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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950123-13-007143
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DRSLTR
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
FILED AS OF DATE:		20130821

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Ladder Capital Corp
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001577670
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	REAL ESTATE [6500]
		IRS NUMBER:				800925494
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DRSLTR

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		345 PARK AVENUE
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10154
		BUSINESS PHONE:		212-715-3170

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		STREET 1:		345 PARK AVENUE
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10154
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">601 Lexington Avenue</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Joshua N. Korff, P.C.</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To Call Writer Directly:</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(212) 446-4943</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">joshua.korff@kirkland.com</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(212) 446-4800</FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" align="left">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">www.kirkland.com</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Facsimile:</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(212) 446-4900</FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">August 21, 2013 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Via EDGAR and Hand Delivery </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Division of Corporate Finance </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Securities and Exchange Commission </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">100 F
Street, NE </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Washington, D.C. 20549 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Confidentially Submitted June&nbsp;28, 2013 </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>CIK No.&nbsp;0001577670 </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dear
Mr.&nbsp;Kluck: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On behalf of Ladder Capital Corp, a Delaware corporation (the &#147;<B><I>Company</I></B>&#148;), this letter
sets forth the Company&#146;s responses to the comments of the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the &#147;<B><I>Staff</I></B>&#148;) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;<B><I>Commission</I></B>&#148;) set forth in
your letter dated July&nbsp;26, 2013, to Marc Fox, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with respect to the above-referenced Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the &#147;<B><I>Registration Statement</I></B>&#148;). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The text of the Staff&#146;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&#146;s letter. For your convenience, we have also set forth the Company&#146;s response to each of the numbered comments immediately below each numbered comment. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, the Company has revised the Registration Statement in response to the Staff&#146;s comments and is filing concurrently with
this letter Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to the Registration Statement (the &#147;<B><I>Amendment No.&nbsp;1</I></B>&#148;), which reflects these revisions and updates the Registration Statement with financial statements and other financial information as
of June 30, 2013 and for the six month periods ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, revises the Company&#146;s financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 and clarifies and conforms certain other information.
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> We note that you have filed on Form S-1. Because you intend to invest in real estate and real estate related assets, you must
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">See General Instruction A to Form S-11. Please amend your registration statement to convert from Form S-1 to Form S-11 and include all of the disclosure required by
Form S-11, as applicable to your company and your offering. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>For the reasons set forth
below, the Company respectfully advises the Staff that it has determined that Form S-1 is more appropriate for the Company for the registration of its securities than Form S-11. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As an initial matter, General Instruction A to Form S-11 states that the form shall be used for the registration of securities issued by
(i) real estate investment trusts or (ii) other issuers whose business is primarily that of &#147;acquiring and holding for investment real estate or interests in real estate.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">First, the Company is not a real estate investment trust (&#147;REIT&#148;) and has no intention to become a REIT but was instead
strategically structured as an internally-managed C-Corp in order to facilitate its primary business strategy of originating and securitizing first mortgage loans on commercial real estate by allowing for the retention and reinvestment of capital.
Although the Company currently has a REIT subsidiary, the Company is in the process of dissolving such entity (effective no later than September 30, 2013), as the asset trading and dealing limitations inherent in a REIT structure are not conducive
to the Company&#146;s standard practice of holding its loan, securities and real property assets as available for sale. As a case in point, our most active and profitable segment, commercial loans, experienced $1.5 billion of originations and $1.4
billion of loan sales and securitizations during the six months ended June 30, 2013 and $2.5 billion of originations and $1.9 billion of loan sales and securitizations during the year ended December 31, 2012. These frequent sales of assets are
considered to be &#147;dealer activity&#148; which is substantially limited under the REIT tax code provisions. It is for this reason that the majority of the Company&#146;s assets are currently held outside of the REIT entity. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Second, the Company does not consider its business to be primarily that of acquiring and holding for investment real estate or interests
in real estate. Although the Company flexibly allocates its capital among commercial loans, securities and real property, the latter business line, which consists of selected net leased and other commercial real estate assets, has been the
