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Published on September 11, 2009
[NOVELIS INC. LETTERHEAD]
September 11, 2009
VIA EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporate Finance
Mail Stop 3561
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Division of Corporate Finance
Mail Stop 3561
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: | Novelis Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-161892) |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This
letter supplements the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File
No. 333-161892) of
Novelis Inc., a Canadian corporation (we or the Registrant), which was filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on September 11, 2009, relating to the Registrants offer (the
Exchange Offer) to exchange $185,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 111/2% Senior Notes due
February 15, 2015 (the New Notes) to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the Securities Act), for a like principal amount of its issued and outstanding 111/2% Senior
Notes due February 15, 2015 that have not been registered under the Securities Act (the Old
Notes). We are registering the New Notes to be offered in the Exchange Offer in reliance on the
Staff position enunciated in Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (available April 13, 1988),
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (available June 5, 1991) and Shearman & Sterling
(available July 2, 1993).
We have not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute the
securities to be received in the Exchange Offer and, to the best of our information and belief,
each person that will participate in the Exchange Offer will be acquiring the New Notes in its
ordinary course of business and will have no arrangement or understanding with any person to
participate in the distribution of the securities to be received in the Exchange Offer. In this
regard, we will make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the Exchange
Offer prospectus) that if the Exchange Offer is being registered for the purpose of secondary
resales, any note holder using the Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the New Notes
to be acquired in the registered Exchange Offer (i) may not rely on the Staff position expressed in
the Exxon Capital letter or similar letters and (ii) must comply with the registration and
prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale
transaction. We acknowledge that such a secondary resale transaction should be covered by an effective registration statement containing
the selling security holder information required by Item 507 of Regulation S-K.
We acknowledge that any broker-dealer that has entered into any arrangement or understanding
with us or an affiliate, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, of us to distribute the
New Notes may not participate in the Exchange Offer. We will (i) make each person participating in
the Exchange Offer aware (through the Exchange Offer prospectus) that any broker-dealer who holds
Old
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Notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading
activities, and who receives New Notes in exchange for such Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange
Offer, 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 and (ii) include in the transmittal
letter to be executed by an exchange offeree in order to participate in the Exchange Offer a
provision that 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, an acknowledgement
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.
Very truly yours, NOVELIS INC. |
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By: | /s/ Christopher Courts | |||
Christopher Courts | ||||
Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | ||||