In 2014, an equity-settled share-based payment program was established by Affimed N.V. (ESOP 2014). Under this program, the Company granted awards to certain members of the Management Board, certain members of the Company’s Supervisory Board, non-employee consultants and employees.
The share and per share information presented in this note retrospectively reflects the effects of the reverse stock split which was effective March 8, 2024.
Share-based payments with service conditions
The majority of the awards vest in instalments over three years and can be exercised up to 10 years after the grant date. The Group granted 405,500 and 975,750 awards for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 to employees, members of the Management Board, members of the Supervisory Board and consultants. Fair value of the awards at grant date for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, amounts to €3.3 million ($3.6 million).
232,628 and 325,604 ESOP 2014 awards were cancelled or forfeited due to termination of employment during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 (September 30, 2023: 454,238 and 822,778).
As of September 30, 2024, 2,832,034 ESOP 2014 options were outstanding (December 31, 2023: 2,181,888), and 1,574,774 awards had vested (December 31, 2023: 1,240,852). The options outstanding as of September 30, 2024, had an exercise price in the range of $3.50 to $134.70, a weighted average remaining contractual life of 7.6 years (December 31, 2023: 7.3 years) and a weighted average exercise price of $25.0 (December 31, 2023: $35.7).
Share-based payments with market conditions
During 2022, the Company issued 282,500 options with market-based performance conditions to members of the Management Board and employees. As of September 30, 2024, all of these options had been forfeited.
Fair value of the awards at grant date in 2022 amounted to €2.9 million ($3.2 million) and the contractual lifetime of the options was two years. Any unvested awards on the date that is two years following the grant date would lapse, accordingly these are now all lapsed.
Share-based payment expense
For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, compensation expense of €660 and €2,133 was recognized affecting research and development expenses (€0.3 million and €0.9 million) and general and administrative expenses (€0.4 million and €1.3 million). In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, compensation expense of €1,848 and €9,238 was recognized affecting research and development expenses (€970 and €4,992) and general and administrative expenses (€879 and €4,247).
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