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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

 

December 16, 2022

(December 9, 2022)

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

 

MicroAlgo Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Cayman Islands   001-40024   Not Applicable

(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)

  (Commission
File Number)
 

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

Unit 507, Building C, Taoyuan Street,

Long Jing High and New Technology Jingu Pioneer Park,

Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518052,

People’s Republic of China

0755-88600589

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

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:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
   
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
   
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
   
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

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 $0.001 per share   MLGO   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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

 

As previously announced, MicroAlgo Inc. (“MicroAlgo” or the “Company”) (f/k/a Venus Acquisition Corporation (“Venus”)), a Cayman Islands exempted company, entered into the Business Combination and Merger Agreement dated June 10, 2021 (as amended on January 24, 2022, August 2, 2022, August 3, 2022 and August 10, 2022, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (“WiMi” or the “Majority Shareholder”), Venus, Venus Merger Sub Corporation (“Venus Merger Sub”), a Cayman Islands exempted company incorporated for the purpose of effectuating the Business Combination (as defined herein), and VIYI Algorithm Inc. (“VIYI”), a Cayman Islands exempted company.

 

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, VIYI will merge with Venus and survive the merger and continue as the surviving company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Venus and continue its business operations (the “Merger”, and, collectively with the other transactions described in the Merger Agreement, the “Business Combination”).

 

On October 21, 2022, Venus held an Extraordinary General Meeting (the “Extraordinary General Meeting”) to approve the Merger and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. As of September 28, 2022, the record date for the Extraordinary General Meeting (“Record Date”), there were 6,050,000 Venus ordinary shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote.

 

At the Extraordinary General Meeting, a total of 5,312,658 (or 87.81%) of Venus’ issued and outstanding ordinary shares, in each case held as of the Record Date, were present either in person or by proxy, which collectively constituted a quorum for the transaction of business. Venus’ shareholders voted on and approved each of the proposals (except on the proposal of adjournment, as explained below), including the business combination proposal. Detailed descriptions of each proposal are included in Venus’ Definitive Proxy Statement filed on Schedule 14A (File No. 001-40024) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on October 4, 2022, and mailed to Venus’ shareholders (the “Proxy Statement”). The proposal to approve the adjournment of the Extraordinary General Meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary or appropriate, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies was deemed not necessary and not acted upon at the Extraordinary General Meeting.

 

On November 10, 2022, Venus convened another extraordinary general meeting for the purpose of amending and restating Venus’ articles of association to extend the date by which Venus must consummate a business combination. The purpose of this extension was to allow Venus and VIYI sufficient time to complete the Business Combination.

 

On December 9, 2022, in accordance with the Merger Agreement, the closing of the Business Combination (the “Closing”) occurred, pursuant to which Venus issued 39,603,961 ordinary shares to VIYI shareholders. As a result of the consummation of the Business Combination, VIYI is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, which has changed its name to MicroAlgo Inc.

 

Following the Closing, on December 13, 2022, the ordinary shares outstanding upon the Closing began trading on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange (the “NASDAQ”) under the symbol “MLGO”.

 

Immediately after giving effect to the Business Combination, MicroAlgo has 43,856,706 ordinary shares issued and outstanding consisting of (i) the 3,963,745 ordinary shares held by previous Venus public shareholders and its Sponsor; (ii) the 39,603,961 newly issued Venus ordinary shares to the VIYI shareholders pursuant to the Merger Agreement, of which 792,079 ordinary shares issued to the Majority Shareholder will be held in escrow to satisfy any potential indemnification claims(s) which may be made by Venus under the Merger Agreement; (iii) the 214,000 newly issued Venus ordinary shares to the Joyous JD Limited as part of the backstop investment; and (iv) the 75,000 ordinary shares held by Venus’ underwriter.

 

Venus rights held by its Sponsor and previous public investors were automatically converted to 482,500 ordinary shares upon the consummation of the Business Combination.

 

Immediately after the closing of the Business Combination, MicroAlgo has 4,825,000 warrants issued and outstanding, consisting of (i) 4,600,000 warrants held by previous public investors of Venus; and (ii) 225,000 warrants held by the Sponsor of Venus.

 

As of the date of the Closing, VIYI shareholders owned approximately 90.3% of the outstanding ordinary shares, the post-Closing directors and executive officers and their respective affiliated entities beneficially owned approximately 72.2% of the outstanding ordinary shares, and the security holders of Venus immediately prior to the Closing (which includes Venus’ initial shareholders) beneficially owned post-Closing approximately 9.04% of the outstanding ordinary shares.

 

A description of the Business Combination and the terms of the Merger Agreement are included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “The Business Combination Proposal” beginning on page 87 of the Proxy Statement. The description of the Merger Agreement is a summary only and is qualified in their entirety by the full text of the Merger Agreement, including the subsequent amendments, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1, Exhibit 2.2, Exhibit 2.3, Exhibit 2.4 and Exhibit 2.5, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

 

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

 

Lock-up Agreements

 

In connection with the Closing, the Company entered into Lock-Up Agreements with each VIYI shareholder which provides in pertinent part that all shares held by the parties to the lock-up agreements will be subject to restrictions of sale, transfer or assignment as follows: (A) 50% of the shares until the earlier of (i) six (6) months after the date of the consummation of the Merger or (ii) the date on which the closing price of our ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.50 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share dividends, reorganizations and recapitalizations) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing after the Merger, and (B) the remaining 50% of the shares may not be transferred, assigned or sold until six months after the date of the consummation of the Business Combination. Venus’ Sponsor, and the pre-merger officers and directors of Venus executed a similar lock-up agreement in connection with completion of the Venus IPO.

 

In addition, the parties agreed that of the total 39,603,961 ordinary shares issued in the Business Combination to the VIYI shareholders, 2,500,000 ordinary shares will be free of any lock-up restrictions.

 

The foregoing description of the Lock-up Agreement is not complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Lock-up Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and the terms of which are incorporated by reference herein.

 

Escrow Agreement

 

In connection with the transactions, Venus, the Majority Shareholder, and an escrow agent entered into an escrow agreement, pursuant to which 792,079 Venus ordinary shares to be issued by Venus to the Majority Shareholder will be held in escrow to secure the indemnification obligations as contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Escrow Agreement”). The form of Escrow Agreement shall be in the customary form used by such escrow agent for similar transactions consistent with the terms of the Merger Agreement.

 

The foregoing description of the Escrow Agreement is not complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Escrow Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 hereto and the terms of which are incorporated by reference herein.

 

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

In connection with the Closing, the Company entered into separate Indemnification Agreements with its directors and executive officers. These agreements, among other things, require the Company to indemnify its directors and executive officers for certain liabilities and expenses, reasonable attorneys’ fees and all other direct or indirect costs, expenses and obligations, including judgments, fines, penalties, interest, appeal bonds, amounts paid in settlement with the approval of the Company, counsel fees and disbursements (including, without limitation, experts’ fees, court costs, retainers, appeal bond premiums, transcript fees, duplicating, printing and binding costs, as well as telecommunications, postage and courier charges) and other fees (including, among others, witness fees, travel expenses and fees of private investigators and professional advisors, actually paid or incurred in connection with investigating, prosecuting, defending, being a witness in or participating in any Claim relating to any Indemnifiable Event (as such terms are defined in each indemnification agreement) incurred by a director or executive officer in any action or proceeding related to the fact that such person is or was a director, officer or fiduciary of the Company, or is or was serving on behalf of the Company or at the request of the Company as a director, officer or fiduciary or similar capacity, of another company.

 

The foregoing description of the indemnification agreements is not complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.3 and the terms of which are incorporated by reference herein.

 

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Registration Rights Agreement

 

In connection with the Business Combination, Venus and VIYI shareholders entered into a registration rights agreement on June 10, 2021, to provide for the resale registration with respect to the shares issued to VIYI shareholders (“Registration Rights Agreement”) in connection with the Business Combination. The terms of the Registration Rights Agreement are described in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “The Business Combination Proposal” beginning on page 87 of the Proxy Statement.

 

The foregoing description of the Registration Rights Agreement is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Registration Rights Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.4 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Non-competition and Non-solicitation Agreements

 

In connection with the Business Combination, on June 10, 2021, Venus, VIYI shareholders, and VIYI entered into a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement with WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. in favor of Venus and VIYI (“Non-competition and Non-solicitation Agreement”). Pursuant to these agreements, the VIYI shareholders shall agree not to compete with VIYI’s business, nor support any affiliate in competing with VIYI’s business during the two years following the closing of the Merger. Additionally, none of such persons will encourage, induce or solicit any employee, director or officer of VIYI to leave VIYI.

 

The foregoing description of the Non-competition and Non-solicitation Agreement is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the form of Non-competition and Non-solicitation Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.5 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Amendment to Backstop Agreement

 

On December 12, 2022, Venus and Sponsor entered into an amendment to backstop agreement (the “Amendment Agreement”) with Joyous JD Limited (“Joyous” or the “Buyer”) in connection with that certain backstop agreement (“Backstop Agreement”) dated November 23, 2022 pursuant to which Joyous has agreed to backstop Venus share redemptions, among others, by purchasing Venus ordinary shares from third parties through a broker in the open market (other than through Venus), or through privately negotiated transactions, including from Venus public shareholders that had elected to redeem Venus ordinary shares.

 

Pursuant to the Backstop Agreement, the Buyer has agreed to backstop Venus share redemptions by acquiring Venus shares of an aggregate value up to US$25,000,000 at the redemption price per share. As of the date of the Amendment Agreement, Joyous has purchased Venus ordinary shares in open market transactions or through privately negotiated transactions of an aggregate value of US$21,557,405.80 at US$10.55 per share. The parties to the Backstop Agreement deem that any additional backstop investment by the Joyous at closing of the Business Combination is no longer necessary or desired. To effectuate the foregoing, the parties amended certain provisions of the Backstop Agreement to the effect that no additional backstop investment in Venus ordinary shares by Joyous will be required at the closing of the Business Combination.

 

The foregoing description is only a summary of the Amendment Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amendment Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.6 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

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Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated into this Item 2.01 by reference.

 

FORM 10 INFORMATION

 

Prior to the Closing, the Company was a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) with no operations and formed as a vehicle to effectuate a business combination with one or more operating businesses. After the Closing, the Company became a holding company whose only assets consists of equity interests in VIYI.

 

Item 2.01(f) of the Current Report on Form 8-K states that if the predecessor registrant was a shell company, as Venus was immediately before the Business Combination, then the registrant must disclose the information that would be required if the registrant were filing a general form for registration of securities on Form 10. Accordingly, the Company, as the successor registrant to Venus, is providing the information below that would be included in a Form 10 if it were to file a Form 10. Please note that the information provided below relates to the combined company after the Closing of the Business Combination, unless otherwise specifically indicated or the context otherwise requires.

 

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

Certain statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K and in documents incorporated herein by reference include “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as “estimate,” “plan,” “project,” “forecast,” “intend,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “seek,” “target”, “may”, “intend”, “predict”, “should”, “would”, “predict”, “potential”, “seem”, “future”, “outlook” or other similar expressions (or negative versions of such words or expressions) that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s expectations with respect to future performance and anticipated financial impacts of the business combination. These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified herein, and on the current expectations of the Company’s, management and are not predictions of actual performance. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and may differ from assumptions, and such differences may be material. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of the Company.

 

The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of the Company, as applicable, and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of such statement. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in “Risk Factors”, those discussed and identified in public filings made with the SEC by the Company and the following:

 

  expectations regarding the Company’s strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, customer acquisition and retention, products and services, pricing, marketing plans, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and its ability to invest in growth initiatives and pursue acquisition opportunities;

 

  the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Venus, VIYI and others following the consummation of the Business Combination and transactions contemplated therein;

 

  litigation and regulatory enforcement risks, including the diversion of management time and attention and the additional costs and demands on the Company’s resources;

 

  the risk that the proposed Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations of VIYI as a result of the consummation of the Business Combination;

 

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  the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination;

 

  unexpected costs related to the Business Combination;

 

  the amount of any redemptions by existing holders of Venus ordinary shares being greater than expected;

 

  the management and board composition of the Company following the proposed Business Combination;

 

  the ability to list or maintain the Company’s securities on the Nasdaq Capital Market;

 

  limited liquidity and trading of the Company’s securities;

 

  geopolitical risk and changes in applicable laws or regulations;

 

  the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors;

 

  operational risks;

 

  The possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business and/or competitive factors.

 

  fluctuations in exchange rates between the foreign currencies in which the Company typically does business and the United States dollar; and

 

Business

 

The businesses of the Company are described in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Business of Venus” beginning on page 171 and “Business of VIYI” beginning on page 121, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Risk Factors

 

The risk factors related to the business and operations of the Company and the Business Combination are set forth in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 39, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Operations

 

Reference is made to the disclosure contained in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of VIYI” beginning on page 139, which is incorporated by reference herein.

 

VIYI’s management’s discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 is set forth in Exhibit 99.3 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

 

Reference is made to the disclosure contained in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” beginning on page 160, which is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Facilities

 

The facilities of the Company are described in the Proxy Statement in the section titled “Business of VIYI - Facilities” beginning on page 136, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Beneficial Ownership of Securities

 

The following table sets forth the beneficial ownership of ordinary shares immediately following consummation of the Business Combination by:

 

  each person known to the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of shares;

 

  each person who is an executive officer or director of the Company; and

 

  all executive officers and directors of the Company, as a group.

 

Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with SEC rules, which generally provide that a person has beneficial ownership of a security if he, she or it possesses sole or shared voting or investment power over that security, including options and warrants that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of the Business Combination.

 

   Ordinary Shares     
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner(1)  Number   %   Voting Power (%) 
Executive Officers and Directors               
Jie Zhao (2)   19,803,961    45.2%   45.2%
Chengwei Yi (3)   1,386,139    3.2%   3.2%
Shan Cui               
Haixia Zhao               
Wengang Kang               
Li He               
Min Shu               
Shiwen Liu               
All Executive Officers and Directors as a group   21,190,100    48.4%   48.4%
5% Or Greater Holders               
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.   28,910,892    65.9%   65.9%
MIDI Capital Markets, LLC   3,960,396    9.0%   9.0%
Guosheng Holdings Limited   3,960,396    9.0%   9.0%
Milestone Investments Limited   2,772,277    6.3%   6.3%

 

 
(1) The business address of our directors and executive officers is Unit 507, Building C, Taoyuan Street Long Jing High and New Technology Jingu Pioneer Park Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518052 People’s Republic of China.
(2) The reported securities are held by WiMi, a company in which Jie Zhao controls 68.5% of the voting power through holding 100% of all WiMi’s issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares and 27.1% of all WiMi’s issued and outstanding Class B ordinary shares.
(3) The reported securities are held by Milestone Investment Limited, a company in which Chengwei Yi controls 50% of the voting power through holding 50% of Milestone’s ordinary shares.

 

Directors and Executive Officers

 

The Company’s directors and executive officers after the Closing are described in the Proxy Statement in the section titled “New Venus’ Directors and Executive Officers After the Business Combination” beginning on page 198, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Committees of the Board of Directors

 

Information with respect to the composition of the Board immediately after the Closing is described in the Proxy Statement in the section titled “New Venus’ Directors and Executive Officers After the Business Combination Committees of New Venus’ Board of Directors” beginning on page 200, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers

 

A description of the compensation of the directors and executive officers of VIYI before the consummation of the business combination is described in the Proxy Statement in the section titled “Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers” beginning on page 202, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

 

The description of certain relationships and related transactions is described in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Certain Transactions” beginning on page 217 which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

The description of legal proceedings is described in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Legal Proceedings” beginning on page 136, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The Company is not currently involved in, nor is it aware of any legal proceedings, investigations or claims that management believes may have a material adverse effect to the Company’s business, financial condition, or results of operations.

 

Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Shareholder Matters

 

Market Information and Holders

 

Venus units, ordinary shares, rights and warrants were historically listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “VENAU”, “VENA”, “VENAR” and “VENAW”, respectively. At the Closing, each of Venus’ public units separated into its components consisting of one ordinary share, one warrant and one right, as a result, the units no longer trade as a separate security. On December 13, 2022, the Company’s ordinary shares began trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the new trading symbol MLGO, respectively.

 

Immediately after giving effect to the Business Combination, MicroAlgo has 43,856,706 ordinary shares issued and outstanding, and 4,825,000 warrants outstanding.

 

Dividends

 

The Company has not paid any cash dividends on its ordinary shares to date and does not intend to pay cash dividends in the foreseeable future. The payment of cash dividends in the future will be dependent upon the Company’s revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition. The payment of any dividends be within the discretion of the then board of directors. It is the present intention of the board of directors to retain all earnings, if any, for use in the business operations and, accordingly, the board of directors does not anticipate declaring any dividends in the foreseeable future. Further, if the Company incurs any indebtedness, its ability to declare dividends may be limited by restrictive covenants it may agree to in connection therewith. See the section beginning on page 38 of the Proxy Statement titled “Securities and Dividends” and such information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.

 

Information about unregistered sales of the Company’s equity securities is described under Item 3.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered.

 

A description of the Company’s ordinary shares and warrants is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Description of New Venus’ Securities” beginning on page 222, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

Information about indemnification of the Company’s directors and officers is described in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “New Venus’ Directors and Executive Officers After the Business Combination” beginning on page 198 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The disclosure set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under the section entitled “Indemnification Agreements” is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.01.

 

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

The information set forth under Item 9.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 3.01 – Transfer of Listing

 

The information set forth in the sections entitled “Market Information and Holders” in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 3.02 – Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The securities issued to VIYI shareholders in connection with the Closing were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.

 

Item 5.01 Change in Control of the Registrant.

 

The information set forth in the section entitled “Introductory Note” and in the section entitled “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

As a result of the completion of the Business Combination pursuant to the Merger Agreement, a change of control of Venus has occurred, and the shareholders of Venus as of immediately prior to the Closing held 9.04% of the outstanding shares of Venus ordinary shares immediately following the Closing.

 

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

 

The information set forth in the sections entitled “Directors and Executive Officers” and “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation.

 

At the Extraordinary General Meeting, Venus’ shareholders voted and approved, among other things, Proposal No. 5 and 6 (the “Articles Proposals”) which are described in greater detail in the Proxy Statement beginning on page 118 and is set forth under Item 5.07 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The Amended and Restated Articles of Association (the “Amended Articles of Association”), which became effective upon filing with the Companies Register of the Cayman Islands on December 9, 2022, includes the amendments proposed by the Articles Proposals.

 

A copy of the Amended Articles of Association is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The description of the Amended Articles of Association and its general effect upon the rights of the Company’s security holders are included in the Proxy Statement under the section titled “Description of New Venus’ Securities” beginning on page 222 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 5.06 Change in Shell Company Status.

 

As a result of the Business Combination, the Company ceased being a shell company. The material terms of the Business Combination are described in the section entitled “Proposal No. 1 – The Business Combination Proposal” beginning on page 87 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference. Further, the information set forth in the “Introductory Note” and under Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

On December 12, 2022, the Company issued a press release announcing the Closing. The press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report.

 

The information in this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, is furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to liabilities under that section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the filings of the Company under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filings.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

  (a) Financial statements of businesses acquired

 

The historical audited financial statements of VIYI and its subsidiaries as of and for the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2021 and the related notes are included in the Proxy Statement beginning from page F-83 to F-129 of the Proxy Statement and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The unaudited condensed financial statements of VIYI and its subsidiaries as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 and the related notes are filed as Exhibit 99.2 to this Report and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

  (b) Pro forma financial information.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of Venus and VIYI as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and for the year ended December 31, 2021 are filed as Exhibit 99.4 to this Report and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

  (c) Exhibits.

 

Item   Description
2.1   Business combination and Merger Agreement dated as of June 10, 2021 by and among VIYI Algorithm Inc., Venus Acquisition Corporation and Venus Merger Sub Corporation and WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. previously filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K as filed with the SEC on October 4, 2022.
2.2   First Amendment to the Business Combination and Merger Agreement dated as of January 24, 2022
2.3   Second Amendment to the Business Combination and Merger Agreement dated as of August 2, 2022
2.4   Third Amendment to the Business Combination and Merger Agreement dated as of August 3, 2022
2.5   Fourth Amendment to the Business Combination and Merger Agreement dated as of August 10, 2022
3.1   MicroAlgo Inc. Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation
4.1   Specimen Ordinary Share Certificate
10.1   Form of Lock-Up Agreement
10.2   Form of Escrow Agreement
10.3   Form of Indemnification Agreement
10.4   Form of Registration Rights Agreement
10.5   Form of Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement
10.6   Form of Amendment to Backstop Agreement
21.1   List of Subsidiaries
99.1   Press Release dated December 12, 2022
99.2   The unaudited condensed financial statements of VIYI and its subsidiaries as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022
99.3   VIYI’s management’s discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022
99.4   The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of Venus and VIYI as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and for the year ended December 31, 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 hereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated: December 16, 2022  
   
MicroAlgo Inc.  
   
By: /s/ Min Shu  
Name: Min Shu  
Title: Chief Executive Officer  

 

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Exhibit 2.1

 

Execution Version

 

MERGER AGREEMENT

 

Dated as of

 

June 10, 2021

 

by and among

 

VIYI Algorithm Inc.,

 

Venus Acquisition Corporation,

 

Venus Merger Sub Corp., and

 

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

  Page
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS 2
   
ARTICLE II. MERGER 13
   
Section 2.1 Merger 13
Section 2.2 Closing; Effective Time 14
Section 2.3 Effect of the Merger 14
Section 2.4 Directors and Officers. 14
Section 2.5 Organizational Documents 14
Section 2.6 Taking of Necessary Action; Further Action 15
Section 2.7 Section 368 Reorganization 15
     
ARTICLE III. CONSIDERATION 15
   
Section 3.1 Allocation Statement 15
Section 3.2 Conversion of Capital 16
Section 3.3 Payment of Merger Consideration 16
     
ARTICLE IV. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY 17
   
Section 4.1 Corporate Existence and Power 17
Section 4.2 Authorization 18
Section 4.3 Governmental Authorization 18
Section 4.4 Non-Contravention 18
Section 4.5 Capital Structure 19
Section 4.6 Organizational Documents 19
Section 4.7 Subsidiaries 19
Section 4.8 Financial Statements 20
Section 4.9 Books and Records 21
Section 4.10 Absence of Certain Changes 21
Section 4.11 Properties; Title to the Company’s Assets 22
Section 4.12 Litigation 23
Section 4.13 Contracts 24
Section 4.14 Licenses and Permits 26
Section 4.15 Compliance with Laws 26
Section 4.16 Compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws 26
Section 4.17 Intellectual Property 27
Section 4.18 Employees 28
Section 4.19 Employment Matters 28
Section 4.20 Tax Matters 29
Section 4.21 Environmental Laws 29
Section 4.22 Finders’ Fees 30
Section 4.23 Not an Investment Company 30
Section 4.24 Affiliate Transactions 30
Section 4.25 Proxy/Registration Statement 30
Section 4.26 No other Representations or Warranties 30

 

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ARTICLE V. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PURCHASER PARTIES 31
   
Section 5.1 Corporate Existence and Power 31
Section 5.2 Authorization 31
Section 5.3 Governmental Authorization 31
Section 5.4 Non-Contravention 31
Section 5.5 Finders’ Fees 32
Section 5.6 Issuance of Shares 32
Section 5.7 Capitalization 32
Section 5.8 Information Supplied 33
Section 5.9 Trust Account 33
Section 5.10 Listing 34
Section 5.11 Board Approval 34
Section 5.12 Purchaser SEC Documents and Financial Statements 34
Section 5.13 Litigation 35
Section 5.14 Compliance with Laws 35
Section 5.15 Compliance with Anti-Corruption & Sanctions Law 35
Section 5.16 Not an Investment Company 36
Section 5.17 Tax Matters 36
Section 5.18 Contracts 36
Section 5.19 Business Activities 36
Section 5.20 Registration Statement and Proxy Statement 37
Section 5.21 Backstop Investment 37
Section 5.22 Exclusivity of Representations and Warranties 37
Section 5.23 No Outside Reliance 38
     
ARTICLE VI. COVENANTS OF COMPANY AND PURCHASER PARTIES 38
   
Section 6.1 Conduct of the Business 38
Section 6.2 Alternative Proposal and Alternative Transaction 41
Section 6.3 Access to Information 41
Section 6.4 Notices of Certain Events 42
Section 6.5 Proxy/Registration Statement and Requisite Approval 42
Section 6.6 Support of Transactions. 45
Section 6.7 Reasonable Best Efforts; Further Assurances 45
Section 6.8 Confidentiality 45
     
ARTICLE VII. COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY 46
   
Section 7.1 Reporting and Compliance with Laws 46
Section 7.2 PCAOB Financials 46
Section 7.3 No Claim Against the Trust Account 46

 

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ARTICLE VIII. COVENANTS OF PURCHASER PARTIES 47
   
Section 8.1 Nasdaq Listing. 47
Section 8.2 Public Filings. 47
Section 8.3 Trust Account 47
Section 8.4 Post-Closing Directors and Officers of Purchaser 47
Section 8.5 D&O Indemnification and Insurance 48
Section 8.6 Backstop Investment 49
Section 8.7 Section 16 Matters 49
Section 8.8 Shareholder Litigation 49
Section 8.9 Final Allocation Statement 50
     
ARTICLE IX. CONDITIONS TO CLOSING 50
   
Section 9.1 Condition to the Obligations of the Parties 50
Section 9.2 Conditions to Obligations of the Purchaser Parties 50
Section 9.3 Conditions to Obligations of the Company 51
     
ARTICLE X. DISPUTE RESOLUTION 52
   
Section 10.1 Arbitration 52
Section 10.2 Waiver of Jury Trial; Exemplary Damages 53
     
ARTICLE XI. TERMINATION 53
   
Section 11.1 Termination without Default 53
Section 11.2 Termination upon Default 54
Section 11.3 Effect of Termination 54
     
ARTICLE XII. INDEMNIFICATION 54
   
Section 12.1 Indemnification of Purchaser 54
Section 12.2 Procedure 55
Section 12.3 Escrow Shares; Payment of Dividends; Voting 56
Section 12.4 Payment of Indemnification 57
Section 12.5 Survival of Indemnification Rights 57
Section 12.6 Sole and Exclusive Remedy 57
     
ARTICLE XIII. MISCELLANEOUS 57
   
Section 13.1 Notices 57
Section 13.2 Non-survival or Representations, Warranties and Covenants 58
Section 13.3 Amendments; No Waivers; Remedies 58
Section 13.4 Arm’s Length Bargaining; No Presumption Against Drafter 59
Section 13.5 Publicity 59
Section 13.6 Expenses 59
Section 13.7 No Assignment or Delegation 59
Section 13.8 Governing Law 60
Section 13.9 Counterparts; Facsimile Signatures 60
Section 13.10 Entire Agreement 60
Section 13.11 Severability 60
Section 13.12 Construction of Certain Terms and References; Captions 60
Section 13.13 Further Assurances 61
Section 13.14 Third Party Beneficiaries 61
Section 13.15 Waiver of Conflicts 61
Section 13.16 Specific Performance 62

 

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Annex 1 Allocation Statement  
   
Annex 2 Plan of Merger  
   
Exhibit A Form of Registration Rights Agreement  
   
Exhibit B Form of Lock-up Agreement  
   
Exhibit C Form of Backstop Agreement  
   
Exhibit D [Reserved]  
   
Exhibit E Form of Non-competition and Non-solicitation Agreement  
   
Exhibit F Form of Company Transaction  Support  Agreement  
   
Exhibit G Form of Memorandum and Articles of Association  
   
Company Disclosure Schedule  

 

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MERGER AGREEMENT

 

This MERGER AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of June 10, 2021 (the “Signing Date”), by and among VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), Venus Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Purchaser”), Venus Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and wholly- owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (the “Merger Sub”) and WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a Cayman Islands company and the legal and beneficial owner of a majority of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the Company (“Majority Shareholder”).

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, Purchaser is a blank check company under the United States’ federal securities laws and was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses;

 

WHEREAS, Merger Sub is a newly formed entity and was formed for the purpose of effectuating the Merger (as defined below);

 

WHEREAS, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement and in accordance with the Cayman Islands Companies Act (as revised) (the “Cayman Companies Act”), the parties hereto desire and intend to effect a business combination transaction whereby the Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company being the surviving entity (the Company is hereinafter referred to for the periods from and after the Merger Effective Time (as defined below) as the “Surviving Corporation”) and becoming a wholly owned Subsidiary of Purchaser (the “Merger”) on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and simultaneously with the Closing Purchaser will change its name to “MicroAlgo Inc.”;

 

WHEREAS, for U.S. Federal income tax and applicable state income tax purposes, (a) the Merger is intended to constitute a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code (the “Intended Tax Treatment”) and (b) this Agreement is intended to constitute and hereby is adopted as a “plan of reorganization” with respect to the Merger within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Sections 1.368-2(g) and 1.368-3(a) for purposes of Sections 354, 361 and 368 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder;

 

WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Purchaser and the Company Shareholders (as defined below) are entering into a registration rights agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Registration Rights Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Closing, each of the Purchaser, Yolanda Management Corporation, a British Virgin Islands company (the “IPO Sponsor”) and the Company Shareholders will enter into a lock-up agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (collectively, the “Lock-up Agreements”);

 

WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Purchaser has received a backstop agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Backstop Agreement”);

 

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WHEREAS, simultaneously with the execution of this Agreement, Purchaser, the Company, and all of the Company Shareholders have entered into a voting and transaction support agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F (“Company Transaction Support Agreement”) whereby the Company’s Shareholders holding all of the voting securities of the Company shall agree that in the event that any Company Shareholders or their respective Affiliates own or control any Purchaser Ordinary Shares prior to the vote at the Purchaser’s Shareholders’ Meeting (as defined below) to approve the Merger and the Transactions, they shall vote or cause to be voted all such Purchaser Ordinary Shares then held by them or their respective Affiliates in favour of the Merger and the Transactions and shall not redeem any such Purchaser Ordinary Shares;

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Closing (as defined below), the Purchaser, the Majority Shareholder and certain escrow agent to be jointly selected by the parties (the “Escrow Agent”) will enter into an escrow agreement substantially in the customary form used by the Escrow Agent for similar transactions and consistent with the terms of this Agreement (the “Escrow Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Closing, the Purchaser, the Company and each of the Company Shareholders will enter into a non-compete and non-solicitation agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E (collectively, the “Non-Compete Agreements”).

 

WHEREAS, the board of directors of the Company has (i) determined that this Agreement, the Merger and the other Transactions are in the best interests of the Company,

(ii) approved and declared advisable this Agreement and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions (as defined below), and (iii) resolved to recommend the adoption of this Agreement by the shareholders of the Company;

 

WHEREAS, the Company Shareholders have adopted a resolution by written consent approving this Agreement and the Transactions (“Company Shareholder Approval”) ;

 

WHEREAS, the board of directors of the Purchaser has unanimously (a) determined that this Agreement, the Merger and the Transactions are fair to, advisable and in the best interests of the Purchaser and constitute a “Business Combination” as such term is defined in the Purchaser’s Organizational Documents (as defined below), (b) approved and declared advisable this Agreement and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, (c) resolved to recommend the adoption of this Agreement by the shareholders of the Purchaser, and (d) directed that this Agreement be submitted to the shareholders of the Purchaser for their adoption;

 

WHEREAS, the board of directors of the Merger Sub has (i) determined that the Merger is fair to, advisable and in the best interests of Merger Sub, (ii) approved and declared advisable this Agreement and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions and (b) the sole shareholder of Merger Sub has adopted a resolution by written consent approving this Agreement and the Transactions; and

 

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Transactions, Purchaser shall provide an opportunity to the Purchaser Shareholders to have their Purchaser Ordinary Shares redeemed for consideration on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Purchaser Organizational Documents and the Trust Agreement in conjunction with obtaining the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval.

 

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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above, which are incorporated in this Agreement as if fully set forth below, and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties accordingly agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS

 

The following terms, as used herein, have the following meanings:

 

Action” means any legal action, suit, claim, investigation, hearing or proceeding, including any audit, claim or assessment for Taxes or otherwise.

 

Additional Purchaser SEC Documents” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.12.

 

Adjournment Proposal” has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.5(a).

 

Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly Controlling, Controlled by, or under common Control with such Person.

 

Allocation Statement” has the meaning given to such term in Section 3.1.

 

Alternative Proposal” has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.2.

 

Alternative Transaction” has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.2.

 

Arbitrator” has the meaning given to such term in Section 10.1.

 

Anti-Corruption Laws” means, collectively, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Bribery Act 2010, the anti-corruption and anti-bribery Laws of the PRC for the prevention of punishment of public or commercial corruption or bribery, including the PRC Criminal Law and the PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law, OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, the UN Convention against Corruption, United States Currency, Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, and any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption Laws related to combatting bribery, corruption and money laundering.

 

Authority” means any governmental, regulatory or administrative body, agency or authority, any court or judicial authority, any arbitrator, any relevant stock exchange, or any public, private or industry regulatory authority, whether international, national, federal, state, or local.

 

Backstop Agreement” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Balance Sheet Date” means December 31, 2020.

 

Books and Records” means all books and records, ledgers, employee records, customer lists, files, correspondence, and other records of every kind (whether written, electronic, or otherwise embodied) owned or used by a Person or in which a Person’s assets, the business or its transactions are otherwise reflected, other than stock books and minute books.

 

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Business Combination Proposal” has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.5(a).

 

Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday on which commercial banking institutions in New York or the PRC are authorized to close for business.

 

Cayman Companies Act” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Change of Name Proposal” has the meaning given to such term Section 6.5(a).

 

Closing” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.2.

 

Closing Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.2.

 

Closing Payment Shares” means, with respect to a Company Shareholder other than the Majority Shareholder, such number of the Consideration Shares to be received by such Company Shareholder at Closing, and with respect to the Majority Shareholder, such number of the Consideration Shares equal to the result of the total number of Consideration Shares payable to the Majority Shareholder less the number of Escrow Shares, in each case as set forth opposite of each Company Shareholder’s name in the Allocation Statement and subject to any adjustments made pursuant to Section 3.1.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

Company Balance Sheet” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.8(a).

 

Company Disclosure Schedule” has the meaning given to such term in Article IV.

 

Company Group” means, collectively, the Company and its Subsidiaries.

 

Company Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse change or a material adverse effect upon on the assets, liabilities, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, net worth, management, earnings, cash flows, business, operations or properties of the Company Group and its business, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the Ordinary Course of business, provided, however, that “Company Material Adverse Effect” shall not include any event, occurrence, fact, condition or change, directly or indirectly, arising out of or attributable to: (i) general economic or political conditions; (ii) conditions generally affecting the industries in which the Company Group operates; (iii) any changes in financial, banking or securities markets in general, including any disruption thereof and any decline in the price of any security or any market index or any change in prevailing interest rates; (iv) acts of war (whether or not declared), armed hostilities or terrorism, or the escalation or worsening thereof; (v) any action required or permitted by this Agreement or any action taken (or omitted to be taken) with the written consent of or at the written request of the Purchaser Parties; (vi) any changes in applicable Laws or accounting rules or the enforcement, implementation or interpretation thereof; (vii) the announcement, pendency or completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including losses or threatened losses of employees, customers, suppliers, distributors or others having relationships with the Company; (viii) any natural or man-made disaster or acts of God; or (ix) any failure by the Company Group to meet any internal or published projections, forecasts or revenue or earnings predictions (provided that the underlying causes of such failures, subject to the other provisions of this definition, shall not be excluded).

 

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Company Share Rights” means all options, warrants, rights, or other securities (including debt instruments) to purchase, convert or exchange into Company Shares.

 

Company Shares” means shares in the capital of the Company.

 

Company Shareholder” means the holders of the Company Shares.

 

Company Shareholder Approval” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

 

Company Transaction Expenses” means all fees, costs and expenses of the Company incurred prior to and through the Closing Date in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, the performance and compliance with all Transaction Documents and conditions contained herein to be performed or complied with at or prior to the Closing, the other Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including fees, costs, expenses and disbursements of counsel, accountants, advisors and consultants of the Company, whether paid or unpaid as of the Closing.

 

Consideration Shares” means such number of Purchaser Ordinary Shares equal to the Valuation divided by SPAC Per Share Redemption Price, rounded up to the nearest whole number.

 

Contracts” means all contracts, agreements, leases (including equipment leases, car leases and capital leases), licenses, commitments, client contracts, statements of work (SOWs), sales and purchase orders and similar instruments, oral or written, to which the Company and/or any of its Subsidiary is a party or by which any of its respective assets are bound, including any entered into by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiary in compliance with Section 6.1 after the date hereof and prior to the Closing.

 

Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by Contract or otherwise; and the terms “Controlled” and “Controlling” shall have the meaning correlative to the foregoing.

 

"Director Appointment Proposal" has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.5(a).

 

D&O Indemnified Parties” has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.5.

 

Effective Time” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.2.

 

Environmental Laws” shall mean all applicable Laws that prohibit, regulate or control any Hazardous Material or any Hazardous Material Activity, including, without limitation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act of 1976, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Clean Air Act, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act and the Clean Water Act.

 

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Escrow Agent” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Escrow Shares” means such number of the Consideration Shares to be held in escrow after the Closing and released pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement, being such number of Consideration Shares representing 2% of the total number of Consideration Shares payable to the Majority Shareholder as set forth opposite of the Majority Shareholder’s name in the Allocation Statement and subject to any adjustments made pursuant to Section 3.1.

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

Financial Statements” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.8(a).

 

Fraud Claim” means any claim based in whole or in part upon fraud, willful misconduct or intentional misrepresentation.

 

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time

 

Governmental Approval” means each and any of consent, approval, license or other action by or in respect of, or registration, declaration or filing with, any Authority.

 

Government Official” means (a) an officer or employee of any national, regional, local or other component of government, (b) a director, officer or employee of any entity in which a government or any component of a government possesses a majority interest; (c) a political party or political party official; and (e) any individual who is acting in an official capacity for any government, component of a government, or political party.

 

Hazardous Material” shall mean any material, emission, chemical, substance or waste that has been designated by any governmental Authority to be radioactive, toxic, hazardous, a pollutant or a contaminant.

 

Hazardous Material Activity” shall mean the transportation, transfer, recycling, storage, use, treatment, manufacture, removal, remediation, release, exposure of others to, sale, labeling, or distribution of any Hazardous Material or any product or waste containing a Hazardous Material, or product manufactured with ozone depleting substances, including, any required labeling, payment of waste fees or charges (including so-called e-waste fees) and compliance with any recycling, product take-back or product content requirements.

 

IPO” means the initial public offering of Purchaser pursuant to the IPO Prospectus.

 

IPO Prospectus” means the prospectus of Purchaser’s offering of 4,600,000 units (including the exercised over-allotment option) dated February 8, 2021 and filed with the SEC (Registration No. 333-251507).

 

IPO Sponsor” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

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Indebtedness” with respect to any Person, without duplication, any obligations, contingent or otherwise, in respect of (a) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of all indebtedness for borrowed money, including accrued interest and any per diem interest accruals, (b) amounts drawn (including any accrued and unpaid interest) on letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances and other similar instruments (solely to the extent such amounts have actually been drawn), (c) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes and similar instruments, (d) the termination value of interest rate protection agreements and currency obligation swaps, hedges or similar arrangements (without duplication of other indebtedness supported or guaranteed thereby), (e) the principal component of all obligations to pay the deferred and unpaid purchase price of property and equipment which have been delivered, including “earn outs” and “seller notes” but excluding payables arising in the Ordinary Course, (f) breakage costs, prepayment or early termination premiums, penalties, or other fees or expenses payable as a result of the consummation of the Transactions in respect of any of the items in the foregoing clauses (a) through (e), and (g) all Indebtedness of another Person referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above guaranteed directly or indirectly, jointly or severally.

 

Indemnification Notice” has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.2.

 

Indemnified Party” has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.1.

 

Indemnifying Party” has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.1.

 

Intellectual Property Right” means any and all intellectual property, industrial property, and proprietary rights worldwide, whether registered or unregistered, including rights in and to the following in any jurisdiction throughout the world: (a) all patents and utility models and inventions (whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice) and invention disclosures and all improvements thereto (“Patents”), (b) all trademarks, service marks, certification marks, collective marks, trade dress, logos, slogans, trade names, corporate and business names, and other indicia of source, including all goodwill symbolized thereby or associated therewith (“Trademarks”), (c) Internet domain names and rights of publicity and in social media usernames, handles, and accounts; (d) all works of authorship, copyrightable works, all copyrights and related rights (“Copyrights”), (e) all designs, industrial designs and mask works (“Designs”), (f) all trade secrets, know-how, proprietary information (such as processes, techniques, formulae, compositions, data analytics, source code, models and methodologies), business or financial information (such as customer and supplier lists, pricing and cost information and business and marketing plans and proposals), technical or engineering information (such as technical data, algorithms, designs, drawings and specifications) and other non-public or confidential information (“Trade Secrets”), (g) Technology, (h) Software, (i) any registrations or applications for registration for any of the foregoing, and any provisionals, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, renewals, reissuances, revisions, re- examinations and extensions of any of the foregoing (as applicable), each of which shall be deemed to be included in Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Designs or the foregoing clause (c), as applicable, and (j) analogous rights to those set forth above.

 

Intended Tax Treatment” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Law” means any domestic or foreign, federal, state, municipality or local law, statute, ordinance, code, principle of common law, act, treaty or order of general applicability of any applicable Authority, including rule or regulation promulgated thereunder.

 

Liabilities” means any and all liabilities, Indebtedness, claims, or obligations of any nature (whether absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise, whether known or unknown, whether direct or indirect, whether matured or unmatured and whether due or to become due), including Tax Liabilities due or to become due.

 

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Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, and any conditional sale or voting agreement or proxy, including any agreement to give any of the foregoing.

 

Lock-up Agreement” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Losses” has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.1.

 

Material Contracts” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.13(a).

 

Merger” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Merger Sub Share” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.7(b).

 

Non-Compete Agreements” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Order” means any decree, order, judgment, writ, award, injunction, rule or consent of or by an Authority.

 

Ordinary Course” means, with respect to an action taken or refrained from being taken by a Person, that such action or omission is taken in the ordinary course of the normal day-to-day operations of such Person, including any reasonable actions taken or refrained from being taken in good faith in response to COVID-19, any COVID-19 Measures or any change in such COVID-19 Measures or interpretations whether taken prior to or following the date of this Agreement.

 

Outside Closing Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 11.1.

 

Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person, its certificate of incorporation and bylaws, memorandum and articles of association or similar organizational documents, in each case, as amended.

 

"Organizational Documents Proposal" has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.5(a).

 

PCAOB Financials” has the meaning given to such term in Section 7.2.

 

Permitted Liens” means (i) all defects, exceptions, restrictions, easements, rights of way and encumbrances disclosed in policies of title insurance which have been made available to the Purchaser Parties; (ii) mechanics’, carriers’, workers’, repairers’ and similar statutory Liens arising or incurred in the Ordinary Course of business for amounts (A) that are not delinquent, (B) that are not material to the business, operations and financial condition of the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries so encumbered, either individually or in the aggregate, and (C) that not resulting from a breach, default or violation by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries of any Contract or Law; and (iii) liens for Taxes not yet due and payable or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings (and for which adequate accruals or reserves have been established in accordance to the applicable accounting principles and standards).

 

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Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership (including a general partnership, limited partnership or limited liability partnership), limited liability company, association, trust or other entity or organization, including a government, domestic or foreign, or political subdivision thereof, or an agency or instrumentality thereof.

 

Per Share Merger Consideration” means the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the aggregate number of Consideration Shares, by (b) the aggregate number of Company Shares outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.

 

Permit” means any permit, license, approval, certificate, qualification, consent or authorization issued by an Authority.

 

Plan of Merger” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.2.

 

Proxy Statement” means the proxy statement forming part of the Proxy/Registration Statement filed with the SEC, with respect to the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting and the transactions contemplated hereby, to be used for the purpose of soliciting proxies from Purchaser Shareholders to approve the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

Proxy/Registration Statement” has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.5(a).

 

Purchaser Board Recommendation” has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.5(b).

 

Purchaser Founder Shares” means the (a) 1,150,000 ordinary shares of Purchaser, par value $0.001 per share, issued to the IPO Sponsor prior to the IPO and (b) 225,000 ordinary shares of Purchaser, par value $0.001 per share, issued to the IPO Sponsor concurrently with the completion of the IPO .

 

Purchaser Financial Statements” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.12(b).

 

Purchaser Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse change or a material adverse effect upon on the assets, liabilities, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, net worth, management, earnings, cash flows, business, operations or properties of the Purchaser Parties and its business, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the Ordinary Course of business, or that would prevent or materially delay the Closing from happening, provided, however, that “Purchaser Material Adverse Effect” shall not include any event , occurrence, fact, condition or change, directly or indirectly, arising out of or attributable to: (i) general economic or political conditions; (ii) conditions generally affecting the industries in which each of the Purchaser Parties operates; (iii) any changes in financial, banking or securities markets in general, including any disruption thereof and any decline in the price of any security or any market index or any change in prevailing interest rates; (iv) acts of war (whether or not declared), armed hostilities or terrorism, or the escalation or worsening thereof; (v) any action required or permitted by this Agreement or any action taken (or omitted to be taken) with the written consent of or at the written request of the Company; (vi) any matter of which Company is aware on the date hereof; (vii) any changes in applicable Laws or accounting rules or the enforcement, implementation or interpretation thereof; (viii) the announcement, pendency or completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including losses or threatened losses of employees, customers, suppliers, distributors or others having relationships with the Purchaser Parties; (ix) any natural or man-made disaster or acts of God; or (x) any failure by the Purchaser Parties to meet any internal or published projections, forecasts or revenue or earnings predictions (provided that the underlying causes of such failures, subject to the other provisions of this definition, shall not be excluded).

 

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Purchaser Ordinary Shares” means the ordinary shares of Purchaser, par value $0.001 per share.

 

Purchaser Parties” means, collectively, the Purchaser and the Merger Sub, and “Purchaser Party” means either of them.

 

Purchaser Post-Closing Officers” has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.4.

 

Purchaser Rights” means the right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one Purchaser Ordinary Share upon consummation of a business combination of the Purchaser.

 

Purchaser SEC Documents” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.12.

 

Purchaser Securities” means the Purchaser Shares, Purchaser Rights, Purchaser Units, Purchaser Warrants, collectively.

 

Purchaser Share Redemption” means the right of the holders of Purchaser Shares to redeem all or a portion of their Purchaser Shares (in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise) as set forth in Organizational Documents of Purchaser and the Trust Agreement.

 

Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval” means the approval, at the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting where a quorum is present, of the Transaction Proposals comprising of (a) in the case of the Business Combination Proposal, an ordinary resolution in accordance with the Organizational Documents of Purchaser and applicable Law requiring the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Purchaser Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting and entitled to vote on such matter; (b) in the case of the Share Capital Proposal, an ordinary resolution in accordance with the Organizational Documents of Purchaser and applicable Law requiring the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Purchaser Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting and entitled to vote on such matter (c) in the case of the Change of Name Proposal, a special resolution in accordance with the Organizational Documents of Purchaser and applicable Law requiring the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Purchaser Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting and entitled to vote on such matter; (d) in the case of the Organizational Documents Proposal, a special resolution in accordance with the Organizational Documents of Purchaser and applicable Law requiring the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Purchaser Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting and entitled to vote on such matter (e) in the case of the Director Appointment Proposal, an ordinary resolution in accordance with the Organizational Documents of Purchaser and applicable Law requiring the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Purchaser Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting and entitled to vote on such matter ; and (f) in the case of the Adjournment Proposal, if required, an ordinary resolution in accordance with the Organizational Documents of Purchaser and applicable Law requiring the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Purchaser Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Purchaser's Shareholders' Meeting and entitled to vote on such matter.

 

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Purchaser Shares” means the Purchaser Founder Shares and the Purchaser Ordinary Shares, as applicable.

 

Purchaser Shareholders” means the holders of the Purchaser Shares.

 

Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting” has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.5(b).

 

Purchaser Transaction Expenses” means all fees, costs and expenses of Purchaser and Merger Sub incurred prior to and through the Closing Date in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of this Agreement, the performance and compliance with all Transaction Documents and conditions contained herein to be performed or complied with at or prior to the Closing, the other Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including fees, costs, expenses and disbursements of counsel, accountants, advisors and consultant of Purchaser and Merger Sub, whether paid or unpaid as of the Closing and the Transfer Taxes.

 

Purchaser Unit” means a unit of the Purchaser comprised of one Purchaser Ordinary Share, one Purchaser Warrant and one Purchaser Right.

 

Purchaser Warrants” means the warrants to purchase one-half of one Purchaser Ordinary Share at a price of $11.50 per whole share, subject to adjustments as described in the IPO Prospectus.

 

Real Property” means, collectively, all real properties and interests therein (including the right to use), together with all buildings, fixtures, trade fixtures, plant and other improvements located thereon or attached thereto; all rights arising out of use thereof (including air, water, oil and mineral rights); and all subleases, franchises, licenses, permits, easements and rights-of- way which are appurtenant thereto.

 

Registration Rights Agreement” means has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Release Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.3.

 

Sarbanes-Oxley Act” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended.

 

Sanctions and Export Control Laws” means any applicable Law related to (a) import and export controls, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, 15 C.F.R. Parts 730- 774), and the Export Controls Act of 2018, 22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq., the Israeli Control of Products and Services Declaration (Engagement in Encryption), 1974, the Export Control Law of the PRC, (b) economic or financial sanctions imposed, administered or enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, the European Union, any European Union Member State, the United Nations, Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, or the PRC, or (c) anti-boycott measures.

 

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SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

"Share Capital Proposal" has the meaning given to such term in Section 6.5(a).

 

Software” means any (a) computer, mobile, or device programs, systems, applications and code, including any software implementations of algorithms, models and methodologies and any source code, object code, firmware, middleware, APIs, development and design tools, applets, compilers and assemblers, (b) databases and compilations, including any and all libraries, data and collections of data whether machine readable, on paper or otherwise, (c) descriptions, flow-charts and other work product used to design, plan, organize and develop any of the foregoing, (d) technology supporting, and the contents and audiovisual displays of, any internet site(s) and (e) documentation, other works of authorship and media, including user manuals and training materials, relating to or embodying any of the foregoing or on which any of the foregoing is recorded.

 

SPAC Per Share Redemption Price” means the lower of (i) per share redemption price paid to each holder of Purchaser Shares exercising such holder’s right to redeem such holder’s Purchaser Shares (in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) as set forth in the Organizational Documents of the Purchaser and the Trust Agreement, and (ii)

$10.10 .

 

Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries” means one or more entities of which at least fifty percent (50%) of the capital stock or share capital or other equity or voting securities are Controlled or owned, directly or indirectly, by the respective Person.

 

Survival Period” has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.5.

 

Surviving Corporation” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals

 

Tangible Personal Property” means all tangible personal property and interests therein, including machinery, computers and accessories, furniture, office equipment, communications equipment, automobiles, trucks, forklifts and other vehicles owned or leased by the Company and other tangible property.

 

Tax(es)” means any federal, state, local or foreign tax, charge, fee, levy, custom, duty, deficiency, or other assessment of any kind or nature imposed by any Taxing Authority (including any income (net or gross), gross receipts, profits, windfall profit, sales, use, goods and services, ad valorem, franchise, license, withholding, employment, social security, workers compensation, unemployment compensation, employment, payroll, transfer, excise, import, real property, personal property, intangible property, occupancy, recording, minimum, alternative minimum, environmental or estimated tax), including any liability therefor as a transferee or successor, as a result of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 or similar provision of applicable Law or as a result of any Tax sharing, indemnification or similar agreement, together with any interest, penalty, additions to tax or additional amount imposed with respect thereto.

 

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Taxing Authority” means the United States Internal Revenue Service and any other Authority responsible for the collection, assessment or imposition of any Tax or the administration of any Law relating to any Tax.

 

Tax Return” means any return, information return, declaration, claim for refund or credit, report or any similar statement, and any amendment thereto, including any attached schedule and supporting information, whether on a separate, consolidated, combined, unitary or other basis, that is filed or required to be filed with any Taxing Authority in connection with the determination, assessment, collection or payment of a Tax or the administration of any Law relating to any Tax.

 

Third-Party Claim” has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.2.

 

Threshold” has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.1.

 

Transaction Documents” mean collectively, this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Backstop Agreement, the Lock-up Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Non- Compete Agreements, and the Company Transaction Support Agreement and any other agreements, documents or certificates entered into or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.

 

Transaction Expenses” means collectively, the Purchaser Transaction Expenses and the Company Transaction Expenses.

 

Transaction Proposals” has the meaning given to such term Section 6.5(a).

 

Transactions” means, collectively, the Merger and each of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

Transfer Agent” means Vstock Transfer LLC.

 

Transfer Taxes” means all transfer, documentary, sales, use, real property, stamp, registration and other similar Taxes, fees and costs (including any associated penalties and interest) incurred in connection with this Agreement.

 

Trust Account” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.9.

 

Trust Agreement” means the trust agreement made as of February 8, 2021 by and between the Purchaser, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent.

 

Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, National Association acting as trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

 

Valuation” means $400,000,000.

 

$” means U.S. dollars, the legal currency of the United States.

 

ARTICLE II.

MERGER

 

Section 2.1 Merger. Upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and in accordance with the applicable provisions of Cayman Companies Act, on the Closing Date, Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company. Following the Merger, the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub shall cease, and the Company shall continue as the Surviving Corporation in the Merger.

 

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Section 2.2 Closing; Effective Time. Unless this Agreement is earlier terminated in accordance with Article XI, the closing of the Merger (the “Closing”) shall be deemed to have taken place at the New York City office of DLA Piper on a date no later than five (5) Business Days after the satisfaction or waiver of all the conditions set forth in Article X, or at such other place and time as the Company and the Purchaser Parties may mutually agree upon. The parties may participate in the Closing via electronic means. The date on which the Closing actually occurs is hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Date”. At the Closing, the parties hereto shall execute a plan of merger in the form attached hereto as Annex 2 (the “Plan of Merger”) and the parties hereto shall cause the Merger to be consummated by filing the Plan of Merger (and other documents required by Cayman Companies Act) with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands on the same day as the Closing Date in accordance with the relevant provisions of Cayman Companies Act (the time of such filings being the “Effective Time”). At the Closing, the Purchaser shall file a copy of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands on the same day as the Closing Date and (i) apply for a change of name from “Venus Acquisition Corporation” to “MicroAlgo Inc.” (ii) file the increase of the authorized share capital of the Purchaser to US$200,000 divided into 200,000,000 ordinary shares of US$0.001 par value per share (iii) file the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Purchaser amended in accordance with Section 2.5(b) and (iv) file the appointment and/ or removal of the directors and officers of the Purchaser in accordance with Section 2.4.

 

Section 2.3 Effect of the Merger. At the Effective Time, the effect of the Merger shall be as provided in this Agreement, the Plan of Merger and the applicable provisions of Cayman Companies Act. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Effective Time, all the property, rights, privileges, agreements, powers and franchises, debts, liabilities, duties and obligations of the Merger Sub shall become the property, rights, privileges, agreements, powers and franchises, debts, liabilities, duties and obligations of the Surviving Corporation, which shall include the assumption by the Surviving Corporation of any and all agreements, covenants, duties and obligations of the Merger Sub set forth in this Agreement to be performed after the Effective Time.

 

Section 2.4 Directors and Officers.

 

(a) From and after the Effective Time, the composition of the board of directors of the Surviving Corporation shall be the same as the composition set forth in Section 8.4(a).

 

(b) From and after the Effective Time, the directors and officers of the Company as of immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the directors and officers of each of the Purchaser and the Surviving Corporation from and after the Effective Time, in each case, each to hold office in accordance with the respective Organizational Documents of the Purchaser and the Surviving Corporation.

 

Section 2.5 Organizational Documents.

 

(a) The memorandum and articles of association of the Company in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the memorandum and articles of association of the Surviving Corporation from and after the Effective Time until thereafter amended in accordance with their terms and under the applicable Laws.

 

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(b) The memorandum and articles of association of the Purchaser from and after the Effective Time shall be in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G.

 

Section 2.6 Taking of Necessary Action; Further Action. If, at any time after the Effective Time, any further action is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this Agreement and to vest the Surviving Corporation with full right, title and interest in, to and under, and/or possession of, all assets, property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of the Merger Sub and the Company, the officers and directors of the Merger Sub and the Company are fully authorized in the name of their respective corporations or otherwise to take, and will take, all such lawful and necessary action, so long as such action is not inconsistent with this Agreement.

 

Section 2.7 Section 368 Reorganization. The parties to this Agreement hereby (i) adopt this Agreement as a “plan of reorganization” within the meaning of Section 1.368-2(g) of the United States Treasury Regulations, (ii) agree to file and retain such information as shall be required under Section 1.368-3 of the United States Treasury Regulations, and (iii) agree to file all Tax and other informational returns on a basis consistent with such characterization. . Each party will use commercially reasonable efforts, and agrees to cooperate with the other parties and to provide to the other parties such information and documentation as may be necessary, proper or advisable, to cause the Merger to so qualify, and will not knowingly take an action that would cause the Merger to fail to qualify, as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the parties acknowledge and agree that no party is making any representation or warranty as to the qualification of the Merger as a reorganization under Section 368 of the Code or as to the effect, if any, that any transaction consummated on, after or prior to the Effective Time has or may have on any such reorganization status. Each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that each (i) has had the opportunity to obtain independent legal and tax advice with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and (ii) is responsible for paying its own Taxes, including any adverse Tax consequences that may result if the Merger is determined not to qualify as a reorganization under Section 368 of the Code.

 

ARTICLE III.

CONSIDERATION

 

Section 3.1 Allocation Statement. Annex 1 attached hereto sets forth preliminarily the number of Purchaser Ordinary Shares issuable to each Company Shareholder pursuant to this Agreement in respect of the Consideration Shares, subject to Purchaser’s updates prior to the Effective Time (the “Allocation Statement”). If, between the date of this Agreement and the Closing, the outstanding Company Shares or Purchaser Shares shall have been changed into a different number of shares or a different class, by reason of any share issuance, share dividend, subdivision, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization, split, combination or exchange of shares, or any similar event shall have occurred, then any number, value (including dollar value) or amount contained herein which is based upon the number of Company Shares or Purchaser Shares, as applicable, will be appropriately adjusted to provide to the holders of Company Shares or the holders of Purchaser Shares, as applicable, the same economic effect as contemplated by this Agreement prior to such event; provided, however, that this Section 3.1 shall not be construed to permit Purchaser or the Company to take any action with respect to their respective securities that is prohibited by the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

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Section 3.2 Conversion of Capital

 

(a) Share Capital of Merger Sub. At the Effective Time, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Plan of Merger, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of the Purchaser, the Merger Sub, or the holders of any securities of the Company or Merger Sub, each share of the share capital of Merger Sub that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable ordinary share of the Surviving Corporation. Such ordinary shares of the Surviving Corporation into which the ordinary shares of Merger Sub are so converted shall be the only shares of the Surviving Corporation that are issued and outstanding immediately after the Effective Time.

 

(b) Share Capital of Company. At the Effective Time, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Plan of Merger, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of the Purchaser, the Merger Sub, the Company or the holders of any securities of the Company or Merger Sub, each Company Share issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall be cancelled and automatically converted into the right to receive, without interest, the Per Share Merger Consideration. For avoidance of any doubt, each Company Share to be converted into the right to receive the Per Share Merger Consideration as provided in this Section 3.2(b) shall be automatically cancelled and shall cease to exist, and each Company Shareholder holding such Company Shares will cease to have any rights with respect to such Company Shares, except the right to receive the Per Share Merger Consideration.

 

(c) No Liability. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.2, none of Surviving Corporation or any party hereto shall be liable to any person for any amount properly paid to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar law.

 

Section 3.3 Payment of Merger Consideration

 

(a) Exchange Procedures.

 

(i) Closing Payment Shares. Upon and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Plan of Merger, at the Closing, Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered the Closing Payment Shares, represented by book-entry, to each holder of Company Shares that have been converted into the right to receive the Consideration Shares, as set forth in the Allocation Statement.

 

(ii) Escrow Shares. Upon and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Plan of Merger, at the Closing, the Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered the aggregate Escrow Shares, represented by book-entry, to the Escrow Agent to be held and released pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement.

 

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(b) No fraction shares. No certificates or scrip or book-entry credit representing fractional Purchaser Ordinary Shares will be issued pursuant to the Merger, and such fractional share interests will not entitle the owner thereof to vote or to any rights of a shareholder of the Purchaser. In the event any holder of Company Share would otherwise be entitled to receive a fraction of a share of Purchaser Ordinary Shares (after aggregating all fractional shares of Purchaser Ordinary Shares issuable to such holder), such fractional share shall be rounded up to the nearest whole share. The parties acknowledge that any such adjustment was not separately bargained-for consideration but merely represents a mechanical rounding off for purposes of avoiding the expense and inconvenience to Purchaser that would otherwise be caused by the issuance of fractional shares.

 

(c) Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates. In the event any certificates for any Company Share shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, the Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed certificates and for each such share, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the holder thereof; provided, however, that Purchaser may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificates to deliver a bond in such sum as it may reasonably direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against Purchaser with respect to the certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.

 

(d) Company Register of Members. After the Effective Time, the register of members of the Company shall be closed, and thereafter there shall be no further registration on the register of members of the Surviving Corporation of transfers of Company Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.

 

ARTICLE IV.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

 

The Company and the Majority Shareholder hereby jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Purchaser Parties that each of the following representations and warranties is true, correct and complete as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date (or, if such representations and warranties are made with respect to a certain date, as of such date), except as set forth in the Company’s disclosure schedule delivered by the Company to the Purchaser Parties in connection with this Agreement (the “Company Disclosure Schedule”) (each of which qualifies (a) the correspondingly numbered representation, warranty or covenant specified therein and (b) such other representations, warranties or covenants where its relevance as an exception to (or disclosure for purposes of) such other representation, warranty or covenant is reasonably apparent on its face or cross-referenced):

 

Section 4.1 Corporate Existence and Power. The Company is an exempted company duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the Cayman Islands and its Subsidiaries are duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they were formed. The Company has all requisite power and authority, corporate and otherwise, and all governmental licenses, franchises, Permits, authorizations, consents and approvals necessary and required to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted, other than as would not be reasonably expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Section 4.2 Authorization.

 

(a) The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents (to which it is a party to) and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby are within the corporate powers of the Company and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of Company to the extent required by their respective Organizational Documents, applicable Laws or any Contract to which it is a party or by which its securities are bound. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Company Shareholders and it constitutes, and upon their execution and delivery, the Transaction Documents (to which it is a party to) will constitute, a valid and legally binding agreement of the Purchaser Parties, enforceable against them in accordance with their representative terms. The Company Shareholder Approval is the only vote of any of Company Shares necessary in connection with the entry into this Agreement by the Company, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Closing.

 

(b) The board of directors of the Company has, by duly adopted resolutions, (i) approved this Agreement, the Merger and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) determined that this Agreement, the Merger and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are advisable and in the best interests of the Company and the Company Shareholders, (iii) directed that the adoption of this Agreement be submitted to approve by the Company Shareholders and (iv) resolved to recommend that the Company Shareholders approve this Agreement, the Merger and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

Section 4.3 Governmental Authorization.. No consent, approval or authorization of, or designation, declaration to or filing with, notice to, or any other action by or in respect of, any governmental Authority or other Person is required on the part of the Company with respect to the Company’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and each Transaction Document to which it is a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, except for (a) the filing of the Plan of Merger in accordance with the Cayman Companies Act, (b) the SEC declaration of effectiveness of the Proxy/Registration Statement, and (c) any consents, approvals, authorizations, designations, declarations, filings, notices or actions, the absence of which would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

Section 4.4 Non-Contravention. The execution, delivery or performance by the Company of this Agreement or any Transaction Documents to which it is a party does not and will not (a) contravene or conflict with the organizational or constitutive documents of the Company, (b) contravene or conflict with or constitute a violation of any provision of any Law or Order binding upon or applicable to the Company, (c) constitute a default under or breach of (with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time or both) or violate or give rise to any right of termination, cancellation, amendment or acceleration of any right or obligation of the Company or require any payment or reimbursement or to a loss of any material benefit relating to the business to which the Company is entitled under any provision of any Permit, Contract or other instrument or obligations binding upon the Company or by which any of the Company Shares, or any of the Company’s assets is or may be bound or any Permit, or (d) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of the Company Shares, (e) cause a loss of any material benefit relating to the business to which the Company is entitled under any provision of any Permit or Contract binding upon the Company, or (f) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien (except for Permitted Liens) on any of the Company’s material assets, in the cases of (a) to (d), other than as would not be reasonably expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Section 4.5 Capital Structure. Section 4.5 of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth the Company’s equity structure. The Company has an authorized capital of $100,000 consisting of 1,000,000,000 shares, par value $0.0001 per share of which 300,000,000 are issued and outstanding as of the date hereof. No Company Share is held in its treasury. All of the issued and outstanding Company Shares have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, and are not subject to any preemptive rights or have been issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights of any Person. There are no: (a) outstanding Company Share Rights; (b) outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, rights (including phantom stock rights), calls, commitments, understandings, conversion rights, rights of exchange, plans or other agreements or contractual rights of any kind providing for the purchase, redemption, issuance or sale of any share of the Company, or (c) to the knowledge of the Company, agreements with respect to any of the Company Share, including any voting trust, other voting agreement or proxy with respect thereto. There are no outstanding bonds, debentures, notes or other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries having the right to vote (or convertible into, or exchangeable for, securities having the right to vote) on any matter for which the equityholders of any Subsidiary of the Company may vote. None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any equityholders agreement, voting agreement or registration rights agreement relating to the equity interests of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company. There are no declared but unpaid dividends or other distributions with regard to any issued and outstanding equity interests of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.

 

Section 4.6 Organizational Documents. The Company has not taken any action in violation or derogation of its Organizational Documents, other than as would not be reasonably expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect. A true and complete copy of the certificate of formation, of the Company, and a true and correct copy of the articles and memorandum of association of the Company have been provided to the Purchaser Parties and each is in full force and effect and the Company is not in violation of any of the provisions thereof.

 

Section 4.7 Subsidiaries. Section 4.7 of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth the corporate details of each Subsidiary of the Company. All of the outstanding equity securities of each Subsidiary of the Company are duly authorized and validly issued, duly registered and non-assessable (if applicable), were offered, sold and delivered in material compliance with all applicable securities Laws, and are owned by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries free and clear of all Liens (other than those, if any, imposed by such Subsidiary’s Organizational Documents); and (ii) there are no outstanding or authorized options, warrants, rights, agreements, subscriptions, convertible securities or commitments to which any Subsidiary of the Company is a party or which are binding upon any Subsidiary of the Company providing for the issuance or redemption of any shares or other equity interests in or of any Subsidiary of the Company. The Subsidiaries have been duly incorporated, formed or organized and are validly existing and in good standing, where applicable, under the Laws of their respective jurisdiction of incorporation, formation or organization and have the power and authority to own or lease their respective properties and to conduct their respective businesses as they are now being conducted. Each Subsidiary of the Company is duly licensed or qualified and in good standing as a foreign corporation (or other entity, if applicable) in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the character of its activities is such as to require it to be so licensed or qualified or in good standing, as applicable, except where the failure to be so licensed or qualified or in good standing would not reasonably be expected to be have a Material Adverse Effect. True and complete copies of the organizational documents of the Subsidiaries of the Company have been made available to the Purchaser Parties, and are in full force and effect and such Subsidiaries are not in violation of any of the provisions thereof.

