SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-22-013719 to ASPAC I Acquisition Corp. (CIK 0001868775)
ASPAC I Acquisition Corp. (CIK 0001868775)
Date: Dec. 20, 2022 · CIK: 0001868775 · Accession: 0000000000-22-013719
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
December 20, 2022
Claudius Tsang
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
ASPAC I Acquisition Corp.
Level 39, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 2
10 Marina Boulevard
Singapore 018983
Re:ASPAC I Acquisition Corp.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022
File No. 001-41285
Dear Claudius Tsang:
We have reviewed your filings 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 these comments within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021
General
1.With a view toward disclosure, please tell us whether your sponsor is, is controlled by, or
has substantial ties with a non-U.S. person. If so, please revise your disclosure in future
filings to include disclosure that addresses how this fact could impact your ability to
complete your initial business combination. For instance, discuss the risk to investors that
you may not be able to complete an initial business combination with a U.S. target
company should the transaction be subject to review by a U.S. government entity, such as
the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), or ultimately
prohibited. Disclose that as a result, the pool of potential targets with which you could
complete an initial business combination may be limited. Further, disclose that the time
necessary for government review of the transaction or a decision to prohibit the
transaction could prevent you from completing an initial business combination and require
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you to liquidate. Disclose the consequences of liquidation to investors, such as the losses
of the investment opportunity in a target company, any price appreciation in the combined
company, and the warrants, which would expire worthless. Please include an example of
your intended disclosure in your response.
Notes to Financial Statements
Note 7 - Shareholders' Equity, page F-15
2.We note you have classified the 2,875,000 private placements warrants as equity. Your
disclosure within your S-1 also indicated that "“If the private placement warrants are held
by someone other than our sponsor or its permitted transferees, the placement warrants
will be redeemable by us and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the
warrants included in the units being sold in this offering." Please provide us with your
analysis under ASC 815-40 to support your accounting treatment for the private
placement warrants as equity. As part of your analysis, please specifically address the
cashless exercise provisions of the warrant agreement and explain whether you believe
there are potential changes to the settlement amounts that are dependent upon the
characteristics of the holder of the warrant. If so, tell us how you concluded that such a
provision would not preclude the private placement warrants from being indexed to the
entity's stock based on the guidance in ASC 815-40.
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Class A Ordinary Shares Subject to Possible Redemption, page 8
3.We note your disclosure that you have changed your accounting method for Class A
ordinary shares subject to possible redemption to accrete the changes in the redemption
value over the period from the date of issuance to the earliest redemption date of the
instrument as of March 2022, and that you comply with ASC 250 which requires that an
entity may voluntarily change an accounting principle only if it justifies the use of an
allowable alternative accounting principle on the basis that it is preferable and meets
criteria such as authoritative support, rationality and industry practice. Please revise your
disclosure in future filings to provide the disclosures required by ASC 250-10-50-1
through 250-10-50-3 and provide us with your proposed disclosure.
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.
You may contact Eric McPhee at 202-551-3693 or Wilson Lee at 202-551-3468 if you
have any questions.
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Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Real Estate & Construction