SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-010595 to JVSPAC Acquisition Corp. (JVSA, JVSAR, JVSAU) (CIK 0001866001)
JVSPAC Acquisition Corp. (JVSA, JVSAR, JVSAU) (CIK 0001866001)
Date: Sept. 26, 2023 · CIK: 0001866001 · Accession: 0000000000-23-010595
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
September 26, 2023
Albert Wong
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
JVSPAC Acquisition Corp.
G/F Hang Tak Building
1 Electric Street
Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Re:JVSPAC Acquisition Corp.
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted September 1, 2023
CIK No. 0001866001
Dear Albert Wong:
We have reviewed your amended draft 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 providing the requested information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your registration statement on
EDGAR. 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 the information you provide in response to these comments and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may have additional
comments.
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 submitted confidentially on
September 1, 2023
Cover Page
1.Please clearly disclose on the cover page the disparate voting rights of the class B ordinary
shares, which will have the right to elect all of our directors prior to your initial business
combination. In addition, in light of the conversion feature, please explain procedure for
election of directors if all class B ordinary shares are converted into class A ordinary
shares prior to the initial business combination.
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2.We note the disclosure on the cover page that "if our target company is a PRC company,
the combined company may face various legal and operational risks and uncertainties
after the business combination." Please revise the cover page and throughout the
prospectus to also disclose that you currently face these legal and operational risks and
uncertainties due to your location in Hong Kong. Your disclosure should make clear
whether these risks could result in a material change in your operations, including your
search for a target business, and/or the value of the securities you are registering for sale
or could significantly limit or completely hinder your ability to offer or continue to offer
securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be
worthless. Your disclosure should address how recent statements and regulatory actions
by China’s government, such as those related to data security or antimonopoly concerns,
have or may impact the company’s ability to conduct its business, accept foreign
investments, or list on a U.S. or other foreign exchange. Revise throughout the
prospectus.
Summary, page 2
3.Provide a clear description of how cash is transferred through your organization. Describe
any restrictions on foreign exchange and your ability to transfer cash between entities,
across borders, and to U.S. investors.
4.When discussing the prior SPAC transactions in your competitive advantages section, and
elsewhere as appropriate, please disclose the current trading price of MMV. Please also
discuss the conflicts of interest relating to the SPACs associated with your officers and
directors that are also still looking for a target business.
5.We note the disclosure on page 19 regarding permitted purchases of public shares by
affiliates. We also note the risk factor disclosure on page 35 regarding such purchases,
which states "the purpose of such purchases could be to vote such shares in favor of the
business combination" and the disclosure on page 106. It is unclear how such purchases
from public stockholders for the purpose of voting those shares in favor of a proposed
business combination would comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the
Exchange Act. Please clarify. Refer to Tender Offer Rules and Schedules Compliance and
Disclosure Interpretation 166.01 for guidance.
6.Disclose each permission or approval that you are required to obtain from Chinese
authorities to operate your business and to offer the securities being registered to foreign
investors. State whether you are covered by permissions requirements from the China
Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)
or any other governmental agency and state affirmatively whether you have received all
requisite permissions or approvals and whether any permissions or approvals have been
denied. Please also describe the consequences to you and your investors if you: (i) do not
receive or maintain such permissions or approvals, (ii) inadvertently conclude that such
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permissions or approvals are not required, or (iii) applicable laws, regulations, or
interpretations change and you are required to obtain such permissions or approvals in the
future.
Summary
Manner of conducting redemptions, page 19
7.We note your statement that your public shareholders will have the opportunity to redeem
their shares upon the completion of your business combination. Please revise to clarify
whether they will have this opportunity regardless of whether they abstain, vote for, or
against, the proposed transaction.
Summary Risk Factors, page 27
8.Please limit the summary risk factors to two pages, as required by Item 105(b) of
Regulation S-K. In addition, please revise the summary risk factors on page 30 to reflect
their applicability of the current company, not just post business combination company,
due to your location in Hong Kong. Similarly revise the subheading on page 64. Lastly,
please include cross-references to the more detailed discussion of these risks in the
prospectus.
