EX-99.8 6 ff12024a4ex99-8_neoconcept.htm REQUEST FOR WAIVER AND REPRESENTATION UNDER ITEM 8.A.4 OF FORM 20-F

Exhibit 99.8

 

January 4, 2024

 

VIA EDGAR

 

Division of Corporation Finance

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Re: Neo-Concept International Group Holdings Limited

Amendment No. 4 to Registration Statement on Form F-1

Request for Waiver and Representation under Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

The undersigned, Neo-Concept International Group Holdings Limited, an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands with limited liability (the “Company”), is submitting this letter via EDGAR to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) in connection with the Company’s submission on the date hereof of its Amendment No. 4 to registration statement on Form F-1 (the “Registration Statement”) relating to a proposed initial public offering and listing in the United States of the Company’s ordinary shares.

 

The Company has included in the Registration Statement its audited consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 and unaudited interim consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2023 and for each of the six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2023.

 

The Company respectfully requested that the Commission waive the requirement of Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F (the “Waiver Request”), which states that in the case of a company’s initial public offering, the registration statement on Form F-1 must contain audited financial statements of a date not older than 12 months from the date of the filing (the “12-Month Requirement”).

 

The Company is submitting this Waiver Request pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F, which provides that the Commission will waive the 12-Month Requirement “in cases where the company is able to represent adequately to us that it is not required to comply with this requirement in any other jurisdiction outside the United States and that complying with this requirement is impracticable or involves undue hardship.” In addition, in International Reporting and Disclosure Issues in the Division of Corporation Finance, dated November 1, 2004 (available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/internatl/cfirdissues1104.htm), at Section III. B. c), staff of the Commission notes that: “the instruction indicates that the staff will waive the 12-month requirement where it is not applicable in the registrant’s other filing jurisdictions and is impracticable or involves undue hardship. As a result, we expect that the vast majority of IPOs will be subject only to the 15-month rule. The only times that we anticipate audited financial statements will be filed under the 12-month rule are when the registrant must comply with the rule in another jurisdiction, or when those audited financial statements are otherwise readily available.”

 

 

 

 

In connection with the Waiver Request, the Company represents to the Commission that:

 

1. The Company is not currently a public reporting company in any jurisdiction.

 

2. The Company is not required by any jurisdiction outside the United States to prepare consolidated financial statements audited under any generally accepted auditing standards for any interim period.

 

3. Full compliance with Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F at present is impracticable and involves undue hardship for the Company.

 

4. The Company does not anticipate that its audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023 will be available until March 2023.

 

5. In no event will the Company seek effectiveness of its registration statement on Form F-1 if its audited financial statements are older than 15 months at the time of the Company’s initial public offering.

 

The Company is submitting this letter as an exhibit to the Registration Statement pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F.

 

  Sincerely,
     
  Neo-Concept International Group Holdings Limited
     
  By: /s/ Eva Yuk Yin Siu
  Name:  Eva Yuk Yin Siu
  Title: Chairlady of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Director