Company: LGNZZ
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000886163-25-000036
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Company: LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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 product revenue streams that are supported by an efficient and low corporate cost structure. Our goal is to offer investors an opportunity to participate in the promise of the biotech industry in a profitable and diversified manner. Our business model focuses on funding programs in mid- to late-stage drug development in return for economic rights, purchasing royalty rights in development stage or commercial biopharmaceutical products and licensing our technology to help partners discover and develop medicines. We partner with other pharmaceutical companies to leverage what they do best (late-stage development, regulatory management and commercialization) in order to generate our revenue. We operate two infrastructure-light royalty-generating IP platform technologies. Our Captisol platform technology is a chemically modified cyclodextrin with a structure designed to optimize the solubility and stability of drugs. Our NITRICIL platform technology facilitates “tunable” dosing, permitting an adjustable drug release profile to allow proprietary formulations that target a broad range of indications. We have established multiple alliances, licenses and other business relationships with the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies including Amgen, Merck, Pfizer, Jazz, Gilead Sciences and Baxter.

Our revenue is generated primarily from royalties on sales of products commercialized by our partners, Captisol material sales, and contract revenue for license fees, regulatory and sales based milestone payments. Other operating income is primarily related to milestone income received for financial royalty assets that have been fully amortized or where there is no underlying asset recognized on the consolidated balance sheets. Also, we selectively pursue acquisitions and drug development funding opportunities that address high unmet clinical needs to bring in new assets, pipelines, and technologies to aid in generating additional potential new incremental revenue streams.

Business Updates 

Pelthos Therapeutics Transaction 

On April 17, 2025, we announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement to combine our wholly owned subsidiaries, Pelthos Therapeutics Inc. and LNHC, Inc. (collectively “Pelthos”) with CHRO Merger Sub Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Channel Therapeutics. The merger will be supported by $50 million in capital raised from a group of strategic investors led by Murchinson (“Investor Group”). Upon completion of the transaction, the combined company will operate under the name Pelthos Therapeutics Inc. and trade on the NYSE American exchange under the ticker PTHS. The transaction is expected to close in the summer of 2025, subject to the fulfillment of customary closing conditions.

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Under the terms of the merger agreement, Channel will acquire