This Report includes statements that may be deemed to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements included in this Report, other than statements of historical facts, address matters that the issuer reasonably expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future. In some cases, one can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “intends,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue,” or the negative of such terms or other, similar terminology. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the issuer, or persons acting on the issuer’s behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Report. Except as required by law, the issuer undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which it is made or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events or circumstances. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the following:
- the issuer’s future financial position, including working capital and anticipated cash flow;
- amounts and nature of future capital expenditures;
- access to capital and financing;
- wells to be drilled or reworked;
- oil and natural gas prices and demand;
- existing fields, wells and prospects;
- estimates of proved oil and natural gas reserves;
- reserve potential;
- development and drilling potential;
- expansion and other development trends in the oil and natural gas industry;
- the issuer’s business strategy;
- production of oil and natural gas;
- effects of federal, state and local regulation;
- insurance coverage;
- employee relations;
- investment strategy and risk; and
- expansion and growth of the issuer’s business and operations.
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Although the issuer believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Disclosure of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the issuer’s expectations, or cautionary statements, are included under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Report, including, without limitation, in conjunction with the forward-looking statements. Factors, among others that could cause actual results to differ materially from the issuer’s expectations, include:
- unexpected changes in business or economic conditions;
- significant changes in natural gas and oil prices;
- timing and amount of production;
- unanticipated down-hole mechanical problems in wells or problems related to producing reservoirs or infrastructure;
- changes in overhead costs;
- material events resulting in changes in estimates; and
- competitive factors.
The forward-looking statements herein are based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are based on assumptions that the issuer will obtain or have access to adequate financing for each successive phase of its operations or growth, that there will be no material, adverse competitive or technological change affecting the issuer’s business, that the issuer’s executive officers and other significant employees will remain employed as such by the issuer, and that there will be no material, adverse change in the issuer’s operations or business, or in governmental regulation affecting the issuer. The foregoing assumptions are based on judgments with respect to, among other things, future economic, competitive, and market conditions, and future business decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond t he issuer’s control.
RISK FACTORS
Industry Risks
As an operator of and interest holder in a number of producing oil and gas wells, the Company’s products consist of unrefined petroleum products such as crude oil, natural gas and condensates therefrom. The Company is a relatively small producer and its position in the industry is insignificant. The oil and gas industry is very competitive and is dominated by a number of large producers, refiners and retailers. Such companies have substantially greater resources and expertise and significant competitive advantages over the Company. The Company’s ability to market its products, and the prices at which it can market them, are subject to numerous factors and conditions existing in the industry over which the Company has no control. Crude oil prices are determined on
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worldwide markets and are constantly fluctuating based on a number of political and economic factors. The Company can sell its oil only to large refineries, oil companies and other users at whatever the prevailing price in such markets is at the time. Also, natural gas is generally sold to a gas processing company that has pipelines and other distribution facilities sufficiently nearby to connect to the wells. If no such facilities exist, a well may be shut in even though capable of production. As of June 30, 2006, none of the gas-producing wells in which the Company had an interest was shut in. As of that date, moreover, the Company had gas and oil contracts in place for all the production from the wells in which the Company had an interest.
Management Risks
Management of the Company consists of Charles E. Ayers, Jr., the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, and Jamie Hood, who serves as Secretary/Treasurer as well as manager of the day-to-day operations of the company. Ms. Hood is the only full-time employee of the Company and, therefore, the only person who is able to devote all of her time to the affairs of the Company. Consequently, management of the Company has historically relied upon, and will continue to rely upon for the foreseeable future, the employment of outside consultants and independent contractors such as attorneys, accountants, geologists, petroleum engineers, financial advisors, pumpers and others to assist management in conducting the business affairs of the Company. The Chief Executive Officer and directors of the Company have other business interests in which they devote their primary attention or a substantial portion of their time and they are expected to c ontinue to do so for the foreseeable future. As a result, there are at least potential conflicts of interest which may arise because of such other commitments. Any such conflicts, however, have been and are expected to be resolved through the exercise of sound business judgment by such individuals consistent with their fiduciary duties to the Company.
As a direct result of the Company’s lack of adequate staffing, there are, and are expected to continue to be, material weaknesses in the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures. See Part I – Item 3 – Controls and Procedures.
Securities Market and Stock Ownership Risks
There is no predictable method by which investors in the securities of the Company shall be able to realize any gain or return on their investment in the Company, or shall be able to recover all or any substantial portion of the value of their investment. The Company has not paid dividends on its common stock, and does not anticipate paying such dividends in the foreseeable future. There is, moreover, currently no public market for the securities of the Company, and no assurance can be given that a market will develop or that an investor will be able to liquidate his investment without considerable delay, if at all. Consequently, should the investor suffer a change in circumstances arising from an event not contemplated at the time of his investment, and should the investor therefore wish to transfer the common stock owned by him, he may find he has only a limited or no ability to transfer or market the common stock. Accordingly, purchasers o f the common stock need to be prepared to bear the economic risk of their investment for an indefinite period of time. If a market should develop, the price may be highly volatile. Factors such as those discussed in this “Risk Factors” section may have a significant impact upon the market price of the securities of the Company. Owing to what may be expected to be the low price of the securities, many brokerage
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firms may not be willing to effect transactions in the securities. Even if an investor finds a broker willing to effect a transaction in these securities, the combination of brokerage commissions and any other selling costs may exceed the selling price. Further, many lending institutions will not permit the use of such securities as collateral for any loans. The Company has no agreement with any securities broker or dealer that is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., to act as a market maker for the Company’s securities. Should the Company fail to obtain one or more market makers for the Company’s securities, the trading level and price of the Company’s securities will be materially and adversely affected. Should the Company happen to obtain only one market maker for the Company’s securities, the market maker would in effect dominate and control the market for such securities. The Company’s registered securities are covered by a Securities and Exc hange Commission rule that imposes additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who sell such securities to persons other than established customers and accredited investors. For purposes of the rule, the phrase “accredited investors” means, in general terms, institutions with assets in excess of $5,000,000, or individuals having a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or having an annual income that exceeds $200,000 (or that, when combined with a spouse’s income, exceeds $300,000). For transactions covered by the rule, the broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the purchaser and receive the purchaser’s written, agreement to the transaction prior to the sale. Consequently, the rule may affect the ability of broker-dealers to sell the Company’s securities and also may affect the ability of investors in securities of the Company to sell their securities in any market that might develop therefor.
Of the currently issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, approximately 7,802,000 shares (approximately 82% of the total number of shares outstanding) are owned by, or are under the direct or indirect control of, only two individuals. That number of shares is enough to dominate and control the price and trading volume in the Company’s securities. Because those shares are controlled by such a limited number of persons, selling decisions by either or both of those persons can be expected to have a substantial impact upon (or “overhang” over) the market, if any, for the common stock. Should either or both of such persons choose to sell a large number of shares over a short period of time, the market price for the shares could be significantly depressed.
The majority of the Company’s authorized but unissued common stock remains unissued. The board of directors of the Company has authority to issue such unissued shares without the consent or vote of the stockholders of the Company. The issuance of these shares may dilute the interests of investors in the securities of the Company and will reduce their proportionate ownership and voting power in the Company.
PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
See attached Financial Statements and Schedules.
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
As a result of audit adjustments recorded as of and for the year ended December 31, 2005, the financial statements for the interim periods of that year have been restated to conform to the annual
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presentation. The following discussion and analysis gives effect to these restated financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2006.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
In the six months ended June 30, 2006, Unioil (the “Company”) had two primary sources of liquidity. The first was the Company’s cash position, held primarily in demand-deposit bank accounts. Cash was $1,016,711 at June 30, 2006. This compares to $706,382 at December 31, 2005, the end of the Company’s most recently completed fiscal year.
The Company’s second primary source of liquidity was cash flow from operations. This amount is used by the Company to analyze operating performance, leverage and liquidity. For the six months ended June 30, 2006, the Company’s average monthly cash flow from operations was $87,640. This figure compares to average monthly cash flow from ongoing operations of $43,157 for the six months ended June 30, 2005. The Company used this improved cash flow to finance internally generated projects on Company property.
At June 30, 2006, the Company’s net working capital had increased to $874,033 as compared to $743,041, at December 31, 2005. This increase is primarily attributable to the cashflow associated with the Company’s refracturing of five existing oil-and-gas wells during the first quarter of 2006 and the continued improvement in oil and gas prices. Those refracturings continue the Company’s plan for the development of its assets, with the expenditures being made with internally generated cash flow.
Management anticipates a further program of well refracturings. Management is engaged in an active evaluation of options for a combination of financial arrangements for that program, as well as for the drilling of new wells. During July 2006, the company has commenced operations on refracturing additional existing Company-operated wells.
Management considers the Company’s liquidity and capital resources adequate to meet the Company’s current and foreseeable general and administrative expenses, and other internal needs. Management believes such liquidity and resources to be sufficient, moreover, to support the Company’s ongoing business operations, such as continued production from the Company’s existing wells.
The Company’s liquidity, however, is highly dependent upon market prices for oil and gas. Those prices have a history of rapid and dramatic fluctuation. Management’s assessments of the Company’s liquidity, therefore, must be qualified in recognition of instability in the market prices for the Company’s products. A change in those prices can be expected to have a material effect upon the Company’s liquidity.
Management believes, moreover, that the Company’s current liquidity and capital resources alone are inadequate for all of the Company’s possible future business operations, and are insignificant in comparison to other participants in the industry. Such resources are not sufficient to finance more than a portion of the anticipated growth in the Company’s business operations. The Company recognizes in this regard that its possible future business operations could include drilling its undeveloped acreage (6,990 gross acres) in Colorado on the 40-acre spacing now permitted on
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those properties. As a result, the Company is, and expects to remain, dependent upon possible industry partners and other outside sources of capital. The Company is in negotiations with a regional energy bank to provide a line-of-credit to the Company to accommodate its business operations in the near term. Management is unable to predict with certainty at this time the future availability of such partners or such capital, or the terms, if any, that might govern the Company’s participation with such partners or the Company’s access to such capital. In particular, there is no assurance that the Company will obtain the line-of-credit that is currently under negotiation.
Results of Operations
The Company holds up to a 27.5% after-payout working interest in 43 wells drilled under the Unioil/Prima Agreement. See Exhibits 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4. At June 30, 2006, 27 of the 43 wells had reached payout. At June 30, 2005, 22 of the 43 wells had reached payout.
The Company’s revenues from oil and gas sales increased by $344,621 and $609,826 to $719,221 and $1,322,776 from $374,600 and $712,950 (as restated) for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. This increase in revenues was attributable primarily to the increase in production resulting from the Company’s completion of a previously uncompleted zone in an existing well and to the refracturing of an existing zone in a second well in late 2005, and the refracturing of two additional existing wells in the last two weeks of March, 2006. Revenues also increased as a result of: (1) the refracturing of five wells operated by Petro-Canada; (2) the wells drilled in previous years that had reached payout under the Unioil/Prima Agreement; and (3) increases in the prices of oil and natural gas.
Costs of production increased by $30,312 and $530,835 to $123,619 and $708,978 from $93,307 and $178,143 for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. This increase in production costs is primarily attributable to the Company’s expenditure of $448,608 in the refracturing of five existing oil-and-gas wells during the first quarter of 2006. Of these amounts, $341,157 was expended on the refracturing of two Unioil operated wells and $107,451 on refracturing of wells operated by another operator. The increase was also attributable to the additional operating costs associated with 5 additional Unioil/Prima Agreement wells achieving payout, the Company’s share of operating cost on a newly drilled well, a recompleted well and the refracturing of 3 Company-operated wells, not included in the 2005 operating costs.
The Company’s general and administrative expenses decreased by $28,662 to $162,251 from $190,913 (as restated) for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. However, expenses decreased more significantly by $66,198 to $277,109 from $343,307 (as restated) for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The decrease is attributable primarily to decreases in professional fees associated with the extensive use of outside consultants for 2005 resulting in additional legal fees, as well as audit, accounting and professional expenses associated with the effort to bring the Company’s filings current and additional costs associated with a proposed drilling deal that was presented on terms that were unacceptable to management.
Depreciation, depletion and amortization expenses increased by $38,516 and $54,490 to $83,034 and $144,996 from $44,518 and $90,506 (as restated) for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. This increase is primarily a result of increases in the
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production from existing wells and the additional production from the wells that had reached payout under the Unioil/Prima Agreement and increases associated with the drilling, recompletion and refracturing activities discussed above.
Interest and other expenses were $73 and $175 compared to $130 and $263 for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The decrease in these expenses is attributable primarily to the reduction in the outstanding balance of the Company’s indebtedness to Ford Credit Corporation on a Company owned vehicle.
The Company realized an increase in net income of $186,727 and $54,245 to $217,728 and $121,581 for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006, as compared to $31,001 and $67,336 (as restated) for the corresponding periods of 2005. The increase in net income for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006, as compared to the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year, is attributable primarily to increases in revenues and the other items discussed above. The accompanying financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 have been restated to remove income of $181,000 recognized as misappropriation loss recovery, and the associated deferred tax of $69,920. The effect of the correction was to decrease net income for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2006 by $111,080 ($0.01 per share).
Prior Period Adjustments
The Company has restated prior years' financial statements to reflect the removal from its full cost pool of certain proved undeveloped reserves which had been included in reserve reports for prior years. The cumulative effect was additional cost-ceiling write offs of $2,232,554, which in turn results in decreased depreciation, depletion and amortization in subsequent periods. Depreciation, depletion and amortization as restated totaled $44,518 and $90,506 for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2005, as compared to the previously reported amount of $48,982 and $106,548, respectively.
The comparative period of the previous years' financial statements were also corrected for errors in the recognition of revenue and costs of revenue for the Company’s non-operated wells, the effect of which was to increase net income in the quarter ended June 30, 2005 by $7,841, while decreasing net income for the six month period ended June 30, 2005 by $48,352.
The Company's previous assessment of the likelihood of realization of its deferred tax assets which resulted in recording a full valuation allowance had been based upon a misinterpretation of the requirements of FASB 109 to evaluate the likelihood of utilization of operating loss carryforwards and to record a deferred tax asset accordingly. Consequently, the Company had recorded a reduction in its deferred tax asset valuation allowance as the correction of an error, resulting in a decrease of $1,439,347 in the retained earnings deficit at December 31, 2003.
This corrected valuation allowance from previous years resulted in the comparative period of the previous years' financial statements being restated to record deferred income tax expense of $18,179 for the quarter and $39,677 for the six month period ended June 30, 2005.
Item 3. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are designed with an objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in the Company’s periodic reports filed with the Securities and
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Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), such as this Report on Form 10-QSB, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the Commission. Disclosure controls are designed also with an objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Company's chief executive officer (who also acts as the Company's chief financial officer) in a manner that will allow timely consideration regarding required disclosures.
The evaluation of the Company's disclosure controls by its chief executive officer included a review of the objectives and design of the controls, the operation of the controls, and the effect of the controls on the information presented in this Report. The Company's management, including its chief executive officer, does not expect that disclosure controls can or will prevent or detect all errors or all fraud, if any. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, rather than absolute, assurance that the objectives of the system are met. Projections of any evaluation of the disclosure controls and procedures to future periods, moreover, are subject to the risk that the disclosure controls and procedures may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, and that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures might deteriorate.
As a result of his review and evaluation as of the end of the period covered by this Report (the “Evaluation Date”), and subject to the inherent limitations described above, the Company’s chief executive officer has concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) are ineffective, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
The Company did not maintain effective controls over the segregation of duties in its manual and computer-based business processes which would mitigate the risk of management override of disbursement controls.
A material weakness is a significant deficiency, or a combination of significant deficiencies, that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected.
The current status of the Company's internal control remediation is as follows:
Currently, the Company’s chief executive officer and the Company’s Treasurer, the only full-time employee, continue to have sole responsibility for the Company’s receipts and disbursements. The Company’s chief executive officer, moreover, is not involved on a day-to-day basis in the financial transactions of the Company, and does not spend a significant amount of time in the Company's offices. See “Risk Factors – Management Risks.” The Company does not employ any other parties on an in-house basis to prepare the Company’s financial statements and periodic public filings. Such reliance upon the Company’s only full-time employee impairs the Company’s ability to provide for a proper segregation of duties and the ability to ensure consistently complete and accurate financial reporting and, therefore, impairs the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures.
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Because of the relatively limited scale of the Company’s business and administrative activities, management has determined that it would not be cost effective to implement a substantial increase in the in-house staffing of the Company’s accounting function. In particular, the Company does not anticipate hiring a full time controller in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, management recognizes that the lack of segregation of duties will constitute an ongoing deficiency in the Company’s internal controls.
During the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006, the Company engaged a CPA firm to act as a consultant to the Company on matters of accounting procedures and disclosures. The engagement of this consultant has mitigated control deficiencies related to the level of accounting knowledge, experience and training in the application of generally accepted accounting principles for existing Company personnel identified by management in its December 31, 2005 control assessment. Specifically, the following deficiencies were addressed during the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006: accounting for income taxes, recording of revenue, and financial statement presentation of operator revenues. In addition, the consultant will act as project coordinator to ensure more timely Company filings.
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Item 1. Legal Proceedings
As of the date of filing this Report, no present officer or director of the Company: 1) has had any petition filed, within the past five years, in U.S. Bankruptcy or state insolvency proceedings on such person's behalf or on behalf of any entity of which such person was an officer or general partner within two years of filing; or 2) has been convicted in a criminal proceeding within the past five years or is currently a named subject of a pending criminal proceeding; or 3) has been the subject, within the past five years, of any order, judgment, decree or finding (not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated) of any court or regulatory authority involving violation of securities or commodities laws, or barring, suspending, enjoining or limiting any activity relating to securities, commodities or other business practice.
Unioil vs. Fred C. Jones. By a Complaint with Jury Demand filed on December 1, 2005, the Company commenced a civil action in the District Court in and for Weld County, Colorado (Case No. 2005CV2215) against Fred C. Jones, a former employee of Unioil. That Complaint alleged claims against Mr. Jones for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and commercial theft. In compliance with applicable laws and the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, no amounts of monetary damages were stated in the Complaint. However, Mr. Jones failed to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint in this action and the Company timely filed a Motion for Default Judgment on December 30, 2005, which listed and quantified the damages sought by the Company against Mr. Jones. That Motion listed those damages as including: (a) actual damages in the amount of $197,839, trebled pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes §18-4-405 to $593,517; (b) statutory inter est at the rate of 8% per annum compounded annually pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes §5-12-102(1) on the amount of the Company’s funds wrongfully withheld, misappropriated or unlawfully converted by Mr. Jones from the date of such wrongful conduct to the date of payment; and (c) attorneys’ fees in the amount of $1,980 and costs of this action in the amount of $331.
By Order for Default Judgment dated March 10, 2006, the District Court in and for Weld County, Colorado, entered a Judgment against Mr. Jones in the total amount of $595,828. The Judgment further provided that the damages awarded would accrue interest at the statutory rate of 8% per annum compounded annually from the date of the wrongful withholding, misappropriation or unlawful conversion of the relevant funds by Mr. Jones. By applicable rules, all such judgments are automatically stayed for a period of 15 days before any collection activity can begin. As of the date of filing of this Report, that 15-day period had expired. Unioil, therefore, intends to continue to pursue collection efforts.
By Order dated May 1, 2006, Mr. Jones was required to deliver within 10 days thereafter his certificate for common stock in Unioil to Unioil’s counsel. Mr. Jones failed to do so, but Unioil obtained an Order requiring Mr. Jones and his wife to appear at a hearing on July 7, 2006 for their depositions and to produce all documents previously requested, including Mr. Jones’ stock certificate. On or about June 29, 2006, Unioil’s counsel did receive that stock certificate from Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones’ certificate represents 452,500 shares of common stock of the Company after the one-for-ten reverse stock split that was effective December 29, 2005. As a result of information and
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documents received from Mr. Jones during his deposition on July 7, 2006, management continues to be of the opinion that the amount of the Judgment with accrued interest substantially exceeds the remaining assets of Mr. Jones that would be available for collection. Therefore, management does not believe that Unioil will be able to collect all or substantially all of this Judgment.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
For the period covered by this Report, no information is required to be furnished pursuant to this Item 2.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
For the period covered by this Report, no information is required to be furnished pursuant to this Item 3.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
No matter was submitted to a vote of security holders through the solicitation of proxies or otherwise during the period covered by this Report. The last meeting of stockholders of the Company was held on November 30, 2005.
Item 5. Other Information
For the period covered by this Report, no information is required to be furnished pursuant to this Item 5.
Item 6. Exhibits and Reports of Form 8-K
Exhibits
Except as listed below, exhibits to this Report consist of documents previously filed, which documents are incorporated herein as exhibits to this Report by reference to registration statements and other reports previously filed by the Company pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.