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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-012480 to Blaize Holdings, Inc. (BZAI)

Blaize Holdings, Inc.
Date: Nov. 8, 2024 · CIK: 0001871638 · Accession: 0000000000-24-012480

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File numbers found in text: 333-280889

Date
November 8, 2024
Author
Charles Eastman
Form
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Company
Blaize Holdings, Inc.

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November 8, 2024 Shahal Khan Chief Executive Officer BurTech Acquisition Corp. 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20004 Dinakar Munagala Chief Executive Officer Blaize, Inc. 4659 Golden Foothill Parkway, Suite 206 El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 Re:BurTech Acquisition Corp. Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-4 Filed on October 30, 2024 File No. 333-280889 Dear Shahal Khan and Dinakar Munagala: 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 October 23, 2024 letter. Amendment No. 3 to Form S-4 filed on October 30, 2024 General We note the disclosures added on page 142 regarding the engagements of Jefferies and KeyBanc to serve as "strategic advisors" in connection with the business combination and that their fees are payable upon closing of the transaction . Please revise to explain in greater detail the nature of services each has rendered and will 1.

November 8, 2024 Page 2 render in its engagement as "strategic advisor." File the related agreements as exhibits. Risk Factors If we do not complete a business combination within 36-month of our initial public offering, our securities will be suspended from trading a, page 79 2.We note your risk factor on pg. 79 regarding the risk of delisting upon issuance of a delisting determination letter for failure to meet the requirement in Nasdaq Rule IM 5101-2(b) to complete one or more business combinations within 36 months of the date of effectiveness of its IPO registration statement. Please revise to disclose the consequences of any such suspension or delisting, including that you may no longer be attractive as a merger partner if you are no longer listed on an exchange and any potential impact on your ability to complete an initial business combination. Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations for BurTech, Holders of BurTech Class A Common Stock and Holders of New Blaize Common Stock, page 178 3.We note that you have provided a "form of" tax opinion as exhibit 8.1. Please file the actual tax opinion, not merely the form. Additionally, we note your disclosure throughout the registration statement that "Latham & Watkins LLP intends to deliver an opinion to the effect that... the Merger should qualify as a "reorganization" within the meaning of Section 368 (a) of the Code." Please update this disclosure throughout the registration statement that Latham & Watkins is delivering a tax opinion. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 303 4.We note your response to our comment 21 in our September 24, 2024 comment letter. Please revise to identify the natural persons who have or share voting and/or dispositive powers over the shares held by each entity listed in each table. Please contact Charles Eastman at 202-551-3794 or Kevin Stertzel at 202-551-3723 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Sarah Sidwell at 202-551-4733 or Geoffrey Kruczek at 202-551-3641 with any other questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Manufacturing cc:Rajiv Khanna Ryan Lynch

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November 8, 2024
Shahal Khan
Chief Executive Officer
BurTech Acquisition Corp.
1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20004
Dinakar Munagala
Chief Executive Officer
Blaize, Inc.
4659 Golden Foothill Parkway, Suite 206
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Re:BurTech Acquisition Corp.
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-4
Filed on October 30, 2024
File No. 333-280889
Dear Shahal Khan and Dinakar Munagala:
            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 October 23, 2024 letter.
Amendment No. 3 to Form S-4 filed on October 30, 2024
General
We note the disclosures added on page 142 regarding the engagements of Jefferies
and KeyBanc to serve as "strategic advisors" in connection with the business
combination and that their fees are payable upon closing of the transaction .  Please
revise to explain in greater detail the nature of services each has rendered and will 1.

November 8, 2024
Page 2
render in its engagement as "strategic advisor."  File the related agreements as
exhibits.
Risk Factors
If we do not complete a business combination within 36-month of our initial public offering,
our securities will be suspended from trading a, page 79
2.We note your risk factor on pg. 79 regarding the risk of delisting upon issuance of a
delisting determination letter for failure to meet the requirement in Nasdaq Rule IM
5101-2(b) to complete one or more business combinations within 36 months of the
date of effectiveness of its IPO registration statement. Please revise to disclose the
consequences of any such suspension or delisting, including that you may no longer
be attractive as a merger partner if you are no longer listed on an exchange and any
potential impact on your ability to complete an initial business combination.
Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations for BurTech, Holders of BurTech Class A
Common Stock and Holders of New Blaize Common Stock, page 178
3.We note that you have provided a "form of" tax opinion as exhibit 8.1. Please file the
actual tax opinion, not merely the form. Additionally, we note your disclosure
throughout the registration statement that "Latham & Watkins LLP intends to deliver
an opinion to the effect that... the Merger should qualify as a "reorganization" within
the meaning of Section 368 (a) of the Code." Please update this disclosure throughout
the registration statement that Latham & Watkins is delivering a tax opinion.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 303
4.We note your response to our comment 21 in our September 24, 2024 comment letter.
Please revise to identify the natural persons who have or share voting and/or
dispositive powers over the shares held by each entity listed in each table.
            Please contact Charles Eastman at 202-551-3794 or Kevin Stertzel at 202-551-3723 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please contact Sarah Sidwell at 202-551-4733 or Geoffrey Kruczek at 202-551-3641
with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing
cc:Rajiv Khanna
Ryan Lynch