 

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Section 4.8 Financial Statements

 

(a) Section 4.8 of the Company Disclosure Schedule includes the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020, consisting of the audited balance sheets as of such dates (the “Company Balance Sheet”), the audited income statements for the twelve (12) month periods ended on such dates, and the audited cash flow statements for the twelve (12) month periods ended on such dates (collectively, the “Financial Statements”).

 

(b) The Financial Statements are complete and accurate and fairly present in all material respects, in conformity with its applicable accounting standards applied on a consistent basis in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of operations of the Company for the periods reflected therein.

 

(c) The systems of internal accounting controls maintained by the Company and its Subsidiaries are sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; and (iii) material information is communicated to management as appropriate.

 

(d) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to, or is subject to any commitment to become a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or any similar Contract (including any Contract or arrangement relating to any transaction or relationship between or among the Company and any of its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any unconsolidated Affiliate, on the other hand), including any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity or Person, or any “off-balance sheet arrangements” (as defined in Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act), in each case, where the result, purpose or effect of such Contract is to avoid disclosure of any material transaction involving, or material liabilities of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the Financial Statements.

 

(e) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received from any employee of the Company or its Subsidiaries any written or, to the knowledge of the Company, oral complaint, allegation, assertion or claim with respect to unlawful or potentially unlawful activity regarding accounting, internal accounting controls, auditing practices, procedures, methodologies or methods of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and the Company and its Subsidiaries have not independently identified or received any written notice from their independent accountants regarding any of the foregoing.

 

(f) The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with Regulation S- X and reviewed by the Company’s independent auditor in accordance with PCAOB Auditing Standard 4105. The Financial Statements have been audited in accordance with PCAOB auditing standards by a PCAOB-qualified auditor that was independent under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.

 

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(g) As of the date hereof, other than as set forth in the Financial Statements and as described in the notes thereto, that have arisen in the Ordinary Course of the Company’s business as currently conducted or incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and as would not be reasonably expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries do not have any (i)Indebtedness, whether or not contingent, for borrowed money, or (ii) Indebtedness evidenced by any note, bond, debenture, mortgage or other debt instrument or debt security or similar instrument.

 

Section 4.9 Books and Records. All Contracts, documents, and other papers or copies thereof delivered to the Purchaser Parties by or on behalf of the Company are true and authentic. The Books and Records reflect fairly in all material respects the transactions and dispositions of assets of and the providing of services by the Company. All accounts, books and ledgers of the Company have been properly and accurately kept and completed in all material respects, and there are no material inaccuracies or discrepancies of any kind contained or reflected therein.

 

Section 4.10 Absence of Certain Changes. Since the Balance Sheet Date, the Company has conducted the business in the Ordinary Course consistent with past practices. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, since the Balance Sheet Date, there has not been:

 

(a) any Company Material Adverse Effect;

 

(b) any transaction, Contract or other instrument entered into, or commitment made, by the Company relating to its business, or any of the Company’s assets (including the acquisition or disposition of any assets) or any relinquishment by the Company of any Contract or other right, in either case other than transactions and commitments in the Ordinary Course of business consistent in all material respects, including kind and amount, with past practices and those contemplated by this Agreement;

 

(c) (i) any redemption of, declaration, setting aside or payment of any dividend or other distribution with respect to any capital stock or share capital or other equity interests in the Company; (ii) any issuance by the Company of shares or of shares of capital stock or other equity interests in the Company (other than pursuant to any effective employee equity incentive plan), or (iii) any repurchase, redemption or other acquisition, or any amendment of any term, by the Company of any outstanding shares or shares of capital stock or other equity interests (other than pursuant to any effective employee equity incentive plan);

 

(d) (i) any creation or other incurrence of any Lien other than Permitted Liens on the Company Shares or any of the Company’s assets, and (ii) any making of any loan, advance or capital contributions to or investment in any Person by the Company, in each case other than in the Ordinary Course of business consistent with past practice of the Company;

 

(e) any material personal property damage, destruction or casualty loss or personal injury loss (whether or not covered by insurance) affecting the business or assets of the Company;

 

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(f) any material labor dispute, other than routine individual grievances, or any material activity or proceeding by a labor union or representative thereof to organize any employees of the Company, which employees were not subject to a collective bargaining agreement at the Balance Sheet Date, or any lockouts, strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages or threats thereof by or with respect to any employees of the Company;

 

(g) any sale, transfer, lease to others or otherwise disposition of any of its material assets by the Company except for inventory, licenses or services sold in the Ordinary Course of business consistent with past practices or immaterial amounts of other Tangible Personal Property not required by its business;

 

(h) (i) any amendment to or termination of any Material Contract, (ii) any amendment to any material license or material permit from any Authority held by the Company, (iii) any receipt of any notice of termination of any of the items referenced in (i) and (ii); and (iv) a material default by the Company under any Material Contract, or any material license or material permit from any Authority held by the Company, other than in the cases of each of clauses (i) through (iv), as provided for in this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereunder or as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect;

 

(i) other than in the Ordinary Course of business, any capital expenditure by the Company in excess in any fiscal month of $1,000,000 per one transaction or entering into any lease of capital equipment or property under which the annual lease charges exceed $15,000,000 in the aggregate by the Company;

 

(j) any institution of litigation, settlement or agreement to settle any litigation, action, proceeding or investigation before any court or governmental body relating to the Company or its property or suffering of any actual litigation, action, proceeding or investigation before any court or governmental body relating to the Company or its property, other than as would not be reasonably expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect;

 

(k) any loan of any monies to any Person or guarantee of any obligations of any Person by the Company, in excess of $5,000,000, other than accounts payable and accrued liabilities in the Ordinary Course of business consistent with past business;

 

(l) except as required by the appliable accounting principles and standards, any change in the accounting methods or practices (including, any change in depreciation or amortization policies or rates) of the Company or any revaluation of any of the assets of the Company;

 

(m) any material amendment to the Company’s Organizational Documents, or any engagement by the Company in any merger, consolidation, reorganization, reclassification, liquidation, dissolution or similar transaction, other than as provided for in this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereunder;

 

(n) any acquisition of assets (other than acquisitions of inventory in the Ordinary Course of business consistent with past practice) or business of any Person, other than as would not be reasonably expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect;

 

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(o) any material Tax election made by the Company outside of the Ordinary Course of business consistent with past practice, or any material Tax election changed or revoked by the Company; any material claim, notice, audit report or assessment in respect of Taxes settled or compromised by the Company; any annual Tax accounting period changed by the Company; any Tax allocation agreement, Tax sharing agreement, Tax indemnity agreement or closing agreement relating to any Tax (other than an ordinary commercial agreement the principal purpose of which does not relate to Taxes) entered into by the Company; or any right to claim a material Tax refund surrendered by the Company; or

 

(p) any undertaking of any legally binding obligation to do any of the foregoing.

 

Section 4.11 Properties; Title to the Company’s Assets

 

(a) The material items of Tangible Personal Property have no material defects, are in good operating condition, function in accordance with their intended uses (ordinary wear and tear excepted) and have been properly maintained, and are suitable for their present uses and meet all specifications and warranty requirements with respect thereto.

 

(b) Section 4.11(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth the Company’s list of leased properties, The Company has good, valid and marketable title in and to, or in the case of the Leases and the assets which are leased or licensed pursuant to Contracts, a valid leasehold interest or license in or a right to use, all of their assets reflected on the Company Balance Sheet or acquired after Balance Sheet Date, other than as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect. Other than as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company’s assets constitute all of the assets of any kind or description whatsoever, including goodwill, for the Company to operate its business immediately after the Closing in the same manner as the Business is currently being conducted.

 

Section 4.12 Litigation. There is no Action (or any basis therefore) pending against, or to the knowledge of the Company or the Majority Shareholder threatened against or affecting, the Company, any of its officers or directors, its business, or any Company Shares, or any of the Company’s assets or any Contract before any court, Authority or official or which in any manner challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin, alter or delay the transactions contemplated hereby or by the Transaction Documents, other than as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect. There are no outstanding judgments against the Company that would reasonably to be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect on the ability of the Company to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement. The Company is not, and has not been in the past two (2) years, subject to any proceeding with any Authority, other than as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Section 4.13 Contracts

 

(a) Section 4.13(a) of Company Disclosure Schedule lists all material Contracts, oral or written (collectively, the “Material Contracts”) to which the Company is a party and which are currently in effect and constitute the following:

 

(i) all Contracts that require annual payments or expenses by, or annual payments or income to, the Company of $3,000,000 or more (other than standard purchase and sale orders entered into in the Ordinary Course of business consistent with past practice);

 

(ii) all sales, advertising, agency, lobbying, broker, sales promotion, market research, marketing or similar contracts and agreements, in each case requiring the payment of any commissions by the Company in excess of $3,000,000 annually;

 

(iii) all employment Contracts, employee leasing Contracts, and consultant and sales representatives Contracts with any current or former officer, director, employee or consultant of the Company or other Person, under which the Company (A) has continuing obligations for payment of annual compensation of at least $500,000 (other than oral arrangements for at-will employment), (B) has material severance or post termination obligations to such Person (other than COBRA obligations), or (C) has an obligation to make a payment upon consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or as a result of a change of control of the Company;

 

(iv) all Contracts creating a material joint venture, strategic alliance, management or similar agreement with an Affiliate, limited liability company and partnership agreements to which the Company is a party;

 

(v) all Contracts relating to any material acquisitions or dispositions of assets by the Company in excess of $3,000,000;

 

(vi) all Contracts for material licensing agreements, including Contracts licensing Intellectual Property Rights, other than (i) “shrink wrap” licenses, and (ii) non-exclusive licenses granted in the Ordinary Course of business;

 

(vii) all Contracts relating to material secrecy, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements restricting the conduct of the Company or substantially limiting the freedom of the Company to compete in any line of business or with any Person or in any geographic area;

 

(viii) all Contracts relating to material patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, brands, copyrights, trade secrets and other material Intellectual Property Rights of the Company;

 

(ix) all Contracts providing for material guarantees, indemnification arrangements and other hold harmless arrangements made or provided by the Company, including all ongoing agreements for repair, warranty, maintenance, service, indemnification or similar obligations;

 

(x) all Contracts with or pertaining to the Company to which any 5% Shareholder is a party;

 

(xi) all Contracts relating to property or assets (whether real or personal, tangible or intangible) in which the Company holds a leasehold interest and which involve (A) payments to the lessor thereunder in excess of $3,000,000 per month or (B) an Affiliate of the Company;

 

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(xii) any Contract under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has (A) created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed (or may create, incur, assume or guarantee) indebtedness for money borrowed (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any intercompany arrangements solely between or among the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), (B) granted a Lien on its assets or group of assets, whether tangible or intangible, to secure any indebtedness for money borrowed, (C) extended credit to any Person (other than Contracts involving immaterial advances made to an employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of business as currently conducted) or (D) relating to outstanding Indebtedness, including financial instruments of indenture or security instruments (typically interest-bearing) such as notes, mortgages, loans and lines of credit, except any such Contract with a non-Affiliate with an aggregate outstanding principal amount not exceeding $3,000,000;

 

(xiii) any Contract relating to the voting or control of the equity interests of the Company or the election of directors of the Company (other than the Organizational Documents of the Company);

 

(xiv) any Contract that can be terminated, or the provisions of which are altered, as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents to which the Company is a party; and

 

(xv) any Contract for which any of the benefits, compensation or payments (or the vesting thereof) with respect to a director, officer, employee or consultant of the Company will be increased or accelerated by the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or the amount or value thereof will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

(b) Except as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Material Contract is a valid and binding agreement, and is in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any other party thereto, is in breach or default (whether with or without the passage of time or the giving of notice or both) under the terms of any such Material Contract, (ii) the Company has not assigned, delegated, or otherwise transferred any of its rights or obligations with respect to any Material Contracts, or granted any power of attorney with respect thereto or to any of the Company’s assets, (iii) no Contract (A) requires the Company to post a bond or deliver any other form of security or payment to secure its obligations thereunder or (B) imposes any non-competition covenants that may be binding on, or restrict its business or require any payments by or with respect to Purchaser or any of its Affiliates.

 

(c) Except as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, none of the execution, delivery or performance by the Company of this Agreement or Transaction Documents to which the Company is a party or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby constitutes a default under or gives rise to any right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation of the Company or to a loss of any material benefit to which the Company is entitled under any provision of any Material Contract.

 

(d) Except would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company is in compliance with all covenants, including all financial covenants, in all notes, indentures, bonds and other instruments or agreements evidencing any Indebtedness.

 

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Section 4.14 Licenses and Permits. Section 4.14 of the Company Disclosure Schedule correctly lists each material Permits affecting, or relating in any way to, the Company’s business as currently conducted. Except as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, such Permits are valid and in full force and effect, and none of the Permits will, be terminated or impaired or become terminable as a result of the transactions contemplated hereby. Other than as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company has all Permits necessary to operate its business. There is no outstanding notice of revocation, cancellation or termination of any Company Permit has been received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; there are no Actions pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened that seek the revocation, suspension, withdrawal, adverse modification, cancellation or termination of any Company Permit. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not cause the revocation, modification or cancellation of any Company Permits, except for any such revocation, modification or cancellation that would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

Section 4.15 Compliance with Laws. Except as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company is not in violation of, has not violated, and to the Company’s knowledge, is neither under investigation with respect to nor has been threatened to be charged with or given notice of any violation or alleged violation of, any Law, or judgment, order or decree entered by any court, arbitrator or Authority, domestic or foreign, nor is there any basis for any such charge and within the last 36 months the Company has not received any subpoenas by any Authority. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has implemented, maintains, and complies in all material respects with internal compliance programs designed to detect and prevent violations of any applicable Laws.

 

Section 4.16 Compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws.

 

(a) The Company and its Subsidiaries, and each of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ respective officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives or other persons acting on its behalf have complied with and are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws. Except as would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, neither the Company nor its directors or officers, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of their employees, agents, or any other Persons acting for or on behalf of any of the Company has, directly or knowingly indirectly (i) made, offered, promised, authorized, paid or received any unlawful bribes, kickbacks or other similar payments to or from any Person, (ii) made, offered, promised, authorized or paid any unlawful contributions to a domestic or foreign political party or candidate or (iii) otherwise made, offered, promised, authorized, paid or received any improper payment in violation of any Anti- Corruption Laws.

 

(b) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has maintained and currently maintains (i) books, records and accounts which, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and (ii) internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that all transactions and access to assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries were, have been and are executed only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization.

 

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(c) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has in place policies, procedures and controls that are reasonably designed to promote and ensure compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws.

 

(d) None of the Company’s nor any of its Subsidiaries’ respective officers, directors, and to the Company’s knowledge, their respective employees is or was a Governmental Official or a close family member of a Government Official.

 

(e) To the Company’s knowledge, no governmental Authority is investigating or has in the past five (5) years conducted, initiated or threatened any investigation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ respective officers or directors for alleged violation of Anti-Corruption Laws in connection with activities relating to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

(f) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ Affiliates, nor any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives, is, or is owned or controlled by one or more Persons that are: (i) the subject of any sanctions administered by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) or the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), or (ii) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria) or has conducted business with any Person or entity or any of its respective officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives or other Persons acting on its behalf that is located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria).

 

Section 4.17 Intellectual Property

 

(a) Section 4.17 of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true, correct and complete list of all material Intellectual Properties owned by the Company.

 

(b) Within the past two (2) years, to the knowledge of the Company, the Company has not been sued or charged in writing with or been a defendant in any Action that involves a claim of infringement of any Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company has no knowledge of any other claim of infringement by the Company, and no knowledge of any continuing infringement by any other Person of any Intellectual Property Rights of the Company.

 

(c) The Company and its Subsidiaries own or have a valid and enforceable right to use any and all material Intellectual Property used or held for use in, or otherwise necessary for, the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted. Except as would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect and to the knowledge of the Company, the current use by the Company of the Intellectual Property Rights does not infringe, and will not infringe, the rights of any other Person in any material respect.

 

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(d) All employees, agents, consultants or contractors who have contributed to or participated in the creation or development of any material copyrights, patents or trade secrets on behalf of the Company or any predecessor in interest thereto, to the knowledge of the Company, either: (i) is a party to a “work-for-hire” agreement under which the Company is deemed to be the original owner/author of all property rights therein; or (ii) has executed an assignment or an agreement to assign in favor of the Company (or such predecessor in interest, as applicable) all right, title and interest in such material.

 

(e) Except as would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the execution, delivery or performance by the Company of this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will cause any material item of Intellectual Property Rights owned, licensed, used or held for use by the Company immediately prior to the Closing to not be owned, licensed or available for use by the Company on substantially the same terms and conditions immediately following the Closing in any material respect.

 

(f) The Company has taken reasonable measures to safeguard and maintain the confidentiality and value of all trade secrets and other items of Company Intellectual Property that are confidential and all other confidential information, data and materials licensed by the Company or otherwise used in the operation of its business. The Company and its Subsidiaries have not disclosed, delivered, licensed or otherwise made available (other than to current and former employees, independent contractors and consultants who contributed to the development of Software for the Company and who are bound by written confidentiality agreements), and do not have a duty or obligation (whether present, contingent, or otherwise) to disclose, deliver, license, or otherwise make available, any source code that embodies any owned Intellectual Property to any Person.

 

Section 4.18 Employees Except as would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company is not a party to or subject to any employment contract, consulting agreement, collective bargaining agreement, confidentiality agreement restricting the activities of the Company, non-competition agreement restricting the activities of the Company, or any similar agreement, and there has been no activity or proceeding by a labor union or representative thereof to organize any employees of the Company.

 

Section 4.19 Employment Matters.

 

(a) Except as would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, to the knowledge of the Company, no current employee of the Company, in the Ordinary Course of his or her duties, has breached any obligation to a former employer in respect of any covenant against competition or soliciting clients or employees or servicing clients or confidentiality or any proprietary right of such former employer; and the Company is not a party to any collective bargaining agreement, does not have any material labor relations disputes, and there is no pending representation question or union organizing activity respecting employees of the Company.

 

(b) Section 4.19(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule contains a complete and accurate list of all current employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date hereof, which includes the following information with respect to each such employee: (i) the employee’s name, (ii) the department of the employee, (iii) the employee’s principal location of employment and (iv) the name of the applicable employer entity.

 

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Section 4.20 Tax Matters.

 

(a) All material Tax Returns required to be filed by or with respect to the Company have been filed within the requisite period (taking into account any extensions) and such Tax Returns are true, correct and complete in all material respects. All material Taxes due and payable by the Company have been or will be paid in a timely fashion or have been accrued for on the Financial Statements. No material deficiencies for any Taxes that are currently outstanding with respect to any Tax Returns of the Company have been asserted in writing by, and no written notice of any action, audit, assessment or other proceeding, in each case that is currently pending, with respect to such Tax Returns or any Taxes of the Company has been received from, any Taxing Authority, and no dispute or assessment relating to such Tax Returns or such Taxes with any such Taxing authority is currently outstanding. No claim that is currently outstanding has been made by the Taxing Authority in a jurisdiction where the Company does not file Tax Returns that the Company is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction. The Company has not taken any action (nor permitted any action to be taken), and is not aware of any fact or circumstance, that would reasonably be expected to prevent, impair or impede the Intended Tax Treatment.

 

(b) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any Tax sharing, indemnification or allocation agreement or other similar Contract, other than (A) any such agreement solely among the Company and its Subsidiaries, or (B) entered into in the Ordinary Course of business and not primarily related to Taxes.

 

(c) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will be required to include any material item of income in, or exclude any material item of deduction from, taxable income for any Tax period (or portion thereof) ending after the Closing Date as a result of: (i) any change in method of accounting for a taxable period ending on or prior to the Closing; (ii) any “closing agreement” as described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local or foreign income Tax law) executed on or prior to the Closing; (iii) any installment sale or open transaction disposition made on or prior to the Closing; (iv) any prepaid amount received on or prior to the Closing outside the ordinary course of business; or (v) Section 965(a) of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law).

 

Section 4.21 Environmental Laws.

 

(a) The Company and its Subsidiaries are, and at all times since January 1, 2017 have been, in compliance with all Environmental Laws in all material respects, and there are no existing facts or circumstances which would reasonably be expected to prevent such compliance in the future and all Permits held by the Company pursuant to applicable Environmental Laws are in full force and effect and no appeal or any other Action is pending to revoke or modify any such Permit;

 

(b) no notice of violation, demand, request for information, citation, summons or order has been received by the Company relating to or arising out of any Environmental Laws, other than those relating to matters that have been fully resolved or that remain pending and, if adversely determined, would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

 

(c) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has agreed to indemnify any other Person against liability under Environmental Laws, or to assume or undertake any liability of another Person under Environmental Laws;

 

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(d) copies of all material written reports (in the case of reports with multiple drafts or versions, the final draft or version), notices of violation, orders, audits, assessments and all other material environmental reports, in the possession, custody or control of the Company or its Subsidiaries, relating to environmental conditions in, on or about the leased Real Property or to the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ compliance with Environmental Laws have been made available to the Purchaser Parties.

 

Section 4.22 Finders’ Fees. With respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, there is no investment banker, broker, finder or other intermediary which has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of the Company or any of Affiliates who might be entitled to any fee or commission from the Purchaser upon consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

Section 4.23 Not an Investment Company. The Company is not an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Section 4.24 Affiliate Transactions. No (a) Company Shareholder, (b) former or current director, officer, manager, indirect or direct equityholder, optionholder or member of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (c) any Affiliate or “associate” or any member of the “immediate family” (as such terms are respectively defined in Rules 12b-2 and 16a-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), of any Person described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b), in each case, other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each a “Related Party”), is (i) a party to any Contract or business arrangement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) provides any services to, or is owed any money by or owes any money to, or has any claim or right against, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than, in each case, compensation for services performed by a Person as director, officer, service provider or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and amounts reimbursable for routine travel and other business expenses in the Ordinary Course of Business), or (iii) directly or indirectly owns, or otherwise has any right, title or interest in, to or under, any tangible or intangible property, asset, or right that is, has been, or is currently planned to be used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the Contracts, relationships, or transactions described in clauses (i) through (iii), the “Affiliate Transactions”).

 

Section 4.25 Proxy/Registration Statement. On the date the Proxy Statement is first mailed to the Purchaser Shareholders, and at the time of the meeting for the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval, none of the information furnished by or on behalf of the Company or the Majority Shareholder in writing specifically for inclusion in the Proxy/Registration Statement will include any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

Section 4.26 No other Representations or Warranties. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Article IV (as may be modified by the Company Disclosure Schedule), Company hereby expressly disclaims and negates, any other express or implied representation or warranty whatsoever (whether at Law or in equity) with respect to Company and its Affiliates, and any matter relating to any of them, including their affairs, the condition, value or quality of the assets, liabilities, financial condition or results of operations, or with respect to the accuracy or completeness of any other information made available to the Purchaser Parties, their Affiliates or any of their respective representatives by, or on behalf of, Purchaser Parties, and any such representations or warranties are expressly disclaimed. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except as expressly set forth in this Agreement (as may be modified by the Company Disclosure Schedule), neither the Company nor any other Person on behalf thereof has made or makes, any representation or warranty, whether express or implied, with respect to any projections, forecasts, estimates or budgets made available to the Purchaser Parties, or their Affiliates or any of their respective representatives of future revenues, future results of operations (or any component thereof), future cash flows or future financial condition (or any component thereof) of the Company (including the reasonableness of the assumptions underlying any of the foregoing), whether or not included in any presentation or in any other information made available to the Purchaser Parties, or their Affiliates or any of their representatives or any other Person, and any such representations or warranties are expressly disclaimed.

 

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ARTICLE V.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PURCHASER PARTIES

 

The Purchaser Parties hereby, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to the Company that, each of the following representations and warranties is true, correct and complete as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date (or, if such representations and warranties are made with respect to a certain date, as of such date):

 

Section 5.1 Corporate Existence and Power. Each of Purchaser and Merger Sub is an exempted company duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands. Each of the Purchaser Parties has all power and authority, corporate and otherwise, and all governmental licenses, franchises, Permits, authorizations, consents and approvals required to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted.

 

Section 5.2 Authorization. The execution, delivery and performance by the Purchaser Parties of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents (to which it is a party to) and the consummation by the Purchaser Parties of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby are within the corporate powers of the Purchaser Parties and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of Purchaser Parties to the extent required by their respective Organizational Documents, applicable Laws or any Contract to which it is a party or by which its securities are bound other than the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Purchaser Parties and it constitutes, and upon their execution and delivery, the Transaction Documents (to which it is a party to) will constitute, a valid and legally binding agreement of the Purchaser Parties, enforceable against them in accordance with their representative terms.

 

Section 5.3 Governmental Authorization. Other than as required under applicable Laws, neither the execution, delivery nor performance by the Purchaser Parties of this Agreement or any Transaction Documents requires any consent, approval, license or other action by or in respect of, or registration, declaration or filing with any Authority.

 

Section 5.4 Non-Contravention. The execution, delivery or performance by the Purchaser Parties of this Agreement or any Transaction Documents to which it is a party does not and will not (a) contravene or conflict with the organizational or constitutive documents of the Purchaser Parties, (b) contravene or conflict with or constitute a violation of any provision of any Law or Order binding upon or applicable to the Purchaser Parties, (c) constitute a default under or breach of (with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time or both) or violate or give rise to any right of termination, cancellation, amendment or acceleration of any right or obligation of the Purchaser Parties or require any payment or reimbursement or to a loss of any material benefit relating to the business to which the Company is entitled under any provision of any Permit, Contract or other instrument or obligations binding upon the Purchaser Parties or by which any of the Purchaser Shares, or any of the assets of the Purchaser Parties is or may be bound or any Permit, or (d) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of the Purchaser Shares, (e) cause a loss of any material benefit relating to its business to which the Purchaser Parties is entitled under any provision of any Permit or Contract binding upon the Purchaser Parties, or (f) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien (except for Permitted Liens) on any of the Purchaser Parties’ material assets, in the cases of (a) to (d), other than as would not be reasonably expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect

 

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Section 5.5 Finders’ Fees. Other than Ladenburg Thalmann & Co Inc.. there is no investment banker, broker, funder or other intermediary which has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of Purchaser or their Affiliates who might be entitled to any fee or commission from the Company, or any of its Affiliates upon consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents.

 

Section 5.6 Issuance of Shares. The Consideration Shares, when issued in accordance with this Agreement and the Plan of Merger, will be duly authorized and validly issued, and will be fully paid and nonassessable.

 

Section 5.7 Capitalization

 

(a) At the date of this Agreement, the authorized share capital of Purchaser is US$50,000 divided into 50,000,000 Purchaser Ordinary Shares of which 6,050,000 Purchaser Ordinary Shares have been issued and are outstanding as of the date hereof including 1,375,000 of which are Purchaser Founder Shares. Except for the Purchaser Securities as described in the IPO prospectus, no other shares or other voting securities of Purchaser are issued, reserved for issuance or outstanding. All issued and outstanding Purchaser Ordinary Shares are, and all Consideration Shares, when issued, will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not subject to or issued in violation of any purchase option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of Cayman Islands Law, the Purchaser’s Organizational Documents or any contract to which Purchaser is a party or by which Purchaser is bound. Other than as described in the IPO Prospectus, there are no outstanding contractual obligations of Purchaser to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any Purchaser Ordinary Shares or any capital equity of Purchaser. Other than as described in the IPO Prospectus, there are no outstanding contractual obligations of Purchaser to provide funds to, or make any investment (in the form of a loan, capital contribution or otherwise) in, any other Person.

 

(b) The authorized share capital of Merger Sub is $50,000 divided into 500,000,000 shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Merger Sub Share”) of which 10,000 shares of Merger Sub Share are issued and outstanding as of the date hereof. No other shares or other voting securities of Merger Sub are issued, reserved for issuance or outstanding. All issued and outstanding of Merger Sub Share(s) are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not subject to or issued in violation of any purchase option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of Cayman Islands Law, the Merger Sub’s Organizational Documents or any contract to which Merger Sub is a party or by which Merger Sub is bound. Except as set forth in the Merger Sub’s Organizational Documents, there are no outstanding contractual obligations of Merger Sub to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any Merger Sub Share(s) or any share capital or equity of Merger Sub. There are no outstanding contractual obligations of Merger Sub to provide funds to, or make any investment (in the form of a loan, capital contribution or otherwise) in, any other Person.

 

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Section 5.8 Information Supplied. None of the information supplied or to be supplied by the any Purchaser Party expressly for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the filings with the SEC and mailings to Purchaser’s stockholders with respect to the solicitation of proxies to approve the transactions contemplated hereby will, at the date of filing and/ or mailing, as the case may be, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading (subject to the qualifications and limitations set forth in the materials provided by Purchaser or that is included in the Purchaser SEC Documents).

 

Section 5.9 Trust Account. As of the date of this Agreement, the Purchaser has at least $46,460,000 in the trust fund established by the Purchaser for the benefit of its public stockholders in a United States-based account at Wilmington Trust Company(the “Trust Account”), which is established by the Transfer Agent and maintained by the Trustee, and such monies are invested in “government securities” (as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) and held in trust by the Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement. There are no separate Contracts, side letters or other arrangements or understandings (whether written or unwritten, express or implied) that would cause the description of the Trust Agreement in the Purchaser SEC Documents to be inaccurate or that would entitle any Person (other than Purchaser Shareholders holding Purchaser Shares sold in Purchaser’s IPO who shall have elected to redeem their Purchaser Shares pursuant to Purchaser’s Organizational Documents and the underwriters of Purchaser’s IPO with respect to deferred underwriting commissions) to any portion of the proceeds in the Trust Account. Prior to the Closing, none of the funds held in the Trust Account may be released other than to pay Taxes and payments with respect to all Purchaser Share Redemptions. There are no claims or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of Purchaser Parties, threatened with respect to the Trust Account. Purchaser has performed all material obligations required to be performed by it to date under, and is not in default, breach or delinquent in performance or any other respect (claimed or actual) in connection with, the Trust Agreement, and no event has occurred which, with due notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default or breach thereunder. As of the Effective Time, the obligations of Purchaser to dissolve or liquidate pursuant to Purchaser’s Organizational Documents shall terminate, and as of the Effective Time, Purchaser shall have no obligation whatsoever pursuant to Purchaser’s Organizational Documents to dissolve and liquidate the assets of Purchaser by reason of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. As of the date hereof, following the Effective Time, no Purchaser Shareholder shall be entitled to receive any amount from the Trust Account except to the extent such Purchaser Shareholder is exercising an Purchaser Share Redemption. As of the date hereof, assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein and the compliance by the Company with its respective obligations hereunder, Purchaser has no reason to believe that any of the conditions to the use of funds in the Trust Account will not be satisfied or funds available in the Trust Account will not be available to Purchaser at the Effective Time.

 

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Section 5.10 Listing. As of the date hereof, the Purchaser Units, Purchaser Ordinary Shares, Purchaser Warrants and Purchaser Rights are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, with trading symbols “VENAU,” “VENA,” “VENAW,” and “VENAR.” Purchaser is in compliance with the rules of Nasdaq and there is no Action pending or, to the knowledge of Purchaser, threatened against Purchaser by Nasdaq or the SEC with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister Purchaser Units, Purchaser Ordinary Shares, Purchaser Warrants or Purchaser Rights. No Purchaser Party has taken any action in an attempt to terminate the registration of Purchaser Units, Purchaser Ordinary Shares, Purchaser Warrants or Purchaser Rights.

 

Section 5.11 Board Approval. Each of the board of directors of the Purchaser and of the Merger Sub have, as of the date of this Agreement, unanimously (i) declared the advisability of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, (ii) determined that the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby are in the best interests of the stockholders or shareholders of the Purchaser Parties, as applicable, and (iii) solely with respect to the Purchaser Board, determined that the transactions contemplated hereby constitutes a “Business Combination” as such term is defined in Purchaser’s Organizational Documents.

 

Section 5.12 Purchaser SEC Documents and Financial Statements

 

(a) Each of the (i) Purchaser’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K for each fiscal year of Purchaser, beginning with the first year Purchaser was required to file such a form, (ii) Purchaser’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for each fiscal quarter of Purchaser beginning with the first quarter Purchaser was required to file such a form, (iii) all proxy statements relating to Purchaser’s meetings of shareholders (whether annual or special) held, and all information statements relating to shareholder consents, since the beginning of the first fiscal year referred to in clause (i) above, (iv) its Form 8-Ks filed since the beginning of the first fiscal year referred to in clause (i) above, and (v) all other forms, reports, registration statements and other documents filed by Purchaser with the SEC since Purchaser’s formation (the forms, reports, registration statements and other documents referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) above, together with any amendments, restatements or supplements thereto, are available in full without redaction on the SEC’s website through EDGAR. Purchaser has timely filed or furnished all statements, prospectuses, registration statements, forms, reports, schedules, and other documents, together with any amendments, restatements or supplements thereto, required to be filed or furnished by it with the SEC since its formation, pursuant to the Exchange Act, the Securities Act and all regulations and rules promulgated thereunder (collectively and as they have been amended since the time of their filing or furnishing, the “Purchaser SEC Documents”). Purchaser will timely file all of the foregoing documents with the SEC to the extent they are required by applicable Laws or rules subsequent to the date of this Agreement (the “Additional Purchaser SEC Documents”). Except with respect to the accounting treatment for warrants as described in the SEC pronouncement on April 12,2021, each of the Purchaser SEC Documents, as of the respective date of its filing, and as of the date of any amendment, complied, and each of the Additional Purchaser SEC Documents will be prepared for and comply, in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act applicable to such documents. As of the respective date of its filing (or if amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement or the Closing Date, then on the date of such filing), the Purchaser SEC Documents and the Additional Purchaser SEC Documents did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were or to be made, not misleading. As of the date of this Agreement, there are no outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters received from the SEC with respect to any Purchaser SEC Documents. None of the Purchaser SEC Documents filed on or prior to the date of this Agreement is subject to ongoing SEC review or investigation as of the date of this Agreement.

 

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(b) The financial statements and notes contained or incorporated by reference in the Purchaser SEC Documents (the “Purchaser Financial Statements”) are complete and accurate and fairly present in all material respects, in conformity with U.S. GAAP applied on a consistent basis in all material respects and Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K, as applicable, the financial position of the Purchaser as of the dates thereof and the results of operations of the Purchaser for the periods reflected therein. The Purchaser Financial Statements (i) were prepared from the Books and Records of the Purchaser; (ii) were prepared on an accrual basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP consistently applied; (iii) contain and reflect all necessary adjustments and accruals for a fair presentation of the Purchaser’s financial condition as of their dates; and (iv) contain and reflect adequate provisions for all material Liabilities for all material Taxes applicable to the Purchaser with respect to the periods then ended.

 

(c) Except as specifically disclosed, reflected or fully reserved against in the Purchaser Financial Statements, and for Liabilities and obligations of a similar nature and in similar amounts incurred in the Ordinary Course of business since the Purchaser’s formation, there are no material Liabilities, debts or obligations (whether accrued, fixed or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, asserted or unasserted or otherwise) relating to the Purchaser. All debts and Liabilities, fixed or contingent, which should be included under U.S. GAAP on a balance sheet are included in the Purchaser Financial Statements.

 

Section 5.13 Litigation. There is no Action (or any basis therefore) pending against any Purchaser Party, any of its officers or directors or any of its securities or any of its assets or Contracts before any court, Authority or official or which in any manner challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin, alter or delay the transactions contemplated hereby or by the Transaction Documents. There are no outstanding judgments against the Purchaser Parties. No Purchaser Party is, and has previously been, subject to any legal proceeding with any Authority.

 

Section 5.14 Compliance with Laws. No Purchaser Party is in violation of, has violated, under investigation with respect to any violation or alleged violation of, any Law, or judgment, order or decree entered by any court, arbitrator or Authority, domestic or foreign, nor is there any basis for any such charge and the Purchaser has not previously received any subpoenas by any Authority.

 

Section 5.15 Compliance with Anti-Corruption & Sanctions Laws .

 

(a) Neither the Purchaser Parties, their directors or officers, nor, any of their employees, agents, or any other Persons acting for or on behalf of any of the Purchaser Parties has, directly or knowingly indirectly (i) made, offered, promised, authorized, paid or received any unlawful bribes, kickbacks or other similar payments to or from any Person, (ii) made, offered, promised, authorized or paid any unlawful contributions to a domestic or foreign political party or candidate or (iii) otherwise made, offered, promised, authorized, paid or received any improper payment in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws.

 

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(b) Neither the Purchaser Parties, their directors or officers, nor, any of their employees, agents, or any other Persons acting for or on behalf of any of the Purchaser Parties is or has been (i) a Person named on any Sanctions and Export Control Laws-related list of designated Persons maintained by an Authority; (ii) located, organized or resident in a country or territory which is itself the subject of or target of any Sanctions and Export Control Laws; (iii) an entity 50-percent or more owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more Persons described in clause (i) or (ii); or (iv) otherwise engaging in dealings with or for the benefit of any Person described in clauses (i) through (iii). Neither the Purchaser Parties, their directors or officers, nor, any of their employees, agents, or any other Persons in their capacity as such, is in violation of, or has been, in violation of, has been threatened to be charged with or given notice of any violation of, or is under investigation with respect to and has not been threatened to be charged with or given notice of any violation of, applicable Sanctions and Export Control Laws.

 

Section 5.16 Not an Investment Company. Each of the Purchaser Parties is not an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Section 5.17 Tax Matters All material Tax Returns required to be filed by or with respect to each Purchaser Party have been filed within the requisite period (taking into account any extensions) and such Tax Returns are true, correct and complete in all material respects. All material Taxes due and payable by the Company have been or will be paid in a timely fashion or have been accrued for on the Financial Statements. No material deficiencies for any Taxes that are currently outstanding with respect to any Tax Returns of the Purchaser Parties have been asserted in writing by, and no written notice of any action, audit, assessment or other proceeding, in each case that is currently pending, with respect to such Tax Returns or any Taxes of the Purchaser Parties has been received from, any Taxing Authority, and no dispute or assessment relating to such Tax Returns or such Taxes with any such Taxing Authority is currently outstanding. No material claim that is currently outstanding has been made by the Taxing Authority in a jurisdiction where the Purchaser Parties do not file Tax Returns that any of the Purchaser Parties is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction. Each of the Purchaser Parties has not taken any action (nor permitted any action to be taken), and is not aware of any fact or circumstance, that would reasonably be expected to prevent, impair or impede the Intended Tax Treatment. The Purchaser Parties have no current plan to dispose any asset of the Company Group after the Merger.

 

Section 5.18 Contracts. All material Contracts to which any of the Purchaser Parties is a party are available in full without redaction on the SEC’s website through EDGAR.

 

Section 5.19 Business Activities

 

(a) Since its incorporation, each of the Purchaser Parties has not conducted any business activities other than activities related to Purchaser’s IPO or directed toward the accomplishment of a business combination. Except as set forth in the Organizational Documents of each of the Purchaser Parties or as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, there is no Contract to which any Purchaser Party is a party which has or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of prohibiting or impairing in any material respect any business practice of any Purchaser Party or any acquisition of property by any Purchaser Party or the conduct of business by each of the Purchaser Parties as currently conducted or as contemplated to be conducted as of the Closing. Except for the transactions contemplated under the Transaction Documents, each of the Purchaser Parties does not own or have a right to acquire, directly or indirectly, any interest or investment (whether equity or debt) in any corporation, partnership, joint venture, business, trust or other entity. Except for this Agreement and the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, each of the Purchaser Parties has no material interests, rights, obligations or liabilities with respect to, and is not party to, bound by or has its assets or property subject to, in each case whether directly or indirectly, any Contract or transaction which is, or would reasonably be interpreted as constituting, a business combination under Purchaser’s IPO Prospectus and the Organizational Documents of each of the Purchaser Parties .

 

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(b) Merger Sub was formed solely for the purpose of effecting the transactions contemplated under the Transaction Documents and has not engaged in any business activities or conducted any operations other than in connection with the transactions contemplated under the Transaction Documents and has no, and at all times prior to the Closing except as expressly contemplated by the Transaction Documents, will have no, assets, liabilities or obligations of any kind or nature whatsoever other than those incident to its formation.

 

Section 5.20 Registration Statement and Proxy Statement. On the date the Proxy Statement is first mailed to the Purchaser’s Shareholders, and at the time of the meeting for the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval, none of the information furnished by or on behalf of the Purchaser Parties in writing specifically for inclusion in the Proxy/Registration Statement will include any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

Section 5.21 Backstop Investment. Purchaser has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete duly executed Backstop Agreement(s) providing for the acquisition or purchase by the named backstop provider(s) for up to an aggregate amount of USS$10,000,000 upon the terms and conditions therein, and each such Backstop Agreement is in full force and effect and has not been withdrawn or terminated, or otherwise amended or modified in any respect and no withdrawal or termination, amendment or modification in any material respect is contemplated by Purchaser. Each such Backstop Agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation of Purchaser and the backstop investor(s) thereunder, and neither the execution or delivery by any party thereto nor the performance of any party’s obligations thereunder violates any Laws. There is no other agreement, side letter, or arrangement between any of the Purchaser Parties and any investor relating to any Backstop Agreement that could affect in any material respect the obligation of the backstop investors thereunder. No Purchaser Party knows, as of the date of this Agreement, any facts or circumstances that may reasonably be expected to result in any of the conditions set forth in any Backstop Agreement not being satisfied. No event has occurred that, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would constitute a default or breach on the part of any of the Purchaser Parties under any material term or condition of any Backstop Agreement.

 

Section 5.22 Exclusivity of Representations and Warranties. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Article V , Purchaser hereby expressly disclaims and negates, any other express or implied representation or warranty whatsoever (whether at Law or in equity) with respect to Purchaser and its Affiliates, and any matter relating to any of them, including their affairs, the condition, value or quality of the assets, liabilities, financial condition or results of operations, or with respect to the accuracy or completeness of any other information made available to the Company, its Affiliates or any of their respective representatives by, or on behalf of, Purchaser, and any such representations or warranties are expressly disclaimed. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, neither Purchaser nor any other Person on behalf thereof has made or makes, any representation or warranty, whether express or implied, with respect to any projections, forecasts, estimates or budgets made available to the Company, its Affiliates or any of their respective representatives of future revenues, future results of operations (or any component thereof), future cash flows or future financial condition (or any component thereof) of Purchaser (including the reasonableness of the assumptions underlying any of the foregoing), whether or not included in any presentation or in any other information made available to the Company or any of its representatives or any other Person, and any such representations or warranties are expressly disclaimed.

 

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Section 5.23 No Outside Reliance Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement, each of the Purchaser Parties and its respective equityholders, partners, investors, members and representatives, has made their own investigation of the Company and its Subsidiaries and that neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates, agents, advisors or representatives is making any representation or warranty whatsoever, express or implied, beyond those expressly given by the Company in Article IV, including any implied warranty or representation as to condition, merchantability, suitability or fitness for a particular purpose or trade as to any of the assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is understood that any cost estimates, financial or other projections or other predictions that may be contained or referred to in the Company Disclosure Schedule or elsewhere, as well as any information, documents or other materials (including any such materials contained in any “data room” (whether or not accessed by the Purchaser Parties or its representatives) or reviewed by the Purchaser Parties otherwise) or management presentations that have been or shall hereafter be provided to Purchaser or any of its Affiliates, agents, advisors or representatives are not and will not be deemed to be representations or warranties of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or Company Shareholders, and no representation or warranty is made as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the foregoing. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, each of the Purchaser Parties understands and agrees that any assets, properties and business of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries are furnished “as is”, “where is” and subject to and except as otherwise provided in the representations and warranties contained in Article IV, with all faults and without any other representation or warranty of any nature whatsoever.

 

ARTICLE VI.

COVENANTS OF COMPANY AND PURCHASER PARTIES

 

Section 6.1 Conduct of the Business

 

(a) From the date hereof through the Closing Date, each party shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, conduct their respective business only in the Ordinary Course, (including the payment of accounts payable and the collection of accounts receivable), consistent with past practices, and shall not enter into any material transactions without the prior written consent of the other party, and shall use its best efforts to preserve intact its business relationships with employees, clients, suppliers and other third parties. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, from the date hereof until and including the Closing Date, without the other party’s prior written consent (which shall not be unreasonably withheld), the Company and the Purchaser Parties shall not:

 

(i) materially amend, modify or supplement its Organizational Documents other than pursuant to this Agreement;

 

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(ii) amend, waive any provision of, terminate prior to its scheduled expiration date, or otherwise compromise in any way, any Contract or any other right or asset of the Company or the Purchaser Parties, which involve payments in excess of $5,000,000;

 

(iii) modify, amend or enter into any contract, agreement, license or, commitment, which obligates the payment of more than $5,000,000 (individually or in the aggregate);

 

(iv) make any capital expenditures in excess of $5,000,000 (individually or in the aggregate);

 

(v) sell, lease, license or otherwise dispose of any of the Company’s or the Purchaser Parties’ assets or assets covered by any Contract except (i) pursuant to existing contracts or commitments disclosed herein, (ii) sales of inventory in the Ordinary Course consistent with past practice, and (iii) not exceeding $5,000,000;

 

(vi) accept returns of products sold from inventory except in the Ordinary Course, consistent with past practice;

 

(vii) pay, declare or promise to pay any dividends or other distributions with respect to its capital stock or share capital, or pay, declare or promise to pay any other payments to any stockholder or shareholder (other than, in the case of any stockholder or shareholder that is an employee, payments of salary accrued in said period at the current salary rate);

 

(viii) authorize any salary increase of more than 10% for any employee making an annual salary equal to or greater than $100,000 or in excess of $100,000 in the aggregate on an annual basis or change the bonus or profit sharing policies of the Company or the Purchaser Parties;

 

(ix) obtain or incur any loan or other Indebtedness in excess of $5,000,000, including drawings under the Company’s or the Purchaser Parties’ existing lines of credit;

 

(x) suffer or incur any Lien on the Company’s or the Purchaser Parties’ assets, except for Permitted Liens or the Liens incurred in the Ordinary Course of business consistent with past practice;

 

(xi) suffer any damage, destruction or loss of property related to any of the Company’s or the Purchaser Parties’ assets, whether or not covered by insurance, the aggregate value of which, following any available insurance reimbursement, exceed $5,000,000;

 

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(xii) merge or consolidate with or acquire any other Person or be acquired by any other Person;

 

(xiii) suffer any insurance policy protecting any of the Company’s or the Purchaser Parties’ assets with an aggregate coverage amount in excess of $5,000,000 to lapse;

 

(xiv) make any change in its accounting principles other than in accordance with the applicable accounting policies or methods or write down the value of any inventory or assets other than in the Ordinary Course of business consistent with past practice;

 

(xv) change the principal place of business or jurisdiction of organization;

 

(xvi) extend any loans other than travel or other expense advances to employees in the Ordinary Course of business or with the principal amount not exceeding $10,000;

 

(xvii) issue, redeem or repurchase any capital stock or share, membership interests or other securities, or issue any securities exchangeable for or convertible into any share or any shares of its capital stock;

 

(xviii) make or change any material Tax election or change any annual Tax accounting periods; or

 

(xix) undertake any legally binding obligation to do any of the foregoing.

 

(b) From the date hereof through the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall remain a “blank check company” as defined under the Securities Act, shall not conduct any business operations other than in connection with this Agreement and Ordinary Course operations to maintain its status as a Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition company pending the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, through the Closing Date, other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, without the Company’s prior written consent, the Purchaser Parties shall not amend, waive or otherwise change the Trust Agreement in any manner adverse to the Purchaser Parties.

 

(c) Neither party shall (i) take or agree to take any action that might make any representation or warranty of such party inaccurate or misleading in any material respect at, or as of any time prior to, the Closing Date or (ii) omit to take, or agree to omit to take, any action necessary to prevent any such representation or warranty from being inaccurate or misleading in any material respect at any such time.

 

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Section 6.2 Alternative Proposal and Alternative Transaction. From the date hereof through the earlier of (x) termination of this Agreement in accordance with Article XI and (y) the Closing, other than in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, neither the Company, on the one hand, nor the Purchaser Parties, on the other hand, shall, and such Persons shall cause each of their respective officers, directors, Affiliates, managers, consultants, employees, representatives (including investment bankers, attorneys and accountants) and agents not to, directly or indirectly, (i) encourage, solicit, initiate, engage or participate in negotiations with any Person concerning, or make any offers or proposals related to, any Alternative Transaction, (ii) take any other action intended or designed to facilitate the efforts of any Person relating to a possible Alternative Transaction, (iii) enter into, engage in or continue any discussions or negotiations with respect to an Alternative Transaction with, or provide any non-public information, data or access to employees to, any Person that has made, or that is considering making, a proposal with respect to an Alternative Transaction or (iv) approve, recommend or enter into any Alternative Transaction or any Contract related to any Alternative Transaction. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Alternative Transaction” shall mean any of the following transactions involving the Company or the Purchaser Parties (other than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents): (1) any merger, consolidation, share exchange, business combination, amalgamation, recapitalization, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution or other similar transaction, or (2) any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of a material portion of the assets of such Person (other than the sale, the lease, transfer or other disposition of assets in the Ordinary Course of business) or any class or series of the share capital or capital stock or other equity interests of the Company or the Purchaser Parties in a single transaction or series of transactions. In the event that there is an unsolicited proposal for, or an indication of a serious interest in entering into, an Alternative Transaction, communicated in writing to the Company or the Purchaser Parties or any of their respective representatives or agents (each, an “Alternative Proposal”), such party shall as promptly as practicable (and in any event within two (2) Business Days after receipt) advise the other parties to this Agreement in writing of such Alternative Proposal and the material terms and conditions of any such Alternative Proposal (including any changes thereto) and the identity of the person making any such Alternative Proposal. The Company on one hand and the Purchaser Parties one the other hand shall keep the other party informed on a reasonably current basis of material developments with respect to any such Alternative Proposal.

 

Section 6.3 Access to Information. From the date hereof until and including the Closing Date, each of the Company on one hand and the Purchaser Parties on the other hand shall, to the best of their abilities, (a) continue to give the other party, its legal counsel and other representatives full access to the offices, properties, and Books and Records, (b) furnish to the other party, its legal counsel and other representatives such information relating to the business of the Company or the Purchaser Parties as such Persons may request and (c) cause its respective employees, legal counsel, accountants and representatives to cooperate with the other party in such other party’s investigation of its business; provided that no investigation pursuant to this Section (or any investigation prior to the date hereof) shall affect any representation or warranty given by the Company or the Purchaser Parties and, provided further, that any investigation pursuant to this Section shall be conducted in such manner as not to interfere unreasonably with the conduct of the business of the Company or the Purchaser Parties. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no party shall be required to provide the access described above or disclose any information if doing so is reasonably likely to (i) result in a waiver of attorney client privilege, work product doctrine or similar privilege or (ii) violate any contract to which it is a party or to which it is subject or applicable Law, provided that the non-disclosing party must advise the other party that it is withholding such access and/or information and (to the extent reasonably practicable) and provide a description of the access not granted and/or information not disclosed.

 

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Section 6.4 Notices of Certain Events. Each of the Company on one hand and the Purchaser Parties on the other hand shall promptly notify the other party of:

 

(a) any notice or other communication from any Person alleging that the consent of such Person is or may be required in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement might give rise to any Action by or on behalf of such Person or result in the creation of any Lien on any Company Share or share capital or capital stock of the Purchaser Parties or any of the Company’s or the Purchaser Parties’ assets;

 

(b) any notice or other communication from any Authority in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Transaction Documents;

 

(c) any Actions commenced or, to such party’s knowledge, threatened against, relating to or involving or otherwise affecting the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Transaction Documents;

 

(d) with respect to the Company, the occurrence of any fact or circumstance which constitutes or results, or might reasonably be expected to constitute or result in a Company Material Adverse Effect; and with respect to the Purchaser Parties, the occurrence of any fact or circumstance which constitutes or results, or might reasonably be expected to constitute or result in a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect; and

 

(e) the occurrence of any fact or circumstance which results, or might reasonably be expected to result, in any representation made hereunder by such party to be false or misleading in any material respect or to omit or fail to state a material fact.

 

Section 6.5 Proxy/Registration Statement and Requisite Approval

 

(a) Proxy/Registration Statement

 

(i) As promptly as reasonably practicable after the execution of this Agreement, the Purchaser Parties shall prepare, and Purchaser shall file with the SEC, a registration statement on Form S-4 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, and including the Proxy Statement, the “Proxy/Registration Statement”) relating to (1) the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting to approve and adopt: (A) the Business Combination (as defined in Purchaser’s Organizational Documents), this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the Merger and the other Transactions, (the "Business Combination Proposal"), (B) the increase of the authorised share capital of the Purchaser from US$50,000 divided into 50,000,000 ordinary shares of US$0.001 par value per share to US$200,000 divided into 200,000,000 ordinary shares of US$0.001 par value per share (the "Share Capital Proposal") (C) the change of name of the Purchaser to “MicroAlgo Inc.” (the "Change of Name Proposal") (D) the amendment and restatement of the memorandum and articles of association of the Purchaser in accordance with Section 2.5(b) hereof (the "Organizational Documents Proposal") (E) the appointment and/ or removal of the directors of the Purchaser in accordance with Section 2.4 (the "Director Appointment Proposal") and (F) adjournment of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting, if necessary, to permit further solicitation of proxies because there are not sufficient votes to approve and adopt any of the foregoing (the “Adjournment Proposal”) (such proposals in (A), (B),(C), (D), (E) and (F) collectively, the “Transaction Proposals”), and (2) the registration under the Securities Act of the Consideration Shares to be issued to the Company Shareholders pursuant to this Agreement. The Purchaser Parties shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to (1) cause the Proxy/Registration Statement when filed with the SEC to comply in all material respects with all Laws applicable thereto and rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC, (2) respond as promptly as reasonably practicable to and resolve all comments received from the SEC concerning the Proxy/Registration Statement, (3) cause the Proxy/Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable and (4) keep the Proxy/Registration Statement effective as long as is necessary to consummate the Transactions. Prior to the effective date of the Proxy/Registration Statement, the Purchaser Parties shall take all or any action required under any applicable federal or state securities Laws in connection with the issuance of Purchaser Ordinary Shares pursuant to this Agreement. As promptly as practicable after finalization and effectiveness of the Proxy/Registration Statement, Purchaser shall use reasonable best efforts to within five Business Days thereof, mail the Proxy/Registration Statement to the Purchaser Shareholders.

 

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(ii) Each of the Purchaser Parties and the Company shall furnish to the other parties all information concerning itself, its Subsidiaries, officers, directors, managers, shareholders, and other equityholders and information regarding such other matters as may be reasonably necessary or advisable or as may be reasonably requested in connection with the Proxy/Registration Statement, or any other statement, filing, notice or application made by or on behalf of the Purchaser Parties, the Company or their respective Affiliates to any regulatory Authority (including Nasdaq) in connection with the Transactions.

 

(iii) Any filing of, or amendment or supplement to, the Proxy/Registration Statement will be mutually agreed upon by the Purchaser Parties and the Company. The Purchaser Parties will advise the Company, promptly after receiving notice thereof, of the time when the Proxy/Registration Statement has become effective or any supplement or amendment has been filed, of the issuance of any stop order, of the suspension of the qualification of Purchaser Ordinary Shares to be issued or issuable in connection with this Agreement for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of any request by the SEC for amendment of the Proxy/Registration Statement or comments thereon and responses thereto or requests by the SEC for additional information and responses thereto, and shall provide the Company a reasonable opportunity to provide comments and amendments to any such filing. The Purchaser Parties and the Company shall cooperate and mutually agree upon any response to comments of the SEC or its staff with respect to the Proxy/Registration Statement and any amendment to the Proxy/Registration Statement filed in response thereto.

 

(iv) If, at any time prior to the Effective Time, any information, event or circumstance relating to any Purchaser Party or their respective officers or directors, should be discovered by a Purchaser Party, which should be set forth in an amendment or a supplement to the Proxy/Registration Statement, so that neither of such documents would include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, with respect to the Proxy Statement, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, Purchaser shall promptly inform the Company. If, at any time prior to the Effective Time, any information, event or circumstance relating to the Company or its officers or directors, should be discovered by the Company, which should be set forth in an amendment or a supplement to the Proxy/Registration Statement, so that neither of such documents would include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, with respect to the Proxy Statement, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, the Company shall promptly inform the Purchaser. Thereafter, the Purchaser Parties and the Company shall promptly cooperate in the preparation and filing of an appropriate amendment or supplement to the Proxy/Registration Statement describing or correcting such information, and the Purchaser Parties shall promptly file such amendment or supplement with the SEC and, to the extent required by Law, disseminate such amendment or supplement to the Purchaser Shareholders.

 

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(b) Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval.

 

(i) Prior to or as promptly as practicable after the Proxy/Registration Statement is declared effective under the Securities Act, Purchaser shall establish a depositary interest record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold an extraordinary general meeting of the Purchaser Shareholders (including any adjournment or postponement thereof, the “Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting”) to be held as promptly as reasonably practicable following the date that the Proxy/Registration Statement is declared effective under the Securities Act for the purpose of voting on the Transaction Proposals and obtaining the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval (including any adjournment or postponement of such meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies in favor of the adoption of this Agreement), providing Purchaser Shareholders with the opportunity to elect to effect a Purchaser Share Redemption and such other matter as may be mutually agreed by Purchaser and the Company. Purchaser will use its reasonable best efforts to (A) solicit from its shareholders proxies in favor of the adoption of the Transaction Proposals, including the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval, and will take all other action necessary or advisable to obtain such proxies and Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval and (B) to obtain the vote or consent of its shareholders required by and in compliance with all applicable Law, Nasdaq rules and the Organizational Documents of Purchaser. Purchaser (X) shall consult with the Company regarding the depositary interest record date and the date of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting and (Y) shall not adjourn or postpone the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting without the prior written consent of Company; provided, however, that Purchaser shall adjourn or postpone the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting (1) if, as of the time that the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting is originally scheduled, there are insufficient shares of Purchaser represented at such meeting (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct the business of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting, or (2) if, as of the time that the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting is originally scheduled, adjournment or postponement of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting is necessary to enable Purchaser to solicit additional proxies required to obtain Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval; provided further, however, that Purchaser shall adjourn or postpone on not more than three occasions and so long as the date of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting is not adjourned or postponed more than an aggregate of 45 consecutive days in connection with such adjournment or postponement.

 

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(ii) The Proxy/Registration Statement shall include a statement to the effect that the board of directors of the Purchaser Board has unanimously recommended that the Purchaser Shareholders vote in favor of the Transaction Proposals at the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting (such statement, the “Purchaser Board Recommendation”) and neither the Purchaser Board nor any committee thereof shall withhold, withdraw, qualify, amend or modify, or publicly propose or resolve to withhold, withdraw, qualify, amend or modify, the Purchaser Board Recommendation unless in strict observance of their common law or fiduciary duties.

 

Section 6.6 Support of Transactions. Without limiting any covenant contained in Article VI, Article VII and Article VIII, the Purchaser Parties and the Company and the Majority Shareholder shall each, and each shall cause its Subsidiaries to (a) use reasonable best efforts to obtain all material consents and approvals of third parties that any of the Purchaser Parties, or the Company or their respective Affiliates are required to obtain in order to consummate the Merger and the other Transactions, including cooperating, by adopting appropriate corporate resolutions and otherwise, to cause the name of the Purchaser to be changed immediately prior to the Closing to “MicroAlgo Inc.” and (b) take such other action as may be reasonably necessary or as another party hereto may reasonably request to satisfy the conditions of Article IX or otherwise to comply with this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby as soon as practicable. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no action taken by the Company under this Section 6.6 will constitute a breach of Section 6.1.

 

Section 6.7 Reasonable Best Efforts; Further Assurances. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each party shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or desirable under applicable Laws, and cooperate as reasonably requested by the other parties, to consummate and implement expeditiously each of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction Documents. The parties hereto shall execute and deliver such other documents, certificates, agreements, financial statements and other writings and take such other actions as may be necessary or reasonably desirable in order to consummate or implement expeditiously each of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction Documents.

 

Section 6.8 Confidentiality. Except as necessary to complete the Proxy/Registration Statement, the Company, on the one hand, and the Purchaser Parties, on the other hand, shall hold and shall cause their respective representatives to hold in strict confidence, unless compelled to disclose by judicial or administrative process or by other requirements of Law, all documents and information concerning the other party furnished to it by such other party or its representatives in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (except to the extent that such information can be shown to have been (a) previously known by the party to which it was furnished, (b) in the public domain through no fault of such party or (c) later lawfully acquired from other sources, which source is not the agent of the other party, by the party to which it was furnished), and each party shall not release or disclose such information to any other person, except its representatives in connection with this Agreement. In the event that any party believes that it is required to disclose any such confidential information pursuant to applicable Laws, such party shall give timely written notice to the other parties so that such parties may have an opportunity to obtain a protective order or other appropriate relief. Each party shall be deemed to have satisfied its obligations to hold confidential information concerning or supplied by the other parties if it exercises the same care as it takes to preserve confidentiality for its own similar information. The parties acknowledge that some previously confidential information will be required to be disclosed in the Proxy/Registration Statement.

 

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ARTICLE VII.

COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

 

The Company agrees that:

 

Section 7.1 Reporting and Compliance with Laws. From the date hereof through the Closing Date, the Company shall duly and timely file all Tax Returns required to be filed with the applicable Taxing Authorities, pay any and all Taxes that are due and payable, as required by any Taxing Authority, and duly observe and conform in all material respects, to all applicable Laws and Orders.

 

Section 7.2 PCAOB Financials. By no later than August 15, 2021 the Company will deliver to the Purchaser Parties reviewed financial statements of the Company as of and for the six (6) month period ended June 30, 2021, all prepared in conformity with GAAP under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB Financials”). The PCAOB Financials shall be (i) prepared from the Books and Records of the Company; (ii) prepared on an accrual basis in accordance with GAAP; (iii) contain and reflect all necessary adjustments and accruals for a fair presentation of the Company’s financial condition as of their dates including for all warranty, maintenance, service and indemnification obligations; and (iv) contain and reflect adequate provisions for all Liabilities for all material Taxes applicable to the Company with respect to the periods then ended. The PCAOBs will be complete and accurate and fairly present in all material respects, in conformity with GAAP applied on a consistent basis in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of operations of the Company for the periods reflected therein. The Company and the Majority Shareholder will provide additional financial information as reasonably requested by the Purchaser Parties for inclusion in any filings to be made by the Purchaser Parties with the SEC.

 

Section 7.3 No Claim Against the Trust Account. The Company acknowledges that it has read the IPO Prospectus and other Purchaser SEC Documents as filed under the Exchange Act, the Purchaser’s Organizational Documents, and the Trust Agreement and understands that Purchaser has established the Trust Account described therein for the benefit of Purchaser’s public shareholders and that disbursements from the Trust Account are available only in the limited circumstances set forth in the Trust Agreement. The Company further acknowledges that, if the Transactions, or, in the event of a termination of this Agreement, another Business Combination (as defined in the Purchaser’s Organizational Documents), are not consummated by February 11, 2022 or such later date as approved by the Purchaser Shareholders to complete a Business Combination (as defined in the Purchaser’s Organizational Documents), Purchaser will be obligated to return to its shareholders the amounts being held in the Trust Account. Accordingly, for and in consideration of Purchaser and Merger Sub entering into this Agreement, and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company hereby irrevocably waives any past, present or future Action of any kind against, and any right to access, the Trust Account or to collect from the Trust Account any monies that may be owed to them for any reason whatsoever, and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account at any time for any reason whatsoever save for the reasons set forth Section 13.6. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 7.3 shall not serve to limit or prohibit the Company’s rights to pursue a claim against Purchaser for legal relief against assets held outside the Trust Account (including from and after the consummation of a Business Combination other than the one contemplated by this Agreement) or pursuant to Section 13.16 for specific performance or other injunctive relief. This Section 7.3 shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any and every reason.

 

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ARTICLE VIII.

COVENANTS OF PURCHASER PARTIES

 

Section 8.1 Nasdaq Listing. From the date hereof through the Effective Time, Purchaser shall ensure Purchaser remains listed as a public company on the Nasdaq, and shall prepare and submit to Nasdaq a listing application, if required under Nasdaq rules, covering the Consideration Shares issuable in the transactions contemplated hereby and shall obtain approval for the listing of such shares. After the date hereof and prior to the Effective Time, Purchaser shall procure the reservation of ticker symbol “ALGO” on Nasdaq.

 

Section 8.2 Public Filings. From the date hereof through the Closing, Purchaser shall keep current and timely file all reports required to be filed or furnished with the SEC and otherwise comply in all material respects with its reporting obligations under applicable Laws.

 

Section 8.3 Trust Account. Prior to or at the Closing (subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article IX and provision of notice thereof to Trustee (which notice Purchaser shall provide to Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Trust Agreement)), Purchaser shall make appropriate arrangements to cause the funds in the Trust Account to be disbursed in accordance with the Trust Agreement, including causing the documents, opinions and notices required to be delivered to Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement to be so delivered, for the following: (a) the redemption of any Purchaser Ordinary Shares in connection with the Purchaser Share Redemption; (b) the payment of the amounts due to the underwriters and professional service providers of the IPO for their deferred underwriting commissions as set forth in the Trust Agreement; (c) the payment of the Transaction Expenses, and (d) the balance of the assets in the Trust Account, if any, after payment of the amounts required under the foregoing clauses (a) and (c), to be disbursed to Purchaser in accordance with the Trust Agreement, all of which shall subsequently be contributed to the Surviving Corporation for its working capital and general corporate purpose.

 

Section 8.4 Post-Closing Directors and Officers of Purchaser. Subject to the terms of the Purchaser’s Organizational Documents, Purchaser shall take all such action within its power as may be necessary or appropriate such that:

 

(a) immediately before the Closing, the Purchaser’s board of directors shall consist of five (5) directors:

 

(i) four (4) directors shall be designated by the Company, at least two of whom shall be considered “independent” for purposes of under Nasdaq rules requirement, and

 

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(ii) one (1) director shall be designated by the Purchaser, who shall be “independent” for purposes of under Nasdaq rules requirement and shall be the “financial expert’ as determined under SEC rules and regulations and who shall be Ms. Shan Cui initially;

 

(b) from and after the Effective Time, the officers of Purchaser shall be the same as the officers of the Surviving Corporation (the “Purchaser Post-Closing Officers”), who shall serve in such capacity in accordance with the terms of Purchaser’s Organizational Documents following the Effective Time.

 

Section 8.5 D&O Indemnification and Insurance.

 

(a) From and after the Effective Time, Purchaser agrees that it shall indemnify and hold harmless each present and former director and officer of the (x) Company and each of its Subsidiaries (in each case, solely to the extent acting in their capacity as such and to the extent such activities are related to their business) and (y) Purchaser and each of its Subsidiaries (the Persons in the foregoing (x) and (y) are collectively referred to as, the “D&O Indemnified Parties”) against any costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages or liabilities incurred in connection with any Action, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of or pertaining to matters existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time, whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time, to the fullest extent that the Company, Purchaser or their respective Subsidiaries, as the case may be, would have been permitted under applicable Law and its respective certificate of incorporation, certificate of formation, bylaws, limited liability company agreement or other organizational documents in effect on the date of this Agreement to indemnify such D&O Indemnified Parties (including the advancing of expenses as incurred to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law). Without limiting the foregoing, Purchaser shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to (i) maintain for a period of not less than six (6) years from the Effective Time provisions in its Organizational Documents concerning the indemnification and exoneration (including provisions relating to expense advancement) of Purchaser’s and its Subsidiaries’ former and current officers, directors, employees, and agents that are no less favorable to those Persons than the provisions of the Organizational Documents of the Company, Purchaser or their respective Subsidiaries, as applicable, in each case, as of the date of this Agreement, and (ii) not amend, repeal or otherwise modify such provisions in any respect that would adversely affect the rights of those Persons thereunder, in each case, except as required by Law. Purchaser shall assume, and be liable for, each of the covenants in this Section 8.5.

 

(b) For a period of six (6) years from the Effective Time, Purchaser shall maintain in effect directors’ and officers’ liability insurance covering those Persons who are currently covered by Purchaser’s, the Company’s or their respective Subsidiaries’ directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies (true, correct and complete copies of which have been heretofore made available to Acquiror or its agents or representatives) on terms not less favorable than the terms of such current insurance coverage, except that in no event shall Purchaser be required to pay an annual premium for such insurance in excess of three hundred percent (300%) of the aggregate annual premium payable by Purchaser or the Company, as applicable, for such insurance policy for the year ended December 31, 2020; provided, however, that (i) Purchaser may cause coverage to be extended under the current directors’ and officers’ liability insurance by obtaining a six (6) year “tail” policy containing terms not materially less favorable than the terms of such current insurance coverage with respect to claims existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time and (ii) if any claim is asserted or made within such six (6) year period, any insurance required to be maintained under this Section 8.5 shall be continued in respect of such claim until the final disposition thereof.

 

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(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, this Section 8.5 shall survive the Closing indefinitely and shall be binding, jointly and severally, on Purchaser and all successors and assigns of Purchaser. In the event that Purchaser or any of its successors or assigns consolidates with or merges into any other Person and shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation or entity of such consolidation or merger or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, then, and in each such case, Purchaser shall ensure that proper provision shall be made so that the successors and assigns of Purchaser shall succeed to the obligations set forth in this Section 8.5.

 

(d) On the Closing Date, Purchaser shall enter into customary indemnification agreements reasonably satisfactory to each of the Company and Purchaser with the post- Closing directors and officers of Purchaser, which indemnification agreements shall continue to be effective following the Closing.

 

Section 8.6 Backstop Investment. Unless otherwise approved in writing by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), Purchaser shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, any waiver (in whole or in part) of, or provide consent to modify (including consent to terminate), any provision or remedy under, or any replacements of, any of the Backstop Agreements. Subject to the immediately preceding sentence, Purchaser shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or to cause to be taken, all actions required, necessary or that it otherwise deems to be proper or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Backstop Agreements on the terms described therein, including using its reasonable best efforts to enforce its rights under the Backstop Agreements to cause the Backstop Investors to pay to (or as directed by) Purchaser the applicable purchase price under each Backstop Investor’s applicable Backstop Agreement in accordance with its terms.

 

Section 8.7 Section 16 Matters. Prior to the Closing, the board of directors of Purchaser, or an appropriate committee of “non-employee directors” (as defined in Rule 16b- 3 of the Exchange Act) thereof, shall adopt a resolution consistent with the interpretive guidance of the SEC so that the acquisition of Purchaser Ordinary Shares pursuant to this Agreement and the other agreements contemplated hereunder, by any Person owning securities of the Company who is expected to become a director or officer (as defined under Rule 16a- 1(f) under the Exchange Act) of Purchaser following the Closing shall be exempt transaction for purposes of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act pursuant to Rule 16b-3 thereunder.

 

Section 8.8 Shareholder Litigation. In the event that any litigation related to this Agreement, any Transaction Document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby is brought, or, to the knowledge of Purchaser Parties, threatened in writing, against Purchaser or the board of directors of Purchaser by any of Purchaser’s shareholders prior to the Closing, Purchaser shall promptly notify the Company of any such litigation and keep the Company reasonably informed with respect to the status thereof. Purchaser shall provide the Company the opportunity to participate in (subject to a customary joint defense agreement), the defense of any such litigation, shall give due consideration to the Company’s advice with respect to such litigation and shall not settle or agree to settle any such litigation without the prior written consent of the Company, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.

 

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Section 8.9 Final Allocation Statement. The Purchaser Parties shall deliver to the Company at least two Business Days prior to the Closing the final version of the Allocation Statement, setting forth the number of Consideration Shares issuable to each Company Shareholders, comprising the Closing Payment Shares and with respect to the Majority Shareholder, the Escrow Shares; such Allocation Statement shall not be subject to further updates.

 

ARTICLE IX.

CONDITIONS TO CLOSING

 

Section 9.1 Condition to the Obligations of the Parties. The obligations of all of the parties hereto to consummate the Closing are subject to the satisfaction of all the following conditions:

 

(a) No provisions of any applicable Law, and no Order shall prohibit or prevent the consummation of the Closing.

 

(b) There shall not be any Action brought by a third party that is not an Affiliate of the parties hereto to enjoin or otherwise restrict the consummation of the Closing.

 

(c) The SEC shall have declared the Proxy/Registration Statement effective. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Proxy/Registration Statement or any part thereof shall have been issued.

 

(d) The Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval have been duly obtained.

 

(e) Purchaser shall have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets (as determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Exchange Act) immediately after the Closing.

 

Section 9.2 Conditions to Obligations of the Purchaser Parties. The obligation of the Purchaser Parties to consummate the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, or the waiver at the Purchaser Parties’ sole and absolute discretion, of all the following further conditions:

 

(a) The Company shall have duly performed all of its obligations hereunder required to be performed by it at or prior to the Closing Date in all material respects, unless the applicable obligation has a materiality qualifier in which case it shall be duly performed in all respects.

 

(b) All of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Article IV in this Agreement, disregarding all qualifications and exceptions contained herein relating to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect, regardless of whether it involved a known risk, shall: (i) be true and correct at and as of the date of this Agreement, and (ii) be true and correct as of the Closing Date (except for the representation and warranties that speak as of a specific date prior to the Closing Date, in which case such representations and warranties need only to be true and correct as of such earlier date), in the case of (i) and (ii), other than as would not in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(c) There shall have been no event, change or occurrence which has a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d) The Purchaser Parties shall have received a certificate signed by the chief executive officer of the Company to the effect set forth in clauses (a) through (c) of this Section 9.2.

 

Section 9.3 Conditions to Obligations of the Company. The obligations of the Company to consummate the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, or the waiver at the Company’s discretion, of all of the following further conditions:

 

(a) The Purchaser Parties shall have duly performed all of their obligations hereunder required to be performed by them at or prior to the Closing Date in all material respects, unless the applicable obligation has a materiality qualifier in which case it shall be duly performed in all respects.

 

(b) All of the representations and warranties of the Purchaser Parties contained in Article V of this Agreement, disregarding all qualifications and exceptions contained herein relating to materiality or Purchaser Material Adverse Effect, regardless of whether it involved a known risk, shall: (i) be true and correct at and as of the date of this Agreement and (ii) be true and correct as of the Closing Date (except for representation and warranties that speak as of a specific date prior to the Closing Date, in which case such representations and warranties need only to be true and correct as of such earlier date), in the case of (i) and (ii), other than as would not in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect.

 

(c) There shall have been no event, change or occurrence which has Purchaser Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d) From the date hereof until the Closing, the Purchaser Parties shall have been in material compliance with the reporting requirements under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act applicable to the Purchaser Parties.

 

(e) Purchaser Ordinary Shares shall remain listed for trading on Nasdaq and the additional listing application for the Consideration Shares shall have been approved by Nasdaq. As of the Closing Date, Purchaser shall not have received any written notice from Nasdaq that it has failed, or would reasonably be expected to fail to meet the Nasdaq listing requirements as of the Closing Date for any reason, where such notice has not been subsequently withdrawn by Nasdaq or the underlying failure appropriately remedied or satisfied.

 

(f) The Persons identified in Section 8.4(a) shall have been elected to the board of directors of the Purchaser immediately before the Closing.

 

(g) The Purchaser’s name shall have been changed to “MicroAlgo Inc.” immediately before the Closing.

 

(h) The Company shall have received a certificate signed by the chief executive officer of the Purchaser to the effect set forth in clauses (a) through (g) of this Section 9.3.

 

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ARTICLE X.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

 

Section 10.1 Arbitration

 

(a) The parties shall promptly submit any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement (including with respect to the meaning, effect, validity, termination, interpretation, performance, or enforcement of this Agreement) or any alleged breach thereof (including any action in tort, contract, equity, or otherwise), to binding arbitration before one arbitrator (the “Arbitrator”). Binding arbitration shall be the sole means of resolving any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement (including with respect to the meaning, effect, validity, termination, interpretation, performance or enforcement of this Agreement) or any alleged breach thereof (including any claim in tort, contract, equity, or otherwise).

 

(b) If the parties cannot agree upon the Arbitrator, the Arbitrator shall be selected by the New York, New York chapter head of the American Arbitration Association upon the written request of either side. The Arbitrator shall be selected within thirty (30) days of such written request.

 

(c) The laws of the State of New York shall apply to any arbitration hereunder. In any arbitration hereunder, this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York applicable to a contract negotiated, signed, and wholly to be performed in the State of New York, which laws the Arbitrator shall apply in rendering his decision. The Arbitrator shall issue a written decision, setting forth findings of fact and conclusions of law, within sixty (60) days after he shall have been selected. The Arbitrator shall have no authority to award punitive or other exemplary damages.

 

(d) The arbitration shall be held in New York, New York in accordance with and under the then-current provisions of the rules of the American Arbitration Association, except as otherwise provided herein.

 

(e) On application to the Arbitrator, any party shall have rights to discovery to the same extent as would be provided under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Evidence shall apply to any arbitration under this Agreement; provided, however, that the Arbitrator shall limit any discovery or evidence such that his decision shall be rendered within the period referred to in Section 10.1(c).

 

(f) The Arbitrator may, at his discretion and at the expense of the party who will bear the cost of the arbitration, employ experts to assist him in his determinations.

 

(g) The costs of the arbitration proceeding and any proceeding in court to confirm any arbitration award (including actual attorneys’ fees and costs), shall be borne by the unsuccessful party and shall be awarded as part of the Arbitrator’s decision, unless the Arbitrator shall otherwise allocate such costs in such decision. The determination of the Arbitrator shall be final and binding upon the parties and not subject to appeal.

 

(h) Any judgment upon any award rendered by the Arbitrator may be entered in and enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction. The parties expressly consent to the non- exclusive jurisdiction of the courts (Federal and state) in New York, New York to enforce any award of the Arbitrator or to render any provisional, temporary, or injunctive relief in connection with or in aid of the arbitration. The parties expressly consent to the personal and subject matter jurisdiction of the Arbitrator to arbitrate any and all matters to be submitted to arbitration hereunder. None of the parties hereto shall challenge any arbitration hereunder on the grounds that any party necessary to such arbitration (including the parties hereto) shall have been absent from such arbitration for any reason, including that such party shall have been the subject of any bankruptcy, reorganization, or insolvency proceeding.

 

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(i) The parties shall indemnify the Arbitrator and any experts employed by the Arbitrator and hold them harmless from and against any claim or demand arising out of any arbitration under this Agreement, unless resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the person indemnified.

 

(j) This arbitration section shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

 

Section 10.2 Waiver of Jury Trial; Exemplary Damages

 

(a) THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT EACH SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OF ANY KIND OR NATURE, IN ANY COURT IN WHICH AN ACTION MAY BE COMMENCED, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS, OR BY REASON OF ANY OTHER CAUSE OR DISPUTE WHATSOEVER BETWEEN OR AMONG ANY OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT OF ANY KIND OR NATURE. NO PARTY SHALL BE AWARDED PUNITIVE OR OTHER EXEMPLARY DAMAGES RESPECTING ANY DISPUTE ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS.

 

(b) Each of the parties to this Agreement acknowledges that each has been represented in connection with the signing of this waiver by independent legal counsel selected by the respective party and that such party has discussed the legal consequences and import of this waiver with legal counsel. Each of the parties to this Agreement further acknowledges that each has read and understands the meaning of this waiver and grants this waiver knowingly, voluntarily, without duress and only after consideration of the consequences of this waiver with legal counsel.

 

ARTICLE XI.

TERMINATION

 

Section 11.1 Termination without Default In the event that the Closing of the transactions contemplated hereunder has not occurred by September 30, 2021 (the “Outside Closing Date”) and no material breach of this Agreement by the party seeking to terminate this Agreement shall have occurred or have been made (as provided in Section 11.2 hereof), the Purchaser Parties or the Company, as the case may be, shall have the right, at its sole option, to terminate this Agreement without liability to the other side. Such right may be exercised by Purchaser Parties or the Company, as the case may be, by giving written notice to the other at any time after the Outside Closing Date.

 

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Section 11.2 Termination upon Default.

 

(a) The Purchaser Parties may terminate this Agreement by giving notice to the Company, without prejudice to any rights or obligations the Purchaser Parties may have, if the Company shall have materially breached any of its covenants, agreements, representations, and warranties contained herein or in any Transaction Documents to be performed on or prior to the Closing Date and such breach shall not be cured within fifteen (15) days following receipt by the Company of a notice describing in reasonable detail the nature of such breach.

 

(b) The Company may terminate this Agreement by giving notice to any Purchaser Party, without prejudice to any rights or obligations the Company may have, if any Purchaser Party shall have materially breached any of its covenants, agreements, representations, and warranties contained herein or in any Transaction Documents to be performed on or prior to the Closing Date and such breach shall not be cured within fifteen (15) days following receipt by such Purchaser Party of a notice describing in reasonable detail the nature of such breach.

 

Section 11.3 Effect of Termination. In the event that this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 11.2 hereof, this Agreement shall forthwith become void, and there shall be no liability under this Agreement on the part of any party hereto, except (i) as set forth in Article X, this Section 11.2, and Article XIII.

 

ARTICLE XII.

INDEMNIFICATION

 

Section 12.1 Indemnification of Purchaser. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Article XII and from and after the Closing Date, the Majority Shareholder (the “Indemnifying Party”)agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser (the “Indemnified Party”), against and in respect of any and all out-of-pocket loss, cost, payment, demand, penalty, forfeiture, expense, liability, judgment, deficiency or damage, and diminution in value or claim (including actual costs of investigation and attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses) (all of the foregoing collectively, “Losses”) incurred or sustained by the Indemnified Party as a result of or in connection with any breach or inaccuracy of any of the representations or warranties of the Company contained in Article IV herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indemnified Party shall not assert any claim, and shall not be entitled to indemnification, unless and until the aggregate amount of all Losses indemnifiable hereunder exceeds $1,000,000 (the “Threshold”), in which event the Indemnifying Party shall be responsible for the aggregate amount of Losses from the first dollar, and any liability incurred pursuant to the terms of this Article XII shall be paid exclusively from the Escrow Shares valued at the then market value per share and in accordance with the terms of the Escrow Agreement. For purposes of this Article XII, “then market value” of the Escrow Shares shall mean (i) in the event that Purchaser has made public disclosure of the facts or circumstances or Third-Party Claims which may provide the basis for indemnification for Losses under this Article XII, the average closing price of the Purchaser Ordinary Shares on the principal trading market or exchange for the 10 trading days following the initial trading day after any such disclosure or (ii) in the event that Purchaser has not made public disclosure of any facts or circumstances or Third-Party Claims which may provide the basis for indemnification for Losses under this Article XII, then $10.00 per Purchaser Ordinary Share

 

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Section 12.2 Procedure. The following shall apply with respect to all claims by the Indemnified Party for indemnification:

 

(a) The Indemnified Party shall give the Indemnifying Party prompt notice (an “Indemnification Notice”) of any third-party action with respect to which the Indemnified Party seeks indemnification pursuant to Section 12.1 (a “Third-Party Claim”), which shall describe in reasonable detail the Loss that has been or may be suffered by the Indemnified Party. The failure to give the Indemnification Notice shall not impair any of the rights or benefits of the Indemnified Party under Section 12.1, except to the extent such failure adversely affects the ability of the Indemnifying Party to defend such claim or increases the amount of such liability;

 

(b) In the case of any Third-Party Claims as to which indemnification is sought by the Indemnified Party, the Indemnified Party shall be entitled to exercise full control of the defense, compromise or settlement of any Third-Party Claim unless the Indemnifying Party, within a reasonable time after the giving of an Indemnification Notice by the Indemnified Party (but in any event within thirty (30) days thereafter), shall (i) deliver a written confirmation to the Indemnified Party that the indemnification provisions of Section 12.1 are applicable to such action and the Indemnifying Party will indemnify the Indemnified Party in respect of such action pursuant to the terms of Section 12.1, (ii) notify such Indemnified Party in writing of the intention of the Indemnifying Party to assume the defense thereof, and (iii) retain legal counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party to conduct the defense of such Third-Party Claim;

 

(c) If the Indemnifying Party assumes the defense of any such Third-Party Claim pursuant to Section 12.2(b), then the Indemnified Party shall cooperate with the Indemnifying Party in any manner reasonably requested in connection with the defense. If the Indemnifying Party so assumes the defense of any such Third-Party Claim, the Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel and to participate in (but not control) the defense, compromise, or settlement thereof, and the fees and expenses of such counsel employed by the Indemnified Party shall be at the expense of the Indemnified Party unless (i) the Indemnifying Party has agreed to pay such fees and expenses, or (ii) the named parties to any such Third- Party Claim (including any impleaded parties) include the Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party shall have been advised by its counsel that there may be a conflict of interest between the Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party in the conduct of the defense thereof, and in any such case the reasonable fees and expenses of such separate counsel shall be borne by the Indemnifying Party;

 

(d) If the Indemnifying Party elects to assume the defense of any Third-Party Claim pursuant to Section 12.2(b), the Indemnified Party shall not pay, or permit to be paid, any part of any claim or demand arising from such asserted liability unless the Indemnifying Party withdraws from or fail to adequately prosecute the defense of such asserted liability, or unless a judgment is entered against the Indemnified Party for such liability. If the Indemnifying Party does not elect to defend, or if, after commencing or undertaking any such defense, the Indemnifying Party fails to adequately prosecute or withdraw such defense, the Indemnified Party shall have the right to undertake the defense or settlement thereof, at the Indemnifying Party’s expense. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Indemnifying Party shall not be entitled to control over, but may participate in, and the Indemnified Party shall be entitled to have sole control over, the defense or settlement of (x) that part of any Third-Party Claim (i) that seeks a temporary restraining order, a preliminary or permanent injunction or specific performance against the Indemnified Party, or (ii) to the extent such Third-Party Claim involves criminal allegations against the Indemnified Party or (y) the entire Third-Party Claim if such Third-Party Claim would impose liability on the part of the Indemnified Party in an amount which is greater than the amount as to which the Indemnified Party is entitled to indemnification under this Agreement. In the event the Indemnified Party retains control of the Third-Party Claim, the Indemnified Party will not settle the subject claim without the prior written consent of the Indemnifying Party;

 

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(e) If the Indemnified Party undertakes the defense of any such Third-Party Claim pursuant to Section 12.2(b) and proposes to settle the same prior to a final judgment thereon or to forgo appeal with respect thereto, then the Indemnified Party shall give the Indemnifying Party prompt written notice thereof and the Indemnifying Party shall have the right to participate in the settlement, assume or reassume the defense thereof or prosecute such appeal, in each case at the Indemnifying Party’s expense. The Indemnifying Party shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party settle or compromise or consent to entry of any judgment with respect to any such Third-Party Claim (i) in which any relief other than the payment of money damages is or may be sought against the Indemnified Party, (ii) in which such Third-Party Claim could be reasonably expected to impose or create a monetary liability on the part of the Indemnified Party (such as an increase in the Indemnified Party’s income Tax) other than the monetary claim of the third party in such Third-Party Claim being paid pursuant to such settlement or judgment, or (iii) which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant, person conducting such investigation or initiating such hearing, plaintiff or petitioner to the Indemnified Party of a release from all liability with respect to such Third-Party Claim and all other actions (known or unknown) arising or which might arise out of the same facts;

 

(f) Following the Closing, the disinterested independent directors of the Purchaser shall have the authority to institute and prosecute any claims for indemnification hereunder in good faith on behalf of the Purchaser to enforce the terms of this Agreement.

 

Section 12.3 Escrow Shares; Payment of Dividends; Voting. Any dividends, interest payments, or other distributions of any kind made in respect of the Escrow Shares will be delivered promptly to the Escrow Agent to be held in escrow. The Majority Shareholder shall be entitled to vote the Escrow Shares on any matters to come before the Purchaser Shareholders.

 

(a) Distribution of Escrow Shares. At the times provided for in Section 12.3(b), the Escrow Shares shall be released and transferred by the Escrow Agent to the Majority Shareholder. The Purchaser will take such action as may be necessary to cause such securities to be issued in the names of the appropriate Persons;

 

(b) Release from Escrow. Within five (5) Business Days following expiration of the Survival Period (the “Release Date”), the Escrow Shares will be released from escrow to the Majority Shareholder, less the number of Escrow Shares, the amount of which, valued at the then market value per share, is equal to the amount of any potential Losses set forth in any Indemnification Notice from the Purchaser with respect to any pending but unresolved claim for indemnification. Prior to the Release Date, the Majority Shareholder shall issue to the Escrow Agent a certificate executed by the Majority Shareholder instructing the Escrow Agent to release such number of Escrow Shares determined in accordance with this Section 12.3(b). Any Escrow Shares retained in escrow as a result of the immediately preceding sentence shall be released and transferred to the Majority Shareholder promptly upon resolution of the related claim for indemnification in accordance with the provisions of this Article XII. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any indemnification payments will be made to Purchaser or its successors. Any Escrow Shares received by Purchaser as an indemnification payment shall be promptly cancelled by Purchaser after its receipt thereof.

 

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Section 12.4 Payment of Indemnification. In the event that the Purchaser is entitled to any indemnification pursuant to this Article XII, the Purchaser shall be paid exclusively from the Escrow Shares. Any indemnification payments hereunder shall take into account any insurance proceeds or other third party reimbursement that the Indemnified Party is entitled to.

 

Section 12.5 Survival of Indemnification Rights. All representations and warranties contained in this Agreement (including all schedules and exhibits hereto and all certificates, documents, instruments and undertakings furnished pursuant to this Agreement) shall survive until 12 months following the Closing Date (the “Survival Period”); provided that the representations and warranties on Taxes in Section 4.20 shall survive until the expiry of the applicable statute of limitations. After the expiration of the Survival Period, the Indemnifying Party shall have no further liability for indemnification pursuant to this Article XII other than with respect to the claims already made pursuant to this Article XII.

 

Section 12.6 Sole and Exclusive Remedy. The remedies provided in this Article XII shall be deemed the sole and exclusive remedies of the Indemnified Party, from and after the Closing Date, with respect to any and all claims arising out of or related to this Agreement or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

ARTICLE XIII.

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 13.1 Notices. Any notice hereunder shall be sent in writing, addressed as specified below, and shall be deemed given: (a) if by hand or recognized courier service, by 4:00PM on a business day, addressee’s day and time, on the date of delivery, and otherwise on the first business day after such delivery; (b) if by fax or email, on the date that transmission is confirmed electronically, if by 4:00PM on a business day, addressee’s day and time, and otherwise on the first business day after the date of such confirmation; or (c) five days after mailing by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. Notices shall be addressed to the respective parties as follows (excluding telephone numbers, which are for convenience only), or to such other address as a party shall specify to the others in accordance with these notice provisions:

 

if to the Company (or the Surviving Corporation following the Closing), to:

 

VIYI Algorithm Inc.

Unit 507, Building C, Taoyuan Street

Long Jing High and New Technology Jingu Pioneer Park

Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518052

People’s Republic of China

Attn: Lance He/Audrey Yang

Email: lance@wimiar.com; audrey@wimiar.com

 

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with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

 

DLA Piper UK LLP Beijing Representative Office

20th Floor, South Tower, Beijing Kerry Center, 1 Guang Hua Road, Chaoyang

District, Beijing 100020

Attn: James Chang/Yang Ge

Email: James.Chang@dlapiper.com; Yang.Ge@dlapiper.com

 

if to Purchaser and Merger Sub

 

Venus Acquisition Corporation

477 Madison Avenue, Floor, New York, NY 10022

Attn: Yanming Liu

Email: ceo@venusacq.com

 

with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

 

Becker & Poliakoff LLP

45 Broadway, 17th Floor ,New York, NY 10006

Attn: Bill Huo/Brian C. Daughney

Email: BHuo@beckerlawyers.com; BDaughney@beckerlawyers.com

 

Section 13.2 Non-survival or Representations, Warranties and Covenants. None of the representations, warranties, covenants, obligations or other agreements in this Agreement or in any certificate, statement or instrument delivered pursuant to this Agreement, including any rights arising out of any breach of such representations, warranties, covenants, obligations, agreements and other provisions, shall survive the Closing, and all such representations, warranties, covenants, obligations or other agreements shall terminate and expire upon the occurrence of the Closing (and there shall be no liability after the Closing in respect thereof), except for (a) those covenants and agreements contained herein that by their terms expressly apply in whole or in part after the Closing and then only with respect to any breaches occurring after the Closing, (b) the indemnification of Purchaser set forth in Article XII, and (c) this Article XIII and any corresponding definitions set forth in Article I.

 

Section 13.3 Amendments; No Waivers; Remedies

 

(a) This Agreement cannot be amended, except by a writing signed by each of the Purchaser Parties and the Company, and cannot be terminated orally or by course of conduct. No provision hereof can be waived, except by a writing signed by the party against whom such waiver is to be enforced, and any such waiver shall apply only in the particular instance in which such waiver shall have been given.

 

(b) Neither any failure or delay in exercising any right or remedy hereunder or in requiring satisfaction of any condition herein nor any course of dealing shall constitute a waiver of or prevent any party from enforcing any right or remedy or from requiring satisfaction of any condition. No notice to or demand on a party waives or otherwise affects any obligation of that party or impairs any right of the party giving such notice or making such demand, including any right to take any action without notice or demand not otherwise required by this Agreement. No exercise of any right or remedy with respect to a breach of this Agreement shall preclude exercise of any other right or remedy, as appropriate to make the aggrieved party whole with respect to such breach, or subsequent exercise of any right or remedy with respect to any other breach.

 

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(c) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, no statement herein of any right or remedy shall impair any other right or remedy stated herein or that otherwise may be available.

 

(d) Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, neither shall any party seek, nor shall any party be liable for, punitive or exemplary damages, under any tort, contract, equity, or other legal theory, with respect to any breach (or alleged breach) of this Agreement or any provision hereof or any matter otherwise relating hereto or arising in connection herewith.

 

Section 13.4 Arm’s Length Bargaining; No Presumption Against Drafter. This Agreement has been negotiated at arm’s-length by parties of equal bargaining strength, each represented by counsel or having had but declined the opportunity to be represented by counsel and having participated in the drafting of this Agreement. This Agreement creates no fiduciary or other special relationship between the parties, and no such relationship otherwise exists. No presumption in favor of or against any party in the construction or interpretation of this Agreement or any provision hereof shall be made based upon which Person might have drafted this Agreement or such provision.

 

Section 13.5 Publicity.

 

(a) All press releases or other public communications relating to the Transactions, and the method of the release for publication thereof, shall prior to the Acquisition Closing be subject to the prior mutual approval of Purchaser and the Company; provided, that no such party shall be required to obtain consent pursuant to this Section 13.5(a) to the extent any proposed release or statement is substantially equivalent to the information that has previously been made public without breach of the obligation under this Section 13.5(a).

 

(b) The restriction in Section 13.5(a) shall not apply to the extent the public announcement is required by applicable securities Law, any Governmental Authority or stock exchange rule; provided, however, that in such an event, the party making the announcement shall, to the extent practicable, use its commercially reasonable efforts to consult with the other party in advance as to its form, content and timing

 

Section 13.6 Expenses. Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, each party shall bear its own costs and expenses in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby; provided that, if the Closing shall occur, Purchaser shall pay or cause to be paid the unpaid Company Transaction Expenses by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the designated account. For the avoidance of doubt, any payments to be made (or to cause to be made) by Purchaser pursuant to this Section 13.6 shall promptly and immediately be paid upon consummation of the Closing and release of proceeds from the Trust Account.

 

Section 13.7 No Assignment or Delegation. No party may assign any right or delegate any obligation hereunder, including by merger, consolidation, operation of law, or otherwise, without the written consent of the other party. Any purported assignment or delegation without such consent shall be void, in addition to constituting a material breach of this Agreement.

 

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Section 13.8 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

Section 13.9 Counterparts; Facsimile Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which shall constitute one agreement. This Agreement shall become effective upon delivery to each party of an executed counterpart or the earlier delivery to each party of original, photocopied, or electronically transmitted signature pages that together (but need not individually) bear the signatures of all other parties.

 

Section 13.10 Entire Agreement. This Agreement together with the other Transaction Documents, including any exhibits and schedules attached hereto or thereto, sets forth the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous understandings and agreements related thereto (whether written or oral), all of which are merged herein. No provision of this Agreement or any Transaction Documents, including any exhibits and schedules attached hereto or thereto, may be explained or qualified by any agreement, negotiations, understanding, discussion, conduct or course of conduct or by any trade usage. Except as otherwise expressly stated herein or any Transaction Documents, there is no condition precedent to the effectiveness of any provision hereof or thereof. No party has relied on any representation from, or warranty or agreement of, any person in entering into this Agreement, prior hereto or contemporaneous herewith or any Transaction Documents, except those expressly stated herein or therein.

 

Section 13.11 Severability. A determination by a court or other legal authority that any provision that is not of the essence of this Agreement is legally invalid shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof. The parties shall cooperate in good faith to substitute (or cause such court or other legal authority to substitute) for any provision so held to be invalid a valid provision, as alike in substance to such invalid provision as is lawful.

 

Section 13.12 Construction of Certain Terms and References; Captions. In this Agreement:

 

(a) References to particular sections and subsections, schedules, and exhibits not otherwise specified are cross-references to sections and subsections, schedules, and exhibits of this Agreement.

 

(b) All monetary figures used herein shall be in United States dollars unless otherwise specified.

 

(c) The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder,” and words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and, unless the context requires otherwise, “party” means a party signatory hereto.

 

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(d) The phrase “directly or indirectly” means directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate persons or through contractual or other legal arrangements, and "direct or indirect" has the correlative meaning

 

(e) Any use of the singular or plural, or the masculine, feminine, or neuter gender, includes the others, unless the context otherwise requires; “including” means “including without limitation;” “or” means “and/or;” “any” means “any one, more than one, or all” .

 

(f) Unless otherwise specified, any reference to any agreement (including this Agreement), instrument, or other document includes all schedules, exhibits, or other attachments referred to therein, and any reference to a statute or other law includes any rule, regulation, ordinance, or the like promulgated thereunder, in each case, as amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time. Any reference to a numbered schedule means the same-numbered section of the disclosure schedule.

 

(g) If any action is required to be taken or notice is required to be given within a specified number of days following a specific date or event, the day of such date or event is not counted in determining the last day for such action or notice. If any action is required to be taken or notice is required to be given on or before a particular day which is not a Business Day, such action or notice shall be considered timely if it is taken or given on or before the next Business Day.

 

(h) Captions/headings are not a part of this Agreement, but are included for convenience, only.

 

(i) A reference to a statute or statutory provision includes, to the extent applicable at any relevant time:

 

(i) that statute or statutory provision as from time to time consolidated, modified, re-enacted or replaced by any other statute or statutory provision;

 

(ii) any repealed statute or statutory provision which it re-enacts (with or without modification); and

 

(iii) any subordinate legislation or regulation made under the relevant statute or statutory provision.

 

Section 13.13 Further Assurances. Each party shall execute and deliver such documents and take such action, as may reasonably be considered within the scope of such party’s obligations hereunder, necessary to effectuate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

Section 13.14 Third Party Beneficiaries. Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof confers any benefit or right upon or may be enforced by any Person not a signatory hereto.

 

Section 13.15 Waiver of Conflicts.

 

(a) Recognizing that DLA Piper (“DLA”) acted as legal counsel to the Company and certain of their respective affiliates prior to the Closing, and that DLA may act as legal counsel to the Surviving Corporation and one or more of its Subsidiaries after the Closing, each of the Company and the Surviving Corporation (including on behalf of the Surviving Corporation’s Subsidiaries) hereby waives, on its own behalf and agrees to cause its Affiliates to waive, any conflicts that may arise in connection with DLA representing any of the Company, the Surviving Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries and any of their respective affiliates after the Closing.

 

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(b) Recognizing that Becker & Poliakoff LLP (“Becker”) acted as legal counsel to the Purchaser and certain of their respective affiliates prior to the Closing, and that Becker may act as legal counsel to the Purchaser and one or more of its Subsidiaries after the Closing, the Purchaser hereby waives, on its own behalf and agrees to cause its Affiliates to waive, any conflicts that may arise in connection with Becker representing the Purchaser and any of its Affiliates after the Closing.

 

Section 13.16 Specific Performance

 

(a) The Parties hereby agree that irreparable damage for which monetary damages, even if available, would not be an adequate remedy, would occur in the event that any provision of this Agreement (including failing to take such actions as are required of it hereunder to consummate the Merger or the other Transactions) is not performed in accordance with its specific terms or is otherwise breached. Accordingly, the Parties agree that each Party shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions, or any other appropriate form of specific performance or equitable relief, to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof in any court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with this Agreement this being in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled under the terms of this Agreement at Law or in equity (and each Party hereby waives any requirement for the securing or posting of any bond in connection with such remedy);

 

(b) Each of the Parties agrees that it will not oppose the granting of an injunction, specific performance and other equitable relief when expressly available pursuant to the terms of this Agreement on the basis that the other Parties have an adequate remedy at Law or an award of specific performance is not an appropriate remedy for any reason at Law or equity. Any Party seeking an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of, or to enforce compliance with this Agreement when expressly available pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall not be required to provide any bond or other security in connection with any such order or injunction.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties have hereunto caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

Purchaser Venus Acquisition Corporation
   
  By:  
  Name:  Yanming Liu
  Title: CEO
   
Merger Sub Venus Merger Sub Corp.
   
  By:  
  Name: Yanming Liu
  Title: CEO
   
Company VIYI Algorithm Inc.
   
  By:  
  Name: Chengwei Yi
  Title: CEO
   
Majority Shareholder WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.
   
  By:  
  Name: Shuo Shi
  Title: CEO

 

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Exhibit 2.2

 

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO MERGER AGREEMENT

 

This AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO MERGER AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of January __, 2022 (the “Signing Date”), by and among VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), Venus Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Purchaser”), Venus Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (the “Merger Sub”) and WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a Cayman Islands company and the legal and beneficial owner of a majority of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the Company (“Majority Shareholder”). The Company, Purchaser, Merger Sub and Majority Shareholder are sometimes collectively referred to as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party”.

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, the Parties have previously entered into that certain Merger Agreement dated as of June 10, 2021 (“Original Agreement”) whereby, among other things, VIYI will merge with Venus Merger Sub and VIYI will survive the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Venus and continue its business operations (the “Merger”); and

 

WHEREAS, Venus has filed a combination Registration Statement and Proxy Statement on Form S-4 (SEC File No.: 333-257518) (“Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the purpose of obtaining shareholder approval of the Merger and the other matters described therein;

 

WHEREAS, the Parties desire to amend certain terms, conditions and provisions of the Merger Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above, which are incorporated in this Agreement as if fully set forth below, and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties accordingly agree as follows.

 

1. Defined Terms. Terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Original Agreement.

 

2. Section 4.3 of the Original Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 4.3 Governmental Authorization. Other than as set forth on Schedule 4.3 annexed hereto, no consent, approval or authorization of, or designation, declaration to or filing with, notice to, or any other action by or in respect of, any governmental Authority or other Person is required on the part of the Company with respect to the Company’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and each Transaction Document to which it is a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, except for (a) the filing of the Plan of Merger in accordance with the Cayman Companies Act, (b) the SEC declaration of effectiveness of the Proxy/Registration Statement, and (c) any consents, approvals, authorizations, designations, declarations, filings, notices or actions, the absence of which would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

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3. Section 4.24 of the Original Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 4.24 Affiliate Transactions. Other than as described on Schedule 4.24 annexed hereto or as described in the Registration Statement, no (a) Company Shareholder, (b) former or current director, officer, manager, indirect or direct equityholder, optionholder or member of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (c) any Affiliate or “associate” or any member of the “immediate family” (as such terms are respectively defined in Rules 12b-2 and 16a-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), of any Person described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b), in each case, other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each a “Related Party”), is (i) a party to any Contract or business arrangement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) provides any services to, or is owed any money by or owes any money to, or has any claim or right against, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than, in each case, compensation for services performed by a Person as director, officer, service provider or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and amounts reimbursable for routine travel and other business expenses in the Ordinary Course of Business), or (iii) directly or indirectly owns, or otherwise has any right, title or interest in, to or under, any tangible or intangible property, asset, or right that is, has been, or is currently planned to be used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the Contracts, relationships, or transactions described in clauses (i) through (iii), the “Affiliate Transactions”).

 

4. The Parties consent and agree that the prior Backstop Agreement as contemplated in the Original Agreement and as described in the Registration Statement, between Ever Abundant Investments Limited and Venus Acquisition Corporation dated as of June 10, 2021, shall be terminated and of no force and effect. The Parties further agree that a new Backstop Agreement shall be provided, simultaneously with execution of this Agreement, by WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. which shall provide for a capital commitment or purchase of Venus securities in the amount of up to $15,000,000. Section 5.21 of the Original Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 5.21 Backstop Investment. Annexed hereto is a true, correct and complete duly executed Backstop Agreement(s) providing for the acquisition or purchase by WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. as the backstop provider for up to an aggregate amount of US$15,000,000 upon the terms and conditions therein, and such Backstop Agreement is in full force and effect and has not been withdrawn or terminated, or otherwise amended or modified in any respect and no withdrawal or termination, amendment or modification in any material respect is contemplated by Purchaser. Such Backstop Agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation of Purchaser and the backstop investor(s) thereunder, and neither the execution or delivery by any party thereto nor the performance of any party’s obligations thereunder violates any Laws. There is no other agreement, side letter, or arrangement between any of the Purchaser Parties and any investor relating to the Backstop Agreement that could affect in any material respect the obligation of the backstop investors thereunder. No Purchaser Party knows, as of the date of this Agreement, any facts or circumstances that may reasonably be expected to result in any of the conditions set forth in any Backstop Agreement not being satisfied. No event has occurred that, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would constitute a default or breach on the part of any of the Purchaser Parties under any material term or condition of the Backstop Agreement.

 

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5. Section 11.1 is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

11.1 Termination without Default. In the event that the Closing of the transactions contemplated hereunder has not occurred by June 30, 2022 (the “Outside Closing Date”) and no material breach of this Agreement by the party seeking to terminate this Agreement shall have occurred or have been made (as provided in Section 11.2 hereof), the Purchaser Parties or the Company, as the case may be, shall have the right, at its sole option, to terminate this Agreement without liability to the other side. Such right may be exercised by Purchaser Parties or the Company, as the case may be, by giving written notice to the other at any time after the Outside Closing Date.

 

7. The Parties shall cooperate in good faith to expeditiously amend the Registration Statement as soon as possible to reflect the agreements and amendments to the Original Agreement described and provided herein and to seek effectivness from the SEC.

 

8. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

9. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which shall constitute one agreement. This Agreement shall become effective upon delivery to each party of an executed counterpart or the earlier delivery to each party of original, photocopied, or electronically transmitted signature pages that together (but need not individually) bear the signatures of all other parties. A determination by a court or other legal authority that any provision that is not of the essence of this Agreement is legally invalid shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof. The parties shall cooperate in good faith to substitute (or cause such court or other legal authority to substitute) for any provision so held to be invalid a valid provision, as alike in substance to such invalid provision as is lawful.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties have hereunto caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

Purchaser Venus Acquisition Corporation

 

  By:  
    Name: Yanming Liu
    Title: CEO

 

Merger Sub Venus Merger Sub Corp.

 

  By:  
    Name: Yanming Liu
    Title: CEO

 

Company VIYI Algorithm Inc.
   
  By:  
    Name: Chengwei Yi
    Title: CEO
   
Majority Shareholder WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.
   
  By:  
    Name: Shuo Shi
    Title: CEO

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 2.3

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO MERGER AGREEMENT

 

This AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO MERGER AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of August 2, 2022 (the “Signing Date”), by and among VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“VIYI” or the “Company”), Venus Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Venus” or the “Purchaser”), Venus Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (the “Merger Sub”) and WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a Cayman Islands company and the legal and beneficial owner of a majority of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the Company (“Majority Shareholder”). The Company, Purchaser, Merger Sub and Majority Shareholder are sometimes collectively referred to as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party”.

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, the Parties have previously entered into that certain Merger Agreement dated as of June 10, 2021 (“Original Agreement”) and Amendment No. 1 to the Original Agreement dated as of January 24, 2022 (the “First Amendment” and together with the Original Agreement, the “Merger Agreement”), whereby, among other things, VIYI will merge with Venus Merger Sub and VIYI will survive the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Venus and continue its business operations (the “Merger”);

 

WHEREAS, Venus has filed a combination Registration Statement and Proxy Statement on Form S-4 (SEC File No.: 333-257518) (“Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the purpose of obtaining shareholder approval of the Merger and the other matters described therein; and

 

WHEREAS, the Parties now desire to amend certain terms, conditions and provisions of the Merger Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above, which are incorporated in this Agreement as if fully set forth below, and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties accordingly agree as follows.

 

1. Defined Terms. Terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Merger Agreement.

 

2. Section 4.8 (a) of the Merger Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 4.8 Financial Statements

 

(a)Section 4.8 of the Company Disclosure Schedule includes the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019, 2020 and 2021, consisting of the audited balance sheets as of such dates (the “Company Balance Sheet”), the audited income statements for the twelve (12) month periods ended on such dates, and the audited cash flow statements for the twelve (12) month periods ended on such dates (collectively, the “Financial Statements”). The Section 4.8 of the Company Disclosure Schedule also include quarterly review of the consolidated financial statements as of the period ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022, respectively.

 

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3. Section 6.5(a)(i) of the Merger Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 6.5 Proxy Statement and Requisite Approval

 

(a)Proxy Statement

 

(i) As promptly as reasonably practicable after the execution of this Agreement, the Purchaser Parties shall prepare, and Purchaser shall file with the SEC, a proxy statement (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Proxy Statement”) relating to the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting to approve and adopt:

 

(A) the Business Combination (as defined in Purchaser’s Organizational Documents), this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the Merger and the other Transactions (the “Business Combination Proposal”);

 

(B) the election of the directors of the Purchaser in accordance with Section 2.4 (the “Director Election Proposal”);

 

(C) approval for purposes of complying with the applicable provisions of Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d), the issuance by Venus of an aggregate of 39,603,961 Venus ordinary shares to the VIYI shareholders pursuant to the Merger Agreement;

 

(D) approval of amendments to increase the number of authorized ordinary shares to 200,000,000 ordinary shares (the “Share Increase Proposal”);

 

(E) approval by way of special resolution of amendments to Venus’ memorandum and articles of association to change of the name of the Purchaser to “MicroAlgo Inc.” (the “Name Change Proposal”);

 

(F) Approval by way of a special resolution of all other changes in connection with the amendment, restatement and replacement of Purchaser’s memorandum and articles of association including, among other things, (1) making the Purchaser’s corporate existence perpetual, and (2) removing certain provisions related to the Purchaser’s status as a blank check company that will no longer be applicable upon consummation of the Merger (the “Business Combination Proposal”); and

 

(G) adjournment of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting, if necessary, to permit further solicitation of proxies because there are not sufficient votes to approve and adopt any of the foregoing (the “Adjournment Proposal”) (such proposals in (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) collectively, the “Transaction Proposals”).

 

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The Purchaser Parties shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to (1) cause the Proxy Statement when filed with the SEC to comply in all material respects with all Laws applicable thereto and rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC; (2) respond as promptly as reasonably practicable to and resolve all comments received from the SEC concerning the Proxy Statement; and (3) resolve all SEC comments on the Proxy Statement as promptly as practicable after such filing, and Purchaser and the Company shall take all action reasonably required (other than qualifying to do business in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so qualified, or filing a general consent to service of process) to be taken under any applicable state securities Laws in connection with the issuance of the Consideration Shares pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement. As promptly as practicable after all SEC comments on the Proxy Statement shall have been resolved, Purchaser shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Proxy Statement to be mailed to its shareholders as of the record date for the Purchaser’s Shareholders’ Meeting.

 

4. Section 9.2 of the Merger Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 9.2 Conditions to Obligations of the Purchaser Parties. The obligation of the Purchaser Parties to consummate the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, or the waiver at the Purchaser Parties’ sole and absolute discretion, of all the following further conditions:

 

(a) The Company shall have duly performed all of its obligations hereunder required to be performed by it at or prior to the Closing Date in all material respects, unless the applicable obligation has a materiality qualifier in which case it shall be duly performed in all respects.

 

(b) All of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Article IV of the Merger Agreement, disregarding all qualifications and exceptions contained herein relating to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect, regardless of whether it involved a known risk, shall: (i) be true and correct at and as of the date of this Agreement, and (ii) be true and correct as of the Closing Date (except for the representation and warranties that speak as of a specific date prior to the Closing Date, in which case such representations and warranties need only to be true and correct as of such earlier date), in the case of (i) and (ii), other than as would not in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(c) There shall have been no event, change or occurrence which has a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d) The Purchaser Parties shall have received a certificate signed by the chief executive officer of the Company to the effect set forth in clauses (a) through (c) of this Section 9.2.

 

(e) The requisite vote of the shareholders of the Company approving the Merger Agreement, as amended hereby, and all transactions contemplated thereby, shall have been obtained.

 

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5. Section 11.1 of the Merger Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 11.1 Termination without Default. In the event that the Closing of the transactions contemplated hereunder has not occurred by November 11, 2022 (the “Outside Closing Date”) and no material breach of this Agreement by the party seeking to terminate this Agreement shall have occurred or have been made (as provided in Section 11.2 hereof), the Purchaser Parties or the Company, as the case may be, shall have the right, at their or its sole option, to terminate this Agreement without liability to the other party. Such right may be exercised by Purchaser Parties or the Company, as the case may be, by giving written notice to the other at any time after the Outside Closing Date.

 

6. Cooperation. The Parties shall cooperate in good faith to expeditiously amend the Proxy Statement as soon as possible to reflect the agreements and amendments to the Merger Agreement described and provided herein and to seek effectiveness from the SEC.

 

7. Effect of the Amendment. Each of the Parties represents that it has all necessary power and authority to enter into and perform the obligations of this Agreement and that there are no consents or approvals required to be obtained by such Party for such Party to enter into and perform its obligations under this Amendment that have not been obtained. This Agreement shall be deemed incorporated into, and form a part of, the Merger Agreement and have the same legal validity and effect as the Merger Agreement. Except as expressly and specifically amended hereby, all terms and provisions of the Merger Agreement are and shall remain in full force and effect, and all references to the Merger Agreement in this Amendment and in any ancillary agreements or documents delivered in connection with the Merger Agreement shall hereafter refer to the Merger Agreement as amended by this Agreement, and as it may hereafter be further amended or restated. Each reference in the Merger Agreement to “this Agreement,” “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” or words of similar import shall hereafter be deemed to refer to the Merger Agreement as amended hereby.

 

8. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

9. Miscellaneous. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which shall constitute one agreement. This Agreement shall become effective upon delivery to each party of an executed counterpart or the earlier delivery to each party of original, photocopied, or electronically transmitted signature pages that together (but need not individually) bear the signatures of all other parties. A determination by a court or other legal authority that any provision that is not of the essence of this Agreement is legally invalid shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof. The parties shall cooperate in good faith to substitute (or cause such court or other legal authority to substitute) for any provision so held to be invalid a valid provision, as alike in substance to such invalid provision as is lawful.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties have hereunto caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

Purchaser Venus Acquisition Corporation
     
  By:  
  Name: Yanming Liu
  Title: CEO

 

Merger Sub Venus Merger Sub Corp.
     
 

By:

 
  Name: Yanming Liu
  Title: CEO

 

Company

VIYI Algorithm Inc.

     
 

By:

 
  Name: Chengwei Yi
  Title: CEO

 

Majority Shareholder WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.
     
  By:  
  Name: Shuo Shi
  Title: CEO

 

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Exhibit 2.4

 

AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO MERGER AGREEMENT

 

This AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO MERGER AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of August 3, 2022 (the “Signing Date”), by and among VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“VIYI” or the “Company”), Venus Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Venus” or the “Purchaser”), Venus Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (the “Merger Sub”) and WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a Cayman Islands company and the legal and beneficial owner of a majority of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the Company (“Majority Shareholder”). The Company, Purchaser, Merger Sub and Majority Shareholder are sometimes collectively referred to as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party”.

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, the Parties have previously entered into that certain Merger Agreement dated as of June 10, 2021 (“Original Agreement”) and Amendment No. 1 to the Original Agreement dated as of January 24, 2022 (the “First Amendment” and Amendment No. 2 to the Original Agreement dated as of August 2, 2022 (the “Second Amendment”) and together with the Original Agreement, the “Merger Agreement”), whereby, among other things, VIYI will merge with Venus Merger Sub and VIYI will survive the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Venus and continue its business operations (the “Merger”);

 

WHEREAS, Venus has filed a combination Registration Statement and Proxy Statement on Form S-4 (SEC File No.: 333-257518) (“Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the purpose of obtaining shareholder approval of the Merger and the other matters described therein; and

 

WHEREAS, the Parties now desire to amend certain terms, conditions and provisions of the Merger Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above, which are incorporated in this Agreement as if fully set forth below, and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties accordingly agree as follows.

 

1. Defined Terms. Terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Merger Agreement.

 

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2. Section 6.5(a)(i) of the Merger Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 6.5 Proxy Statement and Requisite Approval

 

(a) Proxy Statement

 

(i) As promptly as reasonably practicable after the execution of this Agreement, the Purchaser Parties shall prepare, and Purchaser shall file with the SEC, a proxy statement (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Proxy Statement”) relating to the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting to approve and adopt:

 

(A) the Business Combination (as defined in Purchaser’s Organizational Documents), this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the Merger and the other Transactions (the “Business Combination Proposal”);

 

(B) the election of the directors of the Purchaser in accordance with Section 2.4 (the “Director Election Proposal”);

 

(C) approval for purposes of complying with the applicable provisions of Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d), the issuance by Venus an aggregate of 39,603,961 Venus ordinary shares to the VIYI shareholders pursuant to the Merger Agreement;

 

(D) approval of amendments to increase the number of authorized ordinary shares to 200,000,000 ordinary shares (the “Share Increase Proposal”);

(E) approval by way of special resolution of amendments to Venus’ memorandum and articles of association to change of the name of the Purchaser to “MicroAlgo Inc.” (the “Name Change Proposal”);

 

(F) Approval by way of a special resolution of all other changes in connection with the amendment, restatement and replacement of Purchaser’s memorandum and articles of association including, among other things, (1) making the Purchaser’s corporate existence perpetual, and (2) removing certain provisions related to the Purchaser’s status as a blank check company that will no longer be applicable upon consummation of the Merger (the “Business Combination Proposal”); and

 

(G) adjournment of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting, if necessary, to permit further solicitation of proxies because there are not sufficient votes to approve and adopt any of the foregoing (the “Adjournment Proposal”) (such proposals in (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) collectively, the “Transaction Proposals”).

 

The Purchaser Parties shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to (1) cause the Proxy Statement when filed with the SEC to comply in all material respects with all Laws applicable thereto and rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC; (2) respond as promptly as reasonably practicable to and resolve all comments received from the SEC concerning the Proxy Statement; and (3) resolve all SEC comments on the Proxy Statement as promptly as practicable after such filing, and Purchaser and the Company shall take all action reasonably required (other than qualifying to do business in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so qualified, or filing a general consent to service of process) to be taken under any applicable state securities Laws in connection with the issuance of the Consideration Shares pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement. As promptly as practicable after all SEC comments on the Proxy Statement shall have been resolved, Purchaser shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Proxy Statement to be mailed to its shareholders as of the record date for the Purchaser’s Shareholders’ Meeting.

 

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3. Cooperation. The Parties shall cooperate in good faith to expeditiously amend the Proxy Statement as soon as possible to reflect the agreements and amendments to the Merger Agreement described and provided herein and to seek effectiveness from the SEC.

 

4. Effect of the Amendment. Each of the Parties represents that it has all necessary power and authority to enter into and perform the obligations of this Agreement and that there are no consents or approvals required to be obtained by such Party for such Party to enter into and perform its obligations under this Amendment that have not been obtained. This Agreement shall be deemed incorporated into, and form a part of, the Merger Agreement and have the same legal validity and effect as the Merger Agreement. Except as expressly and specifically amended hereby, all terms and provisions of the Merger Agreement are and shall remain in full force and effect, and all references to the Merger Agreement in this Amendment and in any ancillary agreements or documents delivered in connection with the Merger Agreement shall hereafter refer to the Merger Agreement as amended by this Agreement, and as it may hereafter be further amended or restated. Each reference in the Merger Agreement to “this Agreement,” “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” or words of similar import shall hereafter be deemed to refer to the Merger Agreement as amended hereby.

 

5. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

6. Miscellaneous. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which shall constitute one agreement. This Agreement shall become effective upon delivery to each party of an executed counterpart or the earlier delivery to each party of original, photocopied, or electronically transmitted signature pages that together (but need not individually) bear the signatures of all other parties. A determination by a court or other legal authority that any provision that is not of the essence of this Agreement is legally invalid shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof. The parties shall cooperate in good faith to substitute (or cause such court or other legal authority to substitute) for any provision so held to be invalid a valid provision, as alike in substance to such invalid provision as is lawful.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties have hereunto caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

  

Purchaser Venus Acquisition Corporation

 

  By:  
    Name: Yanming Liu
    Title: CEO

 

Merger Sub Venus Merger Sub Corp.

 

  By:  
    Name: Yanming Liu
    Title: CEO

 

Company VIYI Algorithm Inc.
   
  By:  
    Name: Chengwei Yi
    Title: CEO
   
Majority Shareholder WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.
   
  By:  
    Name: Shuo Shi
    Title: CEO

  

 

 

 

Exhibit 2.5 

 

AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO MERGER AGREEMENT

 

This AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO MERGER AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of August 10, 2022 (the “Signing Date”), by and among VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“VIYI” or the “Company”), Venus Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Venus” or the “Purchaser”), Venus Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (the “Merger Sub”) and WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a Cayman Islands company and the legal and beneficial owner of a majority of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the Company (“Majority Shareholder”). The Company, Purchaser, Merger Sub and Majority Shareholder are sometimes collectively referred to as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party”.

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, the Parties have previously entered into that certain Merger Agreement dated as of June 10, 2021 (“Original Agreement”) and Amendment No. 1 to the Original Agreement dated as of January 24, 2022 (the “First Amendment”), Amendment No. 2 to the Original Agreement dated as of August 2, 2022 (the “Second Amendment”), Amendment No. 3 to the Original Agreement dated as of August 3, 2022 (the “Third Amendment”) and together with the Original Agreement, the “Merger Agreement”), whereby, among other things, VIYI will merge with Venus Merger Sub and VIYI will survive the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Venus and continue its business operations (the “Merger”);

 

WHEREAS, Venus has filed a Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (“Proxy Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the purpose of obtaining shareholder approval of the Merger and the other matters described therein; and

 

WHEREAS, the Parties now desire to amend certain terms, conditions and provisions of the Merger Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above, which are incorporated in this Agreement as if fully set forth below, and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties accordingly agree as follows.

 

1. Defined Terms. Terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Merger Agreement.

 

2. Section 4.8 (a) of the Merger Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 4.8 Financial Statements

 

(a) Section 4.8 of the Company Disclosure Schedule includes the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020, consisting of the audited balance sheets as of such dates (the “Company Balance Sheet”), the audited income statements for the twelve (12) month periods ended on such dates, and the audited cash flow statements for the twelve (12) month periods ended on such dates (collectively, the “Financial Statements”). The audited consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and the quarterly review of the consolidated financial statement of the Company as of and for the period ended March 31, 2022 have also been provided to the Purchaser Parties.

 

 

 

 

3. Section 6.5 (a)(ii), (a)(iii), (a)(iv) and (b) of the Merger Agreement are hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 6.5 Proxy Statement and Requisite Approval

 

(a) Proxy Statement

 

(ii) Each of the Purchaser Parties and the Company shall furnish to the other parties all information concerning itself, its Subsidiaries, officers, directors, managers, shareholders, and other equityholders and information regarding such other matters as may be reasonably necessary or advisable or as may be reasonably requested in connection with the Proxy Statement, or any other statement, filing, notice or application made by or on behalf of the Purchaser Parties, the Company or their respective Affiliates to any regulatory Authority (including Nasdaq) in connection with the Transactions.

 

(iii) Any filing of, or amendment or supplement to, the Proxy Statement will be mutually agreed upon by the Purchaser Parties and the Company. The Purchaser Parties will advise the Company, promptly after receiving notice thereof, of the time when the Proxy Statement has become effective or any supplement or amendment has been filed, of the issuance of any stop order, of the suspension of the qualification of Purchaser Ordinary Shares to be issued or issuable in connection with this Agreement for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of any request by the SEC for amendment of the Proxy Statement or comments thereon and responses thereto or requests by the SEC for additional information and responses thereto, and shall provide the Company a reasonable opportunity to provide comments and amendments to any such filing. The Purchaser Parties and the Company shall cooperate and mutually agree upon any response to comments of the SEC or its staff with respect to the Proxy Statement and any amendment to the Proxy Statement filed in response thereto.

 

(iv) If, at any time prior to the Effective Time, any information, event or circumstance relating to any Purchaser Party or their respective officers or directors, should be discovered by a Purchaser Party, which should be set forth in an amendment or a supplement to the Proxy Statement, so that neither of such documents would include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, with respect to the Proxy Statement, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, Purchaser shall promptly inform the Company. If, at any time prior to the Effective Time, any information, event or circumstance relating to the Company or its officers or directors, should be discovered by the Company, which should be set forth in an amendment or a supplement to the Proxy, so that neither of such documents would include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, with respect to the Proxy Statement, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, the Company shall promptly inform the Purchaser. Thereafter, the Purchaser Parties and the Company shall promptly cooperate in the preparation and filing of an appropriate amendment or supplement to the Proxy Statement describing or correcting such information, and the Purchaser Parties shall promptly file such amendment or supplement with the SEC and, to the extent required by Law, disseminate such amendment or supplement to the Purchaser Shareholders.

 

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(b) Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval.

 

(i) Prior to or as promptly as practicable after the Proxy Statement is declared effective under the Securities Act, Purchaser shall establish a depositary interest record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold an extraordinary general meeting of the Purchaser Shareholders (including any adjournment or postponement thereof, the “Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting”) to be held as promptly as reasonably practicable following the date that the Proxy Statement is declared effective under the Securities Act for the purpose of voting on the Transaction Proposals and obtaining the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval (including any adjournment or postponement of such meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies in favor of the adoption of this Agreement), providing Purchaser Shareholders with the opportunity to elect to effect a Purchaser Share Redemption and such other matter as may be mutually agreed by Purchaser and the Company. Purchaser will use its reasonable best efforts to (A) solicit from its shareholders proxies in favor of the adoption of the Transaction Proposals, including the Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval, and will take all other action necessary or advisable to obtain such proxies and Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval and (B) to obtain the vote or consent of its shareholders required by and in compliance with all applicable Law, Nasdaq rules and the Organizational Documents of Purchaser. Purchaser (X) shall consult with the Company regarding the depositary interest record date and the date of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting and (Y) shall not adjourn or postpone the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting without the prior written consent of Company; provided, however, that Purchaser shall adjourn or postpone the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting (1) if, as of the time that the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting is originally scheduled, there are insufficient shares of Purchaser represented at such meeting (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct the business of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting, or (2) if, as of the time that the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting is originally scheduled, adjournment or postponement of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting is necessary to enable Purchaser to solicit additional proxies required to obtain Purchaser Shareholders’ Approval; provided further, however, that Purchaser shall adjourn or postpone on not more than three occasions and so long as the date of the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting is not adjourned or postponed more than an aggregate of 45 consecutive days in connection with such adjournment or postponement.

 

(ii) The Proxy Statement shall include a statement to the effect that the board of directors of the Purchaser Board has unanimously recommended that the Purchaser Shareholders vote in favor of the Transaction Proposals at the Purchaser Shareholders’ Meeting (such statement, the “Purchaser Board Recommendation”) and neither the Purchaser Board nor any committee thereof shall withhold, withdraw, qualify, amend or modify, or publicly propose or resolve to withhold, withdraw, qualify, amend or modify, the Purchaser Board Recommendation unless in strict observance of their common law or fiduciary duties.

 

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4. Section 7.2 of the Merger Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 7.2 PCAOB Financials. By no later than September 15, 2022, the Company will deliver to the Purchaser Parties reviewed financial statements of the Company as of and for the six (6) month periods ended June 30, 2022, all prepared in conformity with GAAP under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB Financials”). The PCAOB Financials shall be (i) prepared from the Books and Records of the Company; (ii) prepared on an accrual basis in accordance with GAAP; (iii) contain and reflect all necessary adjustments and accruals for a fair presentation of the Company’s financial condition as of their dates including for all warranty, maintenance, service and indemnification obligations; and (iv) contain and reflect adequate provisions for all Liabilities for all material Taxes applicable to the Company with respect to the periods then ended. The PCAOBs will be complete and accurate and fairly present in all material respects, in conformity with GAAP applied on a consistent basis in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of operations of the Company for the periods reflected therein. The Company and the Majority Shareholder will provide additional financial information as reasonably requested by the Purchaser Parties for inclusion in any filings to be made by the Purchaser Parties with the SEC.

 

5. Section 13.1 of the Merger Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

Section 13.1 Notices. Any notice hereunder shall be sent in writing, addressed as specified below, and shall be deemed given: (a) if by hand or recognized courier service, by 4:00PM on a business day, addressee’s day and time, on the date of delivery, and otherwise on the first business day after such delivery; (b) if by fax or email, on the date that transmission is confirmed electronically, if by 4:00PM on a business day, addressee’s day and time, and otherwise on the first business day after the date of such confirmation; or (c) five days after mailing by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. Notices shall be addressed to the respective parties as follows (excluding telephone numbers, which are for convenience only), or to such other address as a party shall specify to the others in accordance with these notice provisions: if to the Company (or the Surviving Corporation following the Closing), to:

 

VIYI Algorithm Inc.

Unit 507, Building C, Taoyuan Street

Long Jing High and New Technology Jingu Pioneer Park

Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518052

People’s Republic of China

Attn: Lance He/Audrey Yang

Email: lance@wimiar.com; audrey@wimiar.com

 

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with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

DLA Piper UK LLP Beijing Representative Office

20th Floor, South Tower, Beijing Kerry Center, 1 Guang Hua Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020

Attn: James Chang/Yang Ge

Email: James.Chang@dlapiper.com; Yang.Ge@dlapiper.com

 

if to Purchaser and Merger Sub

Venus Acquisition Corporation

477 Madison Avenue, Floor, New York, NY 10022

Attn: Yanming Liu

Email: ceo@venusacq.com

 

with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Becker & Poliakoff LLP

45 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10006

Attn: Bill Huo/Steven L. Glauberman

Email: BHuo@beckerlawyers.com; SGlauberman@beckerlawyers.com

 

6. Cooperation. The Parties shall cooperate in good faith to expeditiously amend the Proxy Statement as soon as possible to reflect the agreements and amendments to the Merger Agreement described and provided herein and to seek effectiveness from the SEC.

 

7. Effect of the Amendment. Each of the Parties represents that it has all necessary power and authority to enter into and perform the obligations of this Agreement and that there are no consents or approvals required to be obtained by such Party for such Party to enter into and perform its obligations under this Amendment that have not been obtained. This Agreement shall be deemed incorporated into, and form a part of, the Merger Agreement and have the same legal validity and effect as the Merger Agreement. Except as expressly and specifically amended hereby, all terms and provisions of the Merger Agreement are and shall remain in full force and effect, and all references to the Merger Agreement in this Amendment and in any ancillary agreements or documents delivered in connection with the Merger Agreement shall hereafter refer to the Merger Agreement as amended by this Agreement, and as it may hereafter be further amended or restated. Each reference in the Merger Agreement to “this Agreement,” “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” or words of similar import shall hereafter be deemed to refer to the Merger Agreement as amended hereby.

 

8. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

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9. Miscellaneous. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which shall constitute one agreement. This Agreement shall become effective upon delivery to each party of an executed counterpart or the earlier delivery to each party of original, photocopied, or electronically transmitted signature pages that together (but need not individually) bear the signatures of all other parties. A determination by a court or other legal authority that any provision that is not of the essence of this Agreement is legally invalid shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof. The parties shall cooperate in good faith to substitute (or cause such court or other legal authority to substitute) for any provision so held to be invalid a valid provision, as alike in substance to such invalid provision as is lawful.

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties have hereunto caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

Purchaser Venus Acquisition Corporation
     
  By:  
  Name: Yanming Liu
  Title: CEO
     
Merger Sub Venus Merger Sub Corp.
     
  By:  
  Name: Yanming Liu
  Title: CEO
     
Company VIYI Algorithm Inc.
     
  By:  
  Name: Chengwei Yi
  Title: CEO
     
Majority Shareholder WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.
     
  By:  
  Name: Shuo Shi
  Title: CEO

 

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 Exhibit 3.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Companies Act (Revised)

Company Limited by Shares  

 

 

 

MicroAlgo Inc.

 

 

 

 

  AMENDED & RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

 

 

 

Adopted by special resolution passed on 21 October 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

1 Definitions, interpretation and exclusion of Table A 1
   
  Definitions 1
   
  Interpretation 3
   
  Exclusion of Table A Articles 4
   
2 Shares 4
   
  Power to issue Shares and options, with or without special rights 4
   
  Power to issue fractions of a Share 5
   
  Power to pay commissions and brokerage fees 5
   
  Trusts not recognised 5
   
  Power to vary class rights 6
   
  Effect of new Share issue on existing class rights 6
   
  Capital contributions without issue of further Shares 6
   
  No bearer Shares or warrants 7
   
  Treasury Shares 7
   
  Rights attaching to Treasury Shares and related matters 7
     
3 Register of Members 7
   
4 Share certificates 8
   
  Issue of share certificates 8
   
  Renewal of lost or damaged share certificates 8
   
5 Lien on Shares 8
   
  Nature and scope of lien 8
   
  Company may sell Shares to satisfy lien 9
   
  Authority to execute instrument of transfer 9
   
  Consequences of sale of Shares to satisfy lien 9
   
  Application of proceeds of sale 10

 

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6 Calls on Shares and forfeiture 10
   
  Power to make calls and effect of calls 10
   
  Time when call made 10
   
  Liability of joint holders 10
   
  Interest on unpaid calls 10
   
  Deemed calls 11
   
  Power to accept early payment 11
   
  Power to make different arrangements at time of issue of Shares 11
   
  Notice of default 11
   
  Forfeiture or surrender of Shares 11
   
  Disposal of forfeited or surrendered Share and power to cancel forfeiture or surrender 12
   
  Effect of forfeiture or surrender on former Member 12
   
  Evidence of forfeiture or surrender 12
   
  Sale of forfeited or surrendered Shares 13
   
7 Transfer of Shares 13
   
  Form of transfer 13
   
  Power to refuse registration 13
   
  Power to suspend registration 13
   
  Company may retain instrument of transfer 13
   
8 Transmission of Shares 13
   
  Persons entitled on death of a Member 13
   
  Registration of transfer of a Share following death or bankruptcy 14
   
  Indemnity 14
   
  Rights of person entitled to a Share following death or bankruptcy 14
   
9 Alteration of capital 14
   
  Increasing, consolidating, converting, dividing and cancelling share capital 14
   
  Dealing with fractions resulting from consolidation of Shares 15
   
  Reducing share capital 15

 

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10 Redemption and purchase of own Shares 15
   
  Power to issue redeemable Shares and to purchase own Shares 15
   
  Power to pay for redemption or purchase in cash or in specie 16
   
  Effect of redemption or purchase of a Share 16
   
11 Meetings of Members 16
   
  Power to call meetings 16
   
  Content of notice 17
   
  Period of notice 18
   
  Persons entitled to receive notice 18
   
  Publication of notice on a website 18
   
  Time a website notice is deemed to be given 19
   
  Required duration of publication on a website 19
   
  Accidental omission to give notice or non-receipt of notice 19
   
12 Proceedings at meetings of Members 19
   
  Quorum 19
   
  Lack of quorum 19
   
  Use of technology 20
   
  Chairman 20
   
  Right of a director to attend and speak 20
   
  Adjournment 20
   
  Method of voting 20
   
  Taking of a poll 20
   
  Chairman's casting vote 21
   
  Amendments to resolutions 21
   
  Written resolutions 21
   
  Sole-member company 22

 

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13 Voting rights of Members 22
   
  Right to vote 22
   
  Rights of joint holders 22
   
  Representation of corporate Members 22
   
  Member with mental disorder 23
   
  Objections to admissibility of votes 23
   
  Form of proxy 23
   
  How and when proxy is to be delivered 24
   
  Voting by proxy 25
   
14 Number of directors 25
   
15 Appointment, disqualification and removal of directors 25
   
  No age limit 25
   
  Corporate directors 25
   
  No shareholding qualification 25
   
   Appointment and removal of directors 25
   
  Resignation of directors 26
   
  Termination of the office of director 26
   
16 Alternate directors 27
   
  Appointment and removal 27
   
  Notices 28
   
  Rights of alternate director 28
   
  Appointment ceases when the appointor ceases to be a director 28
   
  Status of alternate director 29
   
  Status of the director making the appointment 28
   
17 Powers of directors 29
   
  Powers of directors 29
   
  Appointments to office 29
   
  Remuneration 30
   
  Disclosure of information 30

 

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18 Delegation of powers 30
   
  Power to delegate any of the directors' powers to a committee 30
   
  Power to appoint an agent of the Company 31
   
  Power to appoint an attorney or authorised signatory of the Company 31
   
  Power to appoint a proxy 31
   
19 Meetings of directors 31
   
  Regulation of directors' meetings 31
   
  Calling meetings 32
   
  Notice of meetings 32
   
  Period of notice 32
   
  Use of technology 32
   
  Place of meetings 32
   
  Quorum 32
   
  Voting 32
   
  Validity 32
   
  Recording of dissent 32
   
  Written resolutions 33
   
  Sole director's minute 33
   
20 Permissible directors' interests and disclosure 33
   
  Permissible interests subject to disclosure 33
   
  Notification of interests 34
   
  Voting where a director is interested in a matter 34
   
21 Minutes 34
   
22 Accounts and audit 34
   
  Accounting and other records 34
   
  No automatic right of inspection 34

 

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  Sending of accounts and reports 34
   
  Time of receipt if documents are published on a website 35
   
  Validity despite accidental error in publication on website 35
   
  Audit 35
   
23 Financial year 36
   
24 Record dates 36
   
25 Dividends 36
   
  Declaration of dividends by Members 36
   
  Payment of interim dividends and declaration of final dividends by directors 37
   
  Apportionment of dividends 37
   
  Right of set off 37
   
  Power to pay other than in cash 38
   
  How payments may be made 38
   
  Dividends or other moneys not to bear interest in absence of special rights 38
   
  Dividends unable to be paid or unclaimed 39
   
26 Capitalisation of profits 39
   
  Capitalisation of profits or of any share premium account or capital redemption reserve 39
   
  Applying an amount for the benefit of members 39
   
27 Share premium account 39
   
  Directors to maintain share premium account 39
   
  Debits to share premium account 40
   
28 Seal 40
   
  Company seal 40
   
  Duplicate seal 40
   
  When and how seal is to be used 40
   
  If no seal is adopted or used 40
   
  Power to allow non-manual signatures and facsimile printing of seal 40
   
  Validity of execution 41

 

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29 Indemnity 41
   
  Indemnity 41
   
  Release 41
   
  Insurance 42
   
30 Notices 42
   
  Form of notices 42
   
  Electronic communications 42
   
  Persons authorised to give notices 43
   
  Delivery of written notices 43
   
  Joint holders 43
   
  Signatures 43
   
  Evidence of transmission 43
   
  Giving notice to a deceased or bankrupt Member 43
   
  Date of giving notices 44
   
  Saving provision 44
   
31 Authentication of Electronic Records 44
   
  Application of Articles 44
   
  Authentication of documents sent by Members by Electronic means 44
   
  Authentication of document sent by the Secretary or Officers of the Company by Electronic means 45
   
  Manner of signing 45
   
  Saving provision 45
   
32 Transfer by way of continuation 46

 

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33 Winding up 46
   
  Distribution of assets in specie 46
   
  No obligation to accept liability 46
   
  The directors are authorised to present a winding up petition 46
   
34 Amendment of Memorandum and Articles 47
   
  Power to change name or amend Memorandum 47
   
  Power to amend these Articles 47
   
35 Mergers and Consolidations 47
   
36 Certain Tax Filings 47

 

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Companies Act (Revised)

Company Limited by Shares

Amended & Restated Articles of Association

of

MicroAlgo Inc.

 

Adopted by special resolution passed on 21 October 2022

 

1Definitions, interpretation and exclusion of Table A

 

Definitions

 

1.1In these Articles, the following definitions apply:

 

Applicable Law means, with respect to any person, all provisions of laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, permits, certificates, judgments, decisions, decrees or orders of any governmental authority applicable to such person.

 

Articles means, as appropriate:

 

(a)these articles of association as amended from time to time: or

 

(b)two or more particular articles of these Articles;

 

and Article refers to a particular article of these Articles.

 

Audit Committee means the audit committee of the Company formed pursuant to Article 22.8 hereof, or any successor audit committee.

 

Auditor means the person for the time being performing the duties of auditor of the Company.

 

Business Day means a day other than (a) a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorised or obligated by law to close in New York City (b) a Saturday or (c) a Sunday.

 

Cayman Islands means the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands.

 

Clear Days, in relation to a period of notice, means that period excluding:

 

(a)the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given; and

 

(b)the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect.

 

Clearing House means a clearing house recognised by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Shares (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on a stock exchange or interdealer quotation system in such jurisdiction.

 

Company means the above-named company.

 

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Default Rate means 10% (ten per cent) per annum.

 

Designated Stock Exchange means any national securities exchange, including the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, the NYSE American LLC or The New York Stock Exchange LLC or any Over- the-Counter market on which the Shares are listed for trading.

 

Electronic has the meaning given to that term in the Electronic Transactions Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands.

 

Electronic Record has the meaning given to that term in the Electronic Transactions Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands.

 

Electronic Signature has the meaning given to that term in the Electronic Transactions Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands.

 

Exchange Act means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

Fully Paid and Paid Up:

 

(a)in relation to a Share with par value, means that the par value for that Share and any premium payable in respect of the issue of that Share, has been fully paid or credited as paid in money or money's worth;

 

(b)in relation to a Share without par value, means that the agreed issue price for that Share has been fully paid or credited as paid in money or money's worth.

 

Independent Director means a director who is an independent director as defined in the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange as determined by the directors.

 

IPO means the initial public offering of units, consisting of Shares and warrants of the Company and rights to receive Shares of the Company.

 

Law means the Companies Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands, including any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force.

 

Member means any person or persons entered on the Register of Members from time to time as the holder of a Share.

 

Memorandum means the memorandum of association of the Company as amended from time to time.

 

Officer means a person then appointed to hold an office in the Company; and the expression includes a director, alternate director or liquidator.

 

Ordinary Resolution means a resolution of a duly constituted general meeting of the Company passed by a simple majority of the votes cast by, or on behalf of, the Members entitled to vote thereon. The expression also includes a unanimous written resolution.

 

Public Share means the Shares included in the units issued in the IPO (as described in Article 2.4).

 

Register of Members means the register of Members maintained in accordance with the Law and includes (except where otherwise stated) any branch or duplicate register of Members.

 

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SEC means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Secretary means a person appointed to perform the duties of the secretary of the Company, including a joint, assistant or deputy secretary.

 

Share means an ordinary share in the share capital of the Company; and the expression:

 

(a)includes stock (except where a distinction between shares and stock is expressed or implied); and

 

(b)where the context permits, also includes a fraction of a share.

 

Special Resolution has the meaning given to that term in the Law.

 

Tax Filing Authorised Person means such person as any director shall designate from time to time, acting severally.

 

Treasury Shares means Shares of the Company held in treasury pursuant to the Law and Article 2.15.

 

Underwriter means an underwriter of the IPO from time to time, and any successor underwriter.

 

Interpretation

 

1.2In the interpretation of these Articles, the following provisions apply unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(a)A reference in these Articles to a statute is a reference to a statute of the Cayman Islands as known by its short title, and includes:

 

(i)any statutory modification, amendment or re-enactment; and

 

(ii)any subordinate legislation or regulations issued under that statute.

 

Without limitation to the preceding sentence, a reference to a revised Law of the Cayman Islands is taken to be a reference to the revision of that Law in force from time to time as amended from time to time.

 

(b)Headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these Articles, unless there is ambiguity.

 

(c)If a day on which any act, matter or thing is to be done under these Articles is not a Business Day, the act, matter or thing must be done on the next Business Day.

 

(d)A word which denotes the singular also denotes the plural, a word which denotes the plural also denotes the singular, and a reference to any gender also denotes the other genders.

 

(e)A reference to a person includes, as appropriate, a company, trust, partnership, joint venture, association, body corporate or government agency.

 

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(f)Where a word or phrase is given a defined meaning another part of speech or grammatical form in respect to that word or phrase has a corresponding meaning.

 

(g)All references to time are to be calculated by reference to time in the place where the Company's registered office is located.

 

(h)The words written and in writing include all modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form, but do not include an Electronic Record where the distinction between a document in writing and an Electronic Record is expressed or implied.

 

(i)The words including, include and in particular or any similar expression are to be construed without limitation.

 

Exclusion of Table A Articles

 

1.3The regulations contained in Table A in the First Schedule of the Law and any other regulations contained in any statute or subordinate legislation are expressly excluded and do not apply to the Company.

 

2Shares

 

Power to issue Shares and options, with or without special rights

 

2.1Subject to the provisions of the Law and these Articles and, where applicable, the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange and/or any competent regulatory authority, and without prejudice to any rights attached to any existing Shares, the directors have general and unconditional authority to allot (with or without confirming rights of renunciation), issue, grant options over or otherwise deal with any unissued Shares of the Company to such persons, at such times and on such terms and conditions as they may decide. No Share may be issued at a discount except in accordance with the provisions of the Law.

 

2.2Without limitation to the preceding Article, the directors may so deal with the unissued Shares of the Company:

 

(a)either at a premium or at par;

 

(b)with or without preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise.

 

2.3The Company may issue rights, 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 other securities in the Company at such times and on such terms and conditions as the directors may decide.

 

2.4The Company may issue units of securities in the Company, which may be comprised of Shares, rights, 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 other securities in the Company, on such terms and conditions as the directors may decide. The securities comprising any such units which are issued pursuant to the IPO can only be traded separately from one another on the 52nd day following the date of the prospectus relating to the IPO unless the managing Underwriter determines that an earlier date is acceptable, subject to the Company having filed a current report on Form 8-K containing an audited balance sheet reflecting the Company’s receipt of the gross proceeds of the IPO with the SEC and a press release announcing when such separate trading will begin. Prior to such date, the units can be traded, but the securities comprising such units cannot be traded separately from one another.

 

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2.5Each Share in the Company confers upon the Member:

 

(a)the right to one vote at a meeting of the Members of the Company or on any resolution of Members;

 

(b)a pro rata right in any dividend paid by the Company; and

 

(c)a pro rata right in the distribution of the surplus assets of the Company on its liquidation.

 

Power to issue fractions of a Share

 

2.6Subject to the Law, the Company may, but shall not otherwise be obliged to, issue fractions of a Share of any class or round up or down fractional holdings of Shares to its nearest whole number. A fraction of a Share shall be subject to and carry the corresponding fraction of liabilities (whether with respect to calls or otherwise), limitations, preferences, privileges, qualifications, restrictions, rights and other attributes of a Share of that class of Shares.

 

Power to pay commissions and brokerage fees

 

2.7The Company may, in so far as the Law permits, pay a commission to any person in consideration of that person:

 

(a)subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally; or

 

(b)procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions, whether absolute or conditional

 

for any Shares in the Company. That commission may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the allotment of Fully Paid or partly-paid Shares or partly in one way and partly in another.

 

2.8The Company may employ a broker in the issue of its capital and pay him any proper commission or brokerage.

 

Trusts not recognised

 

2.9Except as required by Applicable Law:

 

(a)the Company shall not be bound by or compelled to recognise in any way (even when notified) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any Share, or (except only as is otherwise provided by the Articles) any other rights in respect of any Share other than an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the holder; and

 

(b)no person other than the Member shall be recognised by the Company as having any right in a Share.

 

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Power to vary class rights

 

2.10If the share capital is divided into different classes of Shares then, unless the terms on which a class of Shares was issued state otherwise, the rights attaching to a class of Shares may only be varied if one of the following applies:

 

(a)the Members holding two thirds of the issued Shares of that class consent in writing to the variation; or

 

(b)the variation is made with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the Members holding the issued Shares of that class.

 

2.11For the purpose of paragraph (b) of the preceding Article, all the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings apply, mutatis mutandis, to every such separate meeting except that:

 

(a)the necessary quorum shall be one or more persons holding, or representing by proxy, not less than one third of the issued Shares of the class; and

 

(b)any Member holding issued Shares of the class, present in person or by proxy or, in the case of a corporate Member, by its duly authorised representative, may demand a poll.

 

Effect of new Share issue on existing class rights

 

2.12Unless the terms on which a class of Shares was issued state otherwise, the rights conferred on the Member holding Shares of any class shall not be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further Shares ranking pari passu with the existing Shares of that class.

 

Capital contributions without issue of further Shares

 

2.13With the consent of a Member, the directors may accept a voluntary contribution to the capital of the Company from that Member without issuing Shares in consideration for that contribution. In that event, the contribution shall be dealt with in the following manner:

 

(a)It shall be treated as if it were a share premium.

 

(b)Unless the Member agrees otherwise:

 

(i)if the Member holds Shares in a single class of Shares - it shall be credited to the share premium account for that class of Shares;

 

(ii)if the Member holds Shares of more than one class - it shall be credited rateably to the share premium accounts for those classes of Shares (in the proportion that the sum of the issue prices for each class of Shares that the Member holds bears to the total issue prices for all classes of Shares that the Member holds).

 

(c)It shall be subject to the provisions of the Law and these Articles applicable to share premiums.

 

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No bearer Shares or warrants

 

2.14The Company shall not issue Shares or warrants to bearers.

 

Treasury Shares

 

2.15Shares that the Company purchases, redeems or acquires by way of surrender in accordance with the Law shall be held as Treasury Shares and not treated as cancelled if:

 

(a)the directors so determine prior to the purchase, redemption or surrender of those shares; and

 

(b)the relevant provisions of the Memorandum and Articles and the Law are otherwise complied with.

 

Rights attaching to Treasury Shares and related matters

 

2.16No dividend may be declared or paid, and no other distribution (whether in cash or otherwise) of the Company's assets (including any distribution of assets to members on a winding up) may be made to the Company in respect of a Treasury Share.

 

2.17The Company shall be entered in the Register as the holder of the Treasury Shares. However:

 

(a)the Company shall not be treated as a member for any purpose and shall not exercise any right in respect of the Treasury Shares, and any purported exercise of such a right shall be void;

 

(b)a Treasury Share shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting of the Company and shall not be counted in determining the total number of issued shares at any given time, whether for the purposes of these Articles or the Law.

 

2.18Nothing in the preceding Article prevents an allotment of Shares as fully paid bonus shares in respect of a Treasury Share and Shares allotted as fully paid bonus shares in respect of a Treasury Share shall be treated as Treasury Shares.

 

2.19Treasury Shares may be disposed of by the Company in accordance with the Law and otherwise on such terms and conditions as the directors determine.

 

3Register of Members

 

3.1The Company shall maintain or cause to be maintained the Register of Members in accordance with the Law.

 

3.2The directors may determine that the Company shall maintain one or more branch registers of Members in accordance with the Law. The directors may also determine which Register of Members shall constitute the principal register and which shall constitute the branch register or registers, and to vary such determination from time to time.

 

3.3The title to Public Shares may be evidenced and transferred in accordance with the laws applicable to the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange and, for these purposes, the Register of Members may be maintained in accordance with Article 40B of the Law.

 

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4Share certificates

 

Issue of share certificates

 

4.1A Member shall only be entitled to a share certificate if the directors resolve that share certificates shall be issued. Share certificates representing Shares, if any, shall be in such form as the directors may determine. If the directors resolve that share certificates shall be issued, upon being entered in the register of Members as the holder of a Share, the directors may issue to any Member:

 

(a)without payment, to one certificate for all the Shares of each class held by that Member (and, upon transferring a part of the Member's holding of Shares of any class, to a certificate for the balance of that holding); and

 

(b)upon payment of such reasonable sum as the directors may determine for every certificate after the first, to several certificates each for one or more of that Member's Shares.

 

4.2Every certificate shall specify the number, class and distinguishing numbers (if any) of the Shares to which it relates and whether they are Fully Paid or partly paid up. A certificate may be executed under seal or executed in such other manner as the directors determine.

 

4.3Every certificate shall bear legends required under the Applicable Laws.

 

4.4The Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate for Shares held jointly by several persons and delivery of a certificate for a Share to one joint holder shall be a sufficient delivery to all of them.

 

Renewal of lost or damaged share certificates

 

4.5If a share certificate is defaced, worn-out, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on such terms (if any) as to:

 

(a)evidence;

 

(b)indemnity;

 

(c)payment of the expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in investigating the evidence; and

 

(d)payment of a reasonable fee, if any, for issuing a replacement share certificate

 

as the directors may determine, and (in the case of defacement or wearing-out) on delivery to the Company of the old certificate.

 

5Lien on Shares

 

Nature and scope of lien

 

5.1The Company has a first and paramount lien on all Shares (whether Fully Paid or not) registered in the name of a Member (whether solely or jointly with others). The lien is for all moneys payable to the Company by the Member or the Member's estate:

 

(a)either alone or jointly with any other person, whether or not that other person is a Member; and

 

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(b)whether or not those moneys are presently payable.

 

5.2At any time the directors may declare any Share to be wholly or partly exempt from the provisions of this Article.

 

Company may sell Shares to satisfy lien

 

5.3The Company may sell any Shares over which it has a lien if all of the following conditions are met:

 

(a)the sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable;

 

(b)the Company gives notice to the Member holding the Share (or to the person entitled to it in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of that Member) demanding payment and stating that if the notice is not complied with the Shares may be sold; and

 

(c)that sum is not paid within 14 Clear Days after that notice is deemed to be given under these Articles.

 

5.4The Shares may be sold in such manner as the directors determine.

 

5.5To the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, the directors shall incur no personal liability to the Member concerned in respect of the sale.

 

Authority to execute instrument of transfer

 

5.6To give effect to a sale, the directors may authorise any person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Shares sold to, or in accordance with the directions of, the purchaser. The title of the transferee of the Shares shall not be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in respect of the sale.

 

Consequences of sale of Shares to satisfy lien

 

5.7On sale pursuant to the preceding Articles:

 

(a)the name of the Member concerned shall be removed from the Register of Members as the holder of those Shares; and

 

(b)that person shall deliver to the Company for cancellation the certificate for those Shares.

 

Despite this, that person shall remain liable to the Company for all monies which, at the date of sale, were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of those Shares. That person shall also be liable to pay interest on those monies from the date of sale until payment at the rate at which interest was payable before that sale or, failing that, at the Default Rate. The directors may waive payment wholly or in part or enforce payment without any allowance for the value of the Shares at the time of sale or for any consideration received on their disposal.

 

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Application of proceeds of sale

 

5.8The net proceeds of the sale, after payment of the costs, shall be applied in payment of so much of the sum for which the lien exists as is presently payable. Any residue shall be paid to the person whose Shares have been sold:

 

(a)if no certificate for the Shares was issued, at the date of the sale; or

 

(b)if a certificate for the Shares was issued, upon surrender to the Company of that certificate for cancellation

 

but, in either case, subject to the Company retaining a like lien for all sums not presently payable as existed on the Shares before the sale.

 

6Calls on Shares and forfeiture

 

Power to make calls and effect of calls

 

6.1Subject to the terms of allotment, the directors may make calls on the Members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their Shares including any premium. The call may provide for payment to be by instalments. Subject to receiving at least 14 Clear Days' notice specifying when and where payment is to be made, each Member shall pay to the Company the amount called on his Shares as required by the notice.

 

6.2Before receipt by the Company of any sum due under a call, that call may be revoked in whole or in part and payment of a call may be postponed in whole or in part. Where a call is to be paid in instalments, the Company may revoke the call in respect of all or any remaining instalments in whole or in part and may postpone payment of all or any of the remaining instalments in whole or in part.

 

6.3A Member on whom a call is made shall remain liable for that call notwithstanding the subsequent transfer of the Shares in respect of which the call was made. A person shall not be liable for calls made after such person is no longer registered as Member in respect of those Shares.

 

Time when call made

 

6.4A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the directors authorising the call was passed.

 

Liability of joint holders

 

6.5Members registered as the joint holders of a Share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect of the Share.

 

Interest on unpaid calls

 

6.6If a call remains unpaid after it has become due and payable the person from whom it is due and payable shall pay interest on the amount unpaid from the day it became due and payable until it is paid:

 

(a)at the rate fixed by the terms of allotment of the Share or in the notice of the call; or

 

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(b)if no rate is fixed, at the Default Rate.

 

The directors may waive payment of the interest wholly or in part.

 

Deemed calls

 

6.7Any amount payable in respect of a Share, whether on allotment or on a fixed date or otherwise, shall be deemed to be payable as a call. If the amount is not paid when due the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if the amount had become due and payable by virtue of a call.

 

Power to accept early payment

 

6.8The Company may accept from a Member the whole or a part of the amount remaining unpaid on Shares held by him although no part of that amount has been called up.

 

Power to make different arrangements at time of issue of Shares

 

6.9Subject to the terms of allotment, the directors may make arrangements on the issue of Shares to distinguish between Members in the amounts and times of payment of calls on their Shares.

 

Notice of default

 

6.10If a call remains unpaid after it has become due and payable the directors may give to the person from whom it is due not less than 14 Clear Days' notice requiring payment of:

 

(a)the amount unpaid;

 

(b)any interest which may have accrued;

 

(c)any expenses which have been incurred by the Company due to that person's default.

 

6.11The notice shall state the following:

 

(a)the place where payment is to be made; and

 

(b)a warning that if the notice is not complied with the Shares in respect of which the call is made will be liable to be forfeited.

 

Forfeiture or surrender of Shares

 

6.12If the notice under the preceding Article is not complied with, the directors may, before the payment required by the notice has been received, resolve that any Share the subject of that notice be forfeited. The forfeiture shall include all dividends or other moneys payable in respect of the forfeited Share and not paid before the forfeiture. Despite the foregoing, the directors may determine that any Share the subject of that notice be accepted by the Company as surrendered by the Member holding that Share in lieu of forfeiture.

 

6.13The directors may accept the surrender for no consideration of any Fully Paid Share.

 

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Disposal of forfeited or surrendered Share and power to cancel forfeiture or surrender

 

6.14A forfeited or surrendered Share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the directors determine either to the former Member who held that Share or to any other person. The forfeiture or surrender may be cancelled on such terms as the directors think fit at any time before a sale, re-allotment or other disposition. Where, for the purposes of its disposal, a forfeited or surrendered Share is to be transferred to any person, the directors may authorise some person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Share to the transferee.

 

Effect of forfeiture or surrender on former Member

 

6.15On forfeiture or surrender:

 

(a)the name of the Member concerned shall be removed from the Register of Members as the holder of those Shares and that person shall cease to be a Member in respect of those Shares; and

 

(b)that person shall surrender to the Company for cancellation the certificate (if any) for the forfeited or surrendered Shares.

 

6.16Despite the forfeiture or surrender of his Shares, that person shall remain liable to the Company for all moneys which at the date of forfeiture or surrender were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of those Shares together with:

 

(a)all expenses; and

 

(b)interest from the date of forfeiture or surrender until payment:

 

(i)at the rate of which interest was payable on those moneys before forfeiture; or

 

(ii)if no interest was so payable, at the Default Rate.

 

The directors, however, may waive payment wholly or in part.

 

Evidence of forfeiture or surrender

 

6.17A declaration, whether statutory or under oath, made by a director or the Secretary shall be conclusive evidence of the following matters stated in it as against all persons claiming to be entitled to forfeited Shares:

 

(a)that the person making the declaration is a director or Secretary of the Company, and

 

(b)that the particular Shares have been forfeited or surrendered on a particular date.

 

Subject to the execution of an instrument of transfer, if necessary, the declaration shall constitute good title to the Shares.

 

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Sale of forfeited or surrendered Shares 

 

6.18Any person to whom the forfeited or surrendered Shares are disposed of shall not be bound to see to the application of the consideration, if any, of those Shares nor shall his title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity in, or invalidity of the proceedings in respect of, the forfeiture, surrender or disposal of those Shares.

 

7Transfer of Shares

 

Form of transfer

 

7.1Subject to the following Articles about the transfer of Shares, and provided that such transfer complies with applicable rules of the SEC, the Designated Stock Exchange and federal and state securities laws of the United States, a Member may transfer Shares to another person by completing an instrument of transfer in a common form or in a form prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange or in any other form approved by the directors, executed:

 

(a)where the Shares are Fully Paid, by or on behalf of that Member; and

 

(b)where the Shares are partly paid, by or on behalf of that Member and the transferee.

 

7.2The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of a Share until the name of the transferee is entered into the Register of Members.

 

Power to refuse registration

 

7.3If the Shares in question were issued in conjunction with rights, options or warrants issued pursuant to Article 2.4 on terms that one cannot be transferred without the other, the directors shall refuse to register the transfer of any such Share without evidence satisfactory to them of the like transfer of such option or warrant.

 

Power to suspend registration

 

7.4The directors may suspend registration of the transfer of Shares at such times and for such periods, not exceeding 30 days in any calendar year, as they determine.

 

Company may retain instrument of transfer

 

7.5The Company shall be entitled to retain any instrument of transfer which is registered; but an instrument of transfer which the directors refuse to register shall be returned to the person lodging it when notice of the refusal is given.

 

8Transmission of Shares

 

Persons entitled on death of a Member

 

8.1If a Member dies, the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the deceased Members' interest are the following:

 

(a)where the deceased Member was a joint holder, the survivor or survivors; and

 

(b)where the deceased Member was a sole holder, that Member's personal representative or representatives.

 

8.2Nothing in these Articles shall release the deceased Member's estate from any liability in respect of any Share, whether the deceased was a sole holder or a joint holder.

 

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Registration of transfer of a Share following death or bankruptcy

 

8.3A person becoming entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member may elect to do either of the following:

 

(a)to become the holder of the Share; or

 

(b)to transfer the Share to another person.

 

8.4That person must produce such evidence of his entitlement as the directors may properly require.

 

8.5If the person elects to become the holder of the Share, he must give notice to the Company to that effect. For the purposes of these Articles, that notice shall be treated as though it were an executed instrument of transfer.

 

8.6If the person elects to transfer the Share to another person then:

 

(a)if the Share is Fully Paid, the transferor must execute an instrument of transfer; and

 

(b)if the Share is partly paid, the transferor and the transferee must execute an instrument of transfer.

 

8.7All the Articles relating to the transfer of Shares shall apply to the notice or, as appropriate, the instrument of transfer.

 

Indemnity

 

8.8A person registered as a Member by reason of the death or bankruptcy of another Member shall indemnify the Company and the directors against any loss or damage suffered by the Company or the directors as a result of that registration.

 

Rights of person entitled to a Share following death or bankruptcy

 

8.9A person becoming entitled to a Share by reason of the death or bankruptcy of a Member shall have the rights to which he would be entitled if he were registered as the holder of the Share. However, until he is registered as Member in respect of the Share, he shall not be entitled to attend or vote at any meeting of the Company or at any separate meeting of the holders of that class of Shares in the Company.

 

9Alteration of capital

 

Increasing, consolidating, converting, dividing and cancelling share capital

 

9.1To the fullest extent permitted by the Law, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution do any of the following and amend its Memorandum for that purpose:

 

(a)increase its share capital by new Shares of the amount fixed by that Ordinary Resolution and with the attached rights, priorities and privileges set out in that Ordinary Resolution;

 

(b)consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into Shares of larger amount than its existing Shares;

 

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(c)convert all or any of its Paid Up Shares into stock, and reconvert that stock into Paid Up Shares of any denomination;

 

(d)sub-divide its Shares or any of them into Shares of an amount smaller than that fixed by the Memorandum, so, however, that in the sub-division, the proportion between the amount paid and the amount, if any, unpaid on each reduced Share shall be the same as it was in case of the Share from which the reduced Share is derived; and

 

(e)cancel Shares which, at the date of the passing of that Ordinary Resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person, and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the Shares so cancelled or, in the case of Shares without nominal par value, diminish the number of Shares into which its capital is divided.

 

Dealing with fractions resulting from consolidation of Shares

 

9.2Whenever, as a result of a consolidation of Shares, any Members would become entitled to fractions of a Share the directors may on behalf of those Members:

 

(a)sell the Shares representing the fractions for the best price reasonably obtainable to any person (including, subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company); and

 

(b)distribute the net proceeds in due proportion among those Members.

 

For that purpose, the directors may authorise some person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Shares to, or in accordance with the directions of, the purchaser. The transferee shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor shall the transferee's title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity in, or invalidity of, the proceedings in respect of the sale.

 

Reducing share capital

 

9.3Subject to the Law and to any rights for the time being conferred on the Members holding a particular class of Shares, the Company may, by Special Resolution, reduce its share capital in any way.

 

10Redemption and purchase of own Shares

 

Power to issue redeemable Shares and to purchase own Shares

 

10.1Subject to the Law, and to any rights for the time being conferred on the Members holding a particular class of Shares, and, where applicable, the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange and/or any competent regulatory authority, the Company may by its directors:

 

(a)issue Shares that are to be redeemed or liable to be redeemed, at the option of the Company or the Member holding those redeemable Shares, on the terms and in the manner its directors determine before the issue of those Shares;

 

(b)with the consent by Special Resolution of the Members holding Shares of a particular class, vary the rights attaching to that class of Shares so as to provide that those Shares are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Company on the terms and in the manner which the directors determine at the time of such variation; and

 

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(c)purchase all or any of its own Shares of any class including any redeemable Shares on the terms and in the manner which the directors determine at the time of such purchase.

 

The Company may make a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own Shares in any manner authorised by the Law, including out of any combination of the following: capital, its profits and the proceeds of a fresh issue of Shares.

 

Power to pay for redemption or purchase in cash or in specie

 

10.2When making a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of Shares, the directors may make the payment in cash or in specie (or partly in one and partly in the other) if so authorised by the terms of the allotment of those Shares, or by the terms applying to those Shares in accordance with Article 10.1, or otherwise by agreement with the Member holding those Shares.

 

Effect of redemption or purchase of a Share

 

10.3Upon the date of redemption or purchase of a Share:

 

(a)the Member holding that Share shall cease to be entitled to any rights in respect of the Share other than the right to receive:

 

(i)the price for the Share; and

 

(ii)any dividend declared in respect of the Share prior to the date of redemption or purchase;

 

(b)the Member's name shall be removed from the Register of Members with respect to the Share; and

 

(c)the Share shall be cancelled or held as a Treasury Shares, as the directors may determine.

 

For the purpose of this Article, the date of redemption or purchase is the date when the redemption or purchase falls due.

 

11Meetings of Members

 

Power to call meetings

 

11.1To the extent required by the Designated Stock Exchange, an annual general meeting of the Company shall be held no later than one year after the first financial year end occurring after the IPO, and shall be held in each year thereafter at such time as determined by the directors and the Company may, but shall not (unless required by the Law or the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange) be obliged to, in each year hold any other general meeting.

 

11.2The agenda of the annual general meeting shall be set by the directors and shall include the presentation of the Company’s annual accounts and the report of the directors (if any).

 

11.3Annual general meetings shall be held in New York, USA or in such other places as the directors may determine.

 

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11.4All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings and the Company shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it.

 

11.5The directors may call a general meeting at any time.

 

11.6If there are insufficient directors to constitute a quorum and the remaining directors are unable to agree on the appointment of additional directors, the directors must call a general meeting for the purpose of appointing additional directors.

 

11.7The directors must also call a general meeting if requisitioned in the manner set out in the next two Articles.

 

11.8The requisition must be in writing and given by one or more Members who together hold at least 10% of the rights to vote at such general meeting.

 

11.9The requisition must also:

 

(a)specify the purpose of the meeting.

 

(b)be signed by or on behalf of each requisitioner (and for this purpose each joint holder shall be obliged to sign). The requisition may consist of several documents in like form signed by one or more of the requisitioners.

 

(c)be delivered in accordance with the notice provisions.

 

11.10Should the directors fail to call a general meeting within 21 Clear Days from the date of receipt of a requisition, the requisitioners or any of them may call a general meeting within three months after the end of that period.

 

11.11Without limitation to the foregoing, if there are insufficient directors to constitute a quorum and the remaining directors are unable to agree on the appointment of additional directors, any one or more Members who together hold at least 10% of the rights to vote at a general meeting may call a general meeting for the purpose of considering the business specified in the notice of meeting which shall include as an item of business the appointment of additional directors.

 

11.12Members seeking to bring business before the annual general meeting or to nominate candidates for election as Directors at the annual general meeting must deliver notice to the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the scheduled date of the annual general meeting.

 

Content of notice

 

11.13Notice of a general meeting shall specify each of the following:

 

(a)the place, the date and the hour of the meeting;

 

(b)if the meeting is to be held in two or more places, the technology that will be used to facilitate the meeting;

 

(c)subject to paragraph (d), the general nature of the business to be transacted; and

 

(d)if a resolution is proposed as a Special Resolution, the text of that resolution.

 

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11.14In each notice there shall appear with reasonable prominence the following statements:

 

(a)that a Member who is entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote instead of that Member; and

 

(b)that a proxyholder need not be a Member.

 

Period of notice

 

11.15At least five Clear Days' notice of a general meeting must be given to Members, provided that a general meeting of the Company shall, whether or not the notice specified in this Article has been given and whether or not the provisions of the Articles regarding general meetings have been complied with, be deemed to have been duly convened if it is so agreed:

 

(a)in the case of an annual general meeting, by all of the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and

 

(b)in the case of an extraordinary general meeting, by a majority in number of the Members having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, together holding not less than 95% in par value of the Shares giving that right.

 

Persons entitled to receive notice

 

11.16Subject to the provisions of these Articles and to any restrictions imposed on any Shares, the notice shall be given to the following people:

 

(a)the Members;

 

(b)persons entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member; and

 

(c)the directors.

 

Publication of notice on a website

 

11.17Subject to the Law or the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, a notice of a general meeting may be published on a website providing the recipient is given separate notice of:

 

(a)the publication of the notice on the website;

 

(b)the place on the website where the notice may be accessed;

 

(c)how it may be accessed; and

 

(d)the place, date and time of the general meeting.

 

11.18If a Member notifies the Company that he is unable for any reason to access the website, the Company must as soon as practicable give notice of the meeting to that Member by any other means permitted by these Articles. This will not affect when that Member is deemed to have received notice of the meeting.

 

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Time a website notice is deemed to be given

 

11.19A website notice is deemed to be given when the Member is given notice of its publication.

 

Required duration of publication on a website

 

11.20Where the notice of meeting is published on a website, it shall continue to be published in the same place on that website from the date of the notification until at least the conclusion of the meeting to which the notice relates.

 

Accidental omission to give notice or non-receipt of notice

 

11.21Proceedings at a meeting shall not be invalidated by the following:

 

(a)an accidental failure to give notice of the meeting to any person entitled to notice; or

 

(b)non-receipt of notice of the meeting by any person entitled to notice.

 

11.22In addition, where a notice of meeting is published on a website, proceedings at the meeting shall not be invalidated merely because it is accidentally published:

 

(a)in a different place on the website; or

 

(b)for part only of the period from the date of the notification until the conclusion of the meeting to which the notice relates.

 

12Proceedings at meetings of Members

 

Quorum

 

12.1Save as provided in the following Article, no business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present in person or by proxy. One or more Members who together hold 50% of the Shares entitled to vote at such meeting being individuals present in person or by proxy or if a corporation or other non-natural person by its duly authorised representative or proxy shall be a quorum.

 

Lack of quorum

 

12.2If a quorum is not present within 15 minutes of the time appointed for the meeting, or if at any time during the meeting it becomes inquorate, then the following provisions apply:

 

(a)If the meeting was requisitioned by Members, it shall be cancelled.

 

(b)In any other case, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same time and place seven days hence, or to such other time or place as is determined by the directors. If a quorum is not present within 15 minutes of the time appointed for the adjourned meeting, then the meeting shall be dissolved.

 

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Use of technology

 

12.3A person may participate in a general meeting through the medium of conference telephone, video or any other form of communications equipment providing all persons participating in the meeting are able to hear and speak to each other throughout the meeting. A person participating in this way is deemed to be present in person at the meeting.

 

Chairman

 

12.4The chairman of a general meeting shall be the chairman of the board or such other director as the directors have nominated to chair board meetings in the absence of the chairman of the board. Absent any such person being present within 15 minutes of the time appointed for the meeting, the directors present shall elect one of their number to chair the meeting.

 

12.5If no director is present within 15 minutes of the time appointed for the meeting, or if no director is willing to act as chairman, the Members present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote shall choose one of their number to chair the meeting.

 

Right of a director to attend and speak

 

12.6Even if a director is not a Member, he shall be entitled to attend and speak at any general meeting and at any separate meeting of Members holding a particular class of Shares in the Company.

 

Adjournment

 

12.7The chairman may at any time adjourn a meeting with the consent of the Members constituting a quorum. The chairman must adjourn the meeting if so directed by the meeting. No business, however, can be transacted at an adjourned meeting other than business which might properly have been transacted at the original meeting.

 

12.8Should a meeting be adjourned for more than twenty Clear Days, whether because of a lack of quorum or otherwise, Members shall be given at least five Clear Days' notice of the date, time and place of the adjourned meeting and the general nature of the business to be transacted. Otherwise it shall not be necessary to give any notice of the adjournment.

 

Method of voting

 

12.9A resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll.

 

Taking of a poll

 

12.10A poll demanded on the question of adjournment shall be taken immediately.

 

12.11A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken either immediately or at an adjourned meeting at such time and place as the chairman directs, not being more than 30 Clear Days after the poll was demanded.

 

12.12The demand for a poll shall not prevent the meeting continuing to transact any business other than the question on which the poll was demanded.

 

12.13A poll shall be taken in such manner as the chairman directs. He may appoint scrutineers (who need not be Members) and fix a place and time for declaring the result of the poll. If, through the aid of technology, the meeting is held in more than place, the chairman may appoint scrutineers in more than place; but if he considers that the poll cannot be effectively monitored at that meeting, the chairman shall adjourn the holding of the poll to a date, place and time when that can occur.

 

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Chairman's casting vote

 

12.14If the votes on a resolution are equal, the chairman may if he wishes exercise a casting vote.

 

Amendments to resolutions

 

12.15An Ordinary Resolution to be proposed at a general meeting may be amended by Ordinary Resolution if:

 

(a)not less than 48 hours before the meeting is to take place (or such later time as the chairman of the meeting may determine), notice of the proposed amendment is given to the Company in writing by a Member entitled to vote at that meeting; and

 

(b)the proposed amendment does not, in the reasonable opinion of the chairman of the meeting, materially alter the scope of the resolution.

 

12.16A Special Resolution to be proposed at a general meeting may be amended by Ordinary Resolution, if:

 

(a)the chairman of the meeting proposes the amendment at the general meeting at which the resolution is to be proposed, and

 

(b)the amendment does not go beyond what the chairman considers is necessary to correct a grammatical or other non-substantive error in the resolution.

 

12.17If the chairman of the meeting, acting in good faith, wrongly decides that an amendment to a resolution is out of order, the chairman's error does not invalidate the vote on that resolution.

 

Written resolutions

 

12.18Members may pass a resolution in writing without holding a meeting if the following conditions are met:

 

(a)all Members entitled so to vote are given notice of the resolution as if the same were being proposed at a meeting of Members;

 

(b)all Members entitled so to vote :

 

(i)sign a document; or

 

(ii)sign several documents in the like form each signed by one or more of those Members; and

 

(c)the signed document or documents is or are delivered to the Company, including, if the Company so nominates, by delivery of an Electronic Record by Electronic means to the address specified for that purpose.

 

Such written resolution shall be as effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Members entitled to vote duly convened and held.

 

12.19If a written resolution is described as a Special Resolution or as an Ordinary Resolution, it has effect accordingly.

 

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12.20The directors may determine the manner in which written resolutions shall be put to Members. In particular, they may provide, in the form of any written resolution, for each Member to indicate, out of the number of votes the Member would have been entitled to cast at a meeting to consider the resolution, how many votes he wishes to cast in favour of the resolution and how many against the resolution or to be treated as abstentions. The result of any such written resolution shall be determined on the same basis as on a poll.

 

Sole-member company

 

12.21If the Company has only one Member, and the Member records in writing his decision on a question, that record shall constitute both the passing of a resolution and the minute of it.

 

13Voting rights of Members

 

Right to vote

 

13.1Unless their Shares carry no right to vote, or unless a call or other amount presently payable has not been paid, all Members are entitled to vote at a general meeting, and all Members holding Shares of a particular class of Shares are entitled to vote at a meeting of the holders of that class of Shares.

 

13.2Members may vote in person or by proxy.

 

13.3Every Member shall have one vote for each Share he holds, unless any Share carries special voting rights.

 

13.4A fraction of a Share shall entitle its holder to an equivalent fraction of one vote.

 

13.5No Member is bound to vote on his Shares or any of them; nor is he bound to vote each of his Shares in the same way.

 

Rights of joint holders

 

13.6If Shares are held jointly, only one of the joint holders may vote. If more than one of the joint holders tenders a vote, the vote of the holder whose name in respect of those Shares appears first in the Register of Members shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holder.

 

Representation of corporate Members

 

13.7Save where otherwise provided, a corporate Member must act by a duly authorised representative.

 

13.8A corporate Member wishing to act by a duly authorised representative must identify that person to the Company by notice in writing.

 

13.9The authorisation may be for any period of time, and must be delivered to the Company not less than two hours before the commencement of the meeting at which it is first used.

 

13.10The directors of the Company may require the production of any evidence which they consider necessary to determine the validity of the notice.

 

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13.11Where a duly authorised representative is present at a meeting that Member is deemed to be present in person; and the acts of the duly authorised representative are personal acts of that Member.

 

13.12A corporate Member may revoke the appointment of a duly authorised representative at any time by notice to the Company; but such revocation will not affect the validity of any acts carried out by the duly authorised representative before the directors of the Company had actual notice of the revocation.

 

13.13If a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), being a corporation, is a Member, it may authorise such persons as it sees fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of Members provided that the authorisation shall specify the number and class of Shares in respect of which each such representative is so authorised. Each person so authorised under the provisions of this Article shall be deemed to have been duly authorised 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 such Shares held by the clearing house (or its nominee(s)).

 

Member with mental disorder

 

13.14A Member in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction (whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere) in matters concerning mental disorder may vote, by that Member's receiver, curator bonis or other person authorised in that behalf appointed by that court.

 

13.15For the purpose of the preceding Article, evidence to the satisfaction of the directors of the authority of the person claiming to exercise the right to vote must be received not less than 24 hours before holding the relevant meeting or the adjourned meeting in any manner specified for the delivery of forms of appointment of a proxy, whether in writing or by Electronic means. In default, the right to vote shall not be exercisable.

 

Objections to admissibility of votes

 

13.16An objection to the validity of a person's vote may only be raised at the meeting or at the adjourned meeting at which the vote is sought to be tendered. Any objection duly made shall be referred to the chairman whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

 

Form of proxy

 

13.17An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in any common form or in any other form approved by the directors.

 

13.18The instrument must be in writing and signed in one of the following ways:

 

(a)by the Member; or

 

(b)by the Member's authorised attorney; or

 

(c)if the Member is a corporation or other body corporate, under seal or signed by an authorised officer, secretary or attorney.

 

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If the directors so resolve, the Company may accept an Electronic Record of that instrument delivered in the manner specified below and otherwise satisfying the Articles about authentication of Electronic Records.

 

13.19The directors may require the production of any evidence which they consider necessary to determine the validity of any appointment of a proxy.

 

13.20A Member may revoke the appointment of a proxy at any time by notice to the Company duly signed in accordance with the Article above about signing proxies; but such revocation will not affect the validity of any acts carried out by the proxy before the directors of the Company had actual notice of the revocation.

 

How and when proxy is to be delivered

 

13.21Subject to the following Articles, the form of appointment of a proxy and any authority under which it is signed (or a copy of the authority certified notarially or in any other way approved by the directors) must be delivered so that it is received by the Company not less than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the form of appointment of proxy proposes to vote. They must be delivered in either of the following ways:

 

(a)In the case of an instrument in writing, it must be left at or sent by post:

 

(i)to the registered office of the Company; or

 

(ii)to such other place specified in the notice convening the meeting or in any form of appointment of proxy sent out by the Company in relation to the meeting.

 

(b)If, pursuant to the notice provisions, a notice may be given to the Company in an Electronic Record, an Electronic Record of an appointment of a proxy must be sent to the address specified pursuant to those provisions unless another address for that purpose is specified:

 

(i)in the notice convening the meeting; or

 

(ii)in any form of appointment of a proxy sent out by the Company in relation to the meeting; or

 

(iii)in any invitation to appoint a proxy issued by the Company in relation to the meeting.

 

13.22Where a poll is taken:

 

(a)if it is taken more than seven Clear Days after it is demanded, the form of appointment of a proxy and any accompanying authority (or an Electronic Record of the same) must be delivered as required under the preceding Article not less than 24 hours before the time appointed for the taking of the poll;

 

(b)but if it to be taken within seven Clear Days after it was demanded, the form of appointment of a proxy and any accompanying authority (or an Electronic Record of the same) must be e delivered as required under the preceding Article not less than two hours before the time appointed for the taking of the poll.

 

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13.23If the form of appointment of proxy is not delivered on time, it is invalid.

 

Voting by proxy

 

13.24A proxy shall have the same voting rights at a meeting or adjourned meeting as the Member would have had except to the extent that the instrument appointing him limits those rights. Notwithstanding the appointment of a proxy, a Member may attend and vote at a meeting or adjourned meeting. If a Member votes on any resolution a vote by his proxy on the same resolution, unless in respect of different Shares, shall be invalid.

 

14Number of directors

 

Unless otherwise determined by Ordinary Resolution, the minimum number of directors shall be one and the maximum shall be ten.

 

15Appointment, disqualification and removal of directors

 

No age limit

 

15.1There is no age limit for directors save that they must be aged at least 18 years.

 

Corporate directors

 

15.2Unless prohibited by law, a body corporate may be a director. If a body corporate is a director, the Articles about representation of corporate Members at general meetings apply, mutatis mutandis, to the Articles about directors' meetings.

 

No shareholding qualification

 

15.3Unless a shareholding qualification for directors is fixed by Ordinary Resolution, no director shall be required to own Shares as a condition of his appointment.

 

Appointment and removal of directors

 

15.4The Company may by Ordinary Resolution appoint any person to be a director or may by Ordinary Resolution remove any director.

 

15.5Without prejudice to the Company's power to appoint a person to be a director pursuant to these Articles, the directors shall have power at any time to appoint any person who is willing to act as a director, either to fill a vacancy or as an additional director. A director elected to fill a vacancy resulting from the death, resignation or removal of a director shall serve for the remainder of the full term of the director whose death, resignation or removal shall have created such vacancy and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified. The directors shall have power at any time to remove any director.

 

15.6Each director holds office for the term fixed by the Ordinary Resolution or fixed by the resolution of the directors appointing such director, as applicable, but such term shall not exceed two years.

 

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15.7Notwithstanding the other provisions of these Articles, in any case where, as a result of death, the Company has no directors and no shareholders, the personal representatives of the last shareholder to have died have the power, by notice in writing to the Company, to appoint a person to be a director. For the purpose of this Article:

 

(a)where two or more shareholders die in circumstances rendering it uncertain who was the last to die, a younger shareholder is deemed to have survived an older shareholder;

 

(b)if the last shareholder died leaving a will which disposes of that shareholder’s shares in the Company (whether by way of specific gift, as part of the residuary estate, or otherwise):

 

(i)the expression personal representatives of the last shareholder means:

 

(A)until a grant of probate in respect of that will has been obtained from the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, all of the executors named in that will who are living at the time the power of appointment under this Article is exercised; and

 

(B)after such grant of probate has been obtained, only such of those executors who have proved that will;

 

(ii)without derogating from section 3(1) of the Succession Act (Revised), the executors named in that will may exercise the power of appointment under this Article without first obtaining a grant of probate.

 

15.8A remaining director may appoint a director even though there is not a quorum of directors.

 

15.9No appointment can cause the number of directors to exceed the maximum; and any such appointment shall be invalid.

 

15.10For so long as Shares are listed on a Designated Stock Exchange, the directors shall include at least such number of Independent Directors as Applicable Law or the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange require, subject to applicable phase-in rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

 

Resignation of directors

 

15.11A director may at any time resign office by giving to the Company notice in writing or, if permitted pursuant to the notice provisions, in an Electronic Record delivered in either case in accordance with those provisions.

 

15.12Unless the notice specifies a different date, the director shall be deemed to have resigned on the date that the notice is delivered to the Company.

 

Termination of the office of director

 

15.13A director's office shall be terminated forthwith if:

 

(a)he is prohibited by the law of the Cayman Islands from acting as a director; or

 

(b)he is made bankrupt or makes an arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; or

 

(c)in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner by whom he is being treated he becomes physically or mentally incapable of acting as a director; or

 

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(d)he is made subject to any law relating to mental health or incompetence, whether by court order or otherwise;

 

(e)without the consent of the other directors, he is absent from meetings of directors for a continuous period of six months; or

 

(f)all of the other directors (being not less than two in number) determine that he should be removed as a director, either by a resolution passed by all of the other directors at a meeting of the directors duly convened and held in accordance with the Articles or by a resolution in writing signed by all of the other directors.

 

16Alternate directors

 

Appointment and removal

 

16.1Any director may appoint any other person, including another director, to act in his place as an alternate director. No appointment shall take effect until the director has given notice of the appointment to the other directors. Such notice must be given to each other director by either of the following methods:

 

(a)by notice in writing in accordance with the notice provisions;

 

(b)if the other director has an email address, by emailing to that address a scanned copy of the notice as a PDF attachment (the PDF version being deemed to be the notice unless Article 31.7 applies), in which event notice shall be taken to be given on the date of receipt by the recipient in readable form. For the avoidance of doubt, the same email may be sent to the email address of more than one director (and to the email address of the Company pursuant to Article 16.4(c)).

 

16.2Without limitation to the preceding Article, a director may appoint an alternate for a particular meeting by sending an email to his fellow directors informing them that they are to take such email as notice of such appointment for such meeting. Such appointment shall be effective without the need for a signed notice of appointment or the giving of notice to the Company in accordance with Article 16.4.

 

16.3A director may revoke his appointment of an alternate at any time. No revocation shall take effect until the director has given notice of the revocation to the other directors. Such notice must be given by either of the methods specified in Article 16.1.

 

16.4A notice of appointment or removal of an alternate director must also be given to the Company by any of the following methods:

 

(a)by notice in writing in accordance with the notice provisions;

 

(b)if the Company has a facsimile address for the time being, by sending by facsimile transmission to that facsimile address a facsimile copy or, otherwise, by sending by facsimile transmission to the facsimile address of the Company's registered office a facsimile copy (in either case, the facsimile copy being deemed to be the notice unless Article 31.7 applies), in which event notice shall be taken to be given on the date of an error-free transmission report from the sender’s fax machine;

 

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(c)if the Company has an email address for the time being, by emailing to that email address a scanned copy of the notice as a PDF attachment or, otherwise, by emailing to the email address provided by the Company's registered office a scanned copy of the notice as a PDF attachment (in either case, the PDF version being deemed to be the notice unless Article 31.7 applies), in which event notice shall be taken to be given on the date of receipt by the Company or the Company's registered office (as appropriate) in readable form; or

 

(d)if permitted pursuant to the notice provisions, in some other form of approved Electronic Record delivered in accordance with those provisions in writing.

 

Notices

 

16.5All notices of meetings of directors shall continue to be given to the appointing director and not to the alternate.

 

Rights of alternate director

 

16.6An alternate director shall be entitled to attend and vote at any board meeting or meeting of a committee of the directors at which the appointing director is not personally present, and generally to perform all the functions of the appointing director in his absence.

 

16.7For the avoidance of doubt:

 

(a)if another director has been appointed an alternate director for one or more directors, he shall be entitled to a separate vote in his own right as a director and in right of each other director for whom he has been appointed an alternate; and

 

(b)if a person other than a director has been appointed an alternate director for more than one director, he shall be entitled to a separate vote in right of each director for whom he has been appointed an alternate.

 

16.8An alternate director, however, is not entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company for services rendered as an alternate director.

 

Appointment ceases when the appointor ceases to be a director

 

16.9An alternate director shall cease to be an alternate director if the director who appointed him ceases to be a director.

 

Status of alternate director

 

16.10An alternate director shall carry out all functions of the director who made the appointment.

 

16.11Save where otherwise expressed, an alternate director shall be treated as a director under these Articles.

 

16.12An alternate director is not the agent of the director appointing him.

 

16.13An alternate director is not entitled to any remuneration for acting as alternate director.

 

Status of the director making the appointment

 

16.14A director who has appointed an alternate is not thereby relieved from the duties which he owes the Company.

 

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17Powers of directors

 

Powers of directors

 

17.1Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Memorandum and these Articles, the business of the Company shall be managed by the directors who may for that purpose exercise all the powers of the Company.

 

17.2No prior act of the directors shall be invalidated by any subsequent alteration of the Memorandum or these Articles. However, to the extent allowed by the Law, following the consummation of the IPO Members may by Special Resolution validate any prior or future act of the directors which would otherwise be in breach of their duties.

 

Appointments to office

 

17.3The directors may appoint a director:

 

(a)as chairman of the board of directors;

 

(b)as vice-chairman of the board of directors;

 

(c)as managing director;

 

(d)to any other executive office

 

for such period and on such terms, including as to remuneration, as they think fit.

 

17.4The appointee must consent in writing to holding that office.

 

17.5Where a chairman is appointed he shall, unless unable to do so, preside at every meeting of directors.

 

17.6If there is no chairman, or if the chairman is unable to preside at a meeting, that meeting may select its own chairman; or the directors may nominate one of their number to act in place of the chairman should he ever not be available.

 

17.7Subject to the provisions of the Law, the directors may also appoint any person, who need not be a director:

 

(a)as Secretary; and

 

(b)to any office that may be required (including, for the avoidance of doubt, one or more chief executive officers, presidents, a chief financial officer, a treasurer, vice-presidents, one or more assistant vice-presidents, one or more assistant treasurers and one or more assistant secretaries),

 

for such period and on such terms, including as to remuneration, as they think fit. In the case of an Officer, that Officer may be given any title the directors decide.

 

17.8The Secretary or Officer must consent in writing to holding that office.

 

17.9A director, Secretary or other Officer of the Company may not hold the office, or perform the services, of Auditor.

 

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Remuneration

 

17.10The remuneration to be paid to the directors, if any, shall be such remuneration as the directors shall determine. The directors shall also be entitled to be paid all out of pocket expenses properly incurred by them in connection with activities on behalf of the Company.

 

17.11Remuneration may take any form and may include arrangements to pay pensions, health insurance, death or sickness benefits, whether to the director or to any other person connected to or related to him.

 

17.12Unless his fellow directors determine otherwise, a director is not accountable to the Company for remuneration or other benefits received from any other company which is in the same group as the Company or which has common shareholdings.

 

Disclosure of information

 

17.13The directors may release or disclose to a third party any information regarding the affairs of the Company, including any information contained in the Register of Members relating to a Member, (and they may authorise any director, Officer or other authorised agent of the Company to release or disclose to a third party any such information in his possession) if:

 

(a)the Company or that person, as the case may be, is lawfully required to do so under the laws of any jurisdiction to which the Company is subject; or

 

(b)such disclosure is in compliance with the rules of any stock exchange upon which the Company's shares are listed; or

 

(c)such disclosure is in accordance with any contract entered into by the Company; or

 

(d)the directors are of the opinion such disclosure would assist or facilitate the Company’s operations.

 

18Delegation of powers

 

Power to delegate any of the directors' powers to a committee

 

18.1The directors may delegate any of their powers to any committee consisting of one or more persons who need not be Members. Persons on the committee may include non-directors so long as the majority of those persons are directors.

 

18.2The delegation may be collateral with, or to the exclusion of, the directors' own powers.

 

18.3The delegation may be on such terms as the directors think fit, including provision for the committee itself to delegate to a sub-committee; save that any delegation must be capable of being revoked or altered by the directors at will.

 

18.4Unless otherwise permitted by the directors, a committee must follow the procedures prescribed for the taking of decisions by directors.

 

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Power to appoint an agent of the Company

 

18.5The directors may appoint any person, either generally or in respect of any specific matter, to be the agent of the Company with or without authority for that person to delegate all or any of that person's powers. The directors may make that appointment:

 

(a)by causing the Company to enter into a power of attorney or agreement; or

 

(b)in any other manner they determine.

 

Power to appoint an attorney or authorised signatory of the Company

 

18.6The directors may appoint any person, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the directors, to be the attorney or the authorised signatory of the Company. The appointment may be:

 

(a)for any purpose;

 

(b)with the powers, authorities and discretions;

 

(c)for the period; and

 

(d)subject to such conditions

 

as they think fit. The powers, authorities and discretions, however, must not exceed those vested in, or exercisable, by the directors under these Articles. The directors may do so by power of attorney or any other manner they think fit.

 

18.7Any power of attorney or other appointment may contain such provision for the protection and convenience for persons dealing with the attorney or authorised signatory as the directors think fit. Any power of attorney or other appointment may also authorise the attorney or authorised signatory to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in that person.

 

Power to appoint a proxy

 

18.8Any director may appoint any other person, including another director, to represent him at any meeting of the directors. If a director appoints a proxy, then for all purposes the presence or vote of the proxy shall be deemed to be that of the appointing director.

 

18.9Articles 16.1 to 16.4 inclusive (relating to the appointment by directors of alternate directors) apply, mutatis mutandis, to the appointment of proxies by directors.

 

18.10A proxy is an agent of the director appointing him and is not an officer of the Company.

 

19Meetings of directors

 

Regulation of directors' meetings

 

19.1Subject to the provisions of these Articles, the directors may regulate their proceedings as they think fit.

 

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Calling meetings

 

19.2Any director may call a meeting of directors at any time. The Secretary, if any, must call a meeting of the directors if requested to do so by a director.

 

Notice of meetings

 

19.3Every director shall be given notice of a meeting, although a director may waive retrospectively the requirement to be given notice. Notice may be oral. Attendance at a meeting without written objection shall be deemed to be a waiver of such notice requirement.

 

Period of notice

 

19.4At least five Clear Days’ notice of a meeting of directors must be given to directors. A meeting may be convened on shorter notice with the consent of all directors.

 

Use of technology

 

19.5A director may participate in a meeting of directors through the medium of conference telephone, video or any other form of communications equipment providing all persons participating in the meeting are able to hear and speak to each other throughout the meeting.

 

19.6A director participating in this way is deemed to be present in person at the meeting.

 

Place of meetings

 

19.7If all the directors participating in a meeting are not in the same place, they may decide that the meeting is to be treated as taking place wherever any of them is.

 

Quorum

 

19.8The quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of directors shall be two unless the directors fix some other number or unless the Company has only one director.

 

Voting

 

19.9A question which arises at a board meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. If votes are equal the chairman may, if he wishes, exercise a casting vote.

 

Validity

 

19.10Anything done at a meeting of directors is unaffected by the fact that it is later discovered that any person was not properly appointed, or had ceased to be a director, or was otherwise not entitled to vote.

 

Recording of dissent

 

19.11A director present at a meeting of directors shall be presumed to have assented to any action taken at that meeting unless:

 

(a)his dissent is entered in the minutes of the meeting; or

 

(b)he has filed with the meeting before it is concluded signed dissent from that action; or

 

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(c)he has forwarded to the Company as soon as practical following the conclusion of that meeting signed dissent.

 

A director who votes in favour of an action is not entitled to record his dissent to it.

 

Written resolutions

 

19.12The directors may pass a resolution in writing without holding a meeting if all directors sign a document or sign several documents in the like form each signed by one or more of those directors.

 

19.13Despite the foregoing, a resolution in writing signed by a validly appointed alternate director or by a validly appointed proxy need not also be signed by the appointing director. If a written resolution is signed personally by the appointing director, it need not also be signed by his alternate or proxy.

 

19.14Such written resolution shall be as effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the directors duly convened and held; and it shall be treated as having been passed on the day and at the time that the last director signs.

 

Sole director's minute

 

19.15Where a sole director signs a minute recording his decision on a question, that record shall constitute the passing of a resolution in those terms.

 

20Permissible directors' interests and disclosure

 

Permissible interests subject to disclosure

 

20.1Save as expressly permitted by these Articles or as set out below, a director may not have a direct or indirect interest or duty which conflicts or may possibly conflict with the interests of the Company.

 

20.2If, notwithstanding the prohibition in the preceding Article, a director discloses to his fellow directors the nature and extent of any material interest or duty in accordance with the next Article, he may:

 

(a)be a party to, or otherwise interested in, any transaction or arrangement with the Company or in which the Company is or may otherwise be interested; or

 

(b)be interested in another body corporate promoted by the Company or in which the Company is otherwise interested. In particular, the director may be a director, secretary or officer of, or employed by, or be a party to any transaction or arrangement with, or otherwise interested in, that other body corporate.

 

20.3Such disclosure may be made at a meeting of the board or otherwise (and, if otherwise, it must be made in writing). The director must disclose the nature and extent of his direct or indirect interest in or duty in relation to a transaction or arrangement or series of transactions or arrangements with the Company or in which the Company has any material interest.

 

20.4If a director has made disclosure in accordance with the preceding Article, then he shall not, by reason only of his office, be accountable to the Company for any benefit that he derives from any such transaction or arrangement or from any such office or employment or from any interest in any such body corporate, and no such transaction or arrangement shall be liable to be avoided on the ground of any such interest or benefit.

 

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Notification of interests

 

20.5For the purposes of the preceding Articles:

 

(a)a general notice that a director gives to the other directors that he is to be regarded as having an interest of the nature and extent specified in the notice in any transaction or arrangement in which a specified person or class of persons is interested shall be deemed to be a disclosure that he has an interest in or duty in relation to any such transaction of the nature and extent so specified; and

 

(b)an interest of which a director has no knowledge and of which it is unreasonable to expect him to have knowledge shall not be treated as an interest of his.

 

Voting where a director is interested in a matter

 

20.6A director may vote at a meeting of directors on any resolution concerning a matter in which that director has an interest or duty, whether directly or indirectly, so long as that director discloses any material interest pursuant to these Articles. The director shall be counted towards a quorum of those present at the meeting. If the director votes on the resolution, his vote shall be counted.

 

20.7Where proposals are under consideration concerning the appointment of two or more directors to offices or employment with the Company or any body corporate in which the Company is interested, the proposals may be divided and considered in relation to each director separately and each of the directors concerned shall be entitled to vote and be counted in the quorum in respect of each resolution except that concerning his or her own appointment.

 

21Minutes

 

The Company shall cause minutes to be made in books kept for the purpose in accordance with the Law.

 

22Accounts and audit

 

Accounting and other records

 

22.1The directors must ensure that proper accounting and other records are kept, and that accounts and associated reports are distributed in accordance with the requirements of the Law.

 

No automatic right of inspection

 

22.2Members are only entitled to inspect the Company's records if they are expressly entitled to do so by law, or by resolution made by the directors or passed by Ordinary Resolution.

 

Sending of accounts and reports

 

22.3The Company's accounts and associated directors' report or auditor's report that are required or permitted to be sent to any person pursuant to any law shall be treated as properly sent to that person if:

 

(a)they are sent to that person in accordance with the notice provisions: or

 

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(b)they are published on a website providing that person is given separate notice of:

 

(i)the fact that publication of the documents has been published on the website;

 

(ii)the address of the website; and

 

(iii)the place on the website where the documents may be accessed; and

 

(iv)how they may be accessed.

 

22.4If, for any reason, a person notifies the Company that he is unable to access the website, the Company must, as soon as practicable, send the documents to that person by any other means permitted by these Articles. This, however, will not affect when that person is taken to have received the documents under the next Article.

 

Time of receipt if documents are published on a website

 

22.5Documents sent by being published on a website in accordance with the preceding two Articles are only treated as sent at least five Clear Days before the date of the meeting at which they are to be laid if:

 

(a)the documents are published on the website throughout a period beginning at least five Clear Days before the date of the meeting and ending with the conclusion of the meeting; and

 

(b)the person is given at least five Clear Days' notice of the hearing.

 

Validity despite accidental error in publication on website

 

22.6If, for the purpose of a meeting, documents are sent by being published on a website in accordance with the preceding Articles, the proceedings at that meeting are not invalidated merely because:

 

(a)those documents are, by accident, published in a different place on the website to the place notified; or

 

(b)they are published for part only of the period from the date of notification until the conclusion of that meeting.

 

Audit

 

22.7The directors may appoint an Auditor of the Company who shall hold office on such terms as the directors determine.

 

22.8Without prejudice to the freedom of the directors to establish any other committee, if the Shares (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on the Designated Stock Exchange, and if required by the Designated Stock Exchange, the directors shall establish and maintain an Audit Committee as a committee of the directors and shall adopt a formal written Audit Committee charter and review and assess the adequacy of the formal written charter on an annual basis. The composition and responsibilities of the Audit Committee shall comply with the rules and regulations of the SEC and the Designated Stock Exchange. The Audit Committee shall meet at least once every financial quarter, or more frequently as circumstances dictate.

 

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22.9If the Shares are listed or quoted on the Designated Stock Exchange, the Company shall conduct an appropriate review of all related party transactions on an ongoing basis and shall utilise the Audit Committee for the review and approval of potential conflicts of interest.

 

22.10The remuneration of the Auditor shall be fixed by the Audit Committee (if one exists).

 

22.11If the office of Auditor becomes vacant by resignation or death of the Auditor, or by his becoming incapable of acting by reason of illness or other disability at a time when his services are required, the directors shall fill the vacancy and determine the remuneration of such Auditor.

 

22.12Every Auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the Company and shall be entitled to require from the directors and officers of the Company such information and explanation as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the Auditor.

 

22.13Auditors shall, if so required by the directors, make a report on the accounts of the Company during their tenure of office at the next annual general meeting following their appointment in the case of a company which is registered with the Registrar of Companies as an ordinary company, and at the next extraordinary general meeting following their appointment in the case of a company which is registered with the Registrar of Companies as an exempted company, and at any other time during their term of office, upon request of the directors or any general meeting of the Members.

 

23Financial year

 

Unless the directors otherwise specify, the financial year of the Company:

 

(a)shall end on 31st December in the year of its incorporation and each following year; and

 

(b)shall begin when it was incorporated and on 1st January each following year.

 

24Record dates

 

Except to the extent of any conflicting rights attached to Shares, the directors may fix any time and date as the record date for calling a general meeting, declaring or paying a dividend or making or issuing an allotment of Shares. The record date may be before or after the date on which the general meeting is called or a dividend, allotment or issue is declared, paid or made.

 

25Dividends

 

Declaration of dividends by Members

 

25.1Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution declare dividends in accordance with the respective rights of the Members but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the directors.

 

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Payment of interim dividends and declaration of final dividends by directors

 

25.2The directors may pay interim dividends or declare final dividends in accordance with the respective rights of the Members if it appears to them that they are justified by the financial position of the Company and that such dividends may lawfully be paid.

 

25.3Subject to the provisions of the Law, in relation to the distinction between interim dividends and final dividends, the following applies:

 

(a)Upon determination to pay a dividend or dividends described as interim by the directors in the dividend resolution, no debt shall be created by the declaration until such time as payment is made.

 

(b)Upon declaration of a dividend or dividends described as final by the directors in the dividend resolution, a debt shall be created immediately following the declaration, the due date to be the date the dividend is stated to be payable in the resolution.

 

If the resolution fails to specify whether a dividend is final or interim, it shall be assumed to be interim.

 

25.4In relation to Shares carrying differing rights to dividends or rights to dividends at a fixed rate, the following applies:

 

(a)If the share capital is divided into different classes, the directors may pay dividends on Shares which confer deferred or non-preferred rights with regard to dividends as well as on Shares which confer preferential rights with regard to dividends but no dividend shall be paid on Shares carrying deferred or non-preferred rights if, at the time of payment, any preferential dividend is in arrears.

 

(b)The directors may also pay, at intervals settled by them, any dividend payable at a fixed rate if it appears to them that there are sufficient funds of the Company lawfully available for distribution to justify the payment.

 

(c)If the directors act in good faith, they shall not incur any liability to the Members holding Shares conferring preferred rights for any loss those Members may suffer by the lawful payment of the dividend on any Shares having deferred or non-preferred rights.

 

Apportionment of dividends

 

25.5Except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to Shares, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid up on the Shares on which the dividend is paid. All dividends shall be apportioned and paid proportionately to the amount paid up on the Shares during the time or part of the time in respect of which the dividend is paid. If a Share is issued on terms providing that it shall rank for dividend as from a particular date, that Share shall rank for dividend accordingly.

 

Right of set off

 

25.6The directors may deduct from a dividend or any other amount payable to a person in respect of a Share any amount due by that person to the Company on a call or otherwise in relation to a Share.

 

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Power to pay other than in cash

 

25.7If the directors so determine, any resolution declaring a dividend may direct that it shall be satisfied wholly or partly by the distribution of assets. If a difficulty arises in relation to the distribution, the directors may settle that difficulty in any way they consider appropriate. For example, they may do any one or more of the following:

 

(a)issue fractional Shares;

 

(b)fix the value of assets for distribution and make cash payments to some Members on the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of Members; and

 

(c)vest some assets in trustees.

 

How payments may be made

 

25.8A dividend or other monies payable on or in respect of a Share may be paid in any of the following ways:

 

(a)if the Member holding that Share or other person entitled to that Share nominates a bank account for that purpose - by wire transfer to that bank account; or

 

(b)by cheque or warrant sent by post to the registered address of the Member holding that Share or other person entitled to that Share.

 

25.9For the purpose of paragraph (a) of the preceding Article, the nomination may be in writing or in an Electronic Record and the bank account nominated may be the bank account of another person. For the purpose of paragraph (b) of the preceding Article, subject to any applicable law or regulation, the cheque or warrant shall be made to the order of the Member holding that Share or other person entitled to the Share or to his nominee, whether nominated in writing or in an Electronic Record, and payment of the cheque or warrant shall be a good discharge to the Company.

 

25.10If two or more persons are registered as the holders of the Share or are jointly entitled to it by reason of the death or bankruptcy of the registered holder (Joint Holders), a dividend (or other amount) payable on or in respect of that Share may be paid as follows:

 

(a)to the registered address of the Joint Holder of the Share who is named first on the Register of Members or to the registered address of the deceased or bankrupt holder, as the case may be; or

 

(b)to the address or bank account of another person nominated by the Joint Holders, whether that nomination is in writing or in an Electronic Record.

 

25.11Any Joint Holder of a Share may give a valid receipt for a dividend (or other amount) payable in respect of that Share.

 

Dividends or other moneys not to bear interest in absence of special rights

 

25.12Unless provided for by the rights attached to a Share, no dividend or other monies payable by the Company in respect of a Share shall bear interest.

 

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Dividends unable to be paid or unclaimed

 

25.13If a dividend cannot be paid to a Member or remains unclaimed within six weeks after it was declared or both, the directors may pay it into a separate account in the Company's name. If a dividend is paid into a separate account, the Company shall not be constituted trustee in respect of that account and the dividend shall remain a debt due to the Member.

 

25.14A dividend that remains unclaimed for a period of six years after it became due for payment shall be forfeited to, and shall cease to remain owing by, the Company.

 

26Capitalisation of profits

 

Capitalisation of profits or of any share premium account or capital redemption reserve

 

26.1The directors may resolve to capitalise:

 

(a)any part of the Company's profits not required for paying any preferential dividend (whether or not those profits are available for distribution); or

 

(b)any sum standing to the credit of the Company's share premium account or capital redemption reserve, if any.

 

The amount resolved to be capitalised must be appropriated to the Members who would have been entitled to it had it been distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions. The benefit to each Member so entitled must be given in either or both of the following ways:

 

(a)by paying up the amounts unpaid on that Member's Shares;

 

(b)by issuing Fully Paid Shares, debentures or other securities of the Company to that Member or as that Member directs. The directors may resolve that any Shares issued to the Member in respect of partly paid Shares (Original Shares) rank for dividend only to the extent that the Original Shares rank for dividend while those Original Shares remain partly paid.

 

Applying an amount for the benefit of members

 

26.2The amount capitalised must be applied to the benefit of Members in the proportions to which the Members would have been entitled to dividends if the amount capitalised had been distributed as a dividend.

 

26.3Subject to the Law, if a fraction of a Share, a debenture, or other security is allocated to a Member, the directors may issue a fractional certificate to that Member or pay him the cash equivalent of the fraction.

 

27Share premium account

 

Directors to maintain share premium account

 

27.1The directors shall establish a share premium account in accordance with the Law. They shall carry to the credit of that account from time to time an amount equal to the amount or value of the premium paid on the issue of any Share or capital contributed or such other amounts required by the Law.

 

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Debits to share premium account

 

27.2The following amounts shall be debited to any share premium account:

 

(a)on the redemption or purchase of a Share, the difference between the nominal value of that Share and the redemption or purchase price; and

 

(b)any other amount paid out of a share premium account as permitted by the Law.

 

27.3Notwithstanding the preceding Article, on the redemption or purchase of a Share, the directors may pay the difference between the nominal value of that Share and the redemption purchase price out of the profits of the Company or, as permitted by the Law, out of capital.

 

28Seal

 

Company seal

 

28.1The Company may have a seal if the directors so determine.

 

Duplicate seal

 

28.2Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may also have a duplicate seal or seals for use in any place or places outside the Cayman Islands. Each duplicate seal shall be a facsimile of the original seal of the Company. However, if the directors so determine, a duplicate seal shall have added on its face the name of the place where it is to be used.

 

When and how seal is to be used

 

28.3A seal may only be used by the authority of the directors. Unless the directors otherwise determine, a document to which a seal is affixed must be signed in one of the following ways:

 

(a)by a director (or his alternate) and the Secretary; or

 

(b)by a single director (or his alternate).

 

If no seal is adopted or used

 

28.4If the directors do not adopt a seal, or a seal is not used, a document may be executed in the following manner:

 

(a)by a director (or his alternate) or any Officer to which authority has been delegated by resolution duly adopted by the directors; or

 

(b)by a single director (or his alternate); or

 

(c)in any other manner permitted by the Law.

 

Power to allow non-manual signatures and facsimile printing of seal

 

28.5The directors may determine that either or both of the following applies:

 

(a)that the seal or a duplicate seal need not be affixed manually but may be affixed by some other method or system of reproduction;

 

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(b)that a signature required by these Articles need not be manual but may be a mechanical or Electronic Signature.

 

Validity of execution

 

28.6If a document is duly executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Company, it shall not be regarded as invalid merely because, at the date of the delivery, the Secretary, or the director, or other Officer or person who signed the document or affixed the seal for and on behalf of the Company ceased to be the Secretary or hold that office and authority on behalf of the Company.

 

29Indemnity

 

Indemnity

 

29.1To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Company shall indemnify each existing or former Secretary, director (including alternate director), and other Officer of the Company (including an investment adviser or an administrator or liquidator) and their personal representatives against:

 

(a)all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, expenses, losses, damages or liabilities incurred or sustained by the existing or former Secretary or Officer in or about the conduct of the Company's business or affairs or in the execution or discharge of the existing or former Secretary's or Officer's duties, powers, authorities or discretions; and

 

(b)without limitation to paragraph (a), all costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by the existing or former Secretary or Officer in defending (whether successfully or otherwise) any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative proceedings (whether threatened, pending or completed) concerning the Company or its affairs in any court or tribunal, whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere.

 

No such existing or former Secretary or Officer, however, shall be indemnified in respect of any matter arising out of his own actual fraud, wilful default or wilful neglect.

 

29.2To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Company may make a payment, or agree to make a payment, whether by way of advance, loan or otherwise, for any legal costs incurred by an existing or former Secretary or Officer of the Company in respect of any matter identified in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of the preceding Article on condition that the Secretary or Officer must repay the amount paid by the Company to the extent that it is ultimately found not liable to indemnify the Secretary or that Officer for those legal costs.

 

Release

 

29.3To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Company may by Special Resolution release any existing or former director (including alternate director), Secretary or other Officer of the Company from liability for any loss or damage or right to compensation which may arise out of or in connection with the execution or discharge of the duties, powers, authorities or discretions of his office; but there may be no release from liability arising out of or in connection with that person's own actual fraud, wilful default or wilful neglect.

 

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Insurance

 

29.4To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Company may pay, or agree to pay, a premium in respect of a contract insuring each of the following persons against risks determined by the directors, other than liability arising out of that person's own dishonesty:

 

(a)an existing or former director (including alternate director), Secretary or Officer or auditor of:

 

(i)the Company;

 

(ii)a company which is or was a subsidiary of the Company;

 

(iii)a company in which the Company has or had an interest (whether direct or indirect); and

 

(b)a trustee of an employee or retirement benefits scheme or other trust in which any of the persons referred to in paragraph (a) is or was interested.

 

30Notices

 

Form of notices

 

30.1Save where these Articles provide otherwise, any notice to be given to or by any person pursuant to these Articles shall be:

 

(a)in writing signed by or on behalf of the giver in the manner set out below for written notices; or

 

(b)subject to the next Article, in an Electronic Record signed by or on behalf of the giver by Electronic Signature and authenticated in accordance with Articles about authentication of Electronic Records; or

 

(c)where these Articles expressly permit, by the Company by means of a website.

 

Electronic communications

 

30.2Without limitation to Articles 16.1 to 16.4 inclusive (relating to the appointment and removal by directors of alternate directors) and to Articles 18.8 to 18.10 inclusive (relating to the appointment by directors of proxies), a notice may only be given to the Company in an Electronic Record if:

 

(a)the directors so resolve;

 

(b)the resolution states how an Electronic Record may be given and, if applicable, specifies an email address for the Company; and

 

(c)the terms of that resolution are notified to the Members for the time being and, if applicable, to those directors who were absent from the meeting at which the resolution was passed.

 

If the resolution is revoked or varied, the revocation or variation shall only become effective when its terms have been similarly notified.

 

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30.3A notice may not be given by Electronic Record to a person other than the Company unless the recipient has notified the giver of an Electronic address to which notice may be sent.

 

Persons authorised to give notices

 

30.4A notice by either the Company or a Member pursuant to these Articles may be given on behalf of the Company or a Member by a director or company secretary of the Company or a Member.

 

Delivery of written notices

 

30.5Save where these Articles provide otherwise, a notice in writing may be given personally to the recipient, or left at (as appropriate) the Member's or director's registered address or the Company's registered office, or posted to that registered address or registered office.

 

Joint holders

 

30.6Where Members are joint holders of a Share, all notices shall be given to the Member whose name first appears in the Register of Members.

 

Signatures

 

30.7A written notice shall be signed when it is autographed by or on behalf of the giver, or is marked in such a way as to indicate its execution or adoption by the giver.

 

30.8An Electronic Record may be signed by an Electronic Signature.

 

Evidence of transmission

 

30.9A notice given by Electronic Record shall be deemed sent if an Electronic Record is kept demonstrating the time, date and content of the transmission, and if no notification of failure to transmit is received by the giver.

 

30.10A notice given in writing shall be deemed sent if the giver can provide proof that the envelope containing the notice was properly addressed, pre-paid and posted, or that the written notice was otherwise properly transmitted to the recipient.

 

Giving notice to a deceased or bankrupt Member

 

30.11A notice may be given by the Company to the persons entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member by sending or delivering it, in any manner authorised by these Articles for the giving of notice to a Member, addressed to them by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the bankrupt or by any like description, at the address, if any, supplied for that purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled.

 

30.12Until such an address has been supplied, a notice may be given in any manner in which it might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.

 

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Date of giving notices

 

30.13A notice is given on the date identified in the following table.

 

Method for giving notices When taken to be given
Personally At the time and date of delivery
By leaving it at the member's registered address At the time and date it was left
If the recipient has an address within the Cayman Islands, by posting it by prepaid post to the street or postal address of that recipient 48 hours after it was posted
If the recipient has an address outside the Cayman Islands, by posting it by prepaid airmail to the street or postal address of that recipient 3 Clear Days after posting
By Electronic Record (other than publication on a website), to recipient's Electronic address Within 24 hours after it was sent
By publication on a website See the Articles about the time when notice of a meeting of Members or accounts and reports, as the case may be, are published on a website

 

Saving provision

 

30.14None of the preceding notice provisions shall derogate from the Articles about the delivery of written resolutions of directors and written resolutions of Members.

 

31Authentication of Electronic Records

 

Application of Articles

 

31.1Without limitation to any other provision of these Articles, any notice, written resolution or other document under these Articles that is sent by Electronic means by a Member, or by the Secretary, or by a director or other Officer of the Company, shall be deemed to be authentic if either Article 31.2 or Article 31.4 applies.

 

Authentication of documents sent by Members by Electronic means

 

31.2An Electronic Record of a notice, written resolution or other document sent by Electronic means by or on behalf of one or more Members shall be deemed to be authentic if the following conditions are satisfied:

 

(a)the Member or each Member, as the case may be, signed the original document, and for this purpose Original Document includes several documents in like form signed by one or more of those Members; and

 

(b)the Electronic Record of the Original Document was sent by Electronic means by, or at the direction of, that Member to an address specified in accordance with these Articles for the purpose for which it was sent; and

 

(c)Article 31.7 does not apply.

 

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31.3For example, where a sole Member signs a resolution and sends the Electronic Record of the original resolution, or causes it to be sent, by facsimile transmission to the address in these Articles specified for that purpose, the facsimile copy shall be deemed to be the written resolution of that Member unless Article 31.7 applies.

 

Authentication of document sent by the Secretary or Officers of the Company by Electronic means

 

31.4An Electronic Record of a notice, written resolution or other document sent by or on behalf of the Secretary or an Officer or Officers of the Company shall be deemed to be authentic if the following conditions are satisfied:

 

(a)the Secretary or the Officer or each Officer, as the case may be, signed the original document, and for this purpose Original Document includes several documents in like form signed by the Secretary or one or more of those Officers; and

 

(b)the Electronic Record of the Original Document was sent by Electronic means by, or at the direction of, the Secretary or that Officer to an address specified in accordance with these Articles for the purpose for which it was sent; and

 

(c)Article 31.7 does not apply.

 

This Article applies whether the document is sent by or on behalf of the Secretary or Officer in his own right or as a representative of the Company.

 

31.5For example, where a sole director signs a resolution and scans the resolution, or causes it to be scanned, as a PDF version which is attached to an email sent to the address in these Articles specified for that purpose, the PDF version shall be deemed to be the written resolution of that director unless Article 31.7 applies.

 

Manner of signing

 

31.6For the purposes of these Articles about the authentication of Electronic Records, a document will be taken to be signed if it is signed manually or in any other manner permitted by these Articles.

 

Saving provision

 

31.7A notice, written resolution or other document under these Articles will not be deemed to be authentic if the recipient, acting reasonably:

 

(a)believes that the signature of the signatory has been altered after the signatory had signed the original document; or

 

(b)believes that the original document, or the Electronic Record of it, was altered, without the approval of the signatory, after the signatory signed the original document; or

 

(c)otherwise doubts the authenticity of the Electronic Record of the document

 

and the recipient promptly gives notice to the sender setting the grounds of its objection. If the recipient invokes this Article, the sender may seek to establish the authenticity of the Electronic Record in any way the sender thinks fit.

 

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32Transfer by way of continuation

 

32.1The Company may, by Special Resolution, resolve to be registered by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside:

 

(a)the Cayman Islands; or

 

(b)such other jurisdiction in which it is, for the time being, incorporated, registered or existing.

 

32.2To give effect to any resolution made pursuant to the preceding Article, the directors may cause the following:

 

(a)an application be made to the Registrar of Companies to deregister the Company in the Cayman Islands or in the other jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing; and

 

(b)all such further steps as they consider appropriate to be taken to effect the transfer by way of continuation of the Company.

 

33Winding up

 

Distribution of assets in specie

 

33.1If the Company is wound up, the Members may, subject to these Articles and any other sanction required by the Law, pass a Special Resolution allowing the liquidator to do either or both of the following:

 

(a)to divide in specie among the Members the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and, for that purpose, to value any assets and to determine how the division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members;

 

(b)to vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees for the benefit of Members and those liable to contribute to the winding up.

 

No obligation to accept liability

 

33.2No Member shall be compelled to accept any assets if an obligation attaches to them.

 

The directors are authorised to present a winding up petition

 

33.3The directors have the authority to present a petition for the winding up of the Company to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on behalf of the Company without the sanction of a resolution passed at a general meeting.

 

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34Amendment of Memorandum and Articles

 

Power to change name or amend Memorandum

 

34.1The Company may, by Special Resolution:

 

(a)change its name; or

 

(b)change the provisions of its Memorandum with respect to its objects, powers or any other matter specified in the Memorandum.

 

Power to amend these Articles

 

34.2Subject to the Law and as provided in these Articles, the Company may, by Special Resolution, amend these Articles in whole or in part.

 

35Mergers and Consolidations

 

The Company shall have the power to merge or consolidate with one or more constituent companies (as defined in the Law) upon such terms as the directors may determine and (to the extent required by the Law) with the approval of a Special Resolution.

 

36Certain Tax Filings

 

36.1Each Tax Filing Authorised Person and any such other person, acting alone, as any director shall designate from time to time, are authorised to file tax forms SS-4, W-8 BEN, W-8 IMY, W-9, 8832 and 2553 and such other similar tax forms as are customary to file with any US state or federal governmental authorities or foreign governmental authorities in connection with the formation, activities and/or elections of the Company and such other tax forms as may be approved from time to time by any director or officer of the Company. The Company further ratifies and approves any such filing made by any Tax Filing Authorised Person or such other person prior to the date of the Articles.

 

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Exhibit 4.1

 

NUMBER OF SHARES             NUMBER             NUMBER            
  CUSIP G6077Y103 CUSIP G9420F 102

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN

DEFINITIONS

 

MICROALGO INC. 

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
ORDINARY SHARES

 

This Certifies that                                                                                

 

is the owner of                                                                                

 

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE ORDINARY SHARES OF THE PAR VALUE OF $0.001 EACH OF

 

MICROALGO INC. 
(THE “COMPANY”)

 

transferable on the books of the Company in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed.

 

The Company will be forced to redeem all of its ordinary shares if it is unable to complete a business combination by      , 202_ as more fully described in the Company’s final prospectus dated               , 2021.

 

This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar. Witness the seal of the Company and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

 

Corporate Seal

Cayman Islands

 

Secretary   Chief Executive Officer  
   
       

 

 

 

 

MICROALGO INC. 

 

The Company will furnish without charge to each shareholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of shares or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. This certificate and the shares represented thereby are issued and shall be held subject to all the provisions of the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for the issue of securities (copies of which may be obtained from the secretary of the Company), to all of which the holder of this certificate by acceptance hereof assents. The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM — as tenants in common  

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT

 

Custodian

           
         
TEN ENT — as tenants by the entireties   (Cust) (Minor)
       
JT TEN — as joint tenants with right of Act survivorship and not as tenants in common   under Uniform Gifts to Minors

 

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 

For value received,                                                                     hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

 

 

(PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER(S) OF ASSIGNEE(S))

 

 

(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES), INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE(S))

 

 

 

Shares represented by the within Certificate, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint Attorney to transfer the said shares on the books of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:

 

NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

 

Signature(s) Guaranteed:By :

 

THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED.

 

In each case, as more fully described in the Company’s final prospectus dated              , 2020, the holder(s) of this certificate shall be entitled to receive a pro-rata portion of certain funds held in the trust account established in connection with its initial public offering only in the event that (i) the Company redeems the ordinary shares sold in the Company’s initial public offering and liquidates because it does not consummate an initial business combination by               , 202_, or (ii) if the holder(s) seek(s) to redeem for cash his, her, its or their respective ordinary shares in connection with a tender offer (or proxy solicitation, solely in the event the Company seeks shareholder approval of the proposed initial business combination) setting forth the details of a proposed initial business combination. In no other circumstances shall the holder(s) have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.1

 

Agreed Form

 

FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT

 

[    ], 2022

 

MicroAlgo Inc. (formerly named Venus Acquisition Corporation)

 

Unit 507, Building C, Taoyuan Street

Long Jing High and New Technology Jingu Pioneer Park

Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518052 People’s Republic of China

 

VIYI Algorithm Inc.

Unit 507, Building C, Taoyuan Street

Long Jing High and New Technology Jingu Pioneer Park

Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518052 People’s Republic of China

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

This letter agreement (this “Letter Agreement”) is being delivered to you in accordance with the Merger Agreement dated as of June 10 , 2021(the “Merger Agreement”) entered into by and VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), Venus Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Purchaser”), and Venus Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (the “Merger Sub”) on the date of this Letter Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Letter Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Merger Agreement.

 

In order to induce Purchaser Parties to proceed with the Transactions and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned (the “Shareholder”) hereby agrees with Purchaser and until the Effective Time, Merger Sub as follows (Shareholder, Purchaser and until the Effective Time, Merger Sub collectively the “Parties” and each individually a “Party”):

 

1. Subject to the exceptions set forth herein, the Shareholder agrees not to, without the prior written consent of the board of directors of Purchaser, (i) sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder, any ordinary shares], par value $0.001 per share, of Purchaser (“Purchaser Shares”) held by it immediately after the Closing, any Purchaser Shares issuable upon the exercise of any options or warrants to purchase Purchaser Shares held by it immediately after the Closing, or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Purchaser Shares held by it immediately after the Closing, (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any of such Purchaser Shares or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Purchaser Shares, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise or (iii) publicly announce any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (i) or (ii) (the actions specified in clauses (i)-(iii), collectively, “Transfer”) for the period (the “Lock-Up Period”) commencing on the Effective Time and until the earlier of (i) the date that is the 180th day after the Closing, and (ii) the date on which the closing price of the Purchaser Shares equals or exceeds $12.50 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share dividends, reorganizations and recapitalizations) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period after the Closing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, 2,500,000 Purchaser Shares received by the undersigned the undersigned shall be free from any and all Transfer restrictions under this Letter Agreement and be deemed freely transferable without limitation, it being the intention of the Company that such shares be “Unrestricted Publicly Held Shares” in accordance with Rule 5210 of the Nasdaq Stock Market.

 

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Agreed Form

 

2. The restrictions set forth in paragraph 1 shall not apply to:

 

(i)in the case of an entity, Transfers to a stockholder, partner, member or affiliate of such entity, provided however that any proposed transferee is no an affiliate of the Company;

 

(ii)in the case of an individual, Transfers by gift to members of the individual’s immediate family (as defined below) or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of one of the individual’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization;

 

(iii)in the case of an individual, Transfers by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual;

 

(iv)in the case of an individual, Transfers pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order;

 

(v)in the case of an entity, Transfers by virtue of the laws of the jurisdiction of the entity’s organization and the entity’s organizational documents upon dissolution of the entity;

 

(vi)transactions relating to Purchaser Shares or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Purchaser Shares acquired in open market transactions after the Closing;

 

(vii)[ reserved];

 

(viii)[reserved]

 

(ix)Transfers to Purchaser pursuant to any contractual arrangement in effect at the Closing that provides for the repurchase by Purchaser or the Company or forfeiture of the Shareholder’s shares in Purchaser or the Company or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares in Purchaser or the Company in connection with the termination of the Shareholder’s service to Purchaser or the Company;

 

(x)[reserved];

 

(xi)transactions in the event of completion of a liquidation, merger, stock exchange or other similar transaction which results in all of Purchaser’s Shareholders having the right to exchange their Purchaser Shares for cash, securities or other property; and

 

(xii)transactions to satisfy any U.S. federal, state, or local income tax obligations of the Shareholder (or its direct or indirect owners) arising from a change in the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or the U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Regulations”) after the date on which the Merger Agreement was executed by the parties thereto, and such change prevents the Transactions from qualifying as a “reorganization” pursuant to Section 368 or Section 351 of the Code (and the Transactions do not qualify for similar tax-free treatment pursuant to any successor or other provision of the Code or Regulations taking into account such changes).

 

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Agreed Form

 

provided, however, that in the case of clauses (i) through (v), these permitted transferees must enter into a written agreement, in substantially the form of this Letter Agreement (it being understood that any references to “immediate family” in the agreement executed by such transferee shall expressly refer only to the immediate family of the Shareholder and not to the immediate family of the transferee), agreeing to be bound by these Transfer restrictions. For purposes of this paragraph, “immediate family” shall mean a spouse, domestic partner, child, grandchild or other lineal descendant (including by adoption), father, mother, brother or sister of the Shareholder; and “affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

3. The Shareholder hereby represents and warrants that such Shareholder has full power and authority to enter into this Letter Agreement and that this Letter Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Shareholder, enforceable in accordance with its terms. Upon request, the Shareholder will execute any additional documents necessary in connection with enforcement hereof, provided that the terms of any such additional document shall not impose any additional restrictions or obligations on the Shareholder. Any obligations of the Shareholder shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of the Shareholder from and after the date hereof.

 

4. This Letter Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding of the Parties in respect of the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the Parties, written or oral, to the extent they relate in any way to the subject matter hereof or the transactions contemplated hereby. This Letter Agreement may not be changed, amended, modified or waived (other than to correct a typographical error) as to any particular provision, except by a written instrument executed by all of the Parties.

 

5. No Party may assign either this Letter Agreement or any of its rights, interests or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the other Parties. Any purported assignment in violation of this paragraph shall be void and ineffectual and shall not operate to transfer or assign any interest or title to the purported assignee. This Letter Agreement shall be binding on the Shareholder and each of its respective successors, heirs and assigns and permitted transferees.

 

6. This Letter Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. Article X of the Merger Agreement (Dispute Resolution) shall apply mutatis mutandis hereunder.

 

7. This Letter Agreement shall terminate upon expiration of the Lock-Up Period.

 

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Agreed Form

 

Very truly yours,

  

  [Company Shareholder Name]
   
  WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.
   
  By:
  Name:  Shuo Shi
  Title: CEO
   
  MIDI Capital Markets, LLC
   
  By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  
   
  Guosheng Holdings Limited
   
  By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  
   
  Milestone Investments Limited
   
  By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

 

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Exhibit 10.2

 

ESCROW AGREEMENT

 

This ESCROW AGREEMENT (“Escrow Agreement”) is made as of December 9, 2022 by and among WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., (the “Seller”), Venus Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Purchaser” or “Venus”), and Vstock Transfer, LLC, a California company with registered office address at 18 Lafayette Pl, Woodmere, NY 11598 (“Escrow Agent”). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Escrow Agreement shall have the same meaning as in the Merger Agreement (as defined herein).

 

WHEREAS the Seller, the Purchaser and VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“VIYI”), are parties to a merger agreement, dated as of June 10, 2021, as amended (the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which Venus Acquisition Merger Subsidiary Inc. will merge with and into VIYI, with VIYI being the surviving entity and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Venus (the “Transaction”);

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to and subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, the Purchaser has agreed to issue 39,603,961 Venus ordinary shares in the Purchaser, with 792,079 Venus ordinary shares being withheld from the closing payment of the Transaction (the “Escrow Shares”, which will be held under the name of VSTOCK TRANSFER LLC as escrow agent FBO WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.) , to the Escrow Agent to be held pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement and this Escrow Agreement, which, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, may be distributed to the Seller in whole or in part;

  

WHEREAS, the Purchaser will cause the Escrow Shares to be transferred in escrow to the Escrow Agent on terms and conditions more particularly described herein on the date of this Escrow Agreement; and

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the undersigned hereby agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

1.1 Appointment. The Purchaser and the Seller hereby appoint the Escrow Agent to act as an independent escrow agent in relation to the Escrow Shares with effect from the date of this Escrow Agreement. The Escrow Agent shall provide services pursuant to this Escrow Agreement to the Purchaser and the Seller with reasonable skill and care.

 

1.2 Issue of Escrow Shares. The Purchaser shall issue the Escrow Shares to the Escrow Agent on the date of this Escrow Agreement. The purchaser or its successor will send an issuance instruction to its transfer agent to issue the shares accordingly. To effect this, the Purchaser will cause to be entered in its register of members the Escrow Agent or an agent thereof (the “Nominee”) to hold the Escrow Shares on its behalf as a nominee (provided that such agent shall be a company within the Escrow Agent’s group of companies) as the registered holder of the Escrow Shares and thereafter will issue to the Escrow Agent a duly executed original share certificate(s) or equivalent electronic shares in respect of the Escrow Shares in the name of the Escrow Agent or the Nominee. The Escrow Agent will email to VIYI, the Seller and the Purchaser its written confirmation of receipt of the Escrow Shares. The Escrow Agent or the Nominee will become the registered owner of the Escrow Shares upon being noted the same on the Purchaser’s register of members until such time as is set out in, and in accordance with, the Merger Agreement and this Escrow Agreement.

 

1.3 Held in Trust. The Escrow Agent declares that the Escrow Shares are held in trust for the Seller until 12 months following the Closing Date (the “Survival Period”) and released and transferred in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement and this Escrow Agreement.

 

1.4 Treatment of Escrow Shares. Until released and transferred in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement and this Escrow Agreement, the Escrow Shares cannot be sold, transferred, assigned, mortgaged otherwise dealt with in any way, except as provided for in this Escrow Agreement in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement.

  

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1.5 Voting of the Escrow Shares. All and any voting rights attached to the Escrow Shares shall at all times be exercised by the Seller by giving written instructions to the Escrow Agent, until such Escrow Shares are released and transferred to the Seller.

 

1.6 Authorized Signatories. The Seller and the Purchaser have provided on Schedule A (as it may be amended from time to time) to this Escrow Agreement, the names and specimen signatures of those persons who are authorized to issue notices and instructions to the Escrow Agent and execute required documents (“Authorized Signatories”) under the Merger Agreement and this Escrow Agreement. The Seller and Purchaser can amend their respective Authorized Signatories by issuing an amended Schedule A to the Escrow Agent in the manner described in Section 3.2.

 

1.7 Escrow Procedure and Release Instruction. The Escrow Shares shall be held, released and transferred in accordance with the Merger Agreement and the following terms:

 

A.The Seller and Purchaser shall jointly provide release instructions signed by their respective Authorized Signatory to the Escrow Agent in the form attached hereto as Schedule B, the “Notice”. If the Purchaser’s signature to the Notice is not received within five (5) Business Days after the Release Date, the Escrowed Shares will be released without the Purchaser’s signature to the release instructions unless the Purchaser has filed a complaint with respect to any pending but unresolved claim for indemnification in a U.S competent court. Qualified written proof must be delivered to the escrow agent before the release deadline to prove the claim has been filed, e.g. court order, etc.

 

B.The Purchaser shall issue new share certificate(s) or equivalent electronic shares in the name of each recipient in respect of the amount of Escrow Shares to be transferred to such recipient as specified in the Notice within two (2) Business Days after receipt of the Notice. The old share certificate(s) in respect of the Escrow Shares so transferred shall be cancelled by the Purchaser immediately upon issuance of the new share certificate(s) or equivalent electronic shares.

 

1.8 Termination. This Escrow Agreement shall terminate upon the final, proper and complete release and transfer of all Escrow Shares in accordance with the provisions of this Escrow Agreement.

 

ARTICLE II

PROVISIONS AS TO ESCROW AGENT

 

2.1 Limitation of Escrow Agent’s Capacity.

 

A. This Escrow Agreement expressly and exclusively sets forth the duties of Escrow Agent with respect to any and all matters pertinent hereto, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Escrow Agreement against Escrow Agent. This Escrow Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Escrow Agent and the other parties hereto in connection with the subject matter of this escrow, and no other agreement entered into between the parties, or any of them, shall be considered as adopted or binding, in whole or in part, upon the Escrow Agent notwithstanding that any such other agreement may be referred to herein or deposited with Escrow Agent or the Escrow Agent may have knowledge thereof, and Escrow Agent’s rights and responsibilities shall be governed solely by this Escrow Agreement.

 

B. Escrow Agent acts hereunder as a depository only, and is not responsible or liable in any manner whatsoever for the sufficiency, correctness, genuineness or validity of the subject matter of this Escrow Agreement or any part thereof, or for the form of execution thereof, or for the identity or authority of any person executing or depositing such subject matter. Escrow Agent shall be under no duty to investigate or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any document, agreement, joint written instruction or request furnished to it hereunder believed by it to be genuine and Escrow Agent may rely and act upon, and shall not be liable for acting or not acting upon, any such document, agreement, joint written instruction or request, except to the extent of Escrow Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Escrow Agent shall in no way be responsible for notifying, nor shall it be its duty to notify, any party hereto or any other party interested in this Escrow Agreement or any payment required or maturity occurring under this Escrow Agreement or under the terms of any instrument deposited herewith.

  

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2.2 Authority to Act.

 

A. Escrow Agent is hereby authorized and directed by the Seller and Purchaser to release, transfer and/or deliver the subject matter of this Escrow Agreement only in accordance with the provisions of Article I of this Escrow Agreement.

 

B. Escrow Agent shall be protected in acting upon any joint written instructions, notice, request, waiver, consent, certificate, receipt, authorization, power of attorney or other paper or document which Escrow Agent in good faith believes to be genuine and what it purports to be, including, but not limited to, items requesting or authorizing release or retainage of the subject matter of this Escrow Agreement and items amending the terms of this Escrow Agreement.

 

C. Escrow Agent may consult with legal counsel at the several, but not joint cost and expense of the Seller and the Purchaser (“Legal Fees”), which shall each bear such half of such Legal Fees (provided that such Legal Fees must be reasonably incurred by the Escrow Agent in connection with the performance of its obligations under this Agreement) in the event of any dispute or question as to the construction of any of the provisions hereof or its duties hereunder, and it shall incur no liability and shall be fully protected in acting in accordance with the advice of such counsel. The Escrow Agent shall obtain written consent from both the Seller and the Purchaser (not to be unreasonably withheld) prior to incurring Legal Fees. Subject to the prior sentence, the Escrow Agent may request the Seller and the Purchaser to pay for the Legal Fees in advance.

 

D. In the event of any disagreement between any of the parties to this Escrow Agreement, or between any of them and any other person, resulting in adverse claims or demands being made in connection with the matters covered by this Escrow Agreement, or in the event that Escrow Agent, in good faith, be in doubt as to what action it should take hereunder, Escrow Agent may, at its option, refuse to comply with any claims or demands on it, or refuse to take any other action hereunder, so long as such disagreement continues or such doubt exists, and in any such event, Escrow Agent shall not be or become liable in any way or to any person for its failure or refusal to act, and Escrow Agent shall be entitled to continue so to refrain from acting until (i) the rights of all interested parties shall have been fully and finally adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, or (ii) all differences shall have been adjudged and all doubt resolved by agreement among all of the interested persons, and Escrow Agent shall have been notified thereof in writing signed by all such persons. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Escrow Agent may in its discretion obey the order, judgment, decree or levy of any court, and Escrow Agent is hereby authorized in its sole discretion, to comply with and obey any such orders, judgments, decrees or levies. The rights of Escrow Agent under this sub-paragraph are cumulative of all other rights which it may have by law or otherwise.

 

E. In the event that any controversy should arise among the parties with respect to the Escrow Agreement, or should the Escrow Agent resign and the parties fail to select another Escrow Agent to act in its stead, the Escrow Agent shall have the right to institute a bill of interpleader in any court of competent jurisdiction to determine the rights of the parties, in each case as of five (5) Business Days after the date of the first written notice given to the parties in respect of the controversy or five (5) Business Days after the date of resignation of the Escrow Agent.

   

2.3 Compensation. Escrow Agent shall be entitled to a set-up fee of US$2,500 and an additional fee of US$200 (per month) as escrow responsibility fees as well as expenses incurred in connection with the performance by the Escrow Agent of services under this Escrow Agreement (including reasonable fees and expenses of Escrow Agent’s counsel) and the Seller and the Purchaser jointly and severally agree to pay to the Escrow Agent such fees and reimburse Escrow Agent for reasonable costs and expenses.

 

2.4 Indemnification .Seller and the Purchaser hereby jointly and severally agree to indemnify and hold Escrow Agent, its affiliates and their officers, employees, successors, assigns, attorneys and agents (each an “Indemnified Party”) harmless from all losses, costs, claims, demands, expenses, damages, penalties and attorney’s fees suffered or incurred by any Indemnified Party or Escrow Agent as a result of anything which it may do or refrain from doing in connection with this Escrow Agreement or any litigation or cause of action arising from or in conjunction with this Escrow Agreement or involving the subject matter hereof, including, without limitation, arising out of the negligence (other than gross negligence) of Escrow Agent; provided that the foregoing indemnification shall not extend to fraud, dishonesty, the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Escrow Agent. Subject to the immediately preceding proviso, this indemnity shall include, but not be limited to, all costs incurred in conjunction with any interpleader which the Escrow Agent may enter into regarding this Escrow Agreement.

 

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2.5 Miscellaneous.

 

A. Escrow Agent shall make no disbursement, investment or other use of the Escrow Shares.

 

B. Escrow Agent may resign by giving not fewer than [60] days written notice to VIYI, Seller and the Purchaser, whereupon the Seller and the Purchaser will immediately appoint a successor Escrow Agent. Until a successor Escrow Agent has been named and accepts its appointment or until another disposition of the subject matter of this Escrow Agreement has been agreed upon by all parties hereto, Escrow Agent shall not be discharged of all of its duties hereunder.

 

C. All representations, covenants, and indemnifications contained in this Article II shall survive the termination of this Escrow Agreement.

 

ARTICLE III

GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

3.1 Discharge of Escrow Agent. Upon the release, transfer and/or delivery of all of the subject matter or monies pursuant to the terms of this Escrow Agreement, the duties of the Escrow Agent shall terminate and the Escrow Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation hereunder.

 

3.2 Notice. Any payment, notice, request for consent, report, or any other communication required or permitted in this Escrow Agreement shall be sent in writing, addressed as specified below, and shall be deemed given: (a) if by hand or recognized courier service, by 4:00PM on a Business Day, addressee’s day and time, on the date of delivery, and otherwise on the first Business Day after such delivery; (b) if by fax or email, on the date that transmission is confirmed electronically, if by 4:00PM on a Business Day, addressee’s day and time, and otherwise on the first Business Day after the date of such confirmation; or (c) five (5) days after mailing by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. Notices shall be addressed to the respective parties as follows:

 

If to Escrow Agent:

 

Vstock Transfer, LLC

18 Lafayette Pl, Woodmere, NY 11598

Email: yoel@vstocktransfer.com

Fax: (646) 536-3179

Attn: Yoel Goldfeder

 

If to VIYI:

 

VIYI Algorithm Inc.

Unit 507, Building C, Taoyuan Street

Long Jing High and New Technology Jingu Pioneer Park

Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518052

Email: lance@wimiar.com; audrey@wimiar.com

Attn: Lance He/Audrey Yang

 

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With a copy to:

 

DLA Piper UK LLP Beijing Representative Office

20th Floor, South Tower, Beijing Kerry Center,

No. 1 Guanghua Road, Beijing 100020

Email: yang.ge@dlapiper.com; james.chang@dlapiper.com

Attn: Yang Ge and James Chang

 

If to the Seller:

 

Room#2002, Building A, Wentley Center,

1st West Dawang Road,

Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020

Email: sean@wimiar.com

Attn: Shuo Shi

 

If to the Purchaser:

 

Venus Acquisition Corporation

477 Madison Avenue, Floor, New York, NY 10022

Email: ceo@venusacq.com

Attn: Yanming Liu

 

Any party may unilaterally designate a different address by giving notice of each such change in the manner specified above to each other party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no notice to the Escrow Agent shall be deemed given to or received by the Escrow Agent unless actually delivered to an officer of the Escrow Agent having responsibility under this Escrow Agreement. The Escrow Agent shall issue a written acknowledgment of receipt to the notice sender within two (2) Business Days after receipt of such notice.

 

3.3 Governing Law and Inurement. This Escrow Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York and the courts thereof shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate all claims, actions or other proceedings relating to this Escrow Agreement. It shall inure to and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors, heirs and assigns.

 

3.4 Construction. Words used in the singular number may include the plural and the plural may include the singular. The section headings appearing in this instrument have been inserted for convenience only and shall be given no substantive meaning or significance whatsoever in construing the terms and conditions of this Escrow Agreement.

 

3.5 Supremacy. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Escrow Agreement, in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between this Escrow Agreement and the Merger Agreement, the Merger Agreement shall prevail.

 

3.6 Amendment. The terms of this Escrow Agreement may be altered, amended, modified or revoked only by an instrument in writing signed by the undersigned and Escrow Agent.

 

3.7 Force Majeure. Escrow Agent shall not be liable to the undersigned for any loss or damage arising out of any acts of God, strikes, equipment or transmission failure, war, terrorism, or any other act or circumstance beyond the reasonable control of Escrow Agent.

 

3.8 Written Agreement. This Escrow Agreement represents the final agreement between the parties, and may not be contradicted by evidence of prior, contemporaneous or subsequent oral agreements of the parties. There are no unwritten oral agreements between the parties.

 

3.9 No Partnership or Agency. None of the provisions of this Escrow Agreement shall be deemed to constitute or create any partnership or joint venture between the parties hereof and none of them shall have any authority to bind the other party in any way other than as expressly provided for herein.

 

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3.10 No Third Party Beneficiaries. Nothing expressed or referred to in this Escrow Agreement is intended or will be construed to give any person other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or with respect to this Escrow Agreement, or any provision hereof, it being the intention of the parties hereto that this Escrow Agreement and all of its provisions and conditions are for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties to this Escrow Agreement and their respective successors and assigns. A person, including but not limited to any Investors, who is not a party to this Escrow Agreement shall not have any rights to enforce any term of this Escrow Agreement.

 

3.11 Counterparts. This Escrow Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall be deemed to be one and the same agreement. This Escrow Agreement may be executed and delivered by facsimile, PDF, electronic signatures or other means of electronic transmission and such execution and delivery shall be deemed to have the same legal effect as delivery of an original signed copy of this Escrow Agreement and deemed to be valid and enforceable against the parties hereof.

 

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  The Seller:
     
  By:
  Name:  
  Title:  
     
  The Purchaser:
     
  By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

The Escrow Agent, hereby accepts its appointment as Escrow Agent as described in the foregoing Escrow Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein.

 

  The Escrow Agent:
     
  By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

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SCHEDULE A

 

AUTHORIZED SIGNATORIES

 

 WIMI AUTHORIZED SIGNATORIES:Li He

 

VENUS AUTHORIZED SIGNATORIES: Yanming Liu

 

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SCHEDULE B

 

NOTICE

 

Pursuant to that certain Escrow Agreement dated and effective as of ____________ made between the Seller, the Purchaser and the Escrow Agent:

 

The undersigned Purchaser and Seller hereby jointly request the release and transfer of the Escrow Shares in the amount and manner described below.

 

Please release and transfer to the below Recipient:
 

 

Amount of Escrow Shares to release and transfer:
 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF: the parties hereto have executed this Notice in multiple counterparts, each of which is and shall be considered an original for all intents and purposes, effective as of the date first written above.

 

PURCHASER:   SELLER:
Authorized Signatory   Authorized Signatory
         
By:     By:  
         
Name:     Name:  
         
Title:     Title:  
         
Date:     Date:  

 

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Exhibit 10.3

 

INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

 

THIS INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of December 9, 2022 by and between MicroAlgo Inc., an exempted company with limited liability incorporated and existing under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), and   (ID Number:  ) (the “Indemnitee”).

 

WHEREAS, the Indemnitee has agreed to serve as a director or executive officer of the Company and in such capacity will render valuable services to the Company; and

 

WHEREAS, in order to induce and encourage highly experienced and capable persons such as the Indemnitee to render valuable services to the Company, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”) has determined that this Agreement is not only reasonable and prudent, but necessary to promote and ensure the best interests of the Company and its shareholders;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual agreements hereinafter set forth, and other good and valuable consideration, including, without limitation, the service of the Indemnitee, the receipt of which hereby is acknowledged, and in order to induce the Indemnitee to render valuable services the Company, the Company and the Indemnitee hereby agree as follows:

 

1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement:

 

(a) Change in Control” shall mean a change in control of the Company of a nature that would be required to be reported in response to Item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A (or in response to any similar item on any similar or successor schedule or form) promulgated under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the “Act”), whether or not the Company is then subject to such reporting requirement; provided, however, that, without limitation, such a Change in Control shall be deemed to have occurred (irrespective of the applicability of the initial clause of this definition) if (i) any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Act, but excluding any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities pursuant to an employee benefit or welfare plan or employee share plan of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, or any entity organized, appointed, established or holding securities of the Company with voting power for or pursuant to the terms of any such plan) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 30% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities without the prior approval of at least two-thirds of the Continuing Directors (as defined below) in office immediately prior to such person’s attaining such interest; (ii) the Company is a party to a merger, consolidation, scheme of arrangement, sale of assets or other reorganization, or a proxy contest, as a consequence of which Continuing Directors in office immediately prior to such transaction or event constitute less than a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company (or any successor entity) thereafter; or (iii) during any period of two (2) consecutive years, Continuing Directors cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

(b) “Continuing Director” shall mean an individual (i) who served on the Board of Directors of the Company at the effective date of the closing of the business combination as contemplated in the Company’s filing of Schedule 14A; or (ii) whose election or nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders was approved in accordance with the Articles of the Company.

 

(c) “Disinterested Director” with respect to any request by the Indemnitee for indemnification or advancement of expenses hereunder shall mean a director of the Company who neither is nor was a party to the Proceeding (as defined below) in respect of which indemnification or advancement is being sought by the Indemnitee.

 

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(d) The term “Expenses” shall mean, without limitation, expenses of Proceedings, including attorneys’ fees, disbursements and retainers, accounting and witness fees, expenses related to preparation for service as a witness and to service as a witness, travel and deposition costs, expenses of investigations, judicial or administrative proceedings and appeals, amounts paid in settlement of a Proceeding by or on behalf of the Indemnitee, costs of attachment or similar bonds, any expenses of attempting to establish or establishing a right to indemnification or advancement of expenses, under this Agreement, the Company’s Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association as currently in effect (the “Articles”), applicable law or otherwise, and reasonable compensation for time spent by the Indemnitee in connection with the investigation, defense or appeal of a Proceeding or action for indemnification for which the Indemnitee is not otherwise compensated by the Company or any third party. The term “Expenses” shall not include the amount of judgments, fines, interest or penalties, which are actually levied against or sustained by the Indemnitee to the extent sustained after final adjudication.

 

(e) The term “Independent Legal Counsel” shall mean any firm of attorneys reasonably selected by the Board of Directors of the Company, so long as such firm has not represented the Company, the Company’s subsidiaries or affiliates, the Indemnitee, any entity controlled by the Indemnitee, or any party adverse to the Company, within the preceding five (5) years. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Independent Legal Counsel” shall not include any person who, under applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing, would have a conflict of interest in representing either the Company or the Indemnitee in an action to determine the Indemnitee’s right to indemnification or advancement of expenses under this Agreement, the Company’s Articles, applicable law or otherwise.

 

(f) The term “Proceeding” shall mean any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, arbitration, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, or other proceeding (including, without limitation, an appeal therefrom), formal or informal, whether brought in the name of the Company or otherwise, whether of a civil, criminal, administrative or investigative nature, and whether by, in or involving a court or an administrative, other governmental or private entity or body (including, without limitation, an investigation by the Company or its Board of Directors), by reason of (i) the fact that the Indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, whether or not the Indemnitee is serving in such capacity at the time any liability or expense is incurred for which indemnification or reimbursement is to be provided under this Agreement, (ii) any actual or alleged act or omission or neglect or breach of duty, including, without limitation, any actual or alleged error or misstatement or misleading statement, which the Indemnitee commits or suffers while acting in any such capacity, or (iii) the Indemnitee attempting to establish or establishing a right to indemnification or advancement of expenses pursuant to this Agreement, the Company’s Articles, applicable law or otherwise.

 

(g) The phrase “serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise” or any similar terminology shall mean, unless the context otherwise requires, serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust, employee benefit or welfare plan or other enterprise, foreign or domestic. The phrase “serving at the request of the Company” shall include, without limitation, any service as a director/an executive officer of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director/executive officer with respect to the Company or any of the Company’s subsidiaries, affiliates, employee benefit or welfare plans, such plan’s participants or beneficiaries or any other enterprise, foreign or domestic. In the event that the Indemnitee shall be a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust, employee benefit or welfare plan or other enterprise, foreign or domestic, 50% or more of the ordinary shares, combined voting power or total equity interest of which is owned by the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof, then it shall be presumed conclusively that the Indemnitee is so acting at the request of the Company.

 

2. Services by the Indemnitee. The Indemnitee agrees to serve as a director or officer of the Company under the terms of the Indemnitee’s agreement with the Company for so long as the Indemnitee is duly elected or appointed or until such time as the Indemnitee tenders a resignation in writing or is removed from the Indemnitee’s position; provided, however, that the Indemnitee may at any time and for any reason resign from such position (subject to any other contractual obligation or other obligation imposed by operation of law).

 

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3. Proceedings by or in the Right of the Company. The Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee if the Indemnitee is a party to or threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the Indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, against all Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties, which are actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with the defense or settlement of such a Proceeding, if the Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner the Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Company; except that no indemnification under this section shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudicated by final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to be liable to the Company for willful misconduct in the performance of his/her duty to the Company, unless and only to the extent that the court in which such Proceeding was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such amounts which such other court shall deem proper.

 

4. Proceeding Other Than a Proceeding by or in the Right of the Company. The Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee if the Indemnitee is a party to or threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any Proceeding (other than a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company) by reason of the fact that the Indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, against all Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties, which are actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such a Proceeding, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law; provided, however, that any settlement of a Proceeding must be approved in advance in writing by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld).

 

5. Indemnification for Costs, Charges and Expenses of Witness or Successful Party. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement (except as set forth in subparagraph 9(a) hereof), and without a requirement for determination as required by Paragraph 8 hereof, to the extent that the Indemnitee (a) has prepared to serve or has served as a witness in any Proceeding in any way relating to (i) the Company or any of the Company’s subsidiaries, affiliates, employee benefit or welfare plans or such plan’s participants or beneficiaries or (ii) anything done or not done by the Indemnitee as a director or officer of the Company or in connection with serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, or (b) has been successful in defense of any Proceeding or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, on the merits or otherwise, including the dismissal of a Proceeding without prejudice or the settlement of a Proceeding without an admission of liability, the Indemnitee shall be indemnified against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection therewith to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

6. Partial Indemnification. If the Indemnitee is entitled under any provision of this Agreement to indemnification by the Company for a portion of the Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties, which are actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in the investigation, defense, appeal or settlement of any Proceeding, but not, however, for the total amount of the Indemnitee’s Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties, then the Company shall nevertheless indemnify the Indemnitee for the portion of such Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties to which the Indemnitee is entitled.

 

7. Advancement of Expenses. The Expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in any Proceeding shall be paid promptly by the Company in advance of the final disposition of the Proceeding at the written request of the Indemnitee, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law; provided, however, that the Indemnitee shall set forth in such request reasonable evidence that such Expenses have been incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding, a statement that such Expenses do not relate to any matter described in subparagraph 9(a) of this Agreement, and an undertaking in writing to repay any advances if it is ultimately determined as provided in subparagraph 8(b) of this Agreement that the Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification under this Agreement.

 

8. Indemnification Procedure; Determination of Right to Indemnification.

 

(a) Promptly after receipt by the Indemnitee of notice of the commencement of any Proceeding, the Indemnitee shall, if a claim for indemnification or advancement of Expenses in respect thereof is to be made against the Company under this Agreement, notify the Company of the commencement thereof in writing. The failure and delay to so notify the Company will not relieve the Company from any liability which the Company may have to the Indemnitee under this Agreement unless the Company shall have lost significant substantive or procedural rights with respect to the defense of any Proceeding as a result of such omission to so notify.

 

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(b) The Indemnitee shall be conclusively presumed to have met the relevant standards of conduct, if any, as defined by applicable law, for indemnification pursuant to this Agreement and shall be absolutely entitled to such indemnification, unless a determination is made that the Indemnitee has not met such standards by (i) the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum thereof consisting of Disinterested Directors, (ii) the shareholders of the Company by majority vote of a quorum thereof consisting of shareholders who are not parties to the Proceeding due to which a claim for indemnification is made under this Agreement, (iii) Independent Legal Counsel as set forth in a written opinion (it being understood that such Independent Legal Counsel shall make such determination only if the quorum of Disinterested Directors referred to in clause (i) of this subparagraph 8(b) is not obtainable or if the Board of Directors of the Company by a majority vote of a quorum thereof consisting of Disinterested Directors so directs), or (iv) a court of competent jurisdiction; provided, however, that if a Change in Control shall have occurred and the Indemnitee so requests in writing, such determination shall be made only by a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(c) If a claim for indemnification or advancement of Expenses under this Agreement is not paid by the Company within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of written notice thereof, the rights provided by this Agreement shall be enforceable by the Indemnitee in any court of competent jurisdiction. Such judicial proceeding shall be made de novo. The burden of proving that indemnification or advances are not appropriate shall be on the Company. Neither the failure of the directors or shareholders of the Company or Independent Legal Counsel to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification or advancement of Expenses is proper in the circumstances because the Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct, if any, nor an actual determination by the directors or shareholders of the Company or Independent Legal Counsel that the Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct shall be a defense to an action by the Indemnitee or create a presumption for the purpose of such an action that the Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct. The termination of any Proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself (i) create a presumption that the Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the Company and/or its shareholders, and, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, that the Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful or (ii) otherwise adversely affect the rights of the Indemnitee to indemnification or advancement of Expenses under this Agreement, except as may be provided herein.

 

(d) If a court of competent jurisdiction shall determine that the Indemnitee is entitled to any indemnification or advancement of Expenses hereunder, the Company shall pay all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such adjudication (including, but not limited to, any appellate proceedings).

 

(e) With respect to any Proceeding for which indemnification or advancement of Expenses is requested, the Company will be entitled to participate therein at its own expense and, except as otherwise provided below, to the extent that it may wish, the Company may assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnitee. After notice from the Company to the Indemnitee of its election to assume the defense of a Proceeding, the Company will not be liable to the Indemnitee under this Agreement for any Expenses subsequently incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with the defense thereof, other than as provided below. The Company shall not settle any Proceeding in any manner which would impose any penalty or limitation on the Indemnitee without the Indemnitee’s written consent. The Indemnitee shall have the right to employ his/her own counsel in any Proceeding, but the fees and expenses of such counsel incurred after notice from the Company of its assumption of the defense of the Proceeding shall be at the expense of the Indemnitee, unless (i) the employment of counsel by the Indemnitee has been authorized by the Company, (ii) the Indemnitee shall have reasonably concluded that there may be a conflict of interest between the Company and the Indemnitee in the conduct of the defense of a Proceeding, or (iii) the Company shall not in fact have employed counsel to assume the defense of a proceeding, in each of which cases the fees and expenses of the Indemnitee’s counsel shall be advanced by the Company. The Company shall not be entitled to assume the defense of any Proceeding brought by or on behalf of the Company or as to which the Indemnitee has reasonably concluded that there may be a conflict of interest between the Company and the Indemnitee.

 

9. Limitations on Indemnification. No payments pursuant to this Agreement shall be made by the Company:

 

(a) To indemnify or advance funds to the Indemnitee for Expenses with respect to (i) Proceedings initiated or brought voluntarily by the Indemnitee and not by way of defense, except with respect to Proceedings brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification under this Agreement or any other statute or law or otherwise as required under applicable law or (ii) Expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with preparing to serve or serving as a witness in cooperation with any party or entity who or which has threatened or commenced any action or proceeding against the Company, or any director, officer, employee, trustee, agent, representative, subsidiary, parent corporation or affiliate of the Company, but such indemnification or advancement of Expenses in each such case may be provided by the Company if the Board of Directors finds it to be appropriate;

 

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(b) To indemnify the Indemnitee for any Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties sustained in any Proceeding for which payment is actually made to the Indemnitee under a valid and collectible insurance policy, except in respect of any excess beyond the amount of payment under such insurance;

 

(c) To indemnify the Indemnitee for any Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties sustained in any Proceeding for an accounting of profits made from the purchase or sale by the Indemnitee of securities of the Company pursuant to the provisions of Section 16(b) of the Act or similar provisions of any foreign or United States federal, state or local statute or regulation;

 

(d) To indemnify the Indemnitee for any Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties for which the Indemnitee is indemnified by the Company otherwise than pursuant to this Agreement;

 

(e) To indemnify the Indemnitee for any Expenses (including without limitation any Expenses relating to a Proceeding attempting to enforce this Agreement), judgments, fines, interest or penalties on account of the Indemnitee’s conduct if such conduct shall be finally adjudged to have been knowingly fraudulent or deliberately dishonest or to have constituted willful misconduct, including, without limitation, breach of the duty of loyalty; or

 

(f) If a court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that any indemnification hereunder is unlawful. In this respect, the Company and the Indemnitee have been advised that the Securities and Exchange Commission takes the position that indemnification for liabilities arising under securities laws is against public policy and is, therefore, unenforceable;

 

(g) To indemnify the Indemnitee in connection with Indemnitee’s personal tax matter; or

 

(h) To indemnify the Indemnitee with respect to any claim related to any dispute or breach arising under any contract or similar obligation between the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates and such Indemnitee.

 

10. Continuation of Indemnification. All agreements and obligations of the Company contained herein shall continue during the period that the Indemnitee is a director or officer of the Company (or is or was serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, foreign or domestic) and shall continue thereafter so long as the Indemnitee shall be subject to any possible Proceeding by reason of the fact that the Indemnitee was a director or officer of the Company or serving in any other capacity referred to in this Paragraph 10.

 

11. Indemnification Hereunder Not Exclusive. The indemnification provided by this Agreement shall not be deemed to be exclusive of any other rights to which the Indemnitee may be entitled under the Company’s Articles, any agreement, vote of shareholders or vote of Disinterested Directors, provisions of applicable law, or otherwise, both as to action or omission in the Indemnitee’s official capacity and as to action or omission in another capacity on behalf of the Company while holding such office.

 

12. Successors and Assigns.

 

(a) This Agreement shall be binding upon the Indemnitee, and shall inure to the benefit of, the Indemnitee and the Indemnitee’s heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, whether or not the Indemnitee has ceased to be a director or officer, and the Company and its successors and assigns. Upon the sale of all or substantially all of the business, assets or share capital of the Company to, or upon the merger of the Company into or with, any corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other person, this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon both the Indemnitee and such purchaser or successor person. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement may not be assigned by either party without the prior written consent of the other party hereto.

 

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(b) If the Indemnitee is deceased and is entitled to indemnification under any provision of this Agreement, the Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee’s estate and the Indemnitee’s spouse, heirs, executors, administrators and assigns against, and the Company shall, and does hereby agree to assume, any and all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by or for the Indemnitee or the Indemnitee’s estate, in connection with the investigation, defense, appeal or settlement of any Proceeding. Further, when requested in writing by the spouse of the Indemnitee, and/or the Indemnitee’s heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, the Company shall provide appropriate evidence of the Company’s agreement set out herein to indemnify the Indemnitee against and to itself assume such Expenses.

 

13. Subrogation. In the event of payment under this Agreement, the Company shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of the Indemnitee, who shall execute all documents required and shall do all acts that may be necessary to secure such rights and to enable the Company effectively to bring suit to enforce such rights.

 

14. Severability. Each and every paragraph, sentence, term and provision of this Agreement is separate and distinct so that if any paragraph, sentence, term or provision thereof shall be held to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable for any reason, such invalidity, unlawfulness or unenforceability shall not affect the validity, unlawfulness or enforceability of any other paragraph, sentence, term or provision hereof. To the extent required, any paragraph, sentence, term or provision of this Agreement may be modified by a court of competent jurisdiction to preserve its validity and to provide the Indemnitee with the broadest possible indemnification permitted under applicable law. The Company’s inability, pursuant to a court order or decision, to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement.

 

15. Savings Clause. If this Agreement or any paragraph, sentence, term or provision hereof is invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, the Company shall nevertheless indemnify the Indemnitee as to any Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties, which are incurred with respect to any Proceeding to the fullest extent permitted by any (a) applicable paragraph, sentence, term or provision of this Agreement that has not been invalidated or (b) applicable law.

 

16. Interpretation; Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed as a whole and in accordance with its fair meaning and any ambiguities shall not be construed for or against either party. Headings are for convenience only and shall not be used in construing meaning. This Agreement shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

17. Amendments. No amendment, waiver, modification, termination or cancellation of this Agreement shall be effective unless in writing signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought. The indemnification rights afforded to the Indemnitee hereby are contract rights and may not be diminished, eliminated or otherwise affected by amendments to the Company’s Articles, or by other agreements, including directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies, of the Company.

 

18. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other.

 

19. Notices. Any notice required to be given under this Agreement shall be directed to the Chief Financial Officer of the Company at Unit 507, Building C, Taoyuan Street, Long Jing High and New Technology Jingu Pioneer Park, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518052, People’s Republic of China, and to the Indemnitee at or to such other address as either shall designate to the other in writing.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Indemnification Agreement as of the date first written above.

  

MicroAlgo Inc.

 

By:    
Name     
Title Chief Executive Officer  

  

INDEMNITEE

 

By:    
Name     

 

 

[Signature Page to Indemnification Agreement of MicroAlgo Inc.]

  

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Exhibit 10.4

 

FORM OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

THIS REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of [   ], 2021, is made and entered into by and among Venus Acquisition Corporation), a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), and each of the undersigned parties listed on the signature pages hereto under “Holders” (each, an “Holder” and collectively, the “Holders”).

 

WHEREAS, the Company, Venus Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”), and VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“VIYI”) have entered into a merger agreement (as may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”) dated as of the date of [   ], 2021, pursuant to which Merger Sub will merge with and into VIYI, with VIYI being the surviving entity and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Company

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, the Holders will receive ordinary shares of the Company, par value $0.001 (the “Ordinary Shares”) upon Closing therein in respect of their equity holdings in VIYI.

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Closing under the Merger Agreement, each of the Holders will deliver to the Company a lock-up letter agreement providing that the Holders shall be prohibited from the sale, assignment or transfer of certain of the Ordinary Shares (each a “Lock-Up Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, the Holders and the Company desire to enter into this Agreement to provide the Holders with certain rights relating to the registration for resale under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) of the securities held by them upon the Closing under the Merger Agreement;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.1 Definitions. The terms defined in this ARTICLE I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the respective meanings set forth below:

 

Adverse Disclosure” shall mean any public disclosure of material non-public information, which disclosure, in the good faith judgment of the Chief Executive Officer or principal financial officer of the Company, after consultation with counsel to the Company, (i) would be required to be made in any Registration Statement or Prospectus in order for the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein (in the case of any prospectus and any preliminary prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (ii) would not be required to be made at such time if the Registration Statement were not being filed, and (iii) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public.

 

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Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble. “Board” shall mean the board of directors of the Company.

 

Business Combination” shall mean any merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses, involving the Company.

 

Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are generally authorized or required by law or regulation to close in the City of New York, New York.

 

Closing” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Merger Agreement.

 

Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Company” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Company Underwritten Demand Notice” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(c).

 

Demanding Holder” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(c).

 

Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended from time to time.

 

Form S-1 Registration Statement” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(a). “Form S-3” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(a).

 

Form S-3 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(a). “Holders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Lock-Up Period” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Lock-Up Agreement.

 

Maximum Number of Securities” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(e).

 

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Merger Agreement” has the meaning given to such term in the Recitals. .

 

Misstatement” shall mean an untrue statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact required to be stated in a Registration Statement or Prospectus, or necessary to make the statements in a Registration Statement or Prospectus (in the case of a Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

 

Ordinary Shares” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

Permitted Transferees” shall mean any person or entity to whom a Holder of Registrable Securities is permitted to transfer such Registrable Securities prior to the expiration of the relevant Lock-up Period, as the case may be and any other applicable agreement between such Holder and the Company, in each case for so long as such agreements remain in effect, and to any transferee thereafter.

 

Piggyback Registration” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.2(a).

 

Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in any Registration Statement, as supplemented by any and all prospectus supplements and as amended by any and all post- effective amendments and including all material incorporated by reference in such prospectus.

