Company: BLTE
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: 424B7
Source: 0001104659-25-006367
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Company: BELITE BIO, INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: 424B7
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 under the Nasdaq Stock Market Rules, because one of our shareholders holds more than 50% of our voting power. As a result, for so long as we remain a controlled

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company as defined under that rule, we are exempt from, and our shareholders generally are not provided with the benefits of, some of the Nasdaq Stock Market corporate governance requirements, including that:

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a majority of our board of directors must be independent directors;

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our compensation committee must be composed entirely of independent directors; and

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our corporate governance and nomination committee must be composed entirely of independent directors.

As of the date of this prospectus, three of our seven directors were independent and the remaining four directors, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, were appointed by our controlling shareholder.

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### CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This prospectus, the documents incorporated by reference herein and any accompanying prospectus supplement may contain or incorporate forward-looking statements that are based on our management’s belief and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements relate to future events or our future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements stated in or implied by these forward-looking statements.

All statements other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward- looking statements are made under the “safe harbor” provision under Section 27A of the Securities Act and 21E of the Exchange Act and as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,”“could,”“estimate,”“expect,”“intend,”“may,”“plan,”“potential,”“predict,”“project,”“should,” “target,” “will,” or “would” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. These statements are only predictions. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which