LETTER 1 filename1.txt June 30, 2006 Mr. Matthew J. Klaben, Esq. Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Chart Industries, Inc. One Infinity Corporate Centre Drive Suite 300 Garfield Heights, Ohio 44125-5370 RE: Chart Industries, Inc. Amendment No. 3 to Form S-1 File No. 333-133254 Amended June 27, 2006 Dear Mr. Klaben: We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. General 1. Please include in the Form S-1 a consent from your independent accountants. Refer to Item 601(b)(23) of Regulation S-K. The Offering, page 5 2. Please disclose why option holders are getting a 10.1088-for- one adjustment when the stock split was 4.6263-for-one. Please also disclose how you intend to account for the additional options to be received by the option holders and your basis for that accounting. Please also disclose their fair value. Unaudited Pro Forma Financial Information, page 37 Unaudited As Adjusted Balance Sheet, page 38 3. Please include footnotes that clearly explain the offering adjustments to your common stock and additional paid in capital. Unaudited Pro Forma Statement of Operations, page 40 4. Please include footnotes that clearly explain the offering adjustments to interest expense and income tax expense. Your current explanation in footnote (4) does not explain how these adjustments are calculated. Please revise. Please also disclose why there are no offering adjustments in the March 31, 2006 pro forma statement of operations. 5. Please tell us why you have dilutive shares on a historical basis but not a pro forma basis for the three month period ended March 31, 2006. 6. Please present your EPS information in the pro forma columns of the statements of operations as well. 7. Please disclose how you computed the $828,000 pro forma adjustment to interest expense in the March 31, 2006 pro forma statement of operations. 8. It is still unclear to us how you arrived at the 13.1 million shares you are using as the weighted average shares outstanding for basic EPS purposes. Please revise note (5) to make this clearer. If you have included in this weighting the shares of the Reorganized Company, and not just those of the Successor Company, please also tell us why. 9. Note (5) to the pro forma statement of operations indicates that both pro forma basic and diluted EPS have been adjusted for the IPO shares. However, you have appropriately only adjusted diluted EPS. In addition, you state in note (5) that 12.5 million offering shares have been included assuming no exercise of the over- allotment option. However, based upon the fact that you have actually given effect to 12.7 million shares in note (7), you have assumed a partial exercise of the over- allotment option which is not typically appropriate. Please revise your disclosure and EPS computation accordingly. Financial Statements Consolidated Statements of Shareholders` Equity, page F-8 10. Please give retroactive effect to the stock split in the shares outstanding column of the Successor Company statement of shareholders` equity. Note J - Stock Option Plans, page F-34 11. Please show us how you computed the fair values of each options and warrants issuance by the Successor Company since its inception on October 17, 2005 through the date of your next amendment. In doing so, please also demonstrate for us how you determined the fair value of a share of your common stock as of each issuance date. Any later modifications should also be addressed. We will likely have further comments after we review your response. Item 15 - Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities, page II-1 12. Please disclose the terms of each option issuance, including the exercise price and vesting terms. Exhibit 5.1-Legal Opinion 13. Please note that counsel must also include its determination as to whether the shares have been duly authorized as part of their opinion that the shares are validly issued. Therefore, please revise the information in clause (1) of the first paragraph on page 2. Closing Comments You may contact Jeffery Gordon at (202) 551-33866 or Rufus Decker at (202) 551-3769 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Craig Slivka at (202) 555-3729 or the undersigned Branch Chief who supervised review of your filings at (202) 551-3767, with any other questions. Sincerely, Jennifer Hardy Branch Chief CC: Edward P. Tolley III, Esq. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP (212) 455-2502 Mr. Matthew J. Klaben, Esq. Chart Industries, Inc. June 30, 2006 Page 3 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549-0404 DIVISION OF CORPORATION FINANCE