Company: CERO
Filing Date: 2025-02-05
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-010230
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Company: CERO THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-05
Form: S-1/A
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 or cash flows. If our financial statements are not accurate, investors may not have a complete understanding of our operations. If we do not file financial statements on a timely basis as required by the SEC, we could face severe consequences. If we are unable to conclude that its internal control over financial reporting is effective, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our Common Stock could decline, and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the Nasdaq, the SEC or other regulatory authorities. Moreover, responding to such investigations, are likely to consume a significant amount of our management resources and cause us to incur significant legal and accounting expenses. Failure to remedy any material weakness in internal control over financial reporting, or to maintain effective control systems, could also restrict our future access to the capital markets. This could result in an adverse reaction in the financial markets due to a loss of confidence in the reliability of our financial statements. 65 As a public reporting company, we are subject to filing deadlines for reports that we file pursuant to the Exchange Act, and our failure to timely file such reports may have material adverse consequences on our business. Following the consummation of the Business Combination, we failed to timely file our Form 8-K with Form 10 information prior to the “staleness” date (as determined in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC) applicable to the financial statements that were required by the applicable accounting requirements and other rules and regulations of the SEC to be included in such filing (including pro forma financial information); thus, we have not remained current in our reporting requirements with the SEC since we became an SEC reporting company on February 14, 2024. Although we have since regained status as a current filer by filing a Form 8-K/A with current financial statements on April 1, 2024, we will not be eligible to use a registration statement on Form S-3 that would allow us to continuously incorporate by reference our SEC reports into the registration statement, or to use “shelf” registration statements to conduct offerings, until approximately one year from the date we regained (and maintain) status as a current filer. Until such time, if we determine to pursue an offering, we would be required to conduct the offering on an exempt basis, such as in accordance with Rule 144A, or file a registration statement on Form S-1. Using a Form S-1 registration statement for a public offering would likely take significantly longer than using a registration statement on