VIA EDGAR AND EMAIL
Mr. John Stickel September 14, 2021
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20549
| Re: | Enact Holdings, Inc. Requested Date: September 15, 2021 Requested Time: 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-255345) | ||||
Dear Mr. Stickel:
Reference is made to that certain letter, filed as correspondence via EDGAR on September 13, 2021, in which Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters, joined with Enact Holdings, Inc. in requesting that the effective date of the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-255345) (the “Registration Statement”) be accelerated so that the Registration Statement would become effective at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 14, 2021, or as soon as practicable thereafter (the “Prior Letter”).
By this letter, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters, hereby amend the Prior Letter, and, pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, hereby join Enact Holdings, Inc. in requesting that the effectiveness of the Registration Statement be accelerated to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 15, 2021, or as soon as practicable thereafter or at such later time as Enact Holdings, Inc. or its counsel may orally request via telephone call to the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The undersigned advise that they have complied and will continue to comply, and they have been informed by the participating underwriters that they have complied and will continue to comply, with the requirements of Rule 15c2-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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Very truly yours, | |||||
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | |||||
| By: | /s/ Alaoiu Zenere | ||||
| Name: | Alaoui Zenere | ||||
| Title | Executive Director | ||||
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC | |||||
| By: | /s/ CE Bluhm | ||||
| Name: | CE Bluhm | ||||
| Title | Executive Director | ||||
cc: | |||||
J. Nolan McWilliams, Securities and Exchange Commission | |||||
David Irving, Securities and Exchange Commission | |||||
Sharon Blume, Securities and Exchange Commission | |||||
Evan Stolove, Enact Holdings, Inc. | |||||
Perry J. Schwachman, Sidley Austin LLP | |||||
Sean M. Carney, Sidley Austin LLP | |||||
David Ni, Sidley Austin LLP | |||||
Craig B. Brod, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | |||||
Jeffrey D. Karp, Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | |||||
Ward Bobitz, Genworth Financial, Inc. & Genworth Holdings, Inc. | |||||
Dwight S. Yoo, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | |||||