SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-002304 to DarkPulse, Inc. (DPLS)
DarkPulse, Inc.
Date: Feb. 29, 2024 · CIK: 0000866439 · Accession: 0000000000-24-002304
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
February 29, 2024
Dennis O’Leary
Chief Executive Officer
DarkPulse, Inc.
815 Walker Street, Suite 1155
Houston, TX 77002
Re:DarkPulse, Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed February 9, 202
File No. 333-276114
Dear Dennis O’Leary:
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 January 16, 2024 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1
Prospectus Summary, page 2
1.Please update your disclosure at the beginning of the Prospectus Summary to be consistent
with your current operations and to reflect the stage of development and lack of
commercial sales of your BOTDA system. Similarly revise the beginning of your
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations and Business sections.
2.In response to prior comment 2, you disclosed on page 50 that the business combination
agreement between Global System Dynamics, Inc. and the company was terminated on
January 23, 2024. Also disclose that Global System Dynamics is required to redeem the
remaining public shares and liquidate because it did not consummate a business
combination by February 9, 2024. Provide a cross-reference to a new risk factor that
discusses and quantifies the consequences to the company of the terminatiion of the
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business combination agreement and the liquidation of Global System Dynamics, both as
a party to the transaction and as the sponsor of Global System Dynamics. For example,
disclose the amount of money spent by the company to become the sponsor and the
amount provided to Global System Dynamics as the sponsor. Also disclose the transaction
costs to the company from entering into and pursuing the consummation of the business
combination agreement.
Current Operations, page 4
3.Please discuss why Remote Intelligence, LLC, Wildlife Specialists, LLC, and TJM
Electronics West, Inc. are no longer in operation. If material, discuss the impact on the
company in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations.
4.Please explain your statement that you "are pending a Purchase Order issuance to our
contract manufacturer Sanmina Corp (NASDAQ: SANM) for full manufacturing of our
patented BOTDA sensor system hardware." In this regard, it is not clear whether or when
you plan to submit a purchase order, whether you have a customer for your BOTDA
system or how you plan to fund such a purchase order.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Financings, page 38
5.Please reconcile the differences between the table on page 38 showing the puts made by
the company during 2023 to GHS pursuant to the May 2022 Equity Financing Agreement
with the table on page II-5.
Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 43
6.We have considered your response to prior comment 8 and reissue our comment in part.
Please disclose the amount of debt subject to pending litigation. Discuss the level
operations that your twelve-month future cash requirements of $2,718,828 will fund and
how long the company can operate with current resources.
Business
Our Operating Units, page 46
7.Please update your disclosure about Optilan India Pvt Ltd and Optilan Communications
& Security Systems Ltd to reflect what you acquired on December 1, 2023 from the
liquidation of Optilan. For example, discuss what was excluded from the purchase and
the impact on the operations of these entities. Refer to your Form 8-K filed December 1,
2023. If material, file the purchase agreements as an exhibit. In addition, clarify whether
the installations disclosed for these companies were during the time the company owned
Optilan or since you acquired them from the liquidation of Optilan.
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DarkPulse, Inc.
February 29, 2024
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Intellectual Property, page 54
8.Please disclose the duration of your material patents.
Legal Proceedings, page 54
9.We have considered your response to prior comment 10. Please note that you may not
provide disclosure about your legal proceedings by referring to your Form 10-Q filed
November 15, 2023. The full disclosure must be provided in the Form S-1. Therefore, we
reissue the comment. Please provide all the disclosure required by Item 103 of Regulation
S-K. Ensure the disclosure is updated to the latest practicable date and includes a
description of the factual basis alleged to underlie the proceedings and the relief sought.
See General Instruction VII.D.1.c to Form S-1.
Item 15 - Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities, page II-1
10.We note that you registered 1.8 billion shares for resale by GHS Investment under the
May 2022 Equity Financing Agreement on Form S-1, file number 333-265401. The table
disclosing the shares sold to GHS Investments pursuant to the May 2022 Equity Financing
Agreement indicates that you have sold 1,935,728,017 shares to GHS from June 24, 2022
through January 8, 2024. Since GHS Investments currently beneficially owns 216,416,267
shares, which corresponds to the number of shares you have sold to GHS Investments
under the Second Amended Equity Financing Agreement dated July 10, 2023, as
amended, it appears that GHS Investments resold 135,728,017 shares under the May 2022
Equity Financing Agreement that were not registered for resale. Please advise.
Exhibits
11.We note that counsel's revised legality opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 reflects that all 3.5
billion shares being registered are not currently outstanding. We further note that the
company has already sold 216,416,267 shares to GHS Investments pursuant to the Second
Amended Equity Financing Agreement dated July 10, 2023, as amended. If you intend to
register these currently outstanding shares for resale by GHS Investments, please have
counsel revise his opinion to address the legality of these shares.
Please contact Kathleen Krebs at 202-551-3350 or Larry Spirgel at 202-551-3815 with
any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Technology
cc: Brian Higley, Esq.