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July 19, 2022
Jianhui Ye
Chief Executive Officer
EZGO Technologies Ltd.
Building #A, Floor 2
Changzhou Institute of Dalian University of Technology
Wujin District, Changzhou City
Jiangsu, China 213164
Re: EZGO Technologies
Ltd.
Amendment No. 1 to
Registration Statement on Form F-3
Filed June 24, 2022
File No. 333-263315
Dear Mr. Ye:
We have limited our review of your amended 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 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.
Unless we note
otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our March
31, 2022 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form F-3 filed June 24,
2022
Cover Page
1. We note your response
to comment 4. Please continue to revise your disclosure to refrain
from using terms such
as we or our when describing activities or functions of the
VIE. For example, we
note the disclosure on the cover page and on page 32 that "we
conduct substantially
all of our operations in China."
2. We note your response
to comment 7. Where you describe how cash is transferred through
your organization,
please revise both the cover page and the summary to disclose the
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requirement to obtain SAFE approval as is currently disclosed in the
Risk Factors section.
Conventions that apply to this prospectus, page ii
3. You state that references to "China" or "PRC" refer to the "People s
Republic of China,
excluding for the purposes of this prospectus only, Taiwan, Hong Kong
and
Macau. Revise the definition of the PRC or China to include Hong Kong
and Macau and
revise the disclosure throughout your amendment accordingly. If you do
not revise the
definition of the PRC or China, ensure that disclosure regarding Hong
Kong throughout
the amendment addresses the sample letter to China-based companies
available on our
website.
Contractual Arrangements and Corporate Structure, page 2
4. We note your response to comment 1. Please expand the disclosure on
page 2 that EZGO
conducts operations in China primarily through the VIEs and its
subsidiaries in China, and
EZGO does not conduct any business on its own to also explain whether
the VIE structure
is used to provide investors with exposure to foreign investment in
China-based
companies where Chinese law prohibits direct foreign investment in the
operating
companies.
5. We note your response to comment 8. Please revise the diagram of your
corporate
structure to identify the person or entity that owns the equity in
each depicted entity. Also
use dashed lines without an arrow to show any subsidiaries of the VIE.
Risks Related to Doing Business in China, page 14
6. Please revise the disclosure in this section to include the risk
disclosed in the second risk
factor on page 32 and in the last two paragraphs on page 46. Also,
reconcile the
disclosure on page 32 that all your senior executive officers are PRC
nationals with your
disclosure on page 46 that "A majority of [y]our current directors and
officers are
nationals and residents of the PRC."
Exhibits
7. We note the reference in Section 1.4 of the opinion filed as Exhibit
5.1 to a certificate
from a director "as annexed hereto;" however, the certificate is
missing. Please revise
accordingly.
8. We note your response to comment 9. Please tell us why the opinion
filed as exhibit 99.2
refers on pages 5 and 6 to counsel is of the "view" that the company
is not subject to
cybersecurity review by the CAC and that the provisions on private
lending cases do not
prohibit using cash from one PRC company to fund another PRC company's
operations
given the references to the company has "relied on the opinion of
[y]our PRC counsel,
DeHeng Law Offices" in the penultimate paragraph on page 11 and on the
cover page,
respectively.
Jianhui Ye
EZGO Technologies Ltd.
July 19, 2022
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You may contact Thomas Jones, Staff Attorney, at 202-551-3602 or Erin
Purnell, Legal
Branch Chief, at 202-551-3454 with any questions.
Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameJianhui Ye
Division of Corporation
Finance
Comapany NameEZGO Technologies Ltd.
Office of Manufacturing
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cc: Richard I. Anslow, Esq.
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