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Item 4.01 Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.
(a) Dismissal of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
On December 28, 2021, Panacea Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) following approval of its Board of Directors, notified RBSM LLP (“RBSM”), which was then serving as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company, that the Company had determined to retain another firm as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company, effective immediately.
The reports of RBSM on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 did not contain any adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principle, except that each report on the Company’s consolidated financial statements contained an explanatory paragraph regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern based on the Company’s recurring losses from operations, negative cash flows from operating activities and accumulated deficit as of December 31, 2020 and as of December 31, 2019. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 and the subsequent interim period through December 28, 2021, the effective date of RBSM’s dismissal, there were (i) no disagreements (as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) between the Company and RBSM on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which, if not resolved to the satisfaction of RBSM would have caused RBSM to make reference thereto in its reports on the consolidated financial statements of the Company for such years, and (ii) no “reportable events” (as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).
The Company provided RBSM with a copy of this Form 8-K and requested that RBSM furnish a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether or not RBSM agrees with the above disclosures. A copy of RBSM’s letter, dated December 28, 2021, is attached as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
(b) Engagement of New Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
On December 28, 2021, following approval by the Company’s Board of Directors, the Company appointed BF Borgers CPA PC (“BF Borgers”) as the new independent registered public accounting firm of the Company.
During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 and the subsequent interim period through December 28, 2021, neither the Company, nor any party on behalf of the Company, consulted with BF Borgers with respect to either (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of the audit opinion that might be rendered with respect to the Company’s consolidated financial statements, and no written report or oral advice was provided to the Company by BF Borgers that was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue, or (ii) any matter that was subject to any disagreement (as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) or a reportable event (as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description of Exhibit | |
| 16.1 | Letter from RBSM LLP, dated December 28, 2021 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on behalf of the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Panacea Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. | ||
| Date: December 29, 2021 | ||
| By: | /s/ Leslie Buttorff | |
| Name: | Leslie Buttorff | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |