SEC Company Response from RESOLVE STAFFING INC (CIK 0001106207) — Oct 18, 2005
RESOLVE STAFFING INC (CIK 0001106207)
Date: Oct. 18, 2005 · CIK: 0001106207 · Accession: 0001144204-05-031932
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Referenced dates: February 28, 2005, September 26, 2005
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VIA
FACSIMILE AND FIRST CLASS
October
17, 2005
U.
S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Attention:
Gopal Dharia, Staff Accountant
100
F
Street, NE
Washington,
DC 20549
Re:
Resolve Staffing, Inc.
SEC
File No. 0-29485
Dear
Mr.
Dharia:
As
I
indicated to you in my letter of October 5, 2005, we represent the registrant,
Resolve Staffing, Inc. (“Company”)
in
connection with its securities regulatory matters and general corporate legal
advice. The Company acknowledges receipt of the staff’s
comment
letter dated September 26, 2005 (“Comment
Letter”)
and
provides the following responses, on a corresponding paragraph by paragraph
basis.
Form
8-K Filed February 9, 2005 (Accounting Comments)
1. In
partial response to this comment, we are attaching hereto copies of
correspondence that was sent to Carol Stacey, Chief Accountant at the
Commission, on January 23, 2005 and February 1, 2005. The relevance of these
two
memoranda is that the facts and circumstances underlying the background of
the
Company’s
acquisitions announced in its February 9, 2005 Form 8-K, identifies the issues
faced by the Company in attempting to obtain sufficient financial data from
the
various acquired entities purchased by the Company, as set forth in the
Company’s
Asset
Purchase Agreement dated February 7, 2005 (“Agreement”).
The
Company has not amended its February 7, 2005 Form 8-K due solely to the fact
that, after reasonable efforts and expense by the Company to obtain sufficient
financial information from the various sellers, the Company has not been
able to
do so. Moreover, since the closing of the acquisitions on February 7, 2005,
the
relationships among the sellers and the Company have deteriorated, resulting
in
less of a probability of successfully acquiring financial information that
the
Company’s
auditors would be able to audit in order to satisfy Rule 310(c) of Regulation
S-B. As pointed out in the two memoranda submitted to the Commission prior
to
the closing of the acquisitions, the Company is able to complete audited
financial statements for all of the acquisitions during the time period that
the
Company has operated and controlled those entities.1
1 The
Company has operated three of the acquired locations for in excess of
two years,
but the Company has operated six of the acquired locations for less than
two
years. The size and relative revenues of these acquired locations is
set forth
on the Company’s
memorandum to the Commission dated February 1,
2005.
In
final
reply to this comment, the Company believes that under the circumstances
whereby
it has acquired several “distressed
operations”
that do
not have sufficient available financial information to enable the
Company’s
auditors to complete two years of audit history, that the Company’s
reasonable efforts and expense incurred in obtaining such financial information,
coupled with its ability to complete audits of the businesses acquired to
the
extent that adequate financial information is available, should be determined
by
the Commission to satisfy the Company’s
requirements under Rule 310(c) of Regulation S-B.
2. The
Company also addressed the issue addressed in this comment on the propriety
of
considering the Company as the accounting acquirer, in its memorandum dated
February 1, 2005 and concluded that under the circumstances involved in the
acquisitions outlined in the Agreement, the Company and not ELS, Inc. is
the
accounting acquirer. In response to this comment, and upon receipt of the
Commission’s
letter
dated February 28, 2005, the Company looked very carefully at SFAS No. 141
and
in particular paragraph 17 thereof. The Company has concluded that it is
the
accounting acquirer and distinguishes paragraph 17 of SFAS No. 141 by pointing
out the following distinctions;
Ø Paragraph
17 emphasizes that in a business combination effected through an exchange
of
equity interests, the entity that issues the equity interests is generally
the
acquiring entity. The Agreement clearly is structured such that ELS, Inc.
is
selling business assets to the Company in exchange for the Company’s
common
stock. Also, the assets sold to the Company by ELS were, in terms of value,
immaterial to the overall assets of ELS.
Ø The
Company did not acquire any equity interests of ELS as a part of the acquisition
transaction;
Ø On
a
post-transaction basis, the Company is actually operating the acquired
businesses, not ELS. ELS has not changed its name, nor has the Company changed
its name.
Ø Except
for the fact that Ron Heineman is the chief executive officer of ELS and
the
Company, other members of management of ELS and the Company are different
and
were not changed as a result of the transaction. Moreover, based upon the
terms
of the Agreement, ELS did not receive beneficial ownership of the equity
issued
by the Company in exchange for the assets acquired, rather the two shareholders
of ELS received the Company’s
shares.
Therefore,
based upon the totality of the circumstances of the Company’s
acquisition of the assets from ELS, in exchange for equity issued solely
by the
Company, it is the Company’s
position that for accounting purposes the Company is the acquirer.
3. Before
and after the acquisition by the Company, Mr. Heineman owned 50% of the
ownership of ELS. Before the acquisitions by the Company from ELS, Mr. Heineman
was the beneficial owner of 3,360,000 shares of the Company‘s
common
stock representing 34.7% of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the
Company and after the acquisitions, Mr. Heineman was the beneficial owner
of
7,922,000 shares of the Company‘s
common
stock, representing 54% of the Company’s
outstanding shares.
With
respect to the staff’s
request
that a statement from the Company acknowledging the representations set forth
on
the top of page two of your Letter, please be advised that Mr. Heineman and
one
other director of the Company are traveling today and are not available to
provide these written acknowledgments. However, I expect that Mr. Heineman
will
be available within the next day or so and will supplement this response
letter
to include the required representations noted in your Letter.
Please
contact the undersigned should you have any questions or comments.
Sincerely,
/s/ Gregory
Bartko
Gregory
Bartko, Esq.
GAB/nmn
Cc:
Ron
Heineman, CEO
Robert
Sporl
Don
Quarterman