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Cryoport, Inc.
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Cryoport, Inc.
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SEC wrote to company
2019-03-19
Cryoport, Inc.
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Cryoport, Inc.
Response Received
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SEC wrote to company
2019-02-11
Cryoport, Inc.
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Cryoport, Inc.
Awaiting Response
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SEC wrote to company
2018-09-11
Cryoport, Inc.
References: August 24, 2018
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Cryoport, Inc.
Response Received
1 company response(s)
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SEC wrote to company
2018-08-24
Cryoport, Inc.
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Cryoport, Inc.
Response Received
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SEC wrote to company
2018-01-12
Cryoport, Inc.
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Cryoport, Inc.
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SEC wrote to company
2016-07-18
Cryoport, Inc.
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2017-09-22
Cryoport, Inc.
References: September
18, 2017
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Cryoport, Inc.
Response Received
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2015-04-17
Cryoport, Inc.
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8, 2015
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2015-06-03
Cryoport, Inc.
References: May
28, 2015
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SEC wrote to company
2017-09-19
Cryoport, Inc.
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Cryoport, Inc.
Response Received
1 company response(s)
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2017-02-03
Cryoport, Inc.
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Cryoport, Inc.
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SEC wrote to company
2016-09-14
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Cryoport, Inc.
Awaiting Response
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SEC wrote to company
2016-08-26
Cryoport, Inc.
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Response Received
7 company response(s)
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SEC wrote to company
2012-04-12
Cryoport, Inc.
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2012-05-18
Cryoport, Inc.
References: April 12, 2012 | May 7, 2012
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2012-06-05
Cryoport, Inc.
References: April 12, 2012 | May 7, 2012
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2012-06-15
Cryoport, Inc.
References: June 6, 2012
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2014-09-15
Cryoport, Inc.
References: August 29, 2014
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2016-08-04
Cryoport, Inc.
References: July 18, 2016
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Cryoport, Inc.
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1 company response(s)
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Cryoport, Inc.
Response Received
2 company response(s)
Medium - date proximity
SEC wrote to company
2015-06-10
Cryoport, Inc.
References: May
28, 2015 | May 28,
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Cryoport, Inc.
Awaiting Response
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SEC wrote to company
2015-05-29
Cryoport, Inc.
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Awaiting Response
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SEC wrote to company
2015-04-08
Cryoport, Inc.
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Awaiting Response
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SEC wrote to company
2014-08-29
Cryoport, Inc.
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Awaiting Response
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SEC wrote to company
2012-06-06
Cryoport, Inc.
References: June 5, 2012
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Cryoport, Inc.
Awaiting Response
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SEC wrote to company
2012-05-09
Cryoport, Inc.
References: April 12,
2012 | April 12, 2012
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Response Received
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2010-01-12
Cryoport, Inc.
References: October 15, 2009
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2010-01-27
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2010-02-09
Cryoport, Inc.
References: February 5, 2010
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2011-04-22
Cryoport, Inc.
References: April 18, 2011
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2012-04-27
Cryoport, Inc.
References: April 12, 2012
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Cryoport, Inc.
Awaiting Response
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SEC wrote to company
2012-02-14
Cryoport, Inc.
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Response Received
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SEC wrote to company
2012-01-31
Cryoport, Inc.
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2012-02-09
Cryoport, Inc.
References: January 31, 2012
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Response Received
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SEC wrote to company
2011-04-18
Cryoport, Inc.
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Cryoport, Inc.
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2010-02-05
Cryoport, Inc.
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Response Received
3 company response(s)
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2008-07-31
Cryoport, Inc.
References: January 14, 2008
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2008-08-06
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2008-08-18
Cryoport, Inc.
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SEC wrote to company
2008-08-07
Cryoport, Inc.
References: July 28, 2008
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Response Received
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SEC wrote to company
2007-12-03
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Cryoport, Inc.
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SEC wrote to company
2008-01-14
Cryoport, Inc.
References: December 9, 2007
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Response Received
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Medium - date proximity
SEC wrote to company
2006-02-09
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2006-02-13
Cryoport, Inc.
References: February 9, 2006
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Cryoport, Inc.
Response Received
1 company response(s)
Medium - date proximity
SEC wrote to company
2006-01-09
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2006-01-26
Cryoport, Inc.
References: January 9, 2006
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Response Received
2 company response(s)
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SEC wrote to company
2005-11-16
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| Date | Type | Company | Location | File No | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-08 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | 001-34632 | Read Filing View |
| 2025-08-13 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2025-07-31 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | 001-34632 | Read Filing View |
| 2019-03-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2019-03-19 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2019-02-11 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2019-02-11 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-09-11 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-08-31 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-08-24 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-01-30 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-01-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-01-12 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-09-29 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-09-29 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-09-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-09-19 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-02-07 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-02-03 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-10-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-10-04 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-09-14 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-08-30 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-08-26 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-08-08 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-08-04 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-07-18 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-05-11 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-07-21 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-07-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-06-10 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-06-03 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-05-29 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-04-17 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-04-08 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2014-09-15 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2014-08-29 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-21 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-15 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-06 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-05 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-05-18 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-05-09 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-04-27 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-04-12 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-02-14 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-02-09 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-01-31 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2011-04-25 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2011-04-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2011-04-18 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-11 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-10 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-10 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-09 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-05 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-01-27 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-01-12 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-08-27 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-08-18 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-08-07 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-08-06 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-07-31 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-01-25 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-01-14 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2007-12-03 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2006-02-13 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2006-02-09 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2006-01-26 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2006-01-09 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2005-12-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2005-12-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2005-11-16 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| Date | Type | Company | Location | File No | Link |
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| 2025-09-08 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | 001-34632 | Read Filing View |
| 2025-07-31 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | 001-34632 | Read Filing View |
| 2019-03-19 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2019-02-11 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-09-11 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-08-24 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-01-12 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-09-19 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-02-03 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-09-14 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-08-26 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-07-18 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-06-10 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-05-29 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-04-08 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2014-08-29 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-06 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-05-09 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-04-12 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-02-14 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-01-31 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2011-04-18 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-05 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-01-27 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-08-07 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-08-06 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-01-14 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2007-12-03 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2006-02-09 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2006-01-09 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2005-11-16 | SEC Comment Letter | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| Date | Type | Company | Location | File No | Link |
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| 2025-08-13 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2019-03-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2019-02-11 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-08-31 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-01-30 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2018-01-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-09-29 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-09-29 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-09-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2017-02-07 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-10-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-10-04 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-08-30 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-08-08 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-08-04 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2016-05-11 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-07-21 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-07-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-06-03 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2015-04-17 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2014-09-15 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-21 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-15 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-06-05 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-05-18 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-04-27 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2012-02-09 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2011-04-25 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2011-04-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-22 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-11 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-10 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-10 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-02-09 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2010-01-12 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-08-27 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-08-18 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-07-31 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2008-01-25 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2006-02-13 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2006-01-26 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2005-12-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
| 2005-12-20 | Company Response | Cryoport, Inc. | NV | N/A | Read Filing View |
2025-09-08 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc. File: 001-34632
<DOCUMENT> <TYPE>TEXT-EXTRACT <SEQUENCE>2 <FILENAME>filename2.txt <TEXT> September 8, 2025 Robert S. Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer Cryoport, Inc. 112 Westwood Place, Suite 350 Brentwood, TN 37027 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Form 10-K fo the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 File No. 001-34632 Dear Robert S. Stefanovich: We have completed our review of your filing. We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Life Sciences </TEXT> </DOCUMENT>
2025-08-13 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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August 13, 2025
Via
EDGAR Submission
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-3628
Attention: Vanessa Robertson and Jenn Do
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024
File No. 001-34632
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We respectfully submit the following response
to the letter from the staff (the "Staff") of the Division of Corporate Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission
("Commission") dated July 31, 2025 relating to the above-referenced Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
31, 2024 of Cryoport, Inc. (the "Company"). To facilitate your review, we have reproduced the text of the Staff's comments
in italicized print below.
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024
ITEM 7.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Results of Operations
Revenue by
type, page 42
1. We
note within your earnings release on Form 8-K as well as the earnings call presentation that you quantify the amount of revenue earned
related to Commercial Cell & Gene Therapy. In fact, it is the first bullet in your earnings release for the first quarter of 2025
and you have emphasized those results in that period's earnings call. Therefore, please tell us and quantify in future filings the
Commercial Cell & Gene Therapy revenue that is included in each of your three operating segments. Refer to Item 303(a) of Regulation
S-K. Further, tell us and disclose the significant components of each of the three operating segments and provide an analysis of the changes
in each of those components pursuant to Item 303(b)(2)(i) and (ii) of Regulation S-K, as it is not clear from the description of your
products and services on pages 5-7 into what operating segments these products and services are included. For example, it should be clear
to a reader what is included within BioLogistics Solutions, which accounts for 60% of your consolidated revenue for the year ended December
31, 2024.
Response:
In the Company's condensed consolidated
statements of operations, the Company's total revenue is comprised of Life Sciences Services revenue and Life Sciences Products
revenue. The Company disaggregates Life Sciences Services revenue into BioLogistics Solutions revenue and BioStorage/BioServices revenue,
which results in the following three types of revenue on a disaggregated basis:
· BioLogistics Solutions revenue
· BioStorage/BioServices revenue
· Life Sciences Products revenue
In the Company's discussion of its Results
of Operations in the "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," the Company
describes and quantifies its total revenues with reference to the three types of revenue outlined above. For the purposes of our response,
we believe the Staff's reference to "three operating segments" in its comment were a reference to our revenue disaggregation
by type, as outlined above.
We respectfully acknowledge the Staff's
comment in reference to Item 303 of Regulation S-K and, beginning with our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, in our future
Form 10-Q and Form 10-K filings, the Company will revise the presentation of the "Results of Operations" included within "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" to include disclosure of Commercial Cell & Gene Therapy
revenue quantified by type of revenue.
For example, in the Company's Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, the Company disclosed the following in its discussion of Results of Operations (emphasis added):
" Revenue by type
Life Sciences Services
revenue increased by $4.2 million, or 20.9%, from $20.2 million to $24.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, as compared
to the same period in 2024. This increase was driven by year-over-year growth in BioLogistics Solutions revenue and BioStorage/BioServices
revenue of 19.5% and 27.6%, respectively, demonstrating strong demand for our services offerings. Commercial Cell & Gene therapy
revenue included in BioLogistics Solutions revenue was $7.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, representing a 32.2% year-over-year
increase from $5.6 million in the prior year period. We supported 728 clinical trials globally at June 30, 2025, of which 82 of these
clinical trials were in phase 3, representing an overall increase of 53 clinical trials from 675 clinical trials at year end 2024. Our
company continues to lead the way in providing advanced temperature-controlled supply chain solutions designed to support the development
of cell & gene therapies and our future growth.
Life Sciences Products
revenue increased by $1.5 million, or 7.8%, from $19.6 million to $21.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, as compared
to the same period in 2024. Life Sciences Products revenue consists primarily of revenue from our portfolio of cryogenic stainless-steel
freezers, aluminum dewars and related ancillary equipment used in the storage and transport of life sciences commodities, which includes
the rapidly growing Cell and Gene Therapy market through a global network of distributors and direct client relationships. Life Sciences
Products revenue was primarily driven by demand from customers in the EMEA and APAC regions and strong demand from Animal Health customers
in the Americas. Commercial Cell & Gene therapy revenue included in Life Sciences Products revenue was $1.2 million and $0.9 million
for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024. "
Additionally, as requested, for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2024, (i) Commercial Cell & Gene therapy revenue included in BioLogistics Solutions revenue was $24.1 million and
(ii) Commercial Cell & Gene therapy revenue included in Life Sciences Products revenue was $1.8 million.
The Company will also, beginning with our Form
10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, in our future Form 10-Q and Form 10-K filings, provide the additional descriptions of the services
and products that constitute, in each case, the three types of disaggregated revenue in the "Revenue Disaggregation" section
of the "Revenue, Concentrations and Geographic Information" note to its financial statements. For example, in note 4 to the
financial statements included in the Company's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, the Company disclosed the following:
" Revenue Disaggregation
The Company's total
revenue is comprised of Life Sciences Services revenue and Life Sciences Products revenue. The Company disaggregates Life Sciences Services
revenue into BioLogistics Solutions revenue and BioStorage/BioServices revenue. BioLogistics Solutions revenue primarily includes temperature-controlled
logistics services, such as transportation, logistics and related support, chain-of-custody and condition monitoring, lab move services,
consulting, and cryopreservation services. BioStorage/BioServices revenue primarily includes storage, kitting, labelling, fulfillment,
sample management, drug return, and qualified person (QP) drug product release services. Life Sciences Products revenue includes revenue
from the sale of cryogenic systems, such as freezers and, cryogenic dewars and related ancillary accessories."
We hope that the foregoing has been responsive
to the Staff's Comments. If you have any further comments or questions regarding this letter, please contact the undersigned at
(949) 681-2727.
Sincerely,
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
Cryoport, Inc.
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<DOCUMENT> <TYPE>TEXT-EXTRACT <SEQUENCE>2 <FILENAME>filename2.txt <TEXT> July 31, 2025 Robert S. Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer Cryoport, Inc. 112 Westwood Place, Suite 350 Brentwood, TN 37027 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Form 10-K fo the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 File No. 001-34632 Dear Robert S. Stefanovich: We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comment. Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Form 10-K fo the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 ITEM 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Results of Operations Revenue by type, page 42 1. We note within your earnings release on Form 8-K as well as the earnings call presentation that you quantify the amount of revenue earned related to Commercial Cell & Gene Therapy. In fact, it is the first bullet in your earnings release for the first quarter of 2025 and you have emphasized those results in that period's earnings call. Therefore, please tell us and quantify in future filings the Commercial Cell & Gene Therapy revenue that is included in each of your three operating segments. Refer to Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K. Further, tell us and disclose the significant components of each of the three operating segments and provide an analysis of the changes in each of those components pursuant to Item 303(b)(2)(i) and (ii) of Regulation S-K, as it is not clear from the description of your products and services on pages 5-7 into what operating segments these products and services are included. For example, it should be clear to a reader what is included within BioLogistics Solutions, July 31, 2025 Page 2 which accounts for 60% of your consolidated revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024. In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Please contact Vanessa Robertson at 202-551-3649 or Jenn Do at 202-551-3743 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Life Sciences </TEXT> </DOCUMENT>
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United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Registration
Statement on Form S-3
File
No. 333-230237
Request
for Acceleration of Effectiveness
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant
to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Cryoport, Inc. (the “Registrant”)
hereby requests that the above-referenced Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission
at 1:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on Monday, March 25, 2019, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
The Registrant hereby authorizes
Anthony Ippolito, of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., to orally modify or withdraw this request for acceleration.
The Registrant requests that
it be notified of such effectiveness by a telephone call to Mr. Ippolito at (714) 427-7409. The Registrant also respectfully
requests a copy of the written order verifying the effective date.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
Very truly yours,
CRYOPORT, INC.
By:
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Name:
Title:
Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
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Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
Cryoport, Inc.
17305 Daimler St.
Irvine, CA 92614
Re:Cryoport, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-3
Filed March 13, 2019
File No. 333-230237
Dear Mr. Stefanovich:
This is to advise you that we have not reviewed and will not review your registration
statement.
Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. We remind you
that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their
disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff.
Please contact Aamira Chaudhry at 202-551-3389 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Transportation and Leisure
cc: Anthony Ippolito, Esq.
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VIA EDGAR
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-3
File No. 333-229395
Request for Acceleration of Effectiveness
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General
Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Cryoport, Inc. (the “Registrant”) hereby
requests that the above-referenced Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission at 1:00
p.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, February 14, 2019, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
The Registrant hereby authorizes
Anthony Ippolito, of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., to orally modify or withdraw this request for acceleration.
The Registrant requests that
it be notified of such effectiveness by a telephone call to Mr. Ippolito at (714) 427-7409. The Registrant also respectfully
requests a copy of the written order verifying the effective date.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
Very truly yours,
CRYOPORT, INC.
By:
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Name:
Robert Stefanovich
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO REQUEST FOR ACCELERATION]
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Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
Cryoport, Inc.
17305 Daimler Street
Irvine, CA 92614
Re:Cryoport, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-3
Filed January 28, 2019
File No. 333-229395
Dear Mr. Stefanovich:
This is to advise you that we have not reviewed and will not review your registration
statement.
Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. We remind you
that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their
disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff.
Please contact John Dana Brown at 202-551-3859 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Transportation and Leisure
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Mail Stop 4628 September 10 , 2018 Via E-Mail Robert F. Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer Cryoport, Inc. 17305 Daimler Street Irvine , CA 9 2614 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 3 1, 2017 Filed March 8 , 2018 File No. 1-34632 Dear Mr. Stefanovich : We refer you to our comment letter dated August 24, 2018 regarding potential business contacts with Syria and Sudan . We have completed our review of this subject matter. We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Sincerely, /s/ Cecilia Blye Cecilia Blye, Chief Office of Global Security Risk cc: Anne Nguyen Parker Assistant Director
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Cryoport, Inc.
17305 Daimler St.
Irvine, CA 92614
August 31, 2018
VIA EDGAR
Ms. Cecilia Blye, Chief
Office of Global Security Risk
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-3628
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2017
Filed March 8, 2018
File No. 1-34632
Dear Ms. Blye:
Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”)
is submitting this letter in response to the written comments of the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), dated August 24, 2018, with respect to the Company’s Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 (the “Filing”), filed with the Commission on March
8, 2018. Capitalized terms used and not defined herein have the meanings given in the Filing.
Set forth below is the heading and text
of the Staff’s comment followed by the Company’s response:
General
1. On page 6, you identify DHL, FedEx and UPS as companies with which you have strategic logistics
alliances through which these companies’ customers may ship using Cryoport services. Each of these companies provides shipping
services to and/or from Syria and Sudan. Also, your website includes a document titled “Challenges in International Shipping”
which includes Syria in a list of countries that have guidelines in place relating specifically to cold chain distribution of pharmaceuticals
and other materials. Syria and Sudan are designated by the State Department as state sponsors of terrorism and are subject to U.S.
sanctions and/or export controls. Please describe to us the nature and extent of any past, current, and anticipated contacts with
Syria and Sudan, including with their governments, whether through subsidiaries, customers, strategic logistics alliance partners,
affiliates, or other direct or indirect arrangements.
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Response:
The Company respectfully advises the Staff
that, from the Company’s inception through the date of this letter, the Company has not had any contact with Syria or Sudan,
including with their governments, whether through the Company’s subsidiaries, customers, strategic logistics alliance partners,
affiliates or other direct or indirect arrangements. Further, the Company does not anticipate any contact with Syria or Sudan,
including with their governments, whether through the Company’s subsidiaries, customers, strategic logistics alliance partners,
affiliates or other direct or indirect arrangements. Moreover, the Company does not maintain any offices or other facilities in
Sudan or Syria, has no employees in either of those countries and has no assets or liabilities associated with activities in either
of those countries.
While the Company does have strategic alliances
with DHL, FedEx and UPS, the Company has never engaged these shipping services providers (or any other shipping services provider)
to provide shipping services of the Company’s products to and/or from Syria and Sudan.
Consistent with the Company’s high
ethical standards, the Company has implemented and continues to maintain internal policies designed to ensure compliance with applicable
U.S. laws and regulations, including the sanctions programs administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign
Assets Control and export controls administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security. These
measures include a screening process by the Company’s Global Logistics unit, which is designed to prevent any transactions
with parties that are included on restricted party lists published by various U.S. government agencies or located in embargoed/sanctioned
countries. In addition, the Company’s Corporate Code of Conduct expressly requires that directors, officers and employees
of the Company who are involved with the Company’s operations outside the United States should consult with the Company’s
Chief Executive Officer and legal counsel for advice on applicable U.S. laws, especially laws regarding boycotts, trade sanctions,
export controls and foreign corrupt practices, and are expected to comply with those laws.
The Company further notes to the Staff
that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Company has revised the document titled “Challenges in International Shipping,”
which can be found on the Company’s website, to remove any references to Syria.
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If you have any additional questions or
comments, please feel free to contact or our outside counsel, Anthony Ippolito of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., at (714) 427-7409
(email: tippolito@swlaw.com) with any questions.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
cc: Anthony Ippolito, Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
Anne Nguyen Parker, Assistant Director
Jennifer Hardy, Special Counsel
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Mail Stop 4628 August 24 , 2018 Via E-Mail Robert F. Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer Cryoport, Inc. 17305 Daimler Street Irvine , CA 9 2614 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 3 1, 2017 Filed March 8 , 2018 File No. 1-34632 Dear Mr. Stefanovich : We have limited our review of your filing to your contacts with countries that have been identified as state sponsors of terrorism, and we have the following comments. Our review with respect to this issue does not preclude further review by the Assistant Director group with respect to other issues. In our comments , we ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosu re. Please respond to these comments within ten busine ss days by providing the requested information or advis e us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in y our response. After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments. General 1. On page 6, you identify DHL, FedEx and UPS as companies with which you have strategic logistics alliances through which these companies’ customers may ship using Cryoport services. Each of these companies provides shipping services to and/or from Syria an d Sudan. Also, your website includes a document titled “Challenges in International Shipping” which includes Syria in a list of countries that have guidelines in place relating specifically to cold chain distribution of pharmaceuticals and other materials . Syria and Sudan are designated by the State Department as state sponsors of terrorism and are subject to U.S. sanctions and/or export controls. Please describe to us the nature and extent of any past, current, and anticipated contacts with Syria and Su dan, including with their governments, whether through subsidiaries, customers, strategic logistics alliance partners, affiliates, or other direct or indirect arrangements. Robert F. Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. August 24 , 2018 Page 2 We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the acc uracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. You may contact Jennifer Hardy, Special Counsel, at (202) 551 -3767 or me at (202) 551 - 3470 if you have any questions about the comment s or our review. Sincerely, /s/ Cecilia Bl ye Cecilia Blye, Chief Office of Global Security Risk cc: Anne Nguyen Parker Assistant Director
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CORRESP 1 filename1.htm 17305 Daimler Street Irvine, California 92614 (949) 470-2300 January 30, 2018 VIA EDGAR Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-4 File No. 333-222386 Ladies and Gentlemen: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned Registrant hereby requests that the above-referenced Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) at 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, February 1, 2018, or as soon thereafter as practicable. By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act and that the disclosure in the filing is the responsibility of the Registrant. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that: 1. should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; 2. the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective does not relieve the Registrant from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in the filing; and 3. the Registrant may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. [SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS] Very truly yours, CRYOPORT, INC. By: /s/ Robert Stefanovich Name: Robert Stefanovich Title: Chief Financial Officer [SIGNATURE PAGE TO REQUEST FOR ACCELERATION]
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Cryoport, Inc.
17305 Daimler St.
Irvine, CA 92614
January 22, 2018
VIA EDGAR
Ms. Christina Chalk, Senior Special Counsel
Office of Mergers and Acquisitions
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-3628
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Schedule TO-I
Filed January 2, 2018
File No. 005-85385
Registration Statement on Form S-4
Filed January 2, 2018
File No. 333-222386
Dear Ms. Chalk:
Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”)
is submitting this letter in response to the written comments of the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), dated January 12, 2018, with respect to the Company’s Schedule
TO-I (File No. 005-85385) and Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-222386) (the “Registration Statement”),
each filed with the Commission on January 2, 2018. Capitalized terms used and not defined herein have the meanings given in the
Registration Statement.
Set forth below is the heading and text
of the Staff’s comments followed by the Company’s responses:
Registration Statement on Form S-4
Cover Page
1. In an early commencement offer, the legend required
by Item 501(b)(10) of Regulation S-K must be tailored appropriately. It may not state that the prospectus is not complete. See
Q&A 2 in Section I.E of the Third Supplement to the Telephone Interpretations (July 2001). In addition, the date of the prospectus
(at the bottom of the cover page) may not be left blank. Please revise.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the
Staff’s comment and has revised the legend required by Item 501(b)(10) of Regulation S-K and has added a date on the cover
page of the prospectus, as reflected in Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be filed on the date hereof (“Amendment
No. 1”).
Use of Proceeds
2. We note your disclosure that your estimated net
proceeds will be approximately $5.6 million excluding the aggregate 95,858 Original Warrants held by Mr. Shelton and Dr. Hariri.
(The same disclosure also appears under “The Exchange Offer – Accounting Treatment” on page 27.) However, your
offer maximum of 2,000,000 Original Warrants, and thus your estimated net proceeds of approximately $5.9 million, could be achieved
without participation in the offer by Mr. Shelton or Dr. Hariri. Please revise or advise.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the
Staff’s comment and confirms to the Staff that, if 2,000,000 Original Warrants are accepted pursuant to the Offer, resulting
in the issuance and immediate exercise of 2,000,000 New Warrants, the estimated net proceeds from the Offer will be approximately
$5.9 million, even without participation in the Offer by Mr. Shelton or Dr. Hariri. Accordingly, the Company has removed the parenthetical
language in Amendment No. 1 relating to the exclusion of the Original Warrants held by Mr. Shelton and Dr. Hariri as part of the
disclosure of the Company’s net proceeds from the Offer.
The Exchange Offer
Continued Listing of Original Warrants,
page 20
3. We note your explanation as to how proration would
work in the event that all of the 3,836,793 outstanding Original Warrants are tendered in the Offer. As you explain, that would
result in 670,751 Public Original Warrants remaining outstanding. However, you do not address other tender scenarios. For example,
all 1,401,101 Public Original Warrants could be tendered, alongside fewer tenders of Private Original Warrants, with the potential
result that no Public Original Warrants would remain outstanding. In such event, and based on your disclosure regarding continued
listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market, it would appear that such continued listing could be jeopardized. Please advise.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the
Staff’s comment and has revised Amendment No. 1 to include an additional closing condition to the Offer, which requires that
the Company shall have concluded that consummation of the Offer will not constitute a “Rule 13e-3 transaction,” as
such term is defined in Rule 13e-3 under the Exchange Act. The Company further acknowledges to the Staff that the Company is not
permitted to waive such condition.
Extension of the Offer and Exercise
Period; Amendments; Termination, page 21
4. We note your statement in this section that the
Company expressly reserves the right “in its sole discretion” to terminate the Offer. Revise to clarify that it may
do so only if one of the listed Offer conditions is neither satisfied nor waived.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the
Staff’s comment and has revised Amendment No. 1 to clarify that the Company expressly reserves the right to terminate the
Offer only if the conditions to the Offer are not satisfied.
