CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Acceleration Request

[WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI LETTERHEAD]

 

June 14, 2005

 

Via EDGAR Transmission and Facsimile

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

Mail Stop 6010

100 F Street, NE

Washington, DC 20549

Fax: (202) 772-9218

Attention: Mary Beth Breslin

 

  Re: HemoSense, Inc. (File No. 333-123705)

Acceleration Request

 

Dear Ms. Breslin:

 

Pursuant to the authorization provided in the acceleration request letter of June 10, 2005, on behalf of HemoSense, Inc. (the “Company”), we hereby respectfully request that the Securities and Exchange Commission take appropriate action to make the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 effective on June 16, 2005 at 4:30 p.m. E.D.T. or as soon thereafter as practicable.

 

Please contact me at (650) 320-4872 should you have any questions.

 

Sincerely,

WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI

Professional Corporation

/s/    DAVID J. SAUL


David J. Saul

 

cc: James D. Merselis
     David W. Pollak


LAZARD CAPITAL MARKETS LLC

30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA

NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10020

 

June 14, 2005

 

Via EDGAR Transmission and Facsimile

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

Mail Stop 6010

100 F Street, NE

Washington, DC 20549

Attention: Mary Beth Breslin

 

  Re: HemoSense, Inc.

Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-123705)

 

Dear Ms. Breslin:

 

The undersigned, as managing underwriter for the public offering of the common stock of HemoSense, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby joins in the Company’s request that the effectiveness of the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-1 be accelerated so that said Registration Statement will become effective at 4:30 p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on June 16, 2005, or as soon thereafter as possible.

 

The number of preliminary prospectuses dated May 31, 2005 which have been distributed is as follows:

 

To Whom Delivered


   No. of Copies

Underwriters

   2,000

Individuals

   700

Others

   450

Total

   3,150

 

Very truly yours,

LAZARD CAPITAL MARKETS LLC

By:

 

/s/ David G. McMillan, Jr.


Name:

  David G. McMillan, Jr.

Title:

 

Managing Director of Capital Markets,

Head of Debt & Equity