 

Registrable Security” shall mean (a) with respect to any Holder, the Ordinary Shares issued to such Holder in the Company or any successor to the Company pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement and (b) any other equity security of the Company issued or issuable with respect to any such Ordinary Shares by way of a stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, distribution, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or reorganization or other similar event; provided, however, that, as to any particular Registrable Security, such securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities when: (A) a Registration Statement with respect to the sale of such securities shall have become effective under the Securities Act and such securities shall have been sold, transferred, disposed of or exchanged in accordance with such Registration Statement; (B) such securities shall have been otherwise transferred, new certificates or book entry positions for such securities not bearing a legend restricting further transfer shall have been delivered by the Company and subsequent public distribution of such securities shall not require registration under the Securities Act; (C) such securities shall have ceased to be outstanding; (D) such securities may be sold without registration pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (together with any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission, “Rule 144”) (without limitation on the amount of securities sold or the manner of sale requirements); or (E) such securities have been sold to, or through, a broker, dealer or underwriter in a public distribution or other public securities transaction.

 

Registration” shall mean a registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement or similar document in compliance with the requirements of the Securities Act, and the applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and such registration statement becoming effective.

 

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Registration Expenses” shall mean the out-of-pocket expenses of a Registration, including, without limitation, the following:

 

(a)all registration and filing fees (including fees with respect to filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.) and any securities exchange on which the Ordinary Shares is then listed;

 

(b)fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with blue sky qualifications of Registrable Securities);

 

(c)printing, messenger, telephone and delivery expenses;

 

(d)reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company;

 

(e)reasonable fees and disbursements of all independent registered public accountants of the Company incurred specifically in connection with such Registration; and

 

(f)reasonable fees and expenses of one (1) legal counsel selected by the majority-in- interest of the Demanding Holders initiating an Underwritten Offering to be registered for offer and sale in the applicable Registration.

 

Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement that covers the Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, including the Prospectus included in such registration statement, amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such registration statement, and all exhibits to and all material incorporated by reference in such registration statement.

 

Requesting Holder” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(c).

 

Restricted Securities” shall have the meaning given in Section 3.6(a).

 

Rule 144” shall have the meaning given in the definition of “Registrable Security.”

 

Rule 415” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(a).

 

Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

 

Underwriter” shall mean a securities dealer who purchases any Registrable Securities as principal in an Underwritten Offering and not as part of such dealer’s market-making activities.

 

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Underwritten Demand” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(c).

 

Underwritten Demand Notice” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1(c).

 

Underwritten Registration” or “Underwritten Offering” shall mean a Registration in which securities of the Company are sold to an Underwriter in a firm commitment underwriting for distribution to the public; including an offering and/or sale of Registrable Securities by any Holder in a block trade or on an underwritten basis (whether firm commitment or otherwise) without substantial marketing efforts prior to pricing, including, without limitation, a same day trade, overnight trade or similar transaction, but excluding a variable price reoffer.

 

ARTICLE II

REGISTRATION RIGHTS

 

Section 2.1 Selling Shareholder Registration and Demand Registration.

 

(a)Initial Registration. The Company shall prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed with the Commission, as promptly as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than fifteen (15) Business Days following the date that the Company becomes eligible to use Form S-3 or its successor form (“Form S-3”), use its reasonable best efforts to file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act to permit the public resale of all the Registrable Securities held by the Holders (and certain other outstanding equity securities of the Company) from time to time as permitted by Rule 415 under the Securities Act (or any successor or similar provision adopted by the Commission then in effect) (“Rule 415”) on the terms and conditions specified in this Section 2.1(a) and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective as promptly as reasonably practicable after the initial filing thereof. The Registration Statement filed with the Commission pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) shall be a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (a “Form S-3 Shelf”) or, if Form S-3 is not then available to the Company, on Form S-1 (a “Form S-1 Registration Statement”) or such other form of registration statement as is then available to effect a registration for resale of such Registrable Securities, covering such Registrable Securities, and shall contain a Prospectus in such form as to permit any Holder to sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415 at any time beginning on the effective date for such Registration Statement. A Registration Statement filed pursuant to this (a) shall provide for the resale pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested prior to effectiveness by, the Holders. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this (a) to remain effective, and to be supplemented and amended to the extent necessary to ensure that such Registration Statement is available or, if not available, that another Registration Statement is available, for the resale of all the Registrable Securities held by the Holders until all such Registrable Securities have ceased to be Registrable Securities. When effective, a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this (a) (including the documents incorporated therein by reference) will comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (in the case of any Prospectus contained in such Registration Statement, in the light of the circumstances under which such statement is made). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company and the Holders understand and agree that it is the intention of the Company that it become eligible as soon as practical following completion of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement to file reports with the SEC and under the Exchange Act as a foreign private issuer, and to utilize the forms applicable to foreign private issuers, including Form F-3 and F-1 to register securities for resale under the Securities Act.

 

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(b)Form S-3 Shelf. If the Company files a Form S-3 Shelf and thereafter the Company becomes ineligible to use Form S-3 for secondary sales, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file a Form S-1 Registration Statement as promptly as reasonably practicable to replace the shelf registration statement that is a Form S- 3 Shelf and have the Form S-1 Registration Statement declared effective as promptly as reasonably practicable and to cause such Form S-1 Registration Statement to remain effective, and to be supplemented and amended to the extent necessary to ensure that such Registration Statement is available or, if not available, that another Registration Statement is available, for the resale of all the Registrable Securities held by the Holders until all such Registrable Securities have ceased to be Registrable Securities.

 

(c)Underwritten Offering. At any time and from time to time after the expiration of any lock-up to which such securities are subject pursuant to any Lock-Up Agreement, any Holder holding at least 25% of the then outstanding number of Registrable Securities may request to sell all or a portion of their Registrable Securities (a “Demanding Holder”) in an Underwritten Offering that is registered pursuant to such Registration Statement (an “Underwritten Demand”). All requests for an Underwritten Offering shall be made by giving written notice to the Company (the “Underwritten Demand Notice”). Each Underwritten Demand Notice shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Underwritten Offering and the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) of such Underwritten Offering. Within five (5) Business Days after receipt of any Underwritten Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such requested Underwritten Offering (the “Company Underwritten Demand Notice”) to all other Holders of Registrable Securities (the “Requesting Holders”) and, subject to reductions consistent with the pro rata calculations in Section 2.1(e), shall include in such Underwritten Offering all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein, within five (5) days after sending the Company Underwritten Demand Notice. The Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement in a form as is customary in Underwritten Offerings of securities by the Company with the managing Underwriter or Underwriters selected by the initiating Demanding Holders with the written consent of the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) and shall take all such other reasonable actions as are requested by the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities. In connection with any Underwritten Offering contemplated by this Section 2.1(c), subject to Section 3.3 and ARTICLE IV, the underwriting agreement into which each Holder and the Company shall enter shall contain such representations, covenants, indemnities and other rights and obligations of the Company and such Holders as are customary in underwritten offerings of securities. Under no circumstances shall the Company be obligated to effect (x) more than an aggregate of three (3) Underwritten Offerings pursuant to an Underwritten Demand by the Holders under this Section 2.1(c) with respect to any or all Registrable Securities held by such Holders and (y) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings per year pursuant to this Section 2.1(c); provided, however, that an Underwritten Offering pursuant to an Underwritten Demand shall not be counted for such purposes unless a Registration Statement that may be available at such time has become effective and all of the Registrable Securities requested by the Requesting Holders and the Demanding Holders to be registered on behalf of the Requesting Holders and the Demanding Holders in such Registration Statement have been sold, in accordance with Section 3.1 of this Agreement.

 

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(d)Holder Information Required for Participation in Underwritten Offering. At least ten (10) Business Days prior to the first anticipated filing date of a Registration Statement pursuant to this ARTICLE II, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to notify each Holder in writing (which may be by email) of the information reasonably necessary about the Holder to include such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, the Company shall not be obligated to include such Holder’s Registrable Securities to the extent the Company has not received such information, and received any other reasonably requested agreements or certificates, on or prior to the fifth (5th) Business Day prior to the first anticipated filing date of a Registration Statement pursuant to this ARTICLE II. In addition, the holders of Registrable Securities shall comply with all prospectus delivery requirements under the Securities Act and applicable SEC regulations.

 

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(e)Reduction of Underwritten Offering. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Offering, in good faith, advises the Company, the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) in writing that the dollar amount or number of Registrable Securities that the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) desire to sell, taken together with all other Ordinary Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell and the Ordinary Shares, if any, as to which a Registration has been requested pursuant to separate written contractual piggy-back registration rights held by any other stockholders who desire to sell, exceeds the maximum dollar amount or maximum number of equity securities that can be sold in the Underwritten Offering without adversely affecting the proposed offering price, the timing, the distribution method, or the probability of success of such offering (such maximum dollar amount or maximum number of such securities, as applicable, the “Maximum Number of Securities”), then the Company shall include in such Underwritten Offering, as follows: (i) first, the Registrable Securities of the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) (pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Demanding Holder and Requesting Holder (if any) holds prior to such Underwritten Registration) that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (ii) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (i), Ordinary Shares or other equity securities for the account of other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to register pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons or entities and that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities (pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each such stockholder holds prior to such Underwritten Registration); and (iii) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), Ordinary Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any reduction of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.1(e) shall not exceed 20% of all Registrable Securities originally included for sale.

 

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(f)Underwritten Offering Withdrawal. A majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating an Underwritten Demand or a majority-in-interest of the Requesting Holders (if any), pursuant to a Registration under Section 2.1(a) shall have the right to withdraw from a Registration pursuant to such Underwritten Offering for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Registration at least five (5) Business Days prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to the Registration of their Registrable Securities pursuant to such Underwritten Offering (or in the case of an Underwritten Registration pursuant to Rule 415, at least five (5) Business Days prior to the time of pricing of the applicable Underwritten Offering). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with a Registration pursuant to an Underwritten Offering prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2.1(e).

 

Section 2.2 Piggyback Registration.

 

(a)Piggyback Rights. If, the Company proposes to file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act with respect to an offering of equity securities, or securities or other obligations exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into equity securities, for its own account or for the account of stockholders of the Company (or by the Company and by the stockholders of the Company including, without limitation, pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof), other than a Registration Statement (i) filed in connection with any employee stock option or other benefit plan, (ii) for a rights offering or an exchange offer or offering of securities solely to the Company’s existing stockholders, (iii) for an offering of debt that is convertible into equity securities of the Company or (iv) for a dividend reinvestment plan, then the Company shall give written notice of such proposed filing to all of the Holders of Registrable Securities as soon as practicable but not less than three (3) Business Days before the anticipated filing date of such Registration Statement, which notice shall (A) describe the amount and type of securities to be included in such offering, the intended method(s) of distribution, and the name of the proposed managing Underwriter or Underwriters, if any, in such offering, and (B) offer to all of the Holders of Registrable Securities the opportunity to register the sale of such number of Registrable Securities as such Holders may request in writing within five (5) Business Days after receipt of such written notice (such Registration a “Piggyback Registration”). The Company shall, in good faith, cause such Registrable Securities to be included in such Piggyback Registration and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the managing Underwriter or Underwriters of a proposed Underwritten Offering to permit the Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to this Section 2.2(a) to be included in a Piggyback Registration on the same terms and conditions as any similar securities of the Company included in such Registration and to permit the sale or other disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method(s) of distribution thereof. All such Holders proposing to distribute their Registrable Securities through an Underwritten Offering under this Section 2.2(a) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter(s) selected for such Underwritten Offering by the Company.

 

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(b)Reduction of Piggyback Registration. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Registration that is to be a Piggyback Registration, in good faith, advises the Company and the Holders of Registrable Securities participating in the Piggyback Registration in writing that the dollar amount or number of Ordinary Shares that the Company desires to sell, taken together with (i) the Ordinary Shares, if any, as to which Registration has been demanded pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with persons or entities other than the Holders of Registrable Securities hereunder, (ii) the Registrable Securities as to which registration has been requested pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof, and (iii) the Ordinary Shares, if any, as to which Registration has been requested pursuant to separate written contractual piggy-back registration rights of other stockholders of the Company, exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, then:

 

(i)If the Registration is undertaken for the Company’s account, the Company shall include in any such Registration (A) first, Ordinary Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof and Ordinary Shares, if any, as to which Registration has been requested pursuant to written contractual piggy-back registration rights of other stockholders of the Company (pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each such stockholder holds prior to such Underwritten Registration), which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities;

 

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(ii)If the Registration is pursuant to a request by persons or entities other than the Holders of Registrable Securities, then the Company shall include in any such Registration (A) first, Ordinary Shares or other equity securities, if any, of such requesting persons or entities, other than the Holders of Registrable Securities, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.2(a) and Ordinary Shares or other equity securities for the account of other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to register pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons or entities (in each case, pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each such stockholder holds prior to such Underwritten Registration), which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), Ordinary Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, any reduction of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.2(b) shall not exceed 20% of all Registrable Securities originally included for sale.

 

(c)Piggyback Registration Withdrawal. Any Holder of Registrable Securities shall have the right to withdraw from a Piggyback Registration for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of his, her or its intention to withdraw from such Piggyback Registration prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to such Piggyback Registration (or in the case of an Underwritten Registration, pursuant to Rule 415, prior to the pricing of the applicable offering). The Company (whether on its own good faith determination or as the result of a request for withdrawal by persons pursuant to separate written contractual obligations) may withdraw a Registration Statement filed with the Commission in connection with a Piggyback Registration at any time prior to the effectiveness of such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with the Piggyback Registration prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2.2(c).

 

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(d)Unlimited Piggyback Registration Rights. For purposes of clarity, any Registration effected pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof shall not be counted as a Registration pursuant to an Underwritten Offering effected under Section 2.1 hereof.

 

Section 2.3 Restrictions on Registration Rights. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be obligated to (but may, at its sole option) (A) effect an Underwritten Offering (i) within sixty (60) days after the closing of an Underwritten Offering or (ii) during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of the filing of, and ending on a date one hundred and twenty (120) days after the effective date of, a Company initiated Registration and provided that the Company has delivered written notice to the Holders prior to receipt of an Underwritten Demand pursuant to Section 2.1(c) and it continues to actively employ, in good faith, all reasonable best efforts to cause the applicable Registration Statement to become effective or (B) file a Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or effect an Underwritten Offering (or, if the Company has filed a shelf Registration Statement and has included Registrable Securities therein, the Company shall be entitled to suspend the offer and sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement) for a period of up to forty-five (45) days (i) if the Holders have requested an Underwritten Demand and the Company and the Holders are unable to obtain the commitment of Underwriters to firmly underwrite the offer; or (ii) in the good faith judgment of the Board such Underwritten Offering would be materially detrimental to the Company and the Board concludes as a result that it is essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement at such time, provided that in each case of (i) and (ii) the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board it would be materially detrimental to the Company for such Registration Statement to be filed in the near future and that it is therefore essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than once in any 12-month period.

 

Section 2.4 Waiver. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, unless the Company is notified in writing to the contrary by the Anchor Investors, (A) each Anchor Investor hereby waives any and all rights (i) to receive notice of an Underwritten Offering as provided for in this ARTICLE II or (ii) to participate in any such Underwritten Offering, and (A) the Company hereby agrees not to notify any Anchor Investor of any Underwritten Offering or provide any Anchor Investor with any information relating thereto.

 

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ARTICLE III

COMPANY PROCEDURES

 

Section 3.1 General Procedures. If the Company is required to effect the Registration of Registrable Securities, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect such Registration to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended plan of distribution thereof, and pursuant thereto the Company shall, as expeditiously as possible:

 

(a)prepare and file with the Commission as soon as practicable a Registration Statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold;

 

(b)prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, and such supplements to the Prospectus, as may be reasonably requested by the Holders or any Underwriter of Registrable Securities or as may be required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company or by the Securities Act or rules and regulations thereunder to keep the Registration Statement effective until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement are sold in accordance with the intended plan of distribution set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus;

 

(c)prior to filing a Registration Statement or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, furnish without charge to the Underwriters, if any, and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration, and such Holders’ legal counsel, copies of such Registration Statement as proposed to be filed, each amendment and supplement to such Registration Statement (in each case including all exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein), the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement (including each preliminary Prospectus), and such other documents as the Underwriters and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration or the legal counsel for any such Holders may request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holders;

 

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(d)prior to any public offering of Registrable Securities, but in any case no later than the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement, use its reasonable best efforts to (i) register or qualify the Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement under such securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement (in light of their intended plan of distribution) may request and to keep such registration or qualification in effect for so long as such Registration Statement remains in effect and (ii) take such action necessary to cause such Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental authorities as may be necessary by virtue of the business and operations of the Company and do any and all other acts and things that may be necessary or advisable to enable the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify or take any action to which it would be subject to general service of process or taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not then otherwise so subject;

 

(e)cause all such Registrable Securities to be listed on each securities exchange or automated quotation system on which similar securities issued by the Company are then listed;

 

(f)provide a transfer agent or warrant agent, as applicable, and registrar for all such Registrable Securities no later than the effective date of such Registration Statement;

 

(g)advise each seller of such Registrable Securities, promptly after it shall receive notice or obtain knowledge thereof, of the issuance of any stop order by the Commission suspending the effectiveness of such Registration Statement or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and promptly use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or to obtain its withdrawal if such stop order should be issued;

 

(h)at least five (5) days prior to the filing of any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document that is to be incorporated by reference into such Registration Statement or Prospectus, furnish a copy thereof to each seller of such Registrable Securities or its counsel including, without limitation, providing copies promptly upon receipt of any comment letters received with respect to any such Registration Statement or Prospectus;

 

(i)notify the Holders at any time when a Prospectus relating to such Registration Statement is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes a Misstatement, and then to correct such Misstatement as set forth in Section 3.4 hereof;

 

(j)permit a representative of the Holders (such representative to be selected by a majority of the participating Holders), the Underwriters, if any, and any attorney or accountant retained by such Holders or Underwriter to participate, at each such person’s own expense, in the preparation of the Registration Statement, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any such representative, Underwriter, attorney or accountant in connection with the Registration; provided, however, that any such representative or Underwriter enters into a confidentiality agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company, prior to the release or disclosure of any such information;

 

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(k)obtain a “cold comfort” letter from the Company’s independent registered public accountants in the event of an Underwritten Registration, in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by “cold comfort” letters as the managing Underwriter may reasonably request, and reasonably satisfactory to a majority-in-interest of the participating Holders;

 

(l)on the date the Registrable Securities are delivered for sale pursuant to such Registration, obtain an opinion, dated such date, of counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such Registration, addressed to the Holders, the placement agent or sales agent, if any, and the Underwriters, if any, covering such legal matters with respect to the Registration in respect of which such opinion is being given as the Holders, placement agent, sales agent, or Underwriter may reasonably request and as are customarily included in such opinions and negative assurance letters, and reasonably satisfactory to a majority in interest of the participating Holders;

 

(m)in the event of any Underwritten Offering, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing Underwriter of such offering;

 

(n)make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the period of at least twelve (12) months beginning with the first day of the Company’s first full calendar quarter after the effective date of the Registration Statement which satisfies the provisions of Section 11(g) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission);

 

(o)if the Registration involves the Registration of Registrable Securities involving gross proceeds in excess of $25,000,000, use its reasonable best efforts to make available senior executives of the Company to participate in customary “road show” presentations that may be reasonably requested by the Underwriter(s) in any Underwritten Offering; and

 

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(p)otherwise, in good faith, cooperate reasonably with, and take such customary actions as may reasonably be requested by the Holders, in connection with such Registration, including, without limitation, making available senior executives of the Company to participate in any due diligence sessions that may be reasonably requested by the Underwriter(s) in any Underwritten Offering.

 

Section 3.2 Registration Expenses. The Registration Expenses of all Registrations shall be borne by the Company. It is acknowledged by the Holders that the Holders shall bear all incremental selling expenses relating to the sale of Registrable Securities, such as Underwriters’ commissions and discounts, brokerage fees, Underwriter marketing costs and, other than as set forth in the definition of “Registration Expenses;” all reasonable legal fees and expenses of any legal counsel representing the Holders, which legal fees shall not exceed the sum of $75,000, shall be borne by the Company.

 

Section 3.3 Requirements for Participation in Underwritten Offerings. No person or entity may participate in any Underwritten Offering for equity securities of the Company pursuant to a Registration initiated by the Company hereunder unless such person or entity (i) agrees to sell such person’s or entity’s securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Company and (ii) completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, lock-up agreements, underwriting agreements and other customary documents as may be reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.

 

Section 3.4 Suspension of Sales; Adverse Disclosure. Upon receipt of written notice from the Company that a Registration Statement or Prospectus contains a Misstatement, each of the Holders shall forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities until he, she or it has received copies of a supplemented or amended Prospectus correcting the Misstatement (it being understood that the Company hereby covenants to prepare and file such supplement or amendment as soon as practicable after the time of such notice), or until he, she or it is advised in writing by the Company that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed. If the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a Registration Statement in respect of any Registration at any time would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure or would require the inclusion in such Registration Statement of financial statements that are unavailable to the Company for reasons beyond the Company’s control, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders, delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend use of, such Registration Statement for the shortest period of time, but in no event more than thirty (30) days, determined in good faith by the Company to be necessary for such purpose. In the event the Company exercises its rights under the preceding sentence, the Holders agree to suspend, immediately upon their receipt of the notice referred to above, their use of the Prospectus relating to any Registration in connection with any sale or offer to sell Registrable Securities. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders of the expiration of any period during which it exercised its rights under this Section 3.4.

 

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Section 3.5 Reporting Obligations. As long as any Holder shall own Registrable Securities, the Company, at all times while it shall be a reporting company under the Exchange Act, covenants to file timely (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company further covenants that it shall take such further action as any Holder may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Ordinary Shares held by such Holder without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144, including providing any legal opinions. Upon the request of any Holder, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written certification of a duly authorized officer as to whether it has complied with such requirements.

 

Section 3.6 Lock-Up Restrictions.

 

(a)During the applicable Lock-Up Periods, none of the Holders shall offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise dispose of or distribute any Ordinary Shares that are subject to an applicable Lock-Up Period or any securities convertible into, exercisable for, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive Ordinary Shares that are subject to an applicable Lock-Up Period, whether now owned or hereinafter acquired, that is owned directly by such Holder (including securities held as a custodian) or with respect to which such Holder has beneficial ownership within the rules and regulations of the Commission (such securities that are subject to an applicable Lock-Up Period, the “Restricted Securities”), other than any transfer to an affiliate of an Holder or to a Permitted Transferee, as applicable. The foregoing restriction is expressly agreed to preclude each Holder, as applicable, from engaging in any hedging or other transaction with respect to Restricted Securities which is designed to or which reasonably could be expected to lead to or result in a sale or disposition of the Restricted Securities even if such Restricted Securities would be disposed of by someone other than such Holder. Such prohibited hedging or other transactions include any short sale or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including any put or call option) with respect to any of the Restricted Securities of the applicable Holder, or with respect to any security that includes, relates to, or derives any significant part of its value from such Restricted Securities.

 

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(b)Each Holder hereby represents and warrants that it now has and, except as contemplated by this Section 3.6(b) for the duration of the applicable Lock-Up Period, will have good and marketable title to its Restricted Securities, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, and claims that could impact the ability of such Existing Holder to comply with the foregoing restrictions. Each Holder agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of any Restricted Securities during the applicable Lock-Up Period.

 

ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION

 

Section 4.1 Indemnification.

 

(a)The Company agrees to indemnify, to the extent permitted by law, each Holder of Registrable Securities, its officers and directors and each person who controls such Holder (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) caused by any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as the same are caused by or contained in any information furnished in writing to the Company by such Holder expressly for use therein. The Company shall indemnify the Underwriters, their officers and directors and each person who controls such Underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided in the foregoing with respect to the indemnification of the Holder.

 

(b)In connection with any Registration Statement in which a Holder of Registrable Securities is participating, such Holder shall furnish to the Company in writing such information and affidavits as the Company reasonably requests for use in connection with any such Registration Statement or Prospectus and, to the extent permitted by law, shall indemnify the Company, its directors and officers and agents and each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from any untrue statement of material fact contained in the Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but only to the extent that such untrue statement or omission is contained in any information or affidavit so furnished in writing by such Holder expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the obligation to indemnify shall be several, not joint and several, among such Holders of Registrable Securities, and it being understood and agreed that the only information furnished by such Holder consists of the information with respect to such Holder under the caption “Principal and Selling Shareholders” in the Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus, and the liability of each such Holder of Registrable Securities shall be in proportion to and limited to the net proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement. The Holders of Registrable Securities shall indemnify the Underwriters, their officers, directors and each person who controls such Underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided in the foregoing with respect to indemnification of the Company.

 

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(c)Any person entitled to indemnification herein shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not materially prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement) or which settlement does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

 

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(d)The indemnification provided for under this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of securities. The Company and each Holder of Registrable Securities participating in an offering also agree to make such provisions as are reasonably requested by any indemnified party for contribution to such party in the event the Company’s or such Holder’s indemnification is unavailable for any reason.

 

(e)If the indemnification provided under Section 4.1 hereof from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by, or relates to information supplied by, such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action; provided, however, that the liability of any Holder under this Section 4.1(e) shall be limited to the amount of the net proceeds received by such Holder in such offering giving rise to such liability. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 4.1(a), Section 4.1(b) and Section 4.1(c) above, any legal or other fees, charges or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 4.1(e) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation, which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 4.1(e). No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this Section 4.1(e) from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

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ARTICLE V

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 5.1 Notices. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be in writing and given by (i) deposit in the United States mail, addressed to the party to be notified, postage prepaid and registered or certified with return receipt requested, (ii) delivery in person or by courier service providing evidence of delivery, or (iii) transmission by hand delivery, electronic mail, telecopy, telegram or facsimile. Each notice or communication that is mailed, delivered, or transmitted in the manner described above shall be deemed sufficiently given, served, sent, and received, in the case of mailed notices, on the third (3rd) Business Day following the date on which it is mailed and, in the case of notices delivered by courier service, hand delivery, electronic mail, telecopy, telegram or facsimile, at such time as it is delivered to the addressee (with the delivery receipt or the affidavit of messenger) or at such time as delivery is refused by the addressee upon presentation. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be addressed, if to the Company, to: [●], and, if to any Holder, at such Holder’s address or facsimile number as set forth in the Company’s books and records. Any party may change its address for notice at any time and from time to time by written notice to the other parties hereto, and such change of address shall become effective thirty (30) days after delivery of such notice as provided in this Section 5.1.

 

Section 5.2 Assignment; No Third Party Beneficiaries.

 

(a)This Agreement and the rights, duties and obligations of the Company, and a Holder of Registrable Securities, as the case may be, hereunder may not be assigned or delegated by the Company or the applicable Holder, in whole or in part, except in connection with a transfer of Registrable Securities by such Holder to a Permitted Transferee but only if such Permitted Transferee agrees to become bound by the transfer restrictions set forth in this Agreement.

 

(b)Prior to the expiration of the applicable Lock-Up Period, no Holder subject to any such Lock-Up Period may assign or delegate such Holder’s rights, duties or obligations under this Agreement, in whole or in part, in violation of the applicable Lock-Up Period, except in connection with a transfer of Registrable Securities by such Holder to a Permitted Transferee but only if such Permitted Transferee agrees to become bound by the transfer restrictions set forth in this Agreement.

 

(c)This Agreement and the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties and its successors and the permitted assigns of the Holders, which shall include Permitted Transferees.

 

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(d)This Agreement shall not confer any rights or benefits on any persons that are not parties hereto, other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement.

 

(e)No assignment by any party hereto of such party’s rights, duties and obligations hereunder shall be binding upon or obligate the Company unless and until the Company shall have received (i) written notice of such assignment as provided in Section 5.1 hereof and (ii) the written agreement of the assignee, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to be bound by the terms and provisions of this Agreement (which may be accomplished by an addendum or certificate of joinder to this Agreement). Any transfer or assignment made other than as provided in this Section 5.2 shall be null and void.

 

Section 5.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts (including facsimile or PDF counterparts), each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute the same instrument, but only one of which need be produced.

 

Section 5.4 Governing Law; Venue. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PLACE WHERE THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE EXECUTED BY ANY OF THE PARTIES HERETO, THE PARTIES EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AS APPLIED TO AGREEMENTS AMONG NEW YORK RESIDENTS ENTERED INTO AND TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS OF SUCH JURISDICTION AND (II) THE VENUE FOR ANY ACTION TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO THE AGREEMENT SHALL BE ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT IN NEW YORK COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND, THEREFORE, EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT TO ANY ACTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT.

 

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Section 5.5 Amendments and Modifications. Upon the written consent of the Company and the Holders of at least a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities at the time in question, compliance with any of the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement may be waived, or any of such provisions, covenants or conditions may be amended or modified; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) any amendment hereto or waiver hereof that adversely affects one Holder, solely in his, her or its capacity as a holder of the shares of capital stock of the Company, in a manner that is materially different from the other Holders (in such capacity) shall require the consent of the Holder so affected and (b) any amendment hereto or waiver hereof that adversely affects the rights of any Anchor Investor shall require the consent of such entity. No course of dealing between any Holder or the Company and any other party hereto or any failure or delay on the part of a Holder or the Company in exercising any rights or remedies under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of any rights or remedies of any Holder or the Company. No single or partial exercise of any rights or remedies under this Agreement by a party shall operate as a waiver or preclude the exercise of any other rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder by such party.

 

Section 5.6 Other Registration Rights. The Company represents and warrants that no person, other than a Holder of Registrable Securities has any right to require the Company to register any securities of the Company for sale or to include such securities of the Company in any Registration filed by the Company for the sale of securities for its own account or for the account of any other person. Further, the Company represents and warrants that this Agreement supersedes any other registration rights agreement or agreement with similar terms and conditions and in the event of a conflict between any such agreement or agreements and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail.

 

Section 5.7 Term. This Agreement shall terminate upon the earlier of the date as of which (A) all of the Registrable Securities have been sold pursuant to a Registration Statement (but in no event prior to the applicable period referred to in Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act and Rule 174 thereunder (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission))or (B) the Holders of all Registrable Securities are permitted to sell the Registrable Securities under Rule 144 (or any similar provision) under the Securities Act without limitation on the amount of securities sold or the manner of sale requirements. The provisions of Section 3.5 and Article IV shall survive any termination.

 

Section 5.8 Foreign Private Issuer Status. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company and the Holders understand and agree that it is the intention of the Company that it become eligible as soon as practical following completion of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement to file reports with the SEC and under the Exchange Act as a foreign private issuer, and to utilize the forms applicable to foreign private issuers, including Form F-3 and F-1 to register securities for resale under the Securities Act. If the Company is not qualified or ceases to be a foreign private issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) eligible to use a registration statement on Form F-1 or Form F-3, or eligible to file periodic reports on Form 20-F or 6-K, as the case may be, then all references in this Agreement to any such form shall be deemed to be references to Form S-1, Form S-3, Form 10-K, Form 10-Q or Form 8-K, as applicable, or such similar or successor form as may be appropriate.

 

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Section 5.9 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding and agreement between the parties as to the matters covered herein and supersedes and replaces any prior understanding, agreement or statement of intent, in each case, written or oral, of any and every nature with respect thereto.

 

[Signature pages follow]

 

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Agreed Form

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

 

COMPANY:

 

Venus Acquisition Corporation

   
By:       
  Name:
  Title:

 

Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

 

HOLDERS:

 

Guosheng Holdings Limited

   
By:       
  Name:
  Title:

 

 

MIDI Capital Markets, LLC

   
By:       
  Name:
  Title:

 

 

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.

   
By:       
  Name: Shuo Shi
  Title: CEO

 

 

Universal Winnings Holdings Limited

   
By:       
  Name:
  Title:

 

 

Milestone Investments Limited

   
By:       
  Name:
  Title:

 

Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement

 

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Agreed Form

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

 

HOLDERS:

 

EVER ABUNDANT INVESTMENTS LIMITED

   
By:     
  Name:
  Title:

 

Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement

 

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Exhibit 10.5

 

Agreed Form

 

FORM OF NON-COMPETITION AND NON-SOLICITATION AGREEMENT

 

THIS NON-COMPETITION AND NON-SOLICITATION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is being executed and delivered as of [   ], 2022, by [   ]1 (the “Covenantor”) in favor of, and for the benefit of: MicroAlgo Inc. (formerly named Venus Acquisition Corporation), a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Venus”), and VIYI Algorithm Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”, together with Venus, the “Beneficiaries”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H

 

WHEREAS, as a shareholder of the Company, the Covenantor has obtained extensive and valuable knowledge and confidential information concerning the business of the Company;

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to a merger agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among Venus, Venus Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Merger Sub”), and the Company (the “Merger Agreement”), Venus will through the Merger contemplated under the Merger Agreement acquire the Company on the terms and conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement; certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement but not otherwise defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Merger Agreement;

 

WHEREAS, the Covenantor has a substantial financial interest in the Company, and shall receive significant consideration in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (and as a condition and mutual inducement to the consummation of such transactions), to enable Venus to secure more fully the benefits of such transactions, to preserve the value and goodwill of the Company after such transactions and to protect the trade secrets of the Company, the parties have agreed to enter into this Agreement;

 

AGREEMENT

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in order to induce Venus to enter into the Merger Agreement and consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the Covenantor agrees as follows:

 

1. Restriction on Competition. The Covenantor agrees that, during the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the two-year anniversary of the Closing Date (the “Non-Competition Period”), the Covenantor shall not, and shall not direct, instruct, or support, any efforts of any of the Covenantor’s Affiliates or any other Person to establish or hold any equity interest in, manage, advise or control any Person, the business of which competes or will compete with the Company’s Business (“Competing Business”); provided, however, that the Covenantor may, without violating this Section 1, own, as a passive investment, shares of capital stock of a publicly-held corporation that engages in Competing Business if (i) such shares are actively traded on an established national securities; (ii) the number of shares of such corporation’s capital stock that are owned beneficially (directly or indirectly) by the Covenantor together with the number of shares of such corporation’s capital stock that are owned beneficially (directly or indirectly) by the Covenantor’s Affiliates and/or immediate family members (as defined in Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended) collectively represent less than five percent (5%) of the total number of shares of such corporation’s capital stock outstanding; and (iii) neither the Covenantor nor any Affiliate of the Covenantor is otherwise associated directly or indirectly with such corporation or with any Affiliate of such corporation. For purposes of this Agreement, “Company’s Business” means the algorithm technical supporting services provided by the Company to operators in mobile gaming, internet advertising and computer chip industries.

 

 

 

1NTD: insert Company Shareholder Name

 

 

 

 

2. No Solicitation. The Covenantor agrees that during the Non-Competition Period, the Covenantor shall not directly or indirectly, personally or through others, encourage, induce, solicit or attempt thereof (on the Covenantor’s own behalf or on behalf of any other Person) (i) any director or officer or employee of the Company to leave the employ of the Company or (ii) any vendor or customer of the Company to cease supplying the Company or purchasing services or goods from the Company.

 

3. Representations and Warranties. The Covenantor represents and warrants, to and for the benefit of the Beneficiaries, that: (a) the Covenantor has full power and capacity to execute and deliver, and to perform all of the Covenantor’s obligations under, this Agreement and (b) neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the performance of the Covenantor’s obligations under this Agreement will result directly or indirectly in a violation or breach of (i) any agreement or obligation by which the Covenantor or any of the Covenantor’s Affiliates is or may be bound during the Non-Competition Period or (ii) any law, rule or regulation. The Covenantor’s representations and warranties set forth herein shall survive the expiration of the Non-Competition Period for the longest applicable statute of limitations.

 

4. Severability. Any term or provision of this Agreement that is deemed or determined to be invalid or unenforceable in any situation in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions hereof or the validity or enforceability of the offending term or provision in any other situation or in any other jurisdiction. If the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction declares that any term or provision hereof is invalid or unenforceable, the parties hereto agree that the court making such determination shall have the power to limit the term or provision, to delete specific words or phrases, or to replace any invalid or unenforceable term or provision with a term or provision that is valid and enforceable and that comes closest to expressing the intention of the invalid or unenforceable term or provision, and this Agreement shall be enforceable as so modified. In the event such court does not exercise the power granted to it in the prior sentence, the parties hereto agree to replace such invalid or unenforceable term or provision with a valid and enforceable term or provision that will achieve, to the extent possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such invalid or unenforceable term.

 

5. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to conflicts of laws or choice of law principles that would result in the application of the laws of another jurisdiction.

 

6. Dispute Resolution. Article X of the Merger Agreement (Dispute Resolution) shall apply to this Agreement, mutatis mutandis, as if fully set forth herein.

 

7. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY AND ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE ACTIONS OF ANY PARTY HERETO IN NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT HEREOF.

 

8. Successors and Assigns. The rights and obligations of each party hereto may not be assigned, delegated or otherwise transferred by such party without the written consent of each other party. This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of each party.

 

9. Attorneys’ Fees. If any legal action or other legal proceeding relating to this Agreement or the enforcement of any provision of this Agreement is commenced between the parties concerning this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and disbursements (in addition to any other relief to which the prevailing party may be entitled).

 

10. Captions. The captions contained in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, shall not be deemed to be a part of this Agreement and shall not be referred to in connection with the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

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11. Amendment. This Agreement may not be amended, modified, altered or supplemented other than by means of a written instrument duly executed and delivered on behalf of all of the parties hereto.

 

12. Counterpart Execution; Exchanges by Electronic Transmission. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the parties and delivered to the other party, it being understood that all parties need not sign the same counterpart. The exchange of a fully executed Agreement (in counterparts or otherwise) by electronic transmission in .PDF format, in digital signature format (including DocuSign) or by facsimile shall be sufficient to bind the parties to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

13. Effective Date. This Agreement shall become effective upon the Closing Date. This Agreement shall be null and void if the Merger Agreement is terminated prior to the Closing Date.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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CONFIDENTIAL

 

The Covenantor has duly executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

COVENANTOR:
   
 WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.
   
 By: 
 Name:Shuo Shi
 Title:CEO
   
 MIDI Capital Markets, LLC
   
 By: 
 Name: 
 Title: 

 

 Guosheng Holdings Limited
   
 By: 
 Name: 
 Title: 

 

 Milestone Investments Limited
   
 By: 
 Name: 
 Title: 

 

 

[Signature Page to Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement]

 

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 BENEFICIARIES:
  
 MicroAlgo Inc.
   
 By: 
 Name: 
 Title: 

 

 VIYI Algorithm Inc.
   
 By: 
 Name: 
 Title: 

 

 

[Signature Page to Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement]

 

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Exhibit 10.6

 

AMENDMENT TO BACKSTOP AGREEMENT

 

This Amendment to the Backstop Agreement (the “Agreement”), dated December 9, 2022, is by and among Joyous JD Limited (“Joyous”), Venus Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Venus”), and Yolanda management Corporation (“Yolanda”). Joyous, Venus, and Yolanda are sometimes collectively referred to as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party”.

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, the Parties have previously entered into that certain Backstop Agreement dated as of November 23, 2022 (“Backstop Agreement”) whereby, among other things, Joyous will backstop the Venus share redemptions by purchasing Venus shares from third parties through a broker in the open market up to an aggregate value of US$25,000,000 at the redemption price per share.

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Backstop Agreement, Joyous has purchased an aggregate value of US$21,557,405 of Venus ordinary shares in the open market as of the date of this Agreement. The Parties deem that any additional backstop investment by Joyous at Acquisition Closing is no longer necessary or desired.

 

WHEREAS, the Parties now desire to amend certain provisions of the Backstop Agreement to the effect that no additional backstop investment by Joyous in the Company will be required at the closing of the Acquisition Closing.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above, which are incorporated in this Agreement as if fully set forth below, and agreements contained in this Agreement, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the Parties accordingly agree as follows.

 

1.Defined Terms. Terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Backstop Agreement.

 

The definition of “Backstop Amount” is hereby restated to mean the amount of SPAC Share Redemptions the Buyer has agreed to backstop, together with any Purchase Amount, of up to US$21,557,405.80.

 

2.Section 1.01 Purchase from Third Parties of the Backstop Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

The Buyers agree that in connection with the Acquisition Closing, the Buyers will purchase Issuer Shares from third parties through a broker in the open market (other than through the Issuer), or through privately negotiated transactions, including from SPAC Shareholders that had elected to redeem the Issuer Shares. The Buyers shall acquire the Issuer Shares of an aggregate value up to US$21,557,405.80 at US$10.55 per share (the “Price Per Share”). In order to effectuate the foregoing, to the extent legally permitted to do so, the Buyers shall purchase redeemed shares on the date of this Agreement until the date of the closing of the Merger. The aggregate purchase amount of the Buyers hereof shall be referred to as “Purchase Amount.” The Buyers hereby agree and undertake that they will not exercise any right of redemption with respect to any shares of the SPAC they may acquire under this Section 1.01 (Purchase from Third Parties) hereof.

 

 

 

 

3.Governing Law. This Agreement shall for all purposes be deemed to be made under and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of New York. Each of the parties hereby agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out of or relating in any way to this Agreement shall, to the fullest extent applicable, be brought and enforced first in the Southern District of New York, then to such other court in the State of New York as appropriate and irrevocably submits to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be exclusive. Each of the parties hereby waives any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum.

 

4.Miscellaneous. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which shall constitute one agreement. This Agreement shall become effective upon delivery to each party of an executed counterpart or the earlier delivery to each party of original, photocopied, or electronically transmitted signature pages that together (but need not individually) bear the signatures of all other parties. A determination by a court or other legal authority that any provision that is not of the essence of this Agreement is legally invalid shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof. The parties shall cooperate in good faith to substitute (or cause such court or other legal authority to substitute) for any provision so held to be invalid a valid provision, as alike in substance to such invalid provision as is lawful.

 

 

Venus Acquisition Corporation

   
  By: /s/ Yanming Liu
  Name: Yanming Liu
  Title: CEO
     
  Yolanda Management Corporation
     
  By: /s/ Yanming Liu
  Name: Yanming Liu
  Title: Director
     
  Joyous JD Limited
     
  By: /s/ Zhidong Wang
  Name: Zhidong Wang
  Title: CEO

 

 

 

Exhibit 21.1

 

Name   Background   Ownership
VIYI Technology Ltd. (“VIYI Ltd”)   A Hong Kong company  

100% owned by VIYI

 

  Incorporated on October 9, 2020  
  A holding company  
           
Shenzhen Weiyixin Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Weiyixin”)   A PRC limited liability company and deemed a wholly foreign owned enterprise (“WFOE”)  

100% owned by VIYI Ltd

 

  Incorporated on November 18, 2020 Registered capital of RMB 191,271,000 (USD 30,000,000)  
  A holding company  
           
Shenzhen Yitian Internet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Yitian”)   A PRC limited liability company  

100% owned by Beijing WiMi before December 24, 2020 VIE of Shenzhen Weiyixin starting on December 24, 2020

 

  Incorporated on March 08, 2011  
  Registered capital of RMB 20,000,000 (USD 3,136,910) Primarily engages central processing algorithm in mobile games industry  
           
Korgas 233 Technology Co., Ltd. (“Korgas 233”)   A PRC limited liability company  

100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian before January 11, 2021; 100% owned by YY Online after January 11, 2021

 

  Incorporated on September 15, 2017  
  Registered capital of RMB 1,000,000 (USD 156,846) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in mobile games industry  

  

Shenzhen Qianhai Wangxin Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Qianhai”)   A PRC limited liability company Incorporated on October 16, 2015 Registered capital of RMB 5,000,000 (USD 784,228) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry   100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian
           
Shenzhen Yiyou Online Technology Co., Ltd. (“YY Online”)   A PRC limited liability company Incorporated on January 14, 2019 Registered capital of RMB 100,000 (USD 15,685) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry   100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian before January 11, 2021; 100% owned by Weidong after January 11, 2021
           

Wuhan 233 Interactive Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan 233”)

 

  A PRC limited liability company  

100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian before January 11, 2021; 100% owned by YY Online after January 11, 2021

 

  Incorporated on May 15, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 100,000 (USD 15,685) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in mobile games industry  

  

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Name   Background   Ownership
Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Weidong”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian before January 11, 2021; 100% owned by Shenzhen Weiyixin after January 11, 2021
  Incorporated on October 28, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 50,000,000 (USD 7,842,276) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry  
           
Korgas Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Korgas Weidong”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Weidong
  Incorporated on October 30, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 20,000,000 (USD 3,136,910) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry  
           
Tianjin Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin Weidong”)   A PRC limited liability company   60% owned by Weidong
  Incorporated on December 22, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 20,000,000 (USD 3,136,910) Primarily engages in AR advertising services  
           
Fe-da Electronics Company Private Limited (“Fe-da Electronics”)   A Singapore company   100% owned by VIYI Acquired in September 2020
  Incorporated on January 9, 2009  
  Primarily engages in resale of intelligent chips and customization of central processing units  
           
Excel Crest Limited (“Excel Crest”)   A Hong Kong company   100% owned by Fe-da Electronics
  Incorporated on September 10, 2020  
  Support the daily operations of Fe-da Electronics in Hong Kong  

 

Shanghai Weimu Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Weimu”)   A PRC limited liability company   58% owned by Shenzhen Weiyixin
  Incorporated on November 30, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 50,000,000 (USD 7,842,276)  
  Engages in providing software support services  
           
Wisdom Lab Inc. (“Wisdom Lab”)   A Cayman Islands company   100% owned by Fe-Da Electronics
  Incorporated on May 6, 2021  
  Engages in software solution for intelligent chips  
           
Viwo Technology Limited. (“Viwo Tech”)   A Hong Kong company   55% owned by VIYI Ltd
  Incorporated on April 15, 2021  
  Engages in intelligent chips design  
  No operations as of December 31, 2021  
           
Shenzhen Viwotong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Viwotong Tech”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Viwo Tech
  Incorporated on July 19, 2021  
  Registered capital of RMB 10,000,000 (USD 1,568,455)  

  

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Name   Background   Ownership
Shanghai Guoyu Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Guoyu”)   A PRC limited liability company   99% owned by Weidong, 1% owned by YY Online
  Incorporated on March 18, 2019  
  Registered capital of RMB 20,000,000 (USD 3,136,910)  
  Engages in R&D and application of intelligent visual algorithm technology  
           
Kashi Guoyu Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Kashi Guoyu”)   A PRC limited liability company    100% owned by Shanghai Guoyu
  Registered capital of RMB 10,000,000 (USD 1,568,455)  
  Incorporated on July 23, 2021  
  Engages in R&D and application of intelligent visual algorithm technology  
           
Guangzhou Tapuyu Internet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tapuyu”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Viwotong Tech
  Registered capital of RMB 1,000,000 (USD 156,846)  
  Incorporated on June 22, 2021  
  Engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry  

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

Venus Acquisition Corporation Announces Closing of Business Combination;

MicroAlgo Inc. to trade on Nasdaq under the Symbol “MLGO”.

 

NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Venus Acquisition Corporation (the “Company” or “Venus”) (NASDAQ: VENA) today announced that, on December 9, 2022, the Company closed the previously announced business combination (the “Business Combination”) with VIYI Algorithm Inc. (the “VIYI”) pursuant to which the Venus Merger Sub (“Venus Merger Sub”), a Cayman Islands exempted company incorporated for the purpose of effectuating the Business Combination merged with and into VIYI, with VIYI surviving the merger to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Venus. Venus is a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company or SPAC.

 

As part of the transaction, the Company changed its name to “MicroAlgo Inc.” As a result, the Company expects that its ordinary shares will begin trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol “MLGO”, starting on or about December 13, 2022, and that its units and rights will cease trading on December 12, 2022. The Company’s warrants did not satisfy initial listing requirements and would be delisted from Nasdaq on December 13, 2022.

 

VIYI is dedicated to the development and application of bespoke central processing algorithms. Central processing algorithms refer to a range of computing algorithms, including analytical algorithms, recommendation algorithms, and acceleration algorithms. VIYI provides comprehensive solutions to customers by integrating central processing algorithms with software or hardware, or both, thereby helping them to increase the number of customers, improve end-user satisfaction, achieve direct cost savings, reduce power consumption, and achieve technical goals. The range of VIYI’s services include algorithm optimization, accelerating computing power without the need for hardware upgrades, lightweight data processing, and data intelligence services. VIYI’s ability to efficiently deliver software and hardware optimization to customers through bespoke central processing algorithms serves as a driving force for VIYI’s long-term development. VIYI is ideally positioned to grow its revenue quickly as a leading central processing algorithm service provider in China.

 

In connection with the Business Combination, (i) the Company’s units, each of which is comprised of one Ordinary Share, one warrant to purchase one-half of one Ordinary Share and one right, have been separated into their component securities, and (ii) the 4,600,000 public rights (including those included in units) have been converted into 460,000 Ordinary Shares. In addition, 225,000 rights held by Yolanda Management Corporation have been converted into 22,500 Ordinary Shares.

 

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About Venus Acquisition Corporation

 

The Company is a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.

 

VIYI Algorithm Inc.

 

VIYI Algorithm Inc. (the “VIYI”), a Cayman Islands exempted company, is dedicated to the development and application of bespoke central processing algorithms. VIYI provides comprehensive solutions to customers by integrating central processing algorithms with software or hardware, or both, thereby helping them to increase the number of customers, improve end-user satisfaction, achieve direct cost savings, reduce power consumption, and achieve technical goals. The range of VIYI’s services includes algorithm optimization, accelerating computing power without the need for hardware upgrades, lightweight data processing, and data intelligence services. VIYI’s ability to efficiently deliver software and hardware optimization to customers through bespoke central processing algorithms serves as a driving force for VIYI’s long-term development.

 

Forward-Looking Statements

 

This press release contains statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements.” Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the control of Venus, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of Venus’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC. Copies are available on the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov. Words such as “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “believes,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, Venus’s expectations with respect to future performance and anticipated financial impacts of the business transaction.

 

Venus undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as may be required by law.

 

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Such forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance, but reflect the parties’ current beliefs, based on information currently available. Certain of these factors are outside the parties’ control and may be difficult to predict. A number of factors could cause actual events, performance or results to differ materially from the events, performance and results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such differences include: business conditions; natural disasters; changing interpretations of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; outcomes of government reviews; inquiries and investigations and related litigation; continued compliance with government regulations; changes in legislation or regulatory environments, requirements or changes adversely affecting the businesses of Venus and VIYI, including but not limited the reaction of VIYI customers to the Business Combination; difficulties in maintaining and managing continued growth; restrictions on the ability to make dividend payments; general economic conditions; geopolitical events and regulatory changes; and the failure to maintain the listing of Venus’ securities on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

 

The foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors are contained in Venus’ filings with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release, which speak only as of the date made. The Company does not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements in this press release to reflect any change in their expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as may be required by law. Nothing contained herein constitutes or will be deemed to constitute a forecast, projection or estimate of the future financial performance of the Company following the closing of the Business Combination or otherwise.

 

Contact

 

Yanming Liu
Chief Executive Officer
Email: ceo@venusacq.com 
917 267 4568
VENUS ACQUISITION CORPORATION
6th Floor, 477 Madison Avenue,
New York, New York

 

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Exhibit 99.2

 

VIYI ALGORITHM INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
ASSETS               
                
CURRENT ASSETS               
Cash and cash equivalents   272,368,599    146,938,562    20,696,155 
Accounts receivable, net   17,643,292    27,441,144    3,865,059 
Inventories   5,251,250    3,755,199    528,916 
Prepaid services fees   25,126,303    42,597,114    5,999,763 
Other receivables and prepaid expenses   2,715,183    1,782,606    251,078 
Due from Parent   -    39,113,573    5,509,109 
Loans receivable   21,160,000    -    - 
Total current assets   344,264,627    261,628,198    36,850,080 
                
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET   468,827    1,251,492    176,271 
                
OTHER ASSETS               
Prepaid expenses and deposits   1,303,705    1,338,109    188,471 
Deferred merger costs   3,839,567    4,463,301    628,652 
Cost method investment   600,000    1,200,000    169,019 
Intangible assets, net   27,880,937    23,194,530    3,266,927 
Operating lease right-of-use assets   2,056,753    1,611,442    226,970 
Goodwill   139,918,263    143,739,303    20,245,543 
Total non-current assets   175,599,225    175,546,685    24,725,582 
                
Total assets   520,332,679    438,426,375    61,751,933 
                
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY               
                
CURRENT LIABILITIES               
Accounts payable   13,086,682    9,654,977    1,359,894 
Deferred revenues   12,189,262    22,360,449    3,149,448 
Other payables and accrued liabilities   4,662,042    5,401,604    760,810 
Due to Parent   108,100,338    -    - 
Operating lease liabilities   1,047,152    1,177,763    165,887 
Taxes payable   948,392    617,303    86,947 
Total current liabilities   140,033,868    39,212,096    5,522,986 
                
OTHER LIABILITIES               
Operating lease liabilities - noncurrent   1,009,917    516,605    72,763 
Deferred tax liabilities, net   5,396,459    4,510,220    635,260 
Total other liabilities   6,406,376    5,026,825    708,023 
                
Total liabilities   146,440,244    44,238,921    6,231,009 
                
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES               
                
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY               
Ordinary shares, USD 0.0001 par value, 1,000,000,000 shares authorized, and 300,000,000 outstanding as of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022   204,084    204,084    28,745 
Additional paid-in capital   186,384,247    186,384,247    26,252,042 
Retained earnings   178,918,737    191,725,091    27,004,295 
Statutory reserves   9,420,703    12,214,617    1,720,417 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss   (2,585,684)   1,350,910    190,274 
Total VIYI Algorithem Inc.shareholders’ equity   372,342,087    391,878,949    55,195,773 
                
NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS   1,550,349    2,308,505    325,151 
                
Total equity   373,892,436    394,187,454    55,520,924 
                
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity   520,332,679    438,426,375    61,751,933 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

 

 

 

VIYI ALGORITHM INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

 

   For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
OPERATING REVENUES               
Products   155,864,464    120,866,541    17,023,937 
Services   211,814,458    340,568,052    47,968,682 
Total operating revenues   367,678,922    461,434,593    64,992,619 
                
COST OF REVENUES   (191,179,081)   (357,378,915)   (50,336,476)
                
GROSS PROFIT   176,499,841    104,055,678    14,656,143 
                
OPERATING EXPENSES               
Selling expenses   (4,168,329)   (3,440,334)   (484,568)
General and administrative expenses   (24,703,248)   (18,855,885)   (2,655,833)
Research and development expenses   (78,733,964)   (67,958,532)   (9,571,894)
Total operating expenses   (107,605,541)   (90,254,751)   (12,712,295)
                
INCOME FROM OPERATIONS   68,894,300    13,800,927    1,943,848 
                
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES)               
Interest income   2,828,508    1,078,197    151,863 
Loss from short term investment   (1,623,470)   (1,064,201)   (149,892)
Finance expenses, net   (685,608)   (378,938)   (53,373)
Other income, net   1,016,964    1,892,031    266,491 
Total other income, net   1,536,394    1,527,089    215,089 
                
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES   70,430,694    15,328,016    2,158,937 
                
BENEFIT OF (PROVISION FOR) INCOME TAX               
Current   (1,944,738)   (220,827)   (31,103)
Deferred   1,415,114    1,197,574    168,677 
Total (provision) benefit for income tax   (529,624)   976,747    137,574 
                
NET INCOME   69,901,070    16,304,763    2,296,511 
                
Less: Net icome attributable to non-controlling interests   239,062    704,495    99,227 
                
NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO VIYI ALGOTIRHM INC.   69,662,008    15,600,268    2,197,284 
                
NET INCOME   69,901,070    16,304,763    2,296,511 
                
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)               
Foreign currency translation adjustment   (17,583)   3,936,594    554,465 
                
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME   69,883,487    20,241,357    2,850,976 
                
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests   239,062    704,495    99,227 
                
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO VIYI ALGORITHM INC.   69,644,425    19,536,862    2,751,749 
                
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF ORDINARY SHARES               
Basic and diluted   300,000,000    300,000,000    300,000,000 
                
EARNINGS PER SHARE               
Basic and diluted   0.23    0.05    0.01 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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VIYI ALGORITHM INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

                       Accumulated             
           Additional   Retained earnings   other             
           paid-in   Statutory       comprehensive   Noncontrolling         
   Ordinary shares   capital   reserves   Unrestricted   loss   interests   Total   Total 
   Shares   Par Value   RMB   RMB   RMB   RMB   RMB   RMB   USD 
BALANCE, December 31, 2020   300,000,000    204,084    186,384,247    4,964,820    128,098,769    (2,130,654)   2,088,079    319,609,345    49,281,362 
Noncontrolling interests acquired   -    -    -    -    -    -    330    330    51 
Net income   -    -    -    -    69,662,008    -    239,062    69,901,070    10,778,220 
Statutory reserves   -    -    -    3,869,936    (3,869,936)   -    -    -    - 
Foreign currency translation   -    -    -    -    -    (17,583)   -    (17,583)   (2,711)
BALANCE, September 30, 2021   300,000,000    204,084    186,384,247    8,834,756    193,890,841    (2,148,237)   2,327,471    389,493,162    60,056,922 

 

                       Accumulated             
           Additional   Retained earnings   other             
           paid-in   Statutory       comprehensive   Noncontrolling         
   Ordinary shares   capital   reserves   Unrestricted   loss   interests   Total   Total 
   Shares   Par Value   RMB   RMB   RMB   RMB   RMB   RMB   USD 
BALANCE, December 31, 2021   300,000,000    204,084    186,384,247    9,420,703    178,918,737    (2,585,684)   1,550,349    373,892,436    52,662,390 
Disposal of noncontrolling interest   -    -    -    -    -    -    53,661    53,661    7,558 
Net income   -    -    -    -    15,600,268    -    704,495    16,304,763    2,296,510 
Statutory reserves   -    -    -    2,793,914    (2,793,914)   -    -    -    - 
Foreign currency translation   -    -    -    -    -    3,936,594    -    3,936,594    554,466 
BALANCE, September 30, 2022   300,000,000    204,084    186,384,247    12,214,617    191,725,091    1,350,910    2,308,505    394,187,454    55,520,924 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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VIYI ALGORITHM INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

   For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:               
Net income   69,901,070    16,304,763    2,296,511 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:               
Depreciation and amortization   7,449,751    6,928,613    975,888 
Recovery for doubtful accounts,net   -    (1,889,836)   (266,182)
Deferred tax benefit   (1,415,114)   (1,197,574)   (168,677)
Loss from short term investment   1,623,470    1,064,201    149,892 
Loss from disposal of property and equipment   -    76,141    10,724 
Gain from disposal of subsidiary        65,587    9,238 
Amortization of operating lease right-of-use assets   600,756    1,019,879    143,649 
Amortization of debt discount   418,970    -    - 
Change in operating assets and liabilities:               
Accounts receivables   (796,133)   (7,207,347)   (1,015,148)
Prepaid services fees   (9,655,031)   (15,126,137)   (2,130,502)
Other receivables and prepaid expenses   -    1,039,517    146,415 
Inventories   (703,644)   1,938,745    273,070 
Prepaid expenses and deposits   1,189,485    91,733    12,921 
Accounts payable   5,052,011    (3,633,058)   (511,713)
Deferred revenues   (3,684,113)   8,937,917    1,258,897 
Other payables and accrued liabilities   583,192    (690,234)   (97,219)
Operating lease liabilities   (578,658)   (937,269)   (132,013)
Taxes payable   (4,033,833)   (143,812)   (20,256)
Net cash provided by operating activities   65,952,179    6,641,829    935,495 
                
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:               
Purchases of short term investments   (101,000,001)   (109,791,053)   (15,463,964)
Sale of short term investments   1,223,840    108,726,852    15,314,073 
Purchases of cost method investment   -    (600,000)   (84,509)
Payment for Shanghai Guoyu acquisition   (20,000,000)   -    - 
Cash received from Bimai acquisition   -    2,033    286 
Purchases of property and equipment   (214,461)   (1,242,172)   (174,959)
Repayment of loans receivable   -    21,160,000    2,980,366 
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities   (119,990,622)   18,255,660    2,571,293 
                
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:               
Payment to Parent   (10,035,286)   (202,909,364)   (28,579,589)
Proceeds from Parent   598,434    55,695,453    7,844,651 
Deferred merger costs   -    (174,635)   (24,597)
Proceeds from banking facility   7,652,223    -    - 
Payments to banking facility   (20,595,023)   -    - 
Proceeds from loan - related party   3,616,145    -    - 
Payments to loan - related party   (2,116,145)   -    - 
Capital contribution from noncontrolling interests   330    -    - 
Net cash used in financing activities   (20,879,322)   (147,388,546)   (20,759,535)
                
EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE ON CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS   (337,678)   (2,938,980)   (413,953)
                
CHANGE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS   (75,255,443)   (125,430,037)   (17,666,700)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, beginning of period   242,142,524    272,368,599    38,362,855 
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, end of period   166,887,081    146,938,562    20,696,155 
                
SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:               
Cash paid for income tax   3,608,501    1,229,744    173,208 
Cash paid for interest   61,507    12,300    1,732 
                
NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES:               
Operating lease right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities   -    737,373    103,858 
Payments to vendors made by banking facility   -    -    - 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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VIYI ALGORITHM INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO UNADUITED INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 1 — Nature of business and organization

 

VIYI Algorithm Inc. (“VIYI”), previously known as VIYI Technology Inc., is a company incorporated on September 24, 2020 under the laws of the Cayman Islands. WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (“WiMi Inc.” or the “Parent”) which primarily engaged in augmented reality (“AR”) advertising and entertainment services, is VIYI’s parent company, an 86.5% controlling shareholder as of September 30, 2022. On March 26, 2021, WiMi Inc. entered into an equity transfer agreements with noncontrolling shareholders of the Company, pursuant to which WiMi Inc. transferred total of 20% of the issued share capital of VIYI to Guosheng Holdings Limited for a total consideration of US$10,000,000. On March 26, 2021, WiMi Inc. entered into an equity transfer agreement with Universal Winnings Holding Limited and Joyous Dragon Limited, pursuant to which WiMi Inc. transferred 7% of the issued share capital of VIYI for a consideration of US$3,500,000. WiMi Inc. received full consideration in January 2021 and WiMi Inc.’s holding of VIYI was reduced to 73% as a results of the transactions. VIYI, its consolidated subsidiaries, variable interest entity (“VIE”) and VIE’s subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the “Company”) is primarily engaged in providing central processing algorithm services.

 

On September 27, 2020, VIYI entered into Acquisition Framework Agreement which was amended and supplemented on September 28, 2020 to acquire 100% equity interests of Fe-da Electronics Company Private Limited. (“Fe-da Electronics”), a provider of Internet of Things solutions based in Singapore, to accelerate the development of the Company’s central processing algorithm services in computer chip and intelligent chip business. The transaction consummated on September 28, 2020 (See note 4 for details). In November 2020, Fe-da Electronics purchased 100% equity interests of Excel Crest Limited (“Excel Crest”) for HKD 1 to support the daily operations of Fe-da Electronics in Hong Kong. On May 6, 2021, Fe-da Electronic established Wisdom Lab Inc, a Cayman Islands company to provide software solutions for computer chips.

 

On October 9, 2020, VIYI set up a wholly owned holding company in Hong Kong, VIYI Technology Ltd. (“VIYI Ltd”), which holds all of the outstanding equity of Shenzhen Weiyixin Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Weiyixin”) established on November 18, 2020 under the laws of the PRC. On November 30, 2020, Shenzhen Weiyixin established Shanghai Weimu Technology Co., Ltd., (“Shanghai Weimu”) in the PRC for software support services, and Shenzhen Weiyixin holds 58% outstanding equity of Shanghai Weimu.

 

On April 15, 2021, VIYI Ltd formed a 55% owned subsidiary Viwo Technology Limited, a Hong Kong limited company to provide intelligent chips design and solution services.

 

On June 10, 2021, the Company entered into the Merger Agreement, which provides for a Business Combination between Venus Acquisition Corporation (“Venus”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the Business Combination will be effected as a stock transaction and is intended to be qualified as a tax-free reorganization. The Merger Agreement is by and among Venus VIYI, and WiMi Inc. The aggregate consideration for the Acquisition Merger is $400,000,000, payable in the form of 39,603,961 newly issued ordinary shares of Venus ordinary shares.

 

In connection with a contemplated offering of the Company, the following steps were undertaken:

 

  (1) Reorganization of Shenzhen Yitian:

 

Shenzhen Yitian Internet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Yitian”) was established on March 8, 2011 and was acquired by the Parent’s VIE, WiMi Cloud Software Co., Ltd. (“Beijing WiMi”) in 2015. Shenzhen Yitian established wholly owned subsidiaries Shenzhen Qianhai Wangxin Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Qianhai”) in 2015, Korgas 233 Technology Co., Ltd. (“Korgas 233”) in 2017. On January 14, 2019, Shenzhen Yitian established Shenzhen Yiyou Online Technology Co., Ltd. (“YY online”) On May 15, 2020, Shenzhen Yitian established Wuhan 233 Interactive Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan 233”).On October 28, 2020, Shenzhen Yitian established Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Weidong”). Weidong established a wholly owned subsidiary Korgas Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Korgas Weidong”) in October 2020 and a 60% owned subsidiary Tianjin Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin Weidong”) in December 2020. Shenzhen Yitian and subsidiaries are in the PRC and mainly engaged in provide algorithm services in advertising and gaming industry. Shenzhen Yitian’s main recognized revenue-producing assets are its facility located in Shenzhen, its non-compete agreement with former shareholder and its assembled workforce. Unrecognized revenue-producing assets held by Shenzhen Yitian include certain Internet content provision and other licenses, domain names and trademarks. The Internet content provision and other licenses are required under relevant PRC laws, rules and regulations for the operation of Internet businesses in the PRC, and therefore are integral to the Company’s operations. The Internet content provision licenses require that core PRC trademark registrations and domain names are held by the entity that provide the relevant services.

 

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Shenzhen Yitian and Shenzhen Qianhai had obtained a value-added telecommunications operating license (the “ICP License”) for the provision of internet information services from the appropriate telecommunications authorities. Moreover, Shenzhen Yitian and YY online also possessed the Online Culture Operating License, which were issued by Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong, to carry out internet culture activities.

 

On December 24, 2020, Beijing WiMi transferred 99.0% and 1.0% equity interests in Shenzhen Yitian to Ms. Yao Zhaohua and Ms. Sun Yadong for consideration of RMB 1 and RMB 1, respectively, pursuant to share transfer agreements. Ms. Yao Zhaohua and Ms. Sun Yadong and the original shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian entered into contractual agreement (see contractual agreements below) with Shenzhen Weiyixin on December 24, 2020, which granted Shenzhen Weiyixin effective control of Shenzhen Yitian from December 24, 2020 and enable Shenzhen Weiyixin to receive all the expected residual returns of Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries. The reorganization was completed on December 24, 2020. Shenzhen Weiyixin becomes the primary beneficiary of Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries.

 

On January 11, 2021, Shenzhen Yitian transferred its 100% equity interest of Weidong and subsidiaries to Shenzhen Weiyixin; its 100% equity interest YY Online to Weidong and its 100% equity interest in Korgas 233 and Wuhan 233 to YY Online. As a result, Wuhan 233 and Korgas 233 became wholly owned subsidiaries of YY Online and YY Online became wholly owned subsidiary of Weidong and Weidong became wholly owned subsidiary of Shenzhen Weiyixin.

 

All of these entities are under common control of shareholders of VIYI, which results in the consolidation of Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries which have been accounted for as a reorganization of entities under common control at carrying value. The consolidated financial statements are prepared on the basis as if the reorganization became effective as of the beginning of the first period presented in the accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company.

