Company: BGLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-10
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001477932-25-000832
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Company: BioNexus Gene Lab Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-10
Form: PRE 14A
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 through equity or debt financing to fund our current operations and support growth of our products. Such additional financing could take a variety of forms, including a private investment in our Common Stock or preferred stock, convertible debt securities or other debt financing, an at-the-market offering of our Common Stock, rights offering or other public offering of equity or debt securities. The availability of additional equity or debt financing will depend on the continued execution of our business plan, our ability to demonstrate a path to long-term profitable growth, as well as market conditions. There can be no assurance that such equity or debt financing will be available in amounts or on terms acceptable to us, if at all.

The sale of additional equity would result in dilution to our stockholders, which could be significant. The incurrence of debt financing would result in additional debt service obligations and the instruments governing such debt could provide for restrictive operating and financial covenants, security interests on our assets, and other terms that could be adverse to our current stockholders and other stakeholders. Failure to raise additional capital through equity or debt financing could have a material adverse effect on our ability to meet our short and long-term liquidity needs and achieve our business objectives.

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As previously noted, we do not intend to use the Reverse Stock Split as a part of or a first step in a “going private” transaction within the meaning of Rule 13e-3 of the Exchange Act. There is no plan or contemplated plan by us to take ourselves private at the date of this Proxy Statement.

Employee Retention.The Board believes that the Company’s employees and directors who are compensated in the form of our equity-based securities may be less incentivized and invested in the Company if we are no longer listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. Accordingly, the Board believes that maintaining Nasdaq listing qualifications for our Common Stock, can help attract, retain, and motivate employees.

Risks Associated with the Reverse Stock Split

The Reverse Stock Split May Not Result in an Increased Price of our Common Stock over the Medium or Long-Term. As notedabove, one principal purpose of the Reverse Stock Split is to increase the trading price of our Common Stock tomeet the minimum stock price standards of the Nasdaq Capital Market. However, the effect of the Reverse Stock Split on the market price of our Common Stock cannot be predicted with any certainty, and we cannot assure you that the Reverse Stock Split will accomplish this objective for any meaningful period of time, or at all. While we expect that the reduction in the number of outstanding shares of Common