February 7, 2019
Zheng Huang
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Pinduoduo Inc.
28/F, No. 533 Loushanguan Road, Changning District
Shanghai, 200051
People's Republic of China
Re: Pinduoduo Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to
Registration Statement on Form F-1
Filed February 7, 2019
File No. 333-229523
Dear Mr. Huang:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the
following
comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we
may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement
and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts
and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why
in your
response.
After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the
information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless
we note
otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our February 6,
2019 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Form F-1 filed February 7, 2019
Risk Factors
Risks Related to Our ADSs and This Offering
"ADSs holders may not be entitled to a jury trial. . .", page 62
1. Consistent with our prior comment, please revise your registration
statement to provide
additional disclosure about the enforceability of the jury trial waiver
provision, including
an explanation as to why you believe the provision is enforceable. In
this regard, we note
your disclosure that if "[you] or the depositary opposed a jury trial
demand based on the
waiver, the court would determine whether the waiver was enforceable,"
yet you have not
Zheng Huang
Pinduoduo Inc.
February 7, 2019
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taken a position as to whether and why you believe the provision is
enforceable. Please
also remove the reference to "substantive" provisions of the U.S. federal
securities laws in
the last sentence of this risk factor disclosure.
Please contact Katherine Bagley, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551-2545 or
Mara Ransom,
Assistant Director, at (202) 551-3720 with any questions.
Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameZheng Huang
Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NamePinduoduo Inc.
Office of Consumer
Products
February 7, 2019 Page 2
cc: Z. Julie Gao
FirstName LastName