Exhibit 99.12
ALE Group Holding Limited
Unit 1005, 10/F, Tower A, New Mandarin Plaza
14 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
April 7, 2023
VIA EDGAR
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services
100 F Street, N.E.
Mail Stop 4631
Washington, DC 20549
Re: Representation under Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, ALE Group Holding Limited (the “Company”, “ALE” “we”, “us” or “our”), a foreign private issuer organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands, is submitting this letter via EDGAR to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) in connection with the Company’s post-effective amendment to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended, (File No. 333-239225) (the “Registration Statement”) relating to a proposed initial public offering and listing in the United States of the Company’s ordinary shares.
The Company has included in the Registration Statement its audited consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, as of March 31, 2022 and 2021 and for each of the years in the two-year period ended March 31, 2022.
The Company respectfully requests that the Commission waive the requirement of Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F, which states that in the case of a company’s initial public offering, the registration statement on Form F-1 must contain audited financial statements of a date not older than 12 months from the date of the offering (the “12-Month Requirement”). See also Division of Corporation Finance, Financial Reporting Manual, Section 6220.3.
The Company is submitting this waiver request pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F, which provides that the Commission will waive the 12-Month Requirement “in cases where the company is able to represent adequately to us that it is not required to comply with this requirement in any other jurisdiction outside the United States and that complying with this requirement is impracticable or involves undue hardship.” See also the 2004 release entitled International Reporting and Disclosure Issues in the Division of Corporation Finance (available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/internatl/cfirdissues1104.htm) by the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Commission (the “Staff”) at Section III.B.c, in which the Staff notes that: “the instruction indicates that the staff will waive the 12-month requirement where it is not applicable in the registrant’s other filing jurisdictions and is impracticable or involves undue hardship. As a result, we expect that the vast majority of IPOs will be subject only to the 15-month rule. The only times that we anticipate audited financial statements will be filed under the 12-month rule are when the registrant must comply with the rule in another jurisdiction, or when those audited financial statements are otherwise readily available.”
In connection with this waiver request, the Company represents to the Commission that:
| 1. | The Company is not currently a public reporting company in any jurisdiction. |
| 2. | The Company is not required by any jurisdiction outside the United States to comply with the 12-month updating requirement. |
| 3. | Full compliance with Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F at present is impracticable and involves undue hardship for the Company. |
| 4. | The Company does not anticipate that its audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023 will be available until July 2023. |
| | 5. | In no event will the Company seek effectiveness of the Registration Statement if its audited financial statements are older than 15 months at the time of the Company’s initial public offering. |
The Company is filing this letter as an exhibit to the Registration Statement pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F.
| | Very truly yours, |
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| | /s/ Anthony Poon |
| | Anthony Poon Chief Executive Officer |
