PowerUp Acquisition Corp.
188 Grand Street
Unit #195
New York, NY 10013
VIA EDGAR
January 6, 2022
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Life Sciences
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attn: Alan Campbell
| Re: | PowerUp Acquisition Corp. Amended Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 Submitted September 7, 2021 |
CIK 0001847345
Dear Mr. Campbell:
PowerUp Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us”), hereby transmits the Company’s response to the comment letter received from the staff (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) dated September 20, 2021, regarding the Company’s Amended Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 submitted to the Commission on September 7, 2021 (the “Draft Registration Statement”). For the Staff’s convenience, we have repeated below the Staff’s comment in bold, and have followed the comment with the Company’s response.
Amendment No. 2 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Capitalization, page 67
| 1 | Your “As Adjusted” column includes a warrant liability to account for the 6,003,333 private warrants to be issued in connection with this offering in accordance with ASC 815-40. We note that in the prior amendment, this warrant liability also included the 10,000,000 public warrants included as part of the units. Please clarify your expected accounting treatment for the public warrants to be issued as part of the units. To the extent that you have determined that the public warrants will be equity-classified, please clarify whether the related warrant agreements contain any of the provisions addressed in the Staff Statement on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Warrants Issued by Special Purpose Acquisition Companies issued on April 12, 2021 and how these provisions impacted your accounting determination. To the extent you have amended your warrant agreements to remove any problematic provisions that would trigger liability classification, please confirm as such. |
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Life Sciences
Attn: Alan Campbell
Re: PowerUp Acquisition Corp.
January 6, 2022
Page 2 of 2
Following the filing of the Draft Registration Statement on September 7, 2021, the decision was made that the Company’s public warrants and private warrants would be equity-classified. We have since publicly filed the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) with the Commission through EDGAR, along with a revised warrant agreement. We believe such revised warrant agreement does not contain any problematic provisions that would trigger liability classification of warrants.
We thank the Staff for its review of the foregoing and the Registration Statement. If you have further comments, please feel free to contact to our counsel, Ari Edelman, at aedelman@mwe.com or by telephone at (212) 547-5372.
| Sincerely, | |
| /s/ Jack Tretton | |
Jack Tretton Chief Executive Officer | |
| PowerUp Acquisition Corp. |
cc: Ari Edelman, Esq.
