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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001213900-21-039155
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20210728

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001798562
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	METAL MINING [1000]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			E9
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1601 BRYAN STREET
		STREET 2:		SUITE 4141
		CITY:			DALLAS
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			75201
		BUSINESS PHONE:		214-642-9996

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1601 BRYAN STREET
		STREET 2:		SUITE 4141
		CITY:			DALLAS
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			75201

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20200102
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Sustainable
Opportunities Acquisition Corp.<BR>
1601 Bryan Street, Suite 4141<BR>
Dallas, Texas 75201</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">July 28,
2021</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>VIA
EDGAR<BR>
</B>Securities and Exchange Commission<BR>
Division of Corporation Finance<BR>
Office of Energy &amp; Transportation<BR>
100 F Street, NE<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20549<BR>
Attention: Kevin Dougherty and Loan Lauren Nguyen</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Sustainable
    Opportunities Acquisition Corp.<BR>
    Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-4<BR>
    Filed July 14, 2021<BR>
    File No. 333-255118</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Dear
Sir or Madam:</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">This
letter sets forth responses of Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp. (&ldquo;SOAC&rdquo;) to the comments of the staff of the Division
of Corporation Finance (the &ldquo;Staff&rdquo;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission set forth in your letter, dated July 26, 2021,
with respect to the above referenced Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-255118) (the &ldquo;Registration
Statement&rdquo;). Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Registration
Statement.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">The
text of the Staff&rsquo;s comments has been included in this letter for your convenience, and we have numbered the paragraphs below to
correspond to the numbers in the Staff&rsquo;s letter. For your convenience, we have also set forth SOAC&rsquo;s response to each of
the numbered comments immediately below each numbered comment.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">In
addition, SOAC has revised the Registration Statement in response to the Staff&rsquo;s comments and SOAC is concurrently filing Amendment
No. 4 to the Registration Statement with this letter, which reflects these revisions and updates certain other information. Page numbers
in the text of SOAC&rsquo;s responses correspond to page numbers in the Registration Statement, as so amended (the &ldquo;Amended
Registration Statement&rdquo;).</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><U>Amendment
No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed July 14, 2021</U></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><U>Risk
Factors</U></FONT></P>

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related to Laws, Rules, Regulations and Policies</U></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><U>There
is some uncertainty regarding the impact of polymetallic nodule collection on biodiversity..., page 50</U></FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B><I>Staff&rsquo;s
    Comment: </I></B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><I>We
note your disclosure that you cannot predict whether the environment and biodiversity is impacted by your activities, and if so, how
long the environment and biodiversity will take to recover. In this regard, please also disclose here and related disclosure under &ldquo;Environmental
Market Opportunity&rdquo; beginning on page 124 information about your impact on disturbed seabed that you have discussed in other publications.
For example, available information on your website notes that restoring disturbed seabed to its pre-collection state on human timescales
presents substantial scientific and logistical challenges and that in terms of the extent to which residual nodule cover (expected at
15% of nodule mass) will aid recruitment and recovery of these species in impacted areas, the process will likely take a very long time
and is dependent on habitat connectivity, still under study.</I></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">SOAC
respectfully acknowledges the Staff&rsquo;s comment and advises the Staff that it has revised the disclosure on pages 50 and 126 of
the Amended Registration Statement.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><U>Environmental
Market Opportunity, page 124</U></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><I>We
note the disclosure that DeepGreen commissioned several lifecycle assessments (LCAs) looking at the cradle-to-gate impacts of producing
nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese products for &ldquo;1 billion EVs by 2050&rdquo; scenario to understand comparative ESG footprints
of metal production from nodules as compared to conventional land ores. You have attributed certain findings from such third-party studies
in your registration statement. Please file the consents of these third-parties as exhibits to your registration statement or provide
us with your analysis as to why you do not believe you are required to do so. Refer to Rule 436 under the Securities Act. Additionally,
revise the heading &ldquo;Impact Facts&rdquo; for the graphical presentation on page 126 to clarify that the results presented are from
a commissioned assessment.</I></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">SOAC acknowledges the Staff&rsquo;s comment regarding
obtaining and filing of the consents of the authors of the third party studies referenced in the LCA white paper published on DeepGreen&rsquo;s
website (the &ldquo;LCA white paper&rdquo;) and climate change impact paper published in the Elsevier Journal of Cleaner Production(the
&ldquo;climate change impact paper&rdquo;) pursuant to Rule 436 of the Securities Act and respectfully submits that such third parties
are not &ldquo;experts&rdquo; under Rule 436, but rather authors of papers that analyzed and summarized the potential ESG impacts with
respect to metal production from nodules as compared to conventional land ores. Given that DeepGreen does not believe that such providers
qualify as experts under Rule 436, we have clarified the language by deleting the word &ldquo;experts&rdquo; on page 126 of the Amended
Registration Statement and replacing it with &ldquo;subject matter specialists&rdquo;. Accordingly, given that DeepGreen no longer identifies
such third parties as experts and as explained in the analysis set forth below, SOAC does not believe that consents of such third parties
are required to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Rule 436 requires that a consent be filed if any
portion of a report or opinion of an expert is quoted or summarized as such in a registration statement. Section 7 of the Securities Act
provides an expert is &ldquo;any accountant, engineer, or appraiser, or any person whose profession gives authority to a statement made
by him.&rdquo; SOAC respectfully submits that the authors of the third party studies included in the papers are not among the classes
of persons intended to be subject to Section 7 and Rule 436 as &ldquo;experts&rdquo; and DeepGreen no longer expressly identifies such
providers as experts in the Amended Registration Statement. Further, the references to the studies and analyses presented in the papers,
which were co-authored by individuals that include certain executive officers of DeepGreen and university professors, were not intended
to infer that such information was &ldquo;expertized,&rdquo; but rather was intended to convey information that DeepGreen relied upon
in assessing the LCA impacts of metal production from nodules as compared to conventional land mining. SOAC further notes that the consent
requirements of Rule 436 are generally directed at circumstances in which an issuer has engaged a third party expert or counsel to prepare
a valuation, opinion or other report specifically for use in connection with a registration statement. The LCA white paper was originally
commissioned by DeepGreen in January 2018 (before SOAC even completed its initial public offering) and the climate change impact paper
was constructed as a carveout derived from the original LCA white paper and commissioned in early 2020, both of which were well before
DeepGreen discussed any potential business combination transaction with SOAC or any other SPAC and neither of such papers were specifically
commissioned for use in connection with the Registration Statement. As a result of the foregoing, SOAC does not believe that consents
from such third parties are required to be filed under Rule 436.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Additionally, in response to the Staff&rsquo;s
comment, we have deleted the heading &quot;Impact Facts&quot; for the graphical presentation on page 126 of the Amended Registration Statement
to clarify that the results presented are from lifecycle ESG impacts from studies commissioned by DeepGreen.</P>

