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March 23, 2023
Randy Hyzak
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Las Vegas Sands Corp.
5500 Haven Street
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Re: Las Vegas Sands
Corp.
Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2022
Filed February 3,
2023
Form 8-K filed
January 25, 2023
File No. 001-32373
Dear Randy Hyzak:
We have limited our review of your filing to the financial
statements and related
disclosures 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.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 7 - Property and Equipment, Net, page 96
1. You disclose that the
VML subconcessions agreement expired on December 31, 2022 and
that the Gaming Assets
reverted to, and are now owned by the Macao government. You
further disclose that
effective January 1, 2023, the Gaming Assets were temporarily
transferred to VML for
the duration of the Concession in return for annual payments.
Please tell us how you
accounted for transfer of the assets to the Macao Government on
December 31, 2022 and
the subsequent temporary transfer back to VML for annual
payments. Within your
response, please reference the authoritative accounting literature
management relied upon.
Form 8-K filed January 25, 2023
Randy Hyzak
Las Vegas Sands Corp.
March 23, 2023
Page 2
Exhibit 99.1
Non-GAAP measures, page 6
2. We note your adjustments for hold-normalized casino revenue and
expense to arrive at
consolidated hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA, hold-normalized
adjusted
property EBITDA for Macao Operations and Marina Bay Sands, and
hold-normalized
adjusted net loss from continuing operations attributable to LVS.
Please tell us how you
considered the guidance Question 100.04 of the Compliance & Disclosure
Interpretations
on Non-GAAP Financial Measures in your determination to present these
measures.
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.
You may contact Howard Efron, Staff Accountant, at 202-551-3439 or
Jennifer Monick,
Assistant Chief Accountant, at 202-551-3295 with any questions.
FirstName LastNameRandy Hyzak Sincerely,
Comapany NameLas Vegas Sands Corp.
Division of
Corporation Finance
March 23, 2023 Page 2 Office of Real
Estate & Construction
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