-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, QeyGIqJHKHERm8o7DoRwN0q112vopTyXm31NCFRJWNOkOXBqcmLyPpUBzFzAJRfR UzhzoN/IZvTKIGXiYfn/hQ== 0000000000-07-047384.txt : 20080130 0000000000-07-047384.hdr.sgml : 20080130 20070928095201 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000000000-07-047384 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: UPLOAD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070928 FILED FOR: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001015922 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] IRS NUMBER: 943229135 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: UPLOAD BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3A JABOTINSKY ST STREET 2: RAMAT GAN 52520 CITY: ISRAEL STATE: L3 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: THREE LAGUON DRIVE, SUITE 400 CITY: REDWOOD STATE: CA ZIP: 94065 PUBLIC REFERENCE ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001178913-07-000527 LETTER 1 filename1.txt September 28, 2007 Via U.S. Mail and Facsimile Gil Shwed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. 3A Jabotinsky Street Ramat-Gan 52520, Israel RE: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Form 20-F for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006 Filed March 15, 2007 File No. 0-28584 Dear Mr. Shwed: We have limited our review of your above filings to disclosure relating to your contacts with countries that have been identified as state sponsors of terrorism, and we have the following comments. Our review with respect to this issue does not preclude further review by the Assistant Director group with respect to other issues. At this juncture, we are asking you to provide us with supplemental information, so that we may better understand your disclosure. Please be as detailed as necessary in your response. After reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments. Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filings. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or on any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. General 1. It appears from several pull-down menus on your website that you offer products, technologies, and services to residents in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. The referenced countries are identified by the U.S. State Department as state sponsors of terrorism, and are subject to U.S. economic sanctions and export controls. You refer on pages 40 and F-43 of your Form 20-F to having derived revenues from the Middle East and Africa. However, your Form 20-F does not include any specific information regarding contacts with the referenced countries. Please describe to us the nature and extent of your past, current, and anticipated contacts with Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, if any, whether by direct or indirect arrangements. Your response should describe in reasonable detail the products, technologies, and services you have provided into those countries, and any agreements, commercial arrangements, or other contacts with the governments of those countries or entities controlled by them. 2. Please discuss the materiality of any contacts described in response to the foregoing comment, and whether they would constitute a material investment risk for your security holders. You should address materiality in quantitative terms, including the approximate dollar amounts of any associated revenues, assets, and liabilities for the last three years concerning each referenced country. Also, address materiality in terms of qualitative factors that a reasonable investor would deem important in making an investment decision, including the potential impact of corporate activities upon a company`s reputation and share value. We note, for example, that Arizona and Louisiana have adopted legislation requiring their state retirement systems to prepare reports regarding state pension fund assets invested in, and/or permitting divestment of state pension fund assets from, companies that do business with countries identified as state sponsors of terrorism. The Missouri Investment Trust has established an equity fund for the investment of certain state-held monies that screens out stocks of companies that do business with U.S.-designated state sponsors of terrorism. The Pennsylvania legislature has adopted a resolution directing its Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to report annually to the General Assembly regarding state funds invested in companies that have ties to terrorist-sponsoring countries. Florida requires issuers to disclose in their prospectuses any business contacts with Cuba or persons located in Cuba. States including California, Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, and Oregon have adopted, and other states are considering, legislation prohibiting the investment of certain state assets in, and/or requiring the divestment of certain state assets from, companies that do business with Sudan. Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of California, and other academic institutions have adopted policies prohibiting investment in, and/or requiring divestment from, companies that do business with Sudan. Your materiality analysis should address the potential impact of the investor sentiment evidenced by such actions directed toward companies that have operations associated with Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Your qualitative materiality analysis also should address whether, and the extent to which, the governments of the referenced countries, or persons or entities controlled by those governments, receive cash or act as intermediaries in connection with your operations and contacts. * * * * * Please respond to these comments within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please submit your response letter on EDGAR. We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filings to be certain that the filings include all information required under the Exchange Act of 1934 and that they have provided all information investors require for an informed investment decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to the company`s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. In connection with responding to our comments, please provide, in writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that: * the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings; * staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filings; and * the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. In addition, please be advised that the Division of Enforcement has access to all information you provide to the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filings or in response to our comments on your filings. Please understand that we may have additional comments after we review your response to our comments. Please contact Pradip Bhaumik, Attorney-Advisor, at (202) 551-3333 if you have any questions about the comments or our review. You may also contact me at (202) 551- 3470. Sincerely, Cecilia Blye, Chief Office of Global Security Risk cc: Eyal Desheh Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Fax: 011-972-3-753-4940 Barbara Jacobs Assistant Director Division of Corporation Finance Gil Shwed Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. September 28, 2007 Page 1 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----