Introductory Note
As previously announced, on January 19, 2024, Coherus BioSciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Purchase Agreement”) by and between the Company and Sandoz Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Purchaser”). On March 1, 2024, the Company completed the previously announced divestiture of its CIMERLI® (ranibizumab-eqrn) ophthalmology franchise through the sale of its subsidiary, Coherus Ophthalmology LLC, to Purchaser (the “Disposition”) for upfront, all-cash consideration of $170.0 million plus an additional $17.8 million for CIMERLI product inventory and prepaid manufacturing assets. Such consideration is subject to certain adjustments that will be finalized following the closing pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
The following events took place in connection with the completion of the Disposition.
Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
The information included in the Introductory Note is incorporated herein by reference into this Item 2.01.
The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement and the Disposition does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which was attached as Exhibit 2.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 22, 2024, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.04 Triggering Events That Accelerate or Increase a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement.
The information included in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference into this Item 2.04.
As described in Item 1.01 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on February 5, 2024, which is incorporated into this Item 2.04 by reference, on February 5, 2024, the Company, as borrower and on behalf of itself and certain of its subsidiaries, entered into a Consent, Partial Release and Third Amendment to Loan Agreement (the “Consent and Amendment”) with Biopharma Credit PLC, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, as collateral agent (the “Collateral Agent”), BPCR Limited Partnership, a limited partnership established under the laws of England and Wales, as a lender (“BPCR”), and Biopharma Credit Investments V (MASTER) LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership acting by its general partner, BioPharma Credit Investments V GP LLC (as a lender, and together with as BPCR, each, a “Lender” and collectively, the “Lenders”), pursuant to which the Lenders and the Collateral Agent provided certain consents, and released certain assets and subsidiaries of the Company from their obligations under the Existing Loan Agreement and the other loan documents in connection therewith, and the parties thereto agreed to amend the previously disclosed loan agreement dated as of January 5, 2022 (as amended on April 7, 2022 and February 6, 2023, and as further amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date of the Consent and Amendment, the “Existing Loan Agreement”) among the Company, certain of its subsidiaries, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders.
Pursuant to and subject to terms and conditions in the Consent and Amendment, among other things: (1) the Lenders and the Collateral Agent provided consent to consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, and released certain subsidiary of the Company from its obligation and certain assets subject to the transactions contemplated thereby, (2) the Lenders and the Collateral Agent permitted the Company to make a partial prepayment of the principal of the loans outstanding under the Existing Loan Agreement in the amount of $175.0 million upon consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, subject to certain conditions and (3) the parties thereto agreed to adjust the minimum net sales covenant level under the Existing Loan Agreement.