SEC Company Response from HUMAN BIOSYSTEMS INC (CIK 0001070181) — Dec 9, 2004
HUMAN BIOSYSTEMS INC (CIK 0001070181)
Date: Dec. 9, 2004 · CIK: 0001070181 · Accession: 0001091818-04-000442
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[SILICON VALLEY LAW GROUP LETTERHEAD]
December 9, 2004
VIA ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND FEDERAL EXPRESS
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, D.C. 20549 - 0405
Attention: Mr. Jeffrey Riedler
Assistant Director
Re: Human BioSystems
Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended September 30, 2004
File No. 0-28413
Dear Mr. Riedler:
On behalf of Human BioSystems, a corporation formed under the laws of the State
of California (the "Company"), we hereby enclose for filing Amendment No. 1
("Amendment No. 1") to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the
quarterly period ended September 30, 2004 (the "September 10-QSB"). Also
enclosed with the hard copy of this letter is a copy of Amendment No. 1 marked
to show changes from the September 10-QSB. These changes have been made in
response to the comments raised by the Staff in your letter of November 26, 2004
to Harry Masuda, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
The following discussion responds to the matters raised in your letter of
November 26th; sections have been designated and paragraphs have been numbered
to correspond to the numeration of that letter and each response is proceeded
by a reiteration of the specific comment.
General
1. Your most recent Form 10-QSB on file indicates that at September 30, 2004,
you had outstanding 38,999,200 shares of common stock outstanding [sic]. Based
on the disclosure you provide in this Form 10-QSB we note that you issued 7
million shares of your common stock to Langley Park Investments PLC, which
appears to represent approximately 17.9% of your total shares outstanding.
Please tell us if you or Langley intend to file a Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G
and when such filing will take place. We may have additional comments.
The Company has informed Langley of the need to comply with the securities laws
of the United States. We understand that Langley will confer with its U.S.
counsel regarding its filing requirements.
2. We note that your registration statement on Form SB-2 (File No. 333-117533)
recently went effective. To the extent offerings of your capital stock that are
registered in that Form SB-2 are still taking place, please note that you should
file a prospectus supplement updating information regarding your issuance of
common stock to Langley. In the alternative, please explain to us why no
further updates to your registration statement are necessary.
The referenced registration statement relates to the resale of up to 38,000,000
shares of the Company's common stock by Dutchess Private Equities Fund II, L.P.,
a Delaware limited partnership ("Dutchess"). At the present time, Dutchess is
not offering any shares of the Company's common stock. However, prior to such
time as Dutchess begins offers and sales of the common stock, the Company will
update the registration statement to include any substantive changes from the
information currently set forth in the registration statement.
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3. Please tell us why you did not file a Form 8-K under Item 3.02 - Unregistered
Sales of Equity Securities when you entered into the agreement with Langley. In
that regard it appears that you may not be eligible to file under Form S-3 of
the Securities Act of 1933 for a secondary offering until at least July of 2005.
Please advise.
Please note that the changes to Form 8-K that created Item 3.02 disclosures
became effective on August 23, 2004. The Company and Langley entered into the
Stock Purchase Agreement and issued the 7,000,000 shares of common stock in July
2004, prior to such effective date. Accordingly, the Company believes that it
is entitled to utilize Form S-3 for applicable offerings.
Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended September 30, 2004
General
4. For the benefit of your readers and ease of reference, please insert page
numbers in your document for the next amended filing and in future filings.
Pursuant to your request, Amendment No. 1 now contains page numbers. The
Company and its EDGAR filing agent confirm that all future filings will carry
page numbers as well.
Part I - Financial Information, page 1
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation, page 9
Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 11
5. Briefly discuss the business & assets of Langley. Indicate when it
incorporated and how long it has been engaged in its current business.
We have been informed by representatives of Langley that it was incorporated in
February 2004 in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985, with
registration number 5032867. Langley was formed to invest in a diverse
portfolio of US small cap companies (defined by Langley management as those
public companies having a market capitalization of less than U.K. $100 million).
Although Langley's investments are not limited to specific sectors, it has
concentrated on mining, oil and gas, energy-related and technology companies
since it commenced operations in February 2004. Langley's stated investment
objective is to achieve long term capital growth.
A description of Langley's business, assets and history has been added to the
section of Amendment No. 1 entitled "Management's Discussion and Analysis or
Plan of Operation - Liquidity and Capital Resources".
6. Please revise to disclose the percentage the shares you issued to Langley
represent of your total shares outstanding. Similarly, please specify what
percentage of the total outstanding shares your 512,665 Langley shares
represent.
Pursuant to your request, the section of the September Form 10-QSB entitled
"Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation - Liquidity and
Capital Resources" has been revised to indicate that the shares issued to
Langley constituted 17.9% of the Company's total outstanding common stock as of
September 30, 2004, and to indicate that the Langley ordinary shares issued to
the Company composed less than one percent of Langley's total issued and
outstanding ordinary shares at July 31, 2004.
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7. Please revise your disclosure to provide the conversion rate of the British
pound Sterling to the US dollar as of the close of business on July 26, 2004.
Pursuant to your request, the section of the September Form 10-QSB entitled
"Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation - Liquidity and
Capital Resources" has been revised to indicate that on July 30, 2004 (the
actual date of the determination of the conversion rate), the conversion rate of
the British pound Sterling to the U.S. dollar was 1.8160. We have corrected the
date of the determination of the conversion rate to July 30, 2004 in Amendment
No. 1.
8. Provide the basis for the valuation of the Langley shares at 1 British pound
per share. We note that at the time of the agreement there was no trading
market for the Langley shares.
We have been informed by Langley management that the Langley shares were valued
according to the traditional valuation utilized by comparable investment firms -
i.e., that these investment trusts traditionally value their shares in initial
offerings at U.K. $1.00 per share. The number of shares exchanged with each
portfolio company was based upon the valuation by Langley management of each
such portfolio company investment.
9. Please describe what type of Langley shares you received. For example, are
they common stock or preferred stock. In addition, please briefly describe the
material terms of the Langley stock.
The Company received from Langley "ordinary shares" of 1.0p each, pursuant to
the terms and conditions set forth in the Stock Purchase Agreement between the
Company and Langley (the "Stock Purchase Agreement"). These ordinary shares
represent interests in Langley, an investment trust admitted to the London Stock
Exchange. The rights of holders of Langley shares are set forth in Langley's
Memorandum of Association. In general, each holder of Langley shares has one
vote for every ordinary share held. Unless Langley's directors decide
otherwise, a holder of ordinary shares may not vote, either personally or by
proxy, unless all calls and other amounts payable with respect to the ordinary
shares have been paid. Holders of ordinary shares may receive dividends in
Langley as and when declared by the directors. In the event of a liquidation of
Langley, holders of ordinary shares may receive their pro rata share of any
remaining assets. In the event that Langley has more than one class of shares,
the rights of the holders of any one class of shares may be varied only with the
written consent of holders of three-fourths of the nominal value of the issued
shares of that class, or with the sanction of an extraordinary resolution passed
at a separate general meeting of such holders.
A description of the rights of holders of Langley ordinary shares has been added
to the section of Amendment No. 1 entitled "Management's Discussion and Analysis
or Plan of Operation - Liquidity and Capital Resources".
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10. We note your disclosure in this section that you anticipate using the funds
from the Langley sale to continue growth in your operation. Please describe the
specific use of proceeds you intend to employ with the sale of the Langley
shares. In addition, please briefly describe the alternative financing methods
you considered prior to entering into the arrangement with Langley and the
specific reasons describing why you ultimately selected the stock purchase
agreement with Langley.
The Company has informed us that the proceeds from the Langley transaction will
be utilized to complete the Company's platelet infusion studies that the Company
began in 2003, and to resume animal testing for organ preservation. A
description of these contemplated uses has been added to the section of
Amendment No. 1 entitled "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of
Operation - Liquidity and Capital Resources".
The Company has authorized us to inform you that it considered a variety of
possible financing options prior to entering into the transaction with Langley.
As the Company has previously disclosed, it has been in the development stage
and has not received any revenue for the past seven years. Since inception, the
Company has funded its operations primarily through private and public equity
placements. However, in the past year it has become more difficult for the
Company to effect equity placements on terms and conditions satisfactory to the
Company and its shareholders. The Company was approached by a number of private
investors who sought to purchase common stock at significant discounts to market
and other potential investors who wanted to receive common stock in advance of
forwarding consideration therefor to the Company. None of these alternatives
were acceptable to management. The Company selected Langley after due diligence
on Langley and its management, including but not limited to a review of a prior
fund with similar structure and investment strategies, assembled by the founders
of Langley.
A description of the Company's process in the evaluation of alternative
financing options and the selection of Langley has been added to the section of
Amendment No. 1 entitled "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of
Operation - Liquidity and Capital Resources".
11. Please describe any lock-up provisions or other restrictions affecting
Langley's ability to sell or other wise transfer its 7 million shares of your
common stock. In addition, please disclose any obligations to register the
resale of such shares of common stock. To the extent you have no such
obligations, please so state.
The Stock Purchase Agreement contains a provision prohibiting Langley from
selling, transferring or assigning any or all of the Company's shares issued to
Langley for a period of two years. The Company has no obligation to register
the stock issued to Langley.
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A description of these restrictions and the lack of an obligation to register
the shares issued to Langley has been added to the section of Amendment No. 1
entitled "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation - Liquidity
and Capital Resources".
12. We note your disclosure that due to the low trading price of the Langley
stock on the London Stock Exchange, you have not sold any of your Langley
shares. Please disclose the per share market price of the Langley stock as of a
recent date.
On December 1, 2004, the Langley stock closed at 17.50p per share, as quoted by
the London Stock Exchange. This recent trading information has been added to
the section of Amendment No. 1 entitled "Management's Discussion and Analysis or
Plan of Operation - Liquidity and Capital Resources".
13. It appears that the shares you issued to Langley represent approximately 18%
of your current shares outstanding. In that regard, please consider adding a
separate risk factor describing the dilutive risk and consequences such issuance
represents. In the alternative, please explain to us why such a description of
the risk is not necessary.
Pursuant to your request, a risk factor entitled "The sale of our common stock
to langley under the stock purchase agreement will have a dilutive effect" has
been added to Amendment No. 1 describing the dilutive risk of the Langley
transaction.
Part II - Other information, page 16 Item 2. Changes in Securities, page 16
14. We note your disclosure in the Management's Discussion and Analysis section
where you state that the 7 million shares of your restricted common stock issued
to Langley took place in August 2004. To that end, it appears you should
provide the information required by Item 701 of Regulation S-B in this section
with respect to your issuance of securities to Langley. Please revise your
disclosure accordingly.
Pursuant to your request, the information required by Item 701 of Regulation S-B
has been added to the section of Amendment No.1 entitled "Part II, Item 2.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds".
15. We note your [sic] have not filed the stock purchase agreement with Langley
in this Form 10-QSB. Further, it does not appear you have previously filed this
agreement. Please file your stock purchase agreement with Langley in an amended
filing.
Pursuant to your request, the Stock Purchase Agreement and accompanying Escrow
Agreement have been filed as exhibits to Amendment No.1.
We have also attached hereto a letter from the Company with the acknowledgements
required in your November 26th letter.
Please contact the undersigned if you have any questions or comments regarding
this letter or Amendment No. 1.
Very truly yours,
SILICON VALLEY LAW GROUP
By:/s/ Cathryn S. Gawne
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Cathryn S. Gawne, Esq.
cc: Mr. Harry Masuda
Dustin M. Lewis, CPA
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