Company: ACHV
Filing Date: 2025-03-11
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-036831
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Company: ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-11
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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Sopharma License and Supply Agreements 

We are party to a license agreement, or the Sopharma License Agreement, and a supply agreement, or the Sopharma Supply Agreement, with Sopharma. Pursuant to the Sopharma License Agreement, we were granted access to all available manufacturing, efficacy and safety data related to cytisinicline, as well as a granted patent in several European countries related to new oral dosage forms of cytisinicline providing enhanced stability. Additional rights granted under the Sopharma License Agreement include the exclusive use of, and the right to sublicense, certain cytisinicline trademarks in all territories described in the Sopharma License Agreement. Under the Sopharma License Agreement, we agreed to pay a nonrefundable license fee. In addition, we agreed to make certain royalty payments equal to a mid-single digit percentage of all net sales of cytisinicline products in our territory during the term of the Sopharma License Agreement, including those sold by a third party pursuant to any sublicense which may be granted by us. To date, any amounts paid to Sopharma pursuant to the Sopharma License Agreement have been immaterial.

Share Purchase Agreement

In May 2015, we entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with Sopharma to acquire 75% of the outstanding shares of Extab Corporation for $2.0 million in cash and $2.0 million in a deferred payment, contingent on regulatory approval of cytisinicline by the FDA or the European Medicines Agency, or EMA. The fair value of the contingent consideration on the acquisition date was nil. The contingent consideration liability is measured at fair value in our financial statements, 

As of December 31, 2024, the fair value of the contingent consideration was estimated to be $1.1 million as compared to $0.5 million as of December 31, 2023.  (see Note 2 "Significant Accounting Policies, Sopharma Share Purchase Agreement Contingent Consideration" in the accompanying consolidated Financial Statements). We recognized a loss of $0.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. 

University of Bristol License Agreement 

In July 2016, we entered into a license agreement with the University of Bristol, or the University of Bristol License Agreement. Under the University of Bristol License Agreement, we received exclusive and nonexclusive licenses from the University of Bristol to certain patent and technology rights resulting from research activities into cytisinicline and its derivatives, including a number of patent applications related to novel approaches to