EX-99.8 4 ff12024a3ex99-8_trident.htm REPRESENTATION UNDER ITEM 8.A.4 OF FORM 20-F

Exhibit 99.8

 

Trident Digital Tech Holdings Ltd

Suntec Tower 3,
8 Temasek Boulevard Road, #24-03
Singapore, 038988
+65 6513 6868

 

January 19, 2024

 

VIA EDGAR

 

Division of Corporation Finance 

Office of Chief Accountant
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Re:

Trident Digital Tech Holdings Ltd (CIK No. 0001983550)

Registration Statement on Form F-1

Representations Made Pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F

 

To whom it may concern:

 

Trident Digital Tech Holdings Ltd, is a company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company”). In connection with the proposed initial public offering of the Company’s Class B ordinary shares to be represented by American depositary shares (the “Offering”), the Company hereby respectfully makes the representations to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) required by Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F, which states that in the case of a company’s initial public offering, a company may comply with only the 15-month requirement in Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F if the company is able to make the representations specified by Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F.

 

The Company’s filing of Amendment No. 3 to the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1 (the “Registration Statement”) on the date hereof contained audited financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for the year ended December 31, 2022 and unaudited financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2023.

 

In submitting the Registration Statement, the Company is complying with the 15-month requirement, rather than the 12-month requirement, with respect to the last year of audited financial statements. The Company is submitting this representation letter pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F, which provides that “[a] company may comply with only the 15-month requirement in this item if the company is able to represent that it is not required to comply with the 12-month requirement in any other jurisdiction outside the United States and that complying with the 12-month requirement is impracticable or involves undue hardship.”

 

The Company hereby represents to the Commission that:

 

1.the Company is not required by any jurisdiction outside of the United States to issue audited financial statements as of a date not older than 12 months at the time this document is submitted;

 

2.compliance with the 12-month requirement in Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F is impracticable and involves undue hardship for the Company;

 

3.compliance with the 12-month requirement in Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F is impracticable and involves undue hardship for the Company;

 

4.the Company does not anticipate that its audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023 will be available until April 2024; and

 

5.in no event will the Company seek effectiveness of the Registration Statement if its audited financial statements are older than 15 months at the time of the Offering.

 

The Company is submitting this letter as an exhibit to the Registration Statement pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F.

 

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Please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at william.lim@tridentity.me or the Company’s counsel Stephanie Tang of Hogan Lovells at stephanie.tang@hoganlovells.com if you have any questions regarding the foregoing.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

By: /s/ Soon Huat Lim  
Name:  Soon Huat Lim  
Title: Chief Executive Officer  

 

CC: Stephanie Tang, Esq., Partner, Hogan Lovells

Chris Zhao, Partner, Marcum Asia CPAs LLP