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Re:
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Red
Oak Fund, L.P.
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Schedule
TO-T filed March 30,
2007
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File
No. 005-80992
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Ladies
and Gentlemen:
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1.
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Please
provide your analysis regarding why the financial statements information
description in Item 1010 of Regulation M-A is not
required.
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2.
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We
note that the offer commenced on July 23, 2007 and is scheduled
to expire
at 5 p.m. on August 2007. Please revise the offer so that it is
open 20 full businesses days in compliance with Rule
14e-1(a).
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3.
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Revise
your disclosure in the paragraph captioned “Available Information” to
reflect the new address of the SEC at Station Place, 100 F Street,
N.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20549.
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4.
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With
respect to your disclosure in the first paragraph on page 18, please
tell
us why you need to qualify your disclosure “to the knowledge” of the
bidder. What prevents you from knowing and disclosing this
information? Please explain or delete the
qualifier.
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5.
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It
appears that each condition is subject to your determination based
on your
sole judgment. Please revise here and throughout your offer
materials to include a reasonableness standard where
applicable. The ability of the bidder to determine, in its sole
discretion, whether a condition has occurred may render the offer
illusory.
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6.
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Refer
to the last paragraph of this section relating to your failure
to exercise
any of the rights described in this section. This language
suggests that once an offer condition is triggered, you must decide
whether or not to waive the condition. Note that when a
condition is triggered and you decide to proceed with the offer
anyway, we
believe that this constitutes a waiver of the triggered
condition(s). Depending on the materiality of the waived
condition and the number of days remaining in the offer, you may
be
required to extend the offer and recirculate new disclosure to
security
holders. You may not, as this language seems to imply, simply
fail to assert a triggered offer condition and thus effectively
waive it
without officially doing so. Please confirm your understanding
supplementally.
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7.
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We
note you have reserved the right to assert the occurrence of any
of the
conditions to the offer “at any time and from time to
time.” Defining the conditions as an ongoing right that may be
asserted “at any time and from time to time” suggests that conditions to
the offer may be raised or asserted after expiration of the
offer. Please be advised that all conditions to the offer,
other than those subject to applicable law, must be satisfied or
waived
before the expiration of the offer. Revise the disclosure in
this section to make clear that all conditions, other than those
subject
to government approvals, will be satisfied or waived on or before
expiration of the offer.
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8.
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It
appears, based on the second paragraph in this section, that if
the
company declares a dividend, you will reduce the offer consideration
by an
equal amount and also receive the proceeds of any such
dividend. Thus, security holders would receive a lower offer
consideration and would not receive an equal amount such that their
aggregate consideration is $1.65 per share, whether from you or
from you
and the company. If this is correct, please clarify your
disclosure to explain and also disclose it in the summary
section. Also, consider whether providing an example might
assist security holders in understanding the effect of this offer
term.
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Sincerely,
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Red
Oak Fund, L.P.
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By:
Red Oak Capital Partners, LLC, general
partner
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/s/
David Sandberg_________________
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David
Sandberg, Managing Member
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