AVITA MEDICAL, INC.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Unaudited)
1. The Company
Nature of the Business
The AVITA group of companies (comprising AVITA Medical, Inc. (“AVITA” or the “Company”) and its subsidiaries, including AVITA Medical Pty Limited, previously known as AVITA Medical Limited, (“AVITA Medical”)) (collectively, “AVITA Group” or “we”, “us”, or “our”) is a commercial-stage regenerative tissue company focused on the treatment of burns, trauma and other acute injuries, together with skin defects like vitiligo. The Company’s lead product is the RECELL® System, a device that enables healthcare professionals to produce a suspension of Spray-On Skin™ Cells using a small sample of the patient’s own skin. In September 2018, the United States Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) granted premarket approval (“PMA”) to the RECELL System for use in the treatment of acute thermal burns in patients eighteen years and older. Following receipt of our PMA, we commenced commercializing the RECELL System in January 2019 in the United States. In addition, the FDA has granted the Company three Investigational Device Exemptions (“IDEs”) studies which have enabled the Company to initiate pivotal clinical investigational studies to seek expanded FDA (supplementary) PMA of the RECELL System for each of soft tissue reconstruction, pediatric scalds, and vitiligo. Enrollment of those clinical studies is ongoing and, if successful, those studies would enable the Company to commence commercializing the RECELL System in the United States in each of those indications.
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of a novel strain of the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) a pandemic. COVID-19 is having, and will likely continue to have, an adverse effect on the Company’s business, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows, and its future impacts remain highly uncertain and unpredictable. The Company has considered the disruptions caused by COVID-19, including lower than forecasted sales, delays to the speed of enrollment in the Company’s clinical trials that may, if successful, support commercial approval and new revenues in additional markets, and macroeconomic factors, that may impact its estimates. The Company has assessed the potential impact of COVID-19 on certain accounting matters including, but not limited to, the allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory reserves and return reserves, and impairment considerations for long-lived assets and intangibles, as of March 31, 2021 and through the date of this report. During the three months and nine months ended March 31, 2021, COVID-19 had minor effects on the Company’s operations and financial position and cash flows. With respect to future operating results, it is not possible at this time to predict, with any degree of precision, the effects of COVID-19. Consequently, actual results for accounting estimates and assumptions, particularly those relating to the recoverability of certain intangible assets and estimates of expected credit losses on accounts receivable could differ from these estimates.
Recent Developments
In July 2020, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (“BARDA”) initiated the procurement of the RECELL system valued at $7.6 million as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services emergency response preparedness. As part of the contract the Company will deliver 5,614 RECELL system units to BARDA. Units procured by BARDA as part of the emergency response preparedness are maintained and stored by the Company under a vendor-managed inventory arrangement (“VMI”) during the term of the contract. In addition to procurement of the product, BARDA has expanded its awarded contract to provide supplemental funding of $1.6 million to support the emergency deployment of the RECELL system for use in mass casualty or other emergency situations. In February 2021, BARDA accepted the first delivery of the RECELL system. As of March 31, 2021 a total of 3,020 RECELL system units have been delivered and accepted by BARDA.
Effective December 2, 2020 (United States time), AVITA Therapeutics, Inc., changed its corporate name to AVITA Medical, Inc. after successfully filing a Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of Delaware. The Company’s change of name was registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission effective as from January 6, 2021. The Company’s common stock continues to trade on The NASDAQ Stock Exchange LLC (“NASDAQ”) under the symbol “RCEL” and its CHESS Depositary Interests (“CDIs”) continue to trade on the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”) under the ticker symbol, “AVH”.
Redomiciliation
On June 29, 2020, the Company, a newly formed Delaware corporation, acquired all of the issued share capital of AVITA Medical, a then public company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia and former parent company of the AVITA Group. The acquisition was completed pursuant to a scheme of arrangement under Australian law and was approved by the Federal Court of Australia on June 22, 2020, and by shareholders of AVITA Medical on June 15, 2020 (the “Redomiciliation”). Under the Redomiciliation, all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of AVITA Medical, including those ordinary shares held in the form of American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), were exchanged for newly issued shares of common stock of the AVITA Medical, Inc. or CHESS Depositary Interests (“CDIs”). This exchange was conducted on the basis of one share of common stock of AVITA Medical, Inc. for every 100 ordinary shares of AVITA Medical, effecting an ‘implicit consolidation’ or ‘reverse split’. The holders of ordinary shares of AVITA Medical received one CDI for every 20 ordinary shares held in AVITA Medical, and the holders of AVITA Medical ADSs (each of which previously represented 20 ordinary shares in AVITA Medical) received one share of common stock in AVITA Medical, Inc. for every five ADSs held. The common stock of AVITA Medical, Inc. began trading on The NASDAQ Stock Exchange LLC (“NASDAQ”) upon market open on July 1, 2020 under the same ticker code, “RCEL” as AVITA Medical’s ADSs were traded under prior to the Redomiciliation.
10