Correspondence 0001213900-24-071385 from Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. I (BACQ, BACQU) (CIK 0002028707) (BACQ)
Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. I (BACQ, BACQU) (CIK 0002028707)
Date: Aug. 21, 2024 · CIK: 0002028707 · Accession: 0001213900-24-071385
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VIA EDGAR
August 21, 2024
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Real Estate & Construction
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention: Stacie Gorman
Re: Bleichroeder
Acquisition Corp. I
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed July 12, 2024
File No. 333-280777
Dear Ms. Gorman:
Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp.
I (the “Company”) hereby transmits its response to the comment letter received from the staff (the “Staff”)
of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on August 9, 2024 relating to the Registration Statement
on Form S-1, filed by the Company with the Commission on July 12, 2024.
For the Staff’s convenience,
we have repeated below the Staff’s comment in bold and have followed each comment with the Company’s response. Disclosure
changes made in response to the Staff’s comments have been made in the Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the
“Registration Statement”), which is being submitted to the Commission contemporaneously with the submission of this
letter.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Cover Page
1. We note your disclosure in the fifth paragraph of the cover
page. Please ensure that the amount of compensation received by and securities issued to,
or to be received by or issued to each of the sponsor, its affiliates and promoters is clearly
stated on the cover page. The disclosure should also include the price paid or to be paid
for any securities, as well as the cross reference to the location of related disclosure
elsewhere in the prospectus, including that provided in response to Item 1602(b)(6) and Item
1603(a)(6) of Regulation S-K. Please see Item 1602(a)(3) of Regulation S-K.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
2. Where you discuss dilution to public shareholders resulting
from the issuance of founder shares at a nominal price, please revise to also state whether
the anti-dilution adjustment to the founder shares in connection with your initial business
combination may result in a material dilution of the purchasers’ equity interests.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
3. We note your disclosure in the sixth and fifteenth paragraphs
of the cover page regarding some of the potential conflicts of interest that your sponsor,
co-founders and members of management may have. Please revise to state clearly that there
may be actual or potential material conflicts of interest between the sponsor, its affiliates,
or promoters on one hand, and purchasers in the offering on the other. Also ensure that your
cross reference includes the location of related disclosure elsewhere in the prospectus,
including that provided in response to Item 1602(b)(7) and Item 1603(b) of Regulation S-K.
Please refer to Item 1602(a)(5) of Regulation S-K.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
Initial Business Combination, page 7
4. Please disclose whether security holders will have voting
or redemption rights with respect to an extension from 24 to 27 months. Please also disclose
whether there are any limitations on extensions, including the number of times you may seek
to extend. Also disclose the consequences to the sponsor of not completing an extension of
this time period. See Item 1602(b)(4) of Regulation S-K.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
5. Please state the basis for your statement on page 9 that
you do not believe that the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of your officers
or directors will materially affect your ability to complete your initial business combination.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
6. We note that you intend to effectuate your initial business
combination potentially using proceeds from forward purchase agreements or backstop agreements.
We also note disclosure elsewhere in the prospectus referencing possible private offerings
of debt or equity, as well as forward purchase agreements and backstop arrangements. Please
revise this section or include a new section within the Summary under an appropriate subheading
to provide a more comprehensive discussion regarding plans to seek additional financings.
For example, discuss any plans to seek additional financings in connection with meeting working
capital needs in the search for the initial business combination, for the completion of an
initial business combination, or in connection with the redemption of a significant number
of your public shares. Please also describe how the terms of additional financings may impact
unaffiliated security holders. See Item 1602(b)(5) of Regulation S-K.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
Anticipated expenses and funding sources, page 21
7. Please revise to clarify, if true,
that the items you identify in the two bullet points may only be paid from interest on the
funds held in the trust account. As drafted, the disclosure could be read to mean that the
items in the bullets are in addition to withdrawals of interest to pay expenses. Please also
clarify what the “permitted withdrawals” are. For example, disclose whether there
are any limits on the dollar amount or percentage of interest on funds in the trust account
that may be used for the purposes identified in the parenthetical.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
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The Offering
Conflicts of Interest, page 30
8. Please revise disclosure in this section to clearly state
the conflicts with purchasers in the offering. In addition, please revise disclosure as follows:
● At the end of the carryover paragraph and first full paragraph
at the top of page 31, please explain why you do not believe that fiduciary duties or contractual obligations, or the involvement of
the sponsor, officers or directors with other SPACs would materially affect your ability to complete a business combination.
● In the third full paragraph on page 31, please clarify
the conflict that relates to the “different timelines” of completing your business combination given the personal and financial
interests of your directors and executive officers.
● Where you discuss conflicts of the sponsor, officers or
directors from owning securities in the company, please clearly disclose the price paid, including the “nominal” price paid
for the securities and the conflicts of interest in determining whether to pursue a de-SPAC transaction, and in negotiating or accepting
the terms of the de-SPAC transaction.
● Add disclosure of the conflicts of interest relating to
items listed under “Limited payments to insiders” such as compensation, repayment of loans and reimbursement of expenses
that will be paid to officers and directors affiliated with the sponsor upon completion of a de-SPAC transaction, as well as the potential
payment of finders, advisory, consulting or success fees for any services rendered for completion of the initial business combination.
● Clarify the conflicts associated with entering into a business
combination with an affiliate of your sponsor, officers or directors, as disclosed on page 133. Please refer to Item 1602(b)(7) of Regulation
S-K.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment
Company Act..., page 45
9. We note your disclosures suggesting that in order to avoid
having your anticipated activities not subject you to the Investment Company Act, you will
hold the proceeds of the trust account only in U.S. government treasury obligations or money
market funds meeting conditions under Rule 2a-7. For example, we note disclosure stating
that you believe you will not be subject to the Act, and that “to this end” you
will hold the trust assets in government securities. You also state that “by restricting
the investment of the proceeds to these instruments” you intend to avoid being deemed
an investment company. While we recognize that you also state that you may mitigate this
risk by instructing the trustee to hold the funds in the trust account in cash, please revise
these disclosures to clarify that even if the assets in your trust account are U.S. Government
securities or shares of money market funds registered under the Investment Company Act and
regulated pursuant to rule 2a-7 of that Act, you could nevertheless and at any time be considered
to be operating as an unregistered investment company. Disclose that if you are found to
be operating as an unregistered investment company, you may be required to change your operations,
wind down your operations, or register as an investment company. Also include disclosure
with respect to the consequences to investors if you required to wind down your operations
as a result of this status, such as the losses of the investment opportunity in a target
company, any price appreciation in the combined company, and any warrants, which would expire
worthless.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
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Risk Factors
The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder
shares may result in significant dilution..., page 69
10. Please explain to us how you calculated the implied value
per share upon consummation of initial business combination in the amount of $9.53.
We respectfully inform the Staff that the implied value per share upon consummation of the initial business combination is calculated
as total funds in trust ($250,000,000) less the deferred underwriter fees ($11,875,000), for a total of $238,125,000 divided by 25,000,000
public shares.
Risk Factors
If our initial business combination involves a company organized
under the laws of the United States..., page 78
11. We note your disclosure on page 91 that you “may
withdraw interest for permitted withdrawals, including the payment of taxes.” We also
note disclosure regarding the risk that a U.S. federal excise tax could be imposed on you
if your business combination involves a company organized in the United States. Please clarify
whether you may withdraw interest for the payment of the U.S. federal excise tax if it were
imposed.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment to reflect that we may not withdraw interest for the payment of any U.S. federal excise tax.
Use of Proceeds, page 82
12. We note disclosure here and on the cover page and in the
Underwriting section that $0.10 per share of underwriting compensation is in addition to
the deferred portion of the compensation of $0.475, and that 50% of non-deferred compensation
will be paid on the 12, 18 and 24-month anniversaries of the offering from permitted withdrawals
of interest earned on the trust account. Please revise your use of proceeds table to include
this 50% of non-deferred compensation as being sourced from permitted withdrawals rather
than being an expense paid at closing from the proceeds of the offering.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
Dilution, page 86
13. Please revise the table on page 86 to explain what is
represented in the first column under the heading “Offering Price of $10.00,” as
well as illustrate how the NTBV per share amounts in this column were calculated.
We have revised the indicated table in response to the Staff’s comment.
14. We note that the “Full Over-Allotment” columns
of numerator calculation in the table on page 87 don’t foot due to inclusion of the overallotment
liability. Please revise.
We have revised the indicated table in response to the Staff’s comment.
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Proposed Business
Sponsor Information, page 101
15. In the disclosure on page 101, please state the amount
of the direct and indirect material interests in the sponsor that are held by each of Messrs.
Combes and Gundlach. Please see Item 1603(a)(7) of Regulation S-K.
We have revised the indicated disclosure in response to
the Staff’s comment.
16. We note your disclosure on pages 10 and 101 that the tables
set forth the payments to be received by your sponsor and its affiliates from you prior to
or in connection with completion of the business combination and the securities issued or
to be issued by you to your sponsor and its affiliates. Please expand the tables to address