Item 4.02. Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.
(a) On November 1, 2024, the audit committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the board of directors of Adagio Medical Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), after considering the recommendations of the Company’s management and the discussions with WithumSmith+Brown, PC, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, concluded that the previously issued (i) audited consolidated financial statements of Adagio Medical, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Adagio”), as of December 31, 2023 and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and (ii) unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Adagio as of March 31, 2024 and for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, which were reported in the registration statement on Form S-4 initially filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 19, 2024 and declared effective on July 12, 2024 in connection with the Business Combination (as defined and described below) and incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on August 6, 2024 (the “Business Combination Super 8-K”), and (iii) unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Adagio as of June 30, 2024 and for the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, which were reported in an amendment to the Business Combination Super 8-K on Form 8-K/A filed with the SEC on August 14, 2024 (the periods referenced in clause (i), (ii), and (iii), the “Relevant Periods”) should no longer be relied upon with respect to the error described below and should be restated. In addition, any earnings releases or other communications relating to the Relevant Periods should no longer be relied upon with respect to the error described below.
As the Company previously reported on the Business Combination Super 8-K, on July 31, 2024 (the “Closing Date”), the Company consummated a business combination pursuant to the terms of the Business Combination Agreement, dated February 13, 2024, by and among the Company, Adagio, ARYA Sciences Acquisition Corp IV (“ARYA”), Aja Holdco, Inc., Aja Merger Sub 1, and Aja Merger Sub 2, Inc., as amended by a certain Consent and Amendment No. 1 to Business Combination Agreement, dated as of June 25, 2024, by and between ARYA and Adagio (the “Business Combination”).
In connection with the preparation of the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2024 and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company identified an error in Adagio’s audited consolidated financial statements of as of December 31, 2023 and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of March 31, 2024 and for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, and unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2024 and for the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023. In accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 99, “Materiality,” the Company determined that the Adagio’s financial statements for the Relevant Periods were materially misstated and should be restated. The misstatement relates solely to the recording of accrued interest in both “Convertible notes payables, current” and “Other accrued liabilities”, resulting in an overstatement of accrued interest (the “Accounting Misstatement”). As such, the Company will restate Adagio’s financial statements for the Relevant Periods in Amendment No. 2 to the Business Combination Super 8-K (the “Amendment No. 2”). The restatement does not impact the ending balances as presented on Adagio’s unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information for the Relevant Periods. The financial information that has been previously filed or otherwise reported for the Relevant Periods with respect to the Accounting Misstatement will be superseded by the information to be included in the consolidated financial statements in the Amendment No. 2.
After re-evaluation, in light of the Accounting Misstatement described above, the Company’s management identified a material weakness related to the inadequate design and operation of management’s review controls over valuation reports prepared by third-party specialists in conjunction with the accounting for certain debt and equity instruments, resulting in the conclusion that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2023, March 31, 2024 and June 30, 2024. The Company’s management has actively engaged in implementing remediation plans to address the control deficiency outlined above. The remediation efforts include 1) additional review of third-party valuation reports utilized in the accounting for certain debt and equity instruments; 2) additional review of the manual journal entries based on externally generated reports and agreements with regard to accounting issues in certain debt and equity instruments; and 3) enhanced oversight controls on the work performed by third-party specialists. The Company will provide further specifics on the material weakness described herein and its remediation plan in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2024.