SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-006093 to Advanced Biomed Inc. (ADVB)
Advanced Biomed Inc.
Date: June 7, 2023 · CIK: 0001941029 · Accession: 0000000000-23-006093
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
June 7, 2023
Hung To Pau, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Advanced Biomed Inc.
689-87 Xiaodong Road
Yongkang District
Tainan, Taiwan
Re:Advanced Biomed Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed May 22, 2023
File No. 333-272110
Dear Hung To Pau:
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.
Form S-1 filed May 22, 2023
Overview, page 10
1.We note your response to our comments 3 and 4 and reissue. We note that the disclosure
requested must appear in the Prospectus Summary, not just on the cover page.
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Commercialization Preparation, page 12
2.We note your statement on page 12 regarding your pre-mass product test for the A+Pre
Chip and AC-1000 Enrichment Chip, which examined “whether the tested chip can work
with its corresponding product, and whether chips’ flatness, roughness, water leakage,
critical size and thickness match the original design.” Similar disclosure appears on page
75 with respect to the completed A+CellScan performance study. Please revise to state
the results of these studies.
Risk Factor Summary
Risks Related to Doing Business in China, page 17
3.We note the deleted risk factor and updated additional disclosure on page 40. Please
revise your summary of risk factors to 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. This risk is
independent of the requirements imposed by the Trial Administrative Measures of
Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Companies and Provisions on
Strengthening the Confidentiality and Archives Administration Related to the Overseas
Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Enterprises.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates, page 64
4.We note your response to comment 11. As previously requested, please also revise your
disclosures to address the material implications of the uncertainties that are associated
with the methods, assumptions and estimates underlying your critical accounting
estimates. Your expanded disclosures should address the risk related to using different
assumptions and analyze their sensitivity to change based on outcomes that are deemed
reasonably likely to occur. Refer to Item 303(b)(3) of Regulation S-K.
Business
Commercialization Preparation, page 78
5.We note your revisions in response to our comment number 9 and reissue in part. Please
revise to clarify the rights and obligations of the parties engaged in the research project
equipment use contract with TSRI. We note, for example, your disclosure on page 36 that
you contracted with National Applied Research Laboratories to design and test production
of certain flow channel and to permit National Applied Research Laboratories to quote
test data in its research paper with your consent, yet on page 78 you state that you used
their semiconductor manufacturing equipment and precision micro-nano processing
equipment for chip technology research and development such as concept presentation of
each R&D process, cross-scale composite structure production, rapid wafer trial
production, material testing, and thin film production. Please also revise to consistently
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refer to TSRI or National Applied Research Laboratories throughout your prospectus, or
advise.
Intellectual Property, page 81
6.We note your revisions in response to our comment number 13 and reissue in part. Please
revise your table to disclose the anticipated expiration dates of your Chinese pending
patent applications. We note on page 99 you state that the duration of a patent right in the
PRC is either 10, 15 or 20 years from the date of application, depending on the type of
patent right.
National Medical Insurance Program, page 92
7.We note your revisions in response to our comment number 15 and reissue in part. Please
revise to discuss on page 92 how you anticipate reimbursement coverage and rates will be
determined for your products, the applicable agency or agencies that will make such
determinations in the PRC and the anticipated timeline for any such decisions.
Financial Statements, page F-1
8.Your disclosures on page 111 indicate that you effected a forward stock split at a ratio of 1
to 4 on May 16, 2023. Please revise the financial statements and corresponding financial
information throughout the filing to retroactively reflect the stock split consistent with the
guidance in ASC 260-10-55-12 and ASC 505-10-S99-4 (SAB Topic 4C). Please also
have your auditors dual date their report for the impact of the stock split.
Review Report, page F-2
9.Please provide a consent that covers the review report issued by your independent
accountants on the March 31, 2023 interim financial statements.
Consolidated Balance Sheets, page F-3
10.We note your response to comment 19. You revised your accounting of the acquisition of
Shanghai Sglcell Biotech Co. which resulted in the revision of your audited financial
statements. For example we note that you no longer record goodwill as of June 30, 2022.
In this regard, please appropriately reflect these revisions as a restatement which should
include marking the applicable financial statements "as restated," providing the
disclosures required by ASC 250-10-50-7 through 50-10, and ensuring that the
restatement is discussed in the audit report. Please also address whether
a material weakness was identified, and if so, what consideration was given to including a
risk factor describing the material weakness, resulting restatement, and any associated
remediation procedures.
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Note 1. Organization and Principal Activities, page F-22
11.We note your response to comment 22. It remains unclear how you determined that the
reorganization should be accounted for as a transaction under common control per the
guidance of ASC 805. Specifically, please tell us how you determined that Dr. Yi Lu
controlled both Advanced Biomed Inc. (Taiwan) as well as Advanced Biomed Inc. at the
time of the transaction in July 2022. Your disclosures indicate that Dr. Yi Lu only
controlled Advanced Biomen Inc. (Taiwan) at the time of the transaction and obtained
control of Advanced Biomed, Inc. after the transaction.
Exhibits
12.We note that several of the linked exhibits do not actually match the associated titles in
the Exhibit Index. Please ensure that every linked exhibit in the Exhibit Index actually
matches the corresponding titles.
13.We note that you have filed the resolutions approving adoption of the 2023 Plan as
Exhibit 10.2. Please revise to also file the 2023 Plan itself.
14.We note the legal opinion filed as Exhibit 5.2. Please have counsel revise Section C.5. and
the last sentence of the opinion to ensure both places cover the disclosure on the cover
page and, with respect to the last sentence, the “Regulations” section.
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 Nudrat Salik at 202-551-3692 or Al Pavot at 202-551-3738 if you have
questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact
Benjamin Richie at 202-551-7857 or Margaret Schwartz at 202-551-7153 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Industrial Applications and
Services
cc: Fang Liu, Esq.