SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-007755 to Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd (COOT)
Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd
Date: July 20, 2023 · CIK: 0001959994 · Accession: 0000000000-23-007755
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July 20, 2023
Gary Seaton
Chairman and CEO
Australian Oilseeds Holdings Limited
126-142 Cowcumbla Street, Cootamundra
Site 2: 52 Fuller Drive Cootamundra
PO Box 263 Cootamundra, Australia 2590
Re:Australian Oilseeds Holdings Limited
Amendment No. 3 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4
Submitted June 29, 2023
CIK No. 0001959994
Dear Gary Seaton:
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. 3 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4 submitted June 29, 2023
Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements
Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations, page 146
1.Please present pro forma earnings per disclosures, as previously provided and required by
Article 11 of Regulation S-X.
Facilities and Expansion, page 187
2.Please update the disclosure in the project schedule on page 188. For example, clarify
whether pre-construction activities were completed in May 2023 and whether construction
activities began in June 2023.
FirstName LastNameGary Seaton
Comapany NameAustralian Oilseeds Holdings Limited
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FirstName LastName
Gary Seaton
Australian Oilseeds Holdings Limited
July 20, 2023
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AOI's Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,
page 191
3.We note your response to prior comment number 8; however, we did not find meaningful
updated MD&A disclosures as of and for the interim period ended and re-issue our prior
comment. We note your narrative disclosures for the interim period only discuss net
profit. We found no disclosures related to changes in the component of your results of
operations and liquidity as of and during the current interim period relative to the
comparative interim period as required by Item 14(g) of Form F-4.
Consolidated Financial Statements
Australian Oilseeds Investments Pty Ltd, page F-52
4.We note your response to prior comment number 11, including the disclosures on page
82. Please revise your revenue recognition policy in the notes to your audited financial
statements to clarify, if accurate, that sales to Energreen Nutrition are recognized when
they sell your products to a third party customer.
5.We note your response to prior comment number 12, including the disclosures on page F-
79. Please revise the notes to your annual and interim financial statements to provide
significant customer disclosures related to the annual and interim periods included in each
set of financial statements.
General
6.We note the exclusive forum provision included in your Amended and Restated
Memorandum of Association. Please revise to disclose the scope of your exclusive forum
provision. Please include any appropriate risk factor disclosure.
You may contact Charles Eastman, Staff Accountant, at 202-551-3794 or Anne
McConnell, Staff Accountant, at 202-551-3709 if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial statements and related matters. Please contact Thomas Jones, Staff Attorney, at 202-
551-3602 or Asia Timmons-Pierce, Special Counsel, at 202-551-3754 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing
cc: Barry I. Grossman, Esq.