SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (“Quarterly Report”) contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements provide the Company’s current expectations or forecasts of future events. Forward-looking statements include statements about the Company’s expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, intentions, assumptions and other statements that are not historical facts. Words or phrases such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “objective,” “ongoing,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will” and “would,” or similar words or phrases, or the negatives of those words or phrases, may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not necessarily mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Examples of forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s disclosure concerning its future operations, cash flows, financial position, dividend policy, prospects, strategies, objectives and other future events.
Forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report and in any document incorporated by reference in this Quarterly Report may include, for example, statements about:
•the potential liquidity and trading of the Company’s public securities;
•the Company’s ability to raise additional capital in sufficient amounts or on terms acceptable to it;
•the efficacy and safety of the Company’s product candidates, obicetrapib as a monotherapy and as a fixed-dose combination therapy with ezetimibe, as well as potential reimbursement and anticipated market size and market opportunity;
•the Company’s dependence on the success of obicetrapib as a monotherapy and as a fixed-dose combination therapy with ezetimibe, including the obtaining of regulatory approval of such product candidates;
•the timing, progress and results of clinical trials for the Company's product candidates, including statements regarding the timing of initiation and completion of studies or trials and related preparatory work and the period during which results of trials will become available and marketing submissions made;
•the Company’s ability to attract and retain senior management and key scientific personnel;
•the Company’s limited experience in marketing or distributing products;
•managing the risks related to the Company’s international operations;
•the Company’s ability to achieve the broad degree of physician adoption and use and market acceptance necessary for commercial success;
•the Company’s estimates regarding expenses, future revenue, capital requirements and needs for additional financing;
•developments regarding the Company’s competitors and the Company’s industry;
•the impact of government laws and regulations;
•the Company’s reliance on third parties for all aspects of the manufacturing of the Company's product candidates for clinical trials; and
•the Company’s efforts to obtain, protect or enforce its patents and other intellectual property rights related to the Company’s product candidates.
Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or implied by the forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements for many reasons, including the factors described in the section titled “Risk Factors” in this Quarterly Report and in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Quarterly Report. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events after the date of this Quarterly Report or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as specifically required by law. You should, however, review the factors and risks that the Company describes in the reports it files from time to time with the SEC.
In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect the Company’s beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based on information available to the Company as of the date of this Quarterly Report. And while the Company believes that information provides a reasonable basis for these statements, that information may be limited or incomplete. The Company’s statements should not be read to indicate that it has conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain, and you are cautioned not to unduly rely on these statements.
Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements were reasonable at the time made, it cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance, achievements or events. You should carefully consider the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section in connection with the forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly