SEC Company Response from MILESTONE SCIENTIFIC INC. (MLSS) (CIK 0000855683) (MLSS) — Dec 15, 2005
MILESTONE SCIENTIFIC INC. (MLSS) (CIK 0000855683)
Date: Dec. 15, 2005 · CIK: 0000855683 · Accession: 0000950136-05-008054
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MORSE, ZELNICK, ROSE & LANDER
A LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP
405 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022-4405
212 - 838 - 1177
FAX - 212 - 838 - 9190
WRITER'S DIRECT LINE
(212) 838-3089
December 15, 2005
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Mail Stop 6010
Washington, D.C. 20549
ATTENTION: MR. JAY MUMFORD
Re: Milestone Scientific Inc.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-3
Filed October 31, 2005
File No. 333-127728
Dear Sirs and Mesdames
This letter responds to the Staff's comment letter dated December 14
regarding the above-referenced Registration Statement filed by Milestone
Scientific Inc. ("Company" or "Milestone"). For ease of reference, your
inquiries have been incorporated in this letter and precede our responses. If
you have any questions regarding the responses to your comments, please feel
free to call me at the number indicated above.
General
1. Please tell us where you have registered your offer of the shares
underlying the warrants to the investors who purchase the warrants from
the selling security holders.
THE OFFER WAS MADE TO ACCREDITED INVESTORS, ALL BUT THREE SMALL
INVESTORS OF WHICH WERE FOREIGN ENTITIES AND DOMICILED OUTSIDE THE
UNITED STATES. THEREFORE, WE BELIEVE THE OFFERING WAS EXEMPT FOR
PURPOSES OF STATE LAWS IN THE U.S., OR NOT SUBJECT TO THE REGISTRATION
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5. IN ADDITION, MILESTONE IS AN AMERICAN STOCK
EXCHANGE LISTED COMPANY, AND THEREFORE WE BELIEVE THE OFFERING IS
EXEMPT IN ALL 50 STATES.
2. Please expand your response to comment 2 to clarify whether you are
simply removing the legend from existing warrants or are issuing
warrants with new terms in exchange for existing warrants. If you are
simply removing the legend, please reconcile your statement that the
warrants are non-certificated with your statement that the warrants
bear a restrictive legend.
WE ARE NEITHER SIMPLY REMOVING THE LEGEND NOR ISSUING WARRANTS WITH
NEW TERMS. WE WILL BE ISSUING WARRANTS WITH THE SAME TERMS (INCLUDING
THE EXERCISE PRICE) IN EXCHANGE FOR THE EXISTING NON-CERTIFICATED
WARRANTS. THE NEW WARRANTS WILL BE PUBLICLY TRADABLE AS THEY WILL BE IN
THE SAME CERTIFICATED FORM AS MILESTONE'S PUBLICLY TRADED WARRANTS. THE
EXISTING WARRANTS ARE IN THE FORM OF A 4-5 PAGE OPTION AGREEMENT, AND
CONTAIN A RESTRICTIVE LEGEND.
3. It is generally inconsistent with Section 5 of the Securities Act to
register securities for resale if the private offering of the
securities is not complete. If investors still can choose to "surrender
their non-public warrants" to you as mentioned in your response 2, it
is unclear why it is appropriate to register the resale of those
warrants at this time.
THE MARCH AND JUNE PRIVATE PLACEMENTS OF THE SECURITIES CLOSED, ALL
PROCEEDS WERE RECEIVED, AND CERTIFICATES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS EVIDENCING
THE SECURITIES WERE ISSUED, IN LATE MARCH THROUGH EARLY APRIL, AND JUNE
OF 2005 RESPECTIVELY. ONCE THE PENDING REGISTRATION IS EFFECTIVE, WE
WILL EXCHANGE THE NON-PUBLIC WARRANTS FOR WARRANTS IN CERTIFICATED FORM
AS DISCUSSED IN RESPONSE TO QUESTION 2 ABOVE. THIS EXCHANGE WILL NOT
INVOLVE ANY OFFER OR SALE, BUT WILL SIMPLY BE A REPLACEMENT OF ONE
CERTIFICATE FOR ANOTHER.
4. Please expand your response to prior comment 3 to analyze whether the
holders have offered the securities included in this registration
statement, regardless of whether the securities have been sold. If you
cannot determine whether the securities have been offered in violation
of Section 5 of the Securities Act, it is unclear why you need not
address the potential liability in your document.
THE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT THAT EACH INVESTOR SIGNED IN CONNECTION WITH
THE MARCH AND JUNE PRIVATE PLACEMENTS CONTAINED A LEGEND EXPLICITLY
PROHIBITING OFFERS OR SALES OF THE SECURITIES. THE LEGEND WAS ALSO
PLACED ON THE SECURITIES. IN ADDITION, THE INVESTOR REPRESENTATIVE FOR
THESE TWO OFFERINGS HAS CONFIRMED TO US THAT NONE OF THE SECURITIES
HAVE BEEN OFFERED IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES LAWS.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Virginia Tillyard
Virginia Tillyard