SEC Comment Letter for Global Net Lease, Inc. (GNL, GNL-PA, GNL-PB, GNL-PD, GNL-PE) (CIK 0001526113) (GNL) — Jan 5, 2012
Global Net Lease, Inc. (GNL, GNL-PA, GNL-PB, GNL-PD, GNL-PE) (CIK 0001526113)
Date: Jan. 5, 2012 · CIK: 0001526113 · Accession: 0000000000-12-000527
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File numbers found in text: 333-177563
Referenced dates: November 23, 2011
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January 4, 2012 Via E-mail Nicholas S. Schorsch American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust, Inc. 405 Park Avenue 15 th Floor New York, NY 10022 Re: American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust, Inc. Amendment No. 1 to Registrati on Statement on Form S-11 Filed October 27, 2011 File No. 333-177563 Dear Mr. Schorsch: We have reviewed amendment no. 1 to your 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 information. 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 re gistration statement and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. General 1. We note your response to comment 4 of our le tter dated November 23, 2011. Please note that you are responsible for analyzing the a pplicability of Regulation M to your share repurchase program. We are not taking a posit ion on the conclusions described in your response. Nicholas S. Schorsch American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust, Inc. January 4, 2012 Page 2 2. We note your response to comment 5. Please re vise the last full pa ragraph on page 6 and the second paragraph on page 203 to clarify th at the advisor will re view the valuation estimate established by the independent valu er for consistency with your valuation guidelines and the reasonableness of the conc lusions and may in its discretion consider other factors in calculating the NAV. Please include similar disclo sure regarding the advisor’s authority to review and adjust the values determined by the independent valuer in the new risk factor on page 34. 3. We note your disclosure on pages 36, 102, and 143 regarding the proceeds raised by American Realty Capital (“ARC”) Propertie s. We note that on pages 102 and 143 you provide different amounts of net proceeds ra ised and that on page 36 you disclose the gross proceeds. Please revise your disclo sure on pages 102 and 143 as appropriate to address the discrepancy in the amounts and plea se ensure that your disclosure on page 36 is accurate. Prospectus Cover Page 4. We note your response to comment 7 of our letter dated November 23, 2011. Please confirm that the cover page of the prospectus delivered to investors will have at least a 10 point modern type font as required by Rule 420 of Regulation C. If necessary, please consider removing disclosure not required by Item 501 of Regulation S-K or Industry Guide 5. 5. We note your response to comment 8 of our letter dated November 23, 2011. Please disclose the number of other programs cu rrently managed by your sponsor. Please make similar revisions to your disclosure on page 8. 6. Please revise your cover page to provide disc losure regarding the shares to be offered pursuant to your dividend reinve stment plan. Please refer to Item 501 of Regulation S-K. What is the purchase price for shar es of our common stock?, page 6 7. We note your intention to file a monthly pric ing supplement. Prior to effectiveness, please provide us a draft of the monthly s upplement. The monthly supplement should prominently disclose the website address a nd phone number where the most recent price may be obtained and should include disclo sure of the NAV per share for each of the business days in the prior month. In additi on, to the extent the NAV per share deviates by more than 5% from the price disclosed in the most recently filed prospectus, please confirm that you will file an updated pricing supplement. Nicholas S. Schorsch American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust, Inc. January 4, 2012 Page 3 How will your advisor calculate NAV per share?, page 7 8. Please disclose in this secti on that the fees that you pay your advisor and other affiliates that are based on NAV will be higher because you are amortizing certain costs over the five year period, resulting in a higher NAV. Additionally, please disclose that this will result in investors paying a higher price than if these costs were not amortized. 9. We note your response to comment 13 of our letter dated November 23, 2011. We reissue our comment. Please revise to clarif y whether the independent valuer will also value the liabilities. For example, the disc losure on page 34 indi cates the independent valuer will value liabilities but the disclosu re on page 126 indicates that the advisor will perform this calculation. What are your exit strategies?, page 11 10. We note your response to comment 17 of our letter dated November 23, 2011. Please revise to clarify whether the three to six y ear period is measured from the conclusion of the offering covered by this registration statem ent, or the conclusion of the offering as may be extended via a follow-on registration stat ement. In addition, please disclose in this section that your intended liquidity events are subject to the boa rd determining it is appropriate to commence a liquidity event and that a majority of your shareholders will need to approve a liquidity event. Pleas e clarify, if true, that you may continue indefinitely if a majority of your sharehol ders do not approve a liquidity transaction. Please also revise your disclosu re on page 118 as appropriate. What are the fees that you will pay …?, page 14 11. We note your disclosure that you will pay your advisor a subordinated participation fee or subordinated incentive fee equal to 15%. Ho wever, on page F-12, you indicate that these fees will equal 25%. Please revise, as appropriate, to correct this discrepancy. Valuation Policies, page 125 12. We note your response to comment 28 of our letter dated November 23, 2011. We will continue to monitor for your response to this comment. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Fina ncial Condition and Results of Operation, page 131 Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 131 13. Please expand your discussion to disclose the amount of organizational and offering costs incurred/paid on your behalf to date. Al so, expand your footnotes to include your accounting policy for orga nizational costs. Nicholas S. Schorsch American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust, Inc. January 4, 2012 Page 4 Table I, page A-2 14. We note your response to comment 33. We s till do not understand how this ratio can be negative. Assuming this issue is addressed, we do not object to the presentation given the clarifying footnotes. However, please note that we would also not object to the inclusion of the ratios in the footnotes directly in the table. The to tal acquisition cost for purposes of the percentage leverage row in Table I ma y include the portion of the acquisition cost financed through a mortgage. Draft Opinions 15. We note your response to comment 37 of our letter dated November 23, 2011. Please file these opinions as part of your correspondence on EDGAR. 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. Notwithstanding our comments, in the event you request acceleration of the effective date of the pending registration statement please pr ovide a written statement from the company acknowledging that: should the Commission or the staff, acting purs uant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Co mmission from taking any action with respect to the filing; the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and the company may not assert staff comments a nd the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding re quests for acceleration. We will consider a written request for acceleration of the effective date of the regi stration statement as confirmation of the fact that those reques ting acceleration are aware of thei r respective responsibilities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Excha nge Act of 1934 as they relate to the proposed public offering of the securities specified in th e above registration stat ement. Please allow adequate time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration statement. Nicholas S. Schorsch American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust, Inc. January 4, 2012 Page 5 You may contact Wilson Lee at (202) 551- 3468 or Jessica Barber ich, Assistant Chief Accountant, at (202) 551-3782 if you have que stions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Stacie Gorman at (202) 551-3585 or me at (202) 551-3852 with any other questions. Sincerely, /s/ Michael McTiernan Michael McTiernan Assistant Director cc: Peter M. Fass, Esq. ( via e-mail )