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These risks could materially affect our business, results of operations or financial condition, cause the trading price of our outstanding common stock to decline materially or cause our actual results to differ materially from those expected or those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf.
−Removed: See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and the risks of our businesses described elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10‑K.
+Added: See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and the risks of our businesses described elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10‑K (“Form 10-K”).
Risks Related to Our Portfolio of Commercial Products
−Removed: Our ability to continue to grow PYLARIFY as a commercial product is dependent on (A) the ability of PMFs to manufacture PYLARIFY to meet product demand, (B) our ability to promote PYLARIFY to customers, (C) our ability to obtain and maintain adequate coding, coverage and payment for PYLARIFY, (D) our ability to maintain PYLARIFY as the leading PSMA PET imaging agent, including after the potential expiration of TPT Status at the end of 2024 and (E) our ability to clinically and commercially differentiate PYLARIFY from other products.
+Added: Our ability to continue to grow PYLARIFY as a commercial product is dependent on (A) the ability of positron emission tomography (“PET”) manufacturing facilities (“PMFs”) to manufacture PYLARIFY to meet product demand or that PYLARIFY will always be available at the specific time of day preferred by the end-user, (B) our ability to maintain adequate coding, coverage and payment for PYLARIFY, (C) our ability to promote PYLARIFY to customers and to maintain PYLARIFY as the most utilized prostate-specific membrane antigen (“PSMA”) PET imaging agent, including after the expiration of transitional pass-through payment status (“ TPT Status”) at the end of 2024, (D) whether and when a potential generic version of PYLARIFY may enter the market and (E) our ability to clinically and commercially differentiate PYLARIFY from other products.
To manufacture PYLARIFY, we assembled and qualified a nationwide network of PMFs with radioisotope-producing cyclotrons that make F-18, which has a 110-minute half-life, so PYLARIFY is manufactured and distributed rapidly to end-users.
−Removed: Because each of the PMFs manufacturing these products is deemed by the FDA to be a separate manufacturing site, each has to be separately approved by the FDA.
−Removed: Although PYLARIFY is broadly available across the U.S., we continue to seek qualification for additional PMFs in 2024 and can give no assurance that the FDA will continue to approve PMFs in accordance with our planned roll-out schedule.
−Removed: If FDA approval of manufacturing sites is delayed or withdrawn, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
+Added: Because each of the PMFs manufacturing these products is deemed by the U.S.
+Added: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) to be a separate manufacturing site, each has to be separately approved by the FDA.
+Added: Although PYLARIFY is broadly available across the U.S., we continue to seek qualification for additional PMFs in 2025 and can give no assurance that the FDA will continue to approve PMFs in accordance with our expansion plans to meet increasing demand or that PYLARIFY will always be available at the specific time of day preferred by the end-users.
+Added: If FDA approval of manufacturing sites is delayed or withdrawn or if FDA requirements relating to site approval change, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
+Added: Obtaining adequate coding, coverage, and payment for PYLARIFY is critical, including not only coverage from Medicare, Medicaid and other government payors, as well as private payors, but also appropriate payment levels to adequately cover our customers’ costs of using PYLARIFY in PET/computed tomography (“CT”) imaging procedures.
+Added: The Healthcare Procedure Coding System code for PYLARIFY, which enables streamlined billing, went into effect as of January 1, 2022.
+Added: In addition, effective January 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) granted TPT Status for PYLARIFY, enabling traditional Medicare
+Added: to provide an incremental payment for PET/CT scans performed with PYLARIFY in the hospital outpatient setting until December 31, 2024.
+Added: Historically, after TPT Status expired, diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, such as, PYLARIFY, would not have been separately reimbursed in the hospital outpatient setting but rather would be bundled into the facility payment a hospital receives for a PET/CT imaging procedure, and the facility payment may not have adequately covered the total cost of the procedure with the diagnostic radiopharmaceutical for all hospitals.
+Added: In November 2024, CMS released the final rule for its calendar year 2025 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (the “CMS 2025 OPPS Rule”).
+Added: Under the new rule, effective January 1, 2025, previously packaged diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals are now “unbundled” with payments being made separately for any diagnostic radiopharmaceutical with a per day cost greater than $630 based on the mean unit cost (“MUC”).
+Added: For approximately 20% of traditional Medicare fee-for-service (“FFS”) patients in the hospital outpatient setting, these changes enable hospitals that use innovative diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, including PYLARIFY, to continue to be paid separately by CMS following the expiry TPT Status at a rate that reflects MUC.
+Added: The calendar year 2025 payment rate for PYLARIFY is based on MUC and is less than the Average Sales Price (“ASP”)-based amount that was paid during TPT Status.
+Added: Although PYLARIFY continues to be paid separately, other competitive PSMA PET imaging agents continue to have TPT Status after December 31, 2024 and hospital use of those products, for the approximately 20% of traditional Medicare FFS patients in the hospital outpatient setting, generally will be paid separately based on ASP plus six percent rather than on MUC.
+Added: We will continue to work with coalition partners and CMS to support using ASP to calculate payment for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals in future years similar to the way Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) currently pays for other drugs, biologics, and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.
+Added: However, we can give no assurances that we will be successful in those efforts or that the availability of TPT Status for other diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals will not impact clinical decision making regarding which product to use for all patient populations, which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: The continued growth of PYLARIFY is also dependent on our ability to promote PYLARIFY to customers, to clinically and commercially differentiate PYLARIFY from other products on the market and to maintain PYLARIFY as the most utilized PSMA PET imaging agent in a competitive environment in which other PSMA PET imaging agents have been approved, for which discounts related to those other agents have been offered to customers and for which TPT Status remains ongoing.
+Added: PYLARIFY currently competes with two commercially available Ga-68-based PSMA PET imaging agents from Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited and Novartis AG and an F-18 PSMA PET imaging agent from Blue Earth Diagnostics Ltd.
+Added: (“Blue Earth”), as well as other non-PSMA PET imaging agents.
+Added: The potential for future generic entrants to the market due to the expiry PYLARIFY’s new chemical entity exclusivity period in 2026 could also generate increased competition for PYLARIFY.
+Added: Continued growth and revenue contribution from PYLARIFY will also depend on our ability to differentiate PYLARIFY in light of the loss of TPT Status, including through flexible and dependable access to PYLARIFY nationally, a best-in-class customer experience and through long-term strategic contracts.
+Added: To the extent we are not successful in these efforts and we lose market share to existing or future competitors, including during any period of time in which our TPT Status has expired but TPT Status for a later-approved competitive products still exists, and including for any potential generic entrant to the market.
+Added: Such loss of market share could have an adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Our success in growing PYLARIFY also depends, in part, on our successfully establishing the use of PYLARIFY for new patient populations, such as patients with favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer, and potentially for updates to the label, including adding explicit reference to F-18-based PSMA PET imaging agents like PYLARIFY for patient selection for PSMA-targeted therapeutics.
+Added: For example, we are conducting a clinical trial to determine whether PYLARIFY can detect the presence or absence of additional prostate cancer lesions in patients with favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer, as well as how it may change the patient’s intended management, but cannot predict whether the outcome of this clinical trial will support such a use of PYLARIFY.
+Added: Similarly, we believe the approval of PLUVICTO for the treatment of adult patients with PSMA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (“mCRPC”) who have already been treated with other anticancer treatments (androgen receptor pathway inhibition and taxane-based chemotherapy) created a new addressable market for the use of PSMA PET imaging in patient selection for PSMA-targeted therapy.
+Added: However, the prescribing information for PLUVICTO specifies that a PSMA-11 based PSMA PET imaging agent be used for patient selection, and while PYLARIFY is not a PSMA-11 based imaging agent, we note that FDA-approved labels for F-18-based and PSMA-11 based PSMA PET imaging agents have generally been treated as a class of drugs, including by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network in its guidelines and the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in its appropriate use criteria.
+Added: We can give no assurances as to how current clinical practice may evolve or whether future product prescribing information will explicitly include reference to F-18-based PSMA PET imaging agents like PYLARIFY.
+Added: To the extent we are unsuccessful in establishing the use of PYLARIFY in new patient populations or adding an explicit reference, such lack of success could have an adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: We depend on some of our PMF partners to generate sales, accept, produce and deliver orders, collect payments and report related information for PYLARIFY.
PYLARIFY is sold in the U.S.
−Removed: to hospitals, independent imaging centers and government facilities and sales are generated through an internal PYLARIFY sales team, as well as a sales team at some of our PMF partners.
−Removed: We generally do not use group purchasing arrangements to sell PYLARIFY and require each customer to enter into a contract directly with us or our PMFs.
−Removed: Our ability to continue to successfully grow PYLARIFY depends, in part, on our ability to continue to enter into arrangements directly with the hospitals, independent imaging centers and government facilities that we serve.
−Removed: Any delay or inability to enter into these arrangements could have an adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: Obtaining adequate coding, coverage and payment for PYLARIFY is critical, including not only coverage from Medicare, Medicaid and other government payors, as well as private payors, but also appropriate payment levels to adequately cover our customers’ costs of using PYLARIFY in PET/CT imaging procedures.
−Removed: We received notification that our HCPCS code, which enables streamlined billing, went into effect as of January 1, 2022.
−Removed: In addition, effective January 1, 2022, CMS granted TPT Status for PYLARIFY, enabling traditional Medicare to provide an incremental payment for PET/CT scans performed with PYLARIFY in the hospital outpatient setting.
−Removed: TPT Status for PYLARIFY is expected to expire on December 31, 2024.
−Removed: After TPT Status expires, under current Medicare rules, PYLARIFY would not be separately reimbursed in the hospital outpatient setting but rather would be bundled into the facility payment a hospital receives for a PET/CT imaging procedure, and the facility payment may not always adequately cover the total cost of the procedure.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that any CMS reimbursement in the hospital outpatient setting that follows the expiration of TPT Status will be adequate to cover the cost of a PYLARIFY PET/CT imaging procedure.
−Removed: In addition, if other government payors or private payors do not provide adequate reimbursement for the use of PYLARIFY, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
−Removed: We plan to continue our advocacy efforts with CMS and private insurers so that PYLARIFY customers will have appropriate and adequate reimbursement following the expiration of TPT Status and we are also supporting trade associations in their efforts to have Congress pass the Facilitating Innovative Nuclear Diagnostics (FIND) Act, which would allow for separate payment for certain diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, including PYLARIFY, similar to the way Medicare OPPS currently pays for other drugs, biologics, and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals instead of under the current TPT structure of a separate payment that is limited to three years, however, we can give no assurances that we will be successful in those efforts or that the availability of TPT Status for other diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals will not impact clinical decision making regarding which product to use, which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: The successful growth of PYLARIFY is also dependent on our ability to clinically and commercially differentiate PYLARIFY from other products on the market and to maintain PYLARIFY as the leading PSMA PET imaging agent in a competitive environment in which other PSMA PET imaging agents have been approved.
−Removed: PYLARIFY currently competes with two commercially available Ga-68-based PSMA PET imaging agents from Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited and Novartis AG and an F 18 PSMA PET imaging agent from Blue Earth, as well as other non-PSMA PET imaging agents.
−Removed: To the extent we lose market share to existing or future competitors (including during any period of time in which our TPT Status has expired but TPT Status for a later-approved competitive products still exists), such loss of market share could have an adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: Continued growth and revenue contribution from PYLARIFY will also depend on our ability to differentiate
−Removed: PYLARIFY in light of the potential loss of TPT Status, including through flexible and dependable access to PYLARIFY nationally, a best in class customer experience and through long-term strategic contracts.
−Removed: Our success in growing PYLARIFY also depends, in part, on our successfully establishing the use of PYLARIFY for approved indications and potentially for additional indications, including for patient selection for PSMA-targeted therapeutics.
−Removed: For example, we believe the approval of PLUVICTO for the treatment of adult patients with PSMA-positive mCRPC who have already been treated with other anticancer treatments (androgen receptor pathway inhibition and taxane-based chemotherapy) created a new addressable market for the use of PSMA PET imaging in patient selection for PSMA-targeted therapy.
−Removed: However, the prescribing information for PLUVICTO specifies that a PSMA-11 based PSMA PET imaging agent be used for patient selection, and PYLARIFY is not a PSMA-11 based imaging agent.
−Removed: While we note that FDA-approved labels for F 18-based and PSMA-11 based PSMA PET imaging agents have generally been treated as a class of drugs, including by the National Comprehensive Cancer Center in its guidelines and the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in its appropriate use criteria, we can give no assurances that PLUVICTO prescribing information will be expanded to incorporate F 18-based PSMA PET imaging agents like PYLARIFY, or how clinical practice may evolve.
−Removed: To the extent we are unsuccessful in establishing the use of PYLARIFY for approved or new indications, such lack of success could have an adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: The near-term growth of our business is also dependent on our ability to continue to grow the appropriate use of DEFINITY in suboptimal echocardiograms in the face of competition from other existing echocardiography agents and potential generic competitors as a result of patent and regulatory exclusivity expirations.
+Added: to hospitals, independent imaging centers and government facilities and sales are generated through an internal PYLARIFY sales team, as well as sales teams at some of our PMF partners.
+Added: We generally do not use group purchasing arrangements to sell PYLARIFY and require each customer to enter into a contract directly with us or our PMF partners.
+Added: Our ability to continue to successfully grow PYLARIFY depends, in part, on our ability, and the ability of some of our PMF partners on our behalf, to continue to enter into commercially beneficial arrangements directly with the hospitals, independent imaging centers
+Added: and government facilities that we serve.
+Added: Any delay or inability to enter into these arrangements, including our ability to negotiate favorable financial terms in these agreements, or if, despite favorable financial terms, the customers do not continue to purchase PYLARIFY, could have an adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: We also depend on some of our PMF partners to accept, produce and deliver orders, invoice customers, collect payments and to report related information to us.
+Added: To the extent our PMF partners are unsuccessful in generating sales, accepting, producing and delivering orders, invoicing customers, collecting payments or reporting to us, or where we are responsible, if we are unsuccessful in accepting orders, ensuring timely production and delivery of those orders by a PMF, or if invoices to customers or collection of payments is delayed, such an event could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: We and our PMF partners also use third-party software to accept orders placed by customers and to record shipping and administrative status of orders.
+Added: We rely in part on information from third-party software and from our PMF partners in connection with how we report and collect payments for PYLARIFY.
+Added: To the extent we are unable to accept orders or access, verify or reconcile data, such event could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Potential generic competitors as a result of patent and regulatory exclusivity expirations
+Added: The NCE-1 date for PYLARIFY is May 26, 2025.
+Added: As described further under Part I, Item 1., “Business - Regulatory Matters-Hatch Waxman Act, ” this is the date after which the FDA is allowed to accept an Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) or 505(b)(2) applications that include a Paragraph IV certification, from generic challengers.
