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•	Level 1-Valuations are based on unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access.

•	Level 2-Valuations are based on quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active and models for which all significant inputs are observable, either directly or indirectly.

•	Level 3-Valuations are based on inputs that are unobservable (supported by little or no market activity) and significant to the overall fair value measurement.

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•	the success and timing of our ongoing clinical trials for our lead product candidate, relugolix;

•	our plans to develop and commercialize relugolix;

•	the anticipated start dates, durations and completion dates of our ongoing and future nonclinical studies and clinical trials;

•	the anticipated designs of our future clinical trials;

•	anticipated future regulatory submissions and the timing of, and our ability to, obtain and maintain regulatory approvals for our product candidates;

•	the rate and degree of market acceptance and clinical utility of any approved product candidate;

•	our ability to quickly and efficiently identify and develop product candidates;

•	our commercialization, marketing and manufacturing capabilities and strategy;

•	continued service of our key scientific or management personnel;

•	our ability to obtain, maintain and enforce intellectual property rights for our product candidates;

•	our anticipated future cash position;

•	our estimates regarding our results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, capital requirements, prospects, growth and strategies; and

•	the success of competing drugs that are or may become available.

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•	employee-related expenses, such as salaries, share-based compensation, benefits and travel expenses for the research and development personnel who we plan to hire;

•	costs allocated to us under the Services Agreements;

•	expenses incurred under or in connection with agreements with contract research organizations, or CROs, as well as consultants and other vendors who conduct or participate in clinical and nonclinical studies designed to further the development of our product candidates;

•	manufacturing and supply costs in connection with conducting nonclinical and clinical studies;

•	costs for sponsored research; and

•	depreciation expense for assets used in research and development activities.

•	the number of trials required for approval;

•	the per patient trial costs;

•	the number of patients who participate in the trials;

•	the number of sites included in the trials;

•	the countries in which the trials are conducted;

•	the length of time required to enroll eligible patients;

•	the number of patients who fail to meet the study's inclusion and exclusion criteria;

•	the number of study drugs that patients receive;

•	the drop-out or discontinuation rates of patients;

•	the potential additional safety monitoring or other studies requested by regulatory agencies;

•	the duration of patient follow-up;

•	the timing and receipt of regulatory approvals;

•	the costs of clinical trial material; and

•	the efficacy and safety profile of the product candidate.

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•	advance our Phase 3 programs of relugolix for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding associated with uterine fibroids, endometriosis-related pain, and advanced prostate cancer;

•	conduct a Phase 1 healthy-volunteer study in women followed by a Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial for MVT-602 for the treatment of female infertility as part of assisted reproduction;

•	expand our chemistry, manufacturing, and control and other manufacturing related activities;

•	seek to identify, acquire, develop, and commercialize additional product candidates;

•	integrate acquired technologies into a comprehensive regulatory and product development strategy;

•	maintain, expand, and protect our intellectual property portfolio;

•	hire scientific, clinical, regulatory, quality, and administrative personnel;

•	add operational, financial, quality, and management information systems;

•	seek regulatory approvals for any product candidates that successfully complete clinical trials;

•	establish a medical affairs group with a medical scientific liaison team;

•	ultimately establish a sales, marketing, and distribution infrastructure and increase the scale of our external manufacturing capabilities to commercialize any product candidates for which we may obtain regulatory approval; and

•	operate as a public company.

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•	successfully complete clinical trials and obtain regulatory approval for the marketing of relugolix and MVT-602;

•	set an acceptable price for relugolix and MVT-602 and obtain coverage and adequate reimbursement from third-party payors;

•	establish sales, marketing, and distribution systems for relugolix and MVT-602;

•	add operational, financial and management information systems, and personnel, including personnel to support our clinical, manufacturing and planned future commercialization efforts and operations as a public company;

•	initiate and continue relationships with Takeda or other third-party manufacturers and have commercial quantities of relugolix and MVT-602 manufactured at acceptable cost and quality levels;

•	attract and retain an experienced management and advisory team;

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•	achieve broad market acceptance of our products in the medical community and with third-party payors and consumers;

•	launch commercial sales of our products, whether alone or in collaboration with others; and

•	maintain, expand, and protect our intellectual property portfolio.

