SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-000051 to HNO International, Inc. (HNOI)
HNO International, Inc.
Date: Jan. 2, 2024 · CIK: 0001342916 · Accession: 0000000000-24-000051
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
January 2, 2024
Paul Mueller
President and Chief Executive Officer
HNO International, Inc.
41558 Eastman Drive
Suite B
Murrieta, CA 92562
Re:HNO International, Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed December 19, 2023
File No. 333-275193
Dear Paul Mueller:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comment(s).
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 November 22, 2023 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1 filed on December 19, 2023
Cover Page
1.We note your response to prior comment 1. Please add disclosure on the cover page to
disclose the percentage of shares owned by your Chairman and provide a cross-reference
to your new risk factors describing the associated risks. In addition, please expand your
risk factor disclosure to describe the debt payable to HNO Green Fuels, Inc. and the
possibility that debt may be repaid by issuing securities, if true.
Business
Our Products, page 27
2.We note your revised disclosure in response to our prior comment 5 regarding your
hydrogen production locations. Please balance your disclosure here to clarify that these
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revenues are not guaranteed and consistent with your disclosure in Note 3 to your
unaudited financial statements, at July 31, 2023, you had a deficit of $ 41,130,638
and have not been able to generate sufficient cash from operating activities to fund your
ongoing operations and that you will be required to raise additional funds through public
or private financing or other arrangements until you are able to raise revenues to a point of
positive cash flow.
Directors, Executive Officers, Promoters and Control Persons, page 32
3.We note your response to our prior comment 6 and re-issue it in part. Please revise to
include each officer's and director's principal occupation and employment during the
past five years. In this regard, we note that you have only revised your disclosure to
include the positions held by Hossein Haririnia since October 2021 and William Parker
since May 2022.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, page 35
4.Please revise this section to disclose the cross-default provisions in the outstanding notes
which provide that a default under any note will cause any other obligations of the
borrower to the lender to become immediately payable. In addition, please revise to
describe the debt repayment in November 2021 and December 2022.
Exhibit 23.1, page 56
5.Please have your independent accountants revise their consent to being identified or relied
upon as experts in accounting and auditing as indicated on page 41.
Please contact Brian McAllister at 202-551-3341 or Craig Arakawa at 202-551-3650 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Anuja Majmudar at 202-551-3844 or Daniel Morris at 202-551-3314 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation
cc: Brian Higley