+Added: If this happens, we could elect to pursue Hatch-Waxman litigation and trigger the 30-month stay described under Part I, Item 1., “ Business - Intellectual Property Matters – Patent-related Aspects of Regulatory Matters,” of this Form 10-K, during which the FDA would be prohibited from granting full approval to the challenger’s application until the expiration of the 30-month stay and/or until the lawsuit is settled.
+Added: The earliest possible date for a generic of PYLARIFY to launch is November of 2027.
+Added: If we are unable to grow the appropriate use of DEFINITY in suboptimal echocardiograms in the face of competition from other existing echocardiography agents and potential generic competitors as a result of patent and regulatory exclusivity expirations or maintain its position as the most utilized ultrasound enhancing agent.
The growth of our business is also dependent on our ability to continue to grow the appropriate use of DEFINITY in suboptimal echocardiograms.
−Removed: DEFINITY currently competes with ultrasound enhancing agents produced by GE Healthcare and Bracco, as well as echocardiography without ultrasound enhancing agents and other non-echocardiography agents.
−Removed: We launched DEFINITY in 2001, and we continue to actively pursue additional patents in connection with DEFINITY and DEFINITY RT, both in the U.S.
+Added: DEFINITY currently competes with ultrasound enhancing agents produced by GE Healthcare Limited (“GE Healthcare”) and Bracco Diagnostics Inc.
+Added: (“Bracco”), as well as echocardiography without ultrasound enhancing agents and other non-echocardiography agents.
+Added: We launched DEFINITY in 2001, and we continue to actively pursue additional patents in connection with DEFINITY, both in the U.S.
and internationally.
−Removed: for DEFINITY we have six Orange Book-listed method-of-use patents, one of which expires in 2035 and five of which expire in 2037, as well as additional manufacturing patents that are not Orange Book-listed expiring in 2037.
−Removed: for DEFINITY RT, we have eight Orange Book-listed patents, including two composition of matter patents that expire in 2035.
−Removed: Outside of the U.S., we are currently pursuing additional DEFINITY and DEFINITY RT patents to obtain similar patent protection as in the U.S.
−Removed: The Orange Book-listed patents include a patent on the use of VIALMIX RFID, which expires in 2037;
−Removed: additional VIALMIX RFID patent applications have been submitted in major markets throughout the world.
−Removed: Because our Orange Book-listed composition of matter patent expired in June 2019, we may face generic DEFINITY challengers in the near to intermediate term.
−Removed: Under the Hatch-Waxman Act, the FDA can approve ANDAs for generic versions of drugs before the expiration of an Orange Book-listed patent covering the innovator product if the ANDA applicant demonstrates, among other things, that (i) its generic candidate is the same as the innovator product by establishing bioequivalence and providing relevant chemistry, manufacturing and product data, and (ii) either the marketing of that generic candidate does not infringe the Orange Book-listed patent(s) or the Orange Book-listed patent(s) is invalid.
−Removed: Similarly, the FDA can approve a Section 505(b)(2) NDA from an applicant that relies on some of the information required for marketing approval to come from studies which the applicant does not own or have a legal right of reference.
−Removed: The ANDA applicant or the Section 505(b)(2) applicant (if relying on studies related to the innovator product) (together, the “Applicant”) must also give Notice to the innovator, which would then enable the innovator to file suit against the Applicant within 45 days of receiving the Notice.
−Removed: If the innovator challenges the Applicant in court in a timely manner, then FDA approval to commercialize the generic candidate will be stayed (that is, delayed) for up to 30 months while the dispute between the innovator and the Applicant is resolved in court.
−Removed: The 30 month stay can be shortened if the patent infringement suit is resolved in the Applicant’s favor before the 30 month stay expires, and this may involve a successful challenge of the patent’s validity in U.S.
−Removed: Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) proceedings and appeals process.
−Removed: In the event a 505(b)(2) applicant does not rely on studies related to the innovator product, the 30-month stay would not apply, but additional clinical trials may be required.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that we would have grounds to file a patent infringement suit, that we would obtain the full 30 month stay, that we would be successful on the merits asserting that an Applicant infringes our Orange Book-listed patent, or that we would be successful defending the validity of our Orange Book-listed patent in court or in a USPTO adversarial proceeding.
−Removed: As of the date of filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we have not received any such Notice from any Applicant, but we can give no assurance that we will not receive a Notice in the future.
+Added: for DEFINITY we have Orange Book-listed method-of-use patents, that extend until 2037, as well as additional manufacturing patents that are not Orange Book-listed expiring in 2037.
+Added: Because our Orange Book-listed composition of matter patent expired in June 2019, we may face generic DEFINITY challengers (see Part I, Item 1., “Business - Regulatory Matters - Hatch Waxman Act” of this Form 10-K ) .
+Added: As of the date of filing of this Form 10-K we have not received any Notice of a generic applicant pursuant to the Hatch Waxman Act, but we can give no assurance that we will not receive a Notice in the future.
If we were to receive any such Notice in the future, we would review the Notice, evaluate the strength of any potential patent infringement claims, and be prepared to challenge the applicant in a timely fashion, which would thereby trigger the stay of up to 30 months.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that we would have grounds to file a patent infringement suit, that we would obtain the full 30 month stay, that we would be successful on the merits asserting that an Applicant infringes our Orange Book-listed patent, or that we would be successful defending the validity of our Orange Book-listed patent in court or in a USPTO adversarial proceeding.
−Removed: If we were to receive such a Notice and to challenge the Applicant, patent litigation is complex and can be protracted and expensive, which could also have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: As part of our microbubble franchise strategy, (i) we have developed and received FDA approval for DEFINITY RT, a modified formulation of DEFINITY, (ii) we look for other opportunities to expand our microbubble franchise, including new applications beyond echocardiography and ultrasound enhancing agent imaging generally such as our strategic arrangements with Cerevast, CarThera, Insightec, AHN and SonoThera, and (iii) we have constructed a specialized in-house manufacturing facility at our North Billerica campus for purposes of producing the formulation of DEFINITY that requires refrigerated storage and, potentially, other sterile vial products.
−Removed: On February 22, 2022, we received FDA approval of our sNDA, authorizing commercial manufacturing of DEFINITY at our new facility.
−Removed: However, we can give no assurance that our microbubble franchise strategy will be successful or that the modified formulation, new applications or new manufacturing capabilities will grow our microbubble franchise.
−Removed: If we are not able to continue to (i) grow DEFINITY and DEFINITY RT sales, which depend on one or more of the growth of echocardiograms, the growth in the appropriate use of ultrasound enhancing agents in suboptimal echocardiograms, and our ability to sustain and grow our leading position in the U.S.
−Removed: echocardiography ultrasound enhancing agent market, or (ii) be successful with our microbubble franchise strategy, we may not be able to continue to grow the revenue and cash flow of our business, which could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: We can give no assurance that we would have grounds to file a patent infringement suit, that we would obtain the full 30-month stay, that we would be successful on the merits asserting that an applicant infringes our Orange Book-listed patent, or that we would be successful defending the validity of our Orange Book-listed patent in court or in a U.S.
+Added: Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) adversarial proceeding.
+Added: Patent litigation is complex and can be protracted and expensive, so if we were to receive such a Notice and to challenge the applicant, this could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: If we are not able to continue to grow DEFINITY sales, which depend on one or more of the growth of echocardiograms, the growth in the appropriate use of ultrasound enhancing agents in suboptimal echocardiograms, and our ability to maintain and grow our leading position in the U.S.
+Added: echocardiography ultrasound enhancing agent market, we may not be able to continue to grow the revenue and cash flow of our business, which could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our dependence upon third parties for the manufacture and supply of a substantial portion of our products and certain key components and raw materials and upon our in-house manufacturing for DEFINITY could prevent us from delivering our products to our customers in the required quantities, within the required timeframes, or at all, which could result in order cancellations and decreased revenues.
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Although we have qualified and continue to qualify additional PMFs, we can give no assurance that the FDA will continue to approve PMFs in accordance with our planned roll-out schedule or that the PMFs will not experience issues with their ability to manufacture and deliver PYLARIFY to our customers.
−Removed: If FDA approval of manufacturing sites is delayed or withdrawn or our PMF sites experience manufacturing issues, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
−Removed: We rely on JHS as a substantial supplier of DEFINITY, as well as our sole source manufacturer of NEUROLITE, CARDIOLITE and evacuation vials.
−Removed: We rely on Samsung Biologics Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“SBL”) as our sole source manufacturer of DEFINITY RT.
−Removed: In addition, for reasons of quality assurance or cost-effectiveness, we purchase certain components and raw materials from sole suppliers (including, for example, the specially designed chemistry synthesis boxes and consumables used in the manufacturing of PYLARIFY, the lipid blend material and perflutren gas used in the manufacturing of DEFINITY and the lead casing for our TechneLite generators).
+Added: If FDA approval of manufacturing sites is delayed or withdrawn, if FDA requirements relating to site approval change, or our PMF sites experience manufacturing issues, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
+Added: We rely on Jubilant HollisterStier (“JHS”) as a substantial supplier of DEFINITY.
+Added: In addition, for reasons of quality assurance or cost-effectiveness, we purchase certain components and raw materials from sole suppliers (including, for example, the specially designed chemistry synthesis boxes and consumables used in the manufacturing of PYLARIFY and the lipid blend material and perflutren gas used in the manufacturing of DEFINITY).
Because we do not control the actual production of many of the products we sell and many of the raw materials and components that make up the products we sell, we may be subject to delays caused by interruption in production based on events and conditions outside of our control.
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Due to the stringent regulations and requirements of the governing regulatory authorities regarding the manufacture of our products, we may not be able to quickly restart manufacturing at a third party or our own facility or establish additional or replacement sources for certain products, components or materials.
−Removed: In addition to our existing manufacturing relationships, we are also pursuing new manufacturing relationships to establish and secure additional or alternative suppliers for our commercial products.
−Removed: We also constructed a specialized in-house manufacturing facility at our North Billerica, Massachusetts campus for purposes of producing the formulation of DEFINITY that requires refrigerated storage and, potentially, other sterile vial products.
−Removed: On February 22, 2022, we received FDA approval of our sNDA, authorizing commercial manufacturing of DEFINITY at our new facility.
−Removed: This project provides a certain amount of supply chain redundancy for DEFINITY (other than DEFINITY RT, which is supplied solely by SBL).
−Removed: However, we cannot assure you that these activities or any of our additional supply activities will be successful or that we will be able to avoid or mitigate interim supply shortages before new sources of product are fully functional and qualified.
−Removed: In addition, we cannot assure you that our existing manufacturers or suppliers or any new manufacturers or suppliers can adequately maintain either their financial health, technical capabilities or regulatory compliance to allow continued production and supply.
−Removed: A reduction or interruption in manufacturing, or an inability to secure alternative sources of raw materials or components, could eventually have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: The global supply of Mo-99 is fragile and not stable.
+Added: We can give no assurance that Curium will continue to be successful with its commercialization of piflufolastat F-18 in Europe.
+Added: We licensed exclusive rights to Curium to develop and commercialize piflufolastat F-18 in Europe.
+Added: Under the terms of the collaboration, we are entitled to double-digit royalties on net sales of piflufolastat F-18, which is commercialized in Europe under the name PYLCLARI.
+Added: PYLCLARI is commercially available in over ten countries in Europe.
+Added: We cannot assure that Curium will continue to be successful in commercializing it in Europe.
+Added: Any failure or significant delay in Curium’s ability to continue making PYLCLARI available in additional countries in Europe may harm our business and delay or prevent us from being able to generate additional future royalty revenue from product sales.
+Added: The global supply of Molybdenum-99 (“Mo-99”) is fragile and not stable.
Our dependence on a limited number of third party suppliers for Mo-99 could prevent us from delivering some of our products to our customers in the required quantities, within the required timeframe, or at all, which could result in order cancellations and decreased revenues.
A critical ingredient of TechneLite is Mo-99.
−Removed: We currently purchase finished Mo-99 from three of the four main processing sites in the world, namely IRE in Belgium, NTP in South Africa and ANSTO in Australia.
+Added: We currently purchase finished Mo-99 from three of the four main processing sites in the world, namely Institute for Radioelements (“IRE”) in Belgium, NTP Radioisotopes (“NTP”) in South Africa and Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (“ANSTO”) in Australia.
These processing sites provide us Mo-99 from five of the six main Mo-99-producing reactors in the world, namely BR2 in Belgium, LVR-15 in the Czech Republic, HFR in The Netherlands, SAFARI in South Africa and OPAL in Australia.
−Removed: Our agreement with NTP, acting for itself and on behalf of its subcontractor ANSTO, expires on December 31, 2024.
Although we have a globally diverse Mo-99 supply with IRE in Belgium, NTP in South Africa, and ANSTO in Australia, we still face supplier and logistical challenges in our Mo-99 supply chain.
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Absent a new supplier, a supply disruption relating to uranium targets or fuel could have a substantial negative effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that Curium will be successful with its commercialization of piflufolastat F 18 in Europe.
−Removed: We have licensed exclusive rights to Curium to develop and commercialize piflufolastat F 18 in Europe.
−Removed: Under the terms of the collaboration, Curium is responsible for the development, regulatory approvals and commercialization of piflufolastat F 18 in Europe, and we are entitled to double-digit royalties on net sales of piflufolastat F 18.
−Removed: In July 2023, Curium announced that the EMA approved piflufolastat F 18 in Europe, under the name PYLCLARI.
−Removed: We cannot assure that Curium will be successful in commercializing it in Europe.
−Removed: Any failure or significant delay in Curium’s ability to successfully launch PYLCLARI in Europe may harm our business and delay or prevent us from being able to generate additional future royalty revenue from product sales.
−Removed: We may not be able to successfully launch PYLARIFY AI as a commercial product.
−Removed: We announced in November 2021 that PYLARIFY AI, our FDA-cleared medical device software, was commercially available in the United States.
−Removed: Our ability to successfully launch PYLARIFY AI as a commercial product depends in part on, among other things:
−Removed: • the market receptivity to PYLARIFY AI as a new digital application for quantitative assessment of PSMA PET/CT images in prostate cancer;
−Removed: • our ability, and our distributors’ abilities, to secure customers’ internal approvals and sell and deploy PYLARIFY AI at customer locations;
−Removed: • interruptions or performance problems associated with our digital application, including a service outage;
−Removed: • a network or data security incident that allows unauthorized access to our network or data or our customers’ data.
Our just-in-time manufacturing of radiopharmaceutical products relies on the reliability of our equipment and processes, the timely receipt of radioactive raw materials and the timely shipment of finished goods, and any disruption of our supply or distribution networks could have a negative effect on our business.
−Removed: At the facility on our North Billerica, Massachusetts campus, we manufacture TechneLite on an automated production line.
−Removed: As with all manufacturing facilities, equipment and infrastructure age and become subject to increasing maintenance and repair.
−Removed: If we experience an event, including a labor dispute, natural disaster, fire, power outage, machinery breakdown, security problem, failure to meet regulatory requirements, product quality issue, technology transfer issue or other issue, we may be unable to manufacture the relevant products at previous levels or on the forecasted schedule, if at all.
−Removed: Due to the stringent regulations and requirements of the
−Removed: governing regulatory authorities regarding the manufacture of our products, we may not be able to quickly restart manufacturing at our facilities or establish additional or replacement sources for certain products, components or materials.
−Removed: In addition, because a number of our radiopharmaceutical products, including PYLARIFY and our TechneLite generators rely on radioisotopes with limited half-lives, we or our partners must manufacture, finish and distribute these products on a just-in-time basis, because the underlying radioisotope is in a constant state of decay.
+Added: Radiopharmaceutical products, including PYLARIFY and our TechneLite generators, rely on radioisotopes with limited half-lives.
+Added: As a result, we or our partners must manufacture, finish and distribute these products on a just-in-time basis, because the underlying radioisotope is in a constant state of decay.
For example, the radioisotope used in PYLARIFY is F-18, which has a 110 minute half-life, requiring that this product be manufactured and distributed within the same day to end-users.
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The finished PYLARIFY is then quality control tested and transferred to a radiopharmacist who prepares and dispenses patient-specific doses from the final product.
−Removed: Similarly, with respect to our TechneLite generators, if we receive Mo-99 in the morning of a manufacturing day for TechneLite generators, then we will generally ship finished generators to customers by the end of that same business day.
+Added: Similarly, with respect to our TechneLite generators, if we receive Mo-99 in the morning of a manufacturing day for TechneLite generators, then we will generally ship finished generators to customers by the end of the same business day.
Shipment of generators may be by next day delivery services or by either ground or air custom logistics.
Any delay in us receiving radioisotopes from suppliers or being able to have finished products delivered to customers because of weather or other unforeseen transportation issues could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: In the U.S., we are heavily dependent on a few large customers to generate a majority of our revenues for our single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) nuclear medical imaging products in our Precision Diagnostic product category.
−Removed: For PYLARIFY, we depend in part on some of our PMF partners to generate sales and collect revenue.
−Removed: Outside of the U.S., we rely primarily on distributors to generate a substantial portion of our revenue.
−Removed: In the U.S., we have historically relied on a limited number of radiopharmacy customers, primarily Cardinal, RLS, UPPI, PharmaLogic and Jubilant Radiopharma, to purchase our nuclear imaging products in our Precision Diagnostic product category.
−Removed: Among the existing radiopharmacies in the U.S., continued consolidations, divestitures and reorganizations may have a negative effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: Our contractual arrangements with these radiopharmacy customers generally specify pricing levels and requirements to purchase minimum percentages of certain products during certain periods.
−Removed: The agreements generally may be terminated upon the occurrence of specified events, including a material breach by the other party and certain force majeure events.
−Removed: If these contracts are terminated prior to the expiration of their term, or are not renewed, or are renewed on terms that are less favorable to us, then such an event could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: For PYLARIFY, we depend in part on some of our PMF partners to generate sales and collect revenue.
−Removed: To the extent our PMF partners are unsuccessful in generating sales or in collecting revenue, such an event could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: We also continue to experience significant pricing pressures from our competitors, large customers and group purchasing organizations, and any significant, additional pricing pressures could lead to a reduction in revenue which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: Outside of the U.S., we have no sales force and, consequently, rely on third party distributors, either on a country-by-country basis or on a multi-country, regional basis, to market, sell and distribute our products.
−Removed: In certain circumstances, distributors may also sell competing products to our own or products for competing diagnostic modalities and may have incentives to shift sales towards those competing products.
−Removed: As a result, we cannot assure you that our international distributors will increase or maintain current levels of unit sales or that we will be able to increase or maintain our current unit pricing, which, in turn, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: At the facility on our North Billerica campus, we manufacture TechneLite on an automated production line.
+Added: As with all manufacturing facilities, equipment and infrastructure age and become subject to increasing maintenance and repair.
+Added: If we experience an event, including a labor dispute, natural disaster, fire, power outage, machinery breakdown, security problem, failure to meet regulatory requirements, product quality issue, technology transfer issue or other issue, we may be unable to manufacture the relevant products at previous levels or on the forecasted schedule, if at all.
+Added: Due to the stringent regulations and requirements of the governing regulatory authorities regarding the manufacture of our products, we may not be able to quickly restart manufacturing at our facilities or establish additional or replacement sources for certain products, components or materials.
We face significant competition in our business and may not be able to compete effectively.
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• For DEFINITY, our competitors currently include GE Healthcare and Bracco.
−Removed: • For a number of our radiopharmaceutical commercial products, our competitors currently include Curium, GE Healthcare, Bracco and Jubilant Life Sciences, an affiliate of JHS and Jubilant Radiopharma, and potentially BWXT Medical.
−Removed: • For PNT2002 and 1095, our principal competitors may include Novartis AG;
−Removed: Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited;
−Removed: and Curium, each of which has commercialized products or product candidates in advanced clinical stage of development.
−Removed: • For PNT2003, our principal competitor may include Novartis AG;
+Added: Any product candidates that we successfully develop and commercialize will compete with existing products and new products that may become available in the future.
+Added: For example, for PNT2003, our principal competitors may include Novartis AG;
ITM Radiopharma;
−Removed: and RayzeBio (under agreement to be acquired by Bristoll Meyers Squibb), each of which has commercialized products or product candidates in advanced clinical stage of development.
−Removed: • For MK-6240, our principal competitors may include Eli Lilly and Company and Life Molecular Imaging, each of which has commercialized products or product candidates in advanced clinical stage of development.
−Removed: • For LNTH-1363S, our principal competitors may include Sofie Bioscience;
−Removed: GE Healthcare;
−Removed: and Novartis AG, each of which has product candidates in clinical stage of development.
−Removed: We cannot anticipate the actions of our current or future competitors in the same or competing modalities, such as significant price reductions on products that are competitive with our own, development of new products that are more cost-effective or have superior performance than our current products or potential future products or the introduction of generic versions after our proprietary products lose their patent protection.
+Added: Curium, and RayzeBio (acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb).
+Added: For MK-6240 and NAV-4694, our principal competitors may include Eli Lilly and Co (“Lilly”) and GE Healthcare.
+Added: We cannot anticipate the actions of our current or future competitors in the same or competing modalities, such as significant price reductions on products that are competitive with our own, development of new products that are more cost-effective or have superior performance than our current products or potential future products or the introduction of generic versions of our proprietary products.
In addition, distributors of our products could attempt to shift end-users to competing diagnostic modalities and products, or bundle the sale of a portfolio of products, in either case to the detriment of our specific products.
Our current or future products could be rendered obsolete or uneconomical as a result of these activities.
−Removed: Further, the radiopharmaceutical industry continues to evolve strategically, with several market participants recently sold.
−Removed: In addition, the supply-demand dynamics of the industry are complex because of large market positions of some participants, legacy businesses, government subsidies (in particular, relating to the manufacture of radioisotopes), and group purchasing arrangements.
+Added: Further, the radiopharmaceutical industry continues to evolve strategically, with several market participants recently acquired by larger companies that may have more significant resources than ours.
+Added: In addition, the supply-demand dynamics of the industry are complex because of large market positions of some participants, legacy businesses, government subsidies (in particular, relating to the manufacture of radioisotopes), and group purchasing arrangements and there are often limited sources available for isotopes and raw materials used in the manufacturing of our product and product candidates.
We cannot predict what impact new owners and new operators may have on the strategic decision-making of our competitors, customers and suppliers, and such decision-making could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
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most of the serious but non-fatal reactions also occurred in this time frame.
−Removed: As a result, in October 2007, the FDA requested that we and GE Healthcare, which distributes Optison, a competitor to DEFINITY, add a boxed warning to these products emphasizing the risk for serious cardiopulmonary reactions and that the use of these products was contraindicated in certain patients.
−Removed: In a strong reaction by the cardiology community to the FDA’s new position, a letter was sent to the FDA, signed by 161 doctors, stating that the benefit of these ultrasound enhancing agents outweighed the risks and urging that the boxed warning be removed.
−Removed: In May 2008, the FDA substantially modified the boxed warning.
−Removed: On May 2, 2011, the FDA held an advisory committee meeting to consider the status of ultrasound enhancing agents and the boxed warning.
−Removed: In October 2011, we received FDA approval of further modifications to the DEFINITY label, including:
−Removed: further relaxing the boxed warning;
−Removed: eliminating the sentence in the Indication and Use section “The safety and efficacy of DEFINITY with exercise stress or pharmacologic stress testing have not been established” (previously added in October 2007 in connection with the imposition of the box warning);
−Removed: and including summary data from the post-approval CaRES (Contrast echocardiography Registry for Safety Surveillance) safety registry and the post-approval pulmonary hypertension study.
−Removed: Further, in January 2017, the FDA approved an additional modification to the DEFINITY label, removing the contraindication statement related to use in patients with a known or suspected cardiac shunt.
−Removed: Bracco’s ultrasound enhancing agent, Lumason, has substantially similar safety labeling as DEFINITY and Optison.
+Added: As a result, in October 2007,
+Added: the FDA requested that we and GE Healthcare, which distributes Optison, a competitor to DEFINITY, add a boxed warning to these products emphasizing the risk for serious cardiopulmonary reactions and that the use of these products was contraindicated in certain patients.
+Added: The FDA modified the boxed warning language several times such that after changes in January 2017, the safety labeling for DEFINITY, Optison and Bracco’s ultrasound enhancing agent, Lumason, all had similar safety labeling.
In April 2021, after reviewing certain adverse events that occurred in patients with a prior history of allergic reactions to polyethylene glycol (“PEG”), an inactive excipient in both DEFINITY and Lumason, the FDA and the marketing authorization holders of these products agreed to an additional contraindication for use of these products, including advising clinicians to assess patients for prior PEG hypersensitivity before administering these products.
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Many of our customers are highly dependent on payments from third-party payors, including government sponsored programs, particularly Medicare, in the U.S.
−Removed: and other countries in which we operate, and reductions in third party coverage and reimbursement rates for our products (or services provided with our products) could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
−Removed: A substantial portion of our revenue depends on the extent to which the costs of our products purchased by our customers (or services provided with our products) are reimbursed by third party payors, including Medicare, Medicaid, other U.S.
+Added: and other countries in which we operate, and reductions in third party coverage and reimbursement rates for our products (or services provided by healthcare providers using our products) could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: A substantial portion of our revenue depends on the extent to which the costs of our products purchased by our customers (or services provided by healthcare providers using our products) are reimbursed by third party payors, including Medicare, Medicaid, other U.S.
government sponsored programs, non-U.S.
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Our customers’ ability to obtain adequate reimbursement for products and services from these third-party payors affects the selection of products they purchase and the prices they are willing to pay.
−Removed: If Medicare and other third party payors do not provide adequate reimbursement for the costs of our products (or services provided using our products), deny the coverage of the products (or those services), or reduce current levels of reimbursement, healthcare professionals may not prescribe our products and providers and suppliers may not purchase our products.
+Added: If Medicare and other third party payors do not provide adequate reimbursement for the costs of our products (or services provided by healthcare providers using our products), deny the coverage of the products (or those services), or reduce current levels of reimbursement, healthcare professionals may not prescribe our products and providers and suppliers may not purchase our products.
In addition, demand for new products may be limited unless we obtain favorable reimbursement (including coding, coverage and payment) from governmental and private third party payors at the time of the product’s introduction, which will depend, in part, on our ability to demonstrate that a new agent has a positive impact on clinical outcomes.
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Even if third-party payors make coverage and reimbursement available, that reimbursement may not be adequate or these payors’ reimbursement policies may have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: For example, effective January 1, 2022, the CMS granted TPT Status in the hospital outpatient setting for PYLARIFY, enabling traditional Medicare to provide an incremental payment for PET/CT scans performed with PYLARIFY in that setting.
−Removed: TPT Status for PYLARIFY is expected to expire December 31, 2024.
−Removed: After TPT Status expires, under current Medicare rules, PYLARIFY would not be separately reimbursed in the hospital outpatient setting but rather would be bundled into the facility payment a hospital receives for a PET/CT imaging procedure, and the facility payment may not always cover the total cost of the procedure.
−Removed: In 2023 rulemaking for the 2024 payment calendar year, CMS recognized the challenges of patient access to diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals and requested feedback on various payment alternatives that could provide separate reimbursement for these items, but the agency did not adopt any of these proposals in the final rule, while stating that it would continue to evaluate this issue in subsequent rulemaking.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that any CMS reimbursement in the hospital outpatient setting that follows the expiration of TPT Status will be adequate to cover a PYLARIFY PET/CT imaging procedure or that the availability of TPT Status for other diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals will not impact clinical decision making regarding which product to use, which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Over the past several years, Medicare has implemented numerous changes to payment policies for imaging procedures in both the hospital setting and non-hospital settings (which include physician offices and freestanding imaging facilities).
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• Reducing payments for certain imaging procedures when performed together with other imaging procedures in the same family of procedures on the same patient on the same day in the physician office and free-standing imaging facility setting;
−Removed: • Making significant revisions to the methodology for determining the practice expense component of the Medicare payment applicable to the physician office and free-standing imaging facility settings which results in a reduction in payment;
−Removed: • Revising payment policies and reducing payment amounts for imaging procedures performed in the hospital outpatient settings;
+Added: • Making significant revisions to the methodology for determining the practice expense component of the Medicare payment applicable to the physician office and free-standing imaging facility settings which results in reduced payments for certain services;
+Added: • Revising payment policies and reducing payment amounts for imaging procedures performed in the hospital outpatient settings, including the new payment policy for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals that currently provides separate payment for PYLARIFY at a rate that reflects MUC, which is lower than the rate paid during TPT Status;
• Reducing prospective payment levels for applicable diagnosis-related groups in the hospital inpatient setting.
−Removed: In the physician office and free-standing imaging facility setting, services provided using our products are reimbursed under the Medicare physician fee schedule.
+Added: In the physician office and free-standing imaging facility setting, services provided by healthcare providers using our products are reimbursed under the Medicare physician fee schedule.
Payment rates under the Medicare physician fee schedule are regularly subject to updates to effectuate various policy goals of CMS and Congress.
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Additionally, since 2019, fee schedule payments have been adjusted for certain physicians based on their performance under a consolidated measurement system (that measures performance with respect to quality, resource utilization, meaningful use of certified electronic health records technology, and clinical practice improvement activities).
−Removed: From 2019 through payment year 2024, physicians may be eligible for a bonus based on the use of certain alternative payment models designated as “advanced” by CMS.
+Added: Physicians are eligible for a bonus based on the use of certain alternative payment models designated as “advanced” by CMS.
The ongoing and future impact of these changes cannot be determined at this time.
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Changes applicable to Medicare payment in the hospital outpatient setting could also influence the decisions by hospital outpatient physicians to perform procedures that involve our products.
−Removed: Within the hospital outpatient setting, CMS payment policy is such that the use of many of our products are not separately payable by Medicare, although certain new drug products are eligible for separate (incremental) payment for the first three years after approval.
−Removed: Changes to the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system payment rates, including reductions implemented for certain hospital outpatient sites, could influence the decisions by hospital outpatient physicians to perform procedures that involve our products.
−Removed: We also believe that all of these changes and their resulting pressures may incrementally reduce the overall number of diagnostic medical imaging procedures performed.
+Added: Changes to the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system payment rates, including reductions implemented for certain hospital outpatient sites, could influence the decisions by hospital outpatient physicians to perform procedures that involve our products and the risks discussed above with respect to separate payment for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals in the hospital outpatient setting could also impact clinical decision-making.
+Added: We also believe that these changes and their resulting pressures may incrementally reduce the overall number of diagnostic medical imaging procedures performed.
These changes overall could slow the acceptance and introduction of next-generation imaging equipment into the marketplace, which, in turn, could adversely impact the future market adoption of certain of our imaging agents already in the market or currently in development.
We expect that there will continue to be proposals to reduce or limit Medicare and Medicaid payment for diagnostic services, which could impact our current or potential future diagnostic and other types of products and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: We also expect increased regulation and oversight of advanced diagnostic testing in which our products are used, although the timing of such regulation is uncertain after a recent pause by CMS.
−Removed: Under section 218(b) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, beginning January 1, 2020, a professional who is ordering advanced diagnostic imaging services (which include MRI, CT, nuclear medicine (including PET) and other advanced diagnostic imaging services that the Secretary of HHS may specify, but not currently including echocardiography) must consult a qualified clinical decision support mechanism, as identified by HHS, to determine whether the ordered service adheres to specified appropriate use criteria (“AUC”) developed or endorsed by CMS-qualified “provider led entities”.
+Added: Under section 218(b) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, beginning January 1, 2020, a professional who is ordering advanced diagnostic imaging services (which include MRI, CT, nuclear medicine (including PET) and other advanced diagnostic imaging services that the Secretary of U.S.
+Added: Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) may specify, but not currently including echocardiography) must consult a qualified clinical decision support mechanism, as identified by HHS, to determine whether the ordered service adheres to specified appropriate use criteria (“AUC”) developed or endorsed by CMS-qualified “provider led entities”.
Medicare claims for such services must include information indicating whether services ordered would adhere to specified applicable AUC.
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In the CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, CMS determined that it was not feasible to fully operationalize the AUC program consistent with the statute within the required time frame.
−Removed: Accordingly, the agency finalized an indefinite pause to the AUC program and the recission of the regulations promulgated thus far to implement the AUC program.
−Removed: While it is unclear when CMS will resume implementation of the AUC program, to the extent that these types of changes have the effect of reducing the aggregate number of diagnostic medical imaging procedures performed in the U.S., our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows would be adversely affected.
+Added: Accordingly, the agency finalized an indefinite pause to the AUC program and the rescission of the regulations promulgated thus far to implement the AUC program.
+Added: While it is unclear when CMS will resume implementation of the AUC program, to the extent that these types of changes have the effect of reducing the aggregate number of diagnostic medical imaging procedures performed in the U.S., our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
Medicare coverage of PET radiopharmaceuticals has been the subject of a large number of National Coverage Determinations (“NCDs”) by CMS since 2000.
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Effective January 1, 2022, non-coverage in the absence of an NCD has also been removed for non-oncologic indications of PET radiopharmaceuticals, allowing MACs to determine coverage for these indications within their respective jurisdictions.
−Removed: To the extent that CMS or the MACs impose more restrictive coverage, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows would be adversely affected.
+Added: To the extent that CMS or the MACs impose more restrictive coverage, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
Reforms to the U.S.
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government healthcare programs, principally Medicare, which are highly regulated and subject to frequent and substantial changes.
−Removed: The Healthcare Reform Act substantially changed the way healthcare is financed by both governmental and private insurers.
+Added: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (collectively, the “Healthcare Reform Act”) substantially changed the way healthcare is financed by both governmental and private insurers.
The law contains a number of provisions that affect coverage and reimbursement of drug products and medical imaging procedures in which our drug products are used and/or that could potentially reduce the aggregate number of diagnostic medical imaging procedures performed in the U.S.
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Nor is it clear whether additional legislative changes will be adopted or how those changes would affect our industry in general or our ability to successfully commercialize our products or develop or commercialize new products.
+Added: It is also unclear exactly how the results of the 2024 election will impact healthcare reform measures of the previous administration or whether the new administration could impose other reform efforts, including what, if any, impact this will have on our business.
Our business and industry are subject to complex and costly regulations.
If government regulations are interpreted or enforced in a manner adverse to us or our business, we may be subject to enforcement actions, penalties, exclusion and other material limitations on our operations.
−Removed: Both before and after the approval of our products in development, we, our products, development products, operations, facilities, suppliers, distributors, contract manufacturers, contract research organizations and contract testing laboratories are subject to extensive and, in certain circumstances, expanding regulation by federal, state and local government agencies in the U.S.
−Removed: as well as non-U.S.
−Removed: and transnational laws and regulations, with regulations differing from country to country and even state to state, including, among other things, anti-trust and competition laws and regulations, and data privacy laws and regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union and the CCPA and the CPRA.
+Added: Both before and after the approval of our products in development, we, our products, development products, operations, facilities, suppliers, distributors, contract manufacturers, contract research organizations and contract testing laboratories are subject to extensive and, in certain circumstances, expanding regulation by federal, state and local government agencies in the U.S., as well as non-U.S.
+Added: and transnational laws and regulations, with regulations differing from country to country and even state to state, including, among other things, anti-trust and competition laws and regulations, and data privacy laws and regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union and the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Privacy Rights Act.
In the U.S., the FDA regulates, among other things, the pre-clinical testing, clinical trials, manufacturing, safety, efficacy, potency, labeling, storage, record keeping, quality systems, advertising, promotion, sale, distribution, and import and export of drug products.
−Removed: We are required to register our business for permits and/or licenses with, and comply with the stringent requirements of the FDA, the NRC, the HHS, Health Canada, the EMA, the MHRA, the NMPA, state and provincial boards of pharmacy, state and provincial health departments and other federal, state and provincial agencies.
+Added: We are required to register our business for permits and/or licenses with, and comply with the stringent requirements of the FDA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the HHS, Health Canada, the EMA, the U.K.
+Added: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”), the National Medical Products Administration, state and provincial boards of pharmacy, state and provincial health departments and other federal, state and provincial agencies.
Violation of any of these regulatory schemes, individually or collectively, could disrupt our business and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
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If the FDA determines that our promotional materials constitute unlawful promotion, it could request that we modify our promotional materials or subject us to regulatory or enforcement actions.
−Removed: Also, quality control and manufacturing procedures at our own facility and at third-party suppliers must conform to cGMP regulations and other applicable law after approval, and the FDA periodically inspects manufacturing facilities to assess compliance with cGMPs and other applicable law, and, from time to time, makes those cGMPs more stringent.
+Added: Also, quality control and manufacturing procedures at our own facility and at third-party suppliers must conform to current Good Manufacturing Practices (“cGMP”) regulations and other applicable law after approval, and the FDA periodically inspects manufacturing facilities to assess compliance with cGMPs and other applicable law, and, from time to time, makes those cGMPs more stringent.
Accordingly, we and others with whom we work must expend time, money, and effort in all areas of regulatory compliance, including manufacturing, production and quality control.
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We must offer discounted pricing or rebates on purchases of pharmaceutical products under various federal and state healthcare programs, such as the Medicaid drug rebate program, the 340B drug pricing program and the Medicare Part D Program.
−Removed: We must also report specific prices to government agencies under healthcare programs, such as the Medicaid drug rebate program and Medicare Part B.
+Added: We must also report specific prices and price-related information to government agencies under healthcare programs, such as the Medicaid drug rebate program and Medicare Part B.
Our Medicaid Drug Rebate agreements require us to report certain price information to the federal government.
−Removed: Determination of
−Removed: the rebate amount that we pay to state Medicaid programs for our products, of prices charged to government and certain private payors for our products, or of amounts paid for our products under government healthcare programs, depends upon information reported by us to the government.
+Added: Determination of the rebate amount that we pay to state Medicaid programs for our products, of prices charged to government and certain private payors for our products, or of amounts paid for our products under government healthcare programs, depends upon information reported by us to the government.
If we provide customers or government officials with inaccurate information about the products’ pricing or eligibility for coverage, or the products fail to satisfy coverage requirements, we could be terminated from the rebate program, be excluded from participation in government healthcare programs, or be subject to potential liability under the False Claims Act or other laws and regulations.
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Our marketing and sales practices may contain risks that could result in significant liability, require us to change our business practices, and restrict our operations in the future.
−Removed: We are subject to numerous domestic (federal, state and local) and foreign laws addressing fraud and abuse in the healthcare industry, including the FCA and federal Anti-Kickback Statute, self-referral laws, the FCPA, the Bribery Act, FDA promotional restrictions, the federal disclosure (sunshine) law and state marketing and disclosure (sunshine) laws.
+Added: We are subject to numerous domestic (federal, state and local) and foreign laws addressing fraud and abuse in the healthcare industry, including the FCA and federal Anti-Kickback Statute, self-referral laws, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), the U.K.
+Added: Bribery Act (the “Bribery Act”), FDA promotional restrictions, the federal disclosure (sunshine) law and state marketing and disclosure (sunshine) laws, as well as in other countries where we do business and where our products, including investigational products, may be used.
+Added: The FCPA, the Bribery Act and similar worldwide anti-bribery laws in non-U.S.
+Added: jurisdictions generally prohibit companies and their intermediaries from making improper payments to non-U.S.
+Added: officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business.
+Added: The FCPA prohibits us from providing anything of value to foreign officials for the purposes of obtaining or retaining business or securing any improper business advantage.
+Added: It also requires us to keep books and records that accurately and fairly reflect our transactions.
+Added: Because of the predominance of government-sponsored healthcare systems around the world, many of our customer relationships outside of the U.S.
+Added: are, either directly or indirectly, with governmental entities and are therefore subject to the FCPA and similar anti-bribery laws in non-U.S.
+Added: jurisdictions.
+Added: In addition, the provisions of the Bribery Act extend beyond bribery of foreign public officials and are more onerous than the FCPA in a number of other respects, including jurisdiction, non-exemption of facilitation payments and penalties.
Violations of these laws are punishable by criminal or civil sanctions, including substantial fines, imprisonment and exclusion from participation in healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, as well as health programs outside the U.S., and even settlement of alleged violations can result in the imposition of corporate integrity agreements that could subject us to additional compliance and reporting requirements and impact our business practices.
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Even minor and inadvertent irregularities could potentially give rise to a charge that the law has been violated.
−Removed: Although we believe we maintain an appropriate compliance program, we cannot be certain that the program will adequately detect or prevent violations and/or the relevant regulatory authorities may disagree with our interpretation.
+Added: Our policies mandate compliance with these anti-bribery laws.
+Added: We operate in many parts of the world that have experienced governmental corruption to some degree, and in certain circumstances strict compliance with anti-bribery laws may conflict with local customs and practices.
+Added: Despite our training and compliance programs, our internal control policies and procedures may not always protect us from reckless or criminal acts committed by our employees or agents.
Additionally, if there is a change in law, regulation or administrative or judicial interpretations, we may have to change one or more of our business practices to be in compliance with these laws.
Required changes could be costly and time consuming.
−Removed: If our operations are found to be in violation of these laws or any other government regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to penalties, including, without limitation, civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines, imprisonment, the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, or exclusion from state and federal healthcare programs including Medicare and Medicaid, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property and Legal Proceedings
+Added: We are involved in various legal proceedings that are uncertain, costly and time-consuming and could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: From time to time we are involved in legal proceedings and disputes, such as the PNT2003 Litigation (as defined below), and may be involved in litigation in the future.
+Added: Legal proceedings are complex and extended and occupy the resources of our management and employees.
+Added: Legal proceedings are also costly to prosecute and defend and may involve substantial awards or damages payable by us if not found in our favor.
+Added: We may be required to pay substantial amounts or grant certain rights on unfavorable terms in order to settle such proceedings.
+Added: Defending against or settling legal proceedings and any unfavorable legal decisions, settlements or orders could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and could cause the market value of our common stock to decline.
+Added: For example, on January 26, 2024, we were sued in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by Advanced Accelerator Applications USA, Inc.
+Added: and Advanced Accelerator Applications SA, each a Novartis entity, for patent infringement in response to the filing of our ANDA for PNT2003 and Paragraph IV certification, consistent with the process established by the Hatch-Waxman Act.
+Added: Similarly, in 2024 we filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a healthcare-related imaging software developer, and that developer filed a motion to dismiss the case based on grounds of invalidity for certain patents and failure to state a claim for infringement for other patents.
+Added: The court dismissed the developer’s motion to dismiss as to invalidity, and granted the motion as to certain allegations of infringement.
+Added: While we believe it is important to vigorously defend our patents, such defense may be costly and time-consuming and we cannot predict the path that this or any other litigation may take or what the potential outcome may be.
+Added: We, or our business partners, may be subject to claims that we, or our partners, have infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated the patent or other intellectual property rights of a third party.
+Added: The outcome of any of these claims is uncertain and any unfavorable result could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: We, or our business partners, may be subject to claims by third parties that we, or our partners, have infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated third-party intellectual property rights.
+Added: We are aware of intellectual property rights held by third parties that relate to products or technologies we are developing.
+Added: For example, we are aware of other groups investigating PSMA or related compounds and monoclonal antibodies directed at PSMA, and PSMA-targeted imaging agents and therapeutics, and of patents held, and patent applications filed, by these groups in those areas.
+Added: While the validity of these issued patents, the patentability of pending patent applications and the applicability of any of them to our products and programs are uncertain, if asserted against us or our partners, any related patent or other intellectual property rights could adversely affect our ability to commercialize our products.
+Added: In particular, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries historically have generated substantial litigation concerning the manufacture, use and sale of products, and we expect this litigation activity to continue.
+Added: As a result, we may be subject to litigation over infringement claims regarding the products we manufacture or distribute or intend to manufacture or distribute.
+Added: For example, on January 26, 2024, we were sued in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by Advanced Accelerator Applications USA, Inc.
