SEC Company Response from EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT CORP (CIK 0000945439) — May 26, 2005
EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT CORP (CIK 0000945439)
Date: May 26, 2005 · CIK: 0000945439 · Accession: 0001201800-05-000113
AI Filing Summary & Sentiment
Referenced dates: May 17, 2005
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Embryo Development Corporation
305 Madison Avenue, Suite 4510
New York, NY 10165
212-808-607
FAX 212-808-0113
May 25, 2005
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549-0406
Att: Tia Jenkins, Senior Assistant Chief Accountant
Office of Emerging Growth Companies
Babette Cooper
Re: Embryo Development Corporation
Form 10-QSB as of October 31, 2004
File #0-27028
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Following are our responses, including supplemental information, to the
comments of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") set forth in its
letter dated May 17, 2005 with respect to the above referenced document filed by
the Company. The number of our responses parallel the numbers in your May 17,
2005 comment letter.
1. Although the Company has had multiple equity transactions during the
period, we do not believe a Statement of Stockholders' Equity is
required on quarterly filings if the transactions are adequately
described in the accompanying footnotes to the financial statements
included in the quarterly filings, as set forth below. The Statement
of Stockholders' Equity will be provided in the annual 10-KSB filing
for April 30, 2005. We are providing the following supplemental
information to facilitate your review:
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Preferred stock Additional paid-in-capital
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Balance 5/1/04: 600 9,991,267
Repurchase Series A Preferred
Stock - Footnote 10[B] (600) (19,400)
Issuance of 62,500 shares of Series
B Preferred stock for debt and
payroll - Footnote 4 6 249,994
Issuance of 57,500 shares of Series
B Preferred stock in connection
with failed share exchange - Footnote 6 6 172,494
Recording of debt discount in connection
with bridge financing - Footnote 7 - 200,000
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Balance at 10/31/04: $ 12 $10,594,355
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2. As part of the terms of an investment banking agreement entered into
by the Company in September 2004, these creditors were required to
exchange $62,500 of debt and accrued payroll for the equivalent of
6,250,000 shares of common stock. The number of shares received (100
shares for each $1 of debt) were negotiated and based on the same rate
as the terms of the investment banking agreement (see Note 7 - Bridge
Financing) whereby bridge lenders would convert $200,000 in debt into
20,000,000 shares of common stock in the event of a merger or
corporate reorganization. This exchange rate was negotiated between
the parties to the agreement with consideration given to the
following: the shares issued or to be issued are unregistered and
restricted, the Company's current financial position and the current
market for the Company's stock. For financial reporting purposes, the
shares issued were recorded at the then market price of $.04 resulting
in an expense for the extinguishment of debt to the Company of
$187,500.
Although losses from the extinguishment of related party debt should
be treated as capital transactions and no expense recognized, we
believe that the transaction was properly recorded in consideration of
the following factors :
-- One of the parties who exchanged $10,000 of debt for 1,000,000
shares of stock was not a related party or current stockholder.
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-- As to the officer who exchanged $52,500 of debt and payroll for
5,250,000 shares of stock, of the total amount exchanged for
stock, $47,500 was related to payroll or compensation due and not
prior actual debt related to loans or financing and $5,000
represented prior actual debt for a loan from the officer.
Therefore, we treated this transaction as if it had a
compensation element to it, which is why we recorded the
resulting expense in the statement of operations. Our journal
entry was as follows:
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Debit: Accrued Expenses $ 47,500
Debit: Loan Payable $ 5,000
Debit: Loss on conversion $157,500
Credit : Paid-in-capital $209,994
Credit: Preferred stock $ 6
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We also enclose a letter acknowledging the Company's responsibility for the
adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in its filings, as requested in the
SEC's letter of May 17, 2005.
Please call me at 212-808-0607 if you have any questions you wish to
discuss concerning this letter.
Very truly yours,
Embryo Development Corporation
By: /s/ Matthew Harriton
Matthew Harriton, Chief Executive Officer
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Embryo Development Corporation
305 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10165
May 25, 2005
Securities Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20549
Re: Embryo Development Corporation
Commission File Number: 0-27028
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, Embryo Development Corporation (the "Company") hereby
acknowledges that:
- The Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments
in the filings reviewed by the staff do not foreclose the Commission
from taking any action with respect to the filing; and
- The Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any
proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal
securities laws of the United States.
Very truly yours,
Embryo Development Corporation
By: /s/ Matthew Harriton
Matthew Harriton
Chief Executive Officer
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