Annual Report 2022

Annual Report 2022

7. Other Non-Current Assets

Other non-current assets consisted of non-current restricted cash and financial assets held at fair value through profit or loss or through OCI.

 

 

At December 31,

(in thousands of $)

 

2022

 

2021

 

2020

Non-current restricted cash

 

1,736

 

1,707

 

1,509

Non-current financial assets held at fair value through profit or loss

 

21,715

 

17,459

 

6,307

Non-current financial assets held at fair value through OCI

 

17,443

 

35,710

 

Total other non-current assets

 

40,894

 

54,876

 

7,816

Non-current restricted cash on December 31, 2022 was mainly composed of deposit guarantees paid under the lease agreements for the laboratory and offices of the Company.

Non-current financial assets held at fair value through profit or loss is comprised of the profit share in AgomAb Therapeutics NV. In March 2019, the Company entered into a license agreement with AgomAb Therapeutics NV for the use of HGF-mimetic SIMPLE Antibodies™, developed under the Company’s Immunology Innovative Program. In exchange for granting this license, the Company received a profit share in AgomAb Therapeutics NV. Since AgomAb Therapeutics NV is a private company, the valuation of the profit share is based on level 3 assumptions.

In June 2022, AgomAb Therapeutics NV secured €38.4 million as a result of the extension of Series B. The Company used the post-money valuation of this Series B financing round and the number of outstanding shares in determining the fair value of the profit-sharing instrument, which results in a change in fair value of non-current financial assets of $4.3 million recorded through profit or loss.

Fair value changes on non-current financial assets with fair value through profit or loss are recognized in the consolidated statements of profit or loss in line “Other operating income”.

As part of the license agreement for the development and commercialization for efgartigimod in Greater China, the Company obtained, amongst others, 568,182 newly issued Zai Lab shares calculated at a price of $132 per share. The fair value of the equity instrument at reporting date is determined by reference to the closing price of such securities at each reporting date (classified as level 1 in the fair value hierarchy), resulting in a change in fair value. The Company made the irrevocable election to recognize subsequent changes in fair value through OCI in line “Fair value gain/(loss) on investments in equity instruments designated as at FVTOCI”.

The table below illustrates these non-current financials assets at fair value through profit or loss or OCI as of December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020.

 

 

At December 31,

(in thousands of $)

 

2022

 

2021

 

2020

Cost at January 1

 

76,659

 

1,659

 

1,659

Additions of the year

 

 

75,000

 

Cost at December 31

 

76,659

 

76,659

 

1,659

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fair value adjustments at January 1

 

(23,490)

 

4,648

 

1,257

Fair value adjustment of the year through profit or loss

 

4,256

 

11,152

 

2,951

Fair value adjustment of the year through OCI

 

(18,267)

 

(39,290)

 

Translation difference

 

 

 

440

Fair value adjustment at December 31

 

(37,501)

 

(23,490)

 

4,648

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net book value at December 31

 

39,158

 

53,169

 

6,307