 

On July 1, 2021, Weidong acquired 99% interest of Shanghai Guoyu Information Technologies Co., Ltd (“Shanghai Guoyu”). The remaining 1% of Shanghai Guoyu is acquired by YY Online. The aggregate purchase price is RMB 20,000,000. On July 19, 2021 Shanghai Guoyu established 100% owned subsidiary Kashi Guoyu Information Technologies Co., Ltd (“Kashi Guoyu”). On July 14, 2021, Weidong transferred its 100% equity interest of Horgas 233 and Horgas Weidong to Shanghai Guoyu.

 

On July 19, 2021, Viwo Technology established a fully owned subsidiary Shenzhen Viwotong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Viwotong Tech”) in Shenzhen to support its operations. On November 19, Viwotong Tech acquired 100% equity interests of Guangzhou Tapuyu Internet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tapuyu”), a provider of advertising services, for RMB 2 (approximately USD 0.3). On December 7, 2021, Viwotong Tech purchased Pengcheng Keyi (Xi’an) Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. (“Pengcheng Keyi”), a provider of testing equipment development and sales, for RMB 2 (approximately USD 0.3). On July 1, 2022, Viwo Technology Inc. entered into an equity transfer agreement to transfer 99.0% and 1.0% of the issued share capital of Pengcheng Keyi to two unrelated individuals at RMB 1.0 and RMB 0.1, respectively. (see Note 4 for details)

 

Due to the business strategy adjustment, Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries no longer operate the business involving foreign investment restrictions since March 1, 2022, therefore VIYI is able to have direct equity interest in Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries. On April 1, 2022, VIYI terminated the agreements under the VIE structure with Shenzhen Yitian. Shenzhen Yitian’s original shareholders transferred their respective ownership to VIYI WFOE and VIYI WFOE obtained 100% equity control of Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries on April 1, 2022. The reorganization has no effect on the consolidated financial statements as Shenzhen Yitian has been under common control of VIYI Cayman that there is no change of reporting entities.

 

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  (2) Allocation of expenses

 

The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements include the Company’s direct expenses, as well as an allocation of certain general and administrative and financial expenses paid by the Parent. General and administrative expenses consist primarily share-based compensation expense, salary and related expenses of senior management and VIYI employees, shared management expenses, including accounting, consulting, legal support services, and other expenses to provide operating support to the related businesses.

 

These allocations are made using a proportional cost allocation method by considering the proportion of revenues, headcounts as well as estimates of time spent on the provision of services attributable to the Company and the related expenses resulted from the acquisition of subsidiary.

 

The general and administrative expenses allocated from the Parent amounted to RMB 598,434 and nil for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, respectively. Income tax provision reflected in the Company’s unaudited interim condensed consolidated statement of income is calculated based on a separate return basis as the Company’s subsidiaries all filed separate tax returns.

 

Management believes the basis and amounts of these allocations are reasonable. While the expenses allocated to the Company for these items are not necessarily indicative of the expenses that would have been incurred if the Company had been a separate, stand-alone entity, the Company does not believe that there is any significant difference between the nature and amounts of these allocated expenses and the expenses that would have been incurred if the Company had been a separate, stand-alone entity.

 

The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements reflect the activities of VIYI and each of the following entities as of September 30, 2022:

 

Name   Background   Ownership
VIYI Technology Ltd. (“VIYI Ltd”)   A Hong Kong company   100% owned by VIYI
  Incorporated on October 9, 2020  
  A holding company  
           
Shenzhen Weiyixin Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Weiyixin”or “VIYI WFOE”)   A PRC limited liability company and deemed a wholly foreign owned enterprise (“WFOE”)   100% owned by VIYI Ltd
  Incorporated on November 18, 2020 Registered capital of RMB 191,271,000 (USD 30,000,000)  
  A holding company    
           
Shenzhen Yitian Internet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Yitian”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Beijing WiMi before December 24, 2020 VIE of Shenzhen Weiyixin starting on December 24, 2020. 100% owned by Shenzhen Weiyixin starting April 1, 2022
  Incorporated on March 08, 2011  
  Registered capital of RMB 20,000,000 (USD 3,136,910) Primarily engages central processing algorithm in mobile games industry  
           
Korgas 233 Technology Co., Ltd. (“Korgas 233”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian before January 11, 2021; 100% owned by YY Online after January 11, 2021
  Incorporated on September 15, 2017  
  Registered capital of RMB 1,000,000 (USD 156,846) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in mobile games industry  

 

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Name   Background   Ownership
Shenzhen Qianhai Wangxin Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shenzhen Qianhai”)   A PRC limited liability company Incorporated on October 16, 2015 Registered capital of RMB 5,000,000 (USD 784,228) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry   100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian
           
Shenzhen Yiyou Online Technology Co., Ltd. (“YY Online”)   A PRC limited liability company Incorporated on January 14, 2019 Registered capital of RMB 100,000 (USD 15,685) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry   100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian before January 11, 2021; 100% owned by Weidong after January 11, 2021
           
Wuhan 233 Interactive Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan 233”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian before January 11, 2021; 100% owned by YY Online after January 11, 2021
  Incorporated on May 15, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 100,000 (USD 15,685) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in mobile games industry  
           
Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Weidong”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Shenzhen Yitian before January 11, 2021; 100% owned by Shenzhen Weiyixin after January 11, 2021
  Incorporated on October 28, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 50,000,000 (USD 7,842,276) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry  
           
Korgas Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Korgas Weidong”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Weidong
  Incorporated on October 30, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 20,000,000 (USD 3,136,910) Primarily engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry  
           
Tianjin Weidong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin Weidong”)   A PRC limited liability company   60% owned by Weidong
  Incorporated on December 22, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 20,000,000 (USD 3,136,910) Primarily engages in AR advertising services  
           
Fe-da Electronics Company Private Limited (“Fe-da Electronics”)   A Singapore company   100% owned by VIYI Acquired in September 2020
  Incorporated on January 9, 2009  
  Primarily engages in resale of intelligent chips and customization of central processing units  

 

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Name   Background   Ownership
Excel Crest Limited (“Excel Crest”)   A Hong Kong company   100% owned by Fe-da Electronics
  Incorporated on September 10, 2020  
  Support the daily operations of Fe-da Electronics in Hong Kong  
           
Shanghai Weimu Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Weimu”)   A PRC limited liability company   58% owned by Shenzhen Weiyixin
  Incorporated on November 30, 2020  
  Registered capital of RMB 50,000,000 (USD 7,842,276)  
  Engages in providing software support services  
           
Wisdom Lab Inc. (“Wisdom Lab”)   A Cayman Islands company   100% owned by Fe-Da Electronics
  Incorporated on May 6, 2021  
  Engages in software solution for intelligent chips  
           
Viwo Technology Limited. (“Viwo Tech”)   A Hong Kong company   55% owned by VIYI Ltd
  Incorporated on April 15, 2021  
  Engages in intelligent chips design  
  No operations as of June 30, 2022  
           
Shenzhen Viwotong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Viwotong Tech”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Viwo Tech
  Incorporated on July 19, 2021  
  Registered capital of RMB 10,000,000 (USD 1,568,455)  
           
Shanghai Guoyu Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Guoyu”)   A PRC limited liability company   99% owned by Weidong, 1% owned by YY Online
  Incorporated on March 18, 2019  
  Registered capital of RMB 20,000,000 (USD 3,136,910)  
  Engages in R&D and application of intelligent visual algorithm technology  
           
Kashi Guoyu Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Kashi Guoyu”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Shanghai Guoyu
  Registered capital of RMB 10,000,000 (USD 1,568,455)  
  Incorporated on July 23, 2021  
    Engages in R&D and application of intelligent visual algorithm technology  

 

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Name   Background   Ownership
Guangzhou Tapuyu Internet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tapuyu”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Viwotong Tech
  Registered capital of RMB 1,000,000 (USD 156,846)  
  Incorporated on June 22, 2021  
  Engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry  
           
Pengcheng Keyi (Xi’an) Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. (“Pengcheng Keyi”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by Viwotong Tech Disposed in July 2022
  Registered capital of RMB 5,000,000 (USD 784,228)  
  Incorporated on July 29, 2021  
  Engages in testing equipment development and sales  
           
Guangzhou Bimai Network Technology Co., Ltd. (“Bimai”)   A PRC limited liability company  

100% owned by Viwotong Tech Acquired in September 2022

         
    Registered capital of RMB 1,000,000 (USD 156,846)    
  Incorporated on April 28, 2021  
  Engages in central processing algorithm in advertising industry  
           
ViZe Technology Co., Ltd. (“ViZe”)   A Hong Kong company   55% owned by VIYI Ltd.
       
  Incorporated on April 12, 2022  
  No activities as of September 30, 2022  
         
Shenzhen ViZeTong Technology Co., Ltd. (“ViZeTong”)   A PRC limited liability company   100% owned by ViZe
  Registered capital of RMB 5,000,000 (USD 784,228)  
  Incorporated on August 15, 2022  
  No activities as of September 30, 2022  

 

Contractual Arrangements (Terminated April 1, 2022)

 

Due to legal restrictions on foreign ownership and investment in, among other areas, value-added telecommunications services, which include the operations of internet content providers, prior to April 1, 2022, the Company operates its internet and other businesses in which foreign investment is restricted or prohibited in the PRC through certain PRC domestic companies. As such, Shenzhen Yitian (from December 24, 2020) is controlled through contractual agreements in lieu of direct equity ownership by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiary used to provide Internet information consulting services which required the possession of the Internet Content Provision (“ICP”) licenses and were subject to foreign investment restrictions under relevant PRC laws and regulations. Due to subsequent business strategy adjustment, Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiary have terminated such Internet information consulting services since March 1, 2022. As a result of the termination of such services, Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiary were later notified by relevant PRC government authority that the ICP licenses were no longer required and their business was no longer subject to foreign investment restrictions, therefore VIYI can own direct equity interest in Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries. VIYI terminated the agreements under the VIE structure with Shenzhen Yitian, and VIYI’s WFOE achieved 100% equity control of Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries on April 1, 2022. VIYI now controls and receives the economic benefits of Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries’ business operation through equity ownership.

 

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Shenzhen Yitian

 

The contractual arrangements consist of a series of four agreements, shareholders power of attorney and irrevocable commitment letters (collectively the “Contractual Arrangements”, which were signed on December 24, 2020). The significant terms of the Contractual Agreements are as follows:

 

Exclusive Business Cooperation Agreement

 

Under the exclusive business cooperation agreement between Shenzhen Weiyixin and Shenzhen Yitian dated December 24, 2020, Shenzhen Weiyixin has the exclusive right to provide to Shenzhen Yitian consulting and services related to, among other things, use of software, operation maintenance, product development, and management and marketing consulting. Shenzhen Weiyixin has the exclusive ownership of intellectual property rights created as a result of the performance of this agreement. Shenzhen Yitian agrees to pay Shenzhen Weiyixin service fee at an amount equal to the consolidated net income after offsetting previous year’s loss (if any). This agreement remained effective until April 1, 2022 when the agreement was terminated by Shenzhen Weiyixin.

 

Exclusive Share Purchase Option Agreement

 

Pursuant to the exclusive share purchase option agreement dated December 24, 2020, by and among Shenzhen Weiyixin, Shenzhen Yitian and each of the shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian, each of the shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian irrevocably granted Shenzhen Weiyixin an exclusive call option to purchase, or have its designated person(s) to purchase, at its discretion, all or part of their equity interests in Shenzhen Yitian, and the purchase price shall be the lowest price permitted by applicable PRC law. Each of the shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian undertakes that, without the prior written consent of Shenzhen Weiyixin or us, they may not increase or decrease the registered capital, amend its articles of association or change registered capital structure. This agreement will remain effective unless terminated in the event that the entire equity interests held by registered shareholders in Shenzhen Yitian have been transferred to Shenzhen Weiyixin or until the date when it is terminated by Shenzhen Weiyixin. Any transfer of shares pursuant to this agreement would be subject to PRC regulations and to any changes required thereunder.

 

Equity Interest Pledge Agreement

 

Pursuant to the equity interest pledge agreement dated December 24, 2020, by and among Shenzhen Weiyixin, Shenzhen Yitian and the shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian, the shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian pledged all of their equity interests in Shenzhen Yitian to Shenzhen Weiyixin to guarantee their and Shenzhen Yitian’s obligations under the contractual arrangements including the exclusive consulting and services agreement, the exclusive option agreement, the power of attorney and this equity interest pledge agreement, as well as any loss incurred due to events of default defined therein and all expenses incurred by Shenzhen Weiyixin in enforcing such obligations of Shenzhen Yitian or its shareholders. The shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian agree that, without Shenzhen Weiyixin’s prior written approval, during the term of the equity interest pledge agreement, they will not dispose of the pledged equity interests or create or allow any other encumbrance on the pledged equity interests. The pledge under the equity interest pledge agreement shall take effect upon the completion of registration with the relevant administration for industry and commerce, which was completed as of January 29, 2021, and shall remain valid until the earlier of (1) the completion of all contractual obligations and the repayment of all secured debts, or (2) the time when the pledgee and/or the appointed person(s) have decided, subject to the PRC laws, to purchase the entire equity interests of the pledger in Shenzhen Yitian, and such equity interests of Shenzhen Yitian have been transferred to the pledgee and/or the appointed person(s) in accordance with the law such that the pledgee and/or the appointed person(s) may lawfully engage in the business of Shenzhen Yitian.

 

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Loan Agreement

 

Pursuant to the loan agreement dated December 24, 2020, Shenzhen Weiyixin agreed to provide loans to the registered shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian, to be used exclusively as investment in Shenzhen Yitian. The loan must not be used for any other purposes without the relevant lender’s prior written consent. The term of the loan agreement commences from the date of the agreement and ends on the date the lender exercises its exclusive option under the relevant exclusive share purchase option agreement, or when certain defined termination events occur, such as if the lender sends a written notice demanding repayment to the borrower, or upon the default of the borrower, whichever is earlier. After the lender exercises its exclusive option, the borrower may repay the loan by transferring all of its equity interest in the relevant Onshore Holdco to the lender, or a person or entity nominated by the lender, and use the proceeds of such transfer as repayment of the loan. If the proceeds of such transfer is equal to or less than the principal of the loan under the loan agreement, the loan is considered interest-free. If the proceeds of such transfer is higher than the principal of the loan under the loan agreement, any surplus is considered interest for the loan.

 

Power of Attorney

 

Pursuant to the power of attorney dated December 24, 2020, by Shenzhen Weiyixin and each shareholder of Shenzhen Yitian, respectively, each shareholder of Shenzhen Yitian irrevocably authorized Shenzhen Weiyixin or any person(s) designated by Shenzhen Weiyixin to exercise such shareholder’s voting rights in Shenzhen Yitian, including, without limitation, the power to participate in and vote at shareholder’s meetings, the power to nominate directors and appoint senior management, the power to sell or transfer such shareholder’s equity interest in Shenzhen Yitian, and other shareholders’ voting rights permitted by PRC law and the Articles of Association of Shenzhen Yitian. The power of attorney remains irrevocable and continuously valid from the date of execution so long as each shareholder remains as a shareholder of Shenzhen Yitian.

 

Spousal Consent Letters

 

Pursuant to these letters, the spouses of the applicable shareholders of Shenzhen Yitian unconditionally and irrevocably agreed that the equity interest in Shenzhen Yitian held by them and registered in their names will be disposed of pursuant to the equity interest pledge agreement, the exclusive option agreement, and the power of attorney. Each of their spouses agreed not to assert any rights over the equity interest in Shenzhen Yitian held by their respective spouses. In addition, in the event that any spouse obtains any equity interest in Shenzhen Yitian held by his or her spouse for any reason, he or she agreed to be bound by the contractual arrangements.

 

Based on the foregoing contractual arrangements, which grant Shenzhen Weiyixin effective control of Shenzhen Yitian and enable Shenzhen Weiyixin to receive all of their expected residual returns, the Company accounts for Shenzhen Yitian as a VIE on December 24, 2020. The consolidated financial statements are prepared on the basis as if the reorganization became effective as of the beginning of the first period presented in the accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company.

 

Due to the business strategy adjustment, Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries no longer operate the business involving foreign investment restrictions since March 1, 2022, therefore VIYI is able to have direct equity interest in Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries. On April 1, 2022, VIYI terminated the agreements under the VIE structure with Shenzhen Yitian. Shenzhen Yitian’s original shareholders transferred their respective ownership to VIYI WFOE and VIYI WFOE obtained 100% equity control of Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries on April 1, 2022.

 

Note 2 — Summary of significant accounting policies

 

Basis of presentation

 

The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), regarding financial reporting, and include all normal and recurring adjustments that management of the Company considers necessary for a fair presentation of its financial position and operation results. The results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for any other interim period or for the full year of 2022. Accordingly, these unaudited interim condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited financial statements and note thereto as of and for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2021.

 

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Principles of consolidation

 

The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, which include the wholly-foreign owned enterprise (“WFOE”) and variable interest entity (“VIE”) and VIE’s subsidiaries over which the Company exercises control and, when applicable, entities for which the Company has a controlling financial interest or is the primary beneficiary. All transactions and balances among the Company and its subsidiaries have been eliminated upon consolidation.

 

Use of estimates and assumptions

 

The preparation of unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the periods presented. Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements include the useful lives of property and equipment and intangible assets, impairment of long-lived assets and goodwill, allowance for doubtful accounts, provision for contingent liabilities, revenue recognition, right-of-use assets and lease liabilities, deferred taxes and uncertain tax position, the fair value of contingent consideration related to business acquisitions and allocation of expenses from the Parent and Beijing WiMi. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

 

Foreign currency translation and other comprehensive income (loss)

 

The Company uses Renminbi (“RMB”) as its reporting currency. The functional currency of VIYI is Hong Kong Dollar, its subsidiary in Singapore is U.S. dollar, and its other subsidiaries which are incorporated in PRC are RMB, respectively, which are their respective local currencies based on the criteria of ASC 830, “Foreign Currency Matters”.

 

In the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements, the financial information of the Company and other entities located outside of the PRC has been translated into RMB. Assets and liabilities are translated at the exchange rates on the balance sheet date, equity amounts are translated at historical exchange rates, and revenues, expenses, gains and losses are translated using the average rate for the period.

 

Translation adjustments included in accumulated other comprehensive loss amounted to (RMB 2,585,684) and RMB 1,350,910 (USD 190,274) as of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022, respectively. The balance sheet amounts, with the exception of shareholders’ equity, at December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022 were translated at RMB 1.00 to HKD 1.2231 and to HKD 1.1057, respectively. The average translation rates applied to statement of income accounts for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 were RMB 1.00 to HKD 1.2002 and to HKD 1.1858, respectively. The balance sheet amounts, with the exception of shareholders’ equity at December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022 were translated at RMB 1.00 to USD 0.1568 and to USD 0.1408 respectively. The average translation rates applied to statement of income accounts for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 were RMB 1.00 to USD 0.1545 and to USD 0.1514, respectively. The shareholders’ equity accounts were stated at their historical rate. Cash flows are also translated at average translation rates for the periods, therefore, amounts reported on the statement of cash flows will not necessarily agree with changes in the corresponding balances on the unaudited interim condensed consolidated balance sheets.

 

Convenience translation

 

Translations of balances in the unaudited interim condensed consolidated balance sheets, unaudited interim condensed consolidated statements of income and unaudited interim condensed consolidated statements of cash flows from RMB into USD as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 are solely for the convenience of the reader and were calculated at the rate of RMB 1.00 to USD 0.1408, representing the mid-point reference rate set by Peoples’ Bank of China on September 30, 2022. No representation is made that the RMB amounts represent or could have been, or could be, converted, realized or settled into USD at that rate, or at any other rate.

 

Short term investments

 

Short-term investments are investments in wealth management product with underlying in cash, bonds and equity funds. The investments can be redeemed any time and the investment was recorded at fair value. The gain (loss) from sale of any investments and fair value change are recognized in the statements of income and comprehensive income.

 

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Loans receivable

 

Loans receivable represent loans to a third party under the terms of the agreements signed in November and December 2021 at 3.85% interest per annum. The loans have terms of one-year and are collateralized by real estate property for approximately RMB 24.0 million (USD 3.8 million). Management regularly reviews the aging of loans receivable and changes in payment trends and records allowances when management believes collection of amounts due are at risk. Loans receivable considered uncollectable are written off against allowances after exhaustive efforts at collection are made. As of September 30, 2022, no allowance was deemed necessary. Full amount of loans receivable was subsequently collected in May 2022.

 

Revenue recognition

 

The Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-09 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC Topic 606). The ASU requires the use of a new five-step model to recognize revenue from customer contracts. The five-step model requires that the Company (i) identifies the contract with the customer, (ii) identifies the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determines the transaction price, including variable consideration to the extent that it is probable that a significant future reversal will not occur, (iv) allocates the transaction price to the respective performance obligations in the contract, and (v) recognizes revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies the performance obligation.

 

(i) Central Processing Advertising Algorithm Services

 

— Advertising display services

 

For the advertising algorithm advertising display services, the Company’s performance obligation is to identify advertising spaces, embed images or videos into films, shows and short form videos that are hosted by leading online streaming platforms in China. Revenue is recognized at a point in time when the related services have been delivered based on the specific terms of the contract, which are commonly based on specific action (i.e. cost per impression (“CPM”) for online display).

 

The Company enters into advertising contracts with advertisers where the amounts charged per specific action are fixed and determinable, the specific terms of the contracts were agreed on by the Company, the advertisers and channel providers, and collectability is probable. Revenue is recognized on a CPM basis as impressions.

 

The Company considers itself as provider of the services as it has control of the specified services and products at any time before it is transferred to the customers which is evidenced by (1) the Company is primarily responsible to its customers for products and services offered where the products were designed in house and the Company has customer services team to directly serve the customers; and (2) having latitude in establish pricing. Therefore the Company acts as the principal of these arrangements and reports revenue earned and costs incurred related to these transactions on a gross basis.

 

— Performance-based advertising service

 

The Company provides central processing algorithm performance-based advertising services for its customers, which enable the customers to get the optimal business opportunities.

 

The Company’s performance obligation is to help customers to accurately match consumers and traffic users, and thereby increasing the conversion rate of product sale using its proprietary data optimization algorithms. The Company’s revenue is recognized at a point when an ender user completes a transaction at a rate specified in contract. Related service fees are generally billed monthly, based on a per transaction basis.

 

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The Company considers itself as provider of the services as it has control of the specified services and products at any time before it is transferred to the customers which is evidenced by (1) it is primarily responsible to its customers for the services offered where the algorithms and data optimization were designed and performed in house and it has customer services team to directly serve the customers; and (2) having latitude in establish pricing. Therefore VIYI acts as the principal of these arrangements and reports revenue earned and costs incurred related to these transactions on a gross basis.

 

In addition, through the Company’s data algorithm optimization, it is able to identify certain end user needs and it facilitates certain value added services to the end users. The Company engages third party services provider to perform the services. The Company concludes that it does not control the services as the third party service provider is responsible for providing the service and its responsibility is merely to facilitate the provision of these value added service to the end users and charges a fee. As such the Company recorded revenue from the value added services on a net basis when the services is provided by third party service provider.

 

(ii) Mobile Games Services

 

The Company generates revenue from jointly operated mobile game publishing services and the licensed out games. In accordance with ASC 606, Revenue Recognition: Principal Agent Considerations, the Company evaluates agreements with the game developers, distribution channels and payment channels in order to determine whether or not the Company acts as the principal or as an agent in the arrangement with each party respectively. The determination of whether to record the revenues gross or net is based on whether the Company’s promise to its customers is to provide the products or services or to facilitate a sale by a third party. The nature of the promise depends on whether the Company controls the products or services prior to transferring it. Control is evidenced by if the Company is primarily responsible for fulling the provision of services and has discretion in establishing the selling price. When the Company controls the products or services, its promise is to provide and deliver the products and revenue is presented gross. When the Company does not control the products, the promise is to facilitate the sale and revenue is presented net.

 

— Jointly operated mobile game publishing services

 

The Company offers publishing services for mobile games developed by third-party game developers. The Company acted as a distribution channel that it will publish the games on their own app or a third-party owned app or website, named game portals. Through these game portals, game players can download the mobile games to their mobile devices and purchase coins, the virtual currency, for in game premium features to enhance their game playing experience. The Company contracts with third-party payment platforms for collection services offered to game players who have purchased coins. The third-party game developers, third-party payment platforms and the co-publishers are entitled to profit sharing based on a prescribed percentage of the gross amount charged to the game players. The Company’s obligation in the publishing services is completed at a point in time when the game players made a payment to purchase coins.

 

With respect to the publishing services arrangements between the Company and the game developer, the Company considered that the Company does not control the services as evidenced by (i) developers are responsible for providing the game product desired by the game players; (ii) the hosting and maintenance of game servers for running the online mobile games is the responsibility of the third-party platforms; (iii) the developers or third-party platforms have the right to change the pricing of in game virtual items. The Company’s responsibilities are publishing, providing payment solution and market promotion service, and thus the Company views the game developers to be its customers and considers itself as the facilitator of the game developers in the arrangements with game players. Accordingly, the Company records the game publishing service revenue from these games, net of amounts paid to the game developers.

 

— Licensed out mobile games

 

The Company also licenses third parties to operate its mobile games developed internally through mobile portal and receives revenue from the third-party licensee operators on a monthly basis. The Company’s performance obligation is to provide mobile games to game operators which enable players of the mobile games to make in game purchases and the Company recognized revenue at a point in time when game players completed the purchases. The Company records revenues on a net basis, as the Company does not have the control of the services provided as it does not have the primary responsibility for fulfilment nor does not have the right to change the pricing of the game services.

 

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(iii) Sale of intelligent chips

 

Starting in September 2020, the Company has also been engaged in resale of intelligent chips products and accessories. The Company typically enters into written contracts with its customer where the rights of the parties, including payment terms, are identified and sales prices to the customers are fixed with no separate sales rebate, discount, or other incentive and no right of return exists on sales of inventory. The Company’s performance obligation is to deliver products according to contract specifications. The Company recognizes gross product revenue at a point in time when the control of products or services are transferred to customers.

 

To distinguish a promise to provide products from a promise to facilitate the sale from a third party, the Company considers the guidance of control in ASC 606-10-55-37A and the indicators in 606-10-55-39. The Company considers this guidance in conjunction with the terms in the Company’s arrangements with both suppliers and customers.

 

In general, the Company controls the products as it has the obligation to (i) fulfil the products delivery and (ii) bear any inventory risk as legal owners. In addition, when establishing the selling prices for delivery of the resale products, the Company has control to set its selling price to ensure it would generate profit for the products delivery arrangements. The Company believes that all these factors indicate that the Company is acting as a principal in this transaction. As a result, revenue from the sales of products is presented on a gross basis.

 

(iv) Revenue from software development

 

The Company also designs software for central processing units based on customers’ specific needs. The contract is typically fixed priced and does not provide any post contract customer support or upgrades. The Company’s performance obligation is to design, develop, test and install the related software for customers, all of which are considered one performance obligation as the customers do not obtain benefit for each separate service. The duration of the development period is short, usually less than one year.

 

The Company’s revenue from software development contracts are generally recognized over time during the development period and the Company has no alternative use of the customized software and application without incurring significant additional costs. Revenue is recognized based on the Company’s measurement of progress towards completion based on output methods when the Company could appropriately measure the customization progress towards completion by reaching certain milestones specified in contracts. Assumptions, risks and uncertainties inherent in the estimates used to measure progress could affect the amount of revenues, receivables and deferred revenues at each reporting period.

 

Contract balances:

 

The Company records receivable related to revenue when it has an unconditional right to invoice and receive payment.

 

Payments received from customers before all of the relevant criteria for revenue recognition met are recorded as deferred revenue.

 

The Company’s disaggregated revenue streams in consideration of the Company’s type of goods and services and sales channels are as follows:

 

   September 30,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Central processing advertising algorithm services   184,202,464    339,469,912    47,814,010 
Mobile games   10,786,354    1,098,140    154,672 
Sales of intelligent chips   155,864,464    120,866,541    17,023,937 
Software development   16,825,640    -    - 
Total revenues   367,678,922    461,434,593    64,992,619 

 

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The Company’s revenue by timing of transfer of goods or services are summarized below:

 

   September 30,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Goods and services transferred at a point in time   350,853,282    461,434,593    64,992,619 
Services transferred over time   16,825,640    -    - 
Total revenues   367,678,922    461,434,593    64,992,619 

 

The Company’s revenue by geographic locations are summarized below:

 

   September 30,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Mainland PRC revenues   194,988,818    341,733,927    48,132,895 
Hong Kong revenues   16,825,640    -    - 
International revenues   155,864,464    119,700,666    16,859,724 
Total revenues   367,678,922    461,434,593    64,992,619 

 

Cost of revenues

 

Cost of revenue for central processing algorithm services comprised of costs paid to channel distributors based on the sales agreements, shared costs with content providers based on the profit sharing arrangements, third party consulting services expenses and compensation expenses for the Company’s professionals.

 

For intelligent chip and services, the cost of revenue consist primarily of the costs of products sold and third party software development costs.

 

Cost allocation

 

Cost allocation include allocation of certain general and administrative and financial expenses paid by the Parent. General and administrative expenses consist primarily salary and related expenses of senior management and VIYI employees, shared management expenses, including accounting, consulting, legal support services, and other expenses to provide operating support to the related businesses. These allocations are made using a proportional cost allocation method by considering the proportion of revenues, headcounts as well as estimates of time spent on the provision of services attributable to the Company and the related expenses resulted from the acquisition of subsidiary.

 

Noncontrolling interests

 

Noncontrolling interest consists of an aggregate of 42% of the equity interest of Shanghai Weimu, 40% of the equity interest of Tianjin Weidong (no operations), 45% of equity interest of Viwo Tech and 45% of ViZe (no operations) held by other investors. Excess of contribution received from noncontrolling shareholders over carrying value of the entity is recorded in additional paid in capital. The noncontrolling interests are presented in the unaudited interim condensed consolidated balance sheets, separately from equity attributable to the shareholders of the Company. Noncontrolling interests in the results of the Company are presented on the face of the unaudited interim condensed consolidated statement of operations as an allocation of the total income or loss for the year between non-controlling interest holders and the shareholders of the Company.

 

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Noncontrolling interests consist of the following:

 

  December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
        (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Shanghai Weimu   1,614,924    1,739,281    244,976 
Viwo Tech   (64,575)   569,224    80,175 
Total   1,550,349    2,308,505    325,151 

 

Earnings per share

 

The Company computes earnings per share (“EPS”) in accordance with ASC 260, “Earnings per Share”. ASC 260 requires companies to present basic and diluted EPS. Basic EPS is measured as net income divided by the weighted average ordinary share outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS presents the dilutive effect on a per share basis of the potential ordinary shares (e.g., convertible securities, options and warrants) as if they had been converted at the beginning of the periods presented, or issuance date, if later. Potential ordinary shares that have an anti-dilutive effect (i.e., those that increase income per share or decrease loss per share) are excluded from the calculation of diluted EPS. During the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, there was no dilutive shares.

 

Note 3 — Variable interest entity (“VIE”)

 

Shenzhen Weiyixin entered into Contractual Arrangements with Shenzhen Yitian on December 24, 2020. The significant terms of these Contractual Arrangements are summarized in “Note 1 — Nature of business and organization” above. As a result, prior to April, 1, 2022, the Company classifies Shenzhen Yitian as VIE was consolidated in the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements based on the structure as described in Note 1.

 

A VIE is an entity that has either a total equity investment that is insufficient to permit the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support, or whose equity investors lack the characteristics of a controlling financial interest, such as through voting rights, right to receive the expected residual returns of the entity or obligation to absorb the expected losses of the entity. The variable interest holder, if any, that has a controlling financial interest in a VIE is deemed to be the primary beneficiary and must consolidate the VIE.

 

Shenzhen Weiyixin is deemed to have a controlling financial interest and be the primary beneficiary of Shenzhen Yitian because it has both of the following characteristics:

 

  (1) The power to direct activities at Shenzhen Yitian that most significantly impact such entity’s economic performance, and

 

  (2) The right to receive benefits from Shenzhen Yitian that could potentially be significant to such entity.

 

Pursuant to the Contractual Arrangements, Shenzhen Yitian pays service fees equal to all of its net income to Shenzhen Weiyixin. The Contractual Arrangements are designed so that Shenzhen Yitian operate for the benefit of Shenzhen Weiyixin and ultimately, the Company.

 

Accordingly, the accounts of Shenzhen Yitian were consolidated in the accompanying financial statements as VIE of Shenzhen Weiyixin from December 24, 2020 forward and retroactively as if the reorganization became effective as of the beginning of the first period presented in the accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company. Under the VIE Arrangements, the Company has the power to direct activities of Shenzhen Yitian and can have assets transferred out of Shenzhen Yitian. Therefore, the Company considers that there is no asset in Shenzhen Yitian that can be used only to settle obligations of Shenzhen Yitian, except for registered capital and PRC statutory reserves, if any. As Shenzhen Yitian is incorporated as limited liability company under the Company Law of the PRC, creditors of the Shenzhen Yitian do not have recourse to the general credit of the Company for any of the liabilities of Shenzhen Yitian.

 

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In the opinion of management and the Company’s PRC counsel, (i) the ownership structure of the Company is in compliance with existing PRC laws and regulations; (ii) the Contractual Arrangements are valid and binding, and do not result in any violation of PRC laws or regulations currently in effect; and (iii) the business operations of Shenzhen Yitian and the VIE are in compliance with existing PRC laws and regulations in all material respects.

 

However, there are substantial uncertainties regarding the interpretation and application of current and future PRC laws and regulations. Accordingly, the Company cannot be assured that PRC regulatory authorities will not ultimately take a contrary view to the foregoing opinion of its management. If the current corporate structure of the Company or the Contractual Arrangements is found to be in violation of any existing or future PRC laws and regulations, the Company may be required to restructure its corporate structure and operations in the PRC to comply with changing and new PRC laws and regulations. In the opinion of management and the Company’s PRC counsel, the likelihood of loss in respect of the Company’s current corporate structure or the Contractual Arrangements is remote based on current facts and circumstances.

 

Due to the business strategy adjustment, Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries no longer operate the business involving foreign investment restrictions since March 1, 2022, therefore VIYI is able to have direct equity interest in Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries. On April 1, 2022, VIYI terminated the agreements under the VIE structure with Shenzhen Yitian. Shenzhen Yitian’s original shareholders transferred their respective ownership to VIYI WFOE and VIYI WFOE obtained 100% equity control of Shenzhen Yitian and its subsidiaries on April 1, 2022. The reorganization has no effect on the consolidated financial statements as Shenzhen Yitian has been under common control of VIYI Cayman that there is no change of reporting entities.

 

The carrying amount of the unaudited interim condensed consolidated assets and liabilities are as follows:

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
        (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Current assets   19,842,534    -    - 
Property and equipment, net   25,172    -    - 
Other noncurrent assets   99,527,893    -    - 
Total assets   119,395,599    -    - 
Total liabilities   13,837,227    -    - 
Net assets   105,558,372    -    - 

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
        (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Current liabilities:               
Accounts payable   200,925    -    - 
Other payables and accrued liabilities   357,302    -    - 
Due to WiMi Inc.   12,725,539    -    - 
Operating lease liabilities   42,577    -    - 
Taxes payable   510,984    -    - 
Total current liabilities   13,837,227    -    - 
Total liabilities   13,837,227    -    - 

 

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The summarized operating results of the VIE are as follows:

 

  

For the

nine months ended

September 30,

2021

  

For the

period from

Jan 1, 2022 to

April 1,

2022

  

For the

period from

Jan 1, 2022 to

April 1,

2022

 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Operating revenues   10,717,317    2,090,747    329,345 
Gross profit   9,997,317    1,992,850    313,924 
Income from operations   5,322,517    693,178    109,193 
Net income   4,357,772    513,170    80,837 

 

The summarized statements of cash flow of the VIE are as follows:

 

  

For the

nine months ended

September 30,

2021

  

For the

period from

Jan 1, 2022 to

April 1,

2022

  

For the

period from

Jan 1, 2022 to

April 1,

2022

 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Net cash used in operating activities   2,063,604    (16,719,803)   (2,633,786)
Net cash used in investing activities   (1,000,001)   (2,272,445)   (357,967)
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents   1,063,603    (18,992,248)   (2,991,753)
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period   12,226,047    18,992,248    2,991,753 
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period   13,289,650    -    - 

 

Note 4 — Business combination

 

Acquisition of Shanghai Guoyu

 

On July 1, 2021, Weidong acquired 99% interest of Shanghai Guoyu Information Technologies Co., Ltd (“Shanghai Guoyu”). The remaining 1% of Shanghai Guoyu is acquired by YY Online. The aggregate purchase price is RMB 20,000,000. On July 19, 2021 Shanghai Guoyu established 100% owned subsidiary Kashi Guoyu Information Technologies Co., Ltd (“Kashi Guoyu”). On July 14, 2021, Weidong transferred its 100% equity interest of Horgas 233 and Horgas Weidong to Shanghai Guoyu.

 

Shanghai Guoyu is committed to the R&D and application of intelligent visual algorithm technology, using image recognition, data analysis and modeling, virtual imaging, visual artificial intelligence algorithm and other technologies, integrating algorithm and data processing capabilities, and integrating functions from data processing to algorithm application, so as to provide customers with a full stack of intelligent visual algorithm services. At present, Shanghai Guoyu mainly serves the Internet marketing industry. The development of Shanghai Guoyu’s business is closely related to the progress and development of the computer vision industry and the Internet marketing industry.

 

The Company’s acquisition of Shanghai Guoyu was accounted for as business combination in accordance with ASC 805. The Company then allocated the fair value of consideration of Shanghai Guoyu based upon the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the acquisition date. The Company estimated the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date in accordance with the Business Combination standard issued by the FASB with the valuation methodologies using level 3 inputs, except for other current assets and current liabilities were valued using the cost approach. Management of the Company is responsible for determining the fair value of assets acquired, liabilities assumed and intangible assets identified as of the acquisition date and considered a number of factors including valuations from independent appraisers. Acquisition-related costs incurred for the acquisitions are not material and have been expensed as incurred in general and administrative expense.

 

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The following table summarizes the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the acquisition date, which represents the net purchase price allocation on the date of the acquisition of Shanghai Guoyu based on valuation performed by an independent valuation firm engaged by the Company and translated the fair value from USD to RMB using the exchange rate on July 1, 2021 at the rate of USD 1.00 to RMB 6.4709.

 

   Fair value   Fair value 
   RMB   USD 
Software   8,955,000    1,383,888 
Goodwill   13,283,750    2,052,844 
Deferred tax liabilities   (2,238,750)   (345,972)
Total consideration   20,000,000    3,090,760 

 

Software consists of mainly data algorithm software, with a fair value of approximately RMB 9.0 million (USD 1.4 million) and estimated finite useful life of 6 years.

 

The amount of revenue and net loss what resulted from the acquisition were approximately RMB 18.1 million (USD 2.5 million) and RMB 1.2 million (USD 0.2 million) during nine months ended September 30, 2022.

 

Acquisitions of Tapuyu and Pengcheng Keyi

 

On November 17, 2020, Viwotong Tech entered into Acquisition Framework Agreement to acquire 100% equity interests of Guangzhou Tapuyu Internet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tapuyu”), a provider of advertising services. The aggregate purchase price is RMB 2 (USD 0.3) and the transaction consummated on November 19, 2021. On November 17, 2021, Viwotong Tech entered into Acquisition Framework Agreement to acquire 100% equity interests of Pengcheng Keyi (Xi’an) Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. (“Pengcheng Keyi”), a provider of testing equipment development and sales. The aggregate purchase price is RMB 2 (USD 0.3) and the purchase consummated on December 7, 2021.

 

The Company’s acquisitions of Tapuyu and Pengcheng Keyi were accounted for as business combination in accordance with ASC 805. The Company then allocated the fair value of consideration of Tapuyu and Pengcheng Keyi based upon the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the acquisition date. The Company estimated the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date in accordance with the Business Combination standard issued by the FASB with the valuation methodologies using level 3 inputs, except for other current assets and current liabilities were valued using the cost approach. Management of the Company is responsible for determining the fair value of assets acquired, liabilities assumed and intangible assets identified as of the acquisition. Acquisition-related costs incurred for the acquisitions are not material and have been expensed as incurred in general and administrative expense.

 

The following table summarizes the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the acquisition date, which represents the net purchase price allocation on the date of the acquisition of Tapuyu and translated the fair value from USD to RMB using the exchange rate on November 19, 2021 at the rate of USD 1.00 to RMB 6.3825 and the net purchase price allocation on the date of the acquisition of Pengcheng Keyi and translated the fair value from USD to RMB using the exchange rate on December 7, 2021 at the rate of USD 1.00 to RMB 6.3738.

 

   Fair value   Fair value 
   RMB   USD 
Cash   161,638    25,335 
Other current assets   1,701,734    266,815 
Current liabilities   (1,863,372)   (292,150)
Total consideration   -    - 

 

The amount of revenue and net income that resulted from the acquisitions were approximately RMB 188.0 million (USD 26.5 million) and RMB 0.8 million (USD 0.11 million) during the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

 

On July 1, 2022, Viwo Technology Inc. entered into an equity transfer agreement to transfer 99.0% and 1.0% of the issued share capital of Pengcheng Keyi to two unrelated individuals at RMB 1.0 and RMB 0.1, respectively. The disposal resulted in a gain from disposal of RMB 65,587 (USD 9,238).

 

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Acquisitions of Bimai

 

On September 23, 2022, Viwotong Tech entered into Acquisition Framework Agreement to acquire 100% equity interests of Guangzhou Bimai Network Technology Co., Ltd. (“Bimai”), a provider of advertising services. The aggregate purchase price is RMB 2 (USD 0.3) and the transaction consummated on September 23, 2022.

 

The Company’s acquisitions of Bimai accounted for as business combination in accordance with ASC 805. The Company then allocated the fair value of consideration of Bimai based upon the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the acquisition date. The Company estimated the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date in accordance with the Business Combination standard issued by the FASB with the valuation methodologies using level 3 inputs, except for other current assets and current liabilities were valued using the cost approach. Management of the Company is responsible for determining the fair value of assets acquired, liabilities assumed and intangible assets identified as of the acquisition. Acquisition-related costs incurred for the acquisitions are not material and have been expensed as incurred in general and administrative expense.

 

The following table summarizes the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the acquisition date, which represents the net purchase price allocation on the date of the acquisition of Bimai and translated the fair value from USD to RMB using the exchange rate on September 23, 2022 at the rate of USD 1.00 to RMB 6.9920 and the net purchase price allocation on the date of the acquisition.

 

   Fair value   Fair value 
   RMB   USD 
Cash   2,033    291 
Other current assets   2,213,242    316,539 
Current liabilities   (2,215,275)   (316,830)
Total consideration   -    - 

 

The amount of revenue and net loss that resulted from the acquisitions were approximately RMB 0.8 million (USD 0.1 million) and RMB 8,276 (USD 1,165) during the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

 

Note 5 — Short term investments

 

As of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022, short term investments amounted to nil and nil, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company invested a total of RMB 109.8 million (USD 15.44 million) in marketable securities and redeemed approximately RMB 108.7 million (USD 16.3 million). The fair value change resulted in loss of approximately RMB 1.1 million (USD 0.2 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company invested a total of RMB 101.0 million in marketable securities and redeemed approximately RMB 1.2 million. The fair value change resulted in loss of approximately RMB 1.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021.

 

Note 6 — Accounts receivable, net

 

Accounts receivable, net consisted of the following:

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
        (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Accounts receivable   19,805,985    27,714,001    3,903,490 
Less: allowance for doubtful accounts   (2,162,693)   (272,857)   (38,431)
Accounts receivable, net   17,643,292    27,441,144    3,865,059 

 

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The following table summarizes the changes in allowance for doubtful accounts:

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
        (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Beginning balance   722,693    2,162,693    304,613 
Addition   1,440,000    3,337    470 
Recovery   -    (1,893,173)   (266,652)
Ending balance   2,162,693    272,857    38,431 

 

Net recovery for doubtful accounts net for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 amounted to nil and RMB 1,889,836 (USD 266,182), respectively.

 

Note 7 — Property and equipment, net

 

Property and equipment, net consist of the following:

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Office electronic equipment   611,340    611,716    86,160 
Office fixtures and furniture   3,136    3,492    492 
Vehicles   -    1,201,452    169,223 
Leasehold improvements   482,356    506,295    71,311 
Subtotal   1,096,832    2,322,955    327,186 
Less: accumulated depreciation   (628,005)   (1,071,463)   (150,915)
Total   468,827    1,251,492    176,271 

 

Depreciation expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 amounted to RMB 97,378 and RMB 410,829 (USD 57,865), respectively.

 

Note 8 — Intangible assets, net

 

The Company’s intangible assets with definite useful lives primarily consist of copyrights, non-compete agreements and technology know-hows. The following table summarizes acquired intangible asset balances as of:

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Customer relationships   25,502,800    28,399,200    4,000,000 
Non-compete agreements   17,400,000    17,400,000    2,450,773 
Technology know-hows   2,852,016    3,175,925    447,326 
Software copyright   8,955,000    8,955,000    1,261,303 
Subtotal   54,709,816    57,930,125    8,159,402 
Less: accumulated amortization   (26,828,879)   (34,735,595)   (4,892,475)
Intangible assets, net   27,880,937    23,194,530    3,266,927 

 

Amortization expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 amounted to RMB 7,352,566 and RMB 6,517,784 (USD 918,024), respectively.

 

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The estimated amortization is as follows:

 

   Estimated   Estimated 
   amortization   amortization 
Twelve months ending September 30,  expense   expense 
   RMB   USD 
2023   9,525,985    1,341,726 
2024   9,525,985    1,341,726 
2025   2,426,185    341,726 
2026   1,716,375    241,749 
2027   -    - 
Total   23,194,530    3,266,927 

 

Note 9 — Cost method investments

 

Cost method investments consist of the following:

 

   December 31,
2021
   September 30,
2022
 
   RMB   RMB 
        (Unaudited) 
5.0% Investment in a company in mobile games industry   600,000    600,000 
5.0% Investment in a company in central processing advertising algorithm services   -    600,000 
Total   600,000    1,200,000 

 

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, the Company made nil and RMB 600,000 (USD 84,509) in cost method investments, respectively.

 

Note 10 — Goodwill

 

Goodwill represents the excess of the consideration paid of an acquisition over the fair value of the net identifiable assets of the acquired subsidiaries at the date of acquisition. Goodwill is not amortized and is tested for impairment at least annually, more often when circumstances indicate impairment may have occurred. The following table summarizes the components of acquired goodwill balances as of:

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Goodwill from Shenzhen Yitian acquisition(a)   92,990,256    92,990,256    13,097,588 
Goodwill from Fe-da Electronics acquisition(b)   33,644,257    37,465,297    5,276,951 
Goodwill from Shanghai Guoyu acquisition(c)   13,283,750    13,283,750    1,871,004 
Goodwill   139,918,263    143,739,303    20,245,543 

 

 
(a)Goodwill represents the excess fair value of consideration over the identifiable assets of Shenzhen Yitian acquired by Beijing WiMi in 2015 for the central processing algorithm services segment.
(b)VIYI acquired Fe-da Electronics in 2020 to acquire 100% of the capital stock of Fe-da Electronics for a net consideration of approximately RMB 98.3 million. The excess fair value of consideration over the identifiable assets acquired of approximately RMB 52.6 million was allocated to goodwill for the intelligent chips and services segment. Impairment loss of RMB 18,457,742 was recognized for the year ended December 31, 2021.
(c)Weidong and YY Online acquired Shanghai Guoyu in 2021 to acquire 100% of the capital stock of Shanghai Guoyu for a net consideration of RMB 20,000,000. The excess fair value of consideration over the identifiable assets acquired of RMB 13,283,750 was allocated to goodwill for the central processing algorithm services segment.

 

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The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill allocated to reportable segments As of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022 are as follows:

 

   Central
processing
algorithm
services
   Intelligent chips
and services
   Total   Total 
   RMB   RMB   RMB   USD 
As of December 31, 2020   92,990,256    53,099,317    146,089,573    20,576,576 
Add: acquisition of Shanghai Guoyu   13,283,750    -    13,283,750    1,871,003 
Less: goodwill impairment of Fe-da Electronics   -    (18,457,742)   (18,457,742)   (2,599,755)
Translation difference   -    (997,318)   (997,318)   (140,471)
As of December 31, 2021   106,274,006    33,644,257    139,918,263    19,707,353 
Translation difference   -    3,821,040    3,821,040    538,190 
As of September 30, 2022   106,274,006    37,465,297    143,739,303    20,245,543 

 

Note 11 — Related party transactions and balances

 

Due to Parent are those nontrade payables arising from transactions between the Company and the Parent, such as advances made by the Parent on behalf of the Company, and allocated shared expenses paid by the Parent. Those balances are unsecured and non-interest bearing and are payable on demand.

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Due to Parent   108,100,338    -    - 

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Due from Parent   -    39,113,573    5,509,109 

 

During nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 the Company repaid RMB 10,035,286 and RMB 202,909,364 (USD 28,579,589) to the Parent and borrowed approximately RMB 598,434 and RMB 55,695,453 (USD 7,844,651) from Parent.

 

Note 12 — Taxes

 

Income tax

 

Cayman Islands

 

Under the current laws of the Cayman Islands, VIYI and Wisdom Lab are not subject to tax on income or capital gain. Additionally, upon payments of dividends to the shareholders, no Cayman Islands withholding tax will be imposed.

 

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Hong Kong

 

VIYI Ltd, Excel Crest and Viwo Tech are incorporated in Hong Kong and are subject to Hong Kong Profits Tax on the taxable income as reported in its statutory financial statements adjusted in accordance with relevant Hong Kong tax laws. The applicable tax rate is 16.5% in Hong Kong. The Company did not make any provisions for Hong Kong profit tax as there were no assessable profits derived from or earned in Hong Kong since inception. Under Hong Kong tax law, VIYI Ltd, Excel Crest, Viwo Tech are exempted from income tax on its foreign-derived income and there are no withholding taxes in Hong Kong on remittance of dividends.

 

Singapore

 

Fe-da Electronics is incorporated in Singapore and is subject to Singapore Profits Tax on the taxable income as reported in its statutory financial statements adjusted in accordance with relevant Singapore tax laws. The applicable tax rate is 17% in Singapore, with 75% of the first SGD 10,000 (approximately RMB 49,000) taxable income and 50% of the next SGD 190,000 (approximately RMB 937,000) taxable income are exempted from income tax.

 

PRC

 

The subsidiaries and VIE incorporated in the PRC are governed by the income tax laws of the PRC and the income tax provision in respect to operations in the PRC is calculated at the applicable tax rates on the taxable income for the periods based on existing legislation, interpretations and practices in respect thereof. Under the Enterprise Income Tax Laws of the PRC (the “EIT Laws”), domestic enterprises and Foreign Investment Enterprises (the “FIE”) are usually subject to a unified 25% enterprise income tax rate while preferential tax rates, tax holidays and even tax exemption may be granted on case-by-case basis. EIT grants preferential tax treatment to certain High and New Technology Enterprises (“HNTEs”). Under this preferential tax treatment, HNTEs are entitled to an income tax rate of 15%, subject to a requirement that they re-apply for HNTE status every three years. In addition, 75% of R&D expenses of the PRC entities are subject to additional deduction from pre-tax income.

 

Korgas 233, Korgas Weidong and Kashi Guoyu were formed and registered in Korgas and Kashi in Xinjiang Provence, China in 2017, 2020 and 2021. These companies are not subject to income tax for 5 years and can obtain another two years of tax exempt status and three years at reduced income tax rate of 12.5% after the 5 years due to the local tax policies to attract companies in various industries.

 

Shenzhen Qianhai was formed and registered in Qianhai District in Guangdong Provence, China in 2015. The company is subject to income tax at a reduced rate of 15% due to the local tax policies to attract companies in various industries. The reduced rate benefit will expire in December 2025. The effective tax rates is 0.8% and (6.4)% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022.

 

Significant components of the provision for income taxes are as follows:

 

   For the   For the   For the 
   nine months ended   nine months ended   nine months ended 
   September 30,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Current income tax expenses   (1,944,738)   (220,827)   (31,103)
Deferred income tax benefits   1,415,114    1,197,574    168,677 
Income tax expenses   (529,624)   976,747    137,574 

 

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Deferred tax assets and liabilities

 

Significant components of deferred tax assets and liabilities were as follows:

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Deferred tax assets:               
Net operating loss carryforwards   4,807,741    5,611,198    790,332 
Allowance for doubtful accounts   440,633    201    28 
Less: valuation allowance   (5,248,374)   (5,611,399)   (790,360)
Deferred tax assets, net   -    -    - 
Deferred tax liabilities:               
Recognition of intangible assets arising from business combinations   5,396,459    4,510,220    635,260 
Total deferred tax liabilities, net   5,396,459    4,510,220    635,260 

 

The Company evaluated the recoverable amounts of deferred tax assets, and provided a valuation allowance to the extent that future taxable profits will be available against which the net operating loss and temporary difference can be utilized. The Company considers both positive and negative factors when assessing the future realization of the deferred tax assets and applied weigh to the relative impact of the evidences to the extent it could be objectively verified.

 

The Company’s cumulative net operating loss (“NOL”) of approximately RMB 30.5 million (USD 4.8 million) as of September 30, 2022 was mainly from NOL of VIYI Ltd, Shenzhen Yitian, Weidong, SH Weimu and Wuhan 233. The NOL starts to expire in 2023. Management considers projected future losses outweighs other factors and made a full allowance of related deferred tax assets.

 

The Company recognized deferred tax liabilities related to the excess of the intangible assets reporting basis over its income tax basis as a result of fair value adjustment from acquisitions in 2015. The deferred tax liabilities will reverse as the intangible assets are amortized for financial statement reporting purposes.

 

Uncertain tax positions

 

The Company evaluates each uncertain tax position (including the potential application of interest and penalties) based on the technical merits, and measure the unrecognized benefits associated with the tax positions. As of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022, the Company did not have any significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions. The Company did not incur any interest and penalties related to potential underpaid income tax expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 and also does not anticipate any significant increases or decreases in unrecognized tax benefits in the next 12 months from September 30, 2022.

 

Value added taxes (“VAT”) and goods and services taxes (“GST”)

 

Revenue represents the invoiced value of service, net of VAT or GST. The VAT and GST are based on gross sales price and VAT rates range up to 13% in China, depending on the type of service provided or product sold, and GST rate is generally 7% in Singapore.

 

Taxes payable consisted of the following:

 

   December 31,   September 30,   September 30, 
   2021   2021   2021 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
VAT taxes payable   164,557    214,150    30,163 
Income taxes payable   755,923    283,556    39,939 
Other taxes payable   27,912    119,597    16,845 
Totals   948,392    617,303    86,947 

 

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Note 13 — Concentration of risk

 

Credit risk

 

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash. In China, the insurance coverage of each bank is RMB 500,000. As of September 30, 2022, cash balance of RMB 127,882,051 (USD 18,012,064) was deposited with financial institutions located in China, of which RMB 119,742,853 (USD 16,735,312) was subject to credit risk. The Hong Kong Deposit Protection Board pays compensation up to a limit of HKD 500,000 (approximately USD 64,000) if the bank with which an individual/a company hold its eligible deposit fails. As of September 30, 2022, cash balance of HKD 1,214,204, approximately RMB 1,098,126 (USD 154,670) was maintained at financial institutions in Hong Kong, of which HKD 298,161, approximately RMB 269,656 (USD 37,981) was subject to credit risk. The Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation Limited (SDIC) insures deposits in a Deposit Insurance (DI) Scheme member bank or finance company up to SGD 75,000 (approximately USD 57,000) per account. As of September 30, 2022, cash balance of SGD 327,623 approximately RMB 1,628,843 (USD 229,421) was maintained at DI Scheme banks in Singapore, of which SGD 146,833 approximately RMB 730,008 (USD 102,821) was subject to credit risk. While management believes that these financial institutions are of high credit quality, it also continually monitors their credit worthiness.

 

A majority of the Company’s expense transactions are denominated in RMB and a significant portion of the Company and its subsidiaries’ assets and liabilities are denominated in RMB. RMB is not freely convertible into foreign currencies. In the PRC, certain foreign exchange transactions are required by law to be transacted only by authorized financial institutions at exchange rates set by the PBOC. Remittances in currencies other than RMB by the Company in China must be processed through the PBOC or other China foreign exchange regulatory bodies which require certain supporting documentation in order to affect the remittance.

 

To the extent that the Company needs to convert U.S. dollars into RMB for capital expenditures and working capital and other business purposes, appreciation of RMB against U.S. dollar would have an adverse effect on the RMB amount the Company would receive from the conversion. Conversely, if the Company decides to convert RMB into U.S. dollar for the purpose of making payments for dividends, strategic acquisition or investments or other business purposes, appreciation of U.S. dollar against RMB would have a negative effect on the U.S. dollar amount available to the Company.

 

Customer concentration risk

 

For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, one customer accounted for 24.6% of the Company’s total revenues. For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, one customer accounted for 23.6% of the Company’s total revenues.

 

As of December 31, 2021, three customers accounted for 46.1% of the Company’s accounts receivable. As of September 30, 2022, three customers accounted for 65.5% of the Company’s accounts receivable.

 

Vendor concentration risk

 

For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, two vendors accounted for 55.6% of the Company’s total purchases. For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, one vendor accounted for 12.1% of the Company’s total purchases.

 

As of December 31, 2021, six vendors accounted for 95.8% of the Company’s accounts payable. As of September 30, 2022, three vendors accounted for 81.0% of the Company’s accounts payable.

 

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Note 14 — Leases

 

Lease commitments

 

The Company determines if a contract contains a lease at inception. US GAAP requires that the Company’s leases be evaluated and classified as operating or finance leases for financial reporting purposes. The classification evaluation begins at the commencement date and the lease term used in the evaluation includes the non-cancellable period for which the Company has the right to use the underlying asset, together with renewal option periods when the exercise of the renewal option is reasonably certain and failure to exercise such option which result in an economic penalty. All of the Company’s real estate leases are classified as operating leases.

 

The Company has entered into eight non-cancellable operating lease agreements for ten office spaces expiring through December 2023. As of December 31, 2020, upon adoption of FASB ASU 2016-02, the Company recognized approximately RMB 2.7 million right of use (“ROU”) assets and same amount of lease liabilities based on the present value of the future minimum rental payments of leases, using a weighted average discount rate of 7%, which is determined using an incremental borrowing rate with similar term in the PRC. Two ROU assets and lease liabilities were recognized during the nine months ended September 30, 2022. The Company’s lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants. The leases generally do not contain options to extend at the time of expiration and the weighted average remaining lease terms are 1 year. The Company takes the short-term lease exemption for the lease agreements with a term of less than 1 year and expensed RMB 244,674 and RMB 59,497 (USD 8,380) during the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, respectively.

 

Operating lease expenses are allocated between the cost of revenue and selling, research and development, general, and administrative expenses. Rent expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 was RMB 2,069,447 and RMB 1,452,931 (USD 204,644), respectively.

 

The maturity of the Company’s operating lease obligations is presented below:

 

Twelve Months Ending September 30, 

Operating

Lease

Amount

  

Operating

Lease

Amount

 
   RMB   USD 
2023*   1,378,427    194,150 
2024   361,882    50,971 
2025   71,287    10,041 
2026   35,644    5,020 
2027   -    - 
Total lease payments   1,847,240    260,182 
Less: Interest   (93,375)   (13,152)
Present value of lease liabilities   1,753,865    247,030 

 

 
*include operating leases with a term less than one year.

 

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Note 15 — Shareholders’ equity

 

Ordinary shares

 

VIYI was established under the laws of Cayman Islands on September 24, 2020 with authorized share of 1,000,000,000 ordinary shares of par value USD 0.0001 each and 300,000,000 shares outstanding.

 

Statutory reserve

 

VIYI PRC entities are required to set aside at least 10% of their after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund certain statutory reserve funds until such reserve funds reach 50% of its registered capital. In addition, VIYI PRC entities may allocate a portion of its after-tax profits based on PRC accounting standards to enterprise expansion fund and staff bonus and welfare fund at its discretion. VIYI PRC entities may allocate a portion of its after-tax profits based on PRC accounting standards to a discretionary surplus fund at its discretion. The statutory reserve funds and the discretionary funds are not distributable as cash dividends. Remittance of dividends by a wholly foreign-owned company out of China is subject to examination by the banks designated by State Administration of Foreign Exchange. As of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022, VIYI PRC entities collectively attributed RMB 9,420,703 and RMB 12,221,362 (USD 1,721,367), of retained earnings for their statutory reserves, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, VIYI PRC entities collectively attributed RMB 3,869,936 and RMB 2,793,914 (USD 393,520) to statutory reserves, respectively.

 

Restricted assets

 

The Company’s ability to pay dividends is primarily dependent on the Company receiving distributions of funds from its subsidiary. Relevant PRC statutory laws and regulations permit payments of dividends by VIYI PRC entities only out of its retained earnings, if any, as determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. The results of operations reflected in the accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP differ from those reflected in the statutory financial statements of VIYI PRC entities.

 

As a result of the foregoing restrictions, VIYI PRC entities are restricted in their ability to transfer their assets to the Company. Foreign exchange and other regulation in the PRC may further restrict VIYI PRC entities from transferring funds to the Company in the form of dividends, loans and advances. As of September 30, 2022, amounts restricted are the paid-in-capital and statutory reserve of VIYI PRC entities, which amounted to RMB 195,441,618 (USD 27,527,764).

 

Note 16 — Commitments and contingencies

 

Contingencies

 

From time to time, the Company is party to certain legal proceedings, as well as certain asserted and un-asserted claims. Amounts accrued, as well as the total amount of reasonably possible losses with respect to such matters, individually and in the aggregate, are not deemed to be material to the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

Coronavirus (“COVID-19”)

 

The ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread rapidly to many parts of the world. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of stores and business facilities in China from February to mid-March in 2020. All of the Company’s business operations and the workforce are concentrated in China in 2020, so the Company closed offices and implemented work-from-home policy during that period. Due to the nature of the Company’s business, the impact of the closure on the operational capabilities was not significant.

 

As a result of the resurgence of COVID-19 variants in first quarter of 2022 in China, the Company’s office in the PRC was again closed for one week in first quarter of 2022. The Company’s customers has been impacted as a result of business disruption due to closures in various cities and affected their customers’ advertising spending. As a result, VIYI experienced lower revenue growth on advertising which affected VIYI’s gross margin.

 

Potential impact to the Company’s results of operations for 2022 will also depend on economic impact due to the pandemic and if any future resurgence of the virus in Asia, which are beyond the Company’s control. There is no guarantee that the Company’s revenues will grow or remain at a similar level year over year in 2022 and beyond.

 

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Note 17 — Segments

 

ASC 280, “Segment Reporting”, establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments on a basis consistent with the Company’s internal organizational structure as well as information about geographical areas, business segments and major customers in financial statements for detailing the Company’s business segments.

 

The Company’s chief operating decision maker is the Chief Executive Officer, who reviews the financial information of the separate operating segments when making decisions about allocating resources and assessing the performance of the group. The Company has determined that it has two operating segments: (1) central processing algorithm services and (2) intelligent chips and services.

 

The following tables present summary information by segment for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022:

 

  

Central

processing

algorithm

services

  

Intelligent

chips and

services

  

Total for the

nine months ended

September 30,
2021

 
   RMB   RMB   RMB 
           (Unaudited) 
Revenues   194,988,818    172,690,104    367,678,922 
Cost of revenues   40,388,669    150,790,412    191,179,081 
Gross profit   154,600,149    21,899,692    176,499,841 
Depreciation and amortization   2,073,198    5,376,553    7,449,751 
Total capital expenditures   -    214,461    214,461 

 

  

Central

Processing

algorithm

services

  

Intelligent

chips and

services

  

Total for the
nine months ended

September 30,

2022

  

Total for the
nine months ended

September 30,

2022

 
   RMB   RMB   RMB   USD 
           (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Revenues   340,568,052    120,866,541    461,434,593    64,992,619 
Cost of revenues   240,969,904    116,409,011    357,378,915    50,336,479 
Gross profit   99,598,148    4,457,530    104,055,678    14,656,142 
Depreciation and amortization   1,323,862    5,604,751    6,928,613    975,888 
Total capital expenditures   1,235,811    -    1,235,811    174,063 

 

Total assets as of:

 

  

December 31,

2021

  

September 30,

2022

  

September 30,

2022

 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Central processing algorithm services   382,161,176    342,094,582    48,183,693 
Intelligent chips and services   138,171,503    96,331,793    13,568,240 
Total assets   520,332,679    438,426,375    61,751,933 

 

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The Company’s operations are primarily based in the mainland PRC and international, where the Company derives a substantial portion of their revenues. Management also review consolidated financial results by business locations. Disaggregated information of revenues by geographic locations are as follows:

 

   Total for the
nine months ended
September 30,
2021
   Total for the
nine months ended
September 30,
2022
   Total for the
nine months ended
September 30,
2022
 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
           (Unaudited) 
Mainland PRC revenues   194,988,818    341,733,927    48,132,895 
Hong Kong revenues   16,825,640    -    - 
International revenues   155,864,464    119,700,666    16,859,724 
Total revenues   367,678,922    461,434,593    64,992,619 

 

Note 18 — Subsequent events

 

The Company evaluated all events and transactions that occurred after September 30, 2022 up through the date the Company issued these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

Note 19 — Condensed financial information of the parent company

 

The Company performed a test on the restricted net assets of consolidated subsidiary in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X Rule 4-08 (3), “General Notes to Financial Statements” and concluded that it was applicable for the Company to disclose the financial statements for the parent company.

 

The subsidiary did not pay any dividend to the Company for the periods presented. For the purpose of presenting parent only financial information, the Company records its investment in its subsidiary under the equity method of accounting. Such investment is presented on the separate condensed balance sheets of the Company as “Investment in subsidiary” and the income of the subsidiary is presented as “share of income of subsidiary”. Certain information and footnote disclosures generally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed and omitted.

 

The Company did not have significant capital and other commitments, long-term obligations, or guarantees As of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2022.

