Exhibit (d)(3)
Confidentiality Agreement
IGNYTA, INC.
November 28, 2017
Roche Holdings, Inc.
Attention: Mr. Bruce Resnick
1 DNA Way, MS #24
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Re: | Confidentiality Agreement |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the consideration by Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., or one of its Affiliates (“you”) of a possible negotiated transaction (a “Possible Transaction”) with Ignyta, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Company is prepared to make available to you and your Representatives (as hereinafter defined) certain information concerning the business, financial condition, operations, assets and liabilities of the Company. As a condition to such information being furnished to you and your Representatives, you agree that you will, and will cause your Representatives to, treat the Evaluation Material (as hereinafter defined) in accordance with the provisions of this letter agreement and take or abstain from taking certain other actions as set forth herein. The term “Affiliate” as used in this letter agreement shall mean, in relation to any person, any person (i) controlled, directly or indirectly, by the person, (ii) that controls, directly or indirectly, the person or (iii) directly or indirectly under common control with the person. For this purpose, “control” of any entity or person means ownership of a majority of the voting shares of the entity or person or actual control over the business and affairs of such person[;provided,however, that Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, 1-1 Nihonbashi-Muromachi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 103-8324 (“Chugai”) and Foundation Medicine, Inc., 150 Second Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA (“FMI”) and their respective subsidiaries shall not be considered your Affiliates for the purpose of this Agreement, unless you opt for such inclusion of Chugai and/or FMI and their respective subsidiaries by giving written notice to the Company. The term “Representatives” (i) with respect to you, shall only include your and your Affiliate’s officers, managers, directors, general partners, employees, outside counsel, accountants and consultants and, subject to (a) receipt of prior written consent of the Company and (b) compliance with Section 2 below, shall also include potential sources of equity or debt financing (and their respective counsel), and (ii) with respect to the Company, shall include its members, directors, officers, employees, agents, partners, and advisors and those of its subsidiaries, affiliates and/or divisions (including, without limitation, attorneys, accountants, consultants and financial advisors). Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Company reserves the right not to make available hereunder any information, the provision of which is determined by it, in its sole discretion, to be inadvisable or inappropriate.
1.Evaluation Material. The term “Evaluation Material” shall mean all information relating, directly or indirectly, to the Company or the business, products, product candidates, clinical and product development plans, contractual arrangements, know-how, trade secrets, compositions, formulations, compounds, plans, designs, processes, formulas, manufacturing, discoveries, inventions and ideas, markets, condition (financial or other), operations, assets, liabilities, results of operations, cash flows or prospects of the Company (whether prepared by the Company, its advisors or otherwise) which is delivered, disclosed or furnished by or on behalf of the Company to you or to your Representatives on or after the date hereof, regardless of the manner in which it is delivered, disclosed or furnished, or which you or your Representatives otherwise learn or obtain, through observation or analysis of such information, data or knowledge, and shall also be deemed to include all notes, analyses, presentations, compilations, studies, forecasts, interpretations or other documents prepared by you or your Representatives that contain or reflect, in whole or in part, the information delivered, disclosed or furnished to you or your Representatives pursuant hereto. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the term Evaluation Material shall not include information which (i) is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a