Blueprint
September 27,
2019
VIA EDGAR
Mses.
Effie Simpson, Theresa Brilliant and Susan Block and Mr. John Dana
Brown
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of
Corporation Finance
100 F
Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C.
20549
Re:
Charlie's Holdings, Inc.
Registration
Statement on Form S-1 Filed July 11, 2019
File
No. 333-232596
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
This
letter is submitted on behalf of Charlie’s Holdings, Inc.
(the “Company”)
in response to comments of the staff of the Office of
Transportation and Leisure (the “Staff”) of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) with respect to the
Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the
“Registration
Statement”), filed on July 11, 2019, as set forth in your letter
dated August 7, 2019 (the “Comment Letter”), addressed to
Brandon Stump, Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The Company
is filing Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration
Statement (the “S-1/A”) contemporaneously with
the submission of this letter to address the comments raised by the
Staff in the Comment Letter, as more particularly set forth
below.
For
reference purposes, the Staff’s numbered comments have been
reproduced in bold herein, with responses immediately following
such comment. The responses provided herein are based upon
information provided to Disclosure Law Group, a Professional
Corporation, by the Company.
Form S-1 filed July 11, 2019
Cover Page
1.
Please
indicate that the selling shareholders will sell at a fixed price
per share or a bona fide price range, while your stock is traded on
the OTC Pink Marketplace. Please revise throughout.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the cover page of the S-1/A and the
applicable disclosure throughout the prospectus contained within
the S-1/A have been revised to disclose that shares offered by the
selling shareholders pursuant to the prospectus will be sold at a
fixed price until the Company’s common stock is quoted on the
OTCQB tier of the OTC Markets.
Recent Developments
The Share Exchange, page 4
2.
Please
refer to the fourth paragraph in this section. We note the
disclosure that the outstanding share amount assumes the Articles
of Incorporation are amended to effect the increase in the number
of authorized shares. We note however that the "Description of
Capital Stock," at page 82 discloses that the Company's authorized
capital stock currently consists of 50 billion. Please revise for
consistency, or advise.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the Company has revised both the
“Recent Developments” and the “Description of
Capital Stock” sections of the prospectus contained within
the S-1/A to clarify that, following the filing of the
Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation with
the State of Nevada on June 27, 2019, the Company’s
authorized common stock now consists of 50 billion
shares.
Risk Factors
We rely on contractual arrangements with Don Polly, page
10
3.
We
note the disclosure that you rely on contractual arrangements with
Don Polly, a consolidated variable interest entity, for your
CBD-related operations. Please file the relevant contracts for
these contractual arrangements as exhibits to this filing, or
advise.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the exhibit index of the S-1/A has been
revised to include both the License Agreement and the Services
Agreement entered into by Charlie’s Chalk Dust, LLC, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Don Polly on June 5,
2019, which agreements were originally filed as exhibits to the
Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on June 11,
2019.
Possible yet unanticipated changes in federal and state law, page
13
4.
We
note you indicate many states have adopted laws and regulations
that allow for the production of hemp and hemp derived products
within their territories. Please clarify the number of states that
do not allow for the sale of your vapor products containing hemp-
derived CBD, if applicable.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the Company has revised the disclosure
within the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus
contained within the S-1/A to include the number of states that do
not allow for the sale of the Company’s vapor products
containing hemp-derived CBD.
Recent Developments
Share Exchange, page 28
5.
We
note the disclosure that the primary business operations of the
Company following the share exchange consisted of those of
Charlie's, and more recently Don Polly. Please briefly expand to
explain how Don Polly became part of your business operations
recently.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the prospectus contained within the S-1/A
now includes disclosure describing how Don Polly became a part of
the Company’s business operations, including a description of
the License Agreement and the Services Agreement noted in the
Company’s response to comment no. 3 above.
Manufacturing and Distribution, page 31
6.
We
note your disclosure that you work with manufacturing partners and
distributors. Please file any material contracts related to
manufacturing and distributing, or advise.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the Company has carefully evaluated all
current contracts with its manufacturing partners and distributors,
and has determined that each contract was made in the ordinary
course of business, and that none of the existing contracts with
manufacturing partners and distributors are material to the
Company.
Selling stockholders, page 71
7.
Please
briefly discuss here the transactions from which the selling
shareholders acquired their shares.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the Company has revised the disclosure
within the “Selling
Stockholders”
section of the prospectus contained within the S-1/A to include a
brief description of the transactions by which the selling
stockholders acquired the shares included in the selling
stockholders table.
Signatures, page 87
8.
Please
also include the signature of your controller or principal
accounting officer, in the second signature block.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the Company has revised the signature page
to note that David Allen, the Company’s Chief Financial
Officer, is signing both as principal financial and principal
accounting officer for the Company.
General
9.
Please
revise your prospectus summary to further describe your capital
structure. For example please explain the conversion mechanism of
your Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, the number of votes per
share for that class of securities, the number of shares of voting
common stock represented by that class of securities on an as
converted basis, and what percentage of votes that may be cast this
represents. Additionally, add a separate risk factor discussing
these matters.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the Company has revised the prospectus
summary to include a description of its capital structure following
the completion of the Share Exchange, the filing of the Amended and
Restated Charter and the conversion of all outstanding shares of
Series B Preferred into shares of common stock, and the applicable
voting percentages held by the common stockholders and holders of
the Company’s Series A Preferred. In addition, the Company
revised the risk factor with the heading "Our significant
stockholders may have certain personal interests that may affect
the Company" appearing on page 9 of the prospectus contained within
the S-1/A to address the risk associated with the voting
percentages held by certain stockholders.
10.
We
note the statements on pages 4 and 9 that Brandon Stump and Ryan
Stump currently own "in excess of 50%" of your issued and
outstanding voting securities. Please revise these statements to
disclose the actual voting percentage.
Response
The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and
advises the Staff that the Company has revised the applicable
statements throughout the prospectus contained within the S-1/A to
disclose the actual voting percentage collectively owned by Brandon
Stump and Ryan Stump.
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We hope
that the foregoing has been responsive to the Staff’s
comments. If you have any questions or would like further
information regarding the foregoing, please do not hesitate to
contact me at (619) 272-7063.
Very
truly yours,
/s/ Jessica R. Sudweeks
Jessica
R. Sudweeks
Partner
Disclosure Law
Group, a Professional Corporation
Chief
Executive Officer
Charlie’s
Holdings, Inc.
Mr.
David Allen
Chief
Financial Officer
Charlie’s
Holdings, Inc.