Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGEN) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

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Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGEN) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Item1.01.

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Transactions with Immunomedics, Inc.

On February10, 2017, Seattle Genetics, Inc. (the Company) entered
into parallel transactions with Immunomedics, Inc. (Immunomedics)
comprising (i)a development and license agreement (the
Development and License Agreement) to which Immunomedics grants,
subject to the terms and conditions of the Development and
License Agreement, the Company exclusive worldwide rights to
develop, manufacture, commercialize, and otherwise exploit
IMMU-132 and second generation antibody-drug conjugates targeting
Trop-2 for all human therapeutic uses in any and all indications,
(ii)a stock purchase agreement (the Stock Purchase Agreement) to
which the Company purchased 3million shares of common stock of
Immunomedics (the Purchased Shares) for an aggregate purchase
price of $14.7million, and (iii)a registration rights agreement
(the Registration Rights Agreement) to which Immunomedics has
agreed to file a registration statement in respect of the
Purchased Shares and the Warrant Shares (as defined below, and
together with the Purchased Shares, the Shares). On February16,
2017, Immunomedics and Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions,
Inc., as warrant agent, entered into a warrant agreement (the
Warrant Agreement), to which Immunomedics issued a warrant to the
Company granting it the right to purchase up to 8,655,804
additional shares of Immunomedics common stock at an initial
exercise price of $4.90 per share.

Development and License Agreement

Financial. Under and subject to the terms of the
Development and License Agreement, the Company agreed to pay to
Immunomedics an up-front payment of
$250million following closing of the Development and License
Agreement (such closing, the License Closing). In addition, the
Company agreed to pay development-, regulatory- and
sales-dependent milestone payments to Immunomedics across
multiple indications and geographic regions of up to a total
maximum of approximately $1.7billion. Immunomedics would also be
eligible to receive royalties on worldwide annual net sales of
licensed products at tiered royalty rate percentages beginning in
the teens and rising to twenty percent, subject to customary
reductions, during the royalty term specified in the Development
and License Agreement. The Company will bear the future costs of
worldwide development and commercialization of licensed products,
subject to specified exceptions.

Diligence
and Additional Terms. Under the
Development and License Agreement, the Company agreed to use
commercially reasonable efforts to develop IMMU-132. Following
regulatory approval (and pricing and reimbursement approvals, as
applicable) of any licensed product in any of the major market
countries specified in the Development and License Agreement, the
Company agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to
commercialize such licensed product in each major market country
where it has been approved. Under the Development and License
Agreement, Immunomedics will have the right to exercise a
co-promotion option to provide up to 50% of the sales efforts for
the commercialization of IMMU-132 in the United States, subject
to certain parameters set forth in the Development and License
Agreement.

Termination. The
Company may terminate the Development and License Agreement for
convenience upon at least two hundred seventy (270)days prior
written notice to Immunomedics. Either the Company or
Immunomedics may terminate the Development and License Agreement
if the other party is in material breach of the Development and
License Agreement and fails to cure such breach within specified
cure periods. Upon a termination of the Development and License
Agreement by the Company for convenience or by Immunomedics for
the Companys material breach of the Development and License
Agreement, all licenses granted by Immunomedics to the Company
terminate (other than specified exceptions), and all payment
obligations that accrued prior to the date of such termination
survive the termination, among other effects of termination. The
Development and License Agreement also provides the Company the
right to terminate specified portions of the Development and
License Agreement in the event of certain fundamental breaches by
Immunomedics that are not cured in accordance with specified cure
periods and procedures.

In addition, until
11:59 p.m. New York City time on February19, 2017, Immunomedics
has the right to continue discussions with a small number of
parties that previously expressed interest in licensing IMMU-132.
If a third party provides Immunomedics with a financially
superior licensing offer, the Company has the right to match any
such offer, and if it decides not to match, Immunomedics has the
right to accept the superior offer and terminate the Development
and License Agreement upon payment of a termination fee to the
Company.

Closing.
The License Closing is subject to customary closing conditions,
including the expiration of the applicable waiting period under
the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 in the
United States, and there being no court or administrative orders
blocking the License Closing. On February13, 2017, the Company
was named a co-defendant in a lawsuit (the venBio Lawsuit) filed
by venBio Select Advisors LLC (venBio) against the members of the
board of directors of Immunomedics.The venBio Lawsuit was filed
in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware under the
caption venBio v. Goldenberg
et. al. and alleges that the members of the
Immunomedics board breached their fiduciary duties toward their
stockholders by hastily licensing IMMU-132 to the Company. The
Company is alleged to have aided and abetted the breach of
fiduciary duties. Among other things, venBio seeks to enjoin
Immunomedics and the Company from closing the IMMU-132 licensing
agreement. The Company cannot predict the timing or outcome of
the venBio Lawsuit or the impact it may have on the Development
and License Agreement or the License Closing.

Stock
Purchase Agreement

Concurrently with
the entry into the Development and License Agreement, on
February10, 2017, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase
Agreement with Immunomedics to which Immunomedics issued, and the
Company purchased, the Purchased Shares, which represent 2.75% of
the outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per
share, of Immunomedics (the Common Stock) after such issuance,
for an aggregate purchase price of $14.7million.

Warrant
Agreement

On February16,
2017, Immunomedics and Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions,
Inc., as warrant agent, entered into the Warrant Agreement to
which Immunomedics issued to, and in favor of, the Company, a
warrant (the Warrant) on customary terms, to which the Company
has the right, until February10, 2020 (the Expiration Date), to
purchase up to 8,655,804 additional shares (the Warrant Shares)
of Common Stock at an initial exercise price of $4.90 per share
(in each case, subject to customary anti-dilution and other
adjustments in accordance with the terms of the Warrant), which,
together with the Purchased Shares, represent 9.9% of the
outstanding Common Stock on a post-exercise basis.

Upon the
occurrence of certain transactions prior to the Expiration Date
directly or indirectly constituting a merger, consolidation, sale
of all or substantially all of Immunomedics assets, purchase
offer, tender offer, exchange offer, reclassification or
reorganization or recapitalization of the Common Stock,
compulsory exchange of Common Stock or sale to another person of
more than 50% of the Common Stock (each, a Fundamental
Transaction), then, upon any subsequent exercise of any warrant
under the Warrant Agreement, the Company (so long as it owns any
warrant under the Warrant Agreement) will have the right to
receive, for each Warrant Share that would have been issuable
upon such exercise immediately prior to the occurrence of such
Fundamental Transaction, at its option, the number of shares of
Common Stock or other equity securities of the successor or
acquiring corporation of Immunomedics, if it is the surviving
corporation, and any additional consideration receivable as a
result of such Fundamental Transaction by a holder of the number
of shares of Common Stock for which such warrant is exercisable
immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction.

The Company is not
entitled, by virtue of holding the Warrant, to vote, to consent,
to receive dividends, to consent or to receive notice as a
stockholder with respect to any meeting of stockholders for the
election of Immunomedics directors or any other matter, or to
exercise any rights whatsoever as a stockholder of Immunomedics
unless, until and only to the extent the Company becomes a holder
of record of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the
Warrant.

The issuances of
the Purchased Shares and the Warrant Shares have not been
registered under the Securities Act, and neither the Purchased
Shares nor the Warrant Shares may be offered or sold in the
United States absent registration under or exemption from the
Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws.

Registration
Rights Agreement

Concurrently with
the entry into the Development and License Agreement and the
Stock Purchase Agreement, on February10, 2017 (the Equity Closing
Date), the Company entered into a Registration Rights Agreement
with Immunomedics to which Immunomedics has agreed to file a
registration statement in respect of the Shares. Under the terms
of the Registration Rights Agreement, Immunomedics is required to
file a registration statement with respect to the Shares with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) within 120 days
after the Equity Closing Date and to cause such registration
statement to be declared effective by the SEC within 180 days
after the Equity Closing Date. Immunomedics has also agreed to
other customary obligations regarding registration of the Shares,
including matters relating to indemnification, maintenance of the
registration statement and payment of certain expenses.

The foregoing
summary of the material terms of the Development and License
Agreement, the Stock Purchase Agreement, the Warrant Agreement
and the Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be
complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by
references to the full texts of the Development and License
Agreement, the Stock Purchase Agreement, the Warrant Agreement
and the Registration Rights Agreement. The Company expects to
file the License and Development Agreement, the Stock Purchase
Agreement, the Warrant Agreement and the Registration Rights
Agreement with its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
period ended March31, 2017, or if filed earlier, with a
subsequent Current Report on Form 8-K that the Company files in
connection with the License Closing, requesting confidential
treatment for certain portions of the Development and License
Agreement.

Item8.01. Other Events.

On February10,
2017, the Company issued a press release announcing its
transactions with Immunomedics, including the Companys entry into
the Development and License Agreement, the Stock Purchase
Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement. A copy of the
press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated
herein by reference.

Forward-Looking
Statements

Certain of the
statements made in this report are forward looking, such as
those, among others, relating to the Companys expectations
regarding, among other things, references to the anticipated
License Closing, development, regulatory and sales milestone
payments in connection with the Development and License
Agreement, the exercise of the Warrant into Warrant Shares, and
other statements that are not historical facts. Actual results or
developments may differ materially from those projected or
implied in these forward-looking statements. Factors that may
cause such a difference include, among others, the risk and
uncertainties associated with obtaining satisfaction of the
conditions to the License Closing, including with respect to the
HSR Act and the lack of court or administrative orders or other
obstacles or requirements blocking or delaying the License
Closing, including in connection with the venBio Lawsuit; the
possibility that competing offers by third parties for the
licensing of IMMU-132 will be made; risks associated with
licensing transactions, such as the risks that IMMU-132 will not
be integrated into the Companys pipeline successfully or will not
perform in clinical testing as expected, in which case the
Company may not recover its investment in IMMU-132; risks related to
future opportunities and plans for the Company and IMMU-132,
including uncertainty of the expected future regulatory filings
and future development of IMMU-132; the possibility that if the
Company does not complete the License Closing or does not achieve
the perceived benefits of the transactions contemplated by the
Development and License Agreement as rapidly or to the extent
anticipated by financial analysts or investors, the market price
of the Companys common stock could decline; the difficulty and
uncertainty of pharmaceutical product development; the inherent
uncertainty associated with the regulatory approval process,
including the risk that regulatory approval of IMMU-132 in the
U.S. or elsewhere may not be obtained in a timely manner or at
all. More information about the risks and uncertainties faced by
the Company is contained in the section captioned Risk factors in
the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September30, 2016, filed with the SEC. Except as required by law,
the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.

Item9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
99.1 Press Release of the Company, dated February10, 2017.


About Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGEN)

Seattle Genetics, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of therapies for the treatment of cancer. The Company’s product ADCETRIS, or brentuximab vedotin, is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), comprising an anti-CD30 monoclonal antibody attached by a protease-cleavable linker to a microtubule disrupting agent, monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE). The Company’s pipeline includes other clinical-stage ADC programs, which are SGN-CD33A, SGN-CD19A, SGN-LIV1A, SGN-CD70A, ASG-22ME, and ASG-15ME, and SEA-CD40, which is based on its sugar-engineered antibody (SEA) technology. SGN-CD33A is an ADC composed of an anti-CD33 monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). SGN-CD19A is an ADC composed of an anti-CD19 monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of hematologic malignancies. SGN-LIV1A is an ADC composed of an anti-LIV-1 monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of LIV-1-positive metastatic breast cancer.

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