Question
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:21 AM
To:
Verne, B. Michael
Subject: 802.51Hi, Mike:
Hopefully this isrelatively quick question for you. We have a transaction where ForeignAcquiring Person is acquiring voting securities of Foreign Issuer from ForeignAcquired Person. Neither Foreign Issuer nor any entities it controls had directsales in or into the U.S. in the most recent fiscal year, but a separateforeign entity controlled by Foreign Acquired Person ("ForeignEntity") did have sales into the U.S. and Foreign Issuer made some salesto Foreign Entity. Foreign Entity is not being acquired in this transaction.
Do we count thesales made by Foreign Entity (an entity not controlled by Foreign Issuer) inthe 802.51 exemption threshold calculation or does in fact that Foreign Issuerdid not make sales directly in or into the U.S. mean we do not count them? Ilooked through the online informal interpretations but did not come acrossanything specifically on point.