UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
20429
FORM 10-K
þ ANNUAL
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2019
or
¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the transition period
from __________ to __________
Commission file number:
333-67318
GIVEMEPOWER
CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as
Specified in Its Charter)
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Nevada
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87-0291528
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(State or Other Jurisdiction
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(I.R.S. Employer
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Incorporation or
Organization)
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Identification
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370 Amapola Ave., Suite
200A
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Torrance,
California
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90501
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(Address of Principal
Executive Offices)
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(Zip Code)
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Registrant’s telephone
number, including area code: (310) 895-1839
Securities registered
pursuant to Section 12(b) of the
Act: None
Securities registered
pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate by check mark if
the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule
405 of the Securities Act. Yes ¨ No þ
Indicate by check mark if
the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section
13 or 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨ No þ
Indicate by check mark if
the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during
the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the
registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been
subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes þ No ¨
Indicate by check mark
whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on
its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File
required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of
Regulation S-T (Section 232.405 of this chapter) during the
preceding 12 months (or such shorter period that the registrant was
required to submit and post such files.
Yes þ No ¨
Indicate by check mark if
disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation
S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best
of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information
statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K
or any amendment to this Form 10-K. Yes ¨ No þ
Indicate by check mark
whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company. See the definitions of “large accelerated
filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule
12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
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(Do not check if a smaller
reporting company)
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Indicate by check mark
whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2
of the Act). Yes ¨ No þ
State the aggregate market
value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by
non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the
common equity was sold, or the average bid and asked price of such
common equity, as of a specified date within the past 60
days:
As of December 31,
2019, the Company had 18,894,381
common shares held by non-affiliates. The aggregate market value of
the Registrant’s voting and non-voting stock held by non-affiliates
of the Registrant was approximately $377,888 using the average bid
and ask price on that day of $0.0200.
Number of shares outstanding
of the registrant’s common stock as of December 31,
2019: 27,724,684 shares.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY
REFERENCE
None
GIVEMEPOWER CORPORATION,
INC.
ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM
10-K
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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PART I
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Item 1.
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Business
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Item 1A.
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Risk Factors
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Item 1B.
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Unresolved Staff
Comments
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Item 2.
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Properties
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Item 3.
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Legal Proceedings
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Item 4.
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Mine Safety
Disclosures
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PART II
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Item 5.
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Market for Registrant’s
Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of
Equity Securities
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Item 6.
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Selected Financial
Data
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Item 7.
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Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations
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Item 7a.
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Quantitative and Qualitative
Disclosures About Market Risk
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Item 8.
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Financial Statements and
Supplementary Data
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Item 9.
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Changes in and Disagreements
with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
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Item 9a.
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Controls and
Procedures
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Item 9b.
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Other Information
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PART III
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Item 10.
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Directors, Executive
Officers and Corporate Governance
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Item 11.
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Executive
Compensation
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Item 12.
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Security Ownership of
Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder
Matters
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Item 13.
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Certain Relationships and
Related Transactions, and Director Independence
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Item 14.
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Principal Accountant
Fees and Services
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PART IV
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Item 15.
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Exhibits and Financial
Statement Schedules
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Signatures
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Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements
This Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Annual
Report”) contains forward-looking statements. The SEC encourages
companies to disclose forward-looking information so that investors
can better understand a company’s future prospects and make
informed investment decisions. This Annual Report and other written
and oral statements that we make from time to time contain such
forward-looking statements that set out anticipated results based
on management’s plans and assumptions regarding future events or
performance. We have tried, wherever possible, to identify such
statements by using words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,”
“expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “will” and
similar expressions in connection with any discussion of future
operating or financial performance. In particular, these include
statements relating to future actions, future performance or
results of current and anticipated sales efforts, expenses, the
outcome of contingencies, such as legal proceedings, and financial
results.
We caution that the factors described herein,
and other factors could cause our actual results of operations and
financial condition to differ materially from those expressed in
any forward-looking statements we make and that investors should
not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements.
Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date
on which such statement is made, and we undertake no obligation to
update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or
circumstances after the date on which such statement is made or to
reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events or
circumstances. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not
possible for us to predict all of such factors. Further, we cannot
assess the impact of each such factor on our results of operations
or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may
cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in
any forward-looking statements.
Use of Market and Industry Data
This Annual Report includes market and industry
data that we have obtained from third-party sources, including
industry publications, as well as industry data prepared by our
management on the basis of its knowledge of and experience in the
industries in which we operate (including our management’s
estimates and assumptions relating to such industries based on that
knowledge). Management has developed its knowledge of such
industries through its experience and participation in these
industries. While our management believes the third-party sources
referred to in this Annual Report are reliable, neither we nor our
management have independently verified any of the data from such
sources referred to in this Annual Report or ascertained the
underlying economic assumptions relied upon by such sources.
Furthermore, references in this Annual Report to any publications,
reports, surveys or articles prepared by third parties should not
be construed as depicting the complete findings of the entire
publication, report, survey or article. The information in any such
publication, report, survey or article is not incorporated by
reference in this Annual Report.
Forecasts and other forward-looking information
obtained from these sources involve risks and uncertainties and are
subject to change based on various factors, including those
discussed under “Risk Factors,” “Cautionary Statement Regarding
Forward-Looking Statements,” and “Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in this
Annual Report.
Trademarks, Service Marks and Trade
Names
This Annual Report contains references to our
trademarks, service marks and trade names and to trademarks,
service marks and trade names belonging to other entities. Solely
for convenience, trademarks, service marks and trade names referred
to in this Annual Report, including logos, artwork and other visual
displays, may appear without
the ® or TM symbols, but
such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that
their respective owners will not assert, to the fullest extent
under applicable law, their rights thereto. We do not intend our
use or display of other companies’ trade names, service marks or
trademarks or any artists’ or other individuals’ names to imply a
relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any
other companies or persons.
PART I
Business
Overview
GiveMePower Corporation
empowers community-based businesses and entrepreneurs to invest in,
and revitalize their communities, creating sustainable jobs and
wealth for residents of those communities. GiveMePower is a
community-based private equity firm and hedge fund focused on
owning and holding properties, assets, and investments in private
and public businesses through: (1) acquiring, rehabilitating and
reutilizing dilapidated or abandoned properties; (2) acquiring and
restructuring troubled businesses; (3) socially conscious venture
capital activities; (4) opportunistic private equity activities;
(5) job-creating and community-empowering investments; and (6)
general business-process-improvement through partnerships, mergers
and acquisitions and (re)capitalizations. We seek to buy
entire or controlling stakes in companies with undervalued
businesses, restructure the businesses, and sell the shares for
profit or hold it for cash flow.
The Company acquires
controlling interests in businesses that operate in industries with
long-term macroeconomic growth opportunities, positive and stable
earnings and cash flows, face minimal threats of technological or
competitive obsolescence, and have strong management teams largely
in place. The Company seek to acquire under-managed or
under-performing businesses that can be improved under the guidance
of our management team. We expect to improve the businesses we
acquire over the long term through organic growth opportunities,
add-on acquisitions, and operational improvements.
We are tirelessly focused on
building value within our portfolio businesses for our investors
with the aim to sustain and create jobs in America and around the
world. We respect quality, sound management, and transparency. We
aim to reinvigorate iconic American brand names that have produced
historic and quality products. We perceive value where others in
the industry cannot and create significance from that which others
would liquidate. We invest in businesses that have legacy products
and hold important positions in the community, but have been left
behind – whether due to the absence of technology, a dearth of
capital or an inability to adapt to shifting markets – and we walk
the path of change and innovation to establish vibrancy and status
in these forgotten companies. We utilize our
community-centered and cost-management business process model to
grow our capital base and achieve long-term growth. We operate a
multi-stage investment approach with an emphasis on running
acquired businesses more efficiently, giving employees a more
conducive and friendly workplace. We add value to shareholders by
identifying and reducing excesses and also identifying and
executing growth strategies in companies we control.
Business
History
GiveMePower Corporation (the
“PubCo” or “Company”), a Nevada corporation, was incorporated on
June 7, 2001 to sell software geared to end users and developers
involved in the design, manufacture, and construction of engineered
products located in Canada and the United States. The PubCo has
been dormant and non-operating since year 2009. PubCo is a public
reporting company registered with the Securities Exchange
Commissioner (“SEC”). In November 2009, the Company filed Form 15D,
Suspension of Duty to Report, and as a result, the Company was not
required to file any SEC forms since November 2009.
On December 31, 2019, PubCo
sold one Special 2019 series A preferred share (“Series A Share”)
for $38,000 to Goldstein Franklin, Inc. (“Goldstein”), a California
corporation. One Series A Share is convertible to 100,000,000
shares of common stocks at any time. The Series A Share also
provided with 60% voting rights of the PubCo. On the same day,
Goldstein sold one-member unit of Alpharidge Capital, LLC
(“Alpharidge”), a California limited liability corporation,
representing 100% member owner of Alpharidge. As a result,
Alpharidge become a wholly owned subsidiary of PubCo as of December
31, 2019.
The transaction above will be
accounted for as a “reverse merger” and recapitalization amongst
PubCo, Goldstein, and Alpharidge since the stockholders of
Alpharidge will have the significant influence and the ability to
elect or appoint or to remove a majority of the members of the
governing body of the combined entity immediately following the
completion of the transaction, the stockholders of PubCo will have
the significant influence and the ability to elect or appoint or to
remove a majority of the members of the governing body of the
combined entity, and PubCo’s senior management will dominate the
management of the combined entity immediately following the
completion of the transaction. Accordingly, Alpharidge will be
deemed to be the accounting acquirer in the transaction and,
consequently, the transaction is treated as a recapitalization of
the PubCo. Accordingly, the assets and liabilities and the
historical operations that are reflected in the financial
statements are those of Alpharidge and are recorded at the
historical cost basis of Alpharidge. As a result, Alpharidge is the
surviving company and the financial statements presented are
historical financial accounts of Alpharidge.
Following the transaction, the
Company appointed Mr. Frank I Igwealor as President and
CEO.
The financial statements of
the Company include its wholly owned subsidiary of
Alpharidge.
The Company’s principal
executive office is located at 370 Amapola Ave., Suite 200A,
Torrance, CA 90501.
The Company’s main telephone
number is (310) 895-1839.
Current Business and
Organization
The Company, through its
wholly owned subsidiary, Alpharidge Capital, LLC, has two distinct
lines of businesses that comprise of the following:
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Acquisition of private and
public companies and investments in securities, warrants, bonds, or
options of public and private companies in various industries but
focusing on specialty biopharmaceutical companies through brokerage
firm, TD Ameritrade; and
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Investments in real estate –
Real estate operations would consist primarily of rental real
estate, affordable housing projects, opportunity zones, other
property development and associated HOA activities. Alpharidge’s
property development operations would be primarily through a real
estate investment, management and development subsidiary that
focuses primarily on the construction and sale of single-family and
multi-family homes, lots in subdivisions and planned communities,
and raw land for residential development. Alpharidge did not have
any investments in real estate as of and for the years ended
December 31, 2019.
Biopharmaceutical
Investments
Our specialty
biopharmaceutical investment portfolio is focused on building
portfolio of viable biopharmaceutical businesses and operations
with interests on commercializing novel products that address
significant patient needs. The Company invests mainly in
research-based biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and
commercializes medicines in the areas of unmet medical needs in the
United States, Europe, and internationally. Once we have
accumulated or built sufficient biotechnology assets under
management, we to become vertically integrated biopharmaceutical
holdings with operational capacity to turnaround distressed biotech
companies, such as those that failed 2nd and 3rd phase of clinical
trials. We intend to build upon a cost-conscious financial
model designed to control/reduce cost, streamline operations,
manage and improve the fortunes of distressed / failed biopharma
businesses on lean budget. The company makes concentrated direct
investments in these distressed biopharma businesses through the
public market as well as through the private market
channels.
Event-Driven Investments
Operations
The Company also engages in
opportunistic private equity activities and event-driven investment
management operation that invests in equities, warrants, bonds and
options of public and private companies in America and across the
globe.
Opportunistic private equity
activities:Our private equity
primarily focuses on local businesses and real estate:
(1) Private Equity.
We intend to
pursue private equity transactions across the United States
including leveraged buyout acquisitions of companies and assets,
funding of viable start-up businesses in established industries,
transactions involving turnarounds, minority investments, and
partnerships and joint-ventures in viable industries; and
(2) Real Estate.
We intend to
make investments in lodging, urban office buildings, residential
properties, distribution and warehousing centers and a variety of
real estate assets and operating businesses. Our planned real
estate operation will have a macro approach, diversified across a
variety of sectors and geographic locations.
We identify and acquire
businesses which fit our investment/acquisition criteria, then
restructure the businesses or improve their operations and sell
them for profit or hold them for cash flow. We intend
to acquire and operate small-to-middle market businesses,
properties and assets in select industries and communities or
“emerging domestic markets” for direct acquisitions or investments
in equity or debt. We will seek to acquire controlling
interests in businesses that we believe operate in industries with
long-term macroeconomic growth opportunities, and that have
positive and stable earnings and cash flows, face minimal threats
of technological or competitive obsolescence and have strong
management teams largely in place. We believe that private company
operators and corporate parents looking to sell their businesses
will consider us an attractive purchaser of their businesses. We
will also seek to acquire under-managed or under-performing
businesses that we believe can be improved under the guidance of
our management team and the management teams of the businesses that
we will acquire in the future. We expect to improve our businesses
over the long term through organic growth opportunities, add-on
acquisitions and operational improvements.
We plan to utilize our
community-centered and cost-management business process model to
grow our capital base and achieve a long-term growth. We intend to
operate a multi-stage investment approach with emphasis on running
acquired businesses more efficiently, giving employees more
conducive and friendly workplace and adding value to shareholders
by identifying and reducing excesses and also identifying and
executing growth strategies in companies we control. The
company intends buy entire or controlling stake in companies with
undervalued businesses, restructure the businesses, and sell the
same for profit or hold it for cash flow.
Event-Driven
Investments: We
keep no less than 10% of our total assets in liquid investments
portfolio. This portfolio is actively managed by our
directors and officers and invest primarily in equity investments
on a long and short basis. Our Investments platform is
intended to provide us greater levels of liquidity and current
income.
Hedge
Fund. We intend to
seed proprietary trading entities and person to capitalize on
real-time market anomalies and generate ongoing income in the forms
similar to hedge funds operation. Where necessary, we would
create bona-fide hedge funds to operate on behalf of the
company. These entities and persons so seeded would pursue
real-market transactions in publicly traded securities including
but not limited to stocks, bonds, options, futures, forex,
warrants, and other instruments.
GiveMePower
Corporation is Not an Investment
Company Under the 1940 Act
Our investments and
proprietary activities is incidental to our cash management policy,
which requires that we actively invest our excess cash into stocks,
bonds and other securities through a proprietary trading account
established with one of the major stock
brokerages.
If above trading activity is
our primary business plan, we would be deemed to be an Investment
Company. A person will generally be deemed to be an "investment
company" for purposes of the 1940 Act if:
• it is or holds itself out
as being engaged primarily, or proposes to engage primarily, in the
business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities;
or
• absent an applicable
exemption, it owns or proposes to acquire investment securities
having a value exceeding 40% of the value of its total assets
(exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an
unconsolidated basis.
We believe that we will be
engaged primarily in the business of acquiring businesses and
investing in businesses with the intent to gain control of the
investee in other to implement our turnaround business-process
improvement on the acquired business. We do not primarily
intend to engage in the business of investing, reinvesting or
trading in securities. We also believe that the primary source of
income from each of our business platform will be properly
characterized as income earned from net revenue of in exchange for
the provision of services. We intend to hold ourselves out as a
business acquirer and do not propose to engage primarily in the
business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities.
Accordingly, we do not believe that GiveMePower is, or following
this offering will be, an "orthodox" investment company as defined
in section 3(a)(1)(A) of the 1940 Act and described in the
first bullet point above. Furthermore, we do not believe
GiveMePower is, or following this offering will be, an
inadvertent investment company by virtue of the 40% test in
section 3(a)(1)(C) of the 1940 Act as described in the second
bullet point above.
The 1940 Act and the rules
thereunder contain detailed parameters for the organization and
operation of investment companies. Among other things, the 1940 Act
and the rules thereunder limit or prohibit transactions with
affiliates, impose limitations on the issuance of debt and equity
securities, generally prohibit the issuance of options and impose
certain governance requirements. We intend to conduct our
operations so that GiveMePower will not be deemed to be
an investment company under the 1940 Act. If anything were to
happen which would cause GiveMePower to be deemed to be an
investment company under the 1940 Act, requirements imposed by the
1940 Act, including limitations on our capital structure, ability
to transact business with other businesses and ability to
compensate key employees, could make it impractical for us to
continue our business as currently conducted, or any combination
thereof, and materially adversely affect our business, financial
condition and results of operations. In addition, we may be
required to limit the amount of investments that we make as a
principal or otherwise conduct our business in a manner that does
not subject us to the registration and other requirements of the
1940 Act.
Our plan to continue as a
going concern is to reach the point where we are generating
sufficient revenue from our operations to meet our obligations on a
timely basis.
In general, GiveMePower
Corporation focuses on the acquisition of undervalued biotechnology
companies especially those that failed 2nd and
3rd phase of clinical trials, where time, capital and
sound strategy can rescue a business
and restore value, preserving jobs in America and around the world
while simultaneously providing demonstrated returns to investors.
GiveMePower Corporation believes that making money and making the
world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts. The firm
offers a unique approach that combines innovative financial models,
restructuring techniques and the operational expertise necessary to
rebuild businesses facing complex problematic
circumstances.
Challenging conditions often
mean the need to improve operations from the ground up; the
situations require equal concentration and adeptness between
financial engineering and operational execution. GiveMePower
Corporation is focused on running businesses more efficiently,
giving employees conducive and friendly workplace and adding value
to shareholders by reducing operational excesses by eliminating
inefficient use of resource; and identifying and executing growth
strategies in companies it controls. Thus, the company
rescues, restructures and breathes new life into biotechnology
companies left for dead. The company buys entire or
controlling stake in companies with undervalued businesses/assets,
transform the businesses and sell the same for profit or hold it
for long term.
Our plan for operation is to
reach the point where we are generating sufficient revenue from our
acquired businesses to meet our obligations on a timely basis. In
the early stages of our operations, we will keep costs to a
minimum, and we intend to continue
our proprietary trading.
While we are waiting to
raise adequate capital to finance our business plan, we intend to
continue operating a consulting and advisory services business with
plans to acquire small to medium size businesses in a variety of
industries. Through our structure, we plan to offer investors an
opportunity to participate in the ownership and growth of a
portfolio of businesses that traditionally have been owned and
managed by private equity firms, private individuals or families,
financial institutions or large conglomerates. We believe that our
management and acquisition strategies will allow us to achieve our
goals of creating sustainable earnings growth for our shareholders
and increasing shareholder value over time through investments in
assets, projects and businesses build healthy communities where
every-day Americans live and work.
We are a small company with
limited resources, capital base, and insignificant revenue from
operations, minimal assets to generate future
revenue.
Size of Our Market
Opportunity
Biopharmaceuticals are
substances that are produced using living organisms, such as
microorganisms and animal cells, and have a high-therapeutic value.
These large and complex molecular drugs are also known as biologics
and biotech drugs. The global biopharmaceuticals market accounted
for $186 billion in 2017, and is projected to reach $526 billion by
2025, registering a CAGR of 13.8% from 2018 to 2025.
The global
biopharmaceuticals market is driven by various factors, such as
increase in elderly population, surge in prevalence of chronic
diseases such as cancer and diabetes, and increase in adoption of
biopharmaceuticals globally. Furthermore, rise in strategic
collaborations among biopharmaceuticals companies is also
anticipated to supplement the growth of the biopharmaceuticals
industry.
High costs associated with
drug development and their threat of failure are factors
anticipated to restrain the growth of the global biopharmaceuticals
market. Conversely, emerging economies, such as India and China,
are anticipated to provide lucrative growth opportunities to the
key players involved for business expansion in the global
biopharmaceuticals market during the forecast period.
The global
biopharmaceuticals market is segmented based on type, application,
and region. On the basis of type, the market is divided into
monoclonal antibody, interferon, insulin, growth and coagulation
factor, erythropoietin, vaccine, hormone, and others. By
application, it is categorized into oncology, blood disorder,
metabolic disease, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease,
neurological disease, immunology, and others. Region-wise, it is
analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin
America Middle East and Africa (LAMEA).
We believe that the
financial engineering functionalities and operational management
capabilities offered by our management team position us to benefit
from this growing market. Further, as we plan to grow our team, we
believe that we may have opportunities to capitalize on the
short-term failures of several biopharmaceutical businesses to
acquire valuable assets on the cheap and then derive value by
applying our proprietary financial and operational
model.
Our Products
Currently, only one (1) of
our business lines is operational. Our investments, proprietary
trading activities and possible hedge fund services. Our investment
and trading architecture can easily extend through acquisition and
operational improvement.
Key Benefits of Our lines of
businesses
Biopharmaceutical.
We want to build a
portfolio of viable biopharmaceutical operations that commercialize
novel products that address significant patient unmet
needs.
