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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-013458 to Soluna Holdings, Inc (SLNH)

Soluna Holdings, Inc
Date: Dec. 5, 2024 · CIK: 0000064463 · Accession: 0000000000-24-013458

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December 5, 2024 John Belizaire Chief Executive Officer Soluna Holdings, Inc. 325 Washington Avenue Extension Albany, New York 12205 Re:Soluna Holdings, Inc. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed November 12, 2024 File No. 333-282559 Dear John Belizaire: We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following comments. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our November 1, 2024 letter. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 General 1.We note your response to prior comment 1 and revised offering size. As we continue to evaluate your response, please provide us with a more detailed legal and factual analysis of your basis for determining that it is appropriate to characterize the transaction as a secondary offering under Securities Act Rule 415(a)(1)(i), including an analysis of each of the factors material to this determination. In responding, please consider the guidance provided in Compliance Disclosure Interpretations, Securities Act Rules, Question 612.09. We note your response to prior comment 2 and partially reissue. Since this appears to be a private equity line financing, please revise to more specifically name YA II PN, Ltd., the equity line investor (the “Investor”), as an underwriter for the resale of the 2.

December 5, 2024 Page 2 equity line shares, or advise. At a minimum, this disclosure should appear on the prospectus cover page and in the plan of distribution section. 3.Refer to your response to prior comment 4 and related revisions. We note that as a "consent fee" to your Selling Holder, Chuntao Zhou (the Series B Holder), you are obligated to issue an amount of shares equal to 10% of those issued under the Standby Equity Purchase Agreement ("SEPA") and your supplemental response that, "The shares 'to be issued' are a variable consent fee (emphasis added) and are issued as the SEPA is drawn upon." Please note that in order for the private placement of the shares to be complete and the selling shareholder to be at market risk, (i) the per share purchase price must be fixed and cannot be subject to adjustment based on the market price of the common stock and (ii) the selling shareholder must be irrevocably bound to purchase a set number of securities at the time of the filing of the resale registration statement. For guidance, refer to Questions 139.06 and 139.11 of the Securities Act Sections Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. Given the "variable consent fee" with respect to the shares "to be issued" to this Selling Holder, the per share purchase price appears undetermined. As such, this Selling Holder does not appear to be irrevocably bound to purchase a set number of securities for a set purchase price that is not market-based or to be at market risk with respect to its investment. Accordingly, please remove from the registration statement any shares which you had not issued to this Selling Holder prior to October 9, 2024, which is the filing date of your initial registration statement. Alternatively, please provide us with a detailed legal analysis of why this private placement was completed prior to your attempt to register the resale of such shares and whether the closing of this private placement will occur within a short time after the effectiveness of your registration statement, as contemplated by Question 139.11 of the Securities Act Sections Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. Cover Page 4.We note your response to prior comment 6 and reissue in part. Please revise the definition of "Series B Holder" on the cover page to identify the Series B Holder by name (i.e., Chuntao Zhou). 5.Refer to your disclosure in the last sentence of the second paragraph on the cover page that "[s]uch Selling Holders and any permitted transferee are deemed to be an 'underwriter' within the meaning of Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act of 1933..." (emphasis added). Please address the following points in your next amendment or response letter, as applicable: •Revise the phrase "[s]uch Selling Holders" to read "the Selling Holders" to avoid the possible interpretation that certain specified Selling Holders, rather than all the Selling Holders, are deemed to be “underwriters,” consistent with your disclosure elsewhere (page 11, paragraph 6) that "[t]he Selling Holders...are deemed to be ‘underwriters’...," or advise otherwise. •It appears you may have concluded that any permitted transferee of the Selling Holders, including but not limited to the Investor, is deemed to be an “underwriter.” Please supplementally clarify whether this is the case. We may have further comments based upon your response and any revisions.

December 5, 2024 Page 3 6.In the fifth-to-last paragraph on the cover page, you state that “[i]f any underwriters, dealers or agents are involved in the sale of any of the [Selling Holders’] securities, their names and any applicable purchase price, fee, commission or discount arrangement...will be set forth...in any applicable prospectus supplement.” Please confirm your understanding that the retention by a Selling Holder of an underwriter would constitute a material change to your plan of distribution requiring a post- effective amendment, and revise your disclosure throughout accordingly. Refer to your undertaking provided pursuant to Item 512(a)(1)(iii) of Regulation S-K. 7.In the same paragraph noted above, we note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 3 that you “will supplement this prospectus with any information regarding any permitted transferees of the Selling Holders when such transferees become identifiable.” Please address the following points: •It appears that a post-effective amendment could be required in certain circumstances. Please revise to clarify in the above-referenced disclosure that you will file a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment, as necessary. For guidance, refer to Question 220.04 of the Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. •Furthermore, please confirm that you will file a post-effective amendment to identify any permitted transferees of the Investor and name them as underwriters for the resale of the equity line shares before such transferees use this prospectus, and revise your disclosure accordingly. Selling Holders, page 9 8.We note your response to prior comment 7 and partially reissue. In the first paragraph on page 9, you state that this prospectus covers the resale of “up to an aggregate 11,308,642 shares of your common stock issuable to the Investor and the Series B Holders in connection with advances under the SEPA ” (emphasis added). Please reconcile with your disclosure elsewhere (e.g., the cover page) that this prospectus covers the resale of up to 11,000,000 shares issuable pursuant to the terms of the SEPA (consisting of 10,000,000 shares and 1,000,000 shares issuable to the Investor and the Series B Holder, respectively) and 308,642 shares issued to “two other Selling Holders...in connection with prior investment banking activities unrelated to the SEPA” (emphasis added). Please also revise the first paragraph on page 9 to more specifically identify the “remaining Selling Holders” who received their shares in connection with prior investment banking services unrelated to the SEPA, as your disclosure references. We note your response to prior comment 9. Please address the following points in your next amendment or response letter, as applicable: Revise your prospectus to clearly describe the material terms of the transactions from which each of Univest Securities, LLC ("Univest") and Bradley Richmond, your Selling Holders, originally received their shares being registered for resale, including the exemption from registration for the initial transaction and the date thereof. To the extent either/both of Univest and Mr. Richmond received their resale shares pursuant to the General Release Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.119 to the registration statement, as your response appears to indicate, explain how the •9.

December 5, 2024 Page 4 number of shares received was calculated pursuant to the terms thereof. •Given that Mr. Richmond does not appear to be a party to the General Release Agreement in his individual capacity, please describe any further transactions taking place that gave Mr. Richmond ownership of his resale shares, or advise otherwise, and file any related agreements as exhibits to your registration statement, if required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K. •Disclose the date the “5,938 consent shares of common stock” were issued to the Series B Holder in relation to the SEPA, as referenced in footnote 9 to the Selling Holders table on page 9, and the exemption from registration for the transaction. Plan of Distribution, page 11 10.We note your response to prior comment 10 states that the “shares issued to Univest Securities and Brad Richmond were not issued as underwriting compensation. The issuance of such shares is intended to settle obligations for other transactions that have closed in excess of a year ago.” In addition, in third paragraph on page 11, you state that “Univest and Mr. Richmond received shares offered under this prospectus as compensation [sic] investment banking services provided to the Company. As such (emphasis added), Univest and Mr. Richmond are deemed an ‘underwriter’ under the Securities Act.” Please revise your disclosure throughout to clearly state whether: (i) the shares issued to Univest and Mr. Richmond were issued as compensation for underwriting/investment banking services; and (ii) Univest and Mr. Richmond are underwriters. With a view towards revised disclosure, please also tell us in reasonable detail the nature of the company’s payment obligations to Univest and/or Mr. Richmond for which the issuance of such shares is intended to settle. In this regard, please advise whether such share issuance is intended to settle payment obligations for previous underwriting or investment banking services provided by Univest and/or Mr. Richmond to the company. Please also revise to clarify whether Mr. Richmond is a registered broker-dealer or an affiliate of a broker dealer. Exhibits 11.We refer to your filing fee table filed as Exhibit 107 to your registration statement. Please address the following points in your next amendment or response letter, as applicable: •We note that in this amendment, the aggregate amount of common shares being offered does not reconcile with the amount reflected in your fee table. Please reconcile these amounts, including in any subsequent amendments to your filing going forward. •We note your reference that the registration fee was calculated pursuant to Rule 457(b). If you are relying on Rule 457(b) under the Securities Act to offset some or all of the filing fee due on this registration statement, please include a table disclosing any fee offset claims and sources, or advise. See Instruction 3.B to the “Calculation of Filing Fee Tables” on Form S-1.

