8-K

Akumin Inc.

Date: January 6, 2022

/s/ Matt Cameron

Matt Cameron

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

January 6, 2022

Akumin Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)


Ontario	001-39479	N/A
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

8300 W. Sunrise Boulevard

Plantation, Florida

33322

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

(844) 730-0050

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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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
Common Shares, no par value	AKU	The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
Common Shares, no par value	AKU	Toronto Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☒

If an emerging growth company, 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. ☐

Item 8.01 Other Events.

Domestic Issuer Status

As Akumin Inc. (the “Company”) disclosed in its 2021 Management Information Circular, as of June 30, 2021, the last business day of its second fiscal quarter, the Company determined that it no longer qualified as a foreign private issuer. As a result, effective January 1, 2022, the Company is required to file periodic reports and registration statements on U.S. domestic issuer forms with the SEC, which are more detailed and extensive in certain respects, and which must be filed more promptly, than the forms available to a foreign private issuer. In addition, the Company is required to comply with U.S. proxy requirements and Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure) and the Company’s officers, directors and principal shareholders are subject to the beneficial ownership reporting and short-swing profit recovery requirements in Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company is also no longer eligible to rely upon exemptions from corporate governance requirements that are available to foreign private issuers or to benefit from other accommodations for foreign private issuers under the rules of the SEC or the Nasdaq. The Company’s next Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2020 will be filed as a domestic issuer, on Form 10-K.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Akumin Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Other Events