SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-25-009580 to New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. (NUAI)
New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc.
Date: Sept. 4, 2025 · CIK: 0002028336 · Accession: 0000000000-25-009580
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September 4, 2025
E. Will Gray, II
Chief Executive Officer
New Era Energy & Digital, Inc.
4501 Santa Rosa Drive
Midland, TX 79707
Re:New Era Energy & Digital, Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed August 20, 2025
File No. 333-288790
Dear E. Will Gray II:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing
the requested information. 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 any amendment to your registration statement and the information
you provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Cover Page
1.Please revise your disclosure to accurately describe the securities to be registered in
this offering. In this regard, we note your cover page disclosure that this prospectus
relates to the offer and sale by the selling security holders of up to 2,456,639,868
shares of common stock is inconsistent with your cover page disclosure and disclosure
elsewhere that this prospectus relates to a secondary offering of 2,363,320,394 shares
of common stock.
September 4, 2025
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Risk Factors
We may not have access to the full amount available under the EPFA, page 24
2.We note you disclose that the number of shares registered in this offering statement is
insufficient to cover all of the shares you may elect to sell to ATW AI LLC under the
EPFA. Please revise to disclose the total number of shares issuable under the EPFA
and any related assumptions.
The issuances of additional shares of Common Stock under the EPFA and pursuant to the
conversion the Notes and the exercise of the Warrants, page 24
3.Please expand this risk factor, or add a new risk factor, to address potential dilution
from the reset provision that could adjust upward the number of common shares
underlying the Notes and Investor Warrants. The risk factor should disclose
the maximum number of shares that may be issuable upon conversion of the Notes
and exercise of the Investor Warrants. In this regard, we note your disclosure that
you may reduce the floor price of the Notes and the Warrant Floor Price to any
amount set forth in a written notice to ATW AI II LLC, provided that any such
reduction will be irrevocable and will not be subject to increase thereafter.
Plan of Distribution, page 67
4.We note you entered into the Fourth Amended and Restated Equity Purchase Finance
Agreement with ATW AI LLC, a selling shareholder, on August 12, 2025. Please
revise to disclose that ATW AI LLC is an underwriter. Refer to Securities Act
Sections Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 139.13.
Exhibits
5.Please have counsel file a revised legality opinion that clarifies that the 5,750,000
shares of common stock underlying the 11.500,000 redeemable warrants are being
offered on a primary basis and that defines the number of shares being registered in
connection with each overlying security consistent with the prospectus cover page.
6.We note that executed versions of certain exhibits have not been filed. Please ensure
that signed and executed versions of all agreements, including any information that
has been omitted or placed in brackets, are filed as exhibits to your registration
statement.
General
We note that the shares of common stock registered for resale under this registration
statement, if issued, would exceed the number of shares currently authorized for
issuance and your disclosure that you intend to file, and mail to your stockholders,
notice of a special meeting of shareholders and a proxy statement requesting approval
of (i) an amendment to your amended and restated articles of incorporation to increase
the total authorized shares of capital stock for 250,000,000 to 3,005,000,000,
consisting of 3,000,000,000 shares of common stock and 5,000,000 shares of
preferred stock, and in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d), the issuance of
more than 20% of the your issued and outstanding common stock pursuant to the
EPFA. We further note you filed a proxy statement on Schedule 14A on August 18, 7.
September 4, 2025
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2025. Please confirm to us that you will not request acceleration of the effective date
of this registration statement until you have obtained shareholder approval such that
you have sufficient authorized shares to conduct the offering. In addition, please
update your disclosure throughout the prospectus to discuss and reflect the special
meeting and the increase of authorized shares, in the "Risk Factors" and "Description
of Securities" sections.
8.We note your disclosures that the Notes and Investor Warrants are subject to floor
price resets and that you may reduce the floor price for the Notes and the Warrant
Floor Price to any amount set forth in a written notice to ATW AI LLC, provided that
any such reduction will be irrevocable and will not be subject to increase thereafter. If
material, please revise your cover page and Summary to highlight the maximum
number of shares that could be issued upon conversion of the Notes and exercise of
the Investor Warrants.
Please contact Michael Purcell at 202-551-5351 or Karina Dorin at 202-551-3763
with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation
cc:Alexandria Kane