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UNITED STATE
S
SECURITIES AND EX
CHA
NGE COMMISSI
ON
Washington D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM
10-K/A
 
 
Amendment No. 1
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITY EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021
Commission File Number
001-40497
 
 
TELESIS BIO INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
 
 
Delaware
 
45-1216839
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
10431 Wateridge Circle, Suite 150, San Diego, CA 92121
(Address of principal executive offices)
(858)
228-4115
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
 
Title of each class
 
Trading Symbol(s)
 
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock ($0.001 par value)
 
TBIO
 
Nasdaq Global Select Market
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  
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.    Yes  ☐    
No  ☒
Indicate by check mark whether 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  ☒    
No  ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation
S-T
(§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    Yes  ☒    
No  ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
non-accelerated
filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule
12b-2
of the Exchange Act.
 
Large accelerated filer      Accelerated filer  
       
Non-accelerated filer      Smaller reporting company  
       
         Emerging growth company  
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.    
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.    Yes      
No  ☐
If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by checkmark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements.    ☐
Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to
§240.10D-1(b).
    ☐
Indicate by check mark whether registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule
12b-2
of the Act).    Yes  ☐    
No  
 
Auditor Firm:    Auditor Firm ID:    Auditor Firm Location:
WithumSmith+Brown, PC    100    San Francisco, CA
The aggregate market value of voting stock held by
non-affiliates
of the Registrant on June 30, 2022, based on the closing price of $1.80 for shares of the Registrant’s common stock as reported by the Nasdaq Global Select Market, was approximately $16.8 million. In determining the market value of
non-affiliate
common stock.
The number of shares of Registrant’s common stock issued and outstanding as of April 24, 2023 was 29,698,496.
 
 
 

EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment”) on Form
10-K/A
amends Telesis Bio Inc.’s (the “Company,” “Telesis,” “we,” “us” or “our”) Annual Report on Form
10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) o
n
 
March 23, 2022
 
(the “Original
 
10-K”).
 
W
e are filing this Amendment to amend and restate in its entirety Part II, Item 9A of the Original
10-K
to provide our management’s report on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and correct other inadvertent omissions required to be included pursuant to Items 307 and 308 of Regulation
S-K.
Pursuant to the SEC rules, Part IV, Item 15 has also been amended to contain the currently dated certificates from the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The certificates of the Company’s principal executive office and principal financial officer are attached to this Amendment as Exhibit 31.3.
Except for the changes to Part II, Item 9A and the filing of related certifications added to the list of Exhibits in Part IV, this Amendment makes no changes to the Original
10-K.
Unless otherwise stated, this Amendment does not reflect events occurring after the filing of the Original
10-K
or modify disclosures affected by subsequent events. Terms used but not otherwise defined in the Amendment have such meaning as ascribed to them in the Original
10-K.
 


Item 9A.

Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Principal Executive Officer (PEO), and Principal Financial Officer (PFO), we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the 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 that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the PEO and PFO, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objective and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on this evaluation, our PEO and PFO concluded that, as of December 31, 2021, the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable assurance level.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

This Annual Report on Form 10-K 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 have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the year ended December 31, 2021 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.


PART IV

 

Item 15.

Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

(a)(3) Exhibits.

The following is a list of exhibits filed as part of this Amendment.

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

  

Form

  

File
No.

  

Exhibit

  

Filing
Date

31.3*    Certification of Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.            
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)            

 

*

Filed herewith.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: May 17, 2023

 

TELESIS BIO, INC.
By:   /s/ Todd R. Nelson
  Todd R. Nelson
  President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this Report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Todd R. Nelson

Todd R. Nelson

  

Chief Executive Officer

and Director

(Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  May 17, 2023

/s/ Andrea L. Jackson

Andrea L. Jackson

  

Director

  May 17, 2023

/s/ Jami D. Nachtsheim

Jami D. Nachtsheim

  

Director

  May 17, 2023

/s/ Annette Tumolo

Annette Tumolo

  

Director

  May 17, 2023

/s/ William F. Snider

William F. Snider

  

Director

  May 17, 2023

/s/ Christine A. Tsingos

Christine A. Tsingos

  

Director

  May 17, 2023

/s/ Frank R. Witney

Frank R. Witney

  

Chair of the Board of Directors

  May 17, 2023
EX-31.3

Exhibit 31.3

CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Pursuant to

Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a),

As Adopted Pursuant to

Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

I, Todd Nelson, certify that:

 

  1.

I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K/A of Telesis Bio Inc.;

 

  2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

  3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

  4.

I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

  a.

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  b.

Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, 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;

 

  c.

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  d.

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

  5.

I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  a.

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

  b.

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

/s/ Todd Nelson

Todd Nelson

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

(Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer)

Date: May 17, 2023