants and conditions of the Credit Agreement and the Financing Documents, notwithstanding any prior course of conduct, waivers, releases or other actions or inactions on Agent’s or any Lender’s part which might otherwise constitute or be construed as a waiver of or amendment to such terms, covenants and conditions.  Each Borrower reaffirms its grant of Liens on the Collateral (other than the Sold Ruxience Assets) to secure the Obligations (as defined in the Security Agreement) pursuant to the Credit Agreement and the other Security Documents.

8.Miscellaneous.

(a)Reference to the Effect on the Credit Agreement. Upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, each reference in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement,” “hereunder,” “hereof,” “herein,” or words of similar import shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement, as amended by this Agreement.    

(b)Incorporation of Credit Agreement Provisions.  The provisions contained in Section 11.6 (Indemnification) of the Credit Agreement are incorporated herein by reference to the same extent as if reproduced herein in their entirety.

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(c)Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT AND ALL DISPUTES AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING HERETO OR ARISING THEREFROM (WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW, TORT LAW OR OTHERWISE), SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES.

(d)Submission to Jurisdiction.  EACH BORROWER HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT LOCATED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT, SUBJECT TO AGENT’S ELECTION, ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE LITIGATED IN SUCH COURTS.  EACH BORROWER EXPRESSLY SUBMITS AND CONSENTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS AND WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS. EACH BORROWER HEREBY WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF ANY AND ALL PROCESS AND AGREES THAT ALL SUCH SERVICE OF PROCESS MAY BE MADE UPON SUCH BORROWER BY CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, ADDRESSED TO SUCH BORROWER AT THE ADDRESS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT AND SERVICE SO MADE SHALL BE COMPLETE TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE SAME HAS BEEN POSTED.

(e)Jury Trial Waiver.  EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND AGREES THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY.  EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND EACH LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS RELIED ON THE WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN THEIR RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS.  EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND EACH LENDER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF REVIEWING THIS JURY WAIVER WITH LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS.

(f)Headings.  Section headings in this Agreement are included for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose.

(g)Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in this Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or electronic records, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

(h)Entire Agreement.This Agreement, the Amended and Restated Fee Letter, and the Lien Release Agreement constitute the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto and supersedes any and all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.

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(i)Severability.  In case any provision of or obligation under this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any applicable jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

(j)Successors/Assigns.  This Agreement shall bind, and the rights hereunder shall inure to, the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto, subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement and the other Financing Documents.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, intending to be legally bound, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first hereinabove set forth.  

 

 

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Exhibit A

 

 

CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

dated as of August 5, 2020

by and among

APTEVO THERAPEUTICS INC.,

Aptevo Research and Development LLC,

 

and any additional borrower that hereafter becomes party hereto, each as Borrower, and collectively as Borrowers,

and

MIDCAP FINANCIAL TRUST,

as Agent,

and

THE LENDERS

FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO

 

 

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

This CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Agreement”) is dated as of August 5, 2020 (the “Closing Date”) by and among Aptevo Therapeutics inc., a Delaware corporation (“Aptevo Therapeutics”), APTEVO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Aptevo R&D”) and any additional borrower that may hereafter be added to this Agreement (each, individually as a “Borrower”, and collectively with any entities that become party hereto as Borrower and each of their successors and permitted assigns, the “Borrowers”), MIDCAP FINANCIAL TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust, individually as a Lender, and as Agent, and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties hereto, each as a Lender.

RECITALS

Borrowers have requested that Lenders make available to Borrowers the financing facilities as described herein.  Lenders are willing to extend such credit to Borrowers under the terms and conditions herein set forth.

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, Borrowers, Lenders and Agent agree as follows:

Article 1- DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1Certain Defined Terms.  The following terms have the following meanings:

“Acceleration Event” means the occurrence of an Event of Default (a) in respect of which Agent has declared all or any portion of the Obligations to be immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 10.2, and/or (b) pursuant to either Section 10.1(e) and/or Section 10.1(f).

“Account Debtor” means “account debtor”, as defined in Article 9 of the UCC, and any other obligor in respect of an Account.

“Accounts” means, collectively, (a) any right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (b) without duplication, any “account” (as defined in the UCC), any accounts receivable (whether in the form of payments for services rendered or goods sold, rents, license fees or otherwise), any “health-care-insurance receivables” (as defined in the UCC), any “payment intangibles” (as defined in the UCC) and all other rights to payment and/or reimbursement of every kind and description, whether or not earned by performance, (c) all accounts, “general intangibles” (as defined in the UCC), Intellectual Property, rights, remedies, Guarantees, “supporting obligations” (as defined in the UCC), “letter-of-credit rights” (as defined in the UCC) and security interests in respect of the foregoing, all rights of enforcement and collection, all books and records evidencing or related to the foregoing, and all rights under the Financing Documents in respect of the foregoing, (d) all information and data compiled or derived by any Borrower or to which any Borrower is entitled in respect of or related to the foregoing, and (e) all proceeds of any of the foregoing.

“Additional Titled Agents” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.15.

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“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any Person that directly or indirectly controls such Person, (b) any Person which is controlled by or is under common control with such controlling Person, and (c) each of such Person’s (other than, with respect to any Lender, any Lender’s) officers or directors (or Persons functioning in substantially similar roles) and the spouses, parents, descendants and siblings of such officers, directors or other Persons.  As used in this definition, the term “control” of a Person means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to vote ten percent (10%) or more of any class of voting securities of such Person or to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

“Agent” means MCF, in its capacity as administrative agent for itself and for Lenders hereunder, as such capacity is established in, and subject to the provisions of, Article 11, and the successors and permitted assigns of MCF in such capacity.

“Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any Laws relating to terrorism or money laundering, including, without limitation, Executive Order No. 13224 (effective September 24, 2001), the USA PATRIOT Act, the Laws comprising or implementing the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Laws administered by OFAC.

“Applicable Margin” means six and one quarter percent (6.25%).

“Aptevo R&D” has the meaning given such term in the preamble

“Aptevo Therapeutics” has the meaning given such term in the preamble.

“Asset Disposition” means any sale, lease, license, transfer, assignment or other consensual disposition (including by merger, allocation of assets (including allocation of assets to any series of a limited liability company), division, consolidation or amalgamation) by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof of any asset of such Credit Party or such Subsidiary.

“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.

“Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy”, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute thereto.

“Base LIBOR Rate” means, for each Interest Period, the rate per annum, determined by Agent in accordance with its customary procedures, and utilizing such electronic or other quotation sources as it considers appropriate (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100%), to be the rate at which Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) in the amount of $1,000,000 are offered to major banks in the London interbank market on or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for a term comparable to such Interest Period, which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error; provided, however, if (a) the supervisor for the administrator responsible for determining and publishing such rate per annum (or any component thereof) or any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Agent has made a public announcement identifying a date certain on or after which such rate (or any component thereof) shall no longer be provided or published, as the case may be; or (b) if the Agent shall have determined in good faith, and shall have forthwith given notice of such determination to the Borrower Representative, that timely, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining such rate, and the circumstances giving rise to the Agent’s inability to ascertain LIBOR are unlikely to be temporary, then Agent (acting reasonably) may, upon prior written notice to Borrower Representative, in consultation with Borrower, (i)

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establish a reasonably comparable index or source that gives due consideration to the then prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest for similar loans in the United States at such time together with corresponding adjustments to “Applicable Margin” or scale factor or floor to such index that Agent, in its reasonable discretion, has determined is necessary to preserve the current all-in yield (including interest rate margins, any interest rate floors, original issue discount and upfront fees, but without regard to future fluctuations of such alternative index, it being acknowledged and agreed that neither Agent nor any Lender shall have any liability whatsoever from such future fluctuations) to use as the basis for Base LIBOR Rate and (ii) amend this Agreement to reflect such alternative rate of interest and such other changes to this Agreement as may be applicable (including, without limitation, operational, term, conforming and other related changes). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement so long as Agent shall not have received, within five (5) Business Days of the date such amendment is provided to the Lenders, written notice from the Required Lenders stating that such Required Lenders object to such amendment.

“Base Rate” means a per annum rate of interest equal to the rate of interest announced, from time to time, within Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (“Wells Fargo”) at its principal office in San Francisco as its “prime rate,” with the understanding that the “prime rate” is one of Wells Fargo’s base rates (not necessarily the lowest of such rates) and serves as the basis upon which effective rates of interest are calculated for those loans making reference thereto and is evidenced by the recording thereof after its announcement in such internal publications as Wells Fargo may designate; provided, however, that Agent may, upon prior written notice to Borrower, choose a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the basis for the Base Rate.

“Blocked Person” means any Person:  (a) listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (b) owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, any Person that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (c) with which any Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law, (d) that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports “terrorism” as defined in Executive Order No. 13224, or (e) that is named a “specially designated national” or “blocked person” on the most current list published by OFAC or other similar list or is named as a “listed person” or “listed entity” on other lists made under any Anti-Terrorism Law.

“Borrower” and “Borrowers” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereto.  

“Borrower Representative” means Aptevo Therapeutics, in its capacity as Borrower Representative pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.9, or any successor Borrower Representative selected by Borrowers and approved by Agent.

“Business Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which either the New York Stock Exchange is closed, or on which commercial banks in Washington, DC and New York City are authorized by law to close and, in the case of a Business Day which relates to a determination of the LIBOR Rate, a day on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank eurodollar market.

“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C.A. § 9601 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time.

“Change in Control” means any of the following events:  (a) any Person (other than another Borrower) or two or more Persons acting in concert shall have acquired beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, of, or shall have acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement that, upon consummation, will result in its or their acquisition of or control over, voting stock of any Borrower (or other securities convertible into such voting stock) representing more than 50%

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of the combined voting power of all voting stock of any Borrower; (b) any Borrower ceases to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the capital stock of any of its Subsidiaries (with the exception of any Subsidiaries permitted to be dissolved, merged or otherwise disposed of to the extent otherwise permitted by this Agreement); or (c) the occurrence of a “Change of Control” or “Change in Control” or terms of similar import under any document or instrument governing or relating to Debt of or equity in such Person.  As used herein, “beneficial ownership” shall have the meaning provided in Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

“Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereto.

“CMS” means the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly the federal Health Care Financing Administration), and any successor Governmental Authority.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, any successor statutes thereto, and applicable U.S. Department of Treasury regulations issued pursuant thereto in temporary or final form.

“Collateral” means all property, now existing or hereafter acquired, mortgaged or pledged to, or purported to be subjected to a Lien in favor of, Agent, for the benefit of Agent and Lenders, pursuant to this Agreement and the Security Documents, including, without limitation, all of the property described in Schedule 9.1 hereto, but excluding any Excluded Property.

“Commercial Products” means commercial products developed or in-licensed by the Borrowers in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

“Commitment Annex” means Annex A to this Agreement.

“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate, duly executed by a Responsible Officer of Borrower Representative, appropriately completed and substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

“Consolidated Subsidiary” means, at any date, any Subsidiary the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of “parent” Borrower (or any other Person, as the context may require hereunder) in its consolidated financial statements if such statements were prepared as of such date.

“Contingent Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect liability of such Person:  (a) with respect to any Debt of another Person (a “Third Party Obligation”) if the purpose or intent of such Person incurring such liability, or the effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such Third Party Obligation that such Third Party Obligation will be paid or discharged, or that any agreement relating thereto will be complied with, or that any holder of such Third Party Obligation will be protected, in whole or in part, against loss with respect thereto; (b) with respect to any undrawn portion of any letter of credit issued for the account of such Person or as to which such Person is otherwise liable for the reimbursement of any drawing; (c) under any Swap Contract, to the extent not yet due and payable; (d) to make take-or-pay or similar payments if required regardless of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an agreement; or (e) for any obligations of another Person pursuant to any Guarantee or pursuant to any agreement to purchase, repurchase  or otherwise acquire any obligation or any property constituting security therefor, to provide funds for the payment or discharge of such obligation or to preserve the solvency, financial condition or level of income of another Person.  The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be equal to the amount of the obligation so Guaranteed or otherwise supported or, if not a fixed and determinable amount, the maximum amount so Guaranteed or otherwise supported.

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“Controlled Group” means all members of any group of corporations and all members of a group of trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together with any Borrower, are treated as a single employer under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or Section 4001(b) of ERISA.

“Correction” means repair, modification, adjustment, relabeling, destruction or inspection (including patient monitoring) that is outside of routine monitoring and monitoring required under applicable Laws of a product without its physical removal to some other location.

“Credit Exposure” means, at any time, any portion of the Term Loan Commitments, the Loans or any other portion of the Obligations that remains outstanding; provided, however, that no Credit Exposure shall be deemed to exist solely due to the existence of contingent indemnification liability, absent the assertion of a claim, or the known existence of a claim reasonably likely to be asserted, with respect thereto.

“Credit Party” means each Borrower and each Guarantor and “Credit Parties” means all such Persons.

“Debt” of a Person means at any date, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except trade accounts payable arising in the Ordinary Course of Business and which do not remain unpaid more than ninety (90) days past the invoice date, (d) all capital leases of such Person, (e) all non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, (f) all equity securities of such Person subject to repurchase or redemption other than at the sole option of such Person, (g) all obligations secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such obligation is otherwise an obligation of such Person, (h) “earnouts”, purchase price adjustments, profit sharing arrangements, deferred purchase money amounts and similar payment obligations or continuing obligations of any nature of such Person arising out of purchase and sale contracts but in each case solely to the extent carried on the balance sheet of such Person as a liability in accordance with GAAP, (i) all Debt of others Guaranteed by such Person, and (j) the principal balance outstanding under any synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar off-balance sheet financing product.

“Default” means any condition or event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.

“Deposit Account” means a “deposit account” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC), an investment account, or other account in which funds are held or invested for credit to or for the benefit of any Credit Party.

“Deposit Account Control Agreement” means an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, among Agent, any Borrower and each financial institution in which such Borrower maintains a Deposit Account, which agreement provides that (a) such financial institution shall comply with instructions originated by Agent directing disposition of the funds in such Deposit Account without further consent by the applicable Borrower, and (b) such financial institution shall agree that it shall have no Lien on, or right of setoff or recoupment against, such Deposit Account or the contents thereof, other than in respect of usual and customary service fees and returned items, and containing such other terms and conditions as Agent may reasonably require.

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“Distribution” means as to any Person (a) any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) on any equity interest in such Person (except those payable solely in its equity interests of the same class), or (b) any payment by such Person on account of (i) the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, surrender, cancellation, termination or acquisition of any equity interests in such Person or any claim respecting the purchase or sale of any equity interest in such Person, or (ii) any option, warrant or other right to acquire any equity interests in such Person.

“Dollars” or “$” means the lawful currency of the United States of America.

“Drug Application” means a biologic license application for any Product, as appropriate, as that term is defined in the FDCA.

“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

“Environmental Laws” means any present and future federal, state and local laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, standards, policies and other governmental directives or requirements pertaining to the environment, natural resources, pollution, health (including any environmental clean-up statutes and all regulations adopted by any local, state, federal or other Governmental Authority, and any statute, ordinance, code, order, decree, law rule or regulation all of which pertain to or impose liability or standards of conduct concerning medical waste or medical products, equipment or supplies), safety or clean-up that apply to any Borrower and relate to Hazardous Materials, including, without limitation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. § 5101 et seq.), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. § 11001 et seq.), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act (42 U.S.C. § 4851 et seq.), any analogous state or local laws, any amendments thereto, and the regulations promulgated pursuant to said laws, together with all amendments from time to time to any of the foregoing.

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute thereto, and any and all rules or regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder.

“ERISA Plan” means any “employee benefit plan”, as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan), which any Borrower maintains, sponsors or contributes to, or, in the case of an employee benefit plan which is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, to which any Borrower (including as a result of its membership of the Controlled Group) may have any

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liability, including any liability by reason of having been a substantial employer within the meaning of Section 4063 of ERISA at any time during the preceding five (5) years, or by reason of being deemed to be a contributing sponsor under Section 4069 of ERISA.

“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

“Event of Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.1.

“Excluded Accounts” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.14.

“Excluded Domestic Holdco” means a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Borrower substantially all the assets of which consist of capital stock or other equity interests and debt interests in the Excluded Foreign Subsidiary held directly or indirectly by such Subsidiary and that does not engage in any business, operations or activity other than that of a holding company.  For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood and agreed that no Excluded Domestic Holdcos exist as of the Closing Date.

“Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries” means, collectively, each Subsidiary of Borrower not organized under the laws of the United States, a state thereof, or the District of Columbia (a “Foreign Subsidiary”) to the extent a 956 Impact (as defined below) exists with respect to such Subsidiary.  A “956 Impact” will be deemed to exist to the extent the issuance of a guaranty by, grant of a Lien by, or pledge of greater than two-thirds of the voting stock of, a Foreign Subsidiary would in the reasonable judgment of the Borrowers results in material incremental income tax liability as a result of the application of Section 956 of the Code, taking into account actual anticipated repatriation of funds, foreign tax credits and other relevant factors.

“Excluded Property” means, collectively:

(a)voting shares of any (A) Excluded Foreign Subsidiary of Borrower or (B) Excluded Domestic Holdco, in each case, in excess of 65% of all of the issued and outstanding voting shares of capital stock of such subsidiary if, in each case, a pledge of a greater percentage would result in a 956 Impact existing;

(b)any lease, license, contract, property right (including without limitation any jointly owned or jointly developed Intellectual Property rights) or agreement as to which, if and to the extent that, and only for so long as the grant of a security interest therein shall (1) constitute or result in a breach, termination or default under any such lease, license, contract, property right or agreement or render it unenforceable, (2) be prohibited by any applicable Law or (3) require the consent of any third party that cannot be obtained after the use of commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such consent (in each case of clauses (1), (2) and (3), other than to the extent that any such breach, termination, default, prohibition or requirement for consent would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Sections 9-406 or 9-408 of the UCC of any relevant jurisdiction or any other applicable Law); provided that such security interest shall attach immediately to each portion of such lease, license, contract, property rights or agreement that does not result in any of the consequences specified above; provided that in no event shall the Ruxience Royalty Agreement, the IXINITY Royalty Agreement, the Ruxience Sale Agreement or any Accounts arising under or in connection with either of the foregoing constitute Excluded Property under this clause (b) except to the extent actually sold or otherwise disposed of in a Permitted Royalty Stream Disposition;

(c)Excluded Accounts;

(d)intent to use trademark applications or service mark applications;

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(e)any property which, subject to the terms of Section 5.4, is subject to a Lien of the type described in clause (i) of the definition of Permitted Lien pursuant to documents which prohibit a Borrower from granting any other Liens on such property;

(f)any certificates, licenses and other authorizations issued by any Governmental Authority to the extent that an applicable Law prohibits the granting of a security interest therein (other than to the extent that any such prohibition would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Sections 9-406 or 9-408 of the UCC of any relevant jurisdiction or any other applicable Law); and

(g)at all times during the Wells Fargo LC Period, the Wells Fargo LC Cash Collateral Account, all cash and cash equivalents deposited therein and all identifiable proceeds thereof;

provided, however, “Excluded Property” shall not include any proceeds, products, substitutions, receivables or replacements of Excluded Property (unless such proceeds, products, substitutions, receivables or replacements would otherwise constitute Excluded Property).

“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on behalf of any obligation of Credit Parties hereunder or the Obligations or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to Agent, such Lender or such recipient (including any interest and penalties thereon):  (a) Taxes to the extent imposed on or measured by Agent’s, any Lender’s or such recipient’s net income (however denominated), branch profits Taxes, and franchise Taxes and similar Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under which Agent, such Lender or such recipient is organized, has its principal office or conducts business with respect to entering into any of the Financing Documents or taking any action thereunder or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes; (b) in the case of a Lender, United States withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in the Loans pursuant to a Law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement other than as a result of an assignment requested by a Credit Party under the terms hereof or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office for funding its Loan, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.8, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender acquired the applicable interest in a Loan or Term Loan Commitment or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office; (c) Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.8(c); and (d) any U.S. federal withholding taxes imposed in respect of a Lender under FATCA.

“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any intergovernmental agreement (and any associated rules or regulations promulgated thereunder) entered into in connection therewith, and any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.

“FDA” means the Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America, any comparable state or local Governmental Authority, any comparable Governmental Authority in any non-United States jurisdiction, and any successor agency of any of the foregoing.

“FDCA” means the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, 21 U.S.C. Section 301 et seq., and all regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Fee Letter” means each agreement between Agent and Borrowers relating to fees payable to Agent and/or Lenders in connection with this Agreement or the other Financing Documents.

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“Financing Documents” means this Agreement, any Notes, the Security Documents, each Fee Letter, each subordination or intercreditor agreement pursuant to which any Debt and/or any Liens securing such Debt is subordinated to all or any portion of the Obligations and all other documents, instruments and agreements related to the Obligations and heretofore executed, executed concurrently herewith or executed at any time and from time to time hereafter, as any or all of the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.  

“First Amendment” means that certain First Amendment to Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2021, among Borrower, Agent and Lenders.

“First Amendment Effective Date” means March 30, 2021.

“Foreign Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8(c)(i).

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth from time to time in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (or agencies with similar functions of comparable stature and authority within the United States accounting profession), which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.

“General Intangible” means any “general intangible” as defined in Article 9 of the UCC, and any personal property, including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money, and oil, gas or other minerals before extraction, but including payment intangibles and software.

“Good Manufacturing Practices” means current good manufacturing practices, as set forth in 21 C.F.R. Parts 210 and 211 in the United States, or as otherwise defined under applicable Healthcare Law.

“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state, local or other political subdivision thereof, and any agency, department or Person exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government.

“Guarantee” by any Person means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt or other obligation of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt or other obligation (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise), or (b) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Debt or other obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), provided, however, that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the Ordinary Course of Business.  The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

“Guarantor” means any Credit Party that has executed or delivered, or shall in the future execute or deliver, any Guarantee of any portion of the Obligations.

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“Hazardous Materials” means petroleum and petroleum products and compounds containing them, including gasoline, diesel fuel and oil; explosives, flammable materials; radioactive materials; polychlorinated biphenyls and compounds containing them; lead and lead-based paint; asbestos or asbestos-containing materials; underground or above-ground storage tanks, whether empty or containing any substance; any substance the presence of which is prohibited by any Environmental Laws; toxic mold, any substance that requires special handling; and any other material or substance now or in the future defined as a “hazardous substance,” “hazardous material,” “hazardous waste,” “toxic substance,” “toxic pollutant,” “contaminant,” “pollutant” or other words of similar import within the meaning of any Environmental Law, including:  (a) any “hazardous substance” defined as such in (or for purposes of) CERCLA, or any so-called “superfund” or “superlien” Law, including the judicial interpretation thereof; (b) any “pollutant or contaminant” as defined in 42 U.S.C.A. § 9601(33); (c) any material now defined as “hazardous waste” pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 260; (d) any petroleum or petroleum by-products, including crude oil or any fraction thereof; (e) natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel; (f) any “hazardous chemical” as defined pursuant to 29 C.F.R. Part 1910; (g) any toxic or harmful substances, wastes, materials, pollutants or contaminants (including, without limitation, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, flammable explosives, radioactive materials, infectious substances, materials containing lead-based paint or raw materials which include hazardous constituents); and (h) any other toxic substance or contaminant that is subject to any Environmental Laws.  

“Healthcare Laws” means all applicable Laws relating to the procurement, development, provision, clinical and non-clinical evaluation or investigation, product approval, manufacture, production, analysis, distribution, importation, exportation, use, handling, quality, reimbursement, sale, labeling, advertising, promotion, or postmarket requirements of any biologic, Product, or other product (including, without limitation, any ingredient or component of the foregoing products) subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. et seq.) and similar state or foreign laws, pharmacy laws, Medicare, Medicaid, and all Laws pursuant to which Permits are issued, in each case, as the same may be amended from time to time.

“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of Borrowers or any other Credit Party under any Financing Documents and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.

“Instrument” means “instrument”, as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Intellectual Property” means all copyright rights, copyright applications, copyright registrations and like protections in each work of authorship and derivative work, whether published or unpublished, any patents, patent applications and like protections, including improvements, divisions, continuations, renewals, reissues, extensions, and continuations-in-part of the same, trademarks, trade names, service marks, mask works, rights of use of any name, domain names, or any other similar rights, any applications therefor, whether registered or not, know-how, operating manuals, trade secret rights, clinical and non-clinical data, rights to unpatented inventions, and any claims for damage by way of any past, present, or future infringement of any of the foregoing.

“Intellectual Property Security Agreement” means that certain Intellectual Property Security Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Borrowers and the Agent.

“Interest Period” means any period commencing on the first day of a calendar month and ending on the last day of such calendar month.

“Inventory” means “inventory” as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.

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“Investment” means, with respect to any Person, directly or indirectly, (a) to purchase or acquire any stock or stock equivalents, or any obligations or other securities of, or any interest in, any Person, including the establishment or creation of a Subsidiary, (b) to make or commit to make any acquisition (including through licensing or by way of merger, consolidation or combination with another Person) of (i) of all or substantially all of the assets of another Person, or (ii) any business, Product, Intellectual Property, business line or product line, division or other unit operation of or from any Person or (c) make, purchase or hold any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to or in, or any other investment in, any Person.  The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus the cost of all additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect thereto.

“IRS” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8(c)(i).

“IXINITY Royalty Agreement” means certain LLC Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 28, 2020, between Medexus Pharma, Inc. and Aptevo Therapeutics, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the Closing Date and as thereafter amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

“IXINITY Royalty Excluded Deposit Account” means a segregated Deposit Account of Borrower that may be established for the sole purpose of collecting payments under the IXINITY Royalty Agreement, which payments have been sold as part of a Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition (the “Transferred IXINITY Royalty Payments”), on behalf of the purchaser of such payments; provided that (a) in no event shall the IXINITY Royalty Excluded Deposit Account contain, at any time, any funds of Borrowers or their Subsidiaries or any other amounts other than the Transferred IXINITY Royalty Payments, and (b) all funds collected in respect of the Transferred IXINITY Royalty Payments shall be disbursed to the purchaser of such Transferred IXINITY Royalty Payments within five (5) Business Days of Borrower’s receipt thereof (or such later date as may be permitted by Agent in its reasonable discretion).

“IXINITY Royalty Stream” means all rights to receive Royalties and all other amounts to be paid to or on behalf of Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries under or pursuant to the IXINITY Royalty Agreement or any other agreement or document entered into in connection therewith and all other Royalties in respect of IXINITY (coagulation factor IX (recombinant)) or any “Product” (as defined in the IXINITY Royalty Agreement).

“Laws” means any and all federal, state, provincial, territorial, local and foreign statutes, laws, judicial decisions, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, codes, injunctions, permits, governmental agreements and governmental restrictions, whether now or hereafter in effect, which are applicable to any Credit Party in any particular circumstance.  “Laws” includes, without limitation, Healthcare Laws and Environmental Laws.

“Lender” means each of (a) MCF, in its capacity as a lender hereunder, (b) each other Person party hereto in its capacity as a lender hereunder, (c) each other Person that becomes a party hereto as Lender pursuant to and as permitted by Section 11.17, and (d) the respective successors of all of the foregoing, and “Lenders” means all of the foregoing.  

“LIBOR Rate” means, for each Loan, a per annum rate of interest equal to the greater of (a) one and one half of one percent (1.50)% and (b) the rate determined by Agent (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100th%) by dividing (i) the Base LIBOR Rate for the Interest Period, by (ii) the sum of one minus the daily average during such Interest Period of the aggregate maximum reserve requirement (expressed as a decimal) then imposed under Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor thereto) for “Eurocurrency Liabilities” (as defined therein); provided that in no event shall the LIBOR Rate be higher than two and one half of one percent (2.50%).

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“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind, in respect of such asset.  For the purposes of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents, any Borrower or any Subsidiary shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.

“Litigation” means any action, suit or proceeding before any court, mediator, arbitrator or Governmental Authority.

“Loan Account” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.6(b).

“Loan(s)” means the Term Loan and each and every advance under the Term Loan.  All references herein to the “making” of a Loan or words of similar import shall mean, with respect to the Term Loan, the making of any advance in respect of a Term Loan.

“Margin Stock” means “margin stock” as such term is defined in Regulation T, U, or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

“Market Withdrawal” means a Person’s removal or Correction of a distributed product which involves a minor violation that would not be subject to legal action by the FDA or which involves no violation, e.g., normal stock rotation practices, routine equipment adjustments and repairs, etc.

“Material Adverse Effect” means with respect to any event, act, condition or occurrence of whatever nature (including any adverse determination in any litigation, arbitration, or governmental investigation or proceeding), whether singly or in conjunction with any other event or events, act or acts, condition or conditions, occurrence or occurrences, whether or not related, a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, any of (a) the condition (financial or otherwise), operations, business, properties or prospects of any of the Credit Parties, (b) the rights and remedies of Agent or Lenders under any Financing Document, or the ability of any Credit Party to perform any of its obligations under any Financing Document to which it is a party, (c) the legality, validity or enforceability of any Financing Document, (d) the existence or perfection of any security interest granted in any Financing Document, (e) the value of any material Collateral, or (f) a material impairment of the prospect of repayment of any portion of the Obligations; provided, however, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in clauses (a) through (f) hereof, if any of Borrower’s financial statements filed with the SEC contain a disclosure that there is “substantial doubt about the ability of Borrower to continue as a going concern”, such disclosure shall not by itself constitute a Material Adverse Effect.  

“Material Contracts” means (a) the Subordinated Debt Documents, (b) each Royalty Agreement, (c) the Ruxience Sale Agreement, (d) the agreements listed on Schedule 3.17, and (e) each other agreement or contract to which such Credit Party or its Subsidiaries is a party the loss or termination of which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  

“Material Intangible Assets” means all of (a) Borrower’s Intellectual Property and (b) license or sublicense agreements or other agreements with respect to rights in Intellectual Property, in each case that are material to the condition (financial or other), business or operations of Borrower.

“Maturity Date” means the date that is August 1, 2024.

“Maximum Lawful Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7.

“MCF” means MidCap Financial Trust, a Delaware statutory trust, and its successors and permitted assigns.

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“Medicaid” means the medical assistance programs administered by state agencies and approved by CMS pursuant to the terms of Title XIX of the Social Security Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.

“Medicare” means the program of health benefits for the aged and disabled administered by CMS pursuant to the terms of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.

“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any Borrower or any other member of the Controlled Group (or any Person who in the last five years was a member of the Controlled Group) is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or has within the preceding five plan years (as determined on the applicable date of determination) made contributions.

“Notes” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3.

“Notice of Borrowing” means a notice of a Responsible Officer of Borrower Representative, appropriately completed and substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto.

