Correspondence 0001213900-24-085988 from Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp (NTWO, NTWOU) (CIK 0002028027) (NTWO)
Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp (NTWO, NTWOU) (CIK 0002028027)
Date: Oct. 7, 2024 · CIK: 0002028027 · Accession: 0001213900-24-085988
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File numbers found in text: 333-281456
Referenced dates: October 1, 2024
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NEWBURY
STREET II ACQUISITION CORP.
121
High Street, Floor 3
Boston,
Massachusetts 02110
October 7, 2024
VIA
EDGAR
Office
of Real Estate and Construction
Division
of Corporation Finance
Securities
and Exchange Commission
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attention:
Mary Beth Breslin
Re: Newbury
Street II Acquisition Corp.
Amendment
No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed
on September 19, 2024
File
No. 333-281456
Dear
Ms. Breslin:
This
letter sets forth the responses of Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company,”
“we,” “our” or “us”), to the comment letter dated October 1, 2024 received from
the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) concerning
Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 filed via EDGAR to the Commission on September 19, 2024 (the
“Registration Statement”).
Concurrently
with the submission of this letter, the Company is filing Amendment No. 2 to its registration statement on Form S-1 (the “Amended
Registration Statement”) via EDGAR to the Commission for review.
The
Staff’s comments are repeated below and are followed by the Company’s responses. To the extent helpful, we have included
page references in the Amended Registration Statement where the language addressing a particular comment appears. Capitalized terms used
but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Amended Registration Statement.
Amendment
No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Cover
Page
1.
We acknowledge your revisions in response to prior comment 4. On the cover page and throughout the prospectus where you discuss non-managing
sponsor membership interests and the 3,235,936 founder shares and 404,500 private placement units they represent, please clarify whether
these founder shares and private placement units would be either in addition to or included within the 6,118,000 founder shares and 450,000
private placement units held or to be purchased by the sponsor.
Response:
The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment and in response to this comment, the disclosure on the cover page and throughout the
prospectus has been revised to clarify that (i) the 2,980,000 founder shares to be received by the non-management sponsor members from
the sponsor for purchasing 372,500 private placement units from the sponsor are included in the 6,118,000 founder shares owned by the
sponsor, and (ii) the 372,500 private placement units to be purchased by the non-management sponsor members from the sponsor are included
in the 452,500 private placement units to be purchased by the sponsor in the private placement which is to close simultaneously with
the closing of the public offering of the units.
Sponsor
Information, page 11
2.
In the table of compensation and securities issued or to be issued, please include the private placement equivalent units that may be
issued to the sponsor upon conversion of up to $1,500,000 of working capital loans at a price of $10.00 per unit. Please also include
this disclosure on the cover page, as required by Items 1602(a)(3) and 1602(b)(6) of Regulation S-K.
Response:
The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and in response to this comment, the private placement equivalent units that may
be issued to the sponsor upon conversion of up to $1,500,000 of working capital loans at a price of $10.00 per unit has been included
in the table of compensation and securities issued and to be issued. We call your attention to the disclosure in the fifth paragraph
of the cover page which states [i]n the event that following this offering we obtain working capital loans from our sponsor to finance
transaction costs related to our initial business combination, up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into private placement
equivalent units described below of the post-business combination entity at a price of $10.00 per unit at the option of our sponsor.”
3.
We note your response to prior comment 8. Please include the disclosure regarding the lockup under the letter agreement with BTIG in
the table, here and in the table on page 114.
Response:
The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and in response to this comment has added BTIG to the individuals or entities subject
to the lockup under the letter agreement with BTIG in the tables on pages 12 and 114.
4.
We acknowledge your revisions in response to prior comment 10. Please revise the tables on pages 12 and 114 to clarify the material terms
of the exception to transfer restrictions under the sponsor’s operating agreement, referred to in clause (iv) in the tables. Please also
include disclosure on pages 12 and 114 that there are no limitations or restrictions on the terms or types of transfers that can be approved
by the manager of our sponsor in the sponsor’s operating agreement, as you have stated on page 153.
Response:
The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and in response to this comment has added a footnote to the tables on pages 12 and
114 to clarify the material terms of the exception to transfer restrictions under the sponsor’s operating agreement, referred to in clause
(iv) in the tables, and to state that there are no limitations or restrictions on the terms or types of transfers that can be approved
by the manager of our sponsor in the sponsor’s operating agreement.
Summary
of Risk Factors, page 42
5.
Please revise your summary of risk factors to indicate that if the non-managing sponsor investors purchase the full amount of the units
for which they have expressed an interest, you would not need any public shares sold in this offering to be voted in favor of the business
combination, as you state on page 151 of your prospectus.
Response: The Company acknowledges the
Staff’s comment, and in response to this comment has added a risk factor to the summary of risk factors stating that “[i]f
the non-managing sponsor investors purchase the full amount of the units for which they have expressed an interest and vote them in favor
of the Company’s initial business combination, no affirmative votes from other public shareholders would be required to approve
our initial business combination”.
Risks
Relating to our Sponsor and Management Team, page 64
6.
We note your disclosure on page 12 and elsewhere that in order to facilitate the initial business combination or for any other reason
determined by your sponsor in its sole discretion, your sponsor may surrender or forfeit, transfer, or exchange founder shares, private
placement units or any of its other securities, including for no consideration, as well as subject any such securities to earn-outs or
other restrictions, or otherwise amend the terms of any such securities or enter into any other arrangements with respect to any such
securities. Please add risk factor disclosure about risks that may arise from the sponsor having the ability to remove itself as your
sponsor before identifying a business combination, including through the unconditional ability to transfer the founder shares or otherwise.
Response:
The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and in response to this comment has added a risk factor on page [68] as part of the
section of the Risk Factors captioned “Risks Relating to our Sponsor and Management Team –The ownership
interest of our sponsor may change, and our sponsor may divest its ownership interest in us before identifying a business combination,
which could deprive us of key personnel.”
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Dilution,
page 99
7.
We note that one of your calculation assumptions is that “no ordinary shares and convertible equity or debt securities are issued
in connection with additional financing that [you] may seek in connection with an initial business combination.” Please expand your
disclosure to highlight that notwithstanding this assumption, you may need to issue such securities, as you intend to target an initial
business combination with a target company whose enterprise value is greater than the net proceeds of the offering and the sale of private
placement warrants, as stated on page 105 of your prospectus.
Response: The
Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and has revised the disclosure in response to this comment.
Proposed
Business, page 109
8.
We acknowledge your revisions in response to prior comment 17. Please explain how the type of transaction you would target will be substantially
different than what your sponsor, directors, and officers would target.
Response:
The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and has revised the disclosure in this section and throughout the prospectus in response
to this comment. In connection with the disclosure discussing the various conflicts of interest which our sponsor, directors and officers
may have by virtue of their financial interests in the search for a business combination target and the fiduciary and other contractual
obligations they may have now and in the future, we have revised the disclosures throughout the prospectus to indicate that “the
fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors could materially affect our ability to complete our initial
business combination.”
Principal
Shareholders Transfers of Founder Shares and Private Placement Warrants, page 152
9.
We note your response and revisions to prior comment 19. As requested in the comment, please revise this and similar disclosures throughout
the prospectus such as on pages 12 and 114, to clarify, if true, that restrictions on the transfer of membership interests would also
apply to any non-management sponsor interests.
Response: The Company acknowledges the
Staff’s comment, and has revised the disclosure in this section and throughout the prospectus in response to this comment. Please
note that the disclosures concerning the restriction on Transfers in the operating agreement of the sponsor state that “the sponsor’s
operating agreement does not permit any member of our sponsor (including non-managing sponsor members) to Transfer all or
any portion of its membership interests in our sponsor, except (i) with the prior written consent of the managing member of our sponsor,
or (ii) after the closing of a business combination, to such member’s affiliates, immediate family, or to a trust, the primary
beneficiary(ies) of which is a member or members of such member’s immediate family; provided that such recipient shall be required
to become a member of our sponsor pursuant to the terms of our sponsor’s operating agreement and, therefore, be bound by the restrictions
on transfers as set forth therein.
Exhibits
10.
Please revise the Investment Management Trust Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.3 to reconcile the amount to be deposited with the amount
disclosed in the prospectus.
Response:
The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and has revised the Investment Management Trust Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.3 to
correct the amount to be deposited with the amount disclosed in the prospectus.
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We thank the Staff very much
for its review of the foregoing and Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement. If you have questions or further comments concerning
Amendment No. 2, please contact our counsel, Mark Orenstein of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, by telephone at (516) 491-6471 or via
e-mail at morenstein@egsllp.com
Sincerely,
Newbury
Street II Acquisition Corp.
/s/
Thomas Bushey
Thomas
Bushey
Chief
Executive Officer
Enclosures
cc:
Ameen Hamady
Shannon
Menjivar
Pearlyne
Paulemon
Pam
Lang
Wei
Wang
Christian
Nagler, P.C. -- Kirkland & Ellis LLP
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