SEC Comment Letter for BacTech Environmental Corp (CIK 0001807387) — Apr 29, 2020
BacTech Environmental Corp (CIK 0001807387)
Date: April 29, 2020 · CIK: 0001807387 · Accession: 0000000000-20-003685
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
April 29, 2020
Ross Orr
Chief Executive Officer
BacTech Environmental Corporation
37 King Street, Suite 409
East Toronto
Ontario, Canada M5C 1E9
Re:BacTech Environmental Corporation
Offering Statement on Form 1-A
Filed April 2, 2020
File No. 024-11187
Dear Mr. Orr:
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 April 2, 2020
General
1.We note that there are a number of inconsistencies in your filing, including with respect to
the offering size, type and price of your offering. For example, we note:
•disclosure throughout your offering circular indicates that you are pursuing a Tier 2
offering, but you indicate in Part I of the Form 1-A and on page 24 of your offering
circular that you are pursuing a Tier 1 offering;
•your disclosure that you are offering a maximum of 100,000,000 shares at a price
range between $0.01 and $0.03 suggests maximum offering proceeds of $3 million,
but your offering circular cover page, use of proceeds and description of securities
offered on page 44 suggest you will have maximum offering proceeds of $1 million;
and
•your offering circular cover page indicates that there is an offering minimum of
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1,000,000 shares and a maximum offering of 100,000,000 shares, but also states that
there is no minimum offering.
Please revise to clarify these inconsistencies. To the extent that you are pursuing a Tier 2
offering, please include on your offering circular cover page the legend required by
paragraph (a)(5) of Part II of Form 1-A.
Summary, page 3
2.We note your disclosure that the Company has built three bioleach plants to date. Please
disclose whether you have any plants that are currently in operation.
Because directors and officers currently and for the foreseeable future will continue to control
BacTech Environmental Corporation, page 12
3.We note your disclosure that the directors, officers and affiliates of BacTech
Environmental Corporation beneficially own a majority of the Company's outstanding
common stock voting rights. Please revise this disclosure to quantify the voting power
held by your directors, officers and affiliates.
Use of Proceeds, page 14
4.Please revise your offering circular to state whether or not the proceeds will be used to
compensate or otherwise make payments to officers or directors of the issuer or any of its
subsidiaries. Refer to Instruction 2 to Item 6 of Part II of Form 1-A.
Distribution
No Escrow, page 16
5.We note your disclosure that you will offer your common stock primarily through an
online platform. Please revise your disclosure and subscription agreement to identify the
website for the online platform prospective investors may use to subscribe to the offering.
Signatures, page 50
6.Please revise your signature page to include the signature of an officer signing the offering
statement on behalf of the issuer. Refer to the Signatures section of Form 1-A.
Finacial Statements , page F-1
7.Please update your financial statements to comply with paragraphs (b)(3)(A) and (b)(4), or
(c)(1) in Part F/S of Form 1-A, as applicable.
Independent Auditor’s Report, page F-4
8.In the course of updating your Offering Statement, if you intend to present audited
financial statements, your auditor would need to adhere to U.S. Generally Accepted
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Auditing Standards or Auditing Standards of the PCAOB. The audit report would need to
reflect these auditing standards and express an opinion on whether the financial statements
comply with IFRS as issued by the IASB.
If this is not possible and you proceed with a Tier 1 Offering, the financial statements
should be presented as unaudited, without an opinion, and the unaudited financial
statement box in the summary tabulation in the forepart of the document should be
checked. However, if you proceed with a Tier 2 Offering, audited financial statements are
required as well as an audit report conforming to the requirements outlined above.
Please refer to paragraphs (a)(2) and (c)(3) to Part F/S of Form 1-A if you require further
clarification or guidance.
Exhibits
9.Please file your license for REBgold's bioleaching technology and copies of the
outstanding debentures and notes payable referred to in Notes 6, 9 and 10 of your
financial statements as exhibits to your Form 1-A or explain why they are not required to
be filed. In addition, please also file a Form F-X to appoint a process agent. Refer to Item
17(6) and Item 17(14) of Part III of Form 1-A.
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 John Cannarella, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3337 or Karl Hiller,
Accounting Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3686 if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial statements and related matters. Please contact Anuja A. Majmudar, Attorney-Adviser,
at (202) 551-3844 or, in her absence, Karina Dorin, Attorney-Adviser, at (202) 551-3763 with
any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation
cc: Andrew Coldicutt