16 SOUTH PENNSYLVANIA POST OFFICE BOX 754 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK U.S.A. 73101 PHONE 405-235-4546 FAX 405-236-1209
April 18, 2014
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20549-7010
Re: | LSB Industries, Inc; Registration Statement on Form S-4, filed on April 7, 2014; File No. 333-195102 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter supplements the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-195102) filed on April 7, 2014, by LSB Industries, Inc. (the Company), and the Companys subsidiary guarantors listed on Exhibit A hereto (together with the Company, the Registrants) with respect to an offer to exchange (the Exchange Offer) the Companys outstanding 7.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2019 (the Old Notes), which were issued on August 7, 2013, to pursuant to Regulation S and Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), for new notes with terms materially identical to the Old Notes but which have been registered under the Securities Act (the New Notes). The Registrants hereby confirm and represent as follows:
1. The Registrants are registering the Exchange Offer in reliance on the position and representations of the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Staff) set forth in Shearman & Sterling, SEC No-Action Letter (available July 2, 1993), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, SEC No-Action Letter (available June 5, 1991), and Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation, SEC No-Action Letter (available May 13, 1988) (together, the No-Action Letters).
2. The Registrants have not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute the New Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer and, to the best of the Registrants knowledge and belief, each person participating in the Exchange Offer will be acquiring the New Notes in its ordinary course of business and has no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the New Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer. In this regard, the Registrants will make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the prospectus or the letter of transmittal) that, if such person is tendering Old Notes in the Exchange Offer with the intention of participating in any manner in a distribution of the New Notes, such person (i) cannot rely on the Staffs position enunciated in the No-Action Letters or interpretative letters to similar effect and (ii) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale transaction. The Registrants acknowledge that such a secondary resale transaction by such person participating in the Exchange Offer for the purpose of distributing the New Notes should be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 or Item 508, as applicable, of Regulation S-K.
3. The Registrants will make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the prospectus or the letter of transmittal) that any broker-dealer that will receive New Notes for its own account in exchange for Old Notes that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities may be a statutory underwriter and must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such New Notes.
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Division of Corporation Finance
April 18, 2014
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4. Neither the Registrants nor any of their respective affiliates have entered into any arrangement or understanding with any broker-dealer to distribute the New Notes.
5. The Registrants will include in the transmittal letter or similar documentation to be executed by an exchange offeree in order to participate in the Exchange Offer the following additional provisions, in substantially the form set forth below:
| if the exchange offeree is a broker-dealer holding Old Notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, such broker-dealer will acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of New Notes received in respect of such Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer, provided that, by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, such exchange offeree will not be deemed to admit that it is an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act; and |
| if the exchange offeree is not a broker-dealer, an acknowledgement that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, a distribution of the New Notes. |
If you have any questions or require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact Irwin H. Steinhorn (405-272-5711) or Mark H. Bennett (405-272-5711) of Conner & Winters, LLP.
Very truly yours, | ||
LSB INDUSTRIES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Jack E. Golsen | |
Jack E. Golsen, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer |
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
April 18, 2014
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By: | /s/ Tony M. Shelby | |
Tony M. Shelby, Executive Vice President |
EL DORADO NITROGEN, L.P. | ||||
By: | El Dorado Acid, L.L.C., its general partner | |||
By: | /s/ Tony M. Shelby | |||
Tony M. Shelby, Executive Vice President |