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LEASES
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2023
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LEASES

NOTE 8 – LEASES

 

The Company leases space under operating leases for administrative, manufacturing and laboratory facilities in Cleveland, Ohio. The Company also leases office space in New York, New York, that the Company sublets. The Company also leases certain office equipment under operating leases, which have a non-cancelable lease term of less than one year and, therefore, the Company has elected the practical expedient to exclude these short-term leases from the Company’s right-of-use assets and lease liabilities.

 

In June 2023, the Company terminated one of its operating leases for office space. The termination resulted in a gain of $1.1 million from the difference of the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities in the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 and is included in loss/(gain) on right-of-use lease assets in the condensed consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss.

 

On March 31, 2022, the Company announced that they were pursuing a strategic partner to take over development activities of ABO-102 and that the Company was discontinuing development of ABO-101. As a result of this shift in priorities, the Company determined the portion of the lease that was dedicated to the future facility for the ABO-101 and ABO-102 programs, had no future value and thus, the Company recorded an impairment charge of $1.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022.

 

The following table provides a summary of the components of lease costs and rent (in thousands):

 

    2023     2022     2023     2022  
   

For the three months ended June 30,

   

For the six months ended June 30,

 
    2023     2022     2023     2022  
                         
Operating lease cost   $ 353     $ 461     $ 708     $ 933  
Variable lease cost     116       116       215       212  
Short-term lease cost     13       20       31       41  
Total operating lease costs   $ 482     $ 597     $ 954     $ 1,186  

 

 

Future minimum lease payments and obligations, which do not include short-term leases, of the Company’s operating lease liabilities as of June 30, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):

 

Future minimum lease payments and obligations   Operating Leases  
         
2023, remainder   $ 799  
2024     993  
2025     1,552  
2026     791  
2027     807  
Thereafter     2,516  
Total undiscounted operating lease payments     7,458  
Less: imputed interest     1,484  
Present value of operating lease liabilities   $ 5,974  

 

The weighted-average remaining term of the Company’s operating leases was 68 months and the weighted-average discount rate used to measure the present value of the Company’s operating lease liabilities was 7.5% as of June 30, 2023.

 

Future cash receipts from the Company’s sublease agreements as of June 30, 2023 are as follows (in thousands):

 

    Operating  
Future cash receipts   Subleases  
         
2023, remainder   $ 270  
2024     634  
2025     485  
Total future cash receipts   $ 1,389