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January 4, 2024
Steven Lee
Chief Financial Officer
SOS Ltd
Building 6, East Seaview Park, 298 Haijing Road, Yinzhu Street
West Coast New District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province 266400
People s Republic of China
Re: SOS Ltd
Form F-1 filed
December 12, 2023
File No. 333-276006
Dear Steven Lee:
We have conducted a limited review of your registration statement
and have the
following comments.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration
statement and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies 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 this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form F-1 filed December 12, 2023
Cover Page
1. Provide a description
of how cash is transferred through your organization. State whether
any transfers,
dividends, or distributions have been made to date between the holding
company and its
subsidiaries, or to investors, and quantify the amounts where applicable.
Provide
cross-references to the consolidated financial statements.
2. Tell us whether any
investors have entered into agreements to purchase securities in this
offering.
About this Prospectus, page ii
3. Reference is made to
the last sentence on page ii and the eighth bullet on page iii. Clearly
disclose how you will
refer to the holding company, subsidiaries and other entities when
providing the
disclosure throughout the document so that it is clear to investors which
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entity the disclosure is referencing and which subsidiaries or
entities are conducting the
business operations. Refrain from using terms such as we or
our when describing
activities or functions of subsidiaries.
Prospectus Summary
Summary of Risk Factors
Risks Related to Doing Business in China, page 3
4. In your summary of risk factors, we note your disclosure of some of
the risks that your
corporate structure and being based in or having the majority of the
company s operations
in China poses to investors. Specifically discuss risks arising from
the legal system in
China, including risks and uncertainties regarding the enforcement of
laws and that rules
and regulations in China can change quickly with little advance
notice; and the risk that
the Chinese government may intervene or influence your operations at
any time, or may
exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign
investment in China-
based issuers, which could result in a material change in your
operations and/or the value
of the securities you are registering for sale. Acknowledge any risks
that any actions by
the Chinese government to exert more oversight and control over
offerings that are
conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in China-based issuers
could significantly
limit or completely hinder your ability to offer or continue to offer
securities to investors
and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be
worthless.
5. State affirmatively whether you have received all requisite
permissions or approvals and
whether any permissions or approvals have been denied. Please also
describe the
consequences to you and your investors if you, your subsidiaries: (i)
do not receive or
maintain such permissions or approvals, (ii) inadvertently conclude
that such permissions
or approvals are not required, or (iii) applicable laws, regulations,
or interpretations
change and you are required to obtain such permissions or approvals in
the future.
Cash and Asset Flows through Our Organization, page 8
6. In the final paragraph on page 8, quantify any cash flows and
transfers of other assets by
type that have occurred between the holding company and its
subsidiaries, and
the direction of transfer.
Risk Factors
In light of recent events indicating greater oversight by the CAC, over data
security..., page 31
7. Reference is made to the penultimate paragraph on page 32. Please
revise your disclosure
to explain how this oversight impacts your offering and to what extent
you believe that
you are compliant with such regulation.
Company History and Structure, page 60
8. Reference is made to the third paragraph on page 60 and elsewhere in
the
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prospectus where you state, "As of the date of this prospectus, our
current corporate
structure does not contain any VIE in mainland China and neither we
nor our subsidiaries
has intention establishing any VIEs in mainland China in the future."
We note in the
second paragraph on page 60 you state that you own YBT, "which
controls its variable
interest entity, SOS Information Technology Co., Ltd ( SOS
Information )." We also note
from the second paragraph on page 61 that SOS Information Technology
Co.,
Ltd. appears to have been sold. Finally, we note the final paragraph
on page 8 where you
refer to VIE agreements. Please reconcile the disclosure throughout
the prospectus and
confirm that the company's subsidiaries do not operate through VIE
contracts. Revise
your disclosure, in this section and throughout, to discuss all
instances where you rely on
contractual relationships or variable interests to exert control over
your operating
subsidiaries in mainland China, or in Hong Kong. Make conforming
changes to your
disclosure in the forepart.
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.
Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please
allow adequate
time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of
the registration
statement.
Please contact Todd Schiffman at 202-551-3491 or Christian Windsor at
202-551-3419
with any other questions.
FirstName LastNameSteven Lee Sincerely,
Comapany NameSOS Ltd
Division of
Corporation Finance
January 4, 2024 Page 3 Office of Finance
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