UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE
13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of January 2024
Commission File Number 001-40301
Infobird Co., Ltd
(Translation of registrant’s name into
English)
Room 706, 7/F, Low Block,
Grand Millennium Plaza,
181 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong
(Address of principal executive office)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F. Form 20-F ☒ Form 40-F
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make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant’s
“home country”), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant’s securities are traded, as
long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not required to be and has not been distributed to the registrant’s
security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing
on EDGAR
INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS
FORM 6-K REPORT
Infobird Co., Ltd furnishes under the cover of Form
6-K the following in connection with the extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders:
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: January 31, 2024
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INFOBIRD CO., LTD |
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/s/ Yiting Song |
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Name: Yiting Song |
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Title: Director and Chief Financial Officer |
EXHIBIT 99.1
INFOBIRD
CO., LTD
Room 706, 7/F, Low Block,
Grand Millennium Plaza,
181 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong
NOTICE
OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
To
be held on February 20, 2024, at 10:00 a.m . (Local Time)
(or any adjournment or postponement thereof)
To the Shareholders
of Infobird Co., Ltd
Notice
is hereby given that the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of Infobird Co., Ltd, a Cayman Islands exempted company
(the “Company”) will be held on February 20, 2024, at 10:00 a.m . local time (i.e., 9:00 p.m. February 19, 2024 ,
E.T.) at Room 706, 7/F, Low Block, Grand Millennium Plaza, 181 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong (“Principal
Executive Office”), and at any adjourned or postponement thereof. The Extraordinary General Meeting is called for the following
purposes:
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Proposal
1: To consider and approve by an ordinary resolution that
(a) every
8 ordinary shares (the “Ordinary Shares”) of a par value of US$0.50 each in the authorized share capital of
the Company (including issued and unissued share capital) be consolidated into 1 Ordinary Share of a par value of US$4.00 each
(the “Consolidated Shares”) with immediate effect, with such Consolidated Shares having the same rights and
being subject to the same restrictions (save as to nominal value) as the existing ordinary shares of US$0.50 each of the Company
as set out in the Company’s memorandum and articles of association (the “Share Consolidation”);
(b) immediately following the Share Consolidation, the authorized share capital of the Company will be US$25,000,000,000
divided into 6,250,000,000 shares of par value of US$4.00 each, all of which are designated as Ordinary Shares; and
(c) all
fractional entitlements to the issued Consolidated Shares resulting from the Share Consolidation will not be issued to the
shareholders of the Company and the Company be authorized to round up any fractional shares resulting from the Share
Consolidation such that each shareholder will be entitled to receive one Consolidated Share in lieu of any fractional share
that would have resulted from the Share Consolidation(the “Share Consolidation Proposal”). |
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Proposal
2: To consider and approve by a special resolution that, subject to and conditional upon, amongst other
things, (i) the Share Consolidation becoming effective; (ii) approval from the Grand Court of the Cayman
Islands (the “Court”) of the Capital Reduction (as defined below); (iii) registration
by the Registrar of Companies of Cayman Islands of the order of the Court confirming the Capital Reduction
and the minute approved by the Court containing the particulars required under the Companies Act (Revised)
of the Cayman Islands (the “Companies Act”) in respect of the Capital Reduction
and compliance with any conditions the Court may impose; (iv) compliance with the relevant procedures
and requirements under the applicable laws of Cayman Islands to effect the Capital Reduction and (v)
obtaining of all necessary approvals from the regulatory authorities or otherwise as may be required
in respect of the Capital Reduction and Reorganization, with effect from the date on which these conditions
are fulfill:
(a) the
par value of each issued Consolidated Share of par value of US$4.00 each in the share capital of the Company be reduced to
US$0.00001 par value each (the “Capital Reduction”) by cancelling the paid-up capital to the extent of
US$3.99999 on each of the then issued Consolidated Shares;
(b) the
credit arising from the Capital Reduction be transferred to a distributable reserve account of the Company which may be utilized
by Company as the board of directors of the Company may deem fit and permitted under the Companies Act, the memorandum and
articles of association of the Company (the “Memorandum and Articles”) and all relevant applicable laws,
including, without limitation, eliminating or setting off any accumulated losses of the Company (if any) from time to time;
(c)
immediately following the Capital Reduction, each of the authorized but unissued Consolidated Shares of par value US$4.00
each be sub-divided into 400,000 ordinary shares of par value US$0.00001 each (the “Share Sub-Division”);
(d) immediately
following the Capital Reduction and the Share Sub-Division, the authorized share capital of the Company be changed from US$25,000,000,000
divided into 6,250,000,000 shares of par value of US$4.00 each to US$50,000,000 divided into 5,000,000,000,000 ordinary shares
of par value US$0.00001 each (the “New Shares”) by cancelling the excess authorized but unissued ordinary
shares in the authorized share capital;
(the
steps above shall be collectively referred to as the “Capital Reduction and Reorganization”)
(e) each
of the New Shares arising from the Capital Reduction and Reorganization shall rank pari passu in all respects with
each other and shall have the rights and privileges and be subject to the restrictions as contained in the Memorandum and
Articles; and
(f) any
one or more of the Directors be and is/are hereby authorized to do all such acts and things and execute all such documents,
which are in connection with and/or ancillary to the Capital Reduction and Reorganization and any of the foregoing steps and
of administrative nature, on behalf of the Company, including under seal where applicable, as he/she/they consider necessary,
desirable or expedient to give effect to the foregoing arrangements for the Capital Reduction and Reorganization and (where
applicable) to aggregate all fractional New Shares and sell them for the benefits of the Company (the “Capital Reduction
and Reorganization Proposal”). |
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Proposal 3: To consider and approve
by a special resolution that the amendments of the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association in the form of Sixth
Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association attached as Annex B to the proxy statement attached to reflect
the above Share Consolidation and the Capital Reduction and Reorganization be approved; and that the Sixth Amended and Restated
Memorandum and Articles of Association be adopted as the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company, to the exclusion
of the existing Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association with effect from the effective date of the
Capital Reduction and Reorganization . The registered office provider of the Company shall be instructed to file the
Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands and
to do and complete all other matters ancillary to such filing as may be necessary or desirable in order to give effect to
amendment of the Memorandum and Articles of Association in the Cayman Islands (the “Amendment Proposal”). |
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proxy statement providing information, and a form of proxy to vote, with respect to the foregoing matters accompany this notice.
The Board of Directors of the Company fixed the close of business on January 10, 2024 as the record date (the “Record
Date”) for determining the shareholders entitled to receive notice of and to vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting or
any adjourned or postponement thereof. The register of members of the Company will not be closed. A list of the shareholders entitled
to vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting may be examined at the Company’s offices during the 10-day period preceding
the Extraordinary General Meeting.
Holders
of record of the Company’s ordinary shares as of the Record Date are cordially invited to attend the Extraordinary General
Meeting in person. Your vote is important. Whether or not you expect to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting in person, you
are urged to complete, sign, date and return the accompanying proxy form as promptly as possible. We must receive the proxy form
no later than noon (Hong Kong time) on the day of the Extraordinary General Meeting to ensure your representation at such meeting.
Shareholders who execute proxies retain the right to revoke them at any time prior to the voting thereof, and may nevertheless
vote in person at the Extraordinary General Meeting. You may obtain directions to the meeting by calling our offices at +852 3690
9227. Shareholders may obtain a copy of these materials, free of charge, by contacting the Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Company at the Principal Executive Office.
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By Order of the Board of Directors, |
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/s/ Cheuk Yee Li |
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Cheuk Yee Li |
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Chairman of the Board of Directors |
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January 31, 2024 |
IMPORTANT
Whether or
not you expect to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting in person, you are urged to complete, sign, date and return the accompanying
proxy form to ensure your representation at such meeting.
If your shares
are held in street name, your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder cannot vote your shares, unless you direct the nominee
holder how to vote by marking your proxy card.
INFOBIRD CO.,
LTD
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
INFOBIRD
CO., LTD
Room
706, 7/F, Low Block, Grand Millennium Plaza,
181 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong
PROXY STATEMENT
for
EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
To
be held on February 20, 2024, at 10:00 a.m . (Local Time)
(or any adjournment or postponement thereof)
PROXY
SOLICITATION
This
Proxy Statement is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Directors (the “Board”
or the “Board of Directors”) of Infobird Co., Ltd (the “Company,” “we,” “us,”
or “our”) for the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held at Room 706, 7/F, Low Block, Grand Millennium
Plaza, 181 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong on February 20, 2024, at 10:00 a.m . local time and for any
adjournment or postponement thereof, for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting of
Shareholders. Any shareholder giving such a proxy has the power to revoke it at any time before it is voted. Written notice of
such revocation should be forwarded directly to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, at the above stated address.
Proxies may be solicited through the mails or direct communication with certain shareholders or their representatives by Company
officers, directors, or employees, who will receive no additional compensation therefor. You may obtain directions to the meeting
by calling our offices at +852 3690 9227 .
If
the enclosed proxy is properly executed and returned, the shares represented thereby will be voted in accordance with the directions
thereon and otherwise in accordance with the judgment of the persons designated as proxies. Any proxy on which no direction is
specified will be voted in favor of the actions described in this Proxy Statement.
The
Company will bear the entire cost of preparing, assembling, printing and mailing this Proxy Statement, the accompanying proxy
form, and any additional material that may be furnished to shareholders. The date on which this Proxy Statement and the accompanying
Proxy Form will first be mailed or given to the Company’s shareholders is on or about February 2, 2024 .
We
have elected to provide access to our proxy materials both by sending you this full set of proxy materials, including the notice
of our Extraordinary General Meeting, this Proxy Statement and a proxy card to Shareholders.
Your
vote is important. Whether or not you expect to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting in person, you are urged to complete,
sign, date and return the accompanying proxy form as promptly as possible to ensure your representation at such meeting. Shareholders
who execute proxies retain the right to revoke them at any time prior to the voting thereof, and may nevertheless vote in person
at the Extraordinary General Meeting. If you hold your shares in street name and wish to vote your shares at the Extraordinary
General Meeting, you should contact your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder about getting a proxy appointing you
to vote your shares.
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
The
following is information regarding the proxy material, Extraordinary General Meeting and voting is presented in a question and
answer format.
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What is the purpose
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This document serves as the Company’s
proxy statement, including a notice of the Extraordinary General Meeting (the “Extraordinary General Meeting”)
of Shareholders (the “Meeting Notice”), which is being provided to Company shareholders of record at the close
of business on January 10, 2024 (the “Record Date”) because the Company’s Board of Directors is convening
the Extraordinary General Meeting and soliciting shareholders’ proxies to vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting
on the item of business outlined in the Meeting Notice. |
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Why am I receiving
these materials? |
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We
have sent you this proxy statement, including the Meeting Notice and the enclosed proxy card and form of the Sixth Amended
and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association because the Board of Directors of the Company is soliciting your proxy
to vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting, including at any adjournments or postponements of the meeting. You are invited
to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting to vote on the proposal described in this proxy statement. However, you do
not need to attend the meeting to vote your shares. Instead, you may simply complete, sign and return the enclosed proxy
card.
When you sign the enclosed proxy card, you appoint the proxy holder
as your representative at the meeting. The proxy holder will vote your shares as you have instructed in the proxy card, thereby
ensuring that your shares will be voted whether or not you attend the meeting. Even if you plan to attend the meeting, you
should complete, sign and return your proxy card in advance of the meeting just in case your plans change.
If
you have signed and returned the proxy card and an issue comes up for a vote at the meeting that is not identified on the
card, the proxy holder will vote your shares, pursuant to your proxy, in accordance with his or her judgment.
The Company intends to mail this proxy statement and accompanying
proxy card on or about February 2, 2024 to all shareholders entitled to vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting. |
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Who may vote and how many votes my I cast? |
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Only shareholders of record on the
Record Date, January 10, 2024 , will be entitled to vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting. On the Record Date, there
were 10,717,794 ordinary shares outstanding and entitled to vote. Each ordinary share is entitled to one vote on each matter.
There are no preferred shares issued and outstanding. |
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How do I vote? |
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You may vote “For” or “Against”
the proposals, or “Abstain” from voting on such proposals. The procedures for voting are outlined below: |
Shareholder of Record: Shares
Registered in Your Name
If you are a
shareholder of record, you may vote in person at the Extraordinary General Meeting or vote by proxy using the enclosed proxy card.
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To vote in person, come to the Extraordinary
General Meeting and we will give you a ballot when you arrive; or |
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To vote using the proxy card, simply complete,
sign and date the enclosed proxy card and return it promptly in the envelope provided. If you return your signed proxy card to
us by 11:59 p.m. EDT before the day of the Extraordinary General Meeting, we will vote your shares as you direct. |
Beneficial Owner: Shares Registered
in the Name of a Broker, Bank, Custodian or Other Nominee Holder
If
you received this proxy statement from your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder, your broker, bank, custodian or other
nominee holder should have given you instructions for directing how that person or entity should vote your shares. It will then
be your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder’s responsibility to vote your shares for you in the manner you direct.
Please complete, execute and return the proxy card in the envelope provided by your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder
promptly.
Under
the rules of various national and regional securities exchanges, brokers generally may vote on routine matters, such as the ratification
of the engagement of an independent public accounting firm, but may not vote on non-routine matters unless they have received
voting instructions from the person for whom they are holding shares. The proposals are non-routine matters and, consequently,
your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder will not have discretionary authority to vote your shares on these matters.
If your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder does not receive instructions from you on how to vote on this matter,
your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder will return the proxy card to us, indicating that he or she does not have
the authority to vote on these matters. This is generally referred to as a “broker non-vote” and may affect the outcome
of the voting.
We
therefore encourage you to provide directions to your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder as to how you want your
shares voted on all matters to be brought before the Extraordinary General Meeting. You should do this by carefully following
the instructions your broker, bank, custodian or other nominee holder gives you concerning its procedures. This ensures that your
shares will be voted at the Extraordinary General Meeting.
You
are also invited to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting. However, since you are not the shareholder of record, you may not
vote your shares in person at the meeting unless you request and obtain a valid proxy from your broker, bank, custodian or other
nominee holder.
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What if I change my mind after I vote via proxy? |
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If you hold your shares in your own name, you may revoke your
proxy at any time before your shares are voted by: |
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mailing a later dated proxy prior
to the Extraordinary General Meeting; |
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delivering a written request in person
to return the executed proxy; |
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voting in person at the Extraordinary
General Meeting; or |
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providing written notice of revocation
to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company at: Room 706, 7/F, Low Block, Grand Millennium Plaza, 181 Queen’s
Road Central, Central, Hong Kong . |
If you hold your
shares in the name of your broker, bank, or other fiduciary, you will need to contact that person or entity to revoke your proxy.
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What does it mean
if I receive more than one proxy card or voting instruction form? |
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It means that you have multiple accounts
at our transfer agent or with brokers, banks, or other fiduciaries. Please complete and return all proxy cards and voting
instruction forms to ensure that all of your shares are voted. |
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How many shares must
be present to hold a valid meeting? |
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For us to hold a valid
Extraordinary General Meeting, we must have a quorum of the shareholders holding not less than one-third in nominal value
of our total issued voting shares that are entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted. Proxies received but marked
as abstentions and Broker Non-Votes will be treated as shares that are present and entitled to vote for purposes of determining
a quorum. Your shares will be counted as present at the Extraordinary General Meeting if you: |
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properly submit a proxy card (even
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attend the Meeting and vote in person.
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On
January 10, 2024 , the Record Date, there were 10,717,794 ordinary shares outstanding. Therefore, at least 3,572,598 (one
third of the outstanding ordinary shares) shares need to be present in person or by proxy at the Extraordinary General Meeting
in order to hold the meeting and conduct business.
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many votes are required to approve an item of business?
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Proposal 1 will be approved if passed
by a simple majority of the shareholders being entitled to do so, voting in person or by proxy at the Extraordinary General
Meeting. |
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Proposal 2 will be approved if passed
by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the shareholders being entitled to do so, voting in person or by proxy at the
Extraordinary General Meeting. |
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Proposal 3 will be approved if passed
by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the shareholders being entitled to do so, voting in person or by proxy at the
Extraordinary General Meeting. |
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shares that are voted are taken into account in determining the proportion of votes cast for the proposals. Any shares not voted
(whether by abstention, broker non-vote or otherwise) will not impact any of the votes.
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Who pays the cost for soliciting proxies? |
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We will pay the cost for the solicitation
of proxies by the Board of Directors. Our solicitation of proxies will be made primarily by mail. Proxies may also be solicited
personally, by telephone, fax or e-mail by our officers, directors, and regular supervisory and executive employees, none
of whom will receive any additional compensation for their services. We will also reimburse brokers, banks, custodians, other
nominees and fiduciaries for forwarding these materials to beneficial holders to obtain the authorization for the execution
of proxies. |
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the Company? |
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Our reports on 6-K, and other publicly
available information, should be consulted for other important information about the Company. You can also find additional
information about us on our web site at https://www.infobird.com. The mailing address and the location of the principal executive
office of the Company is Room 706, 7/F, Low Block, Grand Millennium Plaza, 181 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong .
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Proposal
1
AUTHORIZE
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO EFFECT A SHARE CONSOLIDATION
Purpose and
Background of the Share Consolidation
To
consider and approve by an ordinary resolution that every 8 ordinary shares (the “Ordinary Shares”) of a par value
of US$0.50 each in the authorized share capital of the Company (including issued and unissued share capital) be consolidated into
1 Ordinary Share of a par value of US$4.00 each (the “Consolidated Shares”) with immediate effect (the “Share
Consolidation”); , with such Consolidated Ordinary Shares having the same rights and being subject to the same restrictions
(save as to nominal value) as the existing ordinary shares of US$0.50 each of the Company as set out in the Company’s memorandum
and articles of association and such that immediately following the Share Consolidation, the authorized share capital of the Company
will be US$25,000,000,000 divided into 6,250,000,000 shares of par value of US$4.00 each, all of which are designated as Ordinary
Shares and all fractional entitlements to the issued Consolidated Shares resulting from the Share Consolidation will not be issued
to the shareholders of the Company and the Company be authorized to round up any fractional shares resulting from the Share Consolidation
such that each shareholder will be entitled to receive one Consolidated Ordinary Share in lieu of any fractional share that would
have resulted from the Share Consolidation.
On
January 10, 2024, the Board of Directors approved by written resolution of the Directors the proposal authorizing the Share
Consolidation because the Board of Directors believes that effecting the Share Consolidation could, in some circumstances, be
an effective means of maintaining, or if necessary, regaining, compliance with the minimum trading price requirement for continued
listing of our Ordinary Shares on The Nasdaq Capital Market.
On
January 30, 2024, the closing price for our Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market was $0.63 per Ordinary Share.
As a result, the Company is currently non-compliance with Nasdaq Continued Listing Rule (“Rules”) 5550(a)(2) (the
“Price Rule”), which requires listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share. To regain compliance,
the bid price of the Company’s Ordinary Shares must close at or above $1.00 per share. The Company has been monitoring the
closing bid price of its Ordinary Shares and now considers effecting the Share Consolidation.
If
the Share Consolidation successfully increases the per share price of our Ordinary Shares, the Board of Directors believes this
Share Consolidation will enable us to regain compliance with the Price Rule.
In
light of the factors mentioned above, our Board of Directors approved this proposal as a potential means of maintaining the price
of our Ordinary Shares above $1.00 per share in compliance with the Price Rule.
Potential
Affected Investor Interest
In
approving this proposal, the Board of Directors considered that the Company’s Ordinary Shares may not appeal to brokerage
firms that are reluctant to recommend lower priced securities to their clients. Investors may also be dissuaded from purchasing
lower priced stocks because the brokerage commissions, as a percentage of the total transaction, tend to be higher for such stocks.
Moreover, the analysts at many brokerage firms do not monitor the trading activity or otherwise provide coverage of lower priced
stocks.
By
approving this proposal, shareholders will approve the Company to effect a Share Consolidation which it deems in the best interests
of the Company and its shareholders.
Principal
Effects of the Share Consolidation
If
implemented, the Share Consolidation will be effected simultaneously for all shares of the Company (both issued and unissued).
The Share Consolidation will affect all of our shareholders uniformly and will not affect any shareholder’s percentage ownership
interests in the Company, except to the extent that in the case where the Share Consolidation would otherwise result in any of
our shareholders owning a fractional share, the fractional number of shares held by such shareholders will be rounded up to the
next whole number. After the Share Consolidation, our Ordinary Shares will have the same voting rights and rights to dividends
and distributions and will be identical in all other respects to our Ordinary Shares now authorized. Ordinary Shares issued pursuant
to the Share Consolidation will remain fully paid and non-assessable. The Share Consolidation will not affect the Company continuing
to be subject to the periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act. The Share Consolidation is not intended to be, and will
not have the effect of, a “going private transaction” covered by Rule 13e-3 under the Exchange Act.
The
Share Consolidation may result in some shareholders owning “odd-lots” of less than 100 shares of our Ordinary Shares.
Brokerage commissions and other costs of transactions in odd-lots are generally higher than the costs of transactions in “round-lots”
of even multiples of 100 shares.
Following
the effectiveness of such Share Consolidation approved by the shareholders and implementation by the Board of Directors, current
shareholders will hold fewer shares of Ordinary Shares, but the rights and ownership percentages will remain the same.
IF
THIS PROPOSAL IS NOT APPROVED, WE MAY BE UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH THE MINIMUM TRADING PRICE REQUIREMENT FOR CONTINUED LISTING OF
OUR ORDINARY SHARES ON THE NASDAQ CAPITAL MARKET, WHICH COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE LIQUIDITY AND MARKETABILITY OF OUR ORDINARY
SHARES.
Fractional
Shares
No
fractional shares will be issued in connection with the Share Consolidation. Instead, we will issue one full share of the Ordinary
Shares after Share Consolidation to any shareholder who would have been entitled to receive a fractional share as a result of
the Share Consolidation. Each ordinary shareholder will hold the same percentage of the outstanding Ordinary Shares immediately
following the Share Consolidation as that shareholder did immediately prior to the Share Consolidation, except for minor adjustments
due to the additional net share fractions that will need to be issued as a result of the treatment of fractional shares.
Risks Associated
with the Share Consolidation
Consolidation,
if any, upon the market price for our Ordinary Shares cannot be accurately predicted. In particular, we cannot assure you that
prices for shares of our Ordinary Shares after the Share Consolidation will be the number of times equals exactly to the ratio
multiplied by the prices for shares of our Ordinary Shares immediately prior to the Share Consolidation. Furthermore, even if
the market price of our Ordinary Shares does rise following the Share Consolidation, we cannot assure you that the market price
of our Ordinary Shares immediately after the proposed Share Consolidation will be maintained for any period of time. Even if an
increased per-share price can be maintained, the Share Consolidation may not achieve the desired results that have been outlined
above. Moreover, because some investors may view the Share Consolidation negatively, we cannot assure you that the Share Consolidation
will not adversely impact the market price of our Ordinary Shares.
The
market price of our Ordinary Shares will also be based on our performance and other factors, some of which are unrelated to the
Share Consolidation or the number of shares outstanding. If the Share Consolidation is effected and the market price of our Ordinary
Shares declines, the percentage declines as an absolute number and as a percentage of our overall market capitalization may be
greater than would occur in the absence of a Share Consolidation. The total market capitalization of our Ordinary Shares after
implementation of the Share Consolidation, when and if implemented, may also be lower than the total market capitalization before
the Share Consolidation. Furthermore, the liquidity of our Ordinary Shares could be adversely affected by the reduced number of
shares that would be outstanding after the Share Consolidation.
While
we believe that the Share Consolidation will be sufficient to maintain our listing on The Nasdaq Stock Market, it is possible
that, even if the Share Consolidation results in a closing price for our Ordinary Shares that exceeds $1.00 per share, we may
not be able to continue to satisfy other criteria for continued listing of our Ordinary Shares on The Nasdaq Stock Market. Although
we believe that we will continue satisfying all of the other continued listing criteria, we cannot assure you that this will be
the case.
Vote Required
to Approve Proposal 1
The
Proposal 1 will be approved only if it receives the affirmative vote of at least a simple majority of the shareholders being entitled
to do so, voting in person or by proxy at the Extraordinary General Meeting assuming a quorum reaches.
WE RECOMMEND
A VOTE “FOR” THE PROPOSAL TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO EFFECT THE SHARE CONSOLIDATION
Proposal
2
AUTHORISE
A CAPITAL Reduction and REORGANISATION OF OUR SHARE CAPITAL
Purpose and
Background of the Capital Reduction and Reorganization
To
consider and approve by a special resolution that, subject to and conditional upon, amongst other things, (i) the Share Consolidation
becoming effective; (ii) approval from the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the “Court”) of the Capital Reduction
(as defined below); (iii) registration by the Registrar of Companies of Cayman Islands of the order of the Court confirming the
Capital Reduction and the minute approved by the Court containing the particulars required under the Companies Act (as revised)
of the Cayman Islands (the “Companies Act”) in respect of the Capital Reduction and compliance with any conditions
the Court may impose; (iv) compliance with the relevant procedures and requirements under the applicable laws of Cayman Islands
to effect the Capital Reduction and (v) obtaining of all necessary approvals from the regulatory
authorities or otherwise as may be required in respect of the Capital Reduction and Reorganization, with effect from the date
on which these conditions are fulfill:
| (a) | the
par
value
of
each
issued
Consolidated
Share
of
par
value
of
US$4.00
each
in
the
share
capital
of
the
Company
be
reduced
to
US$0.00001
par
value
each
(the
“Capital
Reduction”)
by
cancelling
the
paid-up
capital
to
the
extent
of
US$3.99999
on
each
of
the
then
issued
Consolidated
Shares; |
| | |
| (b) | the
credit
arising
from
the
Capital
Reduction
be
transferred
to
a
distributable
reserve
account
of
the
Company
which
may
be
utilized
by
Company
as
the
board
of
directors
of
the
Company
may
deem
fit
and
permitted
under
the
Companies
Act,
all
relevant
applicable
laws
and
the
memorandum
and
articles
of
association
of
the
Company
then
in
effect
(the
“Memorandum
and
Articles”),
including,
without
limitation,
eliminating
or
setting
off
any
accumulated
losses
of
the
Company
(if
any)
from
time
to
time; |
| | |
| (c) | immediately
following
the
Capital
Reduction,
each
of
the
authorized
but
unissued
Consolidated
Shares
of
par
value
US$4.00
each
be
sub-divided
into
400,000
ordinary
shares
of
par
value
US$0.00001
each
(the
“Share
Sub-Division”); |
| | |
| (d) | immediately
following
the
Capital
Reduction
and
the
Share
Sub-Division,
the
authorized
share
capital
of
the
Company
be
changed
from
US$25,000,000,000
divided
into
6,250,000,000
shares
of
par
value
of
US$4.00
each
to
US$50,000,000
divided
into
5,000,000,000,000
ordinary
shares
of
par
value
US$0.00001
each
(the
“New
Shares”) by cancelling the excess authorized but unissued ordinary shares in the
authorized share capital; |
(the
steps above shall be collectively referred to as the “Capital Reduction and Reorganization”)
| (e) | each
of
the
New
Shares
arising
from
the
Capital
Reduction
and
Reorganization
shall
rank
pari
passu
in
all
respects
with
each
other
and
shall
have
the
rights
and
privileges
and
be
subject
to
the
restrictions
as
contained
in
the
Memorandum
and
Articles;
and |
| | |
| (f) | any
one
or
more
of
the
Directors
be
and
is/are
hereby
authorized
to
do
all
such
acts
and
things
and
execute
all
such
documents,
which
are
in
connection
with
and/or
ancillary
to
the
Capital
Reduction
and
Reorganization
and
any
of
the
foregoing
steps
and
of
administrative
nature,
on
behalf
of
the
Company,
including
under
seal
where
applicable,
as
he/she/they
consider
necessary,
desirable
or
expedient
to
give
effect
to
the
foregoing
arrangements
for
the
Capital
Reduction
and
Reorganization
and
(where
applicable)
to
aggregate
all
fractional
New
Shares
and
sell
them
for
the
benefits
of
the
Company. |
On
January 10, 2024 , the Board of Directors of the Company approved by written resolution of the Directors the proposal authorizing
the Capital Reduction and Reorganization because the Board of Directors of the Company considers that it would enhance the corporate
image of the Company and help attract more investors and broaden the base of the Shareholders, and thus provide flexibility for
equity fund raising of the Company in the future.
Pursuant
to the Companies Act and the Memorandum and Articles, the Company shall not issue shares at a price below par value. After the
Share Consolidation, the Consolidated Shares will be trading below par value , and therefore it is difficult for the
Board of Directors of the Company to negotiate with any potential investors of the Company and financial institutions for possible
subscription, offer or placing of the Consolidated Shares at or above the par value.
As
the company continues to develop new businesses, related costs and expenditures are increasing. In light of the current
economic situations and in order to improve the financial position of the Company, the Company intends to explore equity fundraising
opportunities. In order to facilitate fundraising activities by way of issuance of equity securities or convertible securities,
the Company considers that it is desirable and necessary to lower the par value of the Consolidated Shares through implementing
the Capital Reduction and Reorganization, such that the Company will be permitted with such flexibility and ability to capture
appropriate capital raising in a timely manner.
Furthermore,
the credit arising from the Capital Reduction will be transferred to a distributable reserve account
of the Company which will be utilized by the Company in any manner as the Board of Directors of the Company may deem fit and permitted
under the Companies Act, the Memorandum and Articles and all relevant applicable laws, allowing greater flexibility for the Company for
distribution to the Shareholders in the future, or to be used or applied in any manner permitted under the Companies Act, the Memorandum
and Articles and all applicable laws. Save for the above, the Directors consider that the Capital Reduction and Reorganization will have
no effect on the underlying assets, business operations, management or financial position of the Company or the proportional interests
of the Shareholders in the Company. Accordingly, the Directors consider that the Capital Reduction and Reorganization are beneficial
to and in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole.
In view of the above, the Board considers the proposed
Capital Reduction and Reorganization are justifiable notwithstanding the potential costs and impact arising from effecting the Capital
Reduction and Reorganization, and accordingly, the proposed Capital Reduction and Reorganization are beneficial to and in the interests
of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole.
Conditions
of the Capital Reduction and Reorganization
The
Capital Reduction and the Share Sub-Division are conditional upon:
| (a) | the passing
of ordinary resolutions by the Shareholders at the EGM to approve the
Share Consolidation at the EGM; |
|
(b) |
the Share Consolidation becoming effective; |
| (c) | the passing
of special resolutions by the Shareholders to approve the Capital Reduction
and Reorganization at the EGM; |
|
(d) |
the Court granting a court order in confirmation of the Capital
Reduction; |
| (f) | compliance
with other conditions (if any) which the Court may impose as it sees
fit in relation to the Capital Reduction; |
| (g) | registration
by the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands of (i) a copy of
the court order of the Court confirming the Capital Reduction; and
(ii) the minute approved by the Court containing the particulars required
under the Companies Act with respect to the Capital Reduction; |
| (h) | the compliance
with the relevant legal procedures and requirements under the Companies
Act and applicable laws of the Cayman Islands to effectuate the Capital
Reduction and Reorganization; and |
| (i) | the obtaining
of all necessary approvals from the regulatory authorities or otherwise
as may be required in respect of the Capital Reduction and Reorganization. |
The
Capital Reduction and the Share Sub-Division will become effective when the conditions contemplated above are fulfilled. Upon
the approval by the Shareholders of the Share Consolidation, the Capital Reduction and Reorganization at the EGM, the legal advisers
to the Company (as to laws of the Cayman Islands) will apply to the Court for hearing date(s) to confirm the Capital Reduction
and further announcement(s) will be made by the Company upon the Court’s confirmation of the hearing date(s).
Potential
Affected Investor Interest
The
voting rights related to an Ordinary Share will not change. After the Capital Reduction Ordinary Shares, each Ordinary Share will
still grant its holder the right to cast one vote in the Company’s general meeting.
Principal
Effects of the Capital Reduction and Reorganization
If
implemented, the Capital Reduction will be effected simultaneously for all issued shares of the Company. The Capital Reduction
will affect all of our shareholders uniformly and will not affect any shareholder’s percentage ownership interests in the
Company. After the Capital Reduction and Reorganization, our Ordinary Shares will have the same voting rights and rights to dividends
and distributions and will be identical in all other respects to our Ordinary Shares now authorized. The Capital Reduction and
Reorganization will not affect the Company continuing to be subject to the periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.
The Capital Reduction and Reorganization is not intended to be, and will not have the effect of, a “going private transaction”
covered by Rule 13e-3 under the Exchange Act.
IF
THIS PROPOSAL IS NOT APPROVED, WE MAY BE UNABLE TO UNDERTAKE EQUITY FUNDRAISING IN THE FUTURE DUE TO THE EXISTING HIGH PAR VALUE,
WHICH COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE LIQUIDITY AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF OUR COMPANY AND AFFECT SHAREHOLDER RETURN.
Vote Required
to Approve Proposal 2
Proposal
2 will be approved only if it receives the affirmative vote of a majority of not less than two-thirds of the shareholders being
entitled to do so, voting in person or by proxy at the Extraordinary General Meeting assuming a quorum reaches.
WE RECOMMEND
A VOTE “FOR” THE PROPOSAL TO APPROVE TO CAPITAL Reduction and REORGANIZATION
OF OUR SHARE CAPITAL
Proposal
3
To
Approve the SIXTH Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association
To
consider and approve by a special resolution that the amendments of the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association
in the form of Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association attached as Annex B to the proxy statement attached
to reflect the above and Capital Reduction and Reorganization be approved; and that the Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum
and Articles of Association be adopted as the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company, to the exclusion of the existing
Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association with effect from the effective date of the Capital Reduction
and Reorganization. The registered office provider of the Company shall be instructed to file the Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum
and Articles of Association with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands and to do and complete all other matters ancillary
to such filing as may be necessary or desirable in order to give effect to amendment of the Memorandum and Articles of Association
in the Cayman Islands.
Vote Required
to Approve Proposal 3
Proposal
3 will be approved only if it receives the affirmative vote of a majority of not less than two-thirds of the shareholders being
entitled to do so, voting in person or by proxy at the Extraordinary General Meeting assuming a quorum reaches.
WE RECOMMEND
A VOTE “FOR” THE PROPOSAL TO APPROVE TO AMEND AND RESTATE THE Memorandum and
Articles of Association
Transfer Agent and Registrar
The
transfer agent and registrar for our ordinary shares is VStock Transfer, LLC. Its address is 18 Lafayette Place, Woodmere, New
York 11598, and its telephone number is +1 (212) 828-8436.
Where You Can Find More Information
We
file annual report and other documents with the SEC under the Exchange Act. Our SEC filings made electronically through the SEC’s
EDGAR system are available to the public at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. You may also read and copy any document
we file with the SEC at the SEC’s public reference room located at 100 F Street, NE, Room 1580, Washington, DC 20549. Please
call the SEC at +1 (800) SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference room.
|
By Order of the Board of Directors, |
|
|
|
/s/ Cheuk Yee Li |
|
Cheuk Yee Li |
|
Chairman of the Board |
Date: January 31, 2024
ANNEX A
Form
of Proxy Card
ANNEX B
Form
of Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association
of
Infobird Co.,
Ltd
THE
COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
SIXTH AMENDED
AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFOBIRD
CO., LTD
(Adopted
by a Special Resolution passed on [date] 2024 with effect from [date] 2024)
THE COMPANIES
ACT (AS REVISED)
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
SIXTH AMENDED
AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFOBIRD
CO., LTD
(Adopted
by a Special Resolution passed on [date] 2024 with effect from [date] 2024)
|
1. |
The
name of the Company is Infobird Co., Ltd. |
|
2. |
The registered
office of the Company shall be situated at the office
of Campbells Corporate Services Limited, Floor 4, Willow House, Cricket Square, Grand
Cayman KY1-9010, Cayman Islands, or at such other place in the Cayman Islands as the directors may at any time decide. |
|
3. |
The
objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object
not prohibited by any law as provided by Section 7(4) of the Companies Act (as revised). |
|
4. |
The
Company shall have and be capable of exercising all the functions of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question of
corporate benefit as provided by Section 27 (2) of the Companies Act (as revised). |
|
5. |
Nothing
in the preceding paragraphs shall be deemed to permit the Company to carry on the business of a bank or trust company without being licensed
in that behalf under the provisions of the Banks and Trust Companies Act (as revised), or
to carry on insurance business from within the Cayman Islands or the business of an insurance manager,
agent, sub-agent or broker without being licensed in that behalf under the provisions of the Insurance Act (as revised), or to
carry on the business of company management without being licensed in that behalf under the Companies Management Act (as revised). |
|
6. |
The
Company will not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except in furtherance of the business of the Company
carried on outside the Cayman Islands, but nothing in this paragraph shall be so construed as to prevent the Company effecting
and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands and exercising in the Cayman Islands any of its power necessary for the carrying
on of its business outside the Cayman Islands. |
|
7. |
The
liability of each Member is limited to the amount, if any,
unpaid on such Member’s shares. |
|
8. |
The
share capital of the Company is US$50,000,000 divided into 5,000,000,000,000 ordinary shares of US$0.00001 par value each with power
for the Company, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act (as revised) and the Articles
of Association, to redeem or purchase any of its shares and to sub-divide or consolidate the said shares or any of them and to issue
all or any part of its capital whether original, redeemed, increased or reduced, with or without any preference, priority or special
privilege or subject to any postponement of rights or to any conditions or restrictions whatsoever and so that unless the conditions
of issue shall otherwise expressly provide, every issue of shares, whether stated to be ordinary,
preference or otherwise, shall be subject to the powers on the part of the Company hereinbefore provided. |
|
9. |
The
Company has power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside
the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands. |
|
10. |
Capitalized
terms that are not defined in this Memorandum of Association bear the same meaning as those given in the Articles of Association of the
Company. |
THE COMPANIES
ACT (AS REVISED)
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
SIXTH AMENDED
AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFOBIRD
CO., LTD
(Adopted
by a Special Resolution passed on [date] 2024 with effect from [date] 2024)
Preliminary
|
1. |
The
regulations contained in Table A in the First Schedule of the Act shall not apply to the
Company and the following regulations shall be the Articles of Association of the Company. |
|
(a) |
the
following terms shall have the meanings set opposite if not inconsistent with the subject or context: |
|
“allotment”
|
shares
are taken to be allotted when a person acquires the unconditional right to be included in the Register of Members in respect of those
shares; |
|
“Articles”
|
these
articles of association of the Company as from time to time amended by Special Resolution; |
|
“Audit
Committee” |
the
audit committee of the Company formed by the Board pursuant to Article 102 hereof, or any successor of the audit committee; |
|
“Board”
or “Board of Directors” |
means
the board of directors of the Company; |
|
“clear
days” |
in
relation to a period of notice means that period excluding both the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given and the day for
which it is given or on which it is to take effect; |
|
“Clearing
House” |
a
clearing house recognized by the laws of the jurisdiction in which shares in the capital of the Company (or depository receipts thereof)
are listed or quoted on a stock exchange or interdealer quotation system in such jurisdiction; |
|
“Company” |
the
above named company; |
|
“Company’s
Web-site” |
means
the website of the Company, its web-address or domain name; |
|
“Compensation
Committee” or “Remuneration Committee” |
the
compensation committee or the remuneration committee of the Company formed by the Board pursuant to Article 102 hereof, or any successor
of the compensation committee or remuneration committee; |
|
“Communication
Facilities” |
shall
mean technology by which natural persons are capable of hearing and being heard by each other, and if the Directors so determine in respect
of any general meeting of the members, the functional equivalent for those with no or impaired hearing; |
|
“Designated
Stock Exchange” |
the
Nasdaq Capital Market and/or any other stock exchange or interdealer quotation system on which shares in the capital of the Company are
listed or quoted; |
|
“Directors”
|
means
the Directors for the time being of the Company or, as the case may be, those Directors
assembled as a board or as a committee of the board; |
|
“dividend” |
includes
a distribution or interim dividend or interim distribution; |
|
“electronic” |
has
the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act (as revised); |
|
“electronic
communication” |
a
communication sent by electronic means, including electronic posting to the Company’s Website,
transmission to any number, address or internet website (including SEC’s
website) or other electronic delivery methods as otherwise decided and approved by not less than two-thirds of the vote of the
Board; |
|
“electronic
record” |
has
the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act (as revised); |
|
“electronic
signature” |
has
the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act (as revised); |
|
“Equity
Securities” |
shares
and any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares; |
|
“Exchange
Act” |
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; |
|
“executed” |
means
any mode of execution; |
|
“holder” |
in
relation to any share, the Member whose name is entered in the Register of Members as the holder of the share; |
|
“Indemnified
Person” |
means
every Director, alternate Director, Secretary
or other officer for the time being or from time to time of the Company; |
|
“Independent
Directors” |
means
a Director who is an independent director as defined in any rules of the Designated Stock Exchange or in Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange
Act, as the case may be; |
|
“Islands”
|
the
British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands; |
|
“Act”
|
the
Companies Act (as revised); |
|
“Member” |
has
the same meaning as in the Act; |
|
“Memorandum” |
the
memorandum of association of the Company as from time to time amended; |
|
“Month” |
a
calendar month; |
|
“Nomination
and Governance Committee” |
the
nomination and governance committee of the Company formed by the Board pursuant to Article 102 hereof, or any successor of the nomination
and governance committee; |
|
“officer” |
includes
a Director or a Secretary; |
|
“Ordinary
Resolution” |
a
resolution (i) 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 present in person or by proxy and voting at the meeting or (ii) approved in writing
by all of the Members entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company in one or more instruments each signed by one or more of the
Members and the effective date of the resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the
instrument, or the last of such instruments, if more than one, is executed; |
|
“Other
Indemnitors” |
means
persons or entities other than the Company that may provide indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance to the Indemnified
Persons in connection with such Indemnified Persons involvement in the management of the Company; |
|
“paid
up” |
means
paid up as to the par value and any premium payable in respect of the issue of any shares and includes credited as paid up; |
|
“Person” |
any
individual, corporation, general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint
stock company, joint venture, estate, trust, association, organization
or any other entity or governmental entity; |
|
“Present” |
means,
in respect of any person, such person’s presence at a general meeting of members, which may be satisfied by means of such person
or, in the case of a member being a corporation, its duly authorized representative (or, in the case of any member, a proxy which has
been validly appointed by such member in accordance with these Articles), being: (a) physically present at the venue specified in the
notice convening the meeting; or (b) in the case of any meeting at which Communications Facilities are permitted in accordance with these
Articles, including any Virtual Meeting, connected by Communication Facilities in accordance with procedures specified in the notice
convening such general meeting; and “Presence” shall be construed accordingly; |
|
“Register
of Members” |
the
register of Members required to be kept pursuant to the Act; “Seal” the common seal of the Company including every duplicate
seal; |
|
“SEC” |
the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America or any other federal agency for the time being administering
the Securities Act; |
|
“Secretary”
|
any person
appointed by the Directors to perform any of the duties of the secretary of the Company,
including a joint, assistant or deputy secretary; |
|
“Securities
Act |
means
the Securities Act of 1933 of the United States of America, as amended, or any similar federal statute and the rules and regulations
of the SEC thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time; |
|
“share” |
a
share in the share capital of the Company, and includes stock (except where a distinction
between shares and stock is expressed or implied) and includes a fraction of a share; |
|
“signed”
|
includes
an electronic signature or a representation of a signature affixed by mechanical means; |
|
“Special
Resolution” |
a
resolution (i) which has been passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds (or, in respect
of any resolution to approve any amendments to any provisions of these Articles that relate to or have an impact upon the procedures
regarding the election, appointment, removal of Directors and/or the size of the Board, by two-thirds) of such Members as, being entitled
to do so, vote in person or by proxy at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special
resolution has been duly given or (ii) approved in writing by all of the Members entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company
in one or more instruments each signed by one or more of the Members and the effective date
of the Special Resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the instrument or the last of such instruments, if more than one, is
executed; |
|
“subsidiary” |
a
company is a subsidiary of another company if that other company: |
|
(i) |
holds
a majority of the voting rights in it; |
|
(ii) |
is
a member of it and has the right to appoint or remove a majority of its board of directors; or |
|
(iii) |
is
a member of it and controls alone, pursuant to an agreement with other members, a majority of the voting rights in it; or |
|
(iv) |
is
a subsidiary of a company which is itself a subsidiary of that other company. For the purpose
of this definition the expression “company” includes any body corporate established in or outside of the Islands; |
|
“Transfer” |
with
respect to any Equity Securities of the Company, any sale, assignment, Lien, hypothecation,
pledge, conveyance in trust, gift, transfer by bequest, devise or descent, or other transfer or disposition of any kind, including, but
not limited to, transfers pursuant to divorce or legal separation, transfers to receivers, levying creditors, trustees or receivers in
bankruptcy proceedings or general assignees for the benefit of creditors, whether voluntary, involuntarily
or by operation of law, directly or indirectly
(including the Transfer of a controlling interest in any entity the assets of which consist
at least in part of Equity Securities). “transferor” and “transferee”
have meanings corresponding to the foregoing; |
|
“Treasury
Share” |
means
a Share held in the name of the Company as a treasury share in accordance with the Act; |
|
“U.S.