Company&#146;s smallest reportable business line since its inception. The business lines relating to commercial lending and investments in securities have together accounted for 72.0% of its total consolidated assets and 86.4% of its total net
revenues (as defined on page 83 of Amendment No. 1), as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2013. The Company considers the business lines relating to commercial lending and investments in securities as investments in financial instruments and
not interests in real estate. In contrast, the Company held $521.4 million of real estate property assets as of June 30, 2013, which represented 20.9% of its total consolidated assets, and which accounted for $19.0 million, or 13.3%, of its total
net revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2013. Further, the Company advises the Staff that the majority of the Company&#146;s real property assets were not acquired with the intent of &#147;acquiring and <I>holding</I>&#148; them for
investment. Rather, the Company purchases real property assets with the intent of selling the properties for profit from time to time. The Company has revised its disclosure starting on pages 2 and 126 of Amendment No. 1 to clarify that in addition
to the sale of its conduit and balance sheet loans, the Company also opportunistically sells its real estate and securities assets. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">While the Company is not organized as a bank and believes that its status as a non-bank finance company provides it with a competitive advantage, the Company&#146;s infrastructure is most similar to that
of banks that register their securities on Form S-1. Similar to banks&#146; secured lines of credit with institutions such as the Federal Reserve and Federal Home Loan Banks and borrowing on instruments such as certificates of deposit, the Company
has a diversified funding strategy that includes, among other financing facilities, secured lines of credit, an unsecured short term note borrowing and a Federal Home Loan Bank membership (which few, if any, of our non-bank competitors have). In
addition, due to the management team&#146;s extensive prior experience at leading investment banks, the Company&#146;s policies, procedures and underwriting process are similar to those of banks, rather than REITs or real estate companies. Further,
the presentation of the Company&#146;s financial statements is consistent with Regulation S-X Article 9, which is applicable to consolidated financial statements filed for bank holding companies and to any financial statements of banks that are
included in filings with the Commission. Also, as discussed in the prospectus, the Company&#146;s primary competition for customers are institutional lenders, including banks, who maintain groups specifically dedicated to originating and selling
loans by securitization. In fact, as these institutions are currently facing tighter capital constraints due to changes in banking regulations, the Company sees itself as filling a void in the commercial lending market created by this development.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">When considering and now reexamining whether to register its securities on Form S-11 or Form S-1, the Company also considered
the practice of other issuers who are also non-bank finance companies engaged in the business of mortgage loans and investments related to the mortgage market. Specifically, the Company notes the registration statements on Form S-1 filed by PennyMac
Financial Services, Inc. (originally filed on February 7, 2013) and Walker &amp; Dunlop, Inc. (originally filed on August 4, 2010). Based in part on the registration statements filed by these and other similar issuers, the Company has determined
that Form S-1 is most appropriate for registration of its securities. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Finally, in other instances where the Commission has
intended for its rules and regulations to apply specifically to mortgages, it has so stated explicitly. For example, Section 3(c)(5)(C) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 states that the definition of &#147;investment company&#148; does not
include a person primarily engaged in the business of &#147;purchasing or otherwise acquiring mortgages and other liens on and interest in real estate.&#148; Accordingly, the Company believes that if the Commission intended for Form S-11 to be
appropriate for use by all issuers engaged in the business of making loans or investments secured by mortgages, the Commission would have explicitly stated such intention in General Instruction A to Form S-11. For the reasons stated above, the
Company respectfully advises the Staff that the Company&#146;s primary business purpose of commercial mortgage lending and investing in securities secured by first mortgage loans makes it appropriate to register its securities on a registration
statement on Form S-1. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Please supplementally provide us with copies of all written communications, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, that
you, or anyone authorized to do so on your behalf, present to potential investors in reliance on Section&nbsp;5(d) of the Securities Act, whether or not they retain copies of the communications. Similarly, please supplementally provide us with any
research reports about you that are published or distributed in reliance upon Section&nbsp;2(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 added by Section&nbsp;105(a) of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act by any broker or dealer that is participating or
will participate in your offering. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>The Company has not had any written communications,
as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, that the Company, or anyone authorized to do so on behalf of the Company, presented to potential investors in reliance on Section&nbsp;5(d) of the Securities Act. Additionally, the Company confirms
that there have been no research reports about the Company published or distributed in reliance upon Section&nbsp;2(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 added by Section&nbsp;105(a) of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act by any broker or dealer
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>We note that you may engage in commercial mortgage lending and invest in securities secured by first mortgage loans. We also note
that you intend to operate your business in a manner that will permit you to maintain an exemption from registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Please provide us with a detailed analysis of the exemption that you and your subsidiaries
