SEC Comment Letter for ASBURY AUTOMOTIVE GROUP INC (ABG) (CIK 0001144980) (ABG) — Jun 22, 2011
ASBURY AUTOMOTIVE GROUP INC (ABG) (CIK 0001144980)
Date: June 22, 2011 · CIK: 0001144980 · Accession: 0000000000-11-038306
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June 22, 2011 Via E-mail Elizabeth Chandler Vice President, General Couns el & Corporate Secretary Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. 2905 Premiere Parkway NW, Suite 300 Duluth, Georgia 30097 Re: Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. Amendment No. 1 to Registra tion Statement on Form S-4 Filed June 17, 2011 File No. 333-174217 Dear Ms. Chandler: We have limited our review of your registra tion statement to those issues we have addressed in our comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. Where you do not beli eve our comments apply 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 re gistration statement and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Item 22. Undertakings, page II-6 1. We note your response to comment seven in our letter dated Ju ne 1, 2011. You have provided the undertakings required by Item 512( g) of Regulation S-K, instead of Item 512(a) of Regulation S-K, as requested by such comment. Accordingly, we reissue such comment. Exhibit 5.2 2. Please tell us why you believe it is necessary to exclude the laws, rules and regulations in the second paragraph on page 3 with respect to the four opinions given on page 2, as your exclusion seems overly broad. If such excl usions are unnecessary, then please delete them from the opinion letter. Elizabeth Chandler Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. June 22, 2011 Page 2 Exhibit 5.4 3. Please delete the qualification “[o]ur opinions herein are ba sed upon our consideration of only those Oregon statutes and regulations which, in our experience, are normally applicable to transactions of the type provided for in the Registration Statement,” or tell us why you believe this qualif ication is appropriate. 4. Please tell us why you believe it is necessary to exclude the laws, rules and regulations in the third sentence of paragraph A on page 3 w ith respect to the four opinions given on page 3, as your exclusion seems overly broad. If such exclusions are unnecessary, then please delete them from the opinion letter. We urge all persons who are responsible for th e accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the filing incl udes the information the Securities Act of 1933 and all applicable Securities Act rules require. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disc losure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. Please contact Charles Lee, Attorney-Adviso r, at (202) 551-3427, Mara Ransom, Legal Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3264 or me at (202) 551-3720 with any other questions. Sincerely, /s/ Mara L. Ransom for H. Christopher Owings Assistant Director cc: Neil Simon Jones Day