Form 20-F/A - Annual and transition report of foreign private issuers [Sections 13 or 15(d)]: [Amend]

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2024

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 20-F/A

(Amendment No. 1)

(Mark One)


	☐	REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


	☒	ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023


	☐	TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


	☐	SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of event requiring this shell company report

For the transition period from to

Commission file number 001-41157

BIONOMICS LIMITED

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Not Applicable

(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)

Australia

(Jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

200 Greenhill Road
Eastwood SA 5063

Australia

(Address of principal executive offices)

Spyridon “Spyros” Papapetropoulos, M.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Email: spyros@bionomics.com.au

Telephone: +61 8 881507400

2710 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 150N

Sacramento, CA 95833

(Name, Telephone, E-mail and/or Facsimile number and Address of Company Contact Person)

Securities registered or to be registered, pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:



Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
American Depository Shares, each representing the right to receive one hundred eighty (180) Ordinary Shares, no par value per share	BNOX	The Nasdaq Global Market

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act: None

Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of capital stock or common stock as of the close of business covered by the annual report. 1,486,735,424 ordinary shares.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Yes ☐ No ☒

Note—Checking the box above will not relieve any registrant required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 from their obligations under those Sections.

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, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.


 Large accelerated filer	 Accelerated filer	☒ Non-accelerated filer	☒ Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, 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. ☐

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark 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 which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing:



 U.S. GAAP	☒ International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board	 Other

If “Other” has been checked in response to the previous question indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow. Item 17  Item 18 

If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes  No ☒

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Amendment No. 1 to Form 20-F (the “Form 20-F/A”) amends our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended June 30, 2023 (the “Annual Report”), which was originally filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 18, 2023. The purpose of this Form 20-F/A is to amend certain information presented under (1) Item 15, Controls and Procedures, Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures to include management’s assessment of internal controls over financial reporting, and (2) to revise and file herewith Exhibits 12.1 and 12.2, respectively; to reflect the Company management’s certification of its internal control over financial reporting.

This Form 20-F/A does not reflect events occurring after the filing of the Annual Report and does not modify or update the disclosure therein in any way except as described above or herein. No other changes have been made to the Annual Report. The filing of this Form 20-F/A should not be understood to mean that any statements contained in the Annual Report, as amended by this Form 20-F/A, are true or complete as of any date subsequent to the original filing date of the Annual Report. Accordingly, this Form 20-F/A should be read in conjunction with the Annual Report.


Item 15.	Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as that term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”)) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in ours reports 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 our Chief Executive Officer, Non-Executive Chairman, and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, 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 objectives. Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer, Non-Executive Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2023. Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer, Non-Executive Chairman and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of June 30, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to accomplish their objectives at the reasonable assurance level.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f). Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, Non-Executive Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2023, based on the criteria set forth in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO 2013). Based on our evaluation under the criteria set forth in Internal Control — Integrated Framework, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of June 30, 2023.

This Annual Report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm as we are an emerging growth company.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act) that occurred during the period covered by this Annual Report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.


Item 19.	Exhibits


12.1	—	Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
12.2	—	Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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SIGNATURES

The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F/A and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this annual report on its behalf.


BIONOMICS LIMITED
Date:	January 16, 2024
By:	/s/ Spyridon Papapetropoulos, M.D.
Name:	Spyridon Papapetropoulos.
Title:	Chief Executive Officer and Director

By:	/s/ Timothy Cunningham
Name:	Timothy Cunningham
Title:	Chief Financial Officer

EXHIBIT 12.1

CERTIFICATION 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

I, Spyridon Papapetropoulos, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 20-F/A of Bionomics Limited;

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. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) 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 period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and 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.



Date: January 16, 2024	By:	/s/ Spyridon Papapetropoulos
		Spyridon Papapetropoulos
		President and Chief Executive Officer
		(Principal Executive Officer)

EXHIBIT 12.2

CERTIFICATION 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

I, Tim Cunningham, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 20-F/A of Bionomics Limited;

(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.



Date: January 16, 2024	By:	/s/ Tim Cunningham
		Tim Cunningham
		Chief Financial Officer
		(Principal Finance Officer)

Document and Entity Information	12 Months Ended
Document and Entity Information	Jun. 30, 2023 shares
Document Information [Line Items]
Document Type	20-F/A
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Document Period End Date	Jun. 30, 2023
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2023
Document Fiscal Period Focus	FY
Entity Registrant Name	BIONOMICS LIMITED/FI
Entity Central Index Key	0001191070
Entity Current Reporting Status	Yes
Entity Voluntary Filers	No
Entity Interactive Data Current	Yes
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--06-30
Entity Filer Category	Non-accelerated Filer
Entity Well-known Seasoned Issuer	No
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding	1,486,735,424
Entity Shell Company	false
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Securities Act File Number	001-41157
Entity Incorporation, State or Country Code	C3
Entity Address, Address Line One	200 Greenhill Road
Entity Address, City or Town	Eastwood SA
Entity Address, Postal Zip Code	5063
Entity Address, Country	AU
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Document Registration Statement	false
Document Accounting Standard	International Financial Reporting Standards
ICFR Auditor Attestation Flag	false
Auditor Name	Ernst & Young
Auditor Firm ID	1435
Auditor Location	Adelaide, Australia
Trading Symbol	BNOX
Title of 12(b) Security	American Depository Shares, each representing the right to receive one hundred eighty (180) Ordinary Shares, no par value per share
Security Exchange Name	NASDAQ
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Amendment Description	This Amendment No. 1 to Form 20-F (the “Form 20-F/A”) amends our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended June 30, 2023 (the “Annual Report”), which was originally filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 18, 2023. The purpose of this Form 20-F/A is to amend certain information presented under (1) Item 15, Controls and Procedures, Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures to include management’s assessment of internal controls over financial reporting, and (2) to revise and file herewith Exhibits 12.1 and 12.2, respectively; to reflect the Company management’s certification of its internal control over financial reporting.This Form 20-F/A does not reflect events occurring after the filing of the Annual Report and does not modify or update the disclosure therein in any way except as described above or herein. No other changes have been made to the Annual Report. The filing of this Form 20-F/A should not be understood to mean that any statements contained in the Annual Report, as amended by this Form 20-F/A, are true or complete as of any date subsequent to the original filing date of the Annual Report. Accordingly, this Form 20-F/A should be read in conjunction with the Annual Report.
Business Contact [Member]
Document Information [Line Items]
Entity Address, Address Line One	2710 Gateway Oaks Drive
Entity Address, Address Line Two	Suite 150N
Entity Address, City or Town	Sacramento
Entity Address, Postal Zip Code	95833
Entity Address, Country	CA
City Area Code	+61
Local Phone Number	8 881507400
Contact Personnel Name	Spyridon “Spyros” Papapetropoulos, M.D.
Contact Personnel Email Address	spyros@bionomics.com.au