It is the initial registration form submitted to SEC that is part of the process of registering a stock for trading. The above link says of it:
The above info also refers to the other types of Form 10s, namely the ones for annual reports (10-K) and quarterly reports (10-Q).
I find it hard to believe that Nixon didn't know about any of these various Form 10s when he went public the first time. But, I suppose that since he got himself involved with bad actors who diluted his stock, he could also have been ignorant of some of these other on-going filing-related realities; but I still find it hard to believe, especially since he had Brenda Hamilton working for him. Surely she would have explained the obligations and on-going costs.
[I think the initial "Form 10" to register is the one that is very expensive.]
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Nixon's 10-K and 10-Q filings say that once NRG reverse-merged into WCVC, NRG became a "wholly owned subsidiary" of WCVC. At least the 10-K's mention the various sub-corporations that were also part of WCVC (various LLCs registered mostly in Colorado).
that Nixon always kept up with those state filings. They were very short and didn't cost much. They are as perfunctory as annual auto-registration of one's car.
What Nixon has not really made public is what duties Nixon Restaurant Group performed since the reverse merger with WCVC to go public. However, the Edger filings indicate that WCVC was the trading label of NRG.
Re "making it right" ... yeah, that's a puzzler, given how diluted the share structure has become. Do the initial 27 investors hold Preferred shares that have a higher value than common shares (i.e., they can be converted into common shares at some one-to-many ratio)?
Side note: once upon a time, for about a month, it appears that Nixon went public with the ticker IBGR, but seems to have quickly backed out of that and eventually reverse-merged into WCVC. The ticker symbol IBGR still exists: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/getboards.aspx?searchstr=ibgr
If you click back far enough in the history, you will see that reports published on 06/05/2015 said they were for "Illegal Burger." They were for the quarter ending March 31, 2015.
The very next report said nothing about Illegal Burger. Very odd.
Sometime later Nixon reverse-merged NRG to become WCVC.
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