SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-25-000281 to Webull Corp (BULL)
Webull Corp
Date: Jan. 10, 2025 · CIK: 0001866364 · Accession: 0000000000-25-000281
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File numbers found in text: 333-283635
Referenced dates: November 25, 2024
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January 10, 2025
Anquan Wang
Chief Executive Officer
Webull Corporation
200 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
Re:Webull Corporation
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form F-4
Filed December 26, 2024
File No. 333-283635
Dear Anquan Wang:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing
the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies 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 this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note
otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our November 5, 2024 letter.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form F-4
General
1.We note your response to prior comment 1 as well as your responses to related
comments in prior comment letters. Please confirm your understanding in writing that
our decision not to issue additional comments should not be interpreted to mean that
we either agree or disagree with your responses, or any conclusions you have made,
positions you have taken, or practices you have engaged in or may engage in with
respect to your fractional bond program.
2.Please provide us with copies of any correspondence that Webull Financial LLC
submits in response to the letter dated November 25, 2024 from the House Select
Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese
Communist Party.
January 10, 2025
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Summary of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus
Corporate History and Structure of Webull, page 1
3.Please disclose here your recent restructuring initiatives, including the establishment
of a VIE structure in April 2021, subsequent elimination of the VIE structure
completed in August 2022, and the July 2023 spin of Webull Pay LLC, and discuss
the reasons for each. Balance this section by summarizing the risks you are subject to
from your historical operations and include a cross-reference to the relevant risk factor
discussion.
Ownership of Webull Post-Closing, page 14
4.You disclose potential dilution from the issuance of up to 44,400,984 Webull
Ordinary Shares reserved for issuance under the 2021 Global Share Incentive Plan of
Webull, which after applying the current Share Subdivision Factor of 3.3593
represents approximately 13,217,332 pre-transaction ordinary shares of Webull. In
your draft registration statement submitted August 28, 2024, you disclosed on page 14
this amount as 80,756,743 Webull Ordinary Shares, which after applying the then-
current Share Subdivision Factor of 5.4732 represented approximately 14,754,941
pre-transaction ordinary shares of Webull. Please address the following:
•Tell us why the pre-transaction historical ordinary shares of Webull associated
with the 2021 Global Share Incentive Plan declined 1,537,609 shares from the
draft registration statement submitted on August 28, 2024, and, to the extent
applicable, tell us where you explained this difference in your filing. In this
regard, based on the disclosures in Note 9 of your September 30, 2024 interim
financial statements compared to your March 31, 2024 interim financial
statements in your last draft registration statement, it appears that you granted
only 60,500 awards (10,500 stock options and 50,000 restricted stock units)
during the second and third quarters of 2024, and we note no disclosure of
additional awards in your subsequent events in Note 18 on page F-82.
•To the extent you granted additional awards after September 30, 2024, tell us:
oThe quantity and type of awards;
oWhen you issued those awards;
oThe strike price, vesting provisions and other relevant terms of those awards;
oHow you valued those awards and the value assigned thereto;
oThe value of ordinary shares used to calculate the value of the awards; and
oHow the value of ordinary shares relates to the latest value provided in your
June 14, 2024 response to comment 15 from our May 31, 2024 letter, and
explain the drivers for the change in value of your ordinary shares.
Our business depends on our strong brand, page 39
Please clarify that each of the referenced letters makes allegations specifically with
respect to the People's Republic of China and that the December 5, 2024 letter was
delivered by the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the
United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Also disclose that the House Select
Committee requested information from Webull Financial and briefly summarize the 5.
January 10, 2025
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nature of the information requested. Similarly revise the risk factor on page 66.
We may be involved in regulatory investigations, page 42
6.Please disclose the administrative proceeding and cease-and-desist order concerning
Webull Financial and briefly describe the nature of the allegations and sanctions.
Refer to Exchange Act Rel. No. 101707 (Nov. 22, 2024).
Risks Relating to SKGR and the Business Combination, page 63
7.Please add a risk factor describing the risk that the business combination may be
subject to regulations and review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the
United States (CFIUS). We note the disclosure in SKGR’s Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2023 and Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed
September 3, 2024.
Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information, page 223
8.On page 118 and elsewhere, you disclose the issuance of 20,000,000 Incentive
Warrants to Webull’s later round investors. Please tell us your intended accounting for
these warrants and explain why you do not appear to include them in your pro forma
financial statements. In this regard, although you disclose on page 13 and elsewhere
that these warrants are expected to have zero initial cash value, they have economic
value. In your response, specifically tell us whether these warrants represent the
issuance of a dividend. Reference for us the authoritative literature you rely upon to
support your position.
Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations for the Year Ended
December 31, 2023, page 234
9.In footnote (4) to the table at the bottom of page 235 you indicate that shares
outstanding after the proposed Business Combination held by existing Webull
shareholders includes the issuance of 42,685,593 Webull Class A Ordinary Shares to
certain of Webull's preferred shareholders prior to Closing. Please address the
following:
•Tell us whether these shares were already issued and explain why you have issued
or will issue these shares;
•Tell us whether these shares represent dividends to those holders; and
•Clarify how you reflected the issuance of these shares in your pro forma financial
statements and reference the authoritative literature you rely upon to support your
presentation and anticipated accounting.
Exhibits
Refer to the consent of WithumSmith+Brown, PC included in Exhibit 23.2. We note
that the report of WithumSmith+Brown, PC dated March 29, 2024 is included in
Amendment No. 2 of the Form F-4 and not incorporated by reference from a Form 10-
K. Accordingly, please request WithumSmith+Brown, PC to modify their consent to
clarify whether they are consenting to the use of their report included in Amendment
No. 2 of the Form F-4. We note that the current consent refers to their report 10.
January 10, 2025
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appearing in "the entity’s" Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Please contact Kate Tillan at 202-551-3604 or Mark Brunhofer at 202-551-3638 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please contact Sonia Bednarowski at 202-551-3666 or J. Nolan McWilliams at 202-
551-3217 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Crypto Assets
cc:Christian O. Nagler