Person” |
means
a Director who is citizen or resident of the United States of America; |
|
“Virtual
Meeting” |
means
any general meeting of the members at which the members (and any other permitted participants of such meeting, including without limitation
the Chairman and any Directors) are permitted to be Present solely by means of Communications Facilities; |
|
“written”
and “in writing” |
includes
all modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form including in the form of an electronic record; |
|
(b) |
unless
the context otherwise requires, words or expressions defined in the law shall have the same meanings herein but excluding any statutory
modification thereof not in force when these Articles become binding on the Company; |
|
(c) |
unless
the context otherwise requires: |
|
(i) |
words
importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice-versa; |
|
(ii) |
words
importing the masculine gender only shall include the feminine gender; and |
|
(iii) |
words
importing persons only shall include companies or associations or bodies of person whether incorporated or not; |
|
(d) |
the
word “may” shall be construed as permissive and the word “shall” shall be construed as imperative; |
|
(e) |
the
headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of these
Articles; |
|
(f) |
references
to statutes are, unless otherwise specified, references to statutes of the Islands and, subject to paragraph (b) above, include any statutory
modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force; and |
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(g) |
where an
Ordinary Resolution is expressed to be required for any purpose, a Special Resolution is also effective
for that purpose. |
Commencement
of Business
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3. |
The
business of the Company may be commenced as soon after incorporation as the Directors shall see fit, notwithstanding that only some of
the shares may have been allotted. |
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4. |
The Directors
may pay,
out of the capital or any other monies of the Company, all expenses incurred in or
about the formation and establishment of the Company including the expenses of registration. |
Situation
of offices of the
Company
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5. |
(a) |
The registered office of the
Company shall be situated at the office of Campbells Corporate Services Limited, Floor 4,
Willow House, Cricket Square, Grand Cayman KY1-9010, Cayman Islands, or at such other place in the Cayman Islands as the directors
may at any time decide. |
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The
Company, in addition to its registered office, may
establish and maintain such other offices, places of business and agencies in the Islands
and elsewhere as the Directors may from time to time determine. |
Shares
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6. |
(a) |
Subject
to the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange and to the provisions, if any,
in the Memorandum and these Articles, the Directors have general and unconditional authority to allot, grant options over,
offer or otherwise deal with or dispose of any unissued shares in the capital of
the Company without the approval of holders of Shares (whether forming part of the original or any increased share capital), either at
a premium or at par, with or without preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions,
whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise and to such persons, on such terms and conditions, and at such
times as the Directors may decide, but so that no share shall be issued at a discount, except in accordance with the provisions of the
Act. In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Board is
hereby empowered to authorize by resolution or resolutions from time to time and without the approval of holders of Shares the issuance
of one or more classes or series of preferred Shares, to cause to be issued such preferred shares and to fix the designations, powers,
preferences and relative, participating, optional and other rights, if any,
and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, if any,
including, without limitation, the number of shares constituting each such class or series, dividend rights, conversion rights,
redemption privileges, voting powers, full or limited or no voting powers, and liquidation preferences, and to increase or decrease the
size of any such class or series (but not below the number of Shares of any class or series of preferred Shares then outstanding) to
the extent permitted by Act. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the resolution or resolutions providing for the establishment of any class or series of preferred shares
may, to the extent permitted by law,
provide that such class or series shall be superior to, rank equally with or be junior to the preferred Shares of any other class
or series. |
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The
Company shall not issue shares or warrants to bearer. |
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Subject
to the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, the Directors have general and unconditional authority to issue warrants or convertible
securities of similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase
or receive any class of shares or securities in the capital of the Company to such persons, on such terms and conditions, and at such
times as the Directors may decide. |
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(d) |
The
Company may issue fractions of a share of any class and a fraction of a share shall be subject to and carry the corresponding fraction
of liabilities (whether with respect to nominal or par value, premium, contribution, calls or otherwise howsoever), limitations, preferences,
privileges, qualifications, restrictions, rights and other attributes of a whole share of that class of shares. |
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7. |
The
Company may, in so far as the Act permits, pay
a commission to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally,
or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether absolute or conditional) for any shares in the capital of the Company.
Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the allotment of fully or partly paid up shares or partly in one way
and partly in the other. The Company may also, on any issue of shares, pay such brokerage
fees as may be lawful. |
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8. |
Except
as required by law, no person shall be recognized
by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognize (even
when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share (except only as by these Articles or by
law otherwise provided) or any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the holder. |
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9. |
(a) |
If at any
time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached
to any class of shares (unless otherwise provided by these Articles or the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may be varied
with the consent in writing of the holders of two-thirds of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a Special Resolution
passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. To
every such separate general meeting, the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall mutatis mutandis
apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be any one or more persons holding or representing
by proxy not less than one-third of the issued shares of the class and that any holder of shares of the class Present may demand a poll;
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The rights
conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares
of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith. |
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10. |
The
Directors may accept contributions to the capital of the Company otherwise than in consideration of the issue of shares and the amount
of any such contribution shall, unless otherwise agreed at the time of such contribution is made, be treated as share premium and shall
be subject to the provisions of the Act and these Articles applicable to share premium. |
Share
Certificates
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11. |
A
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. Share certificates shall be signed by one or more Directors or other person authorized by the Directors.
The Directors may authorize certificates to be issued with the authorized signature(s) affixed
by mechanical process. All certificates for Shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified and shall specify the
Shares to which they relate. All certificates surrendered to the Company for transfer shall be cancelled and subject to the Articles
and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate representing a like number of relevant Shares shall have been surrendered
and cancelled. The Company shall be authorized to issue Shares in uncertificated form. |
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12. |
Every
share certificate of the Company shall bear legends required under the applicable laws, including the Securities Act. |
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13. |
If a share
certificate is defaced, worn-out, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and payment
of the expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in investigating evidence as the Directors may determine but otherwise free of charge,
and (in the case of defacement or wearing-out) on delivery to the Company of the old certificate. |
Lien
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14. |
The
Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) for all moneys (whether presently payable
or not) payable at a fixed time or called in respect of that share. The Directors may at any time declare any share to be wholly or in
part exempt from the provisions of this Article. The Company’s lien on a share shall
extend to any amount in respect of it. |
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15. |
The
Company may sell in such manner as the Directors determine any shares on which the Company has a lien if a sum in respect of which the
lien exists is presently payable and is not paid within fourteen (14) clear days after notice has been given to the holder of the share
or to the person entitled to it in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder,
demanding payment and stating that if the notice is not complied with the shares may be sold. |
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16. |
To
give effect to
a sale the Directors may authorize some 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 to the shares shall not be affected
by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale. |
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17. |
The 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, and any residue shall (upon surrender to the Company for cancellation of the certificate for the shares sold and subject to
a like lien for any moneys not presently payable as existed upon the shares before the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares
at the date of the sale. |
Calls
on shares and Forfeiture
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18. |
Subject
to the terms of allotment, the Directors may make calls upon the Members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares (whether in
respect of nominal value or premium) and each Member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen (14) clear days’ notice specifying
when and where payment is to be made) pay to the Company as required by the notice the amount called on his shares. A call may be required
to be paid by installments. A call may, before
receipt by the Company of any sum due thereunder, be revoked in whole or in part and payment
of a call may be postponed in whole or in part. A person upon whom a call is made shall remain liable for calls made upon him notwithstanding
the subsequent transfer of the shares in respect of which the call was made. |
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19. |
A
call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorizing the call was passed. |
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20. |
The
joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect of the share. |
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21. |
If
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 at the rate fixed by the terms of allotment of the share or in the notice
of the call or, if no rate is fixed, at an annual rate of ten percent (10%) but the Directors
may waive payment of the interest wholly or in part. |
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22. |
An
amount payable in respect of a share on allotment or at any fixed date, whether in respect of nominal value or premium or as an installment
of a call, shall be deemed to be a call, and if it is not paid when due all the provisions of the Articles shall apply as if that amount
had become due and payable by virtue of a call. |
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23. |
Subject
to the terms of allotment, the Directors may make arrangements on the issue of shares for a difference
between the holders in the amounts and times of payment of calls on their shares. |
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24. |
If
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 fourteen
(14) clear days’ notice requiring payment of the amount unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued. The notice shall
name the place where payment is to be made and shall state that if the notice is not complied with the shares in respect of which the
call was made will be liable to be forfeited. |
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25. |
If
the notice is not complied with any share in respect of which it was given may,
before the payment is required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors and the forfeiture shall
include all dividends or other moneys payable in respect of the forfeited shares and not paid before the forfeiture. |
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26. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, a forfeited share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed
of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors determine either to the person who was before the forfeiture the holder or to any
other person, and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or other disposition, the forfeiture may be canceled on such terms as the Directors
think fit. Where for the purposes of its disposal a forfeited share is to be transferred to any person the Directors may authorize any
person to execute an instrument of transfer of the share to that person. |
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27. |
A
person any of whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in respect of them and shall surrender to the Company for cancellation
the certificate for the shares forfeited but shall remain liable to the Company for all moneys which at the date of forfeiture were presently
payable by him to the Company in respect of those shares with interest at the rate at which interest was payable on those moneys before
the forfeiture or, if no interest was so payable, at an annual rate of ten percent (10%)
from the date of forfeiture until payment but 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 forfeiture or for any consideration received on their disposal. |
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28. |
A statutory
declaration by a Director or the Secretary that a share has been forfeited on a specified date shall be conclusive evidence of the facts
stated in it as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share and the declaration shall (subject to the execution of an instrument
of transfer if necessary) constitute a good title to the share and the person to whom the share is disposed of shall not be bound to
see to the application of the consideration, if any,
nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity
of the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture or disposal of the share. |
Transfer
of Shares
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29. |
Subject
to these Articles, any Member may transfer all or any of his shares by an instrument of transfer in the usual or common form or in a
form prescribed by any Designated Stock Exchange or in any other form approved by the Board and may be under hand or,
if the transferor or transferee is a Clearing House, by hand or by electronic machine imprinted signature or by such other manner
of execution as the Board may approve from time to time. |
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30. |
The
instrument of transfer shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and the transferee provided that the Board may dispense with
the execution of the instrument of transfer by the transferee in any case which it thinks fit in its discretion to do so. Without
prejudice to Article 29, the Board may also resolve, either generally or in any particular case, upon request by either the transferor
or transferee, to accept mechanically executed transfers. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the
name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Members in respect thereof. Nothing in these Articles shall preclude the Board from
recognizing a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person. |
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(1) The
Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without
giving any reason therefore, refuse to register a transfer of any share that is not a fully paid up share to a person of whom it does
not approve, or any share issued under any share incentive scheme for employees upon which a restriction on transfer imposed thereby
still subsists, and it may also, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, refuse to
register a transfer of any share to more than four joint holders or a transfer of any share that is not a fully paid up share on which
the Company has a lien. |
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(2) The
Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without
giving any reason therefore, determine that the Company shall maintain one or more branch registers of Members in accordance with the
Act. The Board may also, in its absolute discretion, and without giving any reason therefore,
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. |
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32. |
Without
limiting the generality of Article 31, the Board may
decline to recognize any instrument of transfer unless: |
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a
fee of such maximum sum as any Designated Stock Exchange may determine to be payable or such lesser sum as the Board may from time to
time require is paid to the Company in respect thereof; |
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(b) |
the
instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of shares; |
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(c) |
the
Shares are fully paid and free of any lien; |
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(d) |
the
instrument of transfer is lodged at the registered office or such other place at which the
Register of Members is kept, accompanied by any relevant share certificate(s) and/or such
other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer (and, if the instrument of
transfer is executed by some other person on his behalf, the authority of that person so to do); and |
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if
applicable, the instrument of transfer is duly and properly stamped. |
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33. |
If
the Directors refuse to register a transfer of a share, they shall within one month after the date on which the transfer was lodged with
the Company send to the transferee notice of the refusal. |
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34. |
The
registration of transfers of shares or of any class of shares may,
after compliance with any notice requirement of any Designated Stock Exchange, be suspended and the Register of Members be closed
at such times and for such periods (not exceeding in the whole thirty (30) days in any year) as the Board may determine. |
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35. |
The
Company shall be entitled to retain any instrument of transfer which is registered, but any instrument of transfer which the Directors
refuse to register shall be returned to the person lodging it when notice of the refusal is given. |
Transmission
of Shares
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36. |
If
a Member dies the survivor, or survivors where he was a joint holder,
and his personal representatives where he was a sole holder or the only survivor of joint holders shall be the only persons recognized
by the Company as having any title to his interest; but nothing in the Articles shall release the estate of a deceased Member from any
liability in respect of any share which had been jointly held by him. |
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37. |
A
person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member may,
upon such evidence being produced as the Directors may properly require, elect either to become the holder of the share or to
have some person nominated by him registered as the transferee. If he elects to become the holder he shall give notice to the Company
to that effect. If he elects to have another person registered he shall execute an instrument
of transfer of the share to that person. All the Articles relating to the transfer of shares shall apply to the notice or instrument
of transfer as if it were an instrument of transfer executed by the Member and the death or bankruptcy of the Member had not occurred. |
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38. |
A 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 the holder of the share, except that he shall not, before being registered as the holder of the share, be entitled in respect
of it to attend or vote at any meeting of the Company or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the Company.
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Changes
of Capital
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39. |
(a) |
Subject to and in so far as permitted by the provisions of
the Act, the Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution alter or amend the Memorandum
to: |
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increase
its share capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of such amount, as the resolution shall prescribe; |
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(ii) |
consolidate
and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amounts than its existing
shares; |
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(iii) |
convert
all or any of its paid up shares into stock and reconvert that stock into paid up shares of any denomination; |
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(iv) |
sub-divide
its existing shares, or any of them, into shares of smaller amounts than is fixed by the Memorandum; and |
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(v) |
cancel
any shares which, at the date of the passing of the 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. |
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(b) |
Except
so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue, the new shares shall be subject to the same provisions with reference to the
payment of calls, lien, transfer, transmission, forfeiture and otherwise as the shares in
the original share capital. |
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40. |
Whenever
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, sell the shares representing the fractions for the best price reasonably obtainable to any person(including,
subject to the provisions of the Act, the Company) and distribute the net proceeds of sale
in due proportion among those Members, and the Directors may authorize 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 his title to the shares be affected
by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in reference to the sale. |
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41. |
The Company
may by Special Resolution reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve in any manner and with, and subject to, any incident,
consent, order or other matter required by law. |
Redemption
and Purchase of Own Shares
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42. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act and these Articles, the Company may: |
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issue
shares on terms that they are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Company or the Member on such terms and
in such manner as the Directors may, before
the issue of shares, determine; |
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purchase
its own shares (including any redeemable shares) in such manner and on such terms as the Directors may determine and agree with the relevant
Member; and |
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make
a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own shares in any manner authorized by the Act,
including out of capital. |
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43. |
The
Directors may, when making a payment in respect
of the redemption or purchase of shares, if so authorized by the terms of issue of the shares (or otherwise by agreement with the holder
of such shares) make such payment in cash or in specie (or partly in one and partly in the other). |
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44. |
Upon the
date of redemption or purchase of a share, the holder shall cease to be entitled to any rights in respect thereof (excepting always the
right to receive (i) the price therefore and (ii) any dividend which had been declared in respect thereof prior to such redemption or
purchase being effected) and accordingly his name shall be removed from the Register of
Members with respect thereto and the share shall be cancelled. |
Treasury
Shares
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45. |
The
Directors may, prior to the purchase, redemption
or surrender of any Share, determine that such Share shall be held as a Treasury Share. |
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46. |
The Directors
may determine to cancel a Treasury Share or transfer a Treasury
Share on such terms as they think proper (including, without limitation, for nil consideration). |
Register
of Members
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47. |
The
Company shall maintain or cause to be maintained an overseas or local Register of Members in accordance with the Act. |
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48. |
The Directors
may determine that the Company shall maintain one or more branch registers of Members in accordance with the Act.
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. |
Closing
Register of Members or
Fixing
Record Date
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49. |
For
the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of Members or any adjournment thereof, or Members
entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution, or in order to make a determination of Members for any other purpose,
the Directors may provide that the Register of Members shall be closed for transfers for a stated period which shall not in any case
exceed forty (40) clear days. If the Register shall be so closed for the purpose of determining those Members that are entitled to receive
notice of, attend or vote at a meeting of Members, the Register shall be so closed for at least ten (10) clear days immediately preceding
such meeting and the record date for such determination shall be the date of the closure of the Register. |
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50. |
In
lieu of, or apart from, closing the Register of Members, the Directors may fix in advance or arrears a date as the record date for any
such determination of Members entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of the Members or any adjournment thereof, or for the
purpose of determining the Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution, or in order to make a determination
of Members for any other purpose. |
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51. |
If
the Register of Members is not so closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of Members entitled to notice of, or to vote
at, a meeting of Members or Members entitled to receive payment of a dividend or other distribution, the date on which notice of the
meeting is sent or posted or the date on which the resolution of the Directors resolving to pay such dividend or other distribution is
passed, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of Members. When a determination of Members entitled to vote
at any meeting of Members has been made as provided in this Article, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof. |
General
Meetings
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52. |
All
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. |
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53. |
An annual
general meeting of the Company shall be held in each year (other than the year in which these Articles were adopted) at such time as
determined by the Board and the Company may,
but shall not (unless required by the Act) be obliged to, in each year hold any other general meeting. The agenda of the annual general
meeting may include the adoption of the Company’s annual accounts, the appropriation
of the Company’s profits among other items included in the agenda by the Board. Notwithstanding
the foregoing sentences or anything else contained herein, if the Company is not required to hold an annual general meeting of
the Company by the Act or the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, it may choose not to do so. |
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54. |
At
these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented and they can take place in any other the Directors may decide. |
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55. |
The
Directors may, whenever they think fit, convene
an extraordinary general meeting of the Company, and they shall on a Members’ requisition
in accordance with the Articles forthwith proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company. |
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56. |
A
Members’ requisition is a requisition of Members holding at the date of deposit of the requisition not less than two-thirds, in
par value of the issued shares which as at that date carry the right to vote at general meetings of the Company. |
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57. |
The
Members’ requisition must state the objects of the meeting and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the registered
office, and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists. |
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58. |
If
there are no Directors as at the date of the deposit of the Members’ requisition or if the Directors do not within twenty-one days
from the date of the deposit of the Members’ requisition duly proceed to convene a general meeting to be held within a further
twenty-one days, the requisitionists, or any of them representing more than one-half of the total voting rights of all of the requisitionists,
may themselves convene a general meeting, but any meeting so convened shall be held no later than the day which falls three months after
the expiration of the said twenty-one day period. |
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59. |
A
general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which
general meetings are to be convened by Directors. |
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60. |
Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Articles, the Members who requisition a meeting: |
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a) |
May
propose only Ordinary Resolutions to be considered and voted upon at such meeting; and |
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b) |
Shall
have no right to propose any resolutions with respect to the election, appointment or removal of Directors or with respect to the size
of the Board of Directors. |
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61. |
Save as
set out in Articles 52 to 60, the Members have no right to propose resolutions to be considered or voted upon at annual general meetings
or extraordinary general meetings of the Company. |
Notice
of General Meetings
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62. |
At
least ten (10) clear days’ notice specifying the place (except in the case of a Virtual Meeting), the day and the hour of each
general meeting and the general nature of such business to be transacted thereat shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided, or
in such other manner (if any) as may be prescribed by Ordinary Resolution, to such persons as are entitled to vote or may otherwise be
entitled under these Articles to receive such notices from the Company; 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: |
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(a) |
in
the case of an annual general meeting, by all of the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and |
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(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. |
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If the
Directors so determine in respect of a specific general meeting or all general meetings of the Company, Presence at the relevant general
meeting may be by means of Communication Facilities. Alternatively, the Directors may determine that any general meeting may be held
as a Virtual Meeting and this shall be specified in the notice of meeting. The notice of any general meeting at which Communication Facilities
may be utilized (including any Virtual Meeting) must set forth the Communications Facilities that will be used, including the procedures
to be followed by any member or other participant of the general meeting utilizing such Communication Facilities. |
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63. |
The accidental
omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by,
any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at that general meeting. |
Proceedings
at General Meetings
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64. |
No
business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is Present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. Members holding
not less than an aggregate of one-third (33 1/3%) in nominal value of the total issued voting shares in the Company entitled to vote
upon the business to be transacted, shall be a quorum. |
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65. |
If
a quorum is not Present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting to commence or if during such a meeting a quorum
ceases to be Present, the meeting, if convened upon a Members’ requisition, shall be dissolved and in any other case it shall stand
adjourned and shall reconvene on the same day in the next week at the same time and/or place or to such other day,
time and/or place (if applicable) as the Directors may determine, and if at the reconvened meeting a quorum is not Present within
half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting to commence, the Members Present shall be a quorum. |
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67. |
The
chairman of the board of Directors or in his absence some other Director nominated by the Directors
shall preside as chairman of the meeting, but if neither the chairman nor such other Director (if
any) is Present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting and willing
to act, the Directors Present shall elect one of their number to be chairman. The Chairman of any
general meeting shall be entitled to participate at any such general meeting by Communication Facilities,
in which event the following provisions shall apply:
(a) he
shall be deemed to be Present at the general meeting; and
(b) if
the Communication Facilities fail to enable the Chairman of the general meeting to hear and be heard by other persons participating
in that meeting constituting at least a quorum as provided for in these Articles, in the reasonable opinion of that Chairman, then
any Director or person nominated by the Directors shall preside as Chairman, failing which the members Present shall chose any person
Present to be Chairman of that meeting;
If
at any general meeting no Director is willing to act as Chairman or if no Director is Present within fifteen minutes after the time
appointed for holding the meeting, the members Present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting. |
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68. |
The
order of business at each such meeting shall be as determined by the chairman of the meeting. The chairman of the meeting shall have
the right and authority to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts and things as are necessary or desirable
for the proper conduct of the meeting, including, without limitation, the establishment of procedures for the maintenance of order and
safety, limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments on the affairs
of the Company, restrictions on entry to such meeting after the time prescribed for
the commencement thereof, and the opening and closing of the polls. The chairman of the meeting shall announce at each such meeting the
date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the Members will vote at such meeting. |
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69. |
A
Director shall, notwithstanding that he is not a Member, be entitled to attend and speak
at any general meeting and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the Company. |
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70. |
The
chairman may, with
the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is Present (and shall if so directed by the meeting),
adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted
at any adjourned meeting other than business which might properly have been transacted at the meeting
had the adjournment not taken place. In the case of a Virtual Meeting when a failure or impairment
in the Communication Facilities has occurred, the Chairman is entitled at any point, but is not obliged,
to adjourn the Virtual Meeting without having such adjournment approved by any procedural motion or
other consent of those Present at the Virtual Meeting, and to reconvene it on such terms as he considers
appropriate in his discretion. When a meeting is adjourned for fourteen days or more, at least seven
(7) clear days’ notice shall be given specifying the 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 such notice.
In
the event there is a technical failure or impairment in the Communication Facilities, this shall not, in the absence of bad faith of
the Company, invalidate the proceedings at the relevant Virtual Meeting, provided that, in the reasonable opinion of the Chairman of
the general meeting, at least persons constituting a quorum as provided for in these Articles was capable of hearing and being heard
by each other. In the event that the Chairman of the general meeting becomes aware of such failure or impairment at the commencement
of the Virtual Meeting or during the Virtual Meeting, he may, but is not obliged, to pause (but without adjourning) the proceeding, for
such period as he considers reasonable, to allow for the Company and/or its agents to endeavor to rectify such failure or impairment.
At the expiry of such period, the Chairman may (but subject to the proviso regarding quorum in this Article) continue with the Virtual
Meeting, even if such failure or impairment has not been rectified. |
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71. |
At
each meeting of the Members, all corporate actions, including the election of Directors, to be taken by vote of the Members (except as
otherwise required by applicable law and except as otherwise provided in these Articles) shall be authorized by Ordinary Resolution.
Where a separate vote by a class or classes or series is required, the affirmative vote
of the majority of Shares of such class or classes or series Present shall be the act of such class or series (unless provided otherwise
in the resolutions providing for the issuance of such series). |
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72. |
At
any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll. |
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73. |
A
poll shall be taken in such manner as the chairman directs and he may appoint scrutineers (who need not be Members) and fix a place
and time for declaring the result of the poll. The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which
the poll was demanded. |
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74. |
In
the case of equality of votes, the chairman shall be entitled to a casting vote in addition to any other vote he may have. |
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75. |
Any
action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or extraordinary general meetings of the Company may be taken only upon the vote
of the Members at an annual or extraordinary general meeting duly noticed and convened in accordance with these Articles and the Act. |
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76. |
If
for so long as the Company has only one Member: |
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(a) |
in
relation to a general meeting, the sole Member or a proxy for that Member or (if the Member is a corporation) a duly authorized representative
of that Member is a quorum and Article 64 is modified accordingly; |
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(b) |
the
sole Member may agree that any general meeting be called by shorter notice than that provided for by the Articles; and |
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(c) |
all other
provisions of the Articles apply with any necessary modification (unless the provision expressly provides otherwise). |
Votes
of Members
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77. |
Subject
to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares, every Member who (being an individual) is Present, shall have one vote, and on
a poll every Member and every person representing a Member by proxy shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder. |
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78. |
In
the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior joint holder who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy,
shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders; and seniority shall be determined by the order in
which the names of the holders stand in the Register of Members. |
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79. |
A
Member in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction (whether in the Islands or elsewhere) in matters concerning
mental disorder may vote, by his receiver, curator bonis or other person authorized
in that behalf appointed by that court, and any such receiver, curator bonis or other
person may vote by proxy. Evidence to the satisfaction of the Directors of the authority
of the person claiming to exercise the right to vote shall be received at the registered office
of the Company, or at such other place as is specified in accordance with the Articles
for the deposit or delivery of forms of appointment of a proxy, or in any other manner specified
in the Articles for the appointment of a proxy, not less than forty-eight eight hours before
the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the right to vote is to be exercised and in default the right
to vote shall not be exercisable. |
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80. |
No
Member shall, unless the Directors otherwise determine, be entitled to vote at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the
holders of any class of shares in the Company, either in person or by proxy,
in respect of any share held by him unless all moneys presently payable by him in respect of that share have been paid. |
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81. |
No
objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to
is tendered, and every vote not disallowed at the meeting shall be valid. Any objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman
whose decision shall be final and conclusive. |
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82. |
Votes
may be given either personally or by proxy.
Deposit or delivery of a form of appointment of a proxy does not preclude a Member from attending and voting at the meeting or
at any adjournment of it. |
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83. |
A
Member entitled to more than one vote need not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast all votes he uses the same way. |
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84. |
Subject
as set out herein, an instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing in any usual form or in any other form which the Directors may
approve and shall be executed by or on behalf of the appointor save that, subject to the Act,
the Directors may accept the appointment of a proxy received in an electronic communication at an address specified for such purpose,
on such terms and subject to such conditions as they consider fit. The Directors may require the production of any evidence which they
consider necessary to determine the validity of any appointment pursuant to this Article. |
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85. |
The
form of appointment of a proxy and any authority under which it is executed or a copy of such authority certified notarially or in some
other way approved by the Directors may: |
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(a) |
in
the case of an instrument in writing, be left at or sent by post to the registered office
of the Company or such other place within the Islands as is 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 at any time 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; |
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(b) |
in
the case of an appointment of a proxy contained in an electronic communication, where an address has been specified by or on behalf of
the Company for the purpose of receiving electronic communications: |
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(i) |
in
the notice convening the meeting; or |
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(ii) |
in
any form of appointment of a proxy sent out by the Company in relation to the meeting; or |
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(iii) |
in any
invitation contained in an electronic communication to appoint a proxy issued by the Company in relation to the meeting; |
be
received at such address at any time 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;
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(c) |
in
the case of a poll taken more than forty-eight eight hours after it is demanded, be deposited or delivered as required by paragraphs
(a) or (b) of this Article after the poll has been demanded and at any time before the time appointed for the taking of the poll; or |
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(d) |
where the
poll is taken immediately but is taken not more than forty-eight eight hours after it was demanded, be delivered at the meeting at which
the poll was demanded to the chairman or to the secretary or to any Director; |
and
a form of appointment of proxy which is not deposited or delivered in accordance with this Article is invalid.
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86. |
Any
corporation or other non-natural person which is a Member of the Company may in accordance with its constitutional documents, or in the
absence of such provision by resolution of its directors or other governing body, authorize
such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of Members, and the person so
authorized shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as the corporation could exercise
if it were an individual Member. |
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87. |
A vote
or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorized representative of a corporation shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination
of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the registered
office of the Company or, in the case of a
proxy, any other place specified for delivery or receipt of the form of appointment of proxy
or, where the appointment of a proxy was contained in an electronic communication, at the
address at which the form of appointment was received, before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote
is given or the poll demanded or (in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting) the
time appointed for taking the poll. |
Number
of Directors
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88. |
The
Board shall consist of such number of Directors as a majority of the Directors then in office
may determine from time to time. |
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89. |
The
Board of Directors may elect to have a chairman of the Board of Directors elected and appointed by a majority of the Directors then in
office. The Directors may also elect a vice-chairman of the Board of Directors. The period
for which the chairman and the vice- chairman shall hold office shall also be determined
by a majority of all of the Directors then in office. The chairman of the Board of Directors
shall preside as chairman at every meeting of the Board of Directors. To
the extent the chairman of the Board of Directors is not present at a meeting of the Board of Directors, the vice-chairman of
the Board of Directors (if any), or in his absence, the attending Directors may choose one Director to be the chairman of the meeting.
Observed Article 122 below, the chairman of the Board of Directors’ voting rights
as to the matters to be decided by the Board of Directors shall be the same as other Directors. |
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90. |
The Board
may, from time to time, and except as required
by applicable law or the listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, adopt, institute, amend, modify or revoke the corporate governance
policies or initiatives, which shall be intended to set forth the policies of the Company and the Board on various corporate governance
related matters as the Board shall determine by resolution from time to time. |
Alternate
Directors
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91. |
Any
Director (but not an alternate Director) may by writing appoint any other Director, or any
other person willing to act, to be an alternate Director and by writing may remove from office
an alternate Director so appointed by him. |
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92. |
An
alternate Director shall be entitled to receive notice of all meetings of Directors and of all meetings of committees of Directors of
which his appointor is a member, to attend and vote at every such meeting at which the Director
appointing him is not personally present, to sign any written resolution of the Directors, and generally to perform all the functions
of his appointor as a Director in his absence. |
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93. |
An
alternate Director shall cease to be an alternate Director if his appointor ceases to be a Director. |
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94. |
Any
appointment or removal of an alternate Director shall be by notice to the Company signed by the Director making or revoking the appointment
or in any other manner approved by the Directors. |
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95. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Articles, an alternate Director shall be deemed for all purposes to be a Director and shall alone be responsible
for his own acts and defaults and shall not be deemed to be the agent of the Director appointing him. |
Proxy
Directors
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96. |
(a) |
A Director but not an alternate Director may be represented
at any meetings of the Board of Directors by a proxy appointed by him in which event the presence or vote of the proxy shall for all
purposes be deemed to be that of the Director. |
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(b) |
The provisions of Articles 82 to 87 shall mutatis mutandis
apply to the appointment of proxies by Directors. |
Any
person appointed as a proxy pursuant to paragraph (a) above shall be the agent of the Director,
and not an officer of the Company.
Powers
of Directors
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97. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, the Memorandum and the Articles, and to any directions given
by Ordinary Resolution and the listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, the business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors
who may exercise all the powers of the Company. No alteration of the Memorandum or Articles
and no such direction shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if that alteration had not been made
or that direction had not been given. The powers given by this Article shall not be limited by any special power given to the Directors
by the Articles and a meeting of Directors at which a quorum is present may exercise all powers exercisable by the Directors. |
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98. |
The Board
may exercise all the powers of the Company to raise capital or borrow money and to mortgage or charge
all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and, subject
to the Act, to issue debentures, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral
security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. |
Delegation
of Directors’ Powers
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99. |
Subject
to these Articles, the Directors may from time to time appoint any Person, whether or not a director of the Company,
to hold such office in the Company as the Directors may think necessary for the administration
of the Company, including without prejudice to the foregoing generality,
the office of the chief executive officer, chief
technology officer and chief financial officer, one or more vice presidents, managers
or controllers, and for such term and at such remuneration (whether by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or partly
in one way and partly in another), and with such powers and duties as the Directors may think fit. |
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100. |
The
Directors may, by power of attorney or otherwise,
appoint any person to be the agent of the Company for such purposes and on such conditions as they determine, including authority for
the agent to delegate all or any of his powers. |
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101. |
Subject
to applicable law and the listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, the Directors may delegate any of their powers to any committee
(including, without limitation, an Audit Committee, Compensation Committee or Remuneration Committee
and Nomination and Governance Committee), consisting of one or more Directors. They may also delegate to any managing Director
or any Director holding any other executive office such of their powers as they consider
desirable to be exercised by him. Any such delegation may be made subject to any conditions the Directors may impose, and either collaterally
with or to the exclusion of its own powers and may be revoked or altered. Subject to any such conditions, the proceedings of a committee
with two or more Members shall be governed by the provisions of the Articles regulating the proceedings of Directors so far as they are
capable of applying. Where a provision of the Articles refers to the exercise of a power, authority
or discretion by the Directors and that power, authority or discretion has been delegated
by the Directors to a committee, the provision shall be construed as permitting the exercise of the power,
authority or discretion by the committee. |
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102. |
The
Board may establish an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee or Remuneration Committee and
a Nomination and Governance Committee and, if such committees are established, it shall adopt formal written charters for such committees
and review and assess the adequacy of such formal written charters on an annual basis. Each of these committees shall be empowered to
do all things necessary to exercise the rights of such committee set forth in these Articles and shall have such powers as the Board
may delegate pursuant to Article 101. Each of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee or the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination
and Governance Committee, if established, shall consist of such number of directors as the Board shall from time to time determine (or
such minimum number as may be required from time to time by any Designated Stock Exchange). For so long as any class of Shares are listed
on a Designated Stock Exchange, the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee or the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination and
Governance Committee shall be made up of such number of Independent Directors as required from time to time by any rules of the Designated
Stock Exchange or otherwise required by applicable law. |
Appointment,
Disqualification
and
Removal of Directors
|
103. |
The first directors shall be
appointed in writing by the subscriber or subscribers to the Memorandum. |
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104. |
Each Director
shall hold office until the earliest to occur of (i) expiration of his term as provided in the written agreement with the Company relating
to the Director’s term, if any, and the election or appointment of his successor, (ii) his resignation or (iii) his removal pursuant
to these Articles notwithstanding any agreement between such Director and the Company. |
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105. |
The Company
may by Ordinary Resolution appoint any person to be a Director, subject to compliance with director nomination procedures as required
under Article 111, or may by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director, notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agreement
between the Company and such Director (but without prejudice to any claim for damages under such agreement). |
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106. |
The Board,
by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Board of Directors, may at any time
and from time to time appoint any person to be a Director to fill a vacancy arising from the resignation or removal of a former Director
or as an addition to the existing Board, subject to compliance with director nomination procedures as required under Article 111. |
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107. |
There is no age limit for Directors
of the Company. |
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108. |
No
shareholding qualification shall be required for a Director. A Director who is not a Member
shall nevertheless be entitled to receive notice of and to attend and speak at general meetings of the Company. |
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109. |
The Board
must at all times comply with the residency and citizenship requirements of U.S. securities laws applicable to foreign private issuers
and shall at no time have a majority of Directors who are U.S. Persons. Notwithstanding any other provision in these Articles, no appointment
or election of a U.S. Person as a Director shall be permitted if such appointment or election would have the effect
of creating a majority of Directors who are U.S. Persons, and any such appointment or election shall be disregarded for all purposes.
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110. |
The
office of a Director shall be vacated if: |
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(a) |
he
becomes prohibited by law from being a Director; |
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(b) |
he
becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; |
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(c) |
he
dies, or is, in the opinion of all his co-Directors, incapable by reason of mental disorder of discharging
his duties as Director; |
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(d) |
he
resigned his office by notice to the Company; |
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(e) |
he has
for more than six months been absent without permission of the Directors from meetings of Directors held during that period and the Directors
resolve that his office be vacated; |
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(f) |
The Board
determines that the Director should be removed as a Director, either by a resolution passed by the affirmative vote of a simple majority
of the Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Board of Directors duly convened and held in accordance with the Articles or
by a resolution in writing signed by all of the other Directors. |
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111. |
In the
event of a vacancy, a replacement Director shall be nominated by a simple majority of the
remaining Directors holding office, or if a Nomination and Governance Committee has been
established, by such committee, upon which the remaining Directors holding office may elect
and appoint any such nominee as a Director pursuant to Article 106. |
Remuneration
of Directors
|
112. |
The
Directors shall be entitled to such remuneration as the Board may determine and, unless otherwise determined, the remuneration shall
be deemed to accrue from day to day.
If established, the Compensation Committee or the Remuneration Committee will assist the Board in reviewing and approving compensation
decisions. |
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113. |
A
Director who, at the request of the Directors, goes or resides outside of the Islands, makes a special journey or performs a special
service on behalf of the Company may be paid such reasonable additional remuneration (whether by way of salary,
percentage of profits or otherwise) and expenses as the Directors may decide. |
Directors’
Expenses
|
114. |
The Directors
may be paid all traveling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in connection with their attendance at meetings of Directors
or committees of Directors or general meetings or separate meetings of the holders of any class of shares or of debentures of the Company
or otherwise in connection with the discharge of their duties. |
Directors’
Appointments and Interests
|
115. |
The
Directors may appoint one or more of their body to the office of managing Director or to
any other executive office under the Company,
and the Company may enter into an agreement or arrangement with any Director for his/her employment, subject to applicable law and any
listing rules of the SEC or any Designated Stock Exchange, or for the provision by him of any services outside the scope of the ordinary
duties of a Director. Any such appointment, agreement or arrangement may be made upon such
terms as the Directors determine and they may remunerate any such Director for his services as they think fit. Any appointment of a Director
to an executive office shall terminate automatically if he ceases to be a Director but without
prejudice to any claim to damages for breach of the contract of service between the Director and the Company. |
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116. |
Subject
to the Act and listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, if he has disclosed to the Directors the nature and extent of any material
interest of his, a Director notwithstanding his office: |
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(a) |
may
be a party to, or otherwise interested in, any transaction or arrangement with the Company or in which the Company is otherwise interested; |
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(b) |
may
be a Director or other officer of, or employed by,
or a party to any transaction or arrangement with, or otherwise interested in, any body corporate promoted by the Company or in
which the Company is otherwise interested; and |
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(c) |
shall
not, by reason of his office, be accountable to the Company for any benefit which he derives
from any such office or employment or from any such transaction or arrangement 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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117. |
For
the purposes of the preceding Article: |
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(a) |
a
general notice given to the Directors that a Director 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 the Director has an interest in any such transaction of the nature and extent so specified; and |
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(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. |
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118. |
A
Director must disclose any material interest pursuant to the Articles, and such Director may not vote at any meeting of Directors or
of a committee of Directors on any resolution concerning a matter in which he has, directly or indirectly,
an interest or duty. The Director shall be counted in the quorum present at a meeting
when any such resolution is under consideration and such resolution may be passed by a majority of the disinterested Directors present
at the meeting even if such disinterested Directors together constitute less than a quorum. |
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119. |
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, no “Independent Director” as defined in the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange or in Rule 10A-3 under
the Exchange Act, and with respect of whom the Board has determined constitutes an “Independent Director” for purposes of
compliance with applicable law or the Company’s listing requirements, shall without
the consent of the Audit Committee take any of the foregoing actions or any other action that would reasonably be likely to affect
such Director’s status as an “Independent Director” of the Company.
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Directors’
Gratuities and Pensions
|
120. |
The
Directors may provide benefits, whether by the payment of gratuities or pensions or by insurance or otherwise, for any existing Director
or any Director who has held but no longer holds any executive office or employment with
the Company or with any body corporate which is or has been a subsidiary of the Company or a predecessor in business of the Company or
of any such subsidiary, and for any member of his family (including a spouse and a former
spouse) or any person who is or was dependent on him, and may (as well before as after he ceases to hold such office
or employment) contribute to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such benefit. |
Proceedings
of Directors
|
121. |
The
quorum for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the Directors, and unless so fixed shall be equal to a majority
of the Directors then holding office if there are two or more Directors, and shall be one
if there is only one Director. A person who holds office
as an alternate Director shall, if his appointor is not present, be counted in the quorum. A Director who also acts as an alternate
Director shall, if his appointor is not present, count twice towards the quorum. |
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122. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Articles, the Directors may regulate their proceedings as they determine is appropriate. Questions arising at
any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In the case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall have a second or casting
vote. A Director who is also an alternate Director shall be entitled in the absence of his appointor to a separate vote on behalf of
his appointor in addition to his own vote. |
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123. |
Meetings
of the Directors shall be held at least once every calendar quarter and shall take place either in China or in the United States or elsewhere
previously agreed among the Directors. A person may participate in a meeting of the Directors or any committee of Directors by conference
telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all the persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each
other at the same time. Participation by a person in a meeting in this manner is treated as presence in person at that meeting and is
counted in a quorum and entitled to vote. |
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124. |
A
resolution in writing (in one or more counterparts) signed by all the Directors or all the members of a committee of the Directors (an
alternate Director being entitled to sign such a resolution on behalf of his appointor and if such alternate Director is also a Director,
being entitled to sign such resolution both on behalf of his appointer and in his capacity as a Director) shall be as valid and
effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors, or committee of Directors
as the case may be, duly convened and held. |
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125. |
A
Director or alternate Director may, or other
officer of the Company on the direction of a Director or alternate Director shall, call
a meeting of the Directors by at least five (5) clear days’ notice in writing to every Director and alternate Director which notice
shall set forth the general nature of the business to be considered unless notice is waived by all the Directors (or their alternates)
either at, before or after the meeting is held. To
any such notice of a meeting of the Directors all the provisions of the Articles relating to the giving of notices by the Company
to the Members shall apply mutatis mutandis. |
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126. |
The
continuing Directors (or a sole continuing Director, as the case may be) may act notwithstanding
any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as their number is reduced below the number
fixed by or pursuant to the Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors the continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose
of increasing the number of Directors to be equal to such fixed number, or of summoning a
general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose. |
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127. |
The
Directors may elect a chairman of their board and determine the period for which he is to hold office;
but if no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present within thirty minutes after the time appointed
for the meeting to commence, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting. |
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128. |
All
acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors (including any person acting as an alternate Director) shall,
notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any Director or alternate Director,
and/or that they or any of them were disqualified, and/or had vacated their office
and/or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and/or not disqualified to be a Director
or alternate Director and/or had not vacated their office and/or had been entitled to vote,
as the case may be. |
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129. |
A Director
who is present at a meeting of the Directors at which action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the
action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent from such
action with the person acting as the secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered
mail to the Company immediately after the conclusion of the meeting. Such right to dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in
favour of such action. |
Secretary
and other officers
|
130. |
The
Directors may by resolution appoint a Secretary and may by resolution also appoint such other officers
as may from time to time be required upon such terms as the duration of office, remuneration
and otherwise as they may think fit. Such Secretary or other officers need not be Directors
and in the case of the other officers may be ascribed such titles as the Directors may decide.
