As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 27, 2019

Registration No. 333-

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM F-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

URBAN TEA, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

British Virgin Islands   Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)   Identification No.)

 

Floor 25, No. 36, Middle Wanjiali Road

Xiyingmen Commercial Plaza

Yuhua District, Changsha

People’s Republic of China, 410014 (86) 511-86733102

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including

area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

VStock Transfer LLC

18 Lafayette Place

Woodmere, NY 11598

(212) 828-8436

((Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Copy To:

Joan Wu, Esq.

Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li, LLP

1450 Broadway, Floor 26

New York, New York 10018

(212) 530-2210

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ☐

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. ☒

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to general Instruction I.C. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☐

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.C. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.

 

Emerging growth company ☐

 

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of each class of securities to be registered   Amount to be registered (1)   Proposed
maximum aggregate price
per share
  Proposed
maximum
aggregate offering price (2)
  Amount of registration fee
                 
Ordinary shares, no par value     10,671,638     $ 0.315     $ 3,361,565.97     $ 407.42  
Total Fee due                           $ 407.42  

 

(1) The securities registered also include such indeterminate number of ordinary shares pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of any such securities. In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the securities being registered hereunder include such indeterminate number of ordinary shares as may be issuable with respect to the shares being registered hereunder as a result of stock splits, stock dividends or similar anti-dilutive transactions.
(2) The offering price has been estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) of the Securities Act with respect to the ordinary shares registered hereunder, based upon the price of $0.315, which was the average of the high and low prices reported on the Nasdaq Capital Market on August 26, 2019.

 

The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. The selling shareholders may not sell these ordinary shares until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these ordinary shares, and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these ordinary shares in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED AUGUST 27, 2019

 

PROSPECTUS

 

10,671,638 Ordinary Shares

URBAN TEA, INC.

 

This prospectus relates to the registration of the resale by the selling shareholders of 10,671,638 ordinary shares, no par value, of Urban Tea, Inc. a company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (“Company”), by the selling shareholders set forth herein that were issued by the Company prior to the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. The resale of such shares by the selling shareholders pursuant to this prospectus is referred to as the “Offering.”

 

We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of ordinary shares by the selling shareholders.

 

We will pay the expenses incurred in registering the shares, including legal and accounting fees. See “Plan of Distribution.”

 

Our ordinary shares are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MYT.” On August 26, 2019, the last reported sale price of our ordinary shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market was $0.33 per share. As of August 26, 2019, the aggregate market value of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares was $8,639,503.62 based on 26,180,314 issued and outstanding ordinary shares, of which 21,819,120 ordinary shares are held by non-affiliates, and a per share price of $0.33 which was the closing sale price of our ordinary shares as quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market on August 26, 2019. We have offered $4,608,900 of securities pursuant to General Instruction I.B.5. of Form F-3 during the prior 12 calendar month period that ends on and includes the date hereof.

 

INVESTING IN OUR ORDINARY SHARES INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. SEE “RISK FACTORS” ON PAGE 3, AS WELL AS THE RISKS DISCUSSED UNDER THE CAPTION “RISK FACTORS” IN THE DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THIS PROSPECTUS. NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

 

The date of this prospectus is August 27, 2019

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

  Page
   
Prospectus Information 1
   
Business Description 1
   
Risk Factors 3
   
Special Note Regarding Forward–Looking Statements 4
   
Use Of Proceeds 4
   
Capitalization 5
   
Selling Shareholders 6
   
Plan of Distribution 8
   
Description of Share Capital 10
   
Expenses 10
   
Legal Matters 10
   
Experts 10
   
Where You Can Find More Information 10
   
Information Incorporated By Reference 11
   
Enforcement of Civil Liabilities 12
   
Disclosure Of Commission Position On Indemnification For Securities Act Liabilities 13

 

You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or any supplement. We have not authorized any other person to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not, and any underwriter or agent is not, making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information appearing in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date on the front cover of this prospectus. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.

 

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PROSPECTUS INFORMATION

 

This prospectus is part of a registration statement on Form F-3 that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under that registration statement, the selling shareholders may offer from time to time our ordinary shares in one or more offerings.

 

The information appearing in this prospectus, any applicable prospectus supplement or any related free writing prospectus is accurate only as of the date of the document and any information we have incorporated by reference is accurate only as of the date of the document incorporated by reference, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus, any applicable prospectus supplement or any related free writing prospectus, or any sale of a security. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since those dates.

 

This prospectus contains summaries of certain provisions contained in some of the documents described herein, but reference is made to the actual documents for complete information. All of the summaries are qualified in their entirety by the actual documents. Copies of some of the documents referred to herein have been filed, will be filed or will be incorporated by reference as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and you may obtain copies of those documents as described below under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information.”

 

In this prospectus, unless we indicate otherwise, “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company,” “MYT” and/or “Urban Tea” refer to Urban Tea Inc., as consolidated with its various subsidiaries.

 

BUSINESS DESCRIPTION

URBAN TEA, INC.

 

Urban Tea, Inc., (formerly known as Delta Technology Holding Ltd) was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands as a company with limited liability on November 28, 2011. We have become a retailer and distributor of specialty tea products in China since November 2018, and have fully completed the disposition of our fine and specialty chemical manufacturing business (the “Chemical Business”) in April 2019. Our goal is to be a leading brand of tea beverages in each city in which we currently and will operate, by selling the finest quality tea beverages and related products, as well as complementary food offerings, and by providing each customer with a pleasant and comfortable environment. Our current business solely consists of the specialty tea product distribution and retail business.

 

Prior to November 2018, Urban Tea, Inc. was solely a fine and specialty chemical manufacturer, primarily engaged in manufacturing and selling of organic compound including para-chlorotoluene (“PCT”), ortho-chlorotoluene (“OCT”), PCT/OCT downstream products, and other by-product chemicals and distributing fine and specialty chemicals to end application markets including automotive, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, dye & pigments, aerospace, ceramics, coating-printing, clean energy and food additives (the “Chemical Business”). Since November 2018, we started a specialty tea product distribution and retail business through our newly formed subsidiary, Shanghai Ming Yun Tang Tea Limited (“Shanghai MYT”) which controls Hunan Ming Yun Tang Brand Management Co., Ltd. (“Hunan MYT”) via a series of contractual agreements. Currently we market a wide range of trendy tea drinks, light meals, and pastries targeting China’s new urban generation in the Hunan province. Our products are focused on not only their taste but also their aesthetic presentation and health benefits. Our products are currently being offered via our own stores. We expect to start selling our products in our managed and Joint Venture (“JV”) stores in October 2019.

 

The tea drinks we are currently offering are developed based on Anhua dark tea, which is famous in the Hunan province. These tea-based beverages include fresh milk tea, fruit tea, milk cap tea, etc. The light meals offered include selections such as salads, sandwiches, pasta, steak, burritos and other healthy options. The pastries we are offering include fresh baked bread, fresh baked cakes, frosting cakes, etc. Our goal is to be a leading brand of tea beverages in each city in which we currently and will operate, by selling the finest quality tea beverages and related products, as well as complementary food offerings, and by providing each customer with a pleasant and comfortable environment. We have generated sales at company-owned stores and expect to receive fee and profit sharing from the managed stores. We plan to launch the managed stores and JV stores in October 2019. Currently, we generate our revenues from company-operated stores only.

 

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Recent Developments

 

On February 9, 2019, we entered into that certain Share Purchase Agreement with HG Capital Group Limited pursuant to which HG Capital agreed to purchase Elite Ride Limited (“Elite”) in exchange of cash purchase price of $1,750,000. Elite, via its 100% owned subsidiary Delta Advanced Materials Limited, a Hong Kong corporation, which in turn, holds all the equity interests in all the operating subsidiaries. On May 29, 2019, the shareholders of the Company approved and adopted the share purchase agreement and disposition with HG Capital Group Limited. On April 13, 2019, the Company received the $1,750,000, the necessary registration with HG Capital Group Limited, received the stock certificate representing all the issued and outstanding shares of Elite and other closing conditions for the disposition were completed, including receipt of the fairness opinion. As such, the disposition completed on such date. Our current business solely consists of the specialty tea product distribution and retail business.

 

On May 24, 2019, the Company and certain institutional investors entered into a securities purchase agreement, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to such investors an aggregate of 2,845,000 ordinary shares and warrants to purchase up to 1,809,420 Ordinary Shares in a registered direct offering, for gross proceeds of approximately $4.6 million. The warrants will be exercisable immediately following the date of issuance for a period of five years at an initial exercise price of $1.86 per share. The purchase price for each Ordinary Share and the corresponding warrant is $1.62. Concurrently with the execution of the purchase agreement, certain officers and directors of the Company entered into lock-up agreements. On May 21, 2019, the Company and Long Yi entered into an amended restated employment agreement to clarify and integrate into the text to make certain minor amendments to clarify Long Yi’s duties to the Company as Chief Executive Officer.

 

Corporate Information

 

Our principal executive offices are located at Floor 25, No. 36 Middle Wanjiali Road, Xiyingmen Commercial Plaza, Yuhua District, Changsha City, China 410014. Our telephone number is +86 (511) 86733102. Our NASDAQ symbol is MYT, and we make our sec filings available on the Investor Relations page of our website, www.h-n-myt.com. Information contained on our website is not part of this prospectus. Our agent for service in the United States is VStock Transfer, LLC, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 18 Lafayette Place Woodmere, NY 11598.

 

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RISK FACTORS

 

An investment in our ordinary shares involves risk. Before you invest in ordinary shares issued by us, you should carefully consider the risks involved. Accordingly, you should carefully consider:

 

  the information contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus;
     
  the risks described in page 8 to page 29 of our Annual Report on Form 20-F, filed on November 14, 2018, for our most recent fiscal year, which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus;
     
 

the risks described in our Current Report on Form 6-K, filed on April 22, 2019; and

other risks and other information that may be contained in, or incorporated by reference from, other filings we make with the SEC.

 

The risk factors related to our business contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus comprise the material risks of which we are aware. If any of the events or developments described actually occurs, our business, financial condition or results of operations would likely suffer.

 

Going Concern Note

 

The Company’s consolidated financial statements that are incorporated by reference have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities during the normal course of operations. The Company incurred losses from operations of $83,440,221, $31,874,182 and $15,137,604 for the years ended June 30, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. As of June 30, 2018, the Company had cash of $1,018,708 and a working capital deficit of $1,374,997. These conditions indicate the existence of substantial doubt over the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. In order to alleviate the substantial doubt, the Company intends to meet the cash requirements for the 12 months following its Annual Report filed on November 14, 2018 through a combination of debt and equity financing such as by way of private placements.

 

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

Certain statements contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement, including the documents referred to or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement or statements of our management referring to our summarizing the contents of this prospectus supplement, include “forward-looking statements”. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. Our actual results may differ materially or perhaps significantly from those discussed herein, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “plan,” “project” and other similar expressions. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations or other characterizations of future events or circumstances are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement or our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, include, but are not necessarily limited to, those relating to:

 

  Our ability to maintain and increase brand awareness in Hunan province and to increase tea consumption in
areas where we open stores;

 

  the identification and availability of suitable sites for store locations, the availability of which is beyond our control;

 

  the negotiation of acceptable lease terms;

 

  the maintenance of adequate distribution capacity, information systems and other operational system capabilities;

 

  integrating new company owned stores and managed and JV stores into our existing buying, distribution and other support operations;

 

  the hiring, training and retention of store management and other qualified personnel;

 

  assimilating new store employees into our corporate culture;

 

  the effective sourcing and management of inventory to meet the needs of our stores on a timely basis; and

 

  improve our operational efficiency;

 

  our ability to raise sufficient fund to expand our operations;

 

  attract, retain and motivate executives and talented employees;

 

  development of a liquid trading market for our securities; and

 

  our plan to maintain compliance with NASDAQ continue listing requirement

  

The foregoing does not represent an exhaustive list of matters that may be covered by the forward-looking statements contained herein or risk factors with which we are faced that may cause our actual results to differ from those anticipated in our forward-looking statements. Please see “Risk Factors” in our reports filed with the SEC or in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus for additional risks which could adversely impact our business and financial performance.

 

Moreover, new risks regularly emerge and it is not possible for our management to predict or articulate all risks we face, nor can we assess the impact of all risks on our business or the extent to which any risk, or combination of risks, may cause actual results to differ from those contained in any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements included in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus are based on information available to us on the date of this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus, as applicable. Except to the extent required by applicable laws or rules, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained above and throughout (or incorporated by reference in) this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus.

 

USE OF PROCEEDS

 

This prospectus relates to our ordinary shares that may be offered and sold from time to time by the selling shareholders. We will receive no proceeds from the sale of our ordinary shares by the selling shareholders in this Offering. The proceeds from the sales will belong to the selling shareholders.

 

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CAPITALIZATION

 

The following table sets forth our capitalization as of June 30, 2019. You should read this table in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included in our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended June 30, 2018, which are incorporated by reference herein.

 

The capitalization table does not include pro-forma adjustments for the number of shares which are being registered on the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part and may be sold under the prospectus, because the full number of shares that may be sold cannot be specifically determined as it will be based on the market price of an ordinary share from time to time when puts are made by the Company.

 

    As of June 30,
2019
 
    (in thousands of USD$)  
Cash and Cash Equivalents     5,144  
Total Current Liabilities     570  
Shareholders’ equity:        
Preferred Shares ($0.0001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding)     -  
Ordinary Shares (no par value; 75,000,000 shares authorized; 12,660,314 shares issued and outstanding)     3  
Class A Shares ($0.0001 par value; 25,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding)     -  
Class B Shares ($0.0001 par value; 25,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding)     -  
Class C Shares ($0.0001 par value; 25,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding)     -  
Additional paid in capital     13,382  
Accumulated deficit     (2,630 )
         
Accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss)     (62 )
Total Urban Tea, Inc. shareholders’ equity     10,703  
         
Total equity    

10,703

 
Total capitalization    

10,703

 

 

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SELLING SHAREHOLDERS

 

This prospectus relates to the resale from time to time by the selling shareholders named in the table below.

 

This table is prepared based on information supplied to us by the selling shareholders, and reflects holdings as of August 26, 2019. As used in this prospectus, the term “selling shareholders” includes the selling shareholders set forth below and any donees, pledgees, transferees, or other successors-in-interest selling shares received after the date of this prospectus from the selling shareholders as a gift, pledge, or other non-sale related transfer. The number of shares in the column “Maximum Number of Ordinary Shares to be Offered” pursuant to this prospectus” represents all of the ordinary shares the selling shareholders may offer under this prospectus. The selling shareholders may sell some, all or none of its shares offered by this prospectus. We do not know how long the selling shareholders will hold the shares before selling them, and we currently have no agreements, arrangements, or understandings with the selling shareholders regarding the sale of any of the ordinary shares.

 

Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3(d) promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act, and includes ordinary shares with respect to which the selling shareholders has voting and investment power.

