SEC Comment Letter for WILDER RICHMAN HISTORIC PROPERTIES II LP (CIK 0000827830) — Dec 16, 2004
WILDER RICHMAN HISTORIC PROPERTIES II LP (CIK 0000827830)
Date: Dec. 16, 2004 · CIK: 0000827830 · Accession: 0000000000-04-040506
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December 14, 2004
Via Facsimile (215) 864-9181 and U.S. Mail
Gerald J. Guarcini, Esq.
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
1735 Market Street, 51st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
RE: Wilder Richman Historic Properties II, L.P.
Schedule TO-T filed December 1, 2004,
by Dixon Mill Investors, LLC
File No. 5-79056
Dear Mr. Guarcini:
We have the following comments on the above-referenced
filing.
Item 10 to Schedule TO-T
1. We note the Purchaser was formed in February, 2004 solely for
the purpose of acquiring the units and that only the Purchaser has
appeared as a filing person on Schedule TO. The definition of
"offeror" includes not only the purchaser of securities in the
offer, but also any person or entity on whose behalf the offer is made
(see Instruction K (1) to Schedule TO). The definition of "bidder" in
Rule 14d-1(g)(2) similarly defines persons on whose behalf an
offer is made to be properly identified as bidders. Please advise us
why the individual members of the LLC have not also been identified as
offerors/bidders in this offer and signatories on the Schedule TO.
Before drafting your response, please review "Identifying the
Bidder in a Tender Offer" in the Division of Corporation Finance`s
Current Issues and Rulemaking Projects Outline, available on our web site
at www.sec.gov for general guidance. Any new bidders in the tender
offer must ensure that they independently satisfy the timing,
signatory and dissemination requirements of Schedule TO.
Item 10. Financial Statements
2. Notwithstanding the fact audited financial statements have not
been produced for the Purchaser, advise us, with a view toward
revised disclosure, how the Purchaser apparently concluded that
audited financial statements were not required for compliance with
this item.
Offer to Purchase
Introduction
3. The Purchaser represents in the introduction of the offer to
purchase that no brokerage commissions will be paid by tendering
unit holders. Notwithstanding this disclosure, revise to indicate, if
true, that unit holders may be charged a transfer or other fee by
their depositary or broker for electing to participate in the
offer.
Determination of Offer Price, page 12
4. Provide a more precise description of the method underlying the
Purchaser`s calculation of the offer price, including any
assumptions made, and quantify the calculations where practicable. We believe
that unit holders need to know what valuation methodologies were
used in deciding the amount of the consideration offered. As a result,
the bidder should summarize how the offer price was determined.
See Section III.B.1 of Exchange Act Release No. 34-43069 (July 24,
2000).
...Prior Contacts, page 13
5. We note the Co-Manager receives "customary management fees"
from the operating partnerships under the Management Agreement.
Quantify the amount of these fees so that unit holders may evaluate the
potential significance of this disclosure.
Source of Funds, page 14
6. We note the members have irrevocably agreed and are obligated
to make capital contributions on demand. Advise us, with a view
toward disclosure, why these agreements have not been summarized as
required by Item 7 of SC TO and Item 1007(b) of Regulation M-A.
Future Plans of the Purchaser, page 15
7. Your disclosure indicates that the Purchaser and its affiliates
have no current intention to acquire additional units. On a
supplemental basis, please confirm, if true, that neither the
Purchaser nor any of its affiliates are making this offer with a
view toward, or in connection with, any plan or purpose of acquiring
units in a series of successive and periodic offers (whether or not at
increasing prices) in order to acquire units over time at the
lowest possible price at which unit holders are willing to sell. In
addition, advise whether the Purchaser or its affiliates intend to
continue to acquire units in the future until they obtain a
controlling interest in the Partnership.
Closing Information
Please amend your filing promptly to comply with our
comments. If you do not agree with a comment, then tell us why in your
response. If the information you provide in response to our
comments materially changes the information that you have already provided
to unit holders, disseminate the revised materials in a manner
reasonably calculated to inform them of the new information.
Depending upon your response to these comments, a supplement may
need to be sent to unit holders.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filings reviewed by the staff to
be certain that they have provided all information investors require
for an informed decision. Since the bidder is in possession of all
facts relating to its disclosure, it is responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosures it has made.
In connection with responding to our comments, please
provide,in writing, a statement from the bidder acknowledging that:
* the bidder is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in the filings;
* staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments in the filings reviewed by the staff do not foreclose the
Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and
* the bidder may not assert staff comments as a defense in any
proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the
federal securities laws of the United States.
In addition, please be advised that the Division of
Enforcement has access to all information you provide to the staff of the
Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filing or in
response to our comments on your filing.
Direct any questions to me at (202) 942-2920. You may also
contact me via facsimile at (202) 942-9638. Please send all
correspondence to us at the following ZIP code: 20549-0303.
Sincerely,
Nicholas P. Panos
Special Counsel
Office of Mergers &
Acquisitions
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