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Our business involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described in “Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors” of our Annual Report, together with the other information contained in this Quarterly Report, including the section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, as well as the risks, uncertainties and other information set forth in the reports and other materials filed or furnished by us and our majority-controlled subsidiary, Immunovant, Inc. (“Immunovant”), with the SEC. We cannot assure you that any of the events discussed in the risk factors below will not occur. These risks could have a material and adverse impact on our business, prospects, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. If any such events were to happen, the trading price of our common shares could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment. Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this section to “we,” “us,” “our,” “Roivant” and the “Company” refer to Roivant Sciences Ltd. and its subsidiaries and affiliates. References to our “product candidates” include our current product candidates and any future products or product candidates. Approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) or other applicable international regulatory authority is required before a product or product candidate may be marketed and sold in the relevant jurisdiction. During the quarter ended June 30, 2026, our risk factors have not changed materially from those described in the Annual Report, except for the risk factors noted below.
Risks Related to the Development of Our Product Candidates
Clinical trials and preclinical studies are very expensive, time-consuming, difficult to design and implement and involve uncertain outcomes. We may encounter substantial delays in clinical trials, or may not be able to conduct or complete clinical trials or preclinical studies on the expected timelines, if at all.
Our biopharmaceutical product candidates that are in clinical development or preclinical studies will require, as applicable, extensive clinical testing before a New Drug Application (“NDA”) or other similar application for regulatory approval, such as a Biologics License Application (“BLA”) or an application for marketing authorization in the European Union (“E.U.”) or United Kingdom (“U.K.”), may be submitted, or extensive preclinical testing before an Investigational New Drug application (“IND”) or an application for authorization to conduct a clinical trial in the E.U. or U.K. may be submitted, a Clinical Trial Application (“CTA”). We cannot provide any assurance that we will submit an IND, NDA, CTA or other similar application for regulatory approval for our product candidates within projected timeframes or whether any such application will be accepted for review or ultimately approved by the relevant regulatory authorities.
We cannot provide any assurance that any clinical trials will be conducted as planned or completed on schedule, if at all. Clinical trials and preclinical studies are very expensive, time-consuming and difficult to design and implement, in part because they are subject to rigorous regulatory requirements. The clinical trial process is also time-consuming and costly and is dependent upon collaboration with many contract research organizations (“CROs”) and clinical trial sites. For instance, the FDA, an institutional review board (“IRB”), an Ethics Committee (“EC”) or other regulatory authorities may not agree with the proposed analysis plans or trial design for the clinical trials of our product candidates, and during any such review, may identify unexpected efficacy or safety concerns, which may delay the effective date of an IND or approval of an NDA, BLA or similar application. The FDA, the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”), the European Commission, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) or other relevant regulatory authority may also find that the benefits of any product candidate in any applicable indication do not outweigh its risks in a manner sufficient to grant regulatory approval.
The FDA or other regulatory authorities may also not agree with the scope of our proposed investigational plan. For example, they may find that our proposed development program is not sufficient to support a marketing authorization application, or that the proposed indication is considered to be too broad. Moreover, the FDA or other regulatory authorities may also refuse or impose certain restrictions on our reliance on data supporting our clinical trial application or
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marketing authorization application should such data originate from studies outside of the relevant jurisdiction or be affected by regulatory non-compliance, including issues of data integrity. In the E.U., data derived from clinical trials that were conducted outside the E.U. cannot be used to support a CTA unless the clinical trial was registered on a relevant database. In each case, this could delay the clinical development and authorization timeline for a given product candidate.
Failures can occur at any stage of development, including clinical trials or preclinical studies, and we could encounter problems that cause us to abandon or repeat clinical trials or preclinical studies. In addition, results from clinical trials or preclinical studies may require further evaluation, delaying the next stage of development or submission of an IND or an NDA or similar application in the U.S. or another jurisdiction. Further, product candidates in later stages of clinical trials may fail to show the desired safety and efficacy results despite having successfully progressed through preclinical and earlier stage clinical trials. Such product candidates may exhibit safety signals in later stage clinical trials that they did not exhibit in earlier studies or trials. A number of companies in the biopharmaceutical industry have suffered significant setbacks in, or the discontinuation of, advanced clinical trials with a product candidate due to lack of efficacy or adverse safety findings, despite having promising results in earlier trials or studies. Likewise, the results of early clinical trials or preclinical studies of our product candidates may not be predictive of the results of current or future development programs. There can also be no assurance that the results of studies conducted by collaborators or other third parties with similar product candidates in similar indications will be viewed favorably or indicative of our own future trial results.
