SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-013028 to Alps Group Inc (ALPS)
Alps Group Inc
Date: Nov. 22, 2024 · CIK: 0002025774 · Accession: 0000000000-24-013028
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November 22, 2024
Say Leong Lim
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Alps Global Holding Pubco
Unit E-18-01 & E-18-02, Level 18, Icon Tower (East)
No. 1, Jalan 1/68F, Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia
Tham Seng Kong
Chief Executive Officer
Alps Life Sciences Inc
Unit E-18-01 & E-18-02, Level 18, Icon Tower (East)
No. 1, Jalan 1/68F, Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia
Re:Alps Global Holding Pubco
Amendment No. 4 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4
Submitted November 6, 2024
CIK No. 0002025774
Dear Say Leong Lim and Tham Seng Kong:
We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have the following
comment(s).
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 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 the information you provide in response to this letter and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may have additional
comments. Unless we note otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in
our October 29, 2024 letter.
November 22, 2024
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Amendment No. 4 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4
Question: What happens if the Business Combination is not consummated?, page 24
1.Please revise to update your disclosure here and throughout with respect to the
deadline to complete the initial business combination.
Background of the Business Combination, page 119
2.We note your response to comment three. Given the limited actual revenues for Alps
for the year ended March 31, 2024 of only $2.4 million compared to projected fiscal
year 2025 revenues of $13.6 million, we would expect more detailed disclosures
regarding the basis for such significant revenue growth assumptions. Please
specifically address the following:
•The majority of projected revenues appear to be associated with the NK Cell, Car-
T and blood testing segments for which Alps has yet to commence operations as
of March 31, 2024. The disclosures indicate that the respective projected revenues
have been determined based on Alps’ management assessment of the current
market outlook and future strategic business plans. Please give better insight as to
the basis for management's assessment, including what specific information was
used and any significant estimates and assumptions used to arrive at projected
revenues based on this information. Please also disclose whether Alps has
subsequently started these operations;
•In terms of regulatory approval, we note that Alps assumes that its NK Cell, Car-
T and Mesenchymal Stem Cells treatments can be utilized in the Malaysian
market under compassionate use, pending regulatory approval. Please disclose
your basis for assuming that these treatments can be utilized under compassionate
use as well as the current status of the pending regulatory approval. Specifically
clarify whether the entire current revenue projection is based on compassion use,
and if not, revise to disclose your projected regulatory approval built in the model;
and
•The table at page 132 for actual revenue track records for the fiscal years ended
March 31, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 appears to have omitted some revenue
components in at least FY2023. Please ensure the balances presented here agree
with your historical financial statements, and/or clearly explain any differences if
needed.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,
page 236
3.We note your response to comment seven. Please clearly disclose that you have
excluded salaries and payroll costs for employees engaged in research activities from
the research expenses component of administrative expenses and instead included
them in the payroll costs component. Please also disclose your basis for this
presentation.
Note 1. Corporate Information, page F-68
We note your response to comment 11. It remains unclear how you determined that 4.
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you do not have significant influence in Cilo Sybin given your 40.5% stake, your
representation on the board of directors, as well as the other factors noted. We note
Cilo Sybin was incorporated for the purpose of being listed as a SPAC to pursue
acquisitions of, and investments in, commercial enterprises operating in the biotech,
biohacking or pharmaceutical sector. It appears that the primary activities this entity is
engaged in at this time are raising capital and identifying a target company. Please tell
us what role you have in these primary activities, including what influence you have
in the final decision making process. Also tell us who determines the SPAC's financial
and operating policies, if not the board of directors, as indicated in your response.
Note 13. Related Party Transactions, page F-85
5.In a similar manner to your response, please further expand your disclosures pursuant
to IAS 24.18 to disclose when you expect to settle these amounts and the nature of the
consideration to be provided in settlement.
General
6.You state in your response to prior comment nine that Alps Life Sciences Inc. is
identified and designated as the primary operating company post completion of the
Business Combination and that Alps Global Holding Berhad is now a wholly owned
subsidiary of Alps Life Sciences Inc. Please revise to describe and identify the
management team, including executive officers and directors, of Alps Life Sciences
Inc. at effectiveness of the registration statement.
7.We note that Globalink's initial public offering closed on December 9, 2021. We also
note that you are currently listed on Nasdaq and that Nasdaq Rule 5815 was amended
effective October 7, 2024 to provide for the immediate suspension and delisting upon
issuance of a delisting determination letter for failure to meet the requirement in
Nasdaq Rule IM 5101-2(b) to complete one or more business combinations
within 36 months of the date of effectiveness of its IPO registration statement. Please
include disclosure to state that your securities will face immediate suspension and
delisting action once you receive a delisting determination letter from Nasdaq after
the 36-month window ends. Please disclose the risks of non-compliance with this rule,
including that under the new framework, Nasdaq may only reverse the determination
if it finds it made a factual error applying the applicable rule. In addition, please also
disclose the consequences of any such suspension or delisting, including that your
stock may be determined to be a penny stock and the consequences of that
designation, that you may no longer be attractive as a merger partner if you are no
longer listed on an exchange, any potential impact on your ability to complete an
initial business combination, any impact on the market for your securities including
demand and overall liquidity for your securities, and any impact on securities holders
due to your securities no longer being considered “covered securities.” We also note
that you also disclose on page 29 that one of the conditions to consummation of the
business combination is the listing by Nasdaq of the PubCo ordinary shares and
PubCo warrants and satisfaction of initial and continued listing requirements. Please
update your disclosure accordingly.
Please contact Nudrat Salik at 202-551-3692 or Li Xiao at 202-551-4391 if you have
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questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact
Conlon Danberg at 202-551-4466 or Lauren Nguyen at 202-551-3642 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Industrial Applications and
Services
cc:Jenny Chen-Drake, Esq.