BioPharma Credit PLC STATEMENT RE LUMIRADX
2024年7月29日 - 3:00PM
RNS Regulatory News
RNS Number : 1739Y
BioPharma Credit PLC
29 July 2024
29 July 2024
BIOPHARMA
CREDIT PLC
(THE
"COMPANY")
STATEMENT
RE LUMIRADX
Pharmakon Advisors, LP, the
investment manager of the Company ("Pharmakon"), notes the
announcement released on 29 July 2024 by Roche Diagnostics Limited
("Roche") regarding the completion of its acquisition of certain
LumiraDx group companies (the "Point of Care Diagnostics
Companies") following the receipt of all required regulatory
clearances (the "Transaction"). The entering into of the sale and
purchase agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") between Roche
and Andrew Johnson, Lisa Rickelton and
Lindsay Hallam of FTI Consulting LLP as the joint administrators
of LumiraDx Group Limited and LumiraDx
International Limited (the
"Administrators") was previously announced by the Company on 29
December 2023.
In connection with the closing of
the Transaction, the amount due to the Administrators is USD$351.1
million, which is comprised of (i) USD$288.4 million pursuant to
the Purchase Agreement and (ii) USD$62.7
million in reimbursement in connection with the administration
funding facility provided by BioPharma Credit Investments V
(Master) LP and BPCR Limited Partnership (the "Senior Secured
Lenders") to support the ongoing ordinary course operations of the
Point of Care Diagnostics Companies in the period to complete the
Transaction (the "Administration Funding Agreement"). The USD$351.1 million amount reflects working capital
adjustments and includes a USD$15.0 million holdback from
the Purchase Price, which is expected to be released in accordance
with the Purchase Agreement within the next 90 days (the "Holdback
Amount").
The Company expects to receive 50%
of the amounts due to the Administrators in connection with the
closing of the Transaction, less certain expenses, most of which
will be returned to the Senior Secured Lenders within the next 10
days and the balance within the next 90 days. Assuming Roche
releases 100% of the Holdback Amount, and estimated total expenses
of USD$10.0 million, the Company is expected to receive
approximately USD$170.6 million, which is USD$3.0 million more than
the June 2024 valuation of USD$167.6 million. When added to the
USD$27.5 million received in the form of interest during the life
of the loan, the Company is expected to recover approximately 96
per cent. of its USD$206 million investment.
Pharmakon notes that the Transaction
did not involve the sale of LumiraDx's approximately 81% interest
in Lumira SAS (Colombia), a Colombian distributor of third party
diagnostic products with USD$13.7 million sales in 2023 and USD$2.9
million in EBITDA in 2023, whose ownership is expected to be
transferred to the Senior Secured Lenders in due course. Any
proceeds received from a potential sale of this interest would be
in addition to the recovery amounts described in the previous
paragraph.
Pharmakon Advisors, LP is continuing
to actively monitor the timing of the expected release of the
proceeds from the Administrators and will provide any updates in
due course.
Enquiries
Buchanan
David Rydell / Mark Court
/ Jamie Hooper / Henry Wilson
+44 (0) 20 7466 5000
biopharmacredit@buchanan.uk.com
Notes to Editors
BioPharma Credit
PLC is London's only specialist debt investor to the
life sciences industry and joined the LSE in March
2017. BioPharma Credit PLC seeks to provide long-term
shareholder returns, principally in the form of sustainable income
distributions from exposure to the life sciences
industry. BioPharma Credit PLC seeks to achieve this
objective primarily through investments in debt assets secured by
royalties or other cash flows derived from the sales of approved
life sciences products.
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