+Added: and Advanced Accelerator Applications SA, each a Novartis entity, for patent infringement in response to the filing of our ANDA for PNT2003 and Paragraph IV certification, consistent with the process established by the Hatch-Waxman Act (the “PNT2003 Litigation”).
+Added: This type of litigation can be costly and time consuming and could divert management’s attention and resources, generate significant expenses, damage payments (potentially including treble damages) or restrictions or prohibitions on our use of our technology, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: In addition, if we or one of our partners are found to be infringing on proprietary rights of others, we may be required to develop non-infringing technology, obtain a license (which may not be available on reasonable terms, or at all), make substantial one-time or ongoing royalty payments, or cease making, using and/or selling the infringing products, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Similarly, in June of 2024, Endocyte, Inc.
+Added: (“Endocyte”), Novartis and Purdue Research Foundation sued POINT Biopharma Global Inc.
+Added: (“POINT”) and Lilly alleging that POINT’s manufacturing and sale of PNT2002 infringes an Endocyte patent that discloses PSMA-binding conjugates useful for delivery targeted therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging agents, including radiopharmaceuticals.
+Added: While we have not been named as a party to the lawsuit, if POINT is found to be infringing on proprietary rights of Endocyte, it could prevent or result in a delay in our development and commercialization of PNT2002 or otherwise have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: In addition, in the U.S., it has become increasingly common for patent infringement actions to prompt claims that antitrust laws have been violated during the prosecution of the patent or during litigation involving the defense of that patent.
+Added: Such claims by direct and indirect purchasers and other payors are typically filed as class actions.
+Added: The relief sought may include treble damages and restitution claims.
+Added: Similarly, antitrust claims may be brought by government entities or private parties following settlement of patent litigation, alleging that such settlements are anti-competitive and in violation of antitrust laws.
+Added: and Europe, regulatory authorities have continued to challenge as anti-competitive so-called “reverse payment” settlements between branded and generic drug manufacturers.
+Added: We may also be subject to other antitrust litigation involving competition claims unrelated to patent infringement and prosecution.
+Added: A successful antitrust claim by a private party or government entity against us could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and could cause the market value of our common stock to decline.
+Added: If we are unable to protect our intellectual property, our competitors could develop and market products with features similar to our products, and demand for our products may decline.
+Added: Our commercial success will depend in part on obtaining and maintaining patent and trade secret protection of our commercial products and technologies and products in development, as well as successfully enforcing and defending these patents and trade secrets against third parties and their challenges, both in the U.S.
+Added: and in foreign countries.
+Added: We will only be able to protect our intellectual property from unauthorized use by third parties to the extent that we maintain the secrecy of our trade secrets and can enforce our valid patents and trademarks.
+Added: The patent positions of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies can be highly uncertain and involve complex legal and factual questions for which important legal principles remain unresolved.
+Added: In addition, changes in either the patent laws or in interpretations of patent laws in the U.S.
+Added: or other countries may diminish the value of our intellectual property and we may not receive the same degree of protection in every jurisdiction.
+Added: Accordingly, we cannot predict the breadth of claims that may be allowed or enforced in our patents or in third-party patents.
+Added: The degree of future protection for our proprietary rights is uncertain because legal means afford only limited protection and may not adequately protect our rights or permit us to gain or keep our competitive advantage.
+Added: • We might not have been the first to make the inventions covered by each of our pending patent applications and issued patents, and we could lose our patent rights as a result;
+Added: • We might not have been the first to file patent applications for these inventions or our patent applications may not have been timely filed, and we could lose our patent rights as a result;
+Added: • Others may independently develop similar or alternative technologies or duplicate any of our technologies;
+Added: • It is possible that none of our pending patent applications will result in any further issued patents;
+Added: • Our issued patents may not provide a basis for commercially viable drugs, may not provide us with any protection from unauthorized use of our intellectual property by third parties, and may not provide us with any competitive advantages;
+Added: • The validity or enforceability of our patent applications or patents may be subject to challenge through interferences, oppositions, post-grant review, ex-parte re-examinations, inter partes review or similar administrative proceedings;
+Added: • While we generally apply for patents in those countries where we intend to make, have made, use or sell patented products, we may not be able to accurately predict all of the countries where patent protection will ultimately be desirable and may be precluded from doing so at a later date;
+Added: • We may choose not to seek patent protection in certain countries where the actual cost outweighs the perceived benefit at a certain time;
+Added: • Patents issued in foreign jurisdictions may have different scopes of coverage than our U.S.
+Added: patents and so our products may not receive the same degree of protection in foreign countries as they would in the U.S.;
+Added: • We may not develop additional proprietary technologies that are patentable;
+Added: • The patents of others may have an adverse effect on our business;
+Added: • The cost to defend our patents may be significant and may result in litigation which could be costly and time consuming.
+Added: Moreover, the issuance of a patent is not conclusive as to its validity or enforceability.
+Added: Third parties have challenged and are likely to continue challenging the validity or enforceability of patents that have been issued to us by the USPTO or the applicable foreign patent office or licensed to us.
+Added: Our patents may be challenged, invalidated, held to be unenforceable, or circumvented, which could negatively impact their commercial value.
+Added: Furthermore, patent applications filed outside the United States may be challenged by other parties, for example, by filing third-party observations that argue against patentability or an opposition.
+Added: Such opposition proceedings are increasingly common in the European Union (“EU”) and are costly to defend.
+Added: The initiation, defense and prosecution of intellectual property suits (including Hatch-Waxman related litigation), interferences, oppositions and related legal and administrative proceedings are costly, time consuming to pursue and result in a diversion of resources, including a significant amount of management time.
+Added: The outcome of these proceedings is uncertain and could significantly harm our business.
+Added: If we are not able to enforce and defend the patents of our technologies and products, then we will have lost an opportunity that could have permitted us to exclude competitors from marketing products that directly compete with our products, which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: We also rely on trade secrets and other know-how and proprietary information to protect our technology, especially where we do not believe patent protection is appropriate or obtainable.
+Added: However, trade secrets are difficult to protect.
+Added: We use reasonable efforts to protect our trade secrets, but our employees, consultants, contractors, outside scientific partners and other advisors may unintentionally or willfully disclose our confidential information to competitors or other third parties.
+Added: Enforcing a claim that a third party improperly
+Added: obtained and is using our trade secrets is expensive, time consuming and resource intensive, and the outcome is unpredictable.
+Added: In addition, courts outside the U.S.
+Added: are sometimes less willing to protect trade secrets.
+Added: Moreover, our competitors may independently develop equivalent knowledge, methods and know-how.
+Added: We rely on confidentiality agreements with our collaborators, employees, consultants and other third parties and invention assignment agreements with our employees to protect our trade secrets and other know-how and proprietary information concerning our business.
+Added: These confidentiality agreements may not prevent unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets and other know-how and proprietary information, and there can be no guarantee that an employee or an outside party will not make an unauthorized disclosure of our trade secrets, other technical know-how or proprietary information, or that we can detect such an unauthorized disclosure.
+Added: We may not have adequate remedies for any unauthorized disclosure.
+Added: This might happen intentionally or inadvertently.
+Added: It is possible that a competitor will make use of that information, and that our competitive position will be compromised, in spite of any legal action we might take against persons making those unauthorized disclosures, which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Risks Related to Our Business Operations and Financial Results
−Removed: We may not be able to hire or retain the number of qualified personnel, particularly scientific, medical and sales personnel, required for our business, which would harm the development and sales of our products and limit our ability to grow.
−Removed: Competition in our industry for highly skilled scientific, healthcare and sales personnel is intense.
−Removed: In connection with the launch and continued growth of PYLARIFY, we hired additional employees to assist us with the commercialization of PYLARIFY, including in sales, marketing, reimbursement, quality and medical affairs.
−Removed: Although we were successful in hiring and onboarding those employees and we have not had any material difficulty in the past in hiring or retaining qualified personnel, if we are unable to retain our existing personnel, or attract and train additional qualified personnel, either because of competition in our industry for these personnel or insufficient financial resources, then our growth may be limited and it could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: We may not be able to hire or retain the number of qualified personnel, particularly scientific, medical and sales personnel, required for our business, which would harm the expansion of our internal research and development capabilities, sales of our products and approval timelines for and commercialization of our product candidates and limit our ability to grow.
+Added: Competition in our industry for highly skilled scientific, healthcare and sales personnel is intense and we may compete with larger pharmaceutical companies that likely will have access to greater financial resources than we do.
+Added: As we expand our product candidate pipeline, including by expanding beyond prostate cancer and cardiology, and develop and expand our internal research and development capabilities, we will need to continue to hire additional scientific, medical and regulatory personnel.
+Added: In addition, similar to our approach with the launch and continued growth of PYLARIFY, as we seek to commercialize additional products, we will need to hire additional employees to assist us with such commercialization, including in sales, marketing, reimbursement, quality and medical affairs.
+Added: Although we have not had any material difficulty in the past in hiring or retaining qualified personnel, if we are unable to retain our existing personnel, or attract and train additional qualified personnel, either because of competition in our industry for these personnel or due to insufficient financial resources, then timelines for the approval and commercialization of our product candidates could be impacted, our growth could be limited and it could have a material adverse effect on our business.
If we lose the services of our key personnel, our business could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Our success is substantially dependent upon the performance, contributions and expertise of our chief executive officer, executive leadership and senior management team.
−Removed: Mary Anne Heino, our Chief Executive Officer, and other members of our executive leadership and senior management team play a significant role in formulating and executing on our long-term strategy, generating business and overseeing operations.
−Removed: We have employment agreements with Ms.
−Removed: Heino, Brian Markison, who will succeed Ms.
−Removed: Heino as Chief Executive Officer effective March 1, 2024, and a limited number of other individuals on our executive leadership
−Removed: team, although we cannot prevent them from terminating their employment with us.
+Added: Our success is substantially dependent upon the performance, contributions and expertise of our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), executive leadership and senior management team.
+Added: Brian Markison, our CEO, and other members of our executive leadership and senior management team play a significant role in formulating and executing on our long-term strategy, generating business and overseeing operations.
+Added: We have employment agreements with Mr.
+Added: Markison effective March 1, 2024, and a limited number of other individuals on our executive leadership team, although we cannot prevent them from terminating their employment with us.
We do not maintain key person life insurance policies on any of our executive officers.
While we have experienced some turnover on our executive leadership team, we have generally been able to fill positions by either promoting existing employees or attracting new, qualified individuals to lead key functional areas.
−Removed: For example, on January 23, 2024, we announced that effective March 1, 2024, Brian Markison, our current Chair of the Board, will become our Chief Executive Officer, and Mary Anne Heino, our current Chief Executive Officer, will retire and become the Chair of the Board.
Our inability to retain our existing executive leadership and senior management team, maintain an appropriate internal succession program or attract and retain additional qualified personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: Any constraint on the availability of PET scanners could impact our ability to grow PYLARIFY and to successfully launch and commercialize radiodiagnostic products in our pipeline.
+Added: Use of our radiopharmaceutical diagnostic products is dependent upon the availability of PET scanners in the market.
+Added: Our ability to continue to grow PYLARIFY and to successfully launch new PET diagnostic products, including MK-6240 and NAV-4694, is dependent upon the availability of PET scanners generally.
+Added: If PET scanner capacity becomes constrained, that
+Added: could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial conditions and cash flows .
Our business depends on our ability to successfully introduce new products and adapt to a changing technology and medical practice landscape.
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• The timing of our market entry;
−Removed: • Our ability to enter into commercial contracts to sell our products;
+Added: • Our ability to enter into commercial contracts on favorable terms to sell our products;
• Our ability to market and distribute our products effectively;
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The field of diagnostic medical imaging is dynamic, with new products, including equipment, software and products, continually being developed and existing products continually being refined.
−Removed: Our own diagnostic imaging agents compete not only with other similarly administered imaging agents but also with imaging agents employed in different and often competing diagnostic modalities, and in the case of DEFINITY, echocardiography procedures without ultrasound enhancing agents.
+Added: Our own diagnostic imaging agents compete not only with other similarly administered imaging agents but also with imaging agents employed in different and often competing diagnostic modalities.
New hardware, software or products in a given diagnostic modality may be developed that provide benefits superior to the then-dominant hardware, software and products in that modality, resulting in commercial displacement of the products.
−Removed: Similarly, changing perceptions about comparative efficacy and safety including, among other things, comparative radiation exposure, as well as changing availability of supply or the availability of additional payments for new devices such as TPT Status, may favor one product over another or one modality over another.
−Removed: In addition, new or revised appropriate use criteria developed by professional societies, to assist physicians and other health care providers in making appropriate imaging decisions for specific clinical conditions, can and have reduced the frequency of and demand for certain imaging modalities and imaging agents.
−Removed: To the extent there is technological obsolescence in any of our products that we manufacture, resulting in lower unit sales or decreased unit sales prices, we will have increased unit overhead allocable to the remaining market share, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Similarly, changing perceptions about comparative efficacy and safety including, among other things, comparative radiation exposure, as well as changing availability of supply or the availability of additional payments for new devices, such as granting of or loss of TPT Status, may favor one product over another or one modality over another.
+Added: In addition, new or revised appropriate use criteria developed by professional societies, to assist physicians and other health care providers in making imaging decisions for specific clinical conditions, can and have reduced the frequency of and demand for certain imaging modalities and imaging agents.
+Added: To the extent there is technological obsolescence in any of our products, resulting in lower unit sales or decreased unit sales prices, we will have increased unit overhead allocable to the remaining market share, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Similar risks could apply to therapeutic products, including products we are developing.
−Removed: Our future growth may depend on our ability to identify and acquire or in-license additional products, businesses or technologies, and if we do not successfully do so, or otherwise fail to integrate any new products, lines of business or technologies into our operations, we may have limited growth opportunities and it could result in significant impairment charges or other adverse financial consequences.
+Added: If we are not able to successfully integrate the businesses we acquire, or if we are unable to successfully secure necessary shareholder and regulatory approvals relating to pending acquisitions in a timely manner or at all, we may not be able to realize the benefits that we expect to result from the transactions.
+Added: Additionally, the risks related to the acquired businesses, including the risk that we are unable to successfully integrate those businesses into our operations or are unable to realize the anticipated benefits that each acquisition is predicted to bring, could adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: As a part of our growth strategy, we have made and may continue to make selected acquisitions of complementary businesses, such as our acquisition of Cerveau Technologies, Inc.
+Added: (“Cerveau”) in February 2023, our acquisition of Meilleur Technologies Inc.
+Added: (“Meilleur”) in June 2024, and our recently announced definitive agreements to acquire Life Molecular Imaging Ltd.
+Added: (“Life Molecular”) and Evergreen Theragnostics, Inc.
+Added: (“Evergreen”).
+Added: These acquisitions involve numerous risks and operational, financial, and managerial challenges, including the following, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, or results of operations:
+Added: • Coordinating or consolidating geographically separate organizations and integrating personnel with different business backgrounds and corporate cultures;
+Added: • Integrating previously autonomous departments, including those in accounting and administrative functions;
+Added: • Integrating financial information and management systems;
+Added: • The pace of our acquisition activity and the related diversion of already limited resources and management and other personnel time;
+Added: • Disruption of our ongoing business;
+Added: • Difficulties in integrating new operations, technologies, products, and personnel;
+Added: • Inconsistencies in standards, controls, procedures, and policies;
+Added: • Lack of synergies, if synergies are anticipated, or the inability to realize expected synergies and cost-savings;
+Added: • Underperformance of any acquired technology, product candidate, or business relative to our expectations and the price we paid;
+Added: • Managing the risks of entering markets or types of businesses in which we have limited or no direct experience;
+Added: • Exposure to unforeseen liabilities;
+Added: • The potential loss of key employees and strategic partners of acquired companies;
+Added: • Risks associated with acquiring intellectual property, including potential disputes regarding acquired companies’ intellectual property.
+Added: In addition, the successful integration of acquired businesses requires significant efforts and expense across all operational areas, including research and development, manufacturing, sales and marketing, finance, legal, and information technologies.
+Added: There can be no assurance that any of our acquisitions will be successful or will be, or will become or remain, profitable.
+Added: Our failure to successfully address the foregoing risks may prevent us from achieving the anticipated benefits from any acquisition in a reasonable time frame, or at all.
+Added: Further, our pending acquisitions of Life Molecular and Evergreen are subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory clearances or expiration of applicable waiting periods under antitrust laws and foreign investment laws and receipt of any requisite stockholder approvals.
+Added: Such closing conditions may be time consuming, and such approvals may be costly to obtain or may be denied, and if obtained, the terms of such regulatory approvals may limit our ongoing operations or require us to divest assets.
+Added: Our future growth may depend on our ability to identify and acquire or in-license additional products, businesses or technologies, and if we do not successfully do so, we may have limited growth opportunities and it could result in significant impairment charges or other adverse financial consequences.
We seek to acquire or in-license products, businesses or technologies that we believe are a strategic fit with our business strategy.
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• Difficulty or inability to secure financing to fund development activities for those acquired or in-licensed technologies;
−Removed: • Higher than expected acquisition and integration costs;
−Removed: • Disruption of our business, customer base and diversion of our management’s time and attention to develop acquired products or technologies;
−Removed: • Exposure to unknown liabilities.
+Added: • Higher than expected acquisition, integration or operational costs;
+Added: • Increased amortization expenses;
+Added: • Difficulty and cost in combining the operations and personnel of any acquired businesses with our operations and personnel or of retaining key personnel;
+Added: • Diversion of our management’s and other personnel’s time and attention to identify, assess and acquire potential additional products, businesses or technologies.
We may not have sufficient resources to identify and execute the acquisition or in-licensing of third-party products, businesses and technologies and integrate them into our current infrastructure.
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If we deliver products with defects, or if there is a perception that our products or the processes related to our products contain errors or defects, we could incur additional recall and product liability costs, and our credibility and the market acceptance and sales of our products could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: Due to the strong name recognition of our brands, an adverse event involving one of our products could result in reduced market acceptance and demand for all products within that brand, and could harm our reputation and our ability to market our products in the future.
+Added: Due to the strong name recognition of our brands, an adverse event involving one of our products could result in reduced market acceptance and demand for all products, and could harm our reputation and our ability to market our products in the future.
In some circumstances, adverse events arising from or associated with the design, manufacture or marketing of our products could result in the suspension or delay of regulatory reviews of our applications for new product approvals.
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In the ordinary course of business, we may be subject to product liability claims and lawsuits, including potential class actions, alleging that our products have resulted or could result in an unsafe condition or injury.
−Removed: Any product liability claim brought against us, with or without merit, could be time consuming and costly to defend and could result in an increase of our insurance premiums.
+Added: Any product liability claim brought against us, with or without merit, could be time consuming and costly to defend and could result in an increase of our insurance premiums and cause reputational harm.
Although we have not had any such claims to date, claims that could be brought against us might not be covered by our insurance policies.
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In addition, in the event of accidental contamination or injury from these materials, we could be held liable for any damages that result and any such liability could exceed our resources.
−Removed: We previously leased a small portion of our North Billerica, Massachusetts campus to PerkinElmer for the manufacturing, finishing and packaging of certain radioisotopes, including Strontium-90, which has physical characteristics that make it more challenging to work with and dispose of than our own commercial radioisotopes, including a much longer half-life.
+Added: We previously leased a small portion of our North Billerica campus to PerkinElmer for the manufacturing, finishing and packaging of certain radioisotopes, including Strontium-90, which has physical characteristics that make it more challenging to work with and dispose of than our own commercial radioisotopes, including a much longer half-life.
PerkinElmer decommissioned its space and vacated the premises as of December 30, 2021.
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Further, we cannot assure you that we will not be subject to additional environmental claims for personal injury, investigation or cleanup in the future based on our past, present or future business activities.
−Removed: If we are unable to protect our intellectual property, our competitors could develop and market products with features similar to our products, and demand for our products may decline.
−Removed: Our commercial success will depend in part on obtaining and maintaining patent and trade secret protection of our commercial products and technologies and products in development as well as successfully enforcing and defending these patents and trade secrets against third parties and their challenges, both in the U.S.
−Removed: and in foreign countries.
−Removed: We will only be able to protect our intellectual property from unauthorized use by third parties to the extent that we maintain the secrecy of our trade secrets and can enforce our valid patents and trademarks.
−Removed: The patent positions of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies can be highly uncertain and involve complex legal and factual questions for which important legal principles remain unresolved.
−Removed: In addition, changes in either the patent laws or in interpretations of patent laws in the U.S.
−Removed: or other countries may diminish the value of our intellectual property and we may not receive the same degree of protection in every jurisdiction.
−Removed: Accordingly, we cannot predict the breadth of claims that may be allowed or enforced in our patents or in third-party patents.
−Removed: The degree of future protection for our proprietary rights is uncertain because legal means afford only limited protection and may not adequately protect our rights or permit us to gain or keep our competitive advantage.
−Removed: • We might not have been the first to make the inventions covered by each of our pending patent applications and issued patents, and we could lose our patent rights as a result;
−Removed: • We might not have been the first to file patent applications for these inventions or our patent applications may not have been timely filed, and we could lose our patent rights as a result;
−Removed: • Others may independently develop similar or alternative technologies or duplicate any of our technologies;
−Removed: • It is possible that none of our pending patent applications will result in any further issued patents;
−Removed: • Our issued patents may not provide a basis for commercially viable drugs, may not provide us with any protection from unauthorized use of our intellectual property by third parties, and may not provide us with any competitive advantages;
−Removed: • The validity or enforceability of our patent applications or patents may be subject to challenge through interferences, oppositions, post-grant review, ex-parte re-examinations, inter partes review or similar administrative proceedings;
−Removed: • While we generally apply for patents in those countries where we intend to make, have made, use or sell patented products, we may not be able to accurately predict all of the countries where patent protection will ultimately be desirable and may be precluded from doing so at a later date;
−Removed: • We may choose not to seek patent protection in certain countries where the actual cost outweighs the perceived benefit at a certain time;
−Removed: • Patents issued in foreign jurisdictions may have different scopes of coverage than our U.S.
−Removed: patents and so our products may not receive the same degree of protection in foreign countries as they would in the U.S.;
−Removed: • We may not develop additional proprietary technologies that are patentable;
−Removed: • The patents of others may have an adverse effect on our business;
−Removed: • The cost to defend our patents may be significant and may result in litigation which could be costly and time consuming.
−Removed: Moreover, the issuance of a patent is not conclusive as to its validity or enforceability.
−Removed: A third party may challenge the validity or enforceability of a patent even after its issuance by the USPTO or the applicable foreign patent office.
−Removed: It is also uncertain how much protection, if any, will be afforded by our patents if we attempt to enforce them and they are challenged in court or in other proceedings, which may be brought in U.S.
−Removed: jurisdictions to challenge the validity of a patent.
−Removed: The initiation, defense and prosecution of intellectual property suits (including Hatch-Waxman related litigation), interferences, oppositions and related legal and administrative proceedings are costly, time consuming to pursue and result in a diversion of resources, including a significant amount of management time.
−Removed: The outcome of these proceedings is uncertain and could significantly harm our business.
−Removed: If we are not able to enforce and defend the patents of our technologies and products, then we will not be able to exclude competitors from marketing products that directly compete with our products, which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: We also rely on trade secrets and other know-how and proprietary information to protect our technology, especially where we do not believe patent protection is appropriate or obtainable.
−Removed: However, trade secrets are difficult to protect.
−Removed: We use reasonable efforts to protect our trade secrets, but our employees, consultants, contractors, outside scientific partners and other advisors may unintentionally or willfully disclose our confidential information to competitors or other third parties.
−Removed: Enforcing a claim that a third party improperly obtained and is using our trade secrets is expensive, time consuming and resource intensive, and the outcome is unpredictable.
−Removed: In addition, courts outside the U.S.
−Removed: are sometimes less willing to protect trade secrets.
−Removed: Moreover, our competitors may independently develop equivalent knowledge, methods and know-how.
−Removed: We rely on confidentiality agreements with our collaborators, employees, consultants and other third parties and invention assignment agreements with our employees to protect our trade secrets and other know-how and proprietary information concerning our business.
−Removed: These confidentiality agreements may not prevent unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets and other know-how and proprietary information, and there can be no guarantee that an employee or an outside party will not make an unauthorized disclosure of our trade secrets, other technical know-how or proprietary information, or that we can detect such an unauthorized disclosure.
−Removed: We may not have adequate remedies for any unauthorized disclosure.
−Removed: This might happen intentionally or inadvertently.
−Removed: It is possible that a competitor will make use of that information, and that our competitive position will be compromised, in spite of any legal action we might take against persons making those unauthorized disclosures, which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: We rely on our trademarks, trade names and brand names to distinguish our products from the products of our competitors, and have registered or applied to register many of these trademarks.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that any pending trademark applications will be approved.
−Removed: Third parties may also oppose our trademark applications, or otherwise challenge our use of the trademarks.
−Removed: If our trademarks are successfully challenged, we could be forced to re-brand our products, which could result in loss of brand recognition, and could require us to devote resources to advertising and marketing new brands.
−Removed: Further, we cannot assure you that competitors will not infringe our trademarks, or that we will have adequate resources to enforce our trademarks.
−Removed: Our patents are subject to generic challenge, and the validity, enforceability and commercial value of these patents are highly uncertain.
−Removed: Our ability to obtain and defend our patents impacts the commercial value of our products and product candidates.
−Removed: Third parties have challenged and are likely to continue challenging the patents that have been issued or licensed to us.
−Removed: Patent protection involves complex legal and factual questions and, therefore, enforceability is uncertain.
−Removed: Our patents may be challenged, invalidated, held to be unenforceable, or circumvented, which could negatively impact their commercial value.
−Removed: Furthermore, patent applications filed outside the United States may be challenged by other parties, for example, by filing third-party observations that argue against patentability or an opposition.
−Removed: Such opposition proceedings are increasingly common in the EU and are costly to defend.
−Removed: We may be subject to claims that we have infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated the patent or other intellectual property rights of a third party.
−Removed: The outcome of any of these claims is uncertain and any unfavorable result could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We may be subject to claims by third parties that we have infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated their intellectual property rights.
−Removed: We are aware of intellectual property rights held by third parties that relate to products or technologies we are developing.
−Removed: For example, we are aware of other groups investigating PSMA or related compounds and monoclonal antibodies directed at PSMA, PSMA-targeted imaging agents and therapeutics, and methylnaltrexone and other peripheral opioid antagonists, and of patents held, and patent applications filed, by these groups in those areas.
−Removed: While the validity of these issued patents, the patentability of pending patent applications and the applicability of any of them to our products and programs are uncertain, if asserted against us, any related patent or other intellectual property rights could adversely affect our ability to commercialize our products.
−Removed: We may be subject to litigation over infringement claims regarding the products we manufacture or distribute or intend to manufacture or distribute.
−Removed: For example, on January 26, 2024, we were sued in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by Advanced Accelerator Applications USA, Inc.
−Removed: and Advanced Accelerator Applications SA, each a Novartis entity, for patent infringement in response to the filing of our ANDA for PNT2003 and Paragraph IV certification, consistent with the process established by the Hatch-Waxman Act.
−Removed: This type of litigation can be costly and time consuming and could divert management’s attention and resources, generate significant expenses, damage payments (potentially including treble damages) or restrictions or prohibitions on our use of our technology, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: In addition, if we are found to be infringing on proprietary rights of others, we may be required to develop non-infringing technology, obtain a license (which may not be available on reasonable terms, or at all), make substantial one-time or ongoing royalty payments, or cease making, using and/or selling the infringing products, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
We may be adversely affected by prevailing economic conditions and financial, business and other factors beyond our control.
−Removed: Our ability to attract and retain customers, invest in and grow our business, maintain our desired levels of costs of goods sold and operating expenses and meet our financial obligations depends on our operating and financial performance, which, in turn, is subject to numerous factors, including the prevailing economic conditions and financial, business and other factors beyond our control, such as the rate of unemployment, the number of uninsured persons in the U.S.
+Added: Our ability to attract and retain employees, customers, invest in and grow our business, maintain our desired levels of costs of goods sold and operating expenses and meet our financial obligations depends on our operating and financial performance, which, in turn, is subject to numerous factors, including the prevailing economic conditions and financial, business and other factors beyond our control, such as the rate of unemployment, the number of uninsured persons in the U.S.
and inflationary pressures, including escalating energy prices.
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trade sanctions against Iran and those countries and entities doing business with Iran, which could adversely impact international isotope production and, indirectly, our global supply chain;
−Removed: • Potential global disruptions in air transport, which could adversely affect our international supply chains for radioisotopes and DEFINITY RT as well as international distribution channels for our commercial products;
−Removed: • Entering into, renewing or enforcing commercial agreements with international governments or provincial authorities or entities directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such governments or authorities, such as our Belgian, Australian and South African isotope suppliers, IRE, ANSTO and NTP, and our Chinese development and commercialization partner, Double-Crane;
+Added: • Changes to, or the imposition of new tariffs or customs duties;
+Added: • Potential global disruptions in air transport, which could adversely affect our international supply chains for radioisotopes, as well as international distribution channels for our commercial products;
+Added: • Entering into, renewing or enforcing commercial agreements with international governments or provincial authorities or entities directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such governments or authorities, such as our Chinese development and commercialization partner, Double-Crane;
• International customers which are agencies or institutions owned or controlled by foreign governments;
−Removed: • Local business practices which may be in conflict with the U.S.
−Removed: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and U.K.
+Added: • Local business practices which may be in conflict with the FCPA and the Bribery Act;
• Currency fluctuations;
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operations, including our EXINI operations in Sweden;
−Removed: • The need to ensure compliance with the numerous in-country and international regulatory and legal requirements applicable to our business in each of these jurisdictions and to maintain an effective compliance program to ensure compliance with these requirements, including in connection with the GDPR in the EU;
+Added: • The need to ensure compliance with the numerous in-country and international regulatory and legal requirements applicable to our business in each of these jurisdictions and to maintain an effective compliance program to ensure compliance with these requirements, including in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU;
• Changes in public attitudes about the perceived safety of nuclear facilities;
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These factors are beyond our control.
−Removed: The realization of any of these or other risks associated with operating outside the United States could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: The realization of any of these or other risks associated with operating outside the United States, including the need to import materials from outside the U.S.
+Added: to produce our products, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
We face currency and other risks associated with international sales.
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Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, could result in fines, other civil or criminal penalties and the suspension or loss of export privileges which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial conditions and cash flows.
−Removed: Many of our customer relationships outside of the U.S.
−Removed: are, either directly or indirectly, with governmental entities, and we could be adversely affected by violations of the FCPA and similar worldwide anti-bribery laws outside the U.S.
−Removed: The FCPA, the Bribery Act and similar worldwide anti-bribery laws in non-U.S.
−Removed: jurisdictions generally prohibit companies and their intermediaries from making improper payments to non-U.S.
−Removed: officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business.
−Removed: The FCPA prohibits us from providing anything of value to foreign officials for the purposes of obtaining or retaining business or securing any improper business advantage.
−Removed: It also requires us to keep books and records that accurately and fairly reflect our transactions.
−Removed: Because of the predominance of government-sponsored healthcare systems around the world, many of our customer relationships outside of the U.S.
−Removed: are, either directly or indirectly, with governmental entities and are therefore subject to the FCPA and similar anti-bribery laws in non-U.S.
−Removed: jurisdictions.
−Removed: In addition, the provisions of the Bribery Act extend beyond bribery of foreign public officials and are more onerous than the FCPA in a number of other respects, including jurisdiction, non-exemption of facilitation payments and penalties.
−Removed: Our policies mandate compliance with these anti-bribery laws.
−Removed: We operate in many parts of the world that have experienced governmental corruption to some degree, and in certain circumstances strict compliance with anti-bribery laws may conflict with local customs and practices.
−Removed: Despite our training and compliance programs, our internal control policies and procedures may not always protect us from reckless or criminal acts committed by our employees or agents.
−Removed: Violations of these laws, or allegations of those violations, could disrupt our business and result in a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Our business depends on the continued effectiveness and availability of our information technology infrastructure, and failures of this infrastructure could harm our operations.
−Removed: To remain competitive in our industry, we must employ information technologies to support manufacturing processes, quality processes, distribution, R&D and regulatory applications and that capture, manage and analyze large streams of data in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
−Removed: We rely extensively on technology, some of which is managed by third-party service providers, to allow the concurrent conduct of work sharing around the world.
+Added: To remain competitive in our industry, we must employ information technologies to support manufacturing processes, quality processes, distribution, research and development and regulatory applications to capture, manage and analyze large streams of data in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
+Added: While we rely extensively on technology, some of which is managed by third-party service providers, to allow the concurrent conduct of work sharing around the world, all aspects of our business are not automated and we cannot eliminate all potential risks associated with our information technology systems, including those associated with introducing new systems, processes or data.
As with all information technology, our equipment and infrastructure age and become subject to increasing maintenance and repair and our systems generally are vulnerable to potential damage or interruptions from fires, natural disasters, power outages, blackouts, machinery breakdown, telecommunications failures and other unexpected events, as well as to break-ins, sabotage, increasingly sophisticated intentional acts of vandalism or cybersecurity threats which, due to the nature of such attacks, may remain undetected for a period of time.
+Added: In addition, a failure to adopt evolving technologies could introduce risk as legacy systems may be incompatible with newer technologies introduced to our systems or become less effective, inefficient to sustain and potentially obsolete.
As these threats continue to evolve, we may be required to expend additional resources to enhance our information security measures or to investigate and remediate any information security vulnerabilities.
−Removed: Given the extensive reliance of our business on technology, any substantial disruption or resulting loss of data that is not avoided or corrected by our backup measures could harm our business, reputation, operations and financial condition.
+Added: Given the extensive reliance of our business on technology, including reliance on third-party service providers, any failure to adhere to robust security practice or any substantial disruption or resulting loss of data that is not avoided or either corrected by our backup measures or other means, could result in legal liability, harm our business, reputation, operations and financial condition.
A disruption in our computer networks, including those related to cybersecurity, could adversely affect our operations or financial position.
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federal and state income tax liabilities if our future income is not sufficient to absorb the losses, or if we were to experience another “ownership change” as specified in Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code including if we were to issue a certain amount of equity securities, certain of our stockholders were to sell shares of our common stock, or we were to enter into certain strategic transactions.
−Removed: We are involved in various legal proceedings that are uncertain, costly and time-consuming and could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: From time to time we are involved in legal proceedings and disputes and may be involved in litigation in the future.
−Removed: For example, on January 26, 2024, we were sued in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by Advanced Accelerator Applications USA, Inc.
−Removed: and Advanced Accelerator Applications SA, each a Novartis entity, for patent infringement in response to the
−Removed: filing of our ANDA for PNT2003 and Paragraph IV certification, consistent with the process established by the Hatch-Waxman Act.
−Removed: These proceedings are complex and extended and occupy the resources of our management and employees.
−Removed: Legal proceedings are also costly to prosecute and defend and may involve substantial awards or damages payable by us if not found in our favor.
−Removed: We may also be required to pay substantial amounts or grant certain rights on unfavorable terms in order to settle such proceedings.
−Removed: Defending against or settling legal proceedings and any unfavorable legal decisions, settlements or orders could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and could cause the market value of our common stock to decline.
−Removed: In particular, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries historically have generated substantial litigation concerning the manufacture, use and sale of products, and we expect this litigation activity to continue.
−Removed: As a result, we expect that patents related to our products will routinely be challenged, and our patents may not be upheld.
−Removed: In order to protect or enforce patent rights, we may initiate litigation against third parties.
−Removed: If we are not successful in defending an attack on our patents and maintaining exclusive rights to market one or more of our products still under patent protection, we could lose a significant portion of sales in a very short period.
−Removed: We may also become subject to infringement claims by third parties and may have to defend against charges that we violated patents or the proprietary rights of third parties.
−Removed: If we infringe the intellectual property rights of others, we could lose our right to develop, manufacture or sell products, or could be required to pay monetary damages or royalties to license proprietary rights from third parties.
−Removed: In addition, in the U.S., it has become increasingly common for patent infringement actions to prompt claims that antitrust laws have been violated during the prosecution of the patent or during litigation involving the defense of that patent.
−Removed: Such claims by direct and indirect purchasers and other payors are typically filed as class actions.
−Removed: The relief sought may include treble damages and restitution claims.
−Removed: Similarly, antitrust claims may be brought by government entities or private parties following settlement of patent litigation, alleging that such settlements are anti-competitive and in violation of antitrust laws.
−Removed: and Europe, regulatory authorities have continued to challenge as anti-competitive so-called “reverse payment” settlements between branded and generic drug manufacturers.
−Removed: We may also be subject to other antitrust litigation involving competition claims unrelated to patent infringement and prosecution.
−Removed: A successful antitrust claim by a private party or government entity against us could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and could cause the market value of our common stock to decline.
Risks Related to our and our Strategic Partners’ Portfolios of Clinical Development Candidates
+Added: We may not, or may take longer to, realize the expected benefits and opportunities related to, investments we have made to develop diagnostic product candidates to be used in diagnosing, staging and monitoring Alzheimer’s disease.
+Added: During 2024, we acquired Meilleur, which holds the rights under a license agreement to develop and commercialize NAV-4694, an investigational late-stage F-18-labeled PET imaging agent that targets beta amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease.
+Added: NAV-4694 is currently in Phase 3 development and is also being used in academic and industry sponsored clinical trials.
+Added: Previously, we acquired MK-6240, which is an investigational late-stage F-18-labeled PET imaging agent that targets tau tangles.
+Added: In 2024, we held a pre-NDA meeting with the FDA and we expect to submit a new drug application (“NDA”) for MK-6240 in 2025, but we can provide no assurance that we will meet that expected timeline, that our NDA will be accepted by the FDA, that MK-6240 will be approved by the FDA based on the data submitted or, if approved, that we will be successful in commercializing MK-6240.
+Added: While we believe that both MK-6240, as a tau imaging agent, and NAV-4694, as a beta amyloid imaging agent, have the potential to play an important role in diagnosing, staging and monitoring Alzheimer’s disease, we can give no assurance that we will be successful with continued development, regulatory approval and commercialization of these product candidates or that disagreements with the counterparties to our license agreements for MK-6240 and NAV-4694 or the former stockholders of the companies we acquired who could receive future milestone and royalty-based payments will not arise over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of product research, development or marketing that might cause delays or termination of the license agreements, or might result in litigation or arbitration, which could be time-consuming and expensive.
We may not, or may take longer to, realize the expected benefits and opportunities related to, the POINT License Agreements.
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The POINT License Agreements impose various development, regulatory filing, commercialization and other obligations on us, and require us to meet development timelines or to exercise commercially reasonable efforts to develop and commercialize licensed products.
−Removed: We, along with our counterparty in the POINT License Agreements, may not be able to meet expected or planned regulatory milestones and timelines due to a number of factors, including, with respect to PNT2003, potential litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act that could impose a stay on FDA approval of up to 30 months.
+Added: We, along with our counterparty in the POINT License Agreements, may not be able to meet expected or planned regulatory milestones and timelines due to a number of factors, including, with respect to PNT2003, the PNT2003 Litigation, which could postpone FDA approval for up to 30 months.
Even if the licensed products are suitable for commercialization in a timely manner, we may not achieve the expected revenues from the sale of such products, and our revenue, ability to achieve profitability and return on investment may be adversely affected.
−Removed: With respect to PNT2002, on December 18, 2023, we announced positive topline results from SPLASH, the Phase 3 registrational trial for PNT2002.
−Removed: Although the topline results indicated that the SPLASH trial met its primary endpoint, at the time of our topline analysis, interim OS results were immature.
−Removed: We expect additional, follow-up data in 2024 prior to the potential submission of an NDA;
−Removed: however, we can give no assurance that, as additional data become available, such data will not be materially different from the topline data we previously published, or that such data will support an NDA filing, FDA approval, or successful commercialization of PNT2002.
−Removed: In addition, we are dependent on POINT to develop commercial product capacity and manufacture clinical and commercial supply for both PNT2002 and PNT2003, as well as supply for our EAP for PNT2002.
−Removed: Disagreements with the counterparty in the POINT License Agreements over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of product research, development or marketing, might cause delays in performance of the POINT License Agreements or termination of the POINT License Agreements, or might result in litigation or arbitration, which could be time-consuming and expensive.
−Removed: In spite of our efforts, if we fail to comply with our obligations under the POINT License Agreements, the counterparty in the POINT License Agreements may conclude that we have materially breached and may terminate one or both of the POINT License Agreements, in which event we may lose our rights to develop and market PNT2002 and PNT2003 or incur liability for damages.
−Removed: Any of the foregoing risks could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and prospects and the trading price of our common stock.
−Removed: We may not, or may take longer to, realize the expected benefits and opportunities related to, the Cerveau Acquisition.
−Removed: On February 6, 2023, we announced that we acquired Cerveau.
−Removed: Cerveau holds the rights under a license agreement to develop and commercialize MK-6240, an investigational second-generation F 18-labeled PET imaging agent that targets Tau tangles in Alzheimer’s disease.
−Removed: MK-6240 is currently being used in more than 90 active clinical trials for several Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic candidates being developed.
−Removed: While we believe that MK-6240, as a Tau imaging agent, has the potential to play an important role in patient staging, selection, and monitoring for future treatments and could be a surrogate endpoint for treatment efficacy, we can give no assurance that we will be successful with continued development, regulatory approval and commercialization of the product candidate or that disagreements with the counterparty to our license agreement for MK-6240 or the Selling Stockholders will not arise over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of product research, development or marketing that might cause delays or termination of the license agreement, or might result in litigation or arbitration, which could be time-consuming and expensive.
+Added: On December 18, 2023, we announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 registrational clinical trial for PNT 2002 (“SPLASH”).
+Added: On September 15, 2024, we presented additional clinical data from initial topline results of SPLASH during the European Society of Medical Oncology Congress 2024.
+Added: On November 6, 2024, we announced the completion of the second interim analysis for SPLASH at 75% of protocol pre-specified target OS events.
+Added: Although the results the SPLASH trial met its primary endpoint, interim overall survival results were immature and results for both rPFS and OS at the second interim analysis did not materially change from the interim analysis that was performed at 46% of pre-specified OS events.
+Added: We can give no assurance that, as additional data become available, such data will represent a material change from the topline data we previously published, or that such data will support an NDA filing, FDA approval, or successful commercialization of PNT2002.
+Added: In addition, we are dependent on POINT to develop commercial product capacity and manufacture for both PNT2002 and PNT2003.
+Added: Disagreements with POINT in the POINT License Agreements over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of product research, development, regulatory strategy or marketing, might cause delays in performance of the POINT License Agreements or termination of the POINT License Agreements, or might result in litigation or arbitration, which could be time-consuming and expensive.
+Added: Additionally, if we fail to comply with our obligations under the POINT License Agreements, then POINT may conclude that we have materially breached and may terminate one or both of the POINT License Agreements, in which event we may lose our rights to develop and market PNT2002 and PNT2003 or incur liability for damages.
+Added: Any of the foregoing risks could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
The process of developing new drugs and obtaining regulatory approval is complex, time-consuming and costly, and the outcome is not certain.
−Removed: We currently have clinical development programs in the U.S., including those related to PNT2002, PNT2003, MK-6240 and LNTH-1363S, and are exploring additional lifecycle management opportunities for some of our current products, including PYLARIFY.
−Removed: We also have a number of strategic partnerships relating to obtaining additional indications for existing commercial products or regulatory approval for clinical development candidates.
−Removed: To obtain regulatory approval for these products in the indications being pursued, we must conduct extensive human tests, which are referred to as clinical trials, as well as meet other rigorous regulatory requirements, as further described in Part I, Item 1.
−Removed: “Business—Regulatory Matters.” Satisfaction of all regulatory requirements typically takes many years and requires the expenditure of substantial resources.