“Obligations” means all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness (monetary (including, without limitation, the payment of interest and other amounts arising after the commencement of any case with respect to any Credit Party under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar statute which would accrue and become due but for the commencement of such case, whether or not such amounts are allowed or allowable in whole or in part in such case) or otherwise) of each Credit Party under this Agreement or any other Financing Document, in each case howsoever created, arising or evidenced, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, now or hereafter existing, or due or to become due.  

“OFAC” means the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control.

“OFAC Lists” means, collectively, the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by OFAC pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, 66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (Sept. 25, 2001) and/or any other list of terrorists or other restricted Persons maintained pursuant to any of the rules and regulations of OFAC or pursuant to any other applicable Executive Orders.

“Ordinary Course of Business” means, in respect of any transaction involving any Credit Party, the ordinary course of business of such Credit Party, as conducted by such Credit Party in a manner consistent with past practices in all material respects.

“Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person other than a natural person, the documents by which such Person was organized (such as a certificate of incorporation, certificate of limited partnership or articles of organization, and including, without limitation, any certificates of designation for preferred stock or other forms of preferred equity) and which relate to the internal governance of such Person (such as by-laws, a partnership agreement or an operating agreement, joint venture agreement, limited liability company agreement or members agreement), including any and all shareholder agreements or voting agreements relating to the capital stock or other equity interests of such Person.

“Other Connection Taxes” means taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between Agent or any Lender and the jurisdiction imposing such tax (other than connections arising from Agent or such Lender having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Financing Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loans or any Financing Document).

“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Financing Document, except any such taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.8(i)).

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“Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.17(a)(iii).

“Payment Account” means the account specified on the signature pages hereof into which all payments by or on behalf of each Borrower to Agent under the Financing Documents shall be made, or such other account as Agent shall from time to time specify by notice to Borrower Representative.

“Payment Notification” means a written notification substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto.

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and any Person succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.

“Pension Plan” means any ERISA Plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA.

“Perfection Certificate” means the Perfection Certificate delivered to Agent as of the Closing Date, together with any amendments thereto required under this Agreement.

“Permit” means all licenses, certificates, accreditations, product approvals, provider numbers or provider authorizations, supplier numbers, marketing authorizations, drug authorizations and approvals, other authorizations, registrations, permits, consents and approvals required under an applicable Law to be held by a Credit Party, and which are issued or required under Laws applicable to the business of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or necessary in the manufacturing, importing, exporting, possession, ownership, warehousing, marketing, promoting, sale, labeling, furnishing, distribution or delivery of goods or services under Laws applicable to the business of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.   Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, “Permit” includes any Regulatory Required Permit.

“Permitted Asset Dispositions” means the following Asset Dispositions, provided, however, that at the time of such Asset Disposition, no Default or Event of Default exists or would result from such Asset Disposition:

(a)dispositions of Inventory in the Ordinary Course of Business and not pursuant to any bulk sale;

(b)dispositions of furniture, fixtures and equipment in the Ordinary Course of Business that the applicable Borrower or Subsidiary determines in good faith is no longer used or useful in, or is surplus to, the business of such Borrower and its Subsidiaries;

(c)dispositions consisting of, or entry into, Permitted Licenses;

(d)dispositions of obsolete or worn out furniture, fixtures and equipment, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the Ordinary Course of Business;

(e)dispositions approved in writing by Agent;

(f)the abandonment in the Ordinary Course of Business of Intellectual Property (other than Material Intangible Assets) that is no longer used or useful to Borrowers or their Subsidiaries;

(g)dispositions of Accounts to a third party in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the Ordinary Course of Business exclusive of factoring or similar arrangements;

(h)the termination of Swap Contracts in the Ordinary Course of Business;

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(i)each Permitted Royalty Stream Disposition; and

(j)dispositions of assets other than those described in clauses (a) through (i) above for cash at fair value if all of the following conditions are met:  (i) the assets are not Intellectual Property, Royalties or Royalty Agreements, (ii) the applicable Borrower or Subsidiary determines in good faith is no longer used or useful in the business of such Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (iii) the market value of assets sold or otherwise disposed of in any single transaction or series of related transactions does not exceed  $250,000 and the aggregate market value of the assets sold or otherwise disposed of in any fiscal year does not exceed $500,000 and (iv) the net cash proceeds of such disposition are applied to the extent required by Section 2.1(a)(ii)(B)(iii).

“Permitted Contest” means, with respect to any tax obligation or other obligation allegedly or potentially owing from any Borrower or its Subsidiary to any governmental tax authority or other third party, a contest maintained in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted and with respect to which such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made on the books and records and financial statements of the applicable Credit Party(ies); provided, however, that (a) compliance with the obligation that is the subject of such contest is effectively stayed during such challenge; (b) Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’ title to, and its right to use, the Collateral is not adversely affected thereby and Agent’s Lien and priority on the Collateral are not adversely affected, altered or impaired thereby; (c) Borrowers have given Agent notice of the commencement of such contest and upon request by Agent, from time to time, notice of the status of such contest by Borrowers and/or confirmation of the continuing satisfaction of this definition; (d) the Collateral or any part thereof or any interest therein shall not be in any danger of being sold, forfeited or lost by reason of such contest by Borrowers or their Subsidiaries; and (e) upon a final determination of such contest, Borrowers and their Subsidiaries shall promptly comply with the requirements thereof.

“Permitted Contingent Obligations” means

(a)Contingent Obligations arising in respect of the Debt under the Financing Documents or with respect to other Permitted Debt (other than pursuant to clause (k) of the definition thereof), provided that (i) any such Contingent Obligation is subordinated to the Obligations to the same extent as the Debt to which it relates is subordinated to the Obligations and (ii) no Credit Party may incur Contingent Obligations under this clause (a) in respect of Debt incurred by any Person that is not a Borrower or Guarantor;

(b)Contingent Obligations resulting from endorsements for collection or deposit in the Ordinary Course of Business;

(c)Contingent Obligations outstanding on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 5.1 (including any Permitted Refinancings thereof);

(d)Contingent Obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business with respect to surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other similar obligations not to exceed $250,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding;

(e)Contingent Obligations arising under indemnity agreements with title insurers to cause such title insurers to issue title insurance policies;

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(f)Contingent Obligations arising with respect to customary indemnification obligations in favor of purchasers in connection with dispositions of personal property assets permitted under Section 5.6;

(g)so long as there exists no Event of Default both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to any such transaction, Contingent Obligations existing or arising under any Swap Contract, provided, however, that such obligations are (or were) entered into by Borrower or an Affiliate in the Ordinary Course of Business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments, investments, assets, or property held or reasonably anticipated by such Person and not for purposes of speculation;

(h)Contingent Obligations of Borrower, incurred during the Wells Fargo LC Period under or pursuant to the Wells Fargo Standby Letter of Credit Agreement in respect of the Wells Fargo Letters of Credit; provided that the aggregate amount of such Contingent Obligations shall not, at any time, when combined with the Debt set forth in clause (i) of the definition of “Permitted Debt”, exceed (i) $3,000,000 at any time on or prior to December 31, 2021, or (ii) $0 at any time after December 31, 2021; and

(i)other Contingent Obligations not permitted by clauses (a) through (h) above, not to exceed $250,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.  

“Permitted Debt” means:  

(a)Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’ Debt to Agent and each Lender under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents;

(b)Debt incurred as a result of endorsing negotiable instruments received in the Ordinary Course of Business;

(c)purchase money Debt and capital leases not to exceed $1,000,000 at any time (whether in the form of a loan or a lease) used solely to acquire equipment used in the Ordinary Course of Business and secured only by such equipment;

(d)Debt existing on the Closing Date and described on Schedule 5.1 (including any Permitted Refinancings thereof);

(e)so long as there exists no Event of Default both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to any such transaction, Debt existing or arising under any Swap Contract, provided, however, that such obligations are (or were) entered into by Borrower or an Affiliate in the Ordinary Course of Business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments, investments, assets, or property held or reasonably anticipated by such Person and not for purposes of speculation;

(f)Debt owed to any Person providing property, casualty, liability, or other insurance to the Credit Parties, including to finance insurance premiums, so long as the amount of such Debt is not in excess of the amount of the unpaid cost of, and shall be incurred only to defer the cost of, such insurance for the policy year in which such Debt is incurred and such Debt is outstanding only during such policy year;

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(g)trade accounts payable arising and which do not remain unpaid more than ninety (90) days past the invoice date and in the Ordinary Course of Business, or which are the subject of a Permitted Contest;

(h)without limiting the provisions of Section 5.7 with respect to any Investment by a Credit Party, Debt consisting of unsecured intercompany loans and advances (i) incurred by any Borrower owing to one or more other Borrowers, or (ii) incurred by any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary owing to any Borrower in an aggregate amount for all Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries not to exceed $100,000 incurred in any fiscal year;

(i)Debt of Borrower incurred during the Wells Fargo LC Period under or pursuant to the Wells Fargo Standby Letter of Credit Agreement in respect of the Wells Fargo Letters of Credit, provided that the aggregate amount of such Debt shall not, at any time, when combined with the Contingent Obligations set forth in clause (h) of the definition of “Permitted Contingent Obligations”, exceed (i) $3,000,000 at any time on or prior to December 31, 2021, or (ii) $0 at any time after December 31, 2021;

(j)any Subordinated Debt;

(k)Debt consisting of Permitted Contingent Obligations;

(l)intercompany Debt arising from loans made (i) by a Borrower or Secured Guarantor to another Borrower or Secured Guarantor, (ii) by a non-Credit Party Subsidiary of a Borrower to another non-Credit Party Subsidiary of a Borrower, or (iii) any non-Credit Party Subsidiary to a Credit Party (so long as such Debt is subordinated to the Obligations owed by the Credit Parties under the Financing Documents);

(m)Debt arising from the honoring of an Instrument drawn against insufficient funds;

(n)Debt related to commercial credit cards that, in the aggregate outstanding at any one time, does not exceed $400,000 and is secured solely by cash collateral maintained in a Credit Card Cash Collateral Account;

(o)Debt in respect of taxes, assessments, or government charges to the extent not resulting in an Event of Default and which is the subject of a Permitted Contest; and

(p)unsecured debt not included in clauses (a) through (o) above that in the aggregate outstanding at any time does not exceed $500,000.

“Permitted Distributions” means the following Distributions:  (a) dividends by any Subsidiary of any Borrower or Secured Guarantor to such parent Borrower or Secured Guarantor; (b) dividends payable solely in common stock; and (c) repurchases of stock of former employees, directors or consultants pursuant to stock purchase agreements so long as an Event of Default does not exist at the time of such repurchase and would not exist after giving effect to such repurchase, provided, however, that such repurchase does not exceed $250,000 in the aggregate per fiscal year.

“Permitted Investments” means:  

(a)Investments shown on Schedule 5.7 and existing on the Closing Date;

(b)to the extent constituting an Investment, cash and cash equivalents owned by such Person;

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(c)Investments consisting of the endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the Ordinary Course of Business;

(d)Investments consisting of (i) travel advances and employee relocation loans and other employee loans and advances in the Ordinary Course of Business, and (ii) loans to employees, officers or directors relating to the purchase of equity securities of Borrowers or their Subsidiaries pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or agreements approved by Borrowers’ Board of Directors (or other governing body), but the aggregate of all such loans outstanding may not exceed $250,000 at any time;

(e)Investments (including debt obligations) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of customers or suppliers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers or suppliers arising in the Ordinary Course of Business;

(f)Investments consisting of notes receivable of, or prepaid royalties and other credit extensions, to customers and suppliers who are not Affiliates, in the Ordinary Course of Business, provided, however, that this subpart (f) shall not apply to Investments of Borrowers in any Subsidiary;

(g)Investments consisting of Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts in which Agent has received a Deposit Account Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement, as applicable (other than Excluded Accounts);

(h)[Reserved];

(i)Investments by any Borrower or Secured Guarantor in another Borrower or Secured Guarantor;

(j)Investments of cash and cash equivalents in an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary (either directly or through an Excluded Domestic Holdco) but solely to the extent that the aggregate amount of such Investments with respect to all Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries does not, at any time, exceed $100,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year; provided that in no event shall the aggregate amount of Investments made in any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary exceed the amount necessary (as reasonably determined by the Borrowers) to fund the current and projected annual operating expenses of such Excluded Foreign Subsidiary (taking into account its revenue from other sources);

(k)Investments by any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Domestic Holdco in any other Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Domestic Holdco;

(l)to the extent constituting an Investment, the entering into of any Permitted License;

(m)so long as no Event of Default exists or would arise as a result thereof, (i) in-licenses by Borrowers or their Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property (and rights thereto) and other technology solely in furtherance of preclinical research and development in the areas of hematology, infectious diseases and immune-oncology, and (ii) (x) in-licenses by Borrowers or their Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property (and rights thereto) and other technology solely in furtherance of clinical research and development in the areas of hematology, infectious diseases and immune-oncology, and (y) in-licenses by Borrowers or their Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property (and rights thereto) and other technology that a Borrower believes to be reasonably useful or necessary in pursuit of development and/or commercialization of its existing Products; provided that in no event shall the aggregate consideration paid or payable by Credit Parties or their Subsidiaries in connection with such in-licenses pursuant to this clause (ii) exceed $500,000 in any calendar year;

(n)Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of Accounts or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the Ordinary Course of Business; and

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(o)other Investments of cash and cash equivalents in an amount not exceeding $500,000 in the aggregate.

“Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition” means any bona fide nonrecourse sale of all or any portion of the IXINITY Royalty Stream to a third party or third parties; provided that (a) unless (i) Agent shall otherwise consent in writing (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) or (ii) the proceeds of such sale are used to contemporaneously (and in any event on the same calendar day as such sale) to pay all Obligations in full, no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time such sale is consummated or would result therefrom, (b) Agent shall have received at least three (3) Business Days’ prior notification and substantially complete draft documentation pursuant to which the Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition will be consummated, (c) such sale is for fair consideration and is on commercially reasonable terms and has been approved by the Aptevo Therapeutics Board of Directors, (d) the unrestricted net cash proceeds received by Borrowers as an upfront payment (not subject to any contractual right of refund or recoupment) on the date the first such sale is consummated are greater than or equal to $5,000,000, (e) such sale is not prohibited by, or otherwise in violation of, the terms of the IXINITY Royalty Agreement or applicable Law and (f) on the date any such sale is consummated, Borrower has made the required prepayment in accordance with Section 2.1(a)(ii)(B)(vi). Without limiting the foregoing in any way, the parties agree that the Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition may involve the creation of an IXINITY Royalty Excluded Deposit Account; provided that Borrowers and their Subsidiaries shall have no liability to any purchaser or other party for any failure of Medexus Pharma, Inc. or any of its successors or affiliates to make any payments in respect of any portion of the IXINITY Royalty Stream that has been disposed of pursuant to a Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition.  

“Permitted License” means so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time such license is granted or would result from the granting thereof:

(a)any license or sublicense of Intellectual Property rights (including licenses or sublicenses thereto) of a Credit Party to a Borrower or Secured Guarantor;

(b)any non-exclusive license or sublicense of Intellectual Property rights (including licenses or sublicenses thereto) of Borrower or its Subsidiaries so long as all such licenses are granted to third parties or Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business, do not result in a legal transfer of title to the licensed property, and (except in the case of non-exclusive licenses by a Credit Party to a Subsidiary thereof) have been granted in exchange for fair consideration;

(c) any exclusive license or sublicense of Intellectual Property rights (including licenses or sublicenses thereto) of Borrower or its Subsidiaries to a third party to the extent such Intellectual Property rights relate solely to discrete clinical Products and so long as such licenses do not result in a legal transfer of title to the licensed property, are exclusive solely as to discrete geographical areas outside of North America, and have been granted in exchange for fair consideration;

(d)any exclusive license or sublicense of Intellectual Property rights (including licenses or sublicenses thereto) of Borrower or its Subsidiaries to a third party to the extent such Intellectual Property rights relate solely to discrete preclinical Products (not, for the avoidance of doubt, clinical Products, Commercial Products or any other commercial Product) and so long as such licenses do not result in a legal transfer of title to the licensed property and have been granted in exchange for fair consideration; and

(e)to the extent not otherwise permitted pursuant to clauses (a)-(d) above, any exclusive license or sublicense of Intellectual Property rights (including licenses or sublicenses thereto)  of Borrower or its Subsidiaries to a third party to the extent such Intellectual Property rights relate solely to discrete clinical Products (not, for the avoidance of doubt, Commercial Products or any other commercial Product) and so long as such licenses do not result in a legal transfer of title to the licensed property and have been granted in exchange for fair consideration; provided that, in each case under this clause (e), Borrower receives a non-refundable net upfront cash payment at the time such license is entered into of at least Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) and  Borrower has prepaid the Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.1(a)(ii)(B)(iv) on the date Borrower or its Subsidiary enters into such license.

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“Permitted Liens” means:  

(a)deposits or pledges of cash to secure obligations under workmen’s compensation, social security or similar laws, or under unemployment insurance (but excluding Liens arising under ERISA or, with respect to any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan, the Code) pertaining to a Borrower’s or its Subsidiary’s employees, if any;

(b)deposits or pledges of cash to secure bids, tenders, contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money or the deferred purchase price of property or services), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds and other obligations of like nature arising in the Ordinary Course of Business;

(c)carrier’s, warehousemen’s, mechanic’s, workmen’s, materialmen’s or other like Liens on Collateral arising in the Ordinary Course of Business with respect to obligations which are not due, or which are being contested pursuant to a Permitted Contest;

(d)Liens for taxes or other governmental charges that are not at the time delinquent or thereafter payable without penalty or that are the subject of a Permitted Contest;

(e)attachments, appeal bonds, judgments and other similar Liens on Collateral for sums not exceeding $250,000 in the aggregate arising in connection with court proceedings; provided, however, that the execution or other enforcement of such Liens is effectively stayed and the claims secured thereby are the subject of a Permitted Contest;

(f)Liens with respect to real estate, easements, rights of way, restrictions, minor defects or irregularities of title, none of which, individually or in the aggregate, materially interfere with the benefits of the security intended to be provided by the Security Documents, materially affect the value or marketability of the Collateral, impair the use or operation of the Collateral for the use currently being made thereof or impair Borrowers’ ability to pay the Obligations in a timely manner or impair the use of the Collateral or the ordinary conduct of the business of any Borrower or any Subsidiary and which, in the case of any real estate that is part of the Collateral, are set forth as exceptions to or subordinate matters in the title insurance policy accepted by Agent insuring the lien of the Security Documents;

(g)Liens and encumbrances in favor of the Agent under the Financing Documents;

(h)Liens existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 5.2 (including any Permitted Refinancings thereof);

(i)any Lien on any equipment securing Debt permitted under subpart (c) of the definition of Permitted Debt, provided, however, that such Lien attaches concurrently with or within twenty (20) days after the acquisition thereof;

(j)Liens and encumbrances of the purchaser of all or a portion of the IXINITY Royalty Stream on the IXINITY Royalty Excluded Deposit Account;

(k)precautionary financing statements in connection with operating leases or consigned goods in the Ordinary Course of Business;

(l)Liens of the applicable depository bank in respect of the Credit Card Cash Collateral Accounts and the amounts contained therein;

(m)during the Wells Fargo LC Period, Liens on the Wells Fargo LC Cash Collateral Account and the cash and cash equivalents deposited therein, in an aggregate amount not to exceed (i) $3,000,000 at any time on or prior to December 31, 2021, or (ii) $0 at any time after December 31, 2021, securing Borrower’s obligations under the Wells Fargo Standby Letter of Credit Agreement and the Wells Fargo Letters of Credit;

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(n)Liens granted in the Ordinary Course of Business on the unearned portion of insurance premiums securing the financing of insurance premiums to the extent the financing is permitted under clause (f) of the definition of Permitted Debt; provided that in the case of directors and officers, fiduciary, lawyer professional liability, employees practices liability, crime and product liability insurance, the liens securing such financing may be granted on the applicable policies of insurance and all payments to the insured under or in respect of such policies;

(o)the Liens granted by Aptevo Therapeutics in favor of Healthcare Royalty Partners IV, L.P. pursuant to the Ruxience Sale Agreement in respect of the Sold Ruxience Assets;   and

(p)to the extent constituting the granting of a Lien, the making of a Permitted Asset Disposition.

“Permitted Modifications” means (a) such amendments or other modifications to a Borrower’s or Subsidiary’s Organizational Documents as are required under this Agreement or by applicable Law and fully disclosed to Agent within thirty (30) days after such amendments or modifications have become effective, and (b) such amendments or modifications to a Borrower’s or Subsidiary’s Organizational Documents (other than those involving a reorganization of a Borrower or Subsidiary under the laws of a different jurisdiction) that would not adversely affect the rights and interests of Agent or Lenders and fully disclosed to Agent within thirty (30) days after such amendments or modifications have become effective.

“Permitted Refinancing” means Debt constituting a refinancing or extension of Debt permitted under clauses (c) or (d) of the definition of Permitted Debt and that (a) has an aggregate outstanding principal amount not greater than the aggregate principal amount of the Debt being refinanced or extended, (b) has a weighted average maturity (measured as of the date of such refinancing or extension) and maturity no shorter than that of the Debt being refinanced or extended, (c) is not entered into as part of a sale leaseback transaction, (d) is not secured by a Lien on any assets other than the collateral securing the Debt being refinanced or extended, (e) the obligors of which are the same as the obligors of the Debt being refinanced or extended and (f) is otherwise on terms no less favorable to Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, than those of the Debt being refinanced or extended.

“Permitted Royalty Stream Disposition” means (a) each Permitted Ruxience Royalty Stream Disposition, and (b) each Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition.

“Permitted Ruxience Royalty Stream Disposition” means the sale  by Aptevo Therapeutics of the Sold Ruxience Assets on the First Amendment Effective Date pursuant to, and on the terms set forth in, that certain Royalty Purchase Agreement, dated as of the First Amendment Effective Date, among Aptevo Therapeutics, as seller, and HealthCare Royalty Partners IV, L.P. as buyer (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to in accordance with the terms thereof and of this Agreement, the “Ruxience Sale Agreement”); provided concurrently therewith Borrower has made the required prepayment in accordance with Section 2.1(a)(ii)(B)(v).

“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, professional association, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, association, company, trust, bank, trust company, land trust, business trust or other organization, whether or not a legal entity, and any Governmental Authority.

“Piper Sandler Securities Account” means that certain Securities Account of Borrower maintained as a brokerage account at Piper Sandler & Co., with an account number of T6A-018841 for purposes of receiving proceeds from the sale of Aptevo Therapeutics’ common stock; provided that the aggregate amount on deposit in such Securities Account shall not at any time exceed $250,000.

“Pledge Agreement” means that certain Pledge Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among each Pledgor (as defined therein) and Issuer (as defined therein) and the Agent.

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“Pro Rata Share” means (a) with respect to a Lender’s obligation to make advances in respect of a Term Loan and such Lender’s right to receive payments of principal and interest with respect to the Term Loans, the Term Loan Commitment Percentage of such Lender, and (b) for all other purposes (including, without limitation, the indemnification obligations arising under Section 11.6) with respect to any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (i) the Term Loan Commitment Amount of such Lender (or, in the event the Term Loan Commitment shall have been terminated, such Lender’s then outstanding principal advances of such Lender under the Term Loan), by (ii) the sum of the Term Loan Commitment (or, in the event the Term Loan Commitment shall have been terminated, the then outstanding principal advances of such Lenders under the Term Loan) of all Lenders.

“Products” means, from time to time, any products currently manufactured, sold, developed, tested or marketed by or acquired by any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

“Recall” means a Person’s removal or Correction of a marketed product that the FDA considers to be in violation of the laws it administers and against which the FDA would initiate legal action, e.g., seizure.

“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.17(a)(iii).

“Registered Intellectual Property” means any patent, registered trademark or servicemark, registered copyright, registered mask work, or any pending application for any of the foregoing.

“Regulatory Reporting Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.17.

“Regulatory Required Permit” means any and all licenses, approvals and permits issued by the FDA, or any other applicable Governmental Authority, including without limitation Drug Applications, necessary for the testing, manufacture, marketing or sale of any Product by any applicable Borrower(s) and its Subsidiaries as such activities are being conducted by such Borrower and its Subsidiaries with respect to such Product at such time and any drug listings and drug establishment registrations under 21 U.S.C. Section 510 as may be required under applicable Laws, and those issued by state governments for the conduct of Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s business.

“Required Lenders” means at any time Lenders holding (a)  fifty percent (50%) or more of the sum of the Term Loan Commitment (taken as a whole), or (b) if the Term Loan Commitment has been terminated, fifty percent (50%) or more of the then aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Loans.

“Responsible Officer” means any of the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Comptroller, Vice President of Finance, or any other officer of the applicable Borrower reasonably acceptable to Agent.

“Royalty” means a royalty, earnout, distribution, license fee or other payment or income or receivable of any type, including any such payments characterized as a share of net profits, up-front or lump sum payment, milestone payment, commission, fee or any other similar amount owed to any Person as a result of such Person’s rights (including in connection with any sale or transfer) in respect of any Intellectual Property, any Product or any device, drug or other biologic or pharmaceutical product or preparation or diagnostic test.

“Royalty Agreement” means each of (a) the Ruxience Royalty Agreement, (b) the IXINITY Royalty Agreement, and (c) each other agreement or document pursuant to which Credit Parties or their subsidiaries are reasonably expected to receive Royalties (net of any payments required to be made by the Credit Parties in respect of the sales resulting in such Royalties) in excess of (i) $1,000,000 per year or (ii) $7,500,000 in aggregate during the term of such agreement or document.

“Royalty Stream” means each of the Ruxience Royalty Stream and the IXINITY Royalty Stream.

“Ruxience Royalty Agreement” means that certain License and Collaboration Agreement between Wyeth LLC and Aptevo R&D (as successor in interest to Emergent Product Development Seattle, LLC, as successor in interest to Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), dated as of December 19, 2005,

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as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the Closing Date and as thereafter amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

“Ruxience Royalty Stream” means all rights to receive Royalties and all other amounts to be paid to or on behalf of Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries under or pursuant to the Ruxience Royalty Agreement or any other agreement or document entered into in connection therewith and all other Royalties in respect of Ruxience, any other CD-20 Product (as defined in the Ruxience Royalty Agreement), or any CD20 Biosimilar Product (as defined in the Ruxience Royalty Agreement).

“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Secured Guarantor” means any Credit Party that has executed or delivered, or shall in the future execute or deliver to Agent, any Guarantee of all or any portion of the Obligations, the obligations under which are secured by all or substantially all of its property of the type described in Schedule 9.1 hereto (other than Excluded Property).

“Securities Account” means a “securities account” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC), an investment account, or other account in which investment property or securities are held or invested for credit to or for the benefit of any Borrower.

“Securities Account Control Agreement” means an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, among Agent, any applicable Borrower and each securities intermediary in which such Borrower maintains a Securities Account pursuant to which Agent shall obtain “control” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) over such Securities Account.

“Security Document” means this Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, each collateral assignment agreement with respect to any Royalty Agreement, and each other agreement, document or instrument executed concurrently herewith or at any time hereafter pursuant to which one or more Credit Parties or any other Person either (a) Guarantees payment or performance of all or any portion of the Obligations, and/or (b) provides, as security for all or any portion of the Obligations, a Lien on any of its assets in favor of Agent for its own benefit and the benefit of the Lenders.

“Sold Ruxience Assets” means the Purchased Assets, as defined in the Ruxience Sale Agreement, as the same is in effect on the First Amendment Effective Date.

“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person, that such Person (a) owns and will own assets the fair saleable value of which are (i) greater than the total amount of its debts and liabilities (including subordinated and Contingent Obligations), and (ii) greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liabilities of its then existing debts as they become absolute and matured considering all financing alternatives and potential asset sales reasonably available to it; (b) has capital that is not unreasonably small in relation to its business as presently conducted or after giving effect to any contemplated transaction; and (c) does not intend to incur and does not believe that it will incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due.

“Stated Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7.

“Subordinated Debt” means any Debt of Borrowers incurred pursuant to the terms of the Subordinated Debt Documents and with the prior written consent of Agent, all of which documents must be in form and substance acceptable to Agent in its sole discretion.  As of the Closing Date, there is no Subordinated Debt.

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“Subordinated Debt Documents” means any documents evidencing and/or securing Debt governed by a Subordination Agreement, all of which documents must be in form and substance acceptable to Agent in its sole discretion.  As of the Closing Date, there are no Subordinated Debt Documents.

“Subordination Agreement” means each agreement between Agent and another creditor of the Credit Parties, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, pursuant to which the Debt owing from any Credit Party and/or the Liens securing such Debt granted by any Credit Party to such creditor are subordinated in any way to the Obligations and the Liens created under the Security Documents, the terms and provisions of such Subordination Agreements to have been agreed to by and be acceptable to Agent in the exercise of its sole discretion.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any corporation of which an aggregate of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the time, capital stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned legally or beneficially by such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or with respect to which any such Person has the right to vote or designate the vote of more than fifty percent (50%) of such capital stock whether by proxy, agreement, operation of law or otherwise, and (b) any partnership or limited liability company in which such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person shall have an interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits or capital contribution) of more than fifty percent (50%) or of which any such Person is a general partner or may exercise the powers of a general partner.  Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference to a Subsidiary shall be a reference to a Subsidiary of a Borrower.

“Swap Contract” means any “swap agreement”, as defined in Section 101 of the Bankruptcy Code, that is obtained by Borrower to provide protection against fluctuations in interest or currency exchange rates, but only if Agent provides its prior written consent to the entry into such “swap agreement”.

“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

“Term Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a)(i).

“Term Loan Commitment” means the sum of each Lender’s Term Loan Commitment Amount, which is equal to $25,000,000.00 in the aggregate for all such Lender’s as of the Closing Date.

“Term Loan Commitment Amount” means, (a) as to any Lender that is a Lender on the Closing Date, the dollar amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on the Commitment Annex under the column “Term Loan Commitment Amount”, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time by any amounts assigned (with respect to such Lender’s portion of Term Loans outstanding and its commitment to make advances in respect of the Term Loan) pursuant to the terms of any and all effective assignment agreements to which such Lender is a party, and (b) as to any Lender that becomes a Lender after the Closing Date, the amount of the “Term Loan Commitment Amount(s)” of other Lender(s) assigned to such new Lender pursuant to the terms of the effective assignment agreement(s) pursuant to which such new Lender shall become a Lender, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time by any amounts assigned (with respect to such Lender’s portion of Term Loans outstanding and its commitment to make advances in respect of the Term Loan) pursuant to the terms of any and all effective assignment agreements to which such Lender is a party.

