Correspondence 0001213900-24-021140 from Serve Robotics Inc. /DE/ (SERV)
Serve Robotics Inc. /DE/
Date: March 8, 2024 · CIK: 0001832483 · Accession: 0001213900-24-021140
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File numbers found in text: 333-274547
Referenced dates: February 21, 2024, June 29, 2017
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March 8, 2024
VIA EDGAR
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing
100 F Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
222 Berkeley St.
Suite 2000
Boston, MA 02116
+1 (617) 880-1800
orrick.com
Albert W. Vanderlaan
E avanderlaan@orrick.com
D +1 617-880-2219
Attn: Erin Donahue
Geoffrey Kruczek
Re: Serve Robotics Inc.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted February 14, 2024
CIK No. 0001832483
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter is submitted on
behalf of Serve Robotics Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in response to the comments of the staff (the “Staff”)
of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) with respect to the above-referenced Draft Registration
Statement on Form S-1 that was submitted to the Commission on February 14, 2024 (the “Draft Registration Statement”), contained
in the Staff’s letter dated February 21, 2024 (the “Comment Letter”).
Simultaneously with the submission
of this letter, the Company is publicly filing via EDGAR a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”)
responding to the Staff’s comments and updating its disclosures therein. For ease of reference, each comment contained in the Comment
Letter is printed below in bold and is followed by the Company’s response. All page references in the responses set forth below
refer to page numbers in the Registration Statement. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the
Registration Statement.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 Submitted February 14,
2024
General
1. Please update your financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Response: The Company respectfully
acknowledges the Staff’s comment and advises the Staff that the Company has included financial statements for the year ended December
31, 2023 in the Registration Statement in response to the Staff’s comment.
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2. We note that disclosure in this document refers to the offering as an “initial public offering.”
However, we note that your Form S-1 (File No. 333-274547), which was declared effective on December 14, 2023, would be more appropriately
characterized as your initial public offering. Please update the language used in this S-1.
Response: The Company respectfully
advises the Staff that it has revised the disclosure in the Registration Statement in response to the Staff’s comment.
3. Please provide us with your analysis as to your eligibility to use the draft registration process.
In this regard, we note that this DRS was not submitted within 12 months of the Company’s initial ‘34 Act registration statement.
Response: The Company acknowledges
the Staff’s comment and respectfully notes that the Commission’s announcement dated June 29, 2017 advised that for the initial
registration of a class of securities under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”),
the Staff “will review a draft registration statement and related revisions on a nonpublic basis provided that the issuer confirms
in a cover letter to the nonpublic draft submission that it will publicly file its registration statement and nonpublic draft submissions
at least 15 days prior to the anticipated effective date of the registration statement for its listing on a national securities exchange.”
The Company respectfully advises the Staff that the Company’s initial Exchange Act registration statement on Form 10, filed on April
9, 2021 by the Company’s predecessor, registered the Company’s common stock under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and not
under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act. Nevertheless, the Company has publicly filed the Registration Statement in response to the Staff’s
comment.
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Please do not hesitate to
contact Albert Vanderlaan at (617) 880-2219 of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP with any questions or comments regarding this letter.
Sincerely,
/s/ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
cc: Ali Kashani, Serve Robotics Inc.