Passage BIO, Inc. Commitments Disclosure

10. Commitments and Contingencies

Amended and Restated Research, Collaboration and License Arrangement with Penn

In connection with the transfer of the Outlicensed Programs (GM1, Krabbe, and MLD), the Company restructured its research, collaboration and license agreement with Penn, as amended, previously the Penn Agreement and now referred to as the Penn License Agreement. Pursuant to the Penn License Agreement, as of July 31, 2024, the Company (i) terminated the funding of discovery research programs; (ii) terminated the research and exploratory research programs; (iii) terminated the remaining eight options it had for future central nervous system, or CNS, indications; (iv) terminated the transaction fee payable to Penn in the event of certain corporate transactions; and (v) retained its current exclusive and non-exclusive licenses to its programs in FTD, GM1, Krabbe and MLD and certain platform technologies resulting from the discovery programs that it funded.

For the Company’s licensed programs in FTD, GM1, Krabbe and MLD, the Penn License Agreement requires that it make payments of up to $16.5 million per product candidate. Each payment will be due upon the achievement of specific development milestone events by such licensed product for a first indication, reduced development milestone payments for the second and third indications and no development milestone payments for subsequent indications. In addition, on a product-by-product basis, the Company is obligated to make up to $55.0 million in sales milestone payments on each licensed product based on annual worldwide net sales of the licensed product in excess of defined thresholds. Pursuant to the Gemma Sublicenses, Gemma is responsible for the payments to Penn related to the Outlicensed Programs.

Upon successful commercialization of a product using the licensed technology, the Company is obligated to pay to Penn, on a licensed product-by-licensed product and country-by-country basis, tiered royalties (subject to customary reductions) in the mid-single digits percentage on annual worldwide net sales of such licensed product. In addition, other than the Gemma Sublicenses, the Company is obligated to pay to Penn a percentage of sublicensing income, ranging from the mid-single digits to low double digits, for sublicenses under the Penn License Agreement. The agreement will expire on a licensed product-by-licensed product and country-by-country basis upon the later of (i) the expiration of the last valid claim of the licensed patent rights that covers the exploitation of such licensed product in such country, and (ii) the expiration of the royalty period. Pursuant to the Gemma Sublicenses, Gemma is responsible for the payments to Penn related to the Outlicensed Programs.

Gemma - Research, Collaboration and License Agreement

In connection with the transfer of the Outlicensed Programs, on July 31, 2024, the Company entered into a research, collaboration and license agreement with Gemma, or the Gemma Collaboration Agreement. Pursuant to the Gemma Collaboration Agreement, (i) Gemma will conduct certain preclinical and IND-enabling work for the Company’s active research program in Huntington’s disease and a currently paused research program in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, or TLE, which were previously being conducted by Penn under the Penn Agreement and (ii) Gemma will grant the Company options to conduct mutually-agreed research programs in four new CNS indications.

The Gemma Collaboration Agreement requires the Company to make payments of up to (i) $16.5 million per product candidate in the aggregate for Huntington’s disease and any future CNS indications available to the Company under its four options and (ii) $39.0 million per product candidate in the aggregate arising from the research program for TLE.

Each payment will be due upon the achievement of specific development milestone events by such licensed product for a first indication, reduced development milestone payments for the second and third indications and no development milestone payments for subsequent indications. In addition, on a product-by-product basis, the Company is obligated to make up to $55.0 million in sales milestone payments on each licensed product based on annual worldwide net sales of the licensed product in excess of defined thresholds.

Upon successful commercialization of a product using the licensed technology, the Company is obligated to pay to Gemma, on a licensed product-by-licensed product and country-by-country basis, tiered royalties (subject to customary reductions) in the mid-single digits percentage on annual worldwide net sales of such licensed product. In addition, the Company is obligated to pay to Gemma a percentage of sublicensing income, ranging from the mid-single digits to low double digits, for sublicenses under the Gemma Collaboration Agreement. The agreement will expire on a licensed product-by-licensed product and country-by-country basis upon the later of (i) the expiration of the last valid claim of the licensed patent rights that covers the exploitation of such licensed product in such country, and (ii) the expiration of the royalty period.

If the Company was to exercise any of the four options under the Gemma Collaboration Agreement, it would owe Gemma a non-refundable aggregate fee of $1.0 million per product indication, with $0.5 million due upfront and another $0.5 million fee owed upon a further developmental milestone.

The Company has also entered into the Gemma Sublicenses and Transition Services Agreement as described in Note 8.

The Gemma Sublicenses, the Transition Services Agreement, and the Gemma Collaboration Agreement are collectively referred to as the Outlicense Transaction Agreements.

Catalent Agreements

In June 2019, the Company entered into a collaboration agreement, or the Collaboration Agreement, with Catalent Maryland, a unit of Catalent, Inc. acquired by Novo Holdings A/S, or Catalent. As part of the Collaboration Agreement, the Company was required to pay an annual fee for five years ending in 2025 for the exclusive use of a dedicated clean room suite, or the Clean Room Suite.

In April 2020, the Company entered into a development services and clinical supply agreement, or the Manufacturing and Supply Agreement, with Catalent to secure clinical scale manufacturing capacity for batches of active pharmaceutical ingredients for the Company’s gene therapy product candidates. Under the terms of the Manufacturing and Supply Agreement, Catalent agreed to manufacture batches of drug product for the Company’s gene therapy product candidates at the Clean Room Suite at a Catalent facility provided for in the Collaboration Agreement. The Manufacturing and Supply Agreement provided for a term of five years. The Manufacturing and Supply Agreement also included minimum annual purchase commitments.

Under both the Collaboration Agreement and the Manufacturing and Supply Agreement, the Company had an annual minimum commitment of $10.6 million per year owed to Catalent for five years from November 2020 subject to certain inflationary adjustments.

On March 31, 2023, the Company entered into certain letter agreements, the Letter Agreements, amending each of (i) the Collaboration Agreement and (ii) the Manufacturing and Supply Agreement, together with the Collaboration Agreement, the Original Catalent Agreements. On November 9, 2023, to supersede and implement the terms of the Letter Agreements, the Company entered into an amended and restated collaboration agreement and an amended and restated manufacturing and supply agreement, together the Amended Catalent Agreements.

The Amended Catalent Agreements eliminate the minimum annual purchase obligation and the obligation to pay an annual fee for use of the Clean Room Suite, thereby eliminating the annual minimum commitment of $10.6 million per

year owed to Catalent through November 2025 under the Original Catalent Agreements. In consideration of this, the Company had an obligation to make aggregate payments to Catalent of $6.0 million between June 30, 2023 and May 1, 2024. As of December 31, 2024, the Company has made all payments related to this obligation under the Amended Catalent Agreements.

The Amended Catalent Agreements extend the term of the Original Catalent Agreements until November 6, 2030, and establish a limited exclusive relationship between the Company and Catalent for the manufacture of bulk drug substance and drug product for the Company’s adeno-associated virus delivery therapeutic product candidates for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, and GM1. The limited exclusive relationship under the Amended Catalent Agreements converts to a non-exclusive relationship (i) in the event Catalent fails to meet certain performance standards and (ii) following certain conditional events related to the divestiture by the Company of either FTD or GM1, in which case, if such events occur, the Company would pay Catalent certain fees. The outlicense of GM1 to Gemma under the Outlicense Transaction Agreements, and subsequent business decisions implemented by Gemma in their sole discretion, could be considered an event related to the divesture of GM1 under the Amended Catalent Agreements and require us to make payment of certain fees to Catalent, which fees are immaterial.

Immediately prior to the execution of the Letter Agreements, the Company had a $5.3 million prepaid asset related to upfront payments made to secure the Clean Room Suite. In connection with the Letter Agreements, the Company no longer has exclusive access to the Clean Room Suite at Catalent and, as a result, the Company recognized an expense of $5.3 million related to the elimination of the prepaid asset during the year ended December 31, 2023.

The Company classified the $11.3 million of expenses, which comprises of $6.0 million in aggregate payments due to Catalent and the $5.3 million elimination of the prepaid asset, as general and administrative expense within the statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023, as both amounts do not directly relate to the future advancement of the Company’s research and development programs.

Litigation

In the normal course of business, the Company from time to time is named as a party to legal claims and actions. The Company records a loss contingency reserve for a legal proceeding when the potential loss is considered probable and can be reasonably estimated. The Company has not recorded any amounts for loss contingencies as of December 31, 2024.

The Company is a defendant in litigation with a former employee, who filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County asserting claims for breach of contract and violation of the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law. The plaintiff, who was terminated from his employment in 2019, contended that the Company entered into a binding settlement agreement in February 2020 under which he was to receive shares of company stock and additional compensation. Specifically, he contended that before the announcement of the Company’s initial public offering in February 2020, he was promised 150,000 shares of stock as part of the settlement, and that those shares were not subject to the reverse stock split that was implemented for all shareholders. The Company responded that the shares offered in settlement negotiations in 2020 were to be subject to the reverse split, and that had the settlement been finalized, the plaintiff would have been entitled to 33,836 shares. A trial in this case was held in October 2024. The jury found that an agreement was reached, but it agreed with the Company that any shares to be awarded to the plaintiff were subject to the reverse split. The jury awarded damages in an amount that was roughly equal to what the Company contended had been offered to the plaintiff before the initial public offering. Both sides then challenged the verdict, and on December 12, 2024, the judge who presided over the trial delivered a judgment in the Company’s favor, finding that no binding agreement was reached and that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover any damages. On December 23, 2024, the plaintiff filed an appeal with the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, which is currently pending. The Company intends to continue to defend against this claim.

The Company recorded $1.0 million for loss contingencies within general and administrative expenses in the quarter ended September 30, 2024 in connection with this matter, which was reversed in the quarter ended December 31, 2024, as it is no longer deemed probable the Company will pay any such amounts.

Other than the above, we are not presently a party to any legal proceedings that, in the opinion of management, would, if decided against us, have a material adverse effect on our business. Regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us due to defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, negative publicity and reputational harm, and other factors.

Employment Agreements

The Company has entered into employment agreements with certain key personnel providing for up to 18 months of salary continuation, up to 150% of target annual bonus amounts, and acceleration of vesting in stock-based compensation awards in certain circumstances.