Aligos Therapeutics Inc (ALGS)

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ALGS +51%/AH on collaboration with Chinese company:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aligos-therapeutics-announces-research-collaboration-210500298.html

Under the terms of the agreement, Aligos and Amoytop* will collaborate on the research and development of oligonucleotide compounds for the treatment of liver diseases. Amoytop will receive an option to obtain an exclusive license to develop and commercialize the resultant products in the Greater China territory while Aligos will retain rest-of-world rights. Aligos will also receive an upfront payment and research collaboration funding and be eligible to receive up to a total of $109 million in development and sales milestone payments for licensed products as well as tiered royalties on net sales.

Before the AH pop, ALGS’ enterprise value was deeply negative; after the AH pop, the EV is still negative but less so.

The up-front cash amount is presumably tiny since it wasn’t disclosed.

*Xiamen Amoytop Biotech Company Ltd.