UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of May 2021
Commission File Number: 001-38309
AGM GROUP HOLDINGS INC.
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
c/o Creative Consultants (Hong Kong) Limited
Room 1502-3 15/F., Connuaght Commercial Building, 185 Wanchai Road
Wanchai, Hong Kong
+86-010-65020507 – telephone
(Address of principal executive office)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F ☒ Form 40-F ☐
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Departure of Director
On April 30, 2021, Tingfu Xie tendered his resignation as director, the chairman of the Nominating Committee, and a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee of AGM Group Holdings Inc. (the “Company”), effective April 30, 2021. Mr. Xie’s resignation as director is not the result of any disagreement with the Company’s operations, policies or procedures.
The resignation of Tingfu Xie has been approved by the Nominating Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company.
Appointment of Director
On April 30, 2021, at the recommendation of the Nominating Committee and the Compensation Committee, the Board approved and confirmed the appointment of Jing Shi as the succeeding director, the chairwoman of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee of the Company, effective April 30, 2021 until the Company’s next annual meeting of shareholders and until her successor is duly elected and qualified, or until her earlier death, resignation or removal.
Ms. Shi, age 36, has been the Assistant to CEO at Dingyi Group since August 2019. Ms. Shi has had extensive experience at various investment companies with regard to financial management and account operations. From July 2018 to June 2019, Ms. Shi was in charge of all the financial operations at Baowan Capital. Ms. Shi started her career as a member of its Capital Settlement Office in 2011, at the prestigious China General Nuclear Power Corporation, where she would eventually advance to senior management within 5 years. From July 2012 to June 2015, she was an accountant at the New Project Department. From July 2015 to July 2018, Ms. Shi served as a Senior Manager at the Investment and Development Center, where she managed all aspects of financial operations of the company. Ms. Shi acquired her Bachelor’s Degree in Investment Management from the Central University of Finance and Economics in 2009, and her Master’s Degree from the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences in 2011.
The Board has determined that Ms. Jing Shi is independent within the meaning of Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2).
There are no family relationships between Jing Shi and any other employees or members of the Board of Directors of the Company.
Ms. Jing Shi accepted an offer letter from the Company, effective April 30, 2021, and agreed to receive an annual compensation that consists of (i) USD 30,000 in cash, which includes fees and compensation for board meetings in person or remotely for up to six meetings in a year, and (ii) USD1,200 in cash for every additional board meeting attended in person or $600 for every additional remote board meeting held in a year. Such compensation is to be paid quarterly in arrears by the company. The offer letter is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the agreement, which is filed hereto as Exhibits 10.1.
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No. | Description | |
10.1 | Offer letter to Jing Shi dated April 30, 2021. | |
99.1 | Correspondence of Tingfu Xie’s resignations as director, dated April 30, 2021. |
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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 its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: May 6, 2021 | AGM GROUP HOLDINGS INC. | |
By: | /s/ Wenjie Tang | |
Name: | Wenjie Tang | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer and Director |
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Exhibit 10.1
AGM GROUP HOLDINGS INC.
c/o Creative Consultants (Hong Kong) Limited
Room 1502-3 15/F., Connuaght Commercial Building, 185 Wanchai Road
Wanchai, Hong Kong
April 30, 2021
Re: Director Offer Letter
Dear Ms. Jing Shi:
AGM Group Holdings, a British Virgin Islands company (the “Company” or “we”), is pleased to offer you a position as a Director of the Company. We believe your background and experience will be a significant asset to the Company and we look forward to your participation as a Director in the Company. Should you choose to accept this position as a Director, this letter agreement (the “Agreement”) shall constitute an agreement between you and the Company and contains all the terms and conditions relating to the services you agree to provide to the Company. Your appointment shall also be subject to the approval of Company’s Board of Directors and/or Nomination and Compensation Committees and shall begin immediately.
1. Term. This Agreement is effective as of the date of this agreement. Your term as a Director shall continue subject to the provisions in Section 8 below or until your successor is duly elected and qualified. The position shall be up for re-appointment every year by the board of the Directors of the Company (the “Board”) and upon re-appointment, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
2. Services. You shall render customary services as a Director and member of the Audit and Compensation Committees and chairwoman of the Nominating Committee (hereinafter, your “Duties”). During the term of this Agreement, you may attend and participate at each meeting regarding the business and operation issues of the Company as regularly or specially called, via teleconference, video conference or in person. You shall consult with the members of the Board and committee (if any) regularly and as necessary via telephone, electronic mail or other forms of correspondence.
3. Services for Others. You shall be free to represent or perform services for other persons during the term of this Agreement.
4. Compensation. As compensation for your services to the Company, you will receive upon execution of this Agreement a compensation that consists of 30,000 USD in cash for each calendar year of service under this Agreement on a pro-rated basis and payable on a quarterly basis, (ii) USD1,200 in cash per in person board meeting attended and $600 for remote board meeting, as of the 7th board meeting during the year (6 meetings are covered by the annual fees) effective as of the Effective Date and to be paid quarterly in arrears by the company
You shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred by you in connection with the performance of your Duties (including travel expenses for in-person meetings).
5. No Assignment. Because of the personal nature of the services to be rendered by you, this Agreement may not be assigned by you without the prior written consent of the Company.
6. Confidential Information; Non-Disclosure. In consideration of your access to certain Confidential Information (as defined below) of the Company, in connection with your business relationship with the Company, you hereby represent and agree as follows:
a. Definition. For purposes of this Agreement the term “Confidential Information” means: (i) any information which the Company possesses that has been created, discovered or developed by or for the Company, and which has or could have commercial value or utility in the business in which the Company is engaged; (ii) any information which is related to the business of the Company and is generally not known by non-Company personnel; and (iii) Confidential Information includes, without limitation, trade secrets and any information concerning products, processes, formulas, designs, inventions (whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, and whether or not reduced to practice), discoveries, concepts, ideas, improvements, techniques, methods, research, development and test results, specifications, data, know-how, software, formats, marketing plans, and analyses, business plans and analyses, strategies, forecasts, customer and supplier identities, characteristics and agreements.
b. Exclusions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term Confidential Information shall not include: (i) any information which becomes generally available or is readily available to the public other than as a result of a breach of the confidentiality portions of this Agreement, or any other agreement requiring confidentiality between the Company and you; (ii) information received from a third party in rightful possession of such information who is not restricted from disclosing such information; (iii) information known by you prior to receipt of such information from the Company, which prior knowledge can be documented and (iv) information you are required to disclose pursuant to any applicable law, regulation, judicial or administrative order or decree, or request by other regulatory organization having authority pursuant to the law; provided, however, that you shall first have given prior written notice to the Company and made a reasonable effort to obtain a protective order requiring that the Confidential Information not be disclosed.
c. Documents. You agree that, without the express written consent of the Company, you will not remove from the Company's premises, any notes, formulas, programs, data, records, machines or any other documents or items which in any manner contain or constitute Confidential Information, nor will you make reproductions or copies of same. You shall promptly return any such documents or items, along with any reproductions or copies to the Company upon the Company's demand, upon termination of this Agreement, or upon your termination or Resignation (as defined in Section 9 herein).
d. Confidentiality. You agree that you will hold in trust and confidence all Confidential Information and will not disclose to others, directly or indirectly, any Confidential Information or anything relating to such information without the prior written consent of the Company, except as may be necessary in the course of your business relationship with the Company. You further agree that you will not use any Confidential Information without the prior written consent of the Company, except as may be necessary in the course of your business relationship with the Company, and that the provisions of this paragraph (d) shall survive termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may disclose Confidential Information to your legal counsel and accounting advisors who have a need to know such information for accounting or tax purposes and who agree to be bound by the provisions of this paragraph (d).
e. Ownership. You agree that the Company shall own all right, title and interest (including patent rights, copyrights, trade secret rights, mask work rights, trademark rights, and all other intellectual and industrial property rights of any sort throughout the world) relating to any and all inventions (whether or not patentable), works of authorship, mask works, designations, designs, know-how, ideas and information made or conceived or reduced to practice, in whole or in part, by you during the term of this Agreement and that arise out of your Duties (collectively, “Inventions”) and you will promptly disclose and provide all Inventions to the Company. You agree to assist the Company, at its expense, to further evidence, record and perfect such assignments, and to perfect, obtain, maintain, enforce, and defend any rights assigned.
7. Non-Solicitation. During the term of your appointment, you shall not solicit for employment any employee of the Company with whom you have had contact due to your appointment.
8. Termination and Resignation. Your services as a Director may be terminated for any or no reason by the determination of the Board. You may also terminate your services as a Director for any or no reason by delivering your written notice of resignation to the Company (“Resignation”), and such Resignation shall be effective upon the time specified therein or, if no time is specified, upon receipt of the notice of resignation by the Company. Upon the effective date of the termination or Resignation, your right to compensation hereunder will terminate subject to the Company's obligations to pay you any compensation that you have already earned and to reimburse you for approved expenses already incurred in connection with your performance of your Duties as of the effective date of such termination or Resignation.
9. Governing Law; Arbitration. All questions with respect to the construction and/or enforcement of this Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder, shall be determined in accordance with the law of the State of New York. All disputes with respect to this Agreement, including the existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach or termination thereof or any dispute regarding non-contractual obligations arising out of or relating to it shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association at its New York office in force when the Notice of Arbitration is submitted. The law of this arbitration clause shall be New York law. The seat of arbitration shall be in New York. The number of arbitrators shall be one. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in English.
10. Entire Agreement; Amendment; Waiver; Counterparts. This Agreement expresses the entire understanding with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and terminates any prior oral or written agreements with respect to the subject matter hereof. Any term of this Agreement may be amended and observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived only with the written consent of the parties hereto. Waiver of any term or condition of this Agreement by any party shall not be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach or failure of the same term or condition or waiver of any other term or condition of this Agreement. The failure of any party at any time to require performance by any other party of any provision of this Agreement shall not affect the right of any such party to require future performance of such provision or any other provision of this Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in separate counterparts each of which will be an original and all of which taken together will constitute one and the same agreement, and may be executed using facsimiles of signatures, and a facsimile of a signature shall be deemed to be the same, and equally enforceable, as an original of such signature.
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11. Indemnification. The Company shall, to the maximum extent provided under applicable law, indemnify and hold you harmless from and against any expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, judgments, fines, settlements and other legally permissible amounts (“Losses”), incurred in connection with any proceeding arising out of, or related to, your performance of your Duties, other than any such Losses incurred as a result of your gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Company shall advance to you any expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of settlement, incurred in defending any such proceeding to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Such costs and expenses incurred by you in defense of any such proceeding shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceeding promptly upon receipt by the Company of (a) written request for payment; (b) appropriate documentation evidencing the incurrence, amount and nature of the costs and expenses for which payment is being sought; and (c) an undertaking adequate under applicable law made by or on your behalf to repay the amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined pursuant to any non-appealable judgment or settlement that you are not entitled to be indemnified by the Company.
12. Acknowledgement. You accept this Agreement subject to all the terms and provisions of this Agreement. You agree to accept as binding, conclusive, and final all decisions or interpretations of the Board of Directors of the Company of any questions arising under this Agreement.
The Agreement has been executed and delivered by the undersigned and is made effective as of the date set first set forth above.
Sincerely, | ||
AGM Group Holdings Inc. | ||
By: | /s/ Wenjie Tang | |
Wenjie Tang | ||
CEO |
AGREED AND ACCEPTED: | |
/s/ Jing Shi |
Jing
Shi
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Exhibit 99.1
April 30, 2021
AGM Group Holdings Inc.
c/o Creative Consultants (Hong Kong) Limited
Room 1502-3 15/F., Connuaght Commercial Building, 185 Wanchai Road
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Board of Directors,
Please accept my resignation as a director, a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee, and the chairman of the Nominating Committee of AGM Group Holdings Inc., effective from April 30, 2021.
I appreciate the opportunities from growth and development the company have provided during my tenure.
Please let know how I can be of help during the transition period. I wish the company the very best going forward.
Sincerely,
/s/ Tingfu Xie |
Tingfu Xie