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•	we may not be able to demonstrate that relugolix or MVT-602 is effective as a treatment for our target indications to the satisfaction of the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority;

•	the relevant regulatory authority may require additional clinical trials, which would increase our costs and prolong our development;

•	the results of our clinical trials may not meet the level of statistical or clinical significance required by the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority for marketing approval;

•	the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority may disagree with the number, design, size, conduct or implementation of our clinical trials;

•	the CROs that we retain to conduct clinical trials may take actions outside of our control, or otherwise commit errors or breaches of protocols, that materially adversely impact our clinical trials;

•	the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority may not find the data from nonclinical studies and clinical trials sufficient to demonstrate that the clinical and other benefits of these products outweigh their safety risks;

•	the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority may disagree with our interpretation of data from our nonclinical studies and clinical trials or may require that we conduct additional studies;

•	the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority may not accept data generated at our clinical trial sites;

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if our NDA or other foreign application is reviewed by an advisory committee, the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority, as the case may be, may have difficulties scheduling an advisory committee meeting in a timely manner or the advisory committee may recommend against approval of our application(s) or may recommend that the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority, as the case may be, require, as a condition of approval, additional nonclinical studies or clinical trials, limitations on approved labeling or distribution and use restrictions;

•	the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority may require development of a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy, or Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, or REMS, or its equivalent, as a condition of approval;

•	the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority may identify deficiencies in the manufacturing processes or facilities of our third-party manufacturers; or

•	the FDA or other relevant regulatory authority may change its approval policies or adopt new regulations.

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•	the initiation, progress, timing, costs and results of our planned and ongoing clinical trials for relugolix and MVT-602;

•	the outcome, timing and cost of meeting regulatory requirements established by the FDA and other comparable foreign regulatory authorities;

•	the cost of filing, prosecuting, defending and enforcing our patent claims and other intellectual property rights;

•	the cost of defending potential intellectual property disputes, including patent infringement actions brought by third parties against us or our products or any future product candidates;

•	the effect of competing technological and market developments;

•	the cost and timing of completion of commercial-scale manufacturing activities;

•	the cost of establishing sales, marketing and distribution capabilities for our products in regions where we choose to commercialize our products on our own; and

•	the initiation, progress, timing and results of our commercialization of our product candidates, if approved for commercial sale.

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•	the process by which we identify and decide to acquire product candidates may not be successful;

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•	potential product candidates may, on further study, be shown to have harmful side effects or other characteristics that indicate that they are unlikely to be products that will receive marketing approval and achieve market acceptance; or

•	potential product candidates may not be effective in treating their targeted diseases.

•	multiple conflicting and changing laws and regulations such as tax laws, export and import restrictions, employment laws, anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, regulatory requirements and other governmental approvals, permits and licenses;

•	failure by us or our distributors to obtain appropriate licenses or regulatory approvals for the sale or use of our product candidates, if approved, in various countries;

•	difficulties in managing foreign operations;

•	complexities associated with managing multiple payor-reimbursement regimes or self-pay systems;

•	financial risks, such as longer payment cycles, difficulty enforcing contracts and collecting accounts receivable, and exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations;

•	reduced protection for intellectual property rights;

•	natural disasters, political, and economic instability, including wars, terrorism, and political unrest, outbreak of disease, boycotts, curtailment of trade, and other business restrictions; and

•	failure to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, including its books and records provisions and its anti-bribery provisions, the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010, and similar antibribery and anticorruption laws in other jurisdictions, for example by failing to maintain accurate information and control over sales or distributors’ activities.

•	impairment of our business reputation and significant negative media attention;

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•	withdrawal of participants from our clinical trials;

•	significant costs to defend related litigation;

•	distraction of management’s attention from our primary business;

•	substantial monetary awards to patients or other claimants;

•	inability to commercialize our products or any future product candidate;

•	product recalls, withdrawals or labeling, marketing or promotional restrictions;

•	decreased demand for our products or any future product candidate, if approved for commercial sale; and

•	loss of revenue.

•	failure to obtain regulatory approval to commence a trial;

•	unforeseen safety issues;

•	determination of dosing issues;

•	lack of effectiveness during clinical trials;

•	inability to reach agreement on acceptable terms with prospective CROs and clinical trial sites, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CROs and trial sites;

•	slower than expected rates of patient recruitment or failure to recruit suitable patients to participate in a trial;

•	unanticipated impact from changes in or modifications to clinical trial design;

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•	failure to manufacture sufficient quantities of a product candidate or placebo or failure to obtain sufficient quantities of concomitant medication for use in clinical trials;

•	inability to monitor patients adequately during or after treatment;

•	inability or unwillingness of medical investigators to follow our clinical and other applicable protocols;

•	failure to add a sufficient number of clinical trial sites; or

•	clinical sites or others deviating from trial protocol, inappropriately unblinding results, or dropping out of a trial.

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•	develop and commercialize medicines that are superior to other products in the market;

•	demonstrate through our clinical trials that relugolix or MVT-602 is differentiated from existing and future therapies;

•	attract qualified scientific, product development, and commercial personnel;

•	obtain patent or other proprietary protection for our medicines;

•	obtain required regulatory approvals;

•	obtain coverage and adequate reimbursement from, and negotiate competitive pricing with, third-party payors; and

•	successfully collaborate with pharmaceutical companies in the discovery, development, and commercialization of new medicines.

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•	regulatory authorities may withdraw their approval of the product or require a REMS to impose restrictions on its distribution or other risk management measures;

•	we may be required to recall a product;

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•	additional restrictions may be imposed on the marketing of the particular product or the manufacturing processes for the product or any component thereof;

•	regulatory authorities may require the addition of labeling statements, such as warnings or contraindications;

•	we may be required to change the way the product is administered or to conduct additional clinical trials;

•	we may be required to implement a REMS or create a medication guide outlining the risks of such side effects for distribution to patients;

•	we could be sued and held liable for harm caused to patients;

•	we could elect to discontinue the sale of our product;

•	the product may become less competitive; and

•	our reputation may suffer.

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•	restrictions on the manufacture of such products;

•	restrictions on the labeling or marketing of such products;

•	restrictions on product distribution or use;

•	requirements to conduct post-marketing studies or clinical trials;

•	warning or untitled letters;

•	withdrawal of the products from the market;

•	recall of products;

•	fines, restitution or disgorgement of profits or revenues;

•	suspension or withdrawal of marketing approvals;

•	refusal to permit the import or export of such products;

•	product seizure; or

•	injunctions or the imposition of civil or criminal penalties.

•	the efficacy and potential advantages compared to alternative treatments;

•	the prevalence and severity of any side effects;

•	the content of the approved product label;

•	the effectiveness of sales and marketing efforts;

•	the cost of treatment in relation to alternative treatments, including any similar generic treatments;

•	our ability to offer our products for sale at competitive prices;

•	the convenience and ease of administration compared to alternative treatments;

•	the willingness of the target patient population to try new therapies and of physicians to prescribe these therapies;

•	the strength of marketing and distribution support;

•	the availability of third-party coverage and adequate reimbursement; and

•	any restrictions on the use of our product together with other medications.

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•	our inability to recruit, train, and retain adequate numbers of effective sales and marketing personnel;

•	the inability of sales personnel to obtain access to physicians or attain adequate numbers of physicians to prescribe any drugs; and

•	unforeseen costs and expenses associated with creating an independent sales and marketing organization.

•	different regulatory requirements for drug approvals and rules governing drug commercialization in foreign countries;

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•	reduced protection for intellectual property rights;

•	unexpected changes in tariffs, trade barriers, and regulatory requirements;

•	economic weakness, including inflation, or political instability in particular foreign economies and markets;

•	compliance with tax, employment, immigration and labor laws for employees living or traveling abroad;

•	foreign reimbursement, pricing, and insurance regimes;

•	foreign taxes;

•	foreign currency fluctuations, which could result in increased operating expenses and reduced revenue, and other obligations incident to doing business in another country;

•	workforce uncertainty in countries where labor unrest is more common than in the United States;

•	potential noncompliance with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010, and similar antibribery and anticorruption laws in other jurisdictions;

•	production shortages resulting from any events affecting raw material supply or manufacturing capabilities abroad; and

•	business interruptions resulting from geopolitical actions, including war and terrorism, or natural disasters including earthquakes, typhoons, floods, and fires.

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the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits, among other things, persons and entities from knowingly and willfully soliciting, offering, receiving or providing remuneration, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind, to induce or reward, or in return for, either the referral of an individual for, or the purchase, lease, order or recommendation of, any good, facility, item or service, for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under a federal healthcare program such as Medicare and Medicaid. A person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation; in addition, the government may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the False Claims Act;

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the federal false claims laws, including the False Claims Act, which imposes criminal and civil penalties, including through civil whistleblower or qui tam actions, against individuals or entities for knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, to the federal government, claims for payment that are false or fraudulent, knowingly making, using or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim, or knowingly making or causing to be made, a false statement to avoid, decrease or conceal an obligation to pay money to the federal government; in addition, the government may assert that a claim including items and services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the civil False Claims Act;

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the federal HIPAA, which imposes criminal and civil liability for, among other things, knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program or making false or fraudulent statements relating to healthcare matters; similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation;

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HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH, and their implementing regulations, which also impose obligations, including mandatory contractual terms, with respect to safeguarding the privacy, security, and transmission of individually identifiable health information on health plans, health care clearing houses, and most providers and their business associates, defined as independent contractors or agents of covered entities that create, receive or obtain protected health information in connection with providing a service for or on behalf of a covered entity;

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the federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which requires certain manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics, and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (with certain exceptions) to report annually to the government information related to payments or other “transfers of value” made to physicians and teaching hospitals, and requires applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to report annually to the government ownership and investment interests held by the physicians described above and their immediate family members and payments or other “transfers of value” to such physician owners (covered manufacturers are required to submit reports to the government by the 90th day of each calendar year); and

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analogous state and foreign laws and regulations, such as state antikickback and false claims laws, which may apply to our business practices, including but not limited to, research, distribution, sales, and marketing arrangements and claims involving healthcare items or services reimbursed by non-governmental third party payors, including private insurers, or otherwise restrict payments that may be made to healthcare providers and other potential referral sources; and state laws that require pharmaceutical companies to comply with the pharmaceutical industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government, and state laws that require drug manufacturers to report information related to payments and other transfers of value to physicians and other healthcare providers or marketing expenditures; and state and foreign laws governing the privacy and security of health information in some circumstances, many of which differ from each other in significant ways and often are not preempted by HIPAA, thus complicating compliance efforts.

•	an annual, nondeductible fee payable by any entity that manufactures or imports specified branded prescription drugs and biologic agents;

•	an increase in the statutory minimum rebates a manufacturer must pay under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program;

•	a new methodology by which rebates owed by manufacturers under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program are calculated for drugs that are inhaled, infused, instilled, implanted or injected;

•	a new Medicare Part D coverage gap discount program, in which manufacturers must agree to offer 50% point-of-sale discounts off negotiated prices of applicable brand drugs to eligible beneficiaries under their coverage gap period, as a condition for the manufacturer’s outpatient drugs to be covered under Medicare Part D;

•	extension of manufacturers’ Medicaid rebate liability to individuals enrolled in Medicaid managed care organizations;

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•	expansion of eligibility criteria for Medicaid programs in certain states;

•	expansion of the entities eligible for discounts under the Public Health Service pharmaceutical pricing program;

•	a new requirement to annually report drug samples that manufacturers and distributors provide to physicians; and

•	a new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to oversee, identify priorities in, and conduct comparative clinical effectiveness research, along with funding for such research.

