UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 29, 2020

 

GLORY STAR NEW MEDIA GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in our charter)

 

Cayman Islands   001-38631   N/A
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
  (Commission File Number)  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

22F, Block B, Xinhua Technology Building,
No. 8 Tuofangying South Road,
Jiuxianqiao, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
  100016
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

 

+ 86-01-87700500

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

TKK Symphony Acquisition Corporation

c/o Texas Kang Kai Capital Management (Hong Kong) Limited

2039, 2/F United Center,

95 Queensway Admiralty, Hong Kong

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Trading Symbol(s)   Name of each exchange on which registered
Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share   GSMG   The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Warrants, each exercisable for one-half of one Ordinary Share   GSMGW   The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company ☒

 

If an emerging growth company, 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 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

(e) On May 29, 2020 the Compensation Committee (the “Committee”) of the Board of Directors of Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited (the “Company”), approved the grant of the Company’s ordinary shares (“Shares”) pursuant to the terms of a Restricted Stock Bonus Grant Notice and Agreement under the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to the following executive officers and key employees in the amounts and the vesting schedule indicated below:

 

Name  

Position

  Number of Shares  
Bing Zhang   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
    760,000  
Jia Lu   Director and Senior Vice President of Glory Star Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    230,000  
Ian Lee   Chief Financial Officer
    45,000  
Ran Zhang   Vice President (in charge of distribution/channels/publicity/chief editor’s office), and Supervisor of Glory Star Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd.     10,000  

 

The awards granted to the executive officers and key employees shall vest according to the following schedule: (i) 50% vests immediately on the date of grant, and (ii) 50% vests on the date that is 90 days from the date of grant, subject to each person’s continued employment. Any Shares that do not vest on the vesting date will be forfeited.

 

On May 29, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Company approved the amendment to the Plan to clarify that the definition of subsidiary included the Company’s variable interest entities. A copy of the Amendment No. 1 to the Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited 2019 Equity Incentive Plan is attached as Exhibit 10.2 and is incorporated by reference to this Form 8-K.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statement and Exhibits

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.   Description
10.1   Form of Restricted Stock Bonus Grant Notice and Agreement under the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan
10.2   Amendment No. 1 to the Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited 2019 Equity Incentive Plan

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on our behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited
   
  By: /s/ Bing Zhang
   

Bing Zhang

Chief Executive Officer

     
Dated: June 01, 2020    

 

 

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Exhibit 10.1

 

GLORY STAR NEW MEDIA GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED

RESTRICTED STOCK BONUS GRANT NOTICE

(2019 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN)

 

Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited (the “Company”), pursuant to its 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Plan”), hereby awards to Participant as a bonus the number of Restricted Shares of the Company set forth below (“Award”). This Award is subject to all of the terms and conditions as set forth herein and in the Restricted Stock Bonus Agreement and the Plan, all of which are attached hereto and incorporated herein in their entirety. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Plan or the Restricted Stock Bonus Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms in the Award and the Plan, the terms of the Plan shall control.

 

Participant:  
   
Grant Date:  
   
Number of Restricted Shares Subject to Award:  
   
Consideration:  
   
Vesting Schedule:  

 

By signing below or otherwise evidencing your acceptance of this Award in a manner approved by the Company, you agree to all of the terms and conditions contained in this Award and in the Plan document. You acknowledge that you have received and reviewed these documents and that they set forth the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding this Award of Restricted Shares.

 

Date: Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited
   
   
  Bing Zhang, Chief Executive Officer
   
Date: Participant
   
   
  [Name]

 

 

 

 

GLORY STAR NEW MEDIA GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED

2019 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

RESTRICTED STOCK BONUS AGREEMENT

 

Pursuant to the Restricted Stock Bonus Grant Notice (“Grant Notice”) and this Restricted Stock Bonus Agreement (collectively, the “Award”) and in consideration of your services, Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited (the “Company”) has awarded you (“Participant”) a stock bonus under its 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Plan”) for the number of Restricted Shares specified in the Grant Notice. Capitalized terms not explicitly defined in this Restricted Stock Bonus Agreement but defined in the Plan shall have the same definitions as in the Plan. The details of your Award, in addition to those set forth in the Grant Notice and the Plan, are as follows.