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If you have any additional questions or
comments, please feel free to contact or our outside counsel, Anthony Ippolito of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., at (714) 427-7409
(email: tippolito@swlaw.com), with any questions.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
cc: Anthony Ippolito, Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
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January 12, 201 8 Via E -mail Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer 17305 Daimler Street Irvine, CA 92614 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Schedule TO -I Filed January 2, 201 8 File No. 005-85385 Registration Statement on Form S -4 Filed January 2, 2018 File No. 333-222386 Dear Mr. Stefanovich : We have limited our review of the above filing s to those issues we have addressed in our comments. In some of our comment s, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand the disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending the filings, by providing the requested information, or by advising us when you will provide the requested response. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an am endment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to the filings and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. All defined terms used in this letter have the same meaning as in the filings unless otherwise indicated. Registration Statement on Form S -4 Cover Page 1. In an early commencement offer, the legend required by Item 501(b)(10) of Regulation S-K must be tailored appropriately. It may not state that the prospectus is not complete. See Q&A 2 in Section I.E of the Third Supplement to the Telephone Interpretations (July 2001). In addition, the date of the prospectus (at the bottom of the cover page) may not be left blank. Please revise. Mr. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. January 1 2, 2018 Page 2 Use of Proceeds, page 16 2. We note your disclosure that your estimated net proceeds will be approximately $5.6 million excluding the aggregate 95,858 Original Warrants held by Mr. Shelton and Dr. Hariri. (The same disclosure also appears under “T he Exchange Offer – Accounting Treatment” on page 27.) However, your offer maximum of 2,000,000 Original Warrants, and thus your estimated net proceeds of approximately $5. 9 million , could be achieved without participation in the offer by Mr. Shelton or D r. Hariri. Please revise or advise. The Exchange Offer Continued Listing of Original Warrants , page 20 3. We note your explanation as to how proration would work in the event that all of the 3,836,793 outstanding Original Warrants are tendered in the Offer . As you explain, that would result in 670,751 Public Original Warra nts remaining outstanding . However, you do not address other tender scenarios. For example, a ll 1,401,101 Public Original Warrants could be tendered, alongside fewer tenders of Private Original Warrants, with the potential result that no Public Original Warrants would remain outstanding. In such event, and based on your disclosure regarding conti nued listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market, i t would appear that such continued listing could be jeopardized. Please advise. Extension of the Offer and Exercise Period; Amendments; Termination, page 21 4. We note your statement in this section that the Comp any expres sly reserves the right “in its sole discretion” to term inate the Offer. Revise to clarify that it may do so only if one of the listed Offer conditions is neither satisfied nor waived . * * * We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filing s to be certain that the filings include the information the Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and all applicable Securities Act and Exchange Act rules require. Since the Company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to their disclosure, they are r esponsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. Mr. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. January 1 2, 2018 Page 3 Please contact David Plattner , Special Counsel , at (202) 551-8094 , or me at (202) 551- 3263 with any questions. Sincerely, /s/ Christina Chalk Christina Chalk Senior Special Counsel Office of Mergers and Acquisitions cc: Via E -mail Anthony Ippolito, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
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VIA EDGAR
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1
File No. 333-212364
Request for Acceleration of Effectiveness
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General
Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Cryoport, Inc. (the “Registrant”) hereby
requests that the above-referenced Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, October 2, 2017, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
The Registrant hereby authorizes
Anthony Ippolito, of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., to orally modify or withdraw this request for acceleration.
The Registrant requests that
it be notified of such effectiveness by a telephone call to Mr. Ippolito at (714) 427-7409. The Registrant also respectfully
requests a copy of the written order verifying the effective date.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
Very truly yours,
CRYOPORT, INC.
By:
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Name:
Robert Stefanovich
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
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September 29, 2017
VIA EDGAR
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to Form S-1 on
Form S-3
File No. 333-203006
Request for Acceleration of Effectiveness
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General
Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Cryoport, Inc. (the “Registrant”) hereby
requests that the above-referenced Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, October 2, 2017, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
The Registrant hereby authorizes
Anthony Ippolito, of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., to orally modify or withdraw this request for acceleration.
The Registrant requests that
it be notified of such effectiveness by a telephone call to Mr. Ippolito at (714) 427-7409. The Registrant also respectfully
requests a copy of the written order verifying the effective date.
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Very truly yours,
CRYOPORT, INC.
By:
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Name:
Robert Stefanovich
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
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Cryoport, Inc.
17305 Daimler St.
Irvine, CA 92614
September 22, 2017
VIA EDGAR
Ms. Laura Nicholson, Special Counsel
Office of Transportation and Leisure
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-3628
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Post-Effective Amendment to Form S-1 on Form S-3
Filed August 31, 2017
File No. 333-203006
Dear Ms. Nicholson:
Cryoport, Inc.
(the “Company”) is submitting this letter in response to the written comment of the staff (the
“Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), dated September
18, 2017, with respect to the Company’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Form S-1 on Form S-3 filed with
the Commission on August 31, 2017 (File No. 333-203006) (as amended, the “Registration
Statement”). Capitalized terms used and not defined herein have the meanings given in the Registration
Statement.
Set forth below is the heading and text
of the Staff’s comment followed by the Company’s response:
General
1. Please clarify in the explanatory note the relationship between this filing and the registration
statement on Form S-1 (333-212364) declared effective August 10, 2016. For example, please clarify in the explanatory note that
you are continuing the registration of the offer and sale of the 1,640,401 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the
remaining outstanding warrants pursuant to this post-effective amendment on Form S-3 (File No. 333-203006), and not pursuant to
the registration statement on Form S-1 (333-212364). Please also clarify in the explanatory note that the secondary offering included
in the Form S-1 (333-212364) declared effective August 10, 2016 has been terminated and you are concurrently filing a post-effective
amendment to deregister unsold securities from that offering.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the
Staff’s comment and has added the requested clarifying disclosure to the explanatory note of Post-Effective Amendment No.
4 to the Registration Statement.
2. Please disclose on the prospectus cover and in Plan of Distribution that Feltl and Company,
Inc., is an underwriter within the meaning of Securities Act Section 2(a)(11).
Response:
The Company advises the Staff that on September
21, 2017, the Company entered into a letter agreement with Feltl and Company, Inc. (“Feltl”) pursuant to which the
parties agreed to terminate the solicitation agent agreement between the Company and Feltl, dated August 28, 2017. Accordingly,
Feltl will not act as the solicitation agent for the Registered Warrants and, therefore, will not solicit beneficial owners of
the Registered Warrants to exercise their Registered Warrants. The Company confirms to the Staff that it does not intend to engage
any other third parties to serve as the solicitation agent for the Registered Warrants. The Company further notes to the Staff that
it has removed all references to Feltl or the solicitation agent in Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement.
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If you have any additional questions or
comments, please feel free to contact or our outside counsel, Anthony Ippolito of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., at (714) 427-7409
(email: tippolito@swlaw.com), with any questions.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
cc: Anthony Ippolito, Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
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Mail Stop 3561 September 18, 2017 Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer Cryoport, Inc. 17305 Daimler Street Irvine, CA 92614 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Post-Effective Amendment to Form S-1 on Form S -3 Filed August 31, 2017 File No. 333-203006 Dear Mr. Stefanovich : We have reviewed your post-effective amendment and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information . If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendme nt 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 these comments, we may have additional comments. General 1. Please clarify in the explanatory note the relationship between this filing and the registration statement on Form S -1 (333 -212364) declared effective August 10, 2016. For example, please clarify in the explanatory note that you are continuing the registration of the offer and sale of the 1,640,401 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the remaining outstanding warrants pursuant to this post -effective amendment on Form S -3 (File No. 333 -203006) , and not pursuant to the registration statement on Form S -1 (333 -212364). Please also clarify in the explanatory note that the secondary offering included in the Form S -1 (333 -212364) declared effective August 10, 2016 has been terminated and you are concurrently filing a post -effective amendment to deregister unsold securitie s from that offering. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. September 18, 2017 Page 2 2. Please disclose on the prospectus cover and in Plan of Distribution that Feltl and Company, Inc., is an underwriter within the meaning of Securities Act Section 2(a)(11). We remind you that the company and its management are respo nsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Please contact J. Nolan McWilliams, Attorney -Advisor, at (202) 551 -3217 or me at (202) 551-3584 with any questions you may have . Sincerely, /s/ Laura Nicholson Laura Nicholson Special Counsel Office of Transportation and Leisure cc: Anthony Ippolito, Esq. Snell & Wilmer LLP
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CORRESP 1 filename1.htm 17305 Daimler Street Irvine, California 92614 (949) 470-2300 February 7, 2017 VIA EDGAR Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-3 File No. 333-215776 Ladies and Gentlemen: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned Registrant hereby requests that the above-referenced Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) at 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, February 9, 2017, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Very truly yours, CRYOPORT, INC. By: /s/ Robert Stefanovich Name: Robert Stefanovich Title: Chief Financial Officer
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Mail Stop 3561 February 3, 2017 Jerrell W. Shelton Chief Executive Officer Cryoport, Inc. 17305 Daimler St. Irvine, CA 92614 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-3 Filed January 27, 2017 File No. 333-215776 Dear Mr. Shelton : This is to advise you that we have not reviewed and will not review your registration statement . Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Please contact Julie Griffith at 202-551-3267 with any q uestions. Sincerely, /s/ Justin Dobbie Justin Dobbie Legal Branch Chief Office of Transportation and Leisure
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CORRESP 1 filename1.htm 17305 Daimler Street Irvine, California 92614 (949) 470-2300 October 20, 2016 VIA EDGAR Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-4 File No. 333-213091 Ladies and Gentlemen: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned Registrant hereby requests that the above-referenced Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) at 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on Monday, October 24, 2016, or as soon thereafter as practicable. By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act and that the disclosure in the filing is the responsibility of the Registrant. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that: 1. should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; 2. the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective does not relieve the Registrant from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in the filing; and 3. the Registrant may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. Very truly yours, CRYOPORT, INC. By: /s/ Robert Stefanovich Name: Robert Stefanovich Title: Chief Financial Officer
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Cryoport, Inc.
17305 Daimler St.
Irvine, CA 92614
October 4, 2016
VIA EDGAR
Mr. Perry J. Hindin, Special Counsel
Office of Mergers and Acquisitions
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-3628
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Schedule TO-I (File No. 005-85385)
Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-213091)
Filed August 30, 2016
Dear Mr. Hindin:
Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”)
is submitting this letter in response to the written comments of the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), dated September 13, 2016, with respect to the Company’s Schedule
TO-I (as amended, the “SC TO-I”) (File No. 005-85385) and Registration Statement on Form S-4 (as amended, the
“S-4”) (File No. 333-213091).
Set forth below is the heading and text
of each comment followed by the Company’s response.
General
1. We note your response to prior comment 3 and are unable to agree with your conclusion that
“the Offer will not cause the Original Warrants to cease being listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market” given that the
exchange offer is an offer for all outstanding Original Warrants. Please provide further analysis explaining the basis upon which
you have concluded that the purchase of this class of securities is not subject to Exchange Act Rule 13e-3.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges
the Staff’s comment and has revised the terms of the Offer such that the Company will only accept up to an aggregate limit
of 5,000,000 Original Warrants from all holders participating in the Offer. If the aggregate number of Original Warrants properly
tendered in the Offer by all holders participating in the Offer is greater than 5,000,000, then each of the participating holder’s
number of Original Warrants tendered will be reduced on as close to a pro rata basis as is possible, as set forth in Amendment
No. 2 to the S-4.
For the Original Warrants to
continue listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market, (a) the underlying security must remain listed on NASDAQ or be a covered security,
and (b) there must be at least two registered and active market makers, one of which may be a market maker entering a stabilizing
bid, as provided in NASDAQ Listing Rule 5560. As of September 30, 2016, there were ten registered and active market makers for
the Original Warrants.
Here, the Offer will not affect
the listing of the Company’s common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Market.
Furthermore, it is the Company’s
reasonable belief that there will continue to be at least two registered and active market makers for the Original Warrants even
if all of the 7,067,788 outstanding Original Warrants are tendered in the Offer.
The Company notes to the Staff
that there is no minimum number of warrants required to be outstanding under the continued listing requirements for warrants on
the NASDAQ Capital Market pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5560. The Company also notes that initial listing requirements of warrants
on the NASDAQ Capital Market only require 400,000 warrants to be outstanding, while also requiring three registered and active
market makers pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5515.
In the event that all of the
7,067,788 outstanding Original Warrants are tendered in the Offer, under the revised terms each of the participating holder’s
number of Original Warrants tendered will be reduced on as close to a pro rata basis as is possible and only 5,000,000 Original
Warrants will be accepted. As a result, following the consummation of the Offer, 2,067,788 Original Warrants will remain outstanding,
comprised of 611,680 Public Original Warrants and 1,456,108 Private Original Warrants. The Company believes that 611,680 outstanding
Public Original Warrants would be sufficient to continue to support at least two registered and active market makers because that
is in excess of the minimum initial listing requirements on the NASDAQ Capital Market, which is sufficient to support at least
three registered and active market makers under such rule, and because there are currently ten registered and active market makers
for the Public Original Warrants.
The Company additionally notes
to the Staff that, as of 1:00 PM PST on October 3, 2016, 71,788 Public Original Warrants (representing only approximately 3% of
the outstanding Public Original Warrants) and 1,818,331 Private Original Warrants (representing approximately 37% of the outstanding
Private Original Warrants) have been tendered in the Offer. Furthermore, the Company’s solicitation agent with respect to
the Public Original Warrants has conveyed to the Company that it does not expect the number of tendered Public Original Warrants
to materially increase by the expiration of the Offer given that the Offer has been open for more than 35 business days already.
Accordingly, the Company reasonably
believes that the Original Warrants will continue to be listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market because there will likely remain at
least two registered and active market makers following the Offer given the number of Public Original Warrants that will remain
outstanding. Accordingly, the Company has no reason to believe that there is a reasonable likelihood that the Offer will produce
the effect described in Rule 13e-3(a)(3)(ii)(B).
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If you have any additional questions or
comments, please feel free to contact me directly at (949) 681-2727.
Sincerely,
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Robert Stefanovich, Chief Financial Officer
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September 1 3, 2016 Via E -mail Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer 17305 Daimler Street Irvine, CA 92614 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Schedule TO -I File No. 005 -85385 Registration Statement on Form S -4 File No. 333 -213091 Filed August 30, 2016 Dear Mr. Stefanovich : We have reviewed the above filings and have the following comment . General 1. We note your response to prior comment 3 and are unable to agree with your conclusion that “the Offer will not cause th e Original Warrants to cease being listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market” given that the exchange offer is an offer for all outstanding Original Warrants. Please provide further analysis explaining the basis upon which you have concluded that the purchase o f this class of securities is not sub ject to Exchange Act Rule 13e -3. * * * Please contact Justin A. Kisner, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551 -3788, or me at (202) 551 - 3444 with any questions. Sincerely, /s/ Perry J. Hindin Perry J. Hindin Specia l Counsel Office of Mergers and Acquisitions Mr. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. September 13 , 2016 Page 2 cc: Via E -mail Anthony Ippolito, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
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Cryoport, Inc.
17305 Daimler St.
Irvine, CA 92614
August 30, 2016
VIA EDGAR
Mr. Perry J. Hindin, Special Counsel
Office of Mergers and Acquisitions
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-3628
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Schedule TO-I (File No. 005-85385)
Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-213091)
Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (File No. 001-34632)
Filed August 11, 2016
Dear Mr. Hindin:
Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”)
is submitting this letter in response to the written comments of the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), dated August 26, 2016, with respect to the Company’s Schedule
TO-I (the “SC TO-I”) (File No. 005-85385), Registration Statement on Form S-4 (the “S-4”)
(File No. 333-213091) and Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (the “Preliminary Proxy Statement”) (File
No. 001-34632), each filed with the Commission on August 11, 2016.
Set forth below is the heading and text
of each comment followed by the Company’s response.
Schedule TO-I
1. Please confirm that the prospectus includes all disclosure currently found in the Schedule
TO. As an example, refer to the disclosure contained in Items 2 through 5 and 11 of the Schedule TO. See Exchange Act Rule 13e-4(b)
and (e)(2).
Response:
The Company confirms that the
prospectus included in Amendment No. 1 to the S-4 includes all disclosure currently found in the Schedule TO, as amended. In addition,
the Company has added the following disclosure on page 22 of Amendment No. 1 to the S-4:
“The Company previously
appointed the Depositary as the warrant agent for the Original Warrants in connection with the original issuance thereof, on July
29, 2015, pursuant to a warrant agreement with the Depositary. In connection with the Offer, the Company has also engaged the Depositary
as the warrant agent for the Supplemental Warrants. The Depositary will receive reasonable and customary compensation for its services
in connection with the Offer.”
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General
2. We note disclosure throughout the prospectus indicating that if the aggregate number of New
Warrant Shares to be issued for all holders participating in the offer is greater than the Nasdaq Limit, then each of the participating
holder’s number of Original Warrants tendered will be reduced on as close to a pro rata basis as is possible.
· Please advise us regarding the Company’s intent to comply with Exchange Act Rule
13e-4(e)(3)(ii), 13e-4(f)(1)(ii) and 14e-1(b) should stockholder approval of the Offer not be obtained.
Response:
The Company advises the Staff that, should stockholder approval of the offer not be obtained, the Company intends to fully comply
with Exchange Act Rule 13e-4(e)(3)(ii), 13e-4(f)(1)(ii) and 14e-1(b). In addition, the Company has added the following disclosure
on page 16 of Amendment No. 1 to the S-4:
“If stockholder approval
of the Offer is not obtained, we will (i) promptly disclose this information in a manner reasonably calculated to inform the holders
of the Original Warrants and (ii) extend the Expiration Date by at least ten business days from the date of the dissemination of
this information to the holders of the Original Warrants. See “—Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d) and Maximum Number of New
Warrant Shares Which may be Issued” for additional information.”
· Please also provide us an analysis as to how you will comply with Section 5 of the Securities
Act with respect to the issuance of “new replacement warrants” to holders of Original Warrants. Please also advise
why it is necessary to replace such Original Warrants as opposed to returning such unaccepted Original Warrants to holders.
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Response:
The Company advises the Staff that the references to the issuance of “new replacement warrants” to holders of Original
Warrants were not meant to refer to the issuance of new securities to such holders. Rather, the Company was referring to the issuance
of new warrant certificates representing the unaccepted Original Warrants.
For example, a holder owns 1,000,000 Original Warrants
and properly tenders the 1,000,000 Original Warrants in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Offer (including delivering
the holder’s warrant certificate representing the 1,000,000 Original Warrants). Now assume that there is a pro rata reduction
resulting in only 800,000 of such holder’s Original Warrants being accepted by the Company pursuant to the Offer. Promptly
following the Expiration Date, the Company would cause to be delivered to such holder a new warrant certificate representing the
200,000 Original Warrants not accepted in the Offer (along with a check for any payment submitted relating to the tender of the
200,000 Original Warrants).
However, the Company respectfully
acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the disclosure on the cover page and pages 4, 5, 13 and 15 of
Amendment No. 1 to the S-4.
3. We note that the Original Warrants currently trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market. Please provide
an analysis explaining the basis upon which you have concluded that the purchase of this series of securities is not subject to
Exchange Act Rule 13e-3. Refer to Question 104.01 of the of the Division of Corporation Finance’s Compliance and Disclosure
Interpretations for Going Private Transactions, Exchange Act Rule 13e-3 and Schedule 13E-3 dated January 26, 2009.
Response:
The Company advises the Staff that it has concluded that the purchase of the series of securities is not subject to Exchange Act
Rule 13e-3 because the purchase does not have the effects described in paragraph (a)(3)(ii) of Rule 13e-3, which include:
A. Causing any class of equity securities of the issuer which is subject to Section 12(g) or Section
15(d) of the Act to become eligible for termination of registration under Rule 12g-4 or Rule 12h-6, or causing the reporting obligations
with respect to such class to become eligible for termination under Rule 12h-6; or suspension under Rule 12h-3 or section 15(d);
or
B. Causing any class of equity securities of the issuer which is either listed on a national securities
exchange or authorized to be quoted in an inter-dealer quotation system of a registered national securities association to be neither
listed on any national securities exchange nor authorized to be quoted on an inter-dealer quotation system of any registered national
securities association.
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Rule 13e-3(a)(3)(ii)(A) applies
where a transaction causes a class of equity securities that is subject to Section 12(g) or Section 15(d) of the Act to be held
of record by less than 300 persons. Rule 13e-3(a)(3)(ii)(A) is inapplicable to the Company because, prior to the Offer, the Original
Warrants were already held of record by less than 300 persons, thus making it impossible for the Offer to “cause” the
Original Warrants to be held of record by less than 300 persons.
Rule 13e-3(a)(3)(ii)(B) is inapplicable
because the Offer will not cause the Original Warrants to cease being listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market. For continued listing
of warrants on the NASDAQ Capital Market, (a) the underlying security must remain listed on NASDAQ or be a covered security, and
(b) there must be at least two registered and active market makers, one of which may be a market maker entering a stabilizing bid,
as provided in NASDAQ Listing Rule 5560. Since the Offer will not affect the listing of the Company’s common stock nor change
the number of registered and active market makers, the Offer will not cause the Original Warrants to cease being listed on the
NASDAQ Capital Market.
Accordingly, since the Offer
does not have a reasonable likelihood nor the purpose of producing any of the effects specified in Rule 13e-3(a)(3)(ii), the Offer
does not constitute a Rule 13e-3 transaction.
The Exchange Offer
Terms of the New Warrants, page 13
4. Please revise the statement that the summary of terms is not complete. While disclosure may
include appropriate disclaimers concerning the nature of a summary generally, it must be complete in describing all material provisions.
This comment also applies to the qualification with respect to the material terms of the Supplemental Warrants.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the requested disclosure on page 14 of Amendment
No. 1 to the S-4.
Extension of the Offer and Exercise
Period; Amendments; Termination, page 15
5. Please clarify that if a material change occurs in the information published, sent or given
to security holders, the issuer will disseminate “promptly” disclosure of the change consistent with Rule 13e-4(d)(2)
and 13e-4(e)(3).
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has added the requested clarifying disclosure on page 16 of
Amendment No. 1 to the S-4.
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Incorporation of Certain Information
by Reference, page 28
6. We note the statement that you attempt to incorporate by reference into the Offer document
all filings under Section 13, 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act filed while the Offer is pending and that the information filed
with the Commission shall modify and supersede the Offer Letter/Prospectus. Please note that Schedule TO does not authorize incorporation
by reference into your offering document of future filings made with the Commission. Please refer to General Instruction F to Schedule
TO. Please revise to indicate that you will amend your offering materials to disclose material changes to the information published,
sent or given to security holders, to the extent required. Accordingly, please amend to include your Form 10-Q for the period ended
June 30, 2015. Refer to Item 1010(a)(2) of Regulation M-A. In addition, to the extent that you refer to the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in the documents you incorporate by reference or will incorporate by reference, such as your Form
10-K for the year ended March 31, 2016, and your most recent Form 10-Q, please revise to clarify that the PSLRA does not apply
to statements in this tender offer. Refer to Exchange Act Section 21E(b)(2)(C).
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the requested disclosure on page 29 of Amendment
No. 1 to the S-4. In addition, the Company notes to the Staff that on the page immediately prior to page 1 of Amendment No. 1 to
the S-4, the section entitled “About this Offer Letter/Prospectus” already contains the following disclosure:
“We will amend the Offering
Materials, including this Offer Letter/Prospectus, to the extent required by applicable securities laws to disclose any material
changes to information previously published, sent or given to holders of the Original Warrants.”
7. Please provide an updated pro forma presentation. Refer to Item 1010(b) of Regulation M-A.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has provided an updated pro forma presentation in Annex
C of Amendment No. 1 to the S-4.
8. Please revise to include summary financial information, as described in Item 1010(c) of Regulation
M-A. Refer to Instruction 6 to Item 10 of Schedule TO and telephone interpretation I.H.7 in the July 2001 Supplement to the Manual
of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations that is available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov for additional
guidance.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the requested disclosure on page 12 of Amendment
No. 1 to the S-4.
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14A
General
9. Please revise to mark both the proxy statement and attached form of proxy as a “Preliminary
Copy” as required by Rule 14a-6(e)(1) of Regulation 14A.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the proxy statement and form of proxy in Amendment
No. 1 to the Preliminary Proxy Statement.
10. We note that in exchange for the Original Warrants, the Company shall issue (1) an equal
number of warrants to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $1.50 per share (the “New Warrants”),
conditioned upon the immediate exercise of such New Warrants, and (2) one warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise
price of $3.00 per share for every four New Warrants exercised (the “Supplemental Warrants”). Please revise to include
or incorporate by reference the financial information required by Item 13(a) of Schedule 14A. Please refer to Item 12(f) and Item
13(b)(2) of Schedule 14A. For guidance, please refer to the Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations for Proxy Rules
and Schedule 14A, Question 42, available on the Commission’s website at https://www.sec.gov/interps/telephone/cftelinterps_proxyrules-
sch14a.pdf.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has included or incorporated by reference the financial information
required by Item 13(a) of Schedule 14A in Annex A and Annex B to Amendment No. 1 to the Preliminary Proxy Statement.
Proposal No. 3, page 14
11. We note your reference in bold to the material terms of the exchange offer on page 15. Please
note that Item 12 of Schedule 14A does not permit incorporation by reference. Please refer to Note D to Schedule 14A. Accordingly,
please revise to provide the disclosure required by Item 12(b) or confirm that the proxy statement includes such information.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the disclosure on pages 14 and 15 of Amendment
No. 1 to the Preliminary Proxy Statement.
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12. Please revise to disclose that you are providing this vote as required by Section 14A of
the Exchange Act, the current frequency of shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation and when the next such vote will
occur. Refer to Item 24 of Schedule 14A.
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the disclosure on page 16 of Amendment No. 1 to
the Preliminary Proxy Statement.
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As requested, the Company acknowledges
that:
· the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings;
· Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do not foreclose the Commission
from taking any action with respect to the filings; and
· the Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission
or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
If you have any additional questions or
comments, please feel free to contact me directly at (760) 497-2206.
Sincerely,
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Robert Stefanovich, CFO
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August 26, 2016 Via E -mail Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer 17305 Daimler Street Irvine, CA 92614 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Schedule TO -I File No. 005 -85385 Registration Statement on Form S -4 File No. 333 -213091 Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A File No. 001 -34632 Filed August 11, 2016 Dear Mr. Stefanovich : We have limited our review of the above filing s to those issues we have addressed in our comments. In some of our comment s, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand the disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending the filings, by providing the requested information, or by advising us when you will provide the requested response. If you do not believe our comments apply 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 the filings and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. All defined te rms used in this letter have the same meaning as in the filings unless otherwise indicated. Schedule TO -I 1. Please confirm that the prospectus includes all disclosure currently found in the Schedule TO. As an example, refer to the disclosure contained in Items 2 through 5 and 11 of the Schedule TO. See Exchange Act Rule 13e-4(b) and (e)(2) . Mr. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. August 26, 2016 Page 2 Registration Sta tement on Form S -4 General 2. We note disclosure throughout the prospectus indicating that if the aggregate number of New Warrant Shares to be issued for all holders participating in the offer is greater than the Nasdaq Limit, then each of the participating holder’s number of Original Warrants tendered will be reduced on as close to a pro rata basis as is possible . Please advise us regarding the Company’s intent to comply with Exchange Act Rule 13e -4(e)(3) (ii), 13e -4(f)(1)(ii) and 14e -1(b) should stockholde r approval of the Offer not be obtained. Please also provide us an analysis as to how you will comply with Section 5 of the Securities Act with respect to the issuance of “new replacement warrants” to holders of Original Warrants. Please also advise why i t is necessary to replace such Original Warrants as opposed to returning such unaccepted Original Warrants to holders. 3. We note that the Original Warrants currently trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market. Please provide an analysis explaining the basis upon w hich you have concluded that the purchase of this series of securities is not subject to Exchange Act Rule 13e-3. Refer to Question 104.01 of the of the Division of Corporation Finance’s Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations for Going Private Transactions, Exchange Act Rule 13e -3 and Schedule 13E -3 dated January 26, 2009. The Exchange Offer Terms of the New Warrants, page 13 4. Please revise the statement that the summary of terms is not complete. While disclosure may include appropriate discl aimers concerning the nature of a summary generally, it must be complete in describing all material provisions. This comment also applies to the qualification with respect to the material terms of the Supplemental Warrants. Extension of the Offer and Exercise Period; Amendments; Termination, page 15 5. Please clarify that if a material change occurs in the information published, sent or given to security holders, the issuer will disseminate “promptly” disclosure of the change consistent with Rule 13e -4(d)(2) and 13e -4(e)(3). Mr. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. August 26, 2016 Page 3 Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference, page 28 6. We note the statement that you attempt to incorporate by reference into the Offer document all filings under Section 13, 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act filed while the Offer is pending and that the information filed with the Commission shall modify and supersede the Offer Letter/Prospectus. Please note that Schedule TO does not authorize incorporation by reference into your offering document of future filings made with th e Commission . Please refer to General Instruction F to Schedule TO. Please revise to indicate that you will amend you r offering materials to disclose material changes to the information published, sent or given to security holders, to the extent required . Accordingly, please amend to include your Form 10 -Q for the period ended June 30, 2015. Refer to Item 1010(a)(2) of Regulation M -A. In addition, to the extent that you refer to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in the documents you incorporate by reference or will incorporate by reference , such as your Form 10 -K for the year ended March 31, 2016, and your most recent Form 10 -Q, please revise to clarify that the PSLRA does not apply to statements in this tender offer. Refer to Exchan ge Act Section 21E(b)(2)(C). 7. Please provide an updated pro forma presentation. Refer to Item 1010(b) of Regulation M-A. 8. Please revise to include summary financial information, as described in Item 1010(c) of Regulation M -A. Refer to Instruction 6 to Item 10 of Schedule TO and telephone interpretation I.H.7 in the July 2001 Supplement to the Manual of Publicly Avai lable Telephone Interpretations that is available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov for additional guidance. Preliminary Pr oxy Statement on Schedule 14A General 9. Please revise to mark both the proxy statement and attached form of proxy as a “Preliminary Copy” as required by Rule 14a -6(e)(1) of Regulation 14A. 10. We note that in exchange for the Original Warrants, the Company sh all issue (1) an equal number of warrants to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $1.50 per share (the “New Warrants”), conditioned upon the immediat e exercise of such New Warrants, and (2) one warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $3.00 per share for every four New Warrants exercised (the “Supplemental Warrants”). Please revise to include or incorporate by reference the financial information required by Item 13(a) of Schedule 14A . Please refer to Item 12(f) and Item 13(b)(2) of Schedule 14A . For guidance, please refer to the Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations for Proxy Rules and Schedule 14A, Question 42, available on the Mr. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. August 26, 2016 Page 4 Commission’s website at https://www.sec.gov/interps/telephon e/cftelinterps_proxyrules - sch14a.pdf . Proposal No. 3, page 14 11. We note your reference in bold to the material terms of the exchange offer on page 15. Please note that Item 12 of Schedule 14A does not permit incorporation by reference. Please refer to Note D to Schedule 14A. Accordingly, please revise to provide the disclosure required by Item 12(b) or confirm that the proxy statement includes such information. Proposal No. 4, page 16 12. Please revise to disclose that you are providing this vote as requ ired by Section 14A of the Exchange Act, the current frequency of shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation and when the next such vote will occur. Refer to Item 24 of Schedule 14A. * * * We urge all persons who are responsible for t he accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filing s to be certain that the filings include the information the Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and all applicable Securities Act and Exchange Act rules require. Since the Company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to their disclosure, they are r esponsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. Notwithstanding our comments, in the event you request acceleration of the effecti ve date of the pending registration statement, please provide a written statement from the Company acknowledging that: should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Comm ission from taking any action with respect to the filing; the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and the Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. Mr. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. August 26, 2016 Page 5 Please contact Justin A. Kisner, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551 -3788, or me at (202) 551 - 3444 with any questions. Sincerely, /s/ Perry J. Hindin Perry J. Hindin Special Counsel Office of Mergers and Acquisitions cc: Via E -mail Anthony Ippolito, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
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17305 Daimler Street
Irvine, California 92614
(949) 470-2300
August 8, 2016
VIA EDGAR
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
File
No. 333-212364
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned Registrant hereby requests that the above-referenced
Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) at 4:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time, on Wednesday, August 10, 2016, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby
acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act and that the disclosure in the filing is the responsibility of the
Registrant. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that:
1. should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant
to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect
to the filing;
2. the action of the Commission or the staff, acting
pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective does not relieve the Registrant from its full responsibility
for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in the filing; and
3. the Registrant may not assert staff comments and
the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities
laws of the United States.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
Very truly yours,
CRYOPORT, INC.
By: /s/ Robert Stefanovich
Name: Robert Stefanovich
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO REQUEST FOR ACCELERATION]
2016-08-04 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. 600 Anton Boulevard Suite 1400 Costa Mesa, California 92626 August 4, 2016 Via EDGAR Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Attn.: Jay Ingram, Legal Branch Chief RE: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed June 30, 2016 File No. 333-212364 Dear Mr. Ingram: On behalf of our client, Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your letter dated July 18, 2016 to Jerrell W. Shelton, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, with respect to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as filed with the Commission on June 30, 2016. For your convenience, the Commission’s comments have been repeated herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments. General 1. We note that this registration statement serves as a post-effective amendment to your Form S-1 (File No. 333-180326), which was post-effectively amended on September 5, 2014 and declared effective on September 18, 2014. That filing contained audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014. Under Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act, “when a prospectus is used more than nine months after the effective date of the registration statement, the [audited financial] information contained therein shall be as of a date not more than sixteen months prior to such use.” Please tell us whether you have made any offers and/or sales of your common stock using the prospectus contained in the referenced filing from July 31, 2015 to June 30, 2016, during which time the audited financial statements in the prospectus were not current. If yes, please provide us with an analysis of your compliance with Section 5 of the Securities Act. August 4, 2016 Page 2 This firm has confirmed with the Company and the Company’s transfer agent that no shares of common stock of the Company were transferred pursuant to the prospectus made part of the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-180326) (the “Registration Statement”) during the periods in which the audited financial statements contained therein were not current under Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933. We believe all sales of the Company’s restricted securities during such period by selling stockholders identified in the Registration Statement were eligible for exemption under Section 4(1) of the Securities Act and the safe harbor provided by Rule 144. * * * As part of this response letter, the Company acknowledges that: · should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; · the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and · the company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at (714) 427-7409. Very truly yours, Snell & Wilmer /s/ Anthony J. Ippolito Anthony J. Ippolito cc: Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer
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Mail Stop 4631 July 18, 2016 Via E -Mail Jerrell W. Shelton Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Cryoport, Inc. 17305 Daimler Street Irvine, CA 92614 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed June 30, 2016 File No. 333-212364 Dear Mr. Shelton : We have limited our review of your registration statement to those issues we have addressed in our comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information . If you do not believe our com ments apply 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 these comments, w e may have additional comments. General 1. We note that this registration statement serves as a post -effective amendment to your Form S -1 (File No. 333 -180326), which was post-effectively amended on September 5, 2014 and declared effective on September 18 , 2014. That filing contained audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014. Under Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act, “when a prospectus is used more than nine months after the effective date of the registration statement, th e [audited financial] information contained therein shall be as of a date not more than sixteen months prior to such use.” Please tell us whether you have made any offers and/or sales of your common stock using the prospectus contained in the referenced f iling from July 31, 2015 to June 30, 2016, during which time the audited financial statements in the prospectus were not current. If yes, please provide us with an analysis of your compliance with Section 5 of the Securities Act. Jerrell W. Shelton Cryoport, Inc. July 18, 2016 Page 2 We urge all persons who a re responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the filing includes the information the Securities Act of 193 3 and all applicable Securities Act rules require. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. Notwithstanding our comments, in the event you request acceleration of the effective date of the pending regis tration statement , please provide a written statement from the company acknowledging that: should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any actio n with respect to the filing; the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and the company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding reques ts for acceleration . We will consider a written request for acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement as confirmation of the fact that those requesting acceleration are aware of their respective responsibilities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as they relate to the proposed public offering of the securities specified in the above registration statement. Please allow adequate time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration statement. Please contact Sherry Haywood, Staff Attorney at (202) 551 -3345 or, in her absence, me at (202) 551 -3397 with any questions. Sincerely, /s/ Jay Ingram Jay Ingram Legal Branch Chief Office of Manufacturing and Construction Cc: Via E -Mail Jerrell W. Shelton Cryoport, Inc. July 18, 2016 Page 3 Tony Ippolito, Esq.
2016-05-11 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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17305 Daimler Street
Irvine, California 92614
(949) 470-2300
May 11, 2016
VIA EDGAR
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
Re:
Cryoport, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
File No. 333-210985
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned Registrant hereby requests that the above-referenced
Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) at 10:00
a.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, May 12, 2016, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby
acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act and that the disclosure in the filing is the responsibility of the
Registrant. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that:
1. should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant
to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect
to the filing;
2. the action of the Commission or the staff, acting
pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective does not relieve the Registrant from its full responsibility
for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in the filing; and
3. the Registrant may not assert staff comments and
the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities
laws of the United States.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
Very truly yours,
CRYOPORT, INC.
By:
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Name: Robert Stefanovich
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO REQUEST FOR ACCELERATION]
2015-07-21 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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AEGIS CAPITAL CORP.
810 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York 10019
July 21, 2015
Via EDGAR
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
File No. 333- 203006
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules
and Regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
Act”), we, the representative of the several underwriters (the “Representative”), hereby join in the request
of the Company that the effective time of the above-referenced Registration Statement be accelerated so that it will be declared
effective at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 22, 2015, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
Pursuant to Rule 460 under the Securities
Act, please be advised that during the period from July 6, 2015 to the date of this letter, the preliminary prospectus, dated June
22, 2015, in connection with the Registration Statement was distributed approximately as follows:
Sent to Underwriters: 325 + E-red
Sent to Dealers: 450 + E-red
Sent to Institutional Investors: 300 + E-red
Sent to Others: 25
Total: 1,365 + E-red
The Representative confirms on behalf of
itself and the several underwriters that they have complied and will continue to comply with the requirements of Rule 15c2-8 promulgated
under of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in connection with the above-referenced issue.
Very truly yours,
AEGIS CAPITAL CORP.
By: /s/ Eugene Terracciano
Name: Eugene Terracciano
Title: Chief Compliance Officer
2015-07-20 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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20382 Barents Sea Circle
Lake Forest, CA 92630
(949) 470-2300
July 20, 2015
VIA EDGAR
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
Re:
Cryoport, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
File No. 333- 203006
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General
Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned Registrant hereby
requests that the above-referenced Registration Statement be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
By making this request for acceleration,
the undersigned hereby acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act and that the disclosure in the filing is the
responsibility of the Registrant. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that:
1. should the Commission or the
staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any
action with respect to the filing;
2. the action of the Commission
or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective does not relieve the Registrant from its
full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in the filing; and
3. the Registrant may not assert
staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under
the federal securities laws of the United States.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
Very truly yours,
CRYOPORT, INC.
By:
/s/ Robert Stefanovich
Name:
Robert Stefanovich
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO REQUEST FOR ACCELERATION]
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June 10, 2015
Via E -mail
Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
Cryoport , Inc.
20382 Barents Sea Circle
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Re: Cryoport , Inc.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S -1
May 26 , 2015
File No. 333 -203006
Dear Mr. Stefanovich :
We have reviewed your supplemental response letter and the above -referenced filing, and
have the following comments.
General
1. We have considered your supplemental response to comment one in our letter dated May
28, 2015. Units must be registered in this registration statement because if common stock
and warrants are only being sold in proportional amounts, then the offering is for units
that cons ist of common stock and warrants, notwithstanding that the two underlying
securities are issued separately or may trade separately immediately upon issuance . This
comment also applies to your overallotment option. Please revise to reinclude all your
disclosure about your units from your previous amendment filed April 17, 2015.
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2. We note your proposed revision in response to comment two in our letter dated May 28,
2015. In your next amendment, please revise to make it clear, if true, that each warrant
will be to purchase one share of common stock, rather than to purchase one share of
common stock and an additional warrant.
Please contact David Korvin, Staff Attorney at 202 -551-3236 or me at 202 -551-3765
with any questions.
Robert Stefanovich
Cryoport, Inc.
June 10, 2015
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Sincerely,
/s/ Pamela Long
Pamela Long
Assistant Director
cc: Via E -mail
Tony Ippolito , Esq.
Snell & Wilmer LLP
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June 3, 2015
VIA EDGAR
Ms. Pamela Long
Assistant Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form
S-1
Filed May 26, 2015
File No. 333-203006
Dear Ms. Long:
On behalf of Cryoport,
Inc. (the “Company”), we are submitting this letter in response to the comments received from the staff of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission” and the “Staff”) in a letter dated May
28, 2015 (the “Comment Letter”) with respect to the filing referenced above (the “Form S-1”).
The Company has reviewed the Comment Letter and its responses are set forth below. For your convenience, the headings and paragraph
numbers in this letter correspond to the headings and paragraph numbers in the Comment Letter and the Commission’s comments
have been repeated herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments.
General
1. We note that although you have removed the registration
of your units, and related disclosure, in this amendment, your prospectus cover page states that you will be offering common stock
“together with” warrants to purchase common stock. If the common stock and warrants will only be offered together,
then you must register units in your offering, even if the common stock and warrants are immediately separable following this
offering. Please revise to reinclude all your disclosure about your units from your previous amendment filed April 17, 2015 or
supplementally explain why units do not need to be registered in this offering.
The Company did not
intend “together with” to mean that the common stock and warrants would be offered together as a single security. Instead,
Company intends to offer the common stock and warrants separately in the offering. For the avoidance of doubt, the common stock
and warrants will be separately issued, but the common stock and warrants will be issued and sold to purchasers in equal proportion.
As such, the Company no longer intends to issue units, which would have been a separate security comprised of one common stock
and one warrant to purchase common stock. Accordingly, units do not need to be registered because the Company will not be issuing
units in this offering.
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2. Please revise the first sentence on your cover page
to clearly identify and describe the securities being offered in this registration statement.
In response to the
Staff’s comment, the Company hereby undertakes to, on the cover page, replace the sentence:
“This is a firm commitment public
offering of 1,953,125 shares of our common stock, $0.001 par value, together with warrants to purchase 1,953,125 shares of our
common stock at an exercise price of 110% of the public offering price of a share of common stock and a warrant to purchase common
stock in this offering.”
with:
“This is a firm commitment public
offering of 1,953,125 shares of our common stock, $0.001 par value, and warrants to purchase 1,953,125 shares of our common stock
at an exercise price of 110% of the combined public offering price of one share of common stock and one warrant to purchase one
share of common stock in this offering. The shares and warrants will be separately issued, but the shares and warrants will be
issued and sold to purchasers in equal proportion.”
If the foregoing changes
are acceptable, the Company will file via EDGAR a pre-effective Amendment No. 3 to the Form S-1 setting forth these changes, or
will include the changes in the final prospectus to be filed under Rule 424, if appropriate.
If you have any questions regarding the
Company’s responses set forth above, please contact me at (714) 427-7409.
Sincerely,
Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
/s/ Anthony Ippolito
cc: Robert Stefanovich, Chief Financial Officer, Cryoport,
Inc.
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May 28 , 2015
Via E -mail
Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
Cryoport , Inc.
20382 Barents Sea Circle
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Re: Cryoport , Inc.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S -1
May 26 , 2015
File No. 333 -203006
Dear Mr. Stefanovich :
We have reviewed your registration statement and have the following comments.
General
1. We note that although you have removed the registration of your units, and related
disclosure, in this amendment, your prospectus cover page states that you will be offering
common stock “together with” warrants to purchase common stock. If the common sto ck
and warrants will only be offered together, then you must register units in your offering,
even if the common stock and warrants are immediately separable following this
offering. Please revise to reinclude all your disclosure about your units from you r
previous amendment filed April 17, 2015 or supplementally explain why units do not
need to be registered in this offering.
Prospectus Cover Page
2. Please revise the first sentence on your cover page to clearly identify and describe the
securities being offered in this registration statement.
Please contact David Korvin, Staff Attorney at 202 -551-3236 or me at 202 -551-3765
with any questions.
Sincerely,
/s/ Pamela Long
Pamela Long
Assistant Director
Robert Stefanovich
Cryoport, Inc.
May 28 , 2015
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cc: Via E -mail
Tony Ippolito , Esq.
Snell & Wilmer LLP
2015-04-17 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm April 17, 2015 VIA EDGAR Ms. Pamela Long Assistant Director United States Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed March 25, 2015 File No. 333-203006 Dear Ms. Long: On behalf of Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”), we are submitting this letter in response to the comments received from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission” and the “Staff”) in a letter dated April 8, 2015 (the “Comment Letter”) with respect to the filing referenced above (the “Form S-1”). The Company has reviewed the Comment Letter and its responses are set forth below. The Company also filed today Amendment No. 1 to the Form S-1, reflecting the changes discussed herein and update for certain recent sales of unregulated securities. For your convenience, the headings and paragraph numbers in this letter correspond to the headings and paragraph numbers in the Comment Letter and the Commission’s comments have been repeated herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments. Calculation of Registration Fee, page ii General 1. We note from the disclosure in your legal opinion that you are registering the following securities: · Units (consisting of one share of common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of common stock); · Common stock included in the units; · Warrants included in the units; and · Common stock underlying the warrants included in the units. Please revise your registration fee table to separately list each of the securities being registered. The Company has revised the Calculation of Registration Fee Table to separately list of the securities being registered, as noted in your comment above. 2. Please register all of the common stock underlying the warrants included in your underwriter’s overallotment. The current amount registered with respect to this common stock only corresponds to 5%, rather than 15%, of the offering of the $16,500,000 of shares underlying the warrants. The Company has revised the Calculation of Registration Fee Table to register all of the common stock underlying the warrants included in the underwriters’ overallotment which now corresponds to 15% of the offering of the $16,500,000 of shares underlying the warrants. Preliminary Prospectus, page iii 3. Please revise this page and your prospectus cover page to reflect that you are also registering the units since the units constitute a separate security. See Item 501(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Company has revised page iii of the Preliminary Prospectus and the prospectus cover page to reflect that the Company is also registering the units. Executive Compensation, page 61 4. Please update your executive compensation disclosure to provide the information called for by Item 402 of Regulation S-K for your fiscal year ended March 31, 2015. For guidance, please refer to Question 117.05 of our Regulation S-K Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. The Company has revised the Executive Compensation section on page 61 of the Preliminary Prospectus to provide the information called for by Item 402 of Regulation S-K for the Company’s fiscal year ended March 31, 2015. Description of Securities, page 71 5. Please provide a description of the units in accordance with Item 202(d) of Regulation S-K. The Company has revised its Description of Securities on page 71 of the Preliminary Prospectus to provide a description of the units in accordance with Item 202(d) of Regulation S-K. Legal Matters, page 80 6. Please revise your disclosure to state that Snell & Wilmer LLP has passed on the validity of each of the separate securities covered by your registration statement. The Company has revised the Legal Matters section on page 80 of the Preliminary Prospectus to state that Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. has passed on the validity of each of the separate securities covered by the Company’s registration statement. Part II, Information Not Required in the Prospectus Item 17, Undertakings 7. Please include the undertakings in Item 512(a)(6) of Regulation S-K. The Company has revised Item 17 of Part II of the Preliminary Prospectus to include the undertakings in Item 512(a)(6) of Regulation S-K. Exhibit 5.1 – Legal Opinion 8. Please arrange for Snell & Wilmer LLP to opine on the legality of your units. The Company filed an updated Exhibit 5.1 from Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. that includes an opinion on the legality of the Company’s units. If you have any questions regarding the Company’s responses set forth above, please contact me at (714) 427-7409. Sincerely, Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. /s/ Anthony Ippolito cc: Robert Stefanovich, Chief Financial Officer, Cryoport, Inc.
2015-04-08 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
April 8, 2015
Via E -mail
Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
Cryoport , Inc.
20382 Barents Sea Circle
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Re: Cryoport , Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed March 25, 2015
File No. 333 -203006
Dear Mr. Stefanovich :
We have limited our review of your registration statement to those issues we have
addressed in our comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information. Where you do not believe our comments apply 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 these comments, we may have additional comments.
Calculation of Registration Fee, page ii
1. We note from the disclosure in your legal opinion that you are registering the following
securities:
Units (consisting of one s hare of common stock and one warrant to purchase one
share of common stock);
Common stock included in the units;
Warran ts included in t he unit s; and
Common stock underlying the war rants included in the units.
Please revise your registration fee table to separately list each of the securities being
registered.
Robert Stefanovich
Cryoport, Inc.
April 8, 2015
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2. Please register all of the common stock underlying the warrant s included in your
underwriter’s overallotment. The current amount registered with respect to this common
stock only corresponds to 5%, rather than 15%, of the offering of the $16,500,000 of
shares underlying the warrants.
Preliminary Prospectus, page iii
3. Please revise this page and your prospectus cover page to reflect that you are also
registering the units since the units constitute a separate security. See Item 501(b)(2) of
Regulation S -K.
Executive Compensation, page 61
4. Please update your execu tive compensation disclosure to provide the information called
for by Item 402 of Regulation S -K for your fiscal year ended March 31, 2015. For
guidance, please refer to Question 117.05 of our Regulation S -K Compliance and
Disclosure Interpretations.
Description of Securities, page 71
5. Please provide a description of the units in accordance with Item 202(d) of Regulation S -
K.
Legal Matters, page 80
6. Please revise your disclosure to state that Snell & Wilmer LLP has passed on the validity
of each of the s eparate securities covered by your registration statement.
Part II, Information Not Required in the Prospectus
Item 17. Undertakings
7. Please include the undertakings in Item 512(a)(6) of Regulation S -K.
Exhibit 5.1 – Legal Opinion
8. Please arrange for Snell & Wilmer LLP to opine on the legality of your units.
Closing
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure
in the filing to be certain that the filing includes the information the Securities Act of 1933 and
all applicable Securities Act rules require. Since the company and its management are in
possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.
Robert Stefanovich
Cryoport, Inc.
April 8, 2015
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Notwithstanding o ur comments, in the event you request acceleration of the effective date
of the pending registration statement please provide a written statement from the company
acknowledging that:
should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authori ty, declare the
filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect
to the filing;
the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in
declaring the filing effective, does not relie ve the company from its full responsibility for
the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
the company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a
defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or an y person under the federal
securities laws of the United States.
Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. We will consider a
written request for acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement as confirmatio n
of the fact that those requesting acceleration are aware of their respective responsibilities under
the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as they relate to the proposed
public offering of the securities specified in the above registration statement. Please allow
adequate time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the
registration statement.
Please contact David Korvin, Staff Attorney at 202 -551-3236 or me at 202 -551-3765
with any questi ons.
Sincerely,
/s/ Pamela Long
Pamela Long
Assistant Director
cc: Via E -mail
Tony Ippolito , Esq.
Snell & Wilmer LLP
2014-09-15 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
600 Anton Boulevard, Suite 1400
Costa Mesa, California 92626-7689
TELEPHONE: (714) 427-7000
FACSIMILE: (714) 427-7799
Anthony J. Ippolito
(714) 427-7409
tippolito@swlaw.com
September 15, 2014
Via EDGAR
Division of Corporation
Finance
Securities and Exchange
Commission
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
Attn.: Mr. Jay Ingram, Legal Branch Chief
RE: Cryoport, Inc.
Post-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed August 18, 2014
File No. 333-180326
Dear Mr. Ingram:
On behalf of our client,
Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your letter dated August 29, 2014 to Robert Stefanovich, Chief
Financial Officer of the Company, with respect to the Company’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement
on Form S-1, as filed with the Commission on August 18, 2014. The Company also filed today Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form
S-1, which has been revised to reflect the changes to the Company’s Board of Directors and committees as a result of the
Company’s recent annual meeting of the stockholders. For your convenience, the Commission’s comments have been repeated
herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments.
September 15, 2014
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General
1.
We note that your registration statement File No. 333-180326 was declared effective on June 21, 2012 and served as a post-effective
amendment to File No. 333-170027 and File No. 333-173263. That registration statement included your audited financial statements
for the year ended March 31, 2012 and should have been updated pursuant to Section 10(a)(3) on or before July 31, 2013. Please
tell us whether you made offers and sales during the period in which your audited financial statements were not current. If yes,
please provide us with a legal analysis of your compliance with Section 5 of the Securities Act.
The Company’s
Registration Statements on Form S-1 (File Nos. 333-173263, 333-170027, and 333-173263) relate solely to the resale of (i) outstanding
shares of common stock held by stockholders of the Company (“Outstanding Common Shares”) and (ii) the resale
of shares of common stock underlying warrants held by stockholders of the Company (“Warrant Shares”). According
to the Company’s records, approximately 1,351,789 Outstanding Common Shares were offered and sold following July 31, 2013,
the date after which the financial statements included in the Registration Statement’s prospectus ceased being current. The
Company believes that these sales were proper, as such Outstanding Common Shares were eligible for unlimited public resale under
Rule 144(b)(1)(i) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), at the time they were resold
by the selling stockholders, as such shares had been held for more than six months, none of the selling stockholders were, or within
the three months prior to such sale were, affiliates of the Company and the current public information requirements of Rule 144(c)
of the Securities Act had been satisfied. The Company has confirmed that no Warrant Shares were offered or sold following July
31, 2013.
If you have any questions
regarding the above, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (714) 427-7409.
Very truly yours,
Snell & Wilmer
/s/ Anthony J. Ippolito
Anthony J. Ippolito
cc: Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
2014-08-29 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
August 29, 2014
Via E -mail
Robert Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer
Cryoport, Inc.
20382 Barents Sea Circle
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Post-effective amendment to Form S-1
Filed August 18, 2014
File No. 333-180326
Dear Mr. Stefanovich :
We have reviewed your registration statement and have the following comments. In
some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better
understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information . Where you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, ple ase tell us why in your
response.
After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
General
1. We note that your registration statement File No. 333-180326 was declared effective on June
21, 2012 and served as a post -effective amendment to File No. 333 -170027 and File No. 333 -
173263. That registration statement included your audited financial statements fo r the year
ended March 31, 2012 a nd should have been updated pursuant to Section 10(a)(3) on or
before July 31, 2013. Please tell us whether you made offers and sales during the period in
which your audited financial statements were not current. If yes, please provide us with a
legal analysis of your compliance with Section 5 of the Securities Act.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure
in the filing to be certain that the filing includes the information the Securities Act of 193 3 and
all applicable Securities Act rules require. Since the company and its management are in
possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.
Robert Stefanovich
Cryoport, Inc.
August 29, 2014
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Notwithstandin g our comments, before we can declare the amended registration
statement effective, the company should provide us with a letter, acknowledging that:
should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the
filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect
to the filing;
the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in
declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for
the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
the company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a
defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal
securities laws of the United States.
Please contact Asia Timmons -Pierce, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551 -3754 or me at (202)
551-3397 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
/s/ Jay Ingram
Jay Ingram
Legal Branch Chief
cc: Tony Ippolito ( via e -mail)
Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
2012-06-21 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm SEC Letter CRYOPORT, INC. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, California 92630 June 20, 2012 Via Edgar and Facsimile to (703) 813-6968 Division of Corporate Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, N.E. Washington D.C. 20549-7010 Mail Stop 4631 Attn: Ms. Pamela A. Long, Assistant Director RE: CryoPort, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 File No. 333-180326 Dear Ms. Long: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned hereby requests that the effective date of the above referenced Registration Statement be accelerated so that the Registration Statement may become effective at 04:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, June 21, 2012, or as soon thereafter as reasonably practicable. By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that: 1. Should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; 2. The action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and 3. The Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. Very truly yours, CRYOPORT, INC. /S/ ROBERT STEFANOVICH Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer and Principal Executive Officer
2012-06-20 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm SEC Acceleration Request CRYOPORT, INC. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, California 92630 June 20, 2012 Via Edgar and Facsimile to (703) 813-6968 Division of Corporate Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, N.E. Washington D.C. 20549-7010 Mail Stop 4631 Attn: Ms. Pamela A. Long, Assistant Director RE: CryoPort, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 File No. 333-180326 Dear Ms. Long: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned hereby requests that the effective date of the above referenced Registration Statement be accelerated so that the Registration Statement may become effective at 04:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, June 21, 2012, or as soon thereafter as reasonably practicable. By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that: 1. Should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; 2. The action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and 3. The Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. Very truly yours, CRYOPORT, INC. /S/ ROBERT STEFANOVICH Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer and Principal Executive Officer
2012-06-15 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Correspondence Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. 600 Anton Boulevard Suite 1400 Costa Mesa, California 92626-7689 TELEPHONE: (714) 427-7000 FACSIMILE: (714) 427-7799 Mark R. Ziebell 714.427.7402 mziebell@swlaw.com June 15, 2012 Via Federal Express and EDGAR Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Attn.: Ms. Pam Long, Associate Director RE: CryoPort, Inc. Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed May 18, 2012 File No. 333-180326 Dear Ms. Long: On behalf of our client, CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your letter dated June 6, 2012 to Robert Stefanovich, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with respect to the Company’s Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, as filed with the Commission on May 18, 2012. We have enclosed for your reference Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Form S-1/A which has been revised to reflect the Commission’s comment (the “Amended Form S-1”) and has been filed with the Commission on the date hereof. Set for the below is the Commission’s comment with the Company’s response immediately following. General 1. We note that the latest balance sheet included in the registration statement is now older than 134 days. Given that you reported a loss from continuing operations for the year ended March 31, 2011, it does not appear that you may be able to rely on Rule 8-08(b) of Regulation S-X. Please advice, or otherwise, in accordance with Rule 8-02 of Regulation S-X please provide audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012 and update your prospectus by filing a pre-effective amendment to reflect the most recent financial statements accordingly. June 15, 2012 Page 2 of 2 The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises the Commission that it has filed the Amended Form S-1 and has updated the prospectus to include audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, and other updates where appropriate to include information for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012. If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (714) 427-7402. Very truly yours, /s/ Mark R. Ziebell Mark R. Ziebell cc: Robert S. Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer
2012-06-06 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
June 6 , 2012 Via E -mail Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer Cryoport, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, C A 92630 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed May 18 , 2012 Response dated June 5, 2012 File No. 333-180326 Dear Mr. St efanovich : We have reviewed your amended registration statement together with your response letter dated June 5, 2012 and have the following comments . General 1. We note that the latest balance sheet included in the registration statement is now older than 134 days. Given that you reported a loss from continuing operations for the year ended March 31, 2011 , it does not appear that you may be able to rely on Rule 8 -08(b) o f Regulation S -X. Please advice, or otherwise, in accordance with Rule 8 -02 of Regulation S-X please provide audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012 and update your prospectus by filing a pre -effective amendment to reflect th e most recent financial statements accordingly. Please contact Sherry Haywood, Staff Attorney at (202) 551 -3345 or, in her absence, Era Anagnosti, Staff Attorney , at (202) 551 -3369 with any questions. Sincerely, /s/ Era Anagnosti, for Pamela Long Assistant Directo r cc: Via E -mail Mark Ziebell, Esq.
2012-06-05 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm RESPONSE LETTER Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. 600 Anton Boulevard Suite 1400 Costa Mesa, California 92626-7689 TELEPHONE: (714) 427-7000 FACSIMILE: (714) 427-7799 Mark R. Ziebell 714.427.7402 mziebell@swlaw.com June 5, 2012 Via Federal Express and EDGAR Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Attn.: Ms. Pam Long, Associate Director RE: CryoPort, Inc. Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed May 18, 2012 File No. 333-180326 Dear Ms. Long: On behalf of our client, CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”), we are responding to an oral comment of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) communicated telephonically to the undersigned on May 31, 2012. The Staff’s oral comment concerned the Company’s response to comment number 1 contained in the Commission’s letter dated April 12, 2012, as further supplemented by the Company’s response to the Commission’s follow-up comment number 1 contained in the Staff’s letter dated May 7, 2012. In response to the Commission’s oral comment, the Company hereby advises the Commission that the 118,685 restricted shares of common stock that were sold by non-affiliate stockholders following January 28, 2012, were acquired by such stockholders in connection with the Company’s February 2011 private placement or in connection with the Company’s private placement in August to October 2010. Because these 118,685 restricted shares of common stock were sold by such non-affiliate stockholders in March and April 2012, such shares had been acquired in excess of one year prior to the date of sale and, therefore, could be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without regard to the requirements of Rule 144(c)(1), as provided in Rule 144(b)(1)(i). June 5, 2012 Page 2 of 2 If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (714) 427-7402. Very truly yours, /s/ Mark R. Ziebell Mark R. Ziebell cc: Robert S. Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer
2012-05-18 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Comment and Response Letter Mark R. Ziebell 714.427.7402 mziebell@swlaw.com May 18, 2012 Via Federal Express and EDGAR Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Attn.: Ms. Pam Long, Associate Director RE: CryoPort, Inc. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed April 27, 2012 File No. 333-180326 Dear Ms. Long: On behalf of our client, CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your letter dated May 7, 2012 to Robert Stefanovich, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with respect to the Company’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, as filed with the Commission on April 27, 2012. We have enclosed for your reference Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-1/A which has been revised to reflect the Commission’s comments (the “Amended Form S-1”) and has been filed with the Commission on the date hereof. For your convenience, the Commission’s comments have been repeated herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments. General 1. We note your response to comment one in our letter dated April 12, 2012, where you state among other things that “the current public information requirements of Rule 144(c) of the Securities Act had been satisfied” with respect to the shares of outstanding common stock eligible for resale under Rule 144(b)(1). Please tell us how you have satisfied the requirements of Rule 144(c)(1)(ii) under the Securities Act. Please note that we were unable to locate on your website any information required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T. May 18, 2012 Page 2 of 3 The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises the Commission as follows. Upon becoming required, pursuant to Rule 144(c)(1)(ii) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), to submit electronically and post on its corporate Web site every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T, the Company engaged a third party service provider to provide a feed of the required data to its corporate Web site. In reliance on the third party service provider providing such feed, the Company believed that it was in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1)(ii) and consequently checked the appropriate box on the cover page of its Form 10-Qs for the quarters ended June 30, 2011, September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2011. In this regard, with respect to the stockholders who sold shares of the Company’s common stock following January 28, 2012 (the date after which the financial statements included in the prior registration statement’s prospectus), pursuant to the Note to Paragraph (c) of Rule 144, such stockholders would be able rely on the checked box (indicating that the Company had submitted and posted on its Web site the Interactive Data File) in connection with sales pursuant to Rule 144. The fact that the Company had not actually posted such Interactive Data Files to its Web site, which the Company did not realize until receipt of the Commission’s comment letter (which oversight the Company has since remedied), would not have precluded such reliance on Rule 144 unless such stockholders knew or had reason to know (which we are not aware is the case) that the Company had not complied with the requirement under Rule 144 (c)(1)(ii). Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 60 2. We note your revised disclosure in response to comment two in our letter dated April 12, 2012. Please revise your tabular disclosure to identify the Deerfield Funds, and not James E. Flynn, as beneficial owners. The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised its tabular disclosure to identify the Deerfield Funds, and not James E. Flynn, as the beneficial owners. Signatures 3. Please have the registration statement signed by the parties identified in Instruction 1 to Signatures in the Form S-1. Refer to Rule 471 under the Securities Act and Section 6(a) of the Securities Act. The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises the Commission that its Amended Form S-1 has been executed by the parties identified in Instruction 1 to the Signatures in the Form S-1. If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (714) 427-7402. May 18, 2012 Page 3 of 3 Very truly yours, /s/ Mark R. Ziebell Mark R. Ziebell cc: Robert S. Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer
2012-05-09 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
May 7 , 2012 Via E -mail Robert Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer Cryoport, Inc. 225 Broadway, Suite 430 San Diego, CA 92101 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed April 27 , 2012 File No. 333-180326 Dear Mr. St efanovich : We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following comments. General 1. We note your response to comment one in our letter dated April 12, 2012, where you state among other things that “the current public information requirements of Rule 144(c) of the Securities Act had been satisfied” with respect to the shares of outstanding common stock eligible for resale under Rule 144(b)(1). Please tell us how you have satisfied the requirements of Rule 144(c)(1)(ii) under the Securities Act. Please note that we were unable to locate on your website any information required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 4 05 of Regulation S -T. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 60 2. We note your revised disclosure in response to comment two in our letter dated April 12, 2012. Please revise your tabular disclosure to identify the Deerfield Funds, and not James E. Flynn, as beneficial owners. Signatures 3. Please have the registration statement signed by the parties identified in Instruction 1 to Signatures in the Form S -1. Refer to Rule 471 under the Securities Act and Section 6(a) of the Se curities Act. Robert Stefanovich Cryoport, Inc. May 7 , 2012 Page 2 Please contact Sherry Haywood, Staff Attorney at (202) 551 -3345 or, in her absence, Era Anagnosti, Senior Staff Attorney , at (202) 551 -3369 with any questions. Sincerely, /s/ Era Anagnosti, for Pamela Long Assistant Director cc: Via E -mail Mark Ziebell, Esq.
2012-04-27 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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Correspondence
April 27, 2012
Via Federal Express and EDGAR
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F.
Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
Attn.: Ms. Pam Long, Associate Director
RE:
CryoPort, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed March 23, 2012
File No. 333-180326
Dear Ms. Long:
On behalf of our client, CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your letter dated April 12, 2012 to Larry G. Stambaugh, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, with respect to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as filed
with the Commission on March 23, 2012. We have enclosed for your reference Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1/A which has been revised to reflect the Commission’s comments (the “Amended Form S-1”) and has been filed
with the Commission on the date hereof. For your convenience, the Commission’s comments have been repeated herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments.
General
1.
Regarding the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-173263) which became effective on April 28, 2011 and served as a post–effective
amendment to two registration statements on Form S-1 through application of Securities Act Rule 429 (File No. 333-162350 and File No. 333-170027), we note that your prospectus appears to have been in use for more than nine months after the
April 28, 2011 effective date. We further note that the audited financial statements contained therein, which are as of and for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010, are older than 16 months and that you do not appear to have subsequently
updated the audited financial statements in the prospectus pursuant to Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, by filing a post-effective amendment to the registration statement until now. Please tell us whether any offers
or sales were made pursuant to the prospectus during the period in which your financial statements were not current. For additional guidance, please refer to Question 139.28 of the Securities Act Sections Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations
found at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/sasinterp.htm.
April 27, 2012
Page 2 of 3
The Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-173263) relates solely to the resale of (i) outstanding shares of common stock held by stockholders of the Company
(“Outstanding Common Shares”), (ii) the resale of shares of common stock underlying warrants held by stockholders of the Company (“Warrant Shares”), and (iii) the resale of certain warrants issued in connection with a
prior public offering, and the resale of the shares of common stock underlying such warrants (“Tradable Warrants and Underlying Common Shares”). According to the Company’s transfer agent, approximately 118,685 Outstanding Common
Shares were offered and sold following January 28, 2012, the date after which the financial statements included in the Registration Statement’s prospectus ceased being current. The Company believes that these sales were proper, as such
Outstanding Common Shares were eligible for unlimited public resales under Rule 144(b)(1)(i) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), at the time they were resold by the selling stockholders, as such shares had
been held for more than six months, none of the selling stockholders were, or within the three months prior to such sale were, affiliates of the Company and the current public information requirements of Rule 144(c) of the Securities Act had been
satisfied. The Company has confirmed that no Warrant Shares nor Tradable Warrants and Underlying Common Shares were offered or sold following January 28, 2012.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 60
2.
Based on your Selling Security Holder Table disclosure on page 64, it appears that BridgePointe Masters Fund Ltd and Deerfield Special Situations Fund International
Limited each hold more than 5% of the company’s outstanding stock. Please tell us why they are not listed in the beneficial ownership table, or otherwise revise your disclosure accordingly.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised the beneficial ownership table to add Deerfield Special Situations Fund
International Limited and Deerfield Special Situations Fund L.P. With respect to BridgePointe Master Fund Ltd., the Company advises the Commission that BridgePointe’s beneficial ownership as of March 15, 2012 was actually 4.96%. The
Company has revised the Selling Security Holder Table to correct BridgePointe’s beneficial ownership percentage.
Selling Security
Holder Table, page 64
3.
Please revise your disclosure to identify the person or persons who have voting and/or investment control over the shares owned by Brio Capital LP, Broms Financial,
LLC, and Celtic Enterprises LTD. Please refer to Question 140.02 of Regulation S-K Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations found at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/regs-kinterp.htm.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised the Selling Security Holder Table to footnote the person or persons who
have voting and/or investment control over the shares owned by Brio Capital LP, Broms Financial, LLC and Celtic Enterprises LTD.
April 27, 2012
Page 3 of 3
If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (714) 427-7402.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Mark R. Ziebell
Mark R. Ziebell
cc:
Robert S. Stefanovich
Chief
Financial Officer
2012-04-12 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
April 12, 2012 Via E -mail Larry G. Stambaugh Chief Executive Officer Cryoport, Inc. 225 Broadway, Suite 430 San Diego, CA 92101 Re: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed March 23, 2012 File No. 333-180326 Dear Mr. Stambaugh : We have limited our review of your registration statement to those issues we have addressed in our comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information . Where you do not believe our comments apply 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 these comments, we may have additional comments. General 1. Regarding the Registration Statement on Form S -1 (File No. 333 -173263) which became effective on April 28, 2011 and served as a post –effecti ve amendment to two registration statements on Form S -1 through application of Securities Act Rule 429 (File No. 333 - 162350 and File No. 333 -170027), we note that your prospectus appears to have been in use for more than nine months after the April 28, 201 1 effective date. We further note that the audited financial statements contained therein, which are as of and for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010, are older than 16 months and that you do not appear to have subsequently updated the audited financial statements in the prospectus pursuant to Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, by filing a post -effective amendment to the registration statement until now. Please tell us whether any offers or sales were made pursuant to the prospe ctus during the period in which your financial statements were not current. For additional guidance, please refer to Question 139.28 of Larry G. Stambaugh Cryoport, Inc. April 12, 2012 Page 2 the Securities Act Sections Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations found at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/sasinterp.htm . Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 60 2. Based on your Selling Security Holder Table disclosure on page 64, it appears that BridgePointe Masters Fund Ltd and Deerfield Special Situations Fund International Limited each hold more than 5% of the company’s outstanding stock. Please tell us why they are not listed in the beneficial ownership table, or otherwise revise your disclosure accordingly. Selling Security Holder Table, page 64 3. Please revise your disclosure to identify the person or persons who have voting and/or investment control over the shares owned by Brio Capital LP, Broms Financial, LLC, and Celtic Enterprises LTD. Please refer to Question 140.02 of Regulation S -K Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations found at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/regs -kinterp.htm . We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the filing includes the information the Securities Act of 193 3 and all applicable Securities Act rules require. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. Notwithstandi ng our comments, in the event you request acceleration of the effective date of the pending registration statement please provide a written statement from the company acknowledging that: should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant t o delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and the company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effect iveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration . We will consider a written request for acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement as confirmation of the fact that those requesting acceleration are aware of their respective responsibilities under Larry G. Stambaugh Cryoport, Inc. April 12, 2012 Page 3 the Securities Act of 1933 and th e Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as they relate to the proposed public offering of the securities specified in the above registration statement. Please allow adequate time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the regist ration statement. Please contact Sherry Haywood, Staff Attorney at (202) 551 -3345 or, in her absence, Era Anagnosti, Senior Staff Attorney , at (202) 551 -3369 with any other questions. Sincerely, /s/ Era Anagnosti for Pamela Long Assistant Director cc: Via E -mail Mark Ziebell, Esq.
2012-02-14 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
February 13, 2012
Via Facsimile
Mr. Robert S. Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer CryoPort, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, California 92630
RE: CryoPort, Inc.
Form 10-K for the Year Ended March 31, 2011 Filed June 27, 2011 File No. 1-34632
Dear Mr. Stefanovich:
We have completed our review of your f iling. We remind you that our comments or
changes to disclosure in res ponse to our comments do not for eclose the Commission from taking
any action with respect to the company or th e filing and the company may not assert staff
comments as a defense in any proceeding ini tiated by the Commission or any person under the
federal securities laws of the United States. We urge all pers ons who are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the fi ling to be certain that the filing includes the
information the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and all applicable rules require.
Sincerely,
/s/ Rufus Decker
R u f u s D e c k e r
A c c o u n t i n g B r a n c h C h i e f
2012-02-09 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Correspondence February 9, 2012 Via Federal Express and EDGAR Division of Corporation Finance U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Attn.: Rufus Decker, Accounting Branch Chief RE: CryoPort, Inc. Form 10-K for the Year Ended March 31, 2011 Filed June 27, 2011 Form 10-Q for the Period Ended September 30, 2011 Filed November 14, 2011 File No. 1-34632 Dear Mr. Decker: On behalf of CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”), I am responding to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your letter dated January 31, 2012 addressed to the undersigned, with respect to the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2011 and Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2011, as filed with the Commission on June 27, 2011 and November 14, 2011, respectively. For your convenience, the Commission’s comments have been repeated herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments. Form 10-Q for the Period Ended September 30, 2011 Controls and Procedures, page 26 1. You disclose that your disclosure controls and procedures were effective subject to the various limitation on effectiveness set forth under the heading “Limitations on the Effectiveness of Internal Controls.” Please revise your conclusion to state, without using qualifying language such as “subject to the various limitations,” whether your disclosure controls and procedures were effective or not as of September 30, 2011. See Item 307 of Regulation S-K. The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises the Commission that, in future filings, the Company will revise its conclusion to state, without qualification, whether its disclosure controls and procedures were effective or not as of the required date. For your reference, the following is the Company’s proposed disclosure for its Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011 which the Company expects to file with the Commission on or before February 14, 2012: “Conclusions Regarding the Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the timelines specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management 225 BROADWAY • SUITE 430 •SAN DIEGO, CA 92101• TEL (619) 481-6800 www.cryoport.com recognized that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can only provide reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and in reaching a reasonable level of assurance, management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. As required by Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 13a-15(b), we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on the foregoing, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2011 at the reasonable assurance level.” Further, the Company advises the Commission that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of September 30, 2011 at the reasonable assurance level. Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, page 26 2. Please confirm that there were no changes in internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2011 that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect your internal control over financial reporting. Please also revise future filings beginning with your next Form 10-Q to disclose whether or not there have been such changes during your last fiscal quarter. Refer to Item 308(c) of Regulation S-K. The Company notes the Commission’s comment and hereby advises the Commission that there were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2011 that materially affected or were reasonably likely to materially affect the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Further, the Company hereby advises the Commission that, in the Company’s future filings, commencing with its next quarterly report on Form 10-Q, the Company will disclose whether or not there had been any changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the applicable period that materially affected or were reasonably likely to materially affect the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company hereby acknowledges that: • the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; • Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and • the Company may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (619) 481-6802. Very truly yours, /s/ Robert S. Stefanovich Robert S. Stefanovich Chief Financial Officer cc: Larry G. Stambaugh, Chief Executive Officer Mark R. Zichell, Esq., Snell & Wilmer 225 BROADWAY • SUITE 430 •SAN DIEGO, CA 92101• TEL (619) 481-6800 www.cryoport.com
2012-01-31 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
January 31, 2012
Via Facsimile
Mr. Robert S. Stefanovich
Chief Financial Officer CryoPort, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, California 92630
RE: CryoPort, Inc.
Form 10-K for the Year Ended March 31, 2011 Filed June 27, 2011 Form 10-Q for the Period Ended September 30, 2011 Filed November 14, 2011 File No. 1-34632
Dear Mr. Stefanovich:
We have reviewed your filings and have the following comments. In some of our
comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your
disclosure.
Please respond to this letter within te n business days by providing the requested
information, or by advising us when you will provide the requested response. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circum stances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing the information you provide in response to these comments, we may
have additional comments. Form 10-Q for the Period Ended September 30, 2011
Controls and Procedures, page 26
1. You disclose that your disclosu re controls and procedures we re effective subject to the
various limitation on effectiveness set fo rth under the heading “Limitations on the
Effectiveness of Internal Controls.” Please revise your conclusion to state, without using
qualifying language such as “subject to the va rious limitations,” whet her your disclosure
controls and procedures were effective or not as of September 30, 2011. See Item 307 of
Regulation S-K.
Mr. Robert S. Stefanovich
CryoPort, Inc. January 31, 2012 Page 2
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, page 26
2. Please confirm that there were no changes in in ternal control over financial reporting during
the quarter ended September 30, 2011 that have ma terially affected or are reasonably likely
to materially affect your intern al control over financial reporti ng. Please also revise future
filings beginning with your next Form 10-Q to disclose whether or not there have been such
changes during your last fis cal quarter. Refer to Item 308(c) of Regulation S-K.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure
in the filing to be certain that the filing include s the information the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and all applicable Exchange Act rules requir e. Since the company and its management are
in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.
In responding to our comments, please provi de a written statement from the company
acknowledging that:
the company is responsible for the adequacy an d accuracy of the disclo sure in the filing;
staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose
the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and
the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by
the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
You may contact Ernest Greene, Staff Accountant at (202) 551-3733 or me at (202) 551-
3769 if you have questions re garding these comments.
Sincerely,
/s/ Rufus Decker
R u f u s D e c k e r
Accounting Branch Chief
2011-04-25 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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April 25, 2011
Sent Via Fax to (703) 813-6968 and Via Edgar
Division of Corporate Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington D.C. 20549-7010
Mail Stop 4631
Attn: Ms. Pamela A. Long - Assistant Director
RE:
CryoPort, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (333-173263)
Dear Ms. Long:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Act”), the undersigned hereby requests that the effective date of the above
referenced Registration Statement be accelerated so that the Registration Statement may become
effective at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, April 28, 2011, or as soon thereafter as
practicable. By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby acknowledges and
accepts its responsibilities under the Act.
In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that:
1. Should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the
filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the
filing;
2. The action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in
declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the
adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
3. The Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as defense
in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of
the United States.
Very truly yours,
CRYOPORT, INC.
/s/ Larry G. Stambaugh
Larry G. Stambaugh
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
20382 Barents Sea Circle • Lake Forest, CA 92630 • www.cryoport.com
Tel (949) 470-2300 • Fax (949) 470-2306 • E-mail: contact@cryoport.com
2011-04-22 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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Correspondence
Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
600 Anton Boulevard
Suite 1400
Costa Mesa, California 92626-7689
TELEPHONE: (714) 427-7000
FACSIMILE: (714) 427-7799
Mark R. Ziebell
714.427.7402
mziebell@swlaw.com
April 22, 2011
Via EDGAR and Federal Express
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
Mail Stop 4631
Attn.: Pamela A. Long, Assistant Director
RE:
CryoPort, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed: April 1, 2011
File No.: 333-173263
Dear Ms. Long:
On behalf of our client, CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of
the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your letter
dated April 18, 2011 to Larry G. Stambaugh, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, with respect to
the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) which was filed
with the Commission on April 1, 2011. We are enclosing Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the
Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed as of April 22, 2011 (the “Amended Registration
Statement”). For your convenience, the Commission’s comments have been repeated herein in bold,
with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments. All page
numbers refer to the Edgar version of the Amended Registration Statement.
April 22, 2011
Page 2 of 5
General
1.
Regarding the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-162350), which was initially
filed on October 6, 2009 and became effective on February 25, 2010, we note that your
prospectus appears to have been in use for more than nine months
after the February 25, 2010 effective date of the registration statement. We further note
that the audited financial statements contained therein, which are as of and for the fiscal
year ended March 31, 2008, are older than 16 months and that you do not appear to have
subsequently updated the audited financial statements in the prospectus pursuant to Section
10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, by filing a post-effective amendment to
the registration statement. Please advise us as to whether any offers or sales were made
pursuant to the prospectus during the period in which the financial statements were not
current. Please refer to Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act and Question 113.01 of our
Securities Act Forms Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations, which are available on our
website.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises the Commission that the Registration
Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-162350) which became effective on February 25, 2010,
registered the public offering of units, each unit consisting of one share of common stock
and one warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $3.30 per
share, and registered the issuance of the shares of common stock upon exercise of the
warrants. To date, none of the warrants has been exercised and no offers or sales have been
made during the period in which the financial statements were not current.
Calculation of Registration Fee
2.
We note footnote (1) disclosure to the Calculation of Registration Fee table. Please revise
the footnote disclosure to specify the exact dollar amount of the fee that had been paid
previously and is being applied to the new registration statement. In this regard, please see
footnote 21 in SEC Release No. 33-7168.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised footnotes (4) and (5) to the
Calculation of Registration Fee table to state the exact dollar amount of the fee previously
paid and being applied to the current registration statement.
Prospectus Summary, page 1
3.
Please disclose here that the auditors have issued a going concern opinion. We note “Our
auditors have expressed doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern” risk factor on
page five.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised the Prospectus Summary at page 1
to disclose that the Company’s auditor had issued a going concern qualification in
connection with its audit report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010.
4.
Please include in this section a brief summary of the material terms of 2010 and 2011 private
placements, describing how the securities were acquired by the selling stockholders. To the
extent applicable, please disclose any material differences between the terms of the two
exempt offerings. With respect to the tradable
warrants, please indicate that they were issued in connection with the company’s IPO.
April 22, 2011
Page 3 of 5
The
Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised the Prospectus Summary at page 2
to include brief summaries of the 2010 and 2011 private placements and to indicate that the
tradable warrants were issued in connection with the Company’s public offering in February
2010.
Risk Factors, page 5
The sale of substantial shares of our common stock may depress our stock price, page 7
5.
Please address under a separate caption the dilutive effect that the exercise of the warrants
may have on the existing stockholders. Please quantify such effect to the extent possible.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has added a new risk factor to quantify the
ownership dilution that would occur to the Company’s existing stockholders who are not
selling security holders under the Registration Statement if the selling security holders
were to exercise all of the warrants held by them.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners, page 53
6.
Based on your disclosure here, it appears that your beneficial owners hold 12.49% of your
outstanding stock. Please reconcile this disclosure with the disclosure in “Certain of our
existing stockholders own and have the right to acquire a substantial number of shares...”
risk factor on page 13 where you disclose a beneficial ownership percentage of 15.1%.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises the Commission that the calculation
of the 15.1% beneficial ownership in the risk factor was determined on a group basis for all
directors, officers and the two stockholders, hence all shares that could be acquired by
them within 60 days of March 15, 2011, upon conversion of debt and exercise of options and
warrants were added to the number of existing outstanding shares for purposes of determining
their aggregate beneficial ownership. For purposes of the table on page 53, the group
calculation was only done for directors and officers (resulting in 2.69%), but not for the
two stockholders, hence adding their respective percentages to the director and officer
group total would not result in the same aggregate total.
The Company has revised the table to add a new summation for all directors, officers and 5%
or greater beneficial owners which now ties out with the percentage
noted in the risk factor. Note also
that the percentages for BridgePointe and Enable are now calculated without regard to the
4.9% ownership limitation contained in their warrants, as is noted in footnote (3) to the
table.
April 22, 2011
Page 4 of 5
7.
Based on your Selling Security Holder Table disclosure on page 57, it appears that AQR
Diversified Arbitrage Fund and Emergent Financial Group, Inc. each hold more than 5% of the
company’s outstanding stock. Please tell us why they are not listed in the beneficial
ownership table, or otherwise revise your disclosure accordingly.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised the disclosure on the beneficial
ownership table to include Emergent Financial Group, Inc. and CNH Partners, LLC, the
beneficial owner of the shares of common stock held in the name of AQR Diversified Arbitrage
Fund and related funds.
8.