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“Term Loan Commitment Percentage” means, as to any Lender, (a) on the Closing Date, the percentage set forth opposite such Lender’s name on the Commitment Annex under the column “Term Loan Commitment Percentage” (if such Lender’s name is not so set forth thereon, then, on the Closing Date, such percentage for such Lender shall be deemed to be zero), and (b) on any date following the Closing Date, the percentage equal to the Term Loan Commitment Amount of such Lender on such date divided by the Term Loan Commitment on such date.

“Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of (a) the Maturity Date, (b) any date on which the maturity of the Loans is accelerated pursuant to Section 10.2, or (c) the termination date stated in any notice of termination of this Agreement provided by Borrowers in accordance with Section 2.12.

“Third Party Payor” means Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and other state or federal health care program, Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield, private insurers, managed care plans and any other Person or entity which presently or in the future maintains Third Party Payor Programs.

“Third Party Payor Programs” means all payment and reimbursement programs, sponsored by a Third Party Payor, in which a Borrower participates.

“TRICARE” means the program administered pursuant to 10 U.S.C. Section 1071 et. seq, Sections 1320a-7 and 1320a-7a of Title 42 of the United States Code and the regulations promulgated pursuant to such statutes.

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York or of any other state the laws of which are required to be applied in connection with the perfection of security interests in any Collateral.

“United States” means the United States of America.

“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8(c)(i).  

“Wells Fargo LC Cash Collateral Account” means one or more certificates of deposit of Borrower maintained at Wells Fargo (including without limitation certificate of deposit numbers 1139862385, 1445113564, 1472051927 and 2181475910) that are segregated from and not commingled with any other funds of Borrower or its Subsidiaries, the aggregate balance of which shall not at any time exceed 105% of the face value of the Wells Fargo Letters of Credit then outstanding, and which shall constitute the sole security for the obligations of Borrower under the Wells Fargo Standby Letter of Credit Agreement and the Wells Fargo Letters of Credit.

“Wells Fargo LC Period” means the period commencing on the Closing Date and terminating on the earlier of (a) the date Borrower receives all or substantially all of its anticipated value added tax refunds from the Italian government, the Wells Fargo Letters of Credit have expired or been terminated and the Borrower’s obligations under the Wells Fargo Standby Letter of Credit Agreement have terminated and (b) December 31, 2021.

“Wells Fargo Letters of Credit” means those certain letters of credit issued during the Wells Fargo LC Period by Wells Fargo for the account of Borrowers pursuant to the Wells Fargo Standby Letter of Credit Agreement, but solely to the extent required by the beneficiary thereof in order for Borrowers to receive value added tax refunds from the Italian government; provided, however, that the aggregate face value of all such letters of credit may not exceed (i) $3,000,000 at any time on or prior to December 31, 2021, or (ii) $0 at any time after December 31, 2021.

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“Wells Fargo Standby Letter of Credit Agreement” means that certain Standby Letter of Credit Agreement, dated as of February 23, 2018, pursuant to which Wells Fargo has agreed to issue letters of credit for the account of Borrower and Borrower has agreed to reimburse Wells Fargo for amounts drawn under such letters of credit, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.

“Withholding Agent” means any Borrower or Agent.

“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

Section 1.2Accounting Terms and Determinations.  Unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder (including, without limitation, determinations made pursuant to the exhibits hereto) shall be made, and all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with the most recent audited consolidated financial statements of each Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries delivered to Agent on or prior to the Closing Date.  If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio or financial requirement set forth in any Financing Document, and either Borrowers or the Required Lenders shall so request, Agent, the Lenders and Borrowers shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP; provided, however, that until so amended, (a) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (b) Borrowers shall provide to Agent and the Lenders financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement which include a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP.  Any obligations of a Person under a lease (whether existing now or entered into in the future) that is not (or would not be) a capital lease obligation under GAAP as in effect prior to giving effect to FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases, shall not be treated as a capital lease obligation solely as a result of the adoption of changes in GAAP.  Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Debt or other liabilities of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party at “fair value”, as defined therein.

Section 1.3Other Definitional and Interpretive Provisions.  References in this Agreement to “Articles”, “Sections”, “Annexes”, “Exhibits”, or “Schedules” shall be to Articles, Sections, Annexes, Exhibits or Schedules of or to this Agreement unless otherwise specifically provided.  Any term defined herein may be used in the singular or plural.  “Include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by “without limitation”.  Except as otherwise specified or limited herein, references to any Person include the successors and assigns of such Person.  References “from” or “through” any date mean, unless otherwise specified, “from and including” or “through and including”, respectively.  Unless otherwise specified herein, the settlement of all payments and fundings hereunder between or among the parties hereto shall be

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made in lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds.  References to any statute or act shall include all related current regulations and all amendments to such statutes, acts and regulations, and any successor statutes, acts and regulations.  All amounts used for purposes of financial calculations required to be made herein shall be without duplication.  References to any statute or act, without additional reference, shall be deemed to refer to federal statutes and acts of the United States.  References to any agreement, instrument or document shall include all schedules, exhibits, annexes and other attachments thereto. References to any agreement, instrument or document shall include all amendments thereto, to the extent permitted herby.  References to capitalized terms that are not defined herein, but are defined in the UCC, shall have the meanings given them in the UCC. All references herein to times of day shall be references to daylight or standard time, as applicable.  All references herein to a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, assignment, sale or transfer, or analogous term, will be construed to mean also a division of or by a limited liability company, as if it were a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, assignment, sale or transfer, or similar term, as applicable.  Any series of limited liability company shall be considered a separate Person.

Section 1.4Settlement and Funding Mechanics.  Unless otherwise specified herein, the settlement of all payments and fundings hereunder between or among the parties hereto shall be made in lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds.

Section 1.5Time is of the Essence.  Time is of the essence in Borrower’s and each other Credit Party’s performance under this Agreement and all other Financing Documents.

Section 1.6Time of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight savings or standard, as applicable).

Article 2- LOANS

Section 2.1Loans.  

(a)Term Loans.  

(i)Term Loan Amounts.  On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the other Financing Documents, the Lenders severally hereby agree to make to Borrowers a term loan in an original aggregate principal amount equal to the Term Loan Commitment (“Term Loan”).  Each Lender’s obligation to fund the Term Loan shall be limited to such Lender’s Term Loan Commitment Percentage, and no Lender shall have any obligation to fund any portion of any Term Loan required to be funded by any other Lender, but not so funded.  No Borrower shall have any right to reborrow any portion of the Term Loan that is repaid or prepaid from time to time.  The Term Loan shall be funded on the Closing Date.  Borrowers shall deliver to Agent a Notice of Borrowing with respect to the proposed Term Loan advance, such Notice of Borrowing to be delivered no later than noon (Eastern time) on the Closing Date.  

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(ii)Scheduled Repayments; Mandatory Prepayments; Optional Prepayments.  

(A)There shall become due and payable, and Borrowers shall repay the Term Loan through, scheduled payments as set forth on Schedule 2.1 attached hereto.  Notwithstanding the payment schedule set forth above, the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan shall become immediately due and payable in full on the Termination Date.

(B)There shall become due and payable and Borrowers shall prepay the Term Loan in the following amounts and at the following times:  

(i)Unless Agent shall otherwise consent in writing, on the date on which any Credit Party (or Agent as loss payee or assignee) receives any casualty proceeds in excess of $250,000 with respect to assets upon which Agent maintained a Lien, an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such proceeds (net of out-of-pocket expenses and repayment of secured debt permitted under clause (c) of the definition of Permitted Debt and encumbering the property that suffered such casualty), or such lesser portion of such proceeds as Agent shall elect to apply to the Obligations;

(ii)an amount equal to any interest that is deemed to be in excess of the Maximum Lawful Rate (as defined below) and is required to be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of the Loans by any Lender as provided for in Section 2.7;

(iii)unless Agent shall otherwise consent in writing, upon receipt by any Credit Party of the proceeds of any Asset Disposition in excess of $250,000 in any fiscal year that is not made in the Ordinary Course of Business, an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the net cash proceeds of such asset disposition (net of out-of-pocket expenses and repayment of secured debt permitted under clause (c) of the definition of Permitted Debt and encumbering such asset), or such lesser portion as Agent shall elect to apply to the Obligations;

(iv)if Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries enters into any Permitted License pursuant to clause (e) of the definition thereof, unless Agent shall otherwise consent in writing (in its sole discretion), on the date such Permitted License is entered into, Borrower shall prepay the Term Loans in an amount equal the aggregate upfront consideration received or deemed received by or on behalf of Borrowers or its Subsidiaries under or in connection with entering into such Permitted License;

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principal amount equal to $10,000,000 plus all fees and other amounts payable on the First Amendment Effective Date pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any Fee Letter; and

(vi)on the date on which any Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition is consummated, unless Agent and Required Lenders shall otherwise agree in writing, Borrower shall prepay the Term Loans (A) if such Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition occurs on any date prior to March 31, 2022, in an amount equal to $5,000,000 (or, if less, the entire amount of the outstanding Obligations), and (B) if such Permitted IXINITY Royalty Stream Disposition occurs on or after March 31, 2022, in an amount sufficient to pay all the Obligations in cash in full.

Notwithstanding clause (B)(i) and (B)(iii) above, respectively, the foregoing and so long as no Event of Default then exists: (1) any such casualty proceeds may be used by Borrowers within two hundred seventy (270) days from the receipt of such proceeds to replace or repair any assets in respect of which such proceeds were paid so long as prior to the receipt of such proceeds, Borrowers have delivered to Agent a reinvestment plan detailing such replacement or repair; and (2) proceeds of asset dispositions (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, any Permitted Royalty Stream Dispositions) that are not made in the Ordinary Course of Business may be used by Borrowers within two hundred seventy (270) days from the receipt of such proceeds to purchase new or replacement assets of comparable value; and

(C)Borrowers may from time to time, with at least five (5) Business Days prior delivery to Agent of an appropriately completed Payment Notification, prepay the Term Loan in whole or in part; provided, however, that each such prepayment (other than a prepayment in whole) shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000 or a higher integral multiple of $1,000,000 and shall be accompanied by any applicable fees, as set forth in Section 2.2 and/or in each Fee Letter.

(iii)All Prepayments.  Except as this Agreement may specifically provide otherwise, all prepayments of the Term Loan shall be applied by Agent to the Obligations in inverse order of maturity.  The monthly payments required under Schedule 2.1 shall continue in the same amount (for so long as the Term Loan and/or (if applicable) any advance thereunder shall remain outstanding) notwithstanding any partial prepayment, whether mandatory or optional, of the Term Loan. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the foregoing, in the event that there have been multiple advances under the Term Loan each of which such advances has a separate amortization schedule of principal payments under Schedule 2.1 attached hereto, each prepayment of the Term Loan shall be applied by Agent to reduce and prepay the principal balance of the earliest-made advance then outstanding in the inverse order of maturity of the scheduled payments with respect to such advance until such earliest-made advance is paid in full (and to the extent the total amount of any such partial prepayment shall exceed the outstanding principal balance of such earliest-made advance, the remainder of such prepayment shall be applied successively to the remaining advances

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under the Term Loan in the direct order of the respective advance dates in the manner provided for in this sentence).  

(iv)LIBOR Rate.

(A)Except as provided in subsection (C) below, the Term Loan shall accrue interest at the LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Margin.  

(A)The LIBOR Rate may be adjusted by Agent with respect to any Lender on a prospective basis to take into account any additional or increased costs to such Lender of maintaining or obtaining any eurodollar deposits or increased costs, in each case, due to changes in applicable Law occurring subsequent to the commencement of the then applicable Interest Period, including changes in tax laws (except changes in Taxes or taxes excluded from the definition of Taxes in Section 2.8 hereof) and changes in the reserve requirements imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor), which additional or increased costs would increase the cost of funding loans bearing interest based upon the LIBOR Rate; provided, however, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “change in applicable Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.  In any such event, the affected Lender shall give Borrowers and Agent notice of such a determination and adjustment and Agent promptly shall transmit the notice to each other Lender and, upon its receipt of the notice from the affected Lender, Borrowers may, by notice to such affected Lender (I) require such Lender to furnish to Borrowers a statement setting forth the basis for adjusting such LIBOR Rate and the method for determining the amount of such adjustment, or (II) repay the Loans bearing interest based upon the LIBOR Rate with respect to which such adjustment is made.

(B)In the event that any change in market conditions or any law, regulation, treaty, or directive, or any change therein or in the interpretation of application thereof, shall at any time after the date hereof, in the reasonable opinion of any Lender, make it unlawful or impractical for such Lender to maintain Loans bearing interest based upon the LIBOR Rate or to continue such maintaining, or to determine or charge interest rates at the LIBOR Rate, such Lender shall give notice of such changed circumstances to Agent and Borrowers and Agent promptly shall transmit the notice to each other Lender, (I) in the case of the pro rata share of the Term Loan held by such Lender and then outstanding, the date specified in such Lender’s notice shall be deemed to be the last day of the Interest Period of such portion of the Term Loan, and interest upon such portion thereafter shall accrue interest at the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin, and

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(II) such portion of the Term Loan shall continue to accrue interest at the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin until such Lender determines that it would no longer be unlawful or impractical to maintain such Term Loan at the LIBOR Rate.

(C)Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, neither Agent nor any Lender is required actually to acquire eurodollar deposits to fund or otherwise match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues based on the LIBOR Rate.

Section 2.2Interest, Interest Calculations and Certain Fees.  

(a)Interest.  From and following the Closing Date, except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, Loans and the other Obligations shall bear interest at the sum of the LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Margin.  Interest on the Loans shall be paid monthly in arrears on the first (1st) day of each month and on the maturity of such Loans, whether by acceleration or otherwise.  Interest on all other Obligations shall be payable upon demand.  

(b)Fee Letter.  In addition to the other fees set forth herein, the Borrowers agree to pay Agent and/or Lenders (as applicable) the fees set forth in each Fee Letter.

(c)Audit Fees.  Borrowers shall pay to Agent, for its own account and not for the benefit of any other Lenders, all reasonable fees and expenses in connection with audits and inspections of Borrowers’ books and records, audits, valuations or appraisals of the Collateral, audits of Borrowers’ compliance with applicable Laws and such other matters as Agent shall deem appropriate, which shall be due and payable on the first Business Day of the month following the date of issuance by Agent of a written request for payment thereof to Borrowers.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Borrowers shall not be required to reimburse Agent for more than two (2) audits per fiscal year.

(d)Wire Fees.   Borrowers shall pay to Agent, for its own account and not for the account of any other Lenders, on written demand, fees for incoming and outgoing wires made for the account of Borrowers, such fees to be based on Agent’s then current wire fee schedule (available upon written request of the Borrowers).

(e)Late Charges.  If payments of principal (other than a final installment of principal upon the Termination Date), interest due on the Obligations, or any other amounts due hereunder or under the other Financing Documents are not timely made and remain overdue for a period of five (5) days, Borrowers, without notice or demand by Agent, promptly shall pay to Agent, for its own account and not for the benefit of any other Lenders, as additional compensation to Agent in administering the Obligations, an amount equal to three percent (3.0%) of each delinquent payment.

(f)Computation of Interest and Related Fees.  All interest and fees under each Financing Document shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual number of days elapsed.  The date of funding of a Loan shall be included in the calculation of interest.  The date of payment of a Loan shall be excluded from the calculation of interest.  If a Loan is repaid on the same day that it is made, one (1) day’s interest shall be charged.  

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(g)Automated Clearing House Payments.  If Agent (or its designated servicer or trustee on behalf of a securitization vehicle) so elects, monthly payments of principal, interest, fees, expenses or any other amounts due and owing from Borrower to Agent hereunder shall be paid to Agent by Automated Clearing House debit of immediately available funds from the financial institution account designated by Borrower Representative in the Automated Clearing House debit authorization executed by Borrowers or Borrower Representative in connection with this Agreement, and shall be effective upon receipt.  Borrowers shall execute any and all forms and documentation necessary from time to time to effectuate such automatic debiting.  In no event shall any such payments be refunded to Borrowers.

Section 2.3Notes.  The portion of the Loans made by each Lender shall be evidenced, if so requested by such Lender, by one or more promissory notes executed by Borrowers on a joint and several basis (each, a “Note”) in an original principal amount equal to such Lender’s Term Loan Commitments.  

Section 2.4Reserved.

Section 2.5Reserved.

Section 2.6General Provisions Regarding Payment; Loan Account.

(a)All payments to be made by each Borrower under any Financing Document, including payments of principal and interest made hereunder and pursuant to any other Financing Document, and all fees, expenses, indemnities and reimbursements, shall be made without set-off, recoupment or counterclaim.  If any payment hereunder becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, with respect to payments of principal, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension (it being understood and agreed that, solely for purposes of calculating financial covenants and computations contained herein and determining compliance therewith, if payment is made, in full, on any such extended due date, such payment shall be deemed to have been paid on the original due date without giving effect to any extension thereto).  Any payments received in the Payment Account before 12:00 Noon (Eastern time) on any date shall be deemed received by Agent on such date, and any payments received in the Payment Account at or after 12:00 Noon (Eastern time) on any date shall be deemed received by Agent on the next succeeding Business Day.  

(b)Agent shall maintain a loan account in the Register (the “Loan Account”) on its books to record Loans and other extensions of credit made by the Lenders hereunder or under any other Financing Document, and all payments thereon made by each Borrower.  All entries in the Loan Account shall be made in accordance with Agent’s customary accounting practices as in effect from time to time.  The balance in the Loan Account, as recorded in Agent’s books and records at any time shall be conclusive and binding evidence of the amounts due and owing to Agent by each Borrower absent manifest error; provided, however, that any failure to so record or any error in so recording shall not limit or otherwise affect any Borrower’s ultimate obligation to pay all amounts owing hereunder or under any other Financing Document.  Agent shall provide Borrowers with a monthly statement regarding the Loan Account.  Unless any Borrower notifies Agent of any objection to any such statement (specifically describing the basis for such objection) within ninety (90) days after the date of receipt thereof, it shall be deemed final, binding and conclusive upon Borrowers in all respects as to all matters reflected therein.

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Section 2.7Maximum Interest.  In no event shall the interest charged with respect to the Loans or any other Obligations of any Borrower under any Financing Document exceed the maximum amount permitted under the laws of the State of New York or of any other applicable jurisdiction.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or elsewhere, if at any time the rate of interest payable hereunder or under any Note or other Financing Document (the “Stated Rate”) would exceed the highest rate of interest permitted under any applicable Law to be charged (the “Maximum Lawful Rate”), then for so long as the Maximum Lawful Rate would be so exceeded, the rate of interest payable shall be equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate; provided, however, that if at any time thereafter the Stated Rate is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, each Borrower shall, to the extent permitted by law, continue to pay interest at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the total interest received is equal to the total interest which would have been received had the Stated Rate been (but for the operation of this provision) the interest rate payable.  Thereafter, the interest rate payable shall be the Stated Rate unless and until the Stated Rate again would exceed the Maximum Lawful Rate, in which event this provision shall again apply.  In no event shall the total interest received by any Lender exceed the amount which it could lawfully have received had the interest been calculated for the full term hereof at the Maximum Lawful Rate. If, notwithstanding the prior sentence, any Lender has received interest hereunder in excess of the Maximum Lawful Rate, such excess amount shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of the Loans or to other amounts (other than interest) payable hereunder, and if no such principal or other amounts are then outstanding, such excess or part thereof remaining shall be paid to Borrowers.  In computing interest payable with reference to the Maximum Lawful Rate applicable to any Lender, such interest shall be calculated at a daily rate equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate divided by the number of days in the year in which such calculation is made.

Section 2.8Taxes; Capital Adequacy.  

(a)All payments of principal and interest on the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any present or future Taxes, except as required by applicable Law. If any applicable Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law and if any such withholding or deduction is in respect of any Indemnified Taxes, then the Borrowers shall pay such additional amount or amounts as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by Agent and each Lender will equal the full amount Agent and such Lender would have received had no such withholding or deduction been required (including, without limitation, such withholdings and deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.8).  As soon as practicable after payment of any Tax by a Borrower to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 2.8, such Borrower shall promptly forward to Agent the original or a certified copy of an official receipt, a copy of the return reporting such payment, or other documentation reasonably satisfactory to Agent evidencing such payment to such authority. Borrowers shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law, or at the option of Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

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(b)The Borrowers shall indemnify Agent and Lenders, within ten (10) days after demand thereof, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.8) payable or paid by Agent or any Lender or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to Agent or any Lender and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate in reasonable detail as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to Borrowers by a Lender (with a copy to Agent), or by Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(c)Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to payments made under any Financing Document shall deliver to Borrower Representative and Agent, at the time or times prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by Borrower Representative or Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by Borrower Representative or Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding.  In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by Borrower Representative or Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by Borrowers or Agent as will enable Borrowers or Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Sections 2.8(c)(i), 2.8(c)(ii) and 2.8(e) below) shall not be required if in such Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.  

(i)Each Lender that is not a “United States person” (as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) for U.S. federal income tax purposes (each such Lender a “Foreign Lender”) shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, execute and deliver to Borrower Representative and Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower Representative or Agent) whichever of the following is applicable:  (A) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party, (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Financing Document, properly completed and executed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Forms W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or successor form) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Financing Documents, properly completed and executed copies of IRS Forms W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or successor form) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty; (B)  executed copies of Form W-8ECI (or successor form); (C) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of any

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Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y)  executed copies of IRS Forms W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or successor form); (D) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or successor form), a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E-2 or Exhibit E-3, IRS Form W-9 (or successor form), and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner; or (E) other applicable forms, certificates or documents prescribed by the IRS.  Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify Borrower Representative and Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.  In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, such forms shall be delivered by each Foreign Lender upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously delivered by such Foreign Lender.  Each Foreign Lender shall promptly notify Borrower Representative at any time it determines that it is no longer in a position to provide any previously delivered certificate to Borrower Representative (or any other form of certification adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such purpose).  

(ii)Each Lender that is a “United States person” (as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) for U.S. federal income tax purposes shall, to the extent permitted by Law, provide to Borrower Representative and Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower Representative or Agent), a properly completed and executed IRS Form W-9 or any successor form certifying as to such Lender’s entitlement to an exemption from U.S. federal backup withholding and other applicable forms, certificates or documents prescribed by the IRS or reasonably requested by Borrower Representative or Agent.  Each such Lender shall promptly notify Borrowers at any time it determines that any certificate previously delivered to Borrower Representative (or any other form of certification adopted by the U.S. governmental authorities for such purposes) is no longer valid.  

(iii)Any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to Borrower Representative and Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower Representative or Agent), executed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Law to permit Borrowers or Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.

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(d)If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund in respect of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 2.8 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.8), then it shall promptly pay an amount equal to such refund to the indemnifying party, net of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of such indemnified party with respect thereto, including any Taxes, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided, however, that, upon the written request of such indemnified party, the indemnifying party agrees to repay any amount paid over to the indemnifying party (plus any related penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event such indemnified party is required, for any reason, to disgorge or otherwise repay such refund.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.8, in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 2.8(d) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid.  This Section 2.8 shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

(e)If a payment made to a Lender under any Financing Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to Borrower Representative and Agent at the time or times prescribed by Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by Borrower Representative or Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by Borrower Representative or Agent as may be necessary for Borrowers and Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.  Solely for purposes of this clause (e), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

(f)Each Lender shall severally indemnify Agent, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Credit Party has not already indemnified Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Credit Parties to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 11.17 relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by Agent in connection with any Financing Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each Lender hereby authorizes Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Financing Document or otherwise payable by Agent to such Lender from any other source against any amount due to Agent under this paragraph (f).

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(g)Each party’s obligations under Section 2.8(a) through (f) shall survive the resignation or replacement of Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations hereunder.

(h)If any Lender shall determine in its commercially reasonable judgment that the adoption or taking effect of, or any change in, any applicable Law regarding capital adequacy, in each instance, after the Closing Date, or any change after the Closing Date in the interpretation, administration or application thereof by any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation, administration or application thereof, or the compliance by any Lender or any Person controlling such Lender with any request, guideline or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of Law) of any such Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency adopted or otherwise taking effect after the Closing Date, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or such controlling Person’s capital as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Lender or such controlling Person could have achieved but for such adoption, taking effect, change, interpretation, administration, application or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such controlling Person’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) then from time to time, upon written demand by such Lender (which demand shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth the basis for such demand and a calculation of the amount thereof in reasonable detail, a copy of which shall be furnished to Agent), Borrowers shall promptly pay to such Lender such additional amount as will compensate such Lender or such controlling Person for such reduction, so long as such amounts have accrued on or after the day which is two hundred seventy (270) days prior to the date on which such Lender first made demand therefor; provided, however; that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “change in applicable Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

(i)If any Lender requests compensation under either Section 2.1(a)(iv) or Section 2.8(h), or requires Borrowers to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.8, then, upon the written request of Borrower Representative, such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder (subject to the terms of this Agreement) to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or materially reduce amounts payable pursuant to any such subsection, as the case may be, in the future, and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender (as determined in its sole discretion).  Without limitation of the provisions of Section 12.14, each Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

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Section 2.9Appointment of Borrower Representative.  

(a)Each Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints and constitutes Borrower Representative as its agent and attorney-in-fact to request and receive Loans in the name or on behalf of such Borrower and any other Borrowers, deliver Notices of Borrowing, give instructions with respect to the disbursement of the proceeds of the Loans , giving and receiving all other notices and consents hereunder or under any of the other Financing Documents and taking all other actions (including in respect of compliance with covenants) in the name or on behalf of any Borrower or Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement and the other Financing Documents.  Agent and Lenders may disburse the Loans to such bank account of Borrower Representative or a Borrower or otherwise make such Loans to a Borrower, in each case as Borrower Representative may designate or direct, without notice to any other Borrower.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Agent may at any time and from time to time require that Loans to or for the account of any Borrower be disbursed directly to an operating account of such Borrower.

(b)Borrower Representative hereby accepts the appointment by Borrowers to act as the agent and attorney-in-fact of Borrowers pursuant to this Section 2.9.  Borrower Representative shall ensure that the disbursement of any Loans that are at any time requested by or to be remitted to or for the account of a Borrower, shall be remitted or issued to or for the account of such Borrower.

(c)Each Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints and constitutes Borrower Representative as its agent to receive statements on account and all other notices from Agent, Lenders with respect to the Obligations or otherwise under or in connection with this Agreement and the other Financing Documents.

(d)Any notice, election, representation, warranty, covenant, agreement or undertaking made or delivered by or on behalf of any Borrower by Borrower Representative shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made or delivered by such Borrower, as the case may be, and shall be binding upon and enforceable against such Borrower to the same extent as if the same had been made or delivered directly by such Borrower.

(e)No resignation by or termination of the appointment of Borrower Representative as agent and attorney-in-fact as aforesaid shall be effective, except after ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice to Agent.  If Borrower Representative resigns under this Agreement, Borrowers shall be entitled to appoint a successor Borrower Representative (which shall be a Borrower and shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent as such successor).  Upon the acceptance of its appointment as successor Borrower Representative hereunder, such successor Borrower Representative shall succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of the retiring Borrower Representative and the term “Borrower Representative” shall mean such successor Borrower Representative for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents, and the retiring or terminated Borrower Representative’s appointment, powers and duties as Borrower Representative shall be thereupon terminated.

Section 2.10Joint and Several Liability; Rights of Contribution; Subordination and Subrogation.

(a)Borrowers are defined collectively to include all Persons named as one of the Borrowers herein; provided, however, that any references herein to “any Borrower”, “each Borrower” or similar references, shall be construed as a reference to each individual Person named as one of the Borrowers herein.  Each Person so named shall be jointly and severally liable for all of the obligations of Borrowers under this Agreement.  Each Borrower, individually, expressly understands, agrees and acknowledges, that the credit facilities would not

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be made available on the terms herein in the absence of the collective credit of all of the Persons named as the Borrowers herein, the joint and several liability of all such Persons, and the cross-collateralization of the collateral of all such Persons.  Accordingly, each Borrower individually acknowledges that the benefit to each of the Persons named as one of the Borrowers as a whole constitutes reasonably equivalent value, regardless of the amount of the credit facilities actually borrowed by, advanced to, or the amount of collateral provided by, any individual Borrower.  In addition, each entity named as one of the Borrowers herein hereby acknowledges and agrees that all of the representations, warranties, covenants, obligations, conditions, agreements and other terms contained in this Agreement shall be applicable to and shall be binding upon and measured and enforceable individually against each Person named as one of the Borrowers herein as well as all such Persons when taken together.  By way of illustration, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the terms of Section 10.1 of this Agreement are to be applied to each individual Person named as one of the Borrowers herein (as well as to all such Persons taken as a whole), such that the occurrence of any of the events described in Section 10.1 of this Agreement as to any Person named as one of the Borrowers herein shall constitute an Event of Default even if such event has not occurred as to any other Persons named as the Borrowers or as to all such Persons taken as a whole.

(b)Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, it is intended that the joint and several nature of the liability of each Borrower for the Obligations and the Liens granted by Borrowers to secure the Obligations, not constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance (as defined below).  Consequently, Agent, Lenders and each Borrower agree that if the liability of a Borrower for the Obligations, or any Liens granted by such Borrower securing the Obligations would, but for the application of this sentence, constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance, the liability of such Borrower and the Liens securing such liability shall be valid and enforceable only to the maximum extent that would not cause such liability or such Lien to constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance, and the liability of such Borrower and this Agreement shall automatically be deemed to have been amended accordingly.  For purposes hereof, the term “Fraudulent Conveyance” means a fraudulent conveyance under Section 548 of Chapter 11 of Title II of the Bankruptcy Code or a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under the applicable provisions of any fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer law or similar law of any state, nation or other governmental unit, as in effect from time to time.

(c)Agent is hereby authorized, without notice or demand (except as otherwise specifically required under this Agreement) and without affecting the liability of any Borrower hereunder, at any time and from time to time, to (i) renew, extend or otherwise increase the time for payment of the Obligations; (ii) with the written agreement of any Borrower, change the terms relating to the Obligations of such Borrower or otherwise modify, amend or change the terms of any Note of such Borrower or other agreement, document or instrument now or hereafter executed by such Borrower and delivered to Agent for any Lender; (iii) accept partial payments of the Obligations; (iv) take and hold any Collateral for the payment of the Obligations or for the payment of any guaranties of the Obligations and exchange, enforce, waive and release any such Collateral; (v) apply any such Collateral and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as Agent, in its sole discretion, may determine; and (vi) settle, release, compromise, collect or otherwise liquidate the Obligations and any Collateral therefor in any manner, all guarantor and surety defenses being hereby waived by each Borrower.  Without limitations of the foregoing, with respect to the Obligations, each Borrower hereby makes and adopts each of the agreements

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and waivers set forth in each Guarantee, the same being incorporated hereby by reference.  Except as specifically provided in this Agreement or any of the other Financing Documents, Agent shall have the exclusive right to determine the time and manner of application of any payments or credits, whether received from any Borrower or any other source, and such determination shall be binding on all Borrowers.  All such payments and credits may be applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to any of the Obligations that Agent shall determine, in its sole discretion, without affecting the validity or enforceability of the Obligations of the other Borrowers.

(d)Each Borrower hereby agrees that, except as hereinafter provided, its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of (i) the absence of any attempt to collect the Obligations from any obligor or other action to enforce the same; (ii) the waiver or consent by Agent with respect to any provision of any instrument evidencing the Obligations, or any part thereof, or any other agreement heretofore, now or hereafter executed by a Borrower and delivered to Agent; (iii) failure by Agent to take any steps to perfect and maintain its security interest in, or to preserve its rights to, any security or collateral for the Obligations; (iv) the institution of any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code, or any similar proceeding, by or against a Borrower or Agent’s election in any such proceeding of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code; (v) any borrowing or grant of a security interest by a Borrower as debtor-in-possession, under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code; (vi) the disallowance, under Section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code, of all or any portion of Agent’s claim(s) for repayment of any of the Obligations; or (vii) any other circumstance other than payment in full of the Obligations which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor or surety.

(e)Borrowers hereby agree, as between themselves, that to the extent that Agent, on behalf of Lenders, shall have received from any Borrower any Recovery Amount (as defined below), then the paying Borrower shall have a right of contribution against each other Borrower in an amount equal to such other Borrower’s contributive share of such Recovery Amount; provided, however, that in the event any Borrower suffers a Deficiency Amount (as defined below), then the Borrower suffering the Deficiency Amount shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against the other Borrowers in an amount equal to the Deficiency Amount; and provided, further, that in no event shall the aggregate amounts so reimbursed by reason of the contribution of any Borrower equal or exceed an amount that would, if paid, constitute or result in Fraudulent Conveyance.  Until all Obligations have been paid and satisfied in full, no payment made by or for the account of a Borrower including, without limitation, (i) a payment made by such Borrower on behalf of the liabilities of any other Borrower, or (ii) a payment made by any other Guarantor under any Guarantee, shall entitle such Borrower, by subrogation or otherwise, to any payment from such other Borrower or from or out of such other Borrower’s property.  The right of each Borrower to receive any contribution under this Section 2.10(e) or by subrogation or otherwise from any other Borrower shall be subordinate in right of payment to the Obligations and such Borrower shall not exercise any right or remedy against such other Borrower or any property of such other Borrower by reason of any performance of such Borrower of its joint and several obligations hereunder, until the Obligations have been paid and satisfied in full in cash (and as to which no right of claw-back under applicable preference or fraudulent transfer Laws has been asserted), and no Borrower shall exercise any right or remedy with respect to this Section 2.10(e) until the Obligations have

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been paid and satisfied in full in cash (and as to which no right of claw-back under applicable preference or fraudulent transfer Laws has been asserted).  As used in this Section 2.10(e), the term “Recovery Amount” means the amount of proceeds received by or credited to Agent from the exercise of any remedy of the Lenders under this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, including, without limitation, the sale of any Collateral.  As used in this Section 2.10(e), the term “Deficiency Amount” means any amount that is less than the entire amount a Borrower is entitled to receive by way of contribution or subrogation from, but that has not been paid by, the other Borrowers in respect of any Recovery Amount attributable to the Borrower entitled to contribution, until the Deficiency Amount has been reduced to Zero Dollars ($0) through contributions and reimbursements made under the terms of this Section 2.10(e) or otherwise.

Section 2.11Reserved.

Section 2.12Termination; Restriction on Termination.

(a)Termination by Lenders.  In addition to the rights set forth in Section 10.2, Agent may, and at the direction of Required Lenders shall, terminate this Agreement without notice upon or after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default.

(b)Termination by Borrowers.  Upon at least ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice and pursuant to payoff documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and Lenders, Borrowers may, at their option, terminate this Agreement.  Any notice of termination given by Borrowers shall be an irrevocable notice (provided that such notice may be conditioned on closing the applicable refinancing or transfer for which such notice was given) unless all Lenders otherwise agree in writing and no Lender shall have any obligation to make any Loans on or after the termination date stated in such notice.  Borrowers may elect to terminate this Agreement in its entirety only.  No section of this Agreement or type of Loan available hereunder may be terminated singly.

(c)Effectiveness of Termination.  All of the Obligations shall be immediately due and payable upon the Termination Date.  All undertakings, agreements, covenants, warranties and representations of Borrowers contained in the Financing Documents shall survive any such termination and Agent shall retain its Liens in the Collateral and Agent and each Lender shall retain all of its rights and remedies under the Financing Documents notwithstanding such termination until all Obligations have been discharged or paid, in full, in immediately available funds, including, without limitation, all Obligations under the terms of each Fee Letter resulting from such termination.  Notwithstanding the foregoing or the payment in full of the Obligations, Agent shall not be required to terminate its Liens in the Collateral unless, with respect to any loss or damage Agent may incur as a result of dishonored checks or other items of payment received by Agent from Borrower or any Account Debtor and applied to the Obligations, Agent shall, at its option, (i) have received a written agreement satisfactory to Agent, executed by Borrowers and by any Person whose loans or other advances to Borrowers are used in whole or in part to satisfy the Obligations, indemnifying Agent and each Lender from any such loss or damage or (ii) have retained cash Collateral or other Collateral for such period of time as Agent, in its discretion, may deem necessary to protect Agent and each Lender from any such loss or damage.

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Article 3- REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

To induce Agent and Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans and other credit accommodations contemplated hereby, each Borrower hereby represents and warrants to Agent and each Lender that:

Section 3.1Existence and Power.  Each Credit Party (a) is an entity as specified on Schedule 3.1, (b) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction specified on Schedule 3.1 and no other jurisdiction, (c) has the same legal name as it appears in such Credit Party’s Organizational Documents and an organizational identification number (if any), in each case as specified on Schedule 3.1, (d) has all powers and all Permits necessary or desirable in the operation of its business as presently conducted or as proposed to be conducted, except where the failure to have such Permits would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (e) is qualified to do business as a foreign entity in each jurisdiction in which it is required to be so qualified, which jurisdictions as of the Closing Date are specified on Schedule 3.1, except where the failure to be so qualified would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1, no Credit Party (x) has had, over the five (5) year period preceding the Closing Date, any name other than its current name, or (y) was incorporated or organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than its current jurisdiction of incorporation or organization.

Section 3.2Organization and Governmental Authorization; No Contravention.  The execution, delivery and performance by each Credit Party of the Financing Documents to which it is a party (a) are within its powers, (b) have been duly authorized by all necessary action pursuant to its Organizational Documents, (c) require no further action by or in respect of, or filing with, any Governmental Authority, except for the filings necessary to perfect the Liens created by the Financing Documents and (d) do not violate, conflict with or cause a breach or a default under (i) any Law applicable to any Credit Party in any material respect, (ii) any of the Organizational Documents of any Credit Party, or (iii) any material agreement or instrument binding upon it, except for such violations, conflicts, breaches or defaults as could not, with respect to this clause (iii), reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.3Binding Effect.  Each of the Financing Documents to which any Credit Party is a party constitutes a valid and binding agreement or instrument of such Credit Party, enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with its respective terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles.  Each Financing Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Credit Party party thereto.

Section 3.4Capitalization.  The authorized equity securities of each of the Credit Parties (other than Aptevo Therapeutics) as of the Closing Date are as set forth on Schedule 3.4.  All issued and outstanding equity securities of each of the Credit Parties are duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens) other than those in favor of Agent for the benefit of Agent and Lenders, and such equity securities were issued in all material respects in compliance with all applicable Laws.  The identity of the holders of the equity securities of each of the Credit Parties (other than Aptevo Therapeutics) and the percentage of their fully-diluted ownership of the equity securities of each

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of the Credit Parties as of the Closing Date is set forth on Schedule 3.4.  No shares of the capital stock or other equity securities of any Credit Party, other than those described above, are issued and outstanding as of the Closing Date.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3.4, as of the Closing Date there are no preemptive or other outstanding rights, options, warrants, conversion rights or similar agreements or understandings for the purchase or acquisition from any Credit Party of any equity securities of any such entity.  

Section 3.5Financial Information.  All information delivered to Agent and pertaining to the financial condition of any Credit Party fairly presents the financial position of the Credit Parties (taken as a whole) as of such date in conformity with GAAP (and as to unaudited financial statements, subject to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of footnote disclosures).  Since December 31, 2019, no event has occurred which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.6Litigation.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3.6 as of the Closing Date, and except as hereafter disclosed to Agent in writing, there is no Litigation pending against, or to such Borrower’s knowledge threatened in writing against or affecting, any Credit Party.  There is no Litigation pending which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or which in any manner draws into question the validity of any of the Financing Documents.

Section 3.7Ownership of Property.  Each Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is the lawful owner of, has good and marketable title to and is in lawful possession of, or has valid leasehold interests in, all properties, accounts and other assets (real or personal, tangible, intangible or mixed) purported or reported to be owned or leased (as the case may be) by such Person.

Section 3.8No Default.  No Event of Default, or to such Borrower’s knowledge, Default, has occurred and is continuing.  No Credit Party is in breach or default under or with respect to any contract, agreement, lease or other instrument to which it is a party or by which its property is bound or affected, which breach or default would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.9Labor Matters.  As of the Closing Date, there are no strikes or other labor disputes pending or, to any Borrower’s knowledge, threatened in writing against any Credit Party.  Hours worked and payments made to the employees of the Credit Parties have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Law dealing with such matters.  All payments due from the Credit Parties, or for which any claim may be made against any of them, on account of wages and employee and retiree health and welfare insurance and other benefits have been paid or accrued as a liability on their books, as the case may be.  The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents will not give rise to a right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement to which it is a party or by which it is bound.

Section 3.10Regulated Entities.  No Credit Party is an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” or a “subsidiary” of an “investment company,” all within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940.  

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Section 3.11Margin Regulations.  The Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries do not own any stock, partnership interest or other equity securities, except for their respective Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 3.4 and Permitted Investments.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries do not own or hold any Margin Stock.  None of the proceeds from the Loans have been or will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any “margin stock” (as defined in Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board), for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any “margin stock” or for any other purpose which might cause any of the Loans to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meaning of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.

Section 3.12Compliance With Laws; Anti-Terrorism Laws.

(a)Each Credit Party is in compliance with the requirements of all applicable Laws, except for such Laws the noncompliance with which would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)None of the Credit Parties and, to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, none of their Affiliates (i) is in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law, (ii) engages in or conspires to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in any Anti-Terrorism Law, (iii) is a Blocked Person, or is controlled by a Blocked Person, (iv) is acting or will act for or on behalf of a Blocked Person, (v) is associated with, or will become associated with, a Blocked Person or (vi) is providing, or will provide, material, financial or technical support or other services to or in support of acts of terrorism of a Blocked Person.  No Credit Party nor, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, any of its Affiliates or agents acting or benefiting in any capacity in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (A) conducts any business or engages in making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, or (B) deals in, or otherwise engages in any transaction relating to, any property or interest in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law.

Section 3.13Taxes.  All U.S. federal and all other material foreign, state and local tax returns, reports and statements required to be filed by or on behalf of each Credit Party have been filed with the appropriate Governmental Authorities in all jurisdictions in which such returns, reports and statements are required to be filed and, except to the extent subject to a Permitted Contest, all Taxes (including real property Taxes) and other charges shown to be due and payable in respect thereof have been timely paid prior to the date on which any fine, penalty, interest, late charge or loss may be added thereto for nonpayment thereof.   Except to the extent subject to a Permitted Contest, all material state and local sales and use Taxes required to be paid by each Credit Party have been paid.  All federal and material state returns have been filed by each Credit Party for all periods for which returns were due with respect to employee income tax withholding, social security and unemployment taxes, and, except to the extent subject to a Permitted Contest, the amounts shown thereon to be due and payable have been paid in full or adequate provisions therefor have been made therefor on the financial statements of the Credit Parties.

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Section 3.14Compliance with ERISA.  

(a)Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each ERISA Plan (and the related trusts and funding agreements) complies in form and in operation with, has been administered in compliance with, and the terms of each ERISA Plan satisfy, the applicable requirements of ERISA and the Code;  (ii) each ERISA Plan which is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified, and the United States Internal Revenue Service has issued a favorable determination letter with respect to each such ERISA Plan; and (iii) no Credit Party has incurred liability for any excise tax under any of Sections 4971 through 5000 of the Code.

(b)Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Borrower and each Subsidiary is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the provisions of the Code relating to ERISA Plans and the regulations and published interpretations therein.  During the thirty-six (36) month period prior to the Closing Date or the making of any Loan (i) no steps have been taken to terminate any Pension Plan, other than pursuant to a “standard termination,” within the meaning of Section 4041(b) of ERISA, and (ii) no contribution failure has occurred with respect to any Pension Plan sufficient to give rise to a Lien under Section 303(k) of ERISA or Section 430(k) of the Code and no event has occurred that would give rise to a Lien under Section 4068 of ERISA.  No condition exists or event or transaction has occurred with respect to any Pension Plan which could result in the incurrence by any Credit Party of any liability, fine or penalty in an amount in excess of $500,000.  No Credit Party has incurred liability to the PBGC (other than for current premiums) with respect to any employee Pension Plan.  Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in material liability to any Credit Party, all contributions (if any) have been made on a timely basis to any Multiemployer Plan that are required to be made by any Credit Party or any other member of the Controlled Group under the terms of the plan or of any collective bargaining agreement or by applicable Law; no Credit Party nor any member of the Controlled Group has withdrawn or partially withdrawn from any Multiemployer Plan, incurred any withdrawal liability with respect to any such plan or received notice of any claim or demand for withdrawal liability or partial withdrawal liability from any such plan, and no Credit Party nor any member of the Controlled Group has received any notice that any Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization, that any such plan is or may be terminated, or that any such plan is or may become insolvent.

Section 3.15Consummation of Financing Documents; Brokers.  Except for fees payable to Agent and/or Lenders and except as set forth on Schedule 3.15, no broker, finder or other intermediary has brought about the obtaining, making or closing of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents, and except as set forth on Schedule 3.15 no Credit Party has or will have any obligation to any Person in respect of any finder’s or brokerage fees, commissions or other expenses in connection herewith or therewith.

Section 3.16Reserved.  

Section 3.17Material Contracts.  

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(a)Except for the Financing Documents and the agreements set forth on Schedule 3.17, as of the Closing Date there are no Material Contracts.  The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents will not give rise to a right of termination in favor of any party to any Material Contract (other than any Credit Party), except for such Material Contracts the noncompliance with which would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  

(b)(i) Each Royalty Agreement is a legal, valid and binding agreement enforceable (subject, as to enforcement, to (x) the effect of applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, examinership or similar laws affecting the enforcement or creditors’ rights and (y) general principles of equity) against the Credit Parties party thereto in accordance with its terms; (ii)  all of each Credit Party’s rights (including all Accounts) under the Ruxience Royalty Agreement and any other Royalty Agreement (excluding the IXINITY Royalty Agreement) to which it is a party are fully assignable to Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, without further consent of, or any action by, any other Person, and such an assignment would not constitute a default or breach of such Royalty Agreement; (iii) all of each Credit Party’s Accounts under the IXINITY Royalty Agreement are fully assignable to Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, without further consent of, or any action by, any other Person and such an assignment would not constitute a default or breach of the IXINITY Royalty Agreement; (iv) no Royalty Agreement or any Accounts of Borrowers in respect of any Royalty Agreement constitutes Excluded Property except as expressly set forth in the definition thereof; and (v) all payments to be made to a Credit Party pursuant to each Royalty Agreement are stated in Dollars (to the extent that specific amounts or currencies are therein stated) in the applicable Royalty Agreement no amounts under any Royalty Agreement are required to be paid in a currency other than Dollars.

(c)Except with respect to property constituting an “account,” “chattel paper,” a “promissory note” or a “payment intangible” (as each such term is defined in the UCC), no Credit Party makes any representation or warranty that the Agent or any Lender may exercise remedies, without the consent of the counterparty thereunder, in respect of any security interest in any Royalty Agreement containing an anti-assignment term. This disclaimer does not affect any representation or warranty relating to the attachment of the security interest.

(d)The obligations of Pfizer Inc., as successor to Wyeth LLC, to make payments in respect of CD20 Biosimilar Products (as defined in that certain Amendment No. 3 to the Ruxience Royalty Agreement dated as of May 18, 2011 (the “Third Amendment to Ruxience Royalty Agreement”)) to Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Third Amendment to Ruxience Royalty Agreement have not been terminated and remain in full force and effect.

Section 3.18Compliance with Environmental Requirements; No Hazardous Materials.  Except in each case as set forth on Schedule 3.18:

(a)no notice, notification, demand, request for information, citation, summons, complaint or order has been issued, no complaint has been filed, no penalty has been assessed and no investigation or review is pending, or to such Borrower’s knowledge, threatened in writing by any Governmental Authority or other Person with respect to any (i) alleged violation by any Credit Party of any Environmental Law, (ii) alleged failure by any Credit Party

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to have any Permits required under any Environmental Law in connection with the conduct of its business or to comply with the terms and conditions thereof, (iii) any generation, treatment, storage, recycling, transportation or disposal of any Hazardous Materials by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) release of Hazardous Materials caused by any Credit Party, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its agents; and

(b)no property now owned or, to the knowledge of each Borrower, leased by any Credit Party and, to the knowledge of each Borrower, no such property previously owned or leased by any Credit Party, to which any Credit Party has, directly or indirectly, transported or arranged for the transportation of any Hazardous Materials, is listed or, to such Borrower’s knowledge, proposed for listing, on the National Priorities List promulgated pursuant to CERCLA, or CERCLIS (as defined in CERCLA) or any similar state list or is the subject of federal, state or local enforcement actions or, to the knowledge of such Borrower, other investigations which may lead to claims against any Credit Party for clean-up costs, remedial work, damage to natural resources or personal injury claims, including, without limitation, claims under CERCLA except in the case of the forgoing as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.19Intellectual Property and License Agreements.  A list of all Registered Intellectual Property of each Credit Party and all material in-bound license or sublicense agreements, material exclusive out-bound license or sublicense agreements, or other rights of any Credit Party to use material Intellectual Property (but excluding in-bound licenses of over-the-counter software that is commercially available to the public), as of the Closing Date and, as updated pursuant to Section 4.15, is set forth on Schedule 3.19.  Schedule 3.19 shall be prepared by Borrower in the form provided by Agent and contain all information required in such form.  Except for Permitted Licenses, each Credit Party is the sole owner of its material Intellectual Property free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens.  No part of the Material Intangible Assets has been judged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and to the Borrower’s knowledge, no claim has been made in writing that any part of the Intellectual Property violates the rights of any third party where the effect of such violation would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.20Solvency.  After giving effect to the Loan advances and the liabilities and obligations of each Borrower under the Financing Documents, each Borrower (after giving effect to all rights of such Borrower arising by virtue of Section 2.10(b) and any other rights of contribution or similar rights of such Borrower) is Solvent and the Credit Parties (taken as a whole) are Solvent.

Section 3.21Full Disclosure.  The material written information (financial or otherwise) relating to the Credit Parties, other than projections furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party to Agent or any Lender in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents, when taken as a whole, is accurate and complete in all material respects and does not and will not, when taken as a whole, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made.  All financial projections delivered to Agent and Lenders by Borrowers (or their agents) have been prepared on the basis of the assumptions stated therein.  Such projections represent each

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Borrower’s good faith estimate of such Borrower’s future financial performance and such assumptions are believed by such Borrower to be fair and reasonable in light of current business conditions; provided, however, that it being understood that projections are as to future events and are not to be viewed as facts, projections are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond Borrowers’ control, that Borrowers can give no assurance that such projections will be attained and that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such projections may differ significantly from the projected results and such differences may be material.

Section 3.22Interest Rate.  The rate of interest paid under the Notes and the method and manner of the calculation thereof do not violate any usury or other law or applicable Laws on the Closing Date, any of the Organizational Documents, or any of the Financing Documents.

Section 3.23Subsidiaries.  Borrowers do not own any stock, partnership interests, limited liability company interests or other equity securities or Subsidiaries except for Permitted Investments.

Section 3.24Reserved.  

Section 3.25Accuracy of Schedules.  All information set forth in the Schedules to this Agreement (including Schedule 3.19 and Schedule 8.2(a)) is true, accurate and complete as of the Closing Date, the date of delivery of the last quarterly Compliance Certificate and any other subsequent date in which Borrower is requested to update such Schedules in accordance with this Agreement.  All information set forth in the Perfection Certificate is true, accurate and complete as of the Closing Date and any other subsequent date in which Borrower is requested to update such certificate in accordance with this Agreement.  

Article 4- AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

Each Borrower agrees that, so long as any Credit Exposure exists:

Section 4.1Financial Statements and Other Reports.  Each Borrower will deliver to Agent:  

(a)as soon as available, but no later than thirty (30) days after the last day of each month, a bank statement of each Borrower certified by a Responsible Officer and in a form reasonably acceptable to the Agent;

(b)as soon as available, but no later than forty-five (45) days after the last day of each fiscal quarter, a company prepared consolidated balance sheet, cash flow and income statement covering Borrowers’ and their Consolidated Subsidiaries’ consolidated operations during the period, prepared under GAAP, consistently applied, certified by a Responsible Officer and in a form reasonably acceptable to Agent;

(c)as soon as available, but no later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the last day of Borrower’s fiscal year, audited consolidated financial statements prepared under GAAP, consistently applied, together with an unqualified opinion (other than any going concern qualification with respect to, or resulting from an upcoming maturity date of any Debt occurring

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within one year from the time such opinion is delivered) on the financial statements from Ernst & Young or another independent certified public accounting firm acceptable to Agent in its reasonable discretion;

(d)within five (5) Business Days of delivery or filing thereof, copies of all material statements, reports and notices made available to Borrowers’ security holders or to any holders of any Subordinated Debt and copies of all reports and other filings made by any Borrower with any stock exchange on which any securities of any Borrower are traded and/or the SEC;

(e)a prompt written report of any legal actions pending or threatened in writing against any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected to result in damages or costs to any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) or more;

(f)prompt written notice of an event that materially and adversely affects the value of any Intellectual Property;

(g)within sixty (60) days after the start of each fiscal year, projections for the forthcoming two fiscal years, on a quarterly basis for the current year and on an annual basis for the subsequent year;

(h)promptly (and in any event within ten (10) days of any request therefor) such readily available other budgets, sales projections, operating plans and other financial information and information, reports or statements regarding the Borrowers, their business and the Collateral as Agent may from time to time reasonably request; provided, however, that reporting related to Regulatory Required Permits and/or Regulatory Reporting Events shall be governed by Section 4.17;

(i)within thirty (30) days after the last day of each month (or forty-five (45) days if such month is the last month of a fiscal quarter), deliver to Agent with the financial statements described in clause (a) or (b) above (as applicable), a duly completed Compliance Certificate; and

(j)together with each quarterly Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.1(i), a report of the amount of all Royalties received by or on behalf of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries during such calendar quarter, the dates of payment of such Royalties, the payor(s) of such Royalties and the net sales upon which such Royalties were calculated.

Section 4.2Payment and Performance of Obligations.  Each Borrower (a) will pay and discharge, and cause each Subsidiary to pay and discharge, on a timely basis as and when due, all of their respective obligations and liabilities, except for such obligations and/or liabilities (i) that may be the subject of a Permitted Contest, and (ii) the nonpayment or nondischarge of which would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or result in a Lien against any Collateral, except for Permitted Liens, (b) without limiting anything contained in the foregoing clause (a), and except to the extent subject to a Permitted Contest, pay all amounts due and owing in respect of taxes (including without limitation, payroll and withholding tax

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liabilities) on a timely basis as and when due, and in any case prior to the date on which any fine, penalty, interest, late charge or loss may be added thereto for nonpayment thereof, (c) will maintain, and cause each Subsidiary to maintain, in accordance with GAAP, reserves in respect of their respective obligations and liabilities as such obligations and liabilities are reasonably expected to become due and payable, and (d) will not breach or permit any Subsidiary to breach, or permit to exist any default under, the terms of any lease, commitment, contract, instrument or obligation to which it is a party, or by which its properties or assets are bound, except for such breaches or defaults which would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.3Maintenance of Existence.  Each Borrower will preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect and in good standing, and will cause each Subsidiary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect and in good standing, (a) their respective existence (except as resulting from transactions permitted by Section 5.6) and (b) their respective rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of business except, in case of this clause (b) where a failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.4Maintenance of Property; Insurance.

(a)Each Borrower will keep, and will cause each Subsidiary to keep, all property useful and necessary in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.  If all or any part of the Collateral necessary in its business becomes damaged or destroyed, each Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, promptly and completely repair and/or restore the affected Collateral in a good and workmanlike manner.  

(b)Upon completion of any Permitted Contest, Borrowers shall, and will cause each Subsidiary to, promptly pay the amount due, if any, and deliver to Agent proof of the completion of the contest and payment of the amount due, if any.

(c)Each Borrower will maintain (i) property and casualty insurance on all real and personal property on an all risks basis (including the perils of flood, windstorm and quake, if applicable), covering the repair and replacement cost of all such property and coverage, business interruption and rent loss coverages with extended period of indemnity (for the period required by Agent from time to time) and indemnity for extra expense, in each case without application of coinsurance and with agreed amount endorsements, (ii) general and professional liability insurance (including products/completed operations liability coverage), and (iii) such other insurance coverage, in each case against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons; provided, however, that, in no event shall such insurance be in amounts or with coverage less than, or with carriers with credit ratings materially inferior to, any of the insurance or carriers in existence as of the Closing Date (or required to be in existence after the Closing Date under a Financing Document).  

(d)On or prior to the Closing Date, and at all times thereafter, each Borrower will cause Agent to be named as an additional insured, assignee and lender loss payee (which shall include, as applicable, identification as mortgagee), as applicable, on each policy of property, casualty or liability insurance required to be maintained pursuant to this Section 4.4

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pursuant to endorsements in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent.  Borrowers shall deliver to Agent and Lenders (i) on the Closing Date, a certificate from Borrowers’ insurance broker dated such date showing the amount of coverage as of such date, and that such policies will include effective waivers (whether under the terms of any such policy or otherwise) by the insurer of all claims for insurance premiums against all loss payees and additional insureds (other than Credit Parties) and all rights of subrogation against all loss payees and additional insureds (other than Credit Parties), and that if all or any part of such policy is canceled, terminated or expires, the insurer will forthwith give notice thereof to each additional insured or loss payee and that no cancellation, reduction in amount or material change in coverage thereof shall be effective until at least thirty (30) days after receipt by each additional insured, assignee and loss payee of written notice thereof (ten (10) days in the case of non-payment of premium), (ii) on an annual basis, and upon the request of any Lender through Agent from time to time all information as to the insurance carried reasonably requested by Agent, (iii) within five (5) Business Days of receipt of notice from any insurer, a copy of any notice of cancellation, nonrenewal or material change in coverage from that existing on the date of this Agreement, (iv) forthwith, notice of any cancellation or nonrenewal of coverage by any Borrower, and (v) at least twenty (20) Business Days prior to expiration of any policy of insurance, evidence of renewal of such insurance upon the terms and conditions herein required.

(e)In the event any Borrower fails to provide Agent with evidence of the insurance coverage required by this Agreement promptly following request, Agent may purchase insurance at Borrowers’ expense to protect Agent’s interests in the Collateral.  This insurance may, but need not, protect such Borrower’s interests.  The coverage purchased by Agent may not pay any claim made by such Borrower or any claim that is made against such Borrower in connection with the Collateral.  Such Borrower may later cancel any insurance purchased by Agent, but only after providing Agent with evidence that such Borrower has obtained insurance as required by this Agreement.  If Agent purchases insurance for the Collateral, Borrowers will be responsible for the costs of that insurance to the fullest extent provided by law, including interest and other charges imposed by Agent in connection with the placement of the insurance, until the effective date of the cancellation or expiration of the insurance.  The costs of the insurance may be added to the Obligations.  The costs of the insurance may be more than the cost of insurance such Borrower is able to obtain on its own.  

Section 4.5Compliance with Laws and Material Contracts.  Each Borrower will comply, and cause each Subsidiary to comply, with the requirements of all applicable Laws and Material Contracts, except to the extent that failure to so comply would not reasonably be expected to (a) have a Material Adverse Effect, or (b) result in any Lien upon a material portion of the assets of any such Person in favor of any Governmental Authority.

Section 4.6Inspection of Property, Books and Records.  Each Borrower will keep, and will cause each Subsidiary to keep, proper books of record substantially in accordance with GAAP in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities; and will permit, and will cause each Subsidiary to permit, at the sole cost of the applicable Borrower or any applicable Subsidiary, representatives of Agent and of any Lender (if accompanied by Agent) to visit and inspect any of their respective properties, to examine and make abstracts or copies from any of their respective books and records, to conduct a collateral audit and analysis of their respective operations and the

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Collateral, to verify the amount and age of the Accounts, the identity and credit of the respective Account Debtors, to review the billing practices of Borrowers and to discuss their respective affairs, finances and accounts with their respective officers, employees and independent public accountants as often as may reasonably be desired; provided that, in the absence of a Default or an Event of Default, such rights pursuant to this Section 4.6 may be exercised (a) during reasonable business hours, (b) on at least two (2) Business Days advance written notice and (c) not more than twice per calendar year at the Borrowers’ expense; provided further that the restrictions set forth in clause (a) through (c) shall not apply during the existence and continuance of any Event of Default.

Section 4.7Use of Proceeds.  Borrowers shall use the proceeds of the Loans solely for (a) transaction fees incurred in connection with the Financing Documents, and (b) for working capital needs of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries.  No portion of the proceeds of the Loans will be used for family, personal, agricultural or household use.