 

    Number of Ordinary shares Owned Prior to Offering     Percentage of the Existing Equity Capital (2)     Number of Ordinary Shares Owned after Offering  
Name of Selling Shareholders   Number     Percent     Number (1)     Percent (1)  
Min Chen1     880,000       3.361 %     -       -  
Dan Xia2     868,625       3.318 %     -       -  
Kai Qiong Wang3     852,000       3.254 %     -       -  
Qiu Mei Zeng4     850,000       3.247 %     -       -  
Can Chun Xiao5     840,000       3.209 %     -       -  
Yi Ruan6     820,000       3.132 %     -       -  
Huang Liang7     810,000       3.094 %     -       -  
Xiao Li Li8     800,000       3.056 %     -       -  
Xia Sheng9     730,000       2.788 %     -       -  
Wang Wei10     501,000       1.914 %     -       -  
Huang Jiao11     625,000       2.387 %     -       -  
Yu Mingluan12     625,000       2.387 %     -       -  
Long Yafeng13     624,000       2.383 %     -       -  
Yang Jie14     521,638       1.992 %     -       -  
Yifang Song15     275,000       1.05 %     -       -  

 

 

1 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 112 Heishan Village, Oujiangcha Town, Heshan District, Yiyang City, China.
2 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 5 Xinhun Village, Zhoukou Town, Hanshou County, China.
3 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 54 Zijin Village, Yangjiaotang Town, Anhua County, China.
4 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 411 Xiaochong Village, Xidu Town, Hengyang County, China.
5 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 34 Wazi Village, Anle Town, Anhua County, China.
6 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 18 Wanjiada Village, Qianchuanjie Town, Huangpi County, China.
7 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 118 Unit 2 Building 1, 111 Yuelu Street, Yuelu District, Changsha City, China.
8 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 1302 Building 10, 188 Canglong Garden, Kaifu District, Changsha City, China.
9 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 702 No. 142, Jianguangli Street, Zhuhui District, Hengyang City, China.
10 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 501 Building 38, Jiangjiatun, Kaifu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, 410005, China.
11 The address of the selling shareholder is Group 8 of Gaoqiao Village, Gaoqiao Street, Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, 410007, China.
12 The address of the selling shareholder is Group 5, Qingfeng Neighborhood Committee, Chengguan Town, Yueyang County, Hunan Province, 414100, China.
13 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 2807 Building 1, Fenghuang City Phase III, Fengdaoling Community, Xingsha Street, Changsha County, Hunan Province, 410100, China.
14 The address of the selling shareholder is 81A Hampshire Road Great Neck, NY 11023.

15 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 1719, North Building, Shandongxindun, No. 368 Section 2, East Second Ring Road, Furong District, Changsha, Hunan, China 410000.

 

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Ting Luo16     6,786       0.026 %     -       -  
Hong Tan17     6,542       0.025 %     -       -  
Junan Hu18     6,442       0.025 %     -       -  
Hai Bin Zhu19     3,815       0.015 %     -       -  
Xian Jun Chen20     3,430       0.013 %     -       -  
Xingxuan Yang21     2,875       0.011 %     -       -  
Li Yan Zhu22     2,004       0.008 %     -       -  
Xing Li Li23     2,000       0.008 %     -       -  
Bo Wan24     1,600       .006 %     -       -  
Jing Peng25     1,392       .005 %     -       -  
Shang Zhang26     1,307       .005 %     -       -  
Henghua Li27     1,250       .005 %     -       -  
Zheng Cheng Xiao28     1,250       .005 %     -       -  
Fang Qiong Zhan29     1,172       .004 %     -       -  
Ming Zhou30     1,140       .004 %     -       -  
Liang Zhan31     1,135       .004 %     -       -  
Jin Pi32     1,125       .004 %     -       -  
Zhou Shi Xie33     1,110       .004 %     -       -  
Xing Peng34     1,000       .004 %     -       -  
Tao Yu35     1,000       .004 %     -       -  
Jun Li Yu36     1,000       .004 %     -       -  
Total     10,671,638       40.761 %     -       -  

 

 

16 The address of the selling shareholder is 159 Shuangqiao Village, Zhentou Town, Liuyang City, China.
17 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 21 Zhennan Village, Yintian Town, Shaoshan City, China.
18 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 202 Building 1, Yixinyuan Garden, Furong District, Changsha City, China.
19 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 222 Group 11, Xiling Quantang Town, Xiangxiang City, Cina.
20 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 288 Zhazixi Village, Kuixi Town, Anhua County, China.
21 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 3306 Unit 2 Building 8, Hanyanbandao Garden, Kaifu District, Changsha City, China.
22 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 3131 Building 7, 919 Wanju Garden, Kaifu District, Changsha City, China.
23 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 740 Houcheng Group, Cainong Village, Xingning Town, Zixing City, China.
24 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 3 Dunbaocun Group, Zengdu District, Suizhou City, China.
25 The address of the selling shareholder is Wanja Zu, Liangting Shan Village, Yueyanglou District, Yueyang City, China.
26 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 5 Zhaogongtang Village, Beishan Town, Changsha City, China.
27 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 402 Building 9, 199 Wangguocheng Garden, Kaifu District Changsha City, China.
28 The address of the selling shareholder is Cunminzu Niwan Village, Majitang Town, Taojiang County, Hunan Province, China.
29 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 87 Zheliao Village, Meixian Town, Pingjiang County, China.
30 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 88 Zheliao Village, Meixian Town, Quyuan District, Miluo City, China.
31 The address of the selling shareholder is No. 83 Sanlian Village, Heshi Town, Pingjiang County, China.
32 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 201 Building 3, Wenyi Village, Wenyi District, Changsha City, China.
33 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 17 Unit 2 Building 29, No. 51 Furong Street, Xiang Tan City, China.
34 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 102 No. 103 Huatang Village, Guoci Street, JiLing City, China.
35 The address of the selling shareholder is Room 404 No. 107 Sanyan Bridge, Jingshi City, China.
36 The address of the selling shareholder is 1018, Building 2, YiJuYa Garden, YueLu District, Changsha City, China.

 

 

(1) Assumes the sale of all ordinary shares being offered pursuant to this prospectus.
   
(2) Based on the 26,180,314 outstanding shares as of the date of this prospectus.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

The selling shareholders, including any of their donees, pledgees, assignees and successors-in-interest may, from time to time, sell any or all of their securities covered hereby on Nasdaq or any other stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the securities are traded or in private transactions. These sales may be at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, prices related to prevailing market prices, fixed prices or negotiated prices. The selling shareholders may use any one or more of the following methods when selling securities:

 

  ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;
     
  block trades in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the ordinary shares as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;
     
  purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account;
     
  exchange distributions in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;
     
  privately negotiated transactions;
     
  settlements of short sales;
     
  transactions through broker-dealers that agree with the selling shareholders to sell a specified number of such ordinary shares at a stipulated price per security;
     
  writings or settlements of options or other hedging transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise;
     
  combinations of any such methods of sale; or
     
 

any other methods permitted pursuant to applicable law.

 

The selling shareholders may also sell ordinary under Rule 144 under the Securities Act, if available, rather than under this prospectus.

 

Broker-dealers engaged by the selling shareholders may arrange for other broker-dealers to participate in sales. Broker-dealers may receive commissions or discounts from the selling shareholders (or, if any broker-dealer acts as agent for the purchaser of ordinary shares, from the purchaser) in amounts to be negotiated, but, except as set forth in a supplement to this prospectus, in the case of an agency transaction not in excess of a customary brokerage commission in compliance with FINRA Rule 2440; and in the case of a principal transaction a markup or markdown in compliance with FINRA IM-2440.

 

In connection with the sale of the ordinary shares or interests therein, the selling shareholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions, which may in turn engage in short sales of the ordinary shares in the course of hedging the positions they assume. The selling shareholders may also enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions or create one or more derivative securities which require the delivery to such broker-dealer or other financial institution of ordinary shares offered by this prospectus, which ordinary shares such broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell pursuant to this prospectus (as supplemented or amended to reflect such transaction).

 

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The selling shareholders and any broker-dealers or agents that are involved in selling the ordinary shares may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act in connection with such sales. In such event, any commissions received by such broker-dealers or agents and any profit on the resale of the ordinary shares purchased by them may be deemed to be underwriting commissions or discounts under the Securities Act. The selling shareholders have informed the Company that it does not have any written or oral agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any person to distribute the ordinary shares.

 

The Company is required to pay certain fees and expenses incurred by the Company incident to the registration of the ordinary shares.

 

In addition, any ordinary shares covered by this prospectus which qualify for sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act may be sold under Rule 144 rather than under this prospectus.

 

We have agreed to keep this prospectus effective until the earlier of (i) the date on which the ordinary shares may be resold by the selling shareholders without registration and without regard to any volume or manner-of-sale limitations by reason of Rule 144, without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information under Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other rule of similar effect or (ii) the sale of all of the ordinary shares pursuant to this prospectus or Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other rule of similar effect. The resale ordinary shares will be sold only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers if required under applicable state ordinary shares laws. In addition, in certain states, the resale ordinary shares covered hereby may not be sold unless they have been registered or qualified for sale in the applicable state or an exemption from the registration or qualification requirement is available and is complied with. Under applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act, any person engaged in the distribution of the resale ordinary shares may not simultaneously engage in market making activities with respect to the ordinary shares for the applicable restricted period, as defined in Regulation M, prior to the commencement of the distribution. In addition, the selling shareholders will be subject to applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, including Regulation M, which may limit the timing of purchases and sales of ordinary shares of the ordinary shares by the selling shareholders or any other person. We will make copies of this prospectus available to the selling shareholders and have informed it of the need to deliver a copy of this prospectus to each purchaser at or prior to the time of the sale (including by compliance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).

 

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DESCRIPTION OF SHARE CAPITAL

 

The following description of our share capital which solely consists of ordinary shares and preferred shares, together with any additional information we include in any applicable prospectus supplement or any related free writing prospectus, summarizes the material terms and provisions of our ordinary shares and the preferred shares that we may offer under this prospectus. While the terms we have summarized below will apply generally to any future ordinary shares or preferred shares that we may offer, we will describe the particular terms of any class or series of these securities in more detail in the applicable prospectus supplement. For the complete terms of our ordinary shares and preferred shares, please refer to our Memorandum and Articles of Association, that is incorporated by reference into the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part or may be incorporated by reference in this prospectus or any applicable prospectus supplement. The terms of these securities may also be affected by British Virgin Islands law. The summary below and that contained in any applicable prospectus supplement or any related free writing prospectus are qualified in their entirety by reference to our Memorandum and Articles of Association, as in effect at the time of any offering of securities under this prospectus. For information on how to obtain copies of our Memorandum and Articles of Association, see “Where You Can Find More Information.” 

 

Our authorized capital stock consists of 155,000,000 shares divided into: (i) 25,000,000 Class A shares, par value 0.0001 per share; (ii) 25,000,000 Class B shares, par value 0.0001 per share; (iii) 25,000,000 Class C shares, par value 0.0001 per share, (iv) 75,000,000 ordinary shares, no par value; and (v) 5,000,000 preferred shares, par value $0.0001 per share. As of August 26, 2019, 26,180,314 ordinary shares were outstanding. Each share, regardless if it is part of a class of ordinary shares, has the right to one vote at a meeting of shareholders or on any resolution of shareholders, the right to an equal share in any dividend paid by us, and the right to an equal share in the distribution of surplus assets. We may by a resolution of the Board of Directors redeem our shares for such consideration as the Board of Directors determines. 

 

EXPENSES

 

We are paying all of the expenses of the registration of our ordinary shares under the Securities Act, including, to the extent applicable, registration and filing fees, printing and duplication expenses, administrative expenses, accounting fees and the legal fees of our counsel. We estimate these expenses to be approximately $38,000 which at the present time include the following categories of expenses:

 

SEC registration fee   $ 407.42  
         
Legal fees and expenses   $ 37,500.00  
         
Total   $ 37,907.42  

  

In addition, we anticipate incurring additional expenses in the future in connection with the offering of our ordinary shares pursuant to this prospectus. Any such additional expenses will be disclosed in a prospectus supplement.

 

LEGAL MATTERS

 

The validity of the ordinary shares offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Harney Westwood & Riegels LP Craigmuir Chambers PO Box 71, Road Town Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands.

 

EXPERTS

 

The consolidated financial statements as of June 2018 and 2017 and for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2018, 2017 and 2016 incorporated by reference into this prospectus have been audited by Centurion ZD CPA Ltd., an independent registered public accounting firm, to the extent and for the periods set forth in their report incorporated herein by reference, and are incorporated by reference in reliance upon such report given upon the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

 

Federal securities laws require us to file information with the SEC concerning our business and operations. Accordingly, we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC. You may read and copy any document we file at the SEC’s public reference rooms, including those located at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on public reference rooms. Our SEC filings are also available to the public from the SEC’s web site at http://www.sec.gov.

 

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form F-3 under the Securities Act with respect to the ordinary shares being offering under this prospectus. This prospectus, which is a part of that registration statement, does not include all the information contained in the registration statement and its exhibits. For further information with respect to our Company and the ordinary shares, you should consult the registration statement and its exhibits. Statements contained in this prospectus concerning the provisions of any documents are summaries of those documents, and we refer you to the document filed with the SEC for more information. The registration statement and any of its amendments, including exhibits filed as a part of the registration statement or an amendment to the registration statement are available for inspection and copying as described above.

 

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INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

 

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” certain information we file with them in this prospectus. This means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to the other information we have filed with the SEC. The information that we incorporate by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus. Information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. Further, all filings we make under the Exchange Act prior to the termination of the offering shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus. The following documents filed by us with the SEC and any future filings under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act made prior to the termination of this offering are incorporated by reference:

 

  The Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, filed with the SEC on November 14, 2018;
     
  The Company’s Current Reports on Form 6-K, filed with the SEC on November 27 and December 31, 2018, January 7, January 23, February 13, February 19, February 25, March 6, March 11, March 29, April 1, April 15, April 22, May 13, May 15, May 28, June 10, and August 14, 2019;
     
 

The description of the ordinary shares contained in our Registration Statement on Form F-1, filed on March 20, 2012 (SEC File No. 333-180224), and any other amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

 

This prospectus may contain information that updates, modifies or is contrary to information in one or more of the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus. Reports we file with the SEC after the date of this prospectus may also contain information that updates, modifies or is contrary to information in this prospectus or in documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus. Investors should review these reports as they may disclose a change in our business, prospectus, financial condition or other affairs after the date of this prospectus.

 

We will also provide copies of our filings free of charge upon written or oral request. You can request a free copy of the above filings or any filings subsequently incorporated by reference into this prospectus by writing or calling us at:

 

Urban Tea, Inc.
Floor 25, No. 36 Middle Wanjiali Road
Xiyingmen Commercial Plaza

Yuhua District, Changsha City

People’s Republic of China, 410014

(+86) 511-8673-3102

 

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ENFORCEMENT OF CIVIL LIABILITIES

 

We are incorporated in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of certain benefits associated with being a British Virgin Islands company, such as:

 

Political and economic stability:
     
An effective judicial system;
     
A favorable tax system;
     
The absence of exchange control or currency restrictions; and
     
The availability of professional and support services

 

However, certain disadvantages accompany incorporation in the British Virgin Islands. These disadvantages include:

 

  the British Virgin Islands has a less developed body of securities laws as compared to the United States and provides significantly less protection to investors; and
     
 

British Virgin Islands companies may not have standing to sue before the federal courts of the United States.

 

Our organizational documents do not contain provisions requiring that disputes, including those arising under the securities laws of the United States, between us, our officers, directors and shareholders, be arbitrated.

 

Substantially all of our current operations are conducted in China, and substantially all of our assets are located in China. The majority of our directors and officers are nationals or residents of jurisdictions other than the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for a shareholder to effect service of process within the United States upon such persons, or to enforce against us or them judgments obtained in United States courts, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.

 

We have been informed by Harney Westwood & Riegels LP our counsel as to British Virgin Islands law, that the United States and the British Virgin Islands do not have a treaty providing for reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments of U.S. courts in civil and commercial matters and that a final judgment for the payment of money rendered by any general or state court in the United States based on civil liability, whether or not predicated solely upon the U.S. federal securities laws, would not be automatically enforceable in the British Virgin Islands. We have also been advised by Harney Westwood & Riegels LP that a final and conclusive judgment obtained in U.S. federal or state courts under which a sum of money is payable as compensatory damages (i.e., not being a sum claimed by a revenue authority for taxes or other charges of a similar nature by a governmental authority, or in respect of a fine or penalty or multiple or punitive damages) may be the subject of an action on a debt in the Supreme Court of the British Virgin Islands under the common law doctrine of obligation. This type of action should be successful upon proof that the sum of money is due and payable, without having to prove the facts supporting the underlying judgment, as long as:

 

  the foreign court issuing the judgment had jurisdiction in the matter and we either submitted to such jurisdiction or were resident or carrying on business within such jurisdiction and were duly served with process; and
     
 

the judgment was not contrary to public policy in the British Virgin Islands, was not obtained by fraud or in proceedings contrary to the natural justice of the British Virgin Islands, and was not based on an in British Virgin Islands law.

 

A British Virgin Islands court may impose civil liability on us or our directors or officers in a suit brought in the Supreme Court of the British Virgin Islands against us or these persons with respect to a violation of U.S. federal securities laws, provided that the facts surrounding any violation constitute or give rise to a cause of action under British Virgin Islands law.

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DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR

SECURITIES ACT LIABILITIES

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the ordinary shares being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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URBAN TEA, INC.

 

Up to

10,671,638 Ordinary Shares

 

PROSPECTUS

 

August 27, 2019

 

WE HAVE NOT AUTHORIZED ANY DEALER, SALES PERSON OR OTHER PERSON TO GIVE ANY INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS PROSPECTUS. THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT AN OFFER OF THESE ORDINARY SHARES IN ANY STATE WHERE AN OFFER IS NOT PERMITTED. THE INFORMATION IN THIS PROSPECTUS IS CURRENT AS OF THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS AND YOU SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT THIS PROSPECTUS IS ACCURATE AS OF ANY OTHER DATE.

 

 

 

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 8. Indemnification of Directors And Officers

 

British Virgin Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the British Virgin Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime.

 

Under our Memorandum and Articles of Association, we may indemnify and secure harmless our directors, secretary, other officers, auditors, liquidators and agents against expenses (including legal fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such persons in connection with legal, administrative or investigative proceedings to which they are a party or are threatened to be made a party by reason of their acting as our directors, secretary, officers, auditors, liquidators or agents. To be entitled to indemnification, these persons must not have acted with actual fraud or willful default in any matter on the part of any said persons, and, in the case of criminal proceedings, they must have had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful.

 

Item 9. Exhibits

 

No.   Description
3.1   Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of Urban Tea, Inc., dated February 6, 2019.
     
4.1   Form of Ordinary Shares Purchase Warrant, incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on May 28, 2019
     
5.1   Opinion of Harney Westwood & Riegels LP
     
10.1   Letter Agreement between Urban Tea, Inc. and FT Global Capital, Inc. dated April 3, 2019 incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on May 28, 2019.
     
10.2   Form of Securities Purchase Agreement among Urban Tea, Inc. and certain institutional investors, incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on May 28, 2019.
     
10.3   Form of Lock-up Agreement among Urban Tea, Inc. and certain individuals, incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on May 28, 2019
     
10.4   Share Purchase Agreement of the Disposition of Elite to HG Capital Group dated February 9, 2019, incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on February 19, 2019.
     
10.5   Form of Securities Purchase Agreement dated September 18, 2018, incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on November 27, 2018.
     
10.6   Exclusive Business Cooperation Agreement between Shanghai Ming Yun Tang Tea Limited and Hunan Mingyuntang Brand Management Co., Ltd. dated November 19, 2018, incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on November 27, 2018.
     
10.7   Exclusive Option Agreement among Peng Fang, Shanghai MYT and Hunan MYT dated November 19, 2018, incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on November 27, 2018.
     
10.8   Share Pledge Agreement among Peng Fang, Shanghai MYT and Hunan MYT dated November 19, 2018, incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on November 27, 2018.
     
10.9   Timely Reporting Agreement between Shanghai MYT and Hunan MYT dated November 19, 2018 incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on November 27, 2018.
     
10.10   Power of Attorney dated November 19, 2018 incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on November 27, 2018.
     
21.1   List of Subsidiaries incorporated by reference to Exhibit 8.1 of the Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on November 14, 2018.
     
23.1   Consent of Harney Westwood & Riegels LP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
     
23.2   Consent of Centurion ZD CPA Ltd
     
24.1   Power of Attorney (included as part of the signature page of this Registration Statement)*

 

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Item 10. Undertakings

 

(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

 

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of ordinary shares offered (if the total dollar value of ordinary shares offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high and of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

 

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

 

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) of this section do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

 

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the ordinary shares offered therein, and the offering of such ordinary shares at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the ordinary shares being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

(4) To file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement to include any financial statements required by Item 8.A. of Form 20-F at the start of any delayed offering or throughout a continuous offering. Financial statements and information otherwise required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 need not be furnished, provided that the Registrant includes in the prospectus, by means of a post-effective amendment, financial statements required pursuant to this paragraph (a)(4) and other information necessary to ensure that all other information in the prospectus is at least as current as the date of those financial statements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a post-effective amendment need not be filed to include financial statements and information required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 or Rule 3-19 of Regulation S-X if such financial statements and information are contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

 

(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

 

(i) If the Registrant is relying on Rule 430B:

 

(A) Each prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

 

(B) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of ordinary shares in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the ordinary shares in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; or

 

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(ii) If the Registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use

 

(6) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the ordinary shares, the undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of ordinary shares of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the ordinary shares to the purchaser, if the ordinary shares are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such ordinary shares to such purchaser:

 

(i) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

(ii) any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned Registrant;

 

(iii) the portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its ordinary shares provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and

 

(iv) any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

 

(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the ordinary shares offered therein, and the offering of such ordinary shares at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the ordinary shares being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

(d) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act of 1933 will be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

 

(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus will be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the ordinary shares offered therein, and the offering of such ordinary shares at that time will be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China, on this 27th day of August, 2019.

 

  URBAN TEA, INC.
     
  By: /s/ Long Yi
    Long Yi,
    Chief Executive Officer

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Long Yi and Kan Lu and each of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including, without limitation, post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as each of them might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Signature   Title   Date
         
/s/ Long Yi   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer   August 27, 2019
Long Yi   (Principal Executive Officer)    
         
/s/ Kan Lu   Chief Financial Officer   August 27, 2019
Kan Lu   (Principal Financial Officer)    
         
/s/ Linchai Zhang   Director   August 27, 2019
Linchai Zhang        
         
/s/ Anatoly Danilitskiy   Director   August 27, 2019
Anatoly Danilitskiy        
         
/s/ Lizhong Zhang   Director   August 27, 2019
Lizhong Zhang        
         
/s/ Yeyun Tan   Director   August 27, 2019
Yeyun Tan        
         
/s/ Jing Yi   Director   August 27, 2019
Jing Yi        
         
/s/ Changguang Wu   Director   August 27, 2019
Changguang Wu        

 

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Exhibit 3.1

 

 

TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

Urban Tea, Inc.

 

Incorporated on the 28th of November, 2011

 

Incorporated on 28 November 2011
Amended and restated on 13 February 2012
Amended and restated on 19 December 2012
Amended and restated 21 December 2012
Amended and restated 6 February 2019

 

FH Corporate Services Ltd.
Clarence Thomas Building
P.O. Box 4649
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin Islands

 

 

 

 

TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

 

BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

Urban Tea, Inc.

 

1. NAME

 

The name of the company is Urban Tea, Inc.

 

2. STATUS

 

The Company is a company limited by shares.

 

3. REGISTERED OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT

 

The registered office of the Company is Clarence Thomas Building, P.O. Box 4649, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands VG1110.

 

The registered agent of the Company is FH Corporate Services Ltd., Clarence Thomas Building, P.O. Box 4649, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands VG1110.

 

4. CAPACITY AND POWERS

 

(1) Subject to the Act, any other British Virgin Islands legislation and the provisions of clause 4(2) below, the Company has, irrespective of corporate benefit:

 

i. full capacity to carry on or undertake any business or activity, do any act or enter into any transaction; and

 

ii. for the purposes of paragraph (i), full rights, powers and privileges.

 

(2) In the event an Acquisition Transaction is not consummated prior to the Termination Date, then on the Termination Date the capacity and purposes of the Company shall automatically, with no action required by the Board or the shareholders, be limited to effecting and implementing the dissolution and liquidation of the Company and the taking of any other actions expressly required to be taken under this Memorandum and the Articles on or after the Termination Date and the Company’s powers shall thereupon be limited to those set forth in the Act and any other British Virgin Islands legislation and as otherwise may be necessary to implement the limited purposes of the Company as provided in this Memorandum and the Articles. This Clause 4(2) may not be amended without the affirmative vote of at least 80% of the holders of outstanding IPO Shares.

 

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5. NUMBER AND CLASSES OF SHARES

 

The Company is authorised to issue up to 155,000,000 shares divided into the following classes of shares:

 

i. 25,000,000 class A shares with a par value of US$0.0001 (“Class A Shares”);

 

ii. 25,000,000 class B shares with a par value of US$0.0001 (“Class B Shares”);

 

iii. 25,000,000 class C shares with a par value of US$0.0001 (“Class C Shares”);

 

iv. 75,000,000 ordinary shares with no par value (“Ordinary Shares”);and

 

v. 5,000,000 preferred shares with a par value of US$0.0001 (“Preferred Shares”).

 

6. RIGHTS ATTACHING TO SHARES

 

(1) The Class A, Class B, Class C Shares and Ordinary Shares confers on the holder:

 

a. Except as specified in this Memorandum or in the Articles, the right to one vote at a meeting of the Members or on any Resolution of Members;

 

b. an equal share in any distribution made by the Company;

 

c. unless otherwise agreed by the Member, the right to an equal share in the distribution of the surplus assets of the Company on a winding up.

 

(2) Preferred Shares. The Board may, by amendment to this Memorandum in accordance with clause 10 below, from time to time create and constitute (or re-designate, as the case may be), such further class or classes of Preferred Shares (and designate series within such Preferred Shares) with such name or names and with such preferred, deferred or other rights or such restrictions, whether in regard to voting, dividends, distributions, liquidations or otherwise as the Board may, by resolution of Directors determine (a “Preferred Share Designation”) and as may be permitted by the Act.

 

The Shares of the Company shall initially be issued in one of three classes as follows:

 

i. Class A Shares. Holders of Class A Shares are entitled to cause the Company to redeem all or a portion of such Class A Shares in connection with the Acquisition Transaction for a pro rata portion of the Trust Account, based on the total number of IPO Shares, as described in Article 131 of the Articles of Association. If the Company elects to grant the holders of IPO Shares redemption rights by means of a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer, then each Class A Share outstanding as of the closing of the Acquisition Transaction will automatically be converted into a Class B Share immediately following consummation of the Acquisition Transaction.

 

ii. Class B Shares. Holders of Class B Shares have the same rights as holders of Class A Shares, except that Class B Shares may not be issued until such time as all issued and outstanding Class A Shares are converted into Class B Shares pursuant to Article 131 of the Articles, and holders of Class B Shares have the right to participate in a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer.

 

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iii. Class C Shares. Holders of Class C Shares have the same rights as holders of Class A Shares, except that holders of Class C Shares are not entitled to (1) cause the Company to redeem all or any portion of such Class C Shares in connection with the Acquisition Transaction, (2) share ratably in the Trust Account or (3) participate in a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer.

 

iv. Automatic Conversion. The Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares will be automatically converted into Ordinary Shares (i) five business days after the consummation of an Acquisition Transaction if no Class B Shares are issued and outstanding or, (ii) if any Class B Shares are issued and outstanding, then five business days after the completion of the Post Acquisition Tender Offer. The conversion shall be on a one-for-one basis of the then issued and outstanding Class B and Class C Shares. Following the automatic conversion, only one class of Shares will be authorized, which will be referred to as “Ordinary Shares”.

 

7. VARIATION OF CLASS RIGHTS

 

The rights attached to any class or series of shares (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class or series), whether or not the Company is being wound-up, may be varied with the consent in writing of all the holders of the issued shares of that class or series or with the sanction of a resolution passed by a majority of the votes cast at a separate meeting of the holders of the shares of the class or series.

 

8. RIGHTS NOT VARIED BY THE ISSUE OF SHARES PARI PASSU

 

Rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.

 

9. REGISTERED SHARES

 

The Company shall issue registered shares only, and such shares may be in full or fractional form. The Company is not authorised to issue bearer shares, convert registered shares to bearer shares, or exchange registered shares for bearer shares.

 

10. AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

 

The Company may amend its Memorandum or Articles by a Resolution of Members or a Resolution of Directors, save that no amendment may be made by a Resolution of Directors (other than any such amendments required to increase the number of Ordinary Shares and create and constitute the Preferred Shares and the rights, restrictions and preferences attached thereto pursuant to the provisions of this Memorandum):

 

a. to restrict the rights or powers of the Members to amend the Memorandum or Articles;

 

b. to change the percentage of Members required to pass a Resolution of Members to amend the Memorandum or Articles;

 

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c. in circumstances where the Memorandum or Articles cannot be amended by the Members;

 

d. to clauses 6, 7, 8 or this clause 10;

 

11. DEFINITIONS

 

The meanings of words in this Memorandum are as defined in this Memorandum or as defined in the Articles annexed hereto. Additionally, certain of the terms contained in this Memorandum that are listed in the first column of the table below, unless the context otherwise requires, shall bear the meaning set opposite them respectively in the second column.

 

“Acquisition Transaction”

the acquisition by the Company, whether by merger, share exchange, asset or stock acquisition or other similar type of transaction, of one or more Target Businesses, provided, however, that to qualify as an Acquisition Transaction, the Company must acquire a controlling interest in the Target Business representing control of more than 50% of the voting rights of the Target Business and control of the majority of any governing body of the Target Business.
   
“Act” BVI Business Companies Act, 2004, as amended.
   
“Company” Urban Tea, Inc.
   
“Class A Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(i) above.
   
“Class B Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(ii) above.
   
“Class C Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(iii) above.
   
“Exchange Act” Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
   
“Filing Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 131(C) above.
   
“Form 6-K” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 131(C) above.
   
“Founders” the shareholders of the Company prior to the IPO, the directors and officers of the Company, and their affiliates.
   
“IPO Shares” the shares of the Company included in the units issued in the IPO, excluding any Class C Shares issued prior to the conversion of any Class A Shares or Class B Shares into Ordinary Shares.
   
“Ordinary Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(iv) above.
   
“Post-Acquisition Tender Offer” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 131(C) above.
   
“Pre-Acquisition Tender Offer” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 131(B) above.
   
“Redemption Threshold Percentage” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 131(A) above.
   
“Registration Statement” the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1 filed with the SEC with respect to an IPO.
   
“SEC” Securities Exchange Commission.
   
“Shares” collectively, the Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, the Ordinary Shares and Preferred Shares.

 

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“Target Acquisition Period” the period from the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed in connection with the Company’s initial public offering of securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission up to and including the first to occur of (x) consummation by the Company of an Acquisition Transaction or (y) the Termination Date, provided, however, that if the Company elects to complete a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer and has consummated an Acquisition Transaction prior to the Termination Date, the Target Acquisition Period shall terminate upon consummation of the Post-Acquisition Tender Offer.
   
“Target Business” one or more operating businesses whose fair market value, either individually or collectively, is equal to at least 80% of the amount in the trust account (excluding deferred underwriting discounts and commissions and taxes payable) at the time of such Acquisition Transaction.
   
“Termination Date” 18 months (or 21 months, if the Company enters into a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement with respect to an Acquisition Transaction prior to the expiration of such 18 month period) after the consummation of the IPO.
   
“Trust Account” shall have the meaning set forth in Article131(C) above.

 

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We, CODAN TRUST COMPANY (B.V.I.) LTD., registered agent of the Company, of Commerce House, Wickhams Cay 1, PO Box 3140, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands VG 1110 for the purpose of incorporating a BVI Business Company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands hereby sign these Memorandum of Association on the 28th of November, 2011:

 

  Incorporator
   
  CODAN TRUST COMPANY (B.V.I.) Ltd
   
  Sgd. Michael Wood
   
  Per:
  Michael Wood
  For and on behalf of
  Codan Trust Company (B.V.I) Ltd.

 

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TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

 

BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

 

Urban Tea, Inc.

 

(a company limited by shares)

 

 

 

INTERPRETATION

 

1. (1) Terms defined in the Memorandum shall have the same meaning when used herein. In addition, certain of the terms contained in these Articles that are listed in the first column of the table below, unless the context otherwise requires, shall bear the meaning set opposite them respectively in the second column.

 

“Act” the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004, as amended.
   
“Auditor” the independent auditor of the Company which shall be a recognized firm of independent accountants.
   
“Articles” these Articles in their present form or as supplemented or amended or substituted from time to time.
   
“Board” or  
   
“Directors” the board of directors of the Company.
   
“Class A Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(i) of the Memorandum.
   
“Class B Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(ii) of the Memorandum.
   
“Class C Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(iii) of the Memorandum.
   
“clear days” in relation to the period of a notice, that period excluding the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given and the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect.
   
“clearing house” a clearing house recognized by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the shares of the Company (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on a stock exchange or interdealer quotation system in such jurisdiction.
   
“Company” Urban Tea, Inc.

 

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“competent regulatory authority” a competent regulatory authority in the territory where the shares of the Company (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on a stock exchange or interdealer quotation system in such territory.
   
“debenture” and “debenture holder” include debenture stock and debenture stockholder, respectively.
   
“Designated Stock Exchange” the OTC Bulletin Board, the NASDAQ Stock Market, the NYSE Amex or such other exchange or interdealer quotation system upon which the Company’s securities are listed or quoted.
   
“dollars” and “$” dollars, the legal currency of the United States of America.
   
“Exchange Act” the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
   
“head office” such office of the Company as the Directors may from time to time determine to be the principal office of the Company.
   
“IPO” the Company’s initial public offering of securities (including the IPO Shares).
   
“IPO Shares” the shares of the Company included in the units issued in the IPO, excluding any Class C Shares issued prior to the conversion of any Class A Shares or Class B Shares into Ordinary Shares.
   
“Member” a duly registered holder from time to time of the shares of the Company.
   
“month” a calendar month.
   
“FINRA” The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
   
“Memorandum” the memorandum of association of the Company in its present form or as supplemented or amended or substituted from time to time.
   
“NASD Rules” the rules set forth in the NASD Manual as part of the FINRA rulebook.
   
“Notice” written notice unless otherwise specifically stated and as further defined in these Articles.
   
“Office” the registered office of the Company for the time being.
   
“Ordinary Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(iv) of the Memorandum.
   
“paid up” paid up or credited as paid up.
   
“Preferred Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Clause 5(v) of the Memorandum.
   
“Register” the register of Members of the Company to be maintained at such place within or outside the British Virgin Islands as the Board shall determine from time to time.
   
“Registration Statement” the Company’s registration statement filed with the SEC with respect to an IPO.

 

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“Resolution of Directors” A resolution of the directors passed either at a meeting of directors, or by way of a Written Resolution, in either case in accordance with the provisions of these Articles.
   
“Resolution of Members” a resolution passed by the holders of a majority of in excess of fifty (50) per cent of the votes of those members (or their duly appointed proxies) entitled to vote and voting on the resolution either at a meeting of members, or by way of Written Resolution, in either case in accordance with the provisions of these Articles.
   
“SEC” the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
   
“Seal” common seal or any one or more duplicate seals of the Company (including a securities seal) for use in the British Virgin Islands or in any place outside the British Virgin Islands.
   
“Secretary” any person, firm or corporation appointed by the Board to perform any of the duties of secretary of the Company and includes any assistant, deputy, temporary or acting secretary.
   
“Statutes” the Act and every other law of the British Virgin Islands for the time being in force applying to or affecting the Company, its Memorandum of Association and/or these Articles.
   
“Trust Account” the trust account established by the Company at the consummation of its IPO and into which a certain amount of the net proceeds of the IPO are deposited.
   
“Written Resolution” a resolution of members or directors (as applicable) consented to in writing or by telex, telegram, cable or other written electronic communication, without the need for any notice. A Written Resolution may consist of several documents, including written electronic communications, in like form each signed or assented to by one or more members or directors (as applicable). A Written Resolution of directors shall be passed if so consented by all of those directors entitled to vote on the resolution. A Written Resolution of members shall be passed if so consented by the holders of all the votes of those members entitled to vote on the resolution.
   
“year” a calendar year.

 

(2) In these Articles, unless there be something within the subject or context inconsistent with such construction:

 

(a) words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa;

 

(b) words importing a gender include both gender and the neuter;

 

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(c) words importing persons include companies, associations and bodies of persons whether corporate or not;

 

(d) the words:

 

(i) “may” shall be construed as permissive;

 

(ii) “shall” or “will” shall be construed as imperative;

 

(e) expressions referring to writing shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing words or figures in a visible form, and including where the representation takes the form of electronic display, provided that both the mode of service of the relevant document or notice and the Member’s election comply with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations;

 

(f) references to any law, ordinance, statute or statutory provision shall be interpreted as relating to any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force;

 

(g) save as aforesaid words and expressions defined in the Statutes shall bear the same meanings in these Articles if not inconsistent with the subject in the context;

 

(h) references to a document being executed include references to it being executed under hand or under seal or by electronic signature or by any other method and references to a notice or document include a notice or document recorded or stored in any digital, electronic, electrical, magnetic or other retrievable form or medium and information in visible form whether having physical substance or not.

 

SHARES

 

2. (1) [Reserved]

 

(2) (a) Subject to the Act, the Memorandum and these Articles, the Company shall have all the powers conferred upon it by the Act to purchase or otherwise acquire its own Shares and such power shall be exercisable by the Board in such manner, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, including but not limited to, the purchase of Shares at a price lesser than fair value. Without prejudice to the foregoing, Sections 60, 61 and 62 of the Act shall not apply to the Company.

 

(b) Subject to sub-paragraph (c) below, a share that the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires may be cancelled or held by the Company as a Treasury Share.

 

(c) The Company may only hold a share that has been purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired as a Treasury Share if the number of shares purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired, when aggregated with shares of the same class already held by the Company as Treasury Shares, does not exceed 50% of the shares of that class previously issued by the Company, excluding shares that have been cancelled.

 

(d) Treasury Shares may be transferred by the Company and the provisions of the Act, the Memorandum and these Articles that apply to the issue of shares apply to the transfer of Treasury Shares. All the rights and obligations attaching to a Treasury Share are suspended and shall not be exercised by or against the Company while it holds the share as a Treasury Share.

 

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(3) A share may be issued for consideration in any form, including money, a promissory note or other written obligation to contribute money or property, real property, personal property (including goodwill and know-how), services rendered or a contract for future services.

 

(4) Before issuing Shares for a consideration other than money, the Directors shall pass a Resolution of Directors stating: (a) the amount to be credited for the Shares; (b) their determination of the reasonable present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue; and (c) that, in their opinion, the present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue is not less than the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares.

 

(5) The consideration for a share with par value shall not be less than the par value of the share.

 

(6) The Company may issue fractions of a Share and fractional shares shall have the same corresponding fractional liabilities, limitations, preferences, privileges, qualifications, restrictions, rights and other attributes of a Share or series of Shares.

 

(7) No notice of a trust, whether expressed, implied or constructive, shall be entered in the share register.

 

(8) No Share shall be issued to bearer.

 

ALTERATION OF AUTHORISED SHARES

 

3. The Directors or Members may from time by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members to change the maximum number of shares that the Company is authorised to issue, or to authorize the Company to issue an unlimited number of shares, by amendment to the Memorandum in accordance with the provisions set out in the Memorandum

 

4. The Company may by Resolution of Directors

 

(a) combine its shares, including issued shares, into a smaller number of shares; or

 

(b) sub-divide its shares, or any of them, into a greater number of shares,

 

provided that, where shares are divided or combined, the aggregate par value (if any) of the new shares must be equal to the aggregate par value (if any) of the original shares.

 

5. A division or combination of shares, including issued shares, of a class or series shall be for a larger or smaller number, as the case may be, of shares in the same class or series.

 

6. The Board may settle as it considers expedient any difficulty which arises in relation to any consolidation and division under the last preceding Article and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may issue certificates in respect of fractions of Shares or arrange for the sale of the Shares representing fractions and the distribution of the net proceeds of sale (after deduction of the expenses of such sale) in due proportion amongst the Members who would have been entitled to the fractions, and for this purpose the Board may authorise some persons to transfer the shares representing fractions to their purchaser or resolve that such net proceeds be paid to the Company for the Company’s benefit. Such purchaser will not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor will his title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale.

 

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ALLOTMENT OF SHARES

 

7. (1) Subject to the Act, the Memorandum and these Articles and, where applicable, the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange and without prejudice to any special rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any shares or any class of shares, the unissued shares of the Company (whether forming part of the original or any increased authorised shares) shall be at the disposal of the Board, which may offer, allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, at such times and for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as the Board may in its absolute discretion determine but so that no shares shall be issued at a discount. In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, subject to amending Clause 5 of the Memorandum of Association the Board is hereby empowered to authorize by Director Resolution from time to time the issuance of one or more classes or series of preferred shares and to fix the designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other rights, if any, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, if any, including, without limitation, the number of shares constituting each such class or series, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges, voting powers, full or limited or no voting powers, and liquidation preferences, and to increase or decrease the size of any such class or series (but not below the number of shares of any class or series of preferred shares then outstanding) to the extent permitted by the Act.

 

(2) Neither the Company nor the Board shall be obliged, when making or granting any allotment of, offer of, option over or disposal of shares, to make, or make available, any such allotment, offer, option or shares to Members or others with registered addresses in any particular territory or territories being a territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, this would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be, or be deemed to be, a separate class of members for any purpose whatsoever. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the resolution or resolutions providing for the establishment of any class or series of preferred shares, no vote of the holders of Preferred shares of or Ordinary shares shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of any shares of any class or series of the preferred shares authorized by and complying with the conditions of the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

 

(3) The Board may issue options, warrants or convertible securities or securities of similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or receive any class of shares or securities in the Company on such terms as it may from time to time determine.

 

8. The Company may in connection with the issue of any shares exercise all powers of paying commission and brokerage conferred or permitted by the Act. Subject to the Act, the commission may be satisfied by the payment of cash or by the allotment of fully or partly paid shares or partly in one and partly in the other.

 

9. Except as required by law, no person shall be recognized by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and the Company shall not be bound by or required in any way to recognize (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any fractional part of a share or (except only as otherwise provided by these Articles or by law) any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

 

10. Subject to the Act and these Articles, the Board may at any time after the allotment of shares but before any person has been entered in the Register as the holder, recognize a renunciation thereof by the allottee in favor of some other person and may accord to any allottee of a share a right to effect such renunciation upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Board considers fit to impose.

 

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SHARE CERTIFICATES

 

11. Shares of the Company’s stock may be issued in certificated or uncertificated form. If in certificated form, every share certificate shall be issued under the Seal or a facsimile thereof and shall specify the number and class and distinguishing numbers (if any) of the shares to which it relates, and the amount paid up thereon and may otherwise be in such form as the Directors may from time to time determine. No certificate shall be issued representing shares of more than one class. The Board may by resolution determine, either generally or in any particular case or cases, that any signatures on any such certificates (or certificates in respect of other securities) need not be autographic but may be affixed to such certificates by some mechanical means or may be printed thereon.

 

12. (1) In the case of a share held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate therefor and delivery of a certificate to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.

 

(2) Where a share stands in the names of two or more persons, the person first named in the Register shall as regards service of notices and, subject to the provisions of these Articles, all or any other matters connected with the Company, except the transfer of the shares, be deemed the sole holder thereof.

 

13. Every person whose name is entered, upon an allotment of shares, as a Member in the Register shall be entitled, without payment, to receive one certificate for all such shares of any one class or several certificates each for one or more of such shares of such class upon payment for every certificate after the first of such reasonable out-of-pocket expenses as the Board from time to time determines. Notwithstanding any other provision in these Articles, the Company may issue shares in uncertificated or scripless form, and provide for the recordation and transfer of its shares by electronic or other means not involving any issuance of certificates, including provisions for notice to purchasers in substitution for any required statements on certificates, and as may be required by applicable laws. Any system so adopted shall not become effective as to issued and outstanding certificated securities until the certificates therefor have been surrendered to the Company. Where the Company issues shares in uncertificated or scripless form, the Company shall upon the issue of such shares enter the name of the subscriber or its nominee in the register of members of the Company and may deliver such shares in uncertificated or scripless form by any method of transferring or dealing in securities introduced by the Designated Stock Exchange or any relevant clearing house, or operated in accordance with the rules of any competent regulatory authority and which have been approved by the Board for such purpose.

 

14. Share certificates, if issued, shall be issued within the relevant time limit as prescribed by the Act or as the Designated Stock Exchange may from time to time determine, whichever is the shorter, after allotment or, except in the case of a transfer which the Company is for the time being entitled to refuse to register and does not register, after lodgment of a transfer with the Company.

 

15. (1) Upon every transfer of shares the certificate held by the transferor (if any) shall be given up to be cancelled, and shall forthwith be cancelled accordingly, and a new certificate may be issued to the transferee in respect of the shares transferred to him at such fee as is provided in paragraph (2) of this Article. If any of the shares included in the certificate so given up shall be retained by the transferor a new certificate for the balance may be issued to him at the aforesaid fee payable by the transferor to the Company in respect thereof.

 

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(2) The fee referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be an amount not exceeding the relevant maximum amount as the Designated Stock Exchange may from time to time determine provided that the Board may at any time determine a lower amount for such fee.

 

16. If a share certificate shall be damaged or defaced or alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed a new certificate representing the same shares may be issued to the relevant Member upon request and on payment of such fee as the Company may determine and, subject to compliance with such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and to payment of the costs and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Company in investigating such evidence and preparing such indemnity as the Board may think fit and, in case of damage or defacement, on delivery of the old certificate to the Company provided always that where share warrants have been issued, no new share warrant shall be issued to replace one that has been lost unless the Board has determined that the original has been destroyed.

 

LIEN

 

17. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share issued for a promissory note or for any other binding obligation to contribute money or property or a confirmation thereof to the Company and the Company shall also have a first and paramount lien on every share registered in the name of a Member (whether or not jointly with other Members) for all the debts and liabilities of such Member or his estate to the Company whether the same shall have been incurred before or after notice to the Company of any equitable or other interest of any person other than such Member, and whether the period for the payment or discharge of the same shall have actually arrived or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or liabilities of such Member or his estate and any other person, whether a Member of the Company or not. The Company’s lien on a share shall extend to all dividends or other moneys payable thereon or in respect thereof. The Board may at any time, generally or in any particular case, waive any lien that has arisen or declare any share exempt in whole or in part, from the provisions of this Article.

 

18. In the absence of express provisions regarding sale in the promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute money or property, the Company may sell in such manner as the Board determines any share on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable, or the liability or engagement in respect of which such lien exists is liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged nor until the expiration of fourteen clear days after a notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable, or specifying the liability or engagement and demanding fulfillment or discharge thereof and giving notice of the intention to sell in default, has been served on the registered holder for the time being of the share or the person entitled thereto by reason of his death or bankruptcy.

 

19. The net proceeds of the sale shall be received by the Company and applied in or towards payment or discharge of the debt or liability in respect of which the lien exists, so far as the same is presently payable, and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the share prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the share at the time of the sale. To give effect to any such sale the Board may authorize some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares so transferred and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale.

 

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CALL ON SHARES AND FORFEITURE

 

20. Where a share is not fully paid for on issue, the directors may, subject to the terms on which the share was issued, at any time serve upon the Member a written notice of call specifying a date for payment to be made.

 

21. The written notice of call shall name a further date not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of service of the notice on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall contain a statement that in the event of non-payment at or before the time named in the notice, the share will be liable to be forfeited.

 

22. Where a notice complying with the foregoing provisions has been issued and the requirements of the notice have not been complied with, the directors by Resolution of Directors may, at any time before tender of payment forfeit and cancel the share to which the notice relates.

 

23. Upon forfeiture and cancellation pursuant to this Article, the Company shall be under no obligation to refund any moneys to that Member and that Member shall be discharged from any further obligation to the Company as regards the forfeited share.

 

24. The Board may, if it thinks fit, receive from any Member willing to advance the same, and either in money or money’s worth, all or any part of the moneys uncalled and unpaid or instalments payable upon any shares held by him and upon all or any of the moneys so advanced (until the same would, but for such advance, become presently payable) pay interest at such rate (if any) as the Board may decide. The Board may at any time repay the amount so advanced upon giving to such Member not less than one month’s Notice of its intention in that behalf, unless before the expiration of such notice the amount so advanced shall have been called up on the shares in respect of which it was advanced. Such payment in advance shall not entitle the holder of such share or shares to participate in respect thereof in a dividend subsequently declared.

