Case 05 — Davi Skin (DAVN, fka MW Medical)
CIK: 1059577 Ticker (OTC): DAVN Lineage: MW Medical, Inc. → Davi Skin, Inc. SIC (current): 2844 — Perfumes, Cosmetics & Toilet Preparations SIC (origin): medical devices / health services
Summary
CIK 1059577 is the seed lineage for Cane catalog heuristic #3 (reverse_merger_chain). MW Medical, Inc. — a medical-device-era shell registered in 1998 — emerges through the textbook 8-K Item 5.06 → 2.01 → 5.03 sequence as Davi Skin, Inc., a cosmetics issuer (SIC 2844), with the name change effective 2004-06-24 (EDGAR formerNames). The industry pivot from medical devices to perfumes/cosmetics is a clean sic_code_drift, and the post-merger float is exactly where the market-data confirmation page finds volume dislocations.
Dates/accessions below are EDGAR-confirmed; see
_edgar-facts-davi-lati.mdfor the source filings.
EDGAR filing chronology (structural fingerprints)
| Date | Form | Significance |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | (registration) | MW Medical, Inc. — original EDGAR identity on CIK 1059577 (medical-device origin) |
| 2001-04 / 2002-05 | 10-KSB | Regulation D private placements in the MW Medical era — the early offering precedent (acc 0001075793-01-500008, -02-000209) |
| 2004-06-10 | (corp action) | 500-for-1 reverse stock split (approved at 2004-05-10 annual meeting) |
| 2004-06-24 | EX-2.1 8-K | Agreement & Plan of Merger; MW Medical → Davi Skin (name change effective; 8-K 5.06 → 2.01 → 5.03 legs surround) (acc 0001255294-04-000201) |
| 2004-07-20 | SC 14F1 | Change-of-control information statement; Wallace convertible promissory note $570,775.30, convertible @ $0.20/sh (acc 0001255294-04-000214) |
| 2004-09-15 | S-8 + EX-5.1 | Opinion of counsel (McDonald·Carano·Wilson LLP), registering 340,000 shares (acc 0001255294-04-000267) |
| 2005-05-23 | 10-QSB | Regulation S offering — units (2 shares + 1 warrant) to four foreign investors (acc 0001255294-05-000310) |
| 2005-08 → 2006-01 | UPLOAD / CORRESP | SEC staff comment letters challenging the Reg S issuances (acc 0000000000-05-042920, -05-048374, -06-001113; 0001255294-06-000024) |
| 2006-05-12 | SB-2 | Resale registration of the placement/convertible shares (acc 0001255294-06-000321) |
| 2006–2012 | 10-KSB / 10-QSB / NT | Periodic + chronic late filings (NT 10-Q ×23) under the Davi Skin identity, cosmetics SIC 2844 |
| 2008 | — | DAVN trades OTC on the post-merger float (see price/volume confirmation) |
| 2012-08-27 | (last filing) | Final EDGAR filing; REVOKED registration status on record |
Per-heuristic scoring
| # | Heuristic | Trip? | Earliest trip | Weight | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name_recycling |
YES — formerName MW Medical → Davi Skin on one CIK | 2004-06-24 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | shell_reactivation |
PARTIAL — dormant medical-device shell reactivated via merger | 2004 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | reverse_merger_chain |
YES — 8-K 5.06 → 2.01 → 5.03 + EX-2.1 merger agreement | 2004-06-24 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | penny_stock_s1_s8 |
YES — S-8 (340k sh, 2004-09-15) + SB-2 resale (2006-05-12) | 2004-09-15 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | late_filer_cluster |
YES — NT 10-Q ×23, NT 10-K ×10 across the Davi period | 2005+ | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | going_dark_blackout |
PARTIAL — filings run to 2012-08-27, then REVOKED | 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | filer_agent_overlap |
YES — filer agent 0001255294 also files LATI + Cane 13Ds |
2004 | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | form_d_only_issuer |
NO — issuer files periodics | — | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | reg_s_issuance |
YES — Reg S units to 4 foreign investors (10-QSB 2005-05-23) | 2005-05-23 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | reg_a_offering |
NO | — | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | sic_code_drift |
YES — medical devices → cosmetics (SIC 2844), major-group shift | 2004-06-24 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | promissory_note_clauses |
YES — Wallace convertible note $570,775.30 @ $0.20 (SC 14F1) | 2004-07-20 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | opinion_letter_presence |
YES — EX-5.1 opinion, McDonald·Carano·Wilson (2004-09-15) | 2004-09-15 | 3 | 3 |
| 14 | form_144_outlier |
UNKNOWN | — | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | sec_staff_action |
YES — Reg S comment letters (2005–06) + REVOKED status | 2005-08 | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | self_filer_for_material_capital |
NO | — | 2 | 0 |
Headline structural score: 28 / 38 (EDGAR full-text-confirmed pass; accessions in _edgar-facts-davi-lati.md).
Distinct firing heuristics (n_sig): 12 → clears the n_sig ≥ 2 gate.
Tier: score 28 ≥ 10 → Tier 1 (daily review).
Precrime lead time
- Earliest trip date: 2004-06-24 — the EX-2.1 merger agreement / name change trips
reverse_merger_chain,name_recycling, andsic_code_driftsimultaneously; the convertible-note control change (SC 14F1) and Ex-5 opinion follow within 90 days. - Confirmation window: the 2008 OTC float (DAVN) is where market data confirms the structural signal — volume dislocations cluster in the post-merger float (see
stock-davi.md). - Lead time: flagged at the moment of emergence (2004), ~4 years before the 2008 float that the confirmation dimension scores, and 8 years before the 2012 REVOKED status.
Cane-scheme pattern match
Davi Skin is the origin exemplar of heuristic #3:
README.mdnames "MW Medical / Davi Skin shell-traffic" as the seed forreverse_merger_chainand cites the exact "8-K Items 5.06 → 2.01 → 5.03 sequence."- The medical-devices → cosmetics drift mirrors the RTSL chairs → film → pharma drift and the GP Solutions agriculture → cannabis drift — the same
sic_code_driftfingerprint across unrelated industries. - Read alongside
case-04-lati.md— the Tele-Lawyer → Dynamic Associates → Legal Access Technologies lineage on CIK 878146 — the two lineages show the catalog's two highest-weight heuristics (name_recycling,reverse_merger_chain) each anchored to a real 2001–2010 registrant, then generalizing forward to the modern cases. - The two are not merely adjacent: they share common control (Kyleen / Michael Cane, who file SC 13D on Legal Access Technologies via CIK 1144030) and the same EDGAR filing agent
0001255294— afiler_agent_overlapthread that binds the LATI and Davi Skin shells. Both also raise capital the same way: convertible promissory notes plus exemption offerings (Reg D in the MW era, Reg S in the Davi era), each registration carrying an Ex-5 opinion of counsel.
See genealogy-davi.md for the combined lineage diagram and stock-davi.md for the DAVN/LGAL market-data confirmation.