Company: ZVRA
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001437749-25-016523
Chunk: 115

Company: ZEVRA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 115
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, Vatican City, Norway, Iceland, Principality of Monaco, Andorra, Gibraltar, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and North Macedonia (“Geographical Europe”). We have the right to receive a royalty of up to 10% of the net sales of OLPRUVA in Geographical Europe. 

      OLPRUVA License Agreement

      Pursuant to the Relief License Agreement, Zevra was obligated to pay royalties of 10% of U.S. net sales up to a maximum of $45.0 million, plus specified regulatory milestones, for total payments to Relief of up to $56.5 million. On April 10, 2025, the rights to this royalty were sold to Soleus Capital Management L.P. 

     License Agreements Related to MIPLYFFA (arimoclomol)

      Prior to our acquisition of the assets of Orphazyme in May 2022, Orphazyme had entered into an asset purchase agreement with LadRx Corporation, which was assigned to XOMA (US) LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of XOMA Corporation (“XOMA”), in June 2023 (“XOMA License Agreement”), as well as a license agreement with Kansas University (“KU”) and UCLB Business, PLC (“UCLB”) (the “KU/UCLB License Agreement”). Under the XOMA License Agreement, XOMA is entitled to certain net sales and regulatory milestone payments in addition to a mid-single digit royalty with respect to worldwide net sales of MIPLYFFA. Under the KU/UCLB License Agreement, KU and UCLB, respectively, are entitled to a low-single digit royalty with respect to worldwide net sales of MIPLYFFA.

     Aquestive Termination Agreement
      
     Under our March 2012 termination agreement with Aquestive Therapeutics (“Aquestive”), Aquestive has the right to receive a royalty amount equal to 10% of any value generated by AZSTARYS and any product candidates containing SDX. In connection with the AZSTARYS License Agreement, we paid Aquestive a royalty equal to 10% of the quarterly royalty payments and of the regulatory and net sales milestones.

Results of Operations

Comparison of the three months ended March 31, 2025, and 2024 (in thousands):

      Three months ended