SEC Comment Letter for BLUE BIOFUELS, INC. (BIOF) (CIK 0001549145) (BIOF) — Jun 19, 2012
BLUE BIOFUELS, INC. (BIOF) (CIK 0001549145)
Date: June 19, 2012 · CIK: 0001549145 · Accession: 0000000000-12-032028
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June 19, 2012 Via E-mail Daniel de Liege Chief Executive Officer and President Alliance Media Group Holdings, Inc. 400 N. Congress Avenue Suite 130 West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Re: Alliance Media Group Holdings, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed May 23, 2012 File No. 333-181633 Dear Mr. de Liege: We have reviewed your registration statem ent and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provi de 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. Since you appear to qualify as an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, please di sclose on your prospect us cover page that you are an emerging growth company, and revise your prospectus to: Describe how and when a company may lose emerging growth company status; Briefly describe the various exemptions that are available to you, such as exemptions from Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Section 14A(a) and (b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and State your election under Sec tion 107(b) of the JOBS Act: Daniel de Liege Alliance Media Group Holdings, Inc. June 19, 2012 Page 2 o If you have elected to opt out of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards pursuant to Section 107(b), include a statement that the election is irrevocable; or o If you have elected to use th e extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards under Section 102(b )(1), provide a risk factor explaining that this election allows you to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards that have different effective da tes for public and private companies until those standards apply to private companies. Pl ease state in your risk factor that, as a result of this election, your financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective da tes. Include a sim ilar statement in your critical accounting policy disclosures. In addition, consider describing the extent to which any of these exemptions are available to you as a Smaller Reporting Company. 2. It appears the registra tion fee should be calculated by refe rence to Rule 457(a). Please revise footnote (1) to the f ee table accordingly or explain the reference to Rule 457(e). 3. It appears from your disclosure that you may be a shell comp any pursuant to Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Please revise to disclo se your status as a sh ell company or advise. 4. We note your disclosure on the cover page that the initial offering price of $1.00 per share is the price paid by the selling share holders, although from your disclosure it does not appear that all of the selling shareholders paid that price. Please revise the disclosure at each relevant place in the filing to provide the basis for setting the share price in this offering at $1.00. Your explan ation should address the fact that the $1.00 per share price was the original price paid by some of the se lling shareholders and discuss the fact that this prohibits those selling shareholders from making any profit on sales unless and until there is an active trading market. Altern ately, increase the fixed price and pay the additional filing fee. 5. Please include the dealer prospectus deliver y requirements on the outside back cover page of your prospectus. Refer to Item 502(b) of Regulation S-K. Summary, page 1 The Company, page 1 6. Please disclose in one of the opening paragr aphs that you have not generated revenues, your net losses to date, for the most recent audit period and any interim stub, and that your auditor has expressed subs tantial doubt regarding your abil ity to continue as a going concern. 7. Please disclose in the summary your cash on hand and monthly burn rate and that your current capital resources are not adequate to fund your requi rements for the eight months subsequent to April 30, 2012. We note in this regard your disclosure in the first risk Daniel de Liege Alliance Media Group Holdings, Inc. June 19, 2012 Page 3 factor on page 6. Please also disclose your current cash balance as of the most recent practicable date. Revise to update your cash balance on hand with any subsequent amendments. Similarly revise under “Plan of Operation,” at page 15. Risk Factors, page 4 Our independent auditors have expressed substantial doubt about our ability, page 4 8. Please clarify in this risk f actor the specific factors whic h led your auditor to express substantial doubt regarding your ability to continue as a going concern. Our officers and directors de vote limited time to, page 5 9. Please revise to quantify the amount of time each officer is expected to contribute to you on a weekly basis and expand this risk factor to describe the ri sks of conflicts of interest because your officers and directors are invo lved with other activ ities and you lack a policy for resolution of such conflicts. We not e in this regard your disclosure on page 20. We do not have inadequate insurance coverage, page 8 10. The risk factor discussion seems to indi cate that you do not have adequate insurance coverage. As such, please revise th is risk factor s ubheading or advise. Dilution, page 12 11. We note your disclosure that some of the sh ares will be issued upon conversion of certain convertible securities. Please advise as to wh ich of the transactions that you disclose, as recent sales of securities from which the se lling shareholders acquired the shares, that you are referring to. Management’s Discussion and Analysis, page 15 Plan of Operation, page 15 12. Please revise this entire section to add specificity about your business plan and the obstacles you face in implementation. In doing so, please add additional detail where possible about costs, milestones, timelines, a nd any additional financing needed and your plans for obtaining such additional financing. If additional financing is currently not available, please make that clear. Also, if any of the revised disc losure suggests that revisions to the Prospectus Summary and Risk Factors are necessary, please make the appropriate changes. 13. Please disclose here whether your principals have made formal or informal arrangements to advance funds to you. If so, disclo se the nature of those arrangements. Daniel de Liege Alliance Media Group Holdings, Inc. June 19, 2012 Page 4 14. Please disclose how you expect to create or acquire motion picture rights to a film. 15. We note your disclosure on page 10 that you expect to make motion pictures with production budgets of $3 to $10 million or more . Please disclose how you anticipate this budget will be allocated for each of the six st ages of a film product, which parties are responsible for financing at each stage, and th e anticipated sources of funds to the extent you are responsible for financing. 16. We note your summary disclosure captioned “Motion Picture Indus try Overview” and “Motion Picture Marketing Plan.” Please re vise this section to include detailed disclosure of the independent motion picture industry and disclosure of your specific plans to market, advertize, and promote films that you develop. 17. In this regard, please discuss how you will advertise and promote your films once they have been rented or licensed. In partic ular, explain how you e xpect to “maintain oversight” over the advertising a nd promotion of your productions. 18. Given that there appear to be significant differences be tween the business of film production and the business of film distribut ion, please discuss in detail your business plan with respect to distribu tion in a separately captioned subsection within your Plan of Operations. 19. Please clarify whether you inte nd to limit the films you produce to “faith-based or church promotions” and discuss whether there are any ma terial differences in this target audience compared to the market for independent film s as a whole. Please expand your disclosure to clarify what is meant by “faith-based or church promotions” and if this means that the content of the productions are to be faith-based as well. Pr ovide clarifying disclosure under “Motion Picture Marketing Plan,” at page 3, and anywhere else this is discussed. 20. Please describe in detail here the “target-specific marketi ng plans” you reference in the fourth paragraph on page 3. 21. Please describe here the efforts referenced in the last sentence of the fourth paragraph on page 3. Disclose which of your ma nagement worked on the production of The Passion of the Christ and in what capacities. 22. Please disclose the extent to which you expect to rely on actors, screenwriters, and others who may be represented by various movie indus try unions and, if so, discuss how this is expected to affect your business. 23. Please disclose in a separately captioned sect ion government regulations applicable to the movie production and distribution industries which are expected to materially affect your business. Daniel de Liege Alliance Media Group Holdings, Inc. June 19, 2012 Page 5 Directors and Executive Officers, page 18 24. For each director, please briefly discuss the sp ecific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that led to the c onclusion that the person should serve as a director for the registrant at the time that the disclosure is made, in light of the registrant's business and structure. Refer to Item 401(e)(1) of Regulation S-K. Certain Relationships and Re lated Transactions, page 19 25. Please revise the first paragraph on page 20 to specifically disclose other business activities engaged in by each of your officers and directors which may conflict with you or advise. Selling Security Holders, page 21 26. Please disclose in a footnote to the table of selling security holders the natural person(s) who exercise voting power and investment pow er over the shares of common stock held by AIH, LLC. 27. Please briefly clarify, perhaps by footnote, which of the recent sales of unregistered securities the selling shareholders received the shares listed in the selling shareholder table. Plan of Distribution, page 24 28. Please disclose that Daniel de Liege and Mark W. Koch are underwriters or tell us why you believe these two selling security hol ders are not statutory underwriters. 29. We note your disclosure that says, “None of the selling shareholder who are affiliates of broker-dealers . . . .” At page 21, under “Selli ng Security Holders,” you state that none of the selling security holders are known to be affiliates of brok er-dealers. Please revise for consistency and advise. Item 12. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities, page 29 30. We note that you completed a private offeri ng on April 30, 2012 in reliance on Rule 506 of Regulation D. Please revi se to briefly describe the facts relied on to make the exemption available. Additionally, we are unable to locate any Forms D filed in connection with this offe ring. Please advise. Signatures, page 32 31. Please revise the second signature block to include the signature of your principal accounting officer or controller. To the extent a signatory is signing in more than one capacity, please indicate each capacity in which he is signing. Daniel de Liege Alliance Media Group Holdings, Inc. June 19, 2012 Page 6 Exhibit 5.1 32. Please remove the information at the bottom of the page that indica tes that counsel is admitted to practice in the State of Ca lifornia, but not admitted in Hawaii. 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 accelera tion 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. Please contact J. Nolan McWilliams at (202) 551-3217 or me at (202) 551-3210 with any questions you may have. Sincerely, /s/ Susan Block Susan C. Block Attorney-Advisor