Correspondence 0001731122-23-001534 from WF International Ltd. (WXM)
WF International Ltd.
Date: Aug. 16, 2023 · CIK: 0001979610 · Accession: 0001731122-23-001534
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WF International Ltd.
No. 1110, 11th Floor, Unit 1, Building 7,
No. 477,
Wanxing Road Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 610041
Tel: +86 (28) 86210882
VIA EDGAR
August 16, 2023
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Real Estate & Construction
100 F Street,
N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention:
William Demarest
Jennifer Monick
Ronald (Ron) E. Alper
Pam Long
Re: WF International Ltd.
Draft Registration Statement on
Form F-1 Filed
June 30, 2023
CIK No. 0001979610
Dear Mr. Alper:
WF International Ltd. (the “Company,”
“we,” “our” or “us”) hereby transmits our response to the comment letter received
from the staff (the “Staff”, “you” or “your”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”), dated July 27, 2023, regarding Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1 submitted to
the Commission on June 30, 2023.
For the Staff’s convenience,
we have repeated below the Staff’s comments in bold, and have followed each comment with the Company’s response. In response
to the Staff’s comments, the Company is submitting via Edgar a revised registration statement (the “Revised Registration
Statement”) with this response letter.
Draft Registration Statement on Form
F-1 submitted June 30, 2023
Cover Page
1. We
note your disclosure regarding the Accelerated Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act.
Please also disclose the location of your auditor’s headquarters.
Response to Comment No. 1: In response
to the Staff’s comment, we have revised our disclosure on the prospectus cover page of the Revised Registration Statement.
Enforceability of Civil Liabilities
Enforcement of Judgments/Enforcement
of Civil Liabilities, page 58
2. We
note your disclosures on pages 57 and 58 regarding uncertainty as to the enforcement of judgements
and civil liabilities against you, your officers or directors. Please identify each officer
and director located in China or Hong Kong against whom it will be more difficult to enforce
liabilities and enforce judgments. Also, please include similar disclosures in your risk
factor “Certain judgments obtained against us by our shareholders may not be enforceable”
on page 50.
Response
to Comment No. 2: In response to the Staff’s comment, we have revised our disclosure in
the “Risk Factor” section on page 50 and in the “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities” section on page 57 of the
Revised Registration Statement.
Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Overview, page 62
3. We
note disclosure that strict financial regulations imposed on the real estate market in 2022
contributed to the 26.1% decrease in revenues for fiscal year ended September 30, 2022, but
that you expect revenues for 2023 and beyond to continue to recover. Please address whether
the strict financial regulations remain in place and whether you expect that they will continue
to impact your revenue, including whether you expect they will continue to impact either
your existing business or the retail market that you plan to expand into and that you believe
will support your future growth.
Response
to Comment No. 3: In response to the Staff’s comment, we have revised our disclosure in
the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section on page 62 and the
“Regulations” section on page 100 of the Revised Registration Statement.
Management
Directors,
Director Nominees and Executive Officers, page 103
4. We
note that you have provided a description of the business experience of Siqi Chen for periods
prior to December 2020. Please provide updated information for more recent business experience
and activities in and outside of the company, including any other directorships.
Response to Comment No. 4:
In response to the Staff’s comment, we have revised our disclosure regarding the business experience of Siqi Chen in the “Management”
section on page 111 of the Revised Registration Statement.
Consolidated
Financial Statements as of and for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated
Statements of Operations and Comprehensive (Loss) Income, page F-4
5. We
note your line item for other finance cost. Please clarify for us the nature of this line
item. Please revise your filing to include an accounting policy for the significant items
within other finance cost, or tell us how you determined such disclosure is unnecessary.
Response to Comment No. 5:
In response to the Staff’s comment, we respectfully advise the Staff that other finance costs represented costs directly associated
with the Company’s loans and factoring activities, including guarantee fees, agent fees for factorings and service fees charged
by banks. we have revised our disclosure on page F-43 of the Revised Registration Statement to include our accounting policy for other
finance costs.
Note 1- Nature of business and
organization Organization and Reorganization, page F-7
6. Your
disclosure seems to indicate that before and after reorganization, the registrant, WF International
Limited (“WF”), and Chengdu Shanyou HVAC Engineering Co., Ltd. (“Shanyou
HVAC”) were controlled by the same shareholders, and therefore the reorganization is
considered as a recapitalization of entities under common control in accordance with Accounting
Standards Codification (“ASC”) 805-50-25. Please clarify for us how you determined
these two entities had the same controlling shareholder before the reorganization and the
ownership percentage held by such shareholder. Within your response, please clarify who controlled
WF when it, through WFOE, acquired the initial 5% of Shanyou HVAC, who controlled WF when
it, through WFOE, acquired the remaining 95% of Shanyou HVAC, who controlled Shanyou HVAC
prior to the sale of the initial 5% interest to WFOE, and who controlled Shanyou HVAC prior
to the sale of the remaining 95% interest to WFOE. Your response should include your basis
in U.S. GAAP for your determination of who controlled a specific entity at a specific point
in time.
Response
to Comment No. 6: We respectfully advise the Staff that WF International Limited (“WF”) is s a holding Company established
for the purpose of initial public offering for Chengdu
Shanyou HVAC Engineering Co., Ltd. (“Shanyou HVAC”) in the U.S.
WF was set up on March 2, 2023, with
a capital structure of 100,000 shares, of which the Company intended to issue 70,000 and 30,000 shares, respectively, to Ms. Ke Chen (including
her husband Jinshan Yao’s 19,000 shares) and Emerald Investment International (“Emerald Investment”).
On March 2, 10,000 shares were issued
to Emerald Investment and the remaining 20,000 and 70,000 shares were issued to Emerald Investment, and Ke Chen (including 19,000 shares
to her husband), respectively, on May 22, 2023.
We believe Ms. Ke Chen had an effective
control of WF from inception to the date of the reorganization, holding 70% of the voting power of WF. Ms. Ke Chen also held 95.83% of
the voting power of Shanyou HVAC prior to the initial acquisition of 5% of Shanyou HVAC on May 8, 2023 and 90.83% of the voting power
prior to the sale of 95% of Shanyou HVAC on May 29, 2023.
Since Ms. Ke Chen has more than 50%
of voting power in both WF and Shanyou HVAC before and after the reorganization, including before and after the acquisition of Shanyou
HVAC, the reorganization is considered a recapitalization of entities under common control, and the financial statements were presented
using historical costs in accordance with ASC 805.
Note 2 - Summary of significant
accounting policies Contract assets and contract liabilities, page F-10
7. We
note your disclosure that costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings of project is
due to the difference between the cost and the actual cost confirmed by the
output method. Please clarify for us and in your filing what is meant by “cost”
and “actual cost” in this context, or tell us why revisions are unnecessary.
Response to Comment No. 7:
We respectfully advise the Staff that the Company has included contract fulfilment costs in the presentation of contract assets and has
thus reclassified contract fulfilment costs from contract assets, net on pages F-31 and F-34 and revised the related disclosure on pages
F-38, F-46 and F-47 of the Revised Registration Statement. The Company has added accounting policy on contract fulfilment costs on page
F-38 of the Revised Registration Statement.
Please see our response to Comment
No. 8 below for clarification on reclassification.
8. We
note your disclosure that contract liabilities consist of the portion of the carry-over cost
that exceeds the actual cost of the project. Please clarify the meaning of this statement
for us and in your filing, or tell us why revisions are unnecessary.
Response to Comment No. 8:
We respectfully advise the Staff that the Company has included accrued contract costs in the presentation of contract liabilities and
thus reclassified accrued contract costs from contract liabilities to accrued liabilities on pages F-31 and F-34 and revised related disclosure
on pages F-38 and F-46 to F-47.
Due to the aforementioned reclassifications,
the Company also takes into the consideration of ASC 250-10-50-7 through 11 on correction of an error in previously issued financial statements
and SAB No. 99 Topic 1M Materiality. In accordance of SAB No. 99 Topic 1M, “The omission or misstatement of an item in a financial
report is material if, in the light of surrounding circumstances, the magnitude of the item is such that it is probable that the judgment
of a reasonable person relying upon the report would have been changed or influenced by the inclusion or correction of the item”.
As of September 30, 2022 and 2021,
the Company reclassified $4,189,127 and $3,423,441, respectively, from contract assets to contract fulfilment costs. Both contract assets
and contract fulfilment costs are within current assets accounts. For the fiscal years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company
reclassified cash outflow of $1,193,547 and $2,285,571, respectively, from changes in contract assets to changes in contract fulfilment
costs. Both changes in contract assets and changes in contract fulfilment costs are within net cash provided by (used in) operating activities.
As of September 30, 2022 and 2021,
the Company reclassified $67,338 and $169,984, respectively, from contract liabilities to accrued liabilities. Both contract liabilities
and accrued liabilities are within current liabilities accounts. For the fiscal years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company reclassified
cash outflow of $94,041 and $222,996, respectively, from changes in contract liabilities to changes in accrued liabilities. Both changes
in contract liabilities and changes in accrued liabilities are within net cash provided by (used in) operating activities.
Management believes the above
reclassifications are not a material misstatement because:
1) both
contract assets and contract fulfilment costs are within current assets accounts. The corrections had no impact on the Company’s
current assets for each period presented;
2) both
changes in contract assets and changes in contract fulfilment costs are within net cash provided by (used in) operating activities. The
corrections had no impact on the Company’s net cash provided by (used in) operating activities for each period presented;
3) both
contract liabilities and accrued liabilities are within current liabilities accounts. The corrections had no impact on the Company’s
current assets for each period presented;
4) both
changes in contract liabilities and changes in accrued liabilities are within net cash provided by (used in) operating activities. The
corrections had no impact on the Company’s net cash provided by (used in) operating activities for each period presented;
5) the
corrections do not have any effect on revenues, retained earnings, equity, total assets or current assets, total liabilities or current
liabilities in the consolidated statements of financial positions or any per-share amounts for each period presented;
6) the
corrections do not change earnings, or hide a failure to meet analysts’ consensus expectations for the Company, or affect the Company’s
compliance with regulatory requirements or loan covenants or other contractual requirement, or have an effect of increasing management’s
compensation; and
7) the
corrections do not involve concealment of an unlawful transaction.
Based on the above analysis, the Company does not consider that the judgment
of a reasonable person relying upon the previously filed consolidated statements of balances sheets and cash flows would have been changed
or influenced by the inclusion or correction made to such statements. Therefore, the Company has concluded that the corrections are immaterial.
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In order to properly disclose the
classifications made to the Company’s consolidated statements of balance sheets and cash flows, the Company has revised the disclosure
on page F-44 of the Revise Registration Statement.
We thank the Staff in advance for
its consideration of the foregoing. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our legal counsel, Richard I. Anslow,
Esq., of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, at (212) 370-1300.
Sincerely,
By:
/s/ Ke Chen
Name:
Ke Chen
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
cc:
Ellenoff Grossman &
Schole LLP