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Attn: |
Jane Park
Dorrie Yale Jenn Do Lynn Dicker Division of Corporation Finance Office of Life Sciences |
Re: |
Waldencast Acquisition Corp.
Registration Statement on Form F-4 Filed February 14, 2022 File No. 333-262692 |
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We acknowledge your revised disclosures in response to prior comments 1 and 3. We note the definition of Beauty Ventures discloses that it is managed by the Sponsor. We also note that the
disclosures regarding expected ownership percentages separately discusses the percentage ownership of the Sponsor and Beauty Ventures. Please explain why this presentation is appropriate. In addition, as previously noted, it is unclear why
a defined term is needed for "Total Implied Obagi Cash Consideration Amount” when it means $380.0 million.
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We acknowledge your revised disclosures in response to prior comment 4. You state that Milk Members will receive Waldencast LP common units as part of the transaction. Please also clarify
here whether the transaction involving the issuance of Waldencast LP common units will be exempt from registration.
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We acknowledge your revised disclosures in response to prior comment 9. Your revised disclosures state that you have not received marketing authorization from the FDA. To the extent correct,
please revise here and elsewhere as appropriate, including in your summary risk factor on page 29, to clarify that such marketing authorization is required. As previously noted, please also disclose that the FDA has cited safety concerns
for the HQ ingredient, even at the lower concentrations, and that you could be found to be marketing and selling these products in violation of the law, as you state on page 48, and add corresponding disclosures to your summary risk
factors. Please also ensure that such disclosures are prominently disclosed.
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We acknowledge your revised disclosures in response to prior comment 10. As previously noted, please revise your discussion of the board's reasons for the business combination by removing
some of the detailed discussion that is more appropriate for elsewhere in the prospectus.
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We acknowledge your revised disclosures in response to prior comment 16. Please further revise footnotes 2 to the tables to further explain how the cash is intended to be used in the
operations of Obagi and Milk, and provide some context to investors to understand the differences in the use of cash in the different scenarios.
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We note your disclosure in response to our prior comment 20 that certain jurisdictions and credit card authorization vendors have taken action against physician customers who sell your
prescription products over the Internet. As previously noted, please quantify any effect thus far of such actions to the sales of your prescription only products. You also state that certain states prohibit the dispensing of prescription
products without a pharmacy or license unless certain conditions are met. Please explain whether your sales in these listed states meet those conditions and what those conditions are. Additionally, disclose in your discussion of Obagi
beginning on page 2 that certain states, including California, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas require a pharmacy or other license or authorization to dispense your prescription products unless certain conditions are met, and that credit
card authorization vendors and the state of Texas and Puerto Rico have taken action against physician customers who sell your prescription products to patients over the Internet.
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7. |
We refer to your revised disclosure regarding the indemnification agreement. Please remove this mitigating discussion from your risk factor.
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8. |
We refer to your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 28. Regarding the rationale set forth in clause (ii), please further revise to explain why Waldencast did not pursue further
negotiations to discuss valuation expectations and disclose how many potential targets this rationale affected. Regarding the rationale set forth in clause (iv), please further discuss why the other target business was not as aligned with
Waldencast's investment criteria as Obagi and Milk's businesses. Also revise to clarify whether any of the potential targets were in the beauty sector.
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We note your response to our prior comment 31. Please revise to clarify how the negotiations relating to the Obagi China Business evolved, including the different values attributed to the
Obagi China Business and various regulatory issues discussed.
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We note your responses to our prior comments 30 and 32, which we reissue in part. You disclose that the parties and their respective advisors agreed to effect the Up-C structure following
several weeks of discussions. Please revise to further expand on the evolution of the proposed transaction structure, including the tax aspects of the structure. Please also further clarify how the consideration evolved during the
negotiations, including the changes to the purchase price mechanic and removal of a purchase price adjustment that are referenced, and disclose any negotiations regarding the consideration amount and type that occurred prior to the letters
of interest. Also include a discussion regarding any negotiations regarding Cedarwalk's ability to appoint one director.
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We note your revised disclosure in response to our prior comment 34, which we reissue in part. Disclose whether any companies meeting the selection criteria were excluded from the analysis
and please expand your discussion to disclose the financial data used to derive the multiples.
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We note your response to our prior comment 37. Please revise to remove statements assuming the domestication qualifies as an F reorganization. Please also expand your disclosure regarding
the tax consequences to U.S. holders of Waldencast Class A ordinary shares who exercise redemption rights and disclose the tax consequences on the holding period caused by the redemption rights. For guidance concerning assumptions and
opinions subject to uncertainty, please refer to Staff Legal Bulletin No. 19. Revise corresponding sections in the prospectus as appropriate, and revise the opinion exhibit to cover all the material tax consequences to U.S. holders.
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We refer to your revised disclosures in response to prior comment 41. You state that the Skintrinsiq device is regulated by the FDA, but that you believe it is exempt from FDA premarket
review requirements. Please further explain to us the basis of your belief.
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14. |
We note your response to our prior comment 40. Please revise throughout the prospectus your references to your products' efficacy and/or safety and studies determining your products'
efficacy and/or safety as your prescription products have not been approved by the FDA, and efficacy and safety determinations are within the FDA's authority. Balance all references that Obagi Medical products are "scientifically-backed"
and "clinically proven" to state that your Obagi Medical products have not been approved by the FDA or a similar regulatory authority, and that you're marketing certain of your products without required FDA approval, or revise.
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We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 42. Please also revise to clarify, if true, that the referenced Chinese business would be part of the Obagi China Distribution.
In addition, please disclose that your agreement with Boxout Health does not contain any minimum purchase requirements and expand your discussion of the material terms of your Boxout Health distribution agreement to disclose the termination
provisions and rights and obligations of each party pursuant to the agreement.
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16. |
We note the addition of the table on page 276 of your material patents. Please clarify, if correct, that each of the material patents listed are owned by Obagi. Please also expand your
disclosure of the patent rights under your license agreement with Osmotics, including the materiality of such patent rights that you have licensed, the type of patent protection, patent expiration dates and the applicable jurisdictions. In
addition, we note the upcoming expiration dates for certain of your patents, including patents licensed under the agreement with Osmotics. Please disclose the material effects of expiring patents, if any.
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We note your response to our prior comment 43, which we reissue in part. Please expand your disclosure for Milk's master services agreement to identify the parties to such agreement and the
material terms of the agreement or tell us why it is not material. We refer to your reference to the master services agreement on page 298.
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18. |
We note your response to our prior comment 47. Please expand your disclosure of the material terms of the distribution agreements with Sephora, including the termination provision.
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We note your response to our prior comment 49, which we reissue in part. Please also disclose the number of participants in the Sephora online survey conducted in June 2020.
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20. |
We acknowledge your response to prior comment 52. Please revise footnote 3 to explain that the voting and investment power is exercised jointly by Waldencast Ventures, LP, Burwell Mountain
Trust, and Dynamo Master Fund.
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21. |
We note your response to prior comment 54. You stated "management believes these allegations are without merit and any reasonably possible losses are not expected to have a material impact
on the Company’s condensed financial statement." Since it appears that there is at least a reasonable possibility that a loss or an additional loss may have been incurred, item b. of ASC 450-20-50-4 requires disclosure of an estimate of the
possible loss or range of loss or a statement that such an estimate cannot be made. Please revise accordingly.
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22. |
We refer to the 59,126,449 "Ordinary shares" shown as being registered in your fee table exhibit. This amount appears to include both Waldencast plc Class A ordinary shares and Waldencast
plc Non-Economic ordinary shares. Please revise so that the number of shares of each class of shares is separately disclosed in the table. Refer to Item 21 of Form F-4. In addition, certain disclosures on the cover page was removed along
with the filing fee table, such as the asterisk disclosure regarding the Domestication. Please restore the disclosures.
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23. |
We note your revised disclosure in response to our prior comment 55. Please specify the sources that conducted the industry research in 2020 referenced in your disclosure. Please also
restore the deleted reference to the survey conducted by Kline & Co. on page 281 or advise.
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Very truly yours,
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/s/ Maxim O. Mayer-Cesiano
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Maxim O. Mayer-Cesiano
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Michel Brousset
Waldencast Acquisition Corp. |
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Gregg A. Noel
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP |
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Paul T. Schnell
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP |
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Michael J. Schwartz
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP |
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R. Scott Shean
Latham & Watkins LLP |
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B. Shayne Kennedy
Latham & Watkins LLP |
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Andrew Clark
Latham & Watkins LLP |
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Phillip S. Stoup
Latham & Watkins LLP |
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Daniel J. Espinoza
Goodwin Procter LLP |
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W. Stuart Ogg
Goodwin Procter LLP |