LGND — what changed in the latest 10-Q

Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-08

• First Quarter 2026 Corporate Highlights and Portfolio Updates

• On April 27, 2026, we and XOMA, both biotechnology royalty aggregators, announced that the companies entered into a definitive agreement under which we will acquire XOMA for $39.00 per share of common stock in cash. XOMA stockholders are expected to separately receive one non-transferable Contingent…

• capacity to continue executing our capital deployment strategy of investing approximately $150 million to $250 million annually in high-value royalty assets.

• The acquisition further diversifies our royalty portfolio across therapeutic areas such as ophthalmology, oncology, CNS and rare diseases and across stages of development and biopharma partners. The anticipated XOMA acquisition will add over 120 commercial, clinical, and preclinical-stage assets to …

• On April 24, 2026, we delivered written notice to Viking Therapeutics, Inc. of termination of the TR‑Beta Program (including, but not limited to, VK2809 and VK0214), which we believe was effective as of May 4, 2026, under that certain Master License Agreement, dated May 21, 2014, by and among Ligand…

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• On August 14, 2025, we completed the offering of 0.75% convertible senior notes due 2030. The aggregate principal amount of the notes sold was $460 million, which includes the full exercise of the option by the initial purchasers.

• The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $445 million after fees and expenses. Of that amount, we used approximately $46 million of the proceeds to enter into a call spread overlay, comprised of convertible note hedge and warrant transactions and approximately $15 million of the proceed…

• corporate purposes. The convertible note hedge transactions reduce the potential for dilution upon conversion. As a result of the warrants transactions, there will be no dilution to Ligand’s stock until the share price exceeds $294.02 per share.

• On July 1, 2025, we completed a previously announced merger between the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, LNHC, Inc., and CHRO Merger Sub Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Channel Therapeutics Corporation (“Channel”) (such transaction, the “Pelthos Transaction”). The combined company operates unde…

• Concurrent with the merger, Pelthos raised $50.1 million of equity capital, including a private placement from a group of strategic investors led by Murchinson (“Investor Group” and together with Ligand, the “Investors”). The Investor Group invested $32 million and we invested $18 million in the com…

Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-08

• On August 22, 2024, CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed a Verified Complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery against Bexson Biomedical, Inc. (“Bexson”), asserting claims for declaratory relief and breach of contract arising out of a Captisol In Vivo Agreement (the “In Vivo Agreement”) between the pa…

• developed by Bexson. CyDex alleges that Bexson breached its obligations under the In Vivo Agreement, including by misusing confidential information and materials provided by CyDex and by using CyDex’s confidential information and materials to file patent applications that purport to cover formulatio…

• On July 18, 2025, CyDex received a letter (the “Notice Letter”) from PH Health Limited (“PH Health”), a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Endo, Inc., stating that PH Health had submitted to the FDA an Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) referencing New Drug Application No. 022235, owned by B…

Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2025-11-07

• On August 22, 2024, CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed a Verified Complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery against Bexson Biomedical, Inc. (“Bexson”), asserting claims for declaratory relief and breach of contract arising out of a Captisol In Vivo Agreement (the “In Vivo Agreement”) between the pa…

• On July 18, 2025, CyDex received a letter from PH Health Limited (“PH Health”), a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Endo, Inc., stating that PH Health had submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration an Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) referencing New Drug Application No. 022235, ow…