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[Letterhead of Bancolombia S.A.]
July 7th, 2011
VIA EDGAR
Ms. Suzanne Hayes
Securities Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20549
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Bancolombia S.A.
Registration Statement on Form F-4
Filed June 24, 2011
File No. 333-175141 |
Dear Ms. Hayes,
We are in receipt of your letter dated June 30, 2011 and thank you for your comments
concerning the above-captioned filing of Bancolombia S.A. ( the Bank). We are pleased to respond
to the Staffs comments contained in your comment letter of June 30, 2011 (the Comment Letter).
The Bank acknowledges that the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the Banks filings
is the responsibility of the Bank, that Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to
Staff comments do not foreclose the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) from
taking any action with respect to the filings and that Staff comments may not be asserted by the
Bank as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the Federal
securities laws of the United States.
To facilitate your review, we have repeated your questions below in bold face type, followed
by the responses of the Bank in regular type. The numbers correspond to the numbers in the Comment
Letter.
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Form F-4
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Please confirm that you will provide a minimum offering period of 20 business days from the
date of commencement. |
Bancolombia Response
The Bank confirms that the exchange offer will be open at least through midnight of the
twentieth business day following commencement of that exchange offer. The Bank further confirms
that the expiration date will be included in the final prospectus disseminated to security holders
and filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933.
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Please file revised correspondence which includes the representations contained in the Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated (June 5, 1991) and Shearman & Sterling (July 2, 1993) no-action
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Bancolombia Response
The Bank will file a supplemental letter, dated today, including the representations contained
in the Morgan Stanley and Shearman & Sterling no-action letters.
Please direct any questions or comments regarding the above referenced file to the undersigned
at +57 (1) 353-6885 or Robert S. Risoleo at (202) 956-7500.
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Very truly yours,
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/s/ Mauricio Rosillo
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Mauricio Rosillo
General Secretary
Bancolombia S.A. |
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Robert S. Risoleo, Esq.
(Sullivan & Cromwell LLP) |
[Letterhead of Bancolombia]
July 7th, 2011
VIA EDGAR
Ms. Suzanne Hayes
Securities Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20549
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Bancolombia S.A.
Registration Statement on Form F-4
Filed June 24, 2011
File No. 333-175141 |
Dear Ms. Hayes:
As stated in our letter dated June 24, 2011, Bancolombia S.A. (the Bank) is registering the
exchange offer on the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form F-4 in reliance on the
positions of the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Staff) set forth in Exxon
Capital Holdings Corporation (avail. May 13, 1988) and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (avail.
June 5, 1991) as interpreted in the
Staffs letter to Shearman & Sterling (avail. July 2, 1993) (collectively the Letters). In
the exchange offer, the holders of the 4.250% Senior Notes due 2016 and 5.950% Senior Notes due
2021 sold in private offerings completed on January 12, 2011 and June 3, 2011, respectively, will
exchange such securities for substantially identical securities (the Exchange Securities)
pursuant to a registered exchange offer. In addition, as requested in your letter to the Bank of
June 30, 2011 (comment no. 2),we represent with respect to the exchange offer that:
1. The Bank will not enter into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute
the Exchange Securities and to the best of the Banks information and belief, each person expected
to participate in the exchange offer will be acquiring the securities in its ordinary course of
business and will have no arrangement or
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understanding with any person to participate in the
distribution of the securities to be received in the exchange offer. In this regard, the Bank will
make each person participating in the exchange offer aware (through the exchange offer prospectus
or otherwise) that if the exchange offer is being registered for the purpose of secondary resales,
any security holder using the exchange offer to participate in a distribution of the securities to
be acquired in the registered exchange offer (1) could not rely on the staff position enunciated in
the Letters and (2) must comply with registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the
Securities Act, in connection with a secondary resale transaction. The Bank acknowledges that such
a secondary resale transaction should be covered by an effective registration statement containing
the selling security holder information required by Item 507 of Regulation S-K.
2. A broker-dealer may participate in the exchange offer with respect to securities that are
currently outstanding (Initial Securities) acquired for its own account as a result of
market-making activities or other trading activities, provided that (i) in connection with any
resales of Exchange Securities received in exchange for such Initial Securities, the broker-dealer
complies with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act, and the prospectus for
the exchange offer may be used for this purpose, so long as it contains a plan of distribution with
respect to such resale transactions (such plan of distribution need not name the broker-dealer or
disclose the amount of Exchange Securities held by the broker-dealer); and (ii) the broker-dealer
has not entered into any arrangement or understanding with the Bank or an affiliate of the Bank to
distribute the Exchange Securities.
3. The Bank (i) will make each person participating in the exchange offer aware (through the
exchange offer prospectus) that any broker-dealer who holds Initial Securities acquired for its own
account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, and who receives
Exchange Securities in exchange for such Initial Securities pursuant to the exchange offer, may be
a statutory underwriter and must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities
Act as described in (2)
above in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities; and (ii) will include in the
transmittal letter or similar documentation to be executed by an exchange offeree in order to
participate in the exchange offer the following additional provision if the exchange offeree is a
broker-dealer holding Initial Securities acquired for its own account as a result of market-making
activities or other trading activities: an acknowledgement that it will comply with the prospectus
delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of Exchange Securities
received in respect of such Initial Securities pursuant to the exchange offer. The transmittal
letter or similar documentation may also include a statement to the effect that by so acknowledging
and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an
underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act.
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Please direct any questions or comments regarding the above referenced file to the undersigned
at +57 (1) 353-6885 or Robert S. Risoleo at (202) 956-7500.
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Very truly yours,
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/s/ Mauricio Rosillo
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Mauricio Rosillo
General Secretary
Bancolombia S.A. |
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Robert S. Risoleo, Esq.
(Sullivan & Cromwell LLP) |