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January 6, 2023
VIA EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attn: Christina Chalk
| Re: | Genius Sports Ltd |
Schedule TO-I/A filed December 30, 2022 |
SEC File No. 5-93523 |
Form F-4/A filed December 30, 2022 |
SEC File No. 333-268457 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter sets forth the response of Genius Sports Limited (the “Company”) to the comments of the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) set forth in your letter dated January 3, 2023, with respect to the above referenced Schedule TO-I/A and Registration Statement on Form F-4/A. Concurrently with the submission of this letter, the Company is filing amendments to the Schedule TO-I/A and Registration Statement on Form F-4/A.
The text of the Staff’s comment has been included in this letter for your convenience, and we have numbered the paragraph below to correspond to the number in the Staff’s letter. For your convenience, we have also set forth the Company’s response immediately below the numbered comment.
Schedule TO-I/A Filed December 30, 2022
General
Staff’s Comment 1: We note the revised disclosure that if the Warrant Amendment is approved, any warrant that is not exercised by the Expiration Date will be exercised automatically on a cashless basis at an exercise price that is 76.6% of the volume-weighted average price of the ordinary shares for the one-Trading Day period on the NYSE on the second Trading Day prior to the Expiration Date. However, your revised disclosure provides that this will happen only if such Exercise Price would be less than $11.50 per share. Revise to explain what will happen to warrants that are not tendered if the Exercise Price would be greater than $11.50 per shares.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
January 6, 2023
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Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the disclosure accordingly. The relevant disclosure is on the cover page, Annex A and pages 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 39.
Staff’s Comment 2: We note your revised disclosure that the company will issue a press release announcing the Reduced Exercise Price prior to the opening of trading on the Trading Day prior to the Expiration Date. So that warrant holders know where they can access such press release, please confirm that it will be filed on EDGAR as an amendment to the tender offer materials, and revise the disclosure in your offer to purchase accordingly.
Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised the disclosure accordingly. The relevant disclosure is on the cover page and page 16.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
January 6, 2023
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If you have any questions related to this letter, please contact Ross M. Leff, P.C. at (212) 446-4947 of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
| Sincerely, |
/s/ Ross M. Leff |
| Ross M. Leff |
Via E-mail:
| cc: | Nicholas Taylor, Chief Financial Officer |
Elliott M. Smith
Laura Katherine Mann
White & Case LLP