SEC Company Response from Enveric Biosciences, Inc. (ENVB) (CIK 0000890821) (ENVB) — Apr 8, 2009
Enveric Biosciences, Inc. (ENVB) (CIK 0000890821)
Date: April 8, 2009 · CIK: 0000890821 · Accession: 0001375495-09-000022
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File numbers found in text: 000-2646000
Referenced dates: February 18, 2009, March 27, 2009
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CARL
N. DUNCAN, ESQ., LLC
ATTORNEY
AT LAW
cduncan@cnduncanlaw.com
5718 Tanglewood
Drive
(301)
263-0200
Bethesda,
Maryland 20817
Fax
(301) 576-5193
April 8,
2009
VIA
MESSENGER
Lynn
Dicker, Reviewing Accountant
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
Mail Stop
3030
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re: Spatializer
Audio Laboratories, Inc.
Form 10-K/For Year ended December 31,
2007
Forms 10-Q for Quarters Ended March 31,
June 30 and September 30, 2008
File
No. 000-2646000
Dear Ms.
Dicker:
This
letter is in response to the supplemented comments of the staff of the Division
of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”) with respect to the above-referenced filings of
Spatializer Audio Laboratories, Inc. (the “Company”) as set forth in your letter
dated March 27, 2009 (the “Current Comment Letter”). This response is
prepared on behalf of Jay Gottlieb, the Company’s Principal Executive Officer,
and Greg Schneider, the Company’s Principal Financial Officer (“Current
management”), as well as the members of the Company’s Board of Directors,
respectively Mr. Gottlieb, Mr. Schneider and Michael C. Pearce (the
“Board”).
As
discussed with undersigned outside counsel, Carl N. Duncan, Current and former
management consummated acquisition transactions shortly after a March 31, 2008
filing with the Commission of its Form 10-K Annual Report for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2007 (the “Annual Report”). In connection with
those April 2008 transactions (as described in more detail in our January 26,
2009 response letter), the Company experienced a change of control and the
Company's prior sole officer, who prepared and signed the Annual Report,
resigned.
In that
context, the Company and its current management hereby responds to each of the
Staff’s outstanding Comments. For the convenience of the Staff, we
have reproduced the Staff’s comments from the Current Comment Letter in Italics. The
responses to those Comments immediately follow the reproduced Staff
comments. In addition to submitting this letter simul-taneously
herewith, we are sending you via messenger two (2) copies of this letter and the
sup-plemental material referred to herein (the associated Form 10-K/A Annual
Report and Forms 10-Q/A Quarterly Reports and to be filed overnight as
Correspondence on EDGAR). As we have discussed, the associated,
respective 2007 Form 10-K/A and Forms 10-Q/A (as amended) will be filed formally
once the Staff advises us it has no further comments.
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Lynn
Dicker, Reviewing Accountant
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
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April
8,2009
Form 10-K for the Year
ended December 31, 2007
Item
7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations
1.
Please update your discussion of your results of
operations for each reporting period presented based upon your restated
financial statements. Refer to the guidance in Item 303(d) of
Regulation S-K. This comment is also applicable to your amended
fiscal 2008 Forms 10-Q.
Response
to Comment 1: The results of operations for each reporting period has been
updated as requested.
Report of
Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm, page 21 of proposed Form 10-K/A
2.
We note your response to prior comment from our
February 18, 2009 letter. We note that your current auditor
will update its opinion on the 2007 and 2006 financial
statements. Please confirm that your predecessor auditor will
also update its opinion on the 2005 financial statements included within
this filing to cover the restatement related to reflecting the sale of
your assets to DTS, Inc. in fiscal 2007 as discontinued
operations. The updated opinion should include an explanatory
paragraph referring to the restatement of the 2005 financial
statements. Refer to the guidance in AU
420.12.
Response to Comment
2: The predecessor auditor, Farber Hass, has confirmed that it
will also update its opinion for the Company, concurrently including in such
opinion anexplanatory paragraph referring to the restatement of the
2005 financial statements.
Note 12, Selected
Quarterly Financial Data, page 36 of proposed Form
10-K/A
3.
Please revise your selected quarterly financial data
for each reporting period presented to reflect the sale of your assets to
DTS, Inc. in fiscal 2007 as discontinued operations. Please
also include the disclosures required by paragraph 26 of SFAS 154 related
to the restatement within your selected quarterly financial
data. Please label the selected quarterly financial data “as
restated.”
Response to Comment 3: The selected quarterly
financial data for each reporting period has been updated with appropriate
disclosure restated, as requested.
Item 9A(T) Controls and
Procedures, page 36 of proposed Form 10-K/A
4.
Please refer to prior comment 8 from our letter dated
February 18, 2009. It is unclear from your proposed disclosure
the date on which you are assessing the effectiveness of your internal
control over financial reporting. For instance, we note from
your proposed disclosure that the company “believes that, as of the date
of [your] report, [your] system of internal control over financial
reporting was ineffective.” As previously requested, please
review your disclosure to include your assessment of the effectiveness of
your internal control over financial reporting as of the end of the most
recent fiscal year, which in your case is December 31,
2007.
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Lynn
Dicker, Reviewing Accountant
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
Page 3
April
8,2009
Response to Comment
4: The Company has taken note of this Comment 4 from the Staff
and has revised its disclosures accordingly.
5.
Further to the above, it is also unclear from your
proposed disclosure the date on which you are assessing the effectiveness
of your disclosure controls and procedures. For instance, we
note from your proposed disclosure that your management “as of the date of
this Amended quarterly report, . . .have concluded that [your] disclosure
controls and procedures as the end of the period cover by [your] report
were effective. . .” Please revise your disclosure to include
your assessment of the effectiveness of disclosure controls and procedures
as of the end of the most recent fiscal year, which in your case is
December 31, 2007.
Response to Comment 5: The Company has taken
note of this Comment 5 from the Staff and has revised its disclosures
accordingly.
6.
We further note your management has continued to
conclude that your disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of
the end of the fiscal year even though you failed to provide management’s
report on internal control over financial reporting; you disclose that you
had a lack of segregation of duties, and that you are restating your 2007
financial statements to report the sale of your business in 2007 as
discontinued operations. Please tell us the factors you
considered in more detail and highlight for us those factors that
supported your conclusion. In particular, please explain how
you considered the definition of disclosure controls and procedures
provided in Rule 13a-15(c), which indicates that effective disclosure
controls and procedures would ensure that information required to be
disclosed by the issuer is recorded, processed, summarized and reported
within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and
forms. In addition, as discussed in Compliance and Disclosure
Interpretation 115.02, which you can find at
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/regs-kinterp.htm, failure to
file management’s report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
rendered your annual report materially deficient and also rendered the
company not timely or current in its Exchange Act Reporting. In
light of these facts, please explain how you could conclude that
disclosure controls and procedures were
effective. Alternatively, please amend your 2007 Form 10-K to
disclose management’s revised conclusion on the effectiveness of your
disclosure controls and procedures, i.e., that disclosure controls and
procedures were not effective as of the end if the fiscal
year.
Response to Comment 6: The Company has taken note of
this Comment 6 from the Staff and has revised its disclosures to indicate that
its internal control over financial reporting, and its disclosure controls and
procedures were ineffective as of December 31, 2007.
7.
Please refer to prior comment 7 from our letter dated
February 18, 2009. We note your response to our prior comments
but we still note no revisions to the language addressed in the
comment. Not withstanding the above comments, as previously
requested, in future filings beginning with the planned amendments, please
remove the superfluous language following the word “effective” or
“ineffective”, or revise the disclosure so that
the
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Lynn
Dicker, Reviewing Accountant
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
Page 4
April 8,2009
language is substantially similar in all material
respects to the language that appears in the entire two-sentence definition of
“disclosure controls and procedures” set forth in Rule
13a-15(e). This comment is also applicable to your amended fiscal
2008 Forms 10-Q.
Response to Comment 7: The Company has taken
note of this Comment 7 from the Staff and has revised its disclosures
accordingly.
Exhibit
31.1
8.
Please refer to prior comment 9 from our letter dated
February 18, 2009. We note your certifications filed pursuant
to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) included within your proposed filings are
still not in the exact form prescribed by Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation
S-K. Specifically, the introduction and paragraph 1 are not in
the exact form. As previously requested, please revise your
filings to include revised certifications that conform to the exact
wording required by Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation
S-K.
Response to Comment
8: The Company has taken note of this Comment 8 from the Staff and has
made its disclosures exactly as requested.
Forms
10-Q for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2008, June 30, 2008 and September 30,
2008
Item 4T. Controls
and Procedures
9.
We note from your proposed filings that you have chosen
to include management’s report on internal control over financial
reporting as of March 31, 2008, June 30, 2008, and September 30, 2008 even
though you are only required to include this assessment on your internal
controls over financial reporting as of the end of the most recent fiscal
year based upon the guidance in Item 308 of Regulation S-K If
you continue to include management’s report on internal controls over
financial reporting in your Forms 10-Q, please note that you will need to
apply the comments issued on the Form 10-K
above.
Response to Comment
9: The Company has taken note of this Comment 9 from the Staff
and has revised its disclosures accordingly. Very specifically, per my
discussion yesterday with the Staff’s Tara Harkins, the disclosures have been
substantively revised relative to effective/ineffective assessment, noting that
there is a progression from internal control having been ineffective as of
year end 2007 and during 1st quarter
2008 and, with the substantive changes starting in 2nd quarter
2008, to being effective during that and subsequent periods.
We, of
course, stand ready to respond to any further questions you may have and/or if
you require additional information. We appreciate your consideration
of this matter, and look for-ward to working with you, on current management’s
to resolve the Staff’s comments.
Sincerely,
Carl N.
Duncan
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Lynn
Dicker, Reviewing Accountant
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
Page 5
April
8,2009
Enclosures:
~ Form
10-K/A for period ended December 31, 2007
~ Form
10-Q/A for period ended March 31, 2008
~ Form
10-Q/A for period ended June 30, 2008
~ Form
10-Q/A for period ended September 30, 2008
cc: Jay
Gottlieb
Gregg Schneider
Michael C. Pearce
Dave Sherwood
Larry McEwen
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