Correspondence 0001929818-22-000014 from EvolveX Equity Fund LLC (CIK 0001929818)
EvolveX Equity Fund LLC (CIK 0001929818)
Date: Dec. 22, 2022 · CIK: 0001929818 · Accession: 0001929818-22-000014
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SEC LETTER TO EVOLVEX EQUITY FUND LLC
Issuer Response to Letter dated November
22, 2022
Post-Qualification Amendment No. 1 to Offering
Statement on Form 1-A
SEC COMMENT
ADDRESSED BY
General
1. We note that you currently have no properties or operations. Please disclose the basis for the 8% preferred return.
Page 1, Para. 3 has been modified to read as follows:
The Fund is offering by means of this offering circular (the
“Offering Circular”), equity in the form of Class A, non-voting membership interests (the “Membership Interests,”
“Membership Units” or in the singular an “Interest” or “Unit”) on a best-efforts basis to those
who meet the investor suitability standards (the “Investor(s)”) as set forth herein. (See “Investor Suitability
Standards” below.) The Company does not currently own any assets, therefore, returns are speculative. However, it is the
Company’s intent to pay a preferred return (the “Preferred Return”) to holders of the Class A Units in accordance
with their capital contribution to the Company. The estimated return will be based on the Company’s internal underwriting
criteria. The intended Preferred Return is a cumulative preferred return, meaning that if it is not paid in full annually when
it is due, the unpaid amount shall carry forward to the next annual period until paid in full. (See “Securities Being Offered,”
below.)
On Page 8, a new Risk Factor has been added:
No Guaranteed Preferred Return
Currently, the Company’s
strategy includes paying an annual distribution to Investors under this Offering that would result in a positive annualized return
on investment, net of expenses, of which there is no guarantee. Class A Members would receive a Preferred Return on their capital
contribution to the Company as defined in the Company’s Operating Agreement and estimated based upon the Company’s
internal underwriting criteria. After the Preferred Return, Members will share in eighty percent (80%) of the remaining cash available
for distribution. (See “Securities Being Offered,” below.) In the event of downturns in the Company’s operating
results, unanticipated capital improvements to its properties, or other factors, the Company may be unable, or may decide not to
pay distributions to its Members. The timing and aggregate amount of distributions are the sole discretion of the Company’s
Manager, which will consider, among other factors, financial performance, any debt service obligations, any debt covenants, and
capital expenditure requirements. The Company cannot assure Investors that it will generate sufficient cash in order to pay distributions.
On Page 30, the following text has been added
to the “Securities Being Offered” section:
The Operating Agreement for the Company
defines “Preferred Return” as “an eight percent (8%) annual, non-compounding return of a Class A Member’s
Capital Contribution. The Preferred Return is cumulative, meaning that if the Preferred Return is not paid in full in any annual
period, the amount of the Preferred Return that was not paid in such annual period shall carry forward to the next annual period
until paid in full. The Preferred Return applicable to a Member shall be calculated based on the number of days in an applicable
annual period that a Class A Member holds Class A Units.”
Dilution, page 13
2. Please revise to include a description of the disparity between the public offering price of $1,000 paid for each Class A unit compared to the effective cash cost to officers, directors, promoters and affiliates for units acquired by them during the past year. Refer to Part II of Form 1-A.
On Page 13, the DILUTION section has been revised to read:
50,000 Class A non-voting Units of the Company
are authorized and unissued prior to this Offering and are offered at price of $1,000 per Unit.
All 50,000 Class B voting units of the Company
were authorized and issued to the Manager of the Company, EvolveX Capital, LLC, at the founding on June 9, 2021, in exchange for
$50.00, for an effective price of $0.001 per unit. Class B voting units are not offered to the public in this Offering.
There is a disparity in price of $999.999
between the 50,000 Class A non-voting Units
to be issued through this Offering and the 50,000 Class B voting units already issued and outstanding.
Investor Incentive Program, page 14
3. Please tell us the anticipated accounting treatment to be given the investment incentives earned by investors, citing all of the relevant accounting guidance upon which you relied in reaching your conclusion.
In setting up the entries, the
accounts receivable account will be debited in a journal entry in the records by the full invoice amount of a sale before a cash
discount, and then credited in the sales revenue account by the same amount in the same journal entry. A debit increases accounts
receivable, which is an asset account. Unlike an asset account, sales revenue is increased by a credit.
Next,
the participating Investor’s payment is entered and the amount of the sales discount is subtracted from the full invoice
amount to determine the amount of cash received when the Investor pays the invoice. The cash account is then debited in a
new journal entry in the records by the amount of cash received from the Investor, and also debited in the sales discounts account
by the amount of the discount. The debit increases both of these accounts. Lastly, the accounts receivable account
is credited in the same journal entry by the full invoice amount. This removes the invoice amount from accounts receivable.
The
amount of total sales discounts for an accounting period are reported on a line called “Less: Sales Discounts” below
the sales revenue line on the income statement. The total sales discounts are subtracted from the gross sales revenue earned in
the period before accounting for discounts. The result is reported as “Net sales” below the sales discounts line on
the income statement.
4. Please
disclose an estimate of the total value of your incentive program for the duration of the offering and how you determined that
value.
5. Please
disclose how the specific discounts will be determined and any other factors that are relevant as it relates to your decision to
offer a rental rate discount to certain investors. Also disclose whether the investor incentives can be transferred or only used
by the investors. Clarify whether there is a limit as to the number of incentives that an investor may receive.
On Page 14, the following disclosures have been added to the end
of the “Investor Incentive Program” description:
The total estimated value to the Company of the Investor Incentive
Program for the duration of the Offering is approximately $330,000, based off a successful execution of the Plan of Operations,
described below. This amount was determined by first assuming the Maximum Offering Amount of $50,000,000 is raised and is leveraged
with $150,000,000 of financing in order to purchase 100 properties at an average purchase price of $2,000,000, with a capitalization
rate of 11%. This would result in an aggregate annual net income of $22,000,000. Further assume that the average perk received
by all Investors is a 25% discount and the balance paid to the Company for a rental is 75%, in which case the potential share of
the aggregate annual net income would be $16,500,000. Now assume that Investors eligible to receive the discount exercise their
right to rent Company properties at a rate of 2%, which applied against $16,500,000 equals $330,000. The assumptions listed in
this paragraph are for the sole purpose of explaining how the estimated value to the Company of the Investor Incentive Program
for the duration of the Offering was determined.
The specific discount received by an Investor will be determined
based upon the aggregate amount invested during the Offering, at the levels and for the percentages described above.
Discounts received by an Investor are non-transferable and may
only be exercised by the Investor.
There is no limit to the number of times that an Investor may
exercise a discount on Company properties.