SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-008231 to Advanced Biomed Inc. (ADVB)
Advanced Biomed Inc.
Date: Aug. 1, 2023 · CIK: 0001941029 · Accession: 0000000000-23-008231
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
August 1, 2023
Hung To Pau, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Advanced Biomed Inc.
689-87 Xiaodong Road
Yongkang District
Tainan, Taiwan
Re:Advanced Biomed Inc.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed July 19, 2023
File No. 333-272110
Dear Hung To Pau:
We have reviewed your amended 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 we note
otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our July 5, 2023 letter.
Form S-1/A Filed July 19, 2023
Cover Page
1.We note your revised statements that the Chinese government may intervene or influence
the operation of your Shanghai subsidiary and exercise significant oversight and discretion
over the conduct of their business and may intervene in or influence their operations at
any time, or may exert more control over securities offerings conducted overseas and/or
foreign investment in your Shanghai subsidiary, which could result in a material change in
operations of your Shanghai subsidiary and/or the value of your common stock, and that
any actions by the Chinese government to exert more oversight and control over offerings
that are conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in your Shanghai subsidiary could
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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.
Please revise to clarify that these risks apply to your Shanghai subsidiary and Advanced
Biomed HK as both operate in the PRC and revise the latter statements about investment
in your Shanghai subsidiary to instead refer to you in order to remove any implication that
this offering involves a direct investment in your Shanghai subsidiary.
Corporate History and Structure, page 14
2.We note that in June 2023, you transferred 100% equity interest of Shanghai Sglcell’s
subsidiaries and Sglcell (Huangshan) Biotech Co., Ltd. to independent third parties.
Please revise to provide more detail regarding these transfers. This should include, but is
not limited to, identifying the acquiring third parties, any agreements associated with the
transfer, and any obligations arising from the transfers. Please also explain here the basis
for transferring some of these entities for no consideration.
3.Please revise to clarify your current operations in the PRC given the disposition of four
subsidiaries that operated in the PRC.
Risk Factors, page 23
4.We note that you have removed many risk factors relating to the regulatory,
governmental, and economic uncertainties and risks related to China-based issuers,
generally. We further note that your Shanghai subsidiary is located in the PRC. Please
revise to include the removed risk factors or advise.
Our Industry, page 68
5.We refer to your prefacing statement on page 68 that neither you nor any other party
involved in this offering has independently verified such information, and neither you nor
any other party involved in this offering makes any representation as to the accuracy or
completeness of such information. Therefore, investors are cautioned not to place any
undue reliance on the information, including statistics and estimates, set forth in this
section or similar information included elsewhere in this prospectus. It is not appropriate
to directly or indirectly disclaim liability for statements in your registration statement.
Accordingly, please delete these statements or revise to specifically state that you take
liability for these statements.
Note 1. Organization and Principal Activities, page F-22
6.We note your response to comment 4. In a similar manner to your response, please
disclose that you determined that Advanced Biomed Inc. (Taiwan) is the predecessor
entity and your basis for this under Rule 405 of Regulation C. Please also clearly disclose
that the historical financial information prior to the date of the recapitalization transaction
is that of Advanced Biomed Inc. (Taiwan).
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Note 12. Subsequent Events, page F-32
7.We note that you transferred multiple subsidiaries to independent third-party individuals.
In some cases the transfers were made for zero consideration. Please disclose the business
purpose of transferring these subsidiaries especially given there was zero consideration
with some transfers. Please also address what consideration was given to providing pro
forma financial information to reflect these transfers pursuant to Rule 8-05 of Regulation
S-X. Please also refer to Rule 11-01(a)(4) of Regulation S-X.
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.