The Directors may by resolution remove any Secretary or other officer appointed pursuant
to this Article. |
Minutes
|
131. |
The
Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books kept for the purposes of recording: |
|
|
(a) |
all
appointments of officers made by the Directors; and |
|
|
(b) |
all
resolutions and proceedings of meetings of the Company, of the holders of any class of shares
in the Company, and of the Directors, and of committees of Directors, including the names
of the Directors present at each such meeting. |
Seal
|
132. |
(a) |
The Company may,
if the Directors so determine, have a Seal. The Seal shall only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of
Directors authorized by the Directors. The Directors may determine who shall sign any instrument to which the Seal is affixed,
and unless otherwise so determined every such instrument shall be signed by a Director and by the Secretary or by a second Director. |
|
(b) |
The
Company may have for use in any place or places outside the Islands a duplicate Seal or Seals, each of which shall be a reproduction
of the Seal of the Company and, if the Directors so determine, shall have added on its face the name of every place where it is to be
used. |
|
(c) |
The
Directors may by resolution determine (i) that any signature required by this Article need not be manual, but may be affixed
by some other method or system of reproduction or mechanical or electronic signature and/or; (ii) that any document may bear a
printed reproduction of the Seal in lieu of affixing the Seal thereto. |
|
(d) |
No document
or deed otherwise duly executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Company shall be regarded as invalid merely because at the date
of the delivery of the deed or document, the Director, Secretary or other officer
or person who shall have executed the same or affixed the Seal thereto, as the case
may be, for and on behalf of the Company shall have ceased to hold such office and authority
on behalf of the Company. |
Dividends
|
133. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution declare dividends (including
interim dividends) in accordance with the respective rights of the Members, but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the
Directors. |
|
134. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, the Directors may declare dividends in accordance with the
respective rights of the Members and authorize payment of the same out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefore. If at
any time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares 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. The Directors may also pay at intervals settled by them any dividend payable at a fixed
rate if it appears that there are sufficient funds of the Company lawfully available for
distribution to justify the payment. Provided the Directors act in good faith they shall not incur any liability to the holders of shares
conferring preferred rights for any loss they may suffer by the lawful payment of a dividend
on any shares having deferred or non- preferred rights. |
|
135. |
The
Directors may, before recommending or declaring
any dividend, set aside out of the funds legally available for distribution such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which
shall, at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for meeting contingencies, or for equalising dividends or for any other purpose
to which those funds may be properly applied and pending such application may,
at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other than shares
in the capital of the Company) as the Directors may from time to time think fit. |
|
136. |
Except
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 paid in proportion to the number of shares a Member holds during any
portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid; but, if any share is issued on terms providing that it shall
rank for dividend as from a particular date, that share shall rank for dividend accordingly. |
|
137. |
The
Directors may deduct from a dividend or other amounts payable to a person in respect of a share any amounts due from him to the Company
on account of a call or otherwise in relation to a share. |
|
138. |
Any
Ordinary Resolution, or Directors’ resolution declaring a dividend may direct that it shall be satisfied wholly or partly by the
distribution of assets and, where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution,
the Directors may settle the same and in particular may issue fractional certificates and fix the value for distribution of any assets
and may determine that cash shall be paid to any Member upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of Members
and may vest any assets in trustees. |
|
139. |
Any
dividend or other moneys payable on or in respect of a share may be paid by cheque sent by post to the registered address of the person
entitled or, if two or more persons are the holders of the share or are jointly entitled
to it by reason of the death or bankruptcy of the holder, to the registered address of that
one of those persons who is first named in the Register of Members or to such person and to such address as the person or persons entitled
may in writing direct. Subject to any applicable law or regulations, every cheque shall be made payable to the order of the person or
persons entitled or to such other person as the person or persons entitled may in writing direct and payment of the cheque shall be a
good discharge to the Company. Any joint holder
or other person jointly entitled to a share as aforesaid may give receipts for any dividend or other moneys payable in respect of the
share. |
|
140. |
No
dividend or other moneys payable in respect of a share shall bear interest against the Company unless otherwise provided by the rights
attached to the share. |
|
141. |
Any
dividend which has remained unclaimed for six years from the date when it became due for payment shall, if the Directors so resolve,
be forfeited and cease to remain owing by the Company. |
Accounting
Records and Audit
|
142. |
The
books of account relating to the Company’s affairs
shall be kept in such manner as may be determined from time to time by the Directors. The books of account shall be kept at the
registered office, or at such other place or places as the Directors think fit, and shall
always be open to the inspection of the Directors. |
|
143. |
The
Directors may from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations
the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of Members not being Directors, and no Member (not
being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by applicable
law, listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange,
or authorized by the Directors or by Ordinary Resolution. |
|
144. |
Subject
to Article 143, a printed copy of the Directors’ report, accompanied by the consolidated statements of financial position, profit
or loss, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows and changes in members’ equity, including
every document required by the Act to be annexed thereto, made up to the end of the applicable financial year,
shall be sent to each person entitled thereto at least ten (10) days before the date of the general meeting and laid before the
Company at the annual general meeting held in accordance with Article 53 provided that this Article 144 shall not require a copy of those
documents to be sent to any person whose address the Company is not aware or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares. |
|
145. |
The
requirement to send to a person referred to in Article 144 the documents referred to in that Article shall be deemed satisfied where,
in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange,
the Company publishes copies of the documents referred to in Article 144 on the Company’s
Web-sites, transmits it to SEC’s website or in any other permitted manner (including
by sending any other form of electronic communication), and that person has agreed or is deemed by the Company to have agreed to treat
the publication or receipt of such documents in such manner as discharging the Company’s
obligation to send to him a copy of such documents. |
|
146. |
Respected
Article 147 below, subject to the applicable law and rules of any Designated Stock Exchange,
the accounts relating to the Company’s affairs
shall be audited in such manner as may be determined from time to time by the Company by Ordinary Resolution or failing any such
determination by the Directors or failing any determination as aforesaid shall not be audited. |
|
147. |
The
Audit Committee (or in the absence of such an Audit Committee, the Board) shall appoint an auditor of the Company who shall hold office
until removed from office by a resolution of the Audit Committee (or the Board, as
applicable) and shall fix his or their remuneration. |
|
148. |
Every auditor
of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts 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 auditors. |
Capitalization
of Profits
|
(a) |
subject
as provided in this Article, resolve to capitalize any undivided profits of the Company not required for paying any preferential dividend
(whether or not they are available for distribution) or any sum standing to the credit of the Company’s
share premium account or capital redemption reserve; |
|
(b) |
appropriate
the sum resolved to be capitalized to the Members who would have been entitled to it if it were distributed by way of dividend and in
the same proportions and apply such sum on their behalf either in or towards paying up the amounts, if any,
for the time being unpaid on any shares held by them respectively, or in paying up
in full unissued shares or debentures of the Company of a nominal amount equal to such sum, and allot the shares or debentures credited
as fully paid to those Members, or as they may direct, in those proportions, or partly in one way and partly in the other; |
|
(c) |
resolve
that any shares so allotted to any Member in respect of a holding by him of any partly-paid shares rank for dividend, so long as such
shares remain partly paid, only to the extent that such partly paid shares rank for dividend; |
|
(d) |
make
such provision by the issue of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or otherwise as they determine in the case of shares or
debentures becoming distributable under this Article in fractions; and |
|
(e) |
authorize
any person to enter on behalf of all the Members concerned into an agreement with the Company providing for the allotment of them respectively,
credited as fully paid, of any shares or debentures to which they may be entitled upon such capitalization, any agreement made
under such authority being binding on all such Members. |
Share
Premium Account
|
150. |
The
Directors shall in accordance with Section 34 of the Act establish a share premium account and shall carry to the credit of such account
from time to time a sum equal to the amount or value of the premium paid on the issue of any share or capital contributed as described
in Article 10. |
|
151. |
There
shall be debited to any share premium account: |
|
(a) |
on
the redemption or purchase of a share the difference between the nominal value of such share
and the redemption or purchase price provided always that at the discretion of the Directors such sum may be paid out of the profits
of the Company or, if permitted by Section 37 of the Act,
out of capital; and |
|
(b) |
any other
amounts paid out of any share premium account as permitted by Section 34 of the Act. |
Notices
|
152. |
Except
as otherwise provided in these Articles, and subject to the rules of any Designated Stock Exchanges, any notice or document may be served
by the Company or by the Person entitled to give notice to any Member either personally,
or by posting it airmail or air courier service in a prepaid letter addressed to such Member at his address as appearing in the Register,
or by electronic mail to any electronic mail address such Member may have specified in writing for the purpose of such service
of notices, or by advertisement in appropriate newspapers in accordance with the requirements of any Designated Stock Exchange, or by
facsimile or by placing it on the Company’s Website. In the case of joint holders of
a Share, all notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the joint
holding, and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the joint holders. |
|
153. |
Notices
posted to addresses outside the Cayman Islands shall be forwarded by prepaid airmail. |
|
154. |
Any
notice or other document, if served by: |
|
(a) |
post,
shall be deemed to have been served five days after the time when the letter containing the same is posted; |
|
(b) |
facsimile,
shall be deemed to have been served upon production by the transmitting facsimile machine of a report confirming transmission of the
facsimile in full to the facsimile number of the recipient; |
|
(c) |
recognized
courier service, shall be deemed to have been served 48 hours after the time when the letter containing the same is delivered to the
courier service; |
|
(d) |
electronic
mail, shall be deemed to have been served immediately upon the time of the transmission by electronic mail; or |
|
(e) |
placing
it on the Company’s Website, shall be deemed to have been served one (1) hour after
the notice or document is placed on the Company’s Website. |
In
proving service by post or courier service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter
containing the notice or documents was properly addressed and duly posted or delivered to the courier service.
|
155. |
A
Member Present at any meeting of the Company or of the holders of any class of shares in the Company shall be deemed to have received
notice of the meeting, and, where requisite, of the purpose for which it was called. |
|
156. |
Any
notice or document delivered or sent by post to or left at the registered address of any Member in accordance with the terms of these
Articles shall notwithstanding that such Member be then dead or bankrupt, and whether or not the Company has notice of his death or bankruptcy,
be deemed to have been duly served in respect of any Share registered in the name of such Member as sole or joint holder,
unless his name shall at the time of the service of the notice or document, have been removed from the Register as the holder
of the Share, and such service shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service of
such notice or document on all Persons interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in the Share. |
|
157. |
Notice
of every general meeting of the Company shall be given to: |
|
(a) |
all
Members holding Shares with the right to receive notice and who have supplied to the Company an address, facsimile number or email address
for the giving of notices to them; and |
|
(b) |
every Person
entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member, who but for his
death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting. |
No
other Person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.
Winding
Up
|
158. |
If
the Company is wound up, the liquidator may,
with the sanction of a Special Resolution and any other sanction required by the Act, divide
among the Members in specie the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and may,
for that purpose, value any assets and determine how the division shall be carried out as between the Members or different
classes of Members. The liquidator may,
with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as he with
the like sanction determines, but no Member shall be compelled to accept any assets upon which there is a liability. |
|
159. |
If the
Company shall be wound up and the assets available for distribution amongst the Members as such shall be insufficient
to repay the whole of the paid up capital, such assets shall be distributed so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be
borne by the Members in proportion to the capital paid up, or which ought to have been paid up, at the commencement of the winding up,
on the shares held by them respectively. And if in a winding up the assets available for
distribution amongst the Members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the
capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up, the excess shall be distributed pari passu amongst the Members in proportion
to the capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively.
This Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of the holders of shares issued upon special terms and conditions. |
Indemnity
|
160. |
(a)
Every Indemnified Person for the time being and from time to time of the Company and the personal representatives of the same shall be
indemnified and secured harmless out of the assets and funds of the Company against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges,
expenses, losses, damages, liabilities, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts (including reasonable attorneys’
fees and expenses and amounts paid in settlement and costs of investigation (collectively “Losses”) incurred or sustained
by him otherwise than by reason of his own dishonesty in or about the conduct of the Company’s
business or affairs (including as a result of any mistake of judgment) or in the
execution or discharge of his duties, powers, authorities or discretions, including without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any Losses incurred by him in defending or investigating (whether successfully or otherwise)
any civil, criminal, investigative and administrative proceedings concerning or in any way related to the Company or its affairs
in any court whether in the Islands or elsewhere. Such Losses incurred in defending or investigating any such proceeding shall
be paid by the Company as they are incurred upon receipt, in each case, of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Indemnified Person to
repay such amounts if it is ultimately determined by a non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction that such Indemnified
Person is not entitled to indemnification hereunder with respect thereto. However, the Company
will not indemnify its directors, officers, or persons controlling it for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act, because it is the SEC’s opinion that such indemnification
is against public policy as expressed in such act and is, therefore, unenforceable. |
|
(b) |
No
such Indemnified Person of the Company and the personal representatives of the same shall be liable (i) for the acts, receipts, neglects,
defaults or omissions of any other Director or officer or agent of the Company or (ii) by
reason of his having joined in any receipt for money not received by him personally or in any other act to which he was not a direct
party for conformity or (iii) for any loss on account of defect of title to any property of the Company or (iv) on account of the insufficiency
of any security in or upon which any money of the Company shall be invested or (v) for any loss incurred through any bank, broker
or other agent or any other party with whom any of the Company’s property may be deposited
or (vi) any loss, damage or misfortune whatsoever which may happen in or arise from the execution or discharge of the duties,powers,
authorities or discretions of his office or in relation thereto or (vii) for any loss occasioned by any negligence, default, breach of
duty, breach of trust, error of judgement or oversight on such Person’s part, unless he has acted dishonestly, with willful default
or through fraud. |
|
(c) |
The
Company hereby acknowledges that certain Indemnified Persons may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or
insurance from or against (other than directors’ and officers’ or similar insurance obtained or maintained by or on behalf
of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, including any such insurance obtained or maintained pursuant to Article 161 hereof) the Other
Indemnitors. The Company hereby agrees (i) that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to an Indemnified Person
are primary and any obligation of the Other Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities
incurred by such Indemnified Person are secondary), (ii) that it shall be required to advance the full amount of expenses incurred by
an Indemnified Person and shall be liable for the full amount of all Losses to the extent legally permitted and as required by the terms
of these Articles (or any other agreement between the Company and an Indemnified Person), without regard to any rights an Indemnified
Person may have against the Other Indemnitors, and (iii) that it irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases the Other Indemnitors
from any and all claims against the Other Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in respect thereof.
The Company further agrees that no advancement or payment by the Other Indemnitors on behalf of an Indemnified Person with respect to
any claim for which such Indemnified Person has sought indemnification from the Company shall affect the foregoing, the Other Indemnitors
shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery
of such Indemnified Person against the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, no Person or entity providing Directors’ or officers’
or similar insurance obtained or maintained by or on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, including any Person providing
such insurance obtained or maintained pursuant to Article 161 hereof shall be an Other Indemnitor. |
|
161. |
The
Directors may exercise all the power of the Company to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of a Person who is or was (whether
or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such Person against such liability under the provisions of Article 160 or under
applicable law): |
|
(a) |
a
Director, alternate Director, Secretary or
auditor of the Company or of a company which is or was a subsidiary undertaking of the Company or in which the Company has or had an
interest (whether direct or indirect); or |
|
(b) |
the trustee
of a retirement benefits scheme or other trust in which a person referred to in the preceding paragraph is or has been interested, indemnifying
him against any liability which may lawfully be insured against by the Company. |
Financial
Year
|
162. |
Unless
the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shall end on 31st of December in each year. |
Amendment
of Memorandum and Articles
|
163. |
(a) |
Subject
to the Act, the Company may by Special Resolution change its name or change the provisions
of the Memorandum with respect to its objects, powers or any other matter specified therein. |
|
|
(b) |
Subject
to the Act and as provided in these Articles, the Company may at any time and from time to time by Special Resolution, alter or amend
these Articles in whole or in part. |
Transfer
by way of Continuation
|
164. |
The
Company may by Special Resolution resolve to be registered by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Islands or such other
jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing. In furtherance of a resolution adopted pursuant
to this Article, the Directors may cause an application to be made to the Registrar of Companies to deregister the Company in the Islands
or such other jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing and may cause all such further steps
as they consider appropriate to be taken to effect the transfer by way of continuation of the Company. |
Information
|
165. |
No
Member shall be entitled to require discovery of or any information respecting any detail of the Company’s
trading or any matter which is or may be in the nature of a trade secret or secret process which may relate to the conduct of
the business of the Company and which in the opinion of the Directors it will be inexpedient in the interests of the Members of the Company
to communicate to the public. |
B-29
EXHIBIT 99.2
EXHIBIT 99.3
THE
COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
SIXTH AMENDED
AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFOBIRD
CO., LTD
(Adopted
by a Special Resolution passed on [date] 2024 with effect from [date] 2024)
THE COMPANIES
ACT (AS REVISED)
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
SIXTH AMENDED
AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFOBIRD
CO., LTD
(Adopted
by a Special Resolution passed on [date] 2024 with effect from [date] 2024)
|
1. |
The
name of the Company is Infobird Co., Ltd. |
|
2. |
The registered
office of the Company shall be situated at the office
of Campbells Corporate Services Limited, Floor 4, Willow House, Cricket Square, Grand
Cayman KY1-9010, Cayman Islands, or at such other place in the Cayman Islands as the directors may at any time decide. |
|
3. |
The
objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object
not prohibited by any law as provided by Section 7(4) of the Companies Act (as revised). |
|
4. |
The
Company shall have and be capable of exercising all the functions of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question of
corporate benefit as provided by Section 27 (2) of the Companies Act (as revised). |
|
5. |
Nothing
in the preceding paragraphs shall be deemed to permit the Company to carry on the business of a bank or trust company without being licensed
in that behalf under the provisions of the Banks and Trust Companies Act (as revised), or
to carry on insurance business from within the Cayman Islands or the business of an insurance manager,
agent, sub-agent or broker without being licensed in that behalf under the provisions of the Insurance Act (as revised), or to
carry on the business of company management without being licensed in that behalf under the Companies Management Act (as revised). |
|
6. |
The
Company will not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except in furtherance of the business of the Company
carried on outside the Cayman Islands, but nothing in this paragraph shall be so construed as to prevent the Company effecting
and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands and exercising in the Cayman Islands any of its power necessary for the carrying
on of its business outside the Cayman Islands. |
|
7. |
The
liability of each Member is limited to the amount, if any,
unpaid on such Member’s shares. |
|
8. |
The
share capital of the Company is US$50,000,000 divided into 5,000,000,000,000 ordinary shares of US$0.00001 par value each with power
for the Company, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act (as revised) and the Articles
of Association, to redeem or purchase any of its shares and to sub-divide or consolidate the said shares or any of them and to issue
all or any part of its capital whether original, redeemed, increased or reduced, with or without any preference, priority or special
privilege or subject to any postponement of rights or to any conditions or restrictions whatsoever and so that unless the conditions
of issue shall otherwise expressly provide, every issue of shares, whether stated to be ordinary,
preference or otherwise, shall be subject to the powers on the part of the Company hereinbefore provided. |
|
9. |
The
Company has power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside
the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands. |
|
10. |
Capitalized
terms that are not defined in this Memorandum of Association bear the same meaning as those given in the Articles of Association of the
Company. |
THE COMPANIES
ACT (AS REVISED)
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
SIXTH AMENDED
AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFOBIRD
CO., LTD
(Adopted
by a Special Resolution passed on [date] 2024 with effect from [date] 2024)
Preliminary
|
1. |
The
regulations contained in Table A in the First Schedule of the Act shall not apply to the
Company and the following regulations shall be the Articles of Association of the Company. |
|
(a) |
the
following terms shall have the meanings set opposite if not inconsistent with the subject or context: |
|
“allotment”
|
shares
are taken to be allotted when a person acquires the unconditional right to be included in the Register of Members in respect of those
shares; |
|
“Articles”
|
these
articles of association of the Company as from time to time amended by Special Resolution; |
|
“Audit
Committee” |
the
audit committee of the Company formed by the Board pursuant to Article 102 hereof, or any successor of the audit committee; |
|
“Board”
or “Board of Directors” |
means
the board of directors of the Company; |
|
“clear
days” |
in
relation to a period of notice means that period excluding both the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given and the day for
which it is given or on which it is to take effect; |
|
“Clearing
House” |
a
clearing house recognized by the laws of the jurisdiction in which shares in the capital of the Company (or depository receipts thereof)
are listed or quoted on a stock exchange or interdealer quotation system in such jurisdiction; |
|
“Company” |
the
above named company; |
|
“Company’s
Web-site” |
means
the website of the Company, its web-address or domain name; |
|
“Compensation
Committee” or “Remuneration Committee” |
the
compensation committee or the remuneration committee of the Company formed by the Board pursuant to Article 102 hereof, or any successor
of the compensation committee or remuneration committee; |
|
“Communication
Facilities” |
shall
mean technology by which natural persons are capable of hearing and being heard by each other, and if the Directors so determine in respect
of any general meeting of the members, the functional equivalent for those with no or impaired hearing; |
|
“Designated
Stock Exchange” |
the
Nasdaq Capital Market and/or any other stock exchange or interdealer quotation system on which shares in the capital of the Company are
listed or quoted; |
|
“Directors”
|
means
the Directors for the time being of the Company or, as the case may be, those Directors
assembled as a board or as a committee of the board; |
|
“dividend” |
includes
a distribution or interim dividend or interim distribution; |
|
“electronic” |
has
the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act (as revised); |
|
“electronic
communication” |
a
communication sent by electronic means, including electronic posting to the Company’s Website,
transmission to any number, address or internet website (including SEC’s
website) or other electronic delivery methods as otherwise decided and approved by not less than two-thirds of the vote of the
Board; |
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“electronic
record” |
has
the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act (as revised); |
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“electronic
signature” |
has
the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act (as revised); |
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“Equity
Securities” |
shares
and any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares; |
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“Exchange
Act” |
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; |
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“executed” |
means
any mode of execution; |
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“holder” |
in
relation to any share, the Member whose name is entered in the Register of Members as the holder of the share; |
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“Indemnified
Person” |
means
every Director, alternate Director, Secretary
or other officer for the time being or from time to time of the Company; |
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“Independent
Directors” |
means
a Director who is an independent director as defined in any rules of the Designated Stock Exchange or in Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange
Act, as the case may be; |
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“Islands”
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the
British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands; |
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“Act”
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the
Companies Act (as revised); |
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“Member” |
has
the same meaning as in the Act; |
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“Memorandum” |
the
memorandum of association of the Company as from time to time amended; |
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“Month” |
a
calendar month; |
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“Nomination
and Governance Committee” |
the
nomination and governance committee of the Company formed by the Board pursuant to Article 102 hereof, or any successor of the nomination
and governance committee; |
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“officer” |
includes
a Director or a Secretary; |
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“Ordinary
Resolution” |
a
resolution (i) 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 present in person or by proxy and voting at the meeting or (ii) approved in writing
by all of the Members entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company in one or more instruments each signed by one or more of the
Members and the effective date of the resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the
instrument, or the last of such instruments, if more than one, is executed; |
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“Other
Indemnitors” |
means
persons or entities other than the Company that may provide indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance to the Indemnified
Persons in connection with such Indemnified Persons involvement in the management of the Company; |
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“paid
up” |
means
paid up as to the par value and any premium payable in respect of the issue of any shares and includes credited as paid up; |
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“Person” |
any
individual, corporation, general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint
stock company, joint venture, estate, trust, association, organization
or any other entity or governmental entity; |
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“Present” |
means,
in respect of any person, such person’s presence at a general meeting of members, which may be satisfied by means of such person
or, in the case of a member being a corporation, its duly authorized representative (or, in the case of any member, a proxy which has
been validly appointed by such member in accordance with these Articles), being: (a) physically present at the venue specified in the
notice convening the meeting; or (b) in the case of any meeting at which Communications Facilities are permitted in accordance with these
Articles, including any Virtual Meeting, connected by Communication Facilities in accordance with procedures specified in the notice
convening such general meeting; and “Presence” shall be construed accordingly; |
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“Register
of Members” |
the
register of Members required to be kept pursuant to the Act; “Seal” the common seal of the Company including every duplicate
seal; |
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“SEC” |
the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America or any other federal agency for the time being administering
the Securities Act; |
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“Secretary”
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any person
appointed by the Directors to perform any of the duties of the secretary of the Company,
including a joint, assistant or deputy secretary; |
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“Securities
Act |
means
the Securities Act of 1933 of the United States of America, as amended, or any similar federal statute and the rules and regulations
of the SEC thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time; |
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“share” |
a
share in the share capital of the Company, and includes stock (except where a distinction
between shares and stock is expressed or implied) and includes a fraction of a share; |
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“signed”
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includes
an electronic signature or a representation of a signature affixed by mechanical means; |
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“Special
Resolution” |
a
resolution (i) which has been passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds (or, in respect
of any resolution to approve any amendments to any provisions of these Articles that relate to or have an impact upon the procedures
regarding the election, appointment, removal of Directors and/or the size of the Board, by two-thirds) of such Members as, being entitled
to do so, vote in person or by proxy at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special
resolution has been duly given or (ii) approved in writing by all of the Members entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company
in one or more instruments each signed by one or more of the Members and the effective date
of the Special Resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the instrument or the last of such instruments, if more than one, is
executed; |
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“subsidiary” |
a
company is a subsidiary of another company if that other company: |
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(i) |
holds
a majority of the voting rights in it; |
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(ii) |
is
a member of it and has the right to appoint or remove a majority of its board of directors; or |
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(iii) |
is
a member of it and controls alone, pursuant to an agreement with other members, a majority of the voting rights in it; or |
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(iv) |
is
a subsidiary of a company which is itself a subsidiary of that other company. For the purpose
of this definition the expression “company” includes any body corporate established in or outside of the Islands; |
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“Transfer” |
with
respect to any Equity Securities of the Company, any sale, assignment, Lien, hypothecation,
pledge, conveyance in trust, gift, transfer by bequest, devise or descent, or other transfer or disposition of any kind, including, but
not limited to, transfers pursuant to divorce or legal separation, transfers to receivers, levying creditors, trustees or receivers in
bankruptcy proceedings or general assignees for the benefit of creditors, whether voluntary, involuntarily
or by operation of law, directly or indirectly
(including the Transfer of a controlling interest in any entity the assets of which consist
at least in part of Equity Securities). “transferor” and “transferee”
have meanings corresponding to the foregoing; |
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“Treasury
Share” |
means
a Share held in the name of the Company as a treasury share in accordance with the Act; |
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“U.S.