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•	delay or inability to design a fixed-dose combination product of relugolix and low-dose estradiol and progestin;

•	failure of the drug substance transferred from Takeda to meet our product specifications and quality requirements;

•	inability to meet our product specifications and quality requirements consistently;

•	delay or inability to procure or expand sufficient manufacturing capacity;

•	manufacturing and product quality issues related to scale-up of manufacturing;

•	costs and validation of new equipment and facilities required for scale-up;

•	failure to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and standards, including cGMP and similar foreign standards;

•	deficient or improper record-keeping;

•	inability to negotiate manufacturing agreements with third parties under commercially reasonable terms;

•	termination or nonrenewal of manufacturing agreements with third parties in a manner or at a time that is costly or damaging to us;

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reliance on a limited number of sources, and in some cases, single sources for product components, such that if we are unable to secure a sufficient supply of these product components, we will be unable to manufacture and sell relugolix, a fixed-dose combination product of relugolix and low-dose estradiol and progestin, or MVT-602, if approved, or any future product candidate in a timely fashion, in sufficient quantities or under acceptable terms;

•	lack of qualified backup suppliers for those components that are currently purchased from a sole or single source supplier;

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•	operations of our third-party manufacturers or suppliers could be disrupted by conditions unrelated to our business or operations, including the bankruptcy of the manufacturer or supplier or other regulatory sanctions related to the manufacture of another company’s products;

•	carrier disruptions or increased costs that are beyond our control; and

•	failure to deliver our products under specified storage conditions and in a timely manner.

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•	any delay in the commencement, enrollment, and ultimate completion of our clinical trials;

•	results of clinical trials of relugolix, MVT-602 or those of our competitors;

•	any delay in filing an NDA or similar application for relugolix or MVT-602 and any adverse development or perceived adverse development with respect to the FDA or other regulatory authority’s review of that NDA or similar application, as the case may be;

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•	failure to successfully develop and commercialize relugolix, MVT-602 or any future product candidate;

•	inability to obtain additional funding;

•	regulatory or legal developments in the United States or other countries or jurisdictions applicable to relugolix, MVT-602, or any future product candidate;

•	adverse regulatory decisions;

•	changes in the structure of healthcare payment systems;

•	inability to obtain adequate product supply for relugolix, MVT-602 or any future product candidate, or the inability to do so at acceptable prices;

•	introduction of new products, services or technologies by our competitors;

•	failure to meet or exceed financial projections we provide to the public;

•	failure to meet or exceed the estimates and projections of the investment community;

•	changes in the market valuations of similar companies;

•	market conditions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, and the issuance of new or changed securities analysts' reports or recommendations;

•	announcements of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments by us or our competitors;

•	significant lawsuits, including patent or shareholder litigation, and disputes or other developments relating to our proprietary rights, including patents, litigation matters, and our ability to obtain patent protection for our technologies;

•	additions or departures of key scientific or management personnel;

•	short sales of our common shares;

•	sales of our common shares by us or our shareholders in the future;

•	negative coverage in the media or analyst reports, whether accurate or not;

•	issuance of subpoenas or investigative demands, or the public fact of an investigation by a government agency, whether meritorious or not;

•	trading volume of our common shares;

•	general economic, industry, and market conditions; and

•	the other factors described in this “Risk Factors” section.

•	that a majority of its board of directors consists of independent directors;

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•	for an annual performance evaluation of the nominating and corporate governance and compensation committees;

•	to have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities; and

•	to have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibility.

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•	a classified board of directors with staggered three-year terms;

•	directors only to be removed for cause;

•	an affirmative vote of 662⁄3% of our voting shares for certain “business combination” transactions that have not been approved by our board of directors;

•	restrictions on the time period in which directors may be nominated; and

•	our board of directors to determine the powers, preferences, and rights of our preference shares and to issue the preference shares without shareholder approval.

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