SEC Company Response from Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. (IPST) (CIK 0001788230) (IPST) — Dec 19, 2025
Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. (IPST) (CIK 0001788230)
Date: Dec. 19, 2025 · CIK: 0001788230 · Accession: 0001213900-25-123888
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File numbers found in text: 333-289870
Referenced dates: December 17, 2025
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ERIC M. HELLIGE
Partner
Direct Tel: 212-326-0846
Fax: 212-326-0806
ehellige@pryorcashman.com
December 19, 2025
Via Edgar
Mr. Bradley Ecker
Ms. Erin Purnell
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re:
Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on
Form S-1 filed on December 12, 2025
File No. 333-289870
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of our client, Heritage Distilling Holding
Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules promulgated thereunder, we hereby file in electronic form the accompanying
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 of the Company (“Amendment No. 3”), marked to indicate changes to Amendment
No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
on December 12, 2025.
Amendment No. 3 reflects the responses of the Company
to comments received from the Staff of the Commission (the “Staff”) in a letter dated December 17, 2025 (the “Comment
Letter”). The discussion below is presented in the order of the numbered comments in the Comment Letter. Certain capitalized terms
set forth in this letter are used as defined in Amendment No. 3. For your convenience, references in the responses to page numbers are
to the marked version of Amendment No. 3 and to the prospectus included therein.
The Company has asked us to convey the following
responses to the Staff:
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed December
12, 2025
General
1. We note your revised disclosure on page 112 that you established a new validator under a custodian account. Please revise to disclose
the material terms of your agreement with Crypto.com so that investors understand whether you or Crypto.com will manage the validator
node, the fees you will pay for Crypto.com’s services, the unbonding period of your staked assets with the new validator node, and,
to the extent that you will custody your crypto assets with Crypto.com, whether your private keys will be held in segregated accounts,
the percentage of your private keys that will be held in cold storage and whether and to what extent Crypto.com insures the assets that
it custodies for you. In addition, if required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K, please file the agreement as an exhibit to your registration
statement.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff's comment and has revised
the disclosure under the caption “Business – Our Digital Asset Treasury Segment – Our Staking Program” on pages
110-111 of Amendment No. 3, to disclose that all of the Company’s validator nodes, including those with the accounts held by the
Company’s custodians, are operated by the Company. In addition, the Company has disclosed under such caption and under the caption
“Business – Our Digital Asset Treasury Segment – Use of Custodians
and Storage of $IP Tokens” on pages 112 of Amendment No. 3 that the Company has now entered into custody agreements with
three separate custodians and has described the custody arrangements and material terms of the custody agreements with its custodians,
including the items of disclosure requested by the Staff.
As the Company believes each of its custody agreements was entered
into in the ordinary course of business, is on terms that generally are standard within the industry, does not require the Company to
custody under such agreement a material amount of assets or any assets at all and is terminable by either party without cause on 30 days
notice, the Company does not believe any of such agreements is a material agreement required to be filed by the Company as an exhibit
to the Registration Statement pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-K.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
December 19, 2025
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As it is the goal of the Company to have the Registration
Statement on Form S-1 declared effective as soon as possible, the Company would greatly appreciate the Staff’s review of Amendment
No. 3 as promptly as practicable. If the Staff has any questions with respect to the foregoing, please contact the undersigned at (212)
326-0846.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Eric M. Hellige
Eric M. Hellige
cc:
Mr. Justin Stiefel
Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.