SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-001725 to CITIUS ONCOLOGY, INC. (CTOR)
CITIUS ONCOLOGY, INC.
Date: Feb. 13, 2024 · CIK: 0001851484 · Accession: 0000000000-24-001725
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
February 13, 2024
Taylor Zhang
Chief Financial Officer
TenX Keane Acquisition
420 Lexington Ave Suite 2446
New York, NY 10170
Re:TenX Keane Acquisition
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-4
Filed January 30, 2024
File No. 333-275506
Dear Taylor Zhang:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances
or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise,
any references to prior comments are to comments in our December 13, 2023 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-4
Question and Answers
Q: What equity stake will current TenX Shareholders and SpinCo stockholders hold..., page 16
1.Your response to prior comment 2 indicates that there is revised disclosure in response to
the comment but we do not see such disclosure in your filing. Therefore, we reissue the
comment. Please revise to disclose all possible sources and extent of dilution that
shareholders who elect not to redeem their shares may experience in connection with the
Business Combination. Provide disclosure of the impact of each significant source of
dilution, including the amount of equity held by founders and convertible securities
retained by redeeming shareholders at each of the redemption levels detailed in your
sensitivity analysis, including any needed assumptions.
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TenX Keane Acquisition
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Summary of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus
Transaction Steps, page 32
2.In the organizational chart showing the parties to the transaction after the anticipated
Domestication and Business Combination, please indicate the ownership of New Citius
Oncology by Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. after the Business Combination.
Related Agreements
Amended & Restated Shared Services Agreement, page 36
3.We note your response to prior comment 6. Please also disclose the total quarterly fee
within the registration statement.
Risk Factors and Risk Factor Summary, page 59
4.If the assets in your trust account are securities, including U.S. Government securities or
shares of money market funds registered under the Investment Company Act and
regulated pursuant to rule 2a-7 of that Act, disclose the risk that you could be considered
to be operating as an unregistered investment company. Disclose that if you are found to
be operating as an unregistered investment company, you may be required to change your
operations, wind down your operations, or register as an investment company under the
Investment Company Act. Also include disclosure with respect to the consequences to
investors if you are required to wind down your operations as a result of this status, such
as the losses of the investment opportunity in a target company, any price appreciation in
the combined company, and any warrants, which would expire worthless.
Summary of the Ancillary Agreements
Sponsor Support Agreement, page 131
5.We note your response to our prior comment 13 that the Sponsor received no
consideration in connection with its agreement to waive its redemption rights. Please also
include this disclosure within the registration statement.
Background of the Business Combination, page 132
6.You state that the business combination partners were refined to exclude potential partners
who did not meet all or most of the key criteria or who TenX's management believed were
not likely to consider the business combination. Please describe how TenX's management
determined that a company was not likely to consider a business combination with TenX.
7.We note your response to our prior comment 15, specifically, that the initial target
exploration focused on those companies that could satisfy some or all of the key criteria
identified. Please also discuss how you chose the seven companies to have detailed
discussions with, for example, discuss whether they met all or most of the criteria, how
you narrowed down those seven companies to the five you signed non-disclosure
agreements with, and how you further chose to narrow down the five companies to the
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TenX Keane Acquisition
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two you entered into non-binding agreements with.
8.We note your response to our prior comment 18 that from the time TenX was made aware
of SpinCo through Maxim on April 25, 2023, until the time that a letter of intent was
signed in May 2023, the Company was not in discussions with any other companies.
Please also include this disclosure within the filing.
9.We note your response to our prior comment 19. Please disclose the aggregate equity
value of SpinCo and the cap on third-party fees of TenX proposed by Citius Pharma and
by Mr. Zhang.
Opinion of Revere Securities
Fees and Expenses, page 142
10.We note your response to our prior comment 25 that Revere Securities will receive a fee
of $50,000 upon completion of the Business Combination. Please also disclose such fee
within the registration statement.
The TenX Board's Discussion of Valuation and Reasons for the Approval..., page 142
11.We note from the disclosure added in response to prior comment 27 that SpinCo agreed to
transfer the patent rights immediately after it is commercially able to do so. Please file the
agreement related to this arrangement as an exhibit. We also note the disclosure on page
204 that Citius Pharma assigned the asset purchase agreement with Dr. Reddy, and the
license agreement with Eisai, to SpinCo on April 1, 2022. Please file the related
assignment agreement as an exhibit. Please also describe the material terms of these
agreements in an appropriate location.
Lymphir
Phase 3 Trial (E7777-G000-302) Design, page 193
12.We note your response to our prior comment 30. Please clearly state whether your primary
and secondary endpoints were met for the lead-in phase and the main phase of the clinical
trial.
13.Please revise your disclosure to include the substance of your response to prior comment
29.
Phase 3 Trial Efficacy & Safety Results, page 194
14.We note your disclosure describing the different five grades of adverse events. We also
note your chart on page 195, specifically that you include two columns, one for all grades
and another for grades 3 or 4. Please clarify if LYMPHIR experienced grade 5 adverse
events.
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TenX Keane Acquisition
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TenX Keane Acquisition
Financial Statements for the Year Ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, page F-3
15.Under the shareholders' equity (deficit) section, include the as of date that corresponds to
the periods presented on the balance sheet for the authorized, issued and outstanding
shares, respectively. Apply this same comment to the equity section of each balance sheet
presented in the filing.
Citius Oncology, Inc.
Financial Statements for the Years Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022
Note 3 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
In-process Research and Development, page F-37
16.In your response to prior comment 44, you indicate that the license for E777 acquired
from Dr. Reddy's has alternative future use as it is currently advancing in a late-stage trial
of oncology immunotherapy for the treatment of CTCL and it also grants you the ability to
develop additional indications in Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma (PTCL) as well as
Immuno-Oncology (I/O). Please provide us with a comprehensive analysis considering the
guidance in paragraphs 3.13 - 3.27 of the AICPA Audit & Accounting Guide, Assets
Acquired to Be Used in Research and Development Activities to support your
determination that the acquired IPR&D had alternative future use on the date which it was
acquired. Specifically address whether at the date the IPR&D was acquired you
reasonably expected that you would use it in the alternative manner, whether you
anticipated economic benefit from such alternative use, and whether use of the IPR&D in
the alternative manner was contingent on further development.
Please contact Christine Torney at 202-551-3652 or Angela Connell at 202-551-3426 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Doris Stacey Gama at 202-551-3188 or Tim Buchmiller at 202-551-3635 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Life Sciences
cc: Tammara Fort, Esq.