SEC Company Response from Paranovus Entertainment Technology Ltd. (PAVS) (CIK 0001751876) (PAVS) — Apr 18, 2019
Paranovus Entertainment Technology Ltd. (PAVS) (CIK 0001751876)
Date: April 18, 2019 · CIK: 0001751876 · Accession: 0001213900-19-006676
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Happiness Biotech Group Ltd
No. 11, Dongjiao East Road
Shuangxi, Shunchang, Nanping City
Fujian Province, P.R.C.
April 18, 2019
VIA EDGAR
Mary Beth Breslin
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Healthcare & Insurance
100 F Street, N.E.
Mail Stop 4631
Washington, DC 20549
Re: Happiness Biotech Group Ltd
Amendment No.1 to
Registration Statement on Form F-1
Submitted March 28, 2019
CIK No. 0001751876
Dear Ms. Breslin:
Happiness Biotech Group
Ltd. (the “Company”, “Happiness,” “we”, “us” or “our”)
hereby transmits its response to the letter received from the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”), dated April 12, 2019 regarding our Amendment No.1 to Registration Statement on
Form F-1 (the “Amendment No.1”) previously submitted on March 28, 2019. For ease of reference, we have repeated
the Commission’s comments in this response and numbered them accordingly. An amended F-1 submitted publicly accompanying
this Response Letter is referred to as Amendment No.2.
Please note that new
language we are including in Amendment No.2 pursuant to your comments, is indicated in this letter in bold, italicized font; any
deletions from the initial Registration Statement are indicated in this letter as strikethrough font.
Cover Page
1. We acknowledge your revised disclosures
in response to prior comment 1. As previously stated, please revise your disclosure to clearly state on the cover page the pricing
information for the secondary offering. In addition, we note the increased size of the secondary offering. Please clarify on the
prospectus cover page and elsewhere as applicable whether any sales in the secondary offering will occur prior to the closing of
the shares to be sold in your initial public offering. If the two offerings will be concurrent, please add a risk factor addressing
the possibility that the secondary offering could hinder your ability to raise funds in your best efforts primary offering.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, we have revised the cover page and other sections as applicable to clarify that the selling shareholder will not sell
shares concurrently with the offering and will be subject to a lock-up period of 60 days after the commencement of the first sale.
Because the primary offering and secondary offering will not be concurrent, the secondary offering will not hinder our ability
to raise funds in the primary offering.
2. We
note your revised disclosures continue to reflect a secondary offering in addition to your offering, but that you have deleted
the disclosure regarding proceeds to the selling stockholder. Please restore disclosure relating to the selling stockholder’s net
proceeds as required by Item 501(b)(3) of Regulation S-K.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, we have added the disclosure regarding proceeds to the selling stockholder.
Risk Factors
Risks Related to the Offering and
Our Ordinary Shares, page 13
3. We note that Section 161(2) of
your amended and restated articles provides that shareholders waive any claim they may have against any director on account of
any action taken by the director or the failure of the director to take any action in the performance of his duties, subject to
certain exceptions. Please add a risk factor disclosing this provision and discussing the related risks, including that this
provision may discourage claims and limit shareholders’ ability to bring claims. Please also disclose whether the provision applies
to federal securities claims under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or
Securities Act of 1933.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, we added a risk factor disclosing the above referenced provision and it may potentially discourage claims and limit shareholders’
ability to bring claims.
Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Results of Operations, page 42
4. We
note your other products on page 42 represents 15.6% and 14.0% of total sales for the six months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017.
You state on page 43 that the 20.8% increase is mainly due to increases in your protein powder product sales. Please revise to
disaggregate any products within this large product line or tell us why, with quantification, that is not required.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, we believe it is not necessary to single out protein powder products as an independent product line because it only accounts
a very small portion of our total revenue. The sales from protein powder products increased from approximately $92,000 for six
months ended September 30, 2017 to approximately $628,000 in the same period of 2018, an increase of approximately $536,000 or
580%. It is true that the sales increase from protein powder products contributed over 60% of the growth of the revenue under the
other products category, but the actual percentage of revenue derived from the sales of the protein powder products is still small
– less than 2%, which is insignificant compared with the percentage of revenue generated by other product lines that we have
been extensively discussed in the MD&A. In fact, we have over 20 products under other products category and none of these products
individually account more than 5% of the total revenues. Therefore, we believe these products do not need to be disaggregated.
Principal Shareholders, page 76
5. We
note your management information now appears to be finalized. Please update your table to reflect beneficial ownership information
for the individuals set forth in the first paragraph on page 76.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, we have updated the table on page 76 to include all directors and executive officers.
Underwriting
Lock-Up Agreements, page 104
6. Your
revised disclosures here state that all existing shareholders are subject to a lock-up agreement, but your disclosures in the third
and fourth paragraphs on page 92 state that the agreement applies to directors, officers and beneficial owners of 5% or more of
outstanding shares. Please reconcile your disclosures.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, we have revised disclosure on page 104 to clarify that lock-up only applies to directors, officers, the selling shareholder
and beneficial owners of 5% or more of outstanding shares.
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Consolidated Financial Statements
for the Six Months ended September 30, 2018
Note 9. Shareholder’s Equity, page
F-43
7. Regarding the March 4, 2019 subdivision, cancellation and sale of your ordinary shares described on pages F-43 and F-45, please provide the following regarding this change in your capitalization:
● tell us why you subdivided your 50,000 shares into
100,000,000 shares and then cancelled 77,223,100 shares,
Response: The subdivision and cancellation
of shares is the legal procedure to essentially effectuate a forward split of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares according
to Cayman Islands corporate laws. For purpose of a forward split of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares from 50,000 to
23,000,000, the Company would have subdivided the then issued and outstanding 50,000 shares into 100,000.000 shares and then cancel
77,000,000 shares. Due to the transfer of 223,100 shares between two shareholders disused, below, the Company cancelled 77,223,100
shares intead.
● revise your annual and interim financial statements
to retrospectively reflect the stock subdivision (split) and cancellation in all periods presented,
Response: We have revised our annual
and interim financial statements to reflect the stock subdivision and cancellation in all periods presented retrospectively.
● the details of the 223,100 share sale including
the identity of the purchaser and how the $111.55 par value was derived, and
Response: At the same time of the
forward split, there was a share transfer of 223,100 shares from one individual shareholder (Tan Shuyin) to another (Zhang Hongling).
The nature of the transfer is a gift from the husband to his wife. But instead of transferring the shares directly, the Company
repurchased and cancelled the previous shareholder’s shares and issued the exact same amount of shares to the new shareholder
for $111.55 on a par value basis, which is a common practice to do share transfer in Cayman Islands. Since neither the transferor
nor the transferee held more than 5% of the issued and outstanding, the Company did not disclose their information.
● explain to us why the number of weighted average
ordinary shares outstanding in Summary Financial Data on page 8 presents 25,027,678 and 25,000,000 shares for 2018 and 2017, respectively.
The number of shares in Summary Financial Data should agree with that presented in the financial statements or tell us why they
do not.
Response: We have revised the number
of weighted average ordinary shares outstanding in Summary Financial Data on page 8 to agree to the financial statements presented
in the Registration Statement.
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Item 7. Recent Sales of Unregistered
Securities, page II-1
8. Please
update your disclosures in this section. We note that your disclosure in this section does not appear to be consistent with information
reflected in your revised Note 9 to your financial statements, and your beneficial ownership and selling shareholder tables.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, we have added a new paragraph in Item 7 to describe the stock subdivision and it now agrees to Note 9 to our financial
statements, our beneficial ownership and selling shareholder tables.
Exhibits
9. We
refer to the revised Exhibit 5.1 opinion filed in response to prior comment 6. The revised assumption in Section 1.5 of the opinion
continues to assume material facts related to the valid issuance opinion. Please file an amended opinion without this assumption
or explain why it is necessary and appropriate. Please also note that the opinion should be dated.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, we have revised the Section 1.5 of the Exhibit 5.1 opinion and dated the opinion.
10. We note your response to
prior comment 8. Your revised opinion in Sections 2.4 and 2.5 appear to refer to the same governing document. Please tell us
whether the document referenced in the opinion is filed as Exhibit 3.2. If yes, please file an amended version of the
document that is dated. We also note that Exhibit 3.1 is not dated. If Exhibit 3.1 is currently in effect, please file the
dated version. You also disclose on page 78 that as of the date of the prospectus, you have 100 million authorized ordinary
shares. We note that this statement is not consistent with the documents filed as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2. Please either
revise the disclosure to correspond to Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, or file the governing documents that are currently in
effect.
Response: In response to Staff’s
comment, the Cayman counsel has revised Section 2.5 to clarify that it refers to a different document. The current Exhibit 3.1
and Exhibit 3.2 together constitutes the complete amended and restated Memorandum and Articles of Associations, which are the
governing documents to become effective upon closing of this offering.
We thank the Staff for its review of the
foregoing. If you have further comments, we ask that you forward them by electronic mail to our counsel, Joan Wu at jwu@htflawyers.com
or by telephone at (212) 530-2208.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Xuezhu Wang
Xuezhu Wang
CEO
cc:
Joan Wu
Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC
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