Operator
Operator
Good afternoon. My name is Katelyn and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Impax Laboratories First Quarter 2015 Earnings Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Thank you. Mark Donohue, Head of Investor Relations, you may begin your conference. Mark J. Donohue - VP-Investor Relations & Corporate Communications: Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Impax's first quarter 2015 financial results conference call. We issued our earnings release this afternoon after the market closed. Copy of the press release and a link to the webcast of this call are available on the company's website at www.impaxlabs.com. Today, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Fred Wilkinson, will provide an overview of the quarter and some of the recent events; and Bryan Reasons, our Chief Financial Officer, will provide additional details on the financial results. Also joining us for the question-and-answer session is Michael Nestor, President of the Brand Division. We ask that you keep to one question and one follow-up please and return to the queue. Our discussion today may include certain forward-looking statements and actual results may differ from those presented here. The factors that could cause such difference are outlined in our SEC filings and on our website. Our discussion today includes certain non-GAAP measures as defined by the SEC. Management uses both GAAP financial measures and the disclosed non-GAAP financial measures internally to evaluate and manage the company's operations and to better understand its business. Further, management believes the inclusion of non-GAAP financial measures provides meaningful supplementary information to and facilitates analysis by investors in evaluating the company's financial performance, results of operations and trends. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures is available in our first quarter of 2015 earnings release, which can be found on our website. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Fred. George Frederick Wilkinson - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you very much, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. This has been one of the more interesting quarter, since I've joined approximately a year ago. I think and more importantly, it really represents a quarter that is not atypical of a stub period, the quarter that has a stub period following the close of a major acquisition. So, on this call, I'll attempt to provide some top-line color on the quarter with a focus on several of the key critical issues that occurred, as well as an outlook on 2015. Bryan will provide the financial detail, and how to bridge these events for the results reported. I will also cover the status of the integration of Tower Holdings with the focus on the anticipated contribution to our 2015, as well as the acceleration of synergies in 2015 and the incremental synergies, we believe we will achieve in 2016. I will also provide an update on the launch of RYTARY, as this is an important driver of both short-term and long-term growth. And naturally, I will provide additional details regarding the recent completed FDA inspection of our Hayward site as well as the implications of the observations listed in the Form-483. At the end, we will take questions. So, let's turn to the quarter. The focus obviously for us is on 2015, not just on a single quarter. However, it would suffice to say that, there is really nothing that occurred in this quarter that would change our view on two important issues, the Tower transaction and on 2015 itself. We made significant progress in first quarter, executing on our strategy to build out a diversified specialty pharmaceutical company. Two best examples are the Tower acquisition and then the launch of RYTARY. First quarter results were impacted, however, by several timing events and Bryan will go through the detail here, but listed here are the three weeks of impact from Tower and it's only three weeks. We had an interesting product mix that occurred during the quarter that were; the timing of several generic launches were delayed with the most specific was being lamotrigine ODT, and finally, we deferred the revenue recognition for RYTARY, but yet included all the launch expenses. We are reaffirming our full 2015 financial guidance and we get comfort and that's because of the number of launches that we have lined up. We have up to 14 generic launches in 2015, 11 of them are already approved products and only two are pending from the Hayward facility. We've actually had a very busy April. We launched five products including lamotrigine ODT, and to remind that you comes with six month of exclusivity, and finally, the nine weeks that we've owned Tower. We have found the opportunity to not only accelerate, but to increase the synergies related to that transaction. So, with that let me turn to Tower for a few minutes. It's been nine weeks since the close of that transaction and we believe that at this particular point, we've actually completed all the planning for and then implementation of the integration of our two companies. Management structures have been defined and then communicated throughout the sites to all employees. The policies and procedures especially those that relate to financial management of the company have been implemented and all customer transition activities occurred without any issues. Our launch programs are now well-organized to take advantage of the diversification strategies from both Impax and Tower as evidenced by the mix of our potential generic launches for this year. And we are now operating under a single R&D portfolio and have reprioritized the projects to provide the greatest future value for our shareholders. As reported in today's press release, we've also identified an additional $10 million in synergies coming primarily from the prioritization of R&D projects, manufacturing and supply chain efficiencies, sales and marketing coordination and revenue synergies that we'll experience from our expanded product line and we'll be able to go through in a little bit more detail on those. Therefore, we think that we'll end up with is, accelerating all the $10 million in synergies that we had previously announced, so that they occur in 2015 and we'll be adding $10 million of additional synergies to our model for 2016. Let me turn to the RYTARY launch. So, it's still very early, but we're very, very pleased with the script trends, with our managed care coverage to-date, with the sales force activities, and then the responses from both the targeted physicians and from patients. I think TRx has reported an IMS last week of around 813, which is up 13% over the previous week and to-date we have about little over 5,000 TRx that have been filled with RYTARY. Our coverage for managed care is around 70% of all the commercial lines. We do have coverage in the federal government and we are working very aggressively to try to put us in a position to close out many of the large Part D programs as timing usually takes anywhere between four months to six months. Our sales force coverage is actually ahead of plan, they seem to be getting great entrée into the key targeted audiences, and remember that our focus is on neurologists. We did a soft launch in February, where we put the product into the marketplace and then a full launch in April. And I actually had the opportunity at the American Academy of Neurology Meeting a couple of weeks ago to observe not only our rep promotions, but the physician response to that promotion, and I'm confident that we can make RYTARY a success. With that, let me turn to the most recent event, which is the FDA inspection of Hayward. My stated goal as I got here was that we would complete all of our inspections at each of our sites without any observations, and that didn't happen. The inspection that occurred just – and closed out this last Friday, included both a GMP component, as well as PAIs for several products. We believe the 43 observations are very specific and detailed, and thus, provide us a clear roadmap toward the areas that we need to spend additional attention on. We also know that they are addressable and correctable and will be part of our 15-day – our response that goes in within the 15 days allotted. Based on the acceptability of our response, we do not believe that there will be any impact on the ability for us to supply our current manufactured products from Hayward. What we cannot do at this point is predict the outcome approvals, as this is reliant not only on the recommendations from the PAI activities that just occurred, but also the overall status of the facility and the overall review by the center of each of the files. We did get confirmation during the inspection that the prior inspection that closed in July of 2014 was classed as VAI and what we believe is that we continue to make progress and that our QIP program has been effective in helping us improve our system. Although, we still recognize work is needed. So with that, and I'm sure we'll answer as many questions as you have, when we get to this point. Let me turn it over to Bryan, so he can cover the first quarter and the financial details. Thank you. Bryan M. Reasons - Chief Financial Officer & Senior VP-Finance: Thanks, Fred. Good afternoon, everyone. As Fred mentioned, we made significant progress in the first quarter, executing our strategy of building a diversified specialty pharmaceutical company with the completion of the Tower acquisition and the launch of RYTARY. While the first quarter's results were impacted by the timing of several meaningful events, we do not believe they're indicative of current expectations for our full-year 2015 performance and as Fred mentioned, we are reconfirming our previously issued full-year guidance. Our total revenues in the first quarter increased $24 million, or 21% to $143 million compared to last year. This increase was attributable to higher sales on the company's existing products; especially Lidocaine, generic Adderall and Solaraze. In addition, the results included three weeks of revenues from the acquisition of Tower Holdings. Revenues were negatively impacted by the later-than-anticipated close of the Tower acquisition, the delayed launch of lamotrigine ODT, which resulted from the delayed receipt of inventory from our supplier and the deferred revenue recognition of approximately $3 million of product sales from the launch of RYTARY. Our adjusted gross margins in the first quarter 2015 decreased to 47% from approximately 61% last year, primarily due to higher sales of lower margin generic products, the impact of additional competition on generic digoxin, the later-than-anticipated close of the Tower acquisition and the delayed launch of certain other products. We expect gross margins for the full-year to be in line with our previous guidance. Moving on to operating expenses; adjusted R&D expense in the first quarter 2015 were lower by approximately $5 million, compared to last year, primarily due to the reduction and project spending and the impact of the R&D restructuring we now flash here, partially offset by the inclusion of R&D expense from the Tower acquisition. First quarter 2015 patent litigation expense continued to decline to approximately $1 million due to the reduction in legal activity and prior settlements. The decline in adjusted R&D and patent litigation expenses in the first quarter were offset by higher adjusted SG&A expenses. Our first quarter 2015 adjusted SG&A expenses increased by approximately $15 million. This was primarily driven by $7 million on advertising and promotion related to the launch of RYTARY and higher share-based compensation and information technology expenses as well as the inclusion of SG&A expense from the Tower acquisition. During the first quarter, we had several events negatively impact, our first quarter effective tax rate. Higher non-deductible executive stock compensation and the exclusion of the R&D tax credit expected to be renewed by the end of the year. Adjusted earnings per diluted share decreased to $0.09 in the first quarter, compared to $0.24 last year. This decrease was primarily attributable to unfavorable product sales mix, as a result of the timing of several late first quarter events. In addition there were $7 million and costs associated with the launch of RYTARY and $1.6 million in interest expense related to the Tower acquisition, for which there were no comparable amount in the prior-year. In the first quarter of 2015, we invested approximately $4 million in CapEx, about $6 million less than last year. This decrease was primarily due to the delay in new project spending. We ended the quarter with $153 million in cash as compared to $415 million at the end of 2014. The decrease primarily used to pay for the Tower acquisition along with approximately $420 million in net deb. Thanks for your attention. And I'll now turn the call back to Katelyn for questions.