SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-005080 to Fenbo Holdings Ltd (FEBO)
Fenbo Holdings Ltd
Date: May 12, 2023 · CIK: 0001957001 · Accession: 0000000000-23-005080
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May 12, 2023
Li Siu Lun Allan
Chief Executive Officer
Fenbo Holdings Ltd
Unit J, 19/F, World Tech Centre
95 How Ming Street
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Re:Fenbo Holdings Ltd
Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1
Submitted April 28, 2023
CIK No. 0001957001
Dear Li Siu Lun Allan:
We have reviewed your amended draft 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 providing the requested information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your registration statement on
EDGAR. 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 the information you provide in response to these comments and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may have additional
comments.
Amendment No. 2 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1
Exhibit 23.1, page 1
1.Please have your auditor's revise their consent to also include their consent to refer to
them as experts in the registration statement.
Recent Regulatory Developments in China, page 7
2.We note that the CSRC recently published Trial Measures that impose certain filing
requirements for direct and indirect overseas listings and offerings. Please revise to
prominently disclose how, if at all, the Trial Measures apply to this transaction, whether
you and relevant parties to this transaction have complied with your obligations under the
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Trial Measures, and the risks to investors of non-compliance.
Dividends and Dividend Policy, page 51
3.Your disclosure indicates that the declaration of a HKD 10 million dividend did not result
in a cash outflow, as it was offset against an amount due to a shareholder. Please clarify
your accounting, as if you previously owed amounts to a shareholder and declared a
dividend, it would appear as though you owed the amounts previously due plus the
dividend declared. Clarify which line item in the balance sheet regarding amounts with
related parties was effected by this transaction.
4.We note your disclosure that no dividend was declared or paid by you or your Operating
Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021; however, the activity on page
F-5 (consolidated statements of changes in shareholders' equity) indicates a dividend
declared for HKD 3,370,000. Please advise or revise as necessary.
5.We note that you declared a dividend of HK$10,000,000 but "there was no cash flow
effect as the dividend declared was offset against the amount due to a shareholder." Please
revise to describe in detail the nature and terms of the amount due to such shareholder.
Related Party Transactions, page 91
6.Item 7.B. of Form 20-F requires that you include information since the beginning of the
company’s preceding three financial years up to the date of the document. Please revise.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, page F-2
7.Please revise to have your auditor date the report.
Financial Statements
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 10. Related party balances and transactions, page F-18
8.We refer to the sale-leaseback transaction disclosed on page 91. Please address the
following:
•Considering the significance of the transaction, revise note 10 to include disclosure
for this transaction required by ASC 850-10-50-1 and note 7 in accordance with ASC
842-20-50-7.
•Demonstrate how you met sale-leaseback accounting under ASC 842-40-25-1.
•Provide us with your calculation of the gain.
•Clarify where the receipt of the HKD13.8 million is in your statement of cash flows.
Exhibits
9.Please revise to add exhibit 21, subsidiaries of the registrant. See Item 601(b)(21) of
Regulation S-K.
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You may contact Heather Clark at 202-551-3624 or Hugh West at 202-551-3872 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Alexander King at 202-551-8631 or Evan Ewing at 202-551-5920 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing