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VivoPower International PLC

The Scalpel

18th Floor, 52 Lime Street

London EC3M 7AF

United Kingdom

 

October 13, 2020

 

VIA EDGAR 

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Attention: Irene Barberena-Meissner, Staff Attorney            

 

Re:

VivoPower International PLC

 

Registration Statement on Form F-1

 

File No. 333-248761

 

Request for Acceleration

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Pursuant to Rule 461 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, VivoPower International PLC, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (the “Registrant”), hereby respectfully requests that the effective date of the above-captioned registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-248761) be accelerated so that the registration statement may become effective at 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, or as soon thereafter as practicable, or at such later time as the Registrant may orally request via telephone call to the staff. This request for acceleration is subject, however, to your receiving a telephone call prior to such time from our legal counsel, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., confirming this request. The Registrant hereby authorizes each of Melissa V. Frayer and Dinesh K. Melwani of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., counsel to the Registrant, to make such request on its behalf.

 

Please call Melissa V. Frayer (415-696-5430) or Dinesh K. Melwani (617-348-4450) of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., counsel to the Registrant, with any comments or questions regarding this matter.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

VIVOPOWER INTERNATIONAL PLC

 

/s/ Kevin Chin                                                        

Kevin Chin

Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chairman and

Director

 

 

 

cc:

Securities and Exchange Commission

Irene Barberena-Meissner, Staff Attorney

 

 

 

VivoPower International PLC

Kevin Chin

James Tindal-Robertson

 

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Melissa V. Frayer

Dinesh K. Melwani

 

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Mitchel Nussbaum

Angela Dowd

 

PKF Littlejohn LLP

David Thompson