Person” |
means
a Director who is citizen or resident of the United States of America; |
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“Virtual
Meeting” |
means
any general meeting of the members at which the members (and any other permitted participants of such meeting, including without limitation
the Chairman and any Directors) are permitted to be Present solely by means of Communications Facilities; |
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“written”
and “in writing” |
includes
all modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form including in the form of an electronic record; |
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(b) |
unless
the context otherwise requires, words or expressions defined in the law shall have the same meanings herein but excluding any statutory
modification thereof not in force when these Articles become binding on the Company; |
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(c) |
unless
the context otherwise requires: |
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(i) |
words
importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice-versa; |
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(ii) |
words
importing the masculine gender only shall include the feminine gender; and |
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(iii) |
words
importing persons only shall include companies or associations or bodies of person whether incorporated or not; |
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(d) |
the
word “may” shall be construed as permissive and the word “shall” shall be construed as imperative; |
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(e) |
the
headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of these
Articles; |
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(f) |
references
to statutes are, unless otherwise specified, references to statutes of the Islands and, subject to paragraph (b) above, include any statutory
modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force; and |
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(g) |
where an
Ordinary Resolution is expressed to be required for any purpose, a Special Resolution is also effective
for that purpose. |
Commencement
of Business
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3. |
The
business of the Company may be commenced as soon after incorporation as the Directors shall see fit, notwithstanding that only some of
the shares may have been allotted. |
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4. |
The Directors
may pay,
out of the capital or any other monies of the Company, all expenses incurred in or
about the formation and establishment of the Company including the expenses of registration. |
Situation
of offices of the
Company
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5. |
(a) |
The registered office of the
Company shall be situated at the office of Campbells Corporate Services Limited, Floor 4,
Willow House, Cricket Square, Grand Cayman KY1-9010, Cayman Islands, or at such other place in the Cayman Islands as the directors
may at any time decide. |
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(b) |
The
Company, in addition to its registered office, may
establish and maintain such other offices, places of business and agencies in the Islands
and elsewhere as the Directors may from time to time determine. |
Shares
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6. |
(a) |
Subject
to the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange and to the provisions, if any,
in the Memorandum and these Articles, the Directors have general and unconditional authority to allot, grant options over,
offer or otherwise deal with or dispose of any unissued shares in the capital of
the Company without the approval of holders of Shares (whether forming part of the original or any increased share capital), either at
a premium or at par, with or without preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions,
whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise and to such persons, on such terms and conditions, and at such
times as the Directors may decide, but so that no share shall be issued at a discount, except in accordance with the provisions of the
Act. In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Board is
hereby empowered to authorize by resolution or resolutions from time to time and without the approval of holders of Shares the issuance
of one or more classes or series of preferred Shares, to cause to be issued such preferred shares and to fix the designations, powers,
preferences and relative, participating, optional and other rights, if any,
and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, if any,
including, without limitation, the number of shares constituting each such class or series, dividend rights, conversion rights,
redemption privileges, voting powers, full or limited or no voting powers, and liquidation preferences, and to increase or decrease the
size of any such class or series (but not below the number of Shares of any class or series of preferred Shares then outstanding) to
the extent permitted by Act. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the resolution or resolutions providing for the establishment of any class or series of preferred shares
may, to the extent permitted by law,
provide that such class or series shall be superior to, rank equally with or be junior to the preferred Shares of any other class
or series. |
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(b) |
The
Company shall not issue shares or warrants to bearer. |
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(c) |
Subject
to the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, the Directors have general and unconditional authority to issue warrants or convertible
securities of similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase
or receive any class of shares or securities in the capital of the Company to such persons, on such terms and conditions, and at such
times as the Directors may decide. |
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(d) |
The
Company may issue fractions of a share of any class and a fraction of a share shall be subject to and carry the corresponding fraction
of liabilities (whether with respect to nominal or par value, premium, contribution, calls or otherwise howsoever), limitations, preferences,
privileges, qualifications, restrictions, rights and other attributes of a whole share of that class of shares. |
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7. |
The
Company may, in so far as the Act permits, pay
a commission to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally,
or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether absolute or conditional) for any shares in the capital of the Company.
Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the allotment of fully or partly paid up shares or partly in one way
and partly in the other. The Company may also, on any issue of shares, pay such brokerage
fees as may be lawful. |
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8. |
Except
as required by law, no person shall be recognized
by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognize (even
when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share (except only as by these Articles or by
law otherwise provided) or any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the holder. |
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9. |
(a) |
If at any
time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached
to any class of shares (unless otherwise provided by these Articles or the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may be varied
with the consent in writing of the holders of two-thirds of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a Special Resolution
passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. To
every such separate general meeting, the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall mutatis mutandis
apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be any one or more persons holding or representing
by proxy not less than one-third of the issued shares of the class and that any holder of shares of the class Present may demand a poll;
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(b) |
The rights
conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares
of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith. |
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10. |
The
Directors may accept contributions to the capital of the Company otherwise than in consideration of the issue of shares and the amount
of any such contribution shall, unless otherwise agreed at the time of such contribution is made, be treated as share premium and shall
be subject to the provisions of the Act and these Articles applicable to share premium. |
Share
Certificates
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11. |
A
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. Share certificates shall be signed by one or more Directors or other person authorized by the Directors.
The Directors may authorize certificates to be issued with the authorized signature(s) affixed
by mechanical process. All certificates for Shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified and shall specify the
Shares to which they relate. All certificates surrendered to the Company for transfer shall be cancelled and subject to the Articles
and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate representing a like number of relevant Shares shall have been surrendered
and cancelled. The Company shall be authorized to issue Shares in uncertificated form. |
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12. |
Every
share certificate of the Company shall bear legends required under the applicable laws, including the Securities Act. |
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13. |
If a share
certificate is defaced, worn-out, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and payment
of the expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in investigating evidence as the Directors may determine but otherwise free of charge,
and (in the case of defacement or wearing-out) on delivery to the Company of the old certificate. |
Lien
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14. |
The
Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) for all moneys (whether presently payable
or not) payable at a fixed time or called in respect of that share. The Directors may at any time declare any share to be wholly or in
part exempt from the provisions of this Article. The Company’s lien on a share shall
extend to any amount in respect of it. |
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15. |
The
Company may sell in such manner as the Directors determine any shares on which the Company has a lien if a sum in respect of which the
lien exists is presently payable and is not paid within fourteen (14) clear days after notice has been given to the holder of the share
or to the person entitled to it in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder,
demanding payment and stating that if the notice is not complied with the shares may be sold. |
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16. |
To
give effect to
a sale the Directors may authorize some 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 to the shares shall not be affected
by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale. |
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17. |
The 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, and any residue shall (upon surrender to the Company for cancellation of the certificate for the shares sold and subject to
a like lien for any moneys not presently payable as existed upon the shares before the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares
at the date of the sale. |
Calls
on shares and Forfeiture
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18. |
Subject
to the terms of allotment, the Directors may make calls upon the Members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares (whether in
respect of nominal value or premium) and each Member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen (14) clear days’ notice specifying
when and where payment is to be made) pay to the Company as required by the notice the amount called on his shares. A call may be required
to be paid by installments. A call may, before
receipt by the Company of any sum due thereunder, be revoked in whole or in part and payment
of a call may be postponed in whole or in part. A person upon whom a call is made shall remain liable for calls made upon him notwithstanding
the subsequent transfer of the shares in respect of which the call was made. |
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19. |
A
call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorizing the call was passed. |
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20. |
The
joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect of the share. |
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21. |
If
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 at the rate fixed by the terms of allotment of the share or in the notice
of the call or, if no rate is fixed, at an annual rate of ten percent (10%) but the Directors
may waive payment of the interest wholly or in part. |
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22. |
An
amount payable in respect of a share on allotment or at any fixed date, whether in respect of nominal value or premium or as an installment
of a call, shall be deemed to be a call, and if it is not paid when due all the provisions of the Articles shall apply as if that amount
had become due and payable by virtue of a call. |
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23. |
Subject
to the terms of allotment, the Directors may make arrangements on the issue of shares for a difference
between the holders in the amounts and times of payment of calls on their shares. |
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24. |
If
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 fourteen
(14) clear days’ notice requiring payment of the amount unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued. The notice shall
name the place where payment is to be made and shall state that if the notice is not complied with the shares in respect of which the
call was made will be liable to be forfeited. |
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25. |
If
the notice is not complied with any share in respect of which it was given may,
before the payment is required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors and the forfeiture shall
include all dividends or other moneys payable in respect of the forfeited shares and not paid before the forfeiture. |
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26. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, a forfeited share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed
of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors determine either to the person who was before the forfeiture the holder or to any
other person, and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or other disposition, the forfeiture may be canceled on such terms as the Directors
think fit. Where for the purposes of its disposal a forfeited share is to be transferred to any person the Directors may authorize any
person to execute an instrument of transfer of the share to that person. |
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27. |
A
person any of whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in respect of them and shall surrender to the Company for cancellation
the certificate for the shares forfeited but shall remain liable to the Company for all moneys which at the date of forfeiture were presently
payable by him to the Company in respect of those shares with interest at the rate at which interest was payable on those moneys before
the forfeiture or, if no interest was so payable, at an annual rate of ten percent (10%)
from the date of forfeiture until payment but 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 forfeiture or for any consideration received on their disposal. |
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28. |
A statutory
declaration by a Director or the Secretary that a share has been forfeited on a specified date shall be conclusive evidence of the facts
stated in it as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share and the declaration shall (subject to the execution of an instrument
of transfer if necessary) constitute a good title to the share and the person to whom the share is disposed of shall not be bound to
see to the application of the consideration, if any,
nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity
of the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture or disposal of the share. |
Transfer
of Shares
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29. |
Subject
to these Articles, any Member may transfer all or any of his shares by an instrument of transfer in the usual or common form or in a
form prescribed by any Designated Stock Exchange or in any other form approved by the Board and may be under hand or,
if the transferor or transferee is a Clearing House, by hand or by electronic machine imprinted signature or by such other manner
of execution as the Board may approve from time to time. |
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30. |
The
instrument of transfer shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and the transferee provided that the Board may dispense with
the execution of the instrument of transfer by the transferee in any case which it thinks fit in its discretion to do so. Without
prejudice to Article 29, the Board may also resolve, either generally or in any particular case, upon request by either the transferor
or transferee, to accept mechanically executed transfers. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the
name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Members in respect thereof. Nothing in these Articles shall preclude the Board from
recognizing a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person. |
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31. |
(1) The
Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without
giving any reason therefore, refuse to register a transfer of any share that is not a fully paid up share to a person of whom it does
not approve, or any share issued under any share incentive scheme for employees upon which a restriction on transfer imposed thereby
still subsists, and it may also, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, refuse to
register a transfer of any share to more than four joint holders or a transfer of any share that is not a fully paid up share on which
the Company has a lien. |
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(2) The
Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without
giving any reason therefore, determine that the Company shall maintain one or more branch registers of Members in accordance with the
Act. The Board may also, in its absolute discretion, and without giving any reason therefore,
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. |
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32. |
Without
limiting the generality of Article 31, the Board may
decline to recognize any instrument of transfer unless: |
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(a) |
a
fee of such maximum sum as any Designated Stock Exchange may determine to be payable or such lesser sum as the Board may from time to
time require is paid to the Company in respect thereof; |
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(b) |
the
instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of shares; |
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(c) |
the
Shares are fully paid and free of any lien; |
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(d) |
the
instrument of transfer is lodged at the registered office or such other place at which the
Register of Members is kept, accompanied by any relevant share certificate(s) and/or such
other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer (and, if the instrument of
transfer is executed by some other person on his behalf, the authority of that person so to do); and |
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(e) |
if
applicable, the instrument of transfer is duly and properly stamped. |
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33. |
If
the Directors refuse to register a transfer of a share, they shall within one month after the date on which the transfer was lodged with
the Company send to the transferee notice of the refusal. |
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34. |
The
registration of transfers of shares or of any class of shares may,
after compliance with any notice requirement of any Designated Stock Exchange, be suspended and the Register of Members be closed
at such times and for such periods (not exceeding in the whole thirty (30) days in any year) as the Board may determine. |
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35. |
The
Company shall be entitled to retain any instrument of transfer which is registered, but any instrument of transfer which the Directors
refuse to register shall be returned to the person lodging it when notice of the refusal is given. |
Transmission
of Shares
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36. |
If
a Member dies the survivor, or survivors where he was a joint holder,
and his personal representatives where he was a sole holder or the only survivor of joint holders shall be the only persons recognized
by the Company as having any title to his interest; but nothing in the Articles shall release the estate of a deceased Member from any
liability in respect of any share which had been jointly held by him. |
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37. |
A
person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member may,
upon such evidence being produced as the Directors may properly require, elect either to become the holder of the share or to
have some person nominated by him registered as the transferee. If he elects to become the holder he shall give notice to the Company
to that effect. If he elects to have another person registered he shall execute an instrument
of transfer of the share to that person. All the Articles relating to the transfer of shares shall apply to the notice or instrument
of transfer as if it were an instrument of transfer executed by the Member and the death or bankruptcy of the Member had not occurred. |
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38. |
A 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 the holder of the share, except that he shall not, before being registered as the holder of the share, be entitled in respect
of it to attend or vote at any meeting of the Company or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the Company.
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Changes
of Capital
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39. |
(a) |
Subject to and in so far as permitted by the provisions of
the Act, the Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution alter or amend the Memorandum
to: |
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(i) |
increase
its share capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of such amount, as the resolution shall prescribe; |
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(ii) |
consolidate
and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amounts than its existing
shares; |
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(iii) |
convert
all or any of its paid up shares into stock and reconvert that stock into paid up shares of any denomination; |
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(iv) |
sub-divide
its existing shares, or any of them, into shares of smaller amounts than is fixed by the Memorandum; and |
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(v) |
cancel
any shares which, at the date of the passing of the 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. |
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(b) |
Except
so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue, the new shares shall be subject to the same provisions with reference to the
payment of calls, lien, transfer, transmission, forfeiture and otherwise as the shares in
the original share capital. |
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40. |
Whenever
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, sell the shares representing the fractions for the best price reasonably obtainable to any person(including,
subject to the provisions of the Act, the Company) and distribute the net proceeds of sale
in due proportion among those Members, and the Directors may authorize 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 his title to the shares be affected
by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in reference to the sale. |
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41. |
The Company
may by Special Resolution reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve in any manner and with, and subject to, any incident,
consent, order or other matter required by law. |
Redemption
and Purchase of Own Shares
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42. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act and these Articles, the Company may: |
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(a) |
issue
shares on terms that they are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Company or the Member on such terms and
in such manner as the Directors may, before
the issue of shares, determine; |
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(b) |
purchase
its own shares (including any redeemable shares) in such manner and on such terms as the Directors may determine and agree with the relevant
Member; and |
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(c) |
make
a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own shares in any manner authorized by the Act,
including out of capital. |
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43. |
The
Directors may, when making a payment in respect
of the redemption or purchase of shares, if so authorized by the terms of issue of the shares (or otherwise by agreement with the holder
of such shares) make such payment in cash or in specie (or partly in one and partly in the other). |
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44. |
Upon the
date of redemption or purchase of a share, the holder shall cease to be entitled to any rights in respect thereof (excepting always the
right to receive (i) the price therefore and (ii) any dividend which had been declared in respect thereof prior to such redemption or
purchase being effected) and accordingly his name shall be removed from the Register of
Members with respect thereto and the share shall be cancelled. |
Treasury
Shares
|
45. |
The
Directors may, prior to the purchase, redemption
or surrender of any Share, determine that such Share shall be held as a Treasury Share. |
|
46. |
The Directors
may determine to cancel a Treasury Share or transfer a Treasury
Share on such terms as they think proper (including, without limitation, for nil consideration). |
Register
of Members
|
47. |
The
Company shall maintain or cause to be maintained an overseas or local Register of Members in accordance with the Act. |
|
48. |
The Directors
may determine that the Company shall maintain one or more branch registers of Members in accordance with the Act.
