SEC Company Response from ECD Automotive Design, Inc. (CIK 0001922858) (ECDA) — Sep 9, 2025
ECD Automotive Design, Inc. (CIK 0001922858)
Date: Sept. 9, 2025 · CIK: 0001922858 · Accession: 0001213900-25-085824
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File numbers found in text: 333-288692
Referenced dates: August 25, 2025
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Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154
Direct 212.407.4831
Main 212.407.4000
Fax 212.407.4000
September 8, 2025
VIA EDGAR
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention:
Thomas Jones
Erin Purnell
Re:
ECD Automotive Design, Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed August 7, 2025
File No. 333-288692
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of our client, ECD
Automotive Design, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), we respond to the comments of the staff of the Division of
Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Staff”) with respect to the above-referenced Amendment
No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on August 7, 2025, contained in the Staff’s letter dated August 25, 2025 (the
“Comment Letter”).
The Company has filed via
EDGAR Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Amendment No. 2”), which reflects the Company’s
responses to the comments received by the Staff and certain updated information. For ease of reference, each comment contained in the
Comment Letter is printed below and is followed by the Company’s response. All page references in the responses set forth below
refer to the page numbers in the Amendment No. 2.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on
Form S-1 filed August 7, 2025
Cover Page
1. We note your response
to prior comment 1. Please disclose on the cover page and in the Plan of Distribution section beginning on page 120 that ECDA Bitcoin
Treasury, LLC is an underwriter. For guidance, see SAS C&DI 139.13. Given that ECDA Bitcoin Treasury, LLC is an underwriter, tell
us why you believe it is appropriate to disclose that an underwriter could sell shares pursuant to Rule 144 as you suggest in the first
paragraph on page 121.
COMPANY RESPONSE: In response to the Staff’s
comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on the cover page and page 100 of the Amendment No. 2.
Risk Factors, page 10
2. We note your response
to prior comment 6. Please include a risk factor to highlight the litigation discussed in Schedule 4.19 of Exhibit 10.63.
COMPANY RESPONSE: In response
to the Staff’s comment, the Company has revised the disclosure beginning on page 13 of the Amendment No. 2.
3. Please include a risk
factor to highlight the risk related to the registrant’s ability to continue as a going concern. In this regard, we note the disclosure
on pages 50 and F-33.
COMPANY RESPONSE: In response
to the Staff’s comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on pages 13 of the Amendment No. 2.
4. Please disclose the
material terms of the EPFA, such as the following: the advances and “Trigger Price” in section 2.01; the ownership limitation
in section 2.02(a); the assignment provision in section 6.19; the variable rate transaction provision in section 6.20(b); and the termination
provisions in section 9.01.
COMPANY RESPONSE: In response
to the Staff’s comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on pages 4, 22, and 41 of the Amendment No. 2.
ECD’s Nasdaq Listing, page 80
5. We note your response
to prior comment 5. Please update the disclosure in the last paragraph on page 80. In this regard, we note the disclosure in Item 3.01
of the registrant’s Form 8-K filed on August 12, 2025. Also, clarify the disclosure in the fifth and sixth sentences of the last paragraph
on page 80.
COMPANY RESPONSE: In response
to the Staff’s comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on page 42 of the Amendment No. 2.
Selling Securityholders, page 115
6. We
note the new disclosure in footnote (33) on page 119. Please tell us, with a view to disclosure, whether the 100,000 shares of common
stock received by the selling securityholder as a commitment fee are included in the shares being registered for resale. Also, expand
the disclosure in footnote (33) on page 119 to disclose the natural person(s) exercising voting and dispositive powers with respect to
the shares offered by ECDA Bitcoin Treasury LLC. Refer to Regulation S-K Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations Question 140.02.
COMPANY RESPONSE: In response to the Staff’s
comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on page 100 of the Amendment No. 2.
General
7. Please
confirm your understanding that we will not be in a position to declare your Form S-1 effective until all outstanding comments regarding
your Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 have been resolved. Also, to the extent that any comments related to our review
of your Form 10-K apply to disclosure in the Form S-1, please make corresponding revisions to all affected disclosure
COMPANY RESPONSE: In response
to the Staff’s comment, the Company understands that the Staff will not be in a position to declare the Form S-1 effective until
all outstanding comments regarding the Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 have been resolved.
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Please do not hesitate to
contact James A. Prestiano of Loeb & Loeb LLP at (212) 407-4831 with any questions or comments regarding this letter.
Sincerely,
/s/ James A. Prestiano
James A. Prestiano
Senior Counsel
cc:
Scott Wallace, CEO ECD Automotive Design, Inc.
David J. Levine, Esq.
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