December 5, 2024 Page 5 Please contact Jessica Livingston at 202-551-3448 or David Lin at 202-551-3552 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Crypto Assets cc:Joseph P. Galda

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December 5, 2024
John Belizaire
Chief Executive Officer
Soluna Holdings, Inc.
325 Washington Avenue Extension
Albany, New York 12205
Re:Soluna Holdings, Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed November 12, 2024
File No. 333-282559
Dear John Belizaire:
            We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments.
            Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing
the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
            After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information
you provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note
otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our November 1, 2024 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
General
1.We note your response to prior comment 1 and revised offering size. As we continue
to evaluate your response, please provide us with a more detailed legal and factual
analysis of your basis for determining that it is appropriate to characterize the
transaction as a secondary offering under Securities Act Rule 415(a)(1)(i), including
an analysis of each of the factors material to this determination. In responding, please
consider the guidance provided in Compliance Disclosure Interpretations, Securities
Act Rules, Question 612.09.
We note your response to prior comment 2 and partially reissue. Since this appears to
be a private equity line financing, please revise to more specifically name YA II PN,
Ltd., the equity line investor (the “Investor”), as an underwriter for the resale of the 2.

December 5, 2024
Page 2
equity line shares, or advise. At a minimum, this disclosure should appear on the
prospectus cover page and in the plan of distribution section.
3.Refer to your response to prior comment 4 and related revisions. We note that as a
"consent fee" to your Selling Holder, Chuntao Zhou (the Series B Holder), you are
obligated to issue an amount of shares equal to 10% of those issued under the Standby
Equity Purchase Agreement ("SEPA") and your supplemental response that, "The
shares 'to be issued' are a variable consent fee  (emphasis added) and are issued as the
SEPA is drawn upon." Please note that in order for the private placement of the shares
to be complete and the selling shareholder to be at market risk, (i) the per share
purchase price must be fixed and cannot be subject to adjustment based on the market
price of the common stock and (ii) the selling shareholder must be irrevocably bound
to purchase a set number of securities at the time of the filing of the resale registration
statement. For guidance, refer to Questions 139.06 and 139.11 of the Securities Act
Sections Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. Given the "variable consent fee"
with respect to the shares "to be issued" to this Selling Holder, the per share purchase
price appears undetermined. As such, this Selling Holder does not appear to be
irrevocably bound to purchase a set number of securities for a set purchase price that
is not market-based or to be at market risk with respect to its investment. Accordingly,
please remove from the registration statement any shares which you had not issued to
this Selling Holder prior to October 9, 2024, which is the filing date of your initial
registration statement. Alternatively, please provide us with a detailed legal analysis
of why this private placement was completed prior to your attempt to register the
resale of such shares and whether the closing of this private placement will occur
within a short time after the effectiveness of your registration statement, as
contemplated by Question 139.11 of the Securities Act Sections Compliance and
Disclosure Interpretations.
Cover Page
4.We note your response to prior comment 6 and reissue in part. Please revise
the definition of "Series B Holder" on the cover page to identify the Series B Holder
by name (i.e., Chuntao Zhou).
5.Refer to your disclosure in the last sentence of the second paragraph on the cover page
that "[s]uch Selling Holders and any permitted transferee  are deemed to be an
'underwriter' within the meaning of Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act of 1933..."
(emphasis added). Please address the following points in your next amendment or
response letter, as applicable:
•Revise the phrase "[s]uch Selling Holders" to read "the Selling Holders" to avoid
the possible interpretation that certain specified Selling Holders, rather than all the
Selling Holders, are deemed to be “underwriters,” consistent with your disclosure
elsewhere (page 11, paragraph 6) that "[t]he Selling Holders...are deemed to be
‘underwriters’...," or advise otherwise.
•It appears you may have concluded that any permitted transferee of the Selling
Holders, including but not limited to the Investor, is deemed to be an
“underwriter.” Please supplementally clarify whether this is the case. We may
have further comments based upon your response and any revisions.

December 5, 2024
Page 3
6.In the fifth-to-last paragraph on the cover page, you state that “[i]f any underwriters,
dealers or agents are involved in the sale of any of the [Selling Holders’] securities,
their names and any applicable purchase price, fee, commission or discount
arrangement...will be set forth...in any applicable prospectus supplement.” Please
confirm your understanding that the retention by a Selling Holder of an underwriter
would constitute a material change to your plan of distribution requiring a post-
effective amendment, and revise your disclosure throughout accordingly. Refer to
your undertaking provided pursuant to Item 512(a)(1)(iii) of Regulation S-K.
7.In the same paragraph noted above, we note your revised disclosure in response to
prior comment 3 that you “will supplement this prospectus with any information
regarding any permitted transferees of the Selling Holders when such transferees
become identifiable.” Please address the following points:
•It appears that a post-effective amendment could be required in certain
circumstances. Please revise to clarify in the above-referenced disclosure that you
will file a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment, as necessary. For
guidance, refer to Question 220.04 of the Securities Act Rules Compliance and
Disclosure Interpretations.
•Furthermore, please confirm that you will file a post-effective amendment to
identify any permitted transferees of the Investor  and name them as underwriters
for the resale of the equity line shares before such transferees use this prospectus,
and revise your disclosure accordingly.
Selling Holders, page 9
8.We note your response to prior comment 7 and partially reissue. In the first paragraph
on page 9, you state that this prospectus covers the resale of “up to an aggregate
11,308,642 shares of your common stock issuable to the Investor and the Series B
Holders in connection with advances under the SEPA ” (emphasis added). Please
reconcile with your disclosure elsewhere (e.g., the cover page) that this prospectus
covers the resale of up to 11,000,000 shares issuable pursuant to the terms of the
SEPA (consisting of 10,000,000 shares and 1,000,000 shares issuable to the Investor
and the Series B Holder, respectively) and 308,642 shares issued to “two other Selling
Holders...in connection with prior investment banking activities unrelated to the
SEPA” (emphasis added). Please also revise the first paragraph on page 9 to more
specifically identify the “remaining Selling Holders” who received their shares in
connection with prior investment banking services unrelated to the SEPA, as your
disclosure references.
We note your response to prior comment 9. Please address the following points in
your next amendment or response letter, as applicable:
Revise your prospectus to clearly describe the material terms of the transactions
from which each of Univest Securities, LLC ("Univest") and Bradley Richmond,
your Selling Holders, originally received their shares being registered for resale,
including the exemption from registration for the initial transaction and the date
thereof. To the extent either/both of Univest and Mr. Richmond received their
resale shares pursuant to the General Release Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.119
to the registration statement, as your response appears to indicate, explain how the •9.

December 5, 2024
Page 4
number of shares received was calculated pursuant to the terms thereof.
•Given that Mr. Richmond does not appear to be a party to the General Release
Agreement in his individual capacity, please describe any further transactions
taking place that gave Mr. Richmond ownership of his resale shares, or advise
otherwise, and file any related agreements as exhibits to your registration
statement, if required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K.
•Disclose the date the “5,938 consent shares of common stock” were issued to the
Series B Holder in relation to the SEPA, as referenced in footnote 9 to the Selling
Holders table on page 9, and the exemption from registration for the transaction.
Plan of Distribution, page 11
10.We note your response to prior comment 10 states that the “shares issued to Univest
Securities and Brad Richmond were not issued as underwriting compensation. The
issuance of such shares is intended to settle obligations for other transactions that have
closed in excess of a year ago.” In addition, in third paragraph on page 11, you state
that “Univest and Mr. Richmond received shares offered under this prospectus as
compensation [sic] investment banking services provided to the Company. As such
(emphasis added), Univest and Mr. Richmond are deemed an ‘underwriter’ under the
Securities Act.” Please revise your disclosure throughout to clearly state whether: (i)
the shares issued to Univest and Mr. Richmond were issued as compensation for
underwriting/investment banking services; and (ii) Univest and Mr. Richmond are
underwriters. With a view towards revised disclosure, please also tell us in reasonable
detail the nature of the company’s payment obligations to Univest and/or Mr.
Richmond for which the issuance of such shares is intended to settle. In this regard,
please advise whether such share issuance is intended to settle payment obligations for
previous underwriting or investment banking services provided by Univest and/or Mr.
Richmond to the company. Please also revise to clarify whether Mr. Richmond is a
registered broker-dealer or an affiliate of a broker dealer.
Exhibits
11.We refer to your filing fee table filed as Exhibit 107 to your registration statement.
Please address the following points in your next amendment or response letter, as
applicable:
•We note that in this amendment, the aggregate amount of common shares being
offered does not reconcile with the amount reflected in your fee table. Please
reconcile these amounts, including in any subsequent amendments to your filing
going forward.
•We note your reference that the registration fee was calculated pursuant to Rule
457(b). If you are relying on Rule 457(b) under the Securities Act to offset some
or all of the filing fee due on this registration statement, please include a table
disclosing any fee offset claims and sources, or advise. See Instruction 3.B to the
“Calculation of Filing Fee Tables” on Form S-1.

December 5, 2024
Page 5
            Please contact Jessica Livingston at 202-551-3448 or David Lin at 202-551-3552 with
any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Crypto Assets
cc:Joseph P. Galda