commercial portfolio of innovative PET radiodiagnostics and microbubbles, while advancing our pipeline of radiopharmaceuticals. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed around the end of the calendar year.
Acquisition of NAV-4694
On June 18, 2024, we acquired Meilleur Technologies Inc. (“Meilleur”), including its asset NAV-4694, an investigational late-stage F-18-labeled PET imaging agent that targets beta amyloids in Alzheimer’s disease. Under the terms of the agreement, we paid the stockholders of Meilleur (“Meilleur Stockholders”) an upfront payment of $32.9 million and paid an additional $10.0 million in August 2024 after the successful completion of a technology transfer. We could pay additional milestone payments upon achievement of specified U.S. regulatory and commercial milestones related to NAV-4694. We could also pay a double-digit royalty on research revenue and commercial sales. Research revenue is derived from partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions that use NAV-4694 in clinical trials. NAV-4694 is currently in Phase 3 development and is also being used in academic and industry sponsored clinical trials. We expect to submit an NDA for NAV-4694 in 2026. In May 2025, we paid AstraZeneca AB (“AstraZeneca”), a $10.0 million one-time, non-refundable upfront payment to reduce the future royalty obligations owed to AstraZeneca, pursuant to a license agreement between AstraZeneca and Meilleur related to NAV-4694.
For more information, see Note 19, “Acquisitions” in our condensed consolidated financial statements herein.
Exclusive License for Radiopharm Theranostics Limited
On June 15, 2024, we entered into an agreement with Radiopharm to acquire all of Radiopharm’s rights to two licensed preclinical assets for an upfront payment of $2.0 million (the “Radiopharm Asset Purchase”). We acquired global, exclusive rights to both a leucine-rich repeat-containing protein 15 (“LRRC15”)-targeted monoclonal antibody, which we refer to as LNTH-2403, and a Trophoblast cell surface antigen 2 targeted nanobody, which we refer to as LNTH-2404, each of which is a preclinical therapeutic candidate. LNTH-2403 is our pre-clinical therapeutic targeting LRRC15, which is strongly expressed in multiple malignancies, including head and neck, breast, lung, and pancreatic cancers. We are initially focusing on osteosarcoma, for which the FDA has granted both Orphan Drug and Rare Pediatric Disease designations. Osteosarcoma is a malignant bone tumor that primarily develops in children and teenagers. Osteosarcoma is the most common childhood bone cancer, though it is still rare, with around 1,000 new cases diagnosed annually in the U.S.
In connection with this acquisition, we assumed the underlying license agreements related to the two preclinical assets, together with their respective milestone and royalty payment obligations.
During the third quarter of 2024, we purchased 149,625,180 shares of Radiopharm common stock (“Radiopharm Shares”) at the fair market offering price of approximately $0.03 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $5.0 million. In January 2025, we purchased an additional 133,333,333 Radiopharm Shares at the fair market price of approximately $0.04, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $5.0 million. At June 30, 2025, we held 282,958,513 Radiopharm Shares.
For more information, see Note 19, “Acquisitions” and Note 4, “Fair Value of Financial Instruments” in our condensed consolidated financial statements herein.
Strategic Agreements with Perspective Therapeutics, Inc.
On January 8, 2024, we entered into multiple strategic agreements with Perspective, a radiopharmaceutical company that is pursuing advanced treatment applications for cancers throughout the body. Under the agreements, we obtained an option to exclusively license Perspective’s Pb212-VMT-α-NET, a clinical stage alpha therapy in development for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors, and an option to co-develop certain early-stage therapeutic candidates targeting prostate cancer using Perspective’s innovative platform technology for an aggregate upfront payment of $28.0 million in cash.
On January 22, 2024, we purchased 56,342,355 shares of Perspective’s common stock (“Perspective Shares”) at a purchase price of $0.37 per share in a private placement transaction for approximately $20.8 million in cash. We were also granted certain pro rata participation rights to maintain our ownership position in Perspective in the event that Perspective makes any public or non-public offering of any equity or voting securities, subject to certain exceptions.
On March 1, 2024, we transferred the fixed assets and associated lease for the property at 110 Clyde Rd., Somerset, New Jersey (the “Somerset Facility”) to Perspective, and the parties entered into a transition services arrangement pursuant to which we provided Perspective certain services relating to final disposal of radioactive waste and certain other related services.
On March 6, 2024, we purchased an additional 60,431,039 Perspective Shares at a price of $0.95 per share. The total consideration for this additional purchase was approximately $57.4 million, resulting in Lantheus Alpha holding approximately 19.90% of the outstanding Perspective Shares (or 17.35% on a fully diluted basis) as of March 6, 2024.
On June 14, 2024, Perspective effected a 1-for-10 reverse stock split, after which we held 11,677,339 Perspective Shares.