SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-005752 to Foremost Clean Energy Ltd. (FMST)
Foremost Clean Energy Ltd.
Date: May 31, 2023 · CIK: 0001935418 · Accession: 0000000000-23-005752
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File numbers found in text: 333-272028
Referenced dates: October 13, 2022
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
May 31, 2023
Jason Barnard
Chief Executive Officer
Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology Ltd.
2500-700 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y 1B3
Canada
Re:Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology Ltd.
Registration Statement on Form F-1
Filed May 18, 2023
File No. 333-272028
Dear Jason Barnard:
We have reviewed your registration statement and have the following 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. Unless otherwise
noted, our references to prior comments relate to our May 2, 2023 comment letter.
Registration Statement on Form F-1 filed May 18, 2023
Cover Page
1.We note your disclosure that your board of directors intends to effect a share
consolidation of your outstanding common shares in connection with this offering and
your intended listing of your common shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market, “to result in a
price per share between approximately US$5.00 to US$6.00.” If US$5.00 to US$6.00 is
the bona fide estimate of the range of the maximum offering price of the securities
disclosed pursuant to Instruction 1 to Item 501(b)(3) of Regulation S-K, please revise to
clarify, if true, that you expect the initial public offering price to be between US$5.00 to
US$6.00 per share.
FirstName LastNameJason Barnard
Comapany NameForemost Lithium Resource & Technology Ltd.
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FirstName LastNameJason Barnard
Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology Ltd.
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Prospectus Summary
Lithium Industry, page 6
2.We note your response to prior comment 1. Please revise your prospectus to provide the
basis for your disclosure that the global lithium-ion battery market size is expected to
reach USD $182.53 billion by 2030.
Our Risks and Challenges, page 9
3.Please revise the summary risk factors to disclose the risk that you expect to be a “passive
foreign investment company,” as discussed in the risk factor on page 28 and the disclosure
on page 126. In addition, ensure that you have disclosed all related risks that are material
in the risk factor on page 28, rather than stating in the risk factor that “[t]his paragraph is
qualified in its entirety by the discussion above under the heading “Material United States
and Canadian Income Tax Considerations — U.S. Federal Income Taxation
Considerations — Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules.”
Summary Consolidated Financial Information, page 14
4.With respect to your Statements of Financial Position Data, please limit inclusion of an
"As Adjusted" column to your most recent interim balance sheet consistent with the
period depicted in your Capitalization Table on page 32.
5.Please refer to Rule 3-20(b)(1) of Regulation S-X and remove the convenience translation
to U.S. Dollars for all periods except for the most recent fiscal year and any subsequent
interim period presented.
Use of Proceeds, page 30
6.We note your response to prior comment 2, and your revised disclosure that you plan to
use 23% of the net proceeds for general corporate purposes such as salaries, accounting
transfer agents, public company fees, audit fees travel, or other. Please disclose the
amount of net proceeds to be used for salaries, if known. We also note your disclosure
that you expect to use 15% of the net proceeds for general business expenses, which may
include marketing and promotional efforts. Please disclose any anticipated use of
proceeds to pay related parties. In that regard, we note your disclosure regarding investor
relations fees paid to a company co-owned by Jason Barnard and Christina Barnard during
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023.
Description of Share Capital, page 116
7.We note you intend to effect a share consolidation of your outstanding common
shares prior to the effectiveness of this registration statement. Please provide further
clarification as to when your reverse stock split will be effected in relation to the
effectiveness of your registration statement as well as tell us how you anticipate reflecting
the reverse stock split retrospectively in your historical financial statements and
FirstName LastNameJason Barnard
Comapany NameForemost Lithium Resource & Technology Ltd.
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FirstName LastName
Jason Barnard
Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology Ltd.
May 31, 2023
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throughout the filing. Refer to the guidance in paragraph 64 of IAS 33 and SAB Topic
4:C.
Financial Statements
Note 17 - Prior Year Restatement, page F-70
8.Please remove all of the references to your restatement of prior year financial statements
throughout your filing as you indicated you would do in your response to prior comment
14 of our letter dated October 13, 2022.
Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules, page II-4
9.Please ensure that your exhibit index complies with the requirements set forth in Item
601(a)(2) of Regulation S-K. For example, we note that you have incorporated by
reference certain exhibits, but have not included an active hyperlink to each such exhibit
separately filed on EDGAR. Please revise.
10.We note that the legal opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 does not specify the number of shares
to be offered under the registration statement and covered by the opinion. Please obtain
and file a revised legal opinion that includes such information.
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.
You may contact John Cannarella, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3337 or Jenifer
Gallagher, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3706 if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial statements and related matters. For questions regarding engineering matters, you may
contact John Coleman, Mining Engineer, at (202) 551-3610. Please contact Cheryl Brown, Staff
Attorney, at (202) 551-3905 or Laura Nicholson, Special Counsel, at (202) 551-3584 with any
other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation
cc: Anthony Epps, Esq.