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Published on May 24, 2013
THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
10590 Hamilton Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45231-1764
May 24, 2013
BY EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
The Hillman Group, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-4
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Hillman Group, Inc. (the Company), The Hillman Companies, Inc. and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries (collectively, the Guarantors and, together with the Company, the Co-Registrants) have filed a registration statement on Form S-4 (the Registration Statement) for the proposed registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), of (i) $65,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 10.875% Senior Notes due 2018 (the Exchange Notes) to be offered in exchange (the Exchange Offer) for the Companys outstanding 10.875% Senior Notes due 2018 (the Existing Notes) and (ii) the guarantees of the Exchange Notes by the Guarantors (the Guarantees). The Co-Registrants are registering the Exchange Notes and the Guarantees in reliance upon the position enunciated by the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation, SEC No-Action Letter (April 13, 1988), and in Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, SEC No-Action Letter (June 5, 1991).
Each of the Co-Registrants represents that neither it nor any of its affiliates has entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute the Exchange Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer and, to the best of such Co-Registrants information and belief, each person participating in the Exchange Offer will be acquiring the Exchange Notes in its ordinary course of business and will have no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer. In this regard, the Co-Registrants will make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the Exchange Offer prospectus or otherwise) that if such person has any arrangement or understanding with respect to the distribution of the Exchange Notes to be acquired in the Exchange Offer, such person (i) could not rely on the Staff position enunciated in the aforementioned no action letters and (ii) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale transaction. The Co-
Registrants acknowledge that such a resale transaction by such person participating in the Exchange Offer pursuant to such arrangement or understanding for the purpose of distributing the Exchange Notes should be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act.
The Co-Registrants will also make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the Exchange Offer prospectus or otherwise) that it is the position of the Staff that any broker-dealer that holds the Existing Notes for its own account acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, and that receives the Exchange Notes in exchange for the Existing 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 the Exchange Notes and must confirm that is has not entered into any arrangement or understanding with the Co-Registrants or any of their affiliates to deliver the Exchange Notes. Each such broker-dealer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the Exchange Notes.
Very truly yours,
The Hillman Group, Inc.
The Hillman Companies, Inc.
Hillman Investment Company
All Points Industries, Inc.
SunSub C Inc.
Hillman Group GP1, LLC
Hillman Group GP2, LLC
Paulin Industries Inc.
By: /s/ ANTHONY A. VASCONCELLOS
Name: Anthony A. Vasconcellos
Title: Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
cc: | John C. Kennedy, Esq. |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP |
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