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Ms. Stacey Peikin

Ms. Mara Ransom

Office of Trade & Services

Division of Corporation Finance

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Re:Ucommune International Ltd (CIK No. 0001821424)
Amendment No. 8 to Registration Statement on Form F-1 on Form F-3
File No. 333-257664

 

Dear Ms. Peikin and Ms. Ransom:

 

On behalf of our client, Ucommune International Ltd, an exempted company incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), we are filing this letter setting forth the Company’s responses to the comments contained in the letter dated May 19, 2022 from the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on Amendment No. 7 to Registration Statement on Form F-1 on Form F-3 filed on May 19, 2022 (“Amendment No. 7”).

 

Concurrently with the filing of this letter, the Company is filing herewith Amendment No. 8 to Registration Statement on Form F-1 on Form F-3 (“Amendment No. 8”) and certain exhibits via EDGAR to the Commission. To facilitate the review by the Staff, we are separately delivering to the Staff by email a PDF of Amendment No. 8, a marked version showing changes to Amendment No. 7.

 

 

Resident Partners:

Amy E. Beckingham

Joseph A. Bevash

Andrew J. Bishop

Benjamin B. R. Carale

Derek S. H. Chua

Simon J. Cooke

Kieran G.C. Donovan

Simon M. Hawkins

Howard K. H. Lam

Posit Laohaphan

Catherine M. McBride

Dominik Sklenar

Qiuning Sun

Terris C. C. Tang

Allen C. Wang

Richard Watkins

Cheung Ying Yeung

Registered Foreign Lawyers:

David M. Blumental (Texas)

Tracy K. Edmonson (California)

Won Suk Kang (England and Wales)

Ji Liu (California)

Zhonghua Shi (New York)

Benjamin P. Su (New York)

Daying Zhang (New York)

 

 

 

 

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The Company seeks to have the registration statement declared effective as soon as possible. The Company would very much appreciate the Staff’s assistance in meeting the Company’s timetable for the offering.

 

We have repeated the Staff’s comment below in bold italics, followed by the Company’s responses. We have included page references in the Amendment No. 8 where language addressing a particular comment appears. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Registration Statement.

 

Amendment No. 7 to Form F-1 on Form F-3 Filed May 19, 2022

 

Cover Page

 

1. We note your disclosure in response to comment 3. Where you describe how cash is transferred through your organization:

 

Both on the cover page and in the summary, please clarify the source of your "internal cash management policies." For example, disclose whether these policies were established by the board of each relevant company;

 

In response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has updated the disclosure on the prospectus cover page and pages 7, 20 and 139 of Amendment No. 8.

 

Both on the cover page and in the summary, where you discuss how cash may be transferred among entities within your group, clarify the source of your rules on cash flow among entities/operations. For example, disclose whether these policies are contained in the relevant VIE agreement (including the Business Operations Agreement, Equity Pledge Agreement, and Powers of Attorney), and identify the relevant VIE agreements to which they are a part.

 

In response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has updated the disclosure on the prospectus cover page and pages 6, 20 and 138 of Amendment No. 8.

 

We note on page 7 that the PRC subsidiaries may pay dividends to their shareholders, which are the Parent's subsidiaries incorporated in Hong Kong. Revise the cover page and page 7 to clarify the source of this ability;

 

In response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has updated the disclosure on the prospectus cover page and pages 7, 22 and 139 of Amendment No. 8.

 

Revise the cover page to disclose the requirement to obtain SAFE approval, as is currently disclosed on page 7; and

 

In response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has updated the disclosure on the prospectus cover page of Amendment No. 8.

 

Revise the cover page to disclose that each of the PRC subsidiaries and the VIEs is required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund a statutory reserve until such reserve reaches 50% of its registered capital, as is currently disclosed on page 7.

 

In response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has updated the disclosure on the prospectus cover page of Amendment No. 8.

 

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If you have any questions regarding Amendment No. 8, please do not hesitate to contact me at +852-2912-2692 or via e-mail at allen.wang@lw.com.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  /s/ ALLEN WANG
  Allen Wang

 

Enclosures

 

cc:

Xin Guan, Chief Executive Officer, Ucommune International Ltd

Siyuan Wang, Chief Financial Officer, Ucommune International Ltd

Jenny Liu, Marcum Bernstein & Pinchuk LLP