Private
Equity. Our leveraged
buyout acquisitions of companies and assets, funding of viable
start-up businesses in established industries, transactions
involving turnarounds, minority investments, and partnerships and
joint-ventures in viable industries, would not only create new jobs
in distressed neighborhoods of the United States, but would create
wealth for our employees and investors..
Real
Estate. Our planned real
estate operation will have a macro approach, diversified across a
variety of sectors and geographic locations. This operation
will revitalize dilapidated neighborhoods and profitably redeploy
empty warehouses in distressed urban and suburban neighborhood
across the land.
Investments.
For liquidity
and cash management purposes, we intend to keep about
10%
of our total assets in
liquid investments portfolio. This portfolio will be actively
managed by our directors and officers and will invest primarily in
equity investments on a long and short basis. Our Investments
platform is intended to provide us greater levels of liquidity and
optimal cash management options.
Hedge
Fund. We intend to
seed proprietary trading entities and person to capitalize on
real-time market anomalies and generate ongoing income in the forms
similar to hedge funds operations. Where necessary, we would
create bona-fide hedge funds to operate on behalf of the
company. These entities and persons so seeded would pursue
real-market transactions across the United States including
leveraged buyout acquisitions of companies and assets, funding of
viable start-up businesses in established industries, transactions
involving turnarounds, minority investments, and partnerships and
joint-ventures in viable industries.
Our Growth
Strategy
Strategy
Strategically, the company
intends to be a pragmatic acquirer/investor that acquires companies
with high growth/significant profitability prospects and strong
cash flow characteristics but lacked the necessary expertise and
skill-sets to position the company for growth and significant
profitability. GiveMePower Corporation focuses on sectors and
businesses in which it can implement changes and execute agendas
effectively within a given time period. Major targets include
Wholesale, distribution, retail, medical, automotive, energy,
power, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, real estate,
telecommunications, emerging technology, and media
businesses.
Our process involves the
identification, performance of due diligence, negotiation and
consummation of acquisitions. After acquiring a company we will
attempt to grow the company both organically and through add-on or
bolt-on acquisitions. Add-on or bolt-on acquisitions are
acquisitions by a company of other companies in the same industry. Following
the acquisition of companies, we will seek to grow the earnings and
cash flow of acquired companies and, in turn, grow distributions to
our shareholders and to increase shareholder value. We believe we
can increase the cash flows of our businesses by applying our
intellectual capital to continually improve and grow our future
businesses.
We will seek to acquire and
manage small to middle market businesses, which we generally
characterize as those that generate annual cash flow of up to $10
million. We believe that the merger and acquisition market for
small to middle market businesses is highly fragmented and provides
opportunities to purchase businesses at attractive prices. We also
believe that significant opportunities exist to improve the
performance and augment the management teams of these businesses
upon their acquisition. We will rely on the expertise of our
management team to identify opportunities and acquire entire or
controlling interest in companies with high growth/significant
profitability prospects and strong cash flow characteristics but
lacked the necessary financial and operational expertise and
skill-sets to realize their full potentials. The targets will
be dynamic businesses in their respective industries with very good
EBDITA and strong operation, but just needed the right financial
tune-up and composite restructuring to run better operatively and
at optimal significant profitability. The company intends to
apply its optimized cost management/control program to
acquired/controlled companies, to realize leaner and more efficient
operation and better significant profitability.
Our Management
Strategy
Our edge is the ability to
leverage the expertise of our key managers in cost control, process
improvement, and synergetic collaboration across businesses and
industries to create value, improve margins, and optimize overall
performance of acquired companies. GiveMePower Corporation adopts a
conservative approach to acquisitions and investment; it normally
considers companies that sell close to or below their industry
average multiples for investment or acquisition.
GiveMePower Corporation also seeks and acquires assets and
businesses that help it achieve vertical integration in its
industry.
We will build a team
talented in synchronizing optimized business processes across
industries and disciplines from target identification, due
diligence, through portfolio company restructuring, resulting in
better resources allocation and cash-flow, higher significant
profitability, and superior returns to shareholders and
investors. In general, our officers will oversee and
support the management team of our acquired businesses by, among
other things:
-
recruiting and retaining
talented managers to operate our future businesses by using
structured incentive compensation programs, including minority
equity ownership, tailored to each business;
-
regularly monitoring
financial and operational performance, instilling consistent
financial discipline, and supporting management in the development
and implementation of information systems to effectively achieve
these goals;
-
assisting management of our
businesses in their analysis and pursuit of prudent organic growth
strategies;
-
identifying and working with
management to execute on attractive external growth and acquisition
opportunities;
-
identifying and executing
operational improvements and integration opportunities that will
lead to lower operating costs and operational
optimization;
-
providing the management
teams of our future businesses the opportunity to leverage our
experience and expertise to develop and implement business and
operational strategies; and
-
forming strong subsidiary
level boards of directors to supplement management in their
development and implementation of strategic goals and
objectives.
We believe that our
long-term perspective provides us with certain additional
advantages, including the ability to:
-
recruit and develop talented
management teams for our future businesses that are familiar with
the industries in which our future businesses operate and will
generally seek to manage and operate our future businesses with a
long-term focus, rather than a short-term investment
objective;
-
focus on developing and
implementing business and operational strategies to build and
sustain shareholder value over the long term;
-
create sector-specific
businesses enabling us to take advantage of vertical and horizontal
acquisition opportunities within a given sector;
-
achieve exposure in certain
industries in order to create opportunities for future
acquisitions; and
-
develop and maintain
long-term collaborative relationships with customers and
suppliers.
We intend to continually
increase our intellectual capital as we operate our businesses and
acquire new businesses and as our management team identify and
recruit qualified employees for our businesses.
Acquisition
Strategy
In general, GiveMePower
Corporation will focuses on the acquisition of undervalued
companies where time, capital and sound strategy can rescue a
business and restore value, preserving jobs in America and around
the world while simultaneously providing demonstrated returns to
investors. GiveMePower Corporation believes that making money and
making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive
concepts. The firm offers a unique approach that combines
innovative financial models, restructuring techniques and the
operational expertise necessary to rebuild businesses facing
complex problematic circumstances.
We use conservative approach
to acquisitions and investment. We consider companies that
sell at close or below their book values. Our acquisition
strategies involve the acquisition of businesses in various
industries that we expect will produce positive and stable earnings
and cash flow, as well as achieve attractive returns on our
investment. In so doing, we expect to benefit from our management
team’s ability to identify diverse acquisition opportunities in a
variety of industries, perform diligence on and value such target
businesses, and negotiate the ultimate acquisition of those
businesses. We believe our Chief Executive Officer has relevant
experience in managing small to middle market businesses. We also
believe that based on his experience and qualifications, our Chief
Executive Officer will be able both to access a wide network of
sources of potential acquisition opportunities and to successfully
navigate a variety of complex situations surrounding acquisitions,
including corporate spin-offs, transitions of family-owned
businesses, management buy-outs and reorganizations. In addition,
we intend to pursue acquisitions of under-managed or
under-performing businesses that, we believe, can be improved
pursuant to our management strategy.
We believe that the merger
and acquisition market for small to middle market businesses is
highly fragmented and provides opportunities to purchase businesses
at attractive prices relative to larger market transactions.
We intend to generate sustainable returns to our investors on
investments while at the same time helping to rebuild communities
across the United States. To achieve this goal we intend to
implement a platform similar to a vertically integrated distressed
private equity company with in-house operational turnaround
expertise capable of managing and transforming the fortunes of
distressed companies we intend to acquire.
In addition to acquiring
businesses, we expect to also sell businesses that we own from time
to time when attractive opportunities arise. Our decision to sell a
business will be based on our belief that the return on the
investment to our shareholders that would be realized by means of
such a sale is more favorable than the returns that may be realized
through continued ownership. Our acquisition and disposition of
businesses will be consistent with the guidelines to be established
by our company’s board of directors from time to time.
Provided we can raise
additional funds, in the future, we intend to expand the geographic
footprint of our business to include states outside
California.
Competition
Our business is highly
competitive. We are in direct competition
with more established
private equity firms,
private investors and management
companies. Many
management companies offer similar products and services for
business rollups and consolidations. We may be at a
substantial disadvantage to our competitors who have more capital
than we do to carry out acquisition, operations and restructuring
efforts. These competitors may have competitive advantages,
such as greater name recognition, larger capital-base, marketing,
research and acquisition resources, access to larger customer bases
and channel partners, a longer operating history and lower labor
and development costs, which may enable them to respond more
quickly to new or emerging opportunities and changes in customer
requirements or devote greater resources to the development,
acquisition and promotion.
Increased competition could
result in us failing to attract significant capital or maintaining
them. If we are unable to compete successfully against
current and future competitors, our business and financial
condition may be harmed.
We hope to maintain our
competitive advantage by keeping abreast of market dynamism that is
face by our industry, and by utilizing the experience, knowledge,
and expertise of our management team. Moreover,
we believe that we
distinguish ourselves in the ways our model envisaged
transformation of businesses.
Government
Regulation
Our activities currently are
subject to no particular regulation by governmental agencies other
than that routinely imposed on corporate
businesses. However, we may be subject to the
rules governing acquisition and disposition of businesses, real
estates and personal properties in each of the state where we have
our operations. We may also be subject to various state laws
designed to protect buyers and sellers of
businesses. We cannot predict the impact of future
regulations on either us or our business model.
Intellectual
Property
We currently have no
patents, trademarks or other registered intellectual
property. We do not consider the grant of patents,
trademarks or other registered intellectual property essential to
the success of our business.
Employees
We do not have a W-2
employee at the present. Frank Ikechukwu Igwealor, our
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, is
our only full-time staff as of December 31, 2019, pending when we
could formalize an employment contract for him. In
addition to Mr. Igwealor, we have three part-time unpaid staff who
helps with bookkeeping and administrative chores. Most of our
part-time staff, officers, and directors will devote their time as
needed to our business and are expect to devote at least 15 hours
per week to our business operations. We plan on formalizing
employment contract for those staff currently helping us without
pay. Furthermore, in the immediate future, we intend to use
independent contractors and consultants to assist in many aspects
of our business on an as needed basis pending financial resources
being available. We may use independent contractors and consultants
once we receive sufficient funding to hire additional employees.
Even then, we will principally rely on independent contractors for
substantially all of our technical and marketing needs.
The Company has no written
employment contract or agreement with any person. Currently, we are
not actively seeking additional employees or engaging any
consultants through a formal written agreement or contract.
Services are provided on an as-needed basis to date. This may
change in the event that we are able to secure financing through
equity or loans to the Company. As our company grows, we
expect to hire more full-time employees.
We are subject to those
financial risks generally associated with development stage
enterprises. Since we have sustained losses since inception, we
will require financing to fund our development activities and to
support our operations and will independently seek additional
financing. However, we may be unable to obtain such financing. We
are also subject to risk factors specific to our business strategy
and the private equity industry.
In addition to the other
information provided in this annual report, you should carefully
consider the following risk factors in evaluating our business
before purchasing any of our common stock. All material risks are
discussed in this section.
Risks Relating to Our
Business and Industry
1.
We are a small company with
limited history and we may not be able to manage our future
businesses on a profitable basis.
As the result of the
transaction consummated on December 31, 2019, Alpharidge Capital
LLC became the Company’s wholly owned operating subsidiary and the
business of Alpharidge Capital LLC became the Company’s sole
business operations. Our management team will manage the
day-to-day operations and affairs of our company and oversee the
management and operations of our future businesses, subject to the
oversight of our board of directors. If we do not develop effective
systems and procedures, including accounting and financial
reporting systems, to manage our operations as a consolidated
public company, we may not be able to manage the combined
enterprise on a profitable basis, which could adversely affect our
ability to pay distributions to our shareholders.
2.
We will require additional
funds in the future to achieve our current business strategy and
our inability to obtain funding will cause our business to
fail.
We will need to raise
additional funds through public or private debt or equity sales in
order to fund our future operations and fulfill contractual
obligations in the future. These financings may not be available
when needed. Even if these financings are available, it may be on
terms that we deem unacceptable or are materially adverse to your
interests with respect to dilution of book value, dividend
preferences, liquidation preferences, or other terms. Our inability
to obtain financing would have an adverse effect on our ability to
implement our current business plan and develop our products, and
as a result, could require us to diminish or suspend our operations
and possibly cease our existence.
Even if we are successful in
raising capital in the future, we will likely need to raise
additional capital to continue and/or expand our operations. If we
do not raise the additional capital, the value of any investment in
our Company may become worthless. In the event we do not raise
additional capital from conventional sources, it is likely that we
may need to scale back or curtail implementing our business
plan.
3.
If we fail to develop and
commercialize new products or expand the indications for existing
products, our prospects for future revenues and our results of
operations may be adversely affected.
The success of our
biopharmaceutical business depends on our ability to introduce new
products as well as expand the indications for our existing
products to address areas of unmet medical need. The launch of
commercially successful products is necessary to cover our
substantial R&D expenses and to offset revenue losses when our
existing products lose market share due to various factors such as
competition and loss of patent exclusivity, as well as to provide
for the growth of our business. There are many difficulties and
uncertainties inherent in drug development and the introduction of
new products. The product development cycle is characterized by
significant investments of resources, long lead times and
unpredictable outcomes due to the nature of developing medicines
for human use. We expend significant time and resources on our
product pipeline without any assurance that we will recoup our
investments or that our efforts will be commercially successful. A
high rate of failure is inherent in the discovery and development
of new products, and failure can occur at any point in the process,
including late in the process after substantial investment. For
example, see “We face risks in our clinical trials, including
the potential for unfavorable
results, delays in anticipated timelines and disruption, which may
adversely affect our prospects for future revenue growth and our
results of operations.” We cannot state with certainty when or
whether any of our product candidates under development will be
approved or launched; whether we will be able to develop, license
or acquire additional product candidates or products; or whether
any products, once launched, will be commercially successful.
Failure to launch commercially successful new products or new
indications for existing products could have a material adverse
effect on our future revenues, results of operations and long-term
success.
4.
We may in the future
engage in, business acquisitions, licensing arrangements,
collaborations, disposals of our assets and other strategic
transactions, which could cause us to incur significant expenses
and could adversely affect our financial condition and results of
operations.
We may in the future engage
in, business acquisitions, licensing arrangements, collaborations,
disposals of our assets and other transactions, as part of our
business strategy. We may not identify suitable transactions in the
future and, if we do, we may not complete such transactions in a
timely manner, on a cost-effective basis, or at all, and may not
realize the expected benefits. For example, if we are successful in
making an acquisition, the products and technologies that are
acquired may not be successful or may require significantly greater
resources and investments than originally anticipated. We also may
not be able to integrate acquisitions successfully into our
existing business and could incur or assume significant debt and
unknown or contingent liabilities.
5.
We have reported limited
revenue and net profits, and there can be no assurance that we will
ever generate significant revenue or net income.
We have limited operating
history upon which an evaluation of our future prospects can be
made. For the year ended December 31, 2019, we have reported net
profit of $6,188. Our prospects of generating significant
revenue and becoming a profitable company must be considered in
light of the substantial risks, expenses and difficulties
encountered by new entrants into the mergers, acquisition and
turnaround industry. No assurance can be given that we
will have significant net income in future periods or
ever generate significant revenue. Our ability to
achieve and maintain significant profitability and positive cash
flow is highly dependent upon a number of factors, including our
ability to secure adequate financing for our acquisitions and
investments, identify attractive targets, attract managerial
talents and produce effective business-turnaround models for the
businesses we acquire. Based upon current plans, we expect to incur
operating losses in future periods as we incur expenses associated
with our business. Further, we cannot guarantee that we will be
successful in realizing revenues or in achieving or sustaining
positive cash flow at any time in the future. Any such failure
could result in the possible closure of our business or force us to
seek additional capital through loans or additional sales of our
equity securities to continue business operations, which would
dilute the value of the outstanding shares of our common
stock.
6.
We have little or limited
operating history and relatively new business model in an emerging
and rapidly evolving market. This makes it difficult to evaluate
our future prospects and may increase the risk of your
investment.
You must consider our
business and prospects in light of the risks and difficulties we
will encounter as a small company in a new and rapidly evolving
market. We may not be able to successfully address these risks and
difficulties, which could materially harm our business and
operating results.
7.
Difficult market conditions
can adversely affect our business in many ways, including by
reducing the value or performance of the investments, reducing the
ability of the portfolio companies we acquire to raise or deploy
capital and reducing the volume of the transactions involving
acquisitions, restructuring and turnaround, each of which could
materially reduce our revenue and cash flow and adversely affect
our financial condition.
Our business will be
materially affected by conditions in the global financial markets
and economic conditions throughout the world that are outside our
control, such as interest rates, availability of credit, inflation
rates, economic uncertainty, changes in laws (including laws
relating to taxation), trade barriers, commodity prices, currency
exchange rates and controls and national and international
political circumstances (including wars, terrorist acts or security
operations). These factors may affect the level and volatility of
securities prices and the liquidity and the value of investments,
and we may not be able to or may choose not to manage our exposure
to these market conditions. In the event of a market downturn, each
of our businesses could be affected in different ways. Our
significant profitability may also be adversely affected by our
fixed costs and the possibility that we
would be unable to scale back other costs within a time frame
sufficient to match any decreases in revenue relating to changes in
market and economic conditions.
Our investment activities
may be affected by reduced opportunities to exit and realize value
from businesses and by the fact that we may not be able to find
suitable investments for our officers to effectively deploy
capital, which could adversely affect our ability to raise new
funds. During periods of difficult market conditions or slowdowns
in a particular sector, companies in which we invest may experience
decreased revenues, financial losses, difficulty in obtaining
access to financing and increased funding costs. During such
periods, these companies may also have difficulty in expanding
their businesses and operations and be unable to meet their debt
service obligations or other expenses as they become due, including
expenses payable to us. In addition, during periods of adverse
economic conditions, we may have difficulty accessing financial
markets, which could make it more difficult or impossible for us to
obtain funding for additional investments and harm our investments,
assets and operating results. A general market downturn, or a
specific market dislocation, may result in lower return on
investment, which would adversely affect our revenues. Furthermore,
such conditions would also increase the risk of default with
respect to our mezzanine debt investments.
8.
Additional capital, if
needed, may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all, and
any additional financing may be on terms adverse to your
interests.
We will need
additional cash to fund our operations on an ongoing
basis. Our capital needs will depend on numerous
factors, including market conditions and our significant
profitability. We cannot be certain that we will be able to obtain
additional financing on favorable terms, if at all. If additional
financing is not available when required or is not available on
acceptable terms, we may be unable to fund acquisitions,
investments, take advantage of business opportunities, or respond
to competitive pressures or unanticipated requirements, any of
which could seriously harm our business and reduce the value of
your investment.
If we are able to
raise additional funds, if and when needed, by issuing additional
equity securities, you may experience significant dilution of your
ownership interest and holders of these new securities may have
rights senior to yours as a holder of our common stock. If we
obtain additional financing by issuing debt securities, the terms
of those securities could restrict or prevent us from declaring
dividends and could limit our flexibility in making business
decisions. In this case, the value of your investment could be
reduced.
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9.
Having only two directors
limits our ability to establish effective independent corporate
governance procedures.
We have only two directors
who also serve as the Company’s officers. Accordingly, we cannot
establish board committees comprised of independent members to
oversee functions like compensation or audit issues. In addition, a
vote of the board members is decided in favor of our president,
which gives him significant control over all corporate
issues.
Until we have a larger board
of directors that would include some independent members, if ever,
there will be limited oversight of our president’s decisions and
activities and little ability for minority shareholders to
challenge or reverse those activities and decisions, even if they
are not in the best interests of minority shareholders.
10.
Our officers and directors
have relevant, but limited experience in the mergers, acquisition
and turnaround industry, which could prevent us from successfully
implementing our business plan, and impede our ability to earn
revenue.
Our officers and director
relevant, but limited practical experience in the biopharmaceutical
industry, mergers, acquisition and business turnaround; they have
worked alongside others in a team environment to successfully
manage other businesses, mergers, acquisition and turnaround
opportunities. Our managements’ limited experience could hinder
their ability to successfully develop strategies that will result
in successful operation, or to secure acquisition/investment
financing. It is likely that our management's limited experience
with mergers, acquisition, turnaround and financing could hinder
our ability to earn significant revenue. Each potential investor
must carefully consider the limited experience of our officers and
director before purchasing our common stock.
11.
Key management personnel may
leave us, which could adversely affect our ability to continue
operations.
Our future success depends
in a large part upon the continued service of key members of our
senior management team. In particular, we are entirely dependent on
the efforts of Frank Igwealor, our president and chief executive
officer and Managing Director. The loss of our officers and
President and CEO, or of other key personnel hired in the future,
could have a material adverse effect on the business and its
prospects. We believe that we have made all commercially reasonable
efforts to minimize the risks attendant with the departure by key
personnel and we plan to continue these efforts in the future.
There is currently no employment contract by and between any
office/director and us. Also, there is no guarantee that
replacement personnel, if any, will help us to operate profitably.
Mr. Igwealor has been, and continues to expect to be able to commit
approximately 15 hours per week of his time, to the development of
our business plan in the next six months. If he is required to
spend additional time with his outside employment, he may not have
sufficient time to devote to us and we would be unable to develop
our business plan resulting in business failure.
We do not maintain key
person life insurance on our officers and President and
CEO. The loss of any of our management or key personnel could
seriously harm our business.
12.
Our future success is
dependent on our employees and the management team of our target
businesses, the loss of any of whom could materially adversely
affect our financial condition, business and results of
operations.
The future success of our
businesses also depends on the respective management teams of those
businesses because we intend to operate our businesses on a
holding-company-subsidiary basis, each subsidiary being run by
independently, primarily relying on their existing management teams
for management of our businesses’ day-to-day operations.
Consequently, their operational success, as well as the success of
any organic growth strategy, will be dependent on the continuing
efforts of the management teams of our future businesses. We will
seek to provide these individuals with equity incentives in our
company and to have employment agreements with certain persons we
have identified as key to their businesses. However, these measures
may not prevent these individuals from leaving their employment.
The loss of services of one or more of these individuals may
materially adversely affect our financial condition, business and
results of operations.
In addition, we may have
difficulty effectively integrating and managing future
acquisitions. The management or improvement of businesses we
acquire may be hindered by a number of factors, including
limitations in the standards, controls, procedures and policies
implemented in connection with such acquisitions. Further, the
management of an acquired business may involve a substantial
reorganization of the business’ operations resulting in the loss of
employees and customers or the disruption of our ongoing
businesses. We may experience greater than expected costs or
difficulties relating to an acquisition, in which case, we might
not achieve the anticipated returns from any particular
acquisition.
13.
If we are unable to retain
or motivate key personnel or hire qualified personnel, we may not
be able to grow effectively.
Our future performance is
largely dependent on the talents and efforts of highly skilled
individuals. Our future success depends on our ability to identify,
hire, develop, motivate and retain highly skilled personnel for all
areas of our organization. Competition in our industry for
qualified employees is intense, and we are aware that our
competitors will directly target our employees. Our ability to
compete effectively depends on our ability to attract new employees
and to retain and motivate our existing employees.
We intend to develop and
maintain a rigorous, highly selective and time-consuming hiring
process. We believe that our planned approach to hiring will
significantly contribute to our future success. As we execute our
business plan, our hiring process may prevent us from hiring the
personnel we need in a timely manner. If we do not succeed in
attracting excellent personnel or retaining or motivating existing
personnel, we may be unable to operate effectively.
14.
If we are unable to provide
future officers with sufficient equity interests in our business to
the same extent or with the same tax consequences as our existing
officer, we may not be able to retain or motivate key personnel or
hire qualified personnel.
Our most important asset is
our people, and our success will be highly dependent upon the
efforts of our officers, directors and other professionals. Our
future success and growth will depend to a substantial degree on
our ability to retain and motivate our
officers, senior managers and other key personnel and to
strategically recruit, retain and motivate new talented personnel,
including new officers.
We might not be able to
provide future officers with sufficient equity interests in our
business to the same extent or with the same tax consequences as
our existing officers. Therefore, in order to recruit and retain
existing and future officers, we may need to increase the level of
compensation that we pay to them. Accordingly, as we promote or
hire new officers over time, we may increase the level of
compensation we pay to our officers, which would cause our total
employee compensation and benefits expense as a percentage of our
total revenue to increase and adversely affect our significant
profitability. In addition, issuance of equity interests in our
business to future officers would dilute existing public
shareholders’ stake.
We plan to maintain a work
environment that reinforces our culture of collaboration,
motivation and alignment of interests with investors. The effects
of becoming public, including potential changes in our compensation
structure, could adversely affect this culture. If we do not
continue to develop and implement the right processes and tools to
manage our changing enterprise and maintain this culture, our
ability to compete successfully and achieve our business objectives
could be impaired, which could negatively impact our business,
financial condition and results of operations.
15.
Because we intend to make
equity awards to our employees on an ongoing basis, these equity
awards to employees will be dilutive to the book value of
investors’ shares of our common stock.
We intend to make equity
awards to all of our employees on an ongoing basis as an incentive
to unlock the talents and dedication of all of our employees to
contribute to our success. These ongoing equity awards
to employees will be dilutive to the book value of investors’
shares of our common stock. These equity awards will surely
result in dilution to investors. “Dilution” represents the
difference between the selling price of the shares of our common
stock and the net book value per share of common stock. "Net book
value" is the amount that results from subtracting total
liabilities from total assets.
16.
Compliance with changing
regulation of corporate governance and public disclosure may result
in additional expenses.
Changing laws, regulations
and standards relating to corporate governance and public
disclosure, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, new SEC
regulations and Finra rules, are creating uncertainty for companies
such as ours. These new or changed laws, regulations and standards
are subject to varying interpretations in many cases due to their
lack of specificity, and as a result, their application in practice
may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and
governing bodies, which could result in continuing uncertainty
regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by
ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We are
committed to maintaining high standards of corporate governance and
public disclosure. As a result, we intend to invest resources to
comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this
investment may result in increased general and administrative
expenses and a diversion of management time and attention from
revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If our
efforts to comply with new or changed laws, regulations and
standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or
governing bodies due to ambiguities related to practice, our
reputation may be harmed.
17.
Failure to achieve and
maintain effective internal controls in accordance with Section 404
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 could prevent us from producing
reliable financial reports or identifying fraud. In
addition, current and potential stockholders could lose confidence
in our financial reporting, which could have an adverse effect on
our stock price.
Effective internal controls
are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and
effectively prevent fraud, and a lack of effective controls could
preclude us from accomplishing these critical
functions. We are required to document and test
our internal control procedures in order to satisfy the
requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
which requires annual management assessments of the effectiveness
of an issuer’s internal controls over financial
reporting. Responsibility for all accounting
issues at present rest with Mr. Igwealor, our President, Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, which may be deemed
to be inadequate. Although we intend to augment
our internal controls procedures and expand our accounting staff,
there is no guarantee that this effort will be adequate.
During the course of our
testing, we may identify deficiencies which we may not be able to
remediate. In addition, if we fail to maintain the
adequacy of our internal accounting controls, as such standards are
modified, supplemented or amended from time to time, we may not be
able to ensure that we can conclude on an ongoing basis that we
have effective internal controls over financial reporting in
accordance with Section 404. Failure to achieve
and maintain an effective internal control environment could cause
us to face regulatory action and also cause investors to lose
confidence in our reported financial information.
18.
If we are unable to obtain
additional funding our business operation will be harmed; and if we
do obtain additional funding, our then existing shareholders may
suffer substantial dilution.
We have limited financial
resources. As of December 31, 2019, we had $500 of cash on hand. If
we are unable to develop our business or secure additional funds
our business would fail and our shares may be worthless. We may
seek to obtain debt financing as well. There is no assurance that
we will not incur debt in the future, that we will have sufficient
funds to repay any indebtedness, or that we will not default on our
debt obligations, jeopardizing our business viability. Furthermore,
we may not be able to borrow or raise additional capital in the
future to meet our needs, or to otherwise provide the capital
necessary to conduct our business. There can be no assurance that
financing will be available in amounts or on terms acceptable to
us, if at all. The inability to obtain additional capital will
restrict our ability to grow and may reduce our ability to continue
to conduct business operations. If we are unable to obtain
additional financing, we will likely be required to curtail our
business plans and possibly cease our operations. Any additional
equity financing may involve substantial dilution to our then
existing shareholders.
19.
In the future we may seek
additional financing through the sale of our common stock resulting
in dilution to existing shareholders.
The most likely source of
future financing presently available to us is through the sale of
shares of our common stock. Any sale of common stock will
result in dilution of equity ownership to existing shareholders.
This means that, if we sell shares of our common stock, more shares
will be outstanding and each existing shareholder will own a
smaller percentage of the shares then outstanding, which will
result in a reduction in the value of an existing shareholder’s
interest. To raise additional capital we may have to issue
additional shares, which may substantially dilute the interests of
existing shareholders. Alternatively, we may have to borrow large
sums, and assume debt obligations that require us to make
substantial interest and capital payments.
We cannot guarantee we will
be successful in generating revenue in the future or be successful
in raising funds through the sale of shares to pay for our business
plan and expenditures. As of the date of this registration
statement of which this prospectus is a part, we have not earned
any revenue. Failure to generate revenue will cause us to go out of
business, which will result in the complete loss of your
investment.
20.
Our use of leverage to
finance our business will expose us to substantial risks, which are
exacerbated by our use of leverage to finance
investments.
It is our intention to
eventually use a significant amount of borrowings to finance our
business operations as a public company. That will expose us
to the typical risks associated with the use of substantial
leverage, including those discussed below under. These risks are
exacerbated by our use of leverage to finance acquisitions and
investments. Our use of substantial leverage as a public company,
coupled with the leverage to be used by many of our portfolio
businesses to finance operations and investments, could also stop
us obtaining a decent credit ratings from the rating agencies,
which might well result in an increase in our borrowing costs and
could otherwise adversely affect our business in a material
way.
21.
Dependence on significant
leverage in investments by our funds could adversely affect our
ability to achieve attractive rates of return on those
investments.
Because many of the private
equity and real estate investments we intend to make would rely
heavily on the use of leverage, our ability to achieve attractive
rates of return on investments will depend on our ability to access
sufficient sources of indebtedness at attractive rates. For
example, in many private equity investments, indebtedness may
constitute 70% or more of a portfolio company's or real estate
asset's total debt and equity capitalization, including debt that
may be incurred in connection with the investment. An increase in
either the general levels of interest rates or in the risk spread
demanded by sources of indebtedness would make it more expensive to
finance those investments. Increases in interest rates could also
make it more difficult to locate and consummate private equity
investments because other potential buyers, including
operating companies acting
as strategic buyers, may be able to bid for an asset at a higher
price due to a lower overall cost of capital. In addition, a
portion of the indebtedness used to finance private equity
investments often includes high-yield debt securities issued in the
capital markets. Availability of capital from the high-yield debt
markets is subject to significant volatility, and there may be
times when we might not be able to access those markets at
attractive rates, or at all, when completing an
investment.
Ownership or investments in
highly leveraged entities are inherently more sensitive to declines
in revenues, increases in expenses and interest rates and adverse
economic, market and industry developments. The incurrence of a
significant amount of indebtedness by an entity could, among other
things:
·
give rise to an obligation
to make mandatory prepayments of debt using excess cash flow, which
might limit the entity's ability to respond to changing industry
conditions to the extent additional cash is needed for the
response, to make unplanned but necessary capital expenditures or
to take advantage of growth opportunities;
·
limit the entity's ability
to adjust to changing market conditions, thereby placing it at a
competitive disadvantage compared to its competitors who have
relatively less debt;
·
limit the entity's ability
to engage in strategic acquisitions that might be necessary to
generate attractive returns or further growth; and
·
limit the entity's ability
to obtain additional financing or increase the cost of obtaining
such financing, including for capital expenditures, working capital
or general corporate purposes.
As a result, the risk of
loss associated with a leveraged entity is generally greater than
for companies with comparatively less debt.
The mezzanine finance
component of our business plan may choose to use leverage as part
of its investment programs and regularly borrow a substantial
amount of the capital. The use of leverage poses a significant
degree of risk and enhances the possibility of a significant loss
in the value of the portfolio. We may borrow money from time
to time to purchase or carry businesses, properties or securities.
The interest expense and other costs incurred in connection with
such borrowing may not be recovered by appreciation in the
businesses, properties or securities purchased or carried, and will
be lost—and the timing and magnitude of such losses may be
accelerated or exacerbated—in the event of a decline in the market
value of such securities. Gains realized with borrowed funds may
cause our enterprise value to increase at a faster rate than would
be the case without borrowings. However, if investment results fail
to cover the cost of borrowings, our enterprise value could also
decrease faster than if there had been no borrowings.
Any of the foregoing
circumstances could have a material adverse effect on our financial
condition, results of operations and cash flow.
22.
The due diligence process
that we undertake in connection with investments may not reveal all
facts that may be relevant in connection with that
investment.
Before we acquire any
business or make private equity and other investments, we intend to
conduct due diligence that is deem reasonable and appropriate based
on the facts and circumstances applicable to each investment. When
conducting due diligence, we may be required to evaluate important
and complex business, financial, tax, accounting, environmental and
legal issues. Outside consultants, legal advisors, accountants and
investment banks may be involved in the due diligence process in
varying degrees depending on the type of investment. Nevertheless,
when conducting due diligence and making an assessment regarding an
investment, we rely on the resources available to us, including
information provided by the target of the investment and, in some
circumstances, third-party investigations. The due diligence
investigation that we will carry out with respect to any investment
opportunity may not reveal or highlight all relevant facts that may
be necessary or helpful in evaluating such investment opportunity.
Moreover, such an investigation will not necessarily result in the
investment being successful.
23.
We face competition for
businesses that fit our acquisition strategy and, therefore, we may
have to acquire targets at sub-optimal prices or, alternatively,
forego certain acquisition opportunities.
We have been formed to
acquire and manage small to middle market businesses. In pursuing
such acquisitions, we expect to face strong competition from a wide
range of other potential purchasers. Although the pool of potential
purchasers for such businesses is
typically smaller than for larger businesses, those potential
purchasers can be aggressive in their approach to acquiring such
businesses. Furthermore, we expect that we may need to use
third-party financing in order to fund some or all of these
potential acquisitions, thereby increasing our acquisition costs.
To the extent that other potential purchasers do not need to obtain
third-party financing or are able to obtain such financing on more
favorable terms, they may be in a position to be more aggressive
with their acquisition proposals. As a result, in order to be
competitive, our acquisition proposals may need to be aggressively
priced, including at price levels that exceed what we originally
determined to be fair or appropriate in order to remain
competitive. Alternatively, we may determine that we cannot pursue
on a cost effective basis what would otherwise be an attractive
acquisition opportunity.
24.
We may not be able to
successfully fund future acquisitions of new businesses due to the
unavailability of debt or equity financing on acceptable terms,
which could impede the implementation of our acquisition
strategy.
In order to make future
acquisitions, we intend to raise capital primarily through debt
financing at our company level, additional equity offerings, the
sale of equity or assets of our businesses, offering equity in our
company or our businesses to the sellers of target businesses or by
undertaking a combination of any of the above. Because the timing
and size of acquisitions cannot be readily predicted, we may need
to be able to obtain funding on short notice to benefit fully from
attractive acquisition opportunities. Such funding may not be
available on acceptable terms. In addition, the level of our
indebtedness may impact our ability to borrow at our company level.
The sale of additional common shares will also be subject to market
conditions and investor demand for the common shares at prices that
may not be in the best interest of our shareholders. These risks
may materially adversely affect our ability to pursue our
acquisition strategy.
25.
We may change our management
and acquisition strategies without the consent of our shareholders,
which may result in a determination by us to pursue riskier
business activities.
We may change our strategy
at any time without the consent of our shareholders, which may
result in our acquiring businesses or assets that are different
from, and possibly riskier than, the strategy described in this
prospectus. A change in our strategy may increase our exposure to
interest rate and currency fluctuations, subject us to regulation
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which we
refer to as the Investment Company Act, or subject us to other
risks and uncertainties that affect our operations and significant
profitability.
26.
Our community-empowerment
and job-creation projects involves investments in relatively
high-risk, illiquid assets, and we may fail to realize any profits
from these activities for a considerable period of time or lose
some or all of our principal investments.
We intend to make most of
our community-empowerment and job-creating investments in private
businesses whose securities are not publicly traded. In many cases,
these investments may remain illiquid for a period of time. We will
generally not be able to easily exit from such investment until the
investee’s securities are registered under applicable securities
laws, or unless an exemption from such registration is available.
Our ability, particularly our private equity operation’s, to
dispose of investments will be heavily dependent on the public
equity markets. Even when investee’s securities are publicly
traded, large holdings of securities can often be disposed of only
over a substantial length of time, exposing the investment returns
to risks of downward movement in market prices during the intended
disposition period. Accordingly, under certain conditions, we may
be forced to either sell securities at lower prices than we would
have expected to realize or defer—potentially for a considerable
period of time—sales that we had planned to make. We intend to make
significant principal investments in our community-empowerment and
job-creation projects. Contributing capital to these investments is
risky, and we may lose some or the entire principal amount of our
investments.
27.
Our community-empowerment
and job-creation projects may sometimes make investments in
companies that we do not control.
Our community-empowerment
and job-creating investments will often include debt instruments
and equity securities of companies that we do not control. We may
acquire such instruments and securities primarily through purchases
of securities from the issuer. In addition, we may dispose of a
portion of our majority equity stake in portfolio
community-empowerment and job-creation businesses over time in a
manner that results in GiveMePower Corporation retaining a minority
investment. Those investments will be subject to the risk that the
company in which the investment is made may make business,
financial or management decisions with which we do not agree or
that the majority stakeholders or the management of the
company may take risks or otherwise
act in a manner that does not serve our community-empowerment and
job-creation interests. If any of the foregoing were to occur, we
may be forced to liquidate our investments prematurely and our
financial condition, results of operations and cash flow could
suffer as a result.
28.
In the future, we will seek
to enter into a credit facility to help fund our acquisition
capital and working capital needs. This credit facility may expose
us to additional risks associated with leverage and may inhibit our
operating flexibility and reduce cash flow available for
distributions to our shareholders.
Following the identification
of a platform acquisition, we will seek to enter into a credit
facility with a third party lender. Our proposed third-party credit
facility will likely require us to pay a commitment fee on the
undrawn amount. Our proposed third-party credit facility will
contain a number of affirmative and restrictive
covenants.
If we violate any such
covenants, our lender could accelerate the maturity of any debt
outstanding and we may be prohibited from making any distributions
to our shareholders. Such debt may be secured by our assets,
including the stock we may own in businesses that we may acquire in
the future and the rights we have under intercompany loan
agreements that we may enter into in the future with our
businesses. Our ability to meet our debt service obligations may be
affected by events beyond our control and will depend primarily
upon cash produced by businesses that we may acquire in the future
and distributed or paid to our company. Any failure to comply with
the terms of our indebtedness may have a material adverse effect on
our financial condition.
29.
System failures could harm
our business.
Our systems may be
vulnerable to damage or interruption from earthquakes, terrorist
attacks, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunication failures,
computer viruses, computer denial of service attacks or other
attempts to harm our system, and similar events. Some of our data
centers may be located in areas with a high risk of major
earthquakes. Our data centers are also subject to break-ins,
sabotage and intentional acts of vandalism, and to potential
disruptions if the operators of these facilities have financial
difficulties. Some of our systems are not fully redundant, and our
disaster recovery planning cannot account for all eventualities.
The occurrence of a natural disaster, a decision to close a
facility we are using without adequate notice for financial reasons
or other unanticipated problems at our data centers could result in
lengthy interruptions in our service. Any damage to or failure of
systems could result in interruptions in our service. Interruptions
in our service could reduce our revenues and profits, and our brand
could be damaged if people believe our system is
unreliable.
30.
Operational risks may
disrupt our businesses, result in losses or limit our
growth.
We may rely heavily on our
financial, accounting and other data processing systems. If any of
these systems do not operate properly or are disabled, we could
suffer financial loss, a disruption of our businesses, liability to
our investment funds, regulatory intervention or reputational
damage.
In addition, we plan to
operate in businesses that are highly dependent on information
systems and technology. Our information systems and technology may
not continue to be able to accommodate our growth, and the cost of
maintaining such systems may increase from its current level. Such
a failure to accommodate growth, or an increase in costs related to
such information systems, could have a material adverse effect on
us.
Finally, we may rely on
third-party service providers for certain aspects of our business,
including for certain information systems and technology and
administration of our hedge funds. Any interruption or
deterioration in the performance of these third parties or failures
of their information systems and technology could impair the
quality of the funds' operations and could impact our reputation
and hence adversely affect our businesses.
31.
Acquisitions could result in
operating difficulties, dilution and other harmful
consequences.
Our business plan is
significantly dependent upon acquisitions of other businesses,
assets, and properties. We do not have a great deal of
experience acquiring companies. We have evaluated, and expect to
continue to evaluate, a wide array of potential strategic
transactions. From time to time, we may engage in discussions
regarding potential acquisitions. Any of these transactions could
be material to our financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, the process of integrating an acquired company,
business or technology may create unforeseen operating difficulties
and expenditures and is risky. The areas where we may face risks
include:
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The need to implement or
remediate controls, procedures and policies appropriate for a
larger public company at companies that prior to the acquisition
lacked these controls, procedures and policies.
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Diversion of management time
and focus from operating our business to acquisition integration
challenges.
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Cultural challenges
associated with integrating employees from the acquired company
into our organization.
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Retaining employees from the
businesses we acquire.
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The need to integrate each
company’s accounting, management information, human resource and
other administrative systems to permit effective
management.
Foreign acquisitions involve
unique risks in addition to those mentioned above, including those
related to integration of operations across different cultures and
languages, currency risks and the particular economic, political
and regulatory risks associated with specific countries. Also, the
anticipated benefit of many of our acquisitions may not
materialize. Future acquisitions or dispositions could result in
potentially dilutive issuances of our equity securities, the
incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities or amortization
expenses, or write-offs of goodwill, any of which could harm our
financial condition. Future acquisitions may require us to obtain
additional equity or debt financing, which may not be available on
favorable terms or at all.
32.
Our real estate
investments/operations will be subject to the risks inherent in the
ownership and operation of real estate and the construction and
development of real estate.
Our planned investments in
real estate will be subject to the risks inherent in the ownership
and operation of real estate and real estate-related businesses and
assets. These risks include those associated with the burdens of
ownership of real property, general and local economic conditions,
changes in supply of and demand for competing properties in an area
(as a result for instance of overbuilding), fluctuations in the
average occupancy and room rates for hotel properties, the
financial resources of tenants, changes in building, environmental
and other laws, energy and supply shortages, various uninsured or
uninsurable risks, natural disasters, changes in government
regulations (such as rent control), changes in real property tax
rates, changes in interest rates, the reduced availability of
mortgage funds which may render the sale or refinancing of
properties difficult or impracticable, negative developments in the
economy that depress travel activity, environmental liabilities,
contingent liabilities on disposition of assets, terrorist attacks,
war and other factors that are beyond our control. In addition, if
our real estate investments/operations acquire direct or indirect
interests in undeveloped land or underdeveloped real property,
which may often be non-income producing, they will be subject to
the risks normally associated with such assets and development
activities, including risks relating to the availability and timely
receipt of zoning and other regulatory or environmental approvals,
the cost and timely completion of construction (including risks
beyond the control of our fund, such as weather or labor conditions
or material shortages) and the availability of both construction
and permanent financing on favorable terms.
33.
We may occasionally become
subject to commercial disputes that could harm our
business.
As we move ahead to execute
our business plan, we may become engaged in disputes regarding our
commercial transactions. These disputes could result in monetary
damages or other remedies that could adversely impact our financial
position or operations. Even if we prevail in these disputes, they
may distract our management from operating our business.
34.
We have to keep up with
rapid technological change to remain
competitive.
Our future success will
depend on our ability to adapt to rapidly changing technologies, to
adapt our services to evolving industry standards and to improve
the performance and reliability of our services. Our failure to
adapt to such changes would harm our business.
35.
We may be subject to
substantial litigation risks and may face significant liabilities
and damage to our professional reputation as a result of litigation
allegations and negative publicity from our type of
business.
The investment or
acquisition decisions we may make as we execute our business plan
may subject us to the risk of third-party litigation arising from
minority shareholders’ actions or investor dissatisfaction with the
activities of our business and a variety of other litigation
claims. For example, from time to time we and our portfolio
companies may be subject to class action suits by shareholders in
public companies that we might have agreed to acquire that
challenge our acquisition transactions and attempt to enjoin
them.
36.
Employee misconduct could
harm us by impairing our ability to attract and retain clients and
subjecting us to significant legal liability and reputational
harm.
There is a risk that our
employees could engage in misconduct that adversely affects our
business. We may be subject to a number of obligations and
standards arising from our acquisition, mergers and assets
turnaround management business. If one of our employees were to
engage in misconduct or were to be accused of such misconduct, our
business and our reputation could be adversely affected.
37.
We are subject to the
periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act that will
require us to incur audit fees and legal fees in connection with
the preparation of such reports. These additional costs could
reduce or eliminate our ability to earn a
profit.
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Following the effective date
of our registration statement of which this prospectus is a part,
we will be required to file periodic reports with the SEC pursuant
to the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder. In order to comply with these requirements, our
independent registered public accounting firm will have to review
our financial statements on a quarterly basis and audit our
financial statements on an annual basis. Moreover, our legal
counsel will have to review and assist in the preparation of such
reports. The costs charged by these professionals for such services
cannot be accurately predicted at this time because factors such as
the number and type of transactions that we engage in and the
complexity of our reports cannot be determined at this time and
will have a major effect on the amount of time to be spent by our
auditors and attorneys. However, the incurrence of such costs will
obviously be an expense to our operations and thus have a negative
effect on our ability to meet our overhead requirements and earn a
profit. We may be exposed to potential risks resulting from any new
requirements under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002. If we cannot provide reliable financial reports or prevent
fraud, our business and operating results could be harmed,
investors could lose confidence in our reported financial
information, and the trading price of our common stock, if a market
ever develops, could drop significantly.
38.
Our internal controls may be
inadequate, which could cause our financial reporting to be
unreliable and lead to misinformation being disseminated to the
public.
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Our management is
responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal
control over financial reporting. As defined in Exchange Act Rule
13a-15(f), internal control over financial reporting is a process
designed by, or under the supervision of, the principal executive
and principal financial officer and effected by the board of
directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
includes those policies and procedures that:
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pertain to the maintenance
of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect
the transactions and dispositions of our assets;
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provide reasonable assurance
that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation
of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are
being made only in accordance with authorizations of management
and/or our directors; and
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provide reasonable assurance
regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a
material effect on the financial statements.
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We will rely on the use of
outside professionals to assist us in maintaining our internal
controls. With growth or unmanageable increases in our business
plan objectives, our internal controls may be inadequate or
ineffective, which could cause our financial reporting to be
unreliable and lead to misinformation being disseminated to the
public. Investors
relying upon this misinformation may make an uninformed investment
decision with regards to an investment in our common
stock.
In order to mitigate the
risks associated with maintaining internal controls if and when the
Company grows, we will engage qualified professionals on an
independent contractor basis to assist in reviewing and recording
transactions. When and if finances permit, we will hire an
experienced financial professional to oversee our reporting and
control functions.
Failure to achieve and
maintain an effective internal control environment could cause us
to face regulatory action and also cause investors to lose
confidence in our reported financial information, either of which
could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business,
financial condition, results of operations and future
prospects.
However, our auditors will
not be required to formally attest to the effectiveness of our
internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404
until we are no longer an “emerging growth company” as defined in
the JOBS Act if we take advantage of the exemptions available to us
through the JOBS Act.
39.
If GiveMePower Corporation,
Inc. were deemed an "investment company" under the 1940 Act,
applicable restrictions could make it impractical for us to
continue our business as contemplated and could have a material
adverse effect on our business.
A person will generally be
deemed to be an "investment company" for purposes of the 1940 Act
if:
• it is or holds itself out
as being engaged primarily, or proposes to engage primarily, in the
business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities;
or
• absent an applicable
exemption, it owns or proposes to acquire investment securities
having a value exceeding 40% of the value of its total assets
(exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an
unconsolidated basis.
We believe that we will be
engaged primarily in the business of acquiring businesses and
investing in businesses with the intent to gain control of the
investee in other to implement our turnaround business-process
improvement on the target business. We do not intend to
engage in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in
securities. We also believe that the primary source of income from
each of our business platform will be properly characterized as
income earned in exchange for the provision of services. We intend
to hold ourselves out as a business acquirer and do not propose to
engage primarily in the business of investing, reinvesting or
trading in securities. Accordingly, we do not believe that
GiveMePower Corporation, Inc. is, or will be, an "orthodox"
investment company as defined in section 3(a)(1)(A) of the
1940 Act and described in the first bullet point above.
Furthermore, we do not believe GiveMePower Corporation, Inc.
is, or will be, an inadvertent investment company by virtue
of the 40% test in section 3(a)(1)(C) of the 1940 Act as
described in the second bullet point above.
The 1940 Act and the rules
thereunder contain detailed parameters for the organization and
operation of investment companies. Among other things, the 1940 Act
and the rules thereunder limit or prohibit transactions with
affiliates, impose limitations on the issuance of debt and equity
securities, generally prohibit the issuance of options and impose
certain governance requirements. We intend to conduct our
operations so that GiveMePower Corporation, Inc. will not be
deemed to be an investment company under the 1940 Act. If anything
were to happen which would cause GiveMePower Corporation, Inc. to
be deemed to be an investment company under the 1940 Act,
requirements imposed by the 1940 Act, including limitations on our
capital structure, ability to transact business with other
businesses and ability to compensate key employees, could make it
impractical for us to continue our business as currently conducted,
or any combination thereof, and materially adversely affect our
business, financial condition and results of operations. In
addition, we may be required to limit the amount of investments
that we make as a principal or otherwise conduct our business in a
manner that does not subject us to the registration and other
requirements of the 1940 Act.
40.
Our non-controlling
investments will in most cases rank junior to investments made by
others.
In most cases, the companies
in which we invest without acquiring controlling stakes, will have
indebtedness or equity securities, or may be permitted to incur
indebtedness or to issue equity securities, that rank senior to our
investment. By their terms, such instruments may provide that their
holders are entitled to receive payments of dividends, interest or
principal on or before the dates on which payments are to be made
in respect of our investment. Also, in the event of insolvency,
liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or bankruptcy of a company
in which an investment is made, holders of securities ranking
senior to our investment would typically be entitled to receive
payment in full before distributions could be made in respect of
our investment. After repaying senior security holders, the company
may not have any remaining assets to use for repaying amounts owed
in respect of our investment. To the extent that any assets remain,
holders of claims that rank equally with our investment would be
entitled to share on an equal and ratable basis in distributions
that are made out of those assets. Also, during periods of
financial distress or following insolvency, our ability to
influence a company's affairs and to take actions to protect our
investments may be substantially less than that of the senior
creditors.
41.
Risk management activities
may adversely affect the return on our
investments.
When managing our exposure
to market risks, we may from time to time use forward contracts,
options, swaps, caps, collars and floors or pursue other strategies
or use other forms of derivative instruments to limit our exposure
to changes in the relative values of investments that may result
from market developments, including changes in prevailing interest
rates, currency exchange rates and commodity prices. The success of
any hedging or other derivative transactions generally will depend
on our ability to correctly predict market changes, the degree of
correlation between price movements of a derivative instrument, the
position being hedged, the creditworthiness of the counterparty,
and other factors. As a result, while we may enter into a
transaction in order to reduce our exposure to market risks, the
transaction may result in poorer overall financial performance than
if it had not been executed. Such transactions may also limit the
opportunity for gain if the value of a hedged position
increases.
42.
Valuation methodologies for
certain assets we in our portfolio can be subject to significant
subjectivity and the values of assets established pursuant to such
methodologies may never be realized, which could result in
significant losses for our funds.
There are no readily
ascertainable market prices for a very large number of illiquid
investments of our private equity, real estate and mezzanine
operations. We intend to determine the value of the investments of
each of our private equity, real estate and mezzanine operations on
a periodic basis based on the fair value of such investments. The
fair value of investments of a private equity, real estate or
mezzanine debt will be determined using a number of methodologies
described in the investments' valuation policies. We intend to make
valuation determinations historically without the assistance of an
independent valuation firm, although an independent valuation firm
may participate in valuation determinations in the
future.
There is no single standard
for determining fair value in good faith and, in many cases, fair
value is best expressed as a range of fair values from which a
single estimate may be derived. The types of factors that may be
considered when applying fair value pricing to an investment in a
particular company include the historical and projected financial
data for the company, valuations given to comparable companies, the
size and scope of the company's operations, the strengths and
weaknesses of the company, expectations relating to investors'
demand for an offering of the company's securities, the size of our
investment in the portfolio company and any control associated
therewith, information with respect to transactions or offers for
the portfolio company's securities (including the transaction
pursuant to which the investment was made and the period of time
that has elapsed from the date of the investment to the valuation
date), applicable restrictions on transfer, industry information
and assumptions, general economic and market conditions, the nature
and realizable value of any collateral or credit support and other
relevant factors. Fair values may be established using a market
multiple approach that is based on a specific financial measure
(such as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and
amortization, or "EBITDA," adjusted EBITDA, cash flow, net income,
revenues or net asset value) or, in some cases, a cost basis or a
discounted cash flow or liquidation analysis.
In addition, we determine
the fair value of a number of our investments based on a variety of
valuation methodologies. Because valuations, and in particular
valuations of investments for which market quotations are not
readily available, are inherently uncertain, may fluctuate over
short periods of time and may be based on estimates, determinations
of fair value may differ materially from the values that would have
resulted if a ready market had existed. Even if market quotations
are available for our portfolio businesses, such quotations may not
reflect the value that we would actually be able to realize because
of various factors, including the possible illiquidity associated
with a large ownership position or legal restrictions on transfer.
In addition, because many of the illiquid investments will be in
industries or companies which are cyclical, undergoing some
uncertainty or distress or otherwise subject to volatility, such
investments are subject to rapid changes in value caused by sudden
company-specific or industry-wide developments.
Because there is significant
uncertainty in the valuation of, or in the stability of the value
of illiquid investments, the fair values of such investments as
reflected in our asset value do not necessarily reflect the prices
that would actually be obtained by us when such investments are
realized. Changes in values attributed to investments from quarter
to quarter may result in volatility in our enterprise value and
results of operations that we report from period to period. Also, a
situation where asset values turn out to be materially different
than values reflected in prior business values could cause
investors to lose confidence in us, which would in turn result in
difficulty in raising additional funds.
Risks Related to Our Common
Stock
1.
An active
trading market may not develop in the future.
The market price of our
common stock is highly volatile and is subject to wide fluctuations
in response to factors such as actual or anticipated changes in
operating results, changes in financial estimates by
securities analysts, new products or services introduced by
the company or our competitors, conditions and trends in the
software markets, general market conditions and other factors.
Historically, the trading volume of our stock has been low, which
may amplify changes in our stock price especially if a significant
amount of our stock is sold. Our stock trades on the OTC Pink
Sheet, which may make if more difficult for investors to trade our
stock, or to obtain accurate quotations for the market value of our
stock as compared to stock which trades on larger
exchanges.
2.
An active trading market may
not develop in the future.
An active trading market may
not develop or, if developed, may not be
sustained. The lack of an active market may impair
your ability to sell your shares of common stock at the time you
wish to sell them or at a price that you consider
reasonable. The lack of an active market may also
reduce the market value and increase the volatility of your shares
of common stock. An inactive market may also
impair our ability to raise capital by selling shares of common
stock and may impair our ability to acquire other companies or
assets by using shares of our common stock as
consideration.
3.
Our Common Stock is subject
to the “Penny Stock” rules of the SEC and trading market in our
securities is limited, which makes transactions in our stock
cumbersome and may reduce the value of an investment in our
stock.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission has adopted Rule 15g-9 which establishes the definition
of a "penny stock," for the purposes relevant to us, as any equity
security that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share or
with an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to
certain exceptions. For any transaction involving a penny stock,
unless exempt, the rules require:
o
that a broker or dealer
approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks;
and
o
the broker or dealer receive
from the investor a written agreement to the transaction, setting
forth the identity and quantity of the penny stock to be
purchased.
o
In order to approve a
person's account for transactions in penny stocks, the broker or
dealer must:
o
obtain financial information
and investment experience objectives of the person; and
o
make a reasonable
determination that the transactions in penny stocks are suitable
for that person and the person has sufficient knowledge and
experience in financial matters to be capable of evaluating the
risks of transactions in penny stocks.
o
The broker or dealer must
also deliver, prior to any transaction in a penny stock, a
disclosure schedule prescribed by the Commission relating to the
penny stock market, which, in highlight form:
o
sets forth the basis on
which the broker or dealer made the suitability determination;
and
o
that the broker or dealer
received a signed, written agreement from the investor prior to the
transaction.
Generally, brokers may be
less willing to execute transactions in securities subject to the
"penny stock" rules. This may make it more difficult for investors
to dispose of our common stock and cause a decline in the market
value of our stock.
Disclosure also has to be
made about the risks of investing in penny stocks in both public
offerings and in secondary trading and about the commissions
payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered
representative, current quotations for the securities and the
rights and remedies available to an investor in cases of fraud in
penny stock transactions. Finally, monthly statements have to be
sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held
in the account and information on the limited market in penny
stocks.
4.
Because our Chief Executive
Officer owns a controlling interest in our company, he controls our
company and is able to designate our directors and officers and
control all major decisions and corporate actions and so long as
our Chief Executive Officer retains ownership of a majority of our
voting shares you will not be able to elect any directors or have a
meaningful say in any major decisions or corporate actions which
could decrease the price and marketability of our
shares.
Our Chief Executive Officer
owns preferred shares of our common stock constituting
approximately 60% of our voting shares. As a result our Chief
Executive Officer is able to elect all of our directors, appoint
all of our officers, control the shareholder vote on any major
decision or corporate action and control our operations. Our Chief
Executive Officer can unilaterally decide major corporate actions
such as mergers, acquisitions, future securities offerings,
amendments to our operating agreement and other significant company
events. Our Chief Executive Officer’s unilateral control over us
could decrease the price and marketability of our common
shares.
5.
Finra sales practice
requirements may limit a stockholder’s ability to buy and sell our
stock.
The Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority, or Finra, has adopted rules that require that
in recommending an investment to a customer, a broker/dealer must
have reasonable grounds for believing that the investment is
suitable for that customer. Prior to recommending speculative
low-priced securities (commonly referred to as penny stock) to
their non-institutional customers, broker/dealers must make
reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer’s
financial status, tax status, investment objectives and other
information. Under interpretations of these rules,
Finra believes that there is a high probability that speculative
low-priced securities will not be suitable for at least some
customers. Finra requirements will make it more
difficult for broker/dealers to recommend that their customers buy
our common stock when traded, which may have the effect of reducing
the level of trading activity and liquidity of our common stock in
the future. Further, many brokers charge higher
fees for these speculative low-priced securities transactions. As a
result, fewer broker/dealers may be willing to make a market in our
common stock, reducing a stockholder’s ability to resell shares of
our common stock.
6.
The costs of being a public
company could result in us being unable to continue
operation.
As a public company, we will
have to comply with numerous financial reporting and legal
requirements, including those pertaining to audits and internal
control. The costs of this compliance could be significant.
The costs of maintaining the
public company requirements could be significant and may preclude
us from seeking financing or equity investment on acceptable terms.
We estimate these costs will range up to $150,000 per year and may
be higher if our business volume and activity ever increases. Our
estimate of costs do not include the necessary compliance,
documentation and reporting requirements for Section 404 as we will
not be subject to the full reporting requirements of Section 404
until we exceed $75 million in market capitalization if we decide
to opt-out of the “emerging growth company” as defined in the JOBS
Act to take advantage of the exemptions available to us through the
JOBS Act or we have been public for more than five
years. If our revenues are
insufficient, and/or we cannot satisfy many of these costs through
the issuance of our shares, we may be unable to satisfy these costs
in the normal course of business that would result in our being
unable to continue operation.
7.
We may not be able to raise
sufficient financing or resources to acquire and manage the three
retail businesses that we have identified and determined to fit our
investment/acquisition criteria.
We may not be able to raise
sufficient financing or resources to acquire and manage the three
aftermarket auto parts retail businesses that we have determined to
fit our investment/acquisition criteria. We currently have no
commitments for any funds. If we are unable to raise sufficient
financing or resources to acquire and manage even one of the
aftermarket auto parts retail businesses or other targets, our
business will fail and investors could lose their entire
investment.
8.
Shareholders may be diluted
significantly through our efforts to obtain financing and satisfy
obligations through issuance of additional shares of our common
stock.
We have no committed source
of financing. Wherever possible, our board of directors will
attempt to use non-cash consideration to satisfy obligations. In
many instances, we believe that the non-cash consideration will
consist of restricted shares of our common stock. Our board of
directors has authority, without action or vote of the
shareholders, to issue all or part of the authorized (50,000,000)
shares but unissued (21,275,313) shares. If a trading market
develops for our common stock, we may attempt to
raise capital by selling shares of our common stock, possibly at a
discount to market. These actions will certainly result in dilution
of the ownership interests of existing shareholders, further dilute
common stock book value, and that this dilution may be
material.
9.
The interests of
shareholders may be hurt because we can issue shares of our common
stock to individuals or entities that support existing management
with such issuances serving to enhance existing management’s
ability to maintain control of our company.
Our board of directors has
authority, without action or vote of the shareholders, to issue all
or part of the authorized but unissued common shares. Such
issuances may be issued to parties or entities committed to
supporting existing management and the interests of existing
management which may not be the same as the interests of other
shareholders. Our ability to issue shares without shareholder
approval serves to enhance existing management’s ability to
maintain control of our company.
10.
Participation is subject to
risks of investing in micro capitalization
companies.
We believe that certain
micro capitalization companies have significant potential for
growth, although such companies generally have limited product
lines, markets, market shares and financial resources. The
securities of such companies, if traded in the public market, may
trade less frequently and in more limited volume than those of more
established companies. Additionally, in recent years, the stock
market has experienced a high degree of price and volume volatility
for the securities of micro capitalization companies. In
particular, micro capitalization companies that trade in the
over-the-counter markets have experienced wide price fluctuations
not necessarily related to the operating performance of such
companies.
11.
Currently, there is no
established public market for our securities, and there can be no
assurances that any established public market will ever develop or
that our common stock will be quoted for trading and, even if
quoted, it is likely to be subject to significant price
fluctuations.
