SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-012118 to UY Scuti Acquisition Corp. (UYSC)
UY Scuti Acquisition Corp.
Date: Oct. 31, 2024 · CIK: 0002036973 · Accession: 0000000000-24-012118
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October 30, 2024
Jialuan Ma
Chief Executive Officer
UY Scuti Acquisition Corp.
39 E Broadway, Suite 603
New York, NY 10002
Re:UY Scuti Acquisition Corp.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted September 30, 2024
CIK No. 0002036973
Dear Jialuan Ma:
We have reviewed your 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.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed September 30, 2024
Cover Page
1.We note on the cover page you state that most of our executive officers and directors
are located in or have significant ties to China, and these ties to China present legal
and operational risks to you and your investors, which exist and are independent of
the legal and operational risks that ties to China may present in connection with
effecting an initial business combination. Please reconcile this disclosure with the
statements in your Summary of Risk Factors that you have determined that the laws
and regulations of the PRC as currently interpreted do not currently apply to
you solely because a majority of your executive officers have significant ties to China
and/or are located in China.
We note that certain of your executive officers and directors are located in or have 2.
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significant ties to China. Please revise here and relevant sections throughout the
prospectus to identify each officer and director located in China or Hong Kong.
3.Please revise to clarify whether public shareholders may elect to redeem their shares
if they abstain from voting.
4.Please revise the cover page to disclose any limitations on redemption rights. In this
regard, we note your disclosure on page 32 regarding limitation on redemption rights.
Refer to Item 1602(a)(2) of Regulation S-K.
5.Please disclose on the cover page the approximate price per share which the sponsor
paid for the founder shares.
6.Please provide a cross-reference to all relevant sections in the prospectus for
disclosures related to compensation, as required by Item 1602(a)(3) of Regulation S-
K.
7.When discussing the founder shares, please revise to clarify that the founder shares
will have the right to appoint or remove directors and that they will have ten votes per
share in a vote to continue the company in a jurisdiction outside of the Cayman
Islands, as described on page F-8.
8.Please state whether compensation may result in a material dilution of the purchasers’
equity interests. Provide a cross-reference, highlighted by prominent type or in
another manner, to the locations of all related disclosures in the prospectus. See Item
1602(a)(3) of Regulation S-K.
Prospectus Summary, page 1
9.We note the disclosure that you believe you are not required to obtain permissions or
approvals from any PRC government authorities. Please revise to disclose whether
your officers and directors are required to obtain such permissions or approvals from
PRC government authorities to search for a target company.
10.Please expand your discussion to include disclosure of how significant competition
among other SPACs pursuing business combination transactions may impact your
ability to achieve a business combination with a target company.
11.We note disclosure on page 7 that your team has experience in "SPAC-related
matters," etc. We also note disclosure on page 86 that Ms. Jialuan Ma and Mr. Sze
Wai Lee have had experience operating a blank check company in the past. Please
expand your disclosure to clearly describe the experience of the sponsor, its affiliates,
promoters and your management team in organizing any SPACs and the extent to
which they are involved in other SPACs. For each such SPAC, include disclosure
regarding completed business combinations, liquidations, pending de-SPAC
transactions and whether such SPAC is still searching for a target.
12.Please state the basis for your statement that you do not believe that the fiduciary,
contractual or other obligations or duties of your officers or directors will materially
affect your ability to complete a business combination.
The Sponsor , page 5
In the table here and on page 142, regarding the lock-up terms applicable to the 13.
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private placement units, please clarify when "after the completion of the initial
business combination" these units will be transferable. Please also describe the
conversion of the founder shares to public shares at the time of the initial business
combination and any related anti-dilution provision.
14.Please revise the tables beginning on page 6 and 142 to disclose the lock-up
agreement with the underwriter. See Item 1603(a)(9) of Regulation S-K.
15.Please disclose any circumstances or arrangements under which the sponsor, its
affiliates and promoters, directly or indirectly have transferred or could transfer
ownership of your securities or that have resulted or could result in the surrender or
cancellation of such securities. Specifically, disclose whether indirect transfers of
ownership of your securities could take place through the transfer of interests in the
sponsor itself and describe any circumstances or arrangements whereby this has or
may take place. Also disclose the potential forfeiture of founder shares by the sponsor
if the over-allotment option is not exercised. See Item 1603(a)(6) of Regulation S-K.
In addition, if true, please add risk factor disclosure about risks that may arise from
Mr. Guojian transferring his ownership interest and control of the sponsor to another
party, or UY Scuti Investments Limited otherwise being removed as sponsor before
identifying and completing a business combination.
16.Please describe the general character of the SPAC sponsor’s business. See Item
1603(a)(2) of Regulation S-K.
17.Please revise to address the extent to which this compensation may result in a material
dilution of the purchasers’ equity interests. See Item1602(b)(6) of Regulation S-K.
Enforcement of Civil Liabilities, page 9
18.Please revise your section on enforcement of liabilities addressing the enforcement
risks related to civil liabilities due to your sponsor and some of your officers and
directors being located in China or Hong Kong. For example, revise to identify each
officer and director located in China or Hong Kong. Also, please disclose this in your
business section.
Initial Business Combination, page 17
19.Please disclose the consequences to the SPAC sponsor of not completing an extension
of this time period. See Item 1602(b)(4) of Regulation S-K.
Founder Shares, page 25
20.When discussing the founder shares, please revise to clarify that the founder shares
will have the right to appoint or remove directors and that they will have ten votes per
share in a vote to continue the company in a jurisdiction outside of the Cayman
Islands, as described on page F-8. Also describe the conversion of the founder shares
at the time of the initial business combination and any related anti-dilution provisions.
Anticipated expenses and funding sources, page 27
Please revise this section or include a new section within the Summary under an
appropriate subcaption to provide a more comprehensive discussion regarding
whether you have any plans to seek additional financing and how such financings may 21.
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impact unaffiliated security holders, as required by Item1602(b)(5) of Regulation S-
K. In this regard, we note your disclosures that you intend to effectuate your initial
business combination using, among other sources, the proceeds of the sale of your
securities in connection with your initial business combination and that you intend to
target businesses larger than you could acquire with the net proceeds of this offering
and the sale of the private placement units.
Conflicts of interest, page 39
22.Under Conflicts of Interest, please disclose the additional conflicts of interest relating
to the repayment of loans and reimbursement for any out-of-pocket expenses. Also
disclose the potential conflicts of interest arising from the ability to pursue a business
combination with a business that is affiliated with affiliated with your sponsor,
directors or members of your management team. See Item 1602(b)(7) of Regulation
S-K.
23.Please revise your disclosure in this section to clearly state the conflicts of interest
with purchasers in the offering. See Item 1602(b)(7) of Regulation S-K.
Summary
Dilution, page 42
24.We refer you to your disclosure in the second paragraph on page 42 that states "[s]uch
calculations include additional dilution associated with the conversion of the rights, as
set forth in the below table." Please tell us how you determined that such calculations
reflects the conversion of rights.
25.We note your disclosure throughout the filing that you may not redeem your public
shares in an amount that would cause your net tangible assets to be less than
$5,000,001. We further note your tabular presentation of dilution at quartile intervals
on the outside cover page and on pages 42 and 43. Such tabular presentation appears
to assume your maximum redemption threshold is 4,465,909 ordinary shares, which is
less than the 5,000,000 shares to be sold to public shareholders as part of this offering.
Further, the use of 4,465,909 ordinary shares does not appear to be due to the
$5,000,001 net tangible assets restriction. Please tell us how you derived the amount
of 4,465,909 ordinary shares for the denominator and a redemption amount of
$44,659,090 for your numerator within your 100% maximum redemption column in
your dilution presentation, or revise. Please refer to Item 1602 of Regulation S-K.
