SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-010965 to Vantage Corp (Singapore) (VNTG)
Vantage Corp (Singapore)
Date: Sept. 26, 2024 · CIK: 0002027160 · Accession: 0000000000-24-010965
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September 26, 2024
Andresian D’Rozario
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Vantage Corp (Singapore)
#05-06, Level 5, 51 Cuppage Road
Singapore 229469
Re:Vantage Corp (Singapore)
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1
Submitted August 29, 2024
CIK 0002027160
Dear Andresian D’Rozario:
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
July 23, 2024 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement submitted August 29, 2024
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Results of Operations
Comparison of Results of Operations for the Fiscal Years Ended March 31, 2023 and 2024, page
35
1.You state that the 30.4% cost of revenue decrease correlates to the 16.6% decrease in
revenue. The decrease in revenues only partially explains the cost of revenue decrease.
Expand your disclosure to discuss the reasons for the residual 13.8% in cost of revenue.
In addition, discuss the changes in cost of revenues on a dollar basis.
2.In your discussion of general and administrative expense, disclose the underlying reasons
why "back-end payroll" increased in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024.
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Revenue, page 36
3.We note your disclosure that your decrease in revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31,
2024 was intensified by the Russia-Ukraine conflict but offset by a post-COVID
economic recovery. Please revise to provide more detailed disclosure regarding the impact
of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on your revenues. In this regard, we note your disclosure
on page 34 describing how regional conflicts and geopolitical tensions, such as the
Russia-Ukraine conflict, pose significant risks to maritime operations and can impact the
Company’s revenue.
Management
Other Corporate Governance Matters, page 68
4.You disclose here that you may in the future be eligible to utilize the controlled company
exemptions under the NYSE American corporate governance rules if more than 50% of
your voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company, and you do not
currently expect that more than 50% of your voting power will be held by an individual, a
group or another company immediately following the consummation of this
offering. However, the disclosure in your post-offering ownership structure diagram on
page 6 as well as your risk factor disclosure on page 17 indicate that your "Major
Shareholders," namely Ho Ying Keat Lowell, Andresian D’Rozario, Francis Junior James,
Randy Yong Choon Hong, and Quah Choong Hua, will collectively own a majority of the
combined voting power of your ordinary shares. Please advise or revise to address this
apparent inconsistency.
Financial Statements, page F-1
We note your response to prior comments nine and ten indicating that you have relied
upon the guidance in FASB ASC 805-50-45 in preparing your financial statements, which
depict Vantage Cayman as a consolidated entity as of March 31, 2024, including the
accounts of Vantage BVI, Vantage Singapore and Vantage Dubai for all periods.
However, you have disclosures on pages 5, 44, F-7 and F-8 indicating that Vantage
Cayman and Vantage BVI did not exist until April 2, 2024, after the periods covered by
your financial statements, also indicating that your reorganization is not yet complete, e.g.
within the explanatory note in advance of page one, and the statement on F-7 indicating it
is estimated to be completed by the end of 2024.
If you have properly identified the reorganization transactions as involving entities under
common control, the accounting guidance that you have referenced would not be initially
applicable until you are preparing financial statements that include the period of the
reorganization. Therefore, unless the reorganization will be completed prior to the
effective date of your registration statement, and unless you will update your financial
statements to include the period during which the reorganization has been completed prior
to the effective date, you will need to include separate financial statements of Vantage
Cayman, as previously advised.
In either case the disclosures on pages F-7 and F-8 should be revised to accurately
describe the basis of presentation, to include differentiating between the terms combined 5.
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and consolidated, when describing the basis of presentation for periods before and after
the date of completing the reorganization, respectively, i.e. your use of these terms should
correlate with the ownership structure in place during the periods covered by the financial
statements. We reissue prior comments nine and ten.
6.Given your various disclosures indicating that Vantage Dubai was not formed until June
20, 2023, please expand your disclosures on page F-7 and F-8 to identify the owners who
initiated and completed its formation, also to describe their rationale, and to explain how
that formation event has been depicted in your combined financial statements. Please
further clarify that its operations are fully included within the combined financial
statements from the date of its formation if true.
1. Organization and Principal Activities
Reorganization, page F-7
7.We understand from your response to prior comment 14 that you intend to change the
ownership of Vantage Singapore and Vantage Dubai prior to completing the
reorganization and that this effort will result in three individuals collectively owning more
than 50% of the voting interests of each entity. You identify this result as the rationale for
characterizing the reorganization as a transaction among entities under common control
and for presenting the accounts of both entities on a combined basis in the financial
statements. You indicate that you have not provided all of the information requested in
our comment as you are still in the process of preparing for the reorganization.
However, the illustrations on pages 6 and 45 indicate the three individuals mentioned in
your response will collectively own 40.68%, rather than more than 50%, of the
consolidated entity, and you have disclosure in the second-to-last paragraph on page 68,
indicating that you do not expect there to be a control group following the offering.
If you are not able to show that Vantage Singapore and Vantage Dubai were under
common control during the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years, please replace the combined
financial statements with separate financial statements for each entity as the retrospective
treatment applied in depicting a common control transaction would be limited to the
periods during which the entities were actually under common control, as indicated in
FASB ASC 805-50-45-5. We reissue prior comment 14.
Please revise your disclosure describing the reorganization as involving “…the transfer of
100% of the equity interests in Vantage Singapore and Vantage Dubai from its original
shareholders, Vantage Singapore and Vantage Dubai to Vantage BVI” as necessary to
identify the original shareholders of Vantage Singapore and Vantage Dubai rather than
suggest the entities were the shareholders of the entities.
Please also revise the illustrations showing the corporate structure prior to the
reorganization on pages 6 and 45, to show the ownership of Vantage Singapore and
Vantage Dubai prior to their conveyance of Vantage BVI, since that event is considered
part of the reorganization. For example, it appears that this would include identifying the
ownership interests held by the five individuals and the minority interest group of
shareholders in each of Vantage Singapore and Vantage Dubai.
8.
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Please disclose the manner by which the conveyance to Vantage BVI either has occurred
or will occur, and the manner by which the conveyance of Vantage BVI to Vantage
Cayman has occurred or will occur, including the dates of conveyance if applicable.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
10. Shareholders' Equity, page F-20
9.We note that you report having just one Class B Ordinary Share outstanding as of March
31, 2024, March 31, 2023, and April 1, 2022. However, since you previously reported
having 450,000 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of March 31, 2023 and April 1, 2022,
please expand your disclosures to explain the apparent change in your capital structure
and the apparent conversion of the Ordinary Shares to a Class B Ordinary Share. Please
also expand your disclosures to address the following points.
•Given that your 2024 statement of cash flows includes “Proceeds from issuance of
ordinary share” of $136,105, and your equity statement includes a corresponding
“Issuance of ordinary shares,” explain why you do not report any change in the
number of ordinary shares in conjunction with this transaction.
•Given that you have presented the accounts of Vantage Singapore and Vantage Dubai
on a combined basis, clarify whether the Class B Ordinary Share was issued by one of
these entities or whether you are depicting a subsequent change in the capital
structure retrospectively, and explain how the individual interests of the five
shareholders and group of minority shareholders identified on pages 6 and 45 are
represented with just one Class B Ordinary Share, if true.
13. Other Income, page F-23
10.We note that your gains from "Write-back of allowance for expected credit loss on trade
receivable" is included in the other income line item, which is presented below the the line
on your income statement. Tell us why this is presented within the non-operating section
of your income statement rather than within operating. Also tell us where you
record expected credit loss on accounts receivable on your income statement. We would
expect both of these related items to be recorded on the same income statement line item
within operating. If this is not the case, please provide us your basis in GAAP for your
presentation.
16. Concentration of Risks, page F-24
11.You disclose that two vendors accounted for 46.4% and 24.8% of commissions expenses
for the year ended March 31, 2024 and that two vendors accounted for 26.5% and 19.4%
of total commission expenses. Please disclose here and on page 42 the total amount of
commissions expense for each year. In addition, disclose the line item on the income
statement in which commissions expense is included.
Please contact Joseph Klinko, Staff Accountant, at 202-551-3824 or Yong Kim, Staff
Accountant, at 202-551-3323 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial
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statements and related matters. Please contact Irene Barberena-Meissner, Staff Attorney, at 202-
551-6548 or Daniel Morris, Legal Branch Chief, at 202-551-3314 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation
cc:Lawrence Venick, Esq.