EESTech,
Inc
1260
S. Highway 98, Building 1, Suite H-5
Chino
Valley, Arizona 86323
Tel : 1
(928) 636-6255
www.eestechinc.com
August
23, 2007
VIA
EDGAR
U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
100
F
Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attention: |
Mr.
William Thompson
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Mr.
Adam
Phippen
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Re: |
EESTech,
Inc. (f/k/a Aqua Dyne,
Inc.)
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Form
8-K Filed August 3, 2006
File
No. 000-32863
Dear
Mr.
Thompson:
This
letter responds to the letter dated July 3, 2007 from your office with respect
to our Form 8-K filed August 3, 2006. For your convenience, the text of your
letter has been included and our response is presented below each comment in
boldface type.
In
previous correspondence with your office, we have stated our intention not
to
file a revised Preliminary Proxy Statement until your concerns with respect
to
EESTech, Inc.’s several Forms 8-K filed under Item 8.01 on August 3, 2006 and
August 10, 2006 have been resolved. It is our belief that this letter responds
to and resolves your final concerns regarding those filings, unless you contact
us further about the matters discussed herein.
Form
8-K Filed August 3, 2006
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We
reviewed your response to comment two from our comment letter dated
April
3, 2007. It appears that your investment in Methgen, Inc. met the
condition specified in Item 310(c)(2)(i) of Regulation S-B at the
40%
level. Accordingly, we believe that you should file the audited financial
statements of Methgen for the two most recent fiscal years and interim
periods specified in paragraph (b) and the pro forma financial information
specified in paragraph (d) of Item 310 of Regulation S-B. Refer to
paragraph (c)(3)(i) of Item 310 of Regulation S-B and Item 9.01 of
Form
8-K. Please file an amendment to Form 8-K to report the acquisition
under
Item 2.01 and include the required financial statements and pro forma
financial information.
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The
Company has reviewed the staff’s comment. We agree with the staff’s position
that the acquisition by EESTech, Inc. (the “Company”) of Methgen, Inc.
(“Methgen”) was an acquisition contemplated by Item 2.01 of Form 8-K. We propose
to file an amended 8-K in order to correctly state that the information filed
with respect to this acquisition is filed under Item 2.01 of Form 8-K, rather
than Item 8.01.
However,
it is our belief that the financial statements you have requested should not
be
required for this transaction under Item 9.01 of Form 8-K. Item 9.01 of Form
8-K
requires certain financial reports when the acquisition disclosed on the Form
8-K is the acquisition of a “business.” While this transaction was completed
through a stock swap whereby the Company acquired all of the outstanding shares
of Methgen, this transaction was really an acquisition of a single asset (a
license for the marketing and production rights to the Hybrid Coal Gas Turbine
(“HCGT”) technology in the United States (the “License”)), rather than the
acquisition of a “business.”
Rule
11-01(d) of Regulation S-X states that “the term business should evaluated in
light of the facts and circumstances involved and whether there is sufficient
continuity of the acquired entity's operations prior to and after the
transactions so that disclosure of prior financial information is material
to an
understanding of future operations.” Rule 11-01(d) continues on to state that
the issues that should be considered when determining if an acquisition is
an
acquisition of a business are:
(1)
Whether the nature of the revenue-producing activity of the component will
remain generally the same as before the transaction; or (2) Whether any of
the
following attributes remain with the component after the transaction: (i)
physical facilities; (ii) employee base; (iii) market distribution system;
(iv)
sales force; (v) customer base; (vi) operating rights; (vii) production
techniques; or (viii) trade names.
At
the time of the acquisition, Methgen had no revenue-producing activity, and
in
fact had no operations at all. Further, Methgen had no physical facilities,
employees, market distribution systems, sales force, customers, productions
techniques, or trade names. Finally, Methgen had no operating rights other
than
those associated with the License. In light of the foregoing, we do not believe
that Methgen, at the time of its acquisition by the Company, would be defined
as
a “business” under Rule 11-01(d) of Regulation S-X.
EITF
Issue No. 98-3 (“EITF 98-3”) also discusses the concepts of business
combinations for accounting purposes. EITF 98-3 states, at paragraph 6,
that:
A
business is a self-sustaining integrated set of activities and assets conducted
and managed for the purpose of providing a return to investors. A business
consists of (a) inputs, (b) processes applied to those inputs, and (c) resulting
outputs that are used to generate revenues. For a transferred set of activities
and assets to be business,
it must contain all of the inputs and processes necessary for it to continue
to
conduct normal operations after the transferred set is separated from the
transferor, which includes the ability to sustain a revenue stream by providing
its outputs to customers.
EITF
98-3 continues on to state that “an evaluation of the necessary elements should
consider” the following:
Inputs
- (a) long-lived assets, including intangible assets, or rights to use of
long-lived assets; (b) intellectual property; (c) the ability to obtain access
to necessary materials or rights; (d) employees.
Processes
- (e) the existence of systems, standards, protocols, conventions, and rules
that act to define the processes necessary for normal, self-sustaining
operations, such as (i) strategic management processes, (ii) operational
processes, and (iii) resource management processes.
Outputs
- (f) the ability to obtain access to the customers that purchase the outputs
of
the transferred set.
A
transferred set of activities and assets fails the definition of a business
if
it excludes one or more of the above items such that it is not possible for
the
set to continue normal operations and sustain a revenue stream by providing
its
products and/or services to customers.
As
noted above, at the time of the acquisition of Methgen by the Company, Methgen
had no employees and no revenue-generating activities. Methgen also had no
systems, standards, protocols, conventions, or rules to define the processes
for
normal, self-sustaining operations. Methgen had no outputs or products, and
Methgen also had no ability to obtain access to the customers who would purchase
any of its outputs, even if it had outputs. Other than the License, Methgen
had
none of the “Inputs” listed above. Since Methgen fails more than one, and in
fact most, of the items required for the definition of a business, we do not
believe that Methgen qualifies as a “business” under the interpretation of EITF
98-3.
In
substance, at the time of the acquisition of Methgen by the Company, Methgen
did
not qualify as a “business” under either Rule 11-01(d) of Regulation S-X or
under EITF 98-3. As a result, we do not believe the acquisition should be
qualified as an “acquisition of a business” for the purposes of creating an
obligation on behalf of the Company to file the financial statements described
in Item 9.01 of Form 8-K. Instead, we believe that this acquisition should
be
considered as an acquisition of an asset, and that none of the financial
statements listed in Item 9.01 are required to be filed by the
Company.
In
the
event that the staff has any further requests or matters seeking clarification,
please feel free to contact our Company Secretary, Ian Hutcheson, at your
earliest convenience at 61 7 3832 9883 or by fax 61 7 3832 1336.
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Yours
Sincerely,
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/s/
Ian L. Hutcheson |
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Ian
L. Hutcheson
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Chief
Financial Officer and Company
Secretary
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