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TG VENTURE ACQUISITION CORP. 

1390 Market Street, Suite 200

San Francisco, California 94102

 

September 24, 2021

 

Via Edgar

 

Mr. Frank Knapp

Division of Corporation Finance

Office of Trade & Services

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, NE

Washington, D.C., 20549

 

Re: TG Venture Acquisition Corp.
  Registration Statement on Form S-1
  Filed August 13, 2021
  File No. 333-258773

 

Dear Mr. Frank Knapp:

 

This letter is in response to the letter dated September 8, 2021, from the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) addressed to TG Venture Acquisition Corp. (the “Company,” “we,” and “our”). For ease of reference, we have recited the Commission’s comments in this response and numbered them accordingly. A Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed to accompany this letter.

 

Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed August 13, 2021

Prospectus Cover Page, page 4

 

1. We note that the SPAC Sponsor is located in Hong Kong and a majority of your executive officers are located in or have significant ties to China and Hong Kong. Please disclose this prominently on the prospectus cover page. Your disclosure also should describe the legal and operational risks associated with being based in or acquiring a company that does business in China. Your disclosure should make clear whether these risks could result in a material change in your or the target company’s post-combination operations and the value of your common stock, or could significantly limit or completely hinder your ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless. Your disclosure should address how recent statements and regulatory actions by China’s government, such as those related to the use of variable interest entities and data security or anti-monopoly concerns, has or may impact the company’s ability to conduct its business, accept foreign investments, or list on an U.S. or other foreign exchange. Your prospectus summary should address, but not necessarily be limited to, the risks highlighted on the prospectus cover page.

 

Response: We acknowledge the comment and respectfully advise the Staff that we will not undertake our initial business combination with any entity that conducts a majority of its business or is headquartered in China (including Hong Kong and Macau). We have revised the cover page, prospectus summary on page 4, risk factors beginning on page 43, management discussion and analysis on page 97 and business from pages 103 to 146 to disclose such exclusion.

 

Prospectus Summary, page 7

 

2. Given that you may be seeking to acquire a company that uses or may use a variable interest entity structure to conduct China-based operations, please describe what that organizational structure would entail. Explain that the entity in which investors may hold their interest may not be the entity or entities through which the company’s operations may be conducted in China after the business combination. Discuss how this type of corporate structure may affect investors and the value of their investment, including how and why the contractual arrangements may be less effective than direct ownership and that the company may incur substantial costs to enforce the terms of the arrangements. Disclose the uncertainties regarding the status of the rights of a holding company with respect to its contractual arrangements with a VIE, its founders and owners and the challenges the company may face enforcing these contractual agreements due to uncertainties under Chinese law and jurisdictional limits.

 

 
 

 

Response: Please kindly refer to our response to comment 1 above.

 

3. In your summary of risk factors, disclose the risks that being based in or acquiring a company whose corporate structure or whose operations in China poses to investors. In particular, describe the significant regulatory, liquidity, and enforcement risks with cross-references to the more detailed discussion of these risks in the prospectus. For example, specifically discuss risks arising from the legal system in China, including risks and uncertainties regarding the enforcement of laws and that rules and regulations in China can change quickly with little advance notice; and the risk that the Chinese government may intervene or influence your operations at any time, or may exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in China-based issuers, which could result in a material change in your operations and/or the value of your common stock. Acknowledge any risks that any actions by the Chinese government to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in China-based issuers could significantly limit or completely hinder your ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.

 

Response: Please kindly refer to our response to comment 1 above.

 

4. Disclose each permission that you are required to obtain from Chinese authorities to operate and issue these securities to foreign investors. State affirmatively whether you have received all requisite permissions and whether any permissions have been denied.

 

Response: Please find the disclosure in the prospectus summary on page 11 that states that we are not required from Chinese authorities to operate and issue securities for the Offering and a business combination.

 

5. Provide a clear description of how cash will be transferred through the post-combination organization if you acquire a company based in China. Describe any restrictions on foreign exchange and your ability to transfer cash between entities, across borders, and to U.S. investors that may apply after a business combination with a company based in China. Describe any restrictions and limitations on your ability to distribute earnings from your businesses, including subsidiaries and/or consolidated VIEs, to the parent company and U.S. investors as well as the ability to settle amounts owed under the VIE agreements.

 

Response: Please kindly refer to our response to comment 1 above.

 

6. Disclose that trading in your securities may be prohibited under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act if the PCAOB determines that it cannot inspect or fully investigate the auditor of a company you may target for an initial business combination, and that as a result an exchange may determine to delist your securities.

 

Response: Please kindly refer to our response to comment 1 above.

 

Risk Factors, page 43

 

7. To the extent that you may acquire a company that uses or may use a variable interest entity structure to conduct China-based operations, please revise your risk factors to acknowledge that if the PRC government determines that the contractual arrangements constituting part of your VIE structure do not comply with PRC regulations, or if these regulations change or are interpreted differently in the future, your shares may decline in value or be worthless if you are unable to assert your contractual control rights over the assets of your PRC subsidiaries that may conduct all or substantially all of your operations.

 

 
 

 

Response: Please kindly refer to our response to comment 1 above.

 

8. Please expand your risk factor disclosure to address specifically any PRC regulations concerning mergers and acquisitions by foreign investors that your initial business combination transaction may be subject to, including PRC regulatory reviews, which may impact your ability to complete a business combination in the prescribed time period.

 

Response: Please kindly refer to our response to comment 1 above.

 

9. Given the Chinese government’s significant oversight and discretion over the conduct of the business of any China-based company that you may target for an initial business combination, please revise to separately highlight the risk that the Chinese government may intervene or influence your operations at any time, which could result in a material change in your operations and/or the value of your common stock. Also, given recent statements by the Chinese government indicating an intent to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in Chinabased issuers, acknowledge the risk that any such action could significantly limit or completely hinder your ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.

 

Response: Please kindly refer to our response to comment 1 above.

 

10. In light of recent events indicating greater oversight by the Cyberspace Administration of China over data security, particularly for companies seeking to list on a foreign exchange, please revise your disclosure to explain how this oversight could impact the process of searching for a target and completing an initial business combination, and/or your business on a post-combination basis.

 

Response: Please kindly refer to our response to comment 1 above.

 

Capitalization, page 95

 

11. We note that you are offering 10,000,000 Class A common shares as part of your initial public offering of units, but only show 9,685,078 Class A common shares subject to possible redemption in your Capitalization table. Please tell us how you considered the guidance in ASC 480-10-S99-3A, which requires securities that are redeemable for cash or other assets to be classified outside of permanent equity if they are redeemable (1) at a fixed or determinable price on a fixed or determinable date, (2) at the option of the holder, or (3) upon the occurrence of an event that is not solely within the control of the issuer, in concluding that all 10,000,000 Class A common shares were not required to be presented outside of permanent equity and part of shares subject to possible redemption.

 

Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s guidance, and we revised our disclosure accordingly.

 

We appreciate the assistance the Staff has provided with its comments. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call our counsel, Arila Zhou, Esq., of Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC, at (212) 530-2232.

 

    Very truly yours,
     
  By: /s/ Pui Lan Patrick Tsang
    Pui Lan Patrick Tsang
Chief Executive Officer

 

Arila Zhou, Esq.

Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC