Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-10-07
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001104659-25-097519
Chunk: 130

Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-07
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 130
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 31, 2026 (the “Maturity Date”).

Upon the closing of the Merger, pursuant to the terms of the Convertible Notes, the outstanding principal balance of the Convertible Notes and all unpaid accrued interest automatically converted into 1,265,757 shares of our common stock in the aggregate. Utilizing the fair value option to account for the Convertible Notes, we recorded a gain of $12.8 million and a net gain of $7.8 million in our condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, as a result of the net changes in fair value.

License Agreements

In July 2012 and June 2015, Stem Med Limited Partnership (“StemMed”) entered into license agreements with Baylor College of Medicine (“BCM”) referred to herein as the BCM First Agreement and BCM Second Agreement, respectively. StemMed assigned the BCM First Agreement and BCM Second Agreement to us in connection with the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets and businesses to which BCM First Agreement and BCM Second Agreement relate in January 2018 and February 2018, respectively. Under both the BCM First Agreement and BCM Second Agreement, we obtained exclusive, worldwide, sublicense licenses under certain of BCM’s patents and patent applications and additionally in the case of the BCM First Agreement, certain BCM technology. Under these licenses, we are permitted to make, have made, use, market, sell, offer to sell, lease and import products, processes or services that incorporate, utilize or are made with the use such patents and patent applications or technologies (respectively, the BCM1 Licensed Products and BCM2 Licensed Products) in all fields of use. The licenses, patents and patent applications and technologies applicable to the BCM First Agreement and BCM Second Agreement are further discussed below.

First License Agreement with Baylor College of Medicine

Under the BCM First Agreement, we obtained an exclusive, worldwide, sublicensable license under BCM’s rights to certain patents and patent applications related to STAT3 inhibitors in oncology and certain non-oncology indications, which we refer to as the BCM Patent Rights, together with certain cell lines, biological materials, compounds, know-how and technologies, which we collectively refer to as the BCM Technology, to make, have made, use, market, sell, offer to sell, lease and import BCM1 Licensed Products, in all fields of use.

Pursuant to the terms of the BCM First Agreement, StemMed owed an initial