Company: ATMCW
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-004801
Chunk: 1601

Company: ALPHATIME ACQUISITION CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 1601
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 a position taken by an authority
in a foreign jurisdiction. In addition, if we effect our initial business combination with a business located in the PRC and our new
auditor is located in the PRC, a jurisdiction where the PCAOB has been unable to conduct inspections without the approval of the Chinese
authorities, the work of our new auditor as it relates to those operations may not inspected by the PCAOB. In either case, such lack
of inspection could cause trading in the Company’s securities to be prohibited under the HFCAA, and ultimately result in a determination
by a securities exchange to delist the Company’s securities. Furthermore, the recent developments would add uncertainties to our
offering and we cannot assure you whether Nasdaq or regulatory authorities would apply additional and more stringent criteria to us after
considering the effectiveness of our auditor’s audit procedures and quality control procedures, adequacy of personnel and training,
or sufficiency of resources, geographic reach or experience as it relates to the audit of our financial statements. It remains unclear
what the SEC’s implementation process related to the above rules will entail or what further actions the SEC, the PCAOB or Nasdaq
will take to address these issues and what impact those actions will have on U.S. companies that have significant operations in certain
emerging markets and have securities listed on a U.S. stock exchange (including a national securities exchange or over-the-counter stock
market). In addition, the above amendments and any additional actions, proceedings, or new rules resulting from these efforts to increase
U.S. regulatory access to audit information could create some uncertainty for investors, the market price of our Ordinary Shares could
be adversely affected, and we could be delisted if we and our auditor are unable to meet the PCAOB inspection requirement or being required
to engage a new audit firm, which would require significant expense and management time.

General
Risk Factors

Unanticipated
changes in our effective tax rate or challenges by tax authorities could harm our future results.

We
may become subject to income taxes in various other jurisdictions in the future. Our effective tax rate could be adversely affected by
changes in the allocation of our pre-tax earnings and losses among countries with differing statutory tax rates, in certain non-deductible
expenses as a result of acquisitions, in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities, or in federal, state, local or non-U.S.
tax laws and accounting principles, including increased tax rates, new tax laws or revised interpretations of existing tax laws and preced