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. |
Closing
Register of Members or
Fixing
Record Date
|
49. |
For
the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of Members or any adjournment thereof, or Members
entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution, or in order to make a determination of Members for any other purpose,
the Directors may provide that the Register of Members shall be closed for transfers for a stated period which shall not in any case
exceed forty (40) clear days. If the Register shall be so closed for the purpose of determining those Members that are entitled to receive
notice of, attend or vote at a meeting of Members, the Register shall be so closed for at least ten (10) clear days immediately preceding
such meeting and the record date for such determination shall be the date of the closure of the Register. |
|
50. |
In
lieu of, or apart from, closing the Register of Members, the Directors may fix in advance or arrears a date as the record date for any
such determination of Members entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of the Members or any adjournment thereof, or for the
purpose of determining the Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution, or in order to make a determination
of Members for any other purpose. |
|
51. |
If
the Register of Members is not so closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of Members entitled to notice of, or to vote
at, a meeting of Members or Members entitled to receive payment of a dividend or other distribution, the date on which notice of the
meeting is sent or posted or the date on which the resolution of the Directors resolving to pay such dividend or other distribution is
passed, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of Members. When a determination of Members entitled to vote
at any meeting of Members has been made as provided in this Article, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof. |
General
Meetings
|
52. |
All
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. |
|
53. |
An annual
general meeting of the Company shall be held in each year (other than the year in which these Articles were adopted) at such time as
determined by the Board and the Company may,
but shall not (unless required by the Act) be obliged to, in each year hold any other general meeting. The agenda of the annual general
meeting may include the adoption of the Company’s annual accounts, the appropriation
of the Company’s profits among other items included in the agenda by the Board. Notwithstanding
the foregoing sentences or anything else contained herein, if the Company is not required to hold an annual general meeting of
the Company by the Act or the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, it may choose not to do so. |
|
54. |
At
these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented and they can take place in any other the Directors may decide. |
|
55. |
The
Directors may, whenever they think fit, convene
an extraordinary general meeting of the Company, and they shall on a Members’ requisition
in accordance with the Articles forthwith proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company. |
|
56. |
A
Members’ requisition is a requisition of Members holding at the date of deposit of the requisition not less than two-thirds, in
par value of the issued shares which as at that date carry the right to vote at general meetings of the Company. |
|
57. |
The
Members’ requisition must state the objects of the meeting and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the registered
office, and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists. |
|
58. |
If
there are no Directors as at the date of the deposit of the Members’ requisition or if the Directors do not within twenty-one days
from the date of the deposit of the Members’ requisition duly proceed to convene a general meeting to be held within a further
twenty-one days, the requisitionists, or any of them representing more than one-half of the total voting rights of all of the requisitionists,
may themselves convene a general meeting, but any meeting so convened shall be held no later than the day which falls three months after
the expiration of the said twenty-one day period. |
|
59. |
A
general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which
general meetings are to be convened by Directors. |
|
60. |
Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Articles, the Members who requisition a meeting: |
|
a) |
May
propose only Ordinary Resolutions to be considered and voted upon at such meeting; and |
|
b) |
Shall
have no right to propose any resolutions with respect to the election, appointment or removal of Directors or with respect to the size
of the Board of Directors. |
|
61. |
Save as
set out in Articles 52 to 60, the Members have no right to propose resolutions to be considered or voted upon at annual general meetings
or extraordinary general meetings of the Company. |
Notice
of General Meetings
|
62. |
At
least ten (10) clear days’ notice specifying the place (except in the case of a Virtual Meeting), the day and the hour of each
general meeting and the general nature of such business to be transacted thereat shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided, or
in such other manner (if any) as may be prescribed by Ordinary Resolution, to such persons as are entitled to vote or may otherwise be
entitled under these Articles to receive such notices from the Company; 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. |
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If the
Directors so determine in respect of a specific general meeting or all general meetings of the Company, Presence at the relevant general
meeting may be by means of Communication Facilities. Alternatively, the Directors may determine that any general meeting may be held
as a Virtual Meeting and this shall be specified in the notice of meeting. The notice of any general meeting at which Communication Facilities
may be utilized (including any Virtual Meeting) must set forth the Communications Facilities that will be used, including the procedures
to be followed by any member or other participant of the general meeting utilizing such Communication Facilities. |
|
63. |
The accidental
omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by,
any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at that general meeting. |
Proceedings
at General Meetings
|
64. |
No
business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is Present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. Members holding
not less than an aggregate of one-third (33 1/3%) in nominal value of the total issued voting shares in the Company entitled to vote
upon the business to be transacted, shall be a quorum. |
|
65. |
If
a quorum is not Present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting to commence or if during such a meeting a quorum
ceases to be Present, the meeting, if convened upon a Members’ requisition, shall be dissolved and in any other case it shall stand
adjourned and shall reconvene on the same day in the next week at the same time and/or place or to such other day,
time and/or place (if applicable) as the Directors may determine, and if at the reconvened meeting a quorum is not Present within
half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting to commence, the Members Present shall be a quorum. |
|
67. |
The
chairman of the board of Directors or in his absence some other Director nominated by the Directors
shall preside as chairman of the meeting, but if neither the chairman nor such other Director (if
any) is Present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting and willing
to act, the Directors Present shall elect one of their number to be chairman. The Chairman of any
general meeting shall be entitled to participate at any such general meeting by Communication Facilities,
in which event the following provisions shall apply:
(a) he
shall be deemed to be Present at the general meeting; and
(b) if
the Communication Facilities fail to enable the Chairman of the general meeting to hear and be heard by other persons participating
in that meeting constituting at least a quorum as provided for in these Articles, in the reasonable opinion of that Chairman, then
any Director or person nominated by the Directors shall preside as Chairman, failing which the members Present shall chose any person
Present to be Chairman of that meeting;
If
at any general meeting no Director is willing to act as Chairman or if no Director is Present within fifteen minutes after the time
appointed for holding the meeting, the members Present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting. |
|
68. |
The
order of business at each such meeting shall be as determined by the chairman of the meeting. The chairman of the meeting shall have
the right and authority to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts and things as are necessary or desirable
for the proper conduct of the meeting, including, without limitation, the establishment of procedures for the maintenance of order and
safety, limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments on the affairs
of the Company, restrictions on entry to such meeting after the time prescribed for
the commencement thereof, and the opening and closing of the polls. The chairman of the meeting shall announce at each such meeting the
date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the Members will vote at such meeting. |
|
69. |
A
Director shall, notwithstanding that he is not a Member, be entitled to attend and speak
at any general meeting and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the Company. |
|
70. |
The
chairman may, with
the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is Present (and shall if so directed by the meeting),
adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted
at any adjourned meeting other than business which might properly have been transacted at the meeting
had the adjournment not taken place. In the case of a Virtual Meeting when a failure or impairment
in the Communication Facilities has occurred, the Chairman is entitled at any point, but is not obliged,
to adjourn the Virtual Meeting without having such adjournment approved by any procedural motion or
other consent of those Present at the Virtual Meeting, and to reconvene it on such terms as he considers
appropriate in his discretion. When a meeting is adjourned for fourteen days or more, at least seven
(7) clear days’ notice shall be given specifying the 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 such notice.
In
the event there is a technical failure or impairment in the Communication Facilities, this shall not, in the absence of bad faith of
the Company, invalidate the proceedings at the relevant Virtual Meeting, provided that, in the reasonable opinion of the Chairman of
the general meeting, at least persons constituting a quorum as provided for in these Articles was capable of hearing and being heard
by each other. In the event that the Chairman of the general meeting becomes aware of such failure or impairment at the commencement
of the Virtual Meeting or during the Virtual Meeting, he may, but is not obliged, to pause (but without adjourning) the proceeding, for
such period as he considers reasonable, to allow for the Company and/or its agents to endeavor to rectify such failure or impairment.
At the expiry of such period, the Chairman may (but subject to the proviso regarding quorum in this Article) continue with the Virtual
Meeting, even if such failure or impairment has not been rectified. |
|
71. |
At
each meeting of the Members, all corporate actions, including the election of Directors, to be taken by vote of the Members (except as
otherwise required by applicable law and except as otherwise provided in these Articles) shall be authorized by Ordinary Resolution.
Where a separate vote by a class or classes or series is required, the affirmative vote
of the majority of Shares of such class or classes or series Present shall be the act of such class or series (unless provided otherwise
in the resolutions providing for the issuance of such series). |
|
72. |
At
any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll. |
|
73. |
A
poll shall be taken in such manner as the chairman directs and he may appoint scrutineers (who need not be Members) and fix a place
and time for declaring the result of the poll. The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which
the poll was demanded. |
|
74. |
In
the case of equality of votes, the chairman shall be entitled to a casting vote in addition to any other vote he may have. |
|
75. |
Any
action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or extraordinary general meetings of the Company may be taken only upon the vote
of the Members at an annual or extraordinary general meeting duly noticed and convened in accordance with these Articles and the Act. |
|
76. |
If
for so long as the Company has only one Member: |
|
(a) |
in
relation to a general meeting, the sole Member or a proxy for that Member or (if the Member is a corporation) a duly authorized representative
of that Member is a quorum and Article 64 is modified accordingly; |
|
(b) |
the
sole Member may agree that any general meeting be called by shorter notice than that provided for by the Articles; and |
|
(c) |
all other
provisions of the Articles apply with any necessary modification (unless the provision expressly provides otherwise). |
Votes
of Members
|
77. |
Subject
to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares, every Member who (being an individual) is Present, shall have one vote, and on
a poll every Member and every person representing a Member by proxy shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder. |
|
78. |
In
the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior joint holder who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy,
shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders; and seniority shall be determined by the order in
which the names of the holders stand in the Register of Members. |
|
79. |
A
Member in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction (whether in the Islands or elsewhere) in matters concerning
mental disorder may vote, by his receiver, curator bonis or other person authorized
in that behalf appointed by that court, and any such receiver, curator bonis or other
person may vote by proxy. Evidence to the satisfaction of the Directors of the authority
of the person claiming to exercise the right to vote shall be received at the registered office
of the Company, or at such other place as is specified in accordance with the Articles
for the deposit or delivery of forms of appointment of a proxy, or in any other manner specified
in the Articles for the appointment of a proxy, not less than forty-eight eight hours before
the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the right to vote is to be exercised and in default the right
to vote shall not be exercisable. |
|
80. |
No
Member shall, unless the Directors otherwise determine, be entitled to vote at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the
holders of any class of shares in the Company, either in person or by proxy,
in respect of any share held by him unless all moneys presently payable by him in respect of that share have been paid. |
|
81. |
No
objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to
is tendered, and every vote not disallowed at the meeting shall be valid. Any objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman
whose decision shall be final and conclusive. |
|
82. |
Votes
may be given either personally or by proxy.
Deposit or delivery of a form of appointment of a proxy does not preclude a Member from attending and voting at the meeting or
at any adjournment of it. |
|
83. |
A
Member entitled to more than one vote need not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast all votes he uses the same way. |
|
84. |
Subject
as set out herein, an instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing in any usual form or in any other form which the Directors may
approve and shall be executed by or on behalf of the appointor save that, subject to the Act,
the Directors may accept the appointment of a proxy received in an electronic communication at an address specified for such purpose,
on such terms and subject to such conditions as they consider fit. The Directors may require the production of any evidence which they
consider necessary to determine the validity of any appointment pursuant to this Article. |
|
85. |
The
form of appointment of a proxy and any authority under which it is executed or a copy of such authority certified notarially or in some
other way approved by the Directors may: |
|
(a) |
in
the case of an instrument in writing, be left at or sent by post to the registered office
of the Company or such other place within the Islands as is 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 at any time 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; |
|
(b) |
in
the case of an appointment of a proxy contained in an electronic communication, where an address has been specified by or on behalf of
the Company for the purpose of receiving electronic communications: |
|
(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 contained in an electronic communication to appoint a proxy issued by the Company in relation to the meeting; |
be
received at such address at any time 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;
|
(c) |
in
the case of a poll taken more than forty-eight eight hours after it is demanded, be deposited or delivered as required by paragraphs
(a) or (b) of this Article after the poll has been demanded and at any time before the time appointed for the taking of the poll; or |
|
(d) |
where the
poll is taken immediately but is taken not more than forty-eight eight hours after it was demanded, be delivered at the meeting at which
the poll was demanded to the chairman or to the secretary or to any Director; |
and
a form of appointment of proxy which is not deposited or delivered in accordance with this Article is invalid.
|
86. |
Any
corporation or other non-natural person which is a Member of the Company may in accordance with its constitutional documents, or in the
absence of such provision by resolution of its directors or other governing body, authorize
such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of Members, and the person so
authorized shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as the corporation could exercise
if it were an individual Member. |
|
87. |
A vote
or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorized representative of a corporation shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination
of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the registered
office of the Company or, in the case of a
proxy, any other place specified for delivery or receipt of the form of appointment of proxy
or, where the appointment of a proxy was contained in an electronic communication, at the
address at which the form of appointment was received, before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote
is given or the poll demanded or (in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting) the
time appointed for taking the poll. |
Number
of Directors
|
88. |
The
Board shall consist of such number of Directors as a majority of the Directors then in office
may determine from time to time. |
|
89. |
The
Board of Directors may elect to have a chairman of the Board of Directors elected and appointed by a majority of the Directors then in
office. The Directors may also elect a vice-chairman of the Board of Directors. The period
for which the chairman and the vice- chairman shall hold office shall also be determined
by a majority of all of the Directors then in office. The chairman of the Board of Directors
shall preside as chairman at every meeting of the Board of Directors. To
the extent the chairman of the Board of Directors is not present at a meeting of the Board of Directors, the vice-chairman of
the Board of Directors (if any), or in his absence, the attending Directors may choose one Director to be the chairman of the meeting.
Observed Article 122 below, the chairman of the Board of Directors’ voting rights
as to the matters to be decided by the Board of Directors shall be the same as other Directors. |
|
90. |
The Board
may, from time to time, and except as required
by applicable law or the listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, adopt, institute, amend, modify or revoke the corporate governance
policies or initiatives, which shall be intended to set forth the policies of the Company and the Board on various corporate governance
related matters as the Board shall determine by resolution from time to time. |
Alternate
Directors
|
91. |
Any
Director (but not an alternate Director) may by writing appoint any other Director, or any
other person willing to act, to be an alternate Director and by writing may remove from office
an alternate Director so appointed by him. |
|
92. |
An
alternate Director shall be entitled to receive notice of all meetings of Directors and of all meetings of committees of Directors of
which his appointor is a member, to attend and vote at every such meeting at which the Director
appointing him is not personally present, to sign any written resolution of the Directors, and generally to perform all the functions
of his appointor as a Director in his absence. |
|
93. |
An
alternate Director shall cease to be an alternate Director if his appointor ceases to be a Director. |
|
94. |
Any
appointment or removal of an alternate Director shall be by notice to the Company signed by the Director making or revoking the appointment
or in any other manner approved by the Directors. |
|
95. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Articles, an alternate Director shall be deemed for all purposes to be a Director and shall alone be responsible
for his own acts and defaults and shall not be deemed to be the agent of the Director appointing him. |
Proxy
Directors
|
96. |
(a) |
A Director but not an alternate Director may be represented
at any meetings of the Board of Directors by a proxy appointed by him in which event the presence or vote of the proxy shall for all
purposes be deemed to be that of the Director. |
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(b) |
The provisions of Articles 82 to 87 shall mutatis mutandis
apply to the appointment of proxies by Directors. |
Any
person appointed as a proxy pursuant to paragraph (a) above shall be the agent of the Director,
and not an officer of the Company.
Powers
of Directors
|
97. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, the Memorandum and the Articles, and to any directions given
by Ordinary Resolution and the listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, the business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors
who may exercise all the powers of the Company. No alteration of the Memorandum or Articles
and no such direction shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if that alteration had not been made
or that direction had not been given. The powers given by this Article shall not be limited by any special power given to the Directors
by the Articles and a meeting of Directors at which a quorum is present may exercise all powers exercisable by the Directors. |
|
98. |
The Board
may exercise all the powers of the Company to raise capital or borrow money and to mortgage or charge
all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and, subject
to the Act, to issue debentures, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral
security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. |
Delegation
of Directors’ Powers
|
99. |
Subject
to these Articles, the Directors may from time to time appoint any Person, whether or not a director of the Company,
to hold such office in the Company as the Directors may think necessary for the administration
of the Company, including without prejudice to the foregoing generality,
the office of the chief executive officer, chief
technology officer and chief financial officer, one or more vice presidents, managers
or controllers, and for such term and at such remuneration (whether by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or partly
in one way and partly in another), and with such powers and duties as the Directors may think fit. |
|
100. |
The
Directors may, by power of attorney or otherwise,
appoint any person to be the agent of the Company for such purposes and on such conditions as they determine, including authority for
the agent to delegate all or any of his powers. |
|
101. |
Subject
to applicable law and the listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, the Directors may delegate any of their powers to any committee
(including, without limitation, an Audit Committee, Compensation Committee or Remuneration Committee
and Nomination and Governance Committee), consisting of one or more Directors. They may also delegate to any managing Director
or any Director holding any other executive office such of their powers as they consider
desirable to be exercised by him. Any such delegation may be made subject to any conditions the Directors may impose, and either collaterally
with or to the exclusion of its own powers and may be revoked or altered. Subject to any such conditions, the proceedings of a committee
with two or more Members shall be governed by the provisions of the Articles regulating the proceedings of Directors so far as they are
capable of applying. Where a provision of the Articles refers to the exercise of a power, authority
or discretion by the Directors and that power, authority or discretion has been delegated
by the Directors to a committee, the provision shall be construed as permitting the exercise of the power,
authority or discretion by the committee. |
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|
|
102. |
The
Board may establish an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee or Remuneration Committee and
a Nomination and Governance Committee and, if such committees are established, it shall adopt formal written charters for such committees
and review and assess the adequacy of such formal written charters on an annual basis. Each of these committees shall be empowered to
do all things necessary to exercise the rights of such committee set forth in these Articles and shall have such powers as the Board
may delegate pursuant to Article 101. Each of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee or the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination
and Governance Committee, if established, shall consist of such number of directors as the Board shall from time to time determine (or
such minimum number as may be required from time to time by any Designated Stock Exchange). For so long as any class of Shares are listed
on a Designated Stock Exchange, the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee or the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination and
Governance Committee shall be made up of such number of Independent Directors as required from time to time by any rules of the Designated
Stock Exchange or otherwise required by applicable law. |
Appointment,
Disqualification
and
Removal of Directors
|
103. |
The first directors shall be
appointed in writing by the subscriber or subscribers to the Memorandum. |
|
104. |
Each Director
shall hold office until the earliest to occur of (i) expiration of his term as provided in the written agreement with the Company relating
to the Director’s term, if any, and the election or appointment of his successor, (ii) his resignation or (iii) his removal pursuant
to these Articles notwithstanding any agreement between such Director and the Company. |
|
105. |
The Company
may by Ordinary Resolution appoint any person to be a Director, subject to compliance with director nomination procedures as required
under Article 111, or may by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director, notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agreement
between the Company and such Director (but without prejudice to any claim for damages under such agreement). |
|
106. |
The Board,
by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Board of Directors, may at any time
and from time to time appoint any person to be a Director to fill a vacancy arising from the resignation or removal of a former Director
or as an addition to the existing Board, subject to compliance with director nomination procedures as required under Article 111. |
|
107. |
There is no age limit for Directors
of the Company. |
|
108. |
No
shareholding qualification shall be required for a Director. A Director who is not a Member
shall nevertheless be entitled to receive notice of and to attend and speak at general meetings of the Company. |
|
109. |
The Board
must at all times comply with the residency and citizenship requirements of U.S. securities laws applicable to foreign private issuers
and shall at no time have a majority of Directors who are U.S. Persons. Notwithstanding any other provision in these Articles, no appointment
or election of a U.S. Person as a Director shall be permitted if such appointment or election would have the effect
of creating a majority of Directors who are U.S. Persons, and any such appointment or election shall be disregarded for all purposes.
|
|
110. |
The
office of a Director shall be vacated if: |
|
(a) |
he
becomes prohibited by law from being a Director; |
|
(b) |
he
becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; |
|
(c) |
he
dies, or is, in the opinion of all his co-Directors, incapable by reason of mental disorder of discharging
his duties as Director; |
|
(d) |
he
resigned his office by notice to the Company; |
|
(e) |
he has
for more than six months been absent without permission of the Directors from meetings of Directors held during that period and the Directors
resolve that his office be vacated; |
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|
(f) |
The Board
determines that the Director should be removed as a Director, either by a resolution passed by the affirmative vote of a simple majority
of the Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Board of Directors duly convened and held in accordance with the Articles or
by a resolution in writing signed by all of the other Directors. |
|
111. |
In the
event of a vacancy, a replacement Director shall be nominated by a simple majority of the
remaining Directors holding office, or if a Nomination and Governance Committee has been
established, by such committee, upon which the remaining Directors holding office may elect
and appoint any such nominee as a Director pursuant to Article 106. |
Remuneration
of Directors
|
112. |
The
Directors shall be entitled to such remuneration as the Board may determine and, unless otherwise determined, the remuneration shall
be deemed to accrue from day to day.
