Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

LEASES

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LEASES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Leases [Abstract]  
LEASES

NOTE 10 – LEASES

 

The Company leases space under operating leases for manufacturing and laboratory facilities in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as administrative offices in New York, New York. 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.

 

 

During 2022, the Company announced a strategic partner to take over development activities of ABO-102 and that the Company was discontinuing development of ABO-101. As a result, 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 year ended December 31, 2022.

 

In November 2022, the Company entered into a sublease agreement with an unrelated third party to occupy approximately 5,700 square feet of the Company’s administrative offices in New York, New York. Because the future sublease income under the executed sublease agreement is less than the amount the Company pays its landlord, the Company recorded an impairment charge of $0.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The Company expects to receive approximately $1.1 million in future sublease income through September 2025.

 

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

 

    2022     2021  
    For the year ended December 31,  
    2022     2021  
             
Operating lease cost   $ 1,865     $ 1,761  
Variable lease cost     434       445  
Short-term lease cost     79       183  
Total operating lease costs   $ 2,378     $ 2,389  

 

Future minimum lease payments and obligations, which do not include short-term leases, of the Company’s operating lease liabilities as of December 31, 2022 were as follows (in thousands):

 

Future minimum lease payments and obligations   Operating Leases  
       
2023   $ 1,773  
2024     1,815  
2025     1,572  
2026     811  
2027     828  
Thereafter     2,587  
Total undiscounted operating lease payments     9,386  
Less: imputed interest     1,759  
Present value of operating lease liabilities   $ 7,627  

 

The weighted-average remaining term of the Company’s operating leases was 76 months and the weighted-average discount rate used to measure the present value of the Company’s operating lease liabilities was 7.2% as of December 31, 2022.

 

Future cash receipts from the Company’s sublease agreements as of December 31, 2022 are as follows (in thousands):

 

    Operating  
Future cash receipts   Subleases  
       
2023   $ 357  
2024     429  
2025     343  
Total future cash receipts   $ 1,129