−Removed: A number of other factors may cause significant delays in the completion of our clinical trials, including unexpected delays in the initiation of clinical sites, slower than projected enrollment, competition with ongoing clinical trials and scheduling conflicts with participating clinicians, regulatory requirements, limits on manufacturing capacity and failure of an investigational product to meet required standards for administration to humans.
+Added: We currently have pre-clinical and clinical development programs in the U.S., and are exploring additional lifecycle management opportunities for some of our current products, including PYLARIFY.
+Added: To obtain regulatory approval for these products, we must conduct extensive human tests, which are referred to as clinical trials, as well as meet other rigorous regulatory requirements, as further described in Part I, Item 1.
+Added: “Business—Regulatory Matters” to this Form 10-K.
+Added: In connection with our ongoing development activities, we currently depend, and expect to continue to depend, on numerous third parties, including contract research organizations, clinical trial investigators and contract manufacturing organizations.
+Added: If any of these service providers breach or terminate its agreement with us or otherwise fail to conduct the service for which it is responsible successfully and in a timely and compliant manner, the development or commercialization of the affected product candidate or research program could be delayed or terminated.
+Added: In addition, oversight of third-party service providers can be costly and time consuming and could divert management’s and other personnel’s time and attention,
+Added: Satisfaction of all regulatory requirements to successfully obtain regulatory approval for a new product typically takes many years and requires the expenditure of substantial resources.
+Added: A number of other factors may cause significant delays in the completion of our development programs and clinical trials, including unexpected delays in the initiation of clinical sites, slower than projected enrollment, competition with ongoing clinical trials and scheduling conflicts with participating clinicians, regulatory requirements, limits on manufacturing capacity and failure of an investigational product to meet required standards for administration to humans.
In addition, it may take longer than we project to achieve study endpoints and complete data analysis for a clinical trial or we may decide to slow down the enrollment in a trial in order to conserve financial resources or for other reasons.
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Regulatory authorities may require us or our partners to conduct additional clinical testing, in which case we would have to expend additional time and resources.
−Removed: Depending on the regulatory pathway selected for drug approval, such as by filing an ANDA or Section 505(b)(2) NDA that requires sending notice to the innovator of a drug, regulatory approval may also be delayed by litigation brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act.
−Removed: For example, on January 26, 2024, we were sued in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by Advanced Accelerator Applications USA, Inc.
−Removed: and Advanced Accelerator Applications SA, each a Novartis entity, for patent infringement in response to the filing of our ANDA for PNT2003 and Paragraph IV certification, consistent with the process established by the Hatch-Waxman Act.
+Added: Depending on the regulatory pathway selected for drug approval, such as by filing an ANDA or Section 505(b)(2) NDA that requires sending notice to the innovator of a drug, regulatory approval may also be delayed by litigation brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act, which is the case for the approval pathway for PNT2003, currently subject to the PNT2003 Litigation.
The approval process may also be delayed by changes in government regulation, future legislation or administrative action or changes in regulatory policy that occur prior to or during regulatory review.
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In some instances, products in development may also be approved by filing an ANDA or Section 505(b)(2) NDA with the FDA (as further described in Part I, Item 1.
−Removed: “Business—Regulatory Matters—Hatch-Waxman Act.”);
−Removed: provided, however, that seeking regulatory approval under such pathways may subject the product candidate to delays caused by litigation brought by an innovator of similar drugs under the Hatch-Waxman Act, as is the case with our ANDA application and Paragraph IV certification for PNT2003.
+Added: “Business—Regulatory Matters—Hatch-Waxman Act” of this
+Added: provided, however, that seeking regulatory approval under such pathways may subject the product candidate to litigation brought by an innovator of similar drugs under the Hatch-Waxman Act, as is the case with the PNT2003 Litigation.
Markets outside of the U.S.
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Approvals might not be granted on a timely basis, if at all.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that GE Healthcare will be successful with the further clinical development of flurpiridaz.
−Removed: In May 2015, we announced complete results from the first of two planned Phase 3 clinical trials for flurpiridaz.
−Removed: Although the development candidate appeared to be well-tolerated from a safety perspective and outperformed SPECT in a highly statistically significant manner in the co-primary endpoint of sensitivity and in the secondary endpoints of image quality and diagnostic certainty, flurpiridaz did not meet its other co-primary endpoint of non-inferiority for identifying subjects without disease.
−Removed: In April 2017, we entered into the License Agreement with GE Healthcare for the continued Phase 3 development and worldwide commercialization of flurpiridaz.
−Removed: Under the License Agreement, GE Healthcare agreed, among other things, to complete the worldwide development of flurpiridaz by conducting a second Phase 3 trial and pursue worldwide regulatory approvals.
−Removed: In September 2022, we announced with GE Healthcare that the second Phase 3 clinical trial had met its co-primary endpoints of exceeding a 60% threshold for both sensitivity and specificity for detecting CAD.
−Removed: The findings, shared at an American Society of Nuclear Cardiology conference, also demonstrated that cardiac PET imaging with flurpiridaz had higher diagnostic efficacy and image quality in patients with suspected CAD, compared with SPECT MPI, the predominant procedure currently used in nuclear cardiology.
−Removed: Notwithstanding these findings, we cannot assure that any of the data generated in either our or GE Healthcare’s sponsored Phase 3 study will be sufficient to support an NDA approval or that flurpiridaz will ever be approved as a PET MPI imaging agent by the FDA.
−Removed: While GE Healthcare recently announced that it had filed an NDA with the FDA for flurpiridaz, any failure or significant delay in receiving regulatory approval for the sale of flurpiridaz may harm our business and delay or prevent us from being able to generate additional future royalty revenue from product sales.
Even if clinical development candidates receive regulatory approval, we can give no assurance that they can be successfully commercialized.
−Removed: Even if our clinical development candidates proceed through their clinical trials and ultimately receive regulatory approval, there is no guarantee that an approved product can be manufactured in commercial quantities at a reasonable cost or that such a product will be successfully marketed or distributed.
−Removed: For example, the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of a radiopharmaceutical like flurpiridaz and MK-6240 will require the creation of a field-based network of specialized PET manufacturing facilities, or PMFs, with radioisotope-producing cyclotrons, similar to what we created for PYLARIFY, and will need to be manufactured and distributed rapidly to end-users.
+Added: Even if we or our partners’ clinical development candidates proceed through their clinical trials and ultimately receive regulatory approval, there is no guarantee that an approved product can be manufactured in commercial quantities at a reasonable cost or that such a product will be successfully marketed or distributed.
+Added: For example, although our licensee, GE Healthcare, has received FDA approval of Flyrcado (flurpiridaz F-18) for coronary artery disease diagnosis, there is no guarantee that GE Healthcare will be successful in its commercialization of Flyrcado, which may delay or prevent us from being able to generate additional future royalty revenue from product sales.
+Added: Additionally, the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of an F-18-based radiopharmaceuticals like Flyrcado, as well as our investigational products, such as MK-6240 and NAV-4694, will require the creation of a field-based network of specialized PET manufacturing facilities, or PMFs, with radioisotope-producing cyclotrons, similar to what we created for PYLARIFY, and will need to be manufactured and distributed rapidly to end-users.
In addition, obtaining adequate coding, coverage, and payment at appropriate payment levels for any clinical development candidate will be critical, including not only coverage from Medicare, Medicaid, and other government payors, but also from private payors.
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In connection with our ongoing development activities, we currently depend, and expect to continue to depend, on numerous collaborators.
−Removed: For example, in addition to our collaboration with Curium on PYLCLARI in Europe, GE Healthcare on flurpiridaz and POINT on PNT2002 and PNT2003, we have other collaborations to develop and commercialize products.
+Added: For example, in addition to our collaboration with Curium on PYLCLARI in Europe, GE Healthcare on Flyrcado and POINT on PNT2002 and PNT2003, we have other collaborations to develop and commercialize products.
In addition, certain clinical trials for our product candidates may be conducted by government-sponsored agencies, and consequently will be dependent on governmental participation and funding.
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If we fail to achieve milestone requirements or to satisfy other conditions, we may lose those rights under those license agreements, and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Many of our products or product candidates incorporate rights licensed by third parties -- for example, we license patent rights on PYLARIFY, PNT2002, PNT2003, MK-6240, LNTH-1363S and NM-01.
+Added: Many of our products or product candidates incorporate rights licensed by third parties -- for example, we license patent rights on PYLARIFY, PNT2002, PNT2003, MK-6240, NAV-4694, LNTH-1363S, LNTH-2402, LNTH-2403 and LNTH-2404.
We could lose the rights to develop or commercialize these products and product candidates if the related license agreement is terminated due to a breach by us or otherwise.
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On December 8, 2022, we issued $575.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 2.625% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”), which included $75.0 million in aggregate principal amount of Notes sold pursuant to the full exercise of the initial purchasers’ option to purchase additional Notes.
−Removed: The Notes were issued under an indenture, dated as of December 8, 2022 (the “Indenture”), among Holdings, LMI, and U.S.
+Added: The Notes were issued under an indenture, dated as of December 8, 2022 (the “Indenture”), among Lantheus Holdings, LMI, and U.S.
Bank Trust Company, National Association (“U.S.
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Prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding September 15, 2027, the Notes may be converted at the option of the holders upon occurrence of specified events and during certain periods, and thereafter until the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the maturity date, the Notes may be converted at any time.
−Removed: If one or more holders elect to convert their Notes, we would be required to settle any converted principal amount of such Notes through the payment of cash and by paying or delivering, at our election, cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares, with respect to the remainder of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being converted, which could adversely affect our liquidity.
−Removed: In addition, even if holders do not elect to convert their Notes, we could be required under applicable accounting rules to reclassify all or a portion of the outstanding principal of the Notes as a current rather than long-term liability, which would result in a material reduction of our net working capital.
+Added: For example, holders could elect to convert their Notes during a calendar quarter if the trading price of our common stock was greater than or equal to 130% of the conversion price of the Notes (initially $79.81 per share) for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during the period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter (the “Stock Price Conversion Threshold”).
+Added: During the third quarter of 2024, the closing price of the Company’s common stock exceeded the Stock Price Conversion Threshold, so the Notes were convertible at the option of the holders during the fourth quarter of 2024, and, in connection therewith, holders of $4,000 in aggregate principal of Notes elected to convert their Notes, for which we elected to pay cash in consideration of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the converted Notes.
+Added: During the fourth quarter of 2024, the closing price of the Company’s common stock did not exceed the Stock Price Conversion Threshold, so the Notes are not convertible at the option of the holders of the Notes during the first quarter of 2025.
+Added: If such a right becomes available again and if one or more holders elect to convert their Notes, unless we elect to satisfy our conversion obligation by arranging for one or more financial institutions to take the Notes from converting holders and pay such holders in accordance with the Indenture, we would be required to settle any converted principal amount of such Notes through the payment of cash and by paying or delivering, at our election, cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares, with respect to the remainder of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being converted, which could adversely affect our liquidity or, if we elect to settle our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being converted in shares of common stock (whether in whole or in part), could dilute the ownership interests of our existing common stockholders.
The issuance or sale of shares of our common stock, or rights to acquire shares of our common stock, could depress the trading price of our common stock.
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Repurchases by us of our common stock may affect the value of our common stock.
−Removed: In December 2022, our Board authorized the repurchase of up to $150.0 million in aggregate amount of our common stock under certain circumstances.
−Removed: We used approximately $75.0 million of the net proceeds from the Notes to repurchase shares of our common stock from purchasers of Notes in privately negotiated transactions effected with or through one of the initial purchasers or its affiliate.
−Removed: The purchase price per share of the common stock repurchased in such transactions was equal to the closing sale price per share of our
−Removed: common stock on December 5, 2022, which was $56.01 per share.
−Removed: Following this initial repurchase, we may from time to time repurchase additional shares of our common stock.
−Removed: Such repurchases could increase, or prevent a decrease in, the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: We have indebtedness which may limit our financial and operating activities and may adversely affect our ability to incur additional debt to fund future needs.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, we had approximately $575.0 million of total principal indebtedness remaining under the Notes and availability of $350.0 million under our five-year 2022 Revolving Facility.
+Added: We have from time to time engaged in repurchase programs of our common stock.
+Added: In November 2024, our Board of Directors (the “Board”) authorized a program to repurchase up to $250.0 million over the next twelve months via open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions, block trades and/or through other legally permissible means, depending on market conditions and in accordance with applicable rules and regulations (the “2024 Program”).
+Added: We repurchased approximately $100.0 million of our common stock under the 2024 Program during the fourth quarter of 2024 for an average stock price of $89.59 per share, and have the ability to repurchase additional shares of our common stock under the 2024 Program.
+Added: Such repurchases could increase, or prevent a decrease in, the market price of our common stock, although there can be no assurance that an increase, or prevention of a decrease, would occur, and stockholders could prefer that we allocate our capital in a different manner, which could negatively impact the market price of our common stock.
+Added: We have indebtedness that may limit our financial and operating activities and may adversely affect our ability to incur additional debt to fund future needs.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, we had approximately $575.0 million of total principal indebtedness remaining under the Notes and availability of $750.0 million under our five-year revolving credit facility, which was amended in December 2024 (as amended, the “2022 Revolving Facility”).
+Added: The amendment extended the maturity date of the 2022 Revolving Facility to December 19, 2029 and increased the amount available under the 2022 Revolving Facility from $350.0 million to $750.0 million.
Our indebtedness and any future indebtedness we incur could:
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credit markets may impact our ability to obtain financing or increase the cost of future financing, including interest rate fluctuations based on macroeconomic conditions that are beyond our control.
−Removed: During periods of volatility and disruption in the U.S., European, or global credit markets, obtaining additional or replacement financing may be more difficult and the cost of issuing new debt or replacing or repaying our 2022 Facility could be higher than under our current 2022 Facility.
+Added: During periods of volatility and disruption in the U.S., European, or global credit markets, obtaining additional or replacement financing may be more difficult and the cost of issuing new debt or replacing or repaying our 2022 Revolving Facility could be higher than under our current 2022 Revolving Facility.
Higher cost of new debt may limit our ability to have cash on hand for working capital, capital expenditures and acquisitions on terms that are acceptable to us.
−Removed: Additionally, our 2022 Facility has variable interest rates.
+Added: Additionally, our 2022 Revolving Facility has variable interest rates.
By its nature, a variable interest rate will move up or down based on changes in the economy and other factors, all of which are beyond our control.
If interest rates increase, our interest expense could increase, affecting earnings and reducing cash flows available for working capital, capital expenditures and acquisitions.
−Removed: Our stock price could fluctuate significantly, which could cause the value of your investment to decline, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above your purchase price.
+Added: Our stock price could fluctuate significantly, which could cause the value of your investment in our common stock to decline, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above your purchase price.
Securities markets worldwide have experienced, and may continue to experience, significant price and volume fluctuations.
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