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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

FORM10-Q

(Mark One)

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2018

2019

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period fromto

Commission file number001-31361

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware35-2089858

(State or other jurisdiction of


incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer


Identification No.)

4131 ParkLake Ave., Suite 225, Raleigh, NC27612
(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number (including area code):919-582-9050

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each classTrading
Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange
on which registered
Common stock, par value $0.001BDSIThe Nasdaq Global Select Market
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  ☒    No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of RegulationS-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    Yes  ☒    No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or anon-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company”, or “emerging growth company” inRule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filerAccelerated FilerAccelerated filerFiler
Non-Accelerated FilerSmaller Reporting Company
Non-accelerated filerEmerging Growth CompanySmaller reporting company
Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ☐    No  ☒

As of November 8, 2018,12, 2019, there were 70,707,10989,928,219 shares of company Common Stock issued and 70,691,61889,912,728 shares of company Common Stock outstanding.




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Certifications

Certifications
We own various trademark registrations and applications, and unregistered trademarks, including BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc., BEMA, BELBUCA, BUNAVAIL, ONSOLIS and our corporate logo. We have an exclusive license to use and display the Symproic registered trademark in order to commercialize Symproic in the United States. All other trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies appearing in this prospectus are the property of their respective holders. Solely for convenience, the trademarks and trade names in this prospectus may be referred to without the ® and ™ symbols, but such references should not be construed as any indicator that their respective owners will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, their rights thereto. We do not intend to use or display other companies’ trademarks and trade names to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other companies.
From time to time, we may use our website, our Facebook page at Facebook.com/BioDeliverySI and on Twitter at @BioDeliverySI to distribute material information. Our financial and other material information is routinely posted to and accessible on the Investors section of our website, available at www.bdsi.com. Investors are encouraged to review the Investors section of our website because we may post material information on that site that is not otherwise disseminated by us. Information that is contained in and can be accessed through our website, our Facebook page and our Twitter posts are not incorporated into, and does not form a part of, this Quarterly Report.



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BIODELIVERY SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(U.S. DOLLARS, IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE AND PER SHARE AMOUNTS)

(Unaudited)

   September 30,
2018
  December 31,
2017
 
ASSETS

 

Current assets:

   

Cash

  $49,482  $21,195 

Accounts receivable, net

   12,568   8,852 

Inventory, net

   5,434   6,091 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

   4,155   3,610 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total current assets

   71,639   39,748 

Property and equipment, net

   3,170   3,778 

Goodwill

   2,715   2,715 

BELBUCA® license and distribution rights, net

   37,125   40,500 

Other intangible assets, net

   867   1,360 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total assets

  $115,516  $88,101 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

Current liabilities:

   

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

  $23,919  $26,149 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

   23,919   26,149 

Notes payable, net

   50,516   47,660 

Other long-term liabilities

   5,511   5,415 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total liabilities

   79,946   79,224 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)

   

Stockholders’ equity:

   

Preferred Stock, 5,000,000 shares authorized; Series ANon-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock. $.001 par value, 2,093,155 shares outstanding at both September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively; Series BNon-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock, $.001 par value, 3,100 and 0 shares outstanding at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.

   2   2 

Common Stock, $.001 par value; 125,000,000 and 75,000,000 shares authorized at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively; 70,598,687 and 55,904,072 shares issued;70,583,196 and 55,888,581 shares outstanding at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.

   71   56 

Additionalpaid-in capital

   379,824   313,922 

Treasury stock, at cost, 15,491 shares

   (47  (47

Accumulated deficit

   (344,280  (305,056
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

   35,570   8,877 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

  $115,516  $88,101 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

September 30,
2019
December 31,
2018
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$55,863  $43,822  
Accounts receivable, net33,422  13,627  
Inventory, net10,766  5,406  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets4,874  3,188  
Total current assets104,925  66,043  
Property and equipment, net3,713  3,072  
Goodwill2,715  2,715  
License and distribution rights, net62,044  36,000  
Other intangible assets, net211  703  
Total assets$173,608  $108,533  
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities$46,545  $21,539  
Total current liabilities46,545  21,539  
Notes payable, net58,515  51,652  
Other long-term liabilities654  5,600  
Total liabilities105,714  78,791  
Commitments and contingencies (Note 11)
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred Stock, 5,000,000 shares authorized; Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock. $.001 par value, 2,093,155 shares outstanding at both September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively; Series B Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock, $.001 par value, 1,698 and 3,100 shares outstanding at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.  
Common Stock, $.001 par value; 175,000,000 shares authorized at September 30, 2019 and 125,000,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2018, respectively; 89,796,774 and 70,793,725 shares issued;89,781,283 and 70,778,234 shares outstanding at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.90  71  
Additional paid-in capital433,746  381,004  
Treasury stock, at cost, 15,491 shares(47) (47) 
Accumulated deficit(365,897) (351,288) 
Total stockholders’ equity67,894  29,742  
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$173,608  $108,533  
See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements


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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(U.S. DOLLARS, IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE AND PER SHARE AMOUNTS)

(Unaudited)

   Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   2018  2017  2018  2017 

Revenues:

     

Product sales

  $13,763  $8,118  $34,367  $23,798 

Product royalty revenues

   370   1,409   2,197   3,682 

Research and development reimbursements

   —     532   —     799 

Contract revenues

   23   1,194   1,047   21,194 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Revenues:

   14,156   11,253   37,611   49,473 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Cost of sales

   3,779   4,445   11,760   14,261 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Expenses:

     

Research and development

   699   1,986   4,038   6,246 

Selling, general and administrative

   13,489   14,867   41,013   44,094 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Expenses:

   14,188   16,853   45,051   50,340 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Loss from operations

   (3,811  (10,045  (19,200  (15,128

Interest expense

   (2,567  (1,893  (7,598  (6,657

Other expense, net

   (2  (13  (8  (28

Bargain purchase gain

   —     —     —     27,336 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

(Loss) income before income taxes

  $(6,380 $(11,951 $(26,806 $5,523 

Income tax (expense) benefit

   —     —     (53  15,972 

Net (loss) income

  $(6,380 $(11,951 $(26,859 $21,495 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Beneficial conversion feature of convertible preferred stock

   (12,500  —     (12,500  —   

Net (loss) income attributable to common stockholders

  $(18,880 $(11,951 $(39,359 $21,495 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Basic

     

Basic (loss) income per share:

  $(0.29 $(0.21 $(0.65 $0.39 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Weighted average common stock shares outstanding:

   64,900,007   55,604,708   60,599,456   55,170,569 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Diluted

     

Diluted (loss) income per share:

  $(0.29 $(0.21 $(0.65 $0.38 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Diluted weighted average common stock shares outstanding:

   64,900,007   55,604,708   60,599,456   56,204,358 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Three months ended September 30,Nine months ended September 30,
2019201820192018
Revenues:
Product sales$29,623  $13,763  $77,438  $34,367  
Product royalty revenues683  370  2,154  2,197  
Contract revenues—  23  160  1,047  
Total Revenues:30,306  14,156  79,752  37,611  
Cost of sales5,350  3,779  14,325  11,760  
Expenses:
Research and development—  699  —  4,038  
Selling, general and administrative23,360  13,489  62,304  41,013  
Total Expenses:23,360  14,188  62,304  45,051  
Income (loss) from operations1,596  (3,811) 3,123  (19,200) 
Interest expense(1,234) (2,567) (17,732) (7,598) 
Other (expense) income, net(3) (2)  (8) 
Income (loss) before income taxes$359  $(6,380) $(14,604) $(26,806) 
Income tax expense(5) —  (5) (53) 
Net income (loss)$354  $(6,380) $(14,609) $(26,859) 
Beneficial conversion feature of convertible preferred stock—  (12,500) —  (12,500) 
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders$354  $(18,880) $(14,609) $(39,359) 
Basic
Weighted average common stock shares outstanding89,649,922  64,900,007  81,612,112  60,599,456  
Basic earnings (loss) per share$—  $(0.29) $(0.18) $(0.65) 
Diluted
Weighted average common stock shares outstanding105,138,894  64,900,007  81,612,112  60,599,456  
Diluted earnings (loss) per share$—  $(0.29) $(0.18) $(0.65) 
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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTSTATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(U.S. DOLLARS, IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE AND PER SHARE AMOUNTS)

(Unaudited)

   Preferred Stock
Series A
   Preferred Stock
Series B
   Common Stock   Additional
Paid-In
Capital
  Treasury
Stock
  Accumulated
Deficit
  Total
Stockholders’
Equity
 
   Shares   Amount   Shares  Amount   Shares   Amount 

Balances, January 1, 2018

   2,093,155   $2    —    $ —      55,904,072   $56   $313,922  $(47 $(305,056 $8,877 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Stock-based compensation

   —      —      —     —      —      —      4,896   —     —     4,896 

Stock option exercises

   —      —      —     —      285,403    —      528   —     —     528 

Restricted stock awards

   —      —      —     —      1,733,731    2    (2  —     —     —   

Common stock issuance upon retirement

   —      —      —     —      2,119,925    2    (2  —     —     —   

Series B issuance, net of issuance costs

   —      —      5,000   —      —      —      47,993   —     —     47,993 

Series B conversion to Common Stock

   —      —      (1,900  —      10,555,556    11    (11  —     —     —   

Series B beneficial conversion feature

   —      —      —     —      —      —      12,500   —     (12,500  —   

Cumulative effect of accounting change

   —      —      —     —      —      —      —     —     135   135 

Net loss

   —      —      —     —      —      —      —     —     (26,859  (26,859
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balances, September 30, 2018

   2,093,155   $2    3,100  $—      70,598,687   $71   $379,824  $(47 $(344,280 $35,570 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Preferred Stock
Series A
Preferred Stock
Series B
Common StockAdditional
Paid-In
Capital
Treasury
Stock
Accumulated
Deficit
Total
Stockholders’
Equity
SharesAmountSharesAmountSharesAmount
Balances, June 30, 20192,093,155  $ 1,716  $—  89,535,024  $88  $432,358  $(47) $(366,251) $66,150  
Stock-based compensation—  —  —  —  —  —  1,267  —  —  1,267  
Stock option exercises—  —  —  —  52,121  —  123  —  —  123  
Restricted stock awards—  —  —  —  109,629   (2) —  —  —  
Series B conversion to common stock—  —  (18) —  100,000  —  —  —  —  —  
Net income—  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  354  354  
Balances, September 30, 20192,093,155  $ 1,698  $—  89,796,774  $90  $433,746  $(47) $(365,897) $67,894  
Preferred Stock
Series A
Preferred Stock
Series B
Common StockAdditional
Paid-In
Capital
Treasury
Stock
Accumulated
Deficit
Total
Stockholders’
Equity
SharesAmountSharesAmountSharesAmount
Balances, June 30, 20182,093,155  $ 5,000  $—  59,459,446  $59  $366,123  $(47) $(325,400) $40,737  
Stock-based compensation—  —  —  —  —  —  892  —  —  892  
Stock option exercises—  —  —  —  116,387  —  222  —  —  222  
Restricted stock awards—  —  —  —  467,298   (1) —  —  —  
Series B issuance, net of issuance cost—  —  —  —  —  —  99  —  —  99  
Series B conversion to common stock—  —  (1,900) —  10,555,556  11  (11) —  —  —  
Series B beneficial conversion feature—  —  —  —  —  —  12,500  —  (12,500) —  
Net loss—  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  (6,380) (6,380) 
Balances, September 30, 20182,093,155  $ 3,100  $—  70,598,687  $71  $379,824  $(47) $(344,280) $35,570  


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Preferred Stock
Series A
Preferred Stock
Series B
Common StockAdditional
Paid-In
Capital
Treasury
Stock
Accumulated
Deficit
Total
Stockholders’
Equity
SharesAmountSharesAmountSharesAmount
Balances, January 1, 20192,093,155  $ 3,100  $—  70,793,725  $71  $381,004  $(47) $(351,288) $29,742  
Stock-based compensation—  —  —  —  —  —  3,978  —  —  3,978  
Stock option exercises—  —  —  —  412,500  —  1,193  —  —  1,193  
Restricted stock awards—  —  —  —  801,661   (1) —  —  —  
Series B conversion to common stock—  —  (1,402) —  7,788,888   (8) —  —  —  
Equity offering, net of finance costs—  —  —  —  10,000,000  10  47,580  —  —  47,590  
Net loss—  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  (14,609) (14,609) 
Balances, September 30, 20192,093,155  $ 1,698  $—  89,796,774  $90  $433,746  $(47) $(365,897) $67,894  
Preferred Stock
Series A
Preferred Stock
Series B
Common StockAdditional
Paid-In
Capital
Treasury
Stock
Accumulated
Deficit
Total
Stockholders’
Equity
SharesAmountSharesAmountSharesAmount
Balances, January 1, 20182,093,155  $ —  $—  55,904,072  $56  $313,922  $(47) $(305,056) $8,877  
Stock-based compensation—  —  —  —  —  —  4,896  —  —  4,896  
Stock option exercises—  —  —  —  285,403  —  528  —  —  528  
Restricted stock awards—  —  —  —  1,733,731   (2) —  —  —  
Common stock issuance upon retirement—  —  —  —  2,119,925   (2) —  —  —  
Series B issuance, net of issuance costs—  —  5,000  —  —  —  47,993  —  —  47,993  
Series B conversion to Common Stock—  —  (1,900) —  10,555,556  11  (11) —  —  —  
Series B beneficial conversion feature—  —  —  —  —  —  12,500  —  (12,500) —  
Cumulative effect of accounting change—  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  135  135  
Net loss—  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  (26,859) (26,859) 
Balances, September 30, 20182,093,155  $ 3,100  $—  70,598,687  $71  $379,824  $(47) $(344,280) $35,570  
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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(U.S. DOLLARS, IN THOUSANDS)

(Unaudited)

   Nine months ended
September 30,
 
   2018  2017 

Operating activities:

   

Net (loss) income

  $(26,859 $21,495 

Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash flows from operating activities

   

Depreciation

   685   465 

Accretion of debt discount and loan costs

   2,953   1,941 

Amortization of intangible assets

   3,868   4,103 

Impairment loss on equipment

   78   —   

Provision for inventory obsolescence

   396   —   

Stock-based compensation expense

   4,896   10,223 

Deferred income taxes

   —     (15,972

Bargain purchase gain

   —     (27,336

Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effect of acquisition:

   

Accounts receivable

   (3,581  (7,222

Inventories

   261   2,314 

Prepaid expenses and other assets

   (545  1,826 

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

   (427  8,998 

Deferred revenue

   —     (21,716
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net cash flows used in operating activities

   (18,275  (20,881
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Investing activities:

   

BELBUCA® acquisition

   (1,951  (3,902

Purchase of equipment

   (155  (5
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net cash flows used in investing activities

   (2,106  (3,907
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Financing activities:

   

Proceeds from issuance of Series B preferred stock

   50,000   —   

Equity finance costs

   (1,410  —   

Proceeds from notes payable

   —     45,000 

Proceeds from exercise of stock options

   528   313 

Payment on note payable

   —     (30,000

Payment of deferred financing fees

   (450  (2,798
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net cash flows provided by financing activities

   48,668   12,515 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net change in cash and cash equivalents

   28,287   (12,273

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

   21,195   32,019 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

  $49,482  $19,746 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Cash paid for interest

  $4,645  $3,816 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Nine months ended September 30,
20192018
Operating activities:
Net loss$(14,609) $(26,859) 
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash flows from operating activities
Depreciation and amortization253  685  
Impairment loss on equipment—  78  
Accretion of debt discount and loan costs11,441  2,953  
Amortization of intangible assets5,084  3,868  
Provision for inventory obsolescence57  396  
Stock-based compensation expense3,978  4,896  
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effect of acquisition:
Accounts receivable(19,795) (3,581) 
Inventories(5,416) 261  
Prepaid expenses and other assets(1,686) (545) 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities14,844  (427) 
Net cash flows used in operating activities(5,849) (18,275) 
Investing activities:
Product acquisitions(20,674) (1,951) 
Acquisitions of equipment(79) (155) 
Net cash flows used in investing activities(20,753) (2,106) 
Financing activities:
Proceeds from issuance of common stock48,000  —  
Proceeds from issuance of Series B preferred stock—  50,000  
Equity issuance costs(410) (1,410) 
Proceeds from notes payable60,000  —  
Proceeds from exercise of stock options1,193  528  
Payment on note payable(67,346) —  
Loss on refinancing of former debt(2,794) —  
Payment of deferred financing fees—  (450) 
Net cash flows provided by financing activities38,643  48,668  
Net change in cash and cash equivalents12,041  28,287  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period43,822  21,195  
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$55,863  $49,482  
Cash paid for interest$5,339  $4,645  
See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements


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(U.S. DOLLARS, IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)

(Unaudited)

Non-cash Operating, Financing and Investing Activities:

The Company recorded the intrinsic value related to the beneficial conversion feature of the Series BNon-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 totaling $12.5 million to retained earnings and additionalpaid-in capital in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”).

The Company recorded the fair value of an accumulated total of 2,119,925 shares of common stock issued to officers who retired from the Company during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 totaling approximately $5.3 million to expense in accordance with GAAP.

The Company recorded $0.6 million of accrued financing expenses related to the Series BNon-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock offering during the nine months ended September 30, 2018. Such expense is recorded as accounts payable and accrued liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheet.

The Company recorded the fair value of the bargain purchase price of the BELBUCA® acquisition totaling $27.3 million to income during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 in accordance with GAAP.

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(Unaudited)

1. Organization, basis of presentation and summary of significant policies:

Overview

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) is a rapidly growing commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company thatdedicated to patients living with chronic conditions. The Company is developingutilizing its novel and commercializing, either onproprietary BioErodible MucoAdhesive (BEMA) drug-delivery technology and other drug delivery technologies to develop and commercialize new applications of proven therapies aimed at addressing important unmet medical needs. The Company commercializes in the United States using its own orsales force while working in partnershipspartnership with third parties new applicationsto commercialize its products outside the United States.
In April 2019, the Company entered into an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of approved therapeutics to address important unmet medical needs using both proven and new drug delivery technologies. The Company is focusing on developing products to meet unmet patient needsSymproic (naldemedine tosylate) in the areas ofUnited States including Puerto Rico for opioid-induced constipation in adult patients with chronic non-cancer pain management and addiction.

