Mixed Martial Arts Group (MMA) Risk Analysis
Risk Overview Q2, 2025
Source: the company's latest filing for the period ended Jun 30, 2025, filed Oct 31, 2025
Risk Change Over Time
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1We will incur increased costs as a result of having become a listed public company.
As a listed public company, we incur legal, accounting, insurance and other expenses that would not be incurred by a private company, including costs associated with public company reporting requirements. We are an Australian public company and will incur costs in order to comply with the Corporations Act requirements for financial reporting. The Corporations Act reporting standards differ in certain significant respects from generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. We also have incurred and will incur costs associated the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the related rules implemented by the SEC and the rules and regulations of the applicable listing standards of the NYSE American. We expect these rules and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and to make some activities more time-consuming and costly, although we are currently unable to estimate these costs with any degree of certainty. These and other laws and regulations could also make it more difficult or costly for us to obtain certain types of insurance, including director and officer liability insurance, and we may be forced to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. These and other laws and regulations could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors, our board committees or as our senior management. Furthermore, if we are unable to satisfy our obligations as a public company, we could be subject to delisting of our Ordinary Shares, fines, sanctions and other regulatory action and potentially civil litigation.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2The market price of our Ordinary Shares could fluctuate significantly, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
The market price of our Ordinary Shares could fluctuate significantly as a result of a number of factors, including: - fluctuations in our financial performance; - economic and stock market conditions generally and specifically as they may impact us, participants in our industry or comparable companies; - changes in financial estimates and recommendations by securities analysts following our Ordinary Shares or comparable companies; - earnings and other announcements by, and changes in market evaluations of, us, participants in our industry or comparable companies; - our ability to meet or exceed any future earnings guidance we may issue; - changes in business or regulatory conditions affecting us, participants in our industry or comparable companies; - changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations or principles; - announcements or implementation by our competitors or us of acquisitions, technological innovations, or other strategic actions by our competitors; or - trading volume of our Ordinary Shares or sales of shares by our management team, directors or principal shareholders. These and other factors could limit or prevent investors from readily selling their Ordinary Shares or otherwise negatively affect the liquidity of our Ordinary Shares, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3The market price of our Ordinary Shares could be adversely affected by future sales and issuances of our Ordinary Shares or the perception that such sales and issuances may occur.
Future sales or issuances of a substantial number of our Ordinary Shares or the perception that such sales or issuances might occur, could cause a decline in the market price of our Ordinary Shares or could impair our ability to obtain capital through a subsequent offering of our equity securities or securities convertible into equity securities.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or publish negative reports about our business, our share price and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our Ordinary Shares will depend, in part, upon the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our businesses. We do not have any control over analysts as to whether they will cover us, and if they do, whether such coverage will continue. If analysts do not commence coverage of us, or if one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our share price or trading volume to decline. In addition, if one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our Ordinary Shares or change their opinion of our Ordinary Shares, our share price may likely decline.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5As a foreign private issuer, we are permitted and expect to follow certain home country corporate governance practices in lieu of certain NYSE American requirements applicable to domestic issuers.
