0001213900-22-060364.txt : 20230201 0001213900-22-060364.hdr.sgml : 20230201 20220929210057 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001213900-22-060364 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20220929 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: OCA Acquisition Corp. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001820175 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BLANK CHECKS [6770] IRS NUMBER: 852218652 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 485 MADISON AVENUE FLOOR 17TH CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10022 BUSINESS PHONE: 2122018525 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 485 MADISON AVENUE FLOOR 17TH CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10022 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm

OCA ACQUISITION CORP.

1345 Avenue of the Americas, 33rd Floor

New York, NY 10105

 

September 29, 2022

 

VIA EDGAR

 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

Office of Real Estate & Construction

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attention: William Demarest and Kristi Marrone

 

Re: OCA Acquisition Corp.

Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2021

Filed March 28, 2022

File No. 001-39901

 

Dear Mr. Demarest and Ms. Marrone:

 

OCA Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) hereby transmits its response to the comment letter received from the staff (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), dated September 2, 2022.

 

For the Staff’s convenience, we have repeated below the Staff’s comment in bold and have followed the comment with the Company’s response.

 

Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2021

 

General

 

1. With a view toward disclosure, please tell us whether your sponsor is, is controlled by, or has substantial ties with a non-U.S. person. If so, please revise your disclosure in future filings to include disclosure that addresses how this fact could impact your ability to complete your initial business combination. For instance, discuss the risk to investors that you may not be able to complete an initial business combination with a U.S. target company should the transaction be subject to review by a U.S. government entity, such as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), or ultimately prohibited. Disclose that as a result, the pool of potential targets with which you could complete an initial business combination may be limited. Further, disclose that the time necessary for government review of the transaction or a decision to prohibit the transaction could prevent you from completing an initial business combination and require you to liquidate. Disclose the consequences of liquidation to investors, such as the losses of the investment opportunity in a target company, any price appreciation in the combined company, and the warrants, which would expire worthless. Please include an example of your intended disclosure in your response.

 

The Company respectfully advises the Staff that its sponsor, OCA Acquisition Holdings LLC, is a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”).  The majority and managing member of the Sponsor, Olympus Capital Asia V, L.P. (“OCA V”), is a Cayman entity. The remaining minority investors in the Sponsor are all U.S. persons or entities, except for three non-U.S. persons; two of whom, Gary Bennett and Emmanuel Pitsilis, are directors of the Company and citizens of Australia and France, respectively.  In July 2022, Antara Capital LP acquired a majority economic, non-voting interest in the Sponsor (“Antara”). Antara was founded by Himanshu Gulati in 2018 and invests across a wide variety of financial instruments, including loans, bonds, convertible bonds, stressed/distressed credit and special situation equity investments. Antara is a Delaware limited partnership, which is 81.5% owned by U.S. persons and 18.5% owned by non-U.S. persons, all of whom are from the Cayman Islands.

 

On the basis of the foregoing, the Company proposes to add the following risk factor in the Company’s subsequent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to be filed with the Commission:

 

We may not be able to complete an initial Business Combination with certain potential target companies if a proposed transaction with the target company may be subject to review or approval by regulatory authorities pursuant to certain U.S. or foreign laws or regulations.

 

 

 

 

Certain acquisitions or business combinations may be subject to review or approval by regulatory authorities pursuant to certain U.S. or foreign laws or regulations. In the event that such regulatory approval or clearance is not obtained, or the review process is extended beyond the period of time that would permit an initial Business Combination to be consummated with us, we may not be able to consummate a business combination with such target.

 

Among other things, the U.S. Federal Communications Act prohibits foreign individuals, governments, and corporations from owning more a specified percentage of the capital stock of a broadcast, common carrier, or aeronautical radio station licensee. In addition, U.S. law currently restricts foreign ownership of U.S. airlines. In the United States, certain mergers that may affect competition may require certain filings and review by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, and investments or acquisitions that may affect national security are subject to review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). CFIUS is an interagency committee authorized to review certain transactions involving foreign investment in the United States by foreign persons in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.

 

Outside the United States, laws or regulations may affect our ability to consummate a business combination with potential target companies incorporated or having business operations in jurisdiction where national security considerations, involvement in regulated industries (including telecommunications), or in businesses relating to a country’s culture or heritage may be implicated.

 

U.S. and foreign regulators generally have the power to deny the ability of the parties to consummate a transaction or to condition approval of a transaction on specified terms and conditions, which may not be acceptable to us or a target. In such event, we may not be able to consummate a transaction with that potential target.

 

As a result of these various restrictions, the pool of potential targets with which we could complete an initial Business Combination may be limited and we may be adversely affected in terms of competing with other SPACs that do not have similar ownership issues. Moreover, the process of government review, could be lengthy. Because we have only a limited time to complete our initial Business Combination, our failure to obtain any required approvals within the requisite time period may require us to liquidate. If we liquidate, our public stockholders may only receive $10.00 per share, and our warrants will expire worthless. This will also cause you to lose any potential investment opportunity in a target company and the chance of realizing future gains on your investment through any price appreciation in the combined company.

 

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We thank the Staff in advance for its consideration of the foregoing. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our legal counsel, Jonathan Deblinger, Esq., of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, at jdeblinger@egsllp.com or by telephone at (646) 895-7145.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  OCA Acquisition Corp.
   
  By: /s/ Jeffrey Glat
  Name:  Jeffrey Glat
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

cc: Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP