contingent
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Gilead will pay an initial $3.15 billion in cash for Tubulis, with up to $1.85 billion in contingent milestone payments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
All of this is contingent on Iran also suspending hostilities and fully opening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping traffic, which it says it will do.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Apellis stockholders will also receive a contingent value right for each share they own.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
It’s paying $38.00 in cash per share, a 38% premium over Monday’s closing price of $27.58, in addition to one contingent value right up to $9.00 based on three milestones.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
Twenty minutes later, Beidleman’s contingent limped into camp, where they had an emotional reunion with a very worried Anatoli Boukreev.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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