SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-011958 to Grande Group Ltd/HK (GRAN)
Grande Group Ltd/HK
Date: Oct. 25, 2024 · CIK: 0002027722 · Accession: 0000000000-24-011958
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October 25, 2024
Yujie Chen
Chief Executive Officer
Grande Group Limited
Suite 2701, 27/F., Tower 1
Admiralty Center, 18 Harcourt Road
Admiralty, Hong Kong
Re:Grande Group Limited
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1
Submitted September 23, 2024
CIK No. 0002027722
Dear Yujie Chen:
We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have the following
comments.
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 August 21, 2024 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration on Form F-1
Overview, page 2
1.We note your disclosure on page 58 regarding the number of IPOs sponsored and
completed for the years ended March 31, 2023 and 2024 differs from the
disclosure used on pages 2 and 75. Please revise the language on pages 2, 58 and 75
and elsewhere as appropriate to clarify whether you completed three successful IPOs
in each of the years ended March 31, 2023 and 2024, or whether three successful IPOs
in total were completed during those years.
October 25, 2024
Page 2
Prospectus Summary
Corporate History and Structure, page 4
2.Please revise the post-IPO organizational chart on page 5 to be consistent with the
pre-IPO organizational chart on page 4 including (i) disclosing the persons that own
the equity in Grande Holding Limited, (ii) clearly identifying the entity in which
investors are purchasing their interest, (iii) identifying the entities in which your
operations are conducted and (iv) disclosing that Mr. Tin Duk Victor, Chang, controls
49% of Grande Securities Limited not owned by Grande Group Limited.
Risk Factors Summary, page 7
3.Your risk factor disclosure exceeds 15 pages. Please include summary risk factor
disclosure of no more than two pages. Refer to Item 105 of Regulation S-K and Item 3
of Form F-1.
Risk Factors
Risks Relating to Doing Business in the Jurisdictions, page 18
4.We note your response to prior comment 8 and that you did not remove the statement
on page 18 that your Operating Subsidiary is not “regulated by any regulator in
Mainland China.” Please remove this statements and similar ones throughout the
registration statement.
Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 62
5.We note your response to prior comment 21 and revised disclosure on page 101.
Please revise here and elsewhere to identify Mr. Tak Kai Raymond instead of using
the phrase "related party." Additionally, revise to provide narrative discussion
explaining material changes in the sources of funds. We note, in this regard, the
significant increase in cash provided by operations in 2024.
Business, page 75
6.We note the Cover Page reference to existing "or potential" clients in Mainland China.
We also note the disclosure on page 76 that your client base "spans Hong Kong,
Singapore and the PRC." Please revise here and the Cover Page to quantify the
approximate percentages of your clients in these countries.
Principal Shareholder, page 102
7.Please revise your table to reflect the number of shares beneficially owned by Mr. Tak
Kai Raymond, TAM and Ms. Yujie, CHEN as that term is defined by General
Instruction F of Form 20-F. In this regard we note your disclosure in Footnote 1 on
page 102 that Mr. Tak Kai Raymond, TAM holds 75% of your 8,560,000 common
shares held by Grand Holding Limited through Blazing Success Holdings Limited
while Ms. Yujie, CHEN similarly holds 25% of such shares through Ocean Empire
Group Limited.
October 25, 2024
Page 3
Exhibits
8.We note your response to prior comment 30 and reissue the comment. Please provide
an analysis supporting your conclusion that the agreements are not required to be
filed.
Please contact Victor Cecco at 202-551-2064 or Lory Empie at 202-551-3714 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Robert Arzonetti at 202-551-8819 or James Lopez at 202-551-3536 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Finance
cc:Yuning “Grace” Bai