 

The details of your Award are as follows:

 

1. Delivery of Restricted Shares. As soon as practicable after the Grant Date, the Company will cause its transfer agent to either maintain a book entry account in your name reflecting the issuance of the Restricted Shares, or issue one or more stock certificates in your name evidencing the Restricted Shares. Any such stock certificate will be deposited with the Company or its designee, and bear an appropriate legend referring to the restricted nature of the Restricted Shares evidenced thereby. Any book-entry that reflects the issuance of such Restricted Shares will be subject to stop transfer instructions as provided in Sections 7(b) and (c). Your right to receive this Award is conditioned upon your execution and delivery to the Company of any instruments of assignment that may be necessary to permit transfer to the Company of all or a portion of the Restricted Shares if such Restricted Shares are forfeited in whole or in part.

 

2. Applicable Restrictions.

 

(a) Beginning on the Grant Date, you shall have all rights and privileges of a shareholder of the Company with respect to the Restricted Shares except as follows:

 

(i) None of the Restricted Shares may be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered, subjected to a levy or attachment or disposed of before they vest other than a transfer upon your death in accordance with your will or the laws of descent and distribution, pursuant to a domestic relations order, or by gift to any “family member” (as defined in General Instruction A.1(a)(5) to Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933) of the Participant

 

(ii) All or a portion of the Restricted Shares may be forfeited under the circumstances specified in Section 5.

 

(b) Any attempt to transfer or dispose of any Restricted Shares in a manner contrary to the transfer restrictions shall be void and of no effect.

 

(c) Participant shall be entitled to receive any dividends and other distributions paid with respect to such Restricted Shares; provided that any such dividends and other distributions will be subject to the same restrictions and risk of forfeiture as the Restricted Shares. If any such dividends or distributions are paid in Ordinary Shares, the Ordinary Shares will be subject to the same restrictions on transferability and forfeitability as the Restricted Shares with respect to which they were paid.

 

3. Vesting of Restricted Shares. If you remain a Service Provider to the Company (or any Subsidiary) continuously from the Grant Date specified on the Award, then the Restricted Shares will vest in the number(s) and on the date(s) specified in the Vesting Schedule on the Award.

 

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4. Release of Unrestricted Shares. Upon the vesting of Restricted Shares and the corresponding lapse of the transfer restrictions, and after the Company has determined that all conditions to the release of unrestricted Ordinary Shares to you, including compliance with all applicable legal requirements, have been satisfied, it shall release to you the unrestricted Ordinary Shares, as evidenced by issuance to you of a stock certificate without restrictive legend, by electronic delivery of such Ordinary Shares to a brokerage account designated by you, or by an unrestricted book-entry registration of such Ordinary Shares with the Company’s transfer agent.

 

5. Forfeiture of Restricted Shares. If your Service to the Company or any Subsidiary terminates before all of the Restricted Shares have vested, or if you attempt to transfer Restricted Shares in a manner contrary to the transfer restrictions, you will immediately forfeit all unvested Restricted Shares. Any Restricted Shares that are forfeited shall be returned to the Company for cancellation.

 

6. Securities Law Compliance. You may not be issued any Ordinary Shares under your Award unless the Ordinary Shares are either (i) then registered under the Securities Act or (ii) the Company has determined that such issuance would be exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Your Award must also comply with other applicable laws and regulations governing the Award, and you will not receive such Ordinary Shares if the Company determines that such receipt would not be in material compliance with such laws and regulations.

 

7. Restrictive Legends and Stop-Transfer Orders.

 

(a) Legends. Any certificate or certificates representing the Restricted Shares will bear the following legend (as well as any legends required by applicable state and federal corporate and securities laws) noting the existence of the restrictions set forth in this Agreement:

 

“THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF A RESTRICTED STOCK BONUS AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND THE PARTICIPANT, A COPY OF WHICH IS ON FILE WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY.”

 

(b) Stop-Transfer Notices. You agree that, in order to ensure compliance with the restrictions referred to herein, the Company may issue appropriate “stop transfer” instructions to its transfer agent, if any, and that, if the Company transfers its own securities, it may make appropriate notations to the same effect in its own records.

 

(c) Refusal to Transfer. The Company will not be required to transfer on its books any Ordinary Shares subject to this Agreement that have been sold or otherwise transferred in violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

8. Award Not A Service Contract. Your Award is not an employment or service contract, and nothing in your Award shall be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on your part to continue in the employ of the Company or a Subsidiary, or on the part of the Company or a Subsidiary to continue your employment. In addition, nothing in your Award shall obligate the Company or a Subsidiary, their respective shareholders, Board, Officers or Employees to continue any relationship that you might have as a Director, Employee or Consultant for the Company or a Subsidiary.

