This is just a guess, but what if the new corporation bought the assets of QASP for x number of shares. QASP declares a dividend to the shareholders distributing a portion of the shares and retaining a portion. The new corporation gets funding and goes forward to bigger and better things. QASP eventually sells the retained portion of shares of the new company and the proceeds go to clean up the outstanding debts and clean up the shell in order to sell it.
The end result is that QASP shareholders get a stake in the new company via the dividend while still retaining all of their QASP shares. Eventually, QASP is going to have to be reversed in order to be attractive to any reverse merger candidates.
The dividend would likely be on the order of perhaps 1 share of the new company for every 1000 shares of QASP. That means that the new company only releases 1.5 to 2 million shares to acquire all of the QASP assets. This gives instant value to the new corporation with minimal dilution.
Like I said, this is only a guess, but it sure makes sense to me to do something along these lines.