10/24/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/24/2024 14:46
Item 3.01 | Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing. |
As previously disclosed on August 6, 2024, DUET Acquisition Corp. (the "Company") received a written notice from the Listing Qualifications Department (the "Staff") of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") notifying the Company that the Company is not in compliance with Listing Rule 5450(a)(2) (the "Minimum Public Holders Rule"), which requires the Company to have at least 400 total holders for continued listing on the Nasdaq Global Market. In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(2)(G), the Company submitted a plan to regain compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule (the "Plan").
On October 18, 2024, the Company received a written notice (the "Notice") indicating that based on the Staff's determination that the Staff only has discretion to grant an extension until April 16, 2025, and in the context of a reasonably long timeline to consummate a de-SPAC merger, given that the Company has not filed a registration statement in connection with its proposed business combination (the "Business Combination") with Fenix 360 Pte. Ltd., the Staff believes that it is unlikely that the Company will complete the Business Combination by January 19, 2025 (36 months from the date of the Company's IPO registration statement on Form S-1) and regain and sustain compliance with the Rule. Therefore, the Staff determined to delist the Company's securities from Nasdaq unless the Company timely requests a hearing before a Hearings Panel (the "Panel").
Accordingly, the Company intends to timely request a hearing before the Panel. The hearing request will stay the suspension of the Company's securities and the termination of registration of the securities with Nasdaq as required by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission pending the Panel's decision and, therefore, Nasdaq's notice has no immediate effect on the listing of the Company's common stock, units or warrants on Nasdaq. The time and place of any hearing before the Panel will be determined by the Panel. There can be no assurance that the Panel will grant the Company's request for continued listing.
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 Minimum Public Holders Rule and regain compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule. 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 January 19, 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.