 

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9. Withholding Obligations.

 

(a) At the time your Award is made, or at any time thereafter as requested by the Company, you hereby authorize withholding from payroll and any amounts payable to you, and otherwise agree to make adequate provision for any sums required to satisfy the federal, state, local and foreign tax withholding obligations of the Company or a Subsidiary, if any, which arise in connection with your Award.

 

(b) Unless the tax withholding obligations of the Company and/or any Subsidiary are satisfied, the Company shall have no obligation to issue a certificate for such Ordinary Shares or release such Ordinary Shares from any escrow provided for herein.

 

10. Tax Consequences. You shall pay all taxes and discharge all other liabilities to which you may become subject as a result of your Award. The Company shall not be responsible for any tax or other liability to your Award and you shall indemnify the Company or a Subsidiary fully against all claims, demands, liabilities, actions, proceedings, fees, costs and expenses which the Company or a Subsidiary may suffer or incur (whether alone or jointly with other party or parties) for or in respect of any failure on the part of you to obtain any necessary consent or to pay tax or other liabilities referred therein.

 

11. Miscellaneous.

 

(a) The rights and obligations of the Company under your Award shall be transferable to any one or more persons or entities, and all covenants and agreements hereunder shall inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by the Company’s successors and assigns. Your rights and obligations under your Award may only be assigned with the prior written consent of the Board in its sole discretion.

 

(b) You agree upon request to execute any further documents or instruments necessary or desirable in the sole determination of the Company to carry out the purposes or intent of your Award.

 

(c) You acknowledge and agree that you have reviewed your Award in its entirety, have had an opportunity to obtain the advice of counsel prior to executing and accepting your Award and fully understand all provisions of your Award.

 

12. Governing Plan Document. Your Award is subject to all the provisions of the Plan, the provisions of which are hereby made a part of your Award, and is further subject to all interpretations, amendments, rules and regulations which may from time to time be promulgated and adopted pursuant to the Plan. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of your Award and those of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan shall control.

 

This Restricted Stock Bonus Agreement shall be deemed to be signed by the Company and Participant upon the acceptance by the Participant of the Restricted Stock Bonus Grant Notice.

 

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ASSIGNMENT SEPARATE FROM CERTIFICATE

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED and pursuant to that certain Restricted Stock Bonus Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Bonus Agreement (the “Award”), ______________ [Participant’s Name] hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited, a company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“Assignee”) ________________________ (__________) ordinary shares of the Assignee, standing in the undersigned’s name on the books of said corporation represented by Certificate No. ___________ herewith and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint Continental Stock Transfer & Trust as attorney-in-fact to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises. This Assignment may be used only in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the Award.

 

Dated:___________________________

 

  Signatures:_________________________________________
  [Participant’s Name], Recipient

 

[INSTRUCTION: Please do not fill in any blanks other than the signature line. The purpose of this Assignment is to enable the Company to exercise its right set forth in the Award without requiring additional signatures on your part.]

 

 

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Exhibit 10.2

 

AMENDMENT NO. 1 to the

 

GLORY STAR NEW MEDIA GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED

 

2019 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

THIS AMENDMENT to the Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), is dated May 29, 2020.

 

Section 18 of the Plan allows the Board of Directors of Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited (the “Company”) to amend the Plan at any time. The Board of Directors of the Company finds it to be desirable and in the best interests of the Company to amend the Plan to clarify that the Plan covers employees, directors and consultants of the Company’s subsidiaries and variable interest entities.

 

CONSEQUENTLY, the Plan is hereby amended, effective as of the date specified in the introductory clause:

 

1. Section 2(nn) of the Plan is amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

“Subsidiary” means any entities Controlled by the Company, provided, however, for the purpose of Incentive Stock Options, “subsidiary” means a “subsidiary corporation,” whether now or hereafter existing, as defined in Section 424 (f) of the Code. “Control” means, with respect to any entities, the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management policies of an entity whether through the ownership of the voting securities of such entity or by contract or otherwise. For purposes of the Plan, any “variable interest entity” that is consolidated into the consolidated financial statements of the Company under applicable accounting principles or standards as may apply to the consolidated financial statements of the Company shall be deemed a Subsidiary.”

 

In all other respects, the Plan is hereby ratified and confirmed.

 

This Amendment has been executed on the date specified in the introductory clause.

 

  GLORY STAR NEW MEDIA GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED
     
  By: /s/ Bing Zhang
    Bing Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer