SEC Comment Letter for GFL Environmental Holdings Inc. (GFL) (CIK 0001780232) (GFL) — Feb 26, 2020
GFL Environmental Holdings Inc. (GFL) (CIK 0001780232)
Date: Feb. 26, 2020 · CIK: 0001780232 · Accession: 0000000000-20-001756
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File numbers found in text: 333-232731
Referenced dates: February 3, 2020
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February 26, 2020
Patrick Dovigi
President and Chief Executive Officer
GFL Environmental Holdings Inc.
100 New Park Place, Suite 500
Vaughan, Ontario, Canada L4K 0H9
Re:GFL Environmental Holdings Inc.
Amendment No. 8 to Registration Statement on Form F-1
February 18, 2020
File No. 333-232731
Dear Mr. Dovigi:
We have reviewed your amended registration 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 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 registration statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless we note
otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our [Month day, year] letter.
Form F-1/A Filed February 25, 2020
Capitalization, page 74
1.Your response to comment 3 in your letter dated February 3, 2020 indicated that you
expected the reduction to interest expense as a result of using proceeds of the offerings to
repay debt to not be material to investors though at that time you did not know the size of
the offerings. Given that your new disclosures indicate you now intend to use all of the net
proceeds of the offerings to repay approximately 46% of your debt, please help us further
understand how you determined that pro forma financial information showing the
reduction in interest expense would not be material. In this regard, we note that 2019
interest and financing costs were nearly 90% of your pre-tax loss. Given that the pro
forma Statement of Operations adjustments only impact interest/financing expense and
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income tax expense, a narrative description of the pro forma effects of the transaction on
the impacted 2019 Statements of Operations line items and EPS may be furnished in lieu
of a full 2019 pro forma Statement of Operations. See Article 11-01(a)(8) and 11-02(b)(1)
of Regulation S-X.
You may contact Nudrat Salik at 202-551-2692 or Al Pavot at 202-551-3738 if you have
questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact
Asia Timmons-Pierce at 202-551-3754 or Jay Ingram at 202-551-3397 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing
cc: Ryan Bekkerus