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| Item 1.01. | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On March 21, 2022, REGENXBIO Inc. (the “Company”) and The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”) entered into a letter agreement (the “Letter Agreement”) relating to the License Agreement dated February 24, 2009 between Penn and the Company (the “Penn-REGENXBIO License”), the License Agreement dated May 31, 2002 between Penn and GlaxoSmithKline LLC (“GSK”) (the “Penn-GSK License”) and the Sublicense Agreement dated March 6, 2009 between GSK and the Company (the “GSK-REGENXBIO Sublicense” and, collectively with the Penn-REGENXBIO License and the Penn-GSK License, the “Licenses”).
Pursuant to the terms of the Letter Agreement, the Company will make a payment of $8.0 million to Penn for sublicense fees due or owed in the future as a result of the Collaboration and License Agreement dated September 10, 2021 between the Company and AbbVie Global Enterprises Ltd. In addition, the Company will make payments totaling $12.0 million to Penn to satisfy any other past or future obligations of the Company to pay any sublicense fees to Penn pursuant to the Penn-REGENXBIO License, including a payment of $3.0 million on each of the first, second, third and fourth anniversaries of the effective date of the Letter Agreement. The Letter Agreement amends the Penn-REGENXBIO License by deleting Section 3.5 in its entirety, thereby removing the Company’s obligations under the Penn-REGENXBIO License to pay sublicense fees to Penn.
Additionally, Penn will have the right to continue conducting gene therapy research, including commercially sponsored research, outside of a single identified field, without restriction. Further, certain identified commercial entities that sponsor Penn will have the right to perform sponsored research, development and commercial activities in certain approved fields. The Company and Penn have also agreed to explore a further expansion of their relationship, including through potential new collaboration and alliance opportunities together.
The Letter Agreement contains releases of, and covenants not to sue on, specified types of claims arising out of or related to the Licenses.
The foregoing description of the terms of the Letter Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of such agreement. The Company intends to file a copy of the Letter Agreement with its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending March 31, 2022.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| REGENXBIO INC. | ||||||
| Date: March 25, 2022 | By: | /s/ Patrick J. Christmas | ||||
| Patrick J. Christmas | ||||||
| Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer | ||||||