SEC Comment Letter for 1847 Holdings LLC (CIK 0001599407) (LBRA) — Sep 19, 2019
1847 Holdings LLC (CIK 0001599407)
Date: Sept. 19, 2019 · CIK: 0001599407 · Accession: 0000000000-19-013780
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September 19, 2019
Ellery Roberts
Chief Executive Officer
1847 Holdings LLC
590 Madison Avenue, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10022
Re:1847 Holdings LLC
Offering Statement on Form 1-A
Filed August 23, 2019
File No. 024-11064
Dear Mr. Roberts:
We have reviewed your offering 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 offering 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 offering statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Offering Statement on Form 1-A filed August 23, 2019
General
1.In your Form 1-A filing, you state that you “expect to sell businesses [you] own from time
to time when attractive opportunities arise.” You also state that your “decision to sell a
business will be based on [your] belief that the sale will provide [your] shareholders with
a more favorable return on the investment than continued ownership, and will be
consistent with the disposition criteria to be established by [your] company’s board of
directors from time to time.” Please provide an analysis as to why the company is not a
“special situation investment company.” See Certain Prima Facie Investment Companies,
Investment Company Act Release No. 10937 (Nov. 13, 1979).
Summary, page 1
2.With respect to your acquisition strategy, we note the statement on page 4 that you expect
to acquire companies that "have been able to generate positive pro forma cash available
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for distribution for a minimum of three years prior to acquisition." Please revise to
disclose whether your current and previous acquisitions meet this and your other criteria
described on page 4. We also note that your strategy includes possibly selling the
companies you acquire. With respect to your Investment Company discussion on pages
14, 16 and elsewhere, please advise us of the time horizon for such sales after the date of
acquisition.
3.We note the statements that the securities being offered rank senior to your allocation
shares and, unless agreed to by a majority of the public holders, pari passu or senior to
future designated series of preferred. Please reconcile with disclosure elsewhere that (1)
the allocation shares are "entitled to all profit allocations" and (2) the series A preferred
shares "effectively rank junior to all existing and future indebtedness."
Use of Proceeds, page 42
4.We note that you intend to use the proceeds to pay off certain debt. Please disclose the
interest rate and maturity of the indebtedness being paid with the proceeds. See
Instruction 4 to Item 504 of Regulation S-K.
5.We note your statement that "the anticipated use of proceeds is not binding on us and is
merely description of our current intentions" and that you "reserve the right to change the
above use of proceeds if management believes it is in the best interests of our company."
You may reserve the right to change the use of proceeds, provided that such reservation is
due to certain contingencies that are discussed specifically and the alternatives to such use
in that event are indicated. Please revise your disclosure to discuss the contingencies to
reserving the right to change the use of proceeds and the alternative uses. See Instruction
7 to Item 504 of Regulation S-K.
Management's Discussion and Analysis, page 45
6.Please revise to discuss management's plan to remedy the material deficiency in liquidity
and the "contingency plans to reduce or defer expenses and cash outlays should operations
not improve," as referenced on page F-47. Please clarify the approximate amount of funds
management believes is necessary "to implement our strategy and stay in business."
Additionally, it is unclear why you state that you have financed operations "primarily"
through cash flow from operations when you appear to have negative cash flow from
operations. Please revise to clarify.
7.Where you summarize the notes and loans beginning on page 53, please provide aggregate
figures for total debt coming due in the short and long term.
Executive Compensation, page 104
8.We note that your Chief Executive Officer is employed and compensated by your
manager. Item 402(m)(1) requires executive compensation disclosure even for
transactions between the registrant and a third party where a purpose of the transaction is
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to furnish compensation to any named executive officer. Please provide the disclosure
required by Item 402(n) and (o) of Regulation S-K.
Transactions with Related Persons, page 106
9.Please revise to identify the parties and address the material terms of the agreements. For
example, it is unclear what fees and other terms are associated with the license agreement
with the manager for the use of "1847." As another non-exclusive example, please
identify the "certain officers and related persons" who have advanced funds and the
approximate timeframe when the advances were made and repaid.
1847 Holdings LLC Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements for the Six Months Ended
June 30, 2019
Note 11 - Term Loans, page F-20
10.You indicate here and elsewhere in the filing that you are in default on various loan
agreements and have classified such debt as current liabilities. Please disclose the terms
of the specific debt covenants that were violated and explain why. If any were financial
covenants, also disclose the actual covenant computations for each period as compared to
the covenant requirement. In addition, tell us in detail how you determined that
significant portions of your notes payable, loans payable and lease liabilities remain
appropriately classified as long-term liabilities. If cross default provisions exist on any of
these long-term liabilities, also explain why they weren't triggered. Refer to ASC 470-10-
45 and ASC 470-10-55-4.
Note 20 - Subsequent Events, page F-36
11.Please revise your disclosures here and elsewhere in the filing where the Cornerstone
acquisition is discussed to indicate its current status.
12.Please provide us with the significance computations you performed in determining that
annual and interim financial statements and pro forma financial information were not
required for the businesses being acquired in the Patriot purchase agreement. Refer to
Rules 8-04 and 8-05 of Regulation S-X.
1847 Holdings LLC Audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the Fiscal Years Ended
December 31, 2018 and 2017
Note 18 - Income Taxes, page F-60
13.Given your disclosures on page 5 and elsewhere throughout the filing that you are
classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and will not incur any U.S.
federal income tax liability, please tell us and disclose the facts and circumstances
resulting in your deferred tax assets and liabilities as of each balance sheet date and
a (benefit) for income taxes for each period presented.
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1847 Holdings LLC Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Information, page F-82
14.Please provide pro forma statement of operations information for the six months ended
June 30, 2019. Refer to Rule 8-05(b)(1) of Regulation S-X. Please also include Goedeker
Television's interim financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and
the comparable period in the preceding fiscal year. Refer to Rules 8-03 and 8-04(c) of
Regulation S-X.
We will consider qualifying your offering statement at your request. If a participant in
your offering is required to clear its compensation arrangements with FINRA, please have
FINRA advise us that it has no objections to the compensation arrangements prior to
qualification.
We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of
action by the staff. We also remind you that, following qualification of your Form 1-A, Rule 257
of Regulation A requires you to file periodic and current reports, including a Form 1-K which
will be due within 120 calendar days after the end of the fiscal year covered by the report.
You may contact Joanna Lam at 202-551-3476 or Rufus Decker at 202-551-3769 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Jonathan Burr at 202-551-5833 or James Lopez at 202-551-3536 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Beverages, Apparel and
Mining