The commencement and completion of clinical trials and other studies may be delayed by several factors, including:
•the inability to generate sufficient data to support the initiation or continuation of clinical trials;
•difficulty identifying patients and enrolling them in clinical trials and other studies, including as a result of competing trials run by other pharmaceutical companies;
•the failure to add, or delays in activating, a sufficient number of clinical trial sites;
•the 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;
•the failure by our CROs or other third parties to adhere to clinical trial agreements;
•the failure to manufacture or release sufficient quantities of our product candidates or failure to obtain sufficient quantities of active comparator medications for our clinical trials, if applicable, that in each case meet our quality standards, for use in clinical trials;
•the inability or unwillingness of clinical investigators or study participants to follow our clinical and other applicable protocols or applicable regulatory requirements;
•unforeseen safety issues, or subjects experiencing severe or unexpected adverse events;
•a lack of clinical benefit or effectiveness being demonstrated during clinical trials;
•the occurrence of serious adverse events in trials of the same class of agents conducted by other sponsors;
•premature discontinuation of study participants from clinical trials or missing data;
•the inability to monitor patients adequately during or after treatment;
•inappropriate unblinding of trial results;
•changes in the market that render continued development of a product candidate no longer reasonable or commercially attractive;
•the cost of clinical trials of our product candidates being greater than we anticipated;
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•unanticipated impact from changes in or modifications to protocols or clinical trial design, including those that may be required by the FDA or other regulatory authorities;
•changes to our statistical analysis plans or the method of calculating primary or secondary endpoints, including changes required by, or subsequently rejected by, the FDA or other regulatory authorities;
•the failure to obtain regulatory authorization to commence a clinical trial or reach consensus with regulatory authorities regarding the design or implementation of our studies;
•resolving any dosing issues, including those raised by the FDA or other regulatory authorities;
•changes in regulatory requirements and guidance that require amending or submitting new clinical protocols;
•changes in the approval policies or regulations of the FDA or other regulatory authorities;
•an IRB or EC refusing to approve, suspending, or terminating the trial at an investigational site, precluding enrollment of additional subjects, or withdrawing their approval of the trial; or
•other regulatory issues, including the receipt of any inspectional observations on FDA’s Form-483, Warning or Untitled Letters, clinical holds or complete response letters or similar communications/objections by other regulatory authorities.
We, the FDA or other regulatory authorities may suspend our clinical trials in an entire country at any time, or an IRB/EC may suspend our clinical trial sites within any country, if it appears that we or our collaborators, or the principal investigator, are failing to conduct a trial in accordance with the protocol, applicable regulatory requirements, including Good Clinical Practice (“GCP”) regulations, that we are exposing participants to unacceptable health risks, or if the FDA or other regulatory authority finds deficiencies in our IND or equivalent applications for other countries or in the manner in which clinical trials are conducted. Such authorities may suspend or terminate a clinical trial due to a number of factors, including failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols, inspection of the clinical trial operations or trial site by the FDA, the competent authorities of the E.U. Member States and the U.K. or other regulatory authorities resulting in the imposition of a clinical hold, unforeseen safety issues or adverse side effects, failure to demonstrate a clinical benefit from using a product candidate, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions, developments on trials conducted by us or our competitors for related technology that raises regulatory concerns about risk to patients of the technology broadly, or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial. Therefore, we cannot predict with any certainty the schedule for commencement and completion of future clinical trials.
If we experience delays in the commencement or completion of our clinical trials, or if we terminate a clinical trial prior to completion, the commercial prospects of our product candidates could be harmed, and our ability to generate product revenue from any of our product candidates, if approved, may be delayed. In addition, any delays in our clinical trials could increase our costs, cause a decline in our share price, slow down the approval process, and jeopardize our ability to commence product sales and generate revenue. Any of these occurrences may harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, many of the factors that cause or lead to a termination or suspension of, or delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the denial of regulatory approval of our product candidates. We may make formulation or manufacturing changes to our product candidates, in which case we may need to conduct additional preclinical or clinical studies to bridge our modified product candidates to earlier versions. Any delays to our clinical trials that occur as a result could shorten any period during which we may have the exclusive right to commercialize our product candidates and our competitors may be able to bring product candidates to market before we do, and the commercial viability of our product candidates could be significantly reduced.