Risk Factors, page 33
9.Please include a risk factor that describes the potential material effect on your
shareholders of the stock buyback excise tax enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction
Act in August 2022. If applicable, include in your disclosure that the excise tax
could reduce the trust account funds available to pay redemptions or that are available to
the combined company following a de-SPAC. Describe the risks of the excise tax
applying to redemptions in connection with:
•liquidations that are not implemented to fall within the meaning of “complete
liquidation” in Section 331 of the Internal Revenue Code;
•extensions, depending on the timing of the extension relative to when the SPAC
completes a de-SPAC or liquidates; and
•de-SPACs, depending on the structure of the de-SPAC transaction.
Also describe, if applicable, the risk that if existing SPAC investors elect to redeem their
shares such that their redemptions would subject the SPAC to the stock buyback excise
tax, the remaining shareholders that did not elect to redeem may economically bear the
impact of the excise tax.
10.Given the Chinese government’s significant oversight and discretion over the search for a
target company, please revise to highlight separately the risk that the Chinese government
may intervene or influence your operations at any time, which could result in a material
change in your operations and/or the value of the securities you are registering. Also,
given recent statements by the Chinese government indicating an intent to exert more
oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas and/or foreign investment
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in China-based issuers, acknowledge the risk that any such action could significantly limit
or completely hinder your ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and
cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.
We may issue our shares to investors in connection with our initial business combination at a
price..., page 55
11.We note your disclosure that potential PIPE transactions are meant to enable you to
provide sufficient liquidity to the post-business combination entity. Clearly disclose their
impact to you and investors, including that the arrangements result in costs particular to
the de-SPAC process that would not be anticipated in a traditional IPO. If true, disclose
that the agreements are intended to ensure a return on investment to the investor in return
for funds facilitating the sponsor’s completion of the business combination or providing
sufficient liquidity.
The PRC government may intervene or influence the VIE's business operations, page 66
12.Please revise the disclosure on page 67 to to explain how this oversight by the CAC
impacts your search for a target company.
Enforceability of Civil Liabilities, page 83
13.Please revise this section to address the enforcement risks related to civil liabilities due to
your sponsor and of your officers and directors being located in China or Hong Kong. For
example, revise to discuss more specifically the limitations on investors being able to
effect service of process and enforce civil liabilities in China, lack of reciprocity and
treaties, and cost and time constraints. Additionally, please identify each officer and
director located in China or Hong Kong and disclose that it will be more difficult to
enforce liabilities and enforce judgments on those individuals.
Capitalization , page 90
14.You disclose elsewhere in your draft registration statement that ordinary shares subject to
redemption will be recorded at a redemption value and classified as temporary equity
upon the completion of the Proposed Public Offering. Please tell us and amend to
disclose how you will measure changes in the redemption value of shares subject to
possible redemption. Refer to ASC 480-10-S99-3A.
Proposed Business
Redemption of public shares and liquidation if no initial business combination, page 108
15.We note that if you are unable to consummate your initial business combination within 12
months from the closing of this offering, or within up to 18 months from the closing of
this offering if your sponsor extends the period, you will, as promptly as reasonably
possible "but not more than five business days thereafter," distribute the aggregate amount
then on deposit in the trust account. However, we previously noted your statement of "not
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more than ten business days thereafter" on page 11. Please reconcile.
General
16.We note that the CSRC recently published Trial Measures that impose certain filing
requirements for direct and indirect overseas listings and offerings. Please disclose how,
if at all, the Trial Measures apply to this transaction, whether you and relevant parties to
this transaction have complied with your obligations under the Trial Measures, and the
risks to investors of non-compliance.
You may contact Mark Rakip at 202-551-3573 or Kristina Marrone at 202-551-3429 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Kibum Park at 202-551-6836 or Pam Howell at 202-551-3357 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Real Estate & Construction
cc: Giovanni Caruso, Esq.