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                             November 18, 2020

       Ian Friedman
       Chief Executive Officer
       Highland Transcend Partners I Corp.
       16 Fayerweather Street
       Cambridge, MA 02138

                                                        Re: Highland Transcend
Partners I Corp.
                                                            Draft Registration
Statement on Form S-1
                                                            Submitted October
23, 2020
                                                            CIK No. 1828817

       Dear Mr. Friedman:

              We have reviewed your draft registration statement and have the
following comments. In
       some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so
we may better
       understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to this letter by providing the requested
information and either submitting
       an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your
registration statement on
       EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not
       believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.

             After reviewing the information you provide in response to these
comments and your
       amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we
may have additional
       comments.

       Draft Registration Statement submitted October 23, 2020

       Principal Shareholders, page 118

   1.                                                   Please identify the
managers of Highland Transcend Partners in footnote 3 to the table.
       Warrants, page 127

   2.                                                   We note that your
warrant agreement contains an exclusive forum provision. Please
                                                        disclose this provision
here.
 Ian Friedman
FirstName LastNameIan  Friedman
Highland Transcend Partners I Corp.
Comapany 18,
November  NameHighland
              2020        Transcend Partners I Corp.
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or Jean Yu,
Assistant Chief Accountant, at (202) 551-3305 if you have questions regarding
comments on the
financial statements and related matters. Please contact Sergio Chinos, Staff
Attorney, at (202)
551-7844 or Erin Purnell, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551-3454 with any other
questions.



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