CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: (a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Disclosure controls are procedures that are designed
−Removed: with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this Report,
−Removed: is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time period specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.
−Removed: Disclosure controls
−Removed: are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the
−Removed: chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Our management
−Removed: evaluated, with the participation of our current chief executive officer and chief financial officer (our “Certifying Officers”),
−Removed: the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2023, pursuant to Rule 13a 15(b) under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: upon that evaluation, our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of June 30, 2023, our disclosure
−Removed: controls and procedures were not effective due to the restatement related to the classification of redeemable common stock as of July
−Removed: 19, 2021 and management has identified a material weakness in internal controls related to the accounting for complex equity instruments
−Removed: in connection with our initial public offering.
−Removed: In light of this material weakness, we performed additional analyses as deemed necessary
−Removed: to ensure that our financial statements were prepared in accordance with the US GAAP.
−Removed: Accordingly, management believes that the financial
−Removed: statements included in this Amendment present fairly in all material respects our financial position, results of operations and cash flows
−Removed: for the period presented.
−Removed: We do not expect that our disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud.
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well conceived and
−Removed: operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met.
−Removed: Further, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits
−Removed: must be considered relative to their costs.
−Removed: Because of the inherent limitations in all disclosure controls and procedures, no evaluation
−Removed: of disclosure controls and procedures can provide absolute assurance that we have detected all our control deficiencies and instances
−Removed: of fraud, if any.
−Removed: The design of disclosure controls and procedures also is based partly on certain assumptions about the likelihood of
−Removed: future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
−Removed: (b) Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: There were no changes in our internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the fiscal
−Removed: quarter covered by this report that has materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting.
−Removed: In light of the correction of the material weakness as discussed above, we are enhancing our processes to appropriately
−Removed: apply applicable accounting requirements to our financial statements.
−Removed: Our plans include providing training to our accounting personnel
−Removed: and increased communication among our accounting personnel and third-party professionals with whom it consults regarding complex accounting
−Removed: applications.
−Removed: We believe our efforts will enhance our controls relating to complex and technical accounting matters, but we can offer
−Removed: no assurance that our controls will not require additional review and modification in the future as industry accounting practices based
−Removed: on the SEC Statement may evolve over time.
+Added: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: Disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted
+Added: under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and
+Added: Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required
+Added: to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including
+Added: our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Evaluation of Disclosure
+Added: Controls and Procedures
+Added: As required by Rules 13a-15
+Added: and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness
+Added: of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: Based upon their evaluation, our Chief
+Added: Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 (e) and
+Added: 15d-15 (e) under the Exchange Act) were not effective.
+Added: Management’s Controls Over Financial
+Added: Our disclosure controls and
+Added: procedures are designed to ensure that the information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Securities
+Added: Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods
+Added: specified in Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated
+Added: to our management to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Our management, with the participation
+Added: and supervision of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls
+Added: and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly
+Added: Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of such date, our disclosure
+Added: controls and procedures were not, in design and operation, effective as of September 30, 2023 at a reasonable assurance level due to the
+Added: material weaknesses and significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting described below:
+Added: Material Weakness
+Added: did not have qualified full-time personnel with appropriate levels of accounting knowledge and experience to address complex U.S.
+Added: accounting issues and to prepare and review financial statements and related disclosures under U.S.
+Added: did not have comprehensive written control policies in place;
+Added: we did not have an internal audit function or IT function to ensure the
+Added: internal controls are properly designed and implemented.
+Added: lacked evidence of certain review and approval procedures performed.
+Added: material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, within the meaning of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
+Added: Auditing Standard AS 2201, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material
+Added: misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
+Added: Following the identification
+Added: of the material weaknesses, we plan to take remedial measures including:
+Added: ● hiring qualified accounting personnel with relevant U.S.
+Added: GAAP and SEC reporting experience
+Added: and qualifications to strengthen the financial reporting function and to set up a financial
+Added: and system control framework;
+Added: ● implementing
+Added: regular and continuous U.S.
+Added: GAAP accounting and financial reporting training programs for
+Added: our accounting and financial reporting personnel;
+Added: ● establishing
+Added: internal audit function by engaging an external consulting firm to assist us with assessment
+Added: of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 compliance requirements and improvement of overall internal
+Added: ● strengthening
+Added: corporate governance.
+Added: We believe, however, that a controls system, no
+Added: matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the controls systems are met, and no evaluation
+Added: of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud or error, if any, within a company have been
+Added: Changes in Internal Control over Financial
+Added: During the quarter ended
+Added: September 30, 2023 we completed the Merger and the internal controls of Estrella Biopharma, Inc.
+Added: became our internal controls.
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
−Removed: We are not a party to any material legal proceedings
−Removed: and no material legal proceedings have been threatened by us or, to the best of our knowledge, against us.
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