 

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PARENT COMPANY BALANCE SHEETS

 

   December 31,
2021
   September 30,
2022
   September 30,
2022
 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
ASSETS               
CURRENT ASSETS               
Cash in bank   46,916,200    18,683,948    2,631,616 
Total current assets   46,916,200    18,683,948    2,631,616 
OTHER ASSETS               
Investment in subsidiaries   417,875,264    447,342,751    630,007,796 
Deferred merger costs   3,839,567    4,463,300    628,652 
Intercompany receivables   16,003,007    17,394,510    2,450,000 
Total assets   484,634,038    487,884,509    68,718,064 
                
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY               
CURRENT LIABILITIES               
Other payables and accrued liabilities   928,503    1,125,549    158,533 
Due to Parent   103,712,608    43,962,454    6,192,069 
Total current payables   104,641,111    45,088,003    6,350,602 
                
OTHER LIABILITIES               
Intercompany payables   7,650,840    50,917,557    7,171,689 
Total liabilities   112,291,951    96,005,560    13,522,291 
                
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES               
                
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY               
Ordinary shares, USD 0.0001 par value, 1,000,000,000 shares authorized, 300,000,000 shares issued and outstanding of December 31, 2021 and June 30, 2022   204,084    204,084    28,745 
Additional paid-in capital   186,384,247    186,384,247    26,252,042 
Retained earnings   178,918,737    191,725,091    27,004,295 
Statutory reserves   9,420,703    12,214,617    1,720,417 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss   (2,585,684)   1,350,910    190,274 
Total shareholders’ equity   372,342,087    391,878,949    55,195,773 
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity   484,634,038    487,884,509    68,718,064 

 

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PARENT COMPANY STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

 

   For the nine months ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
OPERATING REVENUES   16,825,640    -    - 
COST OF REVENUES   (1,461,443)   -    - 
GROSS PROFIT   15,364,197    -    - 
                
OPERATING EXPENSES               
Research and development expenses   -    (848,287)   (119,480)
General and administrative   (7,834,711)   (3,578,431)   (504,019)
INCOME FROM OPERATIONS   7,529,486    (4,426,718)   (623,499)
    7,529,486    (4,426,718)   (623,499)
                
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)               
Other income   1,012,524    (2,140)   (301)
Equity income of subsidiaries   61,119,998    20,029,126    2,821,084 
Total other income, net   62,132,522    20,026,986    2,820,783 
NET INCOME   69,662,008    15,600,268    2,197,284 
FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSLATION ADJUSTMENT   (17,583)   3,936,594    554,465 
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME   69,644,425    19,536,862    2,751,749 
                

 

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PARENT COMPANY STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

   For the nine months ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:               
Net income   69,662,008    15,600,268    2,197,284 
Amortization of debt discount   408,591    -    - 
Equity income of subsidiaries   (61,119,998)   (20,029,126)   (2,821,083)
Change in operating assets and liabilities               
Intercompany   (112,385)   39,850,163    5,612,857 
Prepaid expenses   353,499    -    - 
Account payables   -    -    - 
Other payables and accrued liabilities   (10,677)   85,234    12,005 
Net cash used in operating activities   9,181,038    35,506,539    5,001,063 
                
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:               
Repayment to Parent   -    (66,562,116)   (9,375,210)
Deferred merger costs   -    (174,635)   (24,597)
Net cash used in financing activities   -    (66,736,751)   (9,399,807)
EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE ON CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS   (224,334)   2,997,960    422,258 
CHANGES IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS   8,956,704    (28,232,252)   (3,976,486)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, beginning of period   40,656,241    46,916,200    6,608,102 
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, end of period   49,612,945    18,683,948    2,631,616 

 

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Exhibit 99.3

 

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS OF VIYI

 

Overview

 

VIYI is dedicated to the development and application of bespoke central processing algorithms. VIYI provides comprehensive solutions to customers by integrating central processing algorithms with software or hardware, or both, to streamline their digital services for end-users or technological development purposes, thereby helping them increase the number of customers, improve end-user satisfaction, achieve direct cost savings, reduce power consumption, and achieve technical goals. The range of VIYI’s services includes algorithm optimization, accelerating computing power without the need for hardware upgrades, lightweight data processing, and data intelligence services. VIYI’s ability to efficiently deliver software and hardware optimization to VIYI’s customers through bespoke central processing algorithms serves as a driving force for VIYI’s long-term development.

 

Currently, VIYI’s technology and solutions are mainly in the field of internet multimedia video advertising, internet gaming entertainment, where VIYI has historically been successful in providing advertising distribution solutions, online game agent solutions, software services, and comprehensive solutions for enterprise customers. VIYI also developed its intelligent chips solutions through its 100% owned subsidiary Fe-da Electronics as VIYI believes that the demand for algorithms in the semiconductor sector is growing rapidly, representing huge market potentials.

 

In the mid-to-long term, VIYI will continue to adhere to its strategic mindset. By improving upon each iteration of VIYI’s one-stop intelligent data management solutions made possible by VIYI’s proprietary central processing algorithm services, VIYI can help customers to enhance their service efficiency and make model innovations in business, and actively enhance the industry value of the central processing algorithm services in the general field of data intelligent processing industry.

 

VIYI derives its revenue primarily from (i) central processing algorithms services for the internet advertisement and internet gaming industries (“CPA”) and (ii) intelligent chips and services, including software development.

 

VIYI’s revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was RMB 461.4 million, which represents an increase of RMB 93.8 million, or 25.5%, from VIYI’s total revenues of RMB 367.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021. VIYI’s gross profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was RMB 104.1 million, representing a decrease of RMB 72.4 million, or 41.0%, from RMB 176.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021. VIYI’s operating expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was RMB 90.3 million, representing a decrease of RMB 17.3 million, or 16.1%, from RMB 107.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021. VIYI’s net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was RMB 13.8 million, representing an decrease of RMB 55.1 million, or 80.0%, from RMB 69.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021.

 

Key Factors Affecting Results of Operations

 

VIYI believes that its future performance and success depend to a substantial extent on the following factors, each of which is in turn subject to significant risks and challenges, including those discussed below and in the section of this proxy statement entitled “Risk Factors.”

 

The ability to increase and retain customers

 

A significant amount of VIYI and its historical VIE’s revenues are derived from the provision of central processing algorithm services, as such VIYI and its historical VIE’s profitability is highly dependent on their ability to retain and increase customers who engage VIYI in providing central processing algorithm services. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, VIYI, its subsidiaries and its historical VIE had 161 and 198 customers, respectively.

 

Since September 2020, VIYI also began developing its intelligent chips and services business, and has accumulated 41 and 48 customers for the months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022 respectively.

 

 

 

 

The average revenues per customer in the CPA segment were approximately RMB 1,400,000 and RMB 1,700,000, respectively for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022. Average revenue per customer in VIYI’s CPA segment, calculated as the total revenues for the given period divided by the number of customers during the period who have obtained VIYI’s services. Customer retention rates for CPA segment for the same periods were 82.8% and 98.4%, respectively, whereas retention rate for intelligent chips and services was 100% and 93.2% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022. Retention rate is calculated by first counting the number of existing customers at the beginning of the period (denominator) and the number of those customers who are still active at the end of the following period (numerator), then dividing the numerator by the denominator.

 

The quantitative information in the number of customers, the number of new customers, and average revenue per customer provides investors with information to evaluate VIYI’s revenue growth and concentration of revenue on a periodic basis to evaluate the trend which could be relevant to investors while customer retention rate will provide investors with information about VIYI’s ability to retain customers which is an indicator of the stability of VIYI’s revenue base. This information also provides investors insights on how VIYI measures and monitors its performance.

 

VIYI’s management team monitors the number of customers and the number of new customers as indicators of the growth of VIYI’s overall business. The increase in new customers indicates the effectiveness of VIYI’s business expansion and reflects VIYI’s strong business development capabilities. The retention rate shows that VIYI has high service quality, which can meet customer needs and provide its customers with value. At the same time, the retention rate of customers also guarantees the stable growth VIYI’s business. If the number of new customers and retention rate fall, VIYI may need to re-evaluate its business strategy or evaluate its service efficiency.

 

VIYI’s ability to increase customers, average revenue per customer and retention rate will depend on the development of the internet advertising, online gaming and intelligent chips market and its ability to continue to enhance the quality and capabilities of its algorithms which enabled VIYI to provide better services for customers. The demand for VIYI’s services has grown in recent years, and VIYI believes that the number of customers will continue to grow due to the increase in a general demand for more efficient data processing in various industries driven by the growing internet population and expect that retention rates will remain at high levels in the long term as VIYI continues to build stable cooperation relationship with its customers.

 

Investment in technology and talent

 

VIYI expends considerable capital and efforts in the research and development of algorithmic use cases and product solutions to maintain VIYI’s competitiveness in the computer and internet industries. In light of the rapid growth of data volume, data processing capabilities are the key to enterprise development, which requires the advancement of technology related to central processing algorithms, new services, products, and capabilities to newer stages of development. To retain existing customers and attract potential customers, VIYI must continue to innovate to keep pace with the growth of the industry and VIYI’s business to bring forward new cutting-edge technologies. VIYI’s current research and development efforts primarily focus on enhancing its artificial intelligence technology, image processing technology, intelligent chips, and application solutions to create novel service and product offerings. VIYI spent approximately RMB 78.3 million and RMB 68.0 million (USD 9.6million) on research and development for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, respectively.

 

China’s increased demand for central processing algorithm services in internet advertisement and the online game industry

 

Effective central processing algorithm solutions can empower downstream industries experiencing high demand for data analysis and computing power optimization, which applies to internet advertising, internet game applications, finance, retail, logistics, and other industries. Because of huge downstream demands, the overall market of central processing algorithm services is enormous.

 

According to the CIC Report, revenue of central processing algorithm services derived from internet advertisement and online gaming alone has grown from RMB 2.2 billion in 2016 to RMB 6.9 billion in 2020, representing a CAGR of 32.7%. This market is expected to maintain a rapid growth trend, expanding at a CAGR of 15% during the period from 2020 to 2025. VIYI believes that its position as an industry leader in a fast-growing market with favorable industry trends will greatly benefit VIYI in achieving sustainable and rapid growth in the future.

 

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VIYI’s ability to pursue strategic opportunities for growth

 

VIYI intends to continually pursue strategic acquisitions and investments in selective technologies and businesses in the central processing algorithm and semiconductor industries to enhance VIYI’s technology capabilities. VIYI believes that a solid acquisition and investment strategy may be critical for VIYI to accelerate VIYI’s growth and strengthen its competitive position in the future. VIYI’s ability to identify and execute strategic acquisitions and investments will likely affect VIYI’s operating results over time.

 

VIYI’s ability to expand its application fields and to diversify its customer base

 

Currently, the primary source of VIYI’s revenue is derived from providing central processing algorithm solutions to businesses in the entertainment and internet advertisement industries. With increasing awareness and acceptance of this technology, VIYI expects that more applications will be identified to magnify the value of this technology, such as the industry of the Internet, finance, local government, and manufacturing industries that have strong demand for data empowerment. Expand the scenario application of central processing algorithm services. VIYI’s ability to expand its application fields and diversify its customer base may affect VIYI’s operating results in the future.

 

Impact of COVID-19

 

The ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread rapidly to many parts of the world. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of stores and business facilities in China for the first few months in 2020.

 

As a result of the resurgence of COVID-19 variants in first quarter of 2022 in China, VIYI’s office in the PRC was again closed for one week in first quarter of 2022. VIYI resumed normal operation since April, 2022. Due to the nature of VIYI’s business, the impact of the closure on VIYI’s operational capabilities was not significant, as most of VIYI’s workforce continued working offsite during such closure. VIYI’s customers have been impacted as a result of business disruption due to closures in various cities, which affected their customers’ advertising spending. As a result, VIYI experienced lower revenue growth on advertising which affected VIYI’s gross margin.

 

Any further impact on VIYI’s results will depend on, to a large extent, future developments and new information that may emerge regarding the duration and resurgence of COVID-19 variants and the actions taken by government authorities to contain COVID-19 or treat its impact, almost all of which are beyond VIYI’s control.

 

Key Components of Results of Operations

 

VIYI currently operates in two segments and generates revenue by providing (i) central processing algorithm services and (ii) intelligent chips and services. Please see VIYI’s consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this proxy statement for additional information regarding VIYI’s operations.

 

Revenues

 

VIYI’s revenues consist of (i) providing central processing algorithm solutions, including internet advertising solutions, internet games services, and (ii) intelligent chips and services revenues.

 

Cost of revenues

 

Cost of revenue for VIYI’s central processing algorithm solutions for the internet advertisement algorithm services, internet games services comprised of (i) costs paid to channel providers and shared costs with content providers based on the profit-sharing arrangements, (ii) third party consulting services expenses and (iii) compensation expenses for the VIYI’s professionals.

 

Cost of revenue for VIYI’s intelligent chip and services consists primarily of the costs of products sold and third-party software development costs.

 

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Selling expenses

 

VIYI’s selling expenses consist primarily of (i) compensation for selling personnel and (ii) travel expenses for its sales representatives.

 

General and administrative expenses.

 

VIYI’s general and administrative expenses consist primarily of (i) compensation for its management and administrative personnel, (ii) expenses in connection with its operation supporting functions such as legal, accounting, consulting and other professional service fees, and (iii) office rental, depreciation, and other administrative related expenses.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

VIYI’s research and development expenses include salaries and other compensation-related expenses to VIYI’s research and product development personnel, outsourced subcontractors, as well as office rental, depreciation, and related expenses for VIYI’s research and product development team.

 

Results of Operations:

 

The following table summarizes VIYI’s consolidated results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022. This information should be read together with VIYI’s consolidated financial statements, and related notes included elsewhere in this proxy statement.

 

   For the nine months ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Operating revenues   367,678,922    461,434,593    64,992,619 
Cost of revenues   (191,179,081)   (357,378,915)   (50,336,476)
Gross profit   176,499,841    104,055,678    14,656,143 
Operating expenses   (107,605,541)   (90,254,751)   (12,712,295)
Income from operations   68,894,300    13,800,927    1,943,848 
Other (expenses) income, net   1,536,394    1,527,089    215,089 
Provision for income taxes   (529,624)   976,747    137,574 
Net income   69,901,070    16,304,763    2,296,511 
Less: Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests   239,062    704,495    99,227 
Net income attributable to VIYI Algorithm Inc.   69,662,008    15,600,268    2,197,284 
Other comprehensive loss   (17,583)   3,936,594    554,465 
Less: Comprehensive loss attributable to noncontrolling interests   239,062    704,495    99,227 
Comprehensive income attributable to Algorithm Inc.   69,644,425    19,536,862    2,751,749 

 

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Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021, Compared to the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022

 

Revenues

 

VIYI’s total revenues increased by approximately RMB 93.8 million, or 25.5%, from approximately RMB 367.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 461.4 million (USD 65.0 million) for nine months ended September 30, 2022, due to an increase of approximately RMB 128.8 million (USD 18.1 million) in central processing algorithm service revenue, and an decrease of approximately RMB 35.0 million (USD 4.9 million) in intelligent chips and services revenue.

 

VIYI’s breakdown of revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, respectively, is summarized below:

 

   For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Revenues               
Central processing algorithm services   195,242,029    340,568,052    47,968,682 
Intelligent chips and services   172,436,893    120,866,541    17,023,937 
Total revenues   367,678,922    461,434,593    64,992,619 

 

VIYI generates revenues from advertising display services when VIYI completes its performance obligation to deliver related advertising services based on the specific terms of the contract, which are commonly based on a specific action, e.g., cost per impression (“CPM”) for online display. Over 90% of VIYI’s advertising display services contracts with these customers are based on the CPM charging model. Revenue from performance based advertising services is generated when traffic users completed a transaction as specified in contracts. Revenues generated from mobile games include royalty payments from licensee operators of VIYI’s mobile games and fees collected from game developers for using VIYI’s game portal.

 

VIYI’s central processing algorithm services revenue increased by approximately RMB 145.3 million, or 74.4%, from approximately RMB 195.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 340.6 million (USD 65.0 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. This increase was primarily attributable to the overall market demand for internet advertising, which resulted in an increase of the number of customers from 161 to 198 as of September 30, 2021, and September 30, 2022, respectively, representing a 23.0% increase. Approximately 23.1% or RMB 33.6 million (USD 4.7 million) of the increase in CPA segment was from performance based advertising services in 2022. Approximately 76.9% increase was due to increase advertising revenue from short form videos as VIYI started provide advertising services in videos streaming market in 2022.

 

Intelligent chips and services revenues include revenues generated from the resale of intelligent chips. VIYI generates revenues when the control of products is transferred to customers, as evidenced by customers’ signed acceptances. VIYI also generates revenues from software development.

 

VIYI’s revenue from the resale of intelligent chips and accessories amounted to approximately RMB 120.9 million (USD 17.0 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, which is a decrease of 51.5 million from RMB 172.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, representing a 29.9% decrease. The decrease was mainly due to decrease in software development revenue where customer development has been delayed in first quarter due to COVID-19. VIYI expects that as the demand for custom optimizations by way of VIYI’s proprietary algorithms grows, VIYI’s intelligent chips and services revenue will continue to grow in the long run. For semiconductor application solutions related to algorithm optimization, VIYI plans to combine algorithm optimization application demand scenarios, provide corresponding central processing algorithm solutions to meet market demand, and promote the application and popularization of algorithm optimization technology in the semiconductor field.

 

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Cost of Revenues

 

For VIYI’s central processing algorithm services, the cost of revenues consists of the costs paid to (i) channel providers and shared costs with content providers based on the profit-sharing arrangements, (ii) third-party consulting services expenses, and (iii) compensation expenses for VIYI’s professionals.

 

For intelligent chips and services, the cost of revenue consists primarily of the costs of products sold and third-party software development costs.

 

VIYI’s total cost of revenues increased by approximately RMB 166.2 million, or 86.9%, from approximately RMB 191.2 million the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 357.4 million (USD 50.3 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

 

VIYI’s breakdown of cost of revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, respectively, is summarized below:

 

   For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Cost of revenues               
Central processing algorithm services   40,388,668    240,969,904    33,940,379 
Intelligent chips and services   150,790,413    116,409,011    16,396,097 
Total cost of revenues   191,179,081    357,378,915    50,336,476 

 

VIYI’s cost of revenues for central processing algorithm services increased by approximately RMB 200.5 million, or 496.6%, from approximately RMB 40.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 240.9 million (USD 33.9 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. The increase in the cost of revenues was mainly due to channel costs, which the Company has incurred channel costs with major internet advertising outlets such as internal portal, platform or applications to secure advertising space. In addition, approximately 78.5% of the cost increase was due to increase in revenue in related to short form videos on various platforms.

 

VIYI’s cost of revenues for intelligent chips and accessories was approximately RMB 150.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to approximately RMB 116.4 million (USD 16.4 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 which are mainly product costs.

 

Gross Profit

 

VIYI’s gross profit decreased by approximately RMB 72.4 million, from approximately RMB 176.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 104.1 million (USD 14.7 million) during the nine months ended September 30, 2022. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, and 2022, VIYI’s overall gross margin was 48.0% and 22.6%, respectively.

 

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VIYI’s gross profit and gross profit margin from its major business segments are summarized as follows:

 

   For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022   Variance 
   RMB   RMB   USD   Amount/% 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)     
Central processing algorithm services                    
Gross profit   154,853,361    99,598,148    14,028,303    (55,265,213)
Gross margin   79.3%   29.2%        (35.7)%
Intelligent chips and services                    
Gross profit   21,646,480    4,457,530    627,839    (17,188,950)
Gross margin   12.6%   3.7%        (79.4)%
Total                    
Gross profit   176,499,841    104,055,678    14,656,142    (72,454,163)
Gross margin   48%   22.6%        (41.0)%

 

VIYI’s gross margins for central processing algorithm services were 79.30% and 29.2% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, and 2022, respectively. The decrease in margin was due to the increase in cost of revenue with advertising channels whereas revenue growth was at a slower pace due to impact of COVID 19 in first quarter of 2022. In addition, the gross margin was lower for short form video advertising as a few channels dominated the market.

 

VIYI’s gross margin for intelligent chips and services was 12.6% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 3.7% for nine months ended September 30, 2022 due to decrease in software development revenue.

 

Operating Expenses

 

For nine months ended September 30, 2022, VIYI incurred approximately RMB 90.3 million (USD 12.7 million) in operating expenses, representing a decrease of approximately RMB 17.3 million, or 16.1%, from approximately RMB 107.6 million for nine months ended September 30, 2021, primarily due to decreases in as a research and development expenses as a result of impact of COVID-19.

 

Selling expenses decreased by approximately RMB 0.8 million, or 19.0%, from approximately RMB 4.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 3.4 million (USD 0.5 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. The decrease was mainly due to the decreased marketing activities during first quarter of 2022 due to the impact of COVID-19 which caused closures of public areas in several cities in China.

 

General and administrative expenses decreased by approximately RMB 5.8 million, or 23.5%, from RMB 24.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 18.9 million (USD 2.7 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. The decrease was mainly due to (i) the recovery of bad debt expenses of approximately RMB 1.9 million as VIYI followed up closely with collections, (ii) travel and meeting related expenses of approximately RMB 1.0 million (USD 0.1 million) due to travel restriction in various cities due to the pandemic, and (iii) the decrease in depreciation and amortization expenses of approximately RMB 0.5 million as a result of fully amortization of Yitian’s intangible assets and (iv) decrease in professional fee of approximately RMB 4.5 million (USD 0.6 million). The decrease was offset by the increase in salary and benefit expenses of approximately RMB 2.0 million (USD 0.6 million), VIYI has an average of 28 and 46 employees in the administrative department for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, respectively.

 

Research and development expenses decreased by approximately RMB 10.7 million, or 13.6%, from approximately RMB 78.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 68.0 million (USD 9.6 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. The decrease was mainly due to the slowdown in the progress of outsourced technical development services as a result of impact from COVID-19. VIYI incurred approximately RMB 76.6 million in outsourced technical development services for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 63.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

 

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Other Income, net

 

Total other income, net, for nine months ended September 30, 2021, was approximately RMB 1.5 million (USD 0.2 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022. VIYI has less interest income due to VIYI deposited less funds in time deposit offset by the increase in VAT credit.

 

Provision for income taxes

 

VIYI’s income tax expenses decreased by approximately RMB 1.5 million, or 300.0%, from approximately RMB (0.5) million for nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 1.0 million (USD 0.1 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 as a result of decrease in taxable income

 

Net income

 

As a result of the combination of factors discussed above, VIYI’s net income decreased from approximately RMB 63.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to approximately RMB 16.4 million (USD 2.3 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. After the deduction of non-controlling interest, net income attributable to VIYI was approximately RMB 69.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, compared to approximately RMB 15.6 million (USD 2.2 million) for the same period in 2022. Comprehensive income attributable to VIYI was approximately RMB 69.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, compared to approximately RMB 19.5 million (USD 2.8 million) for the same period in 2022.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

VIYI prepares financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, which requires VIYI’s management to make assumptions, estimates, and judgments that affect the amounts reported, including the notes thereto, and related disclosures of commitments and contingencies, if any. VIYI has identified certain accounting policies that are significant to the preparation of VIYI’s financial statements. These accounting policies are important for an understanding of VIYI’s financial condition and results of operation. Critical accounting policies are those that are most important to the portrayal of VIYI’s financial conditions and results of operations and require management’s difficult, subjective, or complex judgment, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain and may change in subsequent periods. Certain accounting estimates are particularly sensitive because of their significance to financial statements and because of the possibility that future events affecting the estimate may differ significantly from management’s current judgments. While VIYI’s significant accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 to VIYI’s audited consolidated financial statements, VIYI believes the following critical accounting policies involve the most significant estimates and judgments used in the preparation of VIYI’s financial statements.

 

Basis of presentation

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP for information pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC.

 

Principles of consolidation

 

The consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, which include the wholly-foreign owned enterprise (“WFOE”) and variable interest entity (“VIE”) and VIE’s subsidiaries over which the Company exercises control and, when applicable, entities for which the Company has a controlling financial interest or is the primary beneficiary. All transactions and balances among the Company and its subsidiaries have been eliminated upon consolidation.

 

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Use of Estimates and Assumptions

 

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the periods presented. Significant accounting estimates reflected in VIYI’s consolidated financial statements include the useful lives of property and equipment and intangible assets, impairment of long-lived assets and goodwill, allowance for doubtful accounts, provision for contingent liabilities, revenue recognition, deferred taxes, and uncertain tax position, purchase price allocations for business combinations, the fair value of contingent consideration related to business acquisitions, allocation of share-based compensation and allocation of expenses from WiMi and Beijing WiMi. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

 

Business Combinations

 

The purchase price of an acquired company is allocated between tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed from the acquired business based on their estimated fair values, with the residual of the purchase price recorded as goodwill. Transaction costs associated with business combinations are expensed as incurred and are included in general and administrative expenses in VIYI’s consolidated statements of operations. The results of operations of the acquired business are included in VIYI’s operating results from the date of acquisition.

 

Goodwill Impairment Testing

 

VIYI performs annual goodwill impairment analysis as of December 31 with the assistance of an independent valuation expert following the subsequent measurement provisions of FASB ASU 2017-04, Intangible — Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, which eliminated the calculation of implied goodwill fair value and allows VIYI to use a simpler one-step impairment test. Under ASU 2017-04, VIYI must record goodwill impairment charges if a reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value.

 

The reporting units’ fair values are determined by the income approach where projected future cash flows are discounted at rates commensurate with the risks involved (“Discounted Cash Flow” or “DCF” of the income approach).

 

Assumptions used in a DCF analysis require the exercise of significant judgment, including judgment about appropriate discount rates and terminal values, growth rates, and the amount and timing of expected future cash flows. The forecasted cash flows are based on current plans, and for years beyond that plan, the estimates are based on assumed growth rates. VIYI believes that its assumptions are consistent with the plans and estimates used to manage the underlying businesses. The discount rates, which are intended to reflect the risks inherent in future cash flow projections, used in a DCF analysis are based on estimates of the weighted-average cost of capital “WACC”) of a market participant. Such estimates are derived from VIYI’s analysis of peer companies and consider the industry weighted average return on debt and equity from a market participant perspective and adjusted for VIYI’s specific risks. The discount rate applied were 18% and 20% for VIYI’s reporting units.

 

VIYI has two reporting units that have goodwill. The following table categorizes VIYI’s goodwill by reporting unit as of December 31, 2021, according to the level of excess between the reporting’ unit’s fair value and carrying value.

 

Segment  Reporting Unit  Fair Value
Exceeds
Carrying
Value
   Net Goodwill
as of
December 31,
2021
 
          (in RMB thousands) 
Central processing algorithm services  Central processing algorithm services unit   162%   106,274 
Intelligent chips and services  Intelligent chips and services unit   -    33,644 
            139,918 

 

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VIYI has performed qualitative assessment for goodwill impairment as of September 30, 2022 for its segments and determined that goodwill was unlikely impaired. VIYI gave consider to the general macroeconomic condition, industry and market consideration, access to capital, cost factors and overall financial performances. Revenues from the central processing algorithm segment for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 have increased by approximately RMB 145.3 million, or 74.4%, while sale of intelligent chips revenue decreased by approximately RMB 51.5 million from RMB 172.4 million for the nine months ended September 30,2021 representing a 29.9% decrease. VIYI believes that the current results of operations have been within its forecast for the valuation of the enterprise value.

 

Revenue recognition

 

VIYI adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-09 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC Topic 606) for the year ended December 31, 2019, using the modified retrospective method for contracts that were not completed as of December 31, 2018. The ASU requires the use of a new five-step model to recognize revenue from customer contracts. The five-step model requires that VIYI (i) identify the contract with the customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, including variable consideration to the extent that it is probable that a significant future reversal will not occur, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the respective performance obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) VIYI satisfies its performance obligation.

 

The application of the five-step model to the revenue streams compared to the prior guidance did not result in significant changes in the way VIYI records revenue. Upon adoption, VIYI evaluated its revenue recognition policy for all revenue streams within the scope of the ASU under previous standards, using the five-step model under the new guidance, and confirmed that there were no differences in the pattern of revenue recognition as all revenue were recognized at a point in time prior to adoption of the ASU.

 

(i)Central processing algorithm advertising services

 

— Advertising display services

 

For VIYI’s central processing algorithm advertising display services, VIYI’s performance obligation is to identify advertising spaces and embed images or videos into films, shows, and short-form videos that are hosted by online streaming platforms in China. Revenue is recognized at a point in time when the related services have been delivered based on the specific terms of the contract, which are commonly based on a specific action (i.e., cost per impression (“CPM”) for online display.

 

VIYI enters into advertising contracts with advertisers where the amounts charged per specific action are fixed and determinable, the specific terms of the contracts were agreed on by VIYI, the advertisers, and channel providers, and collectability is probable. Revenue is recognized on a CPM basis as impressions.

 

VIYI considers itself as the provider of the services as VIYI has control of the specified services and products at any time before they are transferred to the customers, which is evidenced by (1) VIYI is primarily responsible to VIYI’s customers for products and services offered where the products were designed in house and VIYI has customer services team to directly serve the customers; and (2) VIYI has latitude in establishing pricing. Therefore, VIYI acts as the principal of these arrangements and reports revenue earned and costs incurred related to these transactions on a gross basis.

 

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— Performance-based advertising services

 

VIYI provides central processing algorithm performance-based advertising services for its customers, which enable the customers to get the optimal business opportunities.

 

VIYI’s performance obligation is to help customers to accurately match consumers and traffic users, and thereby increasing the conversion rate of product sale using its proprietary data optimization algorithms. Related service fees are generally billed monthly, based on a per transaction basis.

 

VIYI considers itself as provider of the services as it has control of the specified services and products at any time before it is transferred to the customers which is evidenced by (1) it is primarily responsible to its customers for the services offered where the algorithms and data optimization were designed and performed in house and it has customer services team to directly serve the customers; and (2) having latitude in establish pricing. Therefore VIYI acts as the principal of these arrangements and reports revenue earned and costs incurred related to these transactions on a gross basis.

 

In addition, through VIY’s data algorithm optimization, it is able to identify certain end user needs and it facilitates certain value added services to the end users. VIYI engages third party services provider to perform the services. VIYI concludes that it does not control the services as the third party service provider is responsible for providing the service and its responsibility is merely to facilitate the provision of these value added service to the end users and charges a fee. As such VIYI recorded revenue from the value added services on a net basis when the services is provided by third party service provider.

 

(ii)Central processing algorithm gaming services

 

VIYI generates revenue from jointly operated internet games publishing services and licensed out games. In accordance with ASC 606, Revenue Recognition: Principal Agent Considerations, VIYI evaluates agreements with the game developers, distribution channels, and payment channels in order to determine whether or not VIYI acts as the principal or as an agent in the arrangement with each party, respectively. The determination of whether to record the revenues, gross or net, is based on whether VIYI promised its customers to provide products or services or to facilitate a sale by a third party. The nature of the promise depends on whether VIYI controls the products or services prior to transferring them to VIYI’s customers. Control is evidenced if VIYI was primarily responsible for fulling the provision of services and had discretion in establishing the selling price. When VIYI controls the products or services, VIYI’s promise is to provide and deliver the products, and revenue is presented on a gross basis. When VIYI does not control the products, VIYI’s promise is to facilitate the sale, and VIYI presents the revenue on a net basis.

 

— Jointly operated internet games publishing services

 

VIYI offers publishing services for internet games developed by third-party game developers. VIYI acts as a distribution channel that publishes the games on VIYI’s own app or a third-party-owned app or website, named game portals. Through these game portals, game players can download the internet games to their mobile devices and purchase coins, the virtual currency, for in-game premium features to enhance their game playing experience. VIYI enters into contracts with third-party payment platforms for collection services offered to game players who have purchased coins. The third-party game developers, third-party payment platforms, and co-publishers are entitled to profit-sharing based on a prescribed percentage of the gross amount charged to the game players. VIYI’s obligation in the publishing services is completed at a point in time when the game players make a payment to purchase coins.

 

With respect to the publishing services arrangements between VIYI and the game developer, VIYI considered that it does not control the services, as (i) developers are responsible for providing the game product desired by the game players; (ii) the hosting and maintenance of game servers for running the online internet games are the responsibilities of the third-party platforms; and (iii) the developers or third party platforms have the right to change the pricing of in-game virtual items. VIYI’s responsibilities are publishing, providing payment solutions, and market promotion services, and thus VIYI views the game developers as VIYI’s customers and considers itself as the facilitator of the game developers in the arrangements with game players. Accordingly, VIYI records the game publishing service revenue from these games, net of amounts paid to the game developers.

 

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— Licensed out internet games

 

VIYI also licenses third parties to operate VIYI’s internet games developed internally through the mobile portal and receive revenue from the third-party licensee operators on a monthly basis. VIYI’s performance obligation is to provide internet games to game operators, which enable players of the internet games to make in-game purchases, and VIYI recognizes revenue at a point in time when game players complete the purchases. VIYI records revenues on a net basis, as VIYI does not have control of the services provided, nor does VIYI have the primary responsibility for fulfillment or the right to change the pricing of the game services.

 

(iii)Sale of chips and intelligent chips products

 

Starting in September 2020, VIYI has also been engaged in the resale of chips and intelligent chips products and accessories. VIYI typically enters into written contracts with its customers where the parties’ rights, including payment terms, are identified, and sales prices to VIYI’s customers are fixed with no separate sales rebate, discount, or other incentives, and no right of return exists on sales of inventory. VIYI’s performance obligation is to deliver products according to contract specifications. VIYI recognizes gross product revenue at a point in time when the control of products or services is transferred to customers.

 

To distinguish a promise to provide products from a promise to facilitate the sale from a third party, VIYI considers the guidance of control in ASC 606-10-55-37A and the indicators in 606-10-55-39. VIYI considers this guidance in conjunction with the terms in VIYI’s arrangements with both suppliers and customers.

 

In general, VIYI controls the products as VIYI has an obligation to (i) fulfill delivery of products and (ii) bear any inventory risk as legal owners. In addition, when establishing the selling prices for delivery of the resale products, VIYI has control to set its selling price to ensure it would generate profit for the product delivery arrangements. VIYI believes that all these factors indicate that VIYI is acting as a principal in this transaction. As a result, revenue from the trading of products is presented on a gross basis.

 

(v)Revenue from software development

 

VIYI also designs software for central processing units based on customers’ specific needs. The contract is typically fixed priced and does not provide any post-contract customer support or upgrades. VIYI’s performance obligation is to design, develop, test, and install the related software for customers, all of which are considered one performance obligation as the customers do not obtain benefits for each separate service. The duration of the development period is short, usually less than one year.

 

VIYI’s revenue from software development contracts is generally recognized over time during the development period, and VIYI has no alternative use of the customized software and application without incurring significant additional costs. Revenue is recognized based on VIYI’s measurement of progress towards completion based on output methods when VIYI could appropriately measure the customization progress towards completion by reaching certain milestones specified in contracts. Assumptions, risks, and uncertainties inherent in the estimates used to measure progress could affect the amount of revenues, receivables, and deferred revenues at each reporting period.

 

Contract balances

 

VIYI records receivable related to revenue when VIYI has an unconditional right to invoice and receive payment. Payments received from customers before all of the relevant criteria for revenue recognition are met recorded as deferred revenues.

 

Accounts receivable, net

 

Accounts receivable include trade accounts due from customers. Accounts are considered overdue after 90 days. Management reviews VIYI’s receivables on a regular basis to determine if the bad debt allowance is adequate and provides allowance when necessary. The allowance is based on management’s best estimates of specific losses on individual customer exposures, as well as the historical trends of collections. Account balances are charged off against the allowance after all means of collection have been exhausted, and the likelihood of collection is not probable.

 

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Income taxes

 

VIYI accounts for current income taxes in accordance with the laws of the relevant tax authorities. The charge for taxation is based on the results for the fiscal year as adjusted for items, which are non-assessable or disallowed. It is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

 

Deferred taxes are accounted for using the asset and liability method in respect of temporary differences arising from differences between the carrying amount of assets and liabilities in the consolidated financial statements and the corresponding tax basis used in the computation of assessable tax profit. In principle, deferred tax liabilities are recognized for all taxable temporary differences. Deferred tax assets are recognized to the extent that it is probable that taxable profit will be available against which deductible temporary differences can be utilized. Deferred tax is calculated using tax rates that are expected to apply to the period when the asset is realized, or the liability is settled. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the income statement, except when it is related to items credited or charged directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when, in the opinion of management, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Current income taxes are provided for in accordance with the laws of the relevant taxing authorities.

 

An uncertain tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination, with a tax examination being presumed to occur. The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely to be realized on examination. For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test, no tax benefit is recorded. No penalties and interest incurred related to underpayment of income tax are classified as income tax expenses in the period incurred. PRC tax returns filed from 2018 to 2021 are subject to examination by any applicable tax authorities.

 

Recent Issued Accounting Pronouncements

 

For a detailed discussion on recent accounting pronouncements, see Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this proxy statement.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

As of September 30, 2022, VIYI had cash and cash equivalents of approximately RMB 146,938,562 million (USD 20,696,155 million). Material amounts of cash disaggregated by currency denomination as of September 30, 2022 in each jurisdiction in which VIYI’s subsidiaries or VIE are domiciled are as follows:

 

   USD   RMB   USD 
Cayman   2,631,616    -    2,631,616 
China – subsidiaries   -    124,340,554    17,513,247 
    2,631,616    124,340,554    20,144,863 

 

VIYI’s working capital was approximately RMB 222.4 million (USD 31.3 million) as of September 30, 2022. In assessing VIYI’s liquidity, VIYI monitors and analyses its cash-on-hand and operating and capital expenditure commitments. To date, VIYI has financed VIYI’s working capital requirements through cash flow generated from operations, debt and equity financings, and capital contributions from VIYI’s existing shareholders.

 

VIYI believes its current working capital is sufficient to support VIYI’s operations for the next twelve months. VIYI may, however, need additional cash resources in the future if it experiences changes in business conditions or other developments or if VIYI finds and wishes to pursue opportunities for investment, acquisition, capital expenditure, or similar actions. If VIYI determines that its cash requirements exceed the amount of cash and cash equivalents VIYI has on hand at the time, VIYI may seek to issue equity or debt securities or obtain credit facilities. The issuance and sale of additional equity would result in further dilution to VIYI’s shareholders. The incurrence of indebtedness would result in increased fixed obligations and could result in operating covenants that would restrict VIYI’s operations. VIYI’s obligation to bear credit risk for certain financing transactions VIYI facilitates may also strain VIYI’s operating cash flow. VIYI cannot assure you that financing will be available in amounts or on terms acceptable to VIYI, if at all.

 

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Current foreign exchange and other regulations in the PRC may restrict VIYI’s PRC entities in their ability to transfer their net assets to VIYI and its subsidiaries in Singapore and Hong Kong and to VIYI’s investors. The PRC government imposes controls on the convertibility of the Renminbi into foreign currencies and, in certain cases, the remittance of currency out of China. Under VIYI’s current corporate structure, VIYI’s Cayman Islands holding company may rely on dividend payments from VIYI’s PRC subsidiaries to fund any cash and financing requirements VIYI may have. Under existing PRC foreign exchange regulations, payments of current account items, including profit distributions, interest payments and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, can be made in foreign currencies without prior approval of SAFE by complying with certain procedural requirements. Specifically, under the existing exchange restrictions, without prior approval of SAFE, cash generated from the operations of VIYI’s PRC subsidiaries in China may be used to pay dividends to VIYI. However, approval from or registration with appropriate government authorities is required where Renminbi is to be converted into foreign currency and remitted out of China to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of loans denominated in foreign currencies. As a result, VIYI needs to obtain SAFE approval to use cash generated from the operations of VIYI’s PRC subsidiaries to pay off their respective debt in a currency other than Renminbi owed to entities outside China, or to make other capital expenditure payments outside China in a currency other than Renminbi.

 

In light of the flood of capital outflows of China in 2016 due to the weakening Renminbi, the PRC government has imposed more restrictive foreign exchange policies and stepped up scrutiny of major outbound capital movement including overseas direct investment. More restrictions and substantial vetting process are put in place by SAFE to regulate cross-border transactions falling under the capital account. If any of VIYI’s shareholders regulated by such policies fail to satisfy the applicable overseas direct investment filing or approval requirement timely or at all, it may be subject to penalties from the relevant PRC authorities. The PRC government may at its discretion further restrict access in the future to foreign currencies for current account transactions. If the foreign exchange control system prevents VIYI from obtaining sufficient foreign currencies to satisfy VIYI’s foreign currency demands, VIYI may not be able to pay dividends in foreign currencies to its shareholders.

 

However, these restrictions have no material impact on the ability of these PRC subsidiaries to transfer funds to VIYI as VIYI has no present plans to declare dividends which it plans to retain VIYI’s retained earnings to continue to grow VIYI’s business. In addition, these restrictions have no material impact on the ability of VIYI to meet its cash obligations, as a majority of VIYI’s current cash obligations are due within the PRC.

 

To utilize the proceeds VIYI received from this this offering, VIYI plans to use (i) approximately 40% of the net proceeds for operating expenses and the research and development of the application of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data, 5G, 3D and other technological fields, (ii) approximately 30% of the net proceeds for strategic acquisitions and investments in complementary business, and (iii) approximately 30% of the net proceeds for other general corporate purposes, including working capital, operating expenses, and capital expenditures.

 

If an unforeseen event occurs or business conditions change, VIYI may use the proceeds of this offering differently than as described in this proxy statement. In utilizing the proceeds from this offering, VIYI is permitted under PRC laws and regulations to provide funding to VIYI’s PRC subsidiaries only through loans or capital contributions, and only if VIYI satisfies the applicable government registration and approval requirements. The relevant filing and registration processes for capital contributions typically take approximately eight weeks to complete. The filing and registration processes for loans typically take approximately four weeks or longer to complete. While VIYI currently anticipates no material obstacles to completing the filing and registration procedures with respect to future capital contributions and loans to VIYI’s PRC subsidiaries, VIYI cannot assure you that it will be able to complete these filings and registrations on a timely basis, or at all. Additionally, while there is no statutory limit on the amount of capital contribution that VIYI can make to VIYI’s PRC subsidiaries, loans provided to VIYI’s PRC subsidiaries in the PRC are subject to certain statutory limits. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Doing Business in China — PRC regulation of loans to and direct investment in PRC entities by offshore holding companies and governmental control of currency conversion may delay or prevent VIYI from using the proceeds of this offering to make loans or make additional capital contributions to VIYI’s PRC subsidiaries, which could materially and adversely affect VIYI’s liquidity and its ability to fund and expand VIYI’s business.” VIYI expects the net proceeds from this offering to be used in the PRC will be in the form of RMB and, therefore, VIYI’s PRC subsidiary will need to convert any capital contributions or loans from U.S. dollars into Renminbi in accordance with applicable PRC laws and regulations.

 

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The following table summarizes the key components of VIYI’s cash flows for nine months ended September 30, 2021, and 2022.

 

   For the nine months ended
September 30,
 
   2021   2022   2022 
   RMB   RMB   USD 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited) 
Net cash provided by operating activities   65,952,179    6,641,829    935,495 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities   (119,990,622)   18,255,660    2,571,293 
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities   (20,879,322)   (147,388,546)   (20,759,535)
Effect of exchange rate on cash and cash equivalents   (337,678)   (2,938,980)   (413,953)
Change in cash and cash equivalents   (75,255,443)   (125,430,037)   (17,666,700)
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year   242,142,524    272,368,599    38,362,855 
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year   166,887,081    146,938,562    20,696,155 

 

Operating activities

 

Net cash provided by operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, was primarily attributable to net income of approximately RMB 16.3 million (USD 2.3 million) increased by various non-cash expenses of approximately RMB 6.1 million (USD 0.9 million). Cash inflow was also attributable to the increase of deferred revenue of approximately RMB 8.9 million (USD 1.3 million) and decrease in inventory of approximately 1.9 million (USD 0.3 million) as the resurgences of COVID-19 variant have reduced VIYI’s inventory purchase and VIYI has to use more existing inventory. The inflow was offset by increase in accounts receivable of RMB 7.2 million (USD 1.0 million) as VIYI’s revenue increased, increase in prepaid service fee of approximately RMB 15.1 million (USD2.1 million) to secure channel costs, and decrease in accounts payable of approximately RMB 3.6 million (USD 0.5 million) due to less inventory purchased by VIYI as mentioned above.

 

Net cash provided by operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, was primarily attributable to net income of approximately RMB 69.9 million offset with non-cash depreciation and amortization expenses of approximately RMB 7.4 million, amortization of debt discount, loss from short term investment of approximately RMB 1.6 million and operating right of use assets of approximately RMB 0.6 million and deferred tax benefit of approximately RMB 1.4 million. Cash inflow was also attributable to the increase in accounts payable approximately RMB 5.1 million and prepaid expenses of approximately 1.2 million. Cash inflow was partially offset by the increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets of approximately RMB 9.7 million, as VIYI made more advances to secure advertising channels for advertising and the increase in accounts receivable of approximately 0.8 million and deferred revenue of approximately RMB 3.7 million along with VIYI’s increase in revenue and outflow of approximately 4.0 million as VIYI paid more taxes.

 

Investing activities

 

Cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was mainly due to net purchase and sale of short term investment of approximately RMB 1.1 million (USD 0.2 million), purchase of property and equipment of approximately RMB 1.2 million (USD 0.2 million), purchase of cost method investment of approximately RMB 0.6 million (USD 0.1 million), and collection of loans receivable approximately RMB 21.6 million (USD 3.0 million).

 

Cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was mainly due to purchase of short term investment of approximately RMB 101.0 million and payment of Guoyu’s acquisition of approximately RMB 20.0 million. The short-term investment is a part of VIYI’s cash management which represents an investment in a bank-issued wealth management product with underlying investments in cash, bonds and equity funds. The investment can be redeemed anytime and its carrying value approximates its fair value. 

 

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Financing activities

 

Cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was mainly due to net borrowing and repayments to Parent of approximately RMB 154.0 million (USD 21.6 million). VIYI also paid deferred merger cost of approximately RMB 0.2 million (USD 25,000).

 

Cash used in financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was mainly due to the net borrowing and repayment of the banking facility to DBS Bank Ltd of approximately RMB 12.9 million and net borrowing and repayments to minority shareholder of VIYI’s subsidiary Shanghai Weimu of approximately RMB 1.5 million. VIYI also borrowed and repaid additional operating funds from Parent of approximately RMB 9.4 million.

 

Transfer of cash within VIYI’s organization

 

VIYI operates in two segments, CPA and intelligent chips and software services. For intelligent chips and software services segment, it is mainly operated by VIYI holding and subsidiaries in Singapore, Fe-da Electronics. Both VIYI and Fe-da Electronics has its own operating cashflow from operation of the segment. The CPA segment is mainly operated by subsidiaries in the PRC, each entity has its own operating cash flow. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2022, there was approximately nil and RMB 9.3 million from the holding company to the PRC subsidiary.

 

There was no dividends or distribution made between VIYI, its subsidiaries and the historical VIE. VIYI has established controls and procedures for cash flows within its organization. Each transfer of cash between Cayman Islands holding company and a subsidiaries is subject to internal approval. In general cash is maintained in holding company level (VIYI for companies outside PRC and VIYI WFOE for entities inside PRC) for more efficient cash management.

 

VIYI has no present plans to distribute earnings, it plans to retain VIYI’s retained earnings to continue to grow VIYI’s business. No dividends or distribution has been declared to paid to VIYI from subsidiaries and no dividends or distribution was made to any U.S. investors.

 

Commitments and Contingencies

 

In the normal course of business, VIYI is subject to loss contingencies, such as legal proceedings and claims arising out of its business, that cover a wide range of matters, including, among others, government investigations and tax matters. In accordance with ASC No. 450-20, “Loss Contingencies”, VIYI will record accruals for such loss contingencies when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

VIYI has no off-balance sheet arrangements, including arrangements that would affect VIYI’s liquidity, capital resources, market risk support, and credit risk support, or other benefits.

 

Contractual Obligations

 

As of September 30, 2022, the future minimum payments under certain of VIYI’s contractual obligations were as follows:

 

   Payments Due In
   Total
RMB
   Less than
1 year
   1 – 2
years
   3 – 5
years
   Thereafter 
Operating leases obligations*    1,847,240     1,378,427    433,169    35,644    - 

 

 
* Include operating leases with a term less than one year.

 

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Exhibit 99.4

 

PRO FORMA CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

AS OF September 30, 2022

 

   (A)
VIYI
   (B)
Venus
   Pro Forma
Adjustments
   Pro Forma
Balance Sheet
 
ASSETS                    
                     
CURRENT ASSETS                    
Cash and cash equivalents  $20,696,155   $18,238   $48,544,367  (4)  $41,672,093 
              (1,269,763) (5)     
              (26,316,904) (6)     
Accounts receivable, net   3,865,059    -    -    3,865,059 
Inventories   528,916    -    -    528,916 
Prepaid services fees   5,999,763    14,875    -    6,014,638 
Other receivables and prepaid expenses   251,078    -    -    251,078 
Due from Parent   5,509,109    -    -    5,509,109 
Total current assets   36,850,080    33,113    20,957,700    57,840,893 
                    
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET   176,271    -    -    176,271 
                     
OTHER ASSETS                    
Prepaid expenses and deposits   188,471    222    -    188,693 
Deferred merger costs   628,652    -    (628,652) (5)   - 
Cost method investment   169,019    -    -    169,019 
Intangible assets, net   3,266,927    -    -    3,266,927 
Operating lease right-of-use assets   226,970    -    -    226,970 
Goodwill   20,245,543    -    -    20,245,543 
Cash and investments held in trust account   -    48,134,908    153,333  (1)   - 
              153,333  (2)     
              102,793  (3)     
              (48,544,367) (4)   - 
Total non-current assets   24,725,582.00    48,135,130    (48,763,560)   24,097,152 
                     
Total assets  $61,751,933   $48,168,243   $(27,805,860)  $82,114,316 
                     
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY                    
                     
CURRENT LIABILITIES                    
Accounts payable  $1,359,894   $-   $-   $1,359,894 
Deferred revenues   3,149,448    -    -    3,149,448 
Other payables and accrued liabilities   760,810    76,058    -    836,868 
Promisory note   -    -    153,333  (2)     
Due to Parent   -    -    126,751  (9)   280,084 
Advance from related party   -    733,421    (733,421) (9)   - 
Banking facility   -    -    -    - 
Operating lease liabilities   165,887    -    -    165,887 
Notes payable – related party   -    1,379,997    153,333  (1)   - 
Taxes payable   86,947    -    -    86,947 
Total current liabilities   5,522,986    2,189,476    (1,833,334)   5,879,128 
                     
OTHER LIABILITIES                    
Operating lease liabilities - noncurrent   72,763    -    -    72,763 
Deferred underwriting compensation   -    1,150,000    (1,150,000) (5)   - 
Warrant liabilities   -    10,000    -    10,000 
Deferred tax liabilities, net   635,260    -    -    635,260 
Total other liabilities   708,023    1,160,000    (1,150,000)   718,023 
                     
Total liabilities   6,231,009    3,349,476    (2,983,334)   6,597,151 
                     
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES                    
Ordinary shares subject to redemption   -    48,134,908    306,666  (1)(2)   - 
              102,793  (3)     
              (48,544,367) (6)     
                     
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY                    
Ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value   28,745    1,450    2,106  (6)   43,857 
              39,604  (7)     
              483  (8)     
              (28,745) (7)     
              214  (9)     
Additional paid-in capital   26,252,042    -    22,225,357  (6)   46,261,288 
              (306,666) (1)(2)     
              (3,420,096) (7)     
              (483) (8)     
              (628,652) (5)     
              2,139,786  (9)     
Retained earnings (accumulated deficit)   27,004,295    (3,409,237)   3,409,237  (7)   26,976,178 
              (119,763) (5)     
              91,646  (10)     
Statutory reserves   1,720,417    -    -    1,720,417 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss   190,274    91,646.00    (91,646) (10)   190,274 
Total shareholders’ equity   55,195,773    (3,316,141)   23,312,382    75,192,014 
                     
    325,151    -    -    325,151 
                     
NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS                    
Total equity   55,520,924    (3,316,141)   23,312,382    75,517,165 
                     
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity  $61,751,933   $48,168,243   $(27,805,860)  $82,114,316 

 

 

 

 

PRO FORMA CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

Nine months ended September 30, 2022

(UNAUDITED)

 

               Pro Forma 
   (A)   (B)   Pro Forma   Income 
   VIYI   Venus   Adjustments   Statement 
OPERATING REVENUES  $64,992,619   $-   $-   $64,992,619 
                     
COST OF REVENUES   (50,336,476)        -    (50,336,476)
                     
GROSS PROFIT   14,656,143    -    -    14,656,143 
                     
OPERATING EXPENSES                    
Formation, and operating costs   -    (358,222)        (358,222)
Selling expenses   (484,568)   -    -    (484,568)
General and administrative expenses   (2,655,833)   -    -    (2,655,833)
Research and development expenses   (9,571,894)   -    -    (9,571,894)
Total operating expenses   (12,712,295)   (358,222)   -    (13,070,517)
                     
INCOME (LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS   1,943,848    (358,222)   -    1,585,626 
                     
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES)                    
Investment loss   (149,892)   -    -    (149,892)
Interest income   151,863    194,110    (194,110) (1)   151,863 
Finance expenses, net   (53,373)   -    -    (53,373)
Change fair value of warrant liablities        400,000    -    400,000 
Other income, net   266,491    -    -    266,491 
Total other expenses, net   215,089    594,110    (194,110)   615,089 
                     
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES   2,158,937    235,888    (194,110)   2,200,715 
                     
BENEFIT OF (PROVISION FOR) INCOME TAX                    
Current   (31,103)   -    -    (31,103)
Deferred   168,677    -    -    168,677 
Total provision for income tax   137,574    -    -    137,574 
                     
NET INCOME (LOSS)   2,296,511    235,888    (194,110)   2,338,289 
                     
Less: Net income attributable to non-controlling interests   99,227    -    -    99,227 
                     
NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SHAREHOLDERS  $2,197,284   $235,888   $(194,110)  $2,239,062 
                     
NET INCOME  $2,296,511   $235,888   $(194,110)  $2,338,289 
                     
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME                    
Foreign currency translation adjustment   554,465    -    -    554,465 
Change in unrealized gain on available for sale securities   -    91,646    (91,646) (1)   - 
                     
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME   2,850,976    327,534    (285,756)   2,892,754 
                     
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests   99,227    -    -    99,227 
                     
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SHAREHOLDERS BEFORE   2,751,749    327,534   $(285,756)  $2,793,527 
                     
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF ORDINARY SHARES, SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION      
Basic and diluted   300,000,000    4,600,000    (4,600,000) (2)   - 
                     
EARNINGS PER SHARE                    
Basic and diluted  $0.01   $0.13   $    $-
                     
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF ORDINARY SHARES TO VENUS SHAREHOLDERS      
Basic and diluted   300,000,000    1,450,000    42,406,706  (2)   43,856,706 
                     
EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE                    
Basic and diluted  $0.01   $(0.24)  $    $0.05

 

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PRO FORMA CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

Year ended December 31, 2021

(AUDITED)

 

               Pro Forma 
   (A)   (B)   Pro Forma   Income 
   VIYI   Venus   Adjustments   Statement 
OPERATING REVENUES  $83,010,597   $   $-   $83,010,597 
                     
COST OF REVENUES   (49,499,997)        -    (49,499,997)
                     
GROSS PROFIT   33,510,600    -    -    33,510,600 
                     
OPERATING EXPENSES                    
Formation, and operating costs   -    (785,096)   (119,763) (2)   (904,859)
Selling expenses   (850,097)   -    -    (850,097)
General and administrative expenses   (5,340,536)   -    -    (5,340,536)
Research and development expenses   (16,788,003)   -    -    (16,788,003)
Goodwill impairement loss   (2,895,014)        -    (2,895,014)
Change in fair value of business acquisition payable   508,163         -    508,163 
Total operating expenses   (25,365,487)   (785,096)   (119,763)   (26,270,346)
                     
INCOME (LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS   8,145,113    (785,096)   (119,763)   7,240,254 
                     
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES)                    
Investment income   197,313    -    -    197,313 
Interest income   295,670    2,683    (2,683) (1)   295,670 
Finance expenses, net   (280,802)        -    (280,802)
Change fair value of warrant liablities        (30,000)        (30,000)
Other income, net   313,912    -    -    313,912 
Total other expenses, net   526,093    (27,317)   (2,683)   496,093 
                     
INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAXES   8,671,206    (812,413)   (122,446)   7,736,347 
                     
BENEFIT OF (PROVISION FOR) INCOME TAX                    
Current   (368,832)   -    -    (368,832)
Deferred   283,005    -    -    283,005 
Total provision for income tax   (85,827)   -    -    (85,827)
                     
NET INCOME (LOSS)   8,585,379    (812,413)   (122,446)   7,650,520 
                     
Less: Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests   (84,392)             (84,392)
                     
NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SHAREHOLDERS  $8,669,771   $(812,413)  $(122,446)  $7,734,912 
                     
NET INCOME (LOSS)  $8,585,379   $(812,413)  $(122,446)  $7,650,520 
                     
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS                    
Foreign currency translation adjustment   (71,369)   -    -    (71,369)
                     
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)   8,514,010    (812,413)   (122,446)   7,579,151 
                     
Less: Comprehensive loss attributable to noncontrolling interests   (84,392)   -    -    (84,392)
                     
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)   8,598,402    (812,413)  $(122,446)  $7,663,543 
                     
Less: income attributable to ordinary shares subject to redemption                  - 
                     
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SHAREHOLDERS BEFORE   8,598,402    (812,413)   (122,446)   7,663,543 
                     
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF ORDINARY SHARES                    
Basic and diluted        4,070,685    (4,070,685) (3)   - 
                     
EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE                    
Basic and diluted      $0.08       $- 
                     
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF ORDINARY SHARES                    
Basic and diluted        1,415,479    42,441,227  (3)   43,856,706 
                     
EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE                    
Basic and diluted      $(0.81)       $0.18 

 

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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Introduction

 

MicroAlgo Inc. (“MicroAlgo” or the “Company”) (f/k/a Venus Acquisition Corporation (“Venus”)), a Cayman Islands exempted company, entered into the Business Combination and Merger Agreement dated September 10, 2021 (as amended on January 24, 2022, August 2, 2022, August 3, 2022 and August 10, 2022, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Venus, Venus Merger Sub Corporation (“Venus Merger Sub”), a Cayman Islands exempted company incorporated for the purpose of effectuating the Business Combination (as defined herein), and VIYI Algorithm Inc. (“VIYI”), a Cayman Islands exempted company.

 

On December 9, 2022, in accordance with the Merger Agreement, the closing of the Business Combination (the “Closing”) occurred, pursuant to which Venus issued 39,603,961 ordinary shares to VIYI shareholders. As a result of the consummation of the Business Combination, VIYI is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, which has changed its name to MicroAlgo Inc.

 

Prior to the Transaction Close, holders of ordinary shares of Venus had the right to redeem all or a portion of their Venus ordinary shares for a per share price calculated in accordance with Venus’s governing documents. The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial is based on the historical financial statements of VIYI and Venus after giving effect to the Transaction and reflected the actual redemption of 2,493,755 Venus ordinary shares.

 

The unaudited pro forma combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2022 gives pro forma effect to the Business Combination as if it had been consummated as of that date. The unaudited pro forma combined statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and for the year ended December 31, 2021 give pro forma effect to the Business Combination as if it had occurred as of January 1, 2021. This information should be read together with VIYI’s and Venus’ respective audited financial statements and related notes, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of VIYI,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of Venus” and other financial information included elsewhere in this Current Report.

 

The unaudited pro forma combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2022 has been prepared using the following:

 

  VIYI’s unaudited consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2022, as included elsewhere in this Current Report; and

 

  Venus’ unaudited consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2022, as filed in Form 10-Q on November 23, 2022.

 

The unaudited pro forma combined statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 has been prepared using the following:

 

  VIYI’ unaudited consolidated statement of income and comprehensive income nine months ended September 30, 2022, as included elsewhere in this Current Report; and

 

  Venus’ unaudited consolidated statement of operations for nine months ended September 30, 2022, as filed in Form 10-Q on November 23, 2022..

 

The unaudited pro forma combined statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021 has been prepared using the following:

 

  VIYI’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income for the year ended December 31, 2021, as included definitive proxy statement; and

 

  Venus’ statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021, as included definitive proxy statement.

 

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Description of the Transactions

 

On June 10, 2021, Venus entered into the Merger Agreement with the Venus Merger Sub, VIYI and WiMi. Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, the Venus Merger Sub will merge with and into VIYI, with VIYI being the surviving entity and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Venus. New Venus refers to Venus after the consummation of the Business Combination The aggregate consideration for the Business Combination is $400,000,000, payable in the form of 39,603,961 newly issued Venus ordinary shares valued at $10.10 per share to VIYI and its shareholders. At the closing of the Business Combination, the issued and outstanding shares in VIYI held by the former VIYI shareholders will be cancelled and ceased to exist, in exchange for the issue of an aggregate of 39,603,961 Venus Ordinary, among which 792,079 New Venus ordinary shares are to be issued and held in escrow to satisfy any indemnification obligations incurred under the Merger Agreement. For more information about the Business Combination, please see the section entitled “Proposals No.1 — The Business Combination Proposal.” A copy of the Merger Agreement is attached to the accompanying proxy statement as Annex A.

 

Accounting for the Transactions

 

The Business Combination will be accounted for as a reverse merger in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Under this method of accounting, Venus will be treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes. This determination was primarily based on the holders of VIYI expecting to have a majority of the voting power of the post-combination company, VIYI senior management comprising substantially all of the senior management of the post-combination company, the relative size of VIYI compared to Venus, and VIYI operations comprising the ongoing operations of the post-combination company. Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the Business Combination will be treated as the equivalent of VIYI issuing shares for the net assets of Venus, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of Venus will be stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded. Operations prior to the Business Combination will be those of VIYI.

 

Basis of Pro Forma Presentation

 

The historical financial information has been adjusted to give pro forma effect to events that are related and/or directly attributable to the Business Combination. The adjustments presented on the unaudited pro forma combined financial statements have been identified and presented to provide relevant information necessary for an accurate understanding of the post-combination company upon consummation of the Business Combination.

 

The unaudited pro forma combined financial information is for illustrative purposes only. The financial results may have been different had the companies always been combined. You should not rely on the unaudited pro forma combined financial information as being indicative of the historical financial position and results that would have been achieved had the companies always been combined or the future financial position and results that the post-combination company will experience. VIYI and Venus have not had any historical relationship prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, no pro forma adjustments were required to eliminate activities between the companies.

 

Included in the shares outstanding and weighted average shares outstanding as presented in the pro forma combined financial statements are 39,603,961 ordinary shares to be issued to VIYI shareholders.

 

As a result of the Business Combination and immediately following the closing of the Business Combination, after reflecting the actual redemption of 2,493,755 shares by Venus shareholders, VIYI will own approximately 90.30% of the outstanding Venus ordinary shares, the former shareholders of Venus will own approximately 9.04% of the outstanding Venus ordinary shares, and Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc, lead underwriter of Venus, will own approximately 0.17 %, (not giving effect to any shares issuable to them upon the exercise of any Venus warrants) and Joyous JD limited will own 0.49% as of September 30, 2022.

 

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PRO FORMA COMBINED BALANCE SHEET

AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

(UNAUDITED)

 

(A) Derived from the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of VIYI as of September 30, 2022. See VIYI’s consolidated financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in Current report.

 

(B) Derived from the unaudited condensed balance sheet of Venus as of September 30, 2022. See Venus’ consolidated financial statements filed in Form 10-Q on November 23, 2022.

 

(1) Reflects the issuance of an unsecured promissory note of $153,333 to the Sponsor and pursuant to which such amount had been deposited into the Trust Account in order to extend the amount of available time to complete the business combination. The amount deposited into trust account increased the redemption value of ordinary shares by $0.033 which was recorded as accretion of carry value to redemption value in additional paid in capital.

 

(2) On November 10, 2022, the Company issued an unsecured promissory note, in an amount of $500,000 to Joyous JD Limited, pursuant to which an amount of $153,333 had been deposited into the Trust Account in order to extend the amount of available time to complete a business combination. The amount deposited into trust account increased the redemption value of ordinary shares by $0.033 which was recorded as accretion of carry value to redemption value in additional paid in capital.

 

(3)

Reflects interest of $102,793 earned on Trust Account from October 1, 2022 to December 9, 2022.

 

(4) Reflects the release of cash from marketable securities held in the trust account.

 

(5) Reflects VIYI’s total deferred merger costs related to the Business Combination of approximately $0.6 million as deferred transaction costs and subsequently reclassify to additional paid-in capital upon the close of the Business Combination and reflects Venus’ payment of deferred underwriting compensation of approximately $1.2 million and direct, incremental costs of the Business Combination related to the legal, accounting and other professional fees of approximately $0.1 million is reflected as an adjustment to retained earnings.

 

(6)Reflects 2,493,755 shares redeemed for cash by Venus shareholders, $26.3 million would be paid out in cash at redemption price of $10.55.

 

(7) Reflects the recapitalization of Venus through (a) the contribution of all the share capital in VIYI to Venus, (b) the issuance of 39,603,961 ordinary shares and (c) the elimination of the historical retained earnings of Venus, the accounting acquiree.

 

(8) Reflects upon consummation of the Business Combination, 4,825,000 rights converted into 482,500 ordinary shares.

 

(9)Reflect the issuance of 214,000 shares to Joyous JD to repay $2.14 million owed to Venus related parties. The remaining balance is reclassified to promissory notes Joyous JD.

 

(10)Reflect the reclassification of other comprehensive income from unrealized gain on debt securities to retained earnings.

 

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PRO FORMA COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
(UNAUDITED)

 

(A) Derived from the unaudited consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income of VIYI for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. See VIYI’s financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this Current Report.

 

(B) Derived from the unaudited statement of operations of Venus for the nine months ended September 30, 2022. See Venus’ financial statements filed in Form 10-Q on November 23, 2022.

 

(1) Represents an adjustment to eliminate investment income on marketable securities held in trust as of the beginning of the period;

 

(2) The calculation of weighted average shares outstanding for basic and diluted net earnings (loss) per share assumes that Venus’ initial public offering occurred as of January 1, 2021. In addition, as the Business Combination is being reflected as if it had occurred on this date, the calculation of weighted average shares outstanding for basic and diluted net earnings per share assumes that the shares have been outstanding for the entire period presented. This calculation is retroactively adjusted to eliminate the number of shares redeemed in the Business Combination for the entire period.

 

Weighted average shares calculation, basic and diluted     
Venus public shares   2,106,245 
Venus shares converted from rights   482,500 
Venus Sponsor shares   1,375,000 
Venus shares issued to underwriter   75,000 
Venus shares issued in the Business Combination   39,603,961 
Venus shares issued to Joyous JD Limited   214,000 
Weighted average shares outstanding   43,856,706 
Percent of shares owned by VIYI shareholders   90.30%
Percent of shares owned by underwriter   0.17%
Percent of shares owned by Venus   9.04%
Percent of shares owned by Joyous JD limited   0.49%

 

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PRO FORMA COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021
(UNAUDITED)

 

(A) Derived from the consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income of VIYI for the year ended December 31, 2021. See VIYI’s financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this proxy statement.

 

(B) Derived from the statement of operations of Venus for the year ended December 31, 2021. See Venus’ financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this proxy statement.

 

(1)

Represents an adjustment to eliminate investment income on marketable securities held in trust as of the beginning of the period;.

 
(2) Reflects the approximately $0.1 million of Venus transaction costs incurred subsequent to September 30, 2022 as if the Business Combination had been consummated on January 1, 2021, the date the Business Combination occurred for the purposes of the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations. This is a non-recurring item.
   
(3) The calculation of weighted average shares outstanding for basic and diluted net earnings (loss) per share assumes that Venus’ initial public offering occurred as of January 1, 2021. In addition, as the Business Combination is being reflected as if it had occurred on this date, the calculation of weighted average shares outstanding for basic and diluted net earnings per share assumes that the shares have been outstanding for the entire period presented. This calculation is retroactively adjusted to eliminate the number of shares redeemed in the Business Combination for the entire period.

 

Weighted average shares calculation, basic and diluted     
Venus public shares   2,106,245 
Venus shares converted from rights   482,500 
Venus Sponsor shares   1,375,000 
Venus shares issued to underwriter   75,000 
Venus shares issued in the Business Combination   39,603,961 
Venus shares issued to Joyous JD Limited   214,000 
Weighted average shares outstanding   43,856,706 
Percent of shares owned by VIYI shareholders   90.3%
Percent of shares owned by underwriter   0.17%
Percent of shares owned by Venus   9.04%
Percent of shares owned by Joyous JD limited   0.49%

 

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