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December 21, 2022
Yandai Wang
Chief Executive Officer
SOS Limited
Building 6, East Seaview Park
298 Haijing Road, Yinzhu Street
West Coast New District, Qingdoa City
Shandong Province 266400
People's Republic of China
Re: SOS Limited
Form 20-F for the
fiscal period ending December 31, 2020
Filed May 5, 2021
Form 20-F/A for the
fiscal period ending December 31, 2020
Filed October 12,
2021
Form 20-F/A for the
fiscal period ending December 31, 2020
Filed January 7,
2022
File No. 001-38051
Form 20-F for the
fiscal period ending December 31, 2021
Filed May 2, 2022
Dear Yandai Wang:
We have reviewed your December 13, 2022 response to our comment
letter 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 these comments 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 our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.
After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have
additional
comments. Unless we note otherwise, our references to prior comments are
to comments in our
October 20, 2022 letter.
Yandai Wang
FirstName LastNameYandai Wang
SOS Limited
Comapany21,
December NameSOS
2022 Limited
December
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Form 20-F for the fiscal period ending December 31, 2021
Introduction, page iii
1. We note your response to prior comment 1 and your revised proposed
disclosure that
China or the PRC refers to the People s Republic of
China, excluding, for the
purposes of your annual report only, Taiwan. As requested, and
considering that China
SOS Ltd, a Hong Kong LLC holds a substantial amount of the Company s
cash and cash
equivalents as disclosed on page F-31, please enhance your disclosures
to:
Clarify that the same legal and operational risks associated with
operations in China
also apply to operation in Hong Kong;
Provide risk factor disclosure to explain whether there are any
commensurate laws or
regulations in Hong Kong or Macau which result in oversight over
data security and
explain how this oversight impacts your business and to what
extent you believe you
are compliant with the regulations or policies that have been
issued.
Provide us with your proposed disclosures.
Item 3. Key Information, page 2
2. We note your response prior comment 4. As previously requested, please
address the
following:
Currently your SOS Organization Chart diagram reflects solid
lines between all
entities. Revise to present dashed lines for your VIE contractual
agreements to
clearly differentiate from your equity interests.
Define the legal entity of "the operating entity in China" as
disclosed on page 4.
Reflect with an arrow from and to, the ability to pay dividends
and other distributions
of equity as well as consulting and service fees.
Disclose in Item 3., consolidating schedules of your financial
position and operations,
together with related cash flows consistent with your audited
consolidating financial
schedules on pages F-30 thru F-38.
Disclose a rollforward of investments in subsidiaries outside
China, in WFOE and in
China SOS that reconciles beginning and or ending balance, plus
or minus equity in
earnings of VIEs, equity in earnings of subsidiaries, foreign
currency translation and
other in arriving at investments in subsidiaries outside China,
in WFOE and in China
SOS prior to consolidation/elimination adjustments as of December
31, for the
periods presented.
Provide us with your proposed disclosures.
3. We note your response to prior comment 4. As requested, please conform
your reference
and identification of VIE(s) throughout your disclosures.
For example, we note on page 6 that you disclose
Subsidiaries inside China refers
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SOS Limited
Comapany21,
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2022 Limited
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to the VIE s subsidiaries, including
o SOS Information Technology Co.,Ltd ( SOSIT ),
o Inner Mongolia SOS Insurance Agency Co., Ltd ( IMSOS );
o Directly owned subsidiaries including SOS International
Trading Co., Ltd
( SOSINT ),
o Qingdao SOS Investment LLP ( SOSIL ),
o Qingdao SOS Digital Technologies Ltd. ( SOSDT ),
o Common Prosperity Technology Co., Ltd. ( SOSCP ),
o SOS Ronghe Digital Technology Co., Ltd. ( SOSRD ),
o Weigou International Trading Co., Ltd ( SOSWI ),
o Shuyun International Trading Co., Ltd ( SOSSI ),
o SOS Auto Service Co., Ltd. ( SOSAS ), and
o Chexiaoer Technology Co., Ltd ( SOSCX ).
Whereas on page iii you disclose your definition of variable
interest entity(ies)
include:
o Qingdao SOS Industrial Holding Co., Ltd.,
o Qingdao SOS Digital Technologies Inc.,
o SOS Information Technology Co., Ltd.,
o Inner Mongolia SOS Insurance Agency Co., Ltd.,
o SOS Ronghe Digital Technology Co., Ltd. and
o SOS International Trading Co., Ltd.
o On page F-7 you identify SOS Industrial Holdings Co., Ltd
as the only VIE;
On page F-17 you disclose that Qingdao SOS Digital Technologies
Inc. (PRC) and
SOS Information Technology Col, Ltd are 100% subsidiaries of
Qingdao
Enterprise Co. Ltd which is not identified in the SOS
Organizational Chart or
elsewhere in your disclosures;
In your SOS Organizational Chart you disclose that SOSRD is a
31.22% subsidiary
of SOSIT but on page F-7 you disclose SOSRD is a 69% subsidiary
of SOSIT; and
On page 4 you disclose that as of December 31, 2021 and 2020,
the VIE accounted
for an aggregate of 99% and 100%, respectively, of your
consolidated total
assets, 99% and 100% respectively, of your consolidated total
liabilities, and 100%
and 100% respectively, of your consolidated total net revenues.
However, the activity
presented on pages F-28 through F-38 reflects the substantial
majority of
consolidated total assets and liabilities are held by China SOS
Ltd, Subsidiaries
outside China and Subsidiaries inside China and the substantial
majority of total net
revenues are attributable to Subsidiaries inside China. This is
inconsistent with your
disclosures on page 55 that "as of December 31, 2021, the VIE and
its subsidiaries
accounted for an aggregate of 50.4% and 76.0% of your total
assets and total
liabilities, respectively. As of December 31, 2019, the VIE and
its subsidiaries
accounted for an aggregate of 100% and 100% of our total assets
and total liabilities,
respectively. "
Provide us with your proposed disclosures.
Yandai Wang
FirstName LastNameYandai Wang
SOS Limited
Comapany21,
December NameSOS
2022 Limited
December
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4. We note your response to prior comment 5. Please address the
following:
Disclose PRC GAAP for the periods presented; and
Enhance your proposed disclosure to clarify why you have not
accrued any money to
the reserve fund since you recognized profits, albeit under US
GAAP, in prior
periods.
Provide us with your proposed disclosures.
5. We note your response to prior comment 8 and your proposed disclosure.
Please enhance
your proposed disclosure to specifically disclose, at the onset of
Item 3, the ability and or
the impact to relocate or reproduce operating activities elsewhere
should operating in the
PRC become prohibitive.
Provide us with your proposed disclosures.
Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects, page 55
6. We note your response to prior comment 9 that the $197 million the VIE
and its
Subsidiaries in China received as presented on page F-32 was from the
Company s wholly
owned subsidiaries Qingdao SOS Investment Management Co., Ltd. and
China SOS Ltd
and your disclosure on page 55 that the Company has not provided any
financial support
to the VIE and the VIE s subsidiaries for the years ended December
31, 2021 and 2020.
We also note your disclosure on page iii, that SOS, we,
us, our company and our
refer to SOS Limited, an exempted company registered in the Cayman
Islands with
limited liability, and its subsidiaries and its consolidated variable
interest entities, and, in
the context of describing our operations and combined and consolidated
financial
information, also include its affiliated entity and its subsidiaries.
Please address the
following:
Revise your disclosures on page 55 to disclose any financial
support provided
between SOS Ltd, China SOS Ltd, WFOE, VIE, Subsidiaries outside
China and
Subsidiaries inside China for the periods presented. For example
disclose that $197
million was provided to the VIE and its Subsidiaries in China by
Qingdao SOS
Investment Management Co., Ltd. (WOFE) and China SOS Ltd in 2021;
Revise your disclosure on page 55 to remove reference to the
Company s VIE with
the VIE to reflect the contractual nature of your VIE
relationship; and
Tell us and revise your disclosures on page F-32, to explain how
proceeds from share
issuance, net of issuance costs resulted negative cash flows of
$40.4 million for
Subsidiaries in China for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Provide us with your proposed disclosures.
Form 6-K filed November 8, 2022
Disposition Agreement, page 1
Yandai Wang
SOS Limited
December 21, 2022
Page 5
7. We note the Disposition Agreement of November 2, 2022, between SOS
Limited (the
Company ), S International Group Limited ( S International ),
a British Virgin Islands
company and the Company s wholly owned subsidiary, and S
International Holdings
Limited, a Cayman Islands exempt company (the Purchaser ). Please
tell us why S
International is not reflected in the SOS Organization Chart disclosed
in the SOS Ltd.
2021 20-F or your correspondence of December 13, 2022.
You may contact Michelle Miller at 202-551-3368 or Sharon Blume at
202-551-3474 if
you have questions.
FirstName LastNameYandai Wang Sincerely,
Comapany NameSOS Limited
Division of
Corporation Finance
December 21, 2022 Page 5 Office of Finance
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