60 DEGREES PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. Commitments Disclosure
11. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Operating Lease
The Company is a party to a single lease with CXI Corp for its office space located in Washington, DC, which was most recently renewed in December 2025 for an additional term that expires on March 31, 2027. As the term of the office lease is 12 months, the lease is not recorded on the balance sheet. The Company recognizes lease expense on this lease as short-term lease costs. Operating lease costs, including short-term leases, were in the amount of $20,350 and $28,867 for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Board of Directors
In November and December 2022, the Company signed agreements with four director nominees (Cheryl Xu, Paul Field, Charles Allen and Stephen Toovey) which came into effect on July 11, 2023, the date the Company’s Registration Statement was declared effective. Each director is entitled to receive cash compensation of $11,250 quarterly. In addition, the two non-audit committee chairs (Toovey, Field) will receive $1,250 per quarter and the audit committee chair (Allen) will receive an additional $2,000 per quarter. In addition, each director is entitled to receive annual equity-based compensation awards, with the amounts and terms to be determined by the Compensation Committee.
In November 2024, the Company paid each non-executive director an additional $20,000 of cash compensation in lieu of granting equity-based compensation awards for the year ended December 31, 2024.
In October 2025, the Company granted a total of 8,000 non-qualified stock options to each member of the Company’s Board of Directors (2,000 options per director) at a per share exercise price of $5.84. These stock options were fully vested on the date of grant and have a term of seven years.
Contingencies
The Company’s operations are subject to a variety of local and state regulations. Failure to comply with one or more of those regulations could result in fines, restrictions on its operations, or losses of permits that could result in the Company ceasing operations.
Contingent Compensation
Following the Company’s IPO and the conversion of the outstanding debt pursuant to the Knight Debt Conversion Agreement, as discussed in Note 8, the Company is obligated to pay Knight a contingent milestone payment of $10 million if the Company sells Arakoda™ or if a Change of Control occurs. The Company accounts for the contingent milestone payment as a derivative liability (See Note 8).
On July 15, 2015, the Company entered into the Exclusive License Agreement with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (the “U.S. Army”), which was subsequently amended (the “U.S. Army Agreement”), in which the Company obtained a license to develop and commercialize the licensed technology with respect to all therapeutic applications and uses excluding radical cure of symptomatic vivax malaria. The term of the U.S. Army Agreement will continue until the expiration of the last to expire of the patent application or valid claim of the licensed technology, or 20 years from the start date of the U.S. Army Agreement, unless terminated earlier by the parties. The Company must make a minimum annual royalty payment of 3% of Net Sales (as defined in the U.S. Army Agreement) for Net Sales less than $35 million, and 5% of Net Sales greater than $35 million, with US government sales excluded from the definition of Net Sales. In addition, the Company must pay fees upon the achievement of certain milestones. The Company accrues the minimum annual royalty when the related sales occur. The achievement of the remaining milestones under the U.S. Army Agreement are not considered probable and thus no accruals for the related milestone payments have been made.
On December 20, 2024, the Company entered into a Patent License Agreement with Tufts Medical Center (“Tufts MC”), pursuant to which the Company obtained a license to research and commercialize certain patent applications covering jointly developed inventions related to the use of tafenoquine for treatment and/or prevention of babesiosis. (the “Tufts MC Agreement”). The term of the Tufts MC Agreement will continue until the expiration or final abandonment of the last patent application or issued patent for the use of tafenoquine for treatment and/or prevention of babesiosis, unless terminated earlier by the parties. On the earlier of (x) the date of patent issuance or (y) the date of regulatory approval for the use of tafenoquine product in treatment of babesiosis, the Company must make royalty payments equal to 4% of Net Sales (as defined in the Tufts MC Agreement) of tafenoquine products sold in a format labeled for use in the treatment of babesiosis or 2% of Net Sales of tafenoquine products sold in a format not labeled for use in the treatment of babesiosis. In addition, for all sublicense revenue received by 60P from sales of sublicensed products, the Company must make payments equal to 20% of the revenue received by the Company for sales of tafenoquine products sold in a format labeled for use in the treatment of babesiosis or 10% of the revenue received for sales of tafenoquine that are sold in a format not labeled for use in the treatment of babesiosis. As of December 31, 2025, the royalty period has not commenced, thus no accruals have been made.
(e) Litigation, Claims and Assessments
From time to time, the Company may be involved in litigation relating to claims arising out of operations in the normal course of business. As of December 31, 2025, there were no pending or threatened lawsuits that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the results of the Company’s operations.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 30, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Mar 27, 2025 | |
| 2023 | Apr 1, 2024 | |
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.