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Prior to the date of this
prospectus, there has not been any established trading market for
our common stock, and there is currently no established public
market whatsoever for our securities. We have not entered into any
agreement with a market maker to file an application with FINRA on
our behalf so as to be able to quote the shares of our common stock
on the OTCBB maintained by FINRA commencing upon the effectiveness
of our registration statement. There can be no assurance that we
will subsequently identify an market maker and, to the extent that
we identify one, enter into an agreement with it to file an
application with FINRA or that the market maker’s application will
be accepted by FINRA. We cannot estimate the time period that the
application will require for FINRA to approve it. We are not
permitted to file such application on our own behalf. If the
application is accepted, there can be no assurances as to
whether:
(i)
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any market for our shares
will develop;
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(ii)
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the prices at which our
common stock will trade; or
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(iii)
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the extent to which investor
interest in us will lead to the development of an active, liquid
trading market. Active trading markets generally result in lower
price volatility and more efficient execution of buy and sell
orders for investors.
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If we are able to have our
shares of common stock quoted on the OTCBB, we will then try,
through a broker-dealer and its clearing firm, to become eligible
with the Depository Trust Company ("DTC") to permit our shares to
trade electronically. If an issuer is not “DTC-eligible,” then its
shares cannot be electronically transferred between brokerage
accounts, which, based on the realities of the marketplace as it
exists today (especially the OTCBB), means that shares of a company
will not be traded (technically the shares can be traded manually
between accounts, but this takes days and is not a realistic option
for companies relying on broker dealers for stock transactions -
like all companies on the OTCBB. What this boils down to is that
while DTC-eligibility is not a requirement to trade on the OTCBB),
it is a necessity to process trades on the OTCBB if a company’s
stock is going to trade with any volume. There are no assurances
that our shares will ever become DTC-eligible or, if they do, how
long it will take.
In addition, our common
stock is unlikely to be followed by any market analysts, and there
may be few institutions acting as market makers for our common
stock. Either of these factors could adversely affect the liquidity
and trading price of our common stock. Until our common stock is
fully distributed and an orderly market develops in our common
stock, if ever, the price at which
it trades is likely to fluctuate significantly. Prices for our
common stock will be determined in the marketplace and may be
influenced by many factors, including the depth and liquidity of
the market for shares of our common stock, developments affecting
our business, including the impact of the factors referred to
elsewhere in these Risk Factors, investor perception of us and
general economic and market conditions. No assurances can be given
that an orderly or liquid market will ever develop for the shares
of our common stock.
Because of the anticipated
low price of the securities being registered, many brokerage firms
may not be willing to effect transactions in these securities.
Purchasers of our securities should be aware that any market that
develops in our stock would be subject to the penny stock
restrictions. See “Plan of Distribution” and “Risk
Factors.”
12.
Trading in shares of
our common stock is subject to the penny stock regulations and
restrictions pertaining to low priced stocks that will create a
lack of liquidity and make trading difficult or
impossible.
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The trading of shares of our
common stocks occurs on the over-the-counter market, which is
commonly referred to as the OTC market as maintained by FINRA. As a
result, an investor may find it difficult to dispose of, or to
obtain accurate quotations as to the price of our
securities.
Rule 3a51-1 of the Exchange
Act establishes the definition of a "penny stock," for purposes
relevant to us, as any equity security that has a minimum bid price
of less than $4.00 per share or with an exercise price of less than
$4.00 per share, subject to a limited number of exceptions that are
not available to us. It is likely that our shares will be
considered to be penny stocks for the immediately foreseeable
future. This classification severely and adversely affects any
market liquidity for our common stock.
For any transaction
involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the penny stock rules
require that a broker or dealer approve a person's account for
transactions in penny stocks and the broker or dealer receive from
the investor a written agreement to the transaction setting forth
the identity and quantity of the penny stock to be purchased. In
order to approve a person's account for transactions in penny
stocks, the broker or dealer must obtain financial information and
investment experience and objectives of the person and make a
reasonable determination that the transactions in penny stocks are
suitable for that person and that that person has sufficient
knowledge and experience in financial matters to be capable of
evaluating the risks of transactions in penny stocks.
The broker or dealer must
also deliver, prior to any transaction in a penny stock, a
disclosure schedule prepared by the SEC relating to the penny stock
market, which, in highlight form, sets forth:
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the basis on which the
broker or dealer made the suitability determination, and
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that the broker or dealer
received a signed, written agreement from the investor prior to the
transaction.
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Disclosure also has to be
made about the risks of investing in penny stock in both public
offerings and in secondary trading and commissions payable to both
the broker-dealer and the registered representative, current
quotations for the securities and the rights and remedies available
to an investor in cases of fraud in penny stock transactions.
Additionally, monthly statements have to be sent disclosing recent
price information for the penny stock held in the account and
information on the limited market in penny stocks.
Because of these
regulations, broker-dealers may not wish to engage in the
above-referenced necessary paperwork and disclosures and/or may
encounter difficulties in their attempt to sell shares of our
common stock, which may affect the ability of selling shareholders
or other holders to sell their shares in any secondary market and
have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in any
secondary market. These additional sales practice and disclosure
requirements could impede the sale of our securities, if and when
our securities become publicly traded. In addition, the liquidity
for our securities may decrease, with a corresponding decrease in
the price of our securities. Our shares, in all probability, will
be subject to such penny stock rules for the foreseeable future and
our shareholders will, in all likelihood, find it difficult to sell
their securities.
13.
The market for penny stocks
has experienced numerous frauds and abuses that could adversely
impact investors in our stock.
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Our management believes that
the market for penny stocks has suffered from patterns of fraud and
abuse. Such patterns include:
·
Control of the market for
the security by one or a few broker-dealers that are often related
to the promoter or issuer;
·
Manipulation of prices
through prearranged matching of purchases and sales and false and
misleading press releases;
·
"Boiler room" practices
involving high pressure sales tactics and unrealistic price
projections by sales persons;
·
Excessive and undisclosed
bid-ask differentials and markups by selling broker-dealers;
and
·
Wholesale dumping of the
same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices have
been manipulated to a desired level, along with the inevitable
collapse of those prices with consequent investor
losses.
14.
Any trading market that may
develop may be restricted by virtue of state securities “Blue Sky”
laws that prohibit trading absent compliance with individual state
laws. These restrictions may make it difficult or impossible to
sell shares in those states.
Transfer of our common stock
may also be restricted under the securities or securities
regulations laws promulgated by various states and foreign
jurisdictions, commonly referred to as “Blue Sky” laws. Absent
compliance with such individual state laws, our common stock may
not be traded in such jurisdictions. Because the securities
registered hereunder have not been registered for resale under the
blue sky laws of any state, the holders of such shares and persons
who desire to purchase them in any trading market that might
develop in the future, should be aware that there may be
significant state blue sky law restrictions upon the ability of
investors to sell the securities and of purchasers to purchase the
securities. These restrictions prohibit the secondary trading of
our common stock. We currently do not intend to and may not be able
to qualify securities for resale in at least 17 states which do not
offer manual exemptions (or may offer manual exemptions but may not
to offer one to us if we are considered to be a shell company at
the time of application) and require shares to be qualified before
they can be resold by our shareholders. Accordingly, investors
should consider the secondary market for our securities to be a
limited one. See also “Plan of Distribution-State Securities-Blue
Sky Laws.”
15.
The ability of our president
to control our business may limit or eliminate minority
shareholders’ ability to influence corporate
affairs.
Our president beneficially
controls approximately 60% of our voting stock, and our president
will be in a position to continue to elect our board of directors,
decide all matters requiring stockholder approval and determine our
policies. The interests of our president may differ from the
interests of other shareholders with respect to the issuance of
shares, business transactions with or sales to other companies,
selection of officers and directors and other business decisions.
The minority shareholders would have no way of overriding decisions
made by our president. This level of control may also have an
adverse impact on the market value of our shares because our
president may institute or undertake transactions, policies or
programs that may result in losses, may not take any steps to
increase our visibility in the financial community
and/or may sell sufficient
numbers of shares to significantly decrease our price per
share.
16.
Our bylaw provide for
indemnification of officers and directors at our expense and limit
their liability that may result in a major cost to us and hurt the
interests of our shareholders because corporate resources may be
expended for the benefit of officers and/or
directors.
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Article IV of our bylaw
provide for indemnification as follows: “The corporation shall, to
the maximum extent and in the manner permitted by the Code,
indemnify each of its directors and officers against expenses (as
defined in Section 317(a) of the Code), judgments, fines,
settlements, and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in
connection with any proceeding (as defined in Section 317(a) of the
Code), arising by reason of the fact that such person is or was an
agent of the corporation.” The Corporation is authorized to
provide indemnification of agents (as defined in Section 317 of the
Corporations Code) for breach of duty to the Corporation and its
stockholders through bylaw provisions or through agreements with
agents, or both, in excess of the indemnification otherwise
permitted by Section 317 of the Corporations Code, subject to the
limits of such excess indemnification set forth in Section 204 of
the Corporations Code.”
We have been advised that,
in the opinion of the SEC, indemnification for liabilities arising
under federal securities laws is against public policy as expressed
in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In
the event that a claim for indemnification for liabilities arising
under federal securities laws, other than the payment by us of
expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding,
is asserted by a director, officer or controlling person in
connection with our activities, we will (unless in the opinion of
our counsel, the matter has been settled by controlling precedent)
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction, the question whether
indemnification by us is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue. The legal process relating
to this matter if it were to occur is likely to be very costly and
may result in us receiving negative publicity, either of which
factors is likely to materially reduce the market and price for our
shares, if such a market ever develops.
Our board of directors has
authority, without action or vote of the shareholders, to issue all
or part of the authorized but unissued common shares.
17.
We may issue additional debt
and equity securities, which are senior to our common shares as to
distributions and in liquidation, which could materially adversely
affect the market price of our common shares.
In the future, we may
attempt to increase our capital resources by entering into
additional debt or debt-like financing that is secured by all or up
to all of our assets, or issuing debt or equity securities, which
could include issuances of commercial paper, medium-term notes,
senior notes, subordinated notes or shares. In the event of our
liquidation, our lenders and holders of our debt securities would
receive a distribution of our available assets before distributions
to our shareholders. Any preferred securities, if issued by our
company, may have a preference with respect to distributions and
upon liquidation, which could further limit our ability to make
distributions to our shareholders. Because our decision to incur
debt and issue securities in our future offerings will depend on
market conditions and other factors beyond our control, we cannot
predict or estimate the amount, timing or nature of our future
offerings and debt financing.
Further, market conditions
could require us to accept less favorable terms for the issuance of
our securities in the future. Thus, you will bear the risk of our
future offerings reducing the value of your common shares and
diluting your interest in us. In addition, we can change our
leverage strategy from time to time without approval of holders of
our common shares, which could materially adversely affect the
market share price of our common shares.
18.
We do not expect to pay cash
dividends in the foreseeable future.
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We have never paid cash
dividends on our common stock. We do not expect to pay cash
dividends on our common stock at any time in the foreseeable
future. The future payment of dividends directly depends upon our
future earnings, capital requirements, financial requirements and
other factors that our President and CEO will consider. Since we do
not anticipate paying cash dividends on our common stock, return on
your investment, if any, will depend solely on an increase, if any,
in the market value of our common stock.
19.
Investment
Risks
An investment in our common
units involves substantial risks and uncertainties. Some of the
more significant challenges and risks include those associated with
our susceptibility to conditions in the global financial markets
and global economic conditions, the volatility of our revenue, net
income and cash flow, our dependence on our founders and other key
senior managing directors and our ability to retain and motivate
our existing senior managing directors and recruit, retain and
motivate new senior managing directors in the future. See "Risk
Factors" for a discussion of the factors you should consider before
investing in our common
20.
Because we are not subject
to compliance with rules requiring the adoption of certain
corporate governance measures, our stockholders have limited
protection against interested director transactions, conflicts of
interest and similar matters.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002, as well as rule changes proposed and enacted by the SEC, the
New York and American Stock Exchanges and the Nasdaq Stock Market,
as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley, requires the implementation of
various measures relating to corporate governance. These measures
are designed to enhance the integrity of corporate management and
the securities markets and apply to securities that are listed on
those exchanges or the Nasdaq Stock Market. Because we are not
presently required to comply with many of the corporate governance
provisions and because we chose to avoid incurring the substantial
additional costs associated with such compliance any sooner than
legally required, we have not yet adopted these
measures.
Because our President and
CEO is not an independent director, we do not currently have
independent audit or compensation committees. As a result, our
President and CEO has the ability, among other things, to determine
his own level of compensation. Until we comply with such corporate
governance measures, regardless of whether such compliance
is required, the absence of
such standards of corporate governance may leave our stockholders
without protections against interested director transactions,
conflicts of interest, if any, and similar matters and investors
may be reluctant to provide us with funds necessary to expand our
operations.
We intend to comply with all
corporate governance measures relating to director independence as
and when required. However, we may find it very difficult or be
unable to attract and retain qualified officers, directors and
members of board committees required to provide for our effective
management as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The enactment
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has resulted in a series of rules
and regulations by the SEC that increase responsibilities and
liabilities of directors and executive officers. The perceived
increased personal risk associated with these recent changes may
make it more costly or deter qualified individuals from accepting
these roles.
21.
You may have limited access
to information regarding our business because our obligations to
file periodic reports with the SEC could be automatically suspended
under certain circumstances.
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As of the effective date of
our registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, we
will become subject to certain informational requirements of the
Exchange Act, as amended and we will be required to file periodic
reports (i.e., annual, quarterly and special reports) with the SEC
which will be immediately available to the public for inspection
and copying. Except during the year that our registration statement
becomes effective, these reporting obligations may (in our sole
discretion) be automatically suspended under Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act if we have less than 300 shareholders and do not file
a registration statement on Form 8A. If this occurs after the year
in which our registration statement becomes effective, we will no
longer be obligated to file periodic reports with the SEC and your
access to our business information would then be even more
restricted. After this registration statement on Form S-1 becomes
effective, we may be required to deliver periodic reports to
security holders. However, we will not be required to furnish proxy
statements to security holders and our director, officers and
principal beneficial owners will not be required to report their
beneficial ownership of securities to the SEC pursuant to Section
16 of the Exchange Act until we have both 500 or more security
holders and greater than $10 million in assets. This means that
your access to information regarding our business will be limited.
If we do not file a form 8A. We intend to file the form
8A.
22.
We will incur ongoing costs
and expenses for SEC reporting and compliance, without revenue we
may not be able to remain in compliance, making it difficult for
investors to sell their shares, if at all.
We plan to uplist our shares
to the OTCBB or QB. To be eligible for quotation on the
OTCBB, issuers must remain current in their filings with the SEC.
Market makers are not permitted to begin quotation of a security
whose issuer does not meet this filing requirement. Securities
already quoted on the OTCBB that become delinquent in their
required filings will be removed following a 30 or 60 day grace
period if they do not make their required filing during that time.
In order for us to remain in compliance we will require future
revenues to cover the cost of these filings, which could comprise a
substantial portion of our available cash resources. If we are
unable to generate sufficient revenues to remain in compliance it
may be difficult for you to resell any shares you may purchase, if
at all.
23.
An investment in our common
stock is speculative and there can be no assurance of any return on
any such investment.
An investment in our common
stock is speculative and there is no assurance that investors will
obtain any return on their investment. Investors will be subject to
substantial risks involved in an investment in our Company,
including the risk of losing their entire investment.
24.
Reports to Security
Holders
Although we are not required
to deliver our annual or quarterly reports to security holders, we
would be pleased to forward this information to security holders
upon receiving a written request to receive such information. The
reports and other information filed by us will be available for
inspection and copying at the public reference facilities of the
Securities and Exchange Commission located at 100 F Street, N.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20549.
Copies of such material may
be obtained by mail from the Public Reference Section of the
Securities and Exchange Commission at 100 F Street, N.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20549, at prescribed rates. Information on the
operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling
the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. In addition, the Commission maintains a
World Wide Website on the Internet
at: http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information
statements and other information regarding registrants that file
electronically with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Included in this annual
report are “forward-looking” statements, as well as historical
information. Although we believe that the
expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are
reasonable, we cannot assure you that the expectations reflected in
these forward-looking statements will prove to be
correct. Our actual results could differ
materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements as
a result of certain factors, including matters described in the
section titled “Risk Factors.” Forward-looking
statements include those that use forward-looking terminology, such
as the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,”
“intend,” “may,” “project,” “plan,” “will,” “shall,” “should” and
similar expressions, including when used in the
negative. Although we believe that the
expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are
reasonable and achievable, these statements involve risks and
uncertainties and no assurance can be given that actual results
will be consistent with these forward-looking
statements. Actual results may be materially
different than those described in this annual
report. Important factors that could cause our
actual results, performance or achievements to differ from these
forward-looking statements include the factors described in the
“Risk Factors” section and elsewhere in this annual
report.
All forward-looking
statements attributable to us are expressly qualified in their
entirety by these and other factors. Except as
required by federal securities laws, we undertake no obligation to
update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether to
reflect events or circumstances after the date initially filed or
published, to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or
otherwise.
ITEM
1B.
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UNRESOLVED
STAFF COMMENTS
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None
We do not own any property
as at the date of filing we have no properties. Our principal
business, executive and registered statutory office is located at
370 Amapola Ave., Suite 200A, Torrance, CA 90501 and our telephone
number is (310) 895-1839 and email contact is
invest@cbdxfund.com..
ITEM
3.
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LEGAL
PROCEEDINGS
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As of December 31, 2019, we
are not involved in any pending or threatened legal
proceedings.
ITEM
4.
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MINE
SAFETY DISCLOSURES
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Not applicable
PART II
ITEM
5.
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MARKET
FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
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Common Stock
We are authorized to issue
50,000,000 shares of common stock, with $0.001 par value per share
and 1,000,000 preferred shares, with $0.001 par value. As of
December 31, 2019, there were 1 share of preferred shares and
27,724,684 shares of common stock issued and outstanding held by
158 stockholders of record.
Market
Information
Our common stock is
currently quoted on the OTC Pink under the trading symbol “GMPW”.
Trading in stocks quoted on the OTC Pink is often thin and is
characterized by wide fluctuations in trading prices due to many
factors that may have little to do with a company’s operations or
business prospects. We cannot assure you that there will be a
market for our common stock in the future.
The market prices noted
below were obtained from the OTC market and reflect inter-dealer
prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission and may not
represent actual transactions.
For the periods
indicated, the following table sets forth the high and low bid
prices per share of common stock based on inter-dealer prices,
without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission and may not
represent actual transactions.
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Fiscal 2019
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Fiscal 2018
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High
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Low
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High
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low
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First Quarter
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$
0.0200
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$ 0.0059
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$ 0.0010
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$ 0.0005
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Second Quarter
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$
0.0059
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$ 0.0036
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$ 0.0100
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$ 0.0005
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Third Quarter
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$
0.0100
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$ 0.0060
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$ 0.0100
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$ 0.0100
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Fourth Quarter
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$
0.0200
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$ 0.0100
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$ 0.0025
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$ 0.0019
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The Company does not
have common
equity subject to outstanding options or warrants to purchase or
securities convertible into our common equity. In general, under
Rule 144, a holder of restricted common shares who is an affiliate
at the time of the sale or any time during the three months
preceding the sale can resell shares, subject to the restrictions
described below.
If we have been a public
reporting company under the Exchange Act for at least 90 days
immediately before the sale, then at least six months must have
elapsed since the shares were acquired from us or one of our
affiliates, and we must remain current in our filings for an
additional period of six months; in all other cases, at least one
year must have elapsed since the shares were acquired from us or
one of our affiliates.
The number of shares sold by
such person within any three-month period cannot exceed the greater
of:
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1% of the total number of
our common shares then outstanding; or
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The average weekly trading
volume of our common shares during the four calendar weeks
preceding the date on which notice on Form 144 with respect to the
sale is filed with the SEC (or, if Form 144 is not required to be
filed, the four calendar weeks preceding the date the selling
broker receives the sell order) This condition is not currently
available to the Company because its securities do not trade on a
recognized exchange.
Conditions relating to the
manner of sale, notice requirements (filing of Form 144 with the
SEC) and the availability of public information about us must also
be satisfied.
27,724,684 shares of our
common stock have been issued and outstanding as at December 31,
2019 and 2018. Of the amount of the outstanding shares,
18,894,381are unrestricted and free-trading. The remaining
8,830,306 of the issued shares are restricted and could only be
sold subject to the restriction.
8,830,306 of the presently
outstanding shares of our common stock are "restricted securities"
as defined under Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act and
may only be sold pursuant to an effective registration statement or
an exemption from registration, if available. The SEC has adopted
final rules amending Rule 144, which have become effective on
February 15, 2008. Pursuant to the new Rule 144, one year must
elapse from the time a “shell company,” as defined in Rule 405
of the Securities Act and Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, ceases to
be a “shell company” and files a Form 8-K addressing Item 5.06 with
such information as may be required in a Form 10 Registration
Statement with the SEC, before a restricted shareholder can resell
their holdings in reliance on Rule 144. Form 10 information is
equivalent to information that a company would be required to file
if it were registering a class of securities on Form 10 under the
Exchange Act. Under the amended Rule 144, restricted or
unrestricted securities, that were initially issued by a reporting
or non-reporting shell company or a company that was at
anytime previously a reporting or
non-reporting shell company, can only be resold in
reliance on Rule 144 if the following conditions are
met:
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the issuer of the securities
that was formerly a reporting or non-reporting shell company has
ceased to be a shell company;
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the issuer of the securities
is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act;
-
the issuer of the securities
has filed all reports and material required to be filed under
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable, during the
preceding twelve months (or shorter period that the Issuer was
required to file such reports and materials), other than Form 8-K
reports; and
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at least one year has
elapsed from the time the issuer filed the current Form 10 type
information with the SEC reflecting its status as an entity that is
not a shell company.
