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January 11, 2024
Torstein Hagen
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Viking Holdings Ltd
94 Pitts Bay Road
Pembroke, Bermuda HM 08
Re: Viking Holdings Ltd
Draft Registration
Statement on Form F-1
Submitted December
15, 2023
CIK No. 0001745201
Dear Torstein Hagen:
We have reviewed your
draft registration statement and have the following comments.
Please respond to this letter by providing the requested
information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your
registration statement on
EDGAR. 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 the information you provide in response to this
letter and your amended
draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may
have additional comments.
Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1
Summary, page 1
1. We note the multiple
risk factors you present under "Risks Related to Our Indebtedness"
beginning at page 50.
Please discuss and quantify your current indebtedness in the
summary and elsewhere
where you discuss your results of operations, including your
revenue, net income,
and Adjusted EBITDA. Please also address the potential related risks
as a result of the
private placement derivative losses and their impact on net income
during the most recent
nine months.
Risk Factors
Increases in inflation could adversely affect our business, financial
condition and results of
operations, page 37
2. We note your statement
that continued elevated levels of inflation create significant
uncertainty around
costs and could adversely affect your business, financial condition, and
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Viking Holdings Ltd
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results of operations. Please update disclosure in your MD&A section
to identify actions
planned or taken, if any, to mitigate inflationary pressures.
Our bye-laws restrict shareholders from bringing legal action against our
officers and directors,
page 62
3. We note your disclosure that subject to Section 14 of the Securities
Act, which renders
void any purported waiver of the provisions of the Securities Act,
your bye-laws contain a
broad waiver by your shareholders of any claim or right of action,
both individually and
on your behalf, against any of your officers or directors. We also
note your related
disclosure on pages 136 and 142. Please tell us whether the waiver
applies to claims under
the U.S. federal securities laws. If you do not intend for this
provision to be applicable to
actions under the Securities Act or Exchange Act, please revise to
state this information,
and tell us how you will inform investors in future filings that the
provision is not
intended to apply to any such actions.
Use of Proceeds, page 69
4. You disclose that you might use some of the net proceeds to make
acquisitions or
investments, although you do not currently have any agreements or
commitments for any
material acquisitions or investments. When known, please provide the
information that
Items 3.C.2 and 3.C.3 of Form 20-F require, if applicable.
Dilution, page 73
5. We understand from numerous disclosures throughout the filing that
your Series C
Preference Shares will be converted into ordinary shares immediately
prior to the
consummation of your offering; and we see that you describe the
conversion feature on
page F-52.
Please expand your various disclosures concerning the conversion of
these shares to
quantify the number of ordinary shares that you expect to issue upon
their conversion, and
to describe any uncertainty or reasonably possible change in the
number of ordinary
shares to be issued to settle those instruments.
Please also expand your disclosures under this heading to explain how
the incremental
ordinary shares will be reflected in your calculations of dilution.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations
Results of Operations, page 78
6. We note that you present some statistical and operating data on both a
consolidated and
segment basis though limit your discussion and analysis of the results
of operations to the
consolidated information.
Torstein Hagen
Viking Holdings Ltd
January 11, 2024
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Please expand your discussion and analysis to also address the changes
in revenues and
operating income (loss) for each of your reportable segments, consistent
with Item 5 of
Form 20-F which requires information that also relates to the segments.
Directors and Executive Management Compensation, page 126
7. Please update your executive compensation disclosure to reflect the most
recently
completed fiscal year. For guidance, refer to Item 6.B of Form 20-F.
General
8. Please revise your disclosure to identify the leading market research
company and
leading global consulting firm to whom you attribute certain
statistical claims.
9. Please supplementally provide us with copies of all written
communications, as defined in
Rule 405 under the Securities Act, that you, or anyone authorized to do
so on your behalf,
present to potential investors in reliance on Section 5(d) of the
Securities Act, whether or
not they retain copies of the communications. Please contact the staff
member associated
with the review of this filing to discuss how to submit the materials,
if any, to us for our
review.
Please contact Jenifer Gallagher, Staff Accountant at 202-551-3706 or
Karl
Hiller, Accounting Branch Chief, at 202-551-3686 if you have questions
regarding comments on
the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Timothy S.
Levenberg, Special
Counsel, at 202-551-3707, or Karina Dorin, Staff Attorney, at 202-551-3763 with
any other
questions.
Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameTorstein Hagen
Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameViking Holdings Ltd
Office of Energy &
Transportation
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cc: Gregg A. Noel, Esq., of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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