(Note 6).

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments (consisting of normal and recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair presentation of these financial statements. The condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 20172018 has been derived from the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements included in its annual report on Form10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.2018. Certain footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations. It is suggestedrecommended that these condensed consolidated financial statements be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s annual report onForm 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.

2018.

Operating results for the threethree- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 20182019 are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year or any other future periods.

As used herein, the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, is referred to as the “Common Stock” and the Company’s preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, is referred to as the “Preferred Stock”.

Principles of consolidation

The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, Arius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Arius”), Arius Two, Inc. (“Arius Two”) and Bioral Nutrient Delivery, LLC (“BND”). For each period presented, BND has been an inactive subsidiary. All significant inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Use of estimates in financial statements

The preparation of the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Company reviews all significant estimates affecting the consolidated financial statements on a recurring basis and records the effect of any necessary adjustments prior to their issuance. Significant estimates ofmade by the Company include: revenue recognition associated with sales allowances such as returns of product sold, government program rebates, customer coupon redemptions, wholesaler/pharmacy discounts, product service fees, rebates and chargebacks,chargebacks; sales bonuses,bonuses; stock-based compensation,compensation; determination of fair values of assets and liabilities in connection withrelating to business combinations,combinations; and deferred income taxes.

Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents consist of operating and money market accounts. Cash equivalents are carried at cost which approximates fair value due to their short-term nature. The Company considers all highly-liquid investments with an original maturity of 90 days or less to be cash equivalents.
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(Unaudited)

The Company maintains cash equivalent balances with financial institutions that management believes are of high credit quality. The Company’s cash and cash equivalents accounts at times may exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts. The Company believes it is not exposed to any significant credit risk from cash and cash equivalents.
Inventory

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value with costs determined for each batch under thefirst-in,first-out method and specifically allocated to remaining inventory. Inventory consists of raw materials, work in process and finished goods. Raw materials include amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredient for a product to be manufactured, work in process includes the bulk inventory of laminate (the Company’s drug delivery film) prior to being packaged for sale, and finished goods include pharmaceutical products ready for commercial sale.

On a quarterly basis, the Company analyzes its inventory levels and records allowances for inventory that has become obsolete, inventory that has a cost basis in excess of the expected net realizable value and inventory that is in excess of expected demand based upon projected product sales. The Company reserved $0.6 million and $0.2 million for inventory obsolescence as of both September 30, 20182019 and December 31, 2017, respectively.

2018.

Revenue recognition

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(Unaudited)

1. Organization, basisThe main types of presentationrevenue contracts are:

Product sales-Product sales amounts relate to sales of BELBUCA, Symproic and summaryBUNAVAIL. These sales are recognized as revenue when control is transferred to the wholesaler in an amount that reflects the consideration expected to be received.
Product royalty revenues-Product royalty revenue amounts are based on sales revenue of significant policies (continued):

Revenue recognition

Product sales

As discussed further below in Note 2, effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” (“Topic 606”) and began recognizing revenuePAINKYL product under the new accounting guidance onCompany’s license agreement with TTY and the BREAKYL product under the Company’s license agreement with Meda AB, which was acquired by Mylan N.V. (which we refer to herein as Mylan). Product royalty revenues are recognized when control of the product is transferred to the license partner in an amount that date. Underreflects the new accounting guidance,consideration expected to be received. Supplemental sales-based product royalty revenue may also be earned upon the subsequent sale of the product at agreed upon contractual rates.

Contract revenue-Contract revenue amounts are related to milestone payments under the Company’s license agreements with its partners.
The Company recognizes revenue on product sales when control of the promised goods is transferred to its customers in an amount that reflects the consideration expected to be received in exchange for transferring those goods. The Company accounts for a contract when it has approval and commitment from both parties, the rights of the parties are identified, payment terms are identified, the contract has commercial substance and collectability of consideration is probable. When determining whether the customer has obtained control of the goods, the Company considers any future performance obligations. Generally, there is no post-shipment obligationsobligation on product sold.

Performance obligations

A performance obligation is a promise in a contract to transfer a distinct good or service to the customer and is the unit of account in Topic 606.customer. A contract’s transaction price is allocated to each distinct performance obligation and recognized as revenue when, or as, the performance obligation is satisfied. The majority of the Company’s product sales contracts have a single performance obligation as the promise to transfer the individual goods is not separately identifiable from other promises in the contracts and, therefore, not distinct. The Company’s performance obligations are satisfied at a point in time. The multiple performance obligations are not allocated based off of the obligations but based off of standard selling price.

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(Unaudited)

Adjustments to product sales

The Company recognizes product sales net of estimated allowances for rebates, price adjustments, returns, chargebacks, vouchers and prompt payment discounts. A significant majority of the Company’s adjustments to gross product revenues are the result of accruals for its commercial contracts, retail consumer subsidy programs, and Medicaid and Medicare rebates.

The Company establishes allowances for estimated rebates, chargebacks and product returns based on numerous qualitative and quantitative factors, including:

the number of and specific contractual terms of agreements with customers;

estimated levels of inventory in the distribution channel;

historical rebates, chargebacks and returns of products;

direct communication with customers;

anticipated introduction of competitive products or generics;

anticipated pricing strategy changes by the Company and/or its competitors;

analysis of prescription data gathered by a third-party prescription data provider;

the impact of changes in state and federal regulations; and

the estimated remaining shelf life of products.

In its analyses, the

The Company uses prescription data purchased from a third-party data provider to develop estimates of historical inventory channel sell-through. The Company utilizes an internal analysis to compare historical net product shipments (shipments less returns) to estimated historical prescriptions written. Based on that analysis, management develops an estimate of the quantity of product in the channel which may be subject to various rebate, chargeback and product return exposures. To estimate months of ending inventory in the Company’s distribution channel, the Company divides estimated ending inventory in the distribution channel by the Company’s recent prescription data, not considering any future anticipated demand growth.growth beyond the succeeding quarter. Monthly for each product line, the Company prepares an internal estimate of ending inventory units in the distribution channel by adding estimated inventory in the channel at the beginning of the period, plus net product shipments for the period, less estimated prescriptions written for the period. This is done for each product line by applying a rate of historical activity for rebates, chargebacks and product returns, adjusted for relevant quantitative and qualitative factors discussed above, to the potential exposed product estimated to be in the distribution channel. In addition, the Company receives daily information from the wholesalers regarding their sales and actual on hand inventory levels of the Company’s products. This enables the Company to execute accurate provisioning procedures.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(U.S. DOLLARS, IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)

(Unaudited)

1. Organization, basis of presentation and summary of significant policies (continued):

Product returns-Consistent with industry practice, the Company offers contractual return rights that allow its customers to return the products within an18-month period that begins six months prior to and ends twelve months after expiration of the products.

Rebates- The accrual to payment cycleliability for returns is longer and can take several years depending on the expiration of the related products.

Rebates-The liability forgovernment program rebates is calculated based on historical and current rebate redemption and utilization rates contractually submitted by each program’s administrator.

Price adjustments and chargebacks-Thechargebacks-The Company’s estimates of price adjustments and chargebacks are based on its estimated mix of sales to various third-party payers, which are entitled either contractually or statutorily to discounts from the Company’s listed prices of its products. If the sales mix to third-party payers is different from the Company’s estimates, the Company willmay be required to pay higher or lower total price adjustments and/or chargebacks than it had estimated.

estimated, and such differences may be significant.

The Company, from time to time, offers certain promotional product-related incentives to its customers. The Company has voucher programs for BELBUCA, Symproic and BUNAVAIL whereby the Company offers a point-of-sale subsidy to retail consumers. The Company estimates its liabilities for these voucher programs based on the current utilization and historical redemption rates as reported to the Company by a third-party claims processing organization. The Company accounts for the costs of these special promotional programs as price adjustments, which are a reduction of gross revenue.
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(Unaudited)

Prompt payment discounts-The Company typically offers its wholesale customers a prompt payment discount of 2% as an incentive to remit payments within a specifiedprescribed number of days after the invoice date depending on the agreementcustomer and the products purchased.
Gross to net accruals-A significant majority of the Company’s gross to net adjustments to gross product revenues are the result of accruals for its voucher program and rebates related to Medicare Part D, Part D Coverage Gap, Medicaid and commercial contracts, with most of those programs having an accrual to payment cycle of anywhere from one to three months. In addition to this relatively short accrual to payment cycle, the Company receives daily information from the wholesalers regarding their sales of the Company’s products and actual on hand inventory levels of its products. This enables the Company to execute accurate provisioning procedures. Consistent with the customer.

pharmaceutical industry, the accrual to payment cycle for returns is longer and can take several years depending on the expiration of the related products.

Cost of sales

Cost of sales includes the direct costs attributable to the production of BELBUCA®and BUNAVAIL®.BUNAVAIL. It includes raw materials, production costs at the Company’s three contract manufacturing sites, quality testing directly related to the products, and depreciation on equipment that the Company has purchased to produce BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®.BUNAVAIL. It also includes any batches not meeting specifications and raw material yield losses. Yield losses whichand batches not meeting specifications are expensed as incurred. Cost of sales is recognized when sold to the wholesaler from our distribution center.
Since April 2019, cost of sales has also included direct costs attributable to the production of Symproic.
For BREAKYL and PAINKYL (the Company’s out-licensed breakthrough cancer pain therapies), cost of sales includes all costs related to creating the product at the Company’s contract manufacturing location in Germany. The Company’s contract manufacturer bills the Company for the final product, which includes materials, direct labor costs, and certain overhead costs as outlined in applicable supply agreements.
Cost of sales also includes royalty expenses that the Company owes to third parties.

Reclassification

Certain amounts were reclassified between Provision

Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The Company measures the fair value of instruments in accordance with GAAP which defines fair value, establishes a framework for inventory obsolescence, Accounts receivable, Inventoriesmeasuring fair value, and Accounts payable and accrued expensesexpands disclosures about fair value measurements.
GAAP defines fair value as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flowsprincipal or most advantageous market for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to conform to current year presentation. These reclassifications had no effectasset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the previously reported netmeasurement date. GAAP also establishes a fair value hierarchy, which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. The Company considers the carrying amount of its cash flows from operations, activitiesand cash equivalents to approximate fair value due to short-term nature of this instrument. GAAP describes three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:
Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or net losses.

Recent accounting pronouncements-adopted

The SEC has released SEC Final Rule ReleaseNo. 33-10532 Disclosure Update and Simplification, which adopts amendments to certain disclosure requirements that have become redundant, duplicative, overlapping, outdated, or superseded, in light of other SEC disclosure requirements, U.S. GAAP, or changes in the information environment. The amendments also refer certain SEC disclosure requirements that overlap with but require information incremental to U.S. GAAP to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)liabilities

Level 2 – quoted prices for potential incorporation into U.S. GAAP. The amendments are intended to facilitate the disclosure of information to investors and simplify compliance without significantly altering the total mix of information provided to investors. These amendments are part of an initiative by the Division of Corporation Finance to review disclosure requirements applicable to issuers to consider ways to improve the requirements for the benefit of investors and issuers. The amendments became effective on November 5, 2018 and did not have a material impact to the Company.

Recent accounting pronouncements-issued, not yet adopted

Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)2016-02, issued on February 25, 2016, is intended to improve financial reporting about leasing transactions. The ASU affects all companies and other organizations that lease assets such as real estate, airplanes, and manufacturing equipment. The ASU will require organizations that lease assets referred to as “Lessees” to recognize on the balance sheet thesimilar assets and liabilities forin active markets or inputs that are observable

Level 3 – inputs that are unobservable (for example cash flow modeling inputs based on assumptions)
The following table summarizes the rights and obligations created by those leases. An organization is to provide disclosures designed to enable users of financial statements to understand the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. These disclosures include qualitative and quantitative requirements concerning additional information about the amounts recorded in the financial statements. Under the new guidance, a lessee will be required to recognize assets and liabilities for leases with lease terms of more than 12 months. Consistent with current GAAP, the recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising fromequivalents measured at fair value on a lease by a lessee primarily will depend on its classificationrecurring basis as a finance or operating lease.

However, unlike current GAAP which requires only capital leases to be recognized on theof September 30, 2019:

Level 1Level 2Level 3Balance at September 30, 2019
Cash and cash equivalents$55,863  —  —  $55,863  
The cash and cash equivalent balance sheet, the new ASU will require both typesas of leases (i.e., operatingSeptember 30, 2019 includes investments in various money market accounts and capital leases) to be recognized on the balance sheet. The FASB lessee accounting model will continue to account for both typescash held in interest bearing accounts.
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(Unaudited)

1. Organization, basis of presentation


Research and summarydevelopment
As of significant policies (continued):

modified-retrospective approach to adoption and is effective for interim and annual periods beginning on January 1, 2019, but may be adopted earlier. The Company expects to adopt this standard beginning in 2019. The Company does not expect that this standard will have a material impact on its consolidated statements of operations, but the Company does expect that upon adoption, this standard will impacthas focused entirely on commercialized products rather than research and development. As such, there were 0 expenses incurred in research and development during the carrying value of its assetsnine months ended September 30, 2019. Research and liabilities on its consolidated balance sheets as a result of the requirement to record

right-of-use assets and corresponding lease obligationsdevelopment expense for current operating leases. In addition, the standard will require that the Company update its systems, processes and controls it uses to track, record and account for its lease portfolio.

ASU2018-07, issued in June 2018, expands the scope of Topic 718, “Compensation – Stock Compensation”, to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from nonemployees. The objective of the ASU is to maintain or improve the usefulness of the information provided to the users of financial statements while reducing cost and complexity by simplifying several aspects of existing guidance. The amendments are effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within that fiscal year and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting this ASU on its condensed consolidated financial statements.

2. Revenue from contracts with customers:

Effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted Topic 606. The Company elected to apply the standard using the modified retrospective method beginning January 1, 2018. The Company applied this guidance only to those contracts that were not completed at the date of adoption. As a result of adoption, the cumulative impact to the Company’s retained earnings at January 1, 2018 was $0.135 million. The comparative information has not been restated and continues to be reported under the accounting standards in effect for those periods. The Company expects the impact of the adoption of the new standard on its existing contracts to be immaterial to the Company’s net income on an ongoing basis, however additional disclosures have been added in accordance with the ASU.

The Company does not anticipate any significant changes in the timing or amount of revenue recognized for the Company’s product sales and relatedgross-to-net adjustments under Topic 606. The Company’s net product sales continue to be recognized when delivery has occurred, and itsgross-to-net adjustments are estimated and recorded in the accounting period related to when sales occur in the manner fundamentally consistent with the Company’s prior accounting methodology.

Under the new standard, timing for recognition of certain contract revenue may be accelerated such that a portion of revenue will be estimated and recognized in revenue earlier than the previous accounting standards. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018 the Company recorded financing revenue for two milestones that are not due until 2020 and 2023, respectively.

totaled $4.0 million.

2. Leases:
The main typescomponents of revenue contracts are:

Product sales-Product sales amounts relate to sales of BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®. These sales are recognized as revenue when control is transferred to the wholesaler in an amount that reflects the consideration expected to be received.

Product royalty revenues-Product royalty revenue amounts are based on sales revenue of BELBUCA® under the Company’s license agreement with Purdue Pharma, the PAINKYL product under the Company’s license agreement with TTY and the BREAKYL product under the Company’s license agreement with Meda. Product royalty revenues are recognized when control of the product is transferred to the license partner in an amount that reflects the consideration expected to be received. Supplemental sales-based product royalty revenue may also be earned upon the subsequent sale of the product at agreed upon contractual rates.

Contract revenue-Contract revenue amounts are related to milestone payments under the Company’s license agreements with its partners including any associated financing component.

lease expense were as follows:

Three months ended September 30,Nine months ended September 30,
2019201820192018
Lease Cost
Operating lease cost
Operating lease$82  $81  $246  $244  
Variable lease costs  10   
Total lease cost$85  $82  $256  $245  
Nine months ended September 30,
20192018
Other Information
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities Operating cash flows from operating leases$261  $245  

Nine months ended September 30,
20192018
Lease Term and Discount Rate
Weighted-average remaining lease term Operating leases3.0 years4.0 years
Weighted-average discount rate Operating leases11.8 %11.8 %
Maturity of Lease Liabilities
Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable leases as of September 30, 2019 were as follows:
Maturity of Lease Liabilities
2019$89  
2020360  
2021370  
2022219  
Total lease payments$1,038  
Less: Interest(152) 
Present value of lease liabilities$886  

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2. Revenue from contracts with customers (continued):

The impact


Components of adoption of Topic 606 on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2018 follows (in thousands):

   Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet 
   September 30, 2018 
   As reported   Balances
without
adoption of
Topic 606
   Effect of
Adoption
 

Accounts receivable, net

  $12,568   $12,197   $371 

Accumulated deficit

  $(344,280  $(344,651  $371 

The impact of adoption of Topic 606 on the Company’s condensed consolidated statement of operations for the threeLease Assets and nine months ended September 30, 2018 follows (in thousands):

   Condensed Consolidated
Statement of Operations
Three months ended

September 30, 2018
   Condensed Consolidated
Statement of Operations
Nine months ended

September 30, 2018
 
   As
reported
  Balances
without
adoption of
Topic 606
  Effect of
Adoption
   As
reported
  Balances
without
adoption of
Topic 606
  Effect of
Adoption
 

Product sales

  $13,763  $13,763  $—     $34,367  $34,367  $—  

Product royalty revenues

   370   393   —      2,197   2,195   —   

Contract revenues

   23   —     23    1,047   813   236 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total revenues

  $14,156  $14,133  $23   $37,611  $37,375  $236 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net loss

  $(6,380 $(6,403 $23   $(26,859 $(27,096 $236 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

The beginning and ending balances of the Company’s accounts receivables with customers from contracts during the periods presented is as follows (in thousands):

   Balance at
January 1,
2018
   Nine months
ended September 30,
2018
   Balance at
September 30,
2018
 

Accounts receivable with customers

  $8,987   $3,581   $12,568 

Liabilities

September 30,
2019
Assets
Property and equipment, net Operating lease-right of use asset$777 
Liabilities
Current liabilities Operating lease- current liability$271 
Other long-term liabilities Operating lease- noncurrent liability615 
Total lease liabilities$886 

3. Liquidity and management’s plans:

At September 30, 2018, the Company had cash of approximately $49.5 million. The Company used $18.3 million of cash in operations during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and had stockholders’ equity of $35.6 million, versus stockholders’ equity of $8.9 million at December 31, 2017. The Company believes that it has sufficient current cash to manage the business as currently planned into the second quarter of 2020 which would provide sufficient capital necessary to support the continued commercialization of BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®.

The Company’s cash on hand estimation assumes the availability of the foregoing capital sources and further assumes that the Company does not otherwise face unexpected events, costs or contingencies, any of which could affect the Company’s cash requirements from time to time. Available resources may be consumed more rapidly than currently anticipated, potentially resulting in the need for additional funding. Additional funding, capital or loans (including, without limitation, milestone or other payments from commercialization agreements) may be unavailable on favorable terms, if at all, which could leave the Company without adequate capital resources.

Inventory:

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4. Inventory:

The following table represents the components of inventory as of:

   September 30,
2018
   December 31,
2017
 

Raw materials & supplies

  $651   $1,338 

Work-in-process

   2,552    3,135 

Finished goods

   2,870    1,861 

Obsolescence reserve

   (639   (243
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total inventories

  $5,434   $6,091 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

5.

September 30,
2019
December 31,
2018
Raw materials & supplies$638  $645  
Work-in-process6,894  2,093  
Finished goods3,478  2,855  
Obsolescence reserve(244) (187) 
Total inventories$10,766  $5,406  

4. Accounts payable and accrued liabilities:

The following table represents the components of accounts payable and accrued liabilities as of:

   September 30,
2018
   December 31,
2017
 

Accounts payable

  $8,508   $12,236 

Accrued rebates

   9,296    5,648 

Accrued compensation and benefits

   2,770    3,472 

Accrued acquisition costs

   1,427    2,311 

Accrued returns

   658    915 

Accrued royalties

   562    488 

Accrued clinical trial costs

   348    234 

Accrued legal

   72    216 

Accrued other

   278    629 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities

  $23,919   $26,149 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

6.

September 30,
2019
December 31,
2018
Accounts payable$2,175  $3,166  
Accrued rebates24,625  12,261  
Accrued compensation and benefits4,662  3,814  
Accrued acquisition costs9,970  318  
Accrued returns1,477  715  
Accrued royalties419  159  
Accrued clinical trial costs—  464  
Accrued legal556  70  
Accrued interest expense1,508  —  
Accrued regulatory expenses282  —  
Accrued other871  572  
Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities$46,545  $21,539  

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(Unaudited)

5. Property and equipment:

Property and equipment, summarized by major category, consist of the following as of:

   September 30,
2018
   December 31,
2017
 

Machinery & equipment

  $5,623   $5,428 

Computer equipment & software

   446    399 

Office furniture & equipment

   169    169 

Leasehold improvements

   44    44 

Idle equipment

   679    766 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   6,961    6,806 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Less accumulated depreciation and amortization

   (3,791   (3,028
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total property and equipment, net

  $3,170   $3,778 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

September 30,
2019
December 31,
2018
Machinery & equipment$5,635  $5,635  
Right of use, building lease777  —  
Computer equipment & software437  406  
Office furniture & equipment161  155  
Leasehold improvements43  43  
Idle equipment679  679  
Total7,732  6,918  
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization(4,019) (3,846) 
Total property and equipment, net$3,713  $3,072  
Depreciation expense was $0.2 million for each of the three-month periods ended September 30, 20182019 and September 30, 2017,2018, was approximately $0.08 million and $0.2 million, respectively. Depreciation expense was $0.7 million and $0.5 million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 20182019 and September 30, 2017,2018, was approximately $0.2 million and $0.7 million, respectively.

6. License agreements and acquired product rights:

Shionogi license and supply agreement
On April 4, 2019 (the “Effective Date”), the Company and Shionogi Inc. (“Shionogi”) entered into an exclusive license agreement (the “License Agreement”) for the commercialization of Symproic in the United States including Puerto Rico (the “Territory”) for opioid-induced constipation in adult patients with chronic non-cancer pain (the “Field”).
Pursuant to the terms of the License Agreement, the Company paid Shionogi a $20 million up-front payment on the Effective Date and paid Shionogi a $10 million payment on the six-month anniversary of the Effective Date on October 4, 2019. Furthermore, the Company will pay quarterly tiered royalty payments on potential net sales of Symproic in the Territory that range from 8.5% to 17.5% (plus an additional 1% of net sales on a pass-through basis to a third party licensor of Shionogi) of net sales based on volume of net sales and whether Symproic is being sold as an authorized generic. Assets acquired as part of the License Agreement include: intellectual property, inventory, trademarks and tradenames.
The Company and Shionogi also entered into a customary supply agreement under which Shionogi will supply Symproic to the Company at cost plus an agreed upon markup for an initial term of up to two years. In the event the Company elects to source Symproic from a third party supplier, Shionogi would continue to supply the Company with naldemedine tosylate for use in Symproic at cost plus such agreed upon markup for the duration of the License Agreement. The Company and Shionogi also entered into a Pharmacovigilance agreement that required ongoing cooperation on adverse event reporting for the duration of License Agreement.
The Company accounted for the Symproic purchase as an asset acquisition under ASC 805-10-55-5b, which provides guidance for asset acquisitions. Under the guidance, if substantially all the acquisition is made up of one asset or several similar assets, then the acquisition is an asset acquisition. The Company believes that the licensing agreement and other assets acquired from Shionogi are similar and consider them all to be intangible assets.
The total purchase price was allocated to the acquired asset based on their relative estimated fair values, as follows:
Symproic license$30,000 
Transaction expenses636 
Total value$30,636 
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7. License agreements and acquired product rights:

Purdue license and supply agreement:

On July 12, 2017,


Additionally, the Company along with Purdue Pharma, an Ontario limited partnership (“Purdue”), announced that they had executed an exclusive agreement granting to Purdue the licensing, distribution, marketingalso purchased from Shionogi $0.4 million of Symproic samples, which have been recorded in selling, general and sale rights related to BELBUCA® in Canada. Financial terms of the Purdue agreement include: (i) total upfront and other cash milestone payments (ii) a low double digit percent royalty payable quarterly by Purdue to the Company based on Canadian net sales of BELBUCA® (iii) an annual royalty fee commencing a period of time after the commercial launch of BELBUCA® in Canada, which fee is creditable against royalties payable by Purdue and subject to reduction in certain circumstances; and (iv) payment by Purdue of certain costs incurred to obtain and transfer the marketing authorization for BELBUCA® in Canada.

On January 30, 2018, the Company and Purdue announced that BELBUCA® was now commercially available in Canada. The first commercial sale of BELBUCA® in Canada triggered a milestone payment to the Company from Purdue in the amount of CAD 1 million (US $0.8 million), which the Company received and recognized as revenue in March 2018.

TTY license and supply agreement

The Company has a license and supply agreement with TTY Biopharm Co., Ltd. (“TTY”) for the exclusive rights to develop and commercialize BEMA® Fentanyl in the Republic of China, Taiwan.

The Company received cumulative payments of $0.9 million from TTY during each of the nine month periods ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, related to royalties based on product purchased in Taiwan by TTY of PAINKYL which is recordedadministrative expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations.

operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.

The Company is amortizing the Symproic license over the life of the underlying patent, which the earliest date of generic entry for Symproic is November 2031 based on the expiration date of US patent # 9,108,975.

7. Other intangible assets:
Other intangible assets, net, consisting of product rights and licenses are summarized as follows:
September 30, 2019Gross Carrying
Value
Accumulated
Amortization
Intangible Assets,
net
Product rights$6,050  $(5,864) $186  
BELBUCA license and distribution rights45,000  (12,374) 32,626  
Symproic license and distribution rights30,636  (1,218) 29,418  
Licenses1,900  (1,875) 25  
Total intangible assets$83,586  $(21,331) $62,255  

December 31, 2018Gross Carrying
Value
Accumulated
Amortization
Intangible Assets,
net
Product rights$6,050  $(5,442) $608  
BELBUCA license and distribution rights45,000  (9,000) 36,000  
Licenses1,900  (1,805) 95  
Total intangible assets$52,950  $(16,247) $36,703  

8. Notes payable:

On February 21, 2017 (the “Closing Date”),May 23, 2019, the Company entered into a Loan Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) with Biopharma Credit plc (“Pharmakon”), for a senior secured credit facility consisting of a term loan agreementof $60.0 million (the “Term Loan”), with the ability to draw an additional $20.0 million within twelve months of the closing date. The Loan Agreement replaced the Company’s previous Term Loan Agreement (the “Original Loan Agreement”) with CRG as administrative agent and collateral agent, and the lenders named in the Term Loan Agreement (the “Lenders”Servicing LLC (“CRG”).

Pursuant to the Term Loan Agreement, the

The Company borrowed $45.0utilized $60.0 million from the Lenders as of the Closing Date, and on December 26, 2017 borrowed an additional $15.0 million (the “Second Draw”) that was contingently available upon achievement of certain conditions.

The original Term Loan Agreement hada six-year term with three years of interest-only payments, (from 2017-2019). On May 16, 2018, the Company entered into an amendment to its Term Loan Agreement with CRG. Pursuant to the amendment: (i) the interest only period of the Loan Agreement was extended by one year, and certain milestones previously required for the extended interest only period have been removed; (ii) the “PIK” period (under which a portion of the interest accruedinitial loan proceeds under the Loan Agreement, can be deferredplus an additional $1.8 million to maturity) will also be extended for a year, (to 2020); (iii) amortization of the loan principal can be deferred until maturity (making the payment of the loan a “balloon” payment) if the Company achieves and maintains a market capitalization of $200 million prior to the conclusion of the interest only period (provided that if the Company achieves, and thereafter falls below a $200 million market capitalization, amortization of the loan principal will resume); and (iv) certain Company revenue targets, the failure of which would create an event of default under the loan, have been recalculated. Interest on the amounts borrowed under the Term Loan Agreement accrues at an annual fixed rate of 12.50%, 3.5% of which may be deferred during the interest-only period by adding such amount to the aggregate principal loan amount. On each borrowing date (including the Closing Date), the Company is required to pay CRG a financing fee based on the loan drawn on that date. The Company is also required to pay the Lenders a final payment fee equivalent to 9% of the original loan amount upon repayment of the loans in full, in addition to prepayment amounts described below.

The Company may prepayrepay all or a portion of the outstanding principal and accrued unpaid interestloan balance owed by the Company under the Original Loan Agreement. The Company also used existing cash on hand to pay a $5.6 million backend facility fee to CRG. Upon the repayment of all amounts owed by the Company under the CRG Original Loan Agreement, at any time upon prior noticeall commitments to CRG were terminated and all security interests granted by the LendersCompany and its subsidiary guarantors under the CRG Original Loan Agreement were released.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company expensed one-time events of $5.2 million in unamortized deferred loan fees, $3.9 million in unamortized warrant discount costs and $2.8 million in loan prepayment fees and realized losses arising out of the CRG Term Loan and recorded as interest expense in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations.
The new facility carries a 72-month term with interest only payments on the term loan for the first 36 months. The Term Loan will mature in May 2025 and bears an interest rate of 7.5% plus the LIBOR rate on the first day for the quarter (LIBOR effective rate as of July 1, 2019 was 2.33%.) The Term Loan is subject to a certainmandatory prepayment fees during the first five years of the term (which fees are lowered over time) and noprovisions that require prepayment fee thereafter. In certain circumstances, including aupon change of control and certain asset sales or licensing transactions, the Company is required to prepay all or a portioncontrol.
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(U.S. DOLLARS, IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)

(Unaudited)

8. Notes payable (continued):


The following table represents future maturities of the notes payable obligation as of September 30, 2018:

Years ending December 31, 2018

  $—  

2019

   —   

2020

   —   

2021

   30,619 

2022

   30,619 
  

 

 

 

Total maturities

  $61,238 

Unamortized discount and loan costs

   (10,722
  

 

 

 

Total notes payable obligation

  $50,516 
  

 

 

 

2019:

2019—  
2020—  
2021—  
202213,846  
202318,462  
202418,462  
20259,230  
Total maturities$60,000  
Unamortized discount and loan costs(1,485) 
Total notes payable obligation$58,515  

9. Net sales by product:

The Company’s business is classified as a single reportable segment.

However, the following table presents net sales by product:

   Three months ended
September 30,
   Nine months ended
September 30,
 
   2018   2017   2018   2017 

BELBUCA®

  $12,358   $6,437   $30,128   $17,554 

BUNAVAIL®

   1,405    1,681    4,239    6,244 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net product sales

  $13,763   $8,118   $34,367   $23,798 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Three months ended September 30,Nine months ended September 30,
2019201820192018
BELBUCA$26,514  $12,358  $69,277  $30,128  
Symproic2,172  —  5,348  —  
BUNAVAIL937  1,405  2,813  4,239  
Net product sales$29,623  $13,763  $77,438  $34,367  

10. Stockholders’ equity:

Public Offering
On April 15, 2019 the Company completed an underwritten public offering by the Company and a selling stockholder of 12,000,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $5.00 per share. The gross proceeds from the Company’s portion of the offering (10,000,000 shares), before deducting the underwriter discounts and commission and other offering expenses, was $50.0 million. The net proceeds were $47.6 million. The gross proceeds to the selling stockholder were approximately $19.0 million, which includes shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise of their option to purchase an additional 1,800,000 shares of common stock at the public offering price.
Common Stock
On July 25, 2019, in connection with the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (“the Annual Meeting”), the Company’s stockholders approved, among other matters, an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 125,000,000 to 175,000,000. Shareholders also approved the Company’s 2019 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”), which reserves 14,000,000 shares of stock for issuance under the 2019 Plan.
Stock-based compensation

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018,2019, a total of 2,260,2112,267,904 options to purchase Common Stock, with an aggregate fair market value of approximately $3.3$9.5 million, were granted to Company employees, officers and membersdirectors of the Board of Directors.Company. Options have a term of 10 years from the grant date. Options granted to employees vest ratably over a three-yearthree-year period and options
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granted to members of the Board of Directors vest ratably through 2022. The fair value of each option is amortized as compensation expense evenly through the vesting period.

The Company’s stock-based compensation expense is allocated between research and development and selling, general and administrative as follows:

   Three months ended,   Nine months ended, 

Stock-based compensation expense

  September 30,
2018
   September 30,
2017
   September 30,
2018
   September 30,
2017
 

Research and Development

  $0.02   $0.5   $1.1   $1.3 

Selling, General and Administrative

  $0.9   $3.7   $3.8   $8.9 

The fair value of each option award is estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes valuation model that uses assumptions for expected volatility, expected dividends, expected term, and the risk-free interest rate. Expected volatilities are based on implied volatilities from historical volatility of the Common Stock, and other factors estimated over the expected term of the options.

Expected term of options granted is derived using the “simplified method” which computes expected term as the average of the sum of the vesting term plus contract term. The risk-free rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant for the period of the expected term.

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10. Stockholders’ equity (continued):

The key assumptions used in determining the fair value of options granted during the nine months ended September 30, 20182019 follows:

Expected price volatility

60.34%-68.77%61.80%-64.10%

Risk-free interest rate

2.05%-2.82%1.36%-2.66%

Weighted average expected life in years

6 years

Dividend yield

— 

Option activity during the nine months ended September 30, 20182019 was as follows:

   Number of
shares
   Weighted average
exercise price per
share
   Aggregate
intrinsic
value
 

Outstanding at January 1, 2018

   2,712,954   $2.98   $1,190 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Granted in 2018:

      

Officers and Directors

   1,160,341    2.41   

Employees

   1,099,870    2.50   

Exercised

   (285,403   1.99   

Forfeitures

   (375,785   3.57   
  

 

 

     

Outstanding at September 30, 2018

   4,311,977   $3.17   $1,405 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Number of
shares
Weighted average
exercise price per
share
Aggregate
intrinsic
value
Outstanding at January 1, 20194,406,004  $3.19  $4,172  
Granted in 2019:
Officers and Directors1,132,109  3.93  
Employees1,135,795  4.46  
Exercised(412,500) 4.60  
Forfeitures(490,342) 3.97  
Outstanding at September 30, 20195,771,066  $3.53  $5,627  
As of September 30, 2018,2019, options exercisable totaled 1,711,966.1,903,370. There wasare approximately $6.4$5.6 million of unrecognized compensation cost related tonon-vested share-based compensation awards, including options and restricted stock units (“RSUs”) granted. These costs will be expensed through 2022.

Restricted stock units

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, 1,824,8722019, a cumulative total of 360,250 RSUs were granted to the Company’s executive officers, employeesmembers of senior management, a former officer and directors with a fair market value of approximately $4.2$1.6 million. The fair value of restricted units is determined using quoted market prices of the Common Stock and the number of shares expected to vest. These RSUs were issued under the Company’s 2011 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “EIP”).

RSU grants are either time-based, or performance-based, all of which generally vest overfrom a one to three-year period. Performance-based RSUs vest if specified predetermined net revenue and operating income goals are achieved. Actual performance relativeThe RSU grant to the predetermined performance measures are evaluated independently at the end of each fiscal year and the number of awards that will vest will be based upon the percentage of the individual performance measure achieved relative to the predetermined target. This allows for partial vesting relative to separate performance measures.

former officer vested on his retirement date April 30, 2019.

Restricted stock activity during the nine months ended September 30, 20182019 was as follows:

   Number of
restricted
shares
   Weighted
average fair
market value
per RSU
 

Outstanding at January 1, 2018

   4,706,895   $5.20 

Granted:

    

Executive officers

   1,038,434    2.23 

Directors

   469,261    2.59 

Employees

   317,177    2.10 

Vested

   (1,733,731   2.50 

Forfeitures

   (442,009   2.63 

Conversions

   (2,119,925   2.72 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Outstanding at September 30, 2018

   2,236,102   $5.15 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

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(Unaudited)

10. Stockholders’ equity (continued):

Series B


Number of
restricted
shares
Weighted
average fair
market value
per RSU
Outstanding at January 1, 20192,166,102  $2.59  
Granted:
Executive officers223,250  4.44  
Directors90,000  4.85  
Employees47,000  4.67  
Vested(801,661) 4.80  
Forfeitures(87,132) 2.30  
Outstanding at September 30, 20191,637,559  $3.23  
Preferred Stock Financing

On May 17, 2018, the Company entered into a placement agency agreement with William Blair & Company, L.L.C., as placement agent, relating to the Company’s registered direct offering, issuance and sale of an aggregate of 5,000 shares of the Company’s authorized preferred stock that the Board of Directors of the Company has designated asSeries B Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Series B Preferred Stock”). All the shares were sold by the Company. The placement agency agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants of the Company and the Placement Agent. The closing of the offering was completed on May 21, 2018. The shares sold in the offering were issued pursuant to a shelf registration statement, as amended, that the Company filed with the SEC, which became effective on July 13, 2015.

Each share of Series B Preferred Stock is convertible into a number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share determined by dividing $10,000 by a conversion price of $1.80 per share (subject to adjustment for stock splits and stock dividends as provided in the Certificate of Designation). The outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock are convertible into an aggregate 27,777,778 shares of Common Stock. The Series B Preferred Stock does not contain any price-based anti-dilution protection. The Series B Preferred Stock is convertible at any time at the option of the holder, except that a holder will be prohibited from converting shares of Series B Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock if, as a result of such conversion, such holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own more than 9.98% of the total number of shares of Common Stock then issued and outstanding, which percentage may be increased or decreasedon sixty-one (61) days’ notice from the holder of Series B Preferred Stock to the Company.

The Company has the right to deliver a notice to the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock to require conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock into Common Stock, provided that certain conditions with respect to the Common Stock are satisfied. Such forced conversion shall be subject to a holder’s beneficial ownership limitation of 9.98% of the total number of shares of Common Stock then issued and outstanding. Following an initial forced conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock, every ninety (90) days thereafter, the Company has the right to require the forced conversion of the still outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock up to the beneficial ownership limitation of 9.98% of the total number of shares of Common Stock then issued and outstanding.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, a cumulative total of 1,9002019, 1,402 shares of Series B Preferred Stock from various holders(“Series B”) were converted into 10,555,5567,788,888 shares of Common Stock. As of September 30, 2018, 3,1002019, 1,698 shares of Series B are outstanding. As of September 30, 2019, 2,093,155 shares of Series A Preferred Stock (“Series A”) are outstanding.

The There were 0 conversions of Series B Preferred Stock issued in May 2018 contained a contingent beneficial conversion feature (“BCF”) that was recognizedA during the three and nine months ending September 30, 2018 upon the August 2018 stockholder approval, which eliminated the contingency. The conversion feature is not a separate unit of account requiring bifurcation. The Company evaluated its convertible preferred stock in accordance with provisions of ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging, including consideration of embedded derivatives requiring bifurcation. The issuance of the Series B Preferred Stock generated a BCF, which arises when a debt or equity security is issued with an embedded conversion option that is beneficial to the investor or in the money at inception because the conversion option has an effective strike price that is less than the market price of the underlying stock at the commitment date. As a result, $12.5 million was recorded as a reduction to additionalpaid-in capital, increasing net loss attributable to the Company Common stockholders.

The Company recognized the BCF of the intrinsic value of the conversion option, which is the number of shares of common stock available upon conversion multiplied by the difference between the conversion price per share and the fair value of common stock per share on the commitment date, totaling $12.5 million, as after shareholder approval the convertible preferred stock may be converted immediately. Thisone-time,non-cash charge impacted net loss attributable to common stockholders and net loss per share for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2018.

Common Stock

On August 2, 2018, in connection with2019.

Earnings Per Share

Three months ended September 30,Nine months ended September 30,
2019201820192018
Basic:
Net income (loss)$354  $(6,380) $(14,609) $(26,859) 
Less deemed dividend related to beneficial conversion feature on Series B Preferred Stock—  (12,500) —  (12,500) 
Net earnings (loss) attributable to common stockholders$354  $(18,880) $(14,609) $(39,359) 
Weighted average common shares outstanding89,649,922  64,900,007  81,612,112  60,599,456  
Basic earnings (loss) per common share$—  $(0.29) $(0.18) $(0.65) 
Diluted:
Effect of dilutive securities:
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders, diluted$354  $(18,880) $(14,609) $(39,359) 
Weighted average common shares outstanding89,649,922  64,900,007  81,612,112  60,599,456  
Effect of dilutive options and warrants15,488,972  —  —  —  
Dilutive weighted average common shares outstanding105,138,894  64,900,007  81,612,112  60,599,456  
Diluted earnings (loss) per common share$—$(0.29)$(0.18)$(0.65)
During the Company’s 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the Company’s stockholders approved, among other matters, to amend the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 75,000,000 to 125,000,000.

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10. Stockholders’ equity (continued):

Warrants

The Company has granted warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock.

The fair value of each warrant grant is estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes valuation model that uses assumptions for expected volatility, expected dividends, expected term, and the risk-free interest rate. Expected volatilities are based on implied volatilities from historical volatility of the Common Stock, and other factors estimated over the expected term of the warrants.

Expected term of warrants granted is derived using the “simplified method” which computes expected term as the average of the sum of the vesting term plus contract term. The risk-free rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant for the period of the expected term. A cumulative total of 2,136,020 shares underlying warrants to purchase Common Stock are outstanding as ofthree months ended September 30, 2018 with a weighted average exercise price of $2.60 per share.

11. Earnings per common share:

The following table reconciles the numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted earnings per common share computations (in thousands, except share and per share data).

   Three Months Ended
September 30,
   Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   2018   2017   2018   2017 

Basic:

        

Net (loss) income

  $(6,380  $(11,951  $(26,859  $21,495 

Less deemed dividend related to beneficial conversion feature on Series B Preferred Stock

   (12,500   —      (12,500   —   

Net (loss) income attributable to common stockholders, basic

  $(18,880)    $(11,951)    $(39,359  $21,495 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted average common shares outstanding

   64,900,007    55,604,708    60,599,456    55,170,569 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Basic (loss) income per common share

  $(0.29  $(0.21  $(0.65  $0.39 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted:

        

Effect of dilutive securities:

        

Net (loss) income attributable to common stockholders, diluted

  $(18,880  $(11,951  $(39,359  $21,495 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted average common shares outstanding

   64,900,007    55,604,708    60,599,456    55,170,569 

Effect of dilutive options and warrants

   —      —      —      1,033,789 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding

   64,900,007    55,604,708    60,599,456    56,204,358 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted (loss) income per common share

  $(0.29  $(0.21  $(0.65  $0.38 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Basic earnings per common share is calculated using the weighted average shares of Common Stock2019, outstanding during the period. In addition to the weighted average shares of Common Stock outstanding, common equivalent shares from stock options, RSUs, warrants and preferred shares using the treasury stock method, areof 15,488,972 were included in the computation of diluted earnings per share calculations unless the effect of inclusion would be antidilutive.common share. During the three months ended September 30, 2018, and 2017, outstanding stock options, RSUs, warrants and preferred shares of 25,745,108 and 9,638,211, respectively, were not included in the computation

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of diluted earnings per common share, because to do so would have had an antidilutive effect. During the nine months ended September 30, 20182019 and 2017,2018, outstanding stock options, RSUs, warrants and preferred shares of 18,917,77415,260,949 and 5,230,179,18,917,774, respectively, were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per common share, because to do so would have had an antidilutive effect. Included in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 are the Series B shares as converted to common stock.

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12.11. Commitments and contingencies:

The Company is involved from time to time in routine legal matters incidental to our business. Based upon available information, the Company believes that the resolution of such matters will not have a material adverse effect on its condensed consolidated financial position or results of operations. Except as discussed below, the Company is not the subject of any pending legal proceedings and, to the knowledge of management, no proceedings are presently contemplated against the Company by any federal, state or local governmental agency.

Indivior (formerly RB Pharmaceuticals Ltd.) and Aquestive Therapeutics (formerly MonoSol Rx)

The following disclosure regarding the Company’s ongoing litigations with Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly MonoSol Rx, “Aquestive”) and Indivior PLC (formerly RB Pharmaceuticals Limited, “Indivior”) is intended to provide some background and an update on the matter as required by the rules of the SEC. Additional details regarding the past procedural history of the matter can be found in the Company’s previously filed periodic filings with the SEC.
Litigation related to BUNAVAIL®

On September 22, 2014,October 29, 2013, Reckitt Benckiser, Inc., RB Pharmaceuticals Limited,Indivior, and Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (“Aquestive”) (collectively, the “RB Plaintiffs”) filed an action against the Company relating to its BUNAVAIL product in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (“EDNC”) for alleged patent infringement. BUNAVAIL is a drug approved for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. The RB Plaintiffs claim that the formulation for BUNAVAIL, which has never been disclosed publicly, infringes its US Patent No. 8,475,832 (the “‘832 Patent”). On May 21, 2014, the Court granted the Company’s motion to dismiss.
On January 22, 2014, Aquestive initiated an inter partes review (“IPR”) on U.S. Patent No. 7,579,019, the (“‘019 Patent”). The PTAB upheld all claims of the Company’s ‘019 Patent in 2015 and this decision was not appealed by Aquestive.
On September 20, 2014, the Company proactively filed a declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the EDNC requesting the Court to make a determination that the Company’s BUNAVAIL product does not infringe the ‘832 Patent, US Patent No. 7,897,080 (the “‘080 Patent”) and US Patent No. 8,652,378 (the “‘378 Patent”). The Company invalidated the “‘080 Patent” in its entirety in an inter partes reexamination proceeding. The Company invalidated all relevant claims of the ‘832 Patent in an IPR proceeding. And, in an IPR proceeding for the ‘378 Patent, in its decision not to institute the IPR proceeding, the PTAB construed the claims of the ‘378 Patent narrowly. Shortly thereafter, by joint motion of the parties, the ‘378 Patent was subsequently removed from the action.
On June 6, 2016, in an unrelated case in which Indivior and Aquestive asserted the ‘832 Patent against other parties, the Delaware District Court entered an order invalidating other claims in the ‘832 Patent. Indivior and Aquestive cross-appealed all adverse findings in that decision to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Case No. 17-2587. The Company’s declaratory judgment action remains stayed pending the outcome of that cross-appeal by Indivior and Aquestive.
On September 22, 2014, the RB Plaintiffs filed an action against the Company (and the Company’s commercial partner) relating to the Company’s BUNAVAIL®product in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey for alleged patent infringement. The RB Plaintiffs claim that BUNAVAIL,®, whose formulation and manufacturing processes have never been disclosed publicly, infringes its patent U.S. Patent No. 8,765,167 (the “‘167 Patent”). The Company believes this is an anticompetitive attempt by the RB Plaintiffs to distract the Company’s efforts from commercializing BUNAVAIL®.BUNAVAIL. On December 12, 2014, the Company filed a motion to transfer the case from New Jersey to North Carolina and a motion to dismiss the case against its commercial partner. The Court issued an opinion on July 21, 2015 granting the Company’s motion to transfer the venue to the United States District for the Eastern District

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On October 28, 2014, the Company filed multiple IPR petitions on certain claims of the ‘167 Patent. The USPTO instituted three of the four IPR petitions. The PTAB upheld the claims and denied collateral estoppel applied to the PTAB decisions in March 2016. The Company appealed to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The USPTO intervened with respect to whether collateral estoppel applied to the PTAB. On June 19, 2018, the Company filed a motion to remand the case for further consideration by the PTAB in view of intervening authority. On July 31, 2018, the Federal Circuit vacated the decisions, and remanded the ‘167 Patent IPRs for further consideration on the merits.

On February 7, 2019, the PTAB issued three decisions on remand purporting to deny institution of the three previously instituted IPRs of the ‘167 patent. On March 11, 2019, the Company timely appealed the PTAB decisions on remand to U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit. On March 20, 2019, Aquestive and Indivior moved to dismiss the appeal, and the Company opposed that motion. On August 29, 2019, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the motion and dismissed the Company’s appeal.On September 30, 2019, the Company filed a petition for an en banc rehearing of the order dismissing the Company’s appeal by the full Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Litigation related to BELBUCA®

On January 13, 2017, Aquestive filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging BELBUCA® infringes the ‘167 Patent. In lieu of answering the complaint, the Company filed motions to dismiss the complaint and, in the alternative, to transfer the case to the EDNC. On July 25, 2017, the New Jersey Court administratively terminated the case pending the parties submission of a joint stipulation of transfer because the District of New Jersey was an inappropriate venue. This case was later transferred to the Delaware District Court. On October 31, 2017, the Company filed motions to dismiss the complaint and, in the alternative, to transfer the case to the EDNC. On October 16, 2018, denying the motion to dismiss as moot, the Delaware District Court granted the Company’s motion to transfer the case to the EDNC. The case is now pendingOn November 20, 2018, the Company moved the EDNC to dismiss the complaint for patent infringement for failure to state a claim for relief. On August 6, 2019, the EDNC granted the Company’s motion to dismiss, and dismissed the complaint without prejudice. On or about November 11, 2019, Aquestive refiled a complaint in the EDNC.EDNC against the Company alleging that BELBUCA infringes the ‘167 Patent. The Company strongly refutes as without merit Aquestive’s assertion of patent infringement and will vigorously defend the lawsuit.

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA (formerly Actavis)

On February 8, 2016, the Company received a notice relating to a Paragraph IV certification from Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, or (formerly Actavis, “Teva”) seeking to find invalid three Orange Book listed patents relating specifically to BUNAVAIL. The Paragraph IV certification related to an ANDA filed by Teva with the FDA for a generic formulation of BUNAVAIL. The patents subject to Teva’s certification were the ‘019 Patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,147,866 (the “‘866 Patent”) and 8,703,177 (the “‘177 Patent”).
On March 18, 2016, the Company asserted three different patents against Teva, the ‘019 Patent, the ‘866 Patent, and the ‘177 Patent. Teva did not raise non-infringement positions about the ‘019 and the ‘866 Patents in its Paragraph IV certification. Teva did raise a non-infringement position on the ‘177 Patent but the Company asserted in its complaint that Teva infringed the ‘177 Patent either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents.
On December 20, 2016 the USPTO issued U.S. Patent No. 9,522,188 (the “‘188 Patent””), and this patent was properly listed in the Orange Book as covering the BUNAVAIL product. On February 23, 2017 Teva sent a Paragraph IV certification adding the 9,522,188 to its ANDA. An amended Complaint was filed, adding the ‘188 Patent to the litigation.
On January 31, 2017, the Company received a notice relating to a Paragraph IV certification from Teva relating to Teva’s ANDA on additional strengths of BUNAVAIL and on March 16, 2017, the Company brought suit against Teva and its parent company on these additional strengths. On June 20, 2017, the Court entered orders staying both BUNAVAIL suits at the request of the parties.
On May 23, 2017, the USPTO issued U.S. Patent 9,655,843 (the “‘843 Patent”) relating to the BEMA technology, and this patent was properly listed in the Orange Book as covering the BUNAVAIL product.
Finally, on October 12, 2017, the Company announced that it had entered into a settlement agreement with Teva that resolved the Company’s BUNAVAIL patent litigation against Teva pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. As part of the Settlement Agreement, which is subject to review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department
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of Justice, the Company has entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with Teva that permits Teva to first begin selling its generic version of BUNAVAIL in the U.S. on July 23, 2028 or earlier under certain circumstances. Other terms of the agreement are confidential.
The Company received notices regarding Paragraph IV certifications from Teva on November 8, 2016, November 10, 2016, and December 22, 2016, seeking to find invalid two Orange Book listed patents relating specifically to BELBUCA®.BELBUCA. The Paragraph IV certifications relatedrelate to three ANDAs filed by Teva with the FDA for a generic formulation of BELBUCA®.BELBUCA. The patents subject to Teva’s certification were U.S.the ‘019 Patent No. 7,579,019 (the “‘019 Patent”) and U.S. Patent No. 8,147,866 (the “‘866 Patent”). Under the Hatch-Waxman Amendments, after receipt of a valid Paragraph IV notice, the Company brought a patent infringement suit in federal district court against Teva USA within 45 days from the date of receipt of the certification notice.‘866 Patent. The Company filed complaints in Delaware against Teva on December 22, 2016 and February 3, 2017 thusin which it asserted against Teva the ‘019 Patent and the ‘866 Patent. Teva did not contest infringement of the claims of the ‘019 Patent and did not contest infringement of the claims of the ‘866 Patent. The ‘019 Patent had already been the subject of an unrelated IPR before the USPTO under which the Company prevailed, and all claims of the ‘019 Patent survived. Aquestive’s request for rehearing of the final IPR decision regarding the ‘019 Patent was entitled to receive a 30 month stay on the FDA’s ability to give final approval to any proposed products that reference BELBUCA®. The30-month stay was expected to preempt any final approvaldenied by the FDAUSPTO on Teva’s ANDA Nos. 209704December 19, 2016. Aquestive did not file a timely appeal at the Federal Circuit.
On May 23, 2017, the USPTO issued U.S. Patent 9,655,843 (the “‘843 Patent”) relating to the BEMA technology, and 209772 untilthis patent was properly listed in the Orange Book as covering the BELBUCA product.
On August 28, 2017, the Court entered orders staying both BELBUCA suits at least Maythe request of 2019 and for Teva’s ANDA No. 209807 until at least June of 2019.

the parties.

In February 2018, the Company announced that it had entered into a settlement agreement with Teva that resolved the Company’s BELBUCA® patent litigation against Teva pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. As part of the settlement

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12. Commitments and contingencies (continued):

agreement, which is subject to review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, the Company has granted Teva anon-exclusive license (for which the Company will receive no current or future payments) that permits Teva to first begin selling the generic version of the Company’s BELBUCA® product in the U.S. on January 23, 2027 or earlier under certain circumstances (including, for example, upon (i) the delisting of thepatents-in-suit from the U.S. FDA Orange Book, (ii) the granting of a license by us to a third party to launch another generic form of BELBUCA® at a date prior to January 23, 2027, or (iii) the occurrence of certain conditions regarding BELBUCA® market share).

Other terms of the Agreement are confidential.

Alvogen

On September 7, 2018, the Company filed a complaint for patent infringement in Delaware against Alvogen Pb Research & Development LLC, Alvogen Malta Operations Ltd., Alvogen Pine Brook LLC, Alvogen, Incorporated, and Alvogen Group, Incorporated (collectively, “Alvogen”), asserting that Alvogen infringes the Company’s Orange Book listed patents for BELBUCA®, including U.S. Patent Nos. 8,147,866 and 9,655,843, both expiring in July of 2027, and U.S. Patent No. 9,901,539, expiring in December of 2032. This complaint follows receipt by the Company on July 30, 2018 of a Paragraph IV Patent Certification from Alvogen stating that Alvogen had filed an ANDA with the FDA for a generic version of BELBUCA® Buccal Film (75 mcg, 150 mcg, 300 mcg, 450 mcg, 600 mcg, 750 mcg and 900 mcg). Because the Company initiated a patent infringement suit to defend the patents identified in the Paragraph IV notice within 45 days after receipt of the Paragraph IV Certification, the FDA is prevented from approving the ANDA until the earlier of 30 months or a decision in the case that each of the patents is not infringed or invalid. Alvogen’s notice letter also does not provide any information on the timing or approval status of its ANDA.

In its Paragraph IV Certification, Alvogen does not contest infringement of at least several independent claims of each of the ’866, ’843, and ’539 patents. Rather, Alvogen advances only invalidly arguments for these independent claims. The Company believes that it will be able to prevail on its claims of infringement of these patents, particularly as Alvogen does not contest infringement of certain claims of each patent. Additionally, as the Company has done in the past, it intends to vigorously defend its intellectual property against assertions of invalidity. Each of the three patents carry a presumption of validity, which can only be overcome by clear and convincing evidence.

2018 Arkansas Opioid Litigation

On March 15, 2018, the State of Arkansas, and certain counties and cities in that State, filed an action in the Circuit Court of Arkansas, Crittenden County against multiple manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and prescribers of opioid analgesics,
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including ourthe Company. The Company was served with the complaint on April 27, 2018. The complaint specifically alleged that the Companyit licensed its branded fentanyl buccal soluble film ONSOLIS®to Collegium, Pharmaceutical Inc. (“Collegium”), and Collegium is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit. ONSOLIS® is not presently sold in the United States and the license agreement with Collegium was terminated prior to Collegium launching ONSOLIS® in the United States. Therefore, on June 28, 2018, the Company moved to dismiss the case against themit and most recently, on July 6, 2018, the plaintiffs filed a notice to voluntarily dismiss the Companyus from the Arkansas case, without prejudice.

Chemo Research, S.L
On March 1, 2019, the Company filed a complaint for patent infringement in Delaware against Chemo Research, S.L., Insud Pharma S.L., IntelGenx Corp., and IntelGenx Technologies Corp. (collectively, “Defendants”), asserting that the Defendants infringe its Orange Book listed patents for BELBUCA, including U.S. Patent Nos. 8,147,866 and 9,655,843, both expiring in July of 2027, and U.S. Patent No. 9,901,539 expiring December of 2032. This complaint follows a receipt by the Company on January 31, 2019, of a Notice Letter from Chemo Research S.L. stating that it has filed with the FDA an ANDA containing a Paragraph IV Patent Certification, for a generic version of BELBUCA Buccal Film in strengths 75 mcg, 150 mcg, 300 mcg, 450 mcg, and 900 mcg. Because the Company initiated a patent infringement suit to defend the patents identified in the Notice Letter within 45 days after receipt, the FDA is prevented from approving the ANDA until the earlier of 30 months or a decision in the case that each of the patents is not infringed or invalid. Chemo Research S.L.’s Notice Letter also does not provide any information on the timing or approval status of its ANDA. On March 15, 2019, the Company filed a complaint against the Defendants in New Jersey asserting the same claims for patent infringement made in the Delaware lawsuit. On April 19, 2019, Defendants filed an answer to the Delaware complaint wherein they denied infringement of the ‘866, ‘843 and ‘539 patents and asserted counterclaims seeking declaratory relief concerning the alleged invalidity and non-infringement of such patents. On April 25, 2019, the Company voluntarily dismissed the New Jersey lawsuit given Defendants’ consent to jurisdiction in Delaware.
The Company believes that it will be able to prevail in this lawsuit. As it has done in the past, the Company intends to vigorously defend its intellectual property against assertions of invalidity.

Derivative Litigation

On July 2, 2018, the Company filed a Schedule 14A Proxy Statement (the “Proxy”) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in connection with its 2018 Annual Meeting. Proposals 1 and 2 of the Proxy sought stockholder approval to amend the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation by deleting Article TWELFTH of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation in its entirety and replacing it with a new Article TWELFTH that, among other things (i) provided for the declassification of the Company’s Board in phases, with the full declassification to be achieved in 2020 (the “Declassification Amendment”) and (ii) changed the voting standard for the uncontested election of directors to the Board from a plurality standard to the majority of votes cast standard as set forth in the bylaws of the Company (the “Election Amendment” and together with the “Declassification Amendment”, the “Amendments”).
On August 2, 2018, the Company held the 2018 Annual Meeting, at which time the stockholders voted on the Amendments. Following the 2018 Annual Meeting, based on consultation with the Company’s advisors, the Company determined that the Amendments had been adopted by the requisite vote of stockholders and effected the Amendments by filing a Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on August 6, 2018.
On September 11, 2019, two purported stockholders of the Company filed a putative class action against the Company and our directors in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, captioned Drachman v. BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc., et al., C.A. No. 2019-0728-AGB (Del. Ch.) (the “Complaint”). The Complaint alleges that the Amendments did not receive the requisite vote of stockholders at the 2018 Annual Meeting and asserts claims for violation of the Delaware General Corporation Law, breach of fiduciary duties, and declaratory judgment. The Complaint seeks, inter alia, a declaration that the Amendments were not validly approved and invalidation of the Amendments, including altering the one-year terms of all directors duly elected at the 2018 and 2019 Annual Meetings to three-year terms. The Complaint also seeks costs and disbursements, including attorneys’ fees. The Company will respond to the complaint by the December 6, 2019 deadline set by the Court and defend against it vigorously.
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On November 5, 2019, the Board determined that ratifying the declassification of the Board and the change in the voting standard as set forth in the Amendments, as well as ratifying the filing and effectiveness of the Amendments, is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. The Board thus approved resolutions ratifying such acts and the filing and effectiveness of the Amendments under Section 204 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Company will submit the ratification to its stockholders for their adoption in accordance with Section 204 at its 2020 Annual Meeting.
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Item 2.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report. This discussion contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results and the timing of certain events could differ materially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, those set forth herein and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and in our other filings with the SEC. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward LookingForward-Looking Statements” below.

Overview

Strategy

We are a specialty pharmaceutical company that is developing and commercializing, either on our own or in partnerships with third parties, new applications of approved therapeutics to address important unmet medical needs using both proven and new drug delivery technologies. We have developed and are continuing to develop pharmaceutical products aimed principally in the areas of pain management and addiction.

Our strategy is to:

Focusevolving with the establishment of our commercial and development effortsfootprint in the areasmanagement of pain managementchronic conditions. We seek to build a well-balanced, diversified, high-growth specialty pharmaceutical company. Through our industry-leading commercialization infrastructure, we are executing the commercialization of our existing products. As part of our corporate growth strategy, we have licensed, and addiction within the U.S. pharmaceutical marketplace;

Market our products through specialty sales teams by primarily focusing on high-prescribing U.S. physicians working with patients in the pain and addiction space; and

Identify andwill continue to explore opportunities to acquire rights toor license additional products that meet the needs of patients living with debilitating chronic conditions and treated primarily by therapeutic specialists. As we believe have potentialgain access to these drugs and technologies, we intend to employ our commercialization experience to bring them to the marketplace. With a strong commitment to patient access and a focused business-development approach for near-term regulatory approval through the 505(b)(2) approval process of the U.S Foodtransformative acquisitions or licensing opportunities, we intend to leverage our experience and Drug Administration (“FDA”) or are already FDA approved,

We believe this strategy will allowapply it to developing new partnerships that enable us to increase our revenues, improve our margins as we seek profitability and enhance stockholder value.

commercialize novel products that can change the lives of people suffering from debilitating chronic conditions.

Third Quarter and Recent Highlights

On August 2, 2018,July 1, 2019, we were added to the broad-market Russell 3000® Index as well as the Russell 2000® Index at the conclusion of the 2019 Russell indexes annual reconstitution.

On July 9, 2019, we announced that several regional health care plans improved patient access to BELBUCA during the second quarter of this year. The regional U.S. insurance plans enhance BELBUCA’s coverage to preferred status or initiated coverage for BELBUCA, which means that an additional six million covered lives now have access to BELBUCA. These six million covered lives brings the total number of commercial lives with access to BELBUCA to more than 165 million, representing more than 90% of the U.S. commercial insurance market.
On August. 28, 2019, we reported the acceptance of five scientific abstracts highlighting data supporting our portfolio of products that address the unmet need of chronic conditions at the PAINWeek® 2019 National Conference on Pain for Frontline Practitioners which took place in connectionSeptember in Las Vegas, NV.
On October 1, 2019, we announced that a major pharmacy benefits manager ("PBM") begin providing improved patient access to BELBUCA and Symproic starting October 1, 2019, with our 2018 Annual Meetingfull plan adoption expected by January 1, 2020. The addition of Stockholders, our stockholders approved, among other matters, (i) to amend our Certificate of Incorporation tothis large national PBM will increase the number of authorized sharescovered lives to approximately 14 million covered lives within both commercial and health exchange plans that have access to BELBUCA as either the preferred or preferred exclusive buprenorphine product within their respective plans and Symproic as the preferred exclusive product within its class. Further, this addition brings the total number of Common Stock from 75,000,000covered lives with preferred access to 125,000,000;BELBUCA to more than 104 million (out of more than 165 million with coverage) and (ii)the total number of covered lives with access to ratify the newly designated sale of our 5,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, andSymproic to approve the issuance of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock as required by and in accordance with NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5635(d).

more than 76 million.

On August 15, 2018, we announced that a leading U.S. pharmacy benefit manager had added BELBUCA® to its national preferred formulary list effective August 15, 2018. Under this preferred access plan, over 20 million covered lives will now have easier access to this important treatment option for chronic pain and will no longer need to go through a step through process. The addition of this plan expands the total number of lives with preferred access for BELBUCA® to over 75 million.

On October 29, 2018, we announced the appointment of James Vollins as General Counsel and member of our Executive Leadership Team effective November 5, 2018. Mr. Vollins will also serve as our Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary. We also announced the retirement of Ernest R. DePaolantonio, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary, which is expected to occur bymid-2019. And lastly, we announced the enhanced title of Scott Plesha to President and Chief Commercial Officer of the Company.

On November 1, 2018, we announced that a leading U.S. pharmacy benefit manager had added BELBUCA® to their national preferred formulary list. More than 100 million covered lives now have preferred access to BELBUCA®.

Our Products and Related Trends

Our product portfolio currently consists of four products. As of the date of this report, three products that are approved by the FDA and one is development.FDA. Three of these fourour products utilize our patented BEMA® thin film drug delivery technology.

BELBUCA® is indicated for the management of chronic pain severe enough to require daily,around-the-clock, long-term opioid treatment and for which alternative treatment options are inadequate. This product was originally licensed on a worldwide basis to Endo. On October 26, 2015, we announced with Endo that the FDA approved BELBUCA®. BELBUCA® was launched by Endo in February 2016. On December 7, 2016, we entered into an agreement with Endo terminating Endo’s licensing of rights for BELBUCA®. This followed a strategic decision made by Endo to discontinue

BELBUCA

commercial efforts in the branded pain business. On January 6, 2017, we announced the closing of the transaction to reacquire the license to BELBUCA® from Endo. As a result, the worldwide rights to BELBUCA® were transferred back to us. Behind a revised commercialization plan, we are leveraging our existing sales force to capitalize on commercial synergies with BUNAVAIL®. This effort is a focused commercial approach targeting identified healthcare providers which we believe create the potential to incrementally grow BELBUCA® sales without the requirement for significant resources. We also will explore other options for longer-term growth for BELBUCA®. Inmid-February 2017, we completed the expansion and training of our sales force, allowing for promotion of BELBUCA® to commence in full in late February. We further expanded our sales force beginning in January 2018 and again in September to support the commercialization efforts. BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL® are currently supported by a field force of approximately 113 sales representatives, thirteen regional sales managers and two area directors. As previously disclosed, the launch has been more challenging because of the increased scrutiny over the prescribing of opioids that is driven by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines issued in March 2016. The difference that BELBUCA® as Schedule III offers over Schedule II opioids, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, etc., include higher safety index, lower addiction, diversion and abuse risks accompanied by a dose-ceiling effect on respiratory depression, but not on analgesia. The approval of BELBUCA® carries a standard post-approval requirement by the FDA to conduct a study to determine the effect of BELBUCA® on QT prolongation (i.e. an abnormal lengthening of the heartbeat). Also required is a study assessing the safety and efficacy of BELBUCA® in pediatric patients and participation in a consortium with other holders of NDAs for long-acting opioids to assess and better understand the risk of abuse, misuse, addiction and overdose with opioids. Prescription sales of BELBUCA® have significantly increased since promotion began.

BUNAVAIL® was approved by the FDA in June 2014 and is indicated for the treatment of opioid dependence. BUNAVAIL®uses our BEMA® technology combined with buprenorphine in tandem with naloxone, an opioid antagonist. We are commercializing BUNAVAIL® ourselves and launched the product during the fourth quarter of 2014. We have been actively engaged in efforts to optimize our commercialization of BUNAVAIL® with particular emphasis in 2016 on better aligning costs with revenue and reducing spending. We will seek to continue to manage our BUNAVAIL® business by focusing sales efforts on those healthcare providers who have been prescribers of BUNAVAIL®. And we will continue to use published data demonstrating “diversion” (i.e., the illicit use of a legally prescribed controlled substance) associated with the market leader’s product and highlight the other attributes of BUNAVAIL® as we seek to win additional managed care contracts. We also believe there will be an opportunity to introduce more patients to BUNAVAIL® with the lifting of the long-standing limit on the number of buprenorphine-treated patients per practitioner from 100 to 275 (as outlined in the final ruling under the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000) and effective on October 27, 2016), and a more recent legislation allowing nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid dependence. We will continue to closely monitor commercial efforts and seek to increase revenue and profitability, as well as evaluate all options available to preserve the long-term prospects for and maximize the value of BUNAVAIL®. Separately, as with all other buprenorphine-containing products for opioid dependence, the approval of BUNAVAIL® carries a standard post-approval requirement by the FDA to conduct a study to determine the effect of BUNAVAIL® on QT prolongation.

ONSOLIS® is approved in the U.S., the EU (where it is marketed as BREAKYL) and Taiwan (where it is marketed as PAINKYL), for the management of breakthrough pain in opioid tolerant adult patients with cancer. ONSOLIS® utilizes our BEMA® thin film drug delivery technology in combination with fentanyl. The commercial rights to ONSOLIS® were originally licensed to Meda, a subsidiary of Mylan N.V., in 2006 and 2007 for all territories worldwide except for Taiwan (where it is licensed to TTY) and South Korea. The marketing authorization for ONSOLIS® was returned to us in early 2015 as part of an assignment and revenue sharing agreement with Meda for the United States, Canada and Mexico. Such agreement also facilitated the approval of a new formulation of ONSOLIS® in the U.S. We are currently assessing our commercial options for ONSOLIS®. On January 27, 2015, we announced that we had entered into an assignment and revenue sharing agreement with Meda to return to us the marketing authorizations for ONSOLIS® for the U.S. and the right to seek marketing authorizations for ONSOLIS® in Canada and Mexico. On May 11, 2016, we announced the signing of a licensing agreement under which we granted the exclusive rights to commercialize ONSOLIS® in the U.S. to Collegium. Under terms of the agreement, Collegium was responsible for the manufacturing, distribution, marketing and sales of ONSOLIS® in the U.S. Meda continues to commercialize ONSOLIS® under the brand name BREAKYL in the E.U. However, on December 8, 2017, Collegium provided us the required90-day notice regarding termination of the license and development agreement for ONSOLIS® between us and Collegium. The license and development agreement for ONSOLIS® between us and Collegium formally ended on March 8, 2018. Previous efforts to extend our supply agreement with our original ONSOLIS® manufacturer Aveva, who was subsequently acquired by Apotex, were unsuccessful and the agreement expired. However, an alternate supplier was identified and data to support qualification of the new manufacturer was submitted to the FDA in June 2018. On October 22, 2018, we received notification of FDA’s approval of the regulatory submission and the new ONSOLIS® manufacturer. We are currently assessing options to commercialize ONSOLIS® including partnership or introducing ONSOLIS® utilizing the company’s existing pain sales force.

