SEC Company Response from ALTA EQUIPMENT GROUP INC. (ALTG, ALTG-PA) (CIK 0001759824) (ALTG) — Mar 14, 2019
ALTA EQUIPMENT GROUP INC. (ALTG, ALTG-PA) (CIK 0001759824)
Date: March 14, 2019 · CIK: 0001759824 · Accession: 0001615774-19-004063
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North America Europe Asia
200 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10166
T +1 212 294 6700
F +1 212 294 4700
Joel
L. Rubinstein
Partner
212 294-5336
JRubinstein@Winston.com
March 14, 2019
VIA EDGAR AND EMAIL
Celeste M. Murphy
Legal Branch Chief
Office of Telecommunications
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: B. Riley Principal Merger Corp.
Amendment No. 3 to Draft Registration
Statement on Form S-1
Submitted March 8, 2019
CIK No. 0001759824
Dear Ms.
Murphy:
On behalf of our client,
B. Riley Principal Merger Corp. (the “Company”), we are writing to submit the Company’s response to the
comment of the staff (the “Staff”) of the Division of Corporation Finance of the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) set forth in its letter, dated March 14, 2019, relating to Amendment
No. 3 to the Company’s Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 submitted to the Commission on March 8, 2019 (the “Draft
Registration Statement”).
The Company is
concurrently filing via EDGAR its Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”), which
reflects the Company’s response to the comment received by the Staff and certain updated information. For your
convenience, the Company is also delivering via hand delivery a hard copy of this letter together with a marked courtesy copy
of the Registration Statement.
For ease of review,
we have set forth below the comment of the Staff’s letter in bold and the Company’s response thereto, including a cross-reference
to the locations in the Registration Statement of changes made in response to the Staff’s comment. Capitalized terms used
but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Registration Statement.
March 14, 2019
Page 2
Amended Draft Registration Statement
on Form S-1
General
1. We note that your forum selection provision identifies the Court of Chancery of the State of
Delaware as the exclusive forum for certain litigation, including any “derivative action,” subject to certain exceptions.
We also note the statement in Article XII of your amended and restated certificate of incorporation that for “any claim arising
under the federal securities laws...the federal district court for the District of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum.”
Please disclose in your registration statement whether this provision applies to actions arising under the Securities Act or Exchange
Act. If so, please also state that there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce such provision. If the provision applies
to Securities Act claims, please also state that stockholders will not be deemed to have waived the company’s compliance
with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. In that regard, we note that Section 22 of the Securities
Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created
by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. If this provision does not apply to actions arising under the Securities
Act or Exchange Act, please ensure that the exclusive forum provision in the governing documents, and the related registration
statement disclosures, state this clearly.
Response: The
Company respectively advises the Staff that the Company’s forum selection provision does not apply solely to state law claims
and does apply to Securities Act claims. Accordingly, the Company has revised the disclosure on pages 54 and 123 of the Registration
Statement and Article XII of the Company’s second amended and restated certificate of incorporation to address the Staff’s
comment.
Please contact me at
(212) 294-5336 if you have any questions or require any additional information in connection with this letter or the Registration
Statement.
Sincerely,
/s/ Joel L. Rubinstein
Joel L. Rubinstein