[Letterhead of E-House (China) Holdings Limited]
September 10, 2010
VIA EDGAR AND FACSIMILE
Cicely LaMothe, Branch Chief
Wilson K. Lee, Staff Accountant
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Wilson K. Lee, Staff Accountant
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: | E-House (China) Holdings Limited (the “Company”) | |||
Form 20-F for the Year Ended December 31, 2009 (“2009 20-F”) | ||||
Filed on April 23, 2010 | ||||
File No. 000-53043 |
Dear Mr. LaMothe and Mr. Lee:
The Company has received the letter dated September 2, 2010 from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the 2009 Form 20-F. Because of senior management’s traveling schedule in the next two weeks, we would like to request an extension to the deadline for responding to the letter. We will provide our response to the letter via EDGAR as soon as possible, in any event no later than September 30, 2010.
If you have any additional questions or comments regarding the 2009 20-F, please contact the Company’s U.S. counsel, Julie Gao of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, at (852) 3740-4850. Thank you very much.
Very truly yours, | ||||
/s/ Li-Lan Cheng | ||||
Li-Lan Cheng | ||||
Chief Financial Officer | ||||
cc: | Xin Zhou, Executive Chairman, E-House (China) Holdings Limited | |
Jianjun Zang, Acting Chief Executive Officer, E-House (China) Holdings Limited | ||
Z. Julie Gao, Esq., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Hong Kong | ||
John Hung, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd., Shanghai | ||
John Wilde, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd., Shanghai |
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