UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 6, 2025
WHITEFIBER, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Cayman Islands | 001-42780 | 61-2222606 | ||
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(Commission File Number)
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
31 Hudson Yards, Floor 11, Suite 30
New York, NY 10001
(212) 463-5121
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
| ☐ | Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Trading Symbol |
Name of each exchange on which registered |
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| Ordinary Shares, par value $0.01 per share | WYFI | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company ☒
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On August 6, 2025, WhiteFiber, Inc. (the “Company”) priced the initial public offering (the “IPO”) of its ordinary shares, par value $0.01 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”), at a public offering price of $17.00 per share, pursuant to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-288650), as amended (the “Registration Statement”). On August 6, 2025, in connection with the pricing of the IPO, the Company and B. Riley Securities, Inc. and Needham & Company, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters (the “Underwriters”), entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to offer and sell, and the Underwriters agreed to purchase, 9,375,000 Ordinary Shares. The IPO closed and the Ordinary Shares were delivered on August 8, 2025.
The Underwriters were also granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,406,250 Ordinary Shares.
The Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company and customary conditions to closing, obligations of the parties and termination provisions. Additionally, the Company has agreed to indemnify the Underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or to contribute to payments the Underwriters may be required to make because of any of those liabilities.
The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Underwriting Agreement, a copy of which is filed herewith as Exhibit 1.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
On August 6, 2025, the Company issued 27,043,749 Ordinary Shares (the “Contribution Shares”) to Bit Digital, Inc. (“Bit Digital”) pursuant to the terms of a Section 351 Contribution Agreement (the “Contribution Agreement”) entered into with Bit Digital prior to the consummation of the IPO. Pursuant to the Contribution Agreement, Bit Digital agreed to contribute its HPC business through the transfer of 100% of the capital shares of its cloud services subsidiary, WhiteFiber AI, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries WhiteFiber HPC, Inc., WhiteFiber Canada, Inc., WhiteFiber Japan G.K. and WhiteFiber Iceland, ehf, to the Company, upon the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and prior to the consummation of the IPO, in exchange for the Contribution Shares.
Prior to the consummation of the IPO, Bit Digital held all of our issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares. After giving effect to the IPO, Bit Digital holds approximately 74.3% of our issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares.
The issuance of the Contribution Shares under the Contribution Agreement was undertaken in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereof.
Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.
The information set forth under Item 5.03 below is incorporated by reference in this Item 3.03.
Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On August 7, 2025, the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (the “A&R Memorandum and Articles”), in substantially the form previously filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Registration Statement, were filed with the Registrar of Companies (Cayman) and became effective.
Please see the description of the A&R Memorandum and Articles in the section titled “Description of WhiteFiber’s Share Capital” in the Registration Statement, which description is incorporated herein by reference.
The foregoing description of the A&R Memorandum and Articles does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the A&R Memorandum and Articles, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 8.01 Other Events.
On August 6, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing the pricing of the IPO. A copy of this press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
On August 8, 2025, the Company completed its initial public offering of 9,375,000 Ordinary Shares, at a public offering price of $17.00 per share. The gross proceeds to the Company from the initial public offering were $159,375,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses.
On August 8, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing the closing of the IPO. A copy of this press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) The following exhibits are being filed herewith:
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 1.1 | Underwriting Agreement, dated August 6, 2025, among WhiteFiber, Inc. and B. Riley Securities, Inc. and Needham & Company, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters listed therein. | |
| 3.1 | Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of WhiteFiber, Inc. | |
| 99.1 | Press Release dated August 6, 2025, announcing the pricing of the IPO. | |
| 99.2 | Press Release dated August 8, 2025, announcing the closing of the IPO. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| WHITEFIBER, INC. | ||
| Date: August 8, 2025 | By: | /s/ Sam Tabar |
| Name: | Sam Tabar | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
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Exhibit 1.1
Execution Version
WhiteFiber, Inc.
Ordinary Shares
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
August 6, 2025
B. Riley Securities, Inc.
Needham & Company, LLC
as Representatives of the several Underwriters
c/o B. Riley Securities, Inc.
1300 17th St. N, Suite 1300
Arlington, VA 22209
c/o Needham & Company, LLC
250 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10177
Ladies and Gentlemen:
WhiteFiber, Inc., an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with each of the Underwriters listed on Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), for whom B. Riley Securities, Inc. (“B. Riley”) and Needham & Company, LLC are acting as representatives (in such capacity, the “Representatives”), with respect to (i) the sale by the Company of 9,375,000 ordinary shares, par value of US$0.01 each (the “Initial Ordinary Shares”), of the Company (the “Ordinary Shares”), and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the respective number of Ordinary Shares set forth opposite the names of the Underwriters in Schedule I hereto, and (ii) the grant of the option described in Section 1(b) hereof to purchase all or any part of 1,406,250 additional Ordinary Shares (the “Additional Ordinary Shares”) from the Company to the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, in the respective numbers of Ordinary Shares set forth opposite the names of each of the Underwriters listed in Schedule I hereto. The Initial Ordinary Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters and the Additional Ordinary Shares, if and to the extent such option described in Section 1(b) hereof is exercised are hereinafter called, collectively, the “Shares.”
The Company understands that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of the Shares as soon as the Underwriters deem advisable after this Underwriting Agreement (the “Agreement”) has been executed and delivered.
The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-288650), including a related preliminary prospectus, for the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Securities Act”). The Company has prepared and filed such amendments to the registration statement and such amendments or supplements to the related preliminary prospectus as may have been required to the date hereof, and will file such additional amendments or supplements as may hereafter be required. The registration statement has been declared effective under the Securities Act by the Commission. The registration statement, as amended at the time it was declared effective by the Commission (and, if the Company files a post-effective amendment to such registration statement that becomes effective prior to the Closing Time (as defined below), such registration statement as so amended) and including all information deemed to be a part of the registration statement pursuant to incorporation by reference, Rule 430A of the Securities Act or otherwise, is hereinafter called the “Registration Statement.” Any registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act is hereinafter called the “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement,” and after such filing, the term “Registration Statement” shall include the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. Each prospectus describing the Shares and the offering thereof included in the Registration Statement before it was declared effective by the Commission under the Securities Act, and any preliminary form of prospectus filed with the Commission by the Company with the consent of the Underwriters pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the Securities Act, including all information incorporated by reference in either such prospectus, is hereinafter called the “Preliminary Prospectus.” The term “Prospectus” means the final prospectus, as first filed with the Commission pursuant to paragraph (1) or (4) of Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto including all information incorporated by reference therein.
The Commission has not issued any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus.
The term “Disclosure Package” means (i) the Preliminary Prospectus, as most recently amended or supplemented immediately prior to the Initial Sale Time (as defined herein), (ii) the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined below), if any, identified in Schedule II hereto, (iii) the pricing information set forth on Schedule III hereto, and (iv) any other Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree to treat as part of the Disclosure Package.
The term “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 of the Securities Act. The term “Free Writing Prospectus” means any free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
The term “Transition Documents” means (i) the Section 351 Contribution Agreement, and (ii) the Transition Services Agreement described under the heading “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions” in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
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The term “Reorganization” means the transfer of 100% of the capital shares of WhiteFiber AI, Inc. to the Company upon the initial effective date of the Registration Statement pursuant to the terms of the Transition Documents.
The Company and the Underwriters agree as follows:
| 1. | Sale and Purchase: |
(a) Initial Ordinary Shares. Upon the basis of the representations and warranties and other terms and conditions and agreements herein set forth, at the purchase price per Ordinary Share of $15.81, the Company agrees to sell, issue and allot to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase and subscribe for from the Company, that number of Initial Ordinary Shares set forth in Schedule I opposite such Underwriter’s name, plus any additional number of Initial Ordinary Shares which such Underwriter may become obligated to purchase pursuant to the provisions of Section 8 hereof, subject in each case, to such adjustments among the Underwriters as the Representatives in their sole discretion shall make to eliminate any sales or purchases of fractional shares.
(b) Additional Ordinary Shares. In addition, upon the basis of the representations and warranties and other terms and conditions and agreements herein set forth, at the purchase price per Ordinary Share set forth in paragraph (a) above less an amount equal to any dividend or distribution payable on Initial Ordinary Shares that is not also payable on the Additional Ordinary Shares, the Company hereby grants an option to the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, to purchase and subscribe for from the Company, all or any part of the Additional Ordinary Shares, plus any additional number of Additional Ordinary Shares which such Underwriter may become obligated to purchase pursuant to the provisions of Section 8 hereof. The option hereby granted will expire 30 days after the date hereof and may be exercised in whole or in part from time to time upon notice by the Representatives to the Company, which may be given at any time within 30 days from the date of the Prospectus, setting forth the number of Additional Ordinary Shares as to which the several Underwriters are then exercising the option and the time and date of payment and delivery for such Additional Ordinary Shares. Any such time and date of delivery (an “Option Closing Time”) shall be determined by the Representatives, but shall not be later than five full business days (or earlier, without the consent of the Company, than two full business days) after the exercise of such option, nor in any event prior to the Closing Time, as hereinafter defined. If the option is exercised as to all or any portion of the Additional Ordinary Shares, the Company will sell, issue and allot that number of Additional Ordinary Shares then being purchased and each of the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, will purchase and subscribe for that proportion of the total number of Additional Ordinary Shares then being purchased which the number of Initial Ordinary Shares set forth in Schedule I opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the total number of Initial Ordinary Shares, subject in each case to such adjustments among the Underwriters as the Representatives in their sole discretion shall make to eliminate any sales or purchases of fractional shares. The Representatives may cancel the option at any time prior to its expiration by giving written notice of such cancellation to the Company.
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| 2. | Payment and Delivery |
(a) Initial Ordinary Shares. The Initial Ordinary Shares to be purchased and subscribed for by each Underwriter hereunder, in definitive form, and in such authorized denominations and registered in such names as the Representatives may request upon at least 48 hours’ prior notice to the Company shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company to the Representatives, including, at the option of the Representatives, through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) for the account of such Underwriter, against payment by or on behalf of such Underwriter of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of Federal (same-day) funds to the account specified to the Representatives by the Company upon at least 48 hours’ prior notice. The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the first (second, if the determination of the purchase price of the Initial Ordinary Shares occurs after 4:30 p.m., New York City time) business day after the date hereof (unless another time and date shall be agreed to by the Representatives and the Company). The time and date at which such delivery and payment are actually made is hereinafter called the “Closing Time.”
(b) Additional Ordinary Shares. Any Additional Ordinary Shares to be purchased and subscribed for by each Underwriter hereunder, in definitive form, and in such authorized denominations and registered in such names as the Representatives may request upon at least 48 hours’ prior notice to the Company shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company to the Representatives, including, at the option of the Representatives, through the facilities of DTC for the account of such Underwriter, against payment by or on behalf of such Underwriter of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of Federal (same-day) funds to the account specified to the Representatives by the Company upon at least 48 hours’ prior notice. The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the date specified by the Representatives in the notice given by the Representatives to the Company of the Underwriters’ election to purchase such Additional Ordinary Shares or on such other time and date as the Company and the Representatives may agree upon in writing.
| 3. | Representations and Warranties of the Company: |
The Company represents and warrants to each of the Underwriters as of the date hereof, the Initial Sale Time (as defined below), as of the Closing Time and as of any Option Closing Time (if any), and agrees with each Underwriter, that:
(a) Each Transition Document has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and is a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, and by general equitable principles.
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There have been no amendments, alterations, modifications or waivers of any of the provisions of any of the Transition Documents since their date of execution, and to the Company’s knowledge, there exists no event or condition that would constitute a default or event of default under any of the Transition Documents; (b) the Company has the authorized share capital as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and the issued and outstanding Shares of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, and are as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the caption “Capitalization” (other than for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to employee benefit plans, or upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants, in each case described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus). None of the outstanding Shares of the Company were issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. The descriptions of the Company’s stock or share option, stock or share bonus and other stock or share plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, set forth in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus accurately and fairly present, in all material respects, the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights. All of the outstanding share capital, shares of capital stock, partnership interests and membership interests, as the case may be, of the Subsidiaries (as defined below) have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable securities thereof and, except as disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, all of the issued and outstanding share capital, shares of capital stock, partnership interest or membership interests, as the case may be, of the Subsidiaries are directly or indirectly owned of record and beneficially by the Company, free and clear of any pledge, mortgage, charge, lien, encumbrance, security interest or other claim. Except as disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no issued and outstanding (i) securities or obligations of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries convertible into or exchangeable for any share capital or capital stock of the Company or any such Subsidiary, (ii) warrants, options, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to subscribe for or purchase from the Company or any such Subsidiary any such share capital or capital stock or any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations, or (iii) obligations of the Company or any such Subsidiary to issue any shares, shares of capital stock, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligation, or any such warrants, rights or options; and none of the outstanding interests of any of the Subsidiaries, if any, were issued in violation of the preemptive or similar rights of any securityholder of such Subsidiary;
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(c) each of the Company and the subsidiaries named in Exhibit 21 to the Registration Statement (which are the only significant subsidiaries as defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X of the Company) (the “Subsidiaries”) has been duly incorporated, formed or organized and is validly existing as a corporation or limited liability company in good standing under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation, formation or organization, as applicable, with full power and authority to own, lease, and operate its respective properties and to conduct its respective businesses as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and, in the case of the Company, to execute and deliver this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated herein; and no Subsidiary is prohibited or restricted, directly or indirectly, from paying dividends to the Company, or from making any other distribution with respect to such Subsidiary’s share capital, capital stock or from repaying to the Company or any other Subsidiary any amounts which may from time to time become due under any loans or advances to such Subsidiary from the Company or such other Subsidiary, or from transferring any such Subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or to any other Subsidiary; (d) the Company and all of the Subsidiaries are duly qualified or licensed to transact business and are in good standing in each jurisdiction in which they conduct their respective businesses or in which they own or lease real property, except where the failure, individually or in the aggregate, to be so qualified or licensed would not have a material adverse effect on the (i) assets, liabilities, business, operations, earnings, operating results, prospects, properties or condition (financial or otherwise), present or prospective, of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or (ii) the ability of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or perform its obligations hereunder (any such effect or change referred to in subclause (i) or (ii), where the context so requires, is hereinafter called a “Material Adverse Effect” or a “Material Adverse Change”); and except as disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, and the Prospectus, (i) the Company and its Subsidiaries have not incurred any material liability or obligation, indirect, direct or contingent, including without limitation any losses or interference with their business from fire, explosion, flood, earthquakes, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any strike, labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, that are material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (ii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have not entered into any transactions or agreements (whether or not in the ordinary course of business) that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries; (iii) there has not been any material change in the share capital or capital stock or any material increase in any short-term or long-term indebtedness of the Company or its Subsidiaries; (iv) there has not been any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its share capital; and (v) the Company has not acquired, directly or indirectly, any share capital, capital stock or other equity securities of any other company, corporation or any ownership interest in any partnership, joint venture or other association;
(e) the Company and the Subsidiaries have at all times been, and currently are, in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, orders, decrees and judgments, including those relating to transactions with affiliates;
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(f) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in breach or violation of or in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach or violation of, or default under) (i) its respective charter, bylaws, limited partnership agreement, operating agreement or other similar organizational documents (the “organizational documents”); (ii) the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, lease, license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan, note or credit agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any of them or their respective properties is bound; or (iii) any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment, permit or order (each, a “Law”) applicable to the Company, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for such breaches, violations or defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; (g) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, and consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and the issuance and sale of the Shares (including the use of proceeds from the sale of the Shares as described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”) and the compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not and will not (i) conflict with, or result in any breach or violation of, or constitute a default or any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (a “Repayment Event”) under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach or violation of, or default or a Repayment Event under), (A) any provision of the organizational documents of the Company or any Subsidiary, or (B) any provision of any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan, note or credit agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any of them or their respective properties may be bound or affected, or under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment, writ or order applicable to the Company or any Subsidiary, except in the case of this clause (B) for such breaches, violations or defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; or (ii) result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge, claim or encumbrance upon any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary, except for liens, charges, claims or encumbrances that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
(h) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and is a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, and by general equitable principles, and except to the extent that the indemnification and contribution provisions of Section 9 hereof may be limited by federal or state securities laws and public policy considerations in respect thereof;
(i) no approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency is required in connection with the Company’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, its consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and its sale and delivery of the Shares, and the compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder, other than (i) such as have been obtained, under the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”); (ii) such approvals as have been obtained in connection with the approval of the listing of the Shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”); and (iii) any necessary qualification under the securities or blue sky laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Shares are being offered by the Underwriters or by the rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”);
(j) each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has all necessary permits, licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals (the “Permits”) and has made all necessary filings required under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and has obtained all necessary authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons, required to conduct their respective businesses as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except to the extent that any failure to have any such Permits, to make any such filings or to obtain any such authorizations, consents or approvals would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; except as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is required by any applicable law to obtain accreditation or certification from any governmental agency or authority to provide the products and services which it currently provides or which it proposes to provide as set forth in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is in compliance with, and is not in violation of, in default under, or has received any notice regarding a possible violation, default, modification or revocation of, any such Permit or any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, order or judgment applicable to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the effect of which, individually or in the aggregate, would result in a Material Adverse Effect; (k) each of the Registration Statement, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective under the Securities Act, and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are contemplated or threatened by the Commission; the Company is not the subject of a proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act in connection with the offering of the Shares; and the Company has complied, to the Commission’s satisfaction, with any request on the part of the Commission for additional or supplemental information;
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(l) the Preliminary Prospectus and Prospectus, each when filed, and the Registration Statement as of the effective date and as of the date hereof, and any further amendments or supplements to the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus complied with or will comply, when they become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act;
(m) each of the Registration Statement, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, and any post-effective amendments thereto, as of its respective effective date and as of the date hereof, did not, does not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Preliminary Prospectus (including any wrapper thereof) does not, and the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (including any wrapper thereof) will not, as of the applicable filing date, the date hereof and at the Closing Time and on each Option Closing Time (if any), contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no warranty or representation with respect to any statement contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with the information concerning the Underwriters furnished in writing by or on behalf of the Underwriters through the Representatives to the Company expressly for use therein (that information being limited to that described in Section 9(b) hereof and referred to hereinafter as the “Underwriters’ Information”);
(n) as of 4:40 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement (the “Initial Sale Time”), the Disclosure Package did not, and at the time of each sale of Shares and at the Closing Time and each Option Closing Time, the Disclosure Package will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; as of its issue date or date of first use and at all subsequent times through the Initial Sale Time, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, did not, and at the time of each sale of Shares and at the Closing Time and each Option Closing Time, each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no warranty or representation with respect to any Underwriters’ Information; (o) each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Shares did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, or the Prospectus that has not been superseded or modified in any material respect; provided, however, that the Company makes no warranty or representation with respect to any Underwriters’ Information;
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(p) prior to the execution of this Agreement, the Company has not, directly or indirectly, offered or sold any Shares by means of any “prospectus” (within the meaning of the Securities Act) or used any “prospectus” (within the meaning of the Securities Act) in connection with the offer or sale of the Shares, in each case other than the Preliminary Prospectus or an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any; the Company has not, directly or indirectly, prepared, used or referred to any Free Writing Prospectus except in compliance with Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act; the Company is eligible to use Free Writing Prospectuses in connection with this offering pursuant to Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act; any Free Writing Prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act has been, or will be, filed with the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act; the Company was not, is not or will not be (as applicable) an “ineligible issuer” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) as of the eligibility determination date for purposes of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act with respect to the offering of the Shares contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, without taking into account any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act that it is not necessary under the circumstances that the Company be considered an “ineligible issuer”; and each Free Writing Prospectus that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used by the Company complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act;
(q) except for the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule II hereto, and any electronic road show relating to the public offering of Shares contemplated herein furnished to you before first use, the Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without the prior consent of the Representatives, prepare, use or refer to, any Free Writing Prospectus; and each electronic road show, when considered together with the Disclosure Package, did not, as of the Initial Sale Time, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(r) the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (to the extent any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus was required to be filed with the Commission) delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with the public offering of the Shares contemplated herein have been and will be identical to the versions of such documents transmitted to the Commission for filing via the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”), except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T; (s) the Company filed the Registration Statement with the Commission before using any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus was preceded or accompanied by the most recent Preliminary Prospectus satisfying the requirements of Section 10 under the Securities Act, which Preliminary Prospectus included an estimated price range;
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(t) the initial confidential submission by the Company of the Registration Statement relating to the Shares with the Commission complied with the confidential submission policy of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Commission announced June 29, 2017; from the time of the initial confidential submission of the Registration Statement relating to the Shares with the Commission (or, if earlier, the first date on which the Company has engaged in any oral or written communication made in reliance upon Section 5(d) of the Securities Act or Rule 163B under the Securities Act (each, a “Testing-the-Waters Communication”)) through the date hereof, the Company has been and is an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Securities Act (an “Emerging Growth Company”). The Company (i) has not engaged in any Testing-the-Waters Communication other than Testing-the-Waters Communications with the consent of the Representatives with entities that are reasonably believed to be “qualified institutional buyers” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act or institutions that are “accredited investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act; (ii) has not authorized anyone other than the Representatives to engage in Testing-the-Waters Communication; and (iii) reconfirms that the Representatives has been authorized to act on the Company’s behalf in undertaking materials or information provided to investors by, or with the approval of, the Company in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Shares, including any roadshow or investor presentations made to investors by the Company (whether in person or electronically) (“Marketing Materials”) or Testing-the-Waters Communications. As of its issue date or date of first use and at all subsequent times through the Initial Sale Time, each of the Testing-the-Waters Communications and the Marketing Materials, if any, when considered together with the Disclosure Package, did not, and at the time of each sale of Shares and at the Closing Time and each Option Closing Time will not, include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and does not, as of the date hereof, conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus;
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(u) there are no actions, suits, proceedings, inquiries or investigations pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their respective officers, directors or director nominees or to which the properties, assets or rights of any such entity are subject, at law or in equity, before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority, arbitral panel or agency which, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be likely to result in a judgement, decree, award or order having a Material Adverse Effect; (v) the financial statements, including the notes thereto, included in (or incorporated by reference into) each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the entities to which such financial statements relate (the “Covered Entities”) as of the dates indicated and the consolidated results of operations and changes in financial position and cash flows of the Covered Entities for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States (“GAAP”) and on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may be expressly stated in the related notes thereto, and in accordance with Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission; the financial statement schedules included in (or incorporated by reference into) the Registration Statement and the amounts in both the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the captions “Summary Historical and Pro Forma Combined Financial and Operating Data,” and “Capitalization” have been compiled on a basis consistent with the financial statements included in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; the information contained in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the caption “Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Information” presents fairly in all material respects the information shown therein and complies with the requirements of Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act; no other financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus; the unaudited pro forma financial information (including the related notes) included in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus complies as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Securities Act; the assumptions underlying the pro forma adjustments are reasonable and appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein; such pro forma adjustments have been properly applied to the historical amounts in the compilation of the information; and such information fairly presents with respect to the Company and the Subsidiaries, the financial position, results of operations and other information purported to be shown therein at the respective dates and for the respective periods specified; and no other pro forma financial information is required to be included in (or incorporated by reference into) the Registration Statement the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; the Company and its Subsidiaries do not have any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent (including any off-balance sheet obligations), not described in the Registration Statement (excluding the exhibits thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and all disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus that constitute non-GAAP financial measures (as defined by the rules and regulations under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act) comply with Regulation G under the Exchange Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable;
(w) Audit Alliance LLP, whose reports on (i) the combined financial statements (including the notes and schedules thereto) of the Company and its combined subsidiaries and (ii) Enovum Data Centers Corp. (“Enovum”) and its subsidiaries are filed with the Commission as part of each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or are incorporated by reference therein, and any other accounting firm that has certified any such financial statements and delivered its reports with respect thereto, are, and were during the periods covered by their reports, (i) independent public accountants as required by the Securities Act and the rules of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”); (ii) in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act; and (iii) a registered public accounting firm as defined by the PCAOB whose registration has not been suspended or revoked and who has not requested such registration to be withdrawn; and to the Company’s knowledge, no person who has been suspended or barred from being associated with a registered public accounting firm, or who has failed to comply with any sanction pursuant to Rule 5300 promulgated by the PCAOB, has participated in or otherwise aided the preparation of, or audited, the financial statements, supporting schedules or other financial data filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; (x) the Shares conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;
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(y) except as disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no persons with registration or other similar rights to have any equity or debt securities, including securities which are convertible into or exchangeable for equity securities, registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise registered by the Company under the Securities Act, except for those registration or similar rights which have been validly waived with respect to the offering contemplated by this Agreement; and all of such registration or similar rights are fairly summarized in all material respects in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;
(z) the Shares have been duly authorized and, when issued and duly delivered by the Company against payment therefor as contemplated by this Agreement and such issue entered in the Register of Members of the Company, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, free and clear of any pledge, mortgage, charge, lien, encumbrance, security interest or other claim, and the issuance and sale of the Shares by the Company is not subject to preemptive or other similar rights (whether arising by operation of law, under the organizational documents of the Company or under any agreement to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or otherwise);
(aa) the Shares are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and have been approved for listing on Nasdaq, subject to official notice of issuance, and the Company has taken all necessary actions to ensure that, as of the Closing Time and each Option Closing Time, it will be in compliance with all applicable corporate governance requirements set forth in Nasdaq’s listing rules then in effect;
(bb) none of the Company, the Subsidiaries, or any of their respective directors, director nominees, officers, representatives or affiliates has taken, nor will take, directly or indirectly, (i) any action which is designed to or which has constituted or which might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company (including the Shares and any “reference security” (as defined in Rule 100 of Regulation M under the Exchange Act (“Regulation M”)) with respect to the Shares), whether to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares or otherwise and (ii) has not taken any action which would directly or indirectly violate Regulation M;
(cc) none of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is required to register as a “broker” or “dealer” in accordance with the provisions of the Exchange Act; and all of the information provided to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters by the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, its officers, directors and director nominees and the holders of any securities of the Company in connection with the review of the offering of the Shares by FINRA is true, complete, correct and compliant with FINRA’s rules; (dd) the Company has furnished to the Underwriters a letter agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Lock-up Agreement”) from each of the persons listed on Exhibit B (each a “Lock-up Person”);
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(ee) any certificate signed by any director or officer of the Company or any Subsidiary delivered to the Representatives or to counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or the offer, issuance, and sale of the Shares hereunder shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby;
(ff) the form of certificate used to evidence the Ordinary Shares complies in all material respects with all applicable statutory requirements, with any applicable requirements of the organizational documents of the Company and the requirements of Nasdaq;
(gg) each of the Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real property owned by it, if any, and good and marketable title to all personal property and other assets reflected as owned by them in the financial statements, supporting schedules or other financial data filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, in each case free and clear of all liens, security interests, pledges, charges, encumbrances, mortgages, equities, adverse claims and other defects, except such as are disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or such as do not materially and adversely affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries; and any real property, improvements, buildings, equipment and personal property held under lease by the Company or any Subsidiary are held under valid, existing and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as are disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or are not material and do not interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such real property, improvements, buildings, equipment and personal property by the Company or such Subsidiary;
(hh) the descriptions in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus of the legal or governmental proceedings, contracts, leases and other legal documents therein described present fairly in all material respects the information required to be shown, and there are no legal or governmental proceedings, contracts, leases, or other documents of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits thereto which are not described or filed as required; all material agreements between the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and third parties expressly referenced in any of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company or one or more of the Subsidiaries, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles; (ii) the Company and each Subsidiary owns or possesses adequate licenses or other rights to use all patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, software and designs, trade secrets, manufacturing processes, other intangible property rights and know-how (collectively “Intangibles”) necessary to entitle the Company and each Subsidiary to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received notice of infringement of or conflict with (and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary knows of any such infringement of or conflict with) asserted rights of others with respect to any Intangibles which would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(jj) the Company owns, possesses, licenses or has other rights to use, on reasonable terms, all patents, trade and service marks, trade and service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, inventions, trade secrets, technology, know-how and other intellectual property (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”) described in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package , and Prospectus as being owned or licensed by them or which are reasonably necessary for the conduct of the respective businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries as now conducted or as proposed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus to be conducted; the conduct of their respective businesses does not and the Company does not expect it will, infringe, misappropriate or otherwise conflict in any material respect with any Intellectual Property rights of others; and (i) to the Company’s knowledge, there is no material infringement by third parties of any such Intellectual Property owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company; (ii) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s rights in or to any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; (iii) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of Intellectual Property owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding, or claim which would have a Material Adverse Effect; (iv) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others asserting that the Company infringes or otherwise violates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and the Company is unaware of any other fact which would form a reasonable basis for concluding that any such claim will be asserted, or if asserted, would be successful, or if successfully asserted, would have a Material Adverse Effect; (v) the Company and its Subsidiaries do not in the conduct of their business as now conducted or as proposed to be conducted as described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, or the Prospectus infringe or conflict with any patent right of any third party, or any discovery, invention, product or process which is the subject of a patent issued to any third party, which such infringement or conflict would result in a Material Adverse Change; (vi) there is no art of which the Company is aware that may render any U.S. patent held by the Company invalid or any U.S. patent application held by the Company unpatentable which has not been disclosed, or will not be disclosed in the required time period, to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (vii) no security interests have been recorded in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with respect to any Intellectual Property owned by the Company and no liens have been recorded against the Company with respect to any such Intellectual Property; (viii) the Company has paid or will pay all maintenance and issue fees that are due or will be due, within the required time period, and has claimed small entity status only as appropriate with respect to all Intellectual Property owned by the Company that is the subject of any application or registration with a governmental body or agency; (ix) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no material defects in any of the patents or patent applications included in the Intellectual Property owned by the Company or any facts or circumstances which would render any such Intellectual Property invalid or unenforceable; (x) the Company and its Subsidiaries have taken all reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard their Intellectual Property, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure, confidentiality agreements and invention assignment agreements and invention assignments with their employees, and to the Company’s knowledge, no employee of the Company is in or has been in violation of any term of any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention assignment agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, nondisclosure agreement, or any restrictive covenant to or with a former employer where the basis of such violation relates to such employee’s employment with the Company; (xi) none of the Company-owned Intellectual Property or technology (including information technology and outsourced arrangements) employed by the Company or its Subsidiaries has been obtained or is being used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company or its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, director nominees or employees or otherwise in violation of the rights of any persons; and (xii) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries have complied with the terms of each agreement pursuant to which Intellectual Property has been licensed to the Company or any Subsidiary, and all such agreements are in full force and effect; (kk) the Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act), which (i) are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer by others within those entities in a timely manner, particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports required under the Exchange Act are being prepared; and (ii) are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for which they were established;
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(ll) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries makes and keeps accurate books and records and maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, except as disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there have been (A) no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (B) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting; and the Company is not aware of (x) any change in its internal control over financial reporting that has occurred during its most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting or (y) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting; (mm) each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has filed or caused to be filed on a timely basis all necessary federal, state, local and foreign income and franchise tax returns required to be filed through the date hereof or have properly requested extensions thereof and have timely paid all taxes shown as due thereon and, if due and payable, any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against any of them except as may be being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and as to which adequate reserves have been provided and will be maintained; and no tax deficiency has been asserted against any such entity, nor does any such entity know of any tax deficiency which is likely to be asserted against any such entity which, if determined adversely to any such entity, would have a Material Adverse Effect; and all tax liabilities, accruals and reserves with respect to any income and corporation tax liability for any years not finally determined are adequately provided for to meet any assessments or re-assessments for additional income tax on the respective books of such entities;
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(nn) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries maintains insurance (issued by insurers of recognized financial responsibility) of the types, in the amounts and with such deductibles and covering such risks generally deemed adequate for their respective businesses and consistent with insurance coverage maintained by similar companies in similar businesses, including, but not limited to, insurance covering real and personal property owned or leased by the Company and the Subsidiaries against theft, damage, destruction, acts of vandalism and all other risks customarily insured against, all of which insurance is in full force and effect; the Company has no reason to believe that it or any of its Subsidiaries will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change; and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied;
(oo) except as would, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change, (i) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation, or has received notice of any violation with respect to, any applicable environmental, safety or similar law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof applicable to the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (ii) the Company and the Subsidiaries have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable federal and state occupational safety and health and environmental laws and regulations to conduct their respective businesses, and the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval; (iii) there are no pending or threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any applicable environmental, safety or similar laws and regulations against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and (iv) there are no events or circumstances that might reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries relating to any environmental laws;
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(pp) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation of or has received notice of any violation with respect to any federal or state law relating to discrimination in the hiring, promotion or pay of employees, nor any applicable federal or state wages and hours law, nor any state law precluding the denial of credit due to the neighborhood in which a property is situated, the violation of any of which would have a Material Adverse Effect; (qq) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under ERISA (as defined below)) established or maintained by the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective ERISA Affiliates (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with all presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”) and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”), and no such plan is under audit or investigation by any Governmental Authority; no “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur with respect to any “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA) for which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or their respective ERISA Affiliates would have any liability; the Company and each of the Subsidiaries and each of their respective ERISA Affiliates have not incurred and are not reasonably likely to incur liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “pension plan” or (ii) Section 412, 4971, 4975, or 4980B of the Code; and each “pension plan” for which the Company and each of its Subsidiaries and their respective ERISA Affiliates would have any liability, or established or maintained by any such entity that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified in all material respects and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification; and, for the purposes of this paragraph, “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any member of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code of which the Company or such Subsidiary is a member;
(rr) none of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, any officer, director, or director nominee purporting to act on behalf of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge, any of their respective employees or agents has at any time (i) made any contributions to any candidate for political office, or failed to disclose fully any such contributions, in violation of law; (ii) made any payment to any state, federal or foreign governmental officer or official, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, in violation of applicable law; (iii) made any payment outside the ordinary course of business to any investment officer or loan broker or person charged with similar duties of any entity to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries sells or from which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries buys loans or servicing arrangements for the purpose of influencing such agent, officer, broker or person to buy loans or servicing arrangements from or sell loans to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries; or (iv) engaged in any transactions, maintained any bank account or used any corporate funds except for transactions, bank accounts and funds which have been and are reflected in the normally maintained books and records of the Company and the Subsidiaries;
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(ss) there are no outstanding loans, extensions of credit or advances or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries to or for the benefit of any of the officers, directors or director nominees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any of the immediate family members of such officers, directors or director nominees; (tt) each “forward-looking statement” (as defined by Section 27A of the Securities Act or Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (i) was so included by the Company in good faith and with reasonable basis after due consideration by the Company of the underlying assumptions, estimates and other applicable facts and circumstances, and (ii) is accompanied by meaningful cautionary statements identifying the important factors that would cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements; and no such statement was made with the knowledge of an executive officer or director of the Company that it was false or misleading;
(uu) all statistical, demographic and market-related data included in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes, after reasonable inquiry, to be reliable and accurate; and to the extent required, the Company has obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such sources;
(vv) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any employee or agent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has made any payment of funds of the Company or of any Subsidiary or received or retained any funds in violation of any law, rule or regulation or of a character required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;
(ww) all securities issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have been issued and sold in compliance with (i) all applicable federal and state securities laws, (ii) the laws of the applicable jurisdiction of incorporation of the issuing entity, and (iii) to the extent applicable to the issuing entity, the requirements of Nasdaq;
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(xx) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary knows of any violation of any municipal, state or federal law, rule or regulation (including those pertaining to environmental matters) concerning any property owned by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (the “Properties”) thereof which would have a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Properties complies with all applicable zoning laws, ordinances, regulations and deed restrictions or other covenants in all material respects and, if and to the extent there is a failure to comply, such failure does not materially impair the value of any of the Properties and will not result in a forfeiture or reversion of title; neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received from any governmental authority any written notice of any condemnation of or zoning change affecting the Properties or any part thereof, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary knows of any such condemnation or zoning change which is threatened and which if consummated would have a Material Adverse Effect; and all liens, charges, encumbrances, claims, or restrictions on or affecting the properties and assets (including the Properties) the Company or any of the Subsidiaries that are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or Prospectus are disclosed therein; (yy) except as otherwise disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the best knowledge of Company, any other owners of the property at any time has at any time, handled, stored, treated, transported, manufactured, spilled, leaked, or discharged, dumped, transferred or otherwise disposed of or dealt with, Hazardous Materials (as hereinafter defined) on, to or from the Properties, other than by any such action taken in compliance with all applicable Environmental Statutes or by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the ordinary use of residential, retail or commercial properties owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the Company does not intend to use the Properties or any subsequently acquired properties for the purpose of handling, storing, treating, transporting, manufacturing, spilling, leaking, discharging, dumping, transferring or otherwise disposing of or dealing with Hazardous Materials other than by any such action taken in compliance with all applicable Environmental Statutes or by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries in connection with the ordinary use of residential, retail or commercial properties owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries; (iii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries knows of any seepage, leak, discharge, release, emission, spill, or dumping of Hazardous Materials into waters on or adjacent to the Properties or any other real property owned or occupied by any such party, or onto lands from which Hazardous Materials might seep, flow or drain into such waters; (iv) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice of, or has any knowledge of any occurrence or circumstance which, with notice or passage of time or both, would give rise to a claim under or pursuant to any federal, state or local Environmental Statute or regulation or under common law, pertaining to Hazardous Materials on or originating from any of the Properties or any assets described in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any other real property owned or occupied by any such party or arising out of the conduct of any such party, including without limitation a claim under or pursuant to any Environmental Statute (hereinafter defined); and (v) neither the Properties nor any other land owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is included or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, proposed for inclusion on the National Priorities List issued pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sections 9601-9675 (“CERCLA”) by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, proposed for inclusion on any similar list or inventory issued pursuant to any other Environmental Statute or issued by any other Governmental Authority (as hereinafter defined);
As used herein, “Hazardous Material” shall include, without limitation any flammable explosives, radioactive materials, hazardous materials, hazardous wastes, toxic substances, or related materials, asbestos or any hazardous material as defined by any federal, state or local environmental law, ordinance, rule or regulation including without limitation CERCLA, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, 49 U.S.C. Sections 1801-1819, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sections 6901-6992K, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. Sections 11001-11050, the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. Sections 2601-2671, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. Sections 136-136y, the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. Sections 7401-7642, the Clean Water Act (Federal Water Pollution Control Act), 33 U.S.C. Sections 1251-1387, the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. Sections 300f-300j-26, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 U.S.C. Sections 651-678, as any of the above statutes may be amended from time to time, and in the regulations promulgated pursuant to each of the foregoing (individually, an “Environmental Statute”) or by any federal, state or local governmental authority having or claiming jurisdiction over the properties and assets described in the Prospectus (a “Governmental Authority”);
(zz) in connection with this offering, the Company has not offered and will not offer its Ordinary Shares or any other securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Ordinary Shares in a manner in violation of the Securities Act; and the Company has not distributed and will not distribute any offering material in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares except for the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Registration Statement; (aaa) except pursuant to this Agreement, the Company has not incurred any liability for, and there is no broker, finder or other party that is entitled to receive from the Company, any brokerage or, finder’s or other fees or commission or similar payment in connection with the transactions herein contemplated;
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(bbb) no relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any of the Subsidiaries on the one hand, and any other person on the other hand, which is required by the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, which is not so described;
(ccc) neither the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares or the application of the proceeds therefrom as described under “Use of Proceeds” in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, will be, or will be required to register as an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company”, as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”); and neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is required to register as an “investment adviser” as such term is term is defined in the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Advisers Act”);
(ddd) there are no existing or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened or imminent labor disputes with, or other work stoppages of, the employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or with the employees of any principal supplier, manufacturer, customer or contractor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, which would have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(eee) The board of directors of the Company is comprised of the persons set forth under the section of the Disclosure Package captioned “Management.” The qualifications of the persons serving as board members and the overall composition of the board comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules promulgated thereunder (the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act") applicable to the Company and the rules of Nasdaq.
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The Company has taken all necessary actions to ensure that, on the initial effective date of the Registration Statement, it will be in material compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act applicable to it and has implemented or will implement such programs and taken reasonable steps to ensure the Company’s future compliance (not later than the relevant statutory and regulatory deadlines therefor) with all the material provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.; (fff) (i) there has been no security breach or incident, unauthorized access or disclosure, or other compromise of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data and databases (including the data and information of their respective borrowers, customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained, processed or stored by the Company and its Subsidiaries, and any such data processed or stored by third parties on behalf of the Company and its Subsidiaries), equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”) except for those that have been remedied without material cost or liability or the duty to notify any other person, nor any incidents under internal review or investigations relating to the same; (ii) neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries have been notified of, or have knowledge of any event or condition that would result in, any security breach or incident, unauthorized access or disclosure or other compromise to their IT Systems and Data and (iii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented and maintained appropriate controls, policies, procedures, and technological safeguards to protect the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of their IT Systems and Data reasonably consistent with industry standards and practices, or as required by applicable regulatory standards, except with respect to clauses (i) and (ii), for any such security breach or incident, unauthorized access or disclosure, or other compromises, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its Subsidiaries are presently in material compliance with all applicable laws and statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations and applicable industry standards relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data, including, but not limited to Personal Data (as defined below), from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification; the Company and its Subsidiaries’ IT Systems and Data are adequate for, and operate and perform in all material respects as required in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted, free and clear of all material bugs, errors, defects, security deficiencies or vulnerabilities, Trojan horses, time bombs, malware, ransomware and other corruptants. The Company regularly conducts security assessments and penetration testing (collectively, “Assessments”) of its IT Systems and Data and has not completely remedied all material defects, vulnerabilities or deficiencies identified in such Assessments;
(ggg) the Company and its Subsidiaries are, and at all prior times were, in material compliance with all applicable state and federal data privacy and security laws and regulations, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (EU 2016/679) (collectively, the “Privacy Laws”). To ensure compliance with the Privacy Laws, the Company and its Subsidiaries have in place, comply with, and take appropriate steps reasonably designed to ensure compliance in all material respects with their external and internal policies and procedures relating to data privacy and security and the collection, storage, use, processing, disclosure, handling, transfer (including any cross-border transfers) and analysis (collectively, “Processing”) and for handling and responding to requests from data subjects relating to their of Personal Data (the “Policies”). The Company and its Subsidiaries have at all times made all disclosures to and obtained consents from users or customers required by applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements for the Processing of Personal Data, and none of such disclosures made or contained in any Policy have been inaccurate or in violation of any applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements in any material respect. The Company has at all times been in material compliance with all Policies and consents related to the Processing of Personal Data and further certifies that neither it nor any Subsidiary: (i) has received notice of any actual or potential liability under or relating to, or actual or potential violation of, any of the Privacy Laws, and has no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in any such notice; (ii) is currently conducting or paying for, in whole or in part, any audit, investigation, remediation, or other corrective action pursuant to any Privacy Law or any contract relating to the Processing of Personal Data; or (iii) is a party to any order, decree, or agreement that imposes any obligation or liability under any Privacy Law.