To the extent that the “Percentage of Shares Owned” column is intended to indicate the
ownership percentage of the selling stockholders prior to the offering, please complete your
disclosure accordingly.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised the Selling Security Holder Table
to include the percentage of shares owned by each of the selling security holders both
before and after the offering.
9.
Rule 429(a) of the Securities Act requires that the combined prospectus in the latest
registration statement must include all of the information that currently would be required in
a prospectus relating to all offering(s) that it covers. As such, please revise the footnote
disclosures to identify for each selling stockholder the transaction and the number of shares
each selling stockholder acquired in that transaction.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised the footnote disclosures in the
Selling Security Holder Table to indentify the private placement transaction(s) in which
each selling security holder acquired his, her or its shares of common stock and warrants.
Part II, page II-1
Exhibits, page II-5
10.
Please file as exhibits to the registration statement each form of warrant agreement issued
in the 2010 and 2011 private placements.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises that the form of warrant agreement
for each of the 2010 and 2011 private placements have been filed as Exhibits 4.14 and 4.15,
respectively.
April 22, 2011
Page 5 of 5
Exhibit 5.1 — Opinion of Counsel
11.
Please have counsel clarify for us the purpose of the following statement in the final
paragraph of its opinion: “We are furnishing this opinion to the Company solely in
connection with the Registration Statement.” We are concerned that this statement might be
an impermissible attempt to limit the ability of investors to rely on the opinion.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises that the opinion of counsel has been
revised to remove the statement in question and has been refiled.
Exhibit 10.31
12.
Please include a footnote in the exhibit index to indicate that certain portions of this
exhibit have been omitted based upon a request for confidential treatment. We note that on
March 24, 2011 the Commission issued an order granting confidential treatment with respect to
this exhibit.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has added footnote “***” and has indicated
that portions of Exhibit 10.31 have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential
treatment.
Undertakings, page II-10
13.
Please remove the undertakings set forth in Item 512(a)(6) of Regulation S-K, as well as the
undertakings related to reliance on Rule 430A, as inapplicable. Please revise your disclosure
to include the Item 512(a)(5)(ii) undertakings.
The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised its undertakings accordingly.
If you have any questions regarding the Amended Registration Statement or the above, please do
not hesitate to give me a call at (714) 427-7402.
Very truly yours,
Snell & Wilmer
/s/ Mark R. Ziebell
Mark R. Ziebell
cc: Larry G. Stambaugh
2011-04-18 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
April 18, 2011
Via U.S. M ail
Larry G. Stambaugh
Chief Executive Officer
Cryoport, Inc.
20382 Barents Sea Circle
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Re: Cryoport, Inc.
Registration Statemen t on Form S -1
Filed : April 1, 2011
File No.: 333- 173263
Dear M r. Stambaugh :
We have limited our review of your registration statement to those issues we have
addressed in our comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing
the requested information . Where you do not believe our comments apply 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 these comments, we may have additional comments .
General
1. Regarding the Registration Statement on Form S -1 (File No. 333- 162350), which was
initial ly filed on October 6, 2009 and became effective on February 25, 2010, we note
that your prospectus appears to have been in use for more than nine months after the
February 25, 2010 effective date of the registration statement. We further note that the
audited financial statements contained therein, which are as of and for the fiscal year
ended March 31, 2008, are older than 16 months and that you do not appear to have
subsequently updated the audited financial statements in the prospectus pursuant to Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, by filing a post -effective
amendment to the registration statement. Please advise us as to whether any offers or
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April 18, 2011
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sales were made pursuant to the prospectus during the period in which the financial
statements were not current. Please refer to Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act and
Question 113.01 of our Securities Act Forms Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations, which are available on our website.
Calculation of Registration Fee
2. We note f ootnote (1) disclosure to the Calculation of Registration Fee table. Please
revise the footnote disclosure to specify the exact dollar amount of the fee that had
been paid previously and is being applied to the new registration statement. In this regard, please see footnote 21 in SEC Release No. 33 -7168.
Prospectus Summary, page 1
3. Please disclose here that the auditors have issued a going concern opinion. We note “Our auditors have expressed doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern”
risk factor on page five.
4. Please include in this section a brief summary of the material terms of 2010 and 2011 private placements, describing how the securities were acquired by the selling stockholders. To the extent applicable, please disclose any material differences
between the terms of the two exempt offerings. With respect to the tradable warrants, please indicate that they were issued in connection with the company’s IPO.
Risk Factors, page 5
The sale of substantial shares of our common stock may depress our stock price, page 7
5. Please address under a separate caption the dilutive effect that the exercise of the warrants may have on the existing stockholders. Please quantify such effect to the extent possible.
Security Ownership of Certai n Beneficial Owners, page 53
6. Based on your disclosure here, it appears that your beneficial owners hold 12.49% of your outstanding stock. Please reconcile this disclosure with the disclosure in “Certain of our existing stockholders own and have the right to acquire a substantial number of
shares…” risk factor on page 13 where you disclose a beneficial ownership percentage of 15.1%.
7. Based on your Selling Security Holder Table disclosure on page 57, it appears that AQR Diversified Arbitrage Fund and Emerge nt Financial Group, Inc. each hold more
than 5% of the company’s outstanding stock. Please tell us why they are not listed in the beneficial ownership table, or otherwise revise your disclosure accordingly.
8. To the extent that the “Percentage of Shares Owned” column is intended to indicate the
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April 18, 2011
Page 3
ownership percentage of the selling stockholders prior to the offering, please complete
your disclosure accordingly.
9. Rule 429(a) of the Securities Act requires that t he combined prospectus in the latest
registr ation statement must include all of the information that currently would be
required in a prospectus relating to all offering(s) that it covers . As such, please revise
the footnote disclosures to identify for each selling stockholder the transaction and t he
number of shares each selling stockholder acquired in that transaction .
Part II, page II -1
Exhibits, page II -5
10. Please file as exhibits to the registration statement each form of warrant agreement
issued in the 2010 and 2011 private placements.
Exhib it 5.1 - Opinion of Counsel
11. Please have counsel clarify for us the purpose of the following statement in the final paragraph of its opinion: “We are furnishing this opinion to the Company solely in connection with the Registration Statement.” We are con cerned that this statement
might be an impermissible attempt to limit the ability of investors to rely on the opinion.
Exhibit 10.31
12. Please include a footnote in the exhibit index to indicate that certain portions of this exhibit have been omitted based upon a request for confidential treatment. We note that on March 24, 2011 the Commission issued an order granting confidential treatment with respect to this exhibit.
Undertakings, page II -10
13. Please remove the undertakings set forth in Item 512(a)(6) of Regulation S -K, as
well as the undertakings related to reliance on Rule 430A, as inapplicable. Please revise your disclosure to include the Item 512(a)(5)(ii) undertakings.
Larry G. Stambaugh
April 18, 2011
Page 4
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the
disclosure in the filing to be certain that the filing includes the information the Securities
Act of 1933 and all applicable Securities Act rules require. Since the company and its
management are in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are
responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.
Notwithstanding our comments, in the event you request acceleration of the
effective date of the pending registration statement please provide a written statement from the company acknowledging that:
• should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare
the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action
with respect to the filing;
• the action of the Comm ission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in
declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
• the company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as
a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration . We will
consider a written request for acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement as confirmation of the fact that those requesting acceleration are aware of their respective
responsibilities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securitie s Exchange Act of 1934
as they relate to the proposed public offering of the securities specified in the above
registration statement. Please allow adequate time for us to review any amendment prior
to the requested effective date of the registration stat ement .
You may contact Era Anagnosti, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551- 3369 or Dieter King,
Senior Staff Attorney, at (202) 551- 3338 with any questions .
Sincerely,
Pamela A. Long
Assistant Director
cc: Mark R. Ziebell , Esq. (Via Facsimile at (714) 427-7799)
Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
2010-02-22 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
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CryoPort,
Inc.
20382
Barents Sea Circle
Lake
Forest, California 92630
(949)
470-2300
February
22, 2010
Sent Via Fax to (703)
713-6968 and Via EDGAR
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
100 F
Street, NE
Washington,
DC 20549-7010
Mail Stop
4631
Attn: Ms.
Pamela A. Long – Assistant Director
Re:
CryoPort,
Inc.
Registration
Statement on Form 8-A
File
No. 001-34632
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
CryoPort,
Inc. (the “Company”) hereby respectfully makes this application for the
withdrawal of the Company’s registration statement on Form 8-A (File No.
001-34632) pursuant to Section 12(b) originally filed on February 10, 2010 (the
“8-A Registration Statement”) in connection with the Company’s registration
statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-162350) (the “S-1 Registration
Statement”).
As a
result of a number of developments subsequent to filing the 8-A Registration
Statement, including the Company’s inability to meet the minimum listing
requirements of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC following the completion of the
offering contemplated by the S-1 Registration Statement, the Company has
determined that it is appropriate to make this application to withdraw the 8-A
Registration Statement. The Company intends to subsequently file a
new registration statement on Form 8-A pursuant to Section 12(g).
Since the
S-1 Registration Statement has not yet become effective, the 8-A Registration
Statement has also not yet become effective. Additionally, no
securities have been sold in connection with the S-1 Registration
Statement.
The
Company requests that a written order granting the withdrawal of the 8-A
Registration Statement be granted and made effective as soon as
practicable.
CryoPort,
Inc.
By:
/s/ Larry G.
Stambaugh
Name:
Larry G. Stambaugh
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
2010-02-22 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Underwriter Acceleration Request RODMAN & RENSHAW, LLC February 22, 2010 Via EDGAR United States Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549 Re: CryoPort, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 File No. 333-162350 Ladies and Gentleman: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Rodman & Renshaw, LLC joins the request of CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”) that the effective date of the Registration Statement referred to above be accelerated so as to permit it to become effective at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, or as soon thereafter as possible. Pursuant to Rule 460 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Act, the undersigned advises that between February 2, 2010 and the date hereof, 59 copies of the Preliminary Prospectus, dated February 2, 2010 have been distributed as follows: 59 to institutional investors and none to others. In addition, approximately 30 copies of the Preliminary Prospectus, dated February 22, 2010 have been distributed as follows: approximately 30 to institutional investors and none to others. The undersigned advises that it has complied and will continue to comply with the requirements of Rule 15c2-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Very truly yours, RODMAN & RENSHAW, LLC By: /s/ JOHN J. BORER III John J. Borer III Senior Managing Director
2010-02-22 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Acceleration Request CRYOPORT, INC. February 22, 2010 Sent Via Fax to (703) 813-6968 and Via Edgar Division of Corporate Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, N.E. Washington D.C. 20549-7010 Mail Stop 4631 Attn: Ms. Pamela A. Long—Assistant Director RE: CryoPort, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 (333-162350) Dear Ms. Long: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned hereby requests that the effective date of the above referenced Registration Statement be accelerated so that the Registration Statement may become effective at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, or as soon thereafter as practicable. By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that: 1. Should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; 2. The action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Registrant from its responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and 3. The Registrant may not assert this action as defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States Very truly yours, CRYOPORT, INC. /s/ Larry G. Stambaugh Larry G. Stambaugh Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
2010-02-11 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Withdrawal of Acceleration Request CryoPort, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, California 92630 (949) 470-2300 February 11, 2010 Sent Via Fax to (703) 813-6968 and Via EDGAR United States Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549-7010 Mail Stop 4631 Attn: Ms. Pamela A. Long – Assistant Director Re: CryoPort, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 File No. 333-162350 Ladies and Gentlemen: CryoPort, Inc. hereby withdraws its request, dated February 10, 2010, for effectiveness of the Registration Statement referred to above. CryoPort, Inc. By: /s/ Larry G. Stambaugh Name: Larry G. Stambaugh Title: Chief Executive Officer
2010-02-10 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Acceleration Request on behalf of CryoPort, Inc. CRYOPORT, INC. February 10, 2010 Sent Via Fax to (703) 813-6968 and Via Edgar Division of Corporate Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, N.E. Washington D.C. 20549-7010 Mail Stop 4631 Attn: Ms. Pamela A. Long - Assistant Director RE: CryoPort, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 (333-162350) Dear Ms. Long: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the undersigned hereby requests that the effective date of the above referenced Registration Statement be accelerated so that the Registration Statement may become effective at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on Friday, February 12, 2010, or as soon thereafter as practicable. By making this request for acceleration, the undersigned hereby acknowledges and accepts its responsibilities under the Act. In this regard, the undersigned acknowledges that: 1. Should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; 2. The action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Registrant from its responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and 3. The Registrant may not assert this action as defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States Very truly yours, CRYOPORT, INC. /s/ Larry G. Stambaugh Larry G. Stambaugh Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
2010-02-10 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Acceleration Request on behalf of the Underwriters RODMAN & RENSHAW, LLC February 10, 2010 Via EDGAR United States Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549 Re: CryoPort, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 File No. 333-162350 Ladies and Gentleman: Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Rodman & Renshaw, LLC joins the request of CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”) that the effective date of the Registration Statement referred to above be accelerated so as to permit it to become effective at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on Friday, February 12, 2010, or as soon thereafter as possible. Pursuant to Rule 460 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Act, the undersigned advises that between February 2, 2010 and the date hereof, 59 copies of the Preliminary Prospectus, dated February 2, 2010 have been distributed as follows: 59 to institutional investors and none to others. The undersigned advises that it has complied and will continue to comply with the requirements of Rule 15c2-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Very truly yours, RODMAN & RENSHAW, LLC By: /s/ JOHN J. BORER III John J. Borer III Senior Managing Director
2010-02-09 - CORRESP - Cryoport, Inc.
CORRESP 1 filename1.htm SEC Response letter Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. 600 Anton Boulevard Suite 1400 Costa Mesa, California 92626-7689 TELEPHONE: (714) 427-7000 FACSIMILE: (714) 427-7799 Mark R. Ziebell 714.427.7402 mziebell@swlaw.com February 9, 2010 Via Federal Express Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F. Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 Mail Stop 4631 Attn.: Pamela A. Long, Assistant Director RE: CryoPort, Inc. Amendment No. 4 To Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed on February 2, 2010 File No.: 333-162350 Dear Ms. Long: On behalf of our client, CryoPort, Inc. (the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your letter dated February 5, 2010 to Larry G. Stambaugh, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, with respect to Amendment No. 4 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) which was filed with the Commission on February 2, 2010. We are enclosing Pre-Effective Amendment No. 5 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed as of February 9, 2010 (the “Amended Registration Statement”). For your convenience, the Commission’s comments have been repeated herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each of the Commission’s comments. All page numbers refer to the Edgar version of the Amended Registration Statement. Prospectus Cover Page 1. Please revise your prospectus cover page to state a definitive number of units you are offering. You may provide your good faith estimate of the price per unit prior to effectiveness, which may be given as a price range. You may also increase February 9, 2010 Page 2 of 2 the size of the offering after effectiveness by filing a new registration statement for an additional dollar amount of securities. This registration statement may become effective automatically when filed if it meets the requirements of Rule 462(b). You may also adjust the size of your offering after effectiveness as permitted by instruction to paragraph (a) to Rule 430A. Please also see our Securities Act Rules C&DIs at paragraphs 240.01, 640.04 and 604.05 for information about changes in the size of an offering. However, your prospectus should state a certain number of units to be offered at the time the registration statement is declared effective. The Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises the Commission that the cover page of the prospectus has been revised to state a definitive number of units being offered based upon the Company’s good faith estimate of the offering price per unit. Legal Opinion 2. Please also ensure that the legal opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 correctly states the specific number of units that being offered, and as to which counsel is giving its opinion. The Company notes the Commission’s comment and has revised Exhibit 5.1 to state the specific number of units being offered, and has refilled the revised Exhibit 5.1. Please be advised that the Amended Registration Statement has also been revised to note that the Company effected a 10-to-1 reverse stock split on February 5, 2010. If you have any questions regarding the Amended Registration Statement or the above, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (714) 427-7402. Very truly yours, Snell & Wilmer /s/ Mark R. Ziebell cc: Larry G. Stambaugh Gregory Sichenzia, Esq.
2010-02-05 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549-7010
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
February 5, 2010 Mail Stop 4631 Mr. Larry G. Stambaugh Chief Executive Officer Cryoport, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, California 92630
Re: Cryoport, Inc. Amendment No. 4
To Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed on February 2, 2010 File No.: 333-162350
Dear Mr. Stambaugh:
We have limited our review of your filing to those issues we have addressed in our
comments. Where indicated, we think you should revise your document in response to these
comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comments are
inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necess ary in your explanation.
In some of our comments, we may ask you to pr ovide us with information so we may better
understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information we may raise additional comments.
Prospectus Cover Page
1. Please revise your prospectus cover page to state a definitive nu mber of units you are
offering. You may provide your good faith es timate of the pri ce per unit prior to
effectiveness, which may be given as a price ra nge. You may also increase the size of the
offering after effectiveness by filing a new re gistration statement for an additional dollar
amount of securities. This registration statem ent may become effective automatically when
filed if it meets the requiremen ts of Rule 462(b). You may al so adjust the size of your
offering after effectiveness as permitted by in struction to paragra ph (a) to Rule 430A.
Please also see our Securities Act Ru les C&DIs at paragraphs 240.01, 640.04 and 640.05
for information about changes in the size of an offering. However, your prospectus should
state a certain number of units to be offered at the time the registration statement is declared
effective.
Legal Opinion
Mr. Larry G. Stambaugh
Cryoport, Inc
February 5, 2010 Page 2 of 3
2. Please also ensure that the legal opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 correctly states the specific
number of units that are being offered, and as to which counsel is giving its opinion.
As appropriate, please amend your registration statement in response to these comments.
You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to exped ite our review. Please
furnish a cover letter with your amendment that ke ys your responses to ou r comments and provides
any requested information. Detailed cover letter s greatly facilitate our review. Please understand
that we may have additional comments after reviewing your amendment and responses to our
comments.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in
the filing to be certain that the filing includes al l information required under the Securities Act of
1933 and that they have provided all information investors require for an informed investment
decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of a ll facts relating to a
company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. Notwithstanding our comments, in the even t the company requests acceleration of the
effective date of the pending registration statement, it should furnish a letter, at the time of such
request, acknowledging that:
• should the Commission or the staff, acting pursua nt to delegated authority, declare the filing
effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the
filing;
• the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in
declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for
the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
• the company may not assert staff comments a nd the declaration of effectiveness as a
defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal
securities laws of the United States.
In addition, please be advised th at the Division of Enforcement has access to all information
you provide to the staff of the Di vision of Corporation Finance in connection with our review of
your filing or in response to our comments on your filing. We will consider a written request for acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement as confirmation of the f act that those requesting accelera tion are aware of their respective
responsibilities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as they
relate to the proposed public offeri ng of the securities sp ecified in the above registration statement.
Mr. Larry G. Stambaugh
Cryoport, Inc February 5, 2010 Page 3 of 3 We will act on the request and, pursuant to delegate d authority, grant acceleration of the effective
date. We direct your attention to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requesting acceleration of a registration statement. Please a llow adequate time after the fili ng of any amendment for further
review before submitting a request for acceleration. Please provide this request as least two business days in advance of the requested effective date. If you have any questions, please contact Dorine Miller, Financial An alyst, at (202) 551-
3711, or the undersigned at (202) 551-3765. S i n c e r e l y , Pamela A. Long A s s i s t a n t D i r e c t o r cc: Gregory Sichenzia, Esq. Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP 61 Broadway
New York, New York, 10006
Mark R. Ziebell, Esq. Snell & Wilmer 600 Anton Blvd., Suite 1400 Costa Mesa, CA 92626
2010-01-27 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549-7010
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
October 15, 2009 Mail Stop 4631 Mr. Larry G. Stambaugh Chief Executive Officer Cryoport, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, California 92630
Re: Cryoport, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed on October 6, 2009
File No.: 333-162350
Dear Mr. Stambaugh:
We have limited our review of your filing to those issues we have addressed in our
comments. Where indicated, we think you should revise your document in response to these
comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comments are
inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necess ary in your explanation.
In some of our comments, we may ask you to pr ovide us with information so we may better
understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information we may raise additional comments.
Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance
with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the ove rall disclosure in your filing.
We look forward to working with you in these re spects. We welcome any questions you may have
about our comments or any other aspect of our re view. Feel free to call us at the telephone
numbers listed at the end of this letter. General
1. We note that on the facing page of the regi stration statement, you have checked the box
indicating that you plan to offe r some of the securities on a delayed basis under Rule 415.
Please advise, since you have only reflected the shares being offered in the firm
commitment underwritten offering in the regist ration statement fee table and prospectus.
Mr. Larry G. Stambaugh
Cryoport, Inc
October 15, 2009 Page 2 of 3
2. Please file the legal opinion required by Item 601( b) (5) (i) of Regulation S-K. Note that
we may have comments on the opinion.
Common Stock Purchase Option, page 57
3. We note your disclosure on page 57 that the common stock purchase option and its
underlying securities have been registered in the registration statement. However this is not reflected in the registration statement fee tabl e or elsewhere in the prospectus. In addition,
we note that you refer to an agreement to sell Rodman & Renshaw a warrant elsewhere in the prospectus. We assume this is the same as the option you refer to here. Please advise
and reconcile inconsistent disc losures in your prospectus.
As appropriate, please amend your registration statement in response to these comments.
You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to exped ite our review. Please
furnish a cover letter with your amendment that ke ys your responses to ou r comments and provides
any requested information. Detailed cover letter s greatly facilitate our review. Please understand
that we may have additional comments after reviewing your amendment and responses to our
comments.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in
the filing to be certain that the filing includes al l information required under the Securities Act of
1933 and that they have provided all information investors require for an informed investment
decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of a ll facts relating to a
company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. Notwithstanding our comments, in the even t the company requests acceleration of the
effective date of the pending registration statement, it should furnish a letter, at the time of such
request, acknowledging that:
• should the Commission or the staff, acting pursua nt to delegated authority, declare the filing
effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the
filing;
• the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in
declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for
the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
• the company may not assert staff comments a nd the declaration of effectiveness as a
defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
Mr. Larry G. Stambaugh
Cryoport, Inc October 15, 2009 Page 3 of 3
In addition, please be advised th at the Division of Enforcement has access to all information
you provide to the staff of the Di vision of Corporation Finance in connection with our review of
your filing or in response to our comments on your filing. We will consider a written request for acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement as confirmation of the f act that those requesting accelera tion are aware of their respective
responsibilities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as they
relate to the proposed public offeri ng of the securities sp ecified in the above registration statement.
We will act on the request and, pursuant to delegate d authority, grant acceleration of the effective
date. We direct your attention to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requesting acceleration of a registration statement. Please a llow adequate time after the fili ng of any amendment for further
review before submitting a request for acceleration. Please provide this request as least two business days in advance of the requested effective date. If you have any questions, please contact Erro l Sanderson, Financial Analyst, at (202) 551-
3746, or the undersigned at (202) 551-3765. S i n c e r e l y ,
Pamela A. Long A s s i s t a n t D i r e c t o r cc: Gregory Sichenzia, Esq. Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP 61 Broadway New York, New York, 10006
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Snell
& Wilmer L.L.P.
600 Anton
Boulevard
Suite
1400
Costa
Mesa, California 92626-7689
TELEPHONE:
(714) 427-7000
FACSIMILE:
(714) 427-7799
Mark
R. Ziebell
714.427.7402
mziebell@swlaw.com
January
12, 2010
Via Federal
Express
Division
of Corporation Finance
Securities
and Exchange Commission
100 F.
Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549-7010
Mail Stop
4631
Attn.:
Pamela A. Long, Assistant Director
RE:
CryoPort,
Inc.
Registration
Statement on Form S-1
Filed
on October 6, 2009
File
No.: 333-162350
Dear Ms.
Long:
On behalf of our client, CryoPort, Inc.
(the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of the Staff of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as set forth in your
letter dated October 15, 2009 to Larry G. Stambaugh, Chief Executive Officer of
the Company, with respect to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1
(the “Registration Statement”) which was filed with the Commission on October 6,
2009. We are enclosing Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the
Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed as of January 12, 2010 (the “Amended
Registration Statement”). We are including with the hard copy of this
letter a pdf file marked to show changes from the Registration
Statement. For your convenience, the Commission’s comments have been
repeated herein in bold, with the Company’s response immediately following each
of the Commission’s comments. All page numbers refer to the Edgar
version of the Amended Registration Statement.
General
1. We
note that on the facing page of the registration statement, you have checked the
box indicating that you plan to offer some of the securities on a delayed basis
under Rule 415. Please advise, since you have only reflected the
shares being offered in the firm commitment underwritten offering in the
registration statement fee table and prospectus.
The
Company notes the Commission’s comment and advises the Commission that the
securities that the Company plans to offer on a delayed basis under Rule 415 are
the shares of the Company’s common stock that are issuable upon exercise of the
warrants included in the units. Please refer to the fourth line of
the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table for the Registration Statement,
wherein the Company had included 2,395,833 shares of common stock underlying the
warrants with a proposed maximum offering price of $12,650,000. Due to an
increase in the offering as part of the Amended Registration Statements, the
foregoing amounts have been updated in the table contained in the Amended
Registration Statement.
2. Please
file the legal opinion required by Item 601(b)(5)(i) of Regulation
S-K. Note that we may have comments on the opinion.
The Company notes the Commission’s
comment and advises that the legal opinion required by Item 601(b)(5)(i) of
Regulation S-K has been included as Exhibit 5.1 to the Amended Registration
Statement.
January 12, 2010
Page 2
Common Stock Purchase
Option, page 57
3. We
note your disclosure on page 57 that the common stock purchase option and its
underlying securities have been registered in the registration
statement. However, this is not reflected in the registration
statement fee table or elsewhere in the prospectus. In addition, we
note that you refer to an agreement to sell Rodman & Renshaw a warrant
elsewhere in the prospectus. We assume this is the same as the option
you refer to here. Please advise and reconcile inconsistent
disclosures in your prospectus.
The Company notes the Commission’s
comment and has revised its disclosure on page 66 of the Amended Registration
Statement (formerly page 57 of the Registration Statement) to recharacterize the
option as a warrant, consistent with the Company’s disclosures elsewhere in the
Amended Registration Statement and also to delete the statement that the warrant
and the shares of common stock underlying the warrant have been registered in
the registration statement.
If you
have any questions regarding the Amended Registration Statement or the above,
please do not hesitate to give me a call at (714) 427-7402.
Very
truly yours,
Snell
& Wilmer
/s/
Mark R.
Ziebell
Mark
R. Ziebell
cc: Larry
G. Stambaugh
Gregory Sichenzia, Esq.
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CRYOPORT,
INC.
20382
Barents Sea Circle
Lake
Forest, California 92630
August
27, 2008
VIA FACSIMILE (202-772-9369)
AND EDGAR
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F
Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attention: Dorine
H. Miller
Re: Cryoport,
Inc.
Registration Statement on Form
S-1
File
No. 333-152329
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General
Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”),
Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”) respectfully requests that the effective date of
the registration statement referred to above be accelerated so that it will
become effective at 11.00 a.m., Eastern Time, Thursday, August 28, 2008, or as
soon thereafter as possible.
We hereby
acknowledge the following:
·
that
should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated
authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the
Commission from taking any action with respect to the
filing;
·
the
action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated
authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company
from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in the filing; and
·
the
Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness
as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person
under the federal securities laws of the United
States.
CRYOPORT, INC.
By: /s/ Peter
Berry
Name: Peter Berry
Title: Chief Executive
Officer
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SICHENZIA
ROSS FRIEDMAN FERENCE LLP
61
BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY 10006
TEL 212
930 9700 FAX 212 930
9725 WEB WWW. SRFF.COM
August
12, 2008
BY
EDGAR AND
FACSIMILE
TRANSMISSION 202-772-9369
Securities
and Exchange Commission
100 F
Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attention: Brigitte
Lippmann, Esq.
