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April 4, 2024
Mark Lappe
Chief Executive Officer
Inhibrx Biosciences, Inc.
11025 N. Torrey Pines Road, Suite 140
La Jolla, CA 92037
Re: Inhibrx
Biosciences, Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to
Draft Registration Statement on Form 10
Submitted on March
4, 2024
CIK No. 0002007919
Dear Mark Lappe:
We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have
the following
comments.
Please respond to this letter by providing the requested
information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your
registration statement on
EDGAR. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and
circumstances or do not
believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
After reviewing the information you provide in response to this
letter and your amended
draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may
have additional
comments. Unless we note otherwise, any references to prior comments are
to comments in our
February 29, 2024 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form 10
Questions and Answers about the Separation and Distribution
What conditions must be satisfied to complete the Spin-Off?, page xi
1. We note your response
to comment 1. Please explain how you can procede with the
proposed transactions
if there is a stop order, injunction or law preventing the
consummation of the
Separation, Distribution or Merger or if the effectiveness of the
registration statement
is waived.
Risk Factors
Our therapeutic candidates may cause undesirable side effects that could
delay or prevent their
marketing..., page 16
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2. We note your response to comment 8 and re-issue in part. Please
identify all serious
adverse events, not just the most common ones, in your risk factor
discussion and on
pages 88-89 and specify the number of occurrences.
Note 1: Basis of Presentation, page 134
3. You describe the sale of the RemainCo Business as a distribution of
nonmonetary assets
to the owners in a spin-off, which appears to differ from related
disclosure as the sale the
RemainCo Business to Sanofi in exchange for its purchase of all
outstanding shares of
Inhibrx Inc. for cash and CVRs. Please reconcile this apparent
inconsistency.
Note 2: Separation of the RemainCo Business, page 135
4. Please explain the basis for your allocation of research and
development expenses of
$54.69 million to RemainCo, when your discussion on page 144 appears
to indicate that
increases in contract manufacturing and clinical trial expenses
totaling $63.9 million
related to INBRX-101. Include an estimate of your external and
internal expenses for
2023 that related to development of INBRX-101. Revise your pro forma
presentation
accordingly.
Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 3: Transaction Accounting Adjustment, page 137
5. Please address the following regarding the tax effects of the proposed
transaction:
You state for that the applicable tax rates for Transaction
Accounting Adjustments as
well as Autonomous Entity Adjustments could be impacted (either
higher or lower)
depending on certain factors subsequent to the Separation and
Distribution including
the legal entity structure implemented and may be materially
different from the pro
forma results. Please provide a more informative description of
these factors with
reference to other sections of your filing as applicable, and
quantify the reasonably
likely impact on pro forma results. To the extent a range of
results exists, disclose
that range of likely outcomes.
Provide updates to this disclosure as additional information about
the tax implications
becomes available.
Provide a detailed explanation supporting your assertion on page
63 that the Spin-
Off in combination with the Merger is more tax advantageous to
RemainCo s
stockholders as compared to an asset sale involving INBRX-101.
Revise your
disclosures accordingly.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations, page
139
6. In your response to prior comment 13, you state that you track some
but not all of your
research and development expenses. As previously requested, to the
extent you track your
research and development expenses on a program-by-program basis,
revise to provide a
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breakout of those amounts by program. Disclose the context of what type
of expenses are
tracked separately by program versus those that are not tracked.
Index to Consolidated Financial Statements, page F-1
7. We note your response to prior comment 12. Please revise your Form 10 to
provide carve
out financial statements for Inhibrx Biosciences, Inc. on a supplemental
basis. It appears
that carve out financial statements would be required in your Form 10 as
well your future
'34 Act filings until the period in which the sale of Remainco to
Aventis is completed.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
1. Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Collaborative Research, Development and License Agreements, page F-13
8. In the response to prior comment 14, you state that no work has been
performed under the
Transcenta agreements since 2019 and that none is planned in future
periods, while
information on pages 83, 93 and 140 as well as related Exhibits in the
2023 Form 10-K for
Inhibrx Inc. appear to indicate that this collaboration as well as the
Elpiscience
collaboration, are critical to the future development and commercial
prospects of INBRX-
109 and INBRX-106 that will be your primary development projects
following the
planned Separation and Distribution. Revise your disclosures throughout
your document
to reconcile this apparent inconsistency. As part of your response,
please explain the
strategy and expected timing for your development and commercialization
of these two
products in the United States, China and other global markets and how
you expect these
two collaborative arrangements to facilitate your planned business
activities in China,
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. In addition, provide a summary of key terms
governing
each collaboration.
Please contact Franklin Wyman at 202-551-3660 or Kevin Vaughn at
202-551-3494 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please
contact Jimmy McNamara at 202-551-7349 or Suzanne Hayes at 202-551-3675 with
any other
questions.
Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameMark Lappe
Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameInhibrx Biosciences, Inc.
Office of Life
Sciences
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cc: Brian M. Janson
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