Company: ARVN
Filing Date: 2025-02-11
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001655759-25-000016
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Company: ARVINAS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-11
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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the costs and complexities of manufacturing and delivering such product candidate to patients, the potential of competing products, the existence of uncertainty with respect to our ownership of technology, which can exist if there is a challenge to such ownership without regard to the merits of the challenge, the terms of any existing collaboration or license agreements, and industry and market conditions generally. The collaborator or licensee may also have the opportunity to collaborate on other product candidates or technologies for similar indications and will have to evaluate whether such a collaboration could be more attractive than one with us. 

Collaborations and licenses are complex and time-consuming to negotiate, document and execute. In addition, consolidation among large pharmaceutical companies has reduced the number of potential future collaborators. Our existing collaboration and license agreements limit our ability to enter into future agreements on certain terms with potential collaborators. For example, we have granted exclusive rights to Genentech and Pfizer for the discovery, development and commercialization of PROTAC targeted protein degraders directed to certain protein targets, and during the terms of those agreements, we will be restricted from granting rights to other parties to use our PROTAC technology for those targets. In addition, we granted an exclusive worldwide license for the development, manufacture and commercialization of luxdegalutamide (ARV-766) to Novartis and during the term of the Novartis License Agreement, is restricted from granting rights to other parties related to luxdegalutamide (ARV-766). Any collaboration or license we enter into may limit our ability to enter into future agreements on particular terms or covering similar target indications with other potential collaborators or licensees.

We may not be able to negotiate collaborations or licenses on a timely basis, on acceptable terms or at all. If we are unable to do so, we may have to curtail the development of the product candidate for which we are seeking to collaborate or license, reduce or delay its development program or one or more of our other development programs, delay its potential commercialization or reduce the scope of any sales or marketing activities, or increase our expenditures and undertake development or commercialization activities at our own expense. If we elect to fund development or commercialization activities on our own, we may need to obtain additional capital, which may not be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. If we do not have sufficient funds, we may not be able to further develop our product candidates or bring them to market and generate revenue from product sales, which could have an adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.