10/28/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/28/2024 15:16
Item 3.01 Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing.
As previously disclosed, onApril 23, 2024, FutureTech II Acquisition Corp. (the "Company") received a written notice (the "Notice") from the Listing Qualifications Department (the "Staff") of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") notifying the Company that, for the last 30 consecutive business days, the Company's Market Value of Listed Securities ("MVLS") was below the minimum of $50 million required for continued listing on The Nasdaq Global Market pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(b)(2)(A) (the "Rule"). The Notice provided that, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(C), the Company has a period of 180 calendar days from the date of the Notice, or until October 21, 2024, to regain compliance with the Market Value Standard.
On October 23, 2024, the Company received a notice from the Staff stating that the Company has not regained compliance with the Rule and the Company's securities will be delisted from The Nasdaq Global Markets unless the Company requests an appeal of this determination by October 30, 2024 or apply to list its securities on The Nasdaq Capital Markets by October 30, 2024. If the Company does not appeal the Staff's delisting determination or does not apply to list its securities on The Nasdaq Capital Markets by October 30, 2024, trading of the Company's Class A Common Stock, Warrants and Units will be suspended at the opening of business on November 1, 2024, and a Form 25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which will remove the Company's securities from listing and registration on The Nasdaq Stock Market.
The Company intends to appeal the Staff's delisting determination to a Hearings Panel by October 30, 2024. However, there can be no assurance that such appeal would be successful.
Additionally, the Company intends consider applying to transfer the listing of its securities to The Nasdaq Capital Market by October 30, 2024 (provided that it then satisfies the requirements for continued listing on that market). However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to regain or maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing criteria.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements made in this Current Report on Form 8-K are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the "safe harbor" provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this Current Report on Form 8-K are forward-looking statements. When used in this Current Report on Form 8-K, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would" and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions), as they relate to the Company or its management team, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Company's ability to successfully appeal a delisting determination, the Company's ability to resolve the deficiency under the Market Value Standard and regain compliance with the Market Value Standard or the Company's ability to successfully transfer the listing of its securities to The Nasdaq Capital Market. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of management, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, the Company's management. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including those set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's final prospectus for its initial public offering filed with the SEC on February 17, 2022, and other documents of the Company filed, or to be filed, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are qualified in their entirety by this paragraph. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for revisions or changes after the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, except as required by law.