Mail Stop
7010
Re:
Cryoport,
Inc. (the “Company”)
Registration
Statement on Form S-1
File No.
333-152329 (the “Registration
Statement”)
Dear Ms.
Miller:
By letter
dated August 7, 2008, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Staff”) issued a response letter to our letter dated July 30, 2008 regarding
comments on the Registration Statement that was filed on July 14,
2008. Following are the Company’s responses to the Staff’s
comments. For ease of reference, each response is preceded by the
Staff’s comment.
Security Ownership of
Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page
38
1.
We
note your response to comment 1 in our letter dated July 28, 2008, in
which you state that the information in the Form 10-K speaks as of March
31, 2008. However, under “Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain
Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters,” in both
the company’s Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A, the company states that “the
following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial
ownership of the Company’s common stock as of June 27, 2008.
Please
advise.
The
Company advises the Staff that the introductory paragraph to the principal
stockholder table in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A contained a
typographical error in that the date of June 27, 2008 should have stated March
31, 2008.
2.
As
previously requested in comment 1 in our letter dated July 28, 2008,
please include in the table the security ownership of Bridge Pointe Master
Fund, Enable Growth Partners, and any other 5% or greater
shareholder without regard to any conversion caps. We would not object if
you disclose the conversion cap information in the footnotes to the table.
Please make similar revisions in the table under the Selling Stockholders
section.
The
Company has made revisions in accordance with the Staff’s
comment. See pages 38 and 40 of the Registration
Statement.
Please
contact the undersigned at 212-981-6766 with any questions or comments you may
have with respect to the foregoing.
Very truly
yours,
/s/
Louis A. Brilleman
2008-08-07 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
August 7, 2008
Mail Stop 7010
Via U.S. mail and facsimile
Mr. Peter Berry, Chief Executive Officer
CryoPort, Inc.
20382 Barents Sea Circle
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Re: CryoPort. Inc.
Supplemental Letter date d July 30, 2008 relating to
Registration Statement on Form S-1
File No.: 333-152329
Filed on: July 14, 2008
Dear Mr. Berry:
We have reviewed your supplemental lett er dated July 30, 2008 and we have the
following comments. Where indicated, we th ink you should revise your document in
response to these comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to
why our comment is inapplicable or a revisi on is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as
necessary in your explanation.
Please understand that the purpose of our re view process is to assist you in your
compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall
disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We
welcome any questions you may have about our comments or any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 38
1. We note your response to comment 1 in our letter dated July 28, 2008, in which
you state that the information in the Form 10-K speaks as of March 31, 2008.
However, under “Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matt ers,” in both the company’s Form 10-
K and Form 10-K/A, the company states that “[t]he following table sets forth
information with respect to the benefi cial ownership of the Company’s common
stock as of
June 27, 2008 . . .” Please advise.
2. As previously requested in comment 1 in our letter dated July 28, 2008, please include in the table the s ecurity ownership of BridgePointe Master Fund, Enable
Mr. Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
August 7, 2008 Page 2
Growth Partners, and any other 5% or gr eater shareholder without regard to any
conversion caps. We would not object if you disclose the conversion cap information in the footnotes to the table. Please make similar revisions in the
table under the Selling Stockholders section.
As appropriate, please amend your regist ration statement in response to these
comments. You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to expedite our review. Please furnish a cove r letter with your amendment that keys your
responses to our comments and provides any requested information. Detailed cover
letters greatly facilitate our review. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your amendmen t and responses to our comments.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the filing includes all in formation required under
the Securities Act of 1933 and that they have provided all information investors require
for an informed investment decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company’ s disclosure, they are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure they have made.
Notwithstanding our comments, in the ev en the company requests acceleration of
the effective date of the pending registration statement, it should furnish a letter, at the
time of such request, acknowledging that:
• should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority,
declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any
action with respect to the filing;
• the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority,
in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full
responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
• the company may not assert staff comment s and the declaration of effectiveness
as a defense in any proceeding initiat ed by the Commission or any person under
the federal securities laws of the United States.
In addition, please be advi sed that the Division of En forcement has access to all
information you provide to the staff of the Di vision of Corporation Finance in connection
with our review of your filing or in response to our comments on your filing.
We will consider a written request for acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement as conf irmation of the fact that t hose requesting acceleration are
aware of their respective re sponsibilities under the S ecurities Act of 1933 and the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as they rela te to the proposed public offering of the
Mr. Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
August 7, 2008 Page 3
securities specified in the above registration statement. We will act on the request and,
pursuant to delegated authority, grant acceleration of the effective date.
We direct your attention to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requesting acceleration
of a registration statement. Please allow ad equate time after the filing of any amendment
for further review before submitting a request for acceleration. Please provide this request at least two business days in a dvance of the requested effective date.
You may contact Dorine H. Miller, Fina ncial Analyst at (202) 551-3711 or, in her
absence, contact Brigitte Lippm ann, Attorney at (202) 551-3713.
S i n c e r e l y ,
Pamela A. Long
A s s i s t a n t D i r e c t o r
cc: Marc J. Ross, Esq.
Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP
61 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
2008-08-06 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549-0404
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
July 28, 2008
Mail Stop 7010
Via U.S. mail and facsimile
Mr. Peter Berry, Chief Executive Officer CryoPort, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, CA 92630 Re: CryoPort. Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1
File No.: 333-152329
Filed on: July 14, 2008
Dear Mr. Berry: We have limited our review of the above- captioned filing to those issues we have
addressed in our comments. Where indicat ed, we think you should revise your document
in response to these comments. If you disagr ee, we will consider your explanation as to
why our comment is inapplicable or a revisi on is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as
necessary in your explanation. Please understand that the purpose of our re view process is to assist you in your
compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall
disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We
welcome any questions you may have about our comments or any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 38
1. The information included in the security ow nership table on page 38 is dated as of
June 27, 2008. However, the information in the table does no t reconcile with
security ownership disclosure that is in cluded in your Form 10-K, which is also
dated as of June 27, 2008. For example, th e security ownership of BridgePointe
Master Fund and Enable Growth Partners has been omitted from this discussion in
the registration statement. However, the disclosure is included in the Form 10-K.
Please reconcile and update the disclosu re. In the column reflecting the
percentage of shares beneficially owned, please provide the percentage without regard to any conversion caps.
Mr. Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
July 28, 2008 Page 2 Selling Stockholders, page 40
2. Please reconcile the 11,771,704 shares held by BridgePointe Master Fund as
shown in the security ownership table on page 40 with the 5,215,496 shares held
by it as disclosed in the Form 10-K.
General
As appropriate, please amend your regist ration statement in response to these
comments. You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to
expedite our review. Please furnish a cove r letter with your amendment that keys your
responses to our comments and provides any requested information. Detailed cover
letters greatly facilitate our review. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your amendmen t and responses to our comments.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the
disclosure in the filing to be certain that the filing includes all in formation required under
the Securities Act of 1933 and that they have provided all information investors require
for an informed investment decision. Since the company and its management are in
possession of all facts relating to a company’ s disclosure, they are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure they have made.
Notwithstanding our comments, in the even the company requests acceleration of
the effective date of the pending registration statement, it should furnish a letter, at the time of such request, acknowledging that:
• should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any
action with respect to the filing;
• the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority,
in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full
responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
• the company may not assert staff comment s and the declaration of effectiveness
as a defense in any proceeding initiat ed by the Commission or any person under
the federal securities laws of the United States.
In addition, please be advi sed that the Division of En forcement has access to all
information you provide to the staff of the Di vision of Corporation Finance in connection
with our review of your filing or in response to our comments on your filing.
Mr. Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc. July 28, 2008 Page 3 We will consider a written request for acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement as conf irmation of the fact that t hose requesting acceleration are
aware of their respective re sponsibilities under the S ecurities Act of 1933 and the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as they rela te to the proposed public offering of the
securities specified in the above registration statement. We will act on the request and,
pursuant to delegated authority, grant acceleration of the effective date.
We direct your attention to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requesting acceleration
of a registration statement. Please allow ad equate time after the filing of any amendment
for further review before submitting a request for acceleration. Please provide this request at least two business days in a dvance of the requested effective date.
You may contact Dorine H. Miller, Financ ial Analyst at (202) 551-3711 or, in her
absence, contact Brigitte Lippma nn, Attorney at (202) 551-3713.
Sincerely,
Pamela A. Long
Assistant Director
cc: Marc J. Ross, Esq. Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP 61 Broadway New York, NY 10006
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SICHENZIA
ROSS FRIEDMAN FERENCE LLP
61
BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY 10006
TEL 212
930 9700 FAX 212 930
9725 WEB WWW. SRFF.COM
July 30,
2008
BY
EDGAR AND
FACSIMILE
TRANSMISSION 202-772-9369
Securities
and Exchange Commission
100 F
Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attention:
Dorine
H. Miller
Mail
Stop 7010
Re:
Cryoport,
Inc. (the “Company”)
Registration
Statement on Form S-1
File No. 333-152329 (the “Registration
Statement”)
Dear Ms.
Miller:
By letter
dated January 14, 2008, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Staff”) issued comments on the Registration Statement that was filed on July
14, 2008. Following are the Company’s responses to the Staff’s
comments. For ease of reference, each response is preceded by the
Staff’s comment.
Security Ownership of
Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page
38
1.
The
information included in the security ownership table on page 38 is dated
as of June 27, 2008. However, the information in the table does not
reconcile with security ownership disclosure that is included in your Form
10-K, which is also dated as of June 27, 2008. For example, the
security ownership of BridgePointe Master Fund and Enable Growth Partners
has been omitted from this discussion in the registration
statement. However, the disclosure is included in the Form
10-K. Please reconcile and update the disclosure. In the column reflecting
the percentage of shares beneficially owned, please provide the percentage
without regard to any conversion
caps.
The
Company advises the Staff that the information in the Company’s Annual Report on
Form 10-K (the “Form 10-K”) speaks as of March 31, 2008, as stated in the
introductory paragraph to the principal stockholder table. Therefore,
there is no inconsistency between the Form 10-K and the Registration Statement,
as subsequent transaction have changed shareholdings (as explained in the
response to the next comment). The financing documents that gave rise
to the beneficial ownership of Company stock by Master Fund (“BridgePointe”)
include restrictions on the number of shares that may be owned by these entities
that have been recognized for many years as effective caps on percentage
beneficial ownership. See e.g. Global Intellicom,
Inc. v. Thomson
Kernaghan et. al., Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH) ¶90,534 (U.S.D.Ct S.D.N.Y
1999). As a result, no revisions are required to be made to the
Registration Statement in response to this comment.
Selling Stocksholders
, page 40
2.
Please
reconcile the 11,771,704 shares held by BridgePointe Master Fund as shown
in the security ownership table on page 40 with the 5,215,496 shares held
by it as disclosed in the Form
10-K.
As set
forth in the response to the previous comment, the Form 10-K speaks as of March
31, 2008. The Company and BridgePoint have since engaged in
previously disclosed securities transactions that have changed BridgePointe’s
ownership of Company stock. As a result, no revisions are required to
be made to the Registration Statement in response to this comment.
The
Company is supplementally submitting to the Staff Annex A that sets forth
securities transactions involving BridgePoint since March 31, 2008.
Please
contact the undersigned at 212-981-6766 with any questions or comments you may
have with respect to the foregoing.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Louis A. Brilleman
2
Annex
A
CryoPort,
Inc.
Capitalization
Table of Issued and Beneficial Shares
BridgePointe
Master Fund updated through June 30, 2008
Shares
Held
Warrants
Conv.
Debt
Combined
(Per
Transfer Agent Report)
BridgePointe
Master Fund Ltd.
3/31/2008
166,479
3,151,259
1,897,758
5,215,496
Sale
of shares held
(166,479
)
(166,479
)
Issue
additional warrants for 4-30-08 amendment of October 2007 Convertible
Debenture
4/30/2008
2,976,190
2,976,190
Issue
additional warrants for May 30, 2008 Convertible
Debenture
4/30/2008
2,258,402
2,258,402
Additional
Beneficial shares for Principal conversion of May 30, 2008 Convertible
Debenture
5/30/2008
1,488,095
1,488,095
BridgePointe
Master Fund Ltd.
6/30/2008
-
8,385,851
3,385,853
11,771,704
**
Ownership of shares is limited to 4.9% per Covertible Debenture
Agreements.
3
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CRYOPORT,
INC.
20382
Barents Sea Circle
Lake
Forest, California 92630
January
25, 2008
VIA
FACSIMILE (202-772-9369) AND EDGAR
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
100
F
Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attention:
Brigitte Lippmann, Esq.
Re:
Cryoport,
Inc.
Registration
Statement on Form SB-2
File
No. 333-147300
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Pursuant
to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the “Act”), Cryoport, Inc. (the “Company”) respectfully
requests that the effective date of the registration statement referred to
above
be accelerated so that it will become effective at 4.00 p.m., Eastern Time,
today, Friday,
January
25, 2008, or as soon thereafter as possible.
We
hereby
acknowledge the following:
·
that
should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated
authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the
Commission from taking any action with respect to the
filing;
·
the
action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated
authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the
Company
from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in the filing; and
·
the
Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness
as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person
under the federal securities laws of the United States.
CRYOPORT,
INC.
By:
/s/
Peter Berry
Name:
Peter Berry
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
Mail Stop 7010
January 14, 2008
Peter Berry
Chief Executive Officer CryoPort, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, CA 92630
Re: CryoPort, Inc. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form SB-2
Filed December 20, 2007 File No. 333-147300
Dear Mr. Berry:
We have limited our review of your filing to those issues we have addressed in our
comments. General
1. We note your response to comment 9 in our letter dated December 9, 2007. Please disclose whether any of the selling shareholders have an existing
short position in the
company’s common stock and, if any of the selling shareholders have any existing short position in the company’s stock, the following additional information:
o the date on which each such selling shareholder entered into that short position; and
o the relationship of the date on which each such selling shareholder entered into that short position to the date of the announcement of the convertible note transaction and the filing of the registration statement (e.g., before or after the announcement of the convertible note
transaction, before the filing or after the filing of the registration statement, etc.).
Exhibit 5.1 – Legal Opinion
2. As previously requested, please delete the language “under the laws of the State of Nevada” in the penultimate paragraph since it implies that the shares will only be fully paid and non-assessable in Nevada.
Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc. January 14, 2008 Page 2 As appropriate, please amend your registration statement in response to these comments. Please contact Brigitte Lippmann at (202) 551- 3713 or me at (202) 551-3760 if you have any
questions.
S i n c e r e l y , Pamela Long
A s s i s t a n t D i r e c t o r cc: Louis A. Brilleman, Esq. Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP 61 Broadway New York, NY 10006
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
Mail Stop 7010
December 3, 2007
Peter Berry
Chief Executive Officer CryoPort, Inc. 20382 Barents Sea Circle Lake Forest, CA 92630
Re: CryoPort, Inc. Registration Statement on Form SB-2
Filed November 9, 2007 File No. 333-147300
Dear Mr. Berry:
We have limited our review of your filing to those issues we have addressed in our
comments. Where indicated, we think you should revise your document in response to these comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments.
Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your
compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. General
1. Because of the nature and size of the transaction being registered, it appears that the transaction is not eligible to be made on a shelf basis under Rule 415(a)(1)(i) and instead appears to represent a primary offering which must be made at a fixed price. We note your disclosure on page 2 that the number of shares offered represents 36% of the total shares outstanding, but this percentage is not based on the number of shares held by non-affiliates. If you wish to continue with the registration of the shares for the affiliates, please identify these selling shareholders as underwriters and include a fixed price at which these selling shareholders will sell the securities or reduce the size of the offering.
Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
December 3, 2007 Page 2 2. Please disclose the total dollar value of the securities underlying the convertible notes that you have registered for resale (using the number of underlying securities that you have registered for resale and the market price per share for those securities on the date of the sale of the convertible notes).
3. Please provide tabular disclosure regarding payments to the investors and affiliates, including the dollar amount of each payment (including the value of any payments to be made in common stock) in connection with the transactions that you have made or may be required to make to any selling shareholder, any affiliate of a selling shareholder, or any person with whom any selling shareholder has a contractual relationship regarding the transaction (including any interest payments, liquidated damages, payments made to “finders” or “placement agents,” and any other payments or potential payments). Please provide footnote disclosure of the terms of each such payment. Please do not include any repayment of principal on the convertible notes in this disclosure.
Further, please disclose the net proceeds to the issuer from the sale of the convertible notes and the total possible payments to the selling shareholders and any of their affiliates in the first year following the sale of convertible notes.
4. Please provide tabular disclosure regarding potential profits to the selling shareholders
upon conversion of the notes, including:
• the total possible profit the selling shareholders could realize as a result of the conversion discount for the securities underlying the convertible notes, presented in a table with the following information disclosed separately:
o the market price per share of the securities underlying the convertible notes on the date of the sale of the convertible notes;
o the conversion price per share of the underlying securities on the date of the sale of the convertible notes, calculated as follows:
if the conversion price per share is set at a fixed price, use the price per share established in the convertible notes; and
if the conversion price per share is not set at a fixed price and, instead, is set at a floating rate in relationship to the market price of the underlying security, use the conversion discount rate and the market rate per share on the date of the sale of the convertible notes and determine the conversion price per share as of that date;
• the total possible shares underlying the convertible notes (assuming no interest payments and complete conversion throughout the term of the notes);
• the combined market price of the total number of shares underlying the convertible notes, calculated by using the market price per share on the date of the sale of the convertible notes and the total possible shares underlying the convertible notes;
Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
December 3, 2007 Page 3
• the total possible shares the selling shareholders may receive and the combined conversion price of the total number of shares underlying the convertible notes calculated by using the conversion price on the date of the sale of the convertible notes and the total possible number of shares the selling shareholder may receive; and
• the total possible discount to the market price as of the date of the sale of the convertible notes, calculated by subtracting the total conversion price on the date of the sale of the convertible notes from the combined market price of the total number of shares underlying the convertible notes on that date.
Since the conversion price per share is fixed unless and until the market price falls below a stated price, at which point the conversion pr ice per share drops to a lower price, please
provide additional tabular disclosure.
5. Please provide tabular disclosure, similar to the comment immediately above, regarding
potential profits to the selling shareholders to be received as a result of any conversion discounts for securities underlying any other warrants, options, notes, or other securities of the issuer that are held by the selling shareholders or any affiliates of the selling shareholders.
6. Please provide tabular disclosure comparing issuer proceeds to potential investor profit, including each of the following items:
• the gross proceeds paid or payable to the issuer in the convertible notes transaction;
• all payments that have been made or that may be required to be made by the issuer that are disclosed in response to Comment 3;
• the resulting net proceeds to the issuer; and
• the combined total possible profit to be realized as a result of any conversion discounts regarding the securities underlying the convertible notes and any other warrants, options, notes, or other securities of the issuer that are held by the selling shareholders or any affiliates of the selling shareholders that is disclosed in response to Comment 4 and Comment 5.
Further, please provide disclosure – as a percentage – of the total amount of all possible payments as disclosed in response to Comment 3 and the total possible discount to the market price of the shares underlying the convertible notes as disclosed in response to Comment 4 divided by the net proceeds to the issuer from the sale of the convertible notes, as well as the amount of that resulting percentage averaged over the term of the convertible notes.
7. Please provide tabular disclosure of all prior securities transactions between the issuer (or any of its predecessors) and the selling shareholders, any affiliates of the selling
Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
December 3, 2007 Page 4
shareholders, or any person with whom any selling shareholder has a contractual relationship regarding the transaction (or any predecessors of those persons), with the table including the following information disclosed separately for each transaction:
• the date of the transaction;
• the number of shares of the class of securities subject to the transaction that were outstanding prior to the transaction;
• the number of shares of the class of securities subject to the transaction that were outstanding prior to the transaction and held by persons other than the selling shareholders, affiliates of the company, or affiliates of the selling shareholders;
• the number of shares of the class of securities subject to the transaction that were issued or issuable in connection with the transaction;
• the percentage of total issued and outstanding securities that were issued or issuable in the transaction (assuming full issuance), with the percentage calculated by taking the number of shares issued and outstanding prior to the applicable transaction and held by persons other than the selling shareholders, affiliates of the company, or affiliates of the selling shareholders, and dividing that number by the number of shares issued or issuable in connection with the applicable transaction;
• the market price per share of the class of securities subject to the transaction immediately prior to the transaction (reverse split adjusted, if necessary); and
• the current market price per share of the class of securities subject to the transaction (reverse split adjusted, if necessary).
8. Please provide tabular disclosure comparing the number of shares being registered to the number of outstanding shares as follows:
• the number of shares outstanding prior to the convertible notes transaction that are held by persons other than the selling shareholders, affiliates of the company, and affiliates of the selling shareholders;
• the number of shares registered for resale by the selling shareholders or affiliates of the selling shareholders in prior registration statements;
• the number of shares registered for resale by the selling shareholders or affiliates of the selling shareholders that continue to be held by the selling shareholders or affiliates of the selling shareholders;
• the number of shares that have been sold in registered resale transactions by the selling shareholders or affiliates of the selling shareholders; and
• the number of shares registered for resale on behalf of the selling shareholders or affiliates of the selling shareholders in the current transaction.
In this analysis, the calculation of the number of outstanding shares should not include any securities underlying any outstanding convertible securities, options, or warrants.
Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
December 3, 2007 Page 5 9. Please provide the following information regarding the company’s intention and ability to make note payments and the presence or absence of short selling by the selling shareholders:
• whether the issuer has the intention, and a reasonable basis to believe that it will have the financial ability, to make all payments on the overlying securities; and
• whether – based on information obtained from the selling shareholders – any of the selling shareholders have an existing short position in the company’s common stock and, if any of the selling shareholders have any existing short position in the company’s stock, the following additional information:
o the date on which each such selling shareholder entered into that short position; and
o the relationship of the date on which each such selling shareholder entered into that short position to the date of the announcement of the convertible note transaction and the filing of the registration statement (e.g., before or after the announcement of the convertible note
transaction, before the filing or after the filing of the registration statement, etc.).
10. Please provide the following information about any relationships between the company and the selling shareholders:
• a materially complete description of the relationships and arrangements that have existed in the past three years or are to be performed in the future between the issuer (or any of its predecessors) and the selling shareholders, any affiliates of the selling shareholders, or any person with whom any selling shareholder has a contractual relationship regarding the transaction (or any predecessors of those persons) – the information provided should include, in reasonable detail, a complete description of the rights and obligations of the parties in connection with the sale of the convertible notes; and
• copies of all agreements between the issuer (or any of its predecessors) and the selling shareholders, any affiliates of the selling shareholders, or any person with whom any selling shareholder has a contractual relationship regarding the transaction (or any predecessors of those persons) in connection with the sale of the convertible notes.
If it is your view that such a description of the relationships and arrangements between and among those parties already is presented in the prospectus and that all agreements between and/or among those parties are included as exhibits to the registration statement, please provide us with confirmation of your view in this regard.
Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
December 3, 2007 Page 6 Prospectus Summary, page 1
General, page 1
11. Please disclose in this section that you ha ve received a going concern opinion from your
auditors.
Recent Financing, page 1
12. Please describe the terms of the warrants which you issued to Joseph Stevens & Company, Inc. and its affiliates. Also explain how you calculated the amount of shares you are registering that are issuable upon conversion of the debentures.
Selling Stockholders, page 38
13. With respect to GunnAllen Financial, please disclose the natural person or persons who exercise the sole or shared voting and/or dispositive powers with respect to the shares to be offered by that stockholder.
14. Please tell us whether any of selling stockholders, other than the persons affiliated with Joseph Stevens & Company, Inc., are broker-dealers or affiliates of a broker-dealer. If a selling stockholder is a broker-dealer, the prospectus should state that the seller is an underwriter. If a selling stockholder is an affiliate of a broker-dealer, provide the following representations in the prospectus: (1) the seller purchased in the ordinary course of business, and (2) at the time of the purchase of the securities to be resold, the seller had no agreements or understandings, directly or indirectly, with any person to distribute the securities. If you cannot provide these representations, state that the seller is an underwriter.
Exhibit 5.1 – Legal Opinion
15. In the penultimate paragraph, please delete the language “under the laws of the State of Delaware,” since it implies that the shares will only be fully paid and non-assessable in Delaware. If counsel qualifies its opinion as to jurisdiction, counsel must opine on the legality of the securities under the laws of Nevada, where the company is incorporated.
As appropriate, please amend your registration statement in response to these comments. You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to expedite our review. Please furnish a cover letter with your amendment that keys your responses to our comments and provides any requested information. Detailed cover letters greatly facilitate our review. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your amendment and responses to our comments.
Peter Berry
CryoPort, Inc.
December 3, 2007 Page 7
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure
in the filing to be certain that the filing includes all information required under the Securities Act of 1933 and that they have provided all information investors require for an informed investment decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company’s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.
Notwithstanding our comments, in the
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GARY
CURTIS CANNON
ATTORNEY
AT LAW
12341
Briardale Way
San
Diego, CA 92128-5212
______________________________________
Telephone
(858) 391-9083 Facsimile (858) 391-9084
email:
garycurtiscannon@lawyer.com
February
13, 2006
Jeffrey
Riedler
Assistant
Director
Division
of Corporate Finance
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re:
CryoPort,
Inc.
Form
10-SB, Amendment 2
Filed
January 26, 2006
File
No. 0-51578
Dear
Mr.
Riedler,
In
response to your comment letter dated February 9, 2006, I have been requested
by
Peter Berry, Chief Executive Officer and President of Cryoport, Inc. (the
“Company”), to respond on behalf of the Company to the SEC comments regarding
the Company’s Form 10-SB, Amendment 2 filing. It is CryoPort’s intent to file an
Amended Form 10-SB/A3 concurrently with the submission of this letter. To that
end, I have provided individual responses to the comments below. Concurrently
the Company will make the electronic filing of Form 10-SB/A3. The Company
responses are in bold type following the restatements of the SEC
comments/questions as follows:
FORM
10-SB
General
1.
We
note the following:
·
Page
41 of the filing identifies Dante Panella as a 6.6%
shareholder;
·
According
to their website, First Capital Investors, Inc. claims your company
as a
client; and
·
Certain
of the press releases on First Capital’s website regarding Gateway
International Holdings, Inc. list Mr. Panella as a contact person
at First
Capital.
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Based
on
Mr. Panella’s connections both to your company and to First Capital, please
provide us with an analysis as to whether any disclosure about transactions
with
First Capital is required pursuant to Item 404(a)(3) of Regulation S-B. Note
that Item 404 covers both proposed transactions and transactions that have
occurred during the past two years.
Mr.
Panella has been an independent investor of Cryoport, Inc. since October 2001.
As stated in the Company’s 10-SB/A2 filing: “In March 2005, the Company entered
into a Share Exchange Agreement with CryoPort Systems, Inc., a California
corporation, and its stockholders, pursuant to which the Company acquired all
of
the issued and outstanding shares of CryoPort Systems, Inc. in exchange for
24,108,105 shares of the Company’s common stock.” It was at this time that
CryoPort, Inc. enlisted the services of First Capital Investors, Inc. on a
fee
for service basis, at the recommendation of Mr. Panella as Cryoport’s Investor
Relations firm to facilitate the transition to a publicly traded company and
keep the Company’s investors informed of the steps required for conversion of
the shareholders former CryoPort Systems, Inc. certificates to CryoPort, Inc
certificates. Up to the time of receipt of your recent letter, the Company
was
not aware of any business relationship between Mr. Panella and First Capital
Investors. Our subsequent inquiries on this matter with Mr. Panella revealed
that he has no current or recent business dealings with First Capital Investors,
Inc. To further, evidence this, the most recent of the Gateway press releases
referencing Mr. Panella as a contact dates back to September 2004 and prior.
