CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures
−Removed: are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted
−Removed: under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required
−Removed: to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including
−Removed: our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Evaluation of Disclosure
−Removed: Controls and Procedures
+Added: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our
+Added: reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in
+Added: the SEC’s rules and forms.
+Added: Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to
+Added: ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated
+Added: to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As required by Rules 13a-15
and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness
−Removed: of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2023.
Based upon their evaluation, our Chief
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15d-15 (e) under the Exchange Act) were not effective.
−Removed: Management’s Controls Over Financial
−Removed: Our disclosure controls and
−Removed: procedures are designed to ensure that the information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Securities
−Removed: Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods
−Removed: specified in Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated
−Removed: to our management to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Our management, with the participation
−Removed: and supervision of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls
−Removed: 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
−Removed: Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of such date, our disclosure
−Removed: controls and procedures were not, in design and operation, effective as of September 30, 2023 at a reasonable assurance level due to the
−Removed: material weaknesses and significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting described below:
+Added: Controls Over Financial Reporting
+Added: disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that the information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or
+Added: submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized, and
+Added: reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and forms, and that such information
+Added: is accumulated and communicated to our management to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: management, with the participation and supervision of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the
+Added: effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the
+Added: end of the period covered by this quarterly report.
+Added: Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
+Added: have concluded that as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were not, in design and operation, effective as of December
+Added: 31, 2023 at a reasonable assurance level due to the material weaknesses and significant deficiency in internal control over financial
+Added: reporting described below:
Material Weakness
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misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
−Removed: Following the identification
−Removed: of the material weaknesses, we plan to take remedial measures including:
−Removed: ● hiring qualified accounting personnel with relevant U.S.
−Removed: GAAP and SEC reporting experience
−Removed: and qualifications to strengthen the financial reporting function and to set up a financial
−Removed: and system control framework;
+Added: the identification of the material weaknesses, we plan to take remedial measures including:
+Added: qualified accounting personnel with relevant U.S.
+Added: GAAP and SEC reporting experience and qualifications to strengthen the financial reporting
+Added: function and to set up a financial and system control framework;
● implementing
regular and continuous U.S.
−Removed: GAAP accounting and financial reporting training programs for
−Removed: our accounting and financial reporting personnel;
+Added: GAAP accounting and financial reporting training programs for our accounting and financial reporting personnel;
● establishing
−Removed: internal audit function by engaging an external consulting firm to assist us with assessment
−Removed: of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 compliance requirements and improvement of overall internal
+Added: internal audit function by engaging an external consulting firm to assist us with assessment of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 compliance
+Added: requirements and improvement of overall internal control;
● strengthening
corporate governance.
−Removed: We believe, however, that a controls system, no
−Removed: matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the controls systems are met, and no evaluation
−Removed: of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud or error, if any, within a company have been
−Removed: Changes in Internal Control over Financial
−Removed: During the quarter ended
−Removed: September 30, 2023 we completed the Merger and the internal controls of Estrella Biopharma, Inc.
−Removed: became our internal controls.
−Removed: PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
+Added: believe, however, that a controls system, no matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives
+Added: of the controls systems are met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of
+Added: fraud or error, if any, within a company have been detected.
+Added: in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
+Added: The Company is in the process of implementing certain changes in its
+Added: internal control over financial reporting to remediate the material weaknesses described above.
+Added: The implementation of the material aspects
+Added: of this plan began in the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, and the Company is planning to remediate the material weaknesses described
+Added: above by the end of fiscal year 2024.
+Added: As a result, there has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
+Added: during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, its internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
+Added: II - OTHER INFORMATION
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
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