Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. P.O. Box 2965 Milwaukee, WI 53201-2965
1000 North Water Street Suite 1700 Milwaukee, WI 53202
Telephone: 414-298-1000 Facsimile: 414-298-8097 reinhartlaw.com | ||
July 18, 2016 | ||
James M. Bedore Direct Dial: 414-298-8196 jbedore@reinhartlaw.com |
SENT VIA EDGAR
Pamela A. Long, Assistant Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Response to SEC Staff Comment Letter dated July 11, 2016
The Female Health Company
Revised Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
Filed June 21, 2016
File No. 001-13602
Dear Ms. Long:
On behalf of The Female Health Company (FHC or the Company), this letter responds to your letter dated July 11, 2016 (the Comment Letter), regarding the above referenced filing (as amended from time to time, the Proxy Statement), relating to the proposed transaction between the Company and Aspen Park Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Aspen Park). A revised preliminary proxy statement (the Revised Proxy Statement) is being filed electronically on EDGAR today. For your convenience, FHC has also filed on EDGAR marked copies of the Revised Proxy Statement showing all changes made to the original preliminary proxy statement.
Set forth below is FHCs response to the comment of the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Staff) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) contained in the Comment Letter. For your convenience, the Staffs comment has been reproduced below in bold-face font. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this response letter have the meanings ascribed to them in the Proxy Statement.
General
Comment 1: We note your response to comment 11 of our letter dated June 14, 2016; however, we note that the change in domicile is contingent upon the passage of the other merger-related proposals and, therefore, you do not appear to qualify for the exemption
Milwaukee ● Madison ● Waukesha ● Rockford, IL
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under Rule 145(a)(2) for mergers where the sole purpose of the transaction is to change the issuers domicile. In addition, your analysis states that shareholders of FHCO do not have to vote on the APP merger. Please tell us how this is consistent with the by-laws that require a vote of shareholders when more than 20% of your outstanding stock will be issued.
Response: As discussed with the staff, the Merger Agreement has been amended to provide that completion of the APP Merger is not conditioned on stockholder approval of the Reincorporation Proposal or completion of the Reincorporation Merger, and the Reincorporation Plan of Merger has been amended to provide that completion of the Reincorporation Merger is not conditioned on stockholder approval of any of the proposals related to the APP Merger or the completion of the APP Merger. As a result, the Reincorporation Merger is completely separate from and independent of the APP Merger and the proposals related to the APP Merger. These changes establish that the Reincorporation Merger is being proposed for the sole purpose of changing FHCs domicile from Wisconsin to Delaware consistent with the exception under Rule 145(a)(2).
If you have any questions or comments or require further information with respect to the foregoing, please do not hesitate to call the undersigned at (414) 298-8196.
Yours very truly,
/s/ James M. Bedore
James M. Bedore
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cc: | O.B. Parrish |
Pamela A. Long, Assistant Director
July 18, 2016
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The undersigned hereby acknowledges on behalf of The Female Health Company that in connection with the Proxy Statement:
| the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; |
| staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and |
| the Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. |
Dated: July 18, 2016 |
THE FEMALE HEALTH COMPANY | |||||
By | /s/ O.B. Parrish | |||||
O.B. Parrish Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |