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650 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050
PHONE 650.493.9300 FAX 650.493.6811 www.wsgr.com |
CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED
BY BOX, INC.: BOX-0005
January 2, 2015
CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THIS LETTER HAVE BEEN OMITTED FROM THE VERSION FILED VIA EDGAR. CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT HAS BEEN REQUESTED WITH RESPECT TO THE OMITTED PORTIONS. INFORMATION THAT WAS OMITTED IN THE EDGAR VERSION HAS BEEN NOTED IN THIS LETTER WITH A PLACEHOLDER IDENTIFIED BY THE MARK [***].
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Via EDGAR and Overnight Delivery
Division of Corporation Finance
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20549
Attention: | Mark P. Shuman | |
Edwin Kim | ||
Eiko Yaoita Pyles | ||
Christine Davis | ||
Re: | Box, Inc. | |
Registration Statement on Form S-1 | ||
File No. 333-194767 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of our client, Box, Inc. (Box or the Company), and in connection with the submission of a supplemental letter dated December 24, 2014 (the Prior Letter), relating to a preliminary price range for the Companys initial public offering and the related Registration Statement on Form S-1 originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) on March 24, 2014 (file no. 333-194767), we submit this supplemental letter to the staff of the Commission (the Staff) to provide additional information relating to certain equity awards granted by the Company pursuant to the Companys 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (the Plan).
Because of the commercially sensitive nature of information contained herein, this submission is accompanied by a request for confidential treatment for selected portions of this letter. The Company has filed a separate letter with the Office of Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Operations in connection with the confidential treatment request, pursuant to Rule 83 of the Commissions Rules on Information and Requests, 17 C.F.R. § 200.83. For the Staffs reference, we have enclosed a copy of the
AUSTIN BEIJING BRUSSELS GEORGETOWN, DE HONG KONG LOS ANGELES NEW YORK
PALO ALTO SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE SHANGHAI WASHINGTON, DC
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Companys letter to the Office of Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Operations, as well as a copy of this correspondence, marked to show the portions redacted from the version filed via EDGAR and for which the Company is requesting confidential treatment.
For the convenience of the Staff, we are providing to the Staff by overnight delivery copies of this letter.
We supplementally advise the Staff that, on January 2, 2015, the Companys Board of Directors granted options (Options) to purchase an aggregate of 936,000 shares of the Companys Class B Common Stock. In addition, the Companys Board of Directors granted other stock-based awards consisting of 1,080,890 Restricted Stock Units and 4,302 Restricted Stock Awards (collectively, the Restricted Stock). The Company granted all of the Options and Restricted Stock pursuant to the Plan. The Companys Board of Directors determined the exercise price per share for the Options was [***], a determination that was informed by a contemporaneous third-party valuation of the Companys Class B Common Stock that was performed as of December 3, 2014 and issued as final on December 17, 2014.
To determine the fair value of the Class B Common Stock, the Company utilized the Hybrid Method. Under the Hybrid Method, a weighting of 90% was applied to an initial public offering (IPO) scenario, given there was more clarity with respect to the Companys IPO plans, and a 10% weighting was applied to a non-IPO scenario (using the Option Pricing Model method), representing a reasonable level of risk that market conditions or other external or internal factors could prevent or delay a successful IPO. Under the IPO scenario, the fair value was estimated using the market comparable approach with comparable companies generally consistent with those being used by the Companys underwriters in their recommendation of the preliminary price range of [***] per share, as disclosed in the Prior Letter (the Preliminary Price Range), a present value discount rate of 25%, an assumed time to liquidity of 0.14 years and a non-marketability discount of 5%. The IPO scenario resulted in a present value of the Class B Common Stock, on a non-marketable, minority basis of [***] per share.
Under the non-IPO scenario, the fair value was estimated using a time to liquidity event of two years, volatility of 40% and a marketability discount of 20%, resulting in a determination of [***] per share. The concluded overall Hybrid Method share price was [***] per share, and the Companys Board of Directors determined the exercise price of the Options granted on January 2, 2015 to be [***] per share. While the fair value determination is slightly higher than the Preliminary Price Range, this determination was informed in part by greater weighting of market data from directly comparable companies that have been public for a longer period of time. The companies considered for the determination of the Preliminary Price Range generally included the same companies as those used in the determination of fair value, but the Preliminary Price Range was also informed by market data from recent IPOs to reflect pricing dynamics and indicators that are specific and unique to IPOs of technology companies in the current market environment.
The Company expects that, for determining stock-based compensation for financial reporting purposes, it will use the higher of [***] per share or the midpoint of the price range to be set forth in the Companys preliminary prospectus as the basis for the fair value of the Options and the Restricted Stock.
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Please direct any questions regarding the Companys response to me at (650) 565-3890 or ccheng@wsgr.com.
Sincerely, |
WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI |
Professional Corporation |
/s/ Calise Y. Cheng |
Calise Y. Cheng |
cc: | Aaron Levie, Box, Inc. | |
Dylan Smith, Box, Inc. | ||
Dan Levin, Box, Inc. | ||
Peter McGoff, Box, Inc. | ||
Steven E. Bochner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. | ||
Jose F. Macias, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. | ||
Jon C. Avina, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. | ||
Richard A. Kline, Goodwin Procter LLP | ||
Anthony J. McCusker, Goodwin Procter LLP |