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Mr. Jeffrey Riedler, Assistant Director Mr. John L. Krug, Senior Counsel Ms. Suzanne Hayes, Branch Chief Mr. Daniel Greenspan, Special Counsel Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549 |
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Re: | CNinsure Inc. |
Registration Statement on Form F-3 Filed November 5, 2009
File No. 333-162895
Dear Mr. Riedler and Mr. Krug,
On behalf of our client, CNinsure Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the Company), we are filing the Companys Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Amendment No. 1). For your ease of reference, we will hand-deliver to you 3 copies of Amendment No. 1 marked to show changes to the Registration Statement filed with the Commission on November 5, 2009.
Set forth below is the Companys response to the comment contained in the letter dated November 12, 2009 from the Staff. For your ease of reference, the Staffs comment is reproduced below.
Selling Shareholders, page 47
1. | Please amend your filing to specifically describe the transaction(s) in which the shares (ADSs) registered for resale were issued to the selling shareholders. |
In response to the Staffs comments, the Company has amended the referenced disclosure under the caption Selling Shareholders on page 47 of Amendment No. 1.
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Joseph A. Bevash Simon H. Berry Kenneth D. C. Chan |
Stanley Chow Michael S. L. Liu Jane M. S. Ng |
John A. Otoshi Chun Fai Woo Cheung Ying Yeung |
Registered Foreign Lawyers: Patrick J. Flanagan (New York) Eugene Y. Lee (New York) |
David J. Miles (England and Wales) David Zhang (New York) |
If you have any additional questions or comments regarding Amendment No. 1, please contact me at (852) 2912-2503 (work) or (852) 9124-8324 (mobile), Eugene Y. Lee (852) 2912-2515 (work) or (852) 9192-7430 (mobile) or Fan Zhang at (852) 2912-2506 (work) or (852) 9336-7411 (mobile).
Very truly yours, |
/s/ David T. Zhang |
David T. Zhang of LATHAM & WATKINS |
Enclosures
cc: | Yinan Hu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
Peng Ge, Chief Financial Officer
Eugene Y. Lee, Esq., Latham & Watkins, Hong Kong
Fan Zhang, Esq., Latham & Watkins, Hong Kong