intend to rely on and how your investment strategy will support that exemption. Please note that we will refer your response to the Division of Investment Management for further review. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>The Company confirms to the Staff that it intends to conduct its operations so that it is not required to register
as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the &#147;<B><I>Investment Company Act</I></B>&#148;). As discussed under &#147;Business &#151; Our Current Financing Strategies &#151; Regulation &#151; Investment
Company Act Exemption,&#148; beginning on page 145 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1, the Company is organized as a holding company and currently conducts its businesses primarily through its wholly-owned subsidiaries. The Company intends to conduct its
operations so that it does not come within the definition of an investment company under Section 3(a)(1)(C) of the Investment Company Act because less than 40% of the value of its total assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items)
on an unconsolidated basis will consist of &#147;investment securities,&#148; which excludes, among other things, U.S. government securities and securities issued by majority-owned subsidiaries that are not themselves investment companies and are
not relying on the exception from the definition of investment company set forth in Section 3(c)(1) or Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act. The Company intends to monitor its holdings to ensure continuing and ongoing compliance with this
test. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, the Company believes that it will not be considered an investment company under Section&nbsp;3(a)(1)(A) of
the Investment Company Act because, on an unconsolidated basis, it will not engage primarily or hold itself out as being engaged primarily in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities. Rather, the Company will be engaged
primarily in the non-investment company businesses of its subsidiaries. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company expects that certain of its subsidiaries
(the &#147;<B><I>3(c)(5)(C) Subsidiaries</I></B>&#148;) may rely on the exception from the definition of an investment company under the Investment Company Act pursuant to Section&nbsp;3(c)(5)(C) of the Investment Company Act, which is available for
entities that are not engaged in the business of issuing redeemable securities, face-amount certificates of the installment type or periodic payment plan certificates, and that are &#147;primarily engaged&#148; in the business of &#147;purchasing or
otherwise acquiring mortgages and other liens on and interests in real estate.&#148; This exception, as interpreted by the staff of the SEC, requires that an entity invest at least 55% of its assets in qualifying real estate assets
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and at least 80% of its assets in either qualifying real estate assets or other real estate-related assets. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company intends to classify the investments made by its 3(c)(5)(C) Subsidiaries based primarily on no-action letters issued by the SEC staff and other SEC interpretive guidance and, in the absence of
SEC guidance, on its view of what constitutes a qualifying real estate asset and a real estate-related asset. The Company intends to monitor the 3(c)(5)(C) Subsidiaries&#146; holdings to ensure continuing and ongoing compliance with the 55% and 80%
tests referenced above and may adjust its treatment of certain assets as it deems appropriate and consistent with Section&nbsp;3(c)(5)(C). Based on the Company&#146;s current analysis of relevant SEC guidance, each 3(c)(5)(C) Subsidiary intends to
operate so that: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a)</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">at least 55% of its assets will consist of qualifying real estate assets, including, but not limited to: </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">i.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">commercial real estate; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ii.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">commercial mortgage whole loans, whether originated or acquired; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">iii.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">certain B-Notes and mezzanine loans that satisfy the conditions set forth in relevant SEC guidance; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">iv.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">commercial mortgage-backed securities (&#147;<B><I>CMBS</I></B>&#148;) that qualify to be treated as a qualifying real estate asset under current SEC guidance; and
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">v.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">agency and non-agency whole pool certificates; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b)</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">at least 80% of its assets will consist of qualifying real estate assets and real estate-related assets, including, but not limited to: </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">i.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CMBS that do not qualify to be treated as qualifying real estate assets; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ii.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">agency and non-agency partial pool certificates; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">iii.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">certain B-notes and mezzanine loans that do not qualify to be treated as qualifying real estate assets. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, none of the 3(c)(5)(C) Subsidiaries have issued, nor do they expect to
issue, currently redeemable securities, face-amount certificates of the installment type or periodic payment plan certificates, as those terms are defined by the Investment Company Act. Certain of the Company&#146;s other subsidiaries may rely on
other exceptions or exclusions from the definition of investment company under the Investment Company Act, including, without limitation, Section&nbsp;3(c)(2), Section&nbsp;3(c)(7) and Section&nbsp;3(a)(1)(C). </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> We note that staff is currently reviewing the S-4 filed by Ladder Capital Financial Holdings and Ladder Capital Finance Corporation.
To the extent revisions are made to the S-4 in response to comments, please also make corresponding changes to your filing, as applicable. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company confirms that it has revised this filing in conformity with revisions to the S-4 in response to the Staff&#146;s most recent comments. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Please provide us with support for all quantitative and qualitative business and industry data used in the registration statement.
