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Revance Therapeutics, Inc. – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/15 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Tuesday, 11/10/15, at 5:11pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/15   ·   Accession #:  1479290-15-10   ·   File #:  1-36297

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11/10/15  Revance Therapeutics, Inc.        10-Q        9/30/15   66:5.6M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    644K 
 2: EX-10.1     Material Contract                                   HTML     28K 
 3: EX-10.2     Material Contract                                   HTML     68K 
 4: EX-10.3     Material Contract                                   HTML     64K 
 5: EX-10.4     Material Contract                                   HTML     70K 
 6: EX-10.5     Material Contract                                   HTML     68K 
 7: EX-10.6     Material Contract                                   HTML     70K 
 8: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     27K 
 9: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     27K 
10: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     23K 
11: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     23K 
45: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     39K 
35: R2          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     99K 
43: R3          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     31K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
48: R4          Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and  HTML     92K 
                Comprehensive Loss                                               
61: R5          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    171K 
37: R6          The Company and Basis of Presentation               HTML     36K 
42: R7          Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     39K 
32: R8          Medicis Settlement                                  HTML     30K 
25: R9          Cash Equivalents and Investments                    HTML     82K 
62: R10         Fair Value Measurements                             HTML     82K 
50: R11         Notes Payable and Financing Obligation              HTML     41K 
49: R12         Convertible Notes, Warrants, and Related            HTML     26K 
                Derivatives                                                      
54: R13         Interest Expense                                    HTML     62K 
55: R14         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     40K 
53: R15         Warrants                                            HTML     22K 
56: R16         Equity                                              HTML    105K 
44: R17         Net Loss per Share Attributable to Common           HTML     62K 
                Stockholders                                                     
46: R18         Subsequent Events                                   HTML     25K 
52: R19         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     52K 
                (Policies)                                                       
66: R20         Cash Equivalents and Investments (Tables)           HTML     78K 
58: R21         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML     79K 
39: R22         Notes Payable and Financing Obligation (Tables)     HTML     27K 
51: R23         Interest Expense (Tables)                           HTML     60K 
41: R24         Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)              HTML     28K 
22: R25         Equity (Tables)                                     HTML     92K 
59: R26         Net Loss per Share Attributable to Common           HTML     62K 
                Stockholders (Tables)                                            
63: R27         The Company and Basis of Presentation - Additional  HTML     60K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
28: R28         Medicis Settlement - Additional Information         HTML     49K 
                (Detail)                                                         
27: R29         Cash Equivalents and Investments (Details)          HTML     44K 
30: R30         Fair Value Measurements - Schedule of Fair Value    HTML     53K 
                of Financial Instruments (Detail)                                
31: R31         Fair Value Measurements - Summary of Changes in     HTML     27K 
                Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Detail)                     
33: R32         Notes Payable and Financing Obligation - Hercules   HTML     54K 
                Notes Payable (Detail)                                           
21: R33         Notes Payable and Financing Obligation - Essex      HTML     58K 
                Capital Notes (Detail)                                           
57: R34         Notes Payable and Financing Obligation - Summary    HTML     29K 
                of Aggregate Total Future Minimum Lease Payments                 
                under the Financing Obligation (Detail)                          
38: R35         Convertible Notes, Warrants, and Related            HTML     61K 
                Derivatives - Additional Information (Detail)                    
40: R36         Interest Expense - Summary of Interest Expense by   HTML     42K 
                Cash and Non-Cash Components (Detail)                            
24: R37         Commitments and Contingencies - Additional          HTML     34K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
65: R38         Commitments and Contingencies - Schedule of Future  HTML     38K 
                Minimum Lease Payments under Non-Cancelable                      
                Operating Leases (Detail)                                        
18: R39         Warrants - Additional Information (Detail)          HTML     28K 
34: R40         Equity - Additional Information (Detail)            HTML     69K 
60: R41         Equity - Fair Value Assumptions (Details)           HTML     44K 
23: R42         Equity - Schedule of Stock-based Compensation       HTML     30K 
                Expense (Details)                                                
26: R43         Equity - Schedule of Accumulated Other              HTML     33K 
                Comprehensive Income (Details)                                   
29: R44         Net Loss per Share Attributable to Common           HTML     45K 
                Stockholders - Schedule of Computation of Basic                  
                and Diluted Net Income (Loss) Per Share                          
                Attributable to Common Stockholders (Detail)                     
36: R45         Net Loss per Share Attributable to Common           HTML     34K 
                Stockholders - Summary of Common Stock Equivalents               
                Excluded from Computation of Diluted Net Income                  
                (Loss) Per Share (Detail)                                        
20: R46         Subsequent Events (Details)                         HTML     46K 
64: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    106K 
19: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     58K 
12: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- rvnc-20150930                       XML   1.30M 
14: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- rvnc-20150930_cal               XML    173K 
15: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- rvnc-20150930_def                XML    354K 
16: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- rvnc-20150930_lab                     XML   1.10M 
17: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- rvnc-20150930_pre              XML    636K 
13: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- rvnc-20150930                         XSD    123K 
47: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001479290-15-000010-xbrl      Zip    149K

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