On November 30, 2022, BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. ("BridgeBio" or the "Company") entered into a Second Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement (the "Second Amendment"), by and among (i) U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor to U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as administrative agent (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent") and collateral agent (in such capacity, the "Collateral Agent"), (ii) the certain lenders party thereto (the "Lenders"), (iii) the Company, as a borrower, and (iv) certain subsidiaries of the Company, as guarantors (the "Guarantors"), pursuant to which the parties thereto agreed to amend the Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of November 17, 2021, as amended by the First Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of May 12, 2022 (the "Existing Loan Agreement", and amended by the Second Amendment, the "Amended Loan Agreement"), by and among the Company, Guarantors, Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent (Filing, BridgeBio, NOV 30, 2022, View Source [SID1234624855]).
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Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Second Amendment, the parties thereto agreed to, among other things: (1) acknowledge that the Company’s prior prepayment made with certain cash proceeds received in connection with that certain License, Development and Commercialization Agreement, dated as of May 11, 2022, by and among Navire Pharma, Inc., the Company and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company satisfied the mandatory prepayment requirement under the Amended Loan Agreement, on the terms and conditions specified in the Amended Loan Agreement, (2) permit certain budgeted expenses to be excluded from the definition of cash proceeds subject to Borrower’s mandatory prepayment obligations, on the terms and conditions specified in the Amended Loan Agreement, (3) remove certain threshold amounts applicable to certain prepayment events and (4) terminate the Lenders’ tranche 2 commitments. The Company retains the ability to undertake certain royalty financing transactions that do not exceed ten percent (10%) of the net sales in respect of a product, and royalty financing transactions relating to Acoramidis remain exempt from prepayment, subject to the terms and conditions of the Amended Loan Agreement.
Other terms of the Amended Loan Agreement remain generally identical to those under the Existing Loan Agreement.
The above description of the material terms of the Second Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Second Amendment, which will be filed, with confidential terms redacted, as an exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ending on December 31, 2022.