As a foreign private issuer listed on the NYSE American, we are permitted to follow certain home country corporate governance practices in lieu of certain NYSE American practices. Following our home country corporate governance practices, as opposed to the requirements that would otherwise apply to a U.S. company listed on the NYSE American, may provide less protection than is afforded to investors under the NYSE American rules applicable to domestic issuers. In particular, we follow home country law instead of the NYSE American practice regarding: - the NYSE American's requirement to have a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee composed solely of independent members of the board of directors. - the NYSE American's requirement that our independent directors meet in regularly scheduled executive sessions. The Corporations Act does not require the independent directors of an Australian company to have such regularly scheduled executive sessions and, accordingly, we have claimed this exemption. - the NYSE American's corporate governance listing standards applicable to domestic issuers requiring disclosure within four business days of any determination to grant a waiver of the code of business conduct and ethics to directors and officers. Although we will require board approval of any such waiver, we may choose not to disclose the waiver in the manner set forth in the NYSE American corporate governance listing standards, as permitted by the foreign private issuer exemption. - the NYSE American's requirement that an issuer provide for a quorum as specified in its bylaws for any meeting of the holders of ordinary shares, which quorum may not be less than 33 1/3% of the outstanding shares of an issuer's voting ordinary shares. In compliance with Australian law, our Constitution provides that two shareholders present shall constitute a quorum for a general meeting. - we seek exemption from the NYSE American requirement that issuers obtain shareholder approval prior to the issuance of securities in connection with certain acquisitions, private placements of securities, the establishment or amendment of certain stock option, purchase or other compensation plans. Applicable Australian laws differ to NYSE American requirements, with the former requiring prior shareholder approval in numerous circumstances, including (i) issuance of equity securities to related parties, e.g. directors or their associates other than (generally speaking), in their sole capacity as an existing security holder (where the benefit is provided on the same terms to all other security holders), or in certain circumstances where the benefit provided through the issuance is on arms' length terms, or (ii) the issuance results in a shareholder or their associates obtaining a relevant interest (as that term is defined in Australian law) increasing to more than 20%, or increasing from a starting point that is above 20% and below 90%. We intend to take all actions necessary for us to maintain compliance as a foreign private issuer under the applicable the rules adopted by the SEC and the NYSE American corporate governance rules and listing standards.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 6As a foreign private issuer, we are permitted to file less information with the SEC than a domestic issuer.
As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from certain rules under the Exchange Act that impose requirements for proxy solicitations under Section 14 of the Exchange Act. In addition, our officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the reporting and "short-swing" profit recovery provisions of Section 16 of the Exchange Act. Moreover, we are not required to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as a domestic issuer, nor are we generally required to comply with the SEC's Regulation FD, which restricts the selective disclosure of material non-public information. Under Australian law, we prepare financial statements on an annual and semi-annual basis, we are not required to prepare or file quarterly financial information. For as long as we are a "foreign private issuer," we intend to file our annual financial statements on Form 20-F and furnish our semi-annual financial statements on Form 6-K to the SEC as long as we are subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. However, the information we file or furnish is not the same as the information that is required in annual on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q for U.S. domestic issuers. Accordingly, there may be less information publicly available concerning us then there is for a company that files as a domestic issuer.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 7We may lose our foreign private issuer status, which would then require us to comply with the Exchange Act's domestic reporting regime and cause us to incur additional legal, accounting and other expenses.
We are required to determine our status as a foreign private issuer on an annual basis at the end of our second fiscal quarter. In order to maintain our current status as a foreign private issuer, either (1) a majority of our Ordinary Shares must be either directly or indirectly owned of record by non-residents of the United States or (2) (a) a majority of our executive officers or directors must not be U.S. citizens or residents, (b) more than 50% of our assets cannot be located in the United States and (c) our business must be administered principally outside the United States. If we lost this status, we would be required to comply with the Exchange Act reporting and other requirements applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, which are more detailed and extensive than the requirements for foreign private issuers. We may also be required to make changes in our corporate governance practices and to comply with United States generally accepted accounting principles, as opposed to IFRS. The regulatory and compliance costs to us under U.S. securities laws if we are required to comply with the reporting requirements applicable to a U.S. domestic issuer may be higher than the cost we would incur as a foreign private issuer. As a result, we expect that a loss of foreign private issuer status would increase our legal and financial compliance costs.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 8If we were to breach the rules of the NYSE American, then it could delist our Ordinary Shares from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors' ability to make transactions in our Ordinary Shares and subject us to additional trading restrictions.
We cannot assure you that our Ordinary Shares will continue to be listed on the NYSE American in the future. In order to continue listing our Ordinary Shares on the NYSE American, we must maintain certain financial, distribution and share price levels and must maintain a minimum number of holders of our Ordinary Shares. If the NYSE American delists our Ordinary Shares and we are not able to list our Ordinary Shares on another national securities exchange, a reduction in some or all of the following may occur, each of which could have a material adverse effect on our shareholders: - the liquidity of our Ordinary Shares; - the market price of our Ordinary Shares; - our ability to obtain financing for the continuation of our operations; - the number of investors that will consider investing in our Ordinary Shares; - the number of market makers in our Ordinary Shares; - the availability of information concerning the trading prices and volume of our Ordinary Shares; and - the number of broker-dealers willing to execute trades in our Ordinary Shares.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 9Anti-takeover provisions in our Constitution and our right to issue preference shares could make a third-party acquisition of us difficult.
Some provisions of our Constitution may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including power to issue preference shares and the proportional takeover approval provisions. Under the Constitution, any proportional takeover scheme must be approved by those shareholders holding shares included in the class of shares in respect of which the offer to acquire those shares was first made. The registration of the transfer of any shares following the acceptance of an offer made under a scheme is prohibited until that scheme is approved by the relevant shareholder class. We are also subject to the relevant takeover laws contained in Chapter 6 of the Corporations Act. Subject to a range of exceptions, the Corporations Act prohibits the acquisition of a direct or indirect interest in issued voting shares of a company, if the acquisition of that interest will lead to a person's voting power (either alone or in combination with their "associates" as that term is defined in the Corporations Act) in that company increasing to more than 20%, or increasing from a starting point that is above 20% and below 90% which may discourage takeover offers being made for us or may discourage the acquisition of a significant position in our Ordinary Shares. This may have the ancillary effect of entrenching our board of directors and may deprive or limit our shareholders the opportunity to sell their Ordinary Shares and may further restrict the ability of our shareholders to obtain a premium from such transactions. See "Description of Share Capital."
- Accounting & Financial Operations - Risk 10If we fail to establish and maintain proper internal controls, our ability to produce accurate financial statements or comply with applicable regulations could be impaired.
Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requires that, beginning with this annual report for the year ending June 30, 2024, our management must assess and report annually on the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting and identify any material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting. Although Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires our independent registered public accounting firm to issue an annual report that addresses the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting, we have opted to rely on the exemptions provided to us by virtue of being a foreign private issuer and emerging growth company, and consequently will not be required to comply with SEC rules that implement Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act until we lose our emerging growth company status. In order to maintain and improve the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting, we will need to expend significant resources and provide significant management oversight. We have commenced the process of reviewing and improving our internal controls over financial reporting for compliance with Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. Implementing any appropriate changes to our internal controls may require specific compliance training for our directors and employees, entail substantial costs in order to modify our existing accounting systems, take significant periods of time to complete, and divert management's attention from other business concerns. These changes may not, however, be effective in maintaining the adequacy of our internal controls. As of the date of this filing, we have identified deficiencies in our internal controls that are deemed to be material weaknesses. The matters involving internal controls and procedures that our management considered to be a material weakness under the standards of the United States Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") were (1) the lack of a formally implemented system of internal control over financial reporting and limited or no associated written documentation of our internal control policies and procedures, and (2) the lack of sufficient resources and key accounting personnel with sufficient knowledge and experience in reporting and compliance with the SEC and PCAOB. Consequently, we have determined there is a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. Although these material weaknesses did not result in material adjustments to the financial statements, there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the annual financial statements would not have been prevented or detected on a timely basis due to the failure to design and implement appropriate segregation of duty controls. We are still in the process of remediating these control weaknesses. In order to remediate the identified material weaknesses, group finance continues to enhance the finance and reporting function with the support of the Audit and Risk Committee, whose primary purpose is to assist the Board in overseeing the integrity of the Company's financial statements, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, the Company's independent registered auditors' qualifications and independence, and the performance of the Company's independent registered auditors, and the design and implementation of the Company's internal audit function. In addition, we are in the process of remediating identified material weaknesses by implementing and enhancing the following controls: - Delegation of authority, documenting stringent controls throughout the business. This will be reviewed by the Board on an annual basis, or more frequently if there are significant changes in the business. - Continue to upgrade our financial reporting close process. This process will include enhancing the monthly review process performed by both the CFO and CEO, and formal reporting to the Board. - Documenting our internal control policies and procedures and designing an education process for the entire Company to ensure policies and procedures are understood and adhered to by all. - Establishing effective monitoring and oversight controls for non-recurring and complex transactions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of our company's consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. In support of the above, we have enhanced our finance and accounting functions with additional key hires with relevant skills and continuing professional education of all staff. If we are unable to conclude that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting or, at the appropriate time, our independent auditors are unwilling or unable to provide us with an unqualified report on the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting as required by Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, investors may lose confidence in our operating results, the price of our Ordinary Shares could decline and we may be subject to litigation or regulatory enforcement actions. In addition, if we are unable to meet the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we may not be able to remain listed on the NYSE American.
- Accounting & Financial Operations - Risk 11We are not likely to issue dividends for the foreseeable future.
We cannot assure you that our proposed operations will result in sufficient revenues to enable profitable operations or to generate positive cash flow. For the foreseeable future, we anticipate that we will use any funds available to finance our growth and that we will not pay cash dividends to shareholders. Unless we pay dividends, our shareholders will not be able to receive a return on their shares unless they sell them. There is no assurance that shareholders will be able to sell shares when desired.
- Accounting & Financial Operations - Risk 12We have incurred operating losses in the past, may incur operating losses in the future, and may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future.
For the fiscal year 2025, the Company recorded net cash outflow from operations of A$8,307,183 in fiscal year 2025, compared to a net cash outflow of A$9,330,767 in fiscal year 2024. The Company also recorded a loss after tax of A$26,016,967 in fiscal year 2025 compared to a loss after tax of A$14,408,346 in fiscal 2024, and may continue to incur net losses in the future. We expect our operating expenses to increase in the future as we grow our business, continue our sales and marketing efforts related to our products, platform and programs, invest in research and development, expand our operating infrastructure, add content and features to our platform, expand into new geographies, and develop new products. We will also incur operating expenses in connection with legal, accounting, and other fees related to operating as a public company listed on a U.S. exchange. These efforts and additional expenses may be more costly than we expect, and we cannot guarantee that we will be able to increase our revenue to offset our operating expenses. Our revenue growth may slow or our revenue may decline for a number of other reasons, including reduced demand for our products and services, increased competition, a decrease in the growth or reduction in size of our overall market, or if we cannot capitalize on growth opportunities. If our revenue does not grow at a greater rate than our operating expenses, we will not be able to achieve and maintain profitability, which may have a material adverse effect on the trading price of our Ordinary Shares.
- Debt & Financing - Risk 13We will require substantial capital to finance our operations that may not be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all.
We will require further funding to support our ongoing activities and operations. There can be no assurance that such funding will be available on satisfactory terms or at all. Any inability to obtain funding will adversely affect our business and financial condition and consequently our performance. We may seek to raise further funds through equity or debt financing, joint ventures or other means. There can be no assurance that additional financing will be available when needed or, if available, that the terms of such financing will be favorable to us, which may result in substantial dilution to our shareholders.
- Corporate Activity and Growth - Risk 14We may be unsuccessful in any strategic acquisitions and investments, and we may pursue acquisitions or investments for their strategic value in spite of the risk of lack of profitability.
We may face uncertainty in connection with acquisitions and investments. To the extent we choose to pursue certain investment or acquisition strategies, we may be unable to identify suitable targets for these deals, or to make these deals on favorable terms. If we identify suitable acquisition candidates or investments, our ability to realize a return on the resources expended pursuing such deals, and to successfully implement or enter into them will depend on a variety of factors. Additionally, we may decide to make or enter into acquisitions or investments with the understanding that such acquisitions or investments may not be profitable, but may be of strategic value to us. We cannot provide assurances that the anticipated strategic benefits of these deals will be realized in the long-term or at all.
- Corporate Activity and Growth - Risk 15Our new artificial intelligence crypto rewards platform strategy may not be successful.