For example only, we note your disclosure in the section &#147;Our Market Opportunity&#148; starting on page 2. Clearly mark the specific language in the supporting materials that supports each statement. The requested information should be filed as
EDGAR correspondence or, alternatively, should be sent in paper form accompanied by a cover letter indicating that the material is being provided pursuant to Securities Act Rule 418 and that such material should be returned to the registrant upon
completion of the staff review process. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>In response to the Staff&#146;s comment, the
Company will provide, in paper form, copies of the source materials, which have been marked to highlight the information relied upon and cross-referenced to the appropriate location in Amendment No.&nbsp;1. The Company respectfully advises the Staff
that no third party data included in the Draft Registration Statement was prepared for or commissioned by the Company or any of its affiliates. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Cover Page </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> We note that you will be issuing Class B shares. Please amend your registration statement to register these shares or explain to us,
with a view toward disclosure, the exemption you will rely on for the issuance of these shares. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>In preparing to consummate the reorganization (as described in
the Registration Statement), the Company carefully considered the availability of the exemption under Section&nbsp;4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the &#147;<B><I>Securities Act</I></B>&#148;) with respect to the exchange of existing LCFH
membership interests, currently held by the Company&#146;s existing owners and managers (the &#147;<B><I>Investors</I></B>&#148;), for LP Units and Class B Common Stock. The Company intends to rely on Section&nbsp;4(2) of the Securities Act as the
exemption from registration under Section&nbsp;5 of the Securities Act. Section&nbsp;4(2) of the Securities Act provides an exemption from Section&nbsp;5 for &#147;transactions by an issuer not involving a public offering.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In accordance with the interpretive guidance provided by the Commission in Release No.&nbsp;33-8828 (the
&#147;<B><I>Release</I></B>&#148;), the Company believes that the private placement of Class B Common Stock&nbsp;in connection with the reorganization (the &#147;<B><I>Private Placement</I></B>&#148;) should not be integrated into the Company&#146;s
current public offering, because the Registration Statement did not serve as a general solicitation for the offer and sale of securities in the Private Placement. Applying the guidance in the Release, the Commission provides several examples of
situations in which a private placement can be conducted in accordance with Section&nbsp;4(2) after a registration statement for a separate public offering is on file.&nbsp;The Release states, &#147; . . . if the company is able to solicit interest
in a concurrent private placement by contacting prospective investors who (1)&nbsp;were not identified or contacted through the marketing of the public offering and (2)&nbsp;did not independently contact the issuer as a result of the general
solicitation by means of the registration statement, then the private placement could be conducted in accordance with Section&nbsp;4(2) while the registration statement for a separate public offering was pending.&#148;&nbsp;The Investors did not
become interested in the Private Placement due to the filing of the Draft Registration Statement or as a result of any other marketing efforts or solicitations; rather, the Investors will participate in the Private Placement by virtue of their
substantive, pre-existing relationship with the Company as its owners and managers. Based on the foregoing, the Company respectfully believes, and we are of the opinion, that the Private Placement is exempt from registration pursuant to
Section&nbsp;4(2) of the Securities Act and should not be integrated with the initial public offering pursuant to the Registration Statement. </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Prospectus Summary, page 1 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Our Company, page 1 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>We note your disclosure that &#147;[t]he securitization of conduit loans has been a consistently profitable business for
[you].&#148; Please provide support for this statement. Additionally, please explain what &#147;conduit loans&#148; are. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the disclosure on page 1 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to clarify the meaning of &#147;conduit
loans.&#148; With respect to support for the statement that the securitization of conduit loans has been consistently profitable, the Company respectfully directs the Staff&#146;s attention to the tables showing net results from securitizations on
pages 99 and 122 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">8.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> We note your disclosure that your management has an average of 25 years of experience. Please revise your disclosure starting on
page 147 to support this statement. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the
Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the disclosure starting on page 150 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to show the number of years of experience of each member of management. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Our Business and Growth Strategy, page 4 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">9.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>We note your disclosure on page 4 that you increased your market share of new CMBS issuances from 2.8% in 2010 to 3.1% in 2011, 3.3%
in 2012 and 3.5% in the first quarter of 2013. Please provide us with information that supports this statement. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>In response to the Staff&#146;s comment, the Company will provide in paper form copies of the source materials,
which have been marked to highlight the information relied upon. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Securities, page 7 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">10.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> We note that 37.8% of your other investments are in investment grade-rated securities. Please revise to provide a breakdown of the
other ratings and clarify whether you hold any securities that are not rated, and whether you may invest in securities that are not rated. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully advises the Staff that, as of
June&nbsp;30, 2013, all of its CMBS investments were rated investment-grade, consisting of 84.2% AAA-rated securities and 15.8% of other investment grade-rated securities, and had a weighted average duration of 1.8 years. The Company has revised the
disclosure on pages 8, 86 and 133 accordingly. We have no intention of investing in securities that are not rated, however, we are not precluded from doing such. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Other Investments, page 8 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> We note that you have entered into a partnership with a &#147;major pension fund&#148; and that the fund exercises control over 90%
of the fund and the ultimate investments made by the partnership. Please identify the fund or tell us why you believe this is not required. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company advises the Staff that its partner in the institutional bridge loan partnership referred to in the Staff&#146;s question is a Canadian sovereign pension fund and the
Company has revised the disclosure on pages 8, 87 and 133 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to identify its partner as a Canadian sovereign pension fund.&nbsp;The Company respectfully advises the Staff that it does not consider the particular identity of the
Canadian pension fund as material to investors.&nbsp;The Company advises the Staff that the book value of the Company&#146;s investment in the institutional bridge loan partnership was $8.1 million as of June&nbsp;30, 2013, which represents
approximately 0.3% of the Company&#146;s consolidated assets as of that date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Summary Financial and Other Data, page 14 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Please expand the footnotes to your table to indicate the amounts used in the calculations of percentages presented in the Other
Financial Data section. Also, please reconcile the amounts disclosed as amounts of undrawn committed financings to the amounts disclosed in the footnotes to your financial statements. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the disclosure on page 17 of
Amendment No.&nbsp;1 accordingly. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Risk Factors, page 17 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please revise your introductory paragraph to remove references to additional risks and clarify that all material risks are included
in this section. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and has
revised the disclosure contained on page 19 of Amendment No.1 accordingly. </FONT></P>

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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Your risk factor section includes a number of risks that appear generic to any issuer or offering. Please revise these risk factors
to demonstrate risks specific to you. Refer to Item&nbsp;503(c) of Regulation S-K. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The
Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the risk factors section of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 accordingly. Specifically, it has removed risk factors discussing the Company&#146;s real estate investment trust
subsidiary, which is in the process of dissolving, and has consolidated and tailored other risk factors. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">15.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Please revise the applicable risk factors to disclose clearly that the registrant may change its investment strategy and/or
financing strategy without a shareholder vote. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the
Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the disclosure on page 19 of Amendment No.1 accordingly. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Our business is highly leveraged &#133;,
page 19 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">16.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Please clarify, if true, that there is no limit on the amount of leverage that you may incur. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment and has revised the disclosure in the risk factor
&#147;Despite our current level of indebtedness, we and our subsidiaries may still be able to incur substantially more debt, which could further exacerbate the risks associated with our substantial leverage&#148; on page 44 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1
to clarify. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Our ability to realize upon the mortgage loans &#133;, page 39 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">17.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Please explain what you mean by the phrase &#147;realize upon the mortgage loans.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment and has revised the disclosure on page 36 of
Amendment No.1 to clarify. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Our only material asset after completion of this offering will be &#133;, page 66 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Please define the acronym &#147;TRA.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company has revised the disclosure to use the term &#147;tax receivable agreement&#148; throughout Amendment No.&nbsp;1. </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Organizational Structure, page 71 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Please increase the size of the chart on page 72 so that it is legible. Additionally, please disclose the subsidiaries of LCFH,
including Ladder Capital REIT. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s
comment, and has increased the size of the chart pictured on page 65 of Amendment No.1 accordingly. The Company advises the Staff that the revised chart does not show Ladder Capital REIT because the Company intends to dissolve the REIT prior to
effectiveness. The Company respectfully advises the Staff that because of the large number of its subsidiaries, it is not practicable to present all of them on the chart, and that the Company does not consider the presentation of any or all of its
subsidiaries to be material to investors. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Reorganization Transactions at LCFH, page 72 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">20.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please expand your disclosure to quantify the number of membership interests by class outstanding prior to the reorganization, the
conversion ratio for each class, and the number of LP Units that will be outstanding after the reorganization. Also, please disclose whether the interests are vested or unvested and the impact on the terms of conversion. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and has included a chart on page 66 of Amendment
No.&nbsp;1 that lists the number of membership interests by class prior to the reorganization, the conversion ratio for each class, and the number of LP Units that will be outstanding after the reorganization. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Use of Proceeds, page 76 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please describe in greater how the proceeds will be used by LCFH to grow the loan origination and related commercial real estate
business lines. Please also include the approximate amount intended to be used for each such purpose. Refer to Item&nbsp;504 of Regulation S-K. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the disclosure on page 70 accordingly. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Financial Information, page 83 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please revise to disclose the accounting method for the Reorganization Transactions and the authoritative literature upon which you
will rely. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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and has revised the disclosure on page 82 accordingly. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>We note your disclosure in footnote (4)&nbsp;on page 88 that for purposes of applying the as-if converted method for calculating
diluted earnings per share, you have assumed that all LP Units and Class B common stock are exchanged for Class&nbsp;A common stock. Please tell us how you considered your obligation to pay tax benefits to LCFH unitholders under the tax receivable