Section 4.8Estoppel Certificates.  After written request by Agent which, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, shall be limited to one (1) such request per fiscal year of Borrowers, Borrowers, within fifteen (15) days and at their expense, will furnish Agent with a statement, duly acknowledged and certified, setting forth (a) the amount of the original principal amount of the Notes, and the unpaid principal amount of the Notes, (b) the rate of interest of the Notes, (c) the date payments of interest and/or principal were last paid, (d) any offsets or defenses to the payment of the Obligations, and if any are alleged, the nature thereof, (e) that the Notes and this Agreement have not been modified or if modified, giving particulars of such modification, and (f) that there has occurred and is then continuing no Default or if such Default exists, the nature thereof, the period of time it has existed, and the action being taken to remedy such Default.  After written request by Agent, which, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, shall be limited to one (1) such request per fiscal year of Borrowers, Borrowers, within fifteen (15) days and at their expense, will furnish Agent with a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer of Borrowers, updating all of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and the other Financing Documents and making any required disclosures required to make such representations and warranties to be true, accurate and complete (after taking into such disclosures as if such representations and warranties provided for disclosure schedules) and certifying that all of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and the other Financing Documents, as updated pursuant to such certificate and such required disclosures, are true, accurate and complete in all material respects as of the date of such certificate.

Section 4.9Notices of Material Contracts, Litigation and Defaults.  

(a)Borrower shall provide three (3) Business Days (i) written notice to Agent of Borrower (1) executing and delivering any amendment, consent, waiver or other modification to any Material Contract which is material and adverse to such Material Contract or which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (2) receiving or delivering any notice of termination or default or similar notice in connection with any Material Contract, or (3) with respect to any Royalty Agreement, receiving any notice decreasing or ceasing the payment of any Royalties thereunder; provided, that this clause (3) shall not require Borrower to breach the terms and conditions of any confidentiality agreement in connection a Royalty Agreement and

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existing prior to the Closing Date, and (ii) together with delivery of the Compliance Certificate due after such date (included as an update to any such schedule delivered therewith) the execution of any new Material Contract and/or any new material amendment, consent, waiver or other modification to any Material Contract not previously disclosed.

(b)Borrowers will give prompt written notice to Agent (but in any event within five (5) Business Days) (i) of any litigation or governmental proceedings pending or threatened (in writing) against Borrowers or other Credit Party which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Borrowers or any other Credit Party or which in any manner calls into question the validity or enforceability of any Financing Document, (ii) upon any Borrower becoming aware of the existence of any Default or Event of Default, (iii) of any strikes or other labor disputes pending or, to any Borrower’s knowledge, threatened in writing against any Credit Party, which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (iv) if there is any infringement or written claim of infringement by any other Person with respect to any Intellectual Property rights of any Credit Party that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or if there is any written claim by any other Person that any Credit Party in the conduct of its business is infringing on the Intellectual Property rights of others and an adverse resolution of such claim would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (v) of all returns, recoveries, disputes and claims that involve more than $250,000.  Borrowers represent and warrant that Schedule 4.9 sets forth a complete list of all matters existing as of the Closing Date for which notice could be required under this Section and all litigation or governmental proceedings pending or threatened (in writing) against Borrowers or other Credit Party as of the Closing Date.

(c)Borrower shall, and shall cause each Credit Party, to provide such further information (including copies of such documentation) as Agent or any Lender shall reasonably request with respect to any of the events or notices described in clauses (a) and (b) above.  From the date hereof and continuing through the termination of this Agreement, Borrower shall, and shall cause each Credit Party to, make reasonably available to Agent and each Lender, without expense to Agent or any Lender, each Credit Party’s officers, employees and agents and books, to the extent that Agent or any Lender may deem them reasonably necessary to prosecute or defend any third-party suit or proceeding instituted by or against Agent or any Lender with respect to any Collateral or relating to a Credit Party.

(d)Borrower shall, and shall cause each Credit Party to, promptly (but in any event within five (5) Business Days of any request therefor) deliver to Agent information and documentation reasonably requested by Agent or any Lender for purposes of compliance with applicable “know your customer” requirements under the PATRIOT Act or other applicable anti-money laundering laws.

Section 4.10Hazardous Materials; Remediation. If any release or disposal of Hazardous Materials shall occur or shall have occurred on any real property owned or leased by a Credit Party or any other assets of any Borrower or any other Credit Party, such Borrower will cause, or direct the applicable Credit Party to cause, the prompt containment and removal of such Hazardous Materials and the remediation of such real property or other assets to the extent required to comply with all applicable Environmental Laws and to preserve the value of such real property or other assets except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Borrower shall, and shall cause each other Credit Party to, comply with each

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Environmental Law requiring the performance at any real property by any Credit Party of activities in response to the release or threatened release of a Hazardous Material except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.11Further Assurances.

(a)Each Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, at its own cost and expense, promptly and duly take, execute, acknowledge and deliver all such further acts, documents and assurances as may from time to time be necessary or as Agent or the Required Lenders may from time to time reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and purposes of the Financing Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, including all such actions to (i) establish, create, preserve, protect and perfect a first priority Lien (subject only to Permitted Liens) in favor of Agent for itself and for the benefit of Lenders on the Collateral (including Collateral acquired after the Closing Date), (ii) unless Agent shall agree otherwise in writing, cause all Subsidiaries of Borrowers (other than Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries) to be jointly and severally obligated with the other Borrowers under all covenants and obligations under this Agreement, including the obligation to repay the Obligations.  

(b)Upon receipt of an affidavit of an authorized representative of Agent or a Lender as to the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any Note or any other Financing Document which is not of public record, and, in the case of any such mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of such Note or other applicable Financing Document, Borrowers will issue, in lieu thereof, a replacement Note or other applicable Financing Document, dated the date of such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Note or other Financing Document in the same principal amount thereof and otherwise of like tenor.

(c)Upon the request of Agent, Borrowers shall obtain a landlord’s agreement or mortgagee agreement, as applicable, from the lessor of each leased property or mortgagee of owned property with respect to any business location where any material portion of the Collateral included or the records relating to such Collateral and/or software and equipment relating to such records or Collateral, is stored or located (unless such books and records are also located at another business location that is subject to landlord’s or mortgagee agreement in favor of Agent), which agreement or letter shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Agent.  Borrowers shall timely and fully pay and perform its obligations under all leases and other agreements with respect to each leased location where any Collateral, or any records related thereto, is or may be located.

(d)Borrower shall provide Agent with at least thirty (30) days (or such shorter period as Agent may accept in its sole discretion) prior written notice of its intention to create (or to the extent permitted under this Agreement, acquire) a new Subsidiary.  Upon the formation (or to the extent permitted under this Agreement, acquisition) of a new Subsidiary, Borrowers shall within thirty (30) days thereof (i) pledge, have pledged or cause or have caused to be pledged to Agent pursuant to a pledge agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, all of the outstanding shares of equity interests or other equity interests of such new Subsidiary owned directly or indirectly by any Borrower (unless such shares constitute Excluded Property or are held by an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Excluded Domestic Holdco), along with undated stock or equivalent powers for such certificates, executed in blank; (ii) unless Agent shall agree

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otherwise in writing, cause such new Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Excluded Domestic Holdco) to take such other actions (including entering into or joining any Security Documents) as are necessary or advisable in the reasonable opinion of Agent in order to grant Agent, acting on behalf of the Lenders, a first priority Lien (subject to Permitted Liens) on all real and personal property of such Subsidiary in existence as of such date and in all after acquired property, which first priority Liens are required to be granted pursuant to this Agreement; (iii) unless Agent shall agree otherwise in writing, cause such new Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Excluded Domestic Holdco) to either (at the election of Agent) become a Borrower hereunder with joint and several liability for all obligations of Borrowers hereunder and under the other Financing Documents pursuant to a joinder agreement or other similar agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent or to become a Guarantor of the obligations of Borrowers hereunder and under the other Financing Documents pursuant to a guaranty and suretyship agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Agent; and (iv) cause such new Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Excluded Domestic Holdco) to deliver certified copies of such Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, together with good standing certificates, by-laws (or other operating agreement or governing documents), resolutions of the Board of Directors or other governing body, approving and authorize the execution and delivery of the Security Documents, incumbency certificates and to execute and/or deliver such other documents and legal opinions or to take such other actions as may be reasonably requested by Agent, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

(e)Borrower further agrees to comply, and cause its respective Subsidiaries to comply with the following requirements with respect to the Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries and the Excluded Domestic Holdcos:

(i)the total amount of cash and cash equivalents held by the Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries and the Excluded Domestic Holdcos (collectively) shall not at any time exceed the lesser of (x) $100,000 in the aggregate; and (y) the aggregate amount necessary to fund the current and projected operating expenses of each Excluded Foreign Subsidiary (after taking into account its revenue from other sources, in each case) as determined based on projections prepared by Borrower and approved by Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); and

(ii)No Credit Party shall (i) transfer any asset (including any Intellectual Property) to any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or any Excluded Domestic Holdco, (ii) make any payment in respect of intercompany Debt to any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or any Excluded Domestic Holdco, or (iii) make any Investment in any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or any Excluded Domestic Holdco following the Closing Date other than, in each case, Investments of cash and cash equivalents permitted to be made pursuant to clauses (j) of the definition of Permitted Investments.

(f)Following (a) the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default and (b) the exercise by Agent of any right, option or remedy provided for hereunder, under any Financing Document or at law or in equity, Credit Parties shall cause each Excluded Foreign Subsidiary to declare and pay to the applicable Credit Party the maximum amount of dividends and other distributions in respect of its capital stock or other equity interest legally permitted to

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be paid by each such Excluded Foreign Subsidiary; provided that such Excluded Foreign Subsidiary shall be able to retain for working capital purposes such other amounts used by such Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business and as are reasonable necessary for its operations based on its current projections, as provided to the Agent pursuant to Section 4.1.

Section 4.12Reserved.  

Section 4.13Power of Attorney.  Each of the authorized representatives of Agent is hereby irrevocably made, constituted and appointed the true and lawful attorney for Borrowers (without requiring any of them to act as such) with full power of substitution to do the following:  (a) endorse the name of Borrowers upon any and all checks, drafts, money orders, and other instruments for the payment of money that are payable to Borrowers and constitute collections on Borrowers’ Accounts; (b) so long as Agent has provided not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice to Borrower to perform the same and Borrower has failed to take such action, execute in the name of Borrowers any schedules, assignments, instruments, documents, and statements that Borrowers are obligated to give Agent under this Agreement; (c) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, take any action Borrowers are required to take under this Agreement; (d) so long as Agent has provided not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice to Borrower to perform the same and Borrower has failed to take such action, do such other and further acts and deeds in the name of Borrowers that Agent may deem necessary or desirable to enforce any Account or other Collateral or perfect Agent’s security interest or Lien in any Collateral; and (e) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, do such other and further acts and deeds in the name of Borrowers that Agent may deem necessary or desirable to enforce its rights with regard to any Account or other Collateral.  This power of attorney shall be irrevocable and coupled with an interest.

Section 4.14Reserved.

Section 4.15Schedule Updates.  Borrower shall, in the event of any information in the Schedules becoming outdated, inaccurate, incomplete or misleading, deliver to Agent, together with the next quarterly Compliance Certificate required to be delivered under this Agreement after such event a proposed update to such Schedule correcting all outdated, inaccurate, incomplete or misleading information; provided, however, with respect to any proposed updates to the Schedules involving Permitted Liens, Permitted Debt or Permitted Investments, Agent will replace the respective Schedule attached hereto with such proposed update only if such updated information is consistent with the definitions of and limitations herein pertaining to Permitted Liens, Permitted Debt or Permitted Investments.

Section 4.16Intellectual Property and Licensing.  

(a)Together with each quarterly Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.1 to the extent (A) Borrower acquires and/or develops any new Registered Intellectual Property registered in the United States or any new material foreign Registered Intellectual Property, in each case, for which it is the registered owner, or (B) Borrower enters into or becomes bound by any additional in-bound license or sublicense agreement, any additional exclusive out-bound license or sublicense agreement with respect to rights in Intellectual Property (other than (i) over-the-counter

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software that is commercially available to the public and (ii) in-bound license or sublicense agreements that are not material to Borrower’s business), or (C) there occurs any other material change in Borrower’s Registered Intellectual Property, in-bound licenses or sublicenses or exclusive out-bound licenses or sublicenses from that listed on Schedule 3.19 together with such Compliance Certificate, deliver to Agent an updated Schedule 3.19 reflecting such updated information.  With respect to any updates to Schedule 3.19 involving exclusive out-bound licenses or sublicenses, such licenses shall be consistent with the definitions of and limitations herein pertaining to Permitted Licenses.    

(b)If Borrower obtains any Registered Intellectual Property registered in the United States or any material foreign Registered Intellectual Property, in each case, for which it is the registered owner, other than copyrights, mask works and related applications, which are addressed below, Borrower shall notify Agent on a quarterly basis and execute such documents and provide such other information (including, without limitation, copies of applications) and take such other actions as Agent shall request in its good faith business judgment to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest (subject to Permitted Liens) in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lenders, the Registered Intellectual Property (other than Excluded Property and any security interest that is not required to be perfected under the terms of this Agreement).  Borrower shall take such actions as Agent shall request in its good faith business judgment to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest (subject to Permitted Liens) in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lenders, in the Registered Intellectual Property (other than Excluded Property and any security interest that is not required to be perfected under the terms of this Agreement).

(c)Borrower shall, if requested by Agent, take commercially reasonable steps (not involving the payment of money) to obtain the consent of, or waiver by, any person whose consent or waiver is necessary for (x) all licenses or agreements to be deemed “Collateral” and for Agent to have a security interest in it that might otherwise be restricted or prohibited by Law or by the terms of any such license or agreement, whether now existing or entered into in the future, and (y) Agent to have the ability in the event of a liquidation of any Collateral to dispose of such Collateral in accordance with Agent’s rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents.

(d)Borrower shall own, or be licensed to use or otherwise have the right to use, all Material Intangible Assets.  Borrower shall cause all Registered Intellectual Property to be duly and properly registered, filed or issued in the appropriate office and jurisdictions for such registrations, filings or issuances, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Borrower shall at all times conduct its business without material infringement of any Intellectual Property rights of others.  Borrower shall (i) protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of its Material Intangible Assets (ii) promptly advise Agent in writing of material infringements of its Material Intangible Assets, or of a material claim of infringement by Borrower on the Intellectual Property rights of others; and (iii) not allow any of Borrower’s Material Intangible Assets to be abandoned, invalidated, forfeited or dedicated to the public or to become unenforceable.  

(e)Borrower shall not become a party to, nor become bound by, any new material license or other agreement after the Closing Date with respect to which Borrower is the licensee that prohibits or otherwise restricts Borrower from granting a security interest in Borrower’s interest in such license or agreement or other property; provided that this clause (e) shall not prohibit the inclusion of customary anti-assignment provisions in such licenses or other agreements so long as the effect of such provisions would not cause such license or other agreement to be Excluded Property.

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Section 4.17Regulatory Reporting and Covenants.

(a)Borrower shall notify Agent and each Lender promptly, and in any event within 3 Business Days of receiving, becoming aware of or determining that, (each, a “Regulatory Reporting Event” and collectively, the “Regulatory Reporting Events”):  (i) any Governmental Authority, specifically including the FDA is conducting or has conducted (A) if applicable, an inspection of any of Borrower’s or its Subsidiaries’ manufacturing facilities and processes for any Product which inspection has disclosed, and notification of which has been provided to Borrower in writing, of any material deficiencies or violations of Laws and/or the Regulatory Required Permits related to such thereto or (B) a material investigation or review of any Regulatory Required Permit (other than routine reviews in the Ordinary Course of Business associated with the renewal or maintenance of a Regulatory Required Permit which would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect), (ii) development, testing, and/or manufacturing of any Product or provision of any service that is material to the business of Borrower or its Subsidiaries should cease, (iii) a Product that is material to the business of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries has been approved for marketing and sale, any marketing or sales of such Product should cease or such Product should be withdrawn from the marketplace, (iv) adverse clinical trial test results with respect to any Product which have or would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (v) any Product Recalls or voluntary Product withdrawals from any market which have or would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (vi) any significant failures in the manufacturing of any Product such that the amount of such Product successfully manufactured in accordance with all specifications thereof and any required payments to be made to Borrower therefor in any month shall decrease significantly with respect to the quantities of such Product and payments produced in the prior month, in each case, which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Borrower shall provide to Agent or any Lender such further information (including copies of such documentation) as Agent or any Lender shall reasonably request with respect to any such Regulatory Reporting Event.

(b)Borrower shall, and shall cause each Credit Party to, obtain all Regulatory Required Permits necessary for compliance in all material respects with Laws with respect to testing, manufacturing, developing, selling or marketing of Products and shall, and shall cause each Credit Party to, maintain and comply in all material respects with all such Regulatory Required Permits, the noncompliance with which would have a Material Adverse Effect.  In the event Borrower or any Credit Party obtains any new material Regulatory Required Permit or any information on the Schedule 8.2(a) becomes outdated, inaccurate, incomplete or misleading, Borrower shall, together with the next Compliance Certificate required to be delivered under this Agreement after such event, provide Agent with an updated Schedule 8.2(a)  including such updated information.

(c)If, after the Closing Date, (i) Borrower determines to manufacture, sell, develop, test or market any new Product, Borrower shall deliver prior written notice to Agent of such determination (which shall include a brief description of such Product) and, together with delivery of the next Compliance Certificate shall provide an updated Schedule 3.19 and Schedule 8.2(a) (Licensing and Products) (and copies of such Permits as Agent may request) reflecting updates related to such determination

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Article 5- NEGATIVE COVENANTS

Each Borrower agrees that, so long as any Credit Exposure exists:

Section 5.1Debt; Contingent Obligations.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, any Debt, except for Permitted Debt.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Contingent Obligations, except for Permitted Contingent Obligations.

Section 5.2Liens.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except for Permitted Liens.  

Section 5.3Distributions.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, declare, order, pay, make or set apart any sum for any Distribution, except for Permitted Distributions.

Section 5.4Restrictive Agreements.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly (a) enter into or assume any agreement (other than the Financing Documents, any Subordinated Debt Documents, any agreements for purchase money debt permitted under clause (c) of the definition of Permitted Debt and any agreements related solely to IXINITY Royalty Excluded Deposit Account) prohibiting the creation or assumption of any Lien upon its properties or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or (b) create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction of any kind (except as provided by the Financing Documents) on the ability of any Subsidiary to:  (i) pay or make Distributions to any Borrower or any Subsidiary; (ii) pay any Debt owed to any Borrower or any Subsidiary; (iii) make loans or advances to any Borrower or any Subsidiary; or (iv) transfer any of its property or assets to any Borrower or any Subsidiary.

Section 5.5Payments and Modifications of Subordinated Debt.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly (a) declare, pay, make or set aside any amount for payment in respect of Subordinated Debt, except for payments made in full compliance with and expressly permitted under the Subordination Agreement, (b) amend or otherwise modify the terms of any Subordinated Debt, except for amendments or modifications made in full compliance with the Subordination Agreement relating thereto, or (c) declare, pay, make or set aside any amount for payment in respect of any Debt hereinafter incurred that, by its terms, or by separate agreement, is subordinated to the Obligations, except for payments permitted under the subordination provisions applicable thereto.  Borrowers shall, prior to entering into any such amendment or modification, deliver to Agent reasonably in advance of the execution thereof, any final or execution form copy thereof.

Section 5.6Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets; Change in Control.  

(a)No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly consolidate or merge or amalgamate with or into any other Person other than (a) consolidations or mergers among Borrowers where a Borrower is the surviving entity (provided that in the case of any consolidation or merger involving Aptevo Therapeutics, Aptevo Therapeutics shall be the

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surviving entity), (b) consolidations or mergers among a Guarantor and a Borrower so long as the Borrower is the surviving entity, (c) consolidations or mergers among Guarantors where the Guarantor is the surviving entity, (d) consolidations or mergers among Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries and (e) dissolutions or liquidations of Credit Parties (other than Aptevo Therapeutics) or their Subsidiaries so long as any assets of such dissolved or liquidated Person are transferred to a Borrower.  

(b)No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly consummate any Asset Dispositions other than Permitted Asset Dispositions.  

(c)No Borrower will suffer or permit to occur any Change in Control.  

Section 5.7Purchase of Assets, Investments.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly (a) without limiting clause (c) below, acquire or enter into any agreement to acquire any assets other than in the Ordinary Course of Business or as permitted under the definition of Permitted Investments; (b) engage or enter into any agreement to engage in any joint venture or statutory or common law partnership with any other Person; or (c) acquire, own or make or enter into any agreement to acquire, own or make any Investment in any Person other than Permitted Investments.  Without limiting the foregoing, no Credit Party shall, nor will any Credit Party permit any Subsidiary to, purchase or carry Margin Stock.

Section 5.8Transactions with Affiliates.  Except as otherwise disclosed on Schedule 5.8, transactions that are disclosed to Agent in advance of being entered into and transactions which contain terms that are no less favorable to the applicable Borrower or any Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those which might be obtained from a third party not an Affiliate of any Credit Party, no Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any transaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate of any Borrower.

Section 5.9Modification of Organizational Documents  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, amend or otherwise modify any Organizational Documents of such Person, except for Permitted Modifications.

Section 5.10Modification of Certain Agreements; Royalty Agreements.  

(a)No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, amend or otherwise modify any Material Contract, which amendment or modification in any case:  (i) is contrary to the terms of this Agreement or any other Financing Document; (ii) would reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the rights, interests or privileges of Agent or the Lenders or their ability to enforce the same; and (iii) would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Without limiting the foregoing, no Borrower will or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, amend or otherwise modify (or permit any amendment or modification to) the Ruxience Royalty Agreement (except as set forth in the Ruxience Sale Agreement) or the IXINITY Royalty Agreement without the prior written consent of Agent (not to be unreasonably withheld).  Each Borrower shall, prior to entering into any amendment or other modification of any of the foregoing documents, deliver to Agent reasonably in advance of

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the execution thereof, any final or execution form copy of amendments or other modifications to such documents.

(b)Borrowers shall ensure that all amounts due in respect of Royalties (other than Royalties that are actually sold as a part of a Permitted Royalty Stream Distribution) are paid into a Deposit Account of Borrower that is subject to a Deposit Account Control Agreement.

Section 5.11Conduct of Business.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, engage in any line of business other than those businesses engaged in on the Closing Date and other businesses reasonably related thereto.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, other than in the Ordinary Course of Business, change its normal billing payment and reimbursement policies and procedures with respect to its Accounts (including, without limitation, the amount and timing of finance charges, fees and write-offs).

Section 5.12Reserved.  

Section 5.13Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into any arrangement with any Person whereby, in a substantially contemporaneous transaction, any Borrower or any Subsidiaries sells or transfers all or substantially all of its right, title and interest in an asset and, in connection therewith, acquires or leases back the right to use such asset.

Section 5.14Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts; Payroll and Benefits Accounts.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Excluded Domestic Holdco) to, directly or indirectly, establish any new Deposit Account or Securities Account without prior written notice to Agent, and unless Agent, such Borrower or such Subsidiary and the bank, financial institution or securities intermediary at which the account is to be opened enter into a Deposit Account Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement prior to or concurrently with the establishment of such Deposit Account or Securities Account.  Borrowers represent and warrant that Schedule 5.14 lists all of the Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts of each Borrower.  The provisions of this Section requiring Deposit Account Control Agreements shall not apply to (a) the Wells Fargo LC Cash Collateral Account during the Wells Fargo LC Period, (b) the Piper Sandler Securities Account, (c) Deposit Accounts exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrowers’ employees and identified to Agent by Borrowers as such, (d) segregated Deposit Accounts of Borrower established and maintained for the sole purpose of providing cash collateral in favor of for obligations of Borrower in respect of certain commercial credit credits provided to the extent permitted by clause (n) of the definition of permitted Debt; provided that the aggregate amount on deposit in all such Deposit Accounts shall not at any time exceed $400,000 (the “Credit Card Cash Collateral Accounts”), and (e) any IXINITY Royalty Excluded Deposit Account (the Deposit Accounts and/or Securities Accounts in clauses (a) through (e), collectively, “Excluded Accounts”).   Except during the post-closing period provided in paragraph 3 of Schedule 7.4, at all times that any Obligations remain outstanding, Borrower shall maintain one or more separate Deposit Accounts to hold any and all amounts to be used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments, and shall not commingle any monies allocated for such purposes with funds in any other Deposit

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Account.  With respect to accounts subject to a Deposit Account Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement, Agent shall not deliver to the relevant depository, securities intermediary or commodities intermediary a notice or other instruction (i) directing disposition of funds in such account or (ii) which provides for exclusive control over such account by Agent, unless in either case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.  Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary contained herein, upon the expiration of the Wells Fargo LC Period, Borrowers shall promptly transfer all funds on deposit in the Wells Fargo LC Cash Collateral Account to a Deposit Account or Securities Account subject to a Deposit Account Control Agreement or a Securities Account Control Agreement in favor of Agent.

Section 5.15Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws.  Agent hereby notifies Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of Anti-Terrorism Laws, and Agent’s policies and practices, Agent is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies Borrowers and their principals, which information includes the name and address of each Borrower and its principals and such other information that will allow Agent to identify such party in accordance with Anti-Terrorism Laws.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, knowingly enter into any Material Contracts with any Blocked Person or any Person listed on the OFAC Lists.  Each Borrower shall immediately notify Agent if such Borrower has knowledge that any Borrower, any additional Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates or agents acting or benefiting in any capacity in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement is or becomes a Blocked Person or (a) is convicted on, (b) pleads nolo contendere to, (c) is indicted on, or (d) is arraigned and held over on charges involving money laundering or predicate crimes to money laundering.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, (i) conduct any business or engage in any transaction or dealing with any Blocked Person, including, without limitation, the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) engage in or conspire to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in Executive Order No. 13224 or other Anti-Terrorism Law.

Section 5.16Change in Accounting.  No Borrower shall, and no Borrower shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) make any significant change in accounting treatment or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP or (ii) change the fiscal year or method for determining fiscal quarters of any Credit Party or of any consolidated Subsidiary of any Credit Party.

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Article 6- reserved

Article 7- CONDITIONS

Section 7.1Conditions to Closing.  The obligation of each Lender to make the initial Loans on the Closing Date shall be subject to the receipt by Agent of each agreement, document and instrument set forth on the closing checklist attached hereto as Exhibit F, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, and to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent, each to the reasonable satisfaction of Agent:

(a)the receipt by Agent of executed counterparts of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents as set forth in the closing checklist provided by Agent to the Borrowers prior to the Closing Date;

(b)the payment of all fees, expenses and other amounts due and payable under each Financing Document;

(c)since December 31, 2019, the absence of any material adverse change in any aspect of the business, operations, properties, or financial condition of any Credit Party, or any event or condition which would reasonably be expected to result in such a material adverse change;

Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Financing Document, each additional Financing Document and each other document, agreement and/or instrument required to be approved by Agent, Required Lenders or Lenders, as applicable, on the Closing Date.

Section 7.2Conditions to Each Loan.  The obligation of the Lenders to make a Loan or an advance in respect of any Loan, is subject to the satisfaction of the following additional conditions:

(a)the fact that, immediately before and after such advance, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(b)the fact that the representations and warranties of each Credit Party contained in the Financing Documents shall be true, correct and complete on and as of the Closing Date, except to the extent that any such representation or warranty relates to a specific date (in which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct as of such earlier date); and

(c) since the Closing Date, no event has occurred which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Each giving of a Notice of Borrowing hereunder and each acceptance by any Borrower of the proceeds of any Loan made hereunder shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by each Borrower on the date of such notice or acceptance as to the satisfaction of the conditions specified in this Section.

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Section 7.3Searches.  Before the Closing Date, and thereafter (as and when determined by Agent in its discretion), Agent shall have the right to perform, all at Borrowers’ reasonable expense, the searches described in clauses (a), (b), and (c) below against Borrowers and any other Credit Party, the results of which are to be consistent with Borrowers’ representations and warranties under this Agreement and the satisfactory results of which shall be a condition precedent to all advances of Loan proceeds:  (a) UCC searches with the Secretary of State of the jurisdiction in which the applicable Person is organized; (b) judgment, pending litigation, federal tax lien, personal property tax lien, and corporate and partnership tax lien searches, in each jurisdiction searched under clause (a) above; and (c) searches of applicable corporate, limited liability company, partnership and related records to confirm the continued existence, organization and good standing of the applicable Person and the exact legal name under which such Person is organized.

Section 7.4Post Closing Requirements.  Borrowers shall complete each of the post closing obligations and/or provide to Agent each of the documents, instruments, agreements and information listed on Schedule 7.4 attached hereto on or before the date set forth for each such item thereon (or such later date as Agent may agree in its sole discretion), each of which shall be completed or provided in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

Article 8– REGULATORY MATTERS

Section 8.1Reserved.

Section 8.2Representations and Warranties. To induce Agent and Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make credit accommodations contemplated hereby, Borrowers hereby represent and warrant that all of the information regarding the Borrowers set forth in Schedule 8.2(a) is true, complete and correct, and that, except as disclosed in Schedule 8.2(b), the following statements are true, complete and correct as of the Closing Date, and Borrowers hereby covenant and agree to notify Agent within three (3) Business Days (but in any event prior to Borrowers submitting any requests for advances of reserves or escrows or fundings of credit facility proceeds under this Agreement) following the occurrence of any facts, events or circumstances known to a Borrower, whether threatened, existing or pending, that would make any of the following representations and warranties materially untrue, incomplete or incorrect (together with such supporting data and information as shall be necessary to fully explain to Agent the scope and nature of the fact, event or circumstance), and shall provide to Agent within two (2) Business Days of Agent’s request, such additional information as Agent shall request regarding such disclosure:

(a)Disclosure. All of Borrower’s Products and Regulatory Required Permits are listed on Schedule 8.2(a) (as updated from time to time pursuant to Section 4.15).

(b)Permits.  Borrowers have (i) each material Permit, and have made all material declarations and filings relating to such Permits with, all applicable Governmental Authorities, all self regulatory authorities and all courts and other tribunals necessary to engage in the ownership, management and operation of the business or the assets of any Borrower, and (ii) received no written notice from any Governmental Authority stating that it is limiting, suspending or revoking any such Permit where such limiting, suspending or revoking would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Borrower has delivered to Agent a copy of all Permits requested by Agent as of the

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Closing Date or to the extent requested by Agent pursuant to Section 4.17.  All such Permits are valid and in full force and effect and Borrowers are in material compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Permits, except where failure to be in such compliance or for a Permit to be valid and in full force and effect would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c)Regulatory Required Permits.  With respect to any Product, (i) Borrower and its Subsidiaries have received, and such Product is the subject of, all Regulatory Required Permits needed to be held by Borrower and its Subsidiaries under applicable Laws in connection with their testing, manufacture, marketing or sale of such Product except where the failure to receive or be the subject of such Regulatory Required Permits would not reasonably be expected to have Material Adverse Effect, and no Borrower has received any written notice from any applicable Governmental Authority, specifically including the FDA, that such Governmental Authority is, outside of the normal maintenance or renewal process, conducting an investigation or review of any such Regulatory Required Permit or approval which has disclosed, and notification of which has been provided to Borrower in writing, any material deficiencies or violations of the Regulatory Required Permits, or that any such Regulatory Required Permit has been revoked or withdrawn where such revocation or withdrawal would reasonably be expected to have Material Adverse Effect, nor has any such Governmental Authority issued any written order or recommendation stating that such development, testing, manufacturing, marketing or sales of such Product by Borrower should cease, where such cessation would reasonably be expected to have Material Adverse Effect (ii) to Borrower’s knowledge, such Product is being tested, manufactured, marketed or sold, as the case may be, in material compliance with all applicable Laws and Regulatory Required Permits, and Borrower has not received any notice from any applicable Governmental Authority, specifically including the FDA, that such Governmental Authority is conducting an investigation or inspection of (A) Borrower’s manufacturing facilities and processes for such Product which have disclosed any material deficiencies or violations of Laws (including Healthcare Laws) and/or the Regulatory Required Permits related to the manufacture of such Product, or (B) (outside of the normal maintenance or renewal process) any such Regulatory Required Permit or that any such Regulatory Required Permit has been revoked or withdrawn, nor has any such Governmental Authority issued any order or recommendation stating that the development, testing and/or manufacturing of such Product by Borrower should cease and in each case would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(d)Healthcare and Regulatory Events.

(i)None of the Borrowers are in violation of any Healthcare Laws, except where any such violation would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(ii)As of the Closing Date, there have been no Regulatory Reporting Events.

(iii)No Borrower is participating in any Third Party Payor Program, it being understood that agreements to provide discounts or rebates on drugs or biologics reimbursed by Third Party Payors is not participation in a Third Party Payor Program.

(iv)None of the Borrower’s officers, directors, employees, shareholders, their agents or affiliates has made an untrue statement of material fact or fraudulent statement to the FDA or failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA, committed an act, made a statement, or failed to make a statement that would reasonably be expected to provide a basis for the FDA to invoke its policy respecting “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities,” set forth in 56 Fed. Regulation 46191 (September 10, 1991).

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the United States Department of Justice has commenced or threatened to initiate any material action against a Credit Party, any action to enjoin a Credit Party, their officers, directors, employees, shareholders or their agents and Affiliates, from conducting their businesses at any facility owned or used by them as it may relate to Borrower’s business or for any material civil penalty, injunction, seizure or criminal action.

(vi)Borrower has not received from the FDA a Warning Letter, Form FDA-483, “Untitled Letter,” other correspondence or notice setting forth allegedly objectionable observations or alleged violations of laws and regulations enforced by the FDA or any comparable correspondence from any state or local authority responsible for regulating drug products and establishments, or any comparable correspondence from any foreign counterpart of the FDA or any comparable correspondence from any foreign counterpart of any state or local authority with regard to any Product or the manufacture, processing, packing, or holding thereof, in each case that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(vii)Borrower has not engaged in any material Recalls, Market Withdrawals, or other forms of product retrieval from the marketplace of any Products.

(viii)Each Product (a) is not materially adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the FDCA; (b) is not an article prohibited from introduction into interstate commerce under the provisions of Section 505 of the FDCA; (c) each Product is being and/or shall be manufactured, imported, possessed, owned, warehoused, marketed, promoted, sold, labeled, furnished, distributed and marketed and in material compliance with all applicable Permits and Laws; and (d) each Product is being and/or shall be manufactured in material compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices.

(e)Proceedings.  No Borrower is subject to any proceeding, suit or, to Borrowers’ knowledge, investigation by any federal, state or local government or quasi-governmental body, agency, board or authority or any other administrative or investigative body (including the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services):  (i) which may result in the imposition of a fine, alternative, interim or final sanction, which has not been provided for on their respective financial statements, and which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on any Borrower; or (ii) which could result in the revocation, transfer, surrender, suspension or other impairment of the Permits of Borrower that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on any Borrower.

(f)Ancillary Laws.  Borrowers have received no written notice, and are not aware, of any material violation of applicable antitrust laws, employment or landlord-tenant laws of any federal, state or local government or quasi-governmental body, agency, board or other authority with respect to the Borrowers.

Section 8.3Healthcare Operations.

(a)Borrower will timely file or caused to be timely filed (after giving effect to any extension duly obtained), all material notifications, reports, submissions, Permit renewals and reports required by Healthcare Laws (which reports will be materially accurate and complete in all respects and not misleading in any material respect and shall not remain open or unsettled).

(b)Borrower will maintain in full force and effect, and free from restrictions, probations, conditions or known conflicts which would materially impair the use or operation of Borrowers’ business and assets, all material Permits necessary under Healthcare Laws to carry on the business of Borrowers as it is conducted on the Closing Date.

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(c)Borrower will not suffer or permit to occur any of the following:

(i)any transfer of a Permit or rights thereunder to any Person (other than Borrowers or Agent);

(ii)any pledge or hypothecation of any Permit as collateral security for any indebtedness other than Debt to Agent and each Lender under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents; or

(iii)any rescission, withdrawal, revocation, amendment or modification of or other alteration to the nature, tenor or scope of any material Permit.

(d)In connection with the development, testing, manufacture, marketing or sale of each and any Product by any Borrower, Borrower shall comply in all material respects with all Regulatory Required Permits at all times issued by any Governmental Authority, specifically including the FDA, with respect to such development, testing, manufacture, marketing or sales of such Product by Borrower as such activities are at any such time being conducted by Borrower.  

(e)Each Borrower shall conduct its business in accordance with Healthcare Laws, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Article 9- SECURITY AGREEMENT

Section 9.1Generally.   As security for the payment and performance of the Obligations, and without limiting any other grant of a Lien and security interest in any Security Document, each Borrower hereby assigns, grants and pledges to Agent, for the benefit of itself and Lenders a continuing first priority Lien on and security interest in, upon, and to the property set forth on Schedule 9.1 attached hereto and made a part hereof.  

Section 9.2Representations and Warranties and Covenants Relating to Collateral.

(a)The security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement constitutes a valid and, to the extent such security interest is required to be perfected by this Agreement and any other Financing Document, continuing perfected security interest in favor of Agent in all Collateral subject, for the following Collateral, to the occurrence of the following:  (i) in the case of all Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing a financing statement under the UCC, the completion of the filings and other actions specified on Schedule 9.2 (which, in the case of all filings and other documents referred to on such schedule, have been delivered to Agent in completed and duly authorized form), (ii) with respect to any Deposit Account, the execution of Deposit Account Control Agreements, (iii) in the case of letter-of-credit rights that are not supporting obligations of Collateral, the execution of a contractual obligation granting control to Agent over such letter-of-credit rights, (iv) in the case of electronic chattel paper, the completion of all steps necessary to grant control to Agent over such electronic chattel paper, (v) in the case of all certificated stock, debt instruments and investment property, the delivery thereof to Agent of such certificated stock, debt instruments and investment property consisting of instruments and certificates, in each case properly endorsed for transfer to Agent or in blank, (vi) in the case of all investment property not in certificated form, the execution of control agreements with respect to such investment property and (vii) in the case of all other instruments and tangible chattel paper that are not certificated stock, debt instructions or investment property,

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the delivery thereof to Agent of such instruments and tangible chattel paper.  Such security interest shall be prior to all other Liens on the Collateral except for Permitted Liens.  Except to the extent not required pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, all actions by each Credit Party necessary or desirable to protect and perfect the Lien granted hereunder on the Collateral have been duly taken.

(b)Schedule 9.2 sets forth (i) each chief executive office and principal place of business of each Borrower and each of their respective Subsidiaries, and (ii) all of the addresses (including all warehouses) at which any material portion of the Collateral is located and/or books and records of Borrowers regarding any such Collateral or any of Borrower’s assets, liabilities, business operations or financial condition are kept, which such Schedule 9.2 indicates in each case which Borrower(s) have Collateral and/or books located at such address, and, in the case of any such address not owned by one or more of the Borrowers(s), indicates the nature of such location (e.g., leased business location operated by Borrower(s), third party warehouse, consignment location, processor location, etc.) and the name and address of the third party owning and/or operating such location.

(c)Without limiting the generality of Section 3.2, except with respect to any rights of any Borrower as a licensee under any license of Intellectual Property owned by another Person, and except for (x) the filing of financing statements under the UCC, (y) any change of ownership filings applications, authorizations, consents or other actions that may be required with respect to Permits and (z) the filing of the Intellectual Property Security Agreement, duly completed with scheduled attached, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and/or the United States Copyright Office (as the case may be), no authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or consent of any other Person is required for (i) the grant by each Borrower to Agent of the security interests and Liens in the Collateral provided for under this Agreement and the other Security Documents (if any), or (ii) the exercise by Agent of its rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral provided for under this Agreement and the other Security Documents or under any applicable Law, including the UCC and neither any such grant of Liens in favor of Agent or exercise of rights by Agent shall violate or cause a default under any agreement between any Borrower and any other Person relating to any such collateral, including any license constituting Collateral to which a Borrower is a party, whether as licensor or licensee, with respect to any Intellectual Property, whether owned by such Borrower or any other Person.

(d)As of the Closing Date, no Borrower has any ownership interest in any Chattel Paper (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC), letter of credit rights, commercial tort claims, Instruments, documents or investment property (other than equity interests in any Subsidiaries of such Borrower, and Investments and other investment property disclosed on Schedule 3.4) and Borrowers shall give notice to Agent promptly (but in any event not later than the delivery by Borrowers of the next Compliance Certificate required pursuant to Section 4.1 above) upon the acquisition by any Borrower of any such Chattel Paper, letter of credit rights, commercial tort claims, Instruments, documents, investment property with a value in excess of $100,000.  No Person other than Agent or (if applicable) any Lender has “control” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) over any Deposit Account, investment property (including Securities Accounts and commodities account), letter of credit rights or electronic chattel paper in which any Borrower has any interest (except for such control arising by operation of law in favor of any bank or

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securities intermediary or commodities intermediary with whom any Deposit Account, Securities Account or commodities account of Borrowers is maintained).

(e)Borrowers shall not, and shall not permit any Credit Party to, take any of the following actions or make any of the following changes unless Borrowers have given at least thirty (30) days prior written notice to Agent of Borrowers’ intention to take any such action (which such written notice shall include an updated version of any Schedule impacted by such change) and have executed any and all documents, instruments and agreements and taken any other actions which Agent may reasonably request after receiving such written notice in order to protect and preserve the Liens, rights and remedies of Agent with respect to the Collateral:  (i) change the legal name or organizational identification number of any Borrower as it appears in official filings in the jurisdiction of its organization, (ii) change the jurisdiction of incorporation or formation of any Borrower or Credit Party or allow any Borrower or Credit Party to designate any jurisdiction as an additional jurisdiction of incorporation for such Borrower or Credit Party, or change the type of entity that it is; provided that in no event shall a Borrower organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof be reorganized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or any state thereof, or (iii) change its chief executive office, principal place of business, or the location of its books and records or move any Collateral (other than Inventory in transit) to or place any Collateral on any location that is not then listed on the Schedules and/or establish any business location at any location that is not then listed on the Schedules.

(f)Borrowers shall not adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment of any Account, or release wholly or partly any Account Debtor, or allow any credit or discount thereon (other than adjustments, settlements, compromises, credits and discounts in an amount not to exceed $50,000 individually or $250,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year) without the prior written consent of Agent.  Without limiting the generality of this Agreement or any other provisions of any of the Financing Documents relating to the rights of Agent after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent shall have the right at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default to:  (i) exercise the rights of Borrowers with respect to the obligation of any Account Debtor to make payment or otherwise render performance to Borrowers and with respect to any property that secures the obligations of any Account Debtor or any other Person obligated on the Collateral, and (ii) adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment of such Accounts.

(g)Without limiting the generality of Sections 9.2(c) and 9.2(d):

(i)Borrowers shall deliver to Agent all tangible Chattel Paper and all Instruments and documents, with a value in excess of $100,000, owned by any Borrower and constituting part of the Collateral duly endorsed and accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment, all in form and substance satisfactory to Agent.  Borrowers shall provide Agent with “control” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) of all electronic Chattel Paper, with a value in excess of $100,000 in the aggregate for all such Chattel Paper, owned by any Borrower and constituting part of the Collateral by having Agent identified as the assignee on the records pertaining to the single authoritative copy thereof and otherwise complying with the applicable elements of control set forth in the UCC.  Borrowers also shall deliver to Agent all security agreements securing any such

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Chattel Paper and securing any such Instruments.  Borrowers shall comply with all the provisions of Section 5.14 with respect to the Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts of Borrowers.

(ii)Borrowers shall deliver to Agent all letters of credit with a face value in excess of $100,000 on which any Borrower is the beneficiary and which give rise to letter of credit rights owned by such Borrower which constitute part of the Collateral in each case duly endorsed and accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.  Borrowers shall take any and all actions as may be necessary or desirable, or that Agent may request, from time to time, to cause Agent to obtain exclusive “control” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) of any such letter of credit rights in a manner reasonably acceptable to Agent.

(iii)Borrowers shall promptly advise Agent upon any Borrower becoming aware that it has any interests in any commercial tort claims in excess of $100,000 that constitutes part of the Collateral, which such notice shall include descriptions of the events and circumstances giving rise to such commercial tort claim and the dates such events and circumstances occurred, the potential defendants with respect to such commercial tort claim and any court proceedings that have been instituted with respect to such commercial tort claims, and Borrowers shall, with respect to any such commercial tort claim, execute and deliver to Agent such documents as Agent shall request to perfect, preserve or protect the Liens, rights and remedies of Agent with respect to any such commercial tort claim.

(iv)Except for Accounts, Inventory in transit and Inventory in an aggregate amount of $100,000, no Accounts or Inventory or other Collateral and no books and records and/or software and equipment of the Borrowers regarding any of the Collateral or any of the Borrower’s assets, liabilities, business operations or financial condition (unless also available at a location subject to a landlord waiver or similar agreement) shall at any time be located at any leased location or in the possession or control of any warehouse, consignee, bailee or any of Borrowers’ agents or processors, without prior written notice to Agent and the receipt by Agent, of warehouse receipts, consignment agreements, landlord waivers, or bailee waivers (as applicable) reasonably satisfactory to Agent prior to the commencement of such lease or of such possession or control (as applicable).  Borrower has notified Agent that Collateral and books and records are currently located at the locations set forth on Schedule 9.2.  Borrowers shall, upon the reasonable request of Agent, notify any such landlord, warehouse, consignee, bailee, agent or processor of the security interests and Liens in favor of Agent created pursuant to this Agreement and the Security Documents, instruct such Person to hold all such Collateral for Agent’s account subject to Agent’s instructions and shall obtain an acknowledgement from such Person that such Person holds the Collateral for Agent’s benefit.

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excepted, and shall promptly make or cause to be made all repairs, replacements and other improvements in connection therewith that are necessary or desirable to such end.  Upon request of Agent, Borrowers shall promptly deliver to Agent any and all certificates of title, applications for title or similar evidence of ownership of all such tangible personal property and shall cause Agent to be named as lienholder on any such certificate of title or other evidence of ownership except with respect to motor vehicles with an aggregate value of less than $100,000.  Borrowers shall not permit any such tangible personal property to become fixtures to real estate unless such real estate is subject to a Lien in favor of Agent.

(vi)Each Borrower hereby authorizes Agent to file without the signature of such Borrower one or more UCC financing statements relating to liens on personal property relating to all or any part of the Collateral, which financing statements may list Agent as the “secured party” and such Borrower as the “debtor” and which describe and indicate the collateral covered thereby as all or any part of the Collateral under the Financing Documents in such jurisdictions as Agent from time to time determines are appropriate, and to file without the signature of such Borrower any continuations of or corrective amendments to any such financing statements, in any such case in order for Agent to perfect, preserve or protect the Liens, rights and remedies of Agent with respect to the Collateral.  Each Borrower also ratifies its authorization for Agent to have filed in any jurisdiction any initial financing statements or amendments thereto if filed prior to the date hereof.  

(vii)As of the Closing Date, no Borrower holds, and after the Closing Date, Borrowers shall promptly notify Agent in writing upon creation or acquisition by any Borrower of, any Collateral which constitutes a claim against any Governmental Authority, including, without limitation, the federal government of the United States or any instrumentality or agency thereof, the assignment of which claim is restricted by any applicable Law, including, without limitation, the federal Assignment of Claims Act and any other comparable Law.  Upon the request of Agent, Borrowers shall take such steps as may be necessary or desirable, or that Agent may request, to comply with any such applicable Law in respect of any claim exceeding $50,000 or $250,000 in the aggregate with respect to all such claims.

(viii)Borrowers shall furnish to Agent from time to time any statements and schedules further identifying or describing the Collateral and any other information, reports or evidence concerning the Collateral as Agent may reasonably request from time to time.

(ix)Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any other Financing Document to the contrary, Borrowers shall not be required to take any steps (A) to perfect any security interest in any leasehold interest in real property and (B) to perfect any security interest under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States of America (or any state thereof or the District of Columbia) in those assets as to which Agent determines (in its reasonable discretion) that the cost of obtaining such a security interest or perfection thereof are excessive in relation to the benefit to Lenders of the security or perfection to be afforded thereby.

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(x)If any Borrower desires to enter into a Permitted License and the proposed licensee under such Permitted License requests that Agent enter into a non-disturbance agreement (or similar agreement) in connection with such Permitted License, Agent hereby agrees to negotiate in good faith and on a commercially reasonable basis with such Borrower and such licensee to enter into such a non-disturbance and attornment agreement with respect to the proposed Permitted License and the Intellectual Property that is the subject thereof, which shall provide (among other things) (A) that, notwithstanding any exercise of rights and/or remedies by the Agent under this Agreement in respect of the Intellectual Property that is the subject of such Permitted License, such licensee shall continue to have the rights and licenses set forth in its license agreement to the extent that such licensee is in compliance with the terms thereof; provided that in the case of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding with respect to such Borrower the rights of such licensee and the Agent shall be determined in accordance with the Bankruptcy Code (or other Laws applicable to such proceeding), (B) an acknowledgement and consent by such licensee of Agent’s security interest in the Collateral (including, to the extent applicable, such Permitted License and the Intellectual Property that is the subject thereof), and (C) that such Permitted License shall attorn to the owner of such Intellectual Property after such exercise of rights and remedies.

Article 10- EVENTS OF DEFAULT

Section 10.1Events of Default.  For purposes of the Financing Documents, the occurrence of any of the following conditions and/or events, whether voluntary or involuntary, by operation of law or otherwise, shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

(a)(i) any Borrower shall fail to pay  any principal or interest under any Financing Document when due or pay any premium, fee or any other amount payable under any Financing Document within three (3) Business Days of when due, or (ii) there shall occur any default in the performance of or compliance with any of the following sections of this Agreement: Section 2.11, Section 4.1, Section 4.2(b), Section 4.4(c), Section 4.6, 4.9, 4.11(d)-(f), 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, Article 5, Article 6, Section 7.4 or Article 8;

(b)any Credit Party defaults in the performance of or compliance with any term contained in this Agreement or in any other Financing Document (other than occurrences described in other provisions of this Section 10.1 for which a different grace or cure period is specified or for which no grace or cure period is specified and thereby constitute immediate Events of Default) and such default is not remedied by the Credit Party or waived by Agent within twenty (20) days after the earlier of (i) receipt by Borrower Representative of notice from Agent or Required Lenders of such default, or (ii) actual knowledge of any Borrower or any other Credit Party of such default;

(c)any representation, warranty, certification or statement made by any Credit Party or any other Person in any Financing Document or in any certificate, financial statement or other document delivered pursuant to any Financing Document is incorrect in any respect (or in any material respect if such representation, warranty, certification or statement is not by its terms already qualified as to materiality) when made (or deemed made);

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(d)(i) failure of any Credit Party to pay when due or within any applicable grace period any principal, interest or other amount on Debt  (other than the Loans), or the occurrence of any breach, default, condition or event with respect to any Debt (other than the Loans), if the effect of such failure or occurrence is to cause or to permit the holder or holders of any such Debt, or to cause, Debt or other liabilities having an individual principal amount in excess of $500,000 or having an aggregate principal amount in excess of $500,000  to become or be declared due prior to its stated maturity, or (ii) the occurrence of any breach or default under any terms or provisions of any Subordinated Debt Document or under any agreement subordinating the Subordinated Debt to all or any portion of the Obligations or the occurrence of any event requiring the prepayment of any Subordinated Debt;

(e)any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Borrower shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due, or shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the foregoing;

(f)an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Borrower seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of sixty (60) days; or an order for relief shall be entered against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Borrower under applicable federal bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law in respect of (i) bankruptcy, liquidation, winding-up, dissolution or suspension of general operations, (ii) composition, rescheduling, reorganization, arrangement or readjustment of, or other relief from, or stay of proceedings to enforce, some or all of the debts or obligations, or (iii) possession, foreclosure, seizure or retention, sale or other disposition of, or other proceedings to enforce security over, all or any substantial part of the assets of such Credit Party or Subsidiary;

(g)(i) institution of any steps by any Person to terminate a Pension Plan if as a result of such termination any Credit Party or any member of the Controlled Group could be required to make a contribution to such Pension Plan, or could incur a liability or obligation to such Pension Plan, in excess of $500,000, (ii) a contribution failure occurs with respect to any Pension Plan sufficient to give rise to a Lien under Section 303(k) of ERISA or Section 430(k) of the Code or an event occurs that would reasonably be expected to give rise to a Lien securing an amount on excess of $500,000 under Section 4068 of ERISA, or (iii) there shall occur any withdrawal or partial withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan and the withdrawal liability (without unaccrued interest) to Multiemployer Plans as a result of such withdrawal (including any outstanding withdrawal liability that any Credit Party or any member of the Controlled Group have incurred on the date of such withdrawal) exceeds $500,000;

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(h)one or more judgments or orders for the payment of money (not paid or fully covered by insurance maintained in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement and as to which the relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage) aggregating in excess of $500,000 shall be rendered against any or all Credit Parties and either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon any such judgments or orders, or (ii) there shall be any period of twenty (20) consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of any such judgments or orders, by reason of a pending appeal, bond or otherwise, shall not be in effect;

(i)any Lien created by any of the Security Documents shall at any time fail to constitute a valid and perfected Lien on all of the Collateral purported to be encumbered thereby, subject to no prior or equal Lien except Permitted Liens (other than as a result of any action or inaction of Agent or Required Lenders provided that such action or inaction is not caused by any Credit Parties failure to comply with the terms of the Financing Documents) or any Credit Party shall so assert;

(j)the institution by any Governmental Authority of criminal proceedings against any Credit Party;

(k)an event of default occurs under any Guarantee of any portion of the Obligations;

(l)any Borrower makes any payment on account of any Debt that has been subordinated to any of the Obligations, other than payments specifically permitted by the terms of such subordination;

(m)if any Borrower is or becomes an entity whose equity is registered with the SEC, and/or is publicly traded on and/or registered with a public securities exchange, such Borrower’s equity fails to remain registered with the SEC in good standing, and/or such equity fails to remain publicly traded on and registered with a public securities exchange;

(n)the occurrence of any fact, event or circumstance that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(o)(i) the voluntary withdrawal or institution of any action or proceeding by the FDA or similar Governmental Authority to order the withdrawal of any Product or Product category from the market or to enjoin Borrower, its Subsidiaries or any representative of Borrower or its Subsidiaries from manufacturing, marketing, selling or distributing any Product or Product category, which, in each case, has or would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the institution of any action or proceeding by any FDA, or any other Governmental Authority to revoke, suspend, reject, withdraw, limit, or restrict any Regulatory Required Permit held by Borrower, its Subsidiaries or any representative of Borrower or its Subsidiaries, which, in each case, has or would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect,  (iii) the commencement of any enforcement action against Borrower, its Subsidiaries or any representative of Borrower or its Subsidiaries (with respect to the business of Borrower or its Subsidiaries) by FDA, or any other Governmental Authority which has or would

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reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (iv) the occurrence of adverse test results in connection with a Product which could result in a Material Adverse Effect; or

(p)(i) any Credit Party defaults under or breaches its obligations in any material respect under the Ruxience Royalty Agreement or the IXINITY Royalty Agreement (after any applicable grace period contained therein), or the Ruxience Royalty Agreement or the IXINITY Royalty Agreement shall be terminated by the other party or parties party thereto prior to the expiration thereof, or there is a loss of a right of a Credit Party to any portion of the Royalty Stream under either the Ruxience Royalty Agreement or the IXINITY Royalty Agreement or any portion of either such Royalty Stream is terminated; or (ii) any Credit Party defaults in any material respect under or breaches in any material respect any other Material Contract (after any applicable grace period contained therein), or any other Material Contract shall be terminated by the other party or parties party thereto prior to the expiration thereof, or there is a loss of a material right of a Credit Party under any other Material Contract to which it is a party, in each case which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

All cure periods provided for in this Section 10.1 shall run concurrently with any cure period provided for in any applicable Financing Documents under which the default occurred.

Section 10.2Acceleration and Suspension or Termination of Term Loan Commitment.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent may, and shall if requested by Required Lenders, (a) by notice to Borrower Representative suspend or terminate the Term Loan Commitment and the obligations of Agent and the Lenders with respect thereto, in whole or in part (and, if in part, each Lender’s Term Loan Commitment shall be reduced in accordance with its Pro Rata Share), and/or (b) by notice to Borrower Representative declare all or any portion of the Obligations to be, and the Obligations shall thereupon become, immediately due and payable, with accrued interest thereon, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Borrower and Borrowers will pay the same; provided, however, that in the case of any of the Events of Default specified in Section 10.1(e) or 10.1(f) above, without any notice to any Borrower or any other act by Agent or the Lenders, the Term Loan Commitment and the obligations of Agent and the Lenders with respect thereto shall thereupon immediately and automatically terminate and all of the Obligations shall become immediately and automatically due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Borrower and Borrowers will pay the same.

Section 10.3UCC Remedies.

(a)Upon the occurrence of and during the continuance of an Event of Default under this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, Agent, in addition to all other rights, options, and remedies granted to Agent under this Agreement or at law or in equity, may exercise, either directly or through one or more assignees or designees, all rights and remedies granted to it under all Financing Documents and under the UCC in effect in the applicable jurisdiction(s) and under any other applicable Law; including, without limitation:

(i)the right to take possession of, send notices regarding, and collect directly the Collateral, with or without judicial process;

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(ii)the right to (by its own means or with judicial assistance) enter any of Borrowers’ premises and take possession of the Collateral, or render it unusable, or to render it usable or saleable, or dispose of the Collateral on such premises in compliance with subsection (iii) below and to take possession of Borrowers’ original books and records, to obtain access to Borrowers’ data processing equipment, computer hardware and software relating to the Collateral and to use all of the foregoing and the information contained therein in any manner Agent deems appropriate, without any liability for rent, storage, utilities, or other sums, and Borrowers shall not resist or interfere with such action (if Borrowers’ books and records are prepared or maintained by an accounting service, contractor or other third party agent, Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorize such service, contractor or other agent, upon notice by Agent to such Person that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to deliver to Agent or its designees such books and records, and to follow Agent’s instructions with respect to further services to be rendered);

(iii)the right to require Borrowers at Borrowers’ expense to assemble all or any part of the Collateral and make it available to Agent at any place designated by Lender;

(iv)the right to notify postal authorities to change the address for delivery of Borrowers’ mail to an address designated by Agent and to receive, open and dispose of all mail addressed to any Borrower; and/or

(v)the right to enforce Borrowers’ rights against Account Debtors and other obligors, including, without limitation, (i) the right to collect Accounts directly in Agent’s own name (as agent for Lenders) and to charge the collection costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, to Borrowers, and (ii) the right, in the name of Agent or any designee of Agent or Borrowers, to verify the validity, amount or any other matter relating to any Accounts by mail, telephone, or otherwise, including, without limitation, verification of Borrowers’ compliance with applicable Laws.  Borrowers shall cooperate fully with Agent in an effort to facilitate and promptly conclude such verification process.  Such verification may include contacts between Agent and applicable federal, state and local regulatory authorities having jurisdiction over the Borrowers’ affairs, all of which contacts Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorize.

(b)Each Borrower agrees that a notice received by it at least ten (10) days before the time of any intended public sale, or the time after which any private sale or other disposition of the Collateral is to be made, shall be deemed to be reasonable notice of such sale or other disposition.  If permitted by applicable Law, any perishable Collateral which threatens to speedily decline in value or which is sold on a recognized market may be sold immediately by Agent without prior notice to Borrowers.  At any sale or disposition of Collateral, Agent may (to the extent permitted by applicable Law) purchase all or any part of the Collateral, free from any right of redemption by Borrowers, which right is hereby waived and released.  Each Borrower covenants and agrees not to interfere with or impose any obstacle to Agent’s exercise of its rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral.  Agent shall have no obligation to clean-up or otherwise prepare the Collateral for sale.  Agent may comply with any applicable state or federal law requirements in connection with a disposition of the Collateral and compliance will not be

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considered to adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral.  Agent may sell the Collateral without giving any warranties as to the Collateral.  Agent may specifically disclaim any warranties of title or the like.  This procedure will not be considered to adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral.  If Agent sells any of the Collateral upon credit, Borrowers will be credited only with payments actually made by the purchaser, received by Agent and applied to the indebtedness of the purchaser.  In the event the purchaser fails to pay for the Collateral, Agent may resell the Collateral and Borrowers shall be credited with the proceeds of the sale. Borrowers shall remain liable for any deficiency if the proceeds of any sale or disposition of the Collateral are insufficient to pay all Obligations.

(c)Without restricting the generality of the foregoing and for the purposes aforesaid, each Borrower hereby appoints and constitutes Agent its lawful attorney-in-fact with full power of substitution in the Collateral, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to (i) use unadvanced funds remaining under this Agreement or which may be reserved, escrowed or set aside for any purposes hereunder at any time, or to advance funds in excess of the face amount of the Notes, (ii) pay, settle or compromise all existing bills and claims, which may be Liens or security interests, or to avoid such bills and claims becoming Liens against the Collateral, (iii) execute all applications and certificates in the name of such Borrower and to prosecute and defend all actions or proceedings in connection with the Collateral, and (iv) do any and every act which such Borrower might do in its own behalf; it being understood and agreed that this power of attorney in this subsection (c) shall be a power coupled with an interest and cannot be revoked.

(d)Agent and each Lender is hereby granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free license or other right to use, without charge, Borrowers’ labels, mask works, rights of use of any name, any other Intellectual Property and advertising matter, and any similar property as it pertains to the Collateral, in completing production of, advertising for sale, and selling any Collateral pursuant to this Section and, in connection with Agent’s exercise of its rights under this Section, Borrowers’ rights under all licenses (whether as licensor or licensee) and all franchise agreements inure to Agent’s and each Lender’s benefit.

Section 10.4Reserved.

Section 10.5Default Rate of Interest.  At the election of Agent or Required Lenders, after the occurrence of an Event of Default and for so long as it continues, the Loans and other Obligations shall bear interest at rates that are three percent (3.0%) per annum in excess of the rates otherwise payable under this Agreement; provided, however, that in the case of any Event of Default specified in Section 10.1(e) or 10.1(f) above, such default rate shall apply immediately and automatically without the need for any election or action of any kind on the part of Agent or any Lender.

Section 10.6Setoff Rights.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, each Lender is hereby authorized by each Borrower at any time or from time to time, with reasonably prompt subsequent notice to such Borrower (any prior or contemporaneous notice being hereby expressly waived) to set off and to appropriate and to apply any and all (a) balances held by such Lender or any of such Lender’s Affiliates at any of its offices for the account of such Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (regardless of whether such balances are then

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due to such Borrower or its Subsidiaries), and (b) other property at any time held or owing by such Lender to or for the credit or for the account of such Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, against and on account of any of the Obligations; except that no Lender shall exercise any such right without the prior written consent of Agent.  Any Lender exercising a right to set off shall purchase for cash (and the other Lenders shall sell) interests in each of such other Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Obligations as would be necessary to cause all Lenders to share the amount so set off with each other Lender in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Share of the Obligations.  Each Borrower agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that any Lender and any of such Lender’s Affiliates may exercise its right to set off with respect to the Obligations as provided in this Section 10.6.

Section 10.7Application of Proceeds.  

(a)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Borrower irrevocably waives the right to direct the application of any and all payments at any time or times thereafter received by Agent from or on behalf of such Borrower or any Guarantor of all or any part of the Obligations, and, as between Borrowers on the one hand and Agent and Lenders on the other, Agent shall have the continuing and exclusive right to apply and to reapply any and all payments received against the Obligations in such manner as Agent may deem advisable notwithstanding any previous application by Agent.

(b)Following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, but absent the occurrence and continuance of an Acceleration Event, Agent shall apply any and all payments received by Agent in respect of the Obligations, and any and all proceeds of Collateral received by Agent, in such order as Agent may from time to time elect.

(c)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if an Acceleration Event shall have occurred, and so long as it continues, Agent shall apply any and all payments received by Agent in respect of the Obligations, and any and all proceeds of Collateral received by Agent, in the following order:  first, to all fees, costs, indemnities, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred by or owing to Agent with respect to this Agreement, the other Financing Documents or the Collateral; second, to all fees, costs, indemnities, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred by or owing to any Lender with respect to this Agreement, the other Financing Documents or the Collateral; third, to accrued and unpaid interest on the Obligations (including any interest which, but for the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, would have accrued on such amounts); fourth, to the principal amount of the Obligations outstanding; and fifth to any other indebtedness or obligations of Borrowers owing to Agent or any Lender under the Financing Documents. Any balance remaining shall be delivered to Borrowers or to whomever may be lawfully entitled to receive such balance or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.  In carrying out the foregoing, (y) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order provided until exhausted prior to the application to the next succeeding category, and (z) each of the Persons entitled to receive a payment in any particular category shall receive an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of amounts available to be applied pursuant thereto for such category.

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Section 10.8Waivers.

(a)Except as otherwise provided for in this Agreement and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, each Borrower waives:  (i) presentment, demand and protest, and notice of presentment, dishonor, intent to accelerate, acceleration, protest, default, nonpayment, maturity, release, compromise, settlement, extension or renewal of any or all Financing Documents, the Notes or any other notes, commercial paper, accounts, contracts, documents, Instruments, Chattel Paper and Guarantees at any time held by Lenders on which any Borrower may in any way be liable, and hereby ratifies and confirms whatever Lenders may do in this regard; (ii) all rights to notice and a hearing prior to Agent’s or any Lender’s taking possession or control of, or to Agent’s or any Lender’s replevy, attachment or levy upon, any Collateral or any bond or security which might be required by any court prior to allowing Agent or any Lender to exercise any of its remedies; and (iii) the benefit of all valuation, appraisal and exemption Laws.  Each Borrower acknowledges that it has been advised by counsel of its choices and decisions with respect to this Agreement, the other Financing Documents and the transactions evidenced hereby and thereby.

(b)Each Borrower for itself and all its successors and assigns, (i) agrees that its liability shall not be in any manner affected by any indulgence, extension of time, renewal, waiver, or modification granted or consented to by Lender; (ii) consents to any indulgences and all extensions of time, renewals, waivers, or modifications that may be granted by Agent or any Lender with respect to the payment or other provisions of the Financing Documents, and to any substitution, exchange or release of the Collateral, or any part thereof, with or without substitution, and agrees to the addition or release of any Borrower, endorsers, guarantors, or sureties, or whether primarily or secondarily liable, without notice to any other Borrower and without affecting its liability hereunder; (iii) agrees that its liability shall be unconditional and without regard to the liability of any other Borrower, Agent or any Lender for any tax on the indebtedness; and (iv) to the fullest extent permitted by law, expressly waives the benefit of any statute or rule of law or equity now provided, or which may hereafter be provided, which would produce a result contrary to or in conflict with the foregoing.

(c)To the extent that Agent or any Lender may have acquiesced in any noncompliance with any requirements or conditions precedent to the closing of the Loans or to any subsequent disbursement of Loan proceeds, such acquiescence shall not be deemed to constitute a waiver by Agent or any Lender of such requirements with respect to any future disbursements of Loan proceeds and Agent may at any time after such acquiescence require Borrowers to comply with all such requirements.  Any forbearance by Agent or Lender in exercising any right or remedy under any of the Financing Documents, or otherwise afforded by applicable Law, including any failure to accelerate the maturity date of the Loans, shall not be a waiver of or preclude the exercise of any right or remedy nor shall it serve as a novation of the Notes or as a reinstatement of the Loans or a waiver of such right of acceleration or the right to insist upon strict compliance of the terms of the Financing Documents.  Agent’s or any Lender’s acceptance of payment of any sum secured by any of the Financing Documents after the due date of such payment shall not be a waiver of Agent’s and such Lender’s right to either require prompt payment when due of all other sums so secured or to declare a default for failure to make prompt payment.  The procurement of insurance or the payment of taxes or other Liens or charges by Agent as the result of an Event of Default shall not be a waiver of Agent’s right to accelerate the maturity of the Loans, nor shall Agent’s receipt of any condemnation awards,

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insurance proceeds, or damages under this Agreement operate to cure or waive any Credit Party’s default in payment of sums secured by any of the Financing Documents.

(d)Without limiting the generality of anything contained in this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, each Borrower agrees that if an Event of Default is continuing (i) Agent and Lenders shall not be subject to any “one action” or “election of remedies” law or rule, and (ii) all Liens and other rights, remedies or privileges provided to Agent or Lenders shall remain in full force and effect until Agent or Lenders have exhausted all remedies against the Collateral and any other properties owned by Borrowers and the Financing Documents and other security instruments or agreements securing the Loans have been foreclosed, sold and/or otherwise realized upon in satisfaction of Borrowers’ obligations under the Financing Documents.

(e)Nothing contained herein or in any other Financing Document shall be construed as requiring Agent or any Lender to resort to any part of the Collateral for the satisfaction of any of Borrowers’ obligations under the Financing Documents in preference or priority to any other Collateral, and Agent may seek satisfaction out of all of the Collateral or any part thereof, in its absolute discretion in respect of Borrowers’ obligations under the Financing Documents.  In addition, Agent shall have the right from time to time to partially foreclose upon any Collateral in any manner and for any amounts secured by the Financing Documents then due and payable as determined by Agent in its sole discretion, including, without limitation, the following circumstances:  (i) in the event any Borrower defaults beyond any applicable grace period in the payment of one or more scheduled payments of principal and/or interest, Agent may foreclose upon all or any part of the Collateral to recover such delinquent payments, or (ii) in the event Agent elects to accelerate less than the entire outstanding principal balance of the Loans, Agent may foreclose all or any part of the Collateral to recover so much of the principal balance of the Loans as Lender may accelerate and such other sums secured by one or more of the Financing Documents as Agent may elect.  Notwithstanding one or more partial foreclosures, any unforeclosed Collateral shall remain subject to the Financing Documents to secure payment of sums secured by the Financing Documents and not previously recovered.

(f)To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Borrower, for itself and its successors and assigns, waives in the event of foreclosure of any or all of the Collateral any equitable right otherwise available to any Credit Party which would require the separate sale of any of the Collateral or require Agent or Lenders to exhaust their remedies against any part of the Collateral before proceeding against any other part of the Collateral; and further in the event of such foreclosure each Borrower does hereby expressly consent to and authorize, at the option of Agent, the foreclosure and sale either separately or together of each part of the Collateral.

Section 10.9Injunctive Relief.  The parties acknowledge and agree that, in the event of a breach or threatened breach of any Credit Party’s obligations under any Financing Documents, Agent and Lenders may have no adequate remedy in money damages and, accordingly, shall be entitled to an injunction (including, without limitation, a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, writ of attachment, or order compelling an audit) against such breach or threatened breach, including, without limitation, maintaining any cash management and collection procedure described herein.  However, no specification in this Agreement of a specific legal or equitable remedy shall be construed as a waiver or prohibition against any other legal or equitable remedies in the event of a breach or threatened breach of any provision of this

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Agreement.  Each Credit Party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the requirement of the posting of any bond in connection with such injunctive relief.  By joining in the Financing Documents as a Credit Party, each Credit Party specifically joins in this Section as if this Section were a part of each Financing Document executed by such Credit Party.

Section 10.10Marshalling; Payments Set Aside.  Neither Agent nor any Lender shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in payment of any or all of the Obligations.  To the extent that Borrower makes any payment or Agent enforces its Liens or Agent or any Lender exercises its right of set-off, and such payment or the proceeds of such enforcement or set-off is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, or required to be repaid by anyone, then to the extent of such recovery, the Obligations or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or set-off had not occurred.

Article 11- AGENT

Section 11.1Appointment and Authorization.  Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes Agent to enter into each of the Financing Documents to which it is a party (other than this Agreement) on its behalf and to take such actions as Agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Financing Documents as are delegated to Agent by the terms thereof, together with all such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.  Subject to the terms of Section 11.16 and to the terms of the other Financing Documents, Agent is authorized and empowered to amend, modify, or waive any provisions of this Agreement or the other Financing Documents on behalf of Lenders.  The provisions of this Article 11 are solely for the benefit of Agent and Lenders and neither any Borrower nor any other Credit Party shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions hereof.  In performing its functions and duties under this Agreement, Agent shall act solely as agent of Lenders and does not assume and shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation toward or relationship of agency or trust with or for any Borrower or any other Credit Party.  Agent may perform any of its duties hereunder, or under the Financing Documents, by or through its agents, servicers, trustees, investment managers or employees.  

Section 11.2Agent and Affiliates.  Agent shall have the same rights and powers under the Financing Documents as any other Lender and may exercise or refrain from exercising the same as though it were not Agent, and Agent and its Affiliates may lend money to, invest in and generally engage in any kind of business with each Credit Party or Affiliate of any Credit Party as if it were not Agent hereunder.

Section 11.3Action by Agent.  The duties of Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in nature.  Agent shall not have by reason of this Agreement a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender.  Nothing in this Agreement or any of the Financing Documents is intended to or shall be construed to impose upon Agent any obligations in respect of this Agreement or any of the Financing Documents except as expressly set forth herein or therein.

Section 11.4Consultation with Experts.  Agent may consult with legal counsel, independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any

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action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts.

Section 11.5Liability of Agent.  Neither Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents, trustees, investment managers, servicers or employees shall be liable to any Lender for any action taken or not taken by it in connection with the Financing Documents, except that Agent shall be liable with respect to its specific duties set forth hereunder but only to the extent of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct in the discharge thereof as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.  Neither Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents, trustees, investment managers, servicers or employees shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into or verify (a) any statement, warranty or representation made in connection with any Financing Document or any borrowing hereunder; (b) the performance or observance of any of the covenants or agreements specified in any Financing Document; (c) the satisfaction of any condition specified in any Financing Document; (d) the validity, effectiveness, sufficiency or genuineness of any Financing Document, any Lien purported to be created or perfected thereby or any other instrument or writing furnished in connection therewith; (e) the existence or non-existence of any Default or Event of Default; or (f) the financial condition of any Credit Party.  Agent shall not incur any liability by acting in reliance upon any notice, consent, certificate, statement, or other writing (which may be a bank wire, facsimile or electronic transmission or similar writing) believed by it to be genuine or to be signed by the proper party or parties.  Agent shall not be liable for any apportionment or distribution of payments made by it in good faith and if any such apportionment or distribution is subsequently determined to have been made in error the sole recourse of any Lender to whom payment was due but not made, shall be to recover from other Lenders any payment in excess of the amount to which they are determined to be entitled (and such other Lenders hereby agree to return to such Lender any such erroneous payments received by them).

Section 11.6Indemnification.  Each Lender shall, in accordance with its Pro Rata Share, indemnify Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by Borrowers) upon demand against any cost, expense (including counsel fees and disbursements), claim, demand, action, loss or liability (except such as result from Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) that Agent may suffer or incur in connection with the Financing Documents or any action taken or omitted by Agent hereunder or thereunder.  If any indemnity furnished to Agent for any purpose shall, in the opinion of Agent, be insufficient or become impaired, Agent may call for additional indemnity and cease, or not commence, to do the acts indemnified against even if so directed by Required Lenders until such additional indemnity is furnished.

Section 11.7Right to Request and Act on Instructions.  Agent may at any time request instructions from Lenders with respect to any actions or approvals which by the terms of this Agreement or of any of the Financing Documents Agent is permitted or desires to take or to grant, and if such instructions are promptly requested, Agent shall be absolutely entitled to refrain from taking any action or to withhold any approval and shall not be under any liability whatsoever to any Person for refraining from any action or withholding any approval under any of the Financing Documents until it shall have received such instructions from Required Lenders or all or such other portion of the Lenders as shall be prescribed by this Agreement.  Without limiting the foregoing, no Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against Agent as a

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result of Agent acting or refraining from acting under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Documents in accordance with the instructions of Required Lenders (or all or such other portion of the Lenders as shall be prescribed by this Agreement) and, notwithstanding the instructions of Required Lenders (or such other applicable portion of the Lenders), Agent shall have no obligation to take any action if it believes, in good faith, that such action would violate applicable Law or exposes Agent to any liability for which it has not received satisfactory indemnification in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.6.

Section 11.8Credit Decision.  Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement.  Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking any action under the Financing Documents.

Section 11.9Collateral Matters.  Lenders irrevocably authorize Agent, at its option and in its discretion, to (a) release any Lien granted to or held by Agent under any Security Document (i) upon termination of the Term Loan Commitment and payment in full of all Obligations; or (ii) constituting property sold or disposed of as part of or in connection with any disposition permitted under any Financing Document (it being understood and agreed that Agent may conclusively rely without further inquiry on a certificate of a Responsible Officer as to the sale or other disposition of property being made in full compliance with the provisions of the Financing Documents); and (b) subordinate any Lien granted to or held by Agent under any Security Document to a Permitted Lien that is allowed to have priority over the Liens granted to or held by Agent pursuant to the definition of “Permitted Liens”.  Upon request by Agent at any time, Lenders will confirm Agent’s authority to release and/or subordinate particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 11.9.

Section 11.10Agency for Perfection.  Agent and each Lender hereby appoint each other Lender as agent for the purpose of perfecting Agent’s security interest in assets which, in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code in any applicable jurisdiction, can be perfected by possession or control.  Should any Lender (other than Agent) obtain possession or control of any such assets, such Lender shall notify Agent thereof, and, promptly upon Agent’s request therefor, shall deliver such assets to Agent or in accordance with Agent’s instructions or transfer control to Agent in accordance with Agent’s instructions.  Each Lender agrees that it will not have any right individually to enforce or seek to enforce any Security Document or to realize upon any Collateral for the Loan unless instructed to do so by Agent (or consented to by Agent), it being understood and agreed that such rights and remedies may be exercised only by Agent.

Section 11.11Notice of Default.  Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default except with respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest and fees required to be paid to Agent for the account of Lenders, unless Agent shall have received written notice from a Lender or a Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default”.  Agent will notify each Lender of its receipt of any such notice.  Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as may be requested by Required

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Lenders (or all or such other portion of the Lenders as shall be prescribed by this Agreement) in accordance with the terms hereof.  Unless and until Agent has received any such request, Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable or in the best interests of Lenders.

Section 11.12Assignment by Agent; Resignation of Agent; Successor Agent.

(a)Agent may at any time assign its rights, powers, privileges and duties hereunder to (i) another Lender or an Affiliate of Agent or any Lender or any Approved Fund, or (ii) any Person to whom Agent, in its capacity as a Lender, has assigned (or will assign, in conjunction with such assignment of agency rights hereunder) 50% or more of its Loan in accordance with Section 11.17(a), in each case without the consent of Lenders or Borrowers.  Following any such assignment, Agent shall give notice to Lenders and Borrowers.  Failure to give such notice shall affect such assignment in any way or cause the assignment to be ineffective.  An assignment by Agent pursuant to this subsection (a) shall not be deemed a resignation by Agent for purposes of subsection (b) below.

(b)Without limiting the rights of Agent to designate an assignee pursuant to subsection (a) above, Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders and Borrowers.  Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent.  If no such successor shall have been so appointed by Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within ten (10) Business Days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may on behalf of Lenders, appoint a successor Agent; provided, however, that if Agent shall notify Borrowers and Lenders that no Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice from Agent that no Person has accepted such appointment and, from and following delivery of such notice, (i) the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Financing Documents, and (ii) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly, until such time as Required Lenders appoint a successor Agent as provided for above in this paragraph.  

(c)Upon (i) an assignment permitted by subsection (a) above, or (ii) the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Agent pursuant to subsection (b) above, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Financing Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this paragraph).  The fees payable by Borrowers to a successor Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between Borrowers and such successor.  After the retiring Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Financing Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 11.12 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent and its sub-agents in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Agent was acting or was continuing to act as Agent.

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Section 11.13Payment and Sharing of Payment.

(a)Reserved.

(b)Term Loan Payments.  Payments of principal, interest and fees in respect of the Term Loans will be settled on the date of receipt if received by Agent on the last Business Day of a month or on the Business Day immediately following the date of receipt if received on any day other than the last Business Day of a month.

(c)Return of Payments.

(i)If Agent pays an amount to a Lender under this Agreement in the belief or expectation that a related payment has been or will be received by Agent from a Borrower and such related payment is not received by Agent, then Agent will be entitled to recover such amount from such Lender on demand without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind, together with interest accruing on a daily basis at the Federal Funds Rate.

(ii)If Agent determines at any time that any amount received by Agent under this Agreement must be returned to any Borrower or paid to any other Person pursuant to any insolvency law or otherwise, then, notwithstanding any other term or condition of this Agreement or any other Financing Document, Agent will not be required to distribute any portion thereof to any Lender.  In addition, each Lender will repay to Agent on demand any portion of such amount that Agent has distributed to such Lender, together with interest at such rate, if any, as Agent is required to pay to any Borrower or such other Person, without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.

(d)Defaulted Lenders.  The failure of any Defaulted Lender to make any payment required by it hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations to make payment, but neither any other Lender nor Agent shall be responsible for the failure of any Defaulted Lender to make any payment required hereunder.  Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary, a Defaulted Lender shall not have any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Financing Document or constitute a “Lender” (or be included in the calculation of “Required Lenders” hereunder) for any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Financing Document.

(e)Sharing of Payments.  If any Lender shall obtain any payment or other recovery (whether voluntary, involuntary, by application of setoff or otherwise) on account of any Loan (other than pursuant to the terms of Section 2.8(d)) in excess of its Pro Rata Share of payments entitled pursuant to the other provisions of this Section 11.13, such Lender shall purchase from the other Lenders such participations in extensions of credit made by such other Lenders (without recourse, representation or warranty) as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment or other recovery ratably with each of them; provided, however, that if all or any portion of the excess payment or other recovery is thereafter required to be returned or otherwise recovered from such purchasing Lender, such portion of such purchase shall be rescinded and each Lender which has sold a participation to the purchasing Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price to the ratable extent

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of such return or recovery, without interest.  Each Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender pursuant to this clause (e) may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including pursuant to Section 10.6) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of Borrowers in the amount of such participation.  If under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, any Lender receives a secured claim in lieu of a setoff to which this clause (e) applies, such Lender shall, to the extent practicable, exercise its rights in respect of such secured claim in a manner consistent with the rights of the Lenders entitled under this clause (e) to share in the benefits of any recovery on such secured claim.

Section 11.14Right to Perform, Preserve and Protect.  If any Credit Party fails to perform any obligation hereunder or under any other Financing Document, Agent itself may, but shall not be obligated to, cause such obligation to be performed at Borrowers’ expense.  Agent is further authorized by Borrowers and Lenders to make expenditures from time to time which Agent, in its reasonable business judgment, deems necessary or desirable to (a) preserve or protect the business conducted by Borrowers, the Collateral, or any portion thereof, and/or (b) enhance the likelihood of, or maximize the amount of, repayment of the Loan and other Obligations.  Each Borrower hereby agrees to reimburse Agent on demand for any and all costs, liabilities and obligations incurred by Agent pursuant to this Section 11.14.  Each Lender hereby agrees to indemnify Agent upon demand for any and all costs, liabilities and obligations incurred by Agent pursuant to this Section 11.14, in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.6.

Section 11.15Additional Titled Agents.  Except for rights and powers, if any, expressly reserved under this Agreement to any bookrunner, arranger or to any titled agent named on the cover page of this Agreement, other than Agent (collectively, the “Additional Titled Agents”), and except for obligations, liabilities, duties and responsibilities, if any, expressly assumed under this Agreement by any Additional Titled Agent, no Additional Titled Agent, in such capacity, has any rights, powers, liabilities, duties or responsibilities hereunder or under any of the other Financing Documents.  Without limiting the foregoing, no Additional Titled Agent shall have nor be deemed to have a fiduciary relationship with any Lender.  At any time that any Lender serving as an Additional Titled Agent shall have transferred to any other Person (other than any Affiliates) all of its interests in the Loan, such Lender shall be deemed to have concurrently resigned as such Additional Titled Agent.

Section 11.16Amendments and Waivers.

(a)No provision of this Agreement or any other Financing Document may be amended, waived or otherwise modified unless such amendment, waiver or other modification is in writing and is signed or otherwise approved by Borrowers, the Required Lenders and any other Lender to the extent required under Section 11.16(b); provided, however, the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto.

(b)In addition to the required signatures under Section 11.16(a), no provision of this Agreement or any other Financing Document may be amended, waived or otherwise modified unless such amendment, waiver or other modification is in writing and is signed or otherwise approved by the following Persons:

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(i)if any amendment, waiver or other modification would increase a Lender’s funding obligations in respect of any Loan, by such Lender; and/or

(ii)if the rights or duties of Agent are affected thereby, by Agent;

provided, however, that, in each of (i) and (ii) above, no such amendment, waiver or other modification shall, unless signed or otherwise approved in writing by all the Lenders directly affected thereby, (A) reduce the principal of, rate of interest on or any fees with respect to any Loan or forgive any principal, interest (other than default interest) or fees (other than late charges) with respect to any Loan; (B) postpone the date fixed for, or waive, any payment (other than any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.1(a)(ii)) of principal of any Loan, or of interest on any Loan (other than default interest) or any fees provided for hereunder (other than late charges) or postpone the date of termination of any commitment of any Lender hereunder; (C) change the definition of the term Required Lenders or the percentage of Lenders which shall be required for Lenders to take any action hereunder; (D) release all or substantially all of the Collateral, authorize any Borrower to sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the Collateral, release any Guarantor of all or any portion of the Obligations or its Guarantee obligations with respect thereto, or consent to a transfer of any of the Intellectual Property, except, in each case with respect to this clause (D), as otherwise may be provided in this Agreement or the other Financing Documents (including in connection with any disposition permitted hereunder); (E) amend, waive or otherwise modify this Section 11.16(b) or the definitions of the terms used in this Section 11.16(b) insofar as the definitions affect the substance of this Section 11.16(b);  (F) consent to the assignment, delegation or other transfer by any Credit Party of any of its rights and obligations under any Financing Document or release any Borrower of its payment obligations under any Financing Document, except, in each case with respect to this clause (F), pursuant to a merger or consolidation permitted pursuant to this Agreement; or (G) amend any of the provisions of Section 10.7 or amend any of the definitions of Pro Rata Share, Term Loan Commitments, or Term Loan Commitment Percentage or that provide for the Lenders to receive their Pro Rata Shares of any fees, payments, setoffs or proceeds of Collateral hereunder.  It is hereby understood and agreed that all Lenders shall be deemed directly affected by an amendment, waiver or other modification of the type described in the preceding clauses (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) of the preceding sentence.

Section 11.17Assignments and Participations.

(a)Assignments.

(i)Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or any portion of such Lender’s Loan together with all related obligations of such Lender hereunder.  Except as Agent may otherwise agree, the amount of any such assignment (determined as of the date of the applicable Assignment Agreement or, if a “Trade Date” is specified in such Assignment Agreement, as of such Trade Date) shall be in a minimum aggregate amount equal to $1,000,000 or, if less, the assignor’s entire interests in the outstanding Loan; provided, however, that, in connection with simultaneous assignments to two or more related Approved Funds, such Approved Funds shall be treated as one assignee for purposes of determining compliance with the minimum assignment size referred to above.  Borrowers and Agent shall be entitled to continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with the interests so assigned to an Eligible Assignee until Agent shall have received and accepted an effective Assignment Agreement executed, delivered and fully completed by the applicable parties thereto and a processing fee of $3,500 to be paid by the assigning

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Lender; provided, however, that only one processing fee shall be payable in connection with simultaneous assignments to two or more related Approved Funds.

(ii)From and after the date on which the conditions described above have been met, (A) such Eligible Assignee shall be deemed automatically to have become a party hereto and, to the extent of the interests assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to such Assignment Agreement, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder, and (B) the assigning Lender, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment Agreement, shall be released from its rights and obligations hereunder (other than those that survive termination pursuant to Section 12.1).  Upon the request of the Eligible Assignee (and, as applicable, the assigning Lender) pursuant to an effective Assignment Agreement, each Borrower shall execute and deliver to Agent for delivery to the Eligible Assignee (and, as applicable, the assigning Lender) Notes in the aggregate principal amount of the Eligible Assignee’s Loan (and, as applicable, Notes in the principal amount of that portion of the principal amount of the Loan retained by the assigning Lender).  Upon receipt by the assigning Lender of such Note, the assigning Lender shall return to Borrower Representative any prior Note held by it.

(iii)Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of Borrower, shall maintain at the office of its servicer located in Bethesda, Maryland a copy of each Assignment Agreement delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of each Lender, and the commitments of, and principal amount of the Loan owing to, such Lender pursuant to the terms hereof (the “Register”). The entries in such Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and Borrower, Agent and Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded therein pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. Such Register shall be available for inspection by Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time upon reasonable prior notice to Agent. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this  purpose as an agent of Borrower maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each participant’s interest in the Obligations (each, a “Participant Register”). The entries in the Participant Registers shall be conclusive, absent manifest error. Each Participant Register shall be available for inspection by Borrower and Agent at any reasonable time upon reasonable prior notice to the applicable Lender; provided, that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Financing Document) to any Person (including Borrower) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations.  For the avoidance of doubt, Agent (in its capacity as Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

(iv)Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 11.17(a) or any other provision of this Agreement, any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure

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obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided, however, that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(v)Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 11.17(a) or any other provision of this Agreement, Agent has the right, but not the obligation, to effectuate assignments of Loan via an electronic settlement system acceptable to Agent as designated in writing from time to time to Lenders by Agent (the “Settlement Service”).  At any time when Agent elects, in its sole discretion, to implement such Settlement Service, each such assignment shall be effected by the assigning Lender and proposed assignee pursuant to the procedures then in effect under the Settlement Service, which procedures shall be consistent with the other provisions of this Section 11.17(a).  Each assigning Lender and proposed Eligible Assignee shall comply with the requirements of the Settlement Service in connection with effecting any assignment of Loan pursuant to the Settlement Service.  With the prior written approval of Agent, Agent’s approval of such Eligible Assignee shall be deemed to have been automatically granted with respect to any transfer effected through the Settlement Service.  Assignments and assumptions of the Loan shall be effected by the provisions otherwise set forth herein until Agent notifies Lenders of the Settlement Service as set forth herein.

(b)Participations.  Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, any Borrower or Agent, sell to one or more Persons (other than any Borrower or any Borrower’s Affiliates) participating interests in its Loan, commitments or other interests hereunder (any such Person, a “Participant”).  In the event of a sale by a Lender of a participating interest to a Participant, (i) such Lender’s obligations hereunder shall remain unchanged for all purposes, (ii) Borrowers and Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations hereunder, and (iii) all amounts payable by each Borrower shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participation and shall be paid directly to such Lender.  Each Borrower agrees that if amounts outstanding under this Agreement are due and payable (as a result of acceleration or otherwise), each Participant shall be deemed to have the right of set-off in respect of its participating interest in amounts owing under this Agreement to the same extent as if the amount of its participating interest were owing directly to it as a Lender under this Agreement; provided, however, that such right of set-off shall be subject to the obligation of each Participant to share with Lenders, and Lenders agree to share with each Participant, as provided in Section 11.5.

(c)Replacement of Lenders.  Within thirty (30) days after: (i) receipt by Agent of notice and demand from any Lender for payment of additional costs as provided in Section 2.8(h), which demand shall not have been revoked, (ii) any Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.8(a) through (h), (iii) any Lender is a Defaulted Lender, and the circumstances causing such status shall not have been cured or waived; or (iv) any failure by any Lender to consent to a requested amendment, waiver or modification to any Financing Document in which Required Lenders have already consented to such amendment, waiver or modification but the consent of each Lender, or each Lender affected thereby, is required with respect thereto (each relevant Lender in the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv) being an “Affected Lender”) each

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of Borrower Representative and Agent may, at its option, notify such Affected Lender and, in the case of Borrowers’ election, Agent, of such Person’s intention to obtain, at Borrowers’ expense, a replacement Lender (“Replacement Lender”) for such Lender, which Replacement Lender shall be an Eligible Assignee and, in the event the Replacement Lender is to replace an Affected Lender described in the preceding clause (iv), such Replacement Lender consents to the requested amendment, waiver or modification making the replaced Lender an Affected Lender.  In the event Borrowers or Agent, as applicable, obtains a Replacement Lender within ninety (90) days following notice of its intention to do so, the Affected Lender shall sell, at par, and assign all of its Loan and funding commitments hereunder to such Replacement Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 11.17(a); provided, however, that (A) Borrowers shall have reimbursed such Lender for its increased costs and additional payments for which it is entitled to reimbursement under Section 2.8(a) through (h), as applicable, of this Agreement through the date of such sale and assignment, and (B) Borrowers shall pay to Agent the $3,500 processing fee in respect of such assignment.  In the event that a replaced Lender does not execute an Assignment Agreement pursuant to Section 11.17(a) within five (5) Business Days after receipt by such replaced Lender of notice of replacement pursuant to this Section 11.17(c) and presentation to such replaced Lender of an Assignment Agreement evidencing an assignment pursuant to this Section 11.17(c), such replaced Lender shall be deemed to have consented to the terms of such Assignment Agreement, and any such Assignment Agreement executed by Agent, the Replacement Lender and, to the extent required pursuant to Section 11.17(a), Borrowers, shall be effective for purposes of this Section 11.17(c) and Section 11.17(a).  Upon any such assignment and payment, such replaced Lender shall no longer constitute a “Lender” for purposes hereof, other than with respect to such rights and obligations that survive termination as set forth in Section 12.1.

(d)Credit Party Assignments.  No Credit Party may assign, delegate or otherwise transfer any of its rights or other obligations hereunder or under any other Financing Document without the prior written consent of Agent and each Lender.

Section 11.18Funding and Settlement Provisions Applicable When Non-Funding Lenders Exist.  So long as Agent has not waived the conditions to the funding of Loans set forth in Section 7.2 or Section 2.1, any Lender may deliver a notice to Agent stating that such Lender shall not fund the Term Loan due to the non-satisfaction of one or more conditions to funding Loans set forth in Section 7.2 or Section 2.1, and specifying any such non-satisfied conditions.  Any Lender delivering any such notice shall become a non-funding Lender (a “Non-Funding Lender”) for purposes of this Agreement commencing on the Business Day following receipt by Agent of such notice, and shall cease to be a Non-Funding Lender on the date on which such Lender has either revoked the effectiveness of such notice or acknowledged in writing to each of Agent the satisfaction of the condition(s) specified in such notice, or Required Lenders waive the conditions to the funding of such Loans giving rise to such notice by Non-Funding Lender.  Each Non-Funding Lender shall remain a Lender for purposes of this Agreement to the extent that such Non-Funding Lender has Term Loans outstanding in excess of $0; provided, however, that during any period of time that any Non-Funding Lender exists, and notwithstanding any provision to the contrary set forth herein, the following provisions shall apply:

(a)Except as provided in clause (a) above, Term Loan Commitment Amount of each Non-Funding Lender shall be deemed to be $0.

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(b)The Term Loan Commitment at any date of determination during such period shall be deemed to be equal to the sum of (i) the aggregate Term Loan Commitment Amounts of all Lenders, other than the Non-Funding Lenders as of such date plus (ii) the aggregate principal amount outstanding under the Term Loans of all Non-Funding Lenders as of such date.

Section 11.19Reserved.  

Section 11.20Definitions.  As used in this Article 11, the following terms have the following meanings:

“Approved Fund” means any (a) investment company, fund, trust, securitization vehicle or conduit that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the Ordinary Course of Business, or (b) any Person (other than a natural person) which temporarily warehouses loans for any Lender or any entity described in the preceding clause (a) and that, with respect to each of the preceding clauses (a) and (b), is administered or managed by (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender, or (iii) a Person (other than a natural person) or an Affiliate of a Person (other than a natural person) that administers or manages a Lender.

“Assignment Agreement” means an assignment agreement in form and substance acceptable to Agent.

“Defaulted Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed, within two (2) Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund any portion of its Loans, or (ii) pay over to any Credit Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies Agent and Borrower Representative in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified any Borrower or any Credit Party in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding a Loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after request by a Credit Party or the Borrower Representative, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations (and is financially able to meet such obligations) to fund prospective Loans under this Agreement, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulted Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon such Credit Party’s receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to it and the Agent, or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets.  Any determination by Agent that a Lender is a Defaulted Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulted Lender upon delivery of written notice of such determination to Borrower Representative and each Lender.

“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund, and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by Agent; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) “Eligible Assignee” shall not include (i) any Borrower or any of a Borrower’s Affiliates or (ii) unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (A) any hedge fund or private equity fund that is primarily and directly engaged in the business of purchasing distressed debt or (B) any direct competitor of Credit Parties, in each case, as determined by Agent in its reasonable discretion, and (y) no proposed assignee intending to assume any unfunded portion of the Term Loan Commitment shall be an Eligible Assignee unless such proposed assignee either already holds a portion of such Term Loan Commitment, or has been approved as an Eligible Assignee by Agent.

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“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate of interest per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day, provided, however, that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next preceding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate quoted to Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by Agent.

Article 12- MISCELLANEOUS

Section 12.1Survival.  All agreements, representations and warranties made herein and in every other Financing Document shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents and the other Financing Documents.  The provisions of Section 2.10 and Articles 11 and 12 shall survive the payment of the Obligations (both with respect to any Lender and all Lenders collectively) and any termination of this Agreement and any judgment with respect to any Obligations, including any final foreclosure judgment with respect to any Security Document, and no unpaid or unperformed, current or future, Obligations will merge into any such judgment.

Section 12.2No Waivers.  No failure or delay by Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power or privilege under any Financing Document shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.  The rights and remedies herein and therein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.  Any reference in any Financing Document to the “continuing” nature of any Event of Default shall not be construed as establishing or otherwise indicating that any Borrower or any other Credit Party has the independent right to cure any such Event of Default, but is rather presented merely for convenience should such Event of Default be waived in accordance with the terms of the applicable Financing Documents.

Section 12.3Notices.

(a)All notices, requests and other communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including prepaid overnight courier, facsimile transmission or similar writing) and shall be given to such party at its address, facsimile number or e-mail address set forth on the signature pages hereof (or, in the case of any such Lender who becomes a Lender after the date hereof, in an assignment agreement or in a notice delivered to Borrower Representative and Agent by the assignee Lender forthwith upon such assignment) or at such other address, facsimile number or e-mail address as such party may hereafter specify for the purpose by notice to Agent and Borrower Representative; provided, however, that notices, requests or other communications shall be permitted by electronic means only in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.3(b) and (c).  Each such notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by facsimile, when such notice is transmitted to the facsimile number specified by this Section and the sender receives a confirmation of transmission from the sending facsimile machine, or (ii) if given by mail, prepaid overnight courier or any other means, when received or when receipt is refused at the applicable address specified by this Section 12.3(a).

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(b)Notices and other communications to the parties hereto may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved from time to time by Agent, provided, however, that the foregoing shall not apply to notices sent directly to any Lender if such Lender has notified Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices by electronic communication.  Agent or Borrower Representative may, in their discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to them hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided, however, that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

(c)Unless Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgment from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgment), and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor, provided, however, that if any such notice or other communication is not sent or posted during normal business hours, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day.

Section 12.4Severability.  In case any provision of or obligation under this Agreement or any other Financing Document shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 12.5Headings.  Headings and captions used in the Financing Documents (including the Exhibits, Schedules and Annexes hereto and thereto) are included for convenience of reference only and shall not be given any substantive effect.

Section 12.6Confidentiality.  Agent and each Lender shall hold all non-public information regarding the Credit Parties and their respective businesses and obtained by Agent or any Lender pursuant to the requirements hereof in accordance with such Person’s customary procedures for handling information of such nature, except that disclosure of such information may be made (i) to their respective agents, employees, Subsidiaries, Affiliates, attorneys, auditors, professional consultants, rating agencies, insurance industry associations and portfolio management services, (ii) to prospective transferees or purchasers of any interest in the Loans, Agent or a Lender, provided, however, that any such Persons are bound by obligations of confidentiality, (iii) as required by Law, subpoena, judicial order or similar order and in connection with any litigation, (iv) as may be required in connection with the examination, audit or similar investigation of such Person, and (v) to a Person that is a trustee, investment advisor or investment manager, collateral manager, servicer, noteholder or secured party in a Securitization (as hereinafter defined) in connection with the administration, servicing and reporting on the assets serving as collateral for such Securitization. For the purposes of this Section, “Securitization” shall mean (A) the pledge of the Loans as collateral security for loans to a Lender, or (B) a public or private offering by a Lender or any of its Affiliates or their respective successors and assigns, of securities which represent an interest in, or which are collateralized, in whole or in part, by the Loans.  Confidential information shall include only such information identified as such at the time provided to Agent and shall not include information that

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either:  (y) is in the public domain, or becomes part of the public domain after disclosure to such Person through no fault of such Person, or (z) is disclosed to such Person by a Person other than a Credit Party, provided, however, Agent does not have actual knowledge that such Person is prohibited from disclosing such information.  The obligations of Agent and Lenders under this Section 12.6 shall supersede and replace the obligations of Agent and Lenders under any confidentiality agreement in respect of this financing executed and delivered by Agent or any Lender prior to the date hereof.

Section 12.7Waiver of Consequential and Other Damages.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, no Borrower shall assert, and each Borrower hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee (as defined below), on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of this Agreement, any other Financing Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof.  No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Financing Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.

Section 12.8GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION.  

(a)THIS AGREEMENT, EACH NOTE AND EACH OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT, AND ALL DISPUTES AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO OR ARISING THEREFROM (WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW, TORT LAW OR OTHERWISE), SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES.

(b)EACH BORROWER HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT LOCATED in the State of New York in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT, SUBJECT TO AGENT’S ELECTION, ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENTS SHALL BE LITIGATED IN SUCH COURTS.  EACH BORROWER EXPRESSLY SUBMITS AND CONSENTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS AND WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS. EACH BORROWER HEREBY WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF ANY AND ALL PROCESS AND AGREES THAT ALL SUCH SERVICE OF PROCESS MAY BE MADE UPON SUCH BORROWER BY CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, ADDRESSED TO SUCH BORROWER AT THE ADDRESS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT AND SERVICE SO MADE SHALL BE COMPLETE TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE SAME HAS BEEN POSTED.

(c)Each Borrower, Agent and each Lender agree that each Loan (including those made on the Closing Date) shall be deemed to be made in, and the transactions contemplated hereunder and in any other Financing Document shall be deemed to have been performed in, the State of Maryland.  Nothing in this Section 12.8(c) shall amend or modify Sections 12.8(a) or (b) in any respect.    

Section 12.9WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR

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RELATING TO THE FINANCING DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREBY AND AGREES THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY.  EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND EACH LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS RELIED ON THE WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENTS, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN THEIR RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS.  EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND EACH LENDER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF REVIEWING THIS JURY WAIVER WITH LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS.

Section 12.10Publication; Advertisement.

(a)Publication.  No Credit Party will directly or indirectly publish, disclose or otherwise use in any advertising material, promotional material, press release or interview, any reference to the name, logo or any trademark of MCF or any of its Affiliates or any reference to this Agreement or the financing evidenced hereby, in any case except (i) as required by Law, subpoena or judicial or similar order, in which case the applicable Credit Party shall, to the extent legally permitted to do so, give Agent prior written notice of such publication or other disclosure, or (ii) with MCF’s prior written consent.

(b)Advertisement.  Each Lender and each Credit Party hereby authorizes MCF to publish the name of such Lender and Credit Party, the existence of the financing arrangements referenced under this Agreement, the primary purpose and/or structure of those arrangements, the amount of credit extended under each facility, the title and role of each party to this Agreement, and the total amount of the financing evidenced hereby in any “tombstone”, comparable advertisement or press release which MCF elects to submit for publication.  In addition, each Lender and each Credit Party agrees that MCF may provide lending industry trade organizations with information necessary and customary for inclusion in league table measurements after the Closing Date.  With respect to any of the foregoing, MCF shall provide Borrowers with an opportunity to review and confer with MCF regarding the contents of any such tombstone, advertisement or information, as applicable, prior to its submission for publication and, following such review period, MCF may, from time to time, publish such information in any media form desired by MCF, until such time that Borrowers shall have requested MCF cease any such further publication.

Section 12.11Counterparts; Integration.  This Agreement and the other Financing Documents may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.  Signatures by facsimile or by electronic mail delivery of an electronic version of any executed signature page shall bind the parties hereto.  This Agreement and the other Financing Documents constitute the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto and supersede any and all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.

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Section 12.12No Strict Construction.  The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement.  In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement.

Section 12.13Lender Approvals.  Unless expressly provided herein to the contrary, any approval, consent, waiver or satisfaction of Agent or Lenders with respect to any matter that is the subject of this Agreement, the other Financing Documents may be granted or withheld by Agent and Lenders in their sole and absolute discretion and credit judgment.

Section 12.14Expenses; Indemnity

(a)Borrowers hereby agree to promptly pay (i) all reasonable costs and expenses of Agent (including, without limitation, the fees, costs and expenses of counsel to, and independent appraisers and consultants retained by Agent) in connection with the examination, review, due diligence investigation, documentation, negotiation, closing and syndication of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents, in connection with the performance by Agent of its rights and remedies under the Financing Documents and in connection with the continued administration of the Financing Documents including (A) any amendments, modifications, consents and waivers to and/or under any and all Financing Documents, and (B) any periodic public record searches conducted by or at the request of Agent (including, without limitation, title investigations, UCC searches, fixture filing searches, judgment, pending litigation and tax lien searches and searches of applicable corporate, limited liability, partnership and related records concerning the continued existence, organization and good standing of certain Persons); (ii) without limitation of the preceding clause (i), all costs and expenses of Agent in connection with the creation, perfection and maintenance of Liens pursuant to the Financing Documents; (iii) without limitation of the preceding clause (i), all costs and expenses of Agent in connection with (A) protecting, storing, insuring, handling, maintaining or selling any Collateral, (B) any litigation, dispute, suit or proceeding relating to any Financing Document, and (C) any workout, collection, bankruptcy, insolvency and other enforcement proceedings under any and all of the Financing Documents; (iv) without limitation of the preceding clause (i), all reasonable costs and expenses of Agent in connection with Agent’s reservation of funds in anticipation of the funding of the initial Loans to be made hereunder; and (v) all costs and expenses incurred by Lenders in connection with any litigation, dispute, suit or proceeding relating to any Financing Document and in connection with any workout, collection, bankruptcy, insolvency and other enforcement proceedings under any and all Financing Documents, whether or not Agent or Lenders are a party thereto.  If Agent or any Lender uses in-house counsel for any of these purposes, Borrowers further agree that the Obligations include reasonable charges for such work commensurate with the fees that would otherwise be charged by outside legal counsel selected by Agent or such Lender for the work performed.

(b)Each Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify, pay and hold harmless Agent and Lenders and the officers, directors, employees, trustees, agents, investment advisors and investment managers, collateral managers, servicers, and counsel of Agent and Lenders (collectively called the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, claims, costs, expenses and disbursements

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of any kind or nature whatsoever (including the fees and disbursements of counsel for such Indemnitee) in connection with any investigative, response, remedial, administrative or judicial matter or proceeding, whether or not such Indemnitee shall be designated a party thereto and including any such proceeding initiated by or on behalf of a Credit Party, and the reasonable expenses of investigation by engineers, environmental consultants and similar technical personnel and any commission, fee or compensation claimed by any broker (other than any broker retained by Agent or Lenders) asserting any right to payment for the transactions contemplated hereby, which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnitee as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby or by the other Financing Documents (including (i)(A) as a direct or indirect result of the presence on or under, or escape, seepage, leakage, spillage, discharge, emission or release from, any property now or previously owned, leased or operated by Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Person of any Hazardous Materials, (B) arising out of or relating to the offsite disposal of any materials generated or present on any such property, or (C) arising out of or resulting from the environmental condition of any such property or the applicability of any governmental requirements relating to Hazardous Materials, whether or not occasioned wholly or in part by any condition, accident or event caused by any act or omission of Borrower or any Subsidiary, and (ii) proposed and actual extensions of credit under this Agreement) and the use or intended use of the proceeds of the Loans, except that Borrower shall have no obligation hereunder to an Indemnitee with respect to any liability resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.  To the extent that the undertaking set forth in the immediately preceding sentence may be unenforceable, Borrower shall contribute the maximum portion which it is permitted to pay and satisfy under applicable Law to the payment and satisfaction of all such indemnified liabilities incurred by the Indemnitees or any of them.

(c)Notwithstanding any contrary provision in this Agreement, the obligations of Borrowers under this Section 12.14 shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement. NO INDEMNITEE SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO THE BORROWERS OR TO ANY OTHER PARTY TO ANY FINANCING DOCUMENT, ANY SUCCESSOR, ASSIGNEE OR THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY OR ANY OTHER PERSON ASSERTING CLAIMS DERIVATIVELY THROUGH SUCH PARTY, FOR INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE ALLEGED AS A RESULT OF CREDIT HAVING BEEN EXTENDED, SUSPENDED OR TERMINATED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT OR AS A RESULT OF ANY OTHER TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER.

Section 12.15Reserved.  

Section 12.16Reinstatement.  This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any petition or other proceeding be filed by or against any Credit Party for liquidation or reorganization, should any Credit Party become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of any creditor or creditors or should an interim receiver, receiver, receiver and manager or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of any Credit Party’s assets, and shall continue to be effective or to be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Obligations, or any part thereof, is, pursuant to applicable Law,

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rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee of the Obligations, whether as a fraudulent preference reviewable transaction or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made.  In the event that any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Obligations shall be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.

Section 12.17Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Borrowers and Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

Section 12.18USA PATRIOT Act Notification.  Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) and each Lender hereby notifies Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies Borrowers, which information includes the name and address of Borrower and such other information that will allow Agent or such Lender, as applicable, to identify Borrowers in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act.

Section 12.19Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Financing Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under any Financing Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

(a)the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and

(b)the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

(i)a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

(ii)a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Financing Document; or

(iii)the variation of the terms of such liability  in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, intending to be legally bound, each of the parties have caused this Agreement to be executed under seal the day and year first above mentioned.

 

 

 

 

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ANNEXES, EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES

ANNEXES

Annex ACommitment Annex

 

EXHIBITS 

Exhibit A[Reserved]

Exhibit BForm of Compliance Certificate

Exhibit C[Reserved]

Exhibit DForm of Notice of Borrowing

Exhibit E-1Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

Exhibit E-2Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

Exhibit E-3Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

Exhibit E-4Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

Exhibit F[Omitted]

Exhibit GForm of Payment Notification

 

SCHEDULES

Schedule 2.1Scheduled Principal Payments for Term Loan

Schedule 3.1Existence, Organizational ID Numbers, Foreign Qualification, Prior Names

Schedule 3.4[Omitted]

Schedule 3.6[Omitted]

Schedule 3.17[Omitted]

Schedule 3.18[Omitted]

Schedule 3.19Intellectual Property

Schedule 4.9[Omitted]

Schedule 5.1[Omitted]

Schedule 5.2[Omitted]

Schedule 5.7[Omitted]

Schedule 5.8[Omitted]

Schedule 5.11[Omitted]

Schedule 5.14[Omitted]

Schedule 7.4Post-Closing Obligations

Schedule 8.2(a)[Omitted]

Schedule 8.2(b)[Omitted]

Schedule 9.1Collateral

Schedule 9.2[Omitted]

 

 

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Annex A to Credit Agreement (Commitment Annex)

 

 

 

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Exhibit A to Credit Agreement (Reserved)

 

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Exhibit B to Credit Agreement (Form of Compliance Certificate)

 

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

This Compliance Certificate is given by _____________________, a Responsible Officer of Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. (the “Borrower Representative”), pursuant to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of August 5, 2020 among Borrower Representative, Aptevo Research and Development LLC, and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (collectively, “Borrowers”), MidCap Financial Trust, individually as a Lender and as Agent, and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties hereto, each as a Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.

The undersigned Responsible Officer hereby certifies to Agent and Lenders that:

(a)the financial statements delivered with this certificate in accordance with Section 4.1 of the Credit Agreement fairly present in all material respects the results of operations and financial condition of Borrowers and their Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the dates and the accounting period covered by such financial statements, subject, in the case of interim financial statements, to year end reconciliation and the absence of footnotes;

(b)I have reviewed the terms of the Credit Agreement and have made, or caused to be made under my supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and conditions of Borrowers and their Consolidated Subsidiaries during the accounting period covered by such financial statements, and such review has not disclosed the existence during or at the end of such accounting period, and I have no knowledge of the existence as of the date hereof, of any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default, except as set forth in Schedule 1 hereto, which includes a description of the nature and period of existence of such Default or an Event of Default and what action Borrowers have taken, are undertaking and propose to take with respect thereto;

(c)except as noted on Schedule 2 attached hereto, Schedule 9.2 to the Credit Agreement contains a complete and accurate list of all business locations of Borrowers and Guarantors and all names under which Borrowers and Guarantors currently conduct business; Schedule 2 specifically notes any changes in the names under which any Borrower or Guarantors conduct business;

(d)except as noted on Schedule 3 attached hereto, the undersigned has no knowledge of (i) any federal or state tax liens having been filed against any Borrower, Guarantor or any Collateral, or (ii) any failure of any Borrower or any Guarantors to make required payments of withholding or other tax obligations of any Borrower or any Guarantors during the accounting period to which the attached statements pertain or any subsequent period;

(e)except as noted on Schedule 4 attached hereto, Schedule 5.14 to the Credit Agreement contains a complete and accurate statement of all deposit accounts or investment accounts maintained by Borrowers and Guarantors;

(f)except as noted on Schedule 5 attached hereto and Schedule 3.6 to the Credit Agreement, the undersigned has no knowledge of any current, pending or threatened: (i) litigation against the Borrowers or any Guarantors, (ii) material inquiries, investigations or proceedings concerning the business affairs,

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practices, licensing or reimbursement entitlements of Borrowers or any Guarantors, or (iii) material default by Borrowers or any Guarantors under any Material Contract to which it is a party;

(g)except as noted on Schedule 6 attached hereto, no Borrower or Guarantor has acquired, by purchase, by the approval or granting of any application for registration (whether or not such application was previously disclosed to Agent by Borrowers) or otherwise, any Intellectual Property that is registered with any United States or foreign Governmental Authority, or has filed with any such United States or foreign Governmental Authority, any new application for the registration of any Intellectual Property, or acquired rights under a license as a licensee with respect to any such registered Intellectual Property (or any such application for the registration of Intellectual Property) owned by another Person, that has not previously been reported to Agent on Schedule 3.17 to the Credit Agreement or any Schedule 6 to any previous Compliance Certificate delivered by Borrower to Agent;

(h)except as noted on Schedule 7 attached hereto, no Borrower or Guarantor has acquired, by purchase or otherwise, any Chattel Paper, Letter of Credit Rights, Instruments, Documents or Investment Property that has not previously been reported to Agent on any Schedule 7 to any previous Compliance Certificate delivered by Borrower Representative to Agent;

(i)except as noted on Schedule 8 attached hereto, no Borrower or Guarantor is aware of any commercial tort claim that has not previously been reported to Agent on any Schedule 8 to any previous Compliance Certificate delivered by Borrower Representative to Agent; and

(j)[the aggregate amounts of all Royalties received by or on behalf of Borrower and its Subsidiaries during the calendar quarter ending on  _____________, 202__ is $[] as detailed in the attached report.]¹

The foregoing certifications and computations are made as of ________________, 202__ (end of month) and as of _____________, 202__.

 

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit C to Credit Agreement (Reserved)

 

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Exhibit D to Credit Agreement (Form of Notice of Borrowing)

 

NOTICE OF BORROWING

This Notice of Borrowing is given by _____________________, a Responsible Officer of Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. (the “Borrower Representative”), pursuant to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of August 5, 2020 among Borrower Representative, Aptevo Research and Development LLC, and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (collectively, “Borrowers”), MidCap Financial Trust, individually as a Lender and as Agent, and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties hereto, each as a Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.

The undersigned Responsible Officer hereby gives notice to Agent of Borrower Representative’s request to borrow $_______________ of Term Loans on ________________, 202__.

The undersigned officer hereby certifies that, both before and after giving effect to the request above (a) each of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 7.2 have been satisfied, (b) all of the representations and warranties contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Financing Documents are true, correct and complete in all material respects as of the date hereof, except to the extent such representation or warranty relates to a specific date, in which case such representation or warranty is true, correct and complete as of such earlier date; provided, however, in each case, such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof, and (c) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned officer has executed and delivered this Notice of Borrowing this ____ day of ___________, 202__.

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit E-1 to Credit Agreement (Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate)

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

This U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate is given pursuant to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of August 5, 2020 among the Borrower Representative, Aptevo Research and Development LLC, and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (collectively, “Borrowers”), MidCap Financial Trust, individually as a Lender and as Agent, and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties hereto, each as a Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.8(c) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a ten percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished Agent and the Borrower Representative with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E.  By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower Representative and Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower Representative and Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

 

 

Date: ________ __, 202[ ]

 

 

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Exhibit E-2 to Credit Agreement (Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate)

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

This U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate is given pursuant to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of August 5, 2020 among the Borrower Representative, Aptevo Research and Development LLC, and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (collectively, “Borrowers”), MidCap Financial Trust, individually as a Lender and as Agent, and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties hereto, each as a Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.  

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.8(c) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a ten percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form -8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E.  By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender in writing, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

 

 

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Exhibit E-3 to Credit Agreement (Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate)

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

This U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate is given pursuant to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of August 5, 2020 among the Borrower Representative, Aptevo Research and Development LLC, and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (collectively, “Borrowers”), MidCap Financial Trust, individually as a Lender and as Agent, and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties hereto, each as a Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.  

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.8(c) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such participation, (iii) with respect such participation, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a ten percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E from each of such partner’s/member’s beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption.  By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

 

 

Date: ________ __, 202[ ]

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Exhibit E-4 to Credit Agreement (Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate)

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

This U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate is given pursuant to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of August 5, 2020 among the Borrower Representative, Aptevo Research and Development LLC, and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (collectively, “Borrowers”), MidCap Financial Trust, individually as a Lender and as Agent, and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties hereto, each as a Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.  

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.8(c) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)), (iii) with respect to the extension of credit pursuant to this Credit Agreement or any other Financing Document, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a ten percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished Agent and the Borrower Representative with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E from each of such partner’s/member’s beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption.  By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower Representative and Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower Representative and Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

 

 

Date: ________ __, 202[ ]

 

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Exhibit F to Credit Agreement (Form of Closing Checklist)

 

 

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Exhibit G to Credit Agreement (Form of Payment Notification)

 

PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

This Payment Notification is given by ____________________, a Responsible Officer of Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. (the “Borrower Representative”), pursuant to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as August 5, 2020 among Borrower Representative, Aptevo Research and Development LLC, and the other Borrowers signatory thereto and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (collectively, “Borrowers”), MidCap Financial Trust, individually as a Lender and as Agent, and the financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties hereto, each as a Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.

Please be advised that funds in the amount of $_____________ will be wire transferred to Agent on _________, 202_.  Such funds shall constitute [an optional] [a mandatory] prepayment of the Term Loans, with such prepayments to be applied in the manner specified in Section 2.1(a)(iii).  [Such mandatory prepayment is being made pursuant to Section _____________ of the Credit Agreement.]

Fax to MCF Operations 301-941-1450 no later than noon Eastern time.

Note:Funds must be received in the Payment Account by no later than noon Eastern time for same day application

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned officer has executed and delivered this Payment Notification this ____ day of ___________, 202__.

 

 

 

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Schedule 2.1 - Amortization

 

Borrower shall pay to Agent as a principal payment on the Term Loans the following amounts on the following dates:

 

  

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire remaining outstanding principal balance under each of the Term Loans shall mature and be due and payable upon the Termination Date.  

 

 

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Schedule 3.1 – Existence, Organizational ID Numbers, Foreign Qualification, Prior Names

 

 

 

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Schedule 3.4 – Capitalization

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Schedule 3.6 – Litigation

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Schedule 3.17 – Material Contracts

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Schedule 3.18 – Environmental Compliance

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Schedule 3.19 – Intellectual Property

 

INTANGIBLE ASSETS SCHEDULE

 

 

 

 

 

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INTANGIBLE ASSETS SCHEDULE (CONTINUED)

 

LICENSE AND SIMILAR AGREEMENTS

 

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[REPEAT ABOVE FOR EACH INBOUND LICENSE AGREEMENT]

 

 

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[REPEAT ABOVE FOR EACH OUTBOUND LICENSE AGREEMENT]

 

 

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Schedule 4.9 – Litigation, Governmental Proceedings and Other Notice Events

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Schedule 5.1 – Debt; Contingent Obligations

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Schedule 5.2 – Liens

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Schedule 5.7 – Permitted Investments

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Schedule 5.8 – Affiliate Transactions

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Schedule 5.14 – Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts

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Schedule 7.4 – Post Closing Requirements

Borrowers shall satisfy and complete each of the following obligations, or provide Agent each of the items listed below, as applicable, on or before the date indicated below:

 

 

 

 

Borrower’s failure to complete any of the above obligations on or before the date indicated above (as such may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), or Borrower’s failure to deliver any of the above listed items on or before the date indicated above (as such may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), shall constitute an immediate Event of Default.

 

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Schedule 8.2(a) – Licensing and Products

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Schedule 8.2(b) – Exceptions to Healthcare Representations and Warranties

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Schedule 9.1 – Collateral

The Collateral consists of all of each Borrower’s assets (other than Excluded Property), including without limitation, all of each Borrower’s right, title and interest in and to the following, whether now owned or hereafter created, acquired or arising:

 

 

 

 

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Schedule 9.2 – Collateral Information

 

 

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Exhibit B

 

Form of Lien Release

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Exhibit 31.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULES 13a-14(a) AND 15d-14(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Marvin White, certify that:

 

 

Exhibit 31.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULES 13a-14(a) AND 15d-14(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Jeff Lamothe, certify that:

 

 

Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULE 13a-14(b) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED AND

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. on Form 10-Q for the period ending March 31, 2021 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

 

 

“This certification accompanies the Form 10-Q to which it relates, is not deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (whether made before or after the date of the Form-K), irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in such filing.”

Exhibit 32.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULE 13a-14(b) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED AND

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Aptevo Inc. on Form 10-Q for the period ending March 31, 2021 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

 

 

“This certification accompanies the Form 10-Q to which it relates, is not deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (whether made before or after the date of the Form-K), irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in such filing.”