BELBUCA (buprenorphine buccal film) is a buccal film that contains buprenorphine, a Schedule III opioid, and was approved by the FDA in October 2015 for use in patients with pain severe enough to require daily, around-the-clock, long-term opioid treatment for which alternative options are inadequate. BELBUCA is differentiated from other opioids and has the potential to address some of the most critical issues facing healthcare providers treating chronic pain with prescription opioids – abuse, misuse, addiction and the risk of overdose. Compared to currently marketed products and products under development, we believe that BELBUCA is differentiated based on the following features:

strong and durable efficacy in both opioid naïve and opioid experienced patients;

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Schedule III designation by DEA, which indicates less abuse and addiction potential compared to Schedule II opioids, which include oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine;
in published studies, investigators observed that respiratory depression from buprenorphine administration reached a plateau, and we believe this ceiling effect may result in a lower risk of overdose related respiratory depression;
favorable tolerability with a low incidence of constipation and low discontinuation rate;
flexible dosing options with seven available strengths; and
buccal administration to optimize buprenorphine delivery.
We believe that there are long-term growth opportunities for BELBUCA and we focus our commercial efforts primarily on BELBUCA. Our sales force is focused on current BELBUCA prescribers and clinicians we believe have the greatest opportunity to be adopters of BELBUCA. As of January 2019, BELBUCA had formulary coverage for more than 92% of commercial lives.
The risks to our company associated with BELBUCA include: (i) inability to manufacture adequate supplies for commercial use; (ii) unexpected product safety issues; (iii) failure of our sales force to effectively sell the product and, (iv) inadequate reimbursement. A technical or commercial failure of BELBUCA would have a material adverse effect on our future revenue potential and would negatively affect investor confidence in development as an injectable, extended-release, microparticle formulation of buprenorphineour company and our public stock price.
SYMPROIC
Symproic is a peripherally acting mu-opioid receptor antagonist, or PAMORA, and was approved by the FDA on March 23, 2017 for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation in adult patients with chronic non-cancer pain, including patients with chronic pain related to prior cancer or its treatment who do not require frequent (e.g., weekly) opioid dosage escalation. OIC occurs primarily via activation of enteric mu-receptors in the small intestine and proximal colon, which results in harder stool and less frequent and less effective defecation. Because OIC results from the specific effects of opioids, it differs mechanistically from other forms of constipation, and deserves dedicated medical management. Compared to currently marketed products and products under development for OIC, we believe that Symproic is differentiated based on the following features:
strong and durable efficacy observed in randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trials of 12 week and 52 week duration in OIC patients;
OIC relief that was more frequent, more complete, with less straining than patients taking placebo
recommended by the American Gastroenterological Association for patients with laxative refractory OIC;
adverse event profile comparable to placebo, with low rates of abdominal pain observed across the phase III program; and
the only prescription OIC medication with the convenience of once daily dosing, with only a tablet strength, and that can be taken with or without food and with or without laxatives.
Because of the durable efficacy, tolerability and convenience benefits, we believe that Symproic is a best-in-class PAMORA that reliably provides durable relief of OIC, which frees both the patient and the healthcare provider to focus on treating the patient’s chronic pain.
We believe that there are long-term growth opportunities for Symproic. In 2018, according to data from Symphony Health, the market for PAMORAs included over 550,000 prescriptions dispensed. This represents a 1% growth in prescription volume from 2017. The growth rate of the PAMORAs has slowed since 2017, driven by a decline in opioid prescription rates.
The risks to our company associated with Symproic include: (i) unexpected product safety issues; (ii) inability to continue to supply product in adequate quantities to meet the commercial demand; (iii) inability to manufacture adequate supplies for commercial use; (iv) failure of our sales force to effectively sell the product and, (v) inadequate reimbursement.
BUNAVAIL
In June 2014, BUNAVAIL (buprenorphine and naloxone buccal film) was approved by the FDA for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence as part of a complete treatment plan to include counseling and chronic pain,psychosocial support.
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BUNAVAIL contains the rightspartial opioid agonist buprenorphine, which binds to which we securedthe same receptors as opiate drugs but has a higher affinity, and naloxone, an opioid antagonist and an abuse deterrent.

BUNAVAIL provides an alternative treatment utilizing the advanced BEMA drug delivery technology. BUNAVAIL has approximately twice the bioavailability of sublingual buprenorphine-containing products for opioid dependence, allowing for effective treatment with half the dose when we entered intocompared to Suboxone film. Additionally, BUNAVAIL offers convenient and discrete buccal administration and avoids the need for patients to avoid talking and swallowing during administration. BUNAVAIL has demonstrated an excellent tolerability profile, with a definitive development and exclusive license option agreement68% reduction in the incidence of constipation at the end of 12 weeks in a Phase 3 trial in patients converted from Evonik in October 2014. In 2015, we completed initial development work and preclinical studies which haveSuboxone sublingual tablets or film to BUNAVAIL. The impact of a growing generic Suboxone market has resulted in declining market conditions, and as such, BUNAVAIL is no longer a core strategic asset for our Company.

ONSOLIS
In July 2009, ONSOLIS (fentanyl buccal soluble film) was approved for the identificationmanagement of pain that “breaks through” the effects of other medications being used to control persistent pain, or breakthrough pain, in cancer patients 18 years of age and older who are already receiving and who are tolerant to opioid therapy for their underlying persistent cancer pain. We refer to breakthrough pain in opioid tolerant patients with cancer as BTCP. ONSOLIS provides significant reduction in pain for patients suffering from BTCP in a convenient formulation with a range of doses to allow patients to titrate to an adequate level of pain control. We are not currently assessing options for U.S. commercialization of ONSOLIS. Given current declining market conditions, we believe can provide 30 days of continuous buprenorphine treatment. We submitted an Investigational New Drug application (“IND”)have no plans to introduce the product in the US at this time. The product is no longer strategic for this product candidate to the FDA in December 2016.

Company.

We expect to continue our research and development of pharmaceutical products and related drug delivery technologies, some of which will be funded by our commercialization agreements.

We will continue to seek additional license agreements, which may include upfront payments.agreements. We anticipate that funding for the next several years will come primarily from earnings from sales of BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®,Symproic, and milestone payments and royalties from MedaMylan and TTY, potential sales of securities and collaborative research agreements, including those with pharmaceutical companies.

TTY.

Results of Operations

Comparison of the three months ended September 30, 20182019 and 2017

2018

Product Sales. We recognized $13.8$29.6 million and $8.1$13.8 million in product sales during the three months ended September 30, 20182019 and 2017,2018, respectively. The increase in 2019 is principally due to increased BELBUCA® product sales from the utilization of managed care wins and the expansionacquisition of our salesforce in 2018.

Symproic, offset by lower BUNAVAIL product sales.

Product Royalty Revenues. We recognized $0.7 million in PAINKYL product royalty revenue during the three months ended September 30, 2019 under our license agreement with TTY. We recognized $0.4 million and $1.4 million in BREAKYL product royalty revenue during the three months ended September 30, 2018, and 2017, respectively. Of the amounts, $0.4 million and $0.9 million, respectively, can be attributed to royalties on net sales of BREAKYLunder our license agreement with Meda. We also recognized $0.5 million in PAINKYL royalty revenue in each of the respective three months ended September 30, 2017, under our license agreement with TTY. The revenue decrease is principally due to lower BREAKYL and PAINKYL royalty revenue during the three months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to September 30, 2017 because of delay in shipments of BREAKYL in the EU and PAINKYL in Taiwan which will occur in the fourth quarter 2018.

Research and Development Reimbursements.


Contract Revenues. We recognized $0.5 million of reimbursable revenue related to our former agreement with Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc. (“Collegium”) during the three months ended September 30, 2017. There was no such revenue recognized during the same period ended September 30, 2018, as Collegium terminated their agreement December 2017, which was effective March 2018.

Contract Revenues. We recognized $0.015 million and $0.08$0.02 million in contract revenues during the three months ended September 30, 2018 related to our license agreements with Purdue Canada (“Purdue”) and TTY, respectively. We recognized $1.2 million inTTY. There was no such contract revenuerevenues during the three months ended September 30, 2017 upon executionsame period of our license agreement with Purdue.

2019.

Cost of Sales.Sales. We incurred $3.8$5.4 million and $4.4$3.8 million in cost of sales during the three months ended September 30, 20182019 and 2017,2018, respectively. Cost of sales during the three months ended September 30, 2018 was related primarily to BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®, which included $3.3 million ofincludes product cost, and depreciation. Additionally, weroyalties paid, a total of $0.4 million indepreciation, yield adjustments and quarterly minimum royalty payments to CDC IV, LLC (“CDC”). Cost of sales during the three months ended September 30, 2018 also included $0.1 million related to BREAKYL and PAINKYL. Cost of sales during the three months ended September 30, 2017 was related primarily to BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®, which included $2.8 million of product cost, royalties paid and depreciation, and $0.7 million of fair value of the inventory purchased related to the BELBUCA® reacquisition. Additionally, we paid a total of $0.4 million in quarterly minimum royalty payments to CDC. Cost of sales during the three months ended September 30, 2017 also included $0.5 million related to BREAKYL and PAINKYL.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses.Expenses. During the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, and 2017,selling, general and administrative expenses totaled $13.5$23.4 million and $14.9$13.5 million, respectively. Selling, general and administrative costs include commercialization costs for BELBUCA,® BUNAVAIL and BUNAVAIL®,Symproic, legal, accounting and management wages, and consulting and professional fees, travel costs, stock based compensation and amortization. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses during the three months ended September 30, 2019 is due to the increase in compensation expense related to our expansion efforts, increased marketing efforts and expenses related to the acquisition of Symproic.
Research and Development. We recognized $0.7 million of research and development expense during the three months ended September 30, 2018 related to allocated wages and compensation to approved products and product candidates. There was no such research and development expense during the three months ended September 30, 2019 due to the Company focusing entirely on commercialization of products beginning in 2019.
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Interest expense, net. During the three months ended September 30, 2019, we had net interest expense of $1.2 million, which includes interest expense of $1.5 million and $0.06 million of amortization of discount and stockloan costs, both related to the new debt arrangement.
During the three months ended September 30, 2019, we also had interest income of $0.3 million.
During the three months ended September 30, 2018, we had net interest expense of $2.6 million, consisting of $1.4 million of scheduled interest payments, $0.9 million of related amortization of discount and loan costs and $0.3 million of warrant interest expense, all related to the former debt arrangement.
Comparison of the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018
Product Sales. We recognized $77.4 million and $34.4 million in product sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. The increase in 2019 is principally due to increased BELBUCA product sales from the utilization of managed care wins and the acquisition of Symproic, offset by lower BUNAVAIL product sales.
Product Royalty Revenues. We recognized $2.2 million in product royalty revenue during each of the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Of the aforementioned amounts, $1.0 million and $1.3 million, respectively, can be attributed to royalty revenue from BREAKYL under our license agreement with Meda. We recognized $1.2 million and $0.9 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, in PAINKYL royalty revenue under our license agreement with TTY.
Contract Revenues. We recognized $0.2 million in PAINKYL contract revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 under our license agreement with TTY. We recognized $1.0 million in contract revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 related to our former license agreement with Purdue, which was for the Canadian commercial launch and related milestones.
Cost of Sales. We incurred $14.3 million and $11.8 million in cost of sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Cost of sales includes product cost, royalties paid, depreciation, yield adjustments and quarterly minimum royalty payments to CDC.
Selling,GeneralandAdministrativeExpenses. During the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, selling, general and administrative expenses totaled $62.3 million and $41.0 million, respectively. Selling, general and administrative costs include commercialization costs for BELBUCA, BUNAVAIL and Symproic, management wages and stock-based compensation, expenses.legal, accounting and other professional fees, travel costs, and the amortization of our intangible assets including the license and distribution rights from the reacquisition of BELBUCA and the acquisition of Symproic. During the normal course of business, we accrue additional expenses for certain legal matters from time to time, including legal matters related to the protection and enforcement of our intellectual property. The amounts accrued for such legal matters are recorded within accrued expenses on the balance sheet. The decreaseincrease in selling, general and administrative expenses during 2018 can be primarily attributed2019 is due to the settlement of the Teva lawsuit which reduced legal costsincrease in compensation expense related to our expansion efforts, increased marketing efforts and the retirement of company executives which reduced stock compensation expenses.

During the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, selling, general and administrative expenses included $0.9 million and $3.7 million of stock compensation expenses, respectively. This is primarily composed of restricted stock unit

expense for our executive management and board of directors. Also included in each of the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 is amortization expense of $1.1 million for the intangible related to the BELBUCA® reacquisition.

Interest expense. During the three months ended September 30, 2018, we had net interest expenseacquisition of $2.6 million, consisting of $1.4Symproic.

Research and Development. We recognized $4.0 million of scheduled interest payments, $0.9 million of related amortization of discountresearch and loan costs and $0.3 million of warrant interest expense. During the three months ended September 30, 2017, we had net interestdevelopment expense of $1.9 million, consisting of $1.4 million of scheduled interest payments, $0.3 million of related amortization of discount and loan costs and $0.2 million of warrant interest expense, all related to the February 2017 CRG Term Loan Agreement.

Comparison of the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017

Product Sales. We recognized $34.4 million and $23.8 million in product sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. The increase is principally due to increased BELBUCA® product sales from the utilization of managed care wins and the expansion of our salesforce in 2018. Also included in the product sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is $1.7 million of revenue recorded because of changing to thesell-in method as of January 1, 2017.

Product Royalty Revenues. We recognized $2.2 million and $3.7 million in product royalty revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Of the amounts, $1.3 million and $2.1 million, respectively, can be attributed to royalty revenue from BREAKYL under our license agreement with Meda. We recognized $0.9 million in each of the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 in PAINKYL royalty revenue under our license agreement with TTY. We also recognized $0.7 million in milestones related to our agreement with Endo during the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The revenue decrease is principally due to lower BREAKYL and PAINKYL royalty revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to September 30, 2017 because of delay in shipments of BREAKYL in the EU and PAINKYL in Taiwan which will occur in the fourth quarter 2018.

Research and Development Reimbursements. We recognized $0.8 million of reimbursable revenue related to our agreement with Collegium during the nine months ended September 30, 2017. There was no such revenue recognized during the same period ended September 30, 2018, as Collegium terminated their agreement December 2017, which was effective March 2018.

Contract Revenues.We recognized $1.0 million in contract revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 related to our license agreement with Purdue, whichallocated wages and compensation to approved products and product candidates. There was for the Canadian commercial launchno such research and related milestones. We recognized $20.0 million of deferred revenuedevelopment expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The $20.0 million recognized in 2017 was received in November 2015 as partial payment from Endo for the BELBUCA® NDA approval. This amount was deferred upon receipt because it was contingently refundable to Endo if a third-party generic product was introduced in the U.S. during the patent extension period from 2020 to 2027. However, we entered into a Termination Agreement with Endo on December 7, 2016 which terminated the BELBUCA® license to Endo effective January 6, 2017 and such deferred revenue was recognized. We also recognized $1.2 million in contract revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 related to our license agreement with Purdue.

Cost of Sales. We incurred $11.8 million and $14.3 million in cost of sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Cost of sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was $9.9 million for both BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®. Additionally, we paid a total of $1.1 million in quarterly minimum and royalty payments to CDC. Cost of sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 also includes $0.8 million related to BREAKYL and PAINKYL. Cost of sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was $9.5 million for both BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®. Such product costs include manufacturing, royalties and depreciation and $2.8 million of fair value of the inventory purchased related2019 due to the BELBUCA® reacquisition. Additionally, we paid a totalCompany focusing entirely on commercialization of $1.1 millionproducts beginning in quarterly minimum and royalty payments to CDC. Cost of sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 also includes $0.9 million related to BREAKYL and PAINKYL2019.

Interest expense, net.

Selling,GeneralandAdministrativeExpenses. During the nine months ended September 30, 20182019, we had net interest expense of $17.7 million, consisting of $11.9 million of one-time costs associated with the refinancing of our debt, $5.3 million of scheduled interest payments relating to both loans, $0.1 million of related amortization of discount and 2017, general and administrative expenses totaled $41.0 million and $44.1 million, respectively. Selling, general and administrative costs include commercializationloan costs for BELBUCA®both the old and BUNAVAIL®, management wagesnew debt arrangements, and stock-based compensation, legal, accounting and other professional fees, travel costs, and$0.4 million of warrant interest expense associated with the amortization of our intangible assets including the license and distribution rights from the reacquisition of BELBUCA®asnoted above. During the normal course of business, we accrue additionalformer CRG loan.

The one-time expenses for certain legal matters from time to time, including legal matters related to the protection and enforcement of our intellectual property. The amounts accrued for such legal matters are recorded within accrued expenses on the balance sheet. The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses during 2018 can be primarily attributed to the settlementpayoff of the Teva lawsuit which reduced legalCRG loan consisted of $5.2 million in unamortized deferred loan fees, $3.9 million in unamortized warrant discount costs and the retirement$2.8 million in loan prepayment fees and realized losses, for a cumulative total of company executives which reduced stock compensation expenses.

$11.9 million in one-time costs.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, selling, general and administrative expenses included $3.8 million and $8.9 million2019, we also had interest income of stock compensation expenses, respectively. This is primarily composed$0.6 million.
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executive management and board of directors. Also included in each of the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 is amortization expense of $3.4 million for the intangible related to the BELBUCA® reacquisition.

Interest expense.During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we had net interest expense of $7.6 million, consisting of $4.6 million of scheduled interest payments, $2.2 million of related amortization of discount and loan costs and $0.8 million of warrant interest expense. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, we had net interest expense of $6.7 million, consisting of $2.9 million of scheduled interest payments and $0.8 million of related amortization of discount and loan costs and $0.4 million of warrant interest expense, all related to the February 2017 CRG Term Loan Agreement. In addition, we had remaining $0.9 million of scheduled interest payments and $1.4 million of related amortization of discount, loan costs and loan pay off and $0.2 million of warrant interest expense all related to the July 2013 secured loan facility from MidCap, which was paid off with the CRG term loan.

former debt arrangement.

Revenues

The following table summarizes net product sales for the three and nine-monthnine month periods ended September 30 in thousands:

   Three months ended
September 30,
  Nine months ended
September 30,
 
   2018  2017  2018  2017 

BELBUCA®

  $12,358  $6,437  $30,128  $17,554 

% of net product sales

   90  79  88  74

BUNAVAIL®

   1,405   1,681   4,239   6,224 

% of net product sales

   10  21  12  26
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net product sales

  $13,763  $8,118  $34,367  $23,798 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Expenditures

Three months ended September 30,Nine months ended September 30,
2019201820192018
BELBUCA$26,514  $12,358  $69,277  $30,128  
% of net product sales90 %90 %89 %88 %
Symproic2,172  —  5,348  —  
% of net product sales%— %%— %
BUNAVAIL937  1,405  2,813  4,239  
% of net product sales%10 %%12 %
Net product sales$29,623  $13,763  $77,438  $34,367  
Non-GAAP Financial Information:
We report our condensed consolidated financial results in accordance with GAAP; however, we believe that earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) and other non-GAAP results should not be considered in isolation of or as an alternative for, Researchearnings measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Management uses these non-GAAP measures internally to measure the ongoing operating performance of our Company along with other metrics, and Development Programs

Our researchfor planning and development expendituresforecasting purposes. In addition, when evaluating non-GAAP results, we exclude certain items that are considered to be non-cash and if applicable, non-recurring, in nature.