 

25. When any Share has been forfeited, Notice of the forfeiture shall be served upon the person who was before forfeiture the holder of the share. No forfeiture shall be invalidated by any omission or neglect to give such Notice.

 

26. The Board may accept the surrender of any Share liable to be forfeited hereunder and, in such case, references in these Articles to forfeiture will include surrender.

 

27. Any Share so forfeited shall be deemed the property of the Company and may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of to such person, upon such terms and in such manner as the Board determines, and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or disposition the forfeiture may be annulled by the Board on such terms as the Board determines.

 

28. A declaration by a Director or the Secretary that a Share has been forfeited on a specified date shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the Share, and such declaration shall (subject to the execution of an instrument of transfer by the Company if necessary) constitute a good title to the Share, and the person to whom the Share is disposed of shall be registered as the holder of the Share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the consideration (if any), nor shall his title to the Share be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the Share. When any Share shall have been forfeited, notice of the declaration shall be given to the Member in whose name it stood immediately prior to the forfeiture, and an entry of the forfeiture, with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the register, but no forfeiture shall be in any manner invalidated by any omission or neglect to give such notice or make any such entry.

 

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29. Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid, the Board may at any time, before any Shares so forfeited shall have been sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, permit the Shares forfeited to be bought back upon the terms of payment of all calls and interest due upon and expenses incurred in respect of the Share, and upon such further terms (if any) as it thinks fit.

 

REGISTER OF MEMBERS

 

30. (1) The Company shall keep a register of members containing:

 

(a) the names and addresses of the persons who hold registered shares in the Company;

 

(b) the number of each class and series of registered shares held by each person;

 

(c) the date on which the name of each person was entered in the share register; and

 

(d) the date on which any person ceased to be a Member.

 

(2) The Company shall keep the register of members or a copy of the register of members at the office of its registered agent.

 

31. [RESERVED]

 

RECORD DATES

 

32. (1) For the purpose of determining the Members entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of Members, or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to vote on any Written Resolution, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of shares or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix, in advance, a date as the record date for any such determination of Members, which date shall not be more than sixty (60) days nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty (60) days prior to any other such action.

 

(2) If the Board does not fix a record date for any meeting of Members, the record date for determining the Members entitled to a notice of or to vote at such meeting shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if in accordance with these Articles notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. If a Written Resolution is to be passed, the record date for determining the Members entitled to vote on the Written Resolution, when no prior action by the Board is necessary, shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the Company by delivery to its registered office. The record date for determining the Members for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

(3) A determination of the Members of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of the Members shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

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TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

33. Subject to these Articles, any Member may transfer all or any of his shares by an instrument of transfer in the usual or common form or in a form prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange or in any other form approved by the Board and may be under hand or, if the transferor or transferee is a clearing house or its nominee(s), by hand or by machine imprinted signature or by such other manner of execution as the Board may approve from time to time.

 

34. (1) No transfer shall be made to an infant or to a person of unsound mind or under other legal disability.

 

35. [RESERVED]

 

36. [RESERVED]

 

37. [RESERVED]

 

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

 

38. If a Member dies, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and his legal personal representatives where he was a sole or only surviving holder, will be the only persons recognized by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares; but nothing in this Article will release the estate of a deceased Member (whether sole or joint) from any liability in respect of any share which had been solely or jointly held by him.

 

39. Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a Member may, upon such evidence as to his title being produced as may be required by the Board, elect either to become the holder of the share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the transferee thereof. If he elects to become the holder he shall notify the Company in writing either at the Registration Office or Office, as the case may be, to that effect. If he elects to have another person registered he shall execute a transfer of the share in favor of that person. The provisions of these Articles relating to the transfer and registration of transfers of shares shall apply to such notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death or bankruptcy of the Member had not occurred and the notice or transfer were a transfer signed by such Member.

 

UNTRACEABLE MEMBERS

 

40. The Company may cease sending checks for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants by post if such checks or warrants have been left uncashed on two consecutive occasions. However, the Company may exercise the power to cease sending checks for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants after the first occasion on which such a check or warrant is returned undelivered.

 

MEETINGS OF MEMBERS

 

41. No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. At any meeting of the Members any Member(s) entitled to vote and present in person or proxy or (in the case of a Member being a corporation) by its duly authorised representative representing not less than one-third in nominal value of the total issued voting shares in the Company throughout the meeting shall form a quorum for all purposes.

 

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42. If, within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, a quorum is not present, the meeting shall be dissolved.

 

43. At every meeting the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company shall preside at every meeting shall serve as the chairman (the “Chairman”) of the meeting. If at any meeting the chairman is not present within fifteen (15) minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, or is not willing to act as chairman, the Directors present shall choose an officer of the Company who is present to serve as Chairman

 

44. The Chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time, and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

 

NOTICE OF MEETINGS OF MEMBERS

 

45. (1) A meeting of Members may be called by not less than ten (10) clear days’ Notice, but a meeting of Members may be called by shorter notice if Members holding a 75 per cent majority of the total voting rights on all the matters to be considered at the meeting have waived notice of the meeting and, for this purpose, the presence of a Member shall be deemed to constitute a waiver on his part.

 

(2) The notice shall specify the time and place of the meeting and the general nature of the business.

 

46. The accidental omission to give Notice of a meeting or (in cases where instruments of proxy are sent out with the Notice) to send such instrument of proxy to, or the non-receipt of such Notice or such instrument of proxy by, any person entitled to receive such Notice shall not invalidate any resolution passed or the proceedings at that meeting.

 

VOTING

 

47. Subject to any special rights or restrictions as to voting for the time being attached to any shares by or in accordance with the Memorandum or these Articles, at any meeting of Members every Member present in person or by proxy or, in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorized representative shall have one vote for every fully paid share of which he is the holder but so that no amount paid up or credited as paid up on a share in advance of calls or installments is treated for the foregoing purposes as paid up on the share.

 

48. The result of the vote shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the vote was demanded. The Company shall only be required to disclose the voting figures on a vote if such disclosure is required by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange or any other law or rule applicable to the Company.

 

49. Votes may be given either personally or by proxy.

 

50. A person entitled to more than one vote need not use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.

 

51. All questions submitted to a meeting shall be decided by a simple majority of votes except where a greater majority is required by these Articles or by the Act. In the case of an equality of votes the chairman of such meeting shall not be entitled to a second or casting vote and the resolution shall fail.

 

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52. Where there are joint holders of any share any one of such joint holder may vote, either in person or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto, but if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register in respect of the joint holding. Several executors or administrators of a deceased Member in whose name any share stands shall for the purposes of this Article be deemed joint holders thereof.

 

53. (1) A Member who is a patient for any purpose relating to mental health or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction for the protection or management of the affairs of persons incapable of managing their own affairs may vote by his receiver, committee, curator bonis or other person in the nature of a receiver, committee or curator bonis appointed by such court, and such receiver, committee, curator bonis or other person may vote, and may otherwise act and be treated as if he were the registered holder of such shares for the purposes of meetings of Members, provided that such evidence as the Board may require of the authority of the person claiming to vote shall have been deposited at the Office, head office or Registration Office, as appropriate, not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting, or adjourned meeting, as the case may be.

 

(2) Any person entitled to be registered as the holder of any shares may vote at any meeting of Members in respect thereof in the same manner as if he were the registered holder of such shares, provided that forty-eight (48) hours at least before the time of the holding of the meeting or adjourned meeting, as the case may be, at which he proposes to vote, he shall satisfy the Board of his entitlement to such shares, or the Board shall have previously admitted his right to vote at such meeting in respect thereof.

 

54. No Member shall, unless the Board otherwise determines, be entitled to attend and vote and to be reckoned in a quorum at any general meeting unless he is duly registered and all calls or other sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the Company have been paid.

 

55. If:

 

(a) any objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter; or

 

(b) any votes have been counted which ought not to have been counted or which might have been rejected; or

 

(c) any votes are not counted which ought to have been counted;

 

then the objection or error shall not vitiate the decision of the meeting or adjourned meeting on any resolution unless the same is raised or pointed out at the meeting or, as the case may be, the adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered or at which the error occurs. Any objection or error shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting and shall only vitiate the decision of the meeting on any resolution if the chairman decides that the same may have affected the decision of the meeting. The decision of the chairman on such matters shall be final and conclusive.

 

PROXIES

 

56. Any Member entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company shall be entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him. A Member who is the holder of two or more shares may appoint more than one proxy to represent him and vote on his behalf at a general meeting of the Company or at a class meeting. A proxy need not be a Member. In addition, a proxy or proxies representing either a Member who is an individual or a Member which is a corporation shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the Member which he or they represent as such Member could exercise.

 

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57. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorized in writing or, if the appointor is a corporation, either under its seal or under the hand of an officer, attorney or other person authorized to sign the same. In the case of an instrument of proxy purporting to be signed on behalf of a corporation by an officer thereof it shall be assumed, unless the contrary appears, that such officer was duly authorized to sign such instrument of proxy on behalf of the corporation without further evidence of the facts.

 

58. The instrument appointing a proxy and (if required by the Board) the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed, or a certified copy of such power or authority, shall be delivered to such place or one of such places (if any) as may be specified for that purpose in or by way of note to or in any document accompanying the notice convening the meeting (or, if no place is so specified at the Registration Office or the Office, as may be appropriate) not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve (12) months from the date named in it as the date of its execution, except at an adjourned meeting in cases where the meeting was originally held within twelve (12) months from such date. Delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a Member from attending and voting in person at the meeting convened and in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

 

59. Instruments of proxy shall be in any common form or in such other form as the Board may approve (provided that this shall not preclude the use of the two-way form) and the Board may, if it thinks fit, send out with the notice of any meeting forms of instrument of proxy for use at the meeting. The instrument of proxy shall be deemed to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a vote and to vote on any amendment of a resolution put to the meeting for which it is given as the proxy thinks fit. The instrument of proxy shall, unless the contrary is stated therein, be valid as well for any adjournment of the meeting as for the meeting to which it relates.

 

60. (1) A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal, or revocation of the instrument of proxy or of the authority under which it was executed, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity or revocation shall have been received by the Company at the Office or the Registration Office (or such other place as may be specified for the delivery of instruments of proxy in the notice convening the meeting or other document sent therewith) two hours at least before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting, at which the instrument of proxy is used.

 

(2) Anything which under these Articles a Member may do by proxy he may likewise do by his duly appointed attorney and the provisions of these Articles relating to proxies and instruments appointing proxies shall apply mutatis mutandis in relation to any such attorney and the instrument under which such attorney is appointed.

 

CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES; CLEARING HOUSES

 

61. Any corporation which is a Member may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorize such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of Members. The person so authorized shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of such corporation as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual Member and such corporation shall for the purposes of these Articles be deemed to be present in person at any such meeting if a person so authorized is present thereat.

 

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62. If a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), being a corporation, is a Member, it may authorize such persons as it thinks fit to act as its representatives at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of Members provided that the authorization shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which each such representative is so authorized. Each person so authorized under the provisions of this Article shall be deemed to have been duly authorized without further evidence of the facts and be entitled to exercise the same rights and powers on behalf of the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) as if such person was the registered holder of the shares of the Company held by the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) including the right to vote individually.

 

63. Any reference in these Articles to a duly authorized representative of a Member being a corporation shall mean a representative authorized under the provisions of this Article.

 

WRITTEN RESOLUTIONS OF MEMBERS

 

64. Any Written Resolution of the Members shall be deemed to have been passed at a meeting held on the date on which it was signed by the last Member to sign, and where the resolution states a date as being the date of his signature thereof by any Member the statement shall be prima facie evidence that it was signed by him on that date. Such a resolution may consist of several documents in the like form, each signed by one or more relevant Members.

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

65. (1) Unless otherwise determined by the Company in general meeting, the number of Directors shall not be less than two (2). There shall be no maximum number of Directors unless otherwise determined from time to time by the Directors. The first director or directors shall be appointed by the registered agent of the Company and thereafter by the Members or the Directors for such terms as the Members or Directors may determine.

 

(2) No Director shall be required to hold any shares of the Company by way of qualification and a Director who is not a Member shall be entitled to receive notice of and to attend and speak at any general meeting of the Company and of all classes of shares of the Company.

 

66. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 114 of the Act, each director holds office until his successor takes office or until his earlier death, resignation or removal by Resolution of Members or a resolution passed by the majority of the remaining Directors.

 

DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS

 

67. The office of a Director shall be vacated if the Director:

 

(1) resigns his office by notice in writing delivered to the Company at the Office or tendered at a meeting of the Board;

 

(2) becomes of unsound mind or dies;

 

(3) without special leave of absence from the Board, is absent from meetings of the Board for six consecutive months and the Board resolves that his office be vacated; or

 

(4) becomes bankrupt or has a receiving order made against him or suspends payment or compounds with his creditors;

 

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(5) is prohibited by law from being a Director; or

 

(6) ceases to be a Director by virtue of any provision of the Statutes or is removed from office pursuant to these Articles.

 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

 

68. The Board may from time to time appoint any one or more of its body to be a managing director, joint managing director or deputy managing director or to hold any other employment or executive office with the Company for such period (subject to their continuance as Directors) and upon such terms as the Board may determine and the Board may revoke or terminate any of such appointments. Any such revocation or termination as aforesaid shall be without prejudice to any claim for damages that such Director may have against the Company or the Company may have against such Director. A Director appointed to an office under this Article shall be subject to the same provisions as to removal as the other Directors of the Company, and he shall (subject to the provisions of any contract between him and the Company) ipso facto and immediately cease to hold such office if he shall cease to hold the office of Director for any cause.

 

69. Notwithstanding Articles 70, 71, 72 and 73, an executive director appointed to an office under Article 68 hereof shall receive such remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise or by all or any of those modes) and such other benefits (including pension and/or gratuity and/or other benefits on retirement) and allowances as the Board may from time to time determine, and either in addition to or in lieu of his remuneration as a Director.

 

DIRECTORS’ FEES AND EXPENSES

 

70. The Directors shall receive such remuneration as the Board may from time to time determine. Each Director shall be entitled to be repaid or prepaid all traveling, hotel and incidental expenses reasonably incurred or expected to be incurred by him in attending meetings of the Board or committees of the board or general meetings or separate meetings of any class of shares or of debenture of the Company or otherwise in connection with the discharge of his duties as a Director. The ordinary remuneration of the Directors shall from time to time be determined by the Company in general meeting and shall (unless otherwise directed by the resolution by which it is voted) be divided amongst the Board in such proportions and in such manner as the Board may agree or, failing agreement, equally, except that any Director who shall hold office for part only of the period in respect of which such remuneration is payable shall be entitled only to rank in such division for a proportion of remuneration related to the period during which he has held office. Such remuneration shall be deemed to accrue from day to day.

 

71. Each Director shall be entitled to be repaid or prepaid all traveling, hotel and incidental expenses reasonably incurred or expected to be incurred by him in attending meetings of the Board or committees of the Board or general meetings or separate meetings of any class of shares or of debentures of the Company or otherwise in connection with the discharge of his duties as a Director.

 

72. Any Director who, by request, goes or resides abroad for any purpose of the Company or who performs services which in the opinion of the Board go beyond the ordinary duties of a Director may be paid such extra remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) as the Board may determine and such extra remuneration shall be in addition to or in substitution for any ordinary remuneration provided for by or pursuant to any other Article.

 

73. The Board shall obtain the approval of the Company Resolution of Members before making any payment to any Director or past Director of the Company by way of compensation for loss of office, or as consideration for or in connection with his retirement from office (not being payment to which the Director is contractually entitled).

