Liminatus Pharma, Inc. Commitments Disclosure
Note 7. Commitments and Contingencies
Leases
On July 17, 2025, the Company entered into a short-term lease for an office space in Cerritos, California (the “Lease”). The Lease commenced on September 1, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2026 and does not have any renewal option. The Company has made the short-term lease election and recognizes lease payments for its short-term lease on a straight line basis over the lease term.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, lease expense related to the short-term lease was $2,784. For the year ended December 31, 2024, there was no lease expense related to the short-term lease.
Legal proceedings
On February 6, 2026, the Company entered into a settlement and release agreement with Clear Street LLC (the “Holder”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue 4,000,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, to the Holder in exchange for the surrender and cancellation of 805,377 warrants to purchase shares of common stock held by the Holder. The Company has determined this represents a Type I subsequent event in accordance with the guidance of ASC 855, Subsequent Events (“ASC 855”), in which the Company obtained additional evidence about conditions that existed at the date of the consolidated balance sheets. As such, the Company has recorded the $7,360,000 as settlement payable, which was calculated using the fair value of the Company’s common stock on February 6, 2026, which was the day that stock was issued to the Holder, in its consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2025.
Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the Company and the Holder agreed to dismiss (a) an action pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California and (b) an action pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, in which previously the Court entered a default judgment against the Company in the amount of $7,500,000 plus approximately $515,000 in interest, which judgment was registered in the Central District of California in the fourth quarter of 2025.
The Company is not a party to any other material legal proceedings and is not aware of any pending or threatened claims. From time to time, the Company may be subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of its business activities.
Underwriting Agreement
Prior to the Business Combination in connection with its initial public offering, Iris entered into an underwriting agreement in which Cantor was engaged as the underwriters to Iris’ IPO. Cantor was entitled to an underwriting discount of 2% (or $5,520,000) of the gross proceeds of the IPO and deferred underwriting discount of 3.5% (or $9,660,000) of the gross proceeds of the IPO upon the completion of an initial business combination.
On October 11, 2023, Iris executed a fee reduction agreement with the underwriters to reduce the deferred underwriting discount of $9,660,000 to $8,000,000 in the event the Business Combination was consummated. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, the reduced deferred underwriting discount was payable by the Iris to the underwriters in $1,000,000 cash and $7,000,000 of the common equity securities of the public entity that survives the transaction. The share price is subject to adjustment based on the five day volume-weighted average price prior to the filing of a resale registration statement covering such shares. As of April 30, 2025, Iris and the Company amended the fee reduction agreement with the underwriters to limit the total number of shares of common stock issuable to the underwriters to 1,750,000. Upon the consummation of the Business Combination, $9,160,000 in deferred underwriting fees were settled, of which $7,000,000 will be settled in common shares of the combined company, $500,000 was settled in cash and $1,660,000 was waived and no longer payable. The remaining $500,000 was to be settled upon the earlier of the consummation of the combined company’s next share offering, or in six months from the closing date of the Business Combination. As of December 31, 2025, the deferred underwriting fee payable was $500,000, which is included in Deferred underwriting fee payable in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.
On April 30, 2025, the Company settled Iris’ liabilities for $7,000,000 of the deferred underwriting fees incurred prior to the Closing Date for 700,000 shares of common stock to the underwriters in Iris’s initial public offering. On July 1, 2025, the Company issued the shares to the underwriters, which on July 1, 2025 had a fair value of $7,245,000.
On October 27, 2025, six months from the closing date of the Business Combination, the remaining $500,000 underwriting fee became due. As of the date of these consolidated financial statements, the $500,000 underwriting fees remains unpaid.
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About Commitments Disclosures
Commitments and contingencies disclosures catalog a company's off-balance-sheet obligations and legal exposures — purchase commitments, guarantee arrangements, pending litigation, and regulatory proceedings. These items represent potential future cash outflows that may not appear as liabilities on the balance sheet until they become probable and estimable.
Key signals: litigation reserves and disclosed loss ranges quantify management's estimate of legal exposure, but unquantified "reasonably possible" losses often represent the larger risk. Watch for changes in language around pending cases — shifts from "remote" to "reasonably possible" or increases in estimated loss ranges signal deteriorating outcomes. Unconditional purchase obligations and take-or-pay contracts create fixed cost structures that reduce operational flexibility. Guarantee arrangements for subsidiaries or joint ventures can create cascading obligations. Compare the total commitment schedule against projected free cash flow to assess whether the company can meet its obligations without additional financing.