SEC Company Response from Ontrak, Inc. (OTRK, OTRKP) (CIK 0001136174) (OTRKQ) — Jun 18, 2009
Ontrak, Inc. (OTRK, OTRKP) (CIK 0001136174)
Date: June 18, 2009 · CIK: 0001136174 · Accession: 0001136174-09-000020
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File numbers found in text: 333-158407
Letter
United States Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Beverages, Apparel, and Health Care Services Re: Hythiam, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed April 3, File No. 333-158407
Dear Mr. Williams:
On behalf of our client Hythiam, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), we are responding to your letter of April 22, 2009, regarding the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-3. The Company’s responses to the staff’s comments are set forth below. For convenience, each of the comments has been duplicated below and is set forth immediately prior to the corresponding response.
General
Comment No.
We note that the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance currently has outstanding comments relating to the company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008. All comments relating to the staff's open review of the company's periodic filing will need to be resolved before effectiveness of the registration statement.
RESPONSE
All open comments have been resolved.
Comment No.
We note your disclosure that the aggregate market value of the company's outstanding common stock held by non-affiliates as of April 2, 2009 was $11,967,314. We also note that the company is registering $20 million on its unallocated shelf offering on Form S-3. Please advise us how the company will comply with the transaction requirement of General instruction I.B.6(a) of Form S-3. We may have further comment.
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
June 18,
Page
RESPONSE
The Company understands and acknowledges that the value of securities that may be sold pursuant to the registration statement within any 12 month period may be limited, depending upon the future sales price of the Company’s common stock.
In the event that the aggregate market value of the Company's outstanding common stock held by non-affiliates is less than $75 million as of a date within 60 days prior to a future sale, the Company will comply with the transaction requirement of General instruction I.B.6(a), by limiting the value of securities sold within any 12 month period to no more than one-third of the aggregate market value of common equity held by non-affiliates.
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Please feel free to contact me by telephone at 213.892.4907, fax at 213.452.8035, or email at jkirkland@luce.com should you have any comments or questions regarding the above.
Very
truly yours,
/s/ John C.
Kirkland
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[LUCE
FORWARD HAMILTON & SCRIPPS LLP LETTERHEAD]
June 18,
2009
BY
EDGAR
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Office of
Beverages, Apparel, and Health Care Services
Mail Stop
3561
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attn: John
Williams, Assistant Director
Re:
Hythiam,
Inc.
Registration
Statement on Form S-3, filed April 3,
2009
File
No. 333-158407
Dear Mr.
Williams:
On behalf
of our client Hythiam, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), we are
responding to your letter of April 22, 2009, regarding the above-referenced
Registration Statement on Form S-3. The Company’s responses to the
staff’s comments are set forth below. For convenience, each of the
comments has been duplicated below and is set forth immediately prior to the
corresponding response.
General
Comment No.
1
We note
that the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance currently has outstanding
comments relating to the company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
31, 2008. All comments relating to the staff's open review of the company's
periodic filing will need to be resolved before effectiveness of the
registration statement.
RESPONSE
All open
comments have been resolved.
Comment No.
2
We note
your disclosure that the aggregate market value of the company's outstanding
common stock held by non-affiliates as of April 2, 2009 was $11,967,314. We also
note that the company is registering $20 million on its unallocated shelf
offering on Form S-3. Please advise us how the company will comply with the
transaction requirement of General instruction I.B.6(a) of Form S-3. We may have
further comment.
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
June 18,
2009
Page
RESPONSE
The
Company understands and acknowledges that the value of securities that may be
sold pursuant to the registration statement within any 12 month period may be
limited, depending upon the future sales price of the Company’s common
stock.
In the
event that the aggregate market value of the Company's outstanding common stock
held by non-affiliates is less than $75 million as of a date within 60 days
prior to a future sale, the Company will comply with the transaction requirement
of General instruction I.B.6(a), by limiting the value of securities sold within
any 12 month period to no more than one-third of the aggregate market value of
common equity held by non-affiliates.
***
Please
feel free to contact me by telephone at 213.892.4907, fax at 213.452.8035, or
email at jkirkland@luce.com should you have any comments or questions regarding
the above.
Very
truly yours,
/s/ John C.
Kirkland
John C.
Kirkland
of
LUCE,
FORWARD, HAMILTON & SCRIPPS LLP
JCK/lu
cc: Mr.
Maurice Hebert