-----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, QaTQPcxC3qYfYlmCbr3OOOxqNBH6WzweuMzDAGvRjztqtkybDe7E8sce/+P9Oc43 qXq+BqqKUJSGAPSnzaYsXg== 0000000000-07-015544.txt : 20070726 0000000000-07-015544.hdr.sgml : 20070726 20070328130413 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000000000-07-015544 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: UPLOAD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070328 FILED FOR: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ACERGY S.A. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000898685 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OIL, GAS FIELD SERVICES, NBC [1389] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FISCAL YEAR END: 1130 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: UPLOAD BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O ACERGY M.S. LIMITED STREET 2: DOLPHIN HOUSE, WINDMILL ROAD CITY: SUNBURY-ON-THAMES STATE: X0 ZIP: TW16 7HT BUSINESS PHONE: 44 0 1932 773700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O ACERGY M.S. LIMITED STREET 2: DOLPHIN HOUSE, WINDMILL ROAD CITY: SUNBURY-ON-THAMES STATE: X0 ZIP: TW16 7HT FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: STOLT OFFSHORE S A DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20000510 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: STOLT COMEX SEAWAY S A DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930315 PUBLIC REFERENCE ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-06-103505 LETTER 1 filename1.txt March 28, 2007 Via U.S. Mail and Facsimile (011-44-1932-773701) Mark Woolveridge Chairman of the Board Acergy S.A. c/o Acergy M.S. Limited Dolphin House, Windmill Road, Sunbury-on-Thames Middlesex TW16 7HT, England, U.K. Re: Acergy S.A. Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended November 30, 2004 Filed May 31, 2005 Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended November 30, 2005 Filed May 8, 2006 File No. 0-21742 Dear Mr. Woolveridge: We have limited our review of your Forms 20-F for the fiscal years ended November 30, 2004 and November 30, 2005 to disclosure relating to your contacts with a country that has been identified as a state sponsor 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. We note the disclosure under "Other Properties" on page 28 of your Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2004 that as of May 9, 2005, you held under a long-term lease real property used for offices in Teheran, Iran. Iran is identified by the U.S. State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism, and is subject to U.S. economic sanctions and export controls. That property is not among the properties listed under "Other Properties" in your Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2005. Please advise us whether you continue to lease the property. Please also describe to us any other past, current, and anticipated contacts with Iran, whether through affiliates or by direct or indirect arrangements. Describe the nature and extent of any contacts, including any agreements or arrangements you may have, directly or indirectly, with the government of Iran or entities controlled by that government. 2. Please discuss the materiality of any contacts described in response to the foregoing comment, and whether they 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 fiscal years and any fractional period thereafter. Please 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. Your materiality analysis should address the potential impact of the investor sentiment evidenced by such actions directed toward companies that have operations associated with Iran. * * * * * 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 D. Blye, Chief Office of Global Security Risk cc: Roger Schwall Assistant Director Division of Corporation Finance Mark Woolveridge Acergy S.A. March 28, 2007 Page 1 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----