We are developing crypto initiatives and a Web 3.0 ecosystem as part of our growth strategy. In October 2025, we commenced deploying our utility token on the Solana testnet, our first step towards validating our Web 3.0 ecosystem that fuses combat sports, blockchain and artificial intelligence ("AI"). In addition, we are building a rewards platform to enhance community engagement through tokenized rewards, enabling users to "Get Paid to Train." The prices of blockchain assets have historically been subject to dramatic fluctuations and are highly volatile. The value of blockchain assets and fluctuations in the price of blockchain assets could materially and adversely affect our business and investment in the Company. Crypto initiatives are relatively new. Many of our competitors are unlicensed, unregulated, operate without supervision by any governmental authorities, and do not provide the public with significant information regarding their ownership structure, management team, corporate practices, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance. As a result, customers and the general public may lose confidence or interest in crypto strategies similar to ours. Our new crypto strategies may not produce the long-term benefits that we expect, which could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
- Corporate Activity and Growth - Risk 16There is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
As a result of our loss after tax, net cash outflows from operating activities, net liability and net current liability position, our independent registered public accounting firm included an explanatory paragraph in its report on our financial statements as of, and for the year ended June 30, 2025 that raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. The conditions giving rise to this uncertainty and our plan with respect to this uncertainty are disclosed in Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements appearing at the end of this report. If we are unable to obtain sufficient funding, we could be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate our product development programs or future research and development efforts, our financial condition and results of operations will be materially and adversely affected, and we may be unable to continue as a going concern. After the date of this annual report, future financial statements may continue to disclose substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern, which could cause investors or other financing sources to be unwilling to provide additional funding to us on commercially reasonable terms or at all. Any capital raising transaction we are able to complete may result in substantial dilution to our existing shareholders, require us to relinquish significant rights, or restrict our operations.
- Corporate Activity and Growth - Risk 17Our planned growth could place strains on our management, employees, information systems and internal controls, any of which may adversely impact our business.
Over the past several years, we have experienced growth in our business activities and operations, including an increase in the number of partner gyms. Our past expansion has placed, and our planned future expansion may place, significant demands on our administrative, operational, financial and other resources. Any failure to manage our growth effectively may harm our business. To be successful, we will need to continue to implement management information systems and improve our operating, administrative, financial and accounting systems and controls. We will also need to train new employees and maintain close coordination among our executive, accounting, finance, legal, human resources, risk management, marketing, technology, sales and operations functions. These processes are time-consuming and expensive, increase management responsibilities and divert management's attention, and we may not realize a return on our investment. In addition, we believe the culture we foster at our partner gyms is an important contributor to our success. However, as we expand, we may have difficulty maintaining our culture or adapting it sufficiently to meet the needs of our operations. These risks may be heightened as we continue to grow our business. Our failure to successfully execute on our planned expansion of partner gyms could materially and adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
Risk Highlights Q2, 2025
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- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1AddedWe will incur increased costs as a result of having become a listed public company.
As a listed public company, we incur legal, accounting, insurance and other expenses that would not be incurred by a private company, including costs associated with public company reporting requirements. We are an Australian public company and will incur costs in order to comply with the Corporations Act requirements for financial reporting. The Corporations Act reporting standards differ in certain significant respects from generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. We also have incurred and will incur costs associated the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the related rules implemented by the SEC and the rules and regulations of the applicable listing standards of the NYSE American. We expect these rules and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and to make some activities more time-consuming and costly, although we are currently unable to estimate these costs with any degree of certainty. These and other laws and regulations could also make it more difficult or costly for us to obtain certain types of insurance, including director and officer liability insurance, and we may be forced to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. These and other laws and regulations could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors, our board committees or as our senior management. Furthermore, if we are unable to satisfy our obligations as a public company, we could be subject to delisting of our Ordinary Shares, fines, sanctions and other regulatory action and potentially civil litigation.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2AddedThe market price of our Ordinary Shares could fluctuate significantly, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
The market price of our Ordinary Shares could fluctuate significantly as a result of a number of factors, including: - fluctuations in our financial performance; - economic and stock market conditions generally and specifically as they may impact us, participants in our industry or comparable companies; - changes in financial estimates and recommendations by securities analysts following our Ordinary Shares or comparable companies; - earnings and other announcements by, and changes in market evaluations of, us, participants in our industry or comparable companies; - our ability to meet or exceed any future earnings guidance we may issue; - changes in business or regulatory conditions affecting us, participants in our industry or comparable companies; - changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations or principles; - announcements or implementation by our competitors or us of acquisitions, technological innovations, or other strategic actions by our competitors; or - trading volume of our Ordinary Shares or sales of shares by our management team, directors or principal shareholders. These and other factors could limit or prevent investors from readily selling their Ordinary Shares or otherwise negatively affect the liquidity of our Ordinary Shares, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3AddedThe market price of our Ordinary Shares could be adversely affected by future sales and issuances of our Ordinary Shares or the perception that such sales and issuances may occur.
Future sales or issuances of a substantial number of our Ordinary Shares or the perception that such sales or issuances might occur, could cause a decline in the market price of our Ordinary Shares or could impair our ability to obtain capital through a subsequent offering of our equity securities or securities convertible into equity securities.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4AddedIf securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or publish negative reports about our business, our share price and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our Ordinary Shares will depend, in part, upon the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our businesses. We do not have any control over analysts as to whether they will cover us, and if they do, whether such coverage will continue. If analysts do not commence coverage of us, or if one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our share price or trading volume to decline. In addition, if one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our Ordinary Shares or change their opinion of our Ordinary Shares, our share price may likely decline.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5AddedAs a foreign private issuer, we are permitted and expect to follow certain home country corporate governance practices in lieu of certain NYSE American requirements applicable to domestic issuers.
As a foreign private issuer listed on the NYSE American, we are permitted to follow certain home country corporate governance practices in lieu of certain NYSE American practices. Following our home country corporate governance practices, as opposed to the requirements that would otherwise apply to a U.S. company listed on the NYSE American, may provide less protection than is afforded to investors under the NYSE American rules applicable to domestic issuers. In particular, we follow home country law instead of the NYSE American practice regarding: - the NYSE American's requirement to have a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee composed solely of independent members of the board of directors. - the NYSE American's requirement that our independent directors meet in regularly scheduled executive sessions. The Corporations Act does not require the independent directors of an Australian company to have such regularly scheduled executive sessions and, accordingly, we have claimed this exemption. - the NYSE American's corporate governance listing standards applicable to domestic issuers requiring disclosure within four business days of any determination to grant a waiver of the code of business conduct and ethics to directors and officers. Although we will require board approval of any such waiver, we may choose not to disclose the waiver in the manner set forth in the NYSE American corporate governance listing standards, as permitted by the foreign private issuer exemption. - the NYSE American's requirement that an issuer provide for a quorum as specified in its bylaws for any meeting of the holders of ordinary shares, which quorum may not be less than 33 1/3% of the outstanding shares of an issuer's voting ordinary shares. In compliance with Australian law, our Constitution provides that two shareholders present shall constitute a quorum for a general meeting. - we seek exemption from the NYSE American requirement that issuers obtain shareholder approval prior to the issuance of securities in connection with certain acquisitions, private placements of securities, the establishment or amendment of certain stock option, purchase or other compensation plans. Applicable Australian laws differ to NYSE American requirements, with the former requiring prior shareholder approval in numerous circumstances, including (i) issuance of equity securities to related parties, e.g. directors or their associates other than (generally speaking), in their sole capacity as an existing security holder (where the benefit is provided on the same terms to all other security holders), or in certain circumstances where the benefit provided through the issuance is on arms' length terms, or (ii) the issuance results in a shareholder or their associates obtaining a relevant interest (as that term is defined in Australian law) increasing to more than 20%, or increasing from a starting point that is above 20% and below 90%. We intend to take all actions necessary for us to maintain compliance as a foreign private issuer under the applicable the rules adopted by the SEC and the NYSE American corporate governance rules and listing standards.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 6AddedAs a foreign private issuer, we are permitted to file less information with the SEC than a domestic issuer.
As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from certain rules under the Exchange Act that impose requirements for proxy solicitations under Section 14 of the Exchange Act. In addition, our officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the reporting and "short-swing" profit recovery provisions of Section 16 of the Exchange Act. Moreover, we are not required to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as a domestic issuer, nor are we generally required to comply with the SEC's Regulation FD, which restricts the selective disclosure of material non-public information. Under Australian law, we prepare financial statements on an annual and semi-annual basis, we are not required to prepare or file quarterly financial information. For as long as we are a "foreign private issuer," we intend to file our annual financial statements on Form 20-F and furnish our semi-annual financial statements on Form 6-K to the SEC as long as we are subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. However, the information we file or furnish is not the same as the information that is required in annual on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q for U.S. domestic issuers. Accordingly, there may be less information publicly available concerning us then there is for a company that files as a domestic issuer.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 7AddedWe may lose our foreign private issuer status, which would then require us to comply with the Exchange Act's domestic reporting regime and cause us to incur additional legal, accounting and other expenses.
We are required to determine our status as a foreign private issuer on an annual basis at the end of our second fiscal quarter. In order to maintain our current status as a foreign private issuer, either (1) a majority of our Ordinary Shares must be either directly or indirectly owned of record by non-residents of the United States or (2) (a) a majority of our executive officers or directors must not be U.S. citizens or residents, (b) more than 50% of our assets cannot be located in the United States and (c) our business must be administered principally outside the United States. If we lost this status, we would be required to comply with the Exchange Act reporting and other requirements applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, which are more detailed and extensive than the requirements for foreign private issuers. We may also be required to make changes in our corporate governance practices and to comply with United States generally accepted accounting principles, as opposed to IFRS. The regulatory and compliance costs to us under U.S. securities laws if we are required to comply with the reporting requirements applicable to a U.S. domestic issuer may be higher than the cost we would incur as a foreign private issuer. As a result, we expect that a loss of foreign private issuer status would increase our legal and financial compliance costs.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 8AddedIf we were to breach the rules of the NYSE American, then it could delist our Ordinary Shares from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors' ability to make transactions in our Ordinary Shares and subject us to additional trading restrictions.
We cannot assure you that our Ordinary Shares will continue to be listed on the NYSE American in the future. In order to continue listing our Ordinary Shares on the NYSE American, we must maintain certain financial, distribution and share price levels and must maintain a minimum number of holders of our Ordinary Shares. If the NYSE American delists our Ordinary Shares and we are not able to list our Ordinary Shares on another national securities exchange, a reduction in some or all of the following may occur, each of which could have a material adverse effect on our shareholders: - the liquidity of our Ordinary Shares; - the market price of our Ordinary Shares; - our ability to obtain financing for the continuation of our operations; - the number of investors that will consider investing in our Ordinary Shares; - the number of market makers in our Ordinary Shares; - the availability of information concerning the trading prices and volume of our Ordinary Shares; and - the number of broker-dealers willing to execute trades in our Ordinary Shares.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 9AddedAnti-takeover provisions in our Constitution and our right to issue preference shares could make a third-party acquisition of us difficult.
Some provisions of our Constitution may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including power to issue preference shares and the proportional takeover approval provisions. Under the Constitution, any proportional takeover scheme must be approved by those shareholders holding shares included in the class of shares in respect of which the offer to acquire those shares was first made. The registration of the transfer of any shares following the acceptance of an offer made under a scheme is prohibited until that scheme is approved by the relevant shareholder class. We are also subject to the relevant takeover laws contained in Chapter 6 of the Corporations Act. Subject to a range of exceptions, the Corporations Act prohibits the acquisition of a direct or indirect interest in issued voting shares of a company, if the acquisition of that interest will lead to a person's voting power (either alone or in combination with their "associates" as that term is defined in the Corporations Act) in that company increasing to more than 20%, or increasing from a starting point that is above 20% and below 90% which may discourage takeover offers being made for us or may discourage the acquisition of a significant position in our Ordinary Shares. This may have the ancillary effect of entrenching our board of directors and may deprive or limit our shareholders the opportunity to sell their Ordinary Shares and may further restrict the ability of our shareholders to obtain a premium from such transactions. See "Description of Share Capital."
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