 

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DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS

 

74. (1) No contract or transaction between the Company and one or more of its Directors (an “Interested Director”) or officers, or between the Company and any of their affiliates (an “Interested Transaction”), shall be void or voidable solely for this reason, or solely because the Director or officer is present at or participates in the meeting of the Board or committee which authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because any such Director’s or officer’s votes are counted for such purpose, if:

 

(a) The material facts as to the Director’s or officer’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Board of Directors or the committee, and the Board or committee in good faith authorizes the contract or transaction by the affirmative votes of a majority of the disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors be less than a quorum; or

 

(b) The material facts as to the Director’s or officer’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Shareholders entitled to vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith by vote of the Shareholders; or

 

(c) The contract or transaction is fair as to the Company as of the time it is authorized, approved or ratified, by the Board, a committee or the Shareholders.

 

(2) A majority of the disinterested Directors must vote in favour of any Interested Transaction and determine that the terms of the Interested Transaction are no less favourable to the Company than those that would be available to the Company with respect to such a transaction from unaffiliated third parties.

 

(3) Subject to Article 74(4), the Directors shall review and approve by Board Resolution all payments to our founders, officers, directors, special advisers, consultants and their respective affiliates with any Interested Director abstaining from such review and approval.

 

(4) The Company shall pay an aggregate of US$7,500 per month to CIS Acquisition Holding Co Ltd. for office space, administrative services, and secretarial support, to begin to accrue immediately after the IPO and to be paid at the time of an Acquisition Transaction or in the event of the Company’s liquidation, only from the interest earned (if any) on the Trust Account or any assets not held on trust (if any).

 

(5) The provisions of this Article 74 may not be amended without the affirmative vote of the holders of 80% of the issued IPO Shares.

 

GENERAL POWERS OF THE DIRECTORS

 

75. (1) The business of the Company shall be managed and conducted by the Board, which may pay all expenses incurred in forming and registering the Company and may exercise all powers of the Company (whether relating to the management of the business of the Company or otherwise) which are not by the Statutes, the Memorandum or by these Articles required to be exercised by the Members.. The general powers given by this Article shall not be limited or restricted by any special authority or power given to the Board by any other Article.

 

(2) Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by these Articles it is hereby expressly declared that the Board shall have the following powers:

 

(a) To give to any person the right or option of requiring at a future date that an allotment shall be made to him of any share at par or at such premium as may be agreed.

 

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(b) To give to any Directors, officers or employees of the Company an interest in any particular business or transaction or participation in the profits thereof or in the general profits of the Company either in addition to or in substitution for a salary or other remuneration.

 

(c) To resolve that the Company be deregistered in the British Virgin Islands and continued in a named jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands subject to the provisions of the Act.

 

76. The Board may by power of attorney appoint any company, firm or person or any fluctuating body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Board, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Board under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as it may think fit, and any such power of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Board may think fit, and may also authorize any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him. Such attorney or attorneys may, if so authorized under the Seal of the Company, execute any deed or instrument under their personal seal with the same effect as the affixation of the Company’s Seal.

 

77. The Board may entrust to and confer upon a managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, an executive director or any Director any of the powers exercisable by it upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as it thinks fit, and either collaterally with, or to the exclusion of, its own powers, and may from time to time revoke or vary all or any of such powers but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of such revocation or variation shall be affected thereby.

 

78. All checks, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other instruments, whether negotiable or transferable or not, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Board shall from time to time by resolution determine. The Company’s banking accounts shall be kept with such banker or bankers as the Board shall from time to time determine.

 

79. (1) The Board may establish or concur or join with other companies (being subsidiary companies of the Company or companies with which it is associated in business) in establishing and making contributions out of the Company’s moneys to any schemes or funds for providing pensions, sickness or compassionate allowances, life assurance or other benefits for employees (which expression as used in this and the following paragraph shall include any Director or ex-Director who may hold or have held any executive office or any office of profit under the Company or any of its subsidiary companies) and ex-employees of the Company and their dependents or any class or classes of such person.

 

(2) The Board may pay, enter into agreements to pay or make grants of revocable or irrevocable pensions or other benefits to employees and ex-employees and their dependents, or to any of such persons, including pensions or benefits additional to those, if any, to which such employees or ex-employees or their dependents are or may become entitled under any such scheme or fund as mentioned in the last preceding paragraph. Any such pension or benefit may, as the Board considers desirable, be granted to an employee either before and in anticipation of or upon or at any time after his actual retirement and may be subject or not subject to any terms or conditions as the Board may determine.

 

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80. A director, in exercising his powers or performing his duties, shall act honestly and in good faith and in what the director believes to be in the best interests of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary, a director may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a director, act in a manner which he believes is in the best interests of the Company’s parent (as defined in the Act) even though it may not be in the best interests of the Company.

 

BORROWING POWERS

 

81. The Board may exercise all the powers of the Company to raise or borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) of the Company and, subject to the Act, to issue debentures, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

 

82. Debentures, bonds and other securities may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued.

 

83. Any debentures, bonds or other securities may be issued at a discount (other than shares), premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares.

 

84. The Board shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Act, of all charges specifically affecting the property of the Company and of any series of debentures issued by the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Act in regard to the registration of charges and debentures therein specified and otherwise.

 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE DIRECTORS

 

85. The Board may meet for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings as it considers appropriate. Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes. In the case of any equality of votes the chairman of the meeting shall not have an additional or casting vote and the resolution shall fail.

 

86. A meeting of the Board may be convened by the Secretary on request of a Director or by any Director. The Secretary shall convene a meeting of the Board of which notice may be given in writing or by telephone or in such other manner as the Board may from time to time determine whenever he shall be required so to do by the president or chairman, as the case may be, or any Director.

 

87. (1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Board shall be equal to a majority of the Board.

 

(2) Directors may participate in any meeting of the Board by means of a conference telephone or other communications equipment through which all persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously and, for the purpose of counting a quorum, such participation shall constitute presence at a meeting as if those participating were present in person.

 

(3) Any Director who ceases to be a Director at a Board meeting may continue to be present and to act as a Director and be counted in the quorum until the termination of such Board meeting if no other Director objects and if otherwise a quorum of Directors would not be present.

 

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90. The continuing Directors or a sole continuing Director may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board but, if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the minimum number fixed by or in accordance with these Articles, the continuing Directors or Director, notwithstanding that the number of Directors is below the number fixed by or in accordance with these Articles as the quorum or that there is only one continuing Director, may act for the purpose of filling vacancies in the Board or of summoning meetings of the Members of the Company but not for any other purpose.

 

91. The Chairman of the Board shall be the chairman of all meetings of the Board. If the Chairman of the Board is not present at any meeting within five (5) minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

 

92. A meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in or exercisable by the Board.

  

93. (1) The Board may delegate any of its powers, authorities and discretions to committees, consisting of such Director or Directors and other persons as it thinks fit, and they may, from time to time, revoke such delegation or revoke the appointment of and discharge any such committees either wholly or in part, and either as to persons or purposes. Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers, authorities and discretions so delegated, conform to any regulations which may be imposed on it by the Board.

 

(2) All acts done by any such committee in conformity with such regulations, and in fulfillment of the purposes for which it was appointed, but not otherwise, shall have like force and effect as if done by the Board, and the Board (or if the Board delegates such power, the committee) shall have power to remunerate the members of any such committee, and charge such remuneration to the current expenses of the Company.

 

94. The meetings and proceedings of any committee consisting of two or more members shall be governed by the provisions contained in these Articles for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board so far as the same are applicable and are not superseded by any regulations imposed by the Board under the last preceding Article, indicating, without limitation, any committee charter adopted by the Board for purposes or in respect of any such committee.

 

95. A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors except such as are temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability shall (provided that such number is sufficient to constitute a quorum and further provided that a copy of such resolution has been given or the contents thereof communicated to all the Directors for the time being entitled to receive notices of Board meetings in the same manner as notices of meetings are required to be given by these Articles) be as valid and effectual as if a resolution had been passed at a meeting of the Board duly convened and held. Such resolution may be contained in one document or in several documents in like form each signed by one or more of the Directors and for this purpose a facsimile signature of a Director shall be treated as valid.

 

96. All acts bona fide done by the Board or by any committee or by any person acting as a Director or members of a committee, shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any member of the Board or such committee or person acting as aforesaid or that they or any of them were disqualified or had vacated office, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified and had continued to be a Director or member of such committee.

 

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OFFICERS

  

97. (1) The officers of the Company shall consist of the President/Chief Executive Officer, the Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer and Secretary and such additional officers (who may or may not be Directors) as the Board may from time to time determine, all of whom shall be deemed to be officers for the purposes of the Act and these Articles.

 

(2) The Directors shall, as soon as may be after each appointment or election of Directors, elect amongst the Directors a chairman and if more than one Director is proposed for this office, the election to such office shall take place in such manner as the Directors may determine.

 

(3) The officers shall receive such remuneration as the Directors may from time to time determine.

  

98. (1) The Secretary and additional officers, if any, shall be appointed by the Board and shall hold office on such terms and for such period as the Board may determine. If thought fit, two or more persons may be appointed as joint Secretaries. The Board may also appoint from time to time on such terms as it thinks fit one or more assistant or deputy Secretaries.

 

(2) The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Members and shall keep correct minutes of such meetings and enter the same in the proper books provided for the purpose. He shall perform such other duties as are prescribed by these Articles or as may be prescribed by the Board.

 

99. The officers of the Company shall have such powers and perform such duties in the management, business and affairs of the Company as may be delegated to them by the Directors from time to time.

 

100. A provision of the Act or of these Articles requiring or authorizing a thing to be done by or to a Director and the Secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director and as or in place of the Secretary.

 

REGISTER OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

 

101. The Company shall cause to be kept in one or more books at its Office a Register of Directors and officers in which there shall be entered the full names and addresses of the Directors and officers and such other particulars as required by the Act or as the Directors may determine.

 

MINUTES

 

102. In accordance with the Act, the Company shall keep the following records at the office of its registered agent or at such other place as the Directors may determine:

 

(1) minutes of all meetings and all resolutions of members and of classes of members; and

 

(2) minutes of all meetings and all resolutions of directors and committees of directors.

 

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SEAL

  

103. (1) The Company shall have one or more Seals, as the Board may determine. For the purpose of sealing documents creating or evidencing securities issued by the Company, the Company may have a securities seal which is a facsimile of the Seal of the Company with the addition of the word “Securities” on its face or in such other form as the Board may approve. The Board shall provide for the custody of each Seal and no Seal shall be used without the authority of the Board or of a committee of the Board authorized by the Board in that behalf. Subject as otherwise provided in these Articles, any instrument to which a Seal is affixed shall be signed autographically by one Director and the Secretary or by two Directors or by such other person (including a Director) or persons as the Board may appoint, either generally or in any particular case, save that as regards any certificates for shares or debentures or other securities of the Company the Board may by resolution determine that such signatures or either of them shall be dispensed with or affixed by some method or system of mechanical signature. Every instrument executed in manner provided by this Article shall be deemed to be sealed and executed with the authority of the Board previously given.

 

(2) Where the Company has a Seal for use abroad, the Board may by writing under the Seal appoint any agent or committee abroad to be the duly authorized agent of the Company for the purpose of affixing and using such Seal and the Board may impose restrictions on the use thereof as may be thought fit. Wherever in these Articles reference is made to the Seal, the reference shall, when and so far as may be applicable, be deemed to include any such other Seal as aforesaid.

 

AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS

 

104. Any Director or the Secretary or any person appointed by the Board for the purpose may authenticate any documents affecting the constitution of the Company and any resolution passed by the Company or the Board or any committee, and any books, records, documents and accounts relating to the business of the Company, and to certify copies thereof or extracts therefrom as true copies or extracts, and if any books, records, documents or accounts are elsewhere than at the Office or the head office the local manager or other officer of the Company having the custody thereof shall be deemed to be a person so appointed by the Board. A document purporting to be a copy of a resolution, or an extract from the minutes of a meeting, of the Company or of the Board or any committee which is so certified shall be conclusive evidence in favor of all persons dealing with the Company upon the faith thereof that such resolution has been duly passed or, as the case may be, that such minutes or extract is a true and accurate record of proceedings at a duly constituted meeting.

 

DIVIDENDS AND OTHER PAYMENTS

 

105. Subject to the Act and the provisions of the Memorandum, the Board may from time to time recommend and pay to all Members on a pro rata basis a dividend or a distribution at such time and of such an amount as they think fit if they are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that immediately after the payment of the dividend or distribution, the value of the Company’s assets exceeds its liabilities and the Company is able to pay its debts as they fall due. The resolution shall include a statement to that effect.

 

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106. Before declaring and paying any dividend, the Board may set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as it determines as reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Board, be applicable for any purpose to which the profits of the Company may be properly applied and pending such application may, also at such discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments as the Board may from time to time think fit and so that it shall not be necessary to keep any investments constituting the reserve or reserves separate or distinct from any other investments of the Company. The Board may also without placing the same to reserve carry forward any profits which it may think prudent not to distribute.

 

107. Subject to the provisions of the Memorandum, except in so far as the rights attaching to, or the terms of issue of, any share otherwise provide:

 

(a) all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid up on the shares in respect of which the dividend is paid; and

 

(b) all dividends shall be apportioned and paid pro rata according to the amounts paid up on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid.

 

108. The Board may deduct from any dividend or other moneys payable to a Member by the Company on or in respect of any shares all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise.

 

109. No dividend or other moneys payable by the Company on or in respect of any share shall bear interest against the Company.

 

110. Any dividend, interest or other sum payable in cash to the holder of shares may be paid by check or warrant sent through the post addressed to the holder at his registered address or, in the case of joint holders, addressed to the holder whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the shares at his address as appearing in the Register or addressed to such person and at such address as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every such check or warrant shall, unless the holder or joint holders otherwise direct, be made payable to the order of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the order of the holder whose name stands first on the Register in respect of such shares, and shall be sent at his or their risk and payment of the check or warrant by the bank on which it is drawn shall constitute a good discharge to the Company notwithstanding that it may subsequently appear that the same has been stolen or that any endorsement thereon has been forged. Any one of two or more joint holders may give effectual receipts for any dividends or other moneys payable or property distributable in respect of the shares held by such joint holders.

 

111. All dividends or bonuses unclaimed for one (1) year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Board for the benefit of the Company until claimed. Any dividend or bonuses unclaimed after a period of six (6) years from the date of declaration shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company. The payment by the Board of any unclaimed dividend or other sums payable on or in respect of a share into a separate account shall not constitute the Company a trustee in respect thereof.

 

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112. Whenever the Board has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared, the Board may further resolve that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets of any kind and in particular of paid up shares, debentures or warrants to subscribe securities of the Company or any other company, or in any one or more of such ways, and where any difficulty arises in regard to the distribution the Board may settle the same as it thinks expedient, and in particular may issue certificates in respect of fractions of shares, disregard fractional entitlements or round the same up or down, and may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets, or any part thereof, and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any Members upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Board and may appoint any person to sign any requisite instruments of transfer and other documents on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend, and such appointment shall be effective and binding on the Members. The Board may resolve that no such assets shall be made available to Members with registered addresses in any particular territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, such distribution of assets would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable and in such event the only entitlement of the Members aforesaid shall be to receive cash payments as aforesaid. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be or be deemed to be a separate class of Members for any purpose whatsoever.

 

113. (1) Whenever the Board has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared on any class of shares of the Company, the Board may further resolve either:

 

(a) that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up, provided that the Members entitled thereto will be entitled to elect to receive such dividend (or part thereof if the Board so determines) in cash in lieu of such allotment. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:

 

(i) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;

 

(ii) the Board, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than ten (10) days’ Notice to the holders of the relevant shares of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;

 

(iii) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded; and

 

(iv) the dividend (or that part of the dividend to be satisfied by the allotment of shares as aforesaid) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the cash election has not been duly exercised (“the non-elected shares”) and in satisfaction thereof shares of the relevant class shall be allotted credited as fully paid up to the holders of the non-elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board shall capitalize and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company (including profits carried and standing to the credit of any reserves or other special account, share premium account, capital redemption reserve other than the Subscription Rights Reserve) as the Board may determine, such sum as may be required to pay up in full the appropriate number of shares of the relevant class for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the non-elected shares on such basis; or

 

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(b) that the Members entitled to such dividend shall be entitled to elect to receive an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up in lieu of the whole or such part of the dividend as the Board may think fit. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:

 

(i) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;

 

(ii) the Board, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than ten (10) days’ Notice to the holders of the relevant shares of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;

 

(iii) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded; and

 

(iv) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been accorded) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the share election has been duly exercised (“the elected shares”) and in lieu thereof shares of the relevant class shall be allotted credited as fully paid up to the holders of the elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board shall capitalize and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company (including profits carried and standing to the credit of any reserves or other special account, share premium account, capital redemption reserve other than the Subscription Rights Reserve) as the Board may determine, such sum as may be required to pay up in full the appropriate number of shares of the relevant class for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the elected shares on such basis.

