---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-087290"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZCAR"
cik: "0001854275"
company_name: "Zoomcar Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T09:30:05.015968+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nasdaq notifies Innovative International of board composition deficiency after Sheppard resigns

## Summary
- Valarie Sheppard resigned from the board, triggering non-compliance with Nasdaq independent director and audit committee rules (Rule 5605).
- Cure period runs until earlier of next annual meeting or July 21, 2024; if meeting before Jan 17, 2024, deadline is Jan 17, 2024.
- Company states it expects to regain compliance before the cure period expires; no immediate delisting impact.
- The notice is a deficiency notification only; trading of IOAC, IOACU, IOACW continues on Nasdaq.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-087290
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZCAR
- cik: 0001854275
- company_name: Zoomcar Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854275/000110465923087290/0001104659-23-087290-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854275/000110465923087290/tm2322786d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Zoomcar Holdings, Inc. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding audit committee (rules 5605, 5605(b)(1)(A), 5605(d)(2), 5605(c)(4)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: deficiency notice
  - Deficiency: audit committee
  - Rules: 5605, 5605(b)(1)(A), 5605(d)(2), 5605(c)(4)
  source text: July 28, 2023, Innovative International Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) received a written notice (the “Letter”) from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) indicating that, as a result of the resignation of Valarie Sheppard, a member of the IOAC Board, the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq’s independent director, compensation and audit committee requirements as set forth in Listing Rule 5605. The Letter is only a notification of deficiency, not of imminent delisting, and has no current effect on the listing or trading of the Company’s secur
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854275/000110465923087290/0001104659-23-087290-index.htm

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