SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-006334 to WARRANTEE INC. (CIK 0001900564)
WARRANTEE INC. (CIK 0001900564)
Date: June 13, 2023 · CIK: 0001900564 · Accession: 0000000000-23-006334
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
June 13, 2023
Yusuke Shono
Chief Executive Officer
Warrantee Inc.
1103, Kitahama Craft
2-4-1 Doshomachi, Chuo-ku
Osaka City, Osaka 541-0045, Japan
Re:Warrantee Inc.
Registration Statement on Form F-1
Filed June 2, 2023
File No. 333-272367
Dear Yusuke Shono:
We have limited our review of your registration statement to those issues we have
addressed in our 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 amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information. 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 any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Registration Statement on Form F-1 filed June 2, 2023
Risk Factors
Risks Related to this Offering and Ownership of the ADSs, page 21
1.Please revise your risk factors section to update and expand your discussion regarding
your failure to satisfy your periodic reporting obligation under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, including relevant disclosure specifically related to this failure and your
internal controls over financial reporting as well as potential consequences for the
company and impact to investors given your recent failure to meet your periodic reporting
obligation and should you continue to fail to meet your periodic reporting obligation in the
future. We note your risk factors titled "We will incur significant increased costs as a
result of operating as a public company..." and "We have identified deficiencies that could
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aggregate to a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting..."
beginning on page 22 and 23, respectively.
General
2.We note your registration statement on Form F-1 that went effective on June 30, 2022 to
offer ADSs, as well as the effective Form 8-A to register those securities under Section
12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In light of the effectiveness of these
filings, it appears you are subject to the periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange
Act. Therefore, in accordance with the applicable requirements for foreign private issuers,
please file an annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, which
should include financial information for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022, 2021 and
2020. Additionally, we note that it appears you may soon be required to file an annual
report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, which should include
audited financial information for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021.
Finally, please file any outstanding required current reports on Form 6-K as applicable.
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.
Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please allow adequate
time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration
statement.
Please contact Kate Beukenkamp at 202-551-3861 or Dietrich King at 202-551-8071
with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services
cc: Ying Li