Correspondence 0001575872-25-000060 from Northann Corp. (NCL)
Northann Corp.
Date: Jan. 14, 2025 · CIK: 0001923780 · Accession: 0001575872-25-000060
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File numbers found in text: 333-284033
Referenced dates: January 7, 2025
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Xiaoqin ("Sherry") Li
Senior Counsel
345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154
Direct 212.407.4939
Main 212.407.4000
Fax 212.407.4990
xli@loeb.com
Via EDGAR
January 14, 2025
Juan Grana and Katherine Bagley
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Northann Corp.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed December 23, 2024
File No 333-284033
Dear Mr. Grana and Ms. Bagley:
On behalf of our client, Northann Corp. (the “Company”),
we hereby provide a response to the comments issued in a letter dated January 7, 2025 (the “Staff’s Letter”) regarding
the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “S-1”). Contemporaneously, we are filing an Amendment No. 1 to
the S-1 via EDGAR (the “Amendment No. 1”).
In order to facilitate the review by the staff of
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Staff”) of the Amended Registration Statement, we have responded, on behalf of
the Company, to the comments set forth in the Staff’s Letter on a point-by-point basis. The numbered paragraphs set forth below
respond to the Staff’s comments and correspond to the numbered paragraph in the Staff’s Letter.
Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed December 23, 2024
Cover Page
1. We
note your disclosure that “[a]s of the date of [the] prospectus, funds and assets were transferred between the Company and the subsidiaries
and among the subsidiaries for working capital purposes and during the ordinary course of business.” Please revise your cover page
to quantify these transfers. Provide cross-references to your consolidated financial statements.
Response: In
response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has revised the cover page of the Amendment No. 1 to quantify the transfers of funds
and assets between the Company and the subsidiaries and among the subsidiaries for working capital purposes and during the ordinary course
of business. The Company respectfully advises the Staff that no cross-reference can be made to the consolidated financial statements since
all transactions and balances among the Company and its subsidiaries have been eliminated based on principle of consolidation.
Prospectus Summary, page 3
2. Please
revise to include a diagram of your current corporate structure, identifying the person or entity that owns the equity in each depicted
entity.
Response: In
response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has included a diagram of its current corporate structure, identifying the person
or entity that owns the equity in each depicted entity, on pages 4 and 32.
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January 14, 2025
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3. Please
revise to include summary risk factor disclosure. In your summary of risk factors, disclose the risks that your corporate structure and
being based in or having the majority of the company’s operations in China poses to investors. In particular, describe the significant
regulatory, liquidity, and enforcement risks with cross-references to the more detailed discussion of these risks in the prospectus. For
example, specifically discuss risks arising from the legal system in China, including risks and uncertainties regarding the enforcement
of laws and that rules and regulations in China can change quickly with little advance notice; and the risk that the Chinese government
may intervene or influence your operations at any time, or may exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment
in China-based issuers, which could result in a material change in your operations and/or the value of the securities you are registering
for sale. Acknowledge any risks that any actions by the Chinese government to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are
conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in China-based issuers could significantly limit or completely hinder your ability to offer
or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.
Response: In
response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has included a summary of risk factors on pages 5 and 6.
Risk Factors, page 13
4. Please
revise to discuss the risks to investors from any limitations on the ability of your subsidiaries to pay dividends, including Hong Kong
and PRC regulations regarding the payment of dividends by the subsidiaries to Northann or any tax implications of making dividend payments
to Northann, and the impact that such regulations and/or restrictions might have on Northann’s ability to pay its expenses or pay
dividends to holders of its common stock. Please also revise to discuss, either in the risk factors or elsewhere in your registration
statement, the risk to investors from PRC regulation of parent/subsidiary loans and direct investment by offshore holding companies to
PRC entities.
Response: In
response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has updated the disclosures on page 13.
The PRC government exerts substantial influence
over the manner in which our PRC subsidiaries conduct their business activities..., page 14
5. Please
revise this risk factor to clearly disclose that the PRC government may intervene or influence your operations at any time and may exert
more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in China-based issuers, which could result in a material change
in your PRC subsidiaries’ operations, significantly limit or completely hinder your ability to offer or continue to offer securities
to investors, and cause the value of your securities to significantly decline or become worthless.
Response: In
response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has updated the disclosures on page 17.
If we and/or our subsidiaries were to be required
to obtain any permission or approval from or complete any filing procedure with the..., page 15
6. Please
revise this risk factor to clearly disclose that any failure to obtain or a delay in obtaining the necessary permissions from or completing
the necessary filing procedures with the PRC governmental authorities to conduct offerings outside of Hong Kong or mainland China may
result in the value of your common stock significantly declining or becoming worthless.
Response: In
response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has updated the disclosures on page 18.
Juan Grana and Katherine Bagley
January 14, 2025
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Acquisitions and Private Placements, page 26
7. We
note your disclosure describing the acquisitions of Cedar Modern Living and Raleigh Industries Limited. Please provide us with your significance
assessment for the businesses acquired and your analysis of whether you are required to file financial statements and pro forma information
required by Articles 8-04 and 11 of Regulation S-X, respectively.
Response: We acknowledge the Staff’s
comment. The Company has considered the guidance in Articles 8-04 and 11 of Regulation S-X in evaluating the significance of its acquisition
of Cedar Modern Limited and Raleigh Industries Limited. The Company determined utilizing the three measurement tests - the Asset test,
the Income test and the Investment test - that none of the three calculations exceeds 20 percent, and therefore their financial statements
and the related pro forma financial statements are not required.
Exhibits
8. We
note various references to the opinion of your PRC counsel, Grandall Law Firm, throughout the registration statement. For example, we
note your disclosure on the cover page that, “as advised by [y]our PRC counsel, Grandall Law Firm, other than those permissions
or approvals required for a domestic company in China to engage in the businesses similar to [y]ours, [you] are not subject to cybersecurity
review with the Cyberspace Administration of China, or the ‘CAC,’ under the Cybersecurity Review Measures that became effective
on February 15, 2022.” Please revise to file the opinion and consent of Grandall Law Firm.
Response: In response to the Staff’s
comment, the Company has filed the exhibit 5.2 as the opinion and consent of Grandall Law Firm.
General
9. Please
revise to include a separate section that discloses the information required by Item 101(g) of Regulation S-K, and discuss the risks to
investors stemming from the assets of your PRC operations being located in the PRC.
Response: In response to the Staff’s
comment, the Company has added the section “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities” on page 29 and the relevant disclosures in
the section in the Amendment No. 1.
10. We
note your disclosure on page 32 that “[t]he Selling Stockholders . . . may sell all or a portion of the shares of common stock held
by them and offered hereby from time to time directly or through one or more underwriters, broker-dealers or agents.” Please confirm
your understanding that the retention by a selling stockholder of an underwriter would constitute a material change to your plan of distribution
requiring a post-effective amendment. Refer to your undertaking provided pursuant to Item 512(a)(1)(iii) of Regulation S-K.
Response: The Company respectfully
acknowledges the Staff’s comment and confirms that the Company understands such a change would require a post-effective amendment.
Please call me at (212) 407-4000 if you would like
additional information with respect to any of the foregoing. Thank you.
Juan Grana and Katherine Bagley
January 14, 2025
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Sincerely,
/s/ Xiaoqin ("Sherry") Li
Xiaoqin ("Sherry") Li
Senior Counsel