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Federal Income Tax Considerations</U></FONT></P>

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Consequences of the Continuance to U.S. Holders, page 251</U></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><I>In
response to comment 1, you disclose that the Continuance &ldquo;generally should&rdquo; qualify as a tax-deferred reorganization and that
a U.S. Holder that exchanges its SOAC securities in the Continuance for TMC securities should not recognize any gain or loss on such
exchange. You further state that due to the absence of direct guidance on the statutory conversion of a corporation holding only investment-type
assets such as SOAC, it is not possible to predict whether the IRS or a court considering the issue would take a contrary position. Please
provide disclosure setting forth the risks of the uncertain tax treatment. For example, if the Continuance is treated as a taxable event,
please explain how holders would be taxed in such circumstance. For guidance, see Section III.C.4 of Staff Legal Bulletin No. 19 (October
14, 2011).</I></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">SOAC
respectfully acknowledges the Staff&rsquo;s comment and advises the Staff that it has revised the disclosure on page 251 of the Amended
Registration Statement.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><I>We
note your response to comment 2. Please revise page 120 and related disclosures elsewhere in your filing to include more balanced disclosure
regarding the advantages of seafloor mining compared to land sources. Disclosures elsewhere note the unknown potential environmental
and social impact of seafloor mining and that no seafloor polymetallic nodule deposit has been harvested on a commercial scale to date.
We further note that you have not obtained any final regulatory approval or licenses for collecting and processing polymetallic nodules
under the various jurisdictions and that there is no definitive timeframe to obtain such approval yet.</I></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B><I>Response:</I></B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">SOAC
respectfully acknowledges the Staff&rsquo;s comment and advises the Staff that it has revised the disclosure on pages  120, 125, 126 and
127 of the Amended Registration Statement.</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 48px"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">5.</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B><I>Staff&rsquo;s
    Comment: </I></B></FONT></TD></TR>
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note disclosure in various places throughout your prospectus, such as under &ldquo;The NORI Sponsorship Agreement&rdquo; on page 137, that
NORI is sponsored by Nauru pursuant to a certificate of sponsorship signed by the Government of Nauru on April 11, 2011, and also that
throughout the period of the NORI Exploration Contract with the ISA, NORI must be sponsored by a State that is party to UNCLOS. Accordingly,
please file as an exhibit the certificate of sponsorship signed by the Government of Nauru on April 11, 2011. See Item 601(b)(10) of
Regulation S-K.</I></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="text-align: left; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">SOAC
respectfully acknowledges the Staff&rsquo;s comment and advises the Staff that it has filed as Exhibit 10.24 the certificate of sponsorship
signed by the Government of Nauru on April 11, 2011.</FONT></P>

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hope that the foregoing has been responsive to the Staff&rsquo;s comments. If you have any questions related to this letter, please contact
Julian Seiguer at (713) 836-3334 of Kirkland&amp; Ellis LLP.</FONT></P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Sincerely</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 5%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">By:</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 35%; border-bottom: black 1.5pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/
    Scott Leonard</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Name:&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Scott
    Leonard</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Title:</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Chief
    Executive Officer</FONT></TD></TR>
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E-mail:</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Julian
    Seiguer</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><I>Kirkland
    &amp; Ellis LLP</I></FONT></TD></TR>
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