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February 11, 2021

Via EDGAR

Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549

Attention:Eiko Yaoita Pyles, Staff Accountant
Martin James, Senior Advisor
Re:Fabrinet
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June 26, 2020
Filed August 18, 2020
File No. 001-34775

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Fabrinet (“we” or the “Company”) submits this letter in response to comments from the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) received by letter dated January 29, 2021, relating to the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 26, 2020 (File No. 001-34775) (the “Form 10-K”). In this letter, we have recited the Staff’s comments in italicized, bold type and have followed each comment with our response.

Note 2. Summary of significant accounting policies
Revenue recognition, page 76

1.You disclose that revenues for contracts containing rebates and other similar allowances are recognized only if these estimates can be reasonably and reliably determined. Please tell us how this policy complies with ASC 606-10-32-5 through 606-10-32-7, and revise future filings to reflect your compliance with that guidance.

We respectfully acknowledge the Staff’s comments regarding our policy on rebates and other similar allowances. Rebates and other similar allowances are variable consideration in accordance with ASC 606-10-32-5 through 32-9 and are accounted for as a reduction to the transaction price on eligible contracts.

Application of ASC 606-10-32-5 through 606-10- 32-7 to a contract wherein the amount of consideration may vary due to potential rebates and allowance, may result in delayed revenue recognition as we assess our assumptions around estimating variable consideration when allocating the transaction price to the extent it is probable that there will not be a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized. For each of the three years in the period ended June 26, 2020, there were no material rebates or similar allowances offered to our customers.


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There are no instances where we do not estimate rebates and allowances, and therefore, we will prospectively update our disclosures to clarify our policy. In our future annual reports on Form 10-K, we will update our disclosures in a manner substantially similar to the following:

“We estimate expected rebates and other similar allowances based on historical results taking into consideration the type of customer, the type of transaction and the specifics of each arrangement, and we consider such estimated rebates and other similar allowances as variable consideration when allocating the transaction price to the extent it is probable that there will not be a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized. The estimate is primarily based on the most likely level of consideration to be paid to the customer under the specific terms of each arrangement.”

Note 22. Business segments and geographic information, page 109
2.Refer to ASC 280-10-50-41 and please revise the note in future filings to address the following:
• Briefly identify the countries included in each of your North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe geographic regions.
• Disclose separately the revenues from external customers attributed to your customers in your country of domicile and to any other individual country where such revenues are material.
• Disclose separately long-lived assets in your country of domicile and, where material, in any individual foreign country.

We respectfully acknowledge the Staff’s comments regarding geographic information and advise the Staff that, in future annual reports on Form 10-K, we will modify and expand our geographic information disclosures in the notes to our financial statements to include the information set forth below for the applicable periods covered by such reports.


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Total revenues are attributed to a particular geographic area based on the bill-to-location of the Company’s customer. Long-lived assets information is based on the physical location of the asset.
Revenues and long-lived assets by geographic region were as follows:

(amount in thousands)Year Ended June 26, 2020Year Ended June 28, 2019 Year Ended June 29, 2018
Revenue:
North America
   U.S.$829,567 $753,901 $639,921 
   Others (1)
1,321 2,377 3,315 
830,888 756,278 643,236 
Asia-Pacific
   Malaysia190,574 192,048 201,191 
   Japan101,588 122,226 112,163 
   Thailand98,330 92,970 80,177 
   Hong Kong92,655 110,732 37,242 
   China48,192 62,262 55,555 
   Others
21,584 28,148 32,875 
552,923 608,386 519,203 
Europe
   Ireland110,747 109,890 76,322 
   U.K. 67,589 31,164 56,607 
   Germany45,628 37,431 30,133 
   Others34,061 41,186 46,424 
258,025 219,671 209,486 
   Total revenue$1,641,836 $1,584,335 $1,371,925 

(1)Others includes revenues from external customers based in our country of domicile, the Cayman Islands, which for each year presented is $0.

(amount in thousands)Year Ended June 26, 2020Year Ended June 28, 2019Year Ended June 29, 2018
Long-Lived Assets:
  Thailand$175,738 $160,273 $167,258 
  US29,507 31,323 33,148 
  China14,476 15,014 14,489 
  Cayman Islands373 322 255 
  Others8,180 3,754 4,490 
$228,274 $210,686 $219,640 


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Please do not hesitate to call me at +66 2-524-9600 if you have any questions or would like additional information regarding this matter. Thank you for your assistance.


Sincerely,
FABRINET
By:/s/ Csaba Sverha
Csaba Sverha
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
cc:Colin Campbell, General Counsel, Fabrinet
Jose Macias, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Erika Muhl, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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