As previously disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on November 15, 2013, CTI BioPharma Corp. (the "Company") entered into a Development, Commercialization and License Agreement (as amended, the "License Agreement") with Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare Corporation and Baxter Healthcare SA (collectively, "Baxter") on November 14, 2013 (Filing, 8-K, CTI BioPharma, OCT 24, 2016, View Source [SID1234516747]). Baxalta Incorporated and its affiliates (collectively, "Baxalta") were assigned Baxter’s rights and obligations under the License Agreement. Pursuant to the License Agreement, among other things, the Company granted to Baxalta, as successor to Baxter, a license with respect to pacritinib, Baxalta and the Company agreed to collaborate as to the development and commercialization of pacritinib, and the Company obtained the contingent right to receive certain milestone and royalty payments. As previously disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 9, 2015, the License Agreement was amended on June 5, 2015. Baxalta was subsequently acquired by Shire plc ("Shire"). As of June 3, 2016, Shire beneficially owned approximately 5.5% of the Company’s common stock.
As previously disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 19, 2016, on September 19, 2016, the Company entered into a letter agreement (the "First Letter Agreement") amending the License Agreement. The First Letter Agreement provided that if the Company and Baxalta were unable to negotiate and execute within 30 days (the "Letter Agreement Deadline") a definitive agreement reflecting the terms contained within the non-binding term sheet agreed to between the parties on September 19, 2016 (the "Term Sheet") regarding the termination of the License Agreement and the return of the asset, then for purposes of computing any applicable termination periods and deadlines under Section 15.2 of the License Agreement, September 13, 2016 would have been deemed the effective date of the notice of termination of the License Agreement received by the Company from Baxalta on September 13, 2016. On October 19, 2016, the Company and Baxalta entered into a letter agreement (the "Second Letter Agreement") extending the Letter Agreement Deadline to 5:00pm Eastern Time on October 21, 2016.
Prior to the Letter Agreement Deadline, on October 21, 2016, the Company and Baxalta entered into an Asset Return and Termination Agreement (the "Termination Agreement"). Pursuant to the Termination Agreement, the Company has reacquired worldwide rights for the development and commercialization of pacritinib, and the License Agreement has been terminated in its entirety, provided that certain customary provisions in the License Agreement, including those pertaining to confidentiality and indemnification, survive termination. In addition, Baxalta will pay to the Company a one-time cash payment in the amount of approximately $10.3 million as reimbursement for certain expenses incurred or to be incurred.
The Company in exchange has agreed to provide a one-time payment to Baxalta, upon the first regulatory approval or any pricing and reimbursement approvals of a product containing pacritinib, in the amount of approximately $10.3 million which represents certain amounts paid by Baxalta for the benefit of the pacritinib program manufacturing efforts. The Company has also agreed not to transfer, license, sublicense or otherwise grant rights with respect to intellectual property of pacritinib unless the transferee/licensee/sublicensee agrees to be bound by the terms of the Termination Agreement. The Company has not acquired a trademark owned by Shire.
The foregoing descriptions of the Second Letter Agreement and Termination Agreement do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by, the full text of the Second Letter Agreement and Termination Agreement, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and 10.2 and incorporated herein by reference.
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