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February 19, 2021

VIA EDGAR

 Karina Dorin

 Division of Corporation Finance

 Office of Energy & Transportation

 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

 100 F Street, NE

 Washington, D.C. 20549

RE:	TCW Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.
	Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
	Filed February 12, 2021
	File No. 333-252775

Dear Ms. Dorin:

Set forth below is the response of TCW Special Purpose Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”, “we,” “us” or “our”) to the comment received from the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by letter dated February 18, 2021, with respect to Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-252775, filed with the Commission on February 12, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”). Concurrently with the submission of this letter, we are filing Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement (the “Amendment”).

For your convenience, the response is prefaced by the exact text of the Staff’s corresponding comment in bold, italicized text. All references to page numbers and captions correspond to the Amendment unless otherwise specified.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

 February 19, 2021

 Page 2

Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed February 12, 2021

Risk Factors

We may engage one or more of our underwriters or one of their respective affiliates to provide additional services, page 42

1. Please expand your disclosure to discuss the right of first refusal you have agreed to provide the underwriters for investment banking services in connection with certain future transactions. In this regard, we note your disclosure on page 138.

Response: The Company advises to Staff that it included responsive disclosures on pages 42 of the Amendment.

Exhibits

2. We note your disclose on page 62 that the exclusive forum provision in your warrant agreement will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are the sole and exclusive forum. Please revise the exclusive forum provision in Section 9.3 of your Form of Warrant Agreement filed as Exhibit 4.4. to state this clearly.

Response: The Company advises the Staff that the Company’s Form of Warrant Agreement, included as Exhibit 4.4 of the Amendment, will clearly state that the exclusive forum provision does apply to actions arising under the Securities Act.

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Please contact me at (650) 470-3130 should you require further information.

Very truly yours,

Michael Mies

cc:	TCW Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.
	Joseph R. Shaposhnik

cc:	Ropes & Gray LLP
	Paul Tropp and Michael Pilo