SEC Comment Letter for Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (AMBO) (CIK 0001494558) (AMBO) — Nov 17, 2017
Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (AMBO) (CIK 0001494558)
Date: Nov. 17, 2017 · CIK: 0001494558 · Accession: 0000000000-17-040745
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Mail Stop 3720 November 17, 2017 Dr. Jin Huang President and Chief Executive Officer Ambow Education Holding Ltd. 12th F loor, Tower 1, Financial Street Chang’ an Center, Shijingshan District Beijing 100043 People’s Republic of China Re: Ambow Education Holding Ltd. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form F -1 Filed November 9, 2017 File No. 333 -220207 Dear Dr. Huang : We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following 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 inform ation . If you do not believe 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 registration statement and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise , our references to prior comments are to comments in our September 22, 2017 letter . Prospectus Cover Page 1. Please disclose that you have two classes of ordinary shares outstanding , Class A ordinary shares and Class C ordinary shares. Briefly describe the different rights between the two classes, including voting right s and conversion rights. Disclose that the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Jin Huang, owns all the Class C ordinary sha res. Disclose the percentage of Dr. Huang’s voting control after the offering. Recent Developments, page 4 2. We note your disclosure regarding the disposal of Ambow Online and the deconsolidation of the VIE Suzhou Wenjian Venture Investment Management Consulting Dr. Jin Huang Ambow Education Holding Ltd. November 17, 2017 Page 2 Co. We also note your current evaluation of the gain/loss resulting from the disposal of Ambow Online. Please provide more information regarding the impetus for this reorganization and any material financial impact this may have upon the company. Risk Fac tors, page 10 3. We note your response to prior comment 2. Please discuss the risks associated with maintaining listed company status, especially in light of your previous delisting. Regulations, page 88 The Law for Promoting Private Education and the Implementing Rules for the Law for Prom oting Private Education, page 90 4. We note your response to prior comment 10 and your disclosure that your primary and middle schools will be transitioned to be operated as non -profit schools. We also note your dependence on revenue generated from your three K -12 schools. Please discuss in Managemen t’s Discussi on and Analysis how the operation of your primary and middl e schools as non -profit schools may impact your results of operations and liquidity and capital resources. Principal Shareholders, page 135 5. Please provide footnote disclosure regarding the natural persons who have investment and/or voting control over the Class C ordinary shares beneficially owned by Spin Rich Ltd. Financial Statements Consolidated Balance Sheets, page F -3 and Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity (Deficit), page F -7 6. We note your response to prior comment 18, and it appears that your proposed revisions were not implemented in the audited financial statements of the amended Form F -1, as you indicated. Please revise your audited Consolidated Balance Sheets and audited Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equit y (Deficit) to separately disclose your several classes of ordinary shares. 21. Segment Information, page F -46 7. We note your response to prior comment 21, and it appears that your proposed revisions were not implemented in the audited annua l financial statements in the amended Form F - 1, as you indicated. Please revise your financial statements to disclose total assets for each reportable segment as required by ASC 280 -10-50-22. Include the reconciliations Dr. Jin Huang Ambow Education Holding Ltd. November 17, 2017 Page 3 required by ASC 280 -10-50-30, and as applicable, include such annual disclosures required by ASC 280 -10-50-22a through -50-22j. Financial statements for the period ended June 30, 2017 16. Subsequent events, page F -72 8. We note that in August 2017 you disposed of the 100% interest in Ambow Online. If material, please revise to include pro forma financial information showing the disposition of Ambow Online. Exhibit 5.1 9. Please have counsel clarify whether the ordinary shares to be issued as part of this offering are non -assessable. For guidance, please refer to Section II.B.1 of Staff Legal Bulletin No. 19 (CF) , available on our website at https://www.sec.gov/interps/legal.shtml . 10. We note the reference to counsel having examined a “ copy of executed written resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company dated 28 August 2017 ” and counsel’s assumptions regarding these resolutions. Please clarify if these resolutions include d the corporate actions that authorize d the issuance of the Ordinary Shares . If so, counsel may not assume that the necessary corporate actions to authorize the issuance of the Ordinary Shares have been taken. For guidance, please refer to Section II. B.3.a of Staff Legal Bulletin 19 (CF). 11. In counsel’s list of documents examined, counsel refers to an attached director’s certificate. Please file this director’s certificate as part of counsel’s opinion. You may contact Joseph Kempf, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551 -3352 or Ivette Leon, Assistant Chief Accountant, at (202) 551 -3351 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact William Mastrianna, Attorney -Adviser, at (202) 551 -3778, Kathleen Krebs, Special Counsel, at (202) 551 -3350, or me at (202) 551 -3810 with any other questions. Sincerely, /s/ Kathleen Krebs, for Larry Spirgel Assistant Director AD Office 11 – Telecommunications