If established, the Compensation Committee or the Remuneration Committee will assist the Board in reviewing and approving compensation
decisions. |
|
113. |
A
Director who, at the request of the Directors, goes or resides outside of the Islands, makes a special journey or performs a special
service on behalf of the Company may be paid such reasonable additional remuneration (whether by way of salary,
percentage of profits or otherwise) and expenses as the Directors may decide. |
Directors’
Expenses
|
114. |
The Directors
may be paid all traveling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in connection with their attendance at meetings of Directors
or committees of Directors or general meetings or separate meetings of the holders of any class of shares or of debentures of the Company
or otherwise in connection with the discharge of their duties. |
Directors’
Appointments and Interests
|
115. |
The
Directors may appoint one or more of their body to the office of managing Director or to
any other executive office under the Company,
and the Company may enter into an agreement or arrangement with any Director for his/her employment, subject to applicable law and any
listing rules of the SEC or any Designated Stock Exchange, or for the provision by him of any services outside the scope of the ordinary
duties of a Director. Any such appointment, agreement or arrangement may be made upon such
terms as the Directors determine and they may remunerate any such Director for his services as they think fit. Any appointment of a Director
to an executive office shall terminate automatically if he ceases to be a Director but without
prejudice to any claim to damages for breach of the contract of service between the Director and the Company. |
|
116. |
Subject
to the Act and listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange, if he has disclosed to the Directors the nature and extent of any material
interest of his, a Director notwithstanding his office: |
|
(a) |
may
be a party to, or otherwise interested in, any transaction or arrangement with the Company or in which the Company is otherwise interested; |
|
(b) |
may
be a Director or other officer of, or employed by,
or a party to any transaction or arrangement with, or otherwise interested in, any body corporate promoted by the Company or in
which the Company is otherwise interested; and |
|
(c) |
shall
not, by reason of his office, be accountable to the Company for any benefit which he derives
from any such office or employment or from any such transaction or arrangement 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. |
|
117. |
For
the purposes of the preceding Article: |
|
(a) |
a
general notice given to the Directors that a Director 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 the Director has an interest in 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. |
|
118. |
A
Director must disclose any material interest pursuant to the Articles, and such Director may not vote at any meeting of Directors or
of a committee of Directors on any resolution concerning a matter in which he has, directly or indirectly,
an interest or duty. The Director shall be counted in the quorum present at a meeting
when any such resolution is under consideration and such resolution may be passed by a majority of the disinterested Directors present
at the meeting even if such disinterested Directors together constitute less than a quorum. |
|
119. |
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, no “Independent Director” as defined in the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange or in Rule 10A-3 under
the Exchange Act, and with respect of whom the Board has determined constitutes an “Independent Director” for purposes of
compliance with applicable law or the Company’s listing requirements, shall without
the consent of the Audit Committee take any of the foregoing actions or any other action that would reasonably be likely to affect
such Director’s status as an “Independent Director” of the Company.
|
Directors’
Gratuities and Pensions
|
120. |
The
Directors may provide benefits, whether by the payment of gratuities or pensions or by insurance or otherwise, for any existing Director
or any Director who has held but no longer holds any executive office or employment with
the Company or with any body corporate which is or has been a subsidiary of the Company or a predecessor in business of the Company or
of any such subsidiary, and for any member of his family (including a spouse and a former
spouse) or any person who is or was dependent on him, and may (as well before as after he ceases to hold such office
or employment) contribute to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such benefit. |
Proceedings
of Directors
|
121. |
The
quorum for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the Directors, and unless so fixed shall be equal to a majority
of the Directors then holding office if there are two or more Directors, and shall be one
if there is only one Director. A person who holds office
as an alternate Director shall, if his appointor is not present, be counted in the quorum. A Director who also acts as an alternate
Director shall, if his appointor is not present, count twice towards the quorum. |
|
122. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Articles, the Directors may regulate their proceedings as they determine is appropriate. Questions arising at
any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In the case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall have a second or casting
vote. A Director who is also an alternate Director shall be entitled in the absence of his appointor to a separate vote on behalf of
his appointor in addition to his own vote. |
|
123. |
Meetings
of the Directors shall be held at least once every calendar quarter and shall take place either in China or in the United States or elsewhere
previously agreed among the Directors. A person may participate in a meeting of the Directors or any committee of Directors by conference
telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all the persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each
other at the same time. Participation by a person in a meeting in this manner is treated as presence in person at that meeting and is
counted in a quorum and entitled to vote. |
|
124. |
A
resolution in writing (in one or more counterparts) signed by all the Directors or all the members of a committee of the Directors (an
alternate Director being entitled to sign such a resolution on behalf of his appointor and if such alternate Director is also a Director,
being entitled to sign such resolution both on behalf of his appointer and in his capacity as a Director) shall be as valid and
effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors, or committee of Directors
as the case may be, duly convened and held. |
|
125. |
A
Director or alternate Director may, or other
officer of the Company on the direction of a Director or alternate Director shall, call
a meeting of the Directors by at least five (5) clear days’ notice in writing to every Director and alternate Director which notice
shall set forth the general nature of the business to be considered unless notice is waived by all the Directors (or their alternates)
either at, before or after the meeting is held. To
any such notice of a meeting of the Directors all the provisions of the Articles relating to the giving of notices by the Company
to the Members shall apply mutatis mutandis. |
|
126. |
The
continuing Directors (or a sole continuing Director, as the case may be) may act notwithstanding
any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as their number is reduced below the number
fixed by or pursuant to the Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors the continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose
of increasing the number of Directors to be equal to such fixed number, or of summoning a
general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose. |
|
127. |
The
Directors may elect a chairman of their board and determine the period for which he is to hold office;
but if no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present within thirty minutes after the time appointed
for the meeting to commence, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting. |
|
128. |
All
acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors (including any person acting as an alternate Director) shall,
notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any Director or alternate Director,
and/or that they or any of them were disqualified, and/or had vacated their office
and/or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and/or not disqualified to be a Director
or alternate Director and/or had not vacated their office and/or had been entitled to vote,
as the case may be. |
|
129. |
A Director
who is present at a meeting of the Directors at which action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the
action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent from such
action with the person acting as the secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered
mail to the Company immediately after the conclusion of the meeting. Such right to dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in
favour of such action. |
Secretary
and other officers
|
130. |
The
Directors may by resolution appoint a Secretary and may by resolution also appoint such other officers
as may from time to time be required upon such terms as the duration of office, remuneration
and otherwise as they may think fit. Such Secretary or other officers need not be Directors
and in the case of the other officers may be ascribed such titles as the Directors may decide.
The Directors may by resolution remove any Secretary or other officer appointed pursuant
to this Article. |
Minutes
|
131. |
The
Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books kept for the purposes of recording: |
|
|
(a) |
all
appointments of officers made by the Directors; and |
|
|
(b) |
all
resolutions and proceedings of meetings of the Company, of the holders of any class of shares
in the Company, and of the Directors, and of committees of Directors, including the names
of the Directors present at each such meeting. |
Seal
|
132. |
(a) |
The Company may,
if the Directors so determine, have a Seal. The Seal shall only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of
Directors authorized by the Directors. The Directors may determine who shall sign any instrument to which the Seal is affixed,
and unless otherwise so determined every such instrument shall be signed by a Director and by the Secretary or by a second Director. |
|
(b) |
The
Company may have for use in any place or places outside the Islands a duplicate Seal or Seals, each of which shall be a reproduction
of the Seal of the Company and, if the Directors so determine, shall have added on its face the name of every place where it is to be
used. |
|
(c) |
The
Directors may by resolution determine (i) that any signature required by this Article need not be manual, but may be affixed
by some other method or system of reproduction or mechanical or electronic signature and/or; (ii) that any document may bear a
printed reproduction of the Seal in lieu of affixing the Seal thereto. |
|
(d) |
No document
or deed otherwise duly executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Company shall be regarded as invalid merely because at the date
of the delivery of the deed or document, the Director, Secretary or other officer
or person who shall have executed the same or affixed the Seal thereto, as the case
may be, for and on behalf of the Company shall have ceased to hold such office and authority
on behalf of the Company. |
Dividends
|
133. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution declare dividends (including
interim dividends) in accordance with the respective rights of the Members, but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the
Directors. |
|
134. |
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, the Directors may declare dividends in accordance with the
respective rights of the Members and authorize payment of the same out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefore. If at
any time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares 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. The Directors may also pay at intervals settled by them any dividend payable at a fixed
rate if it appears that there are sufficient funds of the Company lawfully available for
distribution to justify the payment. Provided the Directors act in good faith they shall not incur any liability to the holders of shares
conferring preferred rights for any loss they may suffer by the lawful payment of a dividend
on any shares having deferred or non- preferred rights. |
|
135. |
The
Directors may, before recommending or declaring
any dividend, set aside out of the funds legally available for distribution such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which
shall, at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for meeting contingencies, or for equalising dividends or for any other purpose
to which those funds may be properly applied and pending such application may,
at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other than shares
in the capital of the Company) as the Directors may from time to time think fit. |
|
136. |
Except
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 paid in proportion to the number of shares a Member holds during any
portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid; but, if any share is issued on terms providing that it shall
rank for dividend as from a particular date, that share shall rank for dividend accordingly. |
|
137. |
The
Directors may deduct from a dividend or other amounts payable to a person in respect of a share any amounts due from him to the Company
on account of a call or otherwise in relation to a share. |
|
138. |
Any
Ordinary Resolution, or Directors’ resolution declaring a dividend may direct that it shall be satisfied wholly or partly by the
distribution of assets and, where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution,
the Directors may settle the same and in particular may issue fractional certificates and fix the value for distribution of any assets
and may determine that cash shall be paid to any Member upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of Members
and may vest any assets in trustees. |
|
139. |
Any
dividend or other moneys payable on or in respect of a share may be paid by cheque sent by post to the registered address of the person
entitled or, if two or more persons are the holders of the share or are jointly entitled
to it by reason of the death or bankruptcy of the holder, to the registered address of that
one of those persons who is first named in the Register of Members or to such person and to such address as the person or persons entitled
may in writing direct. Subject to any applicable law or regulations, every cheque shall be made payable to the order of the person or
persons entitled or to such other person as the person or persons entitled may in writing direct and payment of the cheque shall be a
good discharge to the Company. Any joint holder
or other person jointly entitled to a share as aforesaid may give receipts for any dividend or other moneys payable in respect of the
share. |
|
140. |
No
dividend or other moneys payable in respect of a share shall bear interest against the Company unless otherwise provided by the rights
attached to the share. |
|
141. |
Any
dividend which has remained unclaimed for six years from the date when it became due for payment shall, if the Directors so resolve,
be forfeited and cease to remain owing by the Company. |
Accounting
Records and Audit
|
142. |
The
books of account relating to the Company’s affairs
shall be kept in such manner as may be determined from time to time by the Directors. The books of account shall be kept at the
registered office, or at such other place or places as the Directors think fit, and shall
always be open to the inspection of the Directors. |
|
143. |
The
Directors may from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations
the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of Members not being Directors, and no Member (not
being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by applicable
law, listing rules of any Designated Stock Exchange,
or authorized by the Directors or by Ordinary Resolution. |
|
144. |
Subject
to Article 143, a printed copy of the Directors’ report, accompanied by the consolidated statements of financial position, profit
or loss, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows and changes in members’ equity, including
every document required by the Act to be annexed thereto, made up to the end of the applicable financial year,
shall be sent to each person entitled thereto at least ten (10) days before the date of the general meeting and laid before the
Company at the annual general meeting held in accordance with Article 53 provided that this Article 144 shall not require a copy of those
documents to be sent to any person whose address the Company is not aware or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares. |
|
145. |
The
requirement to send to a person referred to in Article 144 the documents referred to in that Article shall be deemed satisfied where,
in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange,
the Company publishes copies of the documents referred to in Article 144 on the Company’s
Web-sites, transmits it to SEC’s website or in any other permitted manner (including
by sending any other form of electronic communication), and that person has agreed or is deemed by the Company to have agreed to treat
the publication or receipt of such documents in such manner as discharging the Company’s
obligation to send to him a copy of such documents. |
|
146. |
Respected
Article 147 below, subject to the applicable law and rules of any Designated Stock Exchange,
the accounts relating to the Company’s affairs
shall be audited in such manner as may be determined from time to time by the Company by Ordinary Resolution or failing any such
determination by the Directors or failing any determination as aforesaid shall not be audited. |
|
147. |
The
Audit Committee (or in the absence of such an Audit Committee, the Board) shall appoint an auditor of the Company who shall hold office
until removed from office by a resolution of the Audit Committee (or the Board, as
applicable) and shall fix his or their remuneration. |
|
148. |
Every auditor
of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts 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 auditors. |
Capitalization
of Profits
|
(a) |
subject
as provided in this Article, resolve to capitalize any undivided profits of the Company not required for paying any preferential dividend
(whether or not they are available for distribution) or any sum standing to the credit of the Company’s
share premium account or capital redemption reserve; |
|
(b) |
appropriate
the sum resolved to be capitalized to the Members who would have been entitled to it if it were distributed by way of dividend and in
the same proportions and apply such sum on their behalf either in or towards paying up the amounts, if any,
for the time being unpaid on any shares held by them respectively, or in paying up
in full unissued shares or debentures of the Company of a nominal amount equal to such sum, and allot the shares or debentures credited
as fully paid to those Members, or as they may direct, in those proportions, or partly in one way and partly in the other; |
|
(c) |
resolve
that any shares so allotted to any Member in respect of a holding by him of any partly-paid shares rank for dividend, so long as such
shares remain partly paid, only to the extent that such partly paid shares rank for dividend; |
|
(d) |
make
such provision by the issue of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or otherwise as they determine in the case of shares or
debentures becoming distributable under this Article in fractions; and |
|
(e) |
authorize
any person to enter on behalf of all the Members concerned into an agreement with the Company providing for the allotment of them respectively,
credited as fully paid, of any shares or debentures to which they may be entitled upon such capitalization, any agreement made
under such authority being binding on all such Members. |
Share
Premium Account
|
150. |
The
Directors shall in accordance with Section 34 of the Act establish a share premium account and shall carry to the credit of such account
from time to time a sum equal to the amount or value of the premium paid on the issue of any share or capital contributed as described
in Article 10. |
|
151. |
There
shall be debited to any share premium account: |
|
(a) |
on
the redemption or purchase of a share the difference between the nominal value of such share
and the redemption or purchase price provided always that at the discretion of the Directors such sum may be paid out of the profits
of the Company or, if permitted by Section 37 of the Act,
out of capital; and |
|
(b) |
any other
amounts paid out of any share premium account as permitted by Section 34 of the Act. |
Notices
|
152. |
Except
as otherwise provided in these Articles, and subject to the rules of any Designated Stock Exchanges, any notice or document may be served
by the Company or by the Person entitled to give notice to any Member either personally,
or by posting it airmail or air courier service in a prepaid letter addressed to such Member at his address as appearing in the Register,
or by electronic mail to any electronic mail address such Member may have specified in writing for the purpose of such service
of notices, or by advertisement in appropriate newspapers in accordance with the requirements of any Designated Stock Exchange, or by
facsimile or by placing it on the Company’s Website. In the case of joint holders of
a Share, all notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the joint
holding, and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the joint holders. |
|
153. |
Notices
posted to addresses outside the Cayman Islands shall be forwarded by prepaid airmail. |
|
154. |
Any
notice or other document, if served by: |
|
(a) |
post,
shall be deemed to have been served five days after the time when the letter containing the same is posted; |
|
(b) |
facsimile,
shall be deemed to have been served upon production by the transmitting facsimile machine of a report confirming transmission of the
facsimile in full to the facsimile number of the recipient; |
|
(c) |
recognized
courier service, shall be deemed to have been served 48 hours after the time when the letter containing the same is delivered to the
courier service; |
|
(d) |
electronic
mail, shall be deemed to have been served immediately upon the time of the transmission by electronic mail; or |
|
(e) |
placing
it on the Company’s Website, shall be deemed to have been served one (1) hour after
the notice or document is placed on the Company’s Website. |
In
proving service by post or courier service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter
containing the notice or documents was properly addressed and duly posted or delivered to the courier service.
|
155. |
A
Member Present at any meeting of the Company or of the holders of any class of shares in the Company shall be deemed to have received
notice of the meeting, and, where requisite, of the purpose for which it was called. |
|
156. |
Any
notice or document delivered or sent by post to or left at the registered address of any Member in accordance with the terms of these
Articles shall notwithstanding that such Member be then dead or bankrupt, and whether or not the Company has notice of his death or bankruptcy,
be deemed to have been duly served in respect of any Share registered in the name of such Member as sole or joint holder,
unless his name shall at the time of the service of the notice or document, have been removed from the Register as the holder
of the Share, and such service shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service of
such notice or document on all Persons interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in the Share. |
|
157. |
Notice
of every general meeting of the Company shall be given to: |
|
(a) |
all
Members holding Shares with the right to receive notice and who have supplied to the Company an address, facsimile number or email address
for the giving of notices to them; and |
|
(b) |
every Person
entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member, who but for his
death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting. |
No
other Person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.
Winding
Up
|
158. |
If
the Company is wound up, the liquidator may,
with the sanction of a Special Resolution and any other sanction required by the Act, divide
among the Members in specie the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and may,
for that purpose, value any assets and determine how the division shall be carried out as between the Members or different
classes of Members. The liquidator may,
with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as he with
the like sanction determines, but no Member shall be compelled to accept any assets upon which there is a liability. |
|
159. |
If the
Company shall be wound up and the assets available for distribution amongst the Members as such shall be insufficient
to repay the whole of the paid up capital, such assets shall be distributed so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be
borne by the Members in proportion to the capital paid up, or which ought to have been paid up, at the commencement of the winding up,
on the shares held by them respectively. And if in a winding up the assets available for
distribution amongst the Members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the
capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up, the excess shall be distributed pari passu amongst the Members in proportion
to the capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively.
This Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of the holders of shares issued upon special terms and conditions. |
Indemnity
|
160. |
(a)
Every Indemnified Person for the time being and from time to time of the Company and the personal representatives of the same shall be
indemnified and secured harmless out of the assets and funds of the Company against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges,
expenses, losses, damages, liabilities, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts (including reasonable attorneys’
fees and expenses and amounts paid in settlement and costs of investigation (collectively “Losses”) incurred or sustained
by him otherwise than by reason of his own dishonesty in or about the conduct of the Company’s
business or affairs (including as a result of any mistake of judgment) or in the
execution or discharge of his duties, powers, authorities or discretions, including without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any Losses incurred by him in defending or investigating (whether successfully or otherwise)
any civil, criminal, investigative and administrative proceedings concerning or in any way related to the Company or its affairs
in any court whether in the Islands or elsewhere. Such Losses incurred in defending or investigating any such proceeding shall
be paid by the Company as they are incurred upon receipt, in each case, of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Indemnified Person to
repay such amounts if it is ultimately determined by a non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction that such Indemnified
Person is not entitled to indemnification hereunder with respect thereto. However, the Company
will not indemnify its directors, officers, or persons controlling it for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act, because it is the SEC’s opinion that such indemnification
is against public policy as expressed in such act and is, therefore, unenforceable. |
|
(b) |
No
such Indemnified Person of the Company and the personal representatives of the same shall be liable (i) for the acts, receipts, neglects,
defaults or omissions of any other Director or officer or agent of the Company or (ii) by
reason of his having joined in any receipt for money not received by him personally or in any other act to which he was not a direct
party for conformity or (iii) for any loss on account of defect of title to any property of the Company or (iv) on account of the insufficiency
of any security in or upon which any money of the Company shall be invested or (v) for any loss incurred through any bank, broker
or other agent or any other party with whom any of the Company’s property may be deposited
or (vi) any loss, damage or misfortune whatsoever which may happen in or arise from the execution or discharge of the duties,powers,
authorities or discretions of his office or in relation thereto or (vii) for any loss occasioned by any negligence, default, breach of
duty, breach of trust, error of judgement or oversight on such Person’s part, unless he has acted dishonestly, with willful default
or through fraud. |
|
(c) |
The
Company hereby acknowledges that certain Indemnified Persons may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or
insurance from or against (other than directors’ and officers’ or similar insurance obtained or maintained by or on behalf
of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, including any such insurance obtained or maintained pursuant to Article 161 hereof) the Other
Indemnitors. The Company hereby agrees (i) that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to an Indemnified Person
are primary and any obligation of the Other Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities
incurred by such Indemnified Person are secondary), (ii) that it shall be required to advance the full amount of expenses incurred by
an Indemnified Person and shall be liable for the full amount of all Losses to the extent legally permitted and as required by the terms
of these Articles (or any other agreement between the Company and an Indemnified Person), without regard to any rights an Indemnified
Person may have against the Other Indemnitors, and (iii) that it irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases the Other Indemnitors
from any and all claims against the Other Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in respect thereof.
The Company further agrees that no advancement or payment by the Other Indemnitors on behalf of an Indemnified Person with respect to
any claim for which such Indemnified Person has sought indemnification from the Company shall affect the foregoing, the Other Indemnitors
shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery
of such Indemnified Person against the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, no Person or entity providing Directors’ or officers’
or similar insurance obtained or maintained by or on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, including any Person providing
such insurance obtained or maintained pursuant to Article 161 hereof shall be an Other Indemnitor. |
|
161. |
The
Directors may exercise all the power of the Company to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of a Person who is or was (whether
or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such Person against such liability under the provisions of Article 160 or under
applicable law): |
|
(a) |
a
Director, alternate Director, Secretary or
auditor of the Company or of a company which is or was a subsidiary undertaking of the Company or in which the Company has or had an
interest (whether direct or indirect); or |
|
(b) |
the trustee
of a retirement benefits scheme or other trust in which a person referred to in the preceding paragraph is or has been interested, indemnifying
him against any liability which may lawfully be insured against by the Company. |
Financial
Year
|
162. |
Unless
the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shall end on 31st of December in each year. |
Amendment
of Memorandum and Articles
|
163. |
(a) |
Subject
to the Act, the Company may by Special Resolution change its name or change the provisions
of the Memorandum with respect to its objects, powers or any other matter specified therein. |
|
|
(b) |
Subject
to the Act and as provided in these Articles, the Company may at any time and from time to time by Special Resolution, alter or amend
these Articles in whole or in part. |
Transfer
by way of Continuation
|
164. |
The
Company may by Special Resolution resolve to be registered by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Islands or such other
jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing. In furtherance of a resolution adopted pursuant
to this Article, the Directors may cause an application to be made to the Registrar of Companies to deregister the Company in the Islands
or such other jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing and may cause all such further steps
as they consider appropriate to be taken to effect the transfer by way of continuation of the Company. |
Information
|
165. |
No
Member shall be entitled to require discovery of or any information respecting any detail of the Company’s
trading or any matter which is or may be in the nature of a trade secret or secret process which may relate to the conduct of
the business of the Company and which in the opinion of the Directors it will be inexpedient in the interests of the Members of the Company
to communicate to the public. |
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