SEC Comment Letter for Teknik Digital Arts Inc. (CIK 0001299648) — Sep 21, 2004
Teknik Digital Arts Inc. (CIK 0001299648)
Date: Sept. 21, 2004 · CIK: 0001299648 · Accession: 0000000000-04-030245
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<DOCUMENT> <TYPE>LETTER <SEQUENCE>1 <FILENAME>filename1.txt <TEXT> September 14, 2004 Mail Stop 4-6 Mr. John R. Ward Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Teknik Digital Arts, Inc. 7377 E. Doubletree Ranch Road, Suite #270 Scottsdale, AZ 85258 Re: Teknik Digital Arts, Inc. Registration Statement on Form SB-2 File No. 333-118101 Dear Mr. Ward: We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. Where indicated, we think you should revise your document in response to these comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with supplemental information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may or may not raise additional comments. We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filings reviewed by the staff to be certain that they have provided all information investors require for an informed decision. Since the Company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to the Company`s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. Notwithstanding our comments, in the event the Company requests acceleration of the effective date of the pending registration statement, it should furnish a letter, at the time of such request, acknowledging that * should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; * the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and * the Company may not assert this action 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 connection with our review of your filing or in response to our comments on your filing. 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 any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM SB-2 Outside Front Cover Page 1. We note from the cover page and page 25 of the filing that the price at which your common shares are sold may be based on prices prevailing at the time of sale, or on prices relating to such prevailing market prices, or on negotiated prices. As there is not yet a market for your common shares, please revise the outside front cover page of the prospectus to include the following language: "The selling shareholders will sell at a price of $x.xx (or a range) per share until our shares are quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board and thereafter at prevailing market prices or privately negotiated prices." 2. Please delete the reference to the "NASDAQ Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board." Instead, you may indicate that the OTCBB is administered by NASDAQ. The Offering 3. Please revise the "Use of Proceeds" paragraph to indicate that the warrants covering 3,300,000 shares of common stock have an initial exercise price of $2.50. Additionally, similarly revise your risk factor entitled, "If we are unable to obtain substantial additional financing we may not be able to remain in business." Risk Factors 4. You are required to disclose the "most significant factors" that make this offering speculative or risky. Please revise the first paragraph of this section to indicate clearly that you are describing the material risks associated with the offering of shares of your common stock. Refer to Item 503 of Regulation S-K. In addition, to the extent that you do not deem certain other risks material at this time, you should not refer to them in this section. In this regard, please delete the language indicating that the "risks and uncertainties described [in your risk factors section] are not the only ones facing [the Company]" and that "[a]dditional risks and uncertainties that [you] are unaware of or that [you] currently deem immaterial, also may become important factors that adversely affect [the Company]." 5. Some of your subheadings merely state a fact about your business without fully describing the risks associated with that fact. For example, we note "We may not successfully develop new products and services" and "We will be dependent on hardware platform manufacturers for the manufacture, marketing, distribution and support of products that we develop for their platforms." Where you have not already done so, please revise each of your subheadings to ensure that they disclose the specific risk or risks that you are discussing in the text. 6. We note from page 24 that your common shares will be subject to "penny stock" rules. Please revise your "Risk Factors" section to include a discussion of the penny stock rules and the additional risks they pose to investors. 7. Please revise this section to add a discussion regarding the risks associated with relying on third parties, such as Quicksilver and Playentertainment, for the intellectual property necessary to market your products. If we endeavor to expand our limited presence in international markets we will become subject to additional business risks, p.8 8. Please revise this risk factor to indicate the extent to which you have any current international presence. Additionally, we note that you refer to the expansion of your international presence in "Plan of Operations." Please revise that section to include more information about your current international operations, as well. As a new investor, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution in the value of our common stock, p.11 9. Please revise the text of this risk factor to provide quantified information regarding the effect of dilution to shareholders after the offering. Use of Proceeds 10. You state that the proceeds from exercises of the warrants, if any, will be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital, research and development and expansion of sales and marketing activities. Item 504 of Regulation S-B requires that you state how the net proceeds will be used, indicating the amount to be used for each purpose or, alternatively, if you have no current specific plans, that you disclose this fact and discuss the principal reasons for the offering. Have you prepared business plans to incur expenses or engage in activities that could not be funded with the cash flow you anticipate from continuing operations? If so, it appears that you have a plan to use the funds from the potential exercise of the warrants, which you should more specifically disclose. Please provide a detailed supplemental analysis and revise as appropriate. Selling Security Holders 11. It does not appear that any of the legal entities named as selling stockholders are reporting companies. Accordingly, please disclose the individual or individuals who exercise the voting and/or dispositive powers with respect to the securities to be offered for resale by such legal entities. See Interpretation I.60 of the July 1997 manual of publicly available CF telephone interpretations, as well as interpretation 4S of the Regulation S-K portion of the March 1999 supplement to the CF telephone interpretation manual. 12. It does not appear that any of the selling stockholders are registered broker-dealers. Please confirm. Additionally, if any of the selling stockholders are affiliates of registered broker-dealers, expand the prospectus disclosure to indicate whether they acquired the securities to be resold in the ordinary course of business. Also indicate whether at the time of the acquisition they had any agreements, understandings or arrangements with any other persons, either directly or indirectly, to dispose of the securities. 13. We note that an affiliate of the company is offering 3.9 million shares, or approximately 47% of your common stock issued and outstanding as of the date of this prospectus. Please note that we often take the view that a large offering by selling security holders who are affiliates of the issuer is, in essence, an offering "by or on behalf of the registrant" "at the market" that must comply with the requirements of Rule 415(a)(4). Please supplementally tell us what consideration you have given to whether CodeFire Acquisition Corp.`s offering is really an offering by or on behalf of the company subject to the requirements of Rule 415(a)(4). We may have further comment upon review of your response. 14. Please revise the footnotes to the Selling Security Holders table to indicate the material terms of the transactions pursuant to which the selling security holders received their securities. In this regard, we would expect to see information regarding the date of and consideration received in each transaction, any other material terms of the transactions, the exemptions from registration upon which you relied for the issuance of the securities and the facts that made such exemptions available. Additionally, the agreements governing such transactions should be filed as exhibits to the registration statement. See Item 601(b)(4) of Regulation S-B. Plan of Operations Summary of our plan, p.14 15. Explain why you believe you will be able to rely on the exercise of warrants to provide the additional funds you will need to raise in the next 12 months. For example, do you think it is likely that the warrants will be in-the-money during the next 12 months? If not, why do you believe that you will be able to raise additional funds through the exercise of outstanding warrants? 16. Please revise to provide more information regarding the material terms of your joint venture with Playentertainment. We note your disclosure in the first paragraph of Note 7 to the financial statements. Revenue, p.14 17. We note that AniDragon was released in August of 2003 but that you had not generated any revenues as of March 31, 2004. Please revise to explain why AniDragon has not provided any revenues for the Company in seven months, and disclose your expected timetable for generating revenues from this product. Liquidity and Capital Resources, p.15 18. In the last paragraph of this section, you indicate that past private placements of common stock will provide you with your immediate financial requirements to enable you to continue as a going concern. However, considering that, even including the proceeds of your past offerings of common stock, your total current assets were only $12,095, please revise to better explain the basis for your belief that past private placements will continue to provide you with additional funds, or revise as appropriate. 19. Consistent with your disclosure in Note 2 to the financial statements, describe with specificity your liabilities as of March 31, 2004. In this regard, please identify the related party to whom you owed $128,224 under the note. Confirm that you currently do not have any amount outstanding under any credit facility. We note your reference to a "previous revolving line of credit." Business 20. We note from your disclosure in this section and in other places throughout the document that you have license agreements regarding your right to use the "Fear Factor" and "Next Action Star" logos and related rights and that you are currently developing related products. Please revise to disclose the duration of these licenses. See Item 101(b)(7) of Regulation S-B. Additionally, the durations of any other current or future material license agreements should be disclosed as well. 21. Please revise to disclose the amount spent on research and development activities to date. Company Overview, page 16 22. Describe in detail the business history of Playentertainment LLP addressing how long they have been in the business of developing and marketing videogames for mobile and console applications. Address any related party relationship you may have with Playentertainment. 23. Discuss the current status of the "Next Action Star" and "Fear Factor" games. We note that you intend to launch these products in September 2004. Our Technology, p.17 AniGadget 24. Please revise to better explain how this product works. For example, would you provide customers with hardware that connects to your online site and on which customers would play your games? Your current disclosure does not clearly indicate how the "device" relates back to your online distribution model. Our Markets, p.18 Mobile applications market 25. Please supplementally provide us with support for your statement that "[d]omestic carriers generally have targeted a revenue split of 20% to the carrier and 80% to the developer." Additionally, provide similar support for your statement on page 14 that "[w]ireless carriers in the United States offer a very favorable revenue sharing model with mobile application developers, with net revenue to the application developer generally exceeding 70 to 75% of monthly subscription fees." Description of Property, p.19 26. We note that your lease will expire on September 30, 2004. In your next amendment, ensure that this section is updated to reflect whether you have entered into a new lease for the same space or whether you have negotiated a lease for a different location. Management Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation, p.21 27. We note your disclosure on page 21 indicating that the directors on the compensation committee have no interlocking relationships. While you are not required to include this type of disclosure in your filing, if you choose to do so, please note that Item 402(j)(1)(iii) of Regulation S-K requires that this section include any disclosure required by Item 404 of Regulation S-K applicable to a member of the compensation committee. As Mr. Ward is the president of CodeFire Acquisition Corp., which has entered into transactions with the Company, this disclosure should be revised to include all applicable information required by Item 404. You need not repeat the same information under "Certain Relationships and Related Transactions" and may include an appropriate cross-reference to "Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation" in that section. Executive Compensation Summary Compensation Table, p.21 28. Revise your summary compensation table and related footnotes to disclose current information regarding the compensation received by all named executive officers in the last fiscal year. In this regard, we note that the current disclosure reflects only compensation amounts paid from January through March of 2003. Ensure that similar disclosure throughout the document is updated as well. Employment Agreements, p.22 29. Your disclosure in this section indicates that Mr. Comstock was granted options covering 100,000 shares of common stock in fiscal 2003. However, the summary compensation and option grant tables indicate that Mr. Comstock was granted options covering only 50,000 shares in fiscal 2003. Please revise as appropriate or advise. Plan of Distribution 30. You indicate that the selling security holders may offer their shares in connection with short sales, including short selling against the box. Tell us whether the selling security ho