agreement that would be triggered by such exchange, as disclosed on page 67. Also, clarify how you will account for this obligation in your financial statements and the authoritative literature upon which you will rely. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>In response to the Staff&#146;s comment, the Company has revised its disclosure in footnote 4 on page 88 to
clarify that all LP Units and Class B common stock are treated as exchanged for Class A common stock given that under the as-if converted method for calculating diluted earnings per share pursuant to ASC 260-10-45-40 through 42 the Company has
considered all &#147;potential common units&#148;. Please note that under the Reorganization Transactions and Offering Transactions as described in &#147;Organizational Structure&#151;Offering Transactions&#148; on pages 67-68, LCFH&#146;s existing
investors will own LP Units in LCFH and Class B common stock in the Company following the offering and may exchange an equal number of LP Units and Class B common stock for shares of Class A common stock of the Company on a one-for-one basis.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company has considered that the obligation to pay tax benefits to LCFH unitholders upon exchange of LP Units and
Class&nbsp;B common stock for Class A common stock under the tax receivable agreement (&#147;TRA&#148;) represents an equity transaction with shareholders entered into in conjunction with the reorganization. The establishment of the initial
obligation upon actual exchanges will be accounted for in a manner consistent with the accounting for the establishment of the initial deferred tax asset under ASC <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">740-20-45-11(g),</FONT> as an equity transaction
with any subsequent change in both the deferred tax asset and corresponding obligation under the TRA reflected in income. Similar guidance is included in ASC 825-20-30-4 and 35-1. Registration payment arrangements that are recorded at inception as a
contingent liability are included in the allocation of proceeds from the related financing transaction. However, subsequent changes to that initial contingent liability recognized are included in earnings. The Company also considered by analogy the
guidance related to the accounting for contingent consideration in a business combination in ASC 805-30 -35-1. While the initial amount for contingent consideration is recognized as part of the business combination, changes in the fair value of
contingent consideration that are classified as an asset or liability are generally recognized in earnings. The Company will account for the related deferred tax assets under ASC 740 and will reduce the deferred tax assets with a valuation allowance
to the extent the Company estimates that it will not realize the full benefit represented by the deferred tax asset. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The
Company considers the obligation under the TRA a contingent liability in scope of the guidance in ASC 450 as the Company will be contingently obligated to make payments under the TRA depending on one or more future events occurring or failing to
occur. The amounts payable under the TRA are not assured either as to amount or timing and the Company will not be obligated to make a payment under the TRA until tax benefits of the transactions have been realized. Amounts payable under the TRA are
contingent upon, among other things, occurrence of actual exchanges and generation of future taxable income over the term of the TRA. If the Company does not have sufficient taxable income to utilize the deductions in the future, payment will not be
required in the future. As such, the obligations under the TRA would only be recorded when they meet the definition of a contingent liability under ASC 450, i.e. when the recognition threshold of probable and reasonably estimable is met. In
addition, we understand that other registrants with similar tax receivable agreements have accounted for the obligation under that agreement using an ASC 450 approach. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, page 89 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please discuss in the appropriate section(s) the spread between yield on assets and cost of funds. Please also discuss, if material,
changes in historical spreads. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s
comment, and has revised the disclosure on pages 90, 91, 97, 103 and 104 accordingly. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">25.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please disclose the geographic diversification of your collateral. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and directs the Staff&#146;s attention to the pie
chart on page 86 of Amendment No. 1, which provides disclosure regarding the geographic diversification of our loan portfolio. As further clarified on pages 86 and 87 of Amendment No. 1, the commercial real estate collateral underlying our CMBS and
U.S. Agency Securities portfolios is located throughout the United States, and no material portion of the real estate collateral is concentrated in any one location. The geographic diversification of our owned real estate as of June&nbsp;30, 2013 is
set forth on page 148 of Amendment No. 1. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Net interest income, page 96 and 100 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">26.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>We note the response to comment five of our letter dated June&nbsp;27, 2013 relating to Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to Form S-4 of LCFH
(File No.&nbsp;333-188224) with respect to your exclusion of hedging interest expense from your discussion of your total cost to borrow funds. You state that you use derivative hedges to hedge the interest rate risk of your long term assets and not
the risks related to your liabilities. Please reconcile this assertion with your disclosure on page 121 that interest rate swap and futures agreements are utilized to hedge against future interest rate increases on your borrowings and potential
adverse changes in the value of certain assets that result from interest rate changes. Please clarify. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>In response to the Staff&#146;s comment, the Company has revised
the disclosure on pages 16, 17, 18, 90, 97, 103, 120 and 123 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1. The intention of the revisions is to clarify that the Company does use derivative instruments to provide portfolio-wide hedges against the risks related to the
Company&#146;s liabilities as well as its assets, and in particular, against two major components of interest rate risk: (1)&nbsp;the risk of adverse impacts on net interest income arising from fixed/floating interest rate mismatches (where fixed
rate assets are financed with floating rate liabilities or vice versa) and (2)&nbsp;the risk of adverse changes in the value of fixed rate assets that result from interest rate changes. </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> Given your assertion that you use derivative hedges to hedge the interest rate risk of your long term assets and the disclosure on
pages 98 and 102 that you employ these derivative hedges in an effort to hedge the net interest income you earn against the impact of changes in interest rates, please explain to us your basis for not considering derivative results related to
hedging net interest in your analysis and discussion of your net interest income. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>In
response to the Staff&#146;s comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on pages 18, 90, 96, 102 and 122 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to include an additional non-GAAP measure of the Company&#146;s &#147;cost of funds&#148; that includes interest
expense as reported on our consolidated statements of income, adjusted to include the net interest expense component associated with our interest rate hedging activities. The Company has also added a computation of &#147;interest income, net of cost
of funds,&#148; another non-GAAP measure that the Company believes represents a more comprehensive measure of the net interest results. The Company has provided a reconciliation of such items to the nearest applicable GAAP measure. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Critical Accounting Policies </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Real
Estate Securities, page 113 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">28.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please tell us with more specificity how you evaluated the characteristics of the interest-only securities in determining that they
qualify for the exemption from derivative accounting afforded by ASC 815-10-15-72 and 73. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company has divided its evaluation of the characteristics of its interest-only securities relative to the
guidance in ASC 815-10-15-72 and 73 in two categories: CMBS interest-only securities and Agency interest-only securities. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The
Company has determined that the CMBS interest-only securities owned by the Company qualify for the exemption from derivatives accounting afforded by ASC 815-10-15-72 and 73. More specifically, each of the Company&#146;s CMBS interest-only securities
meet both of the exemption criteria cited in ASC 815-10-15-72 by virtue of sharing the following two required characteristics. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each CMBS interest-only security: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Represents the right to receive only a specified proportion of the contractual interest cash flows of a specific debt instrument or a specified proportion of the
contractual principal cash flows of that debt instrument,&#148; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Does not incorporate any terms not present in the original debt instrument.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of each of the two required criteria above, as well as with respect to the criteria discussed in the following paragraph, the
debt instruments referenced are the underlying mortgage loans which have been securitized in conjunction with the issuance of the CMBS interest-only securities. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each CMBS interest-only security also meets the criteria for exemption under ASC 815-10-15-73 as each CMBS interest-only security provides for &#147;an allocation of a portion of the interest or principal
cash flows of a specific debt instrument as reasonable compensation for stripping the instrument or to provide adequate compensation to a servicer.&#148; Our review of the servicer compensation resulted in a determination that, in the case of each
of the Company&#146;s CMBS interest-only securities, the compensation was consistent with industry standards. Also, there are no allocations of a portion of the interest or principal cash flows of a specific debt instrument to provide for a
guarantee of payments, for servicing in excess of adequate compensation, or for any other purpose.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company has also
evaluated the characteristics of its Agency interest-only securities and determined that they do not qualify for the exemption from derivatives accounting afforded by ASC 815-10-15-72 and 73. More specifically, each of the Company&#146;s Agency
interest-only securities did not meet the exemption criteria cited in ASC 815-10-15-73 by virtue of the existence of an allocation of a portion of the interest or principal cash flows of the underlying debt instruments to provide for a guarantee of
payments and as a result, the Company has determined that it was necessary to evaluate the Agency interest-only securities in accordance with ASC 815. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Furthermore, the Company has concluded that its Agency interest-only securities are not derivatives in their entirety, as they require an up front payment amount that is equivalent to the amount
determined by applying the effective notional amount to the underlying debt instrument and adjusted for the time value of money (ASC 815-10-15-97). However the Company concluded that by virtue of the prepayment restrictions and risk associated with
the underlying debt instruments, the securities contain an embedded derivative which should be reported at fair value on the Company&#146;s consolidated balance sheet, and the related unrealized gain or loss should be recognized in earnings on the
consolidated statements of income. The Company acknowledges that there is diversity in practice in the treatment of these embedded derivatives and their host instruments, and there is a practical challenge in valuing these types of embedded
derivatives. As a result, the Company observes that in practice most registrants record the entire hybrid instrument at fair value with changes in fair value recorded in current period earnings. Accordingly, the Company has determined that it should
record its Agency interest-only securities at fair value through earnings in accordance with ASC 815-15-25-52 and 53 since the embedded derivative portion cannot be reliably estimated. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company considered the guidance in ASC 250-10 (SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 99, Materiality), and has concluded that the errors
in accounting for its Agency interest-only securities are not material to the financial statements for any period presented when taken as a whole, both on a quantitative and qualitative basis. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Accordingly, the Company is revising its financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2011 and 2012 to reflect the proper
accounting and presentation for these securities for all periods presented. The Company&#146;s financial statements as of June 30, 2013 and for the six month periods ended June 30, 2012 and 2013, which have previously been distributed to the
Company&#146;s bond holders and investors are similarly being revised and included in Amendment No. 1. The Company has disclosed the impact on the financial statements in Note 2 to the annual financial statements and Note 2 to the financial
statements as of June 30, 2013 and for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012. </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Our Current Financing Strategies, page 132 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Investment Process, page 133</U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>We note your disclosure that you award your originators annual bonuses. If material, please disclose the aggregate bonus amount paid
to originators last year. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s
comment, and has revised the disclosure on page 136 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 accordingly. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Property, page 144 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please disclose whether you provide rent concessions or abatements and the impact of any concessions or abatements.
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the
disclosure on page 147 of Amendment No. 1 accordingly. </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions, page 163 </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Meridian Loan Referral Agreement, page 165 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>We note your disclosure that you may pay fees for commercial real estate loans referred by Meridian. Please disclose the aggregate
fees paid in the past year to Meridian. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>The Company respectfully acknowledges the
Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the disclosure on page 169 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to include aggregate fees paid to Meridian in 2012. The Company has also included the Meridian Loan Referral Agreement as exhibit 10.11 to the Registration
Statement. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Tax Receivable Agreement, page 165 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> We note your disclosure that the &#147;payments under the tax receivable agreement are not conditioned upon any persons continued
ownership of us.&#148; Please explain the circumstances under which you would continue to make payments to a party that no longer owned units. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#146;s comment, and has revised the disclosure on page 170 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 accordingly. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Principal Stockholders, page 169 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">33.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>In footnotes 4 and 5, please identify the natural persons who have or share voting or investment power for each entity. Please refer
to Instruction 2 to Item&nbsp;403 of Regulation S-K. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>The Company acknowledges the
Staff&#146;s comment with respect to the natural persons who have or share voting or investment power for Alberta Investment Management Corporation (&#147;AIMCo&#148;) and OMERS Administration Corporation (&#147;OMERS&#148;).&nbsp;The Company
respectfully advises the Staff that AIMCo and OMERS are Canadian sovereign pension funds. Based on a survey of recent IPO filings for companies in which AIMCo and/or OMERS have invested, the Company believes its disclosure is consistent with
industry practice for these entities. </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Executive Compensation, page 152 </U></FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>We note that you have provided disclosure for only three named executive officers; however it appears, from your disclosure starting
on page 147, that you have more officers for which compensation disclosure would be required under Item&nbsp;402 of Regulation S-K. Please revise or advise as appropriate. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response: </I></B>The Company respectfully advises the Staff that it is filing as an Emerging Growth Company under the JOBS
Act.&nbsp;Pursuant to the JOBS Act, the Company may comply with the more limited executive compensation disclosure requirements of Item&nbsp;402 of Regulation S-K as though it were a smaller reporting company.&nbsp;Accordingly, the Company generally
is providing the scaled executive compensation disclosure permitted by the JOBS Act in its registration statement, which, in the case of the Company, only requires disclosure of the individuals serving as the Company&#146;s principal executive
officer during the last completed fiscal year and the Company&#146;s two most highly compensated executive officers other than the principal executive officer who were serving as executive officers at the end of the last completed fiscal year.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Exhibits, page II-5 </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment: </I></B>Please file all required exhibits as promptly as possible. If you are not in a position to file your legal and tax opinions with the
next amendment, please provide a draft copy for us to review. The draft opinions should be filed as EDGAR correspondence. In addition, we note the exhibit list includes &#147;form of&#148; agreements. Please advise us if you do not intend on filing
final, executed agreements prior to effectiveness of the registration statement. Please note that the final executed version of your Articles of Incorporation must be filed prior to effectiveness. Please refer to Item&nbsp;601(b)(3) of Regulation
S-K. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company will file all required exhibits as promptly as possible, and has filed
the current executed Certificate of Incorporation with Amendment No.&nbsp;1. Draft copies of the required legal opinions have been filed confidentially as correspondence. The Company intends to file all of the required legal opinions as exhibits to
the Registration Statement when the Registration Statement is publicly filed. The Company does not intend to file final executed copies of certain of the agreements because they will be entered into concurrently with the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement and not prior thereto. The Company intends to file as exhibits, as soon as practicable in a subsequent filing, the &#147;form of agreements,&#148; which will be substantially similar to the versions of such agreements that
will be entered into (with the exception of filling in the dates thereof and signatories thereto). </FONT></P>

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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Staff&#146;s Comment:</I></B> We note your disclosure on page 2 regarding your outstanding and committed debt financing. Please file the agreements associated
with this financing in accordance with Item&nbsp;601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K, or tell us why you believe you are not required to file the agreements. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Response:</I></B> The Company respectfully advises the Staff that the Company has concluded that the agreements governing its financing arrangements are not material to it because the Company is not
substantially dependent on financing under any single financing agreement and its typical utilization under its committed facilities is substantially less than the total committed amounts available under those facilities.&nbsp;Consequently, the
Company respectfully advises the Staff that it does not believe that it is required to file those agreements pursuant to Item&nbsp;601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We hope that the foregoing has been responsive to the Staff&#146;s comments. If you have any questions related to this letter, please contact me at (212)&nbsp;446-4943 or my colleague Michael Kim at
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