Company: BGLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001477932-25-002725
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Company: BioNexus Gene Lab Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 agent in connection with such financing or other matter, upon such terms as the parties may mutually agree.

(b) Strategic Investment into Ascension Innovation Sdn Bhd. by our subsidiary, MRNA Scientific Sdn. Bhd.

Pursuant to a Form 8-K filed on April 18, 2024, the Company announced a strategic investment in Ascension Innovation Sdn Bhd (AISB), a privately held Malaysian company. 

(c) Notification of Delisting and Stay of Suspension.

On November 6, 2023, the Company reported that it received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) regarding the Company’s failure to comply with Nasdaq Continued Listing Rule (“Rule”) 5550(a)(2), which requires listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share. A failure to comply with Rule 5550(a)(2) exists when listed securities fail to maintain a closing bid price of at least $1.00 per share for 30 consecutive business days.

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Under Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company automatically was provided a period of 180 calendar days, until May 6, 2024, to regain compliance.

The Company then applied to Nasdaq to receive an additional 180 calendar days to regain compliance. On August 8, 2024, the Company received notification from Nasdaq that the compliance period has been extended to November 4, 2024. If at any time during this 180-day period the closing bid price of the Company’s securities is at least $1.00 for a minimum of ten consecutive business days, the Company’s compliance will be regained.

On November 5, 2024, the Company received a notification from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") indicating that the Company’s common stock will be delisted from the Nasdaq Capital Market due to its failure to comply with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), which requires listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of $1 per share. The Company had been provided two consecutive 180-day grace periods, ending on November 4, 2024, to regain compliance but was unable to meet the requirement within the designated period.

In response, on November 8, 2024, the Company submitted a formal request for a hearing before a Nasdaq Hearings Panel to appeal the delisting determination. The Nasdaq Hearings Department has acknowledged