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United States securities and exchange commission logo
July 28, 2022
Drew Valentine
Partner
DLA Piper
303 Colorado Street
Suite 3000
Austin, Texas 78701
Re: QIWI PLC
Schedule TO-T
Filed July
19, 2022
File No. 005-
87446
Dear Mr. Valentine:
We have reviewed your filing 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 these comments by providing the
requested
information or advise us as
soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts
and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing
your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Schedule TO-T
Has the Company or its Board adopted a position on the Offer?,
page 7
1. We note the
statement
here that neither the Company nor its Board has expressed any
position on the
Offer
and that "[y]ou must make your own decision as to whether to tender
your Shares..."
This
statement is confusing, given that the Company is required to take a
position with
respect
to the Offer within ten business days of the commencement pursuant
to Rule 14e-2,
and will
be required to file and disseminate to target shareholders a
Schedule 14D-9
explaining its position. Please revise.
Will there be a subsequent offering period?, page 8
2. We note the
following
disclosure here, which is repeated later in the offering materials:
"We do not
currently
anticipate that there will be a subsequent offering period."
Drew Valentine
FirstName
DLA Piper LastNameDrew Valentine
Comapany
July NameDLA Piper
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Please revise to make clear that there cannot be a subsequent
offering
period for this
Offer, since it is for less than all outstanding Shares. See
Rule
14d-11(b).
Purpose of the Offer; Certain Effects of the Offer, page 14
3. We note that QIWI PLC is incorporated in Cyprus. If fully
subscribed
(including
overallotment option), Mr. Solinin will control 73.6% of the
voting
power of the
Company after the Offer. Expand the disclosure to discuss the
thresholds for control of
QIWI or to take other actions under Cyprus law and the Company's
bylaws. For example,
we are aware that in certain foreign countries, 75% ownership
(rather
than a simple
majority) is the relevant threshold necessary to take many
corporate
actions. Please revise
to address how Mr. Solinin's ability to control QIWI and take
certain
corporate actions
will change, if he goes from 66% to 73.6% ownership after the
Offer.
As noted, your
discussion should focus on QIWI and its governing instruments,
as well
as Cyprus law.
Conditions of the Offer, page 21
4. Please refer to the eighth bullet on page 21 which states that
the
Company may assert an
offer condition triggered by the commencement or material
escalation, on or after July
19, 2022, ...of hostilities between the Russian Federation and
Ukraine, any outbreak of a
pandemic or contagious disease (including COVID-19 pandemic, to
extent
that there is
any material adverse development...on or after July 19, 2022).
To
avoid rendering the
offer illusory, all offer conditions must be objectively
determinable
and outside the control
of the bidder. Please revise to provide further descriptive
detail
about what could
constitute a material escalation of either the COVID pandemic or
the
hostilities in
Ukraine, such that shareholders can determine whether this
condition
has been
"triggered."
5. Refer to the condition listed in the third bullet point on page
22. As
currently drafted, the
condition encompasses a material change in ANY currency exchange
rate.
Consider
narrowing the condition by singling out those currencies
materially
linked to the
Company's business, or advise.
6. Refer to the last paragraph in this section on page 23. Revise
the
first sentence indicating
that the listed Offer conditions can be asserted or waived "at
any
time and from time to
time." When an event occurs that "triggers" a listed Offer
condition,
you must promptly
inform shareholders whether you will waive it and continue with
the
Offer, or assert the
condition to terminate.
The Offer: Fees and Expenses, page 32
7. Please disclose the itemized fees and expenses incurred in
making the
Offer. See Item 9
of Schedule TO and Item 1009 of Regulation MA.
Drew Valentine
FirstName
DLA Piper LastNameDrew Valentine
Comapany
July NameDLA Piper
28, 2022
July 28,
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General
8. We note your assertion that financial statements are not
material in
the context of this
Offer. However, Mr. Solinin and Dalliance are not publicly-
reporting
entities and this is
not a tender offer for all outstanding Shares. See Instruction 2
to
Item 10 of Schedule TO.
While Mr. Solinin is already a significant shareholder of QIWI,
he
will become a
materially larger shareholder if this Offer is fully subscribed,
which
may result in his
increased ability to exercise control over this Cyprus
corporation.
(See our additional
comment on this point). Please explain, on a supplemental basis,
why
you do not believe
that financial statements of the bidders are material here. See
Instruction 1 to Item 10 of
Schedule TO. To the extent that a material portion of Mr.
Solinin or
Dalliance's assets
consist of an equity stake in QIWI, this should be explained. In
this
regard, we note the
following statement in the Offer to Purchase: "Mr. Solinin has
acquired considerable
financial resources form the Company's initial public offering
and the
dividends he has
received as a shareholder of the Company." Alternatively, revise
to
provide the financial
statements required by Item 10.
9. Revise the Offer to Purchase to provide additional information
about
the Trading Halt of
the Company's ADS' on the NASDAQ. Detail any developments since
the
Trading Halt
in February and explain specifically the conditions/terms of the
Halt
and the reasons
provided by the exchange. Describe any steps the Company has
taken,
will take, or has
been advised to take in order to lift the Halt.
10. Where you discuss Mr. Solinin's interests in the Offer
throughout the
offer materials, as
well as where you reference trading of the Shares on the MOEX,
note
whether Mr. Solinin
as a Russian national is eligible to trade on the MOEX. State
whether
he could sell Shares
on the MOEX, including any Shares purchased in the Offer at an
offer
price that is half of
recent trading prices there.
11. See our last comment above regarding the trading price of the
Shares
on the MOEX. We
further note that the last trading price for the ADSs before the
Trading Halt was double
the current Offer consideration. Revise the Offer materials to
discuss
how Mr. Solinin
and Dalliance set the Offer price.
Drew Valentine
DLA Piper
July 28, 2022
Page 4
We remind you that the filing persons are responsible for the
accuracy
and adequacy of
their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of
action by the staff.
Please direct any questions to Michael Killoy at 202-551-7576 or
Christina Chalk at 202-
551-3263.
FirstName LastNameDrew Valentine Sincerely,
Comapany NameDLA Piper
Division of
Corporation Finance
July 28, 2022 Page 4 Office of
Mergers &
Acquisitions
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