26.We note that one of your calculations assumptions is that no ordinary shares and
convertible equity or debt securities are issued in connection with additional financing
in connection with an initial business combination. Please expand your disclosure to
highlight that you may need to do so as you intend to target an initial business
combination with a target company whose enterprise value is greater than you could
acquire with the net proceeds of the offering and the sale of private placement units,
as stated on page 97 of your prospectus.
Risk Factors, page 50
We note that you have described a number of risks associated with acquiring
and operating a business in China beginning on page 45. However, you have not 27.
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included risk factor disclosure based on the fact that you and your sponsor, officers
and directors are currently located in or have significant ties to China. Therefore,
given the Chinese government’s significant oversight and discretion over the conduct
of your directors’ and officers’ search for a target company, please revise to describe
any material impact that intervention, influence, or control by the Chinese
government has or may have on your business, on your search for a target, or on the
value of your securities. Highlight separately the risk that the Chinese government
may intervene or influence your operations at any time, which could result in a
material change in your search and/or the value of your securities. We remind you
that, pursuant to federal securities rules, the term “control” (including the terms
“controlling,” “controlled by,” and “under common control with”) means “the
possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract, or otherwise."
28.We note on the cover page a cross reference to Risk Factors — Risks Associated with
Acquiring and Operating a Business in China, however, it does not appear to be in the
Risk Factors section. Please revise or advise.
29.In light of recent events indicating greater oversight by the Cyberspace
Administration of China (CAC) over data security, please revise your disclosure to
explain how this oversight impacts your officers and directors.
If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination . . . , page 56
30.We note your disclosure that your sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their
affiliates may purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public
shareholders who have already elected to exercise redemption rights or submitted a
proxy to vote against your initial business combination, and that the purpose of such
purchases could be to vote shares in favor of the business combination to increase the
likelihood of obtaining shareholder approval or satisfy a closing condition. Please tell
us how such purchases would comply with Rule 14e-5. Please see Tender Offer Rules
and Schedules C&DI 166.01 for further information.
If we are deemed to be an investment company . . ., page 63
We note your disclosure that if you are deemed to be an investment company, you
may have to change operations, wind down or register under the Investment Company
Act. Please revise to also discuss the consequences to investors if you are required to
wind down your operations as a result of this status, such as the loss of the investment
opportunity in a target company, any price appreciation in the combined company,
and any rights would expire worthless. In addition, we note statements such as "[b]y
restricting the investment of proceeds to these instruments" you intend to avoid being
deemed an investment company, and that "[i]f [you] do not invest the proceeds as
discussed," you may be deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act. These
statements suggest that by investing funds in U.S. government securities or money
market funds meeting the conditions of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act,
you will avoid being deemed to be an investment company. Please revise to clarify
that you may be deemed to be an investment company at any time, notwithstanding 31.
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your investment in these securities. Please also confirm that if your facts and
circumstances change over time, you will update your disclosure to reflect how those
changes impact the risk that you may be considered to be operating as an unregistered
investment company.
Risk Factors
The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder..., page 107
32.Please confirm the accuracy of the amounts in this risk factor, or revise for accuracy.
In your response, please specifically clarify for us how you derived the valuation of
$57,500,000, derived the implied value per share upon consummation of initial
business combination of $8.00, how a change from an implied value of $10.00 to an
implied value of $8.00 is a 20% increase, and how you derived the share price of
$1.01 per share as the lowest trading price for your sponsor to recoup its entire
investment.
Dilution , page 116
33.Please tell us the nature of the difference between the public offering price of $8.33
per share disclosed on pages 116-117 and the public offering price of $10.00 per share
disclosed elsewhere in the filing. Alternatively, please revise your filing for
consistency.
34.We note your table on the bottom of page 117 appears to assume proceeds held in
trust subject to redemption of $44,659,090. Please tell us how you derived the amount
of $44,659,090 for proceeds held in trust subject to redemption, or revise.
Capitalization , page 118
35.We note your disclosure on page F-9 for your Ordinary shares subject to possible
redemption; specifically, we note the Company has elected to recognize changes in
the redemption value immediately. As s