Moreover, principal investigators for our clinical trials may serve as scientific advisors or consultants to us from time to time and receive compensation in connection with such services. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to report some of these relationships to the FDA or other regulatory authorities. The FDA or other regulatory authorities may conclude that a financial relationship between us and a principal investigator has created a conflict of interest or otherwise affected the integrity of the study. The FDA or other regulatory authorities may therefore question the integrity of the data generated at the applicable clinical trial site and the utility of the clinical trial itself may be jeopardized. This could result in a delay in approval, or rejection, of our marketing and authorization applications by the FDA or other
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regulatory authorities, as the case may be, and may ultimately lead to the denial of marketing approval of any of our product candidates.
In addition, for our product candidates that are in clinical development, prior to our acquisition of the rights to those product candidates we had no involvement with or control over the preclinical or clinical development of those product candidates. We are therefore dependent on our licensing and other transaction partners having conducted such research and development in accordance with the applicable protocols and legal, regulatory and scientific standards, having used appropriately regulated and compliant equipment and devices during the preclinical or clinical development, having accurately reported the results of all clinical trials and other research they conducted prior to our acquisition of the rights to those product candidates, having correctly collected and interpreted the data from these trials and other research and having supplied us with complete information, data sets and reports required to adequately demonstrate the results reported through the date of our acquisition of these product candidates. Problems associated with the pre-acquisition development of our product candidates could result in increased costs and delays in the commercialization or development of our product candidates, which could harm our ability to generate any future revenue from sales of our product candidates following regulatory approval.
Interim, preliminary or topline data from our clinical trials that we announce or publish from time to time may change as more patient data become available and are subject to audit and verification procedures that could result in material changes in the final data.
From time to time, we may publicly disclose interim, preliminary or topline data from our clinical trials, which are based on a preliminary analysis of then-available data. These results and related findings and conclusions are subject to change following a full analysis of all data related to the particular trial.
We also make assumptions, estimations, calculations and conclusions as part of our analyses of data, and we may not have received or had the opportunity to fully and carefully evaluate all data. As a result, the interim, preliminary and topline results that we report may differ from future results of the same trials, or different conclusions or considerations may qualify such results, once additional data have been received and fully evaluated. Topline data also remain subject to audit and verification procedures that may result in the final data being materially different from the topline data we previously reported. As a result, interim, preliminary and topline data should be viewed with caution until the final data are available. Interim data are subject to the risk that one or more of the clinical outcomes may materially change as patient enrollment continues and more patient data become available. Adverse differences between interim, preliminary or topline data and final data could significantly harm our business prospects. Further, disclosure of preliminary or interim data by us or by our competitors could result in increased volatility in the price of our shares.
Further, other parties, including our collaborators or regulatory agencies, may not accept or agree with our assumptions, estimates, calculations, conclusions or analyses or may interpret or weigh the importance of data differently, which could impact the value of the particular program, the approvability or commercialization of a particular product candidate and our business in general.
In addition, our analyses, interpretations, and presentation of clinical trial data may evolve over time, including through changes to primary or secondary endpoints, statistical methods, endpoint hierarchies, or the methodologies used to calculate or present them. We may make these changes to ongoing studies. We may also conduct post-hoc, retrospective, subgroup or other modified data or statistical analyses after database lock or unblinding of a clinical trial. Regulatory authorities may give less weight to, or decline to accept, results based on such changes or analyses conducted thereafter, including on the basis that such changes in endpoints or analytical methodology are not adequately justified, which could adversely affect our ability to obtain regulatory approval.
In addition, the information we choose or are required to publicly disclose regarding a particular study or clinical trial is based on what is typically extensive information, and you or others may not agree with what we determine is the material or otherwise appropriate information to include in our disclosure. Any information we determine not to disclose may ultimately be deemed significant with respect to future decisions, conclusions, views, activities or otherwise regarding a particular product, product candidate or our business. If the interim, preliminary or topline data that we report differ from later, final or actual results, or if others, including our collaborators or regulatory authorities, disagree with the conclusions reached, our ability to obtain approval for and commercialize our product candidates and our business, operating results, prospects or financial condition may be harmed.
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Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property
We may be involved in lawsuits to protect or enforce our patents, the patents of our licensors or our other intellectual property rights, which could be expensive, time consuming and unsuccessful.
Competitors may infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate our patents, the patents of our licensors or our other intellectual property rights. To counter infringement or unauthorized use, we may be required to file and prosecute legal claims against one or more third parties, which can be expensive and time-consuming, even if ultimately successful.
In February 2022, Roivant’s subsidiary GSG and Roivant’s affiliate Arbutus filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against Moderna and an affiliate seeking damages for infringement of certain patents, including U.S. Patent Nos. 8,492,359, 9,364,435, 9,504,651 and 11,141,378, in the manufacture and sale of MRNA-1273, Moderna’s vaccine for COVID-19 (the “U.S. Moderna Action”). In 2025, GSG and Arbutus filed five international lawsuits against Moderna targeting alleged infringing activity with respect to Moderna’s vaccine for COVID-19 in 30 countries (the “Moderna International Actions” and, together with the U.S. Moderna Action, the “Moderna Actions”). On March 3, 2026, GSG and, solely for certain purposes, Genevant, and Arbutus entered into a settlement agreement with Moderna Inc. and Moderna TX, Inc. (the “Settlement Agreement”) to resolve the Moderna Actions. Under the Settlement Agreement, Moderna made a $950 million aggregate lump sum payment to GSG and Arbutus on July 8, 2026, including $771.6 million to GSG. In addition, as described in more detail below, Moderna agreed to make an additional aggregate lump sum payment of up to $1.3 billion (the “Contingent Payment”) to GSG and Arbutus, contingent on the outcome of Moderna’s appeal of the District Court’s rejection of Moderna’s affirmative defense under 28 U.S.C. § 1498. Briefing of Moderna’s appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”) was completed in July 2026, with oral arguments before the Federal Circuit expected to take place in 2027.
Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, Moderna will make the Contingent Payment to GSG and Arbutus (i) if the Federal Circuit affirms, or if there is a final non-appealable judgment that affirms, the rejection of Moderna’s affirmative defense pursuant to § 1498 by the District Court in its entirety or otherwise holds that § 1498 does not bar GSG’s and Arbutus’s claim against Moderna as to either or both of direct infringement and indirect infringement with respect to all of the doses subject to Moderna’s appeal, or (ii) upon a voluntary dismissal of Moderna’s appeal (any of the foregoing under (i) or (ii), a “GSG/Arbutus § 1498 Victory”).
The receipt of the Contingent Payment is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could impact the amount and timing of any proceeds received by GSG and Arbutus. If the Federal Circuit determines that § 1498 bars GSG’s and Arbutus’s direct and indirect infringement claims with respect to all doses subject to Moderna’s appeal, no Contingent Payment will be owed to GSG and Arbutus. If § 1498 is found to bar claims only with respect to some of such doses, the Contingent Payment will be prorated and the precise amount of the Contingent Payment could be subject to dispute if the Federal Circuit’s ruling does not clearly articulate the number of affected doses, potentially requiring binding arbitration to resolve. We cannot predict the timing or outcome of the § 1498 Appeal. Even if GSG and Arbutus receive the Contingent Payment following a favorable appellate outcome, as described above, GSG and Arbutus would be required to return the Contingent Payment to Moderna, plus interest, if the favorable outcome were to be subsequently overturned in Moderna’s favor in a final non-appealable decision. The obligation to potentially return the Contingent Payment, together with interest, could have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition if such a repayment obligation were to arise after the proceeds are deployed or distributed.
More broadly, litigation settlement agreements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. For example, Moderna could default on, or otherwise fail to make, the Contingent Payment under certain circumstances. In addition, the terms of the Settlement Agreement represent a final resolution of the Moderna Actions. GSG and Arbutus will have no further ability to seek additional damages from Moderna in connection with the licensed products and activities covered by the Settlement Agreement, even if circumstances change or additional infringing activities are discovered that fall within the scope of the license. The mutual releases contained in the Settlement Agreement extinguish claims that might otherwise have been available to GSG and Arbutus. In addition, the Settlement Agreement resolves only the disputes between GSG and Arbutus, on the one hand, and Moderna and its affiliates, on the other, and does not affect other pending litigation, including the Pfizer Actions described below, which remain ongoing and subject to its own risks and uncertainties.
In April 2023, GSG and Arbutus filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Pfizer and BioNTech seeking damages for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 9,504,651, 8,492,359, 11,141,378, 11,298,320 and 11,318,098 in the manufacture and sale of COMIRNATY (the “U.S. Pfizer Action”). In July 2023, Pfizer and BioNTech filed an answer. The court held a claim construction hearing in the U.S. Pfizer Action in December 2024. In
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September 2025, the court issued its claim construction ruling, which construed the disputed claim terms in a manner that GSG generally considers to be favorable. In July 2026, Arbutus and GSG filed three international lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech — one in Canada and two before the Unified Patent Court (the “UPC”) — seeking monetary relief as well as injunctions against Pfizer and BioNTech’s mRNA-LNP COVID-19 vaccines and any other products that would infringe the asserted patents, which include Canadian Patent No. 2,721,333, EP 4 241 767 and EP 4 495 237 (the “International Pfizer Actions” and, together with the U.S. Pfizer Action, the “Pfizer Actions”). The UPC actions seek relief across 20 European countries which, together with the Canadian action, cover 21 jurisdictions in total. We cannot predict the timing or outcome of these matters, and there is no assurance that the resolution of the Moderna Actions will be predictive of the outcome of the litigation against Pfizer and BioNTech.
In an infringement proceeding, a court may decide that a patent of ours or our licensors is not valid or is unenforceable, or may refuse to stop the other party from using the technology at issue on the grounds that our patents do not cover the technology in question. The standards that courts use to interpret patents are not always applied predictably or uniformly and can change, particularly as new technologies develop. As a result, we cannot predict with certainty how much protection, if any, will be given to our patents if we attempt to enforce them and they are challenged in court and if any such suits, including the Pfizer Actions, will ultimately be resolved successfully. In particular, there is no assurance that the resolution of the Moderna Actions will be predictive of the outcome of the Pfizer Actions. Further, even if we prevail against an infringer in U.S. district court, there is always the risk that the infringer will file an appeal and the district court judgment will be overturned at the appeals court and that an adverse decision will be issued by the appeals court relating to the validity or enforceability of our patents. An adverse result in any litigation or defense proceedings could put one or more of our patents at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly in a manner insufficient to achieve our business objectives, or could put our patent applications at risk of not issuing. The initiation of a claim against a third party may also cause the third-party to bring counter claims against us such as claims asserting that our patents are unpatentable, invalid or unenforceable. In patent litigation in the U.S., defendant counterclaims alleging invalidity or unenforceability are commonplace. Grounds for a validity challenge could be an alleged failure to meet any of several statutory requirements, including lack of novelty, obviousness, non-enablement or lack of written description, or non-statutory subject matter as well as for double-patenting. Grounds for an unenforceability assertion could be an allegation that someone connected with prosecution of the patent withheld relevant material information from the USPTO, or made a materially misleading statement, during prosecution or that inventorship of the patent was incorrectly named. Third parties may also raise similar validity or unpatentability claims before the USPTO in post-grant proceedings such as ex parte reexaminations, IPR or post-grant review, or oppositions or similar proceedings outside the U.S., in parallel with litigation or even outside the context of litigation. The outcome following legal assertions of unpatentability, invalidity and unenforceability is unpredictable. We cannot be certain that there is no invalidating prior art, of which we and the patent examiner were unaware during prosecution. For the patents and patent applications that we have in-licensed, we may have limited or no right to participate in the defense of any licensed patents against challenge by a third party. If a defendant were to prevail on a legal assertion of unpatentability, invalidity or unenforceability, we would lose at least part, and perhaps all, of any future patent protection on our product candidates. Such a loss of patent protection could harm our business. Additionally, any adverse outcome could allow third parties to commercialize our product candidates and compete directly with us, without payment to us, or result in our inability to manufacture or commercialize products, if approved, without infringing third-party patent rights.
Even if we establish infringement, we may not seek, or the court may decide not to grant, an injunction against further infringing activity and instead award only monetary damages, which may or may not be an adequate remedy. We may not be able to detect or prevent, alone or with our licensors, misappropriation of our intellectual property rights, particularly in countries where the laws may not protect those rights as fully as in the U.S. Any litigation or other proceedings to enforce our intellectual property rights may fail and, even if successful, may result in substantial costs and distract our management and other employees.
Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential information could be compromised by disclosure during this type of litigation. There could also be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions or other interim proceedings or developments. If securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have an adverse effect on the price of our common shares.
We may not have sufficient financial or other resources to adequately conduct the Pfizer Actions or any other such litigation or proceedings. Some of our competitors or other third parties may be able to sustain the costs of such litigation or proceedings more effectively than we can because of their greater financial resources. Because of the expense and uncertainty of litigation, we may conclude that even if a third party is infringing our issued patent, any patents that may be
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issued as a result of our pending or future patent applications or other intellectual property rights, the risk-adjusted cost of bringing and enforcing such a claim or action may be too high or not in the best interest of our company or our shareholders. In such cases, we may decide that the more prudent course of action is to simply monitor the situation or initiate or seek some other non-litigious action or solution.