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September 22, 2020
VIA EDGAR
Katherine Bagley
Lilyanna Peyser
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-7561
Re: | Lixiang Education Holding Co., Ltd. |
Registration Statement on Form F-1
Filed September 9, 2020
File No. 333-248691
Dear Ms. Bagley and Ms. Peyser,
On behalf of Lixiang Education Holding Co., Ltd. (the “Company”), a company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, we are filing herewith the Company’s Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 (the “Amendment No. 1”) and certain exhibits via EDGAR with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which reflects responses to the comments received from the staff (the “Staff”) of the SEC by the letter dated September 15, 2020 regarding the Company’s Registration Statement on Form F-1 filed with the SEC on September 9, 2020.
The numbered paragraphs below correspond to the numbered comments in the Staff’s letter and the Staff’s comments are presented in bold. | Partners T C Hill M Lin O Chan D Y C So C J Dobby M D R Parsons N W O Tang E I Low* J P Kwan S K S Li L H S Leung A J McGinty L Davidson J E M Leitch
Counsel A D E Cobden K K S Wong K C W Lee J S F Yim J Leung
Foreign Legal Consultants S Tang (New York, USA) A Croke (NSW, Australia)
*Notary Public |
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Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
“Substantial uncertainties exist with respect to the Implementing Regulations . . .”, page 16
1. | We note the following amended disclosure: |
“Pursuant to the Opinions on Further Strengthening and Regulating the Administration of Education Fees, or the Opinions, which was recently issued on August 17, 2020 by the relevant authorities, the sponsors of non-profit privately-run schools and non-profit privately-run sino-foreign cooperative educators shall be prohibited from obtaining proceeds from school-running such as tuition income, distributing school balances (residual assets) or transferring proceeds from school running through related-party transactions or affiliated parties or other means. However, the Opinions have not specified whether the contractual arrangements fall within the activities of transferring the school-running proceeds through related-party transactions and affiliated parties, and the Opinions have not specified the relevant legal consequences of such activities.”
Considering that you generate revenue from tuition, meal, and accommodation fees through contractual agreements with your VIEs, please amend your risk factor disclosure to describe the risks to your operations and financial condition if your contractual agreements were to fall within the activities prohibited by the Opinions.
Response:
In response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on pages 16 and 17 of the Amendment No. 1.
Risks Relating to ADSs and This Offering
“ADSs holders have limited choice of forum . . .”, page 50
2. | Please revise to discuss any uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce your exclusive forum provision. If the discussion of enforceability issues relating to your jury waiver provision also applies to your exclusive forum provision, please revise yourdisclosure for clarity. |
Response:
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and advises the Staff that the Company has revised pages 50, 51 and 52 of the Amendment No. 1.
Should you have any questions about the responses contained herein, please contact me by telephone at (852) 2840 5026 (office) or via email at stephanie.tang@hoganlovells.com. Questions relating to accounting and auditing matters of the Company may also be directed to Theodore Deng, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP (“PwC”), by telephone at (86) 21 2323 2567 or via email at theodore.deng@cn.pwc.com. PwC is the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Stephanie Tang
Stephanie Tang
CC: | Biao Wei, director and chief executive officer, Lixiang Education Holding Co., Ltd. Theodore Deng, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP Galleon Lin, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP Dan Ouyang, Esq., Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation |
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