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SEC Comment Letter for Cheetah Mobile (CMCM) — Aug 23, 2016

Cheetah Mobile Inc.
Date: Aug. 23, 2016 · CIK: 0001597835 · Accession: 0000000000-16-089647

AI Filing Summary & Sentiment

Date
August 23, 2016
Author
/s/ Kathleen Collins
Form
UPLOAD
Company
Cheetah Mobile Inc.

Letter

Mail Stop 4561 August 23, 2016 Ka Wai Andy Yeung Chief Financial Officer Cheetah Mobile Inc. Hui Tong Times Square No. 8, Yaojiayuan South Road Chaoyang District, Beijing 100123

Re: Cheetah Mobile Inc. Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2015 Filed April 22, 2016 File No. 001 -36427

Dear Mr. Yeung :

We have reviewed your filing 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 these comments within ten business days by providing the requested information or advi se us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.

After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

Note 14. Geographical Information, page F -47

1. We note that non -PRC revenue represented approximately 50% of total revenue for 2015. Please provide us with the breakdown of the non -PRC revenue listing total revenue by individual country. Also tell us how you considered disclosing this information as well as the basis for attributing revenue from external customers to individual countries consistent with the guidance in ASC 280 -10-50-41.

Item 19. Exhibits

2. Please tell us what consideration you gave to filing each of the following as exhibits to your Form 20 -F pursuant to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S -K:

Ka Wai Andy Yeung Cheetah Mobile , Inc. August 23 , 2016 Page 2

 The lease for the premises where you r principal executive offices are located, which premises you disclose increased in size from 10,841 to 30,000 square meters since March 31, 2015;  The May 18, 2015 revolving loan facility agreement for $50 million from which you drew down $20 million on No vember 20, 2015; and  Any material contract(s) between you and any of your five largest customers that in the aggregate contributed approximately 59.1% of your 2015 revenues. To the extent you concluded that you are not substantially dependent on any contr act or group of interrelated contracts with these customers within the meaning of Item 601(b)(10)(ii)(B), please provide us with detailed support of your conclusion.

We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the filing includes the information the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and all applicable Exchange Act rules require. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.

In responding to our comments, please provide a written statement from the company acknowledging that:

 the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;

 staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and

 the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proce eding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

You may contact Eiko Yaoita Pyles, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551 -3587, or Melissa Kindelan , Staff Accountant , at (202) 551 -3564 , if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. If you have any other questions, please contact Gabriel Eckstein , Attorney -Advisor , at (202) 551 -3286 or Katherine Wray, Attorney -Advisor, at (202) 551-3483 . If you require further assi stance, do not hesitate to contact me at (202) 551 -3499 .

Sincerely,
/s/ Kathleen Collins

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Mail Stop 4561
August 23, 2016

Ka Wai Andy Yeung
Chief Financial Officer
Cheetah Mobile Inc.
Hui Tong Times Square
No. 8, Yaojiayuan South Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100123

Re: Cheetah Mobile Inc.
 Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2015
Filed April 22, 2016
File No. 001 -36427

Dear Mr. Yeung :

We have reviewed your filing  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 these comments within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advi se us as soon as possible when you will respond.  If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.

After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

Note 14. Geographical Information, page F -47

1. We note that non -PRC revenue represented approximately 50% of total revenue for 2015.
Please provide us with the breakdown of the non -PRC revenue listing total revenue by
individual country.  Also tell us how you considered disclosing this information as well
as the basis for attributing revenue from external customers to individual countries
consistent with the guidance in  ASC 280 -10-50-41.

Item 19.   Exhibits

2. Please  tell us what consideration you gave to filing each of the following as exhibits to
your Form 20 -F pursuant to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S -K:

Ka Wai Andy Yeung
Cheetah Mobile , Inc.
August 23 , 2016
Page 2

  The lease for the premises where you r principal executive offices are located, which
premises you disclose increased in size from 10,841 to 30,000 square meters since
March 31, 2015;
 The May 18, 2015 revolving loan facility agreement for $50 million from which you
drew down $20 million on No vember 20, 2015; and
 Any material contract(s) between you and any of your five largest customers that in
the aggregate contributed approximately 59.1% of your 2015 revenues.   To the extent
you concluded that you are not substantially dependent on any contr act or group of
interrelated contracts with these customers within the meaning of Item
601(b)(10)(ii)(B), please provide us with detailed support of your conclusion.

We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure
in the filing to be certain that the filing includes the information the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and all applicable Exchange Act rules require.   Since the company and its management are
in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.

 In responding to our comments, please provide a written statement from the company
acknowledging that:

 the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;

 staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose
the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and

 the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proce eding initiated by
the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

You may contact Eiko Yaoita Pyles, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551 -3587, or Melissa
Kindelan , Staff Accountant , at (202) 551 -3564 , if you have questions  regarding comments on the
financial statements and related matters.  If you have any other questions, please contact Gabriel
Eckstein , Attorney -Advisor , at (202) 551 -3286 or Katherine Wray, Attorney -Advisor, at (202)
551-3483 .  If you require further assi stance, do not hesitate  to contact me at (202) 551 -3499 .

Sincerely,

 /s/ Kathleen Collins

Kathleen Collins
Accounting Branch Chief
Office of Information Technologies
and Services

cc: Julie  Gao, Esq.
Skadden, Arps,  Slate, Meagher  & Flom  LLP