Introductory Note
Effective December 30, 2022 (the “Closing Date”), TherapeuticsMD, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), completed its previously announced transaction (the “Transaction”) with Mayne Pharma LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Mayne Pharma”) and subsidiary of Mayne Pharma Group Limited, an Australian public company (ASX: MYX), pursuant to which the Company and its subsidiaries (i) granted Mayne Pharma an exclusive license to commercialize the Company’s Imvexxy®, Bijuva® and prescription prenatal vitamin products sold under the BocaGreenMD® and vitaMedMD® brands (collectively, the “Licensed Products”) in the United States and its possessions and territories, (ii) assigned to Mayne Pharma the Company’s exclusive license to commercialize Annovera® (together with the Licensed Products, collectively, the “Products”) in the United States and its possessions and territories, and (iii) sold certain other assets to Mayne Pharma in connection therewith.
Pursuant to a License Agreement, dated December 4, 2022, between the Company and Mayne Pharma (the “License Agreement”), the Company granted Mayne Pharma, on the Closing Date, (i) an exclusive, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to research, develop, register, manufacture, have manufactured, market, sell, use, and commercialize the Licensed Products in the United States and its possessions and territories and (ii) an exclusive, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to manufacture, have manufactured, import and have imported the Licensed Products outside the United States for commercialization in the United States and its possessions and territories.
Pursuant to the License Agreement, Mayne Pharma will make one-time, milestone payments to the Company of each of (i) $5.0 million if aggregate net sales of all Products in the United States during a calendar year reach $100.0 million, (ii) $10.0 million if aggregate net sales of all Products in the United States during a calendar year reach $200.0 million and (iii) $15.0 million if aggregate net sales of all Products in the United States during a calendar year reach $300.0 million. Further, Mayne Pharma will pay to the Company royalties on net sales of all Products in the United States at a royalty rate of 8.0% on the first $80 million in annual net sales and 7.5% on annual net sales above $80.0 million, subject to certain adjustments, for a period of 20 years following the Closing Date. The royalty rate will decrease to 2.0% on a Product-by-Product basis upon the earlier to occur of (i) the expiration or revocation of the last patent covering a Product and (ii) a generic version of a Product launching in the United States. Mayne Pharma will pay to the Company minimal annual royalties of $3.0 million per year for 12 years, adjusted for inflation at an annual rate of 3%, subject to certain further adjustments, including as described below. Upon the expiry of the 20-year royalty term, the licenses granted to Mayne Pharma under the License Agreement will become a fully paid-up and royalty free license for the Licensed Products.
Pursuant to a Transaction Agreement, dated December 4, 2022, between the Company and Mayne Pharma (the “Transaction Agreement”), the Company sold to Mayne Pharma, at closing, certain assets for Mayne Pharma to commercialize the Products in the United States, including the Company’s exclusive license from the Population Council to commercialize Annovera® (the “Transferred Assets”).
The total consideration from Mayne Pharma to the Company for the purchase of the Transferred Assets and the grant of the licenses under the License Agreement was (i) a cash payment of $140.0 million at closing, (ii) a cash payment of approximately $12.1 million at closing for the acquisition of net working capital as determined in accordance with the Transaction Agreement and subject to certain adjustments, (iii) a cash payment of approximately $1.0 million at closing for prepaid royalties in connection with the License Agreement Amendment (as defined below) and (iv) the right to receive the contingent consideration set forth in the License Agreement, as amended.
The foregoing summaries of the License Agreement and the Transaction Agreement do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by, the License Agreement and Transaction Agreement, copies of which were filed as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2, respectively, to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on December 5, 2022 and are incorporated herein by reference.