Current Public
Information
In general, for sales by
affiliates and non-affiliates, the satisfaction of the current
public information requirement depends on whether we are a public
reporting company under the Exchange Act:
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If we have been a public
reporting company for at least 90 days immediately before the sale,
then the current public information requirement is satisfied if we
have filed all periodic reports (other than Form 8-K) required to
be filed under the Exchange Act during the 12 months immediately
before the sale (or such shorter period as we have been required to
file those reports).
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If we have not been a public
reporting company for at least 90 days immediately before the sale,
then the requirement is satisfied if specified types of basic
information about us (including our business, management and our
financial condition and results of operations) are publicly
available.
However, no assurance can be
given as to:
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the likelihood of a market
for our common shares developing,
-
the liquidity of any such
market,
-
the ability of the
shareholders to sell the shares, or
-
the prices that shareholders
may obtain for any of the shares.
No prediction can be made as
to the effect, if any, that future sales of shares or the
availability of shares for future sale will have on the market
price prevailing from time to time. Sales of substantial amounts of
our common shares, or the perception that such sales could occur,
may adversely affect prevailing market prices of the common
shares.
Dividends
Holders of common stock are
entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be
declared by the board of directors out of our surplus. We have not
paid any dividends since our inception, and we presently anticipate
that all earnings, if any, will be retained for development of our
business. Any future disposition of dividends will be at the
discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon, among
other things, our future earnings, operating and financial
condition, capital requirements and other factors.
Preferred
Stock
We are authorized to issue
1,000,000 shares of preferred stock and we have 1 preferred stock
issued as of December 31, 2019
Securities Authorized for
Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
We do not have any
compensation plans or arrangements under which equity securities
are authorized for issuance.
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ITEM
6.
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SELECTED
FINANCIAL DATA
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Not applicable
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ITEM
7.
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MANAGEMENT’S
DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS
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Our Management’s Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
section discusses our financial statements, which have been
prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America. The preparation of these
financial statements requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and
liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the
reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
period. On an on-going basis, management evaluates its estimates
and judgments, including those related to revenue recognition,
accrued expenses, financing operations, and contingencies and
litigation. Management bases its estimates and judgments on
historical experience and on various other factors that are
believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of
which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value
of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other
sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under
different assumptions or conditions. The most significant
accounting estimates inherent in the preparation of our financial
statements include estimates as to the appropriate carrying value
of certain assets and liabilities which are not readily apparent
from other sources.
You should read the
following description of our financial condition and results of
operations in conjunction with the financial statements and
accompanying notes included in this annual report beginning on page
F-1.
This section includes a
number of forward-looking statements that reflect our current views
with respect to future events and financial
performance. Forward-looking statements are often
identified by words like “believe,” “expect,” “estimate,”
“anticipate,” “intend,” “project” and similar expressions, or words
which, by their nature, refer to future
events. You should not place undue certainty on
these forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from our predictions.
GiveMePower Corporation (the
“PubCo” or “Company”), a Nevada corporation, was incorporated on
June 7, 2001 to sell software geared to end users and developers
involved in the design, manufacture, and construction of engineered
products located in Canada and the United States. The PubCo has
been dormant and non-operating since year 2009. PubCo is a public
reporting company registered with the Securities Exchange
Commissioner (“SEC”). In November 2009, the Company filed Form 15D,
Suspension of Duty to Report, and as a result, the Company was not
required to file any SEC forms since November 2009.
On December 31, 2019, PubCo
sold one Special 2019 series A preferred share (“Series A Share”)
for $38,000 to Goldstein Franklin, Inc. (“Goldstein”), a California
corporation. One Series A Share is convertible to 100,000,000
shares of common stocks at any time. The Series A Share also
provided with 60% voting rights of the PubCo. On the same day,
Goldstein sold one-member unit of Alpharidge Capital, LLC
(“Alpharidge”), a California limited liability corporation,
representing 100% member owner of Alpharidge. As a result,
Alpharidge become a wholly owned subsidiary of PubCo as of December
31, 2019.
The transaction above will
be accounted for as a “reverse merger” and recapitalization amongst
PubCo, Goldstein, and Alpharidge since the stockholders of
Alpharidge will have the significant influence and the ability to
elect or appoint or to remove a majority of the members of the
governing body of the combined entity immediately following the
completion of the transaction, the stockholders of PubCo will have
the significant influence and the ability to elect or appoint or to
remove a majority of the members of the governing body of the
combined entity, and PubCo’s senior
management will dominate the management of the combined entity
immediately following the completion of the transaction.
Accordingly, Alpharidge will be deemed to be the accounting
acquirer in the transaction and, consequently, the transaction is
treated as a recapitalization of the PubCo. Accordingly, the assets
and liabilities and the historical operations that are reflected in
the financial statements are those of Alpharidge and are recorded
at the historical cost basis of Alpharidge. As a result, Alpharidge
is the surviving company and the financial statements presented are
historical financial accounts of Alpharidge.
Going forward, our plan is
to reach the point where we are generating sufficient revenue from
our operations to meet our obligations on a timely basis,
while we are waiting to raise
adequate capital to fully finance our business plan. To that
end, we intend to continue operating our proprietary trading
account, focusing on event-driven opportunities. Through our
structure, we plan to offer investors an opportunity to participate
in the ownership and growth of a portfolio of businesses that
traditionally have been owned and managed by private equity firms,
private individuals or families, financial institutions or large
conglomerates. We believe that our management, proprietary trading
and acquisition strategies will allow us to achieve our goals of
creating sustainable earnings growth for our shareholders and
increasing shareholder value over time through investments in
assets, projects and businesses build healthy communities where
every-day Americans live and work.
Results of
Operations
For the year ended December
31, 2019 compared with the year ended December 31,
2018
Revenue
We are generating
substantially all our revenue from our proprietary trading
operation. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the company
has revenue of $464. Compared to December 31, 2018 revenue of
$0.00
Cost of
Revenues
Our cost of revenue is
totally related to the cost of acquiring the trading
securities. Cost of related to our securities for the year
December 31, 2019 was $0.00. Compared to December 31, 2018 revenue
of $0.00
General and Administrative
Expenses
General and administrative
expense for the year was $85. General and administrative
expense consists of costs related to the establishment of corporate
governances; and costs associated with our plans and preparations
for a future potential capital raise. These expenses also include
the costs of conducting market research, attending and/or
participating in industry conferences and seminars, business
development activities, and other general business outside
consulting activities. General and administrative expense also
includes travel costs, for third-party consultants, legal and
accounting fees and other professional and administrative
costs.
We expect that general and
administrative expense will increase in the future as we add to our
personnel and expand our infrastructure to support the requirements
of being a public company.
Net Income
Net Income for the year was
$379.
Related Party
Transactions
The following individuals
and entities have been identified as related parties based on their
affiliation with our CEO and director, Frank I Igwealor:
Frank I Igwealor
Goldstein Franklin,
Inc.
The following amounts were
owed to related parties, affiliated with the CEO and Chairman of
the Board, at the dates indicated:
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31-Dec-19
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Frank I Igwealor
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$
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Goldstein Franklin
Inc
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$
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41,200
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Liquidity and Capital
Resources
As of December 31, 2019, we
had $500 cash on hand. We anticipate that our cash
position is not sufficient to fund current
operations. We have limited lending relationships
with commercial banks and are dependent upon the completion of one
or more financings or equity raises to fund our continuing
operations. We anticipate that we will seek
additional capital through debt or equity
financings. While we are aggressively pursuing
financing, there can be no assurance that we will be successful in
our capital raising efforts. Any additional equity
financing may result in substantial dilution to our
stockholders.
Since 2019, all of our
operations have been financed through advances from a company
controlled by our president and CEO. As of December 31, 2019,
the company controlled by our president and CEO has
loaned $41,200 to us, with no formal commitments or
arrangements to advance or loan any additional funds to
us in the future. We have not yet achieved significant
profitability. We expect that our general and administrative
expenses will continue to increase and, as a result, we will need
to generate significant revenues to achieve significant
profitability. We may never achieve significant
profitability.
The revenues, if any,
generated from our operations or acquisitions may not be sufficient
to fund our operations or planned growth. We will require
additional capital to continue to operate our business, and to
further expand our business. Sources of additional capital through
various financing transactions or arrangements with third parties
may include equity or debt financing, bank loans or revolving
credit facilities. We may not be successful in locating suitable
financing transactions in the time period required or at all, and
we may not obtain the capital we require by other means.
We will now be obligated to
file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC pursuant to
the Exchange Act. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
(“Sarbanes-Oxley”) and the rules subsequently implemented by the
SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board have imposed
various requirements on public companies, including requiring
changes in corporate governance practices. We expect these rules
and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance
costs and to make some activities of ours more time- consuming and
costly. In order to meet the needs to comply with the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act, we will need investment of
capital.
Management has determined
that additional capital will be required in the form of equity or
debt securities. There is no assurance that management will be able
to raise capital on terms acceptable to the Company. If we are
unable to obtain sufficient amounts of additional capital, we may
have to cease filing the required reports and cease operations
completely. If we obtain additional funds by selling any of our
equity securities or by issuing common stock to pay current or
future obligations, the percentage ownership of our shareholders
will be reduced, shareholders may experience additional dilution,
or the equity securities may have rights preferences or privileges
senior to the common stock.
Off-Balance Sheet
Arrangements
There are no off-balance
sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a
current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in
financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations,
liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are
material to investors.
Recent Accounting
Pronouncements
From time-to-time, new
accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting
Standards Board or other standard setting bodies, relating to the
treatment and recording of certain accounting transactions. Unless
otherwise discussed herein, management of the Company has
determined that these recent accounting pronouncements will not
have a material impact on the financial position or results of
operations of the Company.
Critical Accounting
Policies
Critical Accounting Policies
and Significant Judgments and Estimates
Our management’s discussion
and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations
is based on our financial statements which we have been prepared in
accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. In
preparing our financial statements, we are required to make
estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of
assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the
reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
periods.
Critical accounting
estimates are estimates for which (a) the nature of the estimate is
material due to the levels of subjectivity and judgment necessary
to account for highly uncertain matters or the susceptibility of
such matters to change and (b) the impact of the estimate on
financial condition or operating performance is
material.
These significant accounting
estimates or assumptions bear the risk of change due to the fact
that there are uncertainties attached to these estimates or
assumptions, and certain estimates or assumptions are difficult to
measure or value.
Management bases its
estimates on historical experience and on various assumptions that
are believed to be reasonable in relation to the financial
statements taken as a whole under the circumstances, the results of
which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values
of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other
sources.
Management regularly
evaluates the key factors and assumptions used to develop the
estimates utilizing currently available information, changes in
facts and circumstances, historical experience and reasonable
assumptions. After such evaluations, if deemed appropriate, those
estimates are adjusted accordingly.
Actual results could differ
from those estimates.
While our significant
accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 of our
annual financial statements included in this Annual Report, we
believe the following accounting policies to be critical to the
judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our financial
statements:
Fair Value of Financial
Instruments
The
Company utilizes ASC 820-10, Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure,
for valuing financial assets and liabilities measured on a
recurring basis. Fair value is defined as the exit price, or the
amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer
a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants
as of the measurement date. The guidance also establishes a
hierarchy for inputs used in measuring fair value that maximizes
the use of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable
inputs by requiring that the most observable inputs be used when
available. Observable inputs are inputs market participants would
use in valuing the asset or liability and are developed based on
market data obtained from sources independent of the Company.
Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the Company’s
assumptions about the factors market participants would use in
valuing the asset or liability. The guidance establishes three
levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:
Level
1. Observable inputs such as quoted prices in active
markets;
Level
2. Inputs, other than the quoted prices in active markets, that are
observable either directly or indirectly; and
Level
3. Unobservable inputs in which there is little or no market data,
which require the reporting entity to develop its own
assumptions.
Financial assets are
considered Level 3 when their fair values are determined using
pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies or similar
techniques and at least one significant model assumption or input
is unobservable.
The fair value hierarchy
gives the highest priority to quoted prices (unadjusted) in active
markets for identical assets or liabilities and the lowest priority
to unobservable inputs. If the inputs used to measure the financial
assets and liabilities fall within more than one level described
above, the categorization is based on the lowest level input that
is significant to the fair value measurement of the
instrument.
Transactions involving
related parties cannot be presumed to be carried out on an
arm’s-length basis, as the requisite conditions of competitive,
free-market dealings may not exist. Representations about
transactions with related parties, if made, shall not imply that
the related party transactions were consummated on terms equivalent
to those that prevail in arm’s-length transactions unless such
representations can be substantiated.
Stock-Based
Compensation
We measure the cost of
services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments
based on the fair value of the award. For employees and directors,
the fair value of the award is measured on the grant date and for
non-employees, the fair value of the award is generally re-measured
on vesting dates and interim financial reporting dates until the
service period is complete. The fair value amount is then
recognized over the period during which services are required to be
provided in exchange for the award, usually the vesting period.
Stock-based compensation expense is recorded by us in the same
expense classifications in the consolidated statements of
operations, as if such amounts were paid in cash.
Deferred Tax Assets and
Income Taxes Provision
The Company adopted the
provisions of paragraph 740-10-25-13 of the FASB Accounting
Standards Codification. Paragraph 740-10-25-13 which addresses the
determination of whether tax benefits claimed or expected to be
claimed on a tax return should be recorded in the financial
statements. Under paragraph 740-10-25-13, the Company may recognize
the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more
likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on
examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical
merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the
financial statements from such a position should be measured based
on the largest benefit that has a greater than fifty percent (50%)
likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. Paragraph
740-10-25-13 also provides guidance on de-recognition,
classification, interest and penalties on income taxes, accounting
in interim periods and requires increased disclosures. The Company
had no material adjustments to its liabilities for unrecognized
income tax benefits according to the provisions of paragraph
740-10-25-13.
The estimated future tax
effects of temporary differences between the tax basis of assets
and liabilities are reported in the accompanying balance sheets, as
well as tax credit carry-backs and carry-forwards. The Company
periodically reviews the recoverability of deferred tax assets
recorded on its balance sheets and provides valuation allowances as
management deems necessary.
Management makes judgments
as to the interpretation of the tax laws that might be challenged
upon an audit and cause changes to previous estimates of tax
liability. In addition, the Company operates within multiple taxing
jurisdictions and is subject to audit in these jurisdictions. In
management’s opinion, adequate provisions for income taxes have
been made for all years. If actual taxable income by tax
jurisdiction varies from estimates, additional allowances or
reversals of reserves may be necessary.
Management assumes that the
realization of the Company’s net deferred tax assets resulting from
its net operating loss (“NOL”) carry–forwards for Federal income
tax purposes that may be offset against future taxable income was
not considered more likely than not and accordingly, the potential
tax benefits of the net loss carry-forwards are offset by a full
valuation allowance. Management made this assumption based on (a)
the Company has incurred recurring losses and presently has no
revenue-producing business; (b) general economic conditions; and,
(c) its ability to raise additional funds to support its daily
operations by way of a public or private offering, among other
factors.
Seasonality
Although our operating
history is limited, we do not consider our business to be
seasonal.
Commercial Real
Property
As at December 31, 2019, the
Company has no commercial real estate.
Line of
Credit
As at December 31, 2019, we
have on our book $41,200 classified as long-term debt. This
debt is from an interest-free line of credit from a related
party.
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ITEM
7A.
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QUANTITATIVE
AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
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Not applicable
|
ITEM
8.
|
FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
|
The audited financial
statements for this annual report follow the signature page
beginning on page F-1.
|
ITEM
9.
|
CHANGES
IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL
DISCLOSURE
|
None
|
ITEM
9A.
|
CONTROLS
AND PROCEDURES
|
Conclusion Regarding the
Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Under the supervision and
with the participation of our management, including our principal
executive officer, we conducted an evaluation of our disclosure
controls and procedures, as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”), as of the end of the period covered by this annual
report. Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer
and our principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure
controls and procedures were not effective to provide reasonable
assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in
reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported within the time periods
specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and is accumulated and
communicated to our management, including our principal executive
officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow
timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
This annual report does not
include a report of management’s assessment regarding internal
control over financial reporting or an attestation report of the
company’s registered public accounting firm due to a transition
period established by rules of the SEC for newly public
companies.
Changes in Internal Control
Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our
internal control over financial reporting during the fourth quarter
of fiscal 2016 that have materially affected, or are reasonably
likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial
reporting.
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ITEM
9B.
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OTHER
INFORMATION
|
None
PART III
|
ITEM
10.
|
DIRECTORS,
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
|
Officers and Board of
Directors
Our Bylaws provide that the
number of directors who shall constitute the whole board shall be
such number as the Board of Directors shall at the time have
designated. We confirm that the number of authorized directors has
been set at five pursuant to our bylaws. Each director shall be
selected for a term of one year and until his successor is elected
and qualified. Vacancies are filled by a majority vote of the
remaining directors then in office with the successor elected for
the unexpired term and until the successor is elected and
qualified.
The names and ages of our
directors and officers, and their positions, are as
follows:
Name
|
|
Age*
|
|
Position within the Company
|
|
Term
|
Mr. Frank I
Igwealor
|
|
48
|
|
Chairman, Director and Chief
Executive and Financial Officer
|
|
December 2019 to
present
|
Mr. Patience
Ogbozor
|
|
34
|
|
Director
|
|
December 2019 to
present
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
*Age as at
December 31, 2019.
Term of Office
Each of our directors is appointed to hold
office until the next annual meeting of our shareholders or until
his respective successor is elected and qualified, or until she
resigns or is removed in accordance with the provisions of the
Delaware Statues. Our officers are appointed by our
board of directors and hold office until removed by the board of
directors or until their resignation.
Background and Business
Experience
The business experience during the past five
years of the persons listed above as an Officer or Director of the
Company either presently or during the year ended December 31, 2019
is as follows:
Frank Igwealor, CPA, CMA,
JD, MBA, MSRM is a financial manager
with broad technical and management experience in accounting,
finance, and business advisory. Mr. Igwealor is a Certified
Financial Manager, Certified Management Accountant, and Certified
Public Accountant.
Frank has an extensive
freelance consulting experience for the cannabis industry. As
a CPA, CMA, CFM consultant, Frank have provided top-level financial
reporting, Accounting, SEC Reporting, Business Valuation, Mergers
& Acquisitions, GAAP/ IFRS Conversion, Pre IPO/RTO Prep, 280E
Tax, and Biological Assets Valuation to more than 26 cannabis
businesses across 21 states. Frank have substantial
experience with Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code,
having worked for/with investors in
the cannabis industry and helped them analyze the COGS and
Operating expenses of dispensaries. Frank has been part of a
team that shepherded both big and small cannabis investments
through the required audit and conducted all the filings to take
them public through IPO, DPO or RTO transactions. I have worked
with single dispensaries with cultivation as well as ROLL-UP of
multiple dispensaries that wanted to achieve revenue scale at debut
on the exchanges. Frank has been an important part of the
team that successfully delivered on the following:
·
Helped Cannabis
business owners and investors with top-level financial reporting
for SEC and Canadian Securities Exchanges (CSE), and investor
consumption.
·
Consolidated
dispensaries and cultivations and shepherd the consolidated holding
company through GAAP and IFRS audit and get them listed on the US
and Canadian exchanges.
·
Prepared complete audit
packages, which includes workpapers and all necessary
documentation. Frank does not do audits or any attest work. This is
as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation which prohibits auditors
from preparing financial statements or conducting any accounting
work for their clients.
·
Help dispensaries and
cultivation owners to set up standardized (best practice)
accounting and financial reporting systems.
·
Frank continues to have
ongoing consulting project for legal-cannabis businesses such as
managing the filing of Form 10-K , 10-Q and the associated audit,
or just assisting on a technical accounting question such as
providing a journal entry for a specific transaction.
Ms. Patience C. Ogbozor,
Director: Ms. Ogbozor is the
President and CEO of Cannabinoid Biosciences since November
2018. Ms. Ogbozor is a Director of the Company. Ms. Ogbozor
is also a director at Goldstein Franklin Inc.
All directors hold office
until the next annual meeting of stockholders and the election and
qualification of their successors. Officers are
elected annually by the board of directors and serve at the
discretion of the board.
Board
Committees
Our board of directors
expects to create an audit committee, compensation committee, and
nominations and governance committee during fiscal 2022, in
compliance with established corporate governance
requirements. Currently, we have no “independent”
directors, as that term is defined under Nasdaq listing
rules.
Audit
Committee. We
plan to establish an audit committee of the board of
directors. The audit committee would be primarily
responsible for reviewing the services performed by our independent
registered public accounting firm and evaluating our accounting
policies and our system of internal controls.
Compensation
Committee. We
plan to establish a compensation committee of the board of
directors. The compensation committee would review
and approve our salary and benefits policies, including
compensation of executive officers. The
compensation committee would also administer any future incentive
compensation plans, and recommend and approve grants of stock
options, restricted stock and other awards under any such
plan.
Nominations and Governance
Committee. We
plan to establish a nominations and governance committee of the
board of directors. The purpose of the nominations
and governance committee would be to select, or recommend for our
entire board’s selection, the individuals to stand for election as
directors at the annual meeting of stockholders and to oversee the
selection and composition of committees of our
board. The nominations and governance committee’s
duties would also include considering the adequacy of our corporate
governance and overseeing and approving management continuity
planning processes.
To date, our full board,
rather than any of the committees, has performed all of these
functions.
Indebtedness of Directors
and Executive Officers
None of our directors or
officers or their respective associates or affiliates is indebted
to us.
Family
Relationships
Except for Patience and
Frank who have spousal relationship, none of our directors are
related to any of our other directors and none have any pending
legal claims or litigation against them.
Legal
Proceedings
From time to time we may be
involved in litigation relating to claims arising out of the
operation of our business in the normal course of business.
Other than as described below, as of the date of this filing we are
not aware of potential dispute or pending litigation and are not
currently involved in a litigation proceeding or governmental
actions the outcome of which in management’s opinion would be
material to our financial condition or results of operations. An
adverse result in these or other matters may have, individually or
in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on our business,
financial condition or operating results.
On February 20, 2019,
Plaintiff maria De Lourdes Perez filed a complaint against
defendants City of Carson, Goldstein Franklin, Inc., Frank
Igwealor, Healthy Foods Markets, LLC, Optimal Foods, LLC, and
Blockchain Capital LLC. The complaint alleged statutory
liability pursuant to government code section 835, gross
negligence, and premises liability for a trip-and-fall that
occurred on April 11, 2018 at a property owned and controlled by
Healthy Foods Markets, LLC. Defendants Goldstein Franklin, Inc.,
Frank Igwealor, Optimal Foods, LLC, and Blockchain Capital LLC. had
answered the complaint and also requested a demurrer on the grounds
that (1) Defendants are not a proper party in interest and there
was a misjoinder of defendants. Our attorney has advised that
the complaint would not have an adverse impact on Mr. Igwealor or
the Company because the scope of liability is restricted to healthy
Food Markets, LLC.
As of December 31, 2019,
except for the complaint listed above, there was no material
proceeding to which any of our directors, officers, affiliates or
stockholders is a party adverse to us. During the past ten years,
no present director, executive officer or person nominated to
become a director or an executive officer of us:
(1) had a petition
under the federal bankruptcy laws or any state insolvency law filed
by or against, or a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer
appointed by a court for the business or property of such person,
or any partnership in which he was a general partner at or within
two years before the time of such filing, or any corporation or
business association of which he was an executive officer at or
within ten years before the time of such filing;
(2) was convicted in a
criminal proceeding or subject to a pending criminal proceeding
(excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);
(3) was subject to any
order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or
vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or
temporarily enjoining him from or otherwise limiting his
involvement in any of the following activities:
i. acting as a futures
commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading advisor
commodity pool operator, floor broker, leverage transaction
merchant, any other person regulated by the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, or an associated person of any of the
foregoing, or as an investment adviser, underwriter, broker or
dealer in securities, or as an affiliated person, director or
employee of any investment company, bank, savings and loan
association or insurance company, or engaging in or continuing any
conduct or practice in connection with such activity;
ii. engaging in any
type of business practice; or
iii. engaging in any
activity in connection with the purchase or sale of any security or
commodity or in connection with any violation of federal or state
securities laws or federal commodities laws; or
(4) was the subject of
any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended
or vacated, of an federal or state authority barring, suspending or
otherwise limiting for more than 60 days the right of such person
to engage in any activity described in paragraph (3) (i), above, or
to be associated with persons engaged in any such activity;
or
(5) was found by a
court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the Securities
and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law,
and for which the judgment has not been reversed, suspended or
vacated.
Employment
Agreements
We do not currently have an
employment agreement with Frank I Igwealor, our President, Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, or with any of our
other officers or directors, and do not intend to do so until such
time as we deem it prudent. Our officers do not
currently receive a (money) salary for their services, and we do
not yet recognize compensation expense in our financial
statements.
Section 16(a) Beneficial
Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section 16(a) of the
Exchange Act requires our executive officers and directors and
persons who own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity
securities to file with the SEC initial statements of beneficial
ownership, reports of changes in ownership and annual reports
concerning their ownership of our Common Stock and other equity
securities, on Form 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Executive officers,
directors and greater than 10% shareholders are required by the SEC
regulations to furnish our company with copies of all Section 16(a)
reports they file. Mr. Igwealor has filed all required reports
under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act.
Code of
Ethics
We have
adopted a corporate code of ethics. We believe our code of ethics
is reasonably designed to deter wrongdoing and promote honest and
ethical conduct; provide full, fair, accurate, timely and
understandable disclosure in public reports; comply with applicable
laws; ensure prompt internal reporting of code violations; and
provide accountability for adherence to the code.
We adopted a Code of Ethics
and Business Conduct which is applicable to our future employees
and which also includes a Code of Ethics for our chief executive
and principal financial officers and any persons performing similar
functions. A code of ethics is a written standard designed to deter
wrongdoing and to promote:
·
|
honest and ethical
conduct,
|
·
|
full, fair, accurate, timely
and understandable disclosure in regulatory filings and public
statements,
|
·
|
compliance with applicable
laws, rules and regulations,
|
·
|
the prompt reporting
violation of the code, and
|
·
|
accountability for adherence
to the code.
|
Our adopted a code of ethics
applies to all our directors, officers and
employees. Our code of ethics is intended to
comply with the requirements of Item 406 of Regulation
S-K.
We will provide our code of
ethics in print without charge to any stockholder who makes a
written request to Frank I Igwealor, our President, Chief Executive
Officer and Chief Financial Officer, at GiveMePower Corporation,
370 Amapola Ave., Suite 200A, Torrance, CA
90501. Any waivers of the application, and any
amendments to, our code of ethics must be made by our board of
directors. Any waivers of, and any amendments to,
our code of ethics will be disclosed promptly on our Internet
website.
|
ITEM
11.
|
EXECUTIVE
COMPENSATION
|
Compensation
Discussion and Analysis
Compensation
Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
As the
Board of Directors does not have a Compensation Committee, the
independent directors of the Board oversee the Company’s executive
compensation program. We currently do not have independent
directors on our Board. Compensation for the CEO
and the CFO is approved by the Independent Directors of the Board
or the general Board. Compensation for other executive officers and
senior management is determined by the CEO and CFO pursuant to the
Board of Directors delegating to the CEO and CFO authority to do
so.
Elements
to Executive Compensation
The
Company’s executive compensation program is designed to attract and
retain executives responsible for the Company’s long-term success,
to reward executives for achieving both financial and strategic
company goals and to provide a compensation package that recognizes
individual contributions as well as overall business results. The
Company’s executive compensation program also takes into account
the compensation practices of companies with whom Kid Castle
competes for executive talent.
The two
components of the Company’s executive compensation program are base
salary and annual discretionary bonuses. Overall compensation is
intended to be competitive for comparable positions at peer
companies.
Objectives. The
objectives of the Company’s executive compensation policies are to
attract and retain highly qualified executives by designing the
total compensation package to motivate executives to provide
excellent leadership and achieve Company goals; to align the
interests of executives, employees, and stockholders by
establishing cohesive management, financial, operation and
marketing goals that reflect the Company’s strategic growth plan;
and to provide executives with reasonable security, through
retirement plan and annual discretionary bonuses that motivate them
to continue employment with the Company and achieve goals that will
make the Company thrive and remain competitive in the
long-run.
Linkage
between compensation programs and Company objective and
values. We link
executive compensation closely with the Company objectives, which
we believe are dependent on the level of employee engagement,
operational excellence, cost management and profitability achieved.
Currently, the primary quantifiable measurement of operational
excellence for the Company is the achievement of profitability,
which is directly related to increasing annual revenue. Executives’
annual performance evaluations are based in part on their
achievement of the aforementioned goals and in part on revenue
targets that may be established by the Board of Directors at the
beginning of each fiscal year. The Board of Directors has not set a
specific revenue goal for the award of bonuses for fiscal 2018. The
Company currently does not have a defined non-equity incentive plan
in place for its named executives. Instead, the disinterested
members of the Board of Directors determine if any annual
discretionary bonuses should be awarded to named executives in
conjunction with the named executives’ annual performance
evaluations. As indicated in the table below, during the last three
fiscal years, the Board of Directors has not elected to award any
annual discretionary bonuses to any named executives.
The roles
of various elements of compensation. Executive
compensation includes base salary, annual discretionary bonuses
awarded by the Board of Directors in conjunction with named
executives’ annual performance evaluations and other annual
compensation granted under the noncontributory defined benefit
retirement plan. Collectively, the Board’s objective is to ensure a
total pay package that is appropriate given the performance of both
the Company and the individual named executive.
Governance
practices concerning compensation. The Board
of Directors has implemented a number of procedures that the Board
follows to ensure good governance concerning compensation. These
include setting CEO and CFO salaries, authorizing the CEO or the
CFO to determine the salaries of presidents and vice presidents,
including Mrs. Huang, President of Shanghai operations,
establishing annual goals for the Company, reviewing proposals for
stock incentive plans, exercising fiduciary responsibilities over
retirement plans, overseeing management development and succession
planning, and keeping adequate records of its
activities.
Base
Salary
Each
executive’s base salary is initially determined with reference to
competitive pay practices of peer companies (where such information
is publicly available) and is dependent upon the executive’s level
of responsibility and experience. The Board uses its discretion,
rather than a formal weighting system, to evaluate these factors
and to determine individual base salary levels. Thereafter, base
salaries are reviewed periodically, and increases are made based on
the Board of Director’s subjective assessment of individual
performance, as well as the factors discussed above.
Annual
Discretionary Bonuses
In future
years we shall pay variable incentive compensation to our
executives, however, due to our overall performance in 2019 and
2018, our executive officers were not awarded bonuses.
Summary
Compensation Table
The
following table sets forth information about the compensation paid
or accrued by our chief executive officer, chief financial officer,
and one other most highly compensated executive officer (our “named
officers”) for the last three completed fiscal years
Summary Compensation
Table
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-Equity
|
Nonqualified
|
|
|
Name
|
|
|
|
|
|
Incentive
|
Deferred
|
|
|
and
|
|
|
|
Stock
|
Option
|
Plan
|
Compensation
|
All Other
|
|
principal
|
|
Salary
|
Bonus
|
Awards
|
Awards
|
Compensation
|
Earnings
|
Compensation
|
Total
|
position
|
Year
|
($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
(a)
|
(b)
|
(c)
|
(d)
|
(e)
|
(f)
|
(g)
|
(h)
|
(i)
|
(j)
|
|
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1. Frank
Igwealor CEO, CFO and Director
|
2019
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
2018
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2. Patience Ogbozor,
Director
|
2019
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
2018
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Notes:
Stock
Option Grants in the Last Fiscal Year; Exercises of Stock
Options
There were
no grants of stock options during the fiscal year ended December
31, 2019. The Company has never granted any stock
options.
Outstanding Equity Awards at
Fiscal Year-End
As of December 31, 2019,
there were no equity awards outstanding to any of our current or
previous executive officers.
Director
Compensation
Our directors do not
currently receive any compensation for serving on our board of
directors.
|
ITEM
12.
|
SECURITY
OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED
STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
|
The following table sets
forth certain information regarding the number of shares of our
common stock beneficially owned on December 31, 2019, by (i) each
person known to us who owns beneficially more than 5% of the
outstanding shares of Common Stock (based upon reports which have
been filed and other information known to us), (ii) each of our
Directors, (iii) each of our Executive Officers and (iv) all of our
Executive Officers and Directors as a group. Unless otherwise
indicated, each stockholder has voting and investment power with
respect to the shares shown. As of December 31, 2019, we had
27,724,684shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding.
Beneficial ownership is
determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally
includes voting or investment power with respect to
securities. Shares of our common stock which may
be acquired upon exercise of stock options or warrants which are
currently exercisable or which become exercisable within 60 days
after the date indicated in the table are deemed beneficially owned
by the optionees. Subject to any applicable
community property laws, the persons or entities named in the table
above have sole voting and investment power with respect to all
shares indicated as beneficially owned by them.
Unless otherwise indicated,
the address of each of the executive officers and directors and 5%
or more stockholders named below is c/o GiveMePower Corporation,
Inc., 370 Amapola Ave., Suite 200A, Torrance, CA
90501. There are not any pending or anticipated
arrangements that may cause a change in control.
Name and Address of
Beneficial Owner
|
Amount and Nature of
Beneficial Owner
|
Percent of
Class
|
|
Preferred Stock
|
Common Stock
|
|
Frank I Igwealor
1
|
|
|
|
Goldstein Franklin, Inc.
(Frank Igwealor)2
|
1
|
|
60.00%
|
Patience C
Ogbozor1
|
|
|
|
All other
shareholders
|
|
27,724,684
|
40.00%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1)
Officer or/and
Director
2)
Frank Igwealor is the natural
person with voting and dispositive power over the shares held
by Goldstein Franklin,
Inc.
Frank Igwealor, our
President and CEO, will continue to be the largest single
shareholder of our common stock. When combined with his controlling
ownership of Goldstein Franklin, Inc.
We are unaware of any
contract or other arrangement the operation of which may at a
subsequent date result in a change in control of our
company.
We do not have a
compensation plan under which equity securities are authorized for
issuance.
|
ITEM
13.
|
CERTAIN
RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR
INDEPENDENCE
|
Our officers and directors
are Mr. Igwealor, our chief executive officer and secretary, and Ms
patience C Ogbozor, a Director.
Our office and mailing
address is located at 370 Amapola Ave., Suite 200A, Torrance, CA
90501. We do not have a written lease with the landlord and rent
space on a month-to-month basis. We share this office on a 20%
basis with two other organizations controlled by our President and
CEO. We believe that our facilities are adequate for our
needs and that additional suitable space will be available on
acceptable terms as required.
During the year ended
December 31, 2019, the Company did not make any share award to the entities
and persons in transactions that would be classified as related
parties’ transactions.
There have been no other
related party transactions, or any other transactions or
relationships required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 of
Regulation S-K.
With regard to any future
related party transaction, we plan to fully disclose any and all
related party transactions, including, but not limited to, the
following:
-
disclose such transactions
in prospectuses where required;
-
disclose in any and all
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where
required;
-
obtain disinterested
directors’ consent; and
-
obtain shareholder consent
where required.
Director
Independence
Our board of directors has
determined that neither of the members of our board of directors
qualifies as an “independent” director under Nasdaq’s definition of
independence.
|
ITEM
14.
|
PRINCIPAL
ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
|
Audit Fees
For fiscal year end December
31,
2019: $10,000
For fiscal year end December
31,
2018:
NA
We did not pay any other
fees as specified in Item 9(e) of Schedule 14A.
We do not have audit
committee pre-approval policies and procedures.
PART IV
|
ITEM
15.
|
EXHIBITS
AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
|
The following exhibits are
filed as part of this Form 10-K and this list includes the Exhibit
Index.
No.
|
|
Description
|
|
|
|
|
|
2.01*
|
|
Securities Purchase
Agreement.
|
|
|
|
|
|
3.1**
|
|
Certificate of Incorporation
of GiveMePower Corporation, Inc., filed with the Secretary of State
of the State of Nevada.
|
|
|
|
|
|
3.2*
|
|
By-laws of GiveMePower
Corporation, Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
14.1**
|
|
Code of Business Conduct and
Ethics.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31.1
|
|
Certification as Adopted
pursuant to Section 302(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Certification pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
|
|
|
|
|
101.INS*
|
|
XBRL Instance
Document
|
|
101.INS*
|
|
XBRL Taxonomy
Extension Schema Document
|
|
101.INS*
|
|
XBRL Taxonomy
Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
|
|
101.INS*
|
|
XBRL Taxonomy
Extension Definition Linkbase Document
|
|
101.INS*
|
|
XBRL Taxonomy
Extension Label Linkbase Document
|
|
101.INS*
|
|
XBRL Taxonomy
Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
|
|
|
*
|
Incorporated by reference to
the exhibits included with Registration Statement on Form 10 filed
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 11,
2020.
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**
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Incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 3 to
Form SB-2 as filed by the Registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on August 10, 2001.
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SIGNATURES
In accordance with Section
13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the registrant caused this report
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.
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GIVEMEPOWER
CORPORATION
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Date: June 1,
2020
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By:
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/s/ Frank
I. Igwealor
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Frank I. Igwealor
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President,
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
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Principal
Executive Officer, Treasurer, Principal Accounting Officer,
Principal Financial Officer, Director & Secretary.
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Date: June 1,
2020
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/s/ Patience
C Ogbozor
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Patience C
Ogbozor
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Director
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In accordance with the
Exchange Act of
1934, this report has been
signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant
and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Date: June 1,
2020
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/s/ Frank
I. Igwealor
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Frank I. Igwealor
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President,
CEO and Chief Financial Officer
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Principal
Executive Officer, Treasurer, Principal Accounting Officer,
Principal Financial Officer, Director & Secretary.
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Date: June 1,
2020
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/s/ Patience
C Ogbozor
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Patience C
Ogbozor
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Director
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(b) Financial
Statements
The following financial
statements are being filed as part of this Registration
Statement:
Index to Consolidated
Financial Statements
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Page
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Report
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
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F-1
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For the fiscal years ended
December 31, 2019 and 2018
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets
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F-2
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Consolidated
Statements of Operations
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F-3
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Consolidated
Statements of Shareholders’ Deficit
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F-4
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Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows
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F-5
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Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements
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F-6
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT
REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
GIVEMEPOWER
CORPORATION
AND
SUBSIDIARY
Consolidated
Financial Statements
As of December 31, 2019
For the period August
30, 2019 (date of formation) to December 31,
2019
Table of
Contents
Page
Report of
Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm
1
Consolidated Financial
Statements
Consolidated Balance
Sheet
2
Consolidated Statement of Operations
3
Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity
4
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
5
Notes to
Consolidated Financial
Statements
6

200 Sandpointe Avenue, Suite
560
Santa Ana, CA 92707 (949)
326-CPAS (2727)
www.bkcpagroup.com
Report of
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
GiveMePower Corporation and Subsidiary
Opinion
on the Consolidated Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated
balance sheet of GiveMePower Corporation and subsidiary
(collectively the “Company”) as of December 31, 2019, and the
related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’
equity, and cash flows for the period August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019. In our opinion, the consolidated
financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all
material respects, the financial position of the Company as of
December 31, 2019, and
the results of
its operations and
its cash flows for the
periodAugust 30,
2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019 in
conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America.
Basis for
Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for
these consolidated financial statements. Our responsibility is to
express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based
on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB)
and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in
accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable
rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and
the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the
standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable
assurance about whetherthe consolidated financialstatements
are free of
materialmisstatement, whether due
error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we
engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial
reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an
understanding of internal control over financial reporting as a
basis for designing audit procedures that are
appropriate in the
circumstances, but
not for the
purpose of expressing an opinion on the
effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audit included performing
procedures to assessthe risks of material misstatement
of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to
error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those
risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis,
evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated
financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the
financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a
reasonable basis for our opinion.
Santa Ana, CA June 1, 2020
The Company have served as the Company’s
auditor since 2020
GiveMePower Corporation
and Subsidiary
Consolidated Balance Sheet
December
31,
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2019
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ASSETS
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Current
Assets:
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Cash
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$
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500
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Investments - trading
securities
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45,396
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Total current
assets
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45,896
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Total assets
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$
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45,896
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LIABILITIES AND
STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
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Current
Liabilities:
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Marginal loan
payable
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$
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4,317
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Total current
liabilities
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4,317
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Line of credit - related
party
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41,200
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Total liabilities
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45,517
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Commitments and
Contingencies
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|
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Stockholders'
Equity:
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Common stock, $0.001;
50,000,000 shares authorized, 27,724,684 shares issued and
outstanding
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-
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Preferred stock, $0.001;
1,000,000 shares authorized, 1 share issued and
outstanding
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-
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Accumulated
deficit
|
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379
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Total stockholders'
equity
|
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379
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Total liabilities and
stockholders' deficit
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$
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45,896
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of
these audited financial statements.
GiveMePower Corporation
and Subsidiary
Consolidated Statement of
Operations
August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019
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|
Amount
|
Net gain from sales of
investments under trading securities
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$
|
464
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|
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|
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Operating
expenses:
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General and
administrative
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-
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Total operating
expenses
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-
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Total assets
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|
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|
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Other income
(expenses):
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Other expense
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(71)
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Interest expense
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(14)
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Total other expense,
net
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(85)
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Income before income tax
provision
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379
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Income tax
provision
|
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-
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Net income
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$
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379
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Earnings per
share:
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Basic and diluted
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$
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0.00
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-
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Weighted average number of
common shares outstanding:
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Basic and Diluted
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27,724,684
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of
these audited financial statements.
GiveMePower Corporation
and Subsidiary
Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’
Equity
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Shares
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Amount
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|
Shares
|
Amount
|
|
Deficit
|
Equity
|
|
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|
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Balances - August 30, 2019
(date of formation)
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-
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$
-
|
|
-
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$
-
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$
-
|
$
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Issuances of preferred
stock
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1
|
-
|
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Issuances of common
stock
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-
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-
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27,724,684
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-
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-
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-
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|
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Net income
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-
|
-
|
|
-
|
-
|
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379
|
379
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Balances - December 31,
2019
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1
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$
-
|
|
27,724,684
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$
-
|
|
$
379
|
$
379
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of
these audited financial statements.
GiveMePower Corporation
and Subsidiary
Consolidated Statement of Cash
Flows
August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019
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Amount
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Cash flows from operating
activities:
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|
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Cash received from sales of
trading securities
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$
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29,412
|
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Interest paid
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(12)
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|
Purchases of inventory under
trading securities
|
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(74,417)
|
Net cash flow from operating
activities
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(45,017)
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|
|
|
|
Cash flows from financing
activities:
|
|
|
|
Borrowing on loan payable to
related party
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41,200
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Borrowing from brokerage
loan - marginal loan
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4,317
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Net cash provided by
financing activities
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|
45,517
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase in
cash
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500
|
|
|
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|
Cash - beginning of
year
|
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-
|
Cash - end of
year
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$
|
500
|
|
|
|
|
Supplemental disclosures of
cash flow information
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|
|
|
Cash paid during the year
for:
|
|
|
|
Interest
|
$
|
12
|
|
Income taxes
|
|
-
|
The accompanying notes are an integral part of
these audited financial statements.
1.
NATURE
OF OPERATIONS
Prior
Business and Reverse Merger
GiveMePower Corporation
(the “PubCo” or
“Company”), a Nevada corporation,
was incorporated on
June 7, 2001 to
sell software geared to end users and
developers involved in the design, manufacture, and construction of
engineered products located in Canada and the United States. The
PubCo has been dormant and non-operating since year 2009. PubCo is
a public reporting company registered with the Securities Exchange
Commissioner (“SEC”). In November 2009, the Company filed Form 15D,
Suspension of Duty to Report, and as a result, the Company was not
required to file any SEC forms since November 2009
On December 31, 2019, PubCo sold one Special
2019 series A preferred share (“Series A Share”) for $38,000 to
Goldstein Franklin, Inc. (“Goldstein”), a California corporation.
One Series A Share is convertible to 100,000,000 shares of common
stocks at any time. The Series A Share also provided with 60%
voting rights of the PubCo. On the same day, Goldstein sold
one-member unit of Alpharidge Capital, LLC (“Alpharidge”), a
California limited liability corporation, representing 100% member
owner of Alpharidge. As a result, Alpharidge become a wholly owned
subsidiary of PubCo as of December 31, 2019.
The transaction above will be accounted for as
a “reverse merger” and recapitalization amongst PubCo, Goldstein,
and Alpharidge since the stockholders of Alpharidge will have the
significant influence and the ability to elect or appoint
or to remove a majority of the
membersof the
governing body of
the combinedentity immediately
following the completion of the
transaction, the
stockholders of
PubCo will have the significant influenceand
the abilityto
elect or appointor
to remove a
majorityof the
members of the
governing body of
the combined entity,and PubCo’s senior management will
dominate the management of the combined entity immediately
following the completion of the transaction. Accordingly,
Alpharidge will be deemed to be the accounting acquirer in the
transaction and, consequently, the transaction is treated as a
recapitalization of the PubCo. Accordingly, the assets and
liabilities and the historical operations that are reflected in the
financial statements are those of Alpharidge and are recorded at
the historical cost basis of Alpharidge. As a result, Alpharidge is
the surviving company and the financial statements presented are
historical financial accounts ofAlpharidge.
The financial statements of the Company include
its wholly owned subsidiary of Alpharidge.
Current Business and
Organization
The Company, through its wholly owned
subsidiary, Alpharidge Capital, LLC, has two distinct lines of
businesses that comprise of the following:
·
Investments in securities,
warrants, bonds, or options of public and private companies in
various industries but focusing on specialty biopharmaceutical
companies through brokerage firm, TD Ameritrade; and
·
Investments in real estate –
Real estate operations would consist primarily of rental real
estate, affordable housing projects, opportunity
zones, other propertydevelopment
and associated
HOA activities.
Alpharidge’s property
development operations would be primarily through a real estate
investment, management and development subsidiary
that focuses primarilyon the construction
and sale of single-family
and multi-family homes,
lots in subdivisions
and planned communities,
and raw land for residential
development.
Alpharidge did not have any
investments in real estate as of and for the years ended December
31, 2019.
Reporting
The financial statements include its historical
financial information of the Company.
2.
SUMMARY
OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis
of Presentation and Consolidation
The accompanying financial statements have been
prepared using the accrual basis of accounting in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) promulgated in
the United States of America.
Use of
Estimates and Assumptions
The preparation of financial statements in
conformity with the GAAP requires management to make estimates and
assumptionsthat affect the
reported amountsof
assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assetsand
liabilities at the
date of the
financialstatements
and the reported amountsof
revenues and expenses during the
reporting period. Actual results could
differ from those estimates.
Advertising and Marketing
Costs
Advertising and marketing costs are recorded as
general and administrative expenses when they are incurred. The
Company did not incur any advertising and marketing expensesfor
the period August 30, 2019 (dateof
formation) to December 31,
2019.
Revenue Recognition
The Companyrecognizes revenue in
accordance with Accounting StandardsCodification (“ASC”) 606, Revenue from Contracts
with Customers. The
Company’s net revenue primarily consists of revenuesfrom sales of trading securities using its broker
firm, TD Ameritrade less original purchase cost. Net trading
revenues primarily consist of revenues from trading securities
earned upon completion of trade, net of any trading fees. A trading
is completed when earned and recognized
at a point in time, on a
trade-date basis, as
the Company executestrades. The
Companyrecords trading
revenue on a net basis, trading sales less original purchase cost.
Net realized gains and losses from securities transactions are
determined for federal income tax and financial reporting purposes
on the first-in, first-out method and represent proceeds on
disposition of investments less the cost basis of
investments.
Investment – Trading
Securities
All investment securities are classified as
trading securities and are carried at fair value in accordance with
ASC 320 Investments — Debt and EquitySecurities. Investment transactions
are recorded on
a trade date basis.Realized gains or losses on sales of investments are based on the
first-in, first-out or
the specific identification method. Realized and
unrealized gains or losseson investments are recorded in the
statements of operations as realized and unrealized gains or losses as net
revenue. All investment securities are held and transacted by the
Company’s broker firm, TD Ameritrade. The Company did not hold more
than 3% of equity of the shares of portfolio companies as
investments as of December 31, 2019.
All investments that are listed on a securities
exchange are valued at their last sales price on the primary
securities exchangeon which such securities are
traded on such date. Securities that are
not listed on
any exchangebut
are traded over-the-counter are
valued at the mean between the last “bid” and “ask” price for such
security on such date. The Company does not have any investment
securities for which market quotes are not readily
available.
The Company’strading securities
are held by
a third-party brokerage firm, TD
Ameritrade, and composed of publicly
traded companies with readily available fair value which are quoted
prices in active markets.
2.
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
(continued)
Income
Taxes
Under the asset and liability methodprescribed within ASC
740, Income Taxes, the Company recognizes
deferred tax assets and liabilities
for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between
financial statement carrying amounts of assets and liabilities and
their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are
measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable
income in the years in which those temporary differences are
expected to be realized or
settled. The effect of a
changein tax
rates on deferredtax assets and liabilities is recognized in income in
the period that includes the enactment date. The realizability of
deferred tax assets is assessed throughout the year and a valuation
allowance is recorded if necessary, to reduce net deferred tax
assets to the amount more likely than not to be realized. Certain
prior period deferred tax disclosures were reclassified to conform
with current period presentation.
ASC 740 provides that a tax benefit from an
uncertain tax position may be recognized when it is more likely
than not that the positionwill be sustainedupon examination, including resolutions
of any related appealsor
litigation processes, based on the
technical merits of the position. ASC 740 also provides guidance on
measurement, derecognition, classification, interest and penalties,
accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition.
The Company’s practice is to recognize interest
accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense
and penalties in selling and administrative expense. As of December
31, 2019, the Company had no accrued interest or
penalties.
Concentrations of Credit
Risk
The Company'sfinancial instruments
that are exposedto concentrations of
credit risk primarily consistof
its cash and cash
equivalents. The Company places its cash and cash equivalents with
financial institutions of high credit worthiness.
The Companymaintains cash balancesat financial institutions
within the UnitedStates which are insured by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) up to limits of
approximately $250,000. The Company has not experienced any losses
with regard to its bank accounts and believes it is not exposed to
any risk of loss on its cash bank accounts. It is possible that at
times, the company’s cash and cash equivalents with a particular
financial institution may exceed any applicable government
insurance limits. In such situation, the Company's management would
assess the financial strength and credit worthiness of any parties
to which it extends funds, and as such, it believes that any
associated credit risk exposures would be addressed and
mitigated.
The Company’s trading securities is comprised
of investments in biopharma public companies. The Company had
equity interests in more than 42 specialty biopharmaceuticals
companies as of December 31, 2019.
2.
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
(continued)
Fair
Value of Financial Instruments
The Companyutilizes ASC 820-10,Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure, for valuing financialassets and liabilities measured on a recurring basis. Fair
value is defined as the exit price, or the amount that would be
received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an
orderly transaction between market participants as of the
measurement date. The guidancealso establishes a
hierarchy for inputs used in
measuring fair value that maximizes the use
of observable inputs and minimizes
the use of unobservable inputs by requiring that the most
observable inputs be used when available. Observable inputsare
inputs marketparticipants would use in
valuingthe asset or liability and are
developed based on
market data obtained from sources independent
of the Company.Unobservable
inputs are inputs that reflect
the Company’s assumptions about the factors market participants
would use in valuing the asset or liability. The guidance
establishes three levels of inputs that may be used to measure
fair value:
Level 1. Observable inputs such as quoted
prices in active markets;
Level 2. Inputs, other than the quoted prices
in active markets, that are observable either directly or
indirectly; and Level 3. Unobservable inputs in which there is
little or no
marketdata, which requirethe
reporting entityto
develop its own assumptions.
The Company’s financial instruments consisted
of cash, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, and
line of credit. The estimatedfair value of cash, accountspayable and accruedliabilities,
due to or
from affiliated companies,
and notes payable approximates its carrying amount due to the short
maturity of these instruments.
The table below describes the Company’s
valuation of financial instruments using guidance from ASC
820-10:
December
31, 2019
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|
Level
1
|
Level 2
|
|
Level 3
|
Investments
– trading securities
|
$
|
45,396
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
Leases
Prior to January 1, 2019, the Company accounted
for leases under Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 840,
Accounting for Leases. Effective from January 1, 2019, the Company
adopted the guidance of ASC 842, Leases, which requires an entity
to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for
virtually all leases. On February 25, 2016, the FASB issued
Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), to
increase transparency and comparability amongorganizations by
recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on
the balancesheet and disclosing
key information about leasing transactions. ASC 842 requires that
lessees recognize right of use assets and lease liabilities
calculated based on the present value of lease payments for all
lease agreements with terms that are greater than twelve
months.
ASC 842 distinguishes leases as either a
finance lease or an operating lease that affects how the leases are
measured and presented in
the statement of
operations and statement of cash flows.ASC
842 supersedes nearly all existing lease accounting guidance
under GAAP issued by the Financial Accounting Standards
Board (“FASB”)
including ASC Topic 840, Leases.
The Company does not have operating and
financing leases as of December 31, 2019. The adoption of ASC 842
did not materially impact our results of operations, cash flows, or
presentation thereof.
2.
SUMMARY
OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Recent
Accounting Standards Updates
In February 2016, the FASB issued Accounting
Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which
supersedes FASB ASC Topic 840, Leases. This ASU
requiresthe recognition of right-of-use assetsand lease liabilities by lessees for those
leases classified as operating leases under previous guidance. In
addition, among other changes to the accounting for leases, this
ASU retains the distinction between finance leases and operating
leases. The classification criteria for distinguishing between
financing leases and operating leases are substantially like the
classification criteria for distinguishing between capital leases
and operating leases under previous guidance.
Recently Adopted Accounting
Pronouncements
ASU 2016-02 — On October 1, 2019,
the Company adopted Accounting
Standards Update ("ASU") 2016- 02, Leases,
by applying the standard at the adoption date, recognizing a
cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained
earnings. As a result, restated financial information and the
additional disclosures required under the new standard will not be
provided for the comparative periods presented. The new guidance
requires quantitative and qualitative disclosures that provide information
about the amountsrelated to
leasingarrangements
recorded in the
condensed consolidated financialstatements.
The Companyelected a packageof practical expedients
available under the new guidance,
which allows an entity to not reassess prior conclusions related to
existing contracts containing leases, lease classification and
initial direct costs. In addition, the Company has elected to apply
the short-term lease exception for lease arrangements with a maximumterm of
12 months or
less. Upon the
adoptionof the
lease standard, the Company recognized
a right-of-use ("ROU") asset and a lease liability on the Condensed
Consolidated Balance Sheet related to non-cancelable
operating leases.
Recently Issued Accounting
Pronouncements
ASU 2019-12 — In December 2019, the
Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB")
issued ASU 2019- 12, Simplifying the Accounting for
Income Taxes. The amendments in ASU 2019-12 simplify the accounting
for income taxes by removingcertain exceptions to the generalprinciples in Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic
740, Income Taxes.The amendments also improve consistent application of and simplify GAAP for other areas of Topic 740 by
clarifying and amending existing guidance. ASU 2019-12 will be
effective for the Company's fiscal year beginning October 1, 2021,
with early adoption permitted. The transition requirements are
dependent upon each amendment within this update and will be
applied either prospectively or retrospectively. The Company does
not expect this ASU to have a material impact on its condensed
consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2016-13 — In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU
2016-13, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. The
main objective of ASU 2016-13 is to provide financial statement
users with more decision-useful information about an entity's
expected credit losses on financial instruments and other
commitments to extend credit at each reporting date. To achieve
this objective, the amendments in this update replace the incurred
loss impairment methodology in current GAAP with a methodology that
reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a
broader range of reasonable and supportable information to develop
credit loss estimates. Subsequent to issuing ASU 2016-13, the FASB
has issued additional standards for the purpose of clarifying
certain aspects of ASU 2016- 13, as
well as providing codification
improvements and
targetedtransition
relief underthe
standard. The subsequently issued ASUs have the
same effective date and transition requirements
as ASU 2016-13. ASU 2016-13 will be
effective for the Company's fiscal year
beginning October 1, 2020, using a modified retrospective approach.
Early adoption is permitted. The Companyis currently assessingthe
impact this ASU
will have on
its condensed consolidated financial
statements.
3.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES (TRADING)
The Company applied the fair value accounting
treatment for trading securities per ASC 320, with unrealized gains
and losses recorded in net income each period. Debt securities
classified as trading should be measured at fair value in the
currency in which the debt securities are denominated and
remeasured into the investor’s functional currency using the spot
exchange rate at the balance sheet date.
Investments in equity securities as of December
31, 2019 are summarized based on the following:
December
31,
|
|
Cost
|
|
Changes in Fair
Value
|
|
Fair Value
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stocks
|
$
|
21,719
|
$
|
733
|
$
|
22,452
|
Options
|
|
29,414
|
|
(6,470)
|
|
22,944
|
Investments - Trading
Securities
|
$
|
51,133
|
$
|
(5,737)
|
$
|
45,396
|
Trading securities
are treated using the fair value method,whereby the
value of the
securities on the
company’s balance sheet is equivalent
to their current market value. These securities will be recorded in
the current assets section under the Investment Securities
account and will be offset in the
shareholder’s equity section under the unrealized proceeds from sale of
short-term investments” account. The Short Term Investments account
amount represents the current market valueof the
securities, and the
“Unrealized ProceedsFrom Sale of
Short Term Investments” accountrepresents the cash proceeds
that the company would receive if it were to sell the investments
at the end of the specified accounting period.
August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019
|
Amount
|
Total investment purchases -
cost
|
$
|
74,417
|
Total investment sales
- fair value
|
|
(29,412)
|
Unrealized losses
|
|
391
|
Investments - Trading
Securities
|
$
|
45,396
|
4.
MARGINAL
LOAN PAYABLE
The Company entered into a marginal loan in
December 2019 with TD Ameritrade, the Company’s brokerage to
continue the purchase of securities and to fund the underfunded
balance.
4.
MARGINAL
LOAN PAYABLE
(continued)
The marginal loan consisted of the
following:
August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019
|
|
|
|
Beginning balance - August
30, 2019
|
$
|
-
|
Funds deposited to broker by
Company
|
|
(40,700)
|
Total investment securities
purchases
|
|
74,417
|
Total sales of investment
securities
|
|
(29,412)
|
Interest expense
|
|
12
|
Net unrealized gain
(loss)
|
|
|
Marginal loan
payable
|
$
|
4,317
|
5.
LINE OF
CREDIT – RELATED
PARTY
The Company considers its founders, managing
directors, employees, significant shareholders, and the portfolio
Companies to be affiliates. In addition, companies controlled by any
of the above namedis
also classified as
affiliates.
Line of credit from related party consisted of
the following:
August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019
|
Amount
|
September 2019 (line of
credit) - line of credit with maturity date of February 2020 with
unpaid principal balance and accrued interest payable on the
maturity date.
|
$
|
41,200
|
|
|
|
Total Line of credit -
related party
|
$
|
41,200
|
Goldstein Franklin, Inc. - $100,000 line of
credit
On September15,
2019, the Company enteredinto a line of credit agreement in
the amount of
$41,200with maturity
date of February 15,
2020. The line of credit bearsinterest at 0%
per annum and
interestand unpaid principal balance is
payable on the maturity date. The Company had unused line of credit
of $48,800 as of December 31,2019
6.
NET
TRADING REVENUE
The Companyrecognizes revenue in
accordance with Accounting StandardsCodification (“ASC”) 606, Revenue from Contracts
with Customers. The
Company’s net revenue primarily consists of revenuesfrom sales of trading securities using its broker
firm, TD Ameritrade less original purchase cost. Net trading
revenues primarily consist of revenues from trading securities
earned upon completion of trade, net of any trading fees. A trading
is completed when earned and recognized
at a point in time, on a
trade-date basis, as
the Company executestrades. The
Companyrecords trading
revenue on a net basis, trading sales less original purchase
cost.
Net trading revenue consisted of the
following:
August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019
|
Amount
|
Revenue from sale of
securities
|
$
|
29,412
|
Cost of
securities
|
|
(23,472)
|
Wash sales
|
|
261
|
Net changes in fair value at
end of year
|
|
(5,737)
|
Net trading
revenue
|
$
|
464
|
7.
EARNINGS
(LOSS) PER SHARE
A basic earnings per share is computed by
dividing net income to common stockholders by the weighted average
number of shares outstanding for the year. Dilutive earnings per
share include the effect of any potentially dilutive debt or equity
under the treasury stock method, if including such instruments is
dilutive. The Company’s diluted earnings (loss) per share is the
same as the basic earnings/loss per share for the period August 30,
2019 (date of formation) to December 31, 2019, as there are no
potential shares outstanding that would have a dilutive
effect.
August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019
|
Amount
|
Net income
|
$
|
464
|
Dividends
|
|
-
|
Stock option
|
|
-
|
Adjusted net income
attribution to stockholders
|
$
|
464
|
|
|
|
Weighted-average shares of
common stock outstanding
|
Basic and
Diluted
|
|
27,724,684
|
Net changes in fair value at
end of year
|
|
|
Basic and
Diluted
|
$
|
0.00
|
8.
INCOME TAXES
As of December 31, 2019, the Company had a net
operating income carry forward of $104, which may be available
to reduce futureyears’ taxable incomethrough 2040. The company uses the
tax rate of
40% for its
tax-assets estimates.
The provision for
income taxesdiffers from the
amount computedby
applying the statutory federalincome tax rate to income before provision for
incometaxes. The
sourcesand tax
effectsof the
differences for the
periods presented are
as follows:
Realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon sufficient futuretaxable income during the period that deductible
temporary differences and carry-forwards are
expected to be
available to reduce taxableincome. Due to
the changein
ownership provisions of the Income Tax laws of the United States,
2019 net operating income carry forwards of approximately $0 for
federal income tax reporting purposes may be subject to annual
limitations. Should a change in ownership occur net operating
income carry forwards may be limited as to use in future years. As
the realization of required future taxable income is uncertain, the
Company recorded a valuationallowance.
August 30, 2019 (date of
formation) to December 31, 2019
|
Amount
|
Deferred tax
assets:
|
|
|
Net
operating income
|
$
|
104
|
Other
temporary differences
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
Total deferred tax
assets
|
|
104
|
Less- valuation
allowance
|
|
(104)
|
Total deferred tax
assets
|
$
|
-
|
The Company did not have material income tax
provision (benefit) because of net loss and valuation allowances
against deferred income tax provision for the period August 30,
2019 (date of formation) to December 31, 2019
A reconciliation of the Company’s effective tax
rate to the statutory federal rate is as follows: