SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-012910 to Advanced Biomed Inc. (ADVB)
Advanced Biomed Inc.
Date: Nov. 21, 2024 · CIK: 0001941029 · Accession: 0000000000-24-012910
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November 21, 2024
Yi Lu
Chief Executive Officer
Advanced Biomed Inc.
689-87 Xiaodong Road
Yongkang District
Tainan, Taiwan
Re:Advanced Biomed Inc.
Amendment No. 13 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed October 28, 2024
File No. 333-272110
Dear Yi Lu:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing
the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies 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 this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note
otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our January 17, 2024 letter.
Form S-1/A Filed October 28, 2024
The Offering, page 12
We note that "All of [your] directors, officers, and shareholders holding more than 5%
of [your] Common Stock as of the effective date of this prospectus, have agreed not to
offer, sell, transfer contract to sell, encumber, grant any option for the sale of or
otherwise dispose of any securities of the Company without the underwriters’ prior
written consent of any Common Stock for a period of six months from the date of the
prospectus, subject to certain exceptions." Please revise your disclosure, where
appropriate, to specify the terms of the lock-up agreement and the exceptions. In this
regard, we note that it appears one of the selling shareholders holds more than 5% of
your common stock. Please clarify whether the underwriter has provided written 1.
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consent to the selling shareholder reselling its shares, the resale prospectus conforms
to an exception within the agreement, or otherwise.
Risk Factors
Risks Related to this Offering, page 42
2.Please revise your risk factor disclosure to include a discussion of the potential risks
of dilution and share price volatility presented by the selling shareholders and resale
offering.
3.Given that there are two offerings and the offering prices could differ, include risk
factor disclosure to highlight the risk that purchasers in the resale offering could pay
more or less than the price in your primary offering.
Capitalization, page 49
4.Please clearly show in the notes to the capitalization table how you computed each
Pro Forma Adjusted for this Offering amount, including a discussion of any
significant assumptions and estimates used to arrive at the amounts. For example, it is
not clear how you arrived at the Pro Forma Adjusted for this Offering Cash amount
based on the estimated net proceeds of the offering disclosed on page 47 of $5.27
million.
Business, page 62
5.We note your revised disclosure on page 47 noting that the Company intends to
involve 200 individuals in "clinical research." Here, and elsewhere, as
necessary, please provide further details regarding the Company's planned research,
projected timelines, and associated risks. We also note your disclosure on pages 1 and
51 that "based on the results of clinical research, [you] plan to formulate a work plan
for large-scale clinical trials and proceed with the clinical trial." Please revise your
disclosure here, in the Use of Proceeds section and in the Summary to explain the
relationship between the clinical research and your clinical trials. Please also state, if
appropriate, that the results of your clinical research may not support the Company's
expected progression to clinical trials.
Industry-Academia Cooperation, page 75
6.It appears the term of the Cooperation Agreement that went into effect on April 15,
2023, has expired. Please revise to provide the current status of this agreement.
Exhibits
7.We note that certain exhibits have redacted material. Please include a footnote to the
exhibit table indicating which exhibits have redacted material and the authority upon
which you are relying. Please also file executed versions of agreements that have been
executed. Refer to Item 302 of Regulation S-T for guidance on providing signatures in
your electronic submissions.
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Resale Prospectus Cover Page, page Alt-1
8.We note your statement on page Alt-1: "Once, and if, our Common Stock is listed on
the Nasdaq Capital Market and there is an established market for these resale shares,
the Selling Shareholders may sell the resale shares from time to time at the market
price prevailing on the Nasdaq Capital Market at the time of offer and sale, or at
prices related to such prevailing market prices or in negotiated transactions or a
combination of such methods of sale directly or through brokers." Please revise to fix
an initial price for the resale offering until your ordinary shares are listed on the
Nasdaq Capital Market and there is an established market for these resale shares.
Refer to Item 501(b)(3) of Regulation S-K.
9.We note your statement here that "upon the completion of the offering contemplated
by this prospectus, [you] will meet the standards for listing on the Nasdaq Capital
Market." We further note that the Selling Shareholders will not sell any Common
Stock until after the closing of the underwritten primary offering. Please reconcile this
disclosure with the same disclosure that appears on the IPO prospectus cover page.
Please also revise both your IPO prospectus and resale prospectus cover pages to
clarify the details specific to the resale offering, to include any restrictions on
timing (i.e., the 180 days mentioned on the resale prospectus cover page), plan of
distribution, price, and whether the resale offering is contingent on the closing of the
underwritten primary offering.
Selling Shareholders, page Alt-2
10.We note your disclosure within the selling shareholders table disclosing that the
maximum number of common stock owned after the offering by Yimin Jin is
1,755,000 shares and that this represents "-%" share ownership. We also note that the
beneficial ownership table on page 100 shows Yimin Jin as owning 1,755,000 shares
and this represents 8.78% share ownership. Please revise the number of common
stock owned after the offering by Yimin Jin to account for the shares registered for
resale, as you do with Nanzhen Shen’s shares
Selling Shareholders Plan of Distribution, page Alt-3
11.We note your disclosure on page Alt-3 that your Selling Shareholders may sell their
securities through purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-
dealer for its account, and that at the time a particular offering of Common Stock by
the Selling Shareholders is made a prospectus supplement will be distributed if
required, including the names of any broker-dealers or agents and other terms. Please
confirm your understanding that the retention by a Selling Shareholder of an
underwriter, or any entity that may act as 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.
12.We note your statement on page Alt-3: "We do not expect the Common Stock being
offered by the Selling Shareholders to be sold by or through Craft Capital
Management LLC in this offering." Please revise to clarify whether the resale shares
could be sold through Craft Capital Management LLC even if you do not currently
expect that they will.
November 21, 2024
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Please 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 Sawicki at 202-551-7153 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Industrial Applications and
Services
cc:Fang Liu, Esq.