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Equity Investments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract]  
Equity Investments Equity Investments
(a)    Nimbus
The Company previously provided collaboration services for Nimbus under the terms of a master services agreement executed on May 18, 2010, as amended. Collaboration agreements are separate from the transaction that resulted in equity ownership and related fees are paid in cash to the Company. Nimbus was previously recorded as an equity method investment under the HLBV method, as the entity is a limited liability company and the Company was determined to have significant influence due to the Company's collaboration with Nimbus on a number of drug discovery targets, as well as the Company's level of ownership in Nimbus. During the period ended September 30, 2023, the Company's equity ownership in Nimbus was diluted to the point that the Company no longer has significant influence over the entity. As the Company no longer has significant influence over Nimbus, after June 30, 2023, the equity investment in Nimbus is valued as a non-marketable equity security.
The carrying value of the Nimbus investment was $1,928 as of both March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023. The Company has no obligation to fund Nimbus losses in excess of its initial investment. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company reported no gain or loss on the Nimbus investment. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company reported a realized gain of $147,322 on the Nimbus investment, which reflected the total cash distribution the
Company was eligible to receive from Nimbus on account of Takeda's acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor NDI-034858.
(b)    Morphic
The Company accounts for its investment in Morphic Holding, Inc. (“Morphic”) at fair value based on the share price of Morphic’s common stock at the measurement date.
During the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company reported a mark-to-market gain of $5,277 and $9,093, respectively, on the Morphic investment. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the carrying value of the Company’s investment in Morphic was $29,391 and $24,114, respectively.
(c)    Ajax
In May 2021, the Company purchased 631,377 shares of Series B preferred stock of Ajax Therapeutics, Inc. (“Ajax”) for $1,700 in cash. The Company has concluded that its equity investment in Ajax should be valued as a non-marketable equity security as the Company does not exercise significant influence over Ajax. As of each of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the carrying value of the Company’s investment in Ajax was $1,700.
(d)    Structure Therapeutics
In July 2021, the Company purchased 494,035 shares of Series B preferred stock of Structure Therapeutics for $2,000 in cash. In April 2022, the Company purchased an additional 148,210 shares of Series B preferred stock for $600 in cash. On February 7, 2023, Structure Therapeutics completed its IPO. Immediately upon the closing of Structure Therapeutics' IPO, all of the outstanding Series B preferred stock automatically converted into ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis. As of March 31, 2024, the Company owned 3,260,495 ordinary shares of Structure Therapeutics. The Company purchased 275,000 American Depository Shares ("ADS") at $15.00 per ADS in the IPO. Each ADS represents three ordinary shares.
Upon completion of Structure Therapeutics' IPO, the Company changed the valuation methodology used to value the Structure Therapeutics investment from an equity method investment under the HLBV method to an equity investment reported at fair value as the Company no longer exerts significant influence over Structure after the IPO. As there is a readily available market price for Structure Therapeutics' ADSs, the Company values its investment based on the closing price of Structure Therapeutics' ADSs as of the reporting date.
During the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company reported a mark-to-market gain of $2,859 and $26,644, respectively, on the Structure Therapeutics investment. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the carrying value of the Company's investment in Structure Therapeutics was $58,368 and $55,509, respectively.