SEC Comment Letter for SEELOS THERAPEUTICS, INC. (SEEL) (CIK 0001017491) — Jul 15, 2005
SEELOS THERAPEUTICS, INC. (SEEL) (CIK 0001017491)
Date: July 15, 2005 · CIK: 0001017491 · Accession: 0000000000-05-036322
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June 22, 2005
Via Facsimile and U.S. Mail
Mail Stop 6010
Y. Joseph Mo
Chairman of the Board of Directors, President
and Chief Executive Officer
NexMed, Inc.
350 Corporate Boulevard
Robbinsville, NJ 08691
Re: NexMed, Inc.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004
Filed March 16, 2005
File Number 000-22245
Dear Mr. Mo:
We have reviewed your filing to those issues addressed in our
comments. In our comments, we ask you to provide us information
so
we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this
information, we may raise additional comments.
Please understand that the purpose of our review process is
to
assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure
requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing.
We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome
any questions you may have about our comments or on any other
aspect
of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers
listed
at the end of this letter.
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, page 19
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, page 26
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Principles, page 26
Fixed assets, page 27
1. Please tell us how you accounted for the costs related to the
process of developing and validating your manufacturing facility
as
one designed to meet the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
standards
as required by the FDA, how your accounting complies with GAAP and
where you disclosed your policy.
Research and Development, page 28
2. Please tell us your accounting for third party contract
research
costs and how it complies with GAAP. Also, include in your
response
how payments are determined, the specific performance criteria for
the contract research organizations and when payments are due.
5. Convertible Notes Payable, page 32
3. Please provide us with the following information regarding the
issuance of $6 million in convertible notes payable, on December
12,
2003:
* How your accounting for the debt discount, beneficial conversion
feature and detachable warrants associated with this debt issuance
complies with GAAP.
* The amortization period for the debt discount and how it
complies
with APB 14 and EITF 00-27, Part II, Issue 6, paragraph 19.
* How you assessed the potential existence of a beneficial
conversion
feature, in accordance with EITF 00-27, Part II, Issue 3,
paragraph
13, resulting from the reset of the conversion price on June 14,
2004.
Please respond to these comments within 10 business days or
tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please furnish
a
letter that keys your responses to our comments and provide the
requested information. Detailed letters greatly facilitate our
review. Please file your letter on EDGAR under the form type
label
CORRESP.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the
filing include all information required under the Securities
Exchange
Act of 1934 and that they have provided all information investors
require for an informed investment decision. Since the company
and
its management are in possession of all facts relating to a
company`s
disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of
the
disclosures they have made.
In connection with responding to our comments, please
provide,
in your letter, a statement from the company acknowledging that:
* the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in the filing;
* staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments 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.
In addition, please be advised that the Division of
Enforcement
has access to all information you provide to the staff of the
Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filing or in
response to our comments on your filing.
You may contact James Peklenk, Staff Accountant, at (202)
551-
3661, or Oscar M. Young, Jr., Senior Accountant, at (202) 551-3622
if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements
and
related matters. In this regard, do not hesitate to contact me at
(202) 551-3679.
Sincerely,
Jim B. Rosenberg
Senior Assistant Chief Accountant
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Y. Joseph Mo
NexMed, INC.
June 22, 2005
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