EBITDA and Non-GAAP Income/(Loss):
We have presented EBITDA because it is a key measure used by our management and board of directors to understand and evaluate our operating performance and to develop operational goals for managing our approved productsbusiness. We believe this financial measure helps identify underlying trends in our business that could otherwise be masked by the effect of the expenses that we exclude. In particular, we believe that the exclusion of the expenses eliminated in calculating EBITDA can provide a useful measure for period-to-period comparisons of our core operating performance. Accordingly, we believe that EBITDA provides useful information to investors and product candidatesothers in understanding and evaluating our operating results, enhancing the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects, and allowing for greater transparency with respect to key financial metrics used by our management in its financial and operational decision-making.
EBITDA is not prepared in accordance with GAAP, and should not be considered in isolation of, or as an alternative to, measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. There are a number of September 30limitations related to the use of adjusted EBITDA rather than net income/(loss), which is the nearest GAAP equivalent. Some of these limitations are:
EBITDA excludes depreciation and amortization and, although these are as followsnon-cash expenses, the assets being depreciated or amortized may have to be replaced in thousands:

   Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
   Cumulative
through
September
30,
 
   2018  2017  2018   2017   2018 

BELBUCA®

  $621  $126  $3,082   $733   $125,779 

BUNAVAIL®

   41   702   312    2,474    41,197 

ONSOLIS®

   62   1,118   536    1,744    3,590 

Buprenorphine Depot Injection

   (28  (6  94    1,015    9,879 

Clonidine Topical Gel*

   3   46   14    280    27,533 

*

Clonidine Topical Gel product candidate was discontinued in December 2016. Expenses thereafter consist of the winding down of the product candidate which includes allocated wages and compensation.

Non-GAAP (Loss) Incomethe future, the cash requirements for which are not reflected in EBITDA;

EBITDA does not reflect provision for (benefit from) income taxes or the cash requirements to pay taxes; and
EBITDA excludes net interest, including both interest expense and Earnings Per Common Share:

interest income.

Non-GAAP net income/(loss) income and EPS areis an alternative viewsview of our performance that we are providing because management believes this information enhances investors’ understanding of our results as it permits investors to better understand howthe ongoing operations of the business, the impact of any non-recurring one-time events, the cash results of the organization and is an additional measure used by management assessesto assess performance.
Non-GAAP net income/(loss) incomeis not prepared in accordance with GAAP, and EPSshould not be considered in isolation of, or as an alternative to, measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. There are a number of limitations related to the use of non-GAAP net income/(loss) rather than net income/(loss), which is the nearest GAAP equivalent. Some of these limitations are:
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Non-GAAP income/(loss) excludes certainone-time items because of the nature of the itemitems and the impact that is hasthose have on the analysis of underlying business performance and trends. InSpecifically, in the presentation ofnon-GAAP income/(loss) income and EPS below,for the nine months periods September 30, 2019, we have excluded the Series B Preferred Stock beneficial conversion feature,financial impact of our debt refinancing which was approvedclosed in August 2018,May 2019, as it isnon-recurring. This excluded item is a significant component in understanding and assessing ongoing financial performance.Non-GAAP The one-time expenses related to the payoff of the CRG loan consisted of $5.2 million in unamortized deferred loan fees, $3.9 million in unamortized warrant discount costs and $2.8 million in loan prepayment fees and realized losses, for a cumulative total of $11.9 million in one-time costs;
The expenses and other items that we exclude in our calculation of non-GAAP net income/(loss) incomemay differ from the expenses and EPS is an important internal measure for our Company. Senior management receives a monthly analysis ofother items, if any, that other companies may exclude from non-GAAP net income/(loss) when they report their operating results that includessince non-GAAP (loss) income and EPS. Management uses these measures internally for planning and forecasting purposes and to measure the performance of our Company along with other metrics. Sincenon-GAAPincome/(loss) income and EPS areis not measuresa measure determined in accordance with GAAP, and it has no standardized meaning prescribed by GAAPGAAP;
We exclude stock-based compensation expense from non-GAAP net income/(loss) although (a) it has been, and therefore, maywill likely continue to be for the foreseeable future, a significant recurring expense for our business and an important part of our compensation strategy and (b) if we did not pay out a portion of our compensation in the form of stock-based compensation, the cash salary expense included in operating expenses would likely be comparablehigher, which would affect our cash position;
We exclude amortization of intangible assets from non-GAAP net income/(loss) due to the calculationnon-cash nature of similar measuresthis expense and although it has been and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a recurring expense for our business, these expenses do not affect our cash position; and
Amortization of other companies. Thenon-GAAP (loss) income and EPS measures should be

consideredwarrant discount costs associated with the CRG loan which was dissolved in addition to, butMay 2019 are excluded given these expenses did not as a substitute for or superior to, (loss) income and EPS prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP).

affect our cash position;

Reconciliations of non-GAAP metrics to most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures:

The following table reconcilestables reconcile net income/(loss) income and the numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted earnings per common shareand computations (in thousands, except share and per share data)thousands) under GAAP to aNon-GAAP basis.

   Three Months Ended
September 30,
   Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   2018   2017   2018   2017 

Basic:

        

Net (loss) income under GAAP

  $(18,880  $(11,951  $(39,359  $21,495 

Adjustment to beneficial conversion feature of convertible preferred stock

   12,500    —      12,500    —   

Net (loss) income attributable to common stockholders’Non-GAAP

   (6,380   (11,951   (26,859   21,495 

Weighted average common shares outstanding

   64,900,007    55,604,708    60,599,456    55,170,569 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Basic (loss) income per common share

  $(0.10  $(0.21  $(0.44  $0.39 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted:

        

Effect of dilutive securities:

        

Net (loss) income under GAAP

  $(18,880  $(11,951  $(39,359  $21,495 

Adjustment to beneficial conversion feature of convertible preferred stock

   12,500    —      12,500    —   

Net (loss) income attributable to common stockholders’Non-GAAP

   (6,380   (11,951   (26,859   21,495 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted average common shares outstanding

   64,900,007    55,604,708    60,599,456    55,170,569 

Effect of dilutive options and warrants

   —      —      —      1,033,789 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding

   64,900,007    55,604,708    60,599,456    56,204,358 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted (loss) income per common share

  $(0.10  $(0.21  $(0.44  $0.38 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

The following table reconciles GAAP diluted EPS toNon-GAAP diluted EPS for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 follows:

   Three months ended
September 30,
   Nine months ended
September 30,
 
   2018   2017   2018   2017 

Diluted EPS under GAAP

  $(0.29  $(0.21  $(0.65  $0.38 

Diluted EPS adjustment to beneficial conversion feature of convertible preferred stock

   0.19    —      0.21    —   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted EPSNon-GAAP

  $(0.10  $(0.21  $(0.44  $0.38 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Three Months Ended
September 30,
Nine Months Ended
September 30,
Reconciliation of GAAP net income/(loss) to EBITDA (non-GAAP)2019201820192018
GAAP net income/(loss)$354  $(6,380) $(14,609) $(26,859) 
Add back:
Provision for income taxes —   53  
Net interest expense1,237  2,569  17,727  7,606  
Depreciation and amortization1,904  1,519  5,259  4,718  
EBITDA$3,499  $(2,292) $8,381  $(14,482) 
Reconciliation of GAAP net income/(loss) to Non-GAAP net income/(loss)
GAAP net income/(loss)354  (6,380) (14,609) (26,859) 
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Stock-based compensation expense1,267  892  3,978  4,896  
Amortization of intangible assets1,898  1,289  5,084  3,868  
Amortization of warrant discount—  269  448  807  
Non-recurring financial impact of debt refinance—  —  11,866  —  
Non-GAAP net income/(loss)$3,519  $(3,930) $6,767  $(17,288) 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Since inception, we have financed our operations principally from the sale of equity securities, proceeds from short-term borrowings, or convertible notes, and notes payable, funded research arrangements, and revenue generated as a result of our worldwide license and development agreements.agreements and the commercialization of our BELBUCA, Symproic and BUNAVAIL products. We
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intend to finance our commercialization research and development and working capital needs from existing cash, royalty revenue, earnings from the continued commercialization of BELBUCA,® Symproic and BUNAVAIL,®, our term loan with CRG (assuming we achieve the conditions for additional funding under such loan), potential royalty revenue, new sources of debt and equity financing, existing and new licensing and commercial partnership agreements and, potentially, through the exercise of outstanding common stock options and warrants to purchase common stock.

At September 30, 2018,2019, we had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $49.5$55.9 million. We used $18.3$5.8 million of cash in operations during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and had stockholders’ equity of $35.6 million, versus stockholders’ equity of $8.9 million at December 31, 2017.2019. We believe that we have sufficient current cash to manage the business as currently planned into the second

planned.

quarter of 2020, which would provide sufficient capital necessary to support the continued commercialization of BELBUCA® and BUNAVAIL®.

Additional capital may be required to support the continued commercialization of our BELBUCA,® Symproic and BUNAVAIL® products, the reformulation project for and the anticipated commercial relaunch of ONSOLIS®, the potential continued development of Buprenorphine Extended Release Injection oras well as other products which may be acquired or licensed by us, and for general working capital requirements. Based on product development timelines and agreements with our partners, the ability to scale up or reduce personnel and associated costs are factors considered throughout the product life cycle. Available resources may be consumed more rapidly than currently anticipated, potentially resulting in the need for additional funding. Additional funding, capital or loans (including, without limitation, milestone or other payments from commercialization agreements) may be unavailable on favorable terms, if at all, which could leave our company without adequate capital resources.

Also, product development timelines and agreements with our development partners, the ability to scale up or reduce personnel and associated costs are factors considered throughout the product development life cycle. Available resources may be consumed more rapidly than currently anticipated, resulting in the need for additional funding.

all.

Accordingly, we anticipate that we willmay be required to raise additional capital, which may be available to us through a variety of sources, including:

public equity markets;

private equity financings;

commercialization agreements and collaborative arrangements;

sale of product royalty;

grants and new license revenues;

bank loans;

equipment financing;

public or private debt; and

exercise of existing warrants and options.

Readers are cautioned that additional funding, capital or loans (including, without limitation, milestone or other payments from commercialization agreements) may be unavailable on favorable terms, if at all. If adequate funds are not available, we may be required to significantly reduce or refocus our operations or to obtain funds through arrangements that may require us to relinquish rights to certain technologies and drug formulations or potential markets, either of which could have a material adverse effect on us, our financial condition and our results of operations.operations in 2019 and beyond. To the extent that additional capital is raised through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the issuance of such securities would result in ownership dilution to existing stockholders.

Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments

Our contractual obligations as of September 30, 20182019 are as follows in thousands:

   Payments Due by Period 
   Total   

Less than

1 year

   1-3 years   3-5 years   

More than

5 years

 

Operating lease obligations

  $1,386   $348   $725   $313   $—  

Secured loan facility*

   66,315    —      —      66,315    —   

Interest on secured loan facility*

   25,161    5,663    5,883    13,615    —   

Minimum royalty expenses**

   13,125    1,125    3,000    3,000    6,000 

Purchase obligations***

   1,508    493    1,015    —      —   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total contractual cash obligations

  $107,495   $7,629   $10,623   $83,243   $6,000 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

*

Assumes no events of default have occurred and we elect to defer 3.5% of the scheduled quarterly interest payments through December 31, 2020 aspaid-in-kind interest as provided for in the amendments to the loan agreement with CRG.

**

Minimum royalty expenses represent a contractual floor that we are obligated to pay CDC and NB Athyrium LLC regardless of actual sales. The minimum payment is $0.4 million per quarter or $1.5 million per year until patent expiry on July 23, 2027.

***

Purchase obligations represent an agreement for the supply of active pharmaceutical ingredient for use in production.

Payments Due by Period
TotalLess than
1 year
1-3 years3-5 yearsMore than
5 years
Lease obligations$1,038  $267  $740  $31  $—  
Secured loan facility60,000  —  4,615  55,385  —  
Interest on secured loan facility25,440  5,997  11,846  7,597  —  
Minimum royalty expenses*11,625  1,500  3,000  3,000  4,125  
Purchase obligations**1,885  1,363  522  —  —  
Total contractual cash obligations$99,988  $9,127  $20,723  $66,013  $4,125  
* Minimum royalty expenses represent a contractual floor that we are obligated to pay CDC and NB Athyrium LLC regardless of actual sales. The minimum payment is $0.4 million per quarter or $1.5 million per year until patent expiry on July 23, 2027.
** Purchase obligations represent an agreement for the supply of active pharmaceutical ingredient for use in production.
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of September 30, 2018,2019, we had nooff-balance sheet arrangements.

Effects of Inflation

We do not believe that inflation has had a material effect on our financial position or results of operations. However, there can be no assurance that our business will not be affected by inflation in the future.

Critical Accounting Policies

For information regarding our critical accounting policies and estimates, please refer to “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” contained in our annual report on Form10-K for the year ended December 31, 20172018 (the “2017“2018 Annual Report”) and Note 1 of the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements in revenue recognition to recognize revenue on thesell-in method.

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Item 3.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Foreign currency exchange risk

We currently have, and may in the future have increased, clinicalcommercial, manufacturing and commercial manufacturingclinical agreements which are denominated in Euros CAD or other foreign currencies. Such amounts are currently immaterial to our financial position or results of operations. As a result, our financial results could be affected by factors such as a change in the foreign currency exchange rate between the U.S. dollar or Euro CAD or other applicable currencies, or by weak economic conditions in Europe Canada or elsewhere in the world. Such amounts are currently immaterial to our financial position or results of operations. We are not currently engaged in any foreign currency hedging activities.


Market Risk
We do not engage in speculative transactions nor do we hold or issue financial instruments for trading purposes. In connection with the recapitalization of our business, we have entered into a secured credit facility consisting of a term loan. Our term loan note bears interest which includes fluctuating interest rates based on LIBOR.
There is currently uncertainty around whether LIBOR will continue to exist after 2021. If LIBOR ceases to exist, we may need to renegotiate our loan documents and we cannot predict what alternative index would be negotiated with our lenders. As a result, our interest expense could increase, in which event we may have difficulties making interest payments and funding our other fixed costs, and our available cash flow for general corporate requirements may be adversely affected.
Our fixed rate debt exposes our Company to changes in market interest rates reflected in the fair value of the debt and to the risk that we may need to refinance maturing debt with new debt at a higher rate.
Item 4.

Controls and Procedures

Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report, our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer (our principal executive officer) and Chief Financial Officer (our principal financial officer) (the “Certifying Officers”), conducted evaluations of our disclosure controls and procedures. As defined under Sections13a-15(e) and15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), the term “disclosure controls and procedures” means controls and other procedures of an issuer that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC. Disclosure controls and procedures include without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by an issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the issuer’s management, including the Certifying Officers, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

Readers are cautioned that our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will necessarily prevent all fraud and material error. An internal control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within our control have been detected. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any control
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design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Based on this evaluation, the Certifying Officers have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of September 30, 2018.

2019.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during our third quarter of 20182019 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

CAUTIONARY NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain information set forth in this Quarterly Report on Form10-Q, including in Item 2, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” (and the “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section thereof) and elsewhere may address or relate to future events and expectations and as such constitutes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties. Such statements may include, without limitation, statements with respect to our plans, objectives, projections, expectations and intentions and other statements identified by words such as “projects,” “may,” “could,” “would,” “should,” “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “intends,” “plans” or similar expressions. These statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of our management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in our filings with the SEC. Actual results, including, without limitation: (i) actual sales results (including the results of our continuing commercial efforts with BELBUCA,® Symproic and BUNAVAIL®)BUNAVAIL), (ii) the application and availability of corporate funds and our need for future funds, (iii) the timing for completion,

and results of, scheduled or additional clinical trials and the FDA’s review and/or approval and commercial activities for our products and product candidates and regulatory filings related to the same or (iv) the results of our ongoing intellectual property litigations and patent office proceedings, may differ significantly from those set forth or anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements also involve other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to materially differ from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and to vary significantly from reporting period to reporting period. Such factors include, among others, those listed under Item 1A of our 20172018 Annual Report and other factors detailed from time to time in our other filings with the SEC. Although management believes that the assumptions made and expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, there is no assurance that the underlying assumptions will, in fact, prove to be correct or that actual future results will not be different from the expectations expressed in this Quarterly Report. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1.

Legal Proceedings.

We are involved from time

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
See Note 11, Commitments and Contingencies, to time in routine legal matters incidental to our business. Based upon available information, we believe that the resolution of such matters will not have a material adverse effect on our condensed consolidated financial position or resultsstatements included in Part I, Item I of operations. Except as discussed below, we are not the subject of any pending legal proceedings and, to the knowledge of management, no proceedings are presently contemplated against us by any federal, state or local governmental agency.

Indivior (formerly RB Pharmaceuticals Ltd.) and Aquestive Therapeutics (formerly MonoSol Rx)

Litigation related to BUNAVAIL®

On October 29, 2013, Reckitt Benckiser, Inc., RB Pharmaceuticals Limited, and Aquestive (collectively, the RB Plaintiffs) filed an action against us relating to our BUNAVAIL® product in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (“EDNC”) for alleged patent infringement. BUNAVAIL® is a drug approved for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. The RB Plaintiffs claim that the formulation for BUNAVAIL®, which has never been disclosed publicly, infringes its US Patent No. 8,475,832 (the ‘832 Patent). On May 21, 2014, the Court granted our motion to dismiss.

On January 22, 2014, Aquestive initiated aninter partesreview (“IPR”) IPRthis Quarterly Report on the ‘019 Patent, which was instituted. The PTAB upheld all claims of our ‘019 Patent in 2015 and this decision was not appealed by Aquestive.

On September 20, 2014, we proactively filed a declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the EDNC requesting the Court to make a determination that our BUNAVAIL® product does not infringe the ‘832 Patent, US Patent No. 7,897,080 (the “‘080 Patent”) and US Patent No. 8,652,378 (the “‘378 Patent”). We invalidated the “‘080 Patent” in its entirety in aninter partesreexamination proceeding. We invalidated all relevant claims of the ‘832 Patent in aninter partesreview (IPR) proceeding. And, in an IPR proceeding for the ‘378 Patent, in its decision not to institute the IPR proceeding the PTAB construed the claims of the ‘378 Patent narrowly. Shortly thereafter, by joint motion of the parties, the ‘378 Patent was subsequently removed from the action.

On June 6, 2016, in an unrelated case in which Indivior and Aquestive asserted the ‘832 Patent against other parties, the Delaware District Court entered an order invalidating other claims in the ‘832 Patent. Indivior and Aquestive cross-appealed all adverse findings in that decision to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in CaseNo. 17-2587. Our declaratory judgment action remains stayed pending the outcome of that cross-appeal by Indivior and Aquestive.

On September 22, 2014, the RB Plaintiffs filed an action against us (and our commercial partner) relating to our BUNAVAIL® product in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey for alleged patent infringement. The RB Plaintiffs claim that BUNAVAIL®, whose formulation and manufacturing processes have never been disclosed publicly, infringes its patent U.S. Patent No. 8,765,167 (the ‘167 Patent. As with prior actions by the RB Plaintiffs, we believe this is another anticompetitive attempt by the RB Plaintiffs to distract our efforts from commercializing BUNAVAIL®. We strongly refute as without merit the RB Plaintiffs’ assertion of patent infringement and will vigorously defend the lawsuit. On our motion, this case was transferred to the Eastern District of North Carolina. A Joint Motion to Stay the case was granted and the case is now stayed until a final resolution of the ‘167 IPRs discussed directly below. We will continue to vigorously defend this case.

On October 28, 2014, we filed multiple IPR petitions on certain claims of the ‘167 Patent. The USPTO instituted three of the four IPR petitions. The PTAB upheld the claims and denied collateral estoppel applied to the PTAB decisions in March 2016. We appealed to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The USPTO intervened with respect to whether collateral estoppel applied to the

PTAB. On June 19, 2018, we filed a motion to remand the case for further consideration by the PTAB in view of intervening authority. On July 31, 2018, the Federal Circuit vacated the decisions, and remanded the ‘167 Patent IPRs for further consideration on the merits.

Litigation related to BELBUCA®

On January 13, 2017, Aquestive filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging BELBUCA® infringes the ‘167 Patent. In lieu of answering the complaint, we filed motions to dismiss the complaint and, in the alternative, to transfer the case to the EDNC. On July 25, 2017, the New Jersey Court administratively terminated the case pending the parties submission of a joint stipulation of transfer because the District of New Jersey was an inappropriate venue. This case was later transferred to the Delaware District Court. On October 31, 2017 we filed motions to dismiss the complaint and, in the alternative, to transfer the case to the EDNC. On October 16, 2018, denying the motion to dismiss as moot, the Delaware District Court granted our motion to transfer the case to the EDNC. The case is now pending in the EDNC. We strongly refute as without merit Aquestive’s assertion of patent infringement and will vigorously defend the lawsuit.

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA (formerly Actavis)

On February 8, 2016, we received a notice relating to a Paragraph IV certification from Teva Pharmaceuticals USA (“Teva”) (formerly Actavis) seeking to find invalid three Orange Book listed patents relating specifically to BUNAVAIL®. The Paragraph IV certification related to an Abbreviated New Drug Application (the “ANDA”) filed by Teva with the U.S Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for a generic formulation of BUNAVAIL®. The patents subject to Teva’s certification were U.S. Patent No. 7,579,019 (the “‘019 Patent”), U.S. Patent No. 8,147,866 (the “‘866 Patent”) and 8,703,177 (the “‘177 Patent”).

On March 18, 2016, we asserted three different patents against Teva, the ‘019 Patent, the ‘866 Patent, and the ‘177 Patent. Teva did not raisenon-infringement positions about the ‘019 and the ‘866 Patents in its Paragraph IV certification. Teva did raise anon-infringement position on the ‘177 Patent but we asserted in our complaint that Teva infringed the ‘177 Patent either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents.

On December 20, 2016 the USPTO issued U.S. Patent No. 9,522,188 (“the ‘188 Patent”), and this patent was properly listed in the Orange Book as covering the BUNAVAIL® product. On February 23, 2017 Teva sent a Paragraph IV certification adding the 9,522,188 to its ANDA. An amended Complaint was filed, adding the ‘188 Patent to the litigation.

On January 31, 2017, we received a notice relating to a Paragraph IV certification from Teva relating to Teva’s ANDA on additional strengths of BUNAVAIL® and on March 16, 2017, we brought suit against Teva and its parent company on these additional strengths. On June 20, 2017, the Court entered orders staying both BUNAVAIL® suits at the request of the parties.

On May 23, 2017, the USPTO issued U.S. Patent 9,655,843 (the “‘843 Patent”) relating to the BEMA® technology, and this patent was properly listed in the Orange Book as covering the BUNAVAIL® product.

Finally, on October 12, 2017, we announced that we had entered into a settlement agreement with Teva that resolved our BUNAVAIL® patent litigation against Teva pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. As part of the Settlement Agreement,Form 10-Q, which is subject to reviewincorporated into this item by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, we have entered into anon-exclusive license agreement with Teva that permits Teva to first begin selling its generic version of BUNAVAIL® in the U.S. on July 23, 2028 or earlier under certain circumstances. Other terms of the agreement are confidential.

We received notices regarding Paragraph IV certifications from Teva on November 8, 2016, November 10, 2016, and December 22, 2016, seeking to find invalid two Orange Book listed patents relating specifically to BELBUCA®. The Paragraph IV certifications relate to three ANDAs filed by Teva with the FDA for a generic formulation of BELBUCA®. The patents subject to Teva’s certification were the ‘019 Patent and the ‘866 Patent. We filed complaints in Delaware against Teva on December 22, 2016 and February 3, 2017 in which we asserted against Teva the ‘019 Patent and the ‘866 Patent. Teva did not contest infringement of the claims of the ‘019 Patent and did not contest infringement of the claims of the ‘866 Patent.

The ‘019 Patent had already been the subject of an unrelated IPR before the USPTO under which we prevailed, and all claims of the ‘019 Patent survived. Aquestive’s request for rehearing of the final IPR decision regarding the ‘019 Patent was denied by the USPTO on December 19, 2016. Aquestive did not file a timely appeal at the Federal Circuit.

On May 23, 2017, the USPTO issued U.S. Patent 9,655,843 (the “‘843 Patent”) relating to the BEMA® technology, and this patent was properly listed in the Orange Book as covering the BELBUCA® product.

reference.

On August 28, 2017, the Court entered orders staying both BELBUCA® suits at the request of the parties.

In February 2018, we announced that we had entered into a settlement agreement with Teva that resolved our BELBUCA® patent litigation against Teva pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. As part of the settlement agreement, which is subject to review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, we have granted Teva anon-exclusive license (for which we will receive no current or future payments) that permits Teva to first begin selling the generic version of our BELBUCA® product in the U.S. on January 23, 2027 or earlier under certain circumstances (including, for example, upon (i) the delisting of thepatents-in-suit from the U.S. FDA Orange Book, (ii) the granting of a license by us to a third party to launch another generic form of BELBUCA® at a date prior to January 23, 2027, or (iii) the occurrence of certain conditions regarding BELBUCA® market share). Other terms of the Agreement are confidential.

Alvogen

On September 7, 2018, we filed a complaint for patent infringement in Delaware against Alvogen Pb Research & Development LLC, Alvogen Malta Operations Ltd., Alvogen Pine Brook LLC, Alvogen, Incorporated, and Alvogen Group, Incorporated (collectively, “Alvogen”), asserting that Alvogen infringes our Orange Book listed patents for BELBUCA®, including U.S. Patent Nos. 8,147,866 and 9,655,843, both expiring in July of 2027, and U.S. Patent No. 9,901,539, expiring in December of 2032. This complaint follows receipt by us on July 30, 2018 of a Paragraph IV Patent Certification from Alvogen stating that Alvogen had filed an ANDA with the FDA for a generic version of BELBUCA® Buccal Film (75 mcg, 150 mcg, 300 mcg, 450 mcg, 600 mcg, 750 mcg and 900 mcg). Because we initiated a patent infringement suit to defend the patents identified in the Paragraph IV notice within 45 days after receipt of the Paragraph IV Certification, the FDA is prevented from approving the ANDA until the earlier of 30 months or a decision in the case that each of the patents is not infringed or invalid. Alvogen’s notice letter also does not provide any information on the timing or approval status of its ANDA.

In its Paragraph IV Certification, Alvogen does not contest infringement of at least several independent claims of each of the ’866, ’843, and ’539 patents. Rather, Alvogen advances only invalidly arguments for these independent claims. We believe that we will be able to prevail on our claims of infringement of these patents, particularly as Alvogen does not contest infringement of certain claims of each patent. Additionally, as we have done in the past, we intend to vigorously defend our intellectual property against assertions of invalidity. Each of the three patents carry a presumption of validity, which can only be overcome by clear and convincing evidence.

2018 Arkansas Opioid Litigation

On March 15, 2018, the State of Arkansas, and certain counties and cities in that State, filed an action in the Circuit Court of Arkansas, Crittenden County against multiple manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and prescribers of opioid analgesics, including our company. We were served with the complaint on April 27, 2018. The complaint specifically alleged that we licensed our branded fentanyl buccal soluble film ONSOLIS® to Collegium, and Collegium is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit. ONSOLIS® is not presently sold in the United States and the license agreement with Collegium was terminated prior to Collegium launching ONSOLIS® in the United States. Therefore, on June 28, 2018, we moved to dismiss the case against us and most recently, on July 6, 2018, the plaintiffs filed a notice to voluntarily dismiss us from the Arkansas case, without prejudice.

Item 1A.

Risk Factors.

No update.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.
We are dependent on third party suppliers for key components of our delivery technologies, products and product candidates.
Key components of our drug delivery technologies, products and product candidates, including for BELBUCA, Symproic and BUNAVAIL, may be provided by sole or limited numbers of suppliers, and supply shortages or loss of these suppliers could result in interruptions in supply or increased costs. Certain components used in our development activities, such as the active pharmaceutical ingredients, or API, of our products, are currently purchased from a single or a limited number of outside sources. The reliance on a sole or limited number of suppliers could result in:
delays associated with development and non-clinical and clinical trials due to an inability to timely obtain a single or limited source component;
inability to timely obtain a sufficient quantities of API and an adequate supply of required components; and
reduced control over pricing, quality and timely delivery.
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Our relationships with our manufacturers and suppliers are particularly important to us and any loss of or material diminution of their capabilities due to factors such as regulatory issues, accidents, acts of God or any other factor would have a material adverse effect on our company. Any loss of or interruption in the supply of components from our suppliers or other third-party suppliers would require us to seek alternative sources of supply or require us to manufacture these components internally, which we are currently not able to do.
If the supply of any components is lost or interrupted, API, product or components from alternative suppliers may not be available in sufficient quality or in volumes within required time frames, if at all, to meet our or our partners’ needs. This could delay our ability to complete clinical trials, obtain approval for commercialization or commence marketing or cause us to lose sales, force us into breach of other agreements, incur additional costs, delay new product introductions or harm our reputation. Furthermore, product or components from a new supplier may not be identical to those provided by the original supplier. Such differences could have material effects on our overall business plan and timing, could fall outside of regulatory requirements, affect product formulations or the safety and effectiveness of our products that are being developed.
If our competitors are successful in obtaining approval for Abbreviated New Drug Applications for products that have the same active ingredients as BELBUCA, Symproic or BUNAVAIL, sales of BELBUCA, Symproic or BUNAVAIL may be adversely affected.
Our competitors may submit for approval certain Abbreviated New Drug Applications, or ANDAs, which provide for the marketing of a drug product that has the same active ingredients in the same strengths and dosage form as a drug product already listed with the FDA, and which has been shown to be bioequivalent to such FDA-listed drug. Drugs approved in this way are commonly referred to as generic versions of a listed drug and can often be substituted by pharmacists under prescriptions written for an original listed drug. Any applicant filing an ANDA is required to make patent certifications to the FDA, such as certification to the FDA that the new product subject to the ANDA will not infringe an already approved product’s listed patents or that such patents are invalid (otherwise known as a Paragraph IV Certification).
In February 2016, we announced that a generic competitor, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., or Teva, had filed a Paragraph IV Certification challenging certain of our BUNAVAIL-related patents and we received notices regarding Paragraph IV certifications from Teva in November and December 2016, seeking to find invalid two Orange Book listed patents relating specifically to BELBUCA. The filing of this certification required us to initiate costly litigation against Teva. In addition, a number of our competitor companies have filed Paragraph IV Certifications challenging the patent for Suboxone® film, the market leader in the field in which we are seeking to generate sales of BUNAVAIL. To the extent that any company is successful in challenging the validity of certain patents covering BUNAVAIL or Suboxone® film under a Paragraph IV Certification, it could result in FDA approval of a drug that is lower in price to BUNAVAIL or Suboxone® film. Such a new drug could make it more difficult for BUNAVAIL to gain any significant market share in an increasingly generic marketplace, which would have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, cash flow, reputation and stock price.
In October 2017, we announced that we had entered into a settlement agreement with Teva that resolved our BUNAVAIL patent litigation against Teva pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. As part of the Settlement Agreement, which is subject to review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, we entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with Teva that permits Teva to first begin selling its generic version of BUNAVAIL in the U.S. on July 23, 2028 or earlier under certain circumstances. Other terms of the agreement are confidential.
In February 2018, we announced that we had entered into a Settlement Agreement with Teva that resolves our previously reported BELBUCA, patent litigation against Teva pending in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. As part of the settlement agreement, which is subject to review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, we entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with Teva that permits Teva to first begin selling its generic version of BELBUCA in the U.S. on January 23, 2027 or earlier under certain circumstances. Other terms of the agreement are confidential.
As such, we have been and may continue to be subject to ANDA-related litigation, which is costly and distracting and has the potential to impair the long-term value of our products.
We are presently a party to lawsuits by third parties who claim that our products, methods of manufacture or methods of use infringe on their intellectual property rights, and we may be exposed to these types of claims in the future.
We are presently, and may continue to be, exposed to litigation by third parties based on claims that our technologies, processes, formulations, methods, or products infringe the intellectual property rights of others or that we have misappropriated the trade secrets of others. This risk is exacerbated by the fact that the validity and breadth of claims covered in pharmaceutical
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patents is, in most instances, uncertain and highly complex. Any litigation or claims against us, whether or not valid, would result in substantial costs, could place a significant strain on our financial and human resources and could harm our reputation. Such a situation may force us to do one or more of the following:
incur significant costs in legal expenses for defending against an intellectual property infringement suit;
delay the launch of, or cease selling, making, importing, incorporating or using one or more or all of our technologies and/or formulations or products that incorporate the challenged intellectual property, which would adversely affect our revenue;
obtain a license from the holder of the infringed intellectual property right, which license may be costly or may not be available on reasonable terms, if at all; or
redesign our formulations or products, which would be costly and time-consuming.
With respect to our BEMA delivery technology, the thin film drug delivery technology space is highly competitive. There is a risk that a court of law in the United States or elsewhere could determine that one or more of our BEMA based products conflicts with or covered by external patents. This risk presently exists in our litigation with Reckitt Benckiser, Inc., RB Pharmaceuticals Limited, and Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly known as MonoSol Rx LLC, or Aquestive) relating to our BUNAVAIL product which was filed in September 2014 and in our litigation with Aquestive relating to our BELBUCA product which was filed in January 2017. If the courts in these cases were to rule against us and our partner in these cases, we could be forced to license technology from Aquestive or be prevented from marketing BUNAVAIL or BELBUCA, or otherwise incur liability for damages, which could have a material adverse effect on our ability for us or our partners to market and sell BUNAVAIL or BELBUCA.
We have been granted non-exclusive license rights to European Patent No. 949 925, which is controlled by LTS to market BELBUCA and ONSOLIS within the countries of the European Union. We are required to pay a low single digit royalty on sales of products that are covered by this patent in the European Union. We have not conducted freedom to operate searches and analyses for our other proposed products. Moreover, the possibility exists that a patent could issue that would cover one or more of our products, requiring us to defend a patent infringement suit or necessitating a patent validity challenge that would be costly, time consuming and possibly unsuccessful.
Our lawsuits with Aquestive and RB Pharmaceuticals have caused us to incur significant legal costs to defend ourselves, and we would be subject to similar costs if we are a party to similar lawsuits in the future. Furthermore, if a court were to determine that we infringe any other patents and that such patents are valid, we might be required to seek one or more licenses to commercialize our BEMA products. We may be unable to obtain such licenses from the patent holders, which could materially and adversely impact our business.
Item 2.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
None.

Item 3.

Defaults upon Senior Securities.

Item 3. Defaults upon Senior Securities.
None.

Item 4.

Mine Safety Disclosures.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not applicable.

Item 5.

Other Information.

Item 5. Other Information.
None.

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Item 6. Exhibits.
Item 6.

Exhibits.

NumberDescription

Number

Description

31.1 
3.1Certificate of Amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to declassify board of directors,  clarify voting standards and increase the number of authorized shares, dated August 6, 2018 (1)
10.131.2 Conditional Offer of Employment, dated July 20, 2018, between the Company and Thomas Smith *
10.2Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan.*
10.3Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement for Company Employees under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan*
10.4Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement forNon-Employee Directors under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan*
10.5Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement for Company Employees under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan*
10.6Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement forNon-Employee Directors under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan*
10.7Form of Performance Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement for Company Employees under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan*
31.1Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant To Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302.  (*)
31.2
32.1
32.2
101.insXBRL Instance Document.
101.schXBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.calXBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document.
101.defXBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document.
101.labXBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document.
101.preXBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document.

*

Filed herewith, a signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

(1)

Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on August 6, 2018.


*Filed herewith, a signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.
#This certification will not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Such certification will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except to the extent specifically incorporated by reference into such filing.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

BIODELIVERY SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Date: November 8, 2018
Date: November 12, 2019By:/s/ Herm Cukier
By:/s/ Herm Cukier

Herm Cukier

Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

Date: November 8, 2018
Date: November 12, 2019By:/s/ Mary Theresa Coelho
By:/s/ Ernest R. De PaolantonioMary Theresa Coelho

Ernest R. De Paolantonio

Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)


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