Mr.
Panella’s relationship with CryoPort, Inc. is as an independent shareholder and
he is not involved in the management of Cryoport, Inc.
Per
your letter and to further expand the Company’s disclosure in compliance with
Item 404(a)(3), the Company has revised the following statement in the Form
10-SB/A3 on page F-19, Note 9 - Common Stock:
“In
connection with the Share Exchange Agreement with CryoPort Systems, Inc. in
March 2005 (see Note 1), the Company issued 1,000,000 shares to Mr. Dante
Panella, a majority stockholder in exchange for Mr. Panella’s surrender of
1,354,891 shares of Cryoport Systems’ common stock.”
Additionally,
the Company has included the following additional information in the Form
10-SB/A3 on page 48, Item 7 - Related Parties:
“In
connection with the Share Exchange Agreement with CryoPort Systems, Inc. in
March 2005 (see Note 1), the Company issued 1,000,000 shares to Mr. Dante
Panella, a majority stockholder in exchange for Mr. Panella’s surrender of
1,354,891 shares of Cryoport Systems’ common stock. At the time of the Share
Exchange agreement, Mr. Panella held the position of President, CEO of GT-5
Limited. Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, the Company’s then directors
and officers resigned, and the directors and officers of CryoPort Systems,
Inc.
were elected to fill the vacancies created by such resignations. The company’s
name was then changed to Cryoport, Inc. Since the time of the Share Exchange
Agreement, Mr. Panella has not been involved in the management of Cryoport,
Inc.
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During
2004, in connection with a private placement offering, Mr. Panella purchased
a
total of 1,217,225 shares of CryoPort Systems, Inc. common stock for $0.04
per
share with total proceeds of $48,689 received by the Company as follows: 250,000
shares purchased on July 23, 2005, 342,225 shares purchased on October 20,
2005,
and 625,000 shares purchased on November 15, 2005.”
Sales
and Marketing page 15
2.
We
note your response to comment 3. You have not provided a sufficient
analysis under Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-B to justify omitting
your
agreement with CryoPort Systems Ltda. Therefore, please file this
agreement as an exhibit, and discuss its material terms - such as
any
material rights or obligations, duration and termination provisions
- in
the body of your filing. Our precise basis for requesting the filing
of
this agreement is Item 601(b)(10)(i)(B), which requires the filing
of
“[a]ny contract upon which the small business issuer’s business is
substantially dependent, such as contracts with principal customers,
principal suppliers, franchise agreements, etc.” Based on the fact that
CryoPort Systems Ltda. Generated 10% of your revenues for the year
ended
March 31, 2005, it appears your business is “substantially dependents” on
this company. However if you continue to believe you are not required
to
file this agreement, please provide a detailed analysis based on
Item
601(b)(10)(i)(B), discussing why you believe your company is not
“substantially dependent” upon CryoPort Systems
Ltda.
In
response to comment 2 and to further comply with Item
601(b)(10)(i)(B), the
Company has included the CryoPort Systems Ltda. agreement as Exhibit 10.1.8
to
the Form 10-SB/A3 and has included the agreement’s material terms in the Form
10-SB/A3 on page 15 as follows:
“The
Company’s current effective agreement with CryoPort Systems, Ltda. is an
exclusive, ten year agreement, expiring on August 9, 2011, which provides a
17%
commission payable for all sales in the countries of South American (see Exhibit
10.1.8).”
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Item
2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation, page
29
Total
assets, page 29
3.
We
note your response and revisions pursuant to comment 5. Please disclose
in
your filing, as you state in your response letter, that the company
does
not currently have any pending purchase orders from Cancervax, Cell
Genesys, or Argos Therapeutics.
In
response to comment 3, the Company has included the following statement in
the
Form 10-SB/A3 on page 30:
“Although
the Company has received and fulfilled purchase orders from these vaccine
manufacturers, the Company does not currently have any pending purchase orders
from Cancervax, Cell Genesys or Argos Therapeutics.”
Should
you wish to discuss our responses, please contact me immediately.
Sincerely,
/s/
Gary
Curtis Cannon
Gary
Curtis Cannon
Attorney
at Law
GCC/dc
Cc:
CryoPort,
Inc.
Corbin
& Company, LLP
File
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<DOCUMENT> <TYPE>LETTER <SEQUENCE>1 <FILENAME>filename1.txt <TEXT> Mail Stop 6010 February 9, 2006 Mr. Peter Berry Chief Executive Officer and President CryoPort, Inc. 451 Atlas Street Brea, California 92821 Re: CryoPort, Inc. Form 10-SB, Amendment 2 Filed January 26, 2006 File No. 0-51578 Dear Mr. Berry: We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. Where indicated, we think you should revise your document in response to these comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments. Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. FORM 10-SB General 1. We note the following: * Page 41 of the filing identifies Dante Panella as a 6.6% shareholder; * According to their website, First Capital Investors, Inc. claims your company as a client; and * Certain of the press releases on First Capital`s website regarding Gateway International Holdings, Inc. list Mr. Panella as a contact person at First Capital. Based on Mr. Panella`s connections both to your company and to First Capital, please provide us with an analysis as to whether any disclosure about transactions with First Capital or with Mr. Panella is required pursuant to Item 404(a)(3) of Regulation S-B. Note that Item 404 covers both proposed transactions and transactions that have occurred during the past two years. Sales and Marketing, page 15 2. We note your response to comment 3. You have not provided a sufficient analysis under Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-B to justify omitting your agreement with CryoPort Systems Ltda. Therefore, please file this agreement as an exhibit, and discuss its material terms- such as any material rights or obligations, duration, and termination provisions-in the body of your filing. Our precise basis for requesting the filing of this agreement is Item 601(b)(10)(i)(B), which requires the filing of "[a]ny contract upon which the small business issuer`s business is substantially dependent, such as contracts with principal customers, principal suppliers, franchise agreements, etc." Based on the fact that CryoPort Systems Ltda. generated 10% of your revenues for the year ended March 31, 2005, it appears your business is "substantially dependent" on this company. However, if you continue to believe you are not required to file this agreement, please provide a detailed analysis based on Item 601(b)(10)(i)(B), discussing why you believe your company is not "substantially dependent" upon CryoPort Systems Ltda. Item 2. Management`s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation, page 29 Total assets, page 29 3. We note your response and revisions pursuant to comment 5. Please disclose in your filing, as you state in your response letter, that the company does not currently have any pending purchase orders from Cancervax, Cell Genesys, or Argos Therapeutics. * * * As appropriate, please amend your filing and respond to these comments within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to expedite our review. Please furnish a cover letter with your amendment that keys your responses to our comments and provides any requested information. Detailed cover letters greatly facilitate our review. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your amendment and responses to our comments. You may contact Keira Ino at (202) 551-3659 or Oscar Young at (202) 551-3622 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Greg Belliston at (202) 551-3861 or me at (202) 551-3715 with any other questions. Sincerely, Jeffrey Riedler Assistant Director cc: Gary Curtis Cannon Attorney at Law 12341 Briardale Way San Diego, CA 92128-5212 ?? ?? ?? ?? Mr. Peter Berry CryoPort, Inc. February 9, 2006 Page 1 </TEXT> </DOCUMENT>
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GARY
CURTIS CANNON
ATTORNEY
AT LAW
12341
Briardale Way
San
Diego, CA 92128-5212
____________________
Telephone
(858) 391-9083 Facsimile (858) 391-9084
email:
garycurtiscannon@lawyer.com
January
24, 2006
Jeffrey
Riedler
Assistant
Director
Division
of Corporate Finance
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re:
CryoPort,
Inc.
Form
10-SB, Amendment 1
Filed
December 19, 2005
File
No.
0-51578
Dear
Mr.
Riedler,
In
response to your comment letter dated January 9, 2006, I have been requested
by
Peter Berry, Chief Executive Officer and President of Cryoport, Inc. (the
“Company”), to respond on behalf of the Company to the SEC comments regarding
the Company’s Form 10-SB/A1 filing. It is CryoPort’s intent to file an Amended
Form 10-SB/A2 concurrently with the submission of this letter. To that end,
I
have provided individual responses to the comments below. Concurrently the
Company will make the electronic filing of Form 10-SB/A2. The Company responses
are in bold type following the restatements of the SEC comments/questions as
follows:
FORM
10-SB
Overview,
page 4
1.
We
note the revisions pursuant to comment 4, and we reissue the comment
in
part. Please discuss the development status of your disposable shippers.
Discuss the steps you have taken toward developing these products,
and
discuss the steps you will need to take to bring the products to
market.
The
Company has inserted the following additional discussion to the
Overview
section on Pages 4 & 5:
“The
proposed disposable products are planned to share many of the characteristics
and basic design details of the currently available reusable products. The
expected shared characteristics include general geometry and shape, similar
liquid capacities and similar thermal performance characteristics. As a result,
much of the market experience gained from the sale of these products is directly
relevant to the usage characteristics of the proposed disposable products.
There
are two general sizes planned. A larger size of approximately 5 liters capacity,
based on a product that has been produced for 4 years, is planned for shipping
larger quantities of material and / or for use when longer holding times are
required. A smaller size of approximately 1 liter capacity is planned for unit
dose shipments, or small quantity shipments, that are direct to the end user
and
thus require shorter holding times. Because the shipment quantity is fairly
small, a shorter holding time capability does not admit an unacceptable
financial risk of product loss. The basis of the migration from reusable status
to disposable status is primarily one of cost; disposability requires a
generally lower cost product. Lower cost is achieved from higher production
quantities, from lower cost materials and from automated manufacturing methods.
The currently ongoing development related to these items is principally focused
on material properties, particularly those properties related to the low
temperature requirement and the vacuum retention characteristics; i.e.,
permeability of the materials. Several different metallic and polymeric
materials have been subjected to testing to this point. One non-traditional
material has been qualified and is available for production subject to the
demand for higher production quantities that will justify the capital
investment. Other materials are currently being evaluated for long term vacuum
retention characteristics by analyzing permeation properties. These are long
term tests that are being conducted by a commercial, well known laboratory.
Further on steps that are required to successfully market the products to a
broad spectrum of potential customers are largely related to a perceived need
to
customize the product characteristics to specific customer’s requirements. This
can only be accomplished once the potential customer is identified and
preliminary discussions are begun relative to the specific needs of that
customer. Items potentially involved at this stage include the required holding
time, the required product capacity, and the impacts of the distribution
environment from in plant packing to end use unpacking. We believe that each
potential customer may have a specific set of needs that can be satisfied from
a
catalog like listing of the generic characteristics of the planned products.
Other advances additional to the development work on the cryogenic container
include both an improved liquid nitrogen retention system and a secondary
protective packaging system. This secondary system has a low cost that lends
itself to disposal. Further, it adds an additional liquid nitrogen retention
capability to further assure compliance with IATA and ICAO regulations that
prohibit egress of liquid nitrogen from the shipping
package.”
Development
of International Programs and Markets, Page 10
2.
We
reissue comment 10 in part. Please disclose whether the 10-day hold
time
referenced in this section is a static hold time or a functional hold
time.
In
order to further clarify the specification of static hold time in comparison
to
the functional hold time of the Company’s shippers the following has been
inserted in the section Development
of International Programs and Markets
now located on page 11:
“The
maximum guaranteed temperature hold time of our 5 liter shipper is 16 days
which
is quoted under perfect and ideal conditions when in a "static” (i.e.
stationary) condition only. The functional (in shipping use) hold time of this
same 5 liter shipper is 10 days. Functional hold times are intended to be an
indication only of how many days a shipper can be expected
to hold its temperature when subjected to normal shipping
usage.”
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Sales
and Marketing, Page 14
3.
We
note your response to comment 11, and we reissue the comment. Please
identify in your filing your South American sales agent, and state
the
amount of revenues this agent accounted for. We note filing as an exhibit
the agreement with this agent would “create difficulties.” Please note
that if the agreement falls under Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-B,
it
must be filed regardless of your preference to keep it confidential.
Therefore, please either file the agreement as an exhibit or provide
us
with an analysis as to why this agreement is not required to be filed
under Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-B. Please note that if you file
it,
you may request confidential treatment for the immaterial sensitive
terms
by following the procedure outlined in Rule 24b-2 of the Exchange Act
and
Staff Legal Bulletin 1, which can be found at .
The
Company has inserted the following sentence in the Sales
and Marketing
section now found on page 15:
“The
Company’s South American agent is CryoPort Systems Ltda. in Sao Paulo, Brazil
and all South American revenues reported have been generated by this agent
in
the Brazilian market.”
Management
would prefer not to file the agreement as an exhibit for the following
reasons:
§
It
is a straightforward sales agent agreement that has been in existence
for
more than 3 years and pre-dates current management.
§
The
agreement is “too generous” as negotiated by previous management with
respect to the following:
-
The term of the agreement is 10 years.
-
The agreement is exclusive.
-
The territory is too vast and unrealistic - (all of South
America).
-
The agreement offers a 17% commission to the agent.
-
The agreement has no performance metrics in place.
§
Management
does not intend to duplicate these terms in any future agreements and
intends to renegotiate this agreement at the earliest
opportunity.
Current
management has and is only establishing and negotiating shorter term,
non-exclusive agreements with performance metrics and lower levels of agent
commissions in more limited territories. Management believes that filing this
agreement could create difficulties with other current and future selling agent
agreements.
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Manufacturing,
page 18
4.
We
note that in response to comment 15, you state, “It is believed that any
of the currently used manufacturers could be replaced within a short
period of time…” This statement appears to contradict a sentence in the
previous paragraph that reads, “For some components, however, there are
relatively few alternative sources of supply and the establishment
of
additional or replacement suppliers may not be accomplished quickly.”
Please reconcile. It appears you should identify the suppliers that
would
be difficult to replace.
In
order to clarify its position for replacement of supply sources, the Company
has
modified the discussion in the Manufacturing
section now located on page 19 as follows:
“For
some components, however, there are relatively few alternate sources of supply
and the establishment of additional or replacement suppliers may not be
accomplished immediately, however, the Company has identified alternate
qualified suppliers which the Company believes could replace existing suppliers.
Should this occur, the Company believes the maximum disruption of production
could be a short period of time, on the order of approximately four to six
weeks. The Company anticipates that this will initially be the case with the
outer shell the Company is developing for its disposable
shipper.”
Item
2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operations, page
28
Liquidity
of Capital Resources, page 28
5.
We
note your response to comment 26 and reissue the comment. Please be
aware
that you are required to disclose all information that is material
to
investors, regardless of any commercial harm disclosure might
cause.
·
Please
identify the vaccine manufacturers that are using your product in clinical
trials, and identify the “two large, and well established manufacturing
companies” with whom you are currently
negotiating.
·
Please
file all agreements you have entered into with the above parties and
discuss the agreements’ material terms in your filing. If you do not
believe the agreements and their terms are not material to investors,
please explain to us why not.
·
We
note that in a May 11, 2005 press release, you stated Cell Genesys
purchased over 100 of your “reusable lightweight shippers with a projected
need over the coming months for several hundred more.” Subsequently, in a
July 27, 2005 press release, you refer to a customer that purchased
100
reusable shippers and was scheduled to purchase an additional 400 units
through April 2006. This press release described this relationship
as
“exciting… as we believe this customer has a number of products in their
pipeline that will be able to benefit by using CryoPort shippers in
the
future.” Please disclose this relationship in your filing. It would appear
to affect your disclosure under items 101, 303, and 601 of Regulation
S-B.
Also, tell us whether Cell Genesys is one of the parties referenced
in the
first bullet point above.
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The
vaccine manufacturers that have purchased the Company’s products are Cancervax,
Cell Genesys and Argos Therapeutics. All sales are made on purchase order basis
only and the Company has no pending purchase orders with these vaccine
manufacturers at this time.
Since
negotiations are still underway with two large potential manufacturing partners
management believes that nothing will be served by disclosing the names of
these
companies to any potential investor since nothing has yet been agreed and since
both companies are well known disclosing their names could in fact have a
“misleading” effect on any potential investors evaluation of the
Company.
No
agreements have been entered into with any of the above referenced companies
other than confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
Cell
Genesys is one of the parties referred to in bullet point one and is the party
referred to in the July 2005 press release. Subsequent to the May 11, 2005
press
release, Cell Genesys requested that the Company refrain from using their name
in any future press release without their explicit permission in order to
protect their confidentiality. In compliance with the customer’s request, the
Company is not using the customer’s name in the Form
10-SB/A2.
At the time of the July 2005 release, the Company did not have permission from
Cell Genesys to use their name in the release and therefore did not specify
the
customer’s name.
Critical
Accounting Policies, page 32
6.
Regarding
prior comment thirty on Section V. of Financial Reporting Release
72,
please tell us how, for each of your critical accounting estimates
or
assumptions, you have discussed the following or revise your disclosure
to
discuss the following:
·
how
accurate the estimate/assumption has been in the
past;
·
how
much the estimate/assumption has changed in the
past;
·
specific
sensitivity of the estimate/assumption to change, based on other outcomes
that are reasonably likely to occur and would have a material effect;
and
·
quantitative
information about the estimate/assumption, when it is reasonably available
and will provide material
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<DOCUMENT> <TYPE>LETTER <SEQUENCE>1 <FILENAME>filename1.txt <TEXT> Mail Stop 6010 January 9, 2006 Mr. Peter Berry Chief Executive Officer and President CryoPort, Inc. 451 Atlas Street Brea, California 92821 Re: CryoPort, Inc. Form 10-SB, Amendment 1 Filed December 19, 2005 File No. 0-51578 Dear Mr. Berry: We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. Where indicated, we think you should revise your document in response to these comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments. Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. FORM 10-SB Overview, page 4 1. We note the revisions pursuant to comment 4, and we reissue the comment in part. Please discuss the development status of your disposable shippers. Discuss the steps you have taken toward developing these products, and discuss the steps you will need to take to bring the products to market. Development of International Programs and Markets, page 10 2. We reissue comment 10 in part. Please disclose whether the 10- day hold time referenced in this section is a static hold time or a functional hold time. Sales and Marketing, page 14 3. We note your response to comment 11, and we reissue the comment. Please identify in your filing your South American sales agent, and state the amount of revenues this agent accounted for. We note filing as an exhibit the agreement with this agent would "create difficulties." Please note that if the agreement falls under Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-B, it must be filed regardless of your preference to keep it confidential. Therefore, please either file the agreement as an exhibit or provide us with an analysis as to why this agreement is not required to be filed under Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-B. Please note that if you file it, you may request confidential treatment for the immaterial sensitive terms by following the procedure outlined in Rule 24b-2 of the Exchange Act and Staff Legal Bulleting 1, which can be found at www.sec.gov. Manufacturing, page 18 4. We note that in response to comment 15, you state, "It is believed that any of the currently used manufacturers could be replaced within a short period of time . . . ." This statement appears to contradict a sentence in the previous paragraph that reads, "For some components, however, there are relatively few alternative sources of supply and the establishment of additional or replacement suppliers may not be accomplished quickly." Please reconcile. It appears you should identify the suppliers that would be difficult to replace. Item 2. Management`s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation, page 28 Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 28 5. We note your response to comment 26 and reissue the comment. Please be aware that you are required to disclose all information that is material to investors, regardless of any commercial harm disclosure might cause. * Please identify the vaccine manufacturers that are using your product in clinical trials, and identify the "two large, and well established manufacturing companies" with whom you are currently negotiating. * Please file all agreements you have entered into with the above parties and discuss the agreements` material terms in your filing. If you do not believe the agreements and their terms are material to investors, please explain to us why not. * We note that in a May 11, 2005 press release, you stated Cell Genesys purchased 100 of your "reusable lightweight shippers with a projected need over the coming months for several hundred more." Subsequently, in a July 27, 2005 press release, you refer to a customer that purchased 100 reusable shippers and was scheduled to purchase an additional 400 units through April 2006. This press release described this relationship as "exciting . . . as we believe this customer has a number of products in their pipeline that will be able to benefit by using CryoPort shippers in the future." Please disclose this relationship in your filing. It would appear to affect your disclosure under Items 101, 303, and 601 of Regulation S-B. Also, tell us whether Cell Genesys is one of the parties referenced in the first bullet point above. Critical Accounting Policies, page 32 6. Regarding prior comment thirty on Section V. of Financial Reporting Release 72, please tell us how, for each of your critical accounting estimates or assumptions, you have discussed the following or revise your disclosure to discuss the following: * how accurate the estimate/assumption has been in the past; * how much the estimate/assumption has changed in the past; * specific sensitivity of the estimate/assumption to change, based on other outcomes that are reasonably likely to occur and would have a material effect; and * quantitative information about the estimate/assumption, when it is reasonably available and will provide material information for investors. Part F/S - Financial Statements, page F-1 Audited Financial Statements, page F-1 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, page F-6 7. Please disclose the following about all equity instruments issued prior to your shares being traded on the pink sheets or all equity instruments during any period where your estimates of the fair value of your common stock differed materially from the prices reported on the pink sheets: * the nature and date of the issuance; * the number of shares issued or issuable upon exercise of the instrument; * the per share amount paid or exercise price; * your estimate of the fair value of any common stock issuable upon exercise; * the nature of your relationship with the recipient; * the amount of any compensation or interest expense; * the nature and terms of any concurrent transactions; and * the significant factors contributing to the changes in your estimate of fair value and to material differences between your estimate and any prices reported on the pink sheets. Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, page F-7 8. As it is unclear from your disclosures and your response to our prior comment 38, please revise your disclosures to describe the process for and the significant assumptions used in estimating the fair value of your common stock in each of the situations listed in that comment. In addition, as was requested in that comment, please tell us how you considered the value implied by any sales of your stock to unrelated third parties. Furthermore, once your stock began trading on the pink sheets, please further justify to us how the trading price was not representative of the fair value of your common stock. In so doing, please clarify the extent to which your estimates of fair value differ from the trading price and to which you have different classes of stock. Finally, please tell us the specific provisions within GAAP that support the estimates you made when your stock was trading on the pink sheets and address how those estimates are consistent with: paragraph 10(a) of APB 25, paragraph 395 of SFAS 123, and paragraphs 47 and 48 of SFAS 128. In so doing, please tell us whether you should have and if you considered paragraph 3(a) of SFAS 115, which appears to suggest that the fair value of your stock was readily determinable when prices are available in the over-the-counter market and public reported by the National Quotation Bureau, which appear to have subsequently become the pink sheets. Interim Financial Statements, page F-24 9. Please update your financial statements through September 30, 2005, pursuant to Part F/S of Form 10-SB and Item 310(g) of Regulation S-B. * * * As appropriate, please amend your filing and respond to these comments within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to expedite our review. Please furnish a cover letter with your amendment that keys your responses to our comments and provides any requested information. Detailed cover letters greatly facilitate our review. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your amendment and responses to our comments. You may contact Keira Ino at (202) 551-3659 or Oscar Young at (202) 551-3622 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Greg Belliston at (202) 551-3861 or me at (202) 551-3715 with any other questions. Sincerely, Jeffrey Riedler Assistant Director cc: Gary Curtis Cannon Attorney at Law 12341 Briardale Way San Diego, CA 92128-5212 ?? ?? ?? ?? Mr. Peter Berry CryoPort, Inc. January 9, 2006 Page 1 </TEXT> </DOCUMENT>
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GARY
CURTIS CANNON
ATTORNEY
AT LAW
12341
Briardale Way
San
Diego, CA 92128-5212
____________________
Telephone
(858) 391-9083 Facsimile (858) 391-9084
email:
garycurtiscannon@lawyer.com
December
9, 2005
Jeffrey
Riedler
Assistant
Director
Division
of Corporate Finance
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re:
CryoPort,
Inc.
Form
10-SB
Filed
October 20, 2005
File
No.
0-51578
Dear
Mr.
Riedler,
As
General Counsel for CryoPort, Inc. (CryoPort), I have been requested by Peter
Berry CryoPort’ s Chief Executive Officer to respond on behalf of the Company to
the SEC comments letter of November 16, 2005 regarding CryoPort’s Form 10-SB
filing. It is CryoPort’s intent to file an Amended Form 10-SB once we have had a
review and acceptance of the Company’s responses. To that end, I have provided
individual responses to the comments below. They should be read in conjunction
not only with the comments letter, but the initial Form 10-SB filing and
the
Form 10-SB/A draft enclosed with this letter. Once the SEC is satisfied with
the
proposed changes and or the responses, the Company will make the electronic
filing. The responses are as follows:
Comment
1:
It
is the
intent of CryoPort to complete the Registration before the 60 days.
Comment
2:
The
following information per SB Regulation 101 (b)(11) has been added as a final
paragraph in the “Manufacturing” section on page 19: “The Company’s
manufacturing process uses non- hazardous cleaning solutions which are provided
and disposed of by an EPA approved supplier. EPA compliance costs for the
Company are therefore negligible.” (See Draft Form 10-SB/A).
The
following information per SB Regulation 101(b)(12) has been added in paragraph
4
under the “Overview” section on page 4: “The Company currently occupies
approximately 8,000
Jeffrey
Riedler, Assistant Director
United
States Security and Exchange Commission
December
9, 2005
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2
square
feet of manufacturing and office space in Brea, California and have five
full-time employees
and three full-time and eight part-time consultants.” (See Draft Form
10-SB/A).
Comment
3: In response to SEC comment #3, CryoPort has added additional information
to
the first paragraph in the “Overview” section on page 4, to make a more
straightforward explanation of what a dry cryogenic shipper is. (See Draft
Form
10-SB/A).
Comment
4: In response to comment #4, the Company has added additional information
in
paragraph 2 in the “Overview” section on page 4 to further explain the
differences of reusable and disposable shippers and the current development
status of the disposable shippers. (See Draft Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
5: In response to comment #5, the Company has inserted as the last paragraph
in
the “Overview” section on page 4, the following: “As reported in the Report of
Independent Registered Public Accountant on the Company’s March 31, 2005 and
2004 financial statements, the Company has incurred recurring losses from
operations and has a stockholders’ deficit. These factors, among others raise
substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
See page 26, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation” for
further discussion.” (See Draft Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
6: In response to comment #6, the Company has inserted into the second paragraph
under the “History” section on Page 5, the following: “The exchange price was
reached through discussions between CryoPort Systems, Inc.’s board of directors
and stockholders, and G.T.5-Limited’s board of directors and major stockholders,
taking into account supply and demand factors as well as the historical share
prices to non-insiders of each company. The acquisition was a transaction
involving the cashless exchange of shares only.” (See Draft Form
10-SB/A).
Comment
7: The Share Exchange Agreement was provided in the original filing as Exhibit
10.1.1.
Comment
8: In response to comment #8 , the Company has inserted at the end of the
paragraph in the “Smaller,
More Efficient Packaging.”
Section
on Page 9: “CryoPort currently manufactures its reusable shipper with an
approximate liquid nitrogen volume of five liters. The Company’s future intended
products will be a range of shippers with liquid nitrogen capacities from
approximately one to five liters in size.” (See Draft Form
10-SB/A).
Comment
9: In response to comment #9, the Company has inserted at the end of the
first
paragraph in the section “Emphasis
on Decreasing Costs and System Simplification.”
on Page
9 -“The current price of CryoPort’s reusable shippers range from $685 to $1,095.
The price range for the proposed disposable/one way shippers when developed
is
initially expected to range from $50 to $175 per use depending on size.” (See
Draft Form 10-SB/A).
Jeffrey
Riedler, Assistant Director
United
States Security and Exchange Commission
December
9, 2005
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3
Comment
10: In response to comment #10, the Company has revised the second paragraph
in
the section “Emphasis
on Decreasing Cost and System Simplification.”
As well
as the third paragraph on page 8 in section “Industry Overview” to clarify the
product’s hold time and provide competitive hold time comparison. (See Draft
Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
11: In response to comment #11, the Company has only one sales and distribution
agent for South America which accounts for 10% of annual sales. This information
has been incorporated in the first paragraph of the section “Sales and
Marketing” on Page 14. The details of the Company’s contract with its South
American sales and distribution agent are confidential. Providing the contract
as an exhibit or exposing the terms of the contract would create difficulties
with other company agents and distributors, as well as customers and other
market competitors. Therefore we are not including a copy of the contract
as an
exhibit.
Comment
12: In response to comment #12, the Company has inserted the requested
information showing the sales breakdown by geographical area in the “Sales and
Marketing” section on page 14. (See Draft Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
13: In response to comment #13, the Company has revised the paragraph in
the
“Competition” section on page 17 to include the following: “Other competitive
factors include the ability of the shipper to retain liquid nitrogen when
placed
in non-upright positions, the overall “leak-proffness” of the package which
determines compliance with shipping regulations and the overall weight and
volume of the package which determine shipping costs.” (See Draft Form
10-SB/A).
Comment
14: In response to comment #14, the Company has revised the paragraph in
the
“Research and Development” section on page 18 to included the following: “The
Company’s principal research and development activities for the years 2004 and
2005 have centered around the investigation of materials of construction
for the
products and packages with the view of identifying those materials that yield
fabrication costs consistent with the concept of disposability. Prototypes
of
one version of a unit dose transport system were developed and preliminary
designs of a second concept were completed. Other research and development
effort was directed toward improvements to the liquid nitrogen retention
system
to render it more reliable in the general shipping environment.” (See Draft Form
10-SB/A).
Comment
15: In response to comment #14, the Company has inserted a paragraph in the
“Manufacturing” section on page 18 as follows: “Primary manufacturers include
Spaulding Composites Company, Peterson Spinning and Stamping, Lydall Industrial
Thermal Solutions, Ludwig, Inc., and Porex Porous Products Group. There are
no
specific agreements with any manufacturer nor are there any long term
commitments to any. It is believed that any of the currently used manufacturers
could be replaced within a short period of time as none have a proprietary
component nor a substantial capital investment specific to the Company’s
products.”
Jeffrey
Riedler, Assistant Director
United
States Security and Exchange Commission
December
9, 2005
Page
4
Comment
16: In response to comment #16, the Company has inserted a chart on page
19 in
the “Proprietary Rights and Licensing” section which includes the requested
information including issuance and expiration dates for patents and trademarks.
Additionally, the Company has inserted information to describe the patents
and
trademarks in more detail as follows: “The technology covered by the above
indicated patents refer to matters specific to the use of liquid nitrogen
dewars
relative to the shipment of biological materials. The concepts include those
of
disposability,
package configuration details, liquid nitrogen retention systems, systems
related to
thermal
performance, systems related to packaging integrity, and matters generally
relevant to the containment of liquid nitrogen. Similarly, the trademarks
mentioned relate to the cryogenic temperature shipping activity.” (See Draft
Form 10-SB/A).
Comments
17 and 18: In response to comments #17 and #18, the Company has consolidated
the
original first four risk factors into a single risk factor and has eliminated
any repetitive text in the “Risk Factors” section on pages 21 and 22. In
addition, the Company has added subheadings to clarify each risk factor
discussed. (See Draft Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
19: In response to comment #19, the Company has revised its statement in
the
“Risk Factors” section on page 23 relating to if the Company is not able to
compete effectively, to more clearly disclose the Company’s competitive
situation. Harsco Corporation and Chart industries have been included as
the two
significant competitors. (See Draft Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
20: In response to comment #20, the Company, has revised its statement in
the
“Risk Factors” section on page 24 in order to clearly identify the factors
affecting the Company’s ability to attract and retain skilled personnel by
inserting the following: “The ability to attract personnel to the Company’s
vision depends both on the availability of skills and the ability of the
Company
to offer compensation and challenge compatible to career goals of potentially
available individuals. The Company believes that the growth factors in the
target markets are sufficient to attract the interest of well-qualified
candidates for all positions as the need arises. To date, the Company has
not
experienced difficulties in attracting or retaining qualified personnel,
however, there is no guarantee that there will be well-qualified candidates
in
the future to choose from.” (See Draft Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
21: In response to comment #21, the Company has inserted a statement in the
“Risk Factors” section on page 25 relating to if the Company’s needs and ability
to obtain patent and trademark protection, as follows: “The Company is not aware
of any other company that is infringing any of the Company’s patents or
trademarks nor does the Company believe that it is infringing on the patents
or
trademarks of any other person or organization.” See Draft Form
10-SB/A).
Comment
22: In response to comment #22, the Company has inserted a statement in the
“Risk Factors” section on Page 25 relating to if the Company experiences
manufacturing delays or
Jeffrey
Riedler, Assistant Director
United
States Security and Exchange Commission
December
9, 2005
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interruptions,
as follows: “To date, the Company has not experienced any material delays to the
point that its ability to adequately service customer needs has been
compromised. As the business develops and quantity of production increases,
it
becomes more likely that such problems could arise.” (See Draft Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
23: In response to comment #23, the Company has made no revision to “Risk
Factors” section relating to the Company’s governance by Penny Stock Regulations
on page 24 due to the
fact
that
the last trade and the current asked price for Company common stock, as of
the
date of the Company’s responses, was and is $4.90. This more current trade price
was inserted in the subsequent “Risk Factors” section relating to effect on
stock price from the sale of substantial shares on page 27. (See Draft Form
10-SB/A).
Comment
24: In response to comment #24, the Company, on Page 28, has revised its
statement in the “Liquidity and Capital Resources” - “Total assets” section to
disclose the amount and source of research and development funding to include
the following: “During the last quarter of the Company’s 2005 operations,
funding of $991,875 was raised through a private placement offering of common
stock under regulation D. These funds were raised to allow the Company to
focus
on accelerating the development and launch of its one-way product.” (See Draft
Form 10-SB/A).
Comment
25: In response to comment #25, the Company has inserted information to update
the Company’s current plans to launch the new product in the “Liquidity and
Capital Resources” - “Total assets” section on page 28 as follows: “It is
planned to introduce the single use/one-way products in limited quantities
to
selective customers during the first quarter of calendar year 2006. A broad
launch to the general market will follow after feedback from this introductory
distribution is received and customer demand is further understood. A higher
volume demand is expected to develop as pharmaceutical products requiring
cryogenic protection come to
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GARY
CURTIS CANNON
ATTORNEY
AT LAW
12341
Briardale Way
San
Diego, CA 92128-5212
____________________
Telephone
(858) 391-9083 Facsimile (858) 391-9084
email:
garycurtiscannon@lawyer.com
By
Fax and Mail
December
15, 2005
Jeffrey
Riedler
Assistant
Director
Division
of Corporate Finance
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re:
CryoPort,
Inc.
Form
10-SB
Filed
October
20, 2005
File
No.
0-51578
Dear
Mr.
Riedler,
The
Company management has had internal discussions and a review by our auditors
of
my December 9, 2005 letter addressed to you responding to the SEC comments
regarding the CryoPort 10-SB filed October 20, 2005. Based on the review by
CryoPort’s auditors and further internal discussion of management, CryoPort is
providing further information by adding additional clarifying language to the
Company’s responses to the SEC comments numbers 38, 39 and 41 as set forth
below. In addition, CryPort has filed its Form 10-SB/A as initially requested
by
Greg Belliston in my conversation with him on December 13, 2005.
Note
2
- Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, page F-7
38.
Based
on your web site, it appears that your common stock currently trades
on
the pink sheets. As such, please tell us how you considered those
quoted
market prices and the value implied by any sales of your stock to
unrelated third parties in:
·
concluding
that employee options granted were issued at or above the estimated
fair
value of your stock on the grant date, as disclosed on Pages F-12
and
F-33;
All
options granted were issued at a per share price consistent with the selling
prices of the Company’s common stock in its most recent private placement
offerings to third parties at around the date of the option grants. The selling
prices
Jeffrey
Riedler, Assistant Director
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
December
15, 2005
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of
the
Company’s common stock ranged from $0.50 to $0.70 per share in fiscal 2004, as
disclosed in Note 9 of the consolidated financial statements. As the Company
was
not publicly traded during this period, the Company utilized its most recent
sales of its common stock to value options in that period. In fiscal 2005,
the
selling prices of the Company’s common stock ranged from $0.04 to $0.75, as also
disclosed in Note 9 of the consolidated financial statements. As the Company
was
not publicly traded from April 1, 2004 through March 15, 2005, the Company
again
utilized its most recent sales of its common stock to value options granted
during that period. No options have been issued subsequent to March 15, 2005
so
consideration of the publicly traded prices on the Pink Sheets was not necessary
for option valuations. The last option issued was in August 2004 which was
several months before the Company considered the “reverse merger” transaction.
In consideration of all facts that existed at the dates of grant, we believe
that all options were issued at or above the fair value of our common stock
on
the grant dates.
·
determining
the stock-based employee compensation under the fair value method
reported
on Pages F-12 and F-33;
As
noted
in the previous response, all options were issued at or above the fair value
of
our common stock on the grant dates. In consideration of the facts noted above,
all option fair values were calculated using the Black-Scholes option-pricing
model on the date of grant using the following assumptions: (i) no dividend
yield, (ii) average volatilities in both years of 60%, (iii)
weighted-average risk-free interest rate of approximately 3.21% and 3.29%,
respectively, and (iv) expected lives of five years.
·
calculating
the impact under the treasury method of dilutive convertible debt,
stock
options, and warrants that is disclosed on Pages F-13 and
F-34.
As
noted
above, the Company was not “publicly traded” until March 15, 2005. Prior and
subsequent to that date through March 31, 2005, the Company conducted
fundraising activities to raise capital through private sales at $0.75 per
share, a value at which the Company believed to be the fair market value of
its
common stock. The capital raise resulted in an additional 1,322,497 shares
issued at that price. The Company did note, however, that there were “public
transactions” on the Pink Sheets from the period March 15, 2005 through March
31, 2005. Those trades were at prices ranging from $1.00 to $5.50 per share
per
the Pinksheets.com website. However, the stock was so thinly traded when
compared to the overall common stock shares outstanding of nearly 30 million,
that it appeared inappropriate for the Company to use those trades to determine
the fair value of the Company’s common stock as those trades amounted to pure
speculation on
Jeffrey
Riedler, Assistant Director
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
December
15, 2005
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the
Company’s common stock. Additionally, the Company was not yet a reporting entity
so there was no publicly available information for which those traders to make
investment decisions. Of further note, of the 30 million shares outstanding,
only 2.5 million shares are in the public float. In that light, the Company
did
not factor in the quoted Pink Sheet prices in calculating the impact under
the
treasury method but opted instead to use the Company’s private funding common
stock values to produce a more accurate and conservative impact.
When
contemplating the impact using the treasury method of dilutive convertible
debt,
stock options, and warrants which is disclosed on Page F-34, the Company did
not
conduct any capital raises, other than warrant exercises, until August 2005.
At
June 30, 2005, given the progress of the Company’s business model and related
events, it was our firm belief that the $0.75 was a better representation of
the
fair market value of the Company’s common stock. The Company noted that its
stock continued to trade on the Pink Sheets in the $5.00 to $6.00 range.
However, again, the trading was so thin versus the Company’s total outstanding
shares that we felt it would be inaccurate to utilize those trading prices.
For
example, at the lower trading price during the period of $5.00, the Company’s
value would be approximately $150 million. Using $0.75, the Company’s value is
approximately $22,500,000. Given the Company’s market position and results, the
latter value appears more realistic and a better, more conservative, indicator
of the value of the Company as of June 30, 2005.
·
estimating
the fair value of the shares provided to the former employee as disclosed
on page F-20;
The
value
of the Company’s common stock at the time these shares were issued to the former
employee was based on the private sales of the Company’s common stock ($0.04) at
the time this settlement was completed. In August 2004, the Company was
experiencing a severe operating cash flow shortage and was in danger of having
to cease operations. In that light, the Company notified its existing
shareholders of the need of immediate funding. To facilitate the funding, the
Company, beginning in August 2004, offered the Company’s common stock at $0.04
per share. The low price of the shares offered was in consideration of the
risk
premium the shareholders were undertaking. In the fundraising activities from
August 2004 through November 2004, the Company sold approximately 10 million
shares to meet its funding needs. Consistent with this funding offering and
the
price being consistent with the Company’s situation, the $0.04 price was used in
valuing this option as it was representative of the fair market value of the
common stock at the date of issuance. Further, the settlement transaction
occurred before the Company entered into a public transaction, and therefore
the
Pink Sheets prices in effect for the predecessor Company were not considered
relevant at that time.
Jeffrey
Riedler, Assistant Director
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
December
15, 2005
Page
4
·
calculating
the weighted average fair value of the options granted, as disclosed
on
page F-20; and,
The
weighted average fair value of the options granted during fiscal 2004 and 2005
was determined based on the historical grant prices ranging from $0.04 to $0.75
per share, and was determined based on the facts discussed above.
·
determining
the value of unexercised in-the-money options disclosed on Page
38.
We
considered the quoted prices on the Pink Sheets in our valuation, but believe
they were not a true indicator, at that time, of the value of the Company’s
common stock. As noted in our responses above, several factors were considered
when using the $0.75 price in the computation. The first factor was the limited
trading history of the Company on the Pink Sheets. The Company, in its current
form, had only been trading since March 15, 2005. The second factor was the
public float. The public float of the Company’s shares was only 2.5 million
shares when there was a total of 30 million shares outstanding, an amount
representing less than 10% of the Company’s outstanding common stock. The third
factor is the lack of information available to the public markets as the Company
had not become a reporting entity yet, therefore, informed investment decisions
could not be made. The fourth factor is that the stock was so thinly traded
that
it would be difficult to justify that these transactions were reflective of
the
fair value of the common stock of the Company. To illustrate, as noted above,
the trading prices on the Pink Sheets would result in a Company valuation in
excess of $150 million. Given the Company’s operating history, assets and
status, this value is unsustainable and highly unlikely. When considering the
most recent private capital raises of over 1.3 million common shares at $0.75,
the volume of these raises and the efforts to raise funds at this price, this
indicates to us that this is more reflective of the fair market value of the
Company’s common stock, and thus that was the value utilized in the computation.
Fair
Value of Financial Instruments, page F-8
39.
Please
elaborate, for us, on why the fair value of the related party notes
payable is not determinable. In so doing, please tell us whether
you could
reasonably estimate what the fair value would have been for notes
payable
to unrelated third parties for similar amounts and with similar
maturities. If so, please tell us why this did not make the fair
value of
the related party notes payable determinable. If not, please tell
us: (a)
whether you used the incremental borrowing rate, as defined in
paragraph
5(1) of SFAS 13, in presumably determining, in accordance with
paragraph
7, that the April 1, 2005 lease, disclosed on page F-17 was an
operating,
not a capital, lease and (b) why this rate did not make the fair
value of
the related party notes
determinable.
Jeffrey
Riedler, Assistant Director
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
December
15, 2005
Page
5
The
Company has revised its statement in the section, “Fair Value of Financial
Instruments” on page F-8 of the March 31, 2005 Financial Statements to include
the following sentence: “The difference between the fair value and recorded
values of the related party notes payable is not significant.” The Company has
prepared a detailed analysis discounting the future payment streams of the
notes
payable to the present values as of March 31, 2005. This analysis compared
the
present value of the notes at the 6% interest stated rate of the notes with
the
present values at the published prime rate as of March 31, 2005, prime plus
1
and prime minus 1 rates. Based on these comparisons, it was determined that
the
differences in the present value of the notes using the above discount rates
were not significant. (See Form 10-SB/A).
Operating
Leases, page F-17
40.
Please
explain to us why your future minimum rental payments, as of March
31,
2005, for fiscal years 2006 and 2007 appear to significantly exceed
the
rent expense for fiscal years 2004 and 2005. In doing so, please
clarify
whether the rental payments in the tabular disclosure are the same
as the
ones disclosed in the first paragraph. If they are the same please
resolve
the discrepancy between the obligations existing as of March 31,
2005 and
the fact that the lease was entered into subsequent to that date,
on April
1, 2005.
In
addition, please clarify whether the lease entered into on April 1, 2005 is
for
the same Brea, California facility that you had previously leased on a month
to
month basis with varying monthly payments. If so, please tell us why the monthly
payments appeared to have significantly
increased. If not, please tell us the extent of the costs incurred to exit
the
previous facility and, if those costs were material, how you accounted for
them.
Prior
to
the Company moving into its current facility in Brea, CA, the Brea landlord
had
been experiencing difficulty identifying a tenant. The building had remained
empty for approximately 3 years based on the poor condition of the building
caused by the previous tenant. Due to the poor condition of the building, the
Company and owner of the buil
2005-11-16 - UPLOAD - Cryoport, Inc.
<DOCUMENT> <TYPE>LETTER <SEQUENCE>1 <FILENAME>filename1.txt <TEXT> Mail Stop 6010 November 16, 2005 Mr. Peter Berry Chief Executive Officer and President CryoPort, Inc. 451 Atlas Street Brea, California 92821 Re: CryoPort, Inc. Form 10-SB Filed October 20, 2005 File No. 0-51578 Dear Mr. Berry: We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. Where indicated, we think you should revise your document in response to these comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments. Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. FORM 10-SB General 1. Pursuant to section 12(g)(1) of the Exchange Act, your registration statement will automatically become effective 60 days after it was filed. If we are not finished with the review by that time, you should withdraw the registration statement and refile it to delay its effectiveness. 2. Please include in your Business section the information described in Item 101(b)(11) and (12) of Regulation S-B regarding environmental costs and the number of employees. Item 1. Description of Business Overview, page 4 3. Please explain what a dry cryogenic shipper is. 4. We note you currently manufacture reusable cryogenic dry shippers, and your focus is to develop a line of disposable dry cryogenic shippers. Please explain the various ways in which reusable shippers differ from disposable shippers, and discuss the development status of your line of disposable shippers. 5. Please disclose in this "Overview" section that your auditors issued a going concern opinion for their report on your fiscal 2005 financial statements. History, page 4 6. Please disclose how you determined the consideration paid for CryoPort Systems, Inc. was appropriate. For example, did you or a financial advisor perform a valuation of the company? 7. Please file the Share Exchange Agreement as an exhibit. The CryoPort Solution, page 8 8. In the paragraph entitled "Smaller, More Efficient Packaging," please state the approximate size of your current shippers, and state the size you are seeking to develop them to be. 9. You state on page 7 a price range of $650 to $3000 per unit for liquid nitrogen shippers. Please state in the "Emphasis on Decreasing Costs and System Simplification" paragraph the approximate price of your current shippers and the price at which you believe you could sell a disposable unit when developed. 10. We note the statement in the "Development of International Programs and Markets" paragraph that your shippers "are better able to insure the integrity of specimens affected by unexpected shipping delays" because they can maintain a cryogenic temperature for up to 10 days. We also note the statement in the last paragraph on page 7 that existing systems have a 20-day static hold time, but the hold time is "significantly diminished" if they are tilted or positioned on their side. Since you are suggesting your products` 10-day hold time is longer than existing products` hold times, please compare your products` functional hold time to those of your competitors. Also, specify whether your products` 10-day duration is a static hold time or a functional hold time. Sales and Marketing, page 13 11. Please identify any distributors and agents who account for more than 10% of your sales. If you have written agreements with these parties, you should describe their material terms and file them as exhibits. 12. We note your current distribution channels cover the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Please state the percentage of your sales that came from each of the U.S., the rest of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Competition, page 16 13. From the discussion in this section, it appears two methods of competition are disposability and price. Please identify any other methods of competition. See Item 101(b)(4) of Regulation S-B. Research and Development, page 16 14. Please identify and describe the principal research and development projects that accounted for the money spent on R&D during fiscal 2004 and 2005. Manufacturing, page 17 15. Please identify your primary manufacturers as well as any manufacturers that could not be readily replaced. If you have written agreements with any of these manufacturers, please file the agreements as exhibits and discuss their material terms in your filing. Proprietary Rights and Licensing, page 17 16. We note the company holds two U.S. trademarks and three patents "primarily covering various aspects of its products." Please describe your trademarks and patents in more detail. State when the trademarks and patents expire, and describe the trademarks and the technology covered by the patents. Risk Factors Given the Company`s recurring losses and accumulated deficit . . . , page 19 17. This risk factor overlaps substantially with the one that follows it as well as "The Company will continue to need additional funds . . ." on pages 20-21. Please consolidate these three risk factors into one risk factor, and eliminate any repetitive text. The Company has substantial outstanding indebtedness . . . , page 20 18. Please revise this risk factor and its heading to clarify what risk to investors you are describing. This risk factor might appropriately be combined into the consolidated risk factor noted in the previous comment. If the Company is not able to compete effectively . . . , page 22 19. As currently worded, this risk factor could apply to any issuer. If you keep it in your document, please revise it so it describes your situation more specifically. Also, if you keep the risk factor, you should identify the two "potentially large competitors in the United States." If the Company does not attract and retain skilled personnel . . . , page 22 20. Please discuss any material difficulties the company has had in attracting and retaining skilled personnel. The Company`s success depends, in part, on its ability . . . , page 22 21. To the extent you are aware that you have any intellectual property that is being infringed upon or that you have been notified of a third party`s belief that you are infringing on their intellectual property, please revise to disclose the situation and potential consequences. If the Company experiences manufacturing delays or interruptions . . . , page 23 22. In this risk factor and the one that follows it, as applicable, please identify the manufacturers and suppliers upon whom you materially rely, and discuss any material delays you have experienced in the past in obtaining component parts. The Company`s common stock is subject to penny stock regulation . . . , page 24 23. Please clarify why your stock is subject to penny stock regulation, in light of the disclosure in the next risk factor that your stock price is $6.34 per share, which is greater than $5.00 per share. Item 2. Management`s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation, page 26 24. We note that "[d]uring the last quarter of the Company`s 2005 operations, funding was put into place to allow the Company to focus on accelerating the development and launch of its one-way product." Please disclose the amount and source of this funding. 25. We note the company has "the goal of launching the new product into the market in early calendar year 2006." You refer to the 2006 timeframe near the bottom of page 12 as well. Please update this timeframe as appropriate during the course of our review. 26. Please identify the vaccine manufacturers that might purchase your one-way shippers and the two large and well established manufacturing companies. General Overview, page 26 27. As an issuer of penny stock, you are not protected by the safe harbor for forward-looking statements. See Section 27A(b)(1)(C) of the Securities Act and section 21E(b)(1)(C) of the Exchange Act. Please delete the references to "Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933" and "Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934" on this page and throughout your document. Liquidity and Capital Reserves, page 28 28. Please disclose in this section the lender, principal, interest rate, date of issuance, and maturity date of the note discussed in footnote 8 to the financial statements on page F-18. Also, please file this note as an exhibit. 29. Please provide a discussion of your cash flows that would comply with Section IV.B.1. of Financial Reporting Release 72 or tell us how your existing disclosures now complies. Critical Accounting Policies, page 29 30. Please tell us how you have provided each of the disclosures contemplated by Section V. of Financial Reporting Release 72 about your critical accounting estimates or assumptions. To the extent that you have not provided any of these disclosures, including quantitative disclosures, please either: (a) provide them, (b) tell us why they are not applicable or necessary, or (c) tell us why they can not be provided. Results of Operations - Year Ended March 31, 2005, page 30 31. Where you attribute material fluctuations in your revenues, costs and expenses to multiple factors, please quantify those factors that are significant in understanding these fluctuations, as required by Financial Reporting Codification Section 501.04. Item 5: Directors, Executive Officers, Promoters and Control Persons, page 34 32. Please disclose the positions held by Peter Berry and Dee S. Kelly during the past five years, including the approximate dates during which they held those positions. Summary Compensation Table, page 37 33. Since October 31, 2005 has now passed, please state the amount of Mr. Berry`s bonus for 2005 in footnote (4). Item 7. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, page 40 34. Please state the amount owed to P. Mullens and to J.R. Dell individually rather than stating the total you owe to the two of them. 35. Please identify the two former directors to whom the company owes $617,000, and state how much you owe to each individually. Item 4. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities, page 43 36. Please state a more specific date for the sales that took place during "fiscal 2005" and "fiscal 2004." See Item 701(a) of Regulation S-B. 37. Please identify the persons or class of persons who purchased your securities in all of the transactions described in this section. See Item 701(b) of Regulation S-B. Financial Statements, page F-1 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, page F-6 Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, page F-7 38. Based on your web site, it appears that your common stock currently trades on the pink sheets. As such, please tell us how you considered those quoted market prices and the value implied by any sales of your stock to unrelated third parties in: * concluding that employee options granted were issued at or above the estimate fair market value of your stock on the grant date, as disclosed on pages F-12 and F-33; * determining the stock-based employee compensation under the fair value based method reported on pages F-12 and F-33; * calculating the impact under the treasury method of dilutive convertible debt, stock options, and warrants that is disclosed on pages F-13 and F-34; * estimating the fair value of the shares provided to the former employee as a settlement of the wrongful termination lawsuit disclosed on page F-18; * calculating the weighted average fair value of the options granted, as disclosed on page F-20; and, * determining the value of unexercised in-the-money options disclosed on page 38 Fair Value of Financial Instruments, page F-8 39. Please elaborate, for us, on why the fair value of the related party notes payable is not determinable. In so doing, please tell us whether you could reasonably estimate what the fair value would have been for notes payable to unrelated third parties for similar amounts and with similar maturities. If so, please tell us why this did not make the fair value of the related party notes payable determinable. If not, please tell us: (a) whether you used the incremental borrowing rate, as defined in paragraph 5(l) of SFAS 13, in presumably determining, in accordance with paragraph 7, that the April 1, 2005 lease, disclosed on page F-17, was an operating, not a capital, lease and (b) why this rate did not make the fair value of the related party notes determinable. Accrued Warranty Costs, page F-10 40. Please tell us why it is appropriate to expense the costs related to servicing the standard the warranty as incurred and cite the specific literature supporting this accounting. Note 7 - Commitments and Contingencies, page F-17 Operating Leases, page F-17 41. Please explain to us why your future minimum rental payments, as of March 31, 2005, for fiscal years 2006 and 2007 appear to significantly exceed the rent expense for fiscal years 2004 and 2005. In so doing, please clarify whether the rental payments in the tabular disclosure are the same as the ones disclosed in the first paragraph. If they are the same, please resolve the apparent discrepancy between the obligations existing as of March 31, 2005 and the fact that the lease was entered into subsequent to that date, on April 1, 2005. In addition, please clarify whether the lease entered into on April 1, 2005 is for the same Brea, California facility that you had previously leased on a month-to-month basis with varying monthly payments. If so, please tell us why the monthly payments appeared to have significantly increased. If not, please tell us the extent of the costs incurred to exit the previous facility and, if those costs were material, how you accounted for them. Note 9 - Common Stock, page F-19 42. Please clarify what you mean by "pending reverse acquisition". Note 10 - Stock Options, page F-19 43. As your disclosure on page F-20 indicates that the options vest upon grant, please tell us why the amount of options exercisable is less than the amount outstanding. * * * As appropriate, please amend your filing and respond to these comments within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to expedite our review. Please furnish a cover letter with your amendment that keys your responses to our comments and provides any requested information. Detailed cover letters greatly facilitate our review. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your amendment and responses to our comments. We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the filing includes all information required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that they have provided all information investors require for an informed investment decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company`s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. In connection with responding to our comments, please provide, in writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that: * the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; * staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission