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Via Edgar

 

April 28, 2023

 

Division of Corporation Finance

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission

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Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Attention: Jeff Gabor

 

  Re: Evergreen Corporation
    Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A Filed April 14, 2023
    File No. 001-41271

 

Dear Mr. Gabor:

 

On behalf of Evergreen Corporation (the “Company”), we are hereby responding to the matters discussed with the staff (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on a telephone call held on April 27, 2023 with respect to risk factor disclosure regarding the Investment Company Act of 1940 in the Company’s preliminary proxy statement on Schedule 14A, filed on April 14, 2023 (the “Proxy Statement”). Terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Proxy Statement.

 

In response to the Staff’s comments, the Company proposes including the following risk factor in the definitive Proxy Statement to be filed upon clearance by the Commission:

 

If we were deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), we may be forced to abandon our efforts to complete an initial business combination and instead be required to liquidate the Company. To avoid that result, on or shortly prior to the 24-month anniversary of the effective date of the registration statement relating to our initial public offering, we will liquidate the securities held in the trust account and instead hold all funds in the trust account in an interest bearing bank demand deposit account, which may earn less interest than we otherwise would have if the trust account had remained invested in U.S. government securities or money market funds.

 

There is currently uncertainty concerning the applicability of the Investment Company Act to a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”), including companies that do not enter into a definitive agreement within 18 months after the effective date of the registration statement relating to their initial public offerings or that do not complete an initial business combination within 24 months after such date. We may not be able to enter into a definitive business combination agreement within 18 months after the effective date of the registration statement relating to our initial public offering, and we may not be able to complete our initial business combination within 24 months of such date and, as a result, we may in the future be subject to a claim that we have been operating as an unregistered investment company. If we were deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we might be forced to abandon our efforts to complete an initial business combination and instead be required to liquidate. If we are required to liquidate, our investors would not be able to realize the benefits of owning stock in a successor operating business, including the potential appreciation in the value of our stock and warrants following such a transaction, and our warrants would expire worthless.

 

 

 

 

The funds in the trust account have, since our initial public offering, been held only in U.S. government securities within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 180 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in United States Treasuries and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act. However, to mitigate the risk of us being deemed to have been operating as an unregistered investment company (including under the subjective test of Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act), we will, on or shortly prior to the 24-month anniversary of the effective date of the registration statement relating to our initial public offering, instruct Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the trustee with respect to the trust account, to liquidate the U.S. government securities or money market funds held in the trust account and thereafter, until the earlier of consummation of our initial business combination or liquidation, to hold all funds in the trust account in an interest bearing bank demand deposit account, which may earn less interest than we otherwise would have if the trust account had remained invested in U.S. government securities or money market funds. This may mean that the amount of funds available for redemption would not increase, or would only minimally increase, thereby reducing the dollar amount our public shareholders would receive upon any redemption or liquidation of the Company.

 

In addition, even prior to the 24-month anniversary of the effective date of the registration statement relating to our initial public offering, we may be deemed to be an investment company. The longer that the funds in the trust account are held in short-term U.S. government securities or in money market funds invested exclusively in such securities, even prior to the 24-month anniversary, there is a greater risk that we may be considered an unregistered investment company, in which case we may be required to liquidate. Accordingly, we may determine, in our discretion, to liquidate the securities held in the trust account at any time, even prior to the 24-month anniversary, and instead hold all funds in the trust account in an interest bearing bank demand deposit account, which may earn less interest than we otherwise would have if the trust account had remained invested in U.S. government securities or money market funds.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact Alex Weniger-Araujo at (212) 407-4063 of Loeb & Loeb LLP with any questions or comments regarding this letter.

 

  Sincerely,
   
  /s/ Loeb & Loeb LLP
  Loeb & Loeb LLP

 

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Liew Choon Lian

Evergreen Corporation