0001079973-11-000494.txt : 20110726 0001079973-11-000494.hdr.sgml : 20110726 20110609154921 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001079973-11-000494 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 FILED AS OF DATE: 20110609 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AspenBio Pharma, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001167419 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: IN VITRO & IN VIVO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES [2835] IRS NUMBER: 841553387 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CO FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1585 S. PERRY STREET CITY: CASTLE ROCK STATE: CO ZIP: 80104 BUSINESS PHONE: (303) 794-2000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1585 S. PERRY STREET CITY: CASTLE ROCK STATE: CO ZIP: 80104 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ASPENBIO INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20020213 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm appy_corresp.htm
Correspondence
 
 
 
 
June 9, 2011

By Electronic Filing
 
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street NE
Washington, DC 20549
  
 
Attention: 
Jeffrey P. Riedler
Assistant Director

Re:
AspenBio Pharma, Inc.
Preliminary Proxy Statement
Filed June 1, 2011
File No. 001-33675
  
 
Dear Mr. Riedler:
 
We are providing this response letter on behalf of AspenBio Pharma, Inc. (the “Company”) with respect to the Staff’s comment letter dated June 9, 2011, regarding the Company’s Preliminary Proxy Statement filed June 1, 2011 (the “Preliminary Proxy Statement”).  For your convenience, the Staff’s comment has been reproduced below, followed by the Company’s response.
 
Proposal Three, page 33
 
1.  
Please revise your disclosure to describe any plans, arrangements or understandings, written or oral, relating to the issuance of any of the newly authorized shares that would be available as a result of the proposed reverse stock split.  If you have no such plans, arrangements or understandings, please revise your disclosure to so state.
 
RESPONSE:  The Company has no such plans, arrangements or understandings, and will add the following disclosure on page 35 of its definitive Proxy Statement for its 2011 Annual Meeting to reflect such fact.  The disclosure will be added as a stand-alone, one sentence paragraph in the initial portion of the Proposal Three disclosure.
 
“There are no plans, arrangements or understandings of the Company or between the Company and any other person relating to the issuance of any newly authorized shares of stock if the reverse stock split is approved by shareholders and implemented by the Board of Directors under such authority.”
 
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In addition, the Company hereby acknowledges that:
 
·  
the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;
 
·  
staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments in the filing do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and
 
·  
the Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
 
Please direct any questions or comments to me at (215) 864-8631.
 
Sincerely,
 
 
/s/ Mary J. Mullany
Mary J. Mullany

 
MJM/cdr
 
cc:
Stephen T. Lundy
 
 
Jeffrey G. McGonegal
 
 
 
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