Exhibit (d)(3)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
THIS CONFIDENTIALITYAND NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made as of the 22nd day of March 2022 (the “Effective Date”), by and between LA JOLLA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY (“LA JOLLA”), a Delaware corporation, with its principal place of business located at 201 Jones Road, Suite 400, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451, United States, and INNOVIVA, INC. (“COMPANY”), with offices located at 1350 Old Bayshore Highway, Suite 400, Burlingame, California 94010, United States. La Jolla and Company may be referred to herein individually as a “Party” and collectively as the “Parties.”
WHEREAS, the Parties are interested in discussing a possible business transaction (a “Transaction”), and in so doing, may disclose or make available to each other certain confidential and proprietary information and materials pertaining to their respective businesses, and neither Party is willing to proceed with these discussions unless they have an agreement restricting further disclosure or use of Confidential Information as defined below.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises contained herein, the Parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” shall mean all non-public or proprietary information, data and knowledge (whether in written, oral, electronic, graphic, web-based, or machine-readable form) directly or indirectly furnished, provided or disclosed by a Party or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other Party or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates (the “Receiving Party”) in connection with a Transaction, including without limitation: (i) proprietary scientific data or information, designs, plans, specifications, flow charts, techniques, methods, processes, procedures, biotechnology procures, clinical procedures, standard operating procedures, formulas, discoveries, inventions, improvements, charts, diagrams, graphs, models, sketches, writings and all other information, data or knowledge; (ii) all technical data, research, experimental results, and information; (iii) all trade secrets and other proprietary ideas, inventions, concepts, patent applications, know-how and methodologies and all proprietary information related to current and future products; (iv) all financial information and data, pricing, marketing strategies, business methods, product plans, standard operating procedures, budgets, forecasts, customer lists, supplier information, information discovered during an audit, and other inside information; (v) third party information that the Disclosing Party is obligated to keep confidential; (vi) the existence of this Agreement and any discussions or negotiations between the Parties in respect of a Transaction; (vii) information that is designated as confidential or that, given the nature of the information or circumstances surrounding its disclosure, reasonably should be considered confidential; and (viii) all materials of any nature prepared by the Receiving Party or others for the Receiving Party containing or reflecting any portion of the Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party.
2. Exclusions. Confidential Information shall not include, as evidenced by the Receiving Party’s or its Representatives’ contemporaneous written records or is otherwise sufficiently substantiated, information which: (i) is now in the public domain or which subsequently enters the public domain (other than as a result of a breach of this Agreement); (ii) was obtained on a non-confidential basis by the Receiving Party or its Representatives from a source other than the Disclosing Party without the Receiving Party’s knowledge that such source is in breach of any obligation to the Disclosing Party; (iii) was in the Receiving Party’s or its Representatives’ possession prior to its being furnished to the Receiving Party hereunder, provided the source of that information was not known by Receiving Party to be bound by a confidentiality agreement with or other continual, legal or fiduciary obligation of confidentiality to Disclosing Party; or (iv) was independently developed by or for the Receiving Party or its Representatives without use of or reference to the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information.
3. Use of Confidential Information. Each Party agrees to use Confidential Information received from the other Party only (i) to evaluate a Transaction, and (ii) to pursue, negotiate and document a Transaction after the Parties have agreed to do so, and for no other purpose. The Receiving Party will take all commercially reasonable measures to avoid disclosure, dissemination, or unauthorized use of Confidential Information, including, at a minimum, those measures it takes to protect its own confidential