 

(2) (a) The shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article shall rank pari passu in all respects with shares of the same class (if any) then in issue save only as regards participation in the relevant dividend or in any other distributions, bonuses or rights paid, made, declared or announced prior to or contemporaneously with the payment or declaration of the relevant dividend unless, contemporaneously with the announcement by the Board of their proposal to apply the provisions of sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (2) of this Article in relation to the relevant dividend or contemporaneously with their announcement of the distribution, bonus or rights in question, the Board shall specify that the shares to be allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article shall rank for participation in such distribution, bonus or rights.

 

(b) The Board may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any capitalization pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article, with full power to the Board to make such provisions as it thinks fit in the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are aggregated and sold and the net proceeds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded or rounded up or down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrues to the Company rather than to the Members concerned). The Board may authorize any person to enter into on behalf of all Members interested, an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalization and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made pursuant to such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.

 

(2) The Company may upon the recommendation of the Board by Resolution of Members resolve in respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article a dividend may be satisfied wholly in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up without offering any right to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash in lieu of such allotment.

 

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(3) The Board may on any occasion determine that rights of election and the allotment of shares under paragraph (1) of this Article shall not be made available or made to any shareholders with registered addresses in any territory where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, the circulation of an offer of such rights of election or the allotment of shares would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable, and in such event the provisions aforesaid shall be read and construed subject to such determination. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be or be deemed to be a separate class of Members for any purpose whatsoever.

 

(4) Any resolution of the Board declaring a dividend on shares of any class may specify that the same shall be payable or distributable to the persons registered as the holders of such shares at the close of business on a particular date, notwithstanding that it may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is passed, and thereupon the dividend shall be payable or distributable to them in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend of transferors and transferees of any such shares. The provisions of this Article shall mutatis mutandis apply to bonuses, capitalization issues, distributions of realized capital profits or offers or grants made by the Company to the Members.

 

SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS RESERVE

 

114. The following provisions shall have effect to the extent that they are not prohibited by and are in compliance with the Act:

 

(1) If, so long as any of the rights attached to any warrants issued by the Company to subscribe for shares of the Company shall remain exercisable, the Company does any act or engages in any transaction which, as a result of any adjustments to the subscription price in accordance with the provisions of the conditions of the warrants, would reduce the subscription price to below the par value of a share, then the following provisions shall apply:

 

(a) as from the date of such act or transaction the Company shall establish and thereafter (subject as provided in this Article) maintain in accordance with the provisions of this Article a reserve (the “Subscription Rights Reserve”) the amount of which shall at no time be less than the sum which for the time being would be required to be capitalized and applied in paying up in full the nominal amount of the additional shares required to be issued and allotted credited as fully paid pursuant to sub-paragraph (c) below on the exercise in full of all the subscription rights outstanding and shall apply the Subscription Rights Reserve in paying up such additional shares in full as and when the same are allotted;

 

(b) the Subscription Rights Reserve shall not be used for any purpose other than that specified above unless all other reserves of the Company (other than share premium account) have been extinguished and will then only be used to make good losses of the Company if and so far as is required by law;

 

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(c) upon the exercise of all or any of the subscription rights represented by any warrant, the relevant subscription rights shall be exercisable in respect of a nominal amount of shares equal to the amount in cash which the holder of such warrant is required to pay on exercise of the subscription rights represented thereby (or, as the case may be the relevant portion thereof in the event of a partial exercise of the subscription rights) and, in addition, there shall be allotted in respect of such subscription rights to the exercising warrant holder, credited as fully paid, such additional nominal amount of shares as is equal to the difference between:

 

(i) the said amount in cash which the holder of such warrant is required to pay on exercise of the subscription rights represented thereby (or, as the case may be, the relevant portion thereof in the event of a partial exercise of the subscription rights); and

 

(ii) the nominal amount of shares in respect of which such subscription rights would have been exercisable having regard to the provisions of the conditions of the warrants, had it been possible for such subscription rights to represent the right to subscribe for shares at less than par and immediately upon such exercise so much of the sum standing to the credit of the Subscription Rights Reserve as is required to pay up in full such additional nominal amount of shares shall be capitalized and applied in paying up in full such additional nominal amount of shares which shall forthwith be allotted credited as fully paid to the exercising warrant holders; and

 

(d) if, upon the exercise of the subscription rights represented by any warrant, the amount standing to the credit of the Subscription Rights Reserve is not sufficient to pay up in full such additional nominal amount of shares equal to such difference as aforesaid to which the exercising warrant holder is entitled, the Board shall apply any profits or reserves then or thereafter becoming available (including, to the extent permitted by law, share premium account) for such purpose until such additional nominal amount of shares is paid up and allotted as aforesaid and until then no dividend or other distribution shall be paid or made on the fully paid shares of the Company then in issue. Pending such payment and allotment, the exercising warrant holder shall be issued by the Company with a certificate evidencing his right to the allotment of such additional nominal number of shares. The rights represented by any such certificate shall be in registered form and shall be transferable in whole or in part in units of one share in the like manner as the shares for the time being are transferable, and the Company shall make such arrangements in relation to the maintenance of a register therefor and other matters in relation thereto as the Board may think fit and adequate particulars thereof shall be made known to each relevant exercising warrant holder upon the issue of such certificate.

 

(2) Shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall rank pari passu in all respectswith the other shares allotted on the relevant exercise of the subscription rights represented by the warrant concerned. Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (1) of this Article, no fraction of any share shall be allotted on exercise of the subscription rights.

 

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(3) The provision of this Article as to the establishment and maintenance of the Subscription Rights Reserve shall not be altered or added to in any way which would vary or abrogate, or which would have the effect of varying or abrogating the provisions for the benefit of any warrant holder or class of warrant holders under this Article without the sanction of a special resolution of such warrant holders or class of warrant holders.

 

(4) A certificate or report by the auditors for the time being of the Company as to whether or not the Subscription Rights Reserve is required to be established and maintained and if so the amount thereof so required to be established and maintained, as to the purposes for which the Subscription Rights Reserve has been used, as to the extent to which it has been used to make good losses of the Company, as to the additional nominal amount of shares required to be allotted to exercising warrant holders credited as fully paid, and as to any other matter concerning the Subscription Rights Reserve shall (in the absence of manifest error) be conclusive and binding upon the Company and all warrant holders and shareholders.

 

ACCOUNTING RECORDS

 

115. The Company shall keep records that: (a) are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s transactions; and (b) will, at any time, enable the financial position of the Company to be determined with reasonable accuracy. The abovementioned records shall be kept at the Office or, at such other place or places as the Board decides and shall always be open to inspection by the Directors. No Member (other than a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any accounting record or book or document of the Company except as conferred by the Act or authorized by the Board.

 

AUDIT

 

116. Subject to applicable law and rules of the Designated Stock Exchange:

 

(1) The Directors or a committee thereof may appoint an auditor to audit the accounts of the Company and such auditor shall hold office until the Directors or committee thereof appoint another auditor. Such auditor may be a Member but no Director or officer or employee of the Company shall, during his continuance in office, be eligible to act as an auditor of the Company.

 

117. The remuneration of the Auditor shall be fixed by the Directors or a committee thereof in such manner as they may determine.

 

118. The Auditor shall at all reasonable times have access to all books kept by the Company and to all accounts and vouchers relating thereto; and he may call on the Directors or officers of the Company for any information in their possession relating to the books or affairs of the Company.

 

NOTICES

 

119. Any Notice or document, whether or not, to be given or issued under these Articles from the Company to a Member shall be in writing or by cable, telex or facsimile transmission message or other form of electronic transmission or communication and any such Notice and document may be served or delivered by the Company on or to any Member either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope addressed to such Member at his registered address as appearing in the Register or at any other address supplied by him to the Company for the purpose or, as the case may be, by transmitting it to any such address or transmitting it to any telex or facsimile transmission number or electronic number or address or website supplied by him to the Company for the giving of Notice to him or which the person transmitting the notice reasonably and bona fide believes at the relevant time will result in the Notice being duly received by the Member or may also be served by advertisement in appropriate newspapers in accordance with the requirements of the Designated Stock Exchange or, to the extent permitted by the applicable laws, by placing it on the Company’s website and giving to the member a notice stating that the notice or other document is available there (a “notice of availability”). The notice of availability may be given to the Member by any of the means set out above (other than by placing it on the Company’s website). In the case of joint holders of a share all notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register and notice so given shall be deemed a sufficient service on or delivery to all the joint holders.

 

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120. Any Notice or other document:

 

(a) if served or delivered by post, shall where appropriate be sent by airmail and shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day following that on which the envelope containing the same, properly prepaid and addressed, is put into the post; in proving such service or delivery it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice or document was properly addressed and put into the post and a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice or other document was so addressed and put into the post shall be conclusive evidence thereof;

 

(b) if sent by electronic communication, shall be deemed to be given on the day on which it is transmitted from the server of the Company or its agent. A notice placed on the Company’s website is deemed given by the Company to a Member on the day following that on which a notice of availability is deemed served on the Member; and

 

(c) if served or delivered in any other manner contemplated by these Articles, shall be deemed to have been served or delivered at the time of personal service or delivery or, as the case may be, at the time of the relevant dispatch or transmission; and in proving such service or delivery a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board as to the act and time of such service, delivery, dispatch or transmission shall be conclusive evidence thereof.

 

121. (1) Any Notice or other document delivered or sent by post to or left at the registered address of any Member in pursuance of these Articles shall, notwithstanding that such Member is then dead or bankrupt or that any other event has occurred, and whether or not the Company has notice of the death or bankruptcy or other event, be deemed to have been duly served or delivered in respect of any share registered in the name of such Member as sole or joint holder unless his name shall, at the time of the service or delivery of the notice or document, have been removed from the Register as the holder of the share, and such service or delivery shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service or delivery of such Notice or document on all persons interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in the share.

 

(2) A notice may be given by the Company to the person entitled to a share in consequence of the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy of a Member by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter, envelope or wrapper addressed to him by name, or by the title of representative of the deceased, or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the address, if any, supplied for the purpose by the person claiming to be so entitled, or (until such an address has been so supplied) by giving the notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy had not occurred.

 

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(3) Any person who by operation of law, transfer or other means whatsoever shall become entitled to any share shall be bound by every notice in respect of such share which prior to his name and address being entered on the Register shall have been duly given to the person from whom he derives his title to such share.

 

SIGNATURES

 

122. For the purposes of these Articles, a cable or telex or facsimile or electronic transmission message purporting to come from a holder of shares or, as the case may be, a Director, or, in the case of a corporation which is a holder of shares from a director or the secretary thereof or a duly appointed attorney or duly authorized representative thereof for it and on its behalf, shall in the absence of express evidence to the contrary available to the person relying thereon at the relevant time be deemed to be a document or instrument in writing signed by such holder or Director in the terms in which it is received.

 

WINDING UP

 

123. (1) The provisions of Articles 121(2) and 122 are subject to the provisions of the Memorandum and Article 131 until the conversion of the Class A, Class B and Class C Shares into one class of Ordinary Shares after the consummation of an Acquisition Transaction or Post-Acquisition Tender Offer, as the case may be, and may not be amended during the Target Acquisition Period without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% of the outstanding IPO Shares.

 

(2) The Board shall have power in the name and on behalf of the Company to present a petition to the court for the Company to be wound up.

 

(3) A resolution that the Company be wound up by the court or be wound up voluntarily shall be a Resolution of Members.

 

124. If the Company shall be wound up (whether the liquidation is voluntary or by the court) the liquidator may, with the authority of a Resolution of Members and any other sanction required by the Act, divide among the Members in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and whether or not the assets shall consist of properties of one kind or shall consist of properties to be divided as aforesaid of different kinds, and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any one or more class or classes of property and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members. The liquidator may, with the like authority, vest any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as the liquidator with the like authority shall think fit, and the liquidation of the Company may be closed and the Company dissolved, but so that no contributory shall be compelled to accept any shares or other property in respect of which there is a liability.

 

INDEMNITY

 

125. (1) Subject to the Act, the Directors, Secretary and other officers and every Auditor for the time being of the Company and the liquidator or trustees (if any) for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and everyone of them, and everyone of their heirs, executors and administrators, shall be indemnified and secured harmless out of the assets and profits of the Company from and against all actions, costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them, their or any of their heirs, executors or administrators, shall or may incur or sustain by or by reason of any act done, concurred in or omitted in or about the execution of their duty, or supposed duty, in their respective offices or trusts (including, without limitation, all expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements) actually and reasonably incurred by the Directors, Secretary and other officers and every Auditor or on their behalf in defending any proceedings in which judgment is given in his favour, or in which he is acquitted); and none of them shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of the other or others of them or for joining in any receipts for the sake of conformity, or for any bankers or other persons with whom any moneys or effects belonging to the Company shall or may be lodged or deposited for safe custody, or for insufficiency or deficiency of any security upon which any moneys of or belonging to the Company shall be placed out on or invested, or for any other loss, misfortune or damage which may happen in the execution of their respective offices or trusts, or in relation thereto; PROVIDED THAT this indemnity shall not extend to any matter in respect of any actual fraud or willful default on the part of any of said persons.

 

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(2) Each Member agrees to waive any claim or right of action he might have, whether individually or by or in the right of the Company, against any Director on account of any action taken by such Director, or the failure of such Director to take any action in the performance of his duties with or for the Company; PROVIDED THAT such waiver shall not extend to any matter in respect of any actual fraud or willful default which may attach to such Director.

 

INFORMATION

 

126. No Member shall be entitled to require discovery of or any information respecting any detail of the Company’s trading or any matter which is or may be in the nature of a trade secret or secret process which may relate to the conduct of the business of the Company and which in the opinion of the Directors it will be inexpedient in the interests of the members of the Company to communicate to the public.

 

MATERIAL CHANGES

 

127. Notwithstanding section 175 of the Act, the Board may sell, transfer, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the assets of the Company without the sale, transfer, lease, exchange or other disposition being authorised by a Resolution of Members.

 

128. To 130 [Reserved]

 

ACQUISITION TRANSACTION PROVISIONS

 

131. The provisions (A) through (I) of this Article 131 shall apply during the period commencing upon the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed in connection with the IPO and terminating upon the conversion of each class of Shares (other than the Preferred Shares) into one class of Ordinary Shares after consummation of an Acquisition Transaction or Post-Acquisition Tender Offer, as the case may be, and may not be amended during the Target Acquisition Period without the affirmative vote of at least 80% of the issued and outstanding IPO Shares. The Company (i) may not consummate an Acquisition Transaction with a Target Business that is a portfolio company of, or has otherwise received a financial investment from the Founders, their affiliates or that is affiliated with the Founders, the Directors or officers of the Company, or (ii) consummate an Acquisition Transaction with any underwriter that is a party to the underwriting agreement entered into in connection with the IPO, or selling group member, or any of their affiliates, unless in each case the Company obtains an opinion from an unaffiliated, independent investment banking firm that is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, that the Acquisition Transaction with such Target Business is fair to the shareholders from a financial point of view.

 

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In the event of any conflict between this Article 131 and any other provision of the Memorandum or the Articles, the provisions of this Article 131 shall prevail.

 

A. The Company shall not consummate any Acquisition Transaction if more than 87.5% (the “Redemption Threshold Percentage”) interest of the holders of IPO Shares exercise their redemption rights described below, or, if the Company seeks to allow shareholders to redeem their shares pursuant to a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer, more than the Redemption Threshold Percentage interest of the holders of IPO Shares exercise such redemption rights, or, if such Acquisition Transaction is submitted for approval to the Company’s Shareholders, holders of at least a majority of IPO Shares voted at such meeting are not voted in favor of the Acquisition Transaction. Prior to distribution of the funds in the Trust Account, other than as provided for in paragraph (F) of this Article 131 or in connection with the dissolution and liquidation of the Company, the Company must grant holders of IPO Shares such redemption rights by means of a shareholder vote, a Pre-Acquisition Tender Offer, or a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer.

 

B. Prior to the consummation of an Acquisition Transaction, the Company may initiate an issuer tender offer (“Pre-Acquisition Tender Offer”) to holders of Class A Shares by filing tender offer documents with the SEC in accordance with Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act. Such tender offer documents shall include information substantially similar to that which would be required in connection with a proxy statement compliant with U.S. securities regulations regarding the solicitation of shareholder votes to approve an acquisition transaction. In the event he Company elects to conduct a Pre-Acquisition Tender Offer, the closing of the Acquisition Transaction will be cross-conditioned on the closing of the Pre-Acquisition Tender Offer, and the offer price shall be in cash equal to a pro-rata portion of the Trust Account equal to the quotient determined by dividing (i) the amount in the Trust Account, as of two business days prior to the liquidation of the Trust Account, by (ii) the total number of IPO Shares that were originally issued in the IPO. “Trust Account” shall mean the trust account established by the Company at the consummation of its IPO and into which a certain amount of the net proceeds of the IPO are deposited.

 

C. Prior to the consummation of an Acquisition Transaction, the Company may elect to grant holders of Class B Shares their redemption rights by means of a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer by filing a Current Report of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K with the SEC(“Form 6-K”) disclosing that it has entered into a definitive Acquisition Transaction agreement, intends to consummate the Acquisition Transaction without a shareholder vote or a Pre-Acquisition Tender Offer, and that includes disclosure regarding the Target Business and the proposed transaction similar to that which would be included in a proxy statement compliant with U.S. securities regulations regarding the solicitation of shareholder votes to approve an acquisition transaction. Within 30 days of the closing of the Acquisition Transaction without a shareholder vote or Pre-Acquisition Tender Offer or shareholder votes (the “Filing Date”), the Company may commence an issuer tender offer to holders of Class B Shares (“Post-Acquisition Tender Offer”) by filing tender offer documents with the SEC in accordance with Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act. The tender offer documents would include substantially the same information about the target business as is contained in the Form 6-K. In the event the Company elects to effect a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer, the offer price shall be in cash equal to a pro-rata portion of the Trust Account equal to the quotient determined by dividing (i)       the amount in the Trust Account, as of two business days prior to the liquidation of the Trust Account, by (ii) the total number of outstanding IPO Shares excluding any Class C Shares. If such Post-Acquisition Tender Offer is not initiated by the Filing Date or is not completed by the earlier of (i) the six month anniversary of the closing of the Acquisition Transaction and (ii)       the 21 month anniversary of the consummation of the IPO, then, within five business days of the Filing Date or such six month or 21 month anniversary, as applicable, with respect to each issued and outstanding Class B Shares, the Company shall distribute a pro-rata portion of the Trust Account equal to the quotient determined by dividing (i) the amount in the Trust Account, as of two business days prior to the liquidation of the Trust Account, by (ii) the total number of outstanding IPO Shares excluding any Class C Shares, and distribute any remaining funds to the Company. If the Company structures the Acquisition Transaction in this manner, then it may, after the Form 6-K is filed with the SEC, seek that holders of 5% or more of the IPO shares who are also accredited investors elect to convert their Class A Shares into Class C Shares, on a one-for-one basis, immediately prior to consummation of the Acquisition Transaction, with any remaining Class A Shares automatically converting to Class B Shares immediately following consummation of the Acquisition Transaction. Such opportunity to convert would only be available to these certain shareholders, and not to other holders of IPO Shares. Holders of Class A Shares who elect to convert their shares into Class C Shares prior to consummation of the Acquisition Transaction shall not be entitled to participate in the Post-Acquisition Tender Offer, while holders of Class A Shares that have their shares automatically converted to Class B Shares shall be entitled to participate in the issuer Post-Acquisition Tender Offer.

  

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D. In the event that the Company submits an Acquisition Transaction for approval by its shareholders and such Acquisition Transaction is approved and is consummated by the Company, any shareholder of the Company holding IPO Shares may, contemporaneous with such vote, demand that the Company redeem such holder’s IPO Shares for cash. If so demanded, the Company shall, promptly after consummation of the Acquisition Transaction, redeem such holder’s IPO Shares for cash at a per share price equal to (i) the amount held in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the Acquisition Transaction (net of amounts released to the Company in accordance with Article 131(F) below), divided by (ii) the total number of issued and outstanding IPO Shares.

 

E. Immediately after the Company’s IPO, the amount of the net offering proceeds received by the Company in the IPO (including the proceeds of any exercise of the underwriter’s overallotment option) specified in the Registration Statement at the time it goes effective shall be deposited and thereafter held in the Trust Account. Neither the Company nor any officer, director or employee of the Company shall disburse any of the proceeds held in the Trust Account until (i) the later of consummation by the Company of an Acquisition Transaction or consummation of a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer, as applicable, (ii) the failure to commence a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer by the Filing Date or complete a Post-Acquisition Tender Offer by the earlier of six months after the closing of the Acquisition Transaction and 21 months after the consummation of the IPO, or (iii) the liquidation of the Company as discussed in Article 131(G) below, in each case in accordance with the terms of the investment management trust agreement governing the Trust Account; provided, however, that (1) the interest earned on the Trust Account may be released to the Company to fund the Company’s working capital requirements and general corporate requirements, (2) the Company shall be entitled to withdraw such amounts from the Trust Account as would be required to pay taxes on the interest earned on the Trust Account, (3) the Company shall be entitled to withdraw a pro rata portion of the Trust Account for each Class A Shares converted into a Class C Shares upon consummation of an Acquisition Transaction, and (4) the Trust Account shall be liquidated in the event that an action, suit or proceeding is initiated following the consummation of an Acquisition Transaction, as provided in the investment management trust agreement governing the Trust Account. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event may interest earned on the Trust Account be released if such release would reduce the balance in the Trust Account below the per share balance immediately following the consummation of the Company’s IPO.

 

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F. In the event that the Company does not consummate an Acquisition Transaction within 18 months (or 21 months, if the Company enters into a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement with respect to an Acquisition Transaction prior to the expiration of such 18 month period) after the consummation of the IPO (“Termination Date”), the directors and officers of the Company shall take all such action necessary to dissolve the Company and liquidate the Trust Account to holders of the IPO Shares as soon as reasonably practicable. In the event the Company is so dissolved, the Company shall promptly adopt and implement a plan of distribution which provides that only the holders of IPO Shares shall be entitled to share ratably in the Trust Account plus any other net assets of the Company not used for or reserved to pay obligations and claims or such other corporate expenses relating to or arising during the Company’s remaining existence, including costs of dissolving and liquidating the Company.

 

G. A holder of IPO Shares shall be entitled to receive funds from the Trust Account only in the event of a liquidation of the Trust Account to holders of IPO Shares (i) in connection with the dissolution of the Company pursuant to the terms of the investment management trust agreement governing the Trust Account, (ii) in the event that such holder's shares are redeemed in accordance with this Article 131, or (iii) in the event that an Action is brought against the Company or the trustee of the Trust Account and funds are released pursuant to the investment management trust agreement relating to the Trust Account. In no other circumstances shall a holder of IPO Shares have any right or interest of any kind in or to the Trust Account. A holder of any other shares of the Company shall not have any right or interest of any kind in or to the Trust Account.

 

H. Unless and until the Company has consummated an Acquisition Transaction as permitted under this Article 131, the Company may not consummate any other acquisition transaction, whether by merger, share exchange, stock purchase, asset acquisition or otherwise.

 

I. During the Target Acquisition Period, the Company (i) may not issue any units, Shares, warrants, or any options or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for Shares, or any Preferred Shares, that participate in any manner in the proceeds of the Trust Account, or that vote as a class with the IPO Shares on any vote to approve an Acquisition Transaction or to amend this Article 131 or (ii) cancel any security issued by it that is publicly trading.

 

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We, CODAN TRUST COMPANY (B.V.I.) LTD., registered agent of the Company, of Commerce House, Wickhams Cay 1, PO Box 3140, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands VG 1110 for the purpose of incorporating a BVI Business Company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands hereby sign these Articles of Association on the 28th of November, 2011:

 

  Incorporator
   
  CODAN TRUST COMPANY (B.V.I.) Ltd
   
  Sgd. Michael Wood
   
  Per:
  Michael Wood
  For and on behalf of
  Codan Trust Company (B.V.I) Ltd.

 

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

Harney Westwood & Riegels LP

Craigmuir Chambers

PO Box 71

Road Town

Tortola VG1110

British Virgin Islands

Tel: +1 284 494 2233

Fax: +1 284 494 3547

 

27 August 2019

greg.boyd@harneys.com

+1 284 852 4317

GAB/051341.0001

The Purchasers and the Holders (as defined below)

Dear Sirs

Urban Tea, Inc. , Company No 1682727 (the Company)

We are lawyers qualified to practise in the British Virgin Islands and have been asked to provide this legal opinion to you in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form F-3 (the Registration Statement) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 of the United States of America. The Registration Statement relates to the registration of the resale by the selling shareholders of 10,671,638 ordinary shares of no par value (the Sale Shares).

We have been asked to provide this legal opinion to you with regard to the laws of the British Virgin Islands in relation to the Transactions Documents (as defined in Schedule 1) being entered into by the Company. Capitalised terms defined in the Transactions Documents shall have the same meanings when used in this opinion.

For the purposes of giving this opinion, we have examined the Documents (as defined in Schedule 1). We have not examined any other documents, official or corporate records or external or internal registers and have not undertaken or been instructed to undertake any further enquiry or due diligence in relation to the transaction which is the subject of this opinion.

In giving this opinion we have relied upon the assumptions set out in Schedule 2 which we have not verified.

Based solely upon the foregoing examinations and assumptions and having regard to legal considerations which we deem relevant, and subject to the qualifications set out in Schedule 3, we are of the opinion that under the laws of the British Virgin Islands:

1 Existence and Good Standing. The Company is a company duly incorporated with limited liability, and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands. The Company is a separate legal entity and is subject to suit in its own name.

2 Authorised Shares. Based solely on our review of the memorandum of association of the Company, the Company is authorised to issue up to 155,000,000 shares of par value of US$0.0001 divided into the following classes of shares:

 

 

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(a) 25,000,000 class A shares with a par value of US$0.0001 (Class A Shares);

(b) 25,000,000 class B shares with a par value of US$0.0001 (Class B Shares);

(c) 25,000,000 class C shares with a par value of US$0.0001 (Class C Shares);

(d) 75,000,000 ordinary shares with no par value (Ordinary Shares); and

(e) 5,000,000 preferred shares with a par value of US$0.0001 (Preferred Shares).

3 Valid Issuance. Based solely on our review of the Register of Members and the Director’s Certificate, the Sale Shares are validly issued, fully paid and are non-assessable (which means that no further sums are required to be paid by the holders thereof).

4 Searches. No court proceedings pending against the Company are indicated by our searches of the British Virgin Islands High Court Registry referred to at paragraph 4 of Schedule 1.

On the basis of our searches of the British Virgin Islands Registry of Corporate Affairs and the British Virgin Islands High Court Registry referred to at paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 1, no currently valid order or resolution for liquidation of the Company and no current notice of appointment of a receiver over the Company or any of its assets appears on the records maintained in respect of the Company at the Registry of Corporate Affairs.

This opinion is confined to the matters expressly opined on herein and given on the basis of the laws of the British Virgin Islands as they are in force and applied by the British Virgin Islands courts at the date of this opinion. We have made no investigation of, and express no opinion on, the laws of any other jurisdiction. We express no opinion as to matters of fact. Except as specifically stated herein, we make no comment with respect to any representations and warranties which may be made by or with respect to the Company in the Transactions Documents. We express no opinion with respect to the commercial terms of the transactions the subject of this opinion.

This opinion is rendered for your benefit and the benefit of your legal counsel (in that capacity only) in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transactions Documents. It may be disclosed to your successors and assigns only with our prior written consent. It may not be disclosed to or relied on by any other party or for any other purpose.

Yours faithfully
 
Harney Westwood & Riegels LP

 

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Schedule 1 

List of Documents and Records Examined

1 a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation and Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company obtained from the Registry of Corporate Affairs on 23 May 2019, which our searches dated 26 August 2019 indicated were not subsequently amended;
2 the records and information certified by FH Corporate Services Ltd., the registered agent of the Company, on 22 August 2019 of the statutory documents and records maintained by the Company at its registered office (the Registered Agent’s Certificate);
3 the public records of the Company on file and available for inspection at the Registry of Corporate Affairs, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands on 26 August 2019;
4 the records of proceedings on file with, and available for inspection on 26 August 2019 at the High Court of Justice, British Virgin Islands;
5 a copy of a director’s certificate of the company confirming that the Sale Shares are fully paid and are non-assessable (which means that no further sums are required to be paid by the holders thereof) (the Director’s Certificate); and
6 a copy of the unanimous written resolutions of the board of directors of the Company dated 26 August 2019 approving the Company’s entry into, and authorising the execution and delivery by the Company of, the Transactions Documents (the Resolutions),

(1 to 6 above are the Corporate Documents); and

7 a copy of the Registration Statement

The Corporate Documents and the Registration Statement are collectively referred to in this opinion as the Documents.

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Schedule 2 

Assumptions

1 Authenticity of Documents. All original Documents are authentic, all signatures, initials and seals are genuine, all copies of Documents are true and correct copies.
2 Corporate Documents. All matters required by law to be recorded in the Corporate Documents are so recorded, and all corporate minutes, resolutions, certificates, documents and records which we have reviewed are accurate and complete, and all facts expressed in or implied thereby are accurate and complete, and the information recorded in the Registered Agent’s Certificate was accurate as at the date of the passing of the Resolutions.
3 No Steps to Wind-up. The directors and shareholders of the Company have not taken any steps to appoint a liquidator of the Company and no receiver has been appointed over any of the property or assets of the Company.
4 Resolutions. The Resolutions remain in full force and effect.
5 Unseen Documents. Save for the Documents provided to us there are no resolutions, agreements, documents or arrangements which materially affect, amend or vary the transactions envisaged in the Documents.

 

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Schedule 3 

Qualifications

1 Public Records. Records reviewed by us may not be complete for various reasons. In particular you should note that:
(a) in special circumstances the court may order the sealing of the court record, which would mean that a record of the court action would not appear on the High Court register;
(b) failure to file notice of appointment of a receiver with the Registry of Corporate Affairs does not invalidate the receivership but merely gives rise to penalties on the part of the receiver;
(c) a liquidator of a British Virgin Islands company has 14 days after their appointment within which they must file notice of their appointment at the Registry of Corporate Affairs; and
(d) although amendments to the Memorandum and Articles of Association of a company are normally effective from the date of registration with the Registry of Corporate Affairs, it is possible for a British Virgin Islands court to order that they be treated as being effective from an earlier date, and searches would not reveal the amendments until the court order was subsequently filed,

and accordingly our searches would not indicate such issues.

2 Good Standing. To maintain the Company in good standing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, annual licence fees must be paid to the Registrar of Corporate Affairs.

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Exhibit 23.2

 

 

 

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INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM’S CONSENT

 

We consent to the use in this Registration Statement Form F-3 of Urban Tea, Inc. of our report dated November 14, 2018 relating to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of Urban Tea, Inc. as of June 30, 2018, 2017 and 2016, and for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 30, 2018, which appears in such Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.

 

/s/ Centurion ZD CPA & Co.  
Centurion ZD CPA & Co.  
Certified Public Accountants  
Hong Kong, August 27, 2019