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“Personal Data” for the purpose hereof means (i) a natural person’s name, street address, telephone number, e-mail address, photograph, social security number or tax identification number, driver’s license number, passport number, credit card number, bank information, or customer or account number; (ii) any information which would qualify as “personally identifying information” under the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended; (iii) “personal data” as defined by GDPR; (iv) any information which would qualify as “protected health information” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act; and (v) any other piece of information that allows the identification of such natural person, or his or her family, or permits the collection or analysis of any data related to an identified person’s health or sexual orientation or that would be protected as personal data or personal information or similar term under any Privacy Law; (hhh) none of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates or any director, director nominee or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the knowledge of the Company, any agent, employee or other person acting on behalf of such entities is in violation of or is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), the UK Bribery Act 2010, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA and the Company and the Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company, their affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith;
(iii) none of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates, any director, director nominee or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the Company’s knowledge, agent or employee of, or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, has violated the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended, the Uniting and Strengthening of America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT ACT) of 2001 or the rules and regulations promulgated under any such law or any successor law;
(jjj) the operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries and affiliates and, to the Company’s knowledge, are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, as amended, any other money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the Company’s knowledge, or any of its affiliates, with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened; (kkk) each of the Company, its Subsidiaries and affiliates and director, director nominee and officer of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and, to the Company’s knowledge, each of their agents and employees, and any other persons associated with or acting on behalf of the Company, has acted at all times in compliance with applicable Export and Import Laws (as defined below) and there are no claims, complaints, charges, investigations or proceedings pending or expected or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and any governmental authority under any Export or Import Laws.
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The term “Export and Import Laws” means the Arms Export Control Act, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended, the Export Administration Regulations, and all other laws and regulations of the United States government regulating the provision of services to non-U.S. parties or the export and import of articles or information from and to the United States of America, and all similar laws and regulations of any foreign government regulating the provision of services to parties not of the foreign country or the export and import of articles and information from and to the foreign country to parties not of the foreign country; and
(lll) none of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates, or any director, director nominee or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, employee, agent or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or any other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company, any of its Subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, the Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria (each, a “Sanctioned Country”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Shares hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject or target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. For the past five years, the Company and its Subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.
The Company has a reasonable basis for making each of the representations set forth in this Section 3. The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters and, for purposes of the opinions to be delivered pursuant to Section 6 hereof, counsel to the Company and counsel to the Underwriters, will rely upon the accuracy and truthfulness of the foregoing representations and hereby consents to such reliance.
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The Company hereby covenants and agrees with each Underwriter:
(a) to furnish such information as may be required and otherwise to cooperate in qualifying the Shares for offering and sale under (or otherwise obtaining exemptions from the application of) the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions (both domestic and foreign) as the Representatives may designate and to maintain such qualifications, registrations, and exemptions, as applicable, in effect as long as requested by the Representatives for the distribution of the Shares, provided that the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to consent to the service of process under the laws of any such jurisdiction (except service of process with respect to the offering and sale of the Shares) where it is not presently qualified; and to promptly advise the Representatives of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification, registration, or exemption of the Shares for offer or sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose, and in the event of the issuance of any order suspending such qualification, registration or exemption, the Company shall use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal thereof at the earliest possible moment;
(b) if, at the time this Agreement is executed and delivered, it is necessary for (i) a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or (ii) a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement to be filed with the Commission and become effective before the offering of the Shares may commence, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause such post-effective amendment or Rule 462(b) Registration Statement to become effective and will pay any applicable fees in accordance with the Securities Act as soon as possible and will advise the Representatives promptly and, if requested by the Representatives, will confirm such advice in writing, (i) when such post-effective amendment or Rule 462(b) Registration Statement has become effective and (ii) if Rule 430A under the Securities Act is used, when the Prospectus has been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act (which the Company agrees to file in a timely manner in accordance with such Rules);
(c) to prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Underwriters and file such Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act in a manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b), and to furnish promptly, and for so long as a prospectus relating to the Shares is required by the Securities Act to be delivered (whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act or any similar rule), to the Underwriters copies of the Prospectus (or of the Prospectus as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have made any amendments or supplements thereto after the effective date of the Registration Statement) in such quantities and at such locations as the Underwriters may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated by the Securities Act, which Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the version transmitted to the Commission for filing via EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T;
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(d) to advise the Representatives promptly and (if requested by the Representatives) to confirm such advice in writing, when the Registration Statement has become effective and when any post-effective amendment thereto becomes effective under the Securities Act; (e) to furnish a copy of each proposed Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters for review, a reasonable amount of time prior to the proposed time of filing or use thereof, and obtain the consent of the Representatives prior to referring to, using or filing with the Commission any Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, other than the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule II hereto;
(f) to comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 of the Securities Act applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping, as applicable;
(g) to advise the Representatives immediately, confirming such advice in writing, of (i) the receipt of any comments from, or any request by, the Commission for amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or for additional information with respect thereto; (ii) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or of the suspension of the qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes and, if the Commission or any other government agency or authority should issue any such order, to make every reasonable effort to obtain the lifting or removal of such order as soon as possible; (iii) any examination pursuant to Section 8(e) of the Securities Act concerning the Registration Statement; or (iv) if the Company becomes subject to a proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act in connection with the public offering of Shares contemplated herein; to advise the Representatives promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and to file no such amendment or supplement to which the Representatives shall reasonably object in writing;
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(h) to furnish to the Underwriters for a period of one year from the date of this Agreement (i) as soon as available, copies of all annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements, or other communications filed with or furnished to the Commission, (ii) as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, copies of all reports filed by the Company with the Commission, FINRA or any securities exchange and (iii) such other information as the Underwriters may reasonably request regarding the Company and the Subsidiaries, provided, however, that the requirements of this Section shall be satisfied to the extent that such reports, statement, communications, financial statements or other documents are available on EDGAR; (i) to advise the Underwriters promptly of the happening of any event or development known to the Company within the time during which a Prospectus relating to the Shares (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is required to be delivered under the Securities Act which, in the judgment of the Company or in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters, (i) would require the making of any change in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus so that the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus would not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; (ii) as a result of which any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement relating to the Shares; or (iii) if it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus to comply with any law and, during such time, to promptly prepare and furnish to the Underwriters copies of the proposed amendment or supplement before filing any such amendment or supplement with the Commission and thereafter promptly furnish at the Company’s own expense to the Underwriters and to dealers, copies in such quantities and at such locations as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request of an appropriate amendment or supplement to the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus so that the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when it (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is so delivered, be misleading or, in the case of any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, or so that the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus will comply with the law;
(j) to file promptly with the Commission any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that may, in the judgment of the Company or the Representatives, be required by the Securities Act or requested by the Commission;
(k) prior to filing with the Commission any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to furnish a copy thereof to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters and obtain the consent of the Representatives to the filing;
(l) to furnish promptly to the Representatives a signed copy of the Registration Statement, as initially filed with the Commission, and of all amendments or supplements thereto (including all exhibits filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein) and such number of conformed copies of the foregoing as the Representatives may reasonably request;
(m) to furnish to the Representatives, not less than two business days before filing with the Commission, during the period referred to in paragraph (h) above, a copy of any document proposed to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and to file all such documents in the manner and within the time periods required by the Exchange Act;
(n) to refrain from taking any action that would result in an Underwriter or the Company being required to file with the Commission a Free Writing Prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that such Underwriter otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder;
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(o) to apply the net proceeds of the sale of the Shares in accordance with its statements under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; (p) to make generally available to its security holders and to deliver to the Representatives as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than the end of the fiscal quarter first occurring after the first anniversary of the effective date of the Registration Statement an earnings statement complying with the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and of Rule 158 under the Securities Act covering a period of 12 months beginning after the effective date of the Registration Statement, provided, however, that the requirements of the Section shall be satisfied to the extent that such statement is available on EDGAR;
(q) to use its reasonable best efforts to list and to maintain the listing of the Shares on Nasdaq;
(r) to comply with the Securities Act and the Exchange Act so as to permit the completion of the distribution of the Shares as contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;
(s) to promptly notify the Representatives if the Company ceases to be an Emerging Growth Company at any time prior to the later of (i) the time when a prospectus relating to the Shares is not required by the Securities Act to be delivered (whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act or any similar rule) and (ii) completion of the Company Lock-up Period (as defined below);
(t) to engage and maintain, at its expense, a registrar and transfer agent for the Shares;
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(u) to invest or otherwise use the proceeds received by the Company from its sale of the Shares, and to continue to operate its business, in such a manner as would not require the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to register as (i) an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act or (ii) an “investment adviser” as such term is term is defined in the Investment Advisers Act; (v) to refrain, from the date hereof until 180 days after the date of the Prospectus (such period, the “Company Lock-up Period”), without the prior written consent of B. Riley (which consent may be withheld in B Riley’s sole discretion), from, directly or indirectly, (i) offering, pledging, mortgaging, charging, selling, contracting to sell, selling any option or contract to purchase, purchasing any option or contract to sell, granting any option for the sale of, or otherwise disposing of or transferring, (or entering into any transaction or device which is designed to, or would be expected to, result in the disposition by any person at any time in the future of), any share of Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Ordinary Shares, or filing or confidentially submitting any registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any of the foregoing (other than the filing of any registration statement on Form S-8 relating to securities granted or to be granted pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plans that are described in the Registration Statement); or (ii) entering into any swap or any other agreement or any transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of ownership of the Ordinary Shares, whether any such swap or transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Ordinary Shares or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. The foregoing sentence shall not apply to (A) the Shares to be sold hereunder, (B) any Ordinary Shares issued by the Company upon the exercise or settlement of an equity award, restricted stock or share unit or the exercise of any warrants, outstanding on the date hereof and referred to in the Prospectus, (C) Ordinary Shares issued upon the conversion or exchange of convertible securities outstanding as of the date of the Agreement described in the Prospectus, (D) any issuance of Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Ordinary Shares pursuant to any stock or share option, stock or share bonus or other stock or share plan or arrangement described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, but only if the holders of such securities agree in writing with the Underwriters not to sell, offer, dispose of or otherwise transfer any such Shares or options during such Company Lock-up Period without the prior written consent of the Representatives (which consent may be withheld in their sole discretion), (E) the Company’s facilitating of the establishment of a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act for the transfer of Ordinary Shares by a shareholder, director, director nominee or officer, provided that (x) such plan does not provide for the transfer of such Ordinary Shares during the Company Lock-up Period and (y) to the extent a public announcement or filing under the Exchange Act, if any, is required of or voluntarily made by the Company regarding the establishment of such plan, such announcement or filing shall include a statement to the effect that no transfer of Ordinary Shares may be made under such plan during the Company Lock-up Period, or (F) the Company’s issuance of Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, Ordinary Shares, or the entry into an agreement to issue Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, Ordinary Shares, in connection with any merger, joint venture, strategic transaction, or the acquisition of the securities, business, property or other assets of another individual or entity or the assumption of an employee benefit plan or employee stock or share purchase plan in connection with a merger or acquisition, provided that (x) the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares issued or issuable pursuant to this clause (F) shall not exceed five percent (5%) of the Ordinary Shares and (y) the recipient of any such Ordinary Shares or securities issued pursuant to this clause (F) during the Company Lock-up Period shall immediately enter into a lock-up agreement with respect to such shares;
(w) not to, to cause its Subsidiaries not to, and to ensure its officers, directors, director nominees and affiliates not to, (i) take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to stabilize or manipulate the price of any security of the Company, or which may cause or result in, or which might in the future reasonably be expected to cause or result in, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company, to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Shares, (ii) sell, bid for, purchase or pay anyone any compensation for soliciting purchases of the Shares or (iii) pay or agree to pay to any person any compensation for soliciting any order to purchase any other securities of the Company and shall, and shall cause each of its officers, directors, director nominees and affiliates to, comply with all applicable provisions of Regulation M; (x) during the Company Lock-up Period, (i) to enforce all Lock-up Agreements that restrict or prohibit, expressly or in operation, the offer, sale or transfer of Shares or other securities or any of the other actions restricted or prohibited under the terms of the form of Lock-up Agreement and to direct the transfer agent to place stop transfer restrictions upon any such securities of the Company that are bound by such Lock-up Agreements for the duration of the periods contemplated in such agreements.
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In addition, the Company will announce the Underwriters’ intention to release any director or “officer” (within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) of the Company from any of the restrictions imposed by any Lock-up Agreement, by issuing, through a major news service, a press release in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives or, if consented to by the Representatives, in a registration statement that is publicly filed in connection with a secondary offering of the Company’s Shares promptly following the Company’s receipt of any notification from the Representatives in which such intention is indicated, but in any case not later than the close of the third business day prior to the date on which such release or waiver is to become effective; provided, however, that nothing shall prevent the Representatives, on behalf of the Underwriters, from announcing the same through a major news service, irrespective of whether the Company has made the required announcement; and provided, further, that no such announcement shall be made of any release or waiver granted solely to permit a transfer of securities that is not for consideration and where the transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of a Lock-up Agreement;
(y) that the Company will comply with all of the provisions of any undertakings in the Registration Statement;
(z) prior to the Closing Time and each applicable Option Closing Time, to furnish the Underwriters, as soon as they have been prepared by or are available to the Company, a copy of any unaudited interim financial statements of the Company for any period subsequent to the period covered by the most recent financial statements appearing in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, and the Prospectus; and
(aa) to deliver to the Representatives a true and correct copy of each of the executed Transition Documents, together with all related agreements and all schedules and exhibits thereto; provided, the Company will be deemed to have furnished such documents to the Representatives to the extent they are filed on EDGAR.
The Representatives, on behalf of the several Underwriters, may, in their sole discretion, waive in writing the performance by the Company of any one or more of the foregoing covenants or extend the time for their performance.
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| 5. | Payment of Expenses: |
(a) The Company agrees to pay all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereunder are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, including expenses, fees and taxes in connection with (i) the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, and the printing and furnishing of copies of each thereof to the Underwriters and to dealers (including costs of mailing and shipment); (ii) the registration, preparation, issuance and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, including any stock, stamp or other transfer taxes or duties payable upon the sale, issuance, and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters; (iii) the printing of this Agreement, any agreement among the Underwriters, any dealer agreements and furnishing of copies of each to the Underwriters (including costs of mailing and shipment); (iv) the qualification or registration (or obtaining exemptions from the qualification or registration) of the Shares for offering and sale under state or foreign laws that the Company and the Representatives have mutually agreed are appropriate and the determination of their eligibility for investment under state or foreign law as aforesaid (including the filing fees relating thereto) and the preparation, printing and furnishing of copies of any blue sky surveys or legal investment surveys and a “Canadian Wrapper,” if applicable, to the Underwriters; (v) the determination of compliance with the rules and regulations of, and any filing for review of the public offering of the Shares by, FINRA (including the filing fees relating thereto); (vi) the fees and expenses of any transfer agent or registrar for the Shares and miscellaneous expenses referred to in the Registration Statement (vii) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the inclusion of the Shares in Nasdaq; (viii) making road show presentations or holding road show meetings with prospective investors and the Underwriters’ sales forces with respect to the offering of the Shares, including, without limitation, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations, travel and lodging expenses of the officers of the Company, personnel of the Underwriters and any such consultants, and, the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection with the road show, and the costs of all Marketing Materials; (ix) all reasonable costs of any background investigations or checks; (x) all fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel, independent public or certified public accountants and other advisors; (xi) preparing and distributing bound volumes of transaction documents for the Representatives and their legal counsel; (xii) all costs of completed and documented background investigations; and (xiii) the performance of the Company’s other obligations hereunder.
(b) The Company agrees to reimburse the Representatives, upon request for their reasonable and documented, out-of-pocket, accountable, bona fide expenses actually incurred in connection with the performance of its activities under this Agreement, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereunder are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, including, but not limited to, costs such as legal fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters, printing, facsimile, courier service, direct computer expenses, accommodations and travel, subject to (i) a $500,000 cap on legal reimbursement in the event the Company elects not to commence the marketing of the offering of the Shares contemplated herein, and (ii) a $700,000 cap on legal reimbursement under all other circumstances..
(c) If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters, or any of them, because of any failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason the Company shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters or such Underwriters as have so terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves, severally, upon demand for all fees and disbursements pursuant to Section 5(b).
| 6. | Conditions of the Underwriters’ Obligations: |
The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder to purchase and subscribe for Shares at the Closing Time or on each Option Closing Time, as applicable, are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company hereunder on the date hereof and at the Closing Time and on each Option Closing Time, as applicable, the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the satisfaction of the following further conditions at the Closing Time or on each Option Closing Time, as applicable:
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(a) The Company shall furnish to the Underwriters at the Closing Time and at each Option Closing Time (if applicable) (i) an opinion and 10b-5 statement of White & Case LLP, counsel for the Company, (ii) a 10b-5 statement of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, counsel for the Company, and (iii) an opinion of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Canadian counsel for the Company, in each case, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Time or the applicable Option Closing Time, as the case may be, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(b) The Company shall furnish to the Underwriters at the Closing Time and at each Option Closing Time (if applicable) an opinion of Cayman Islands counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Time or the applicable Option Closing Time, as the case may be, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(c) [Reserved.]
(d) On the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Time and at each Option Closing Time (if applicable), the Representatives shall have received from Audit Alliance, LLP letters addressed to the Underwriters and each dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type customarily covered by an accountant’s “comfort letters” to underwriters delivered according to the PCAOB’s Auditing Standards 6101 (or any successor bulletin) issued in connection with underwritten public offerings including, without limitation, the separate audited and unaudited financial statements of the Company and Enovum and the various other financial disclosures including any pro forma financial statements contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; provided, that the letters delivered at the Closing Time and each Option Closing Time (if applicable) shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to such Closing Time or such Option Closing Time, as the case may be.
(e) The Representatives shall have received at the Closing Time and at each Option Closing Time (if applicable) an opinion and 10b-5 statement of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Time or the applicable Option Closing Time, as the case may be, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(f) The Representatives shall have received at the Closing Time and at each Option Closing Time (if applicable) an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Maples and Calder (Cayman) LLP, Cayman Islands counsel to the Underwriters, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Time or the applicable Option Closing Time, as the case may be, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(g) The Registration Statement shall have become effective not later than 5:30 p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or such later time and date as the Representatives shall approve. If Rule 430A under the Securities Act is used, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act at or before 5:30 p.m., New York City time, on the second full business day after the date of this Agreement (or such earlier time as may be required under the Securities Act).
(h) Any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement required to be filed prior to the sale of the Shares under the Securities Act shall have been filed on the date hereof and shall have become automatically effective upon such filing.
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(i) No amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any document in the Disclosure Package shall have been filed to which the Underwriters shall have objected in writing.
(j) Prior to the Closing Time and each Option Closing Time, (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or any document in the Disclosure Package shall have been issued, and no proceedings for such purpose shall have been initiated or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission, and no suspension of the qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes, has occurred; (ii) all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representatives; (iii) the Registration Statement shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; (iv) the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and (v) the Company shall not have become the subject of a proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act in connection with the offering of the Shares.
(k) All filings with the Commission required by Rule 424 under the Securities Act (including the information required by Rule 430A under the Securities Act) to have been filed by the Closing Time shall have been made in the manner and within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by such Rule.
(l) Between the time of execution of this Agreement and the Closing Time or the relevant Option Closing Time, (i) there shall not have been any Material Adverse Change; and (ii) no transaction which is material and unfavorable to the Company shall have been entered into by the Company, which is not described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and which in the Representatives’ sole judgment, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering of the Shares as contemplated by the Registration Statement.
(m) The Shares shall have been approved for listing on Nasdaq.
(n) FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms or other arrangements of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(o) On or prior to the date hereof, the Representatives shall have received Lock-up Agreements from the Lock-Up Persons, and such letter agreements shall be in full force and effect.
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(p) The Company shall furnish to the Underwriters, at the Closing Time and at each Option Closing Time (if applicable), a certificate of its Chief Executive Officer or President and its Chief Financial Officer, dated the Closing Time or the applicable Option Closing Time, to the effect that:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, with the same force and effect as if made on and as of such date, and the Company has complied with all the covenants and agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed under this Agreement or satisfied at or prior to such date;
(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission under the Securities Act; and
(iii) for the period from and including the date of this Agreement through and including such date, there has not occurred any Material Adverse Change.
(q) The Company shall furnish to the Underwriters, as of the date hereof, at the Closing Time and at each Option Closing Time (if applicable), a certificate of its Chief Financial Officer, dated the Closing Time or the applicable Option Closing Time, with respect to certain financial data contained in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, providing “management comfort” with respect to such information, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(r) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters such other information, documents, opinions and certificates as to the accuracy and completeness of any statement in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the representations, warranties and statements of the Company contained herein, and the performance by the Company of its covenants contained herein, and the fulfillment of any conditions contained herein, as of the Closing Time or any Option Closing Time, as the Underwriters or their counsel may reasonably request, and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Shares as contemplated herein and in connection with the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters.
(s) The Company shall have completed the Reorganization pursuant to the Transition Documents as described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. There shall be no material legal, regulatory or other challenges to the Reorganization.
If any condition specified in this Section 6 is not satisfied when and as required to be satisfied, this Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives by notice from the Representatives to the Company at any time on or prior to the Closing Time and, with respect to the Additional Ordinary Shares, at any time on or prior to the applicable Option Closing Time, which termination shall be without liability on the part of any party to any other party, except that Sections 5, 7, and 9 shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.
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| 7. | Termination: |
The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, at any time prior to the Closing Time or any Option Closing Time, (i) if any of the conditions specified in Section 6 hereof shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement to be fulfilled; (ii) if there has been, in the judgment of the Representatives, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, any Material Adverse Change; (iii) if there has occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity or crisis or change in economic, political, health or other conditions, the effect of which on the United States or international financial markets is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Shares or enforce contracts for the sale of the Shares; (iv) if trading in any securities of the Company has been suspended by the Commission or by Nasdaq, or if trading generally on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq has been suspended or halted (including an automatic halt in trading pursuant to market-decline triggers, other than those in which solely program trading is temporarily halted), or limitations on prices for trading (other than limitations on hours or numbers of days of trading) have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities have been required, by such exchange or FINRA or the over-the-counter market or by order of the Commission or any other governmental authority; (v) any federal, state, local or foreign statute, regulation, rule or order of any court or other governmental authority has been enacted, published, decreed or otherwise promulgated which, in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives, materially adversely affects or will materially adversely affect the business or operations of the Company; or (vi) any action has been taken by any federal, state, local or foreign government or agency in respect of its monetary or fiscal affairs which, in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the securities markets in the United States.
If the Representatives elects to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Section 7, the Company and the Underwriters shall be notified promptly by telephone, promptly confirmed by facsimile or e-mail.
If the sale to the Underwriters of the Shares, as contemplated by this Agreement, is not carried out by the Underwriters for any reason permitted under this Agreement or if such sale is not carried out because the Company shall be unable to comply in all material respects with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall not be under any obligation or liability under this Agreement (except to the extent provided in Sections 5 and 9 hereof) and the Underwriters shall be under no obligation or liability to the Company under this Agreement (except to the extent provided in Section 9 hereof) or to one another hereunder.
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| 8. | Default of Underwriters’ Commitments: |
Subject to Sections 6 and 7 hereof, if any Underwriter shall fail, refuse, or default at the Closing Time or at any Option Closing Time in its obligation to take up and pay for the Shares to be purchased by it under this Agreement on such date, the Representatives shall have the right, within 36 hours after such default, to make arrangements for one or more of the non-defaulting Underwriters, or any other underwriters, to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Shares which such Underwriter shall have agreed but failed to take up and pay for (the “Defaulted Shares”). Absent the completion of such arrangements within such 36-hour period, (i) if the total number of Defaulted Shares does not exceed 10% of the total number of Shares to be purchased on such date, each non-defaulting Underwriter, severally and not jointly, shall take up and pay for (in addition to the number of Shares which it is otherwise obligated to purchase on such date pursuant to this Agreement) the portion of the total number of Shares agreed to be purchased by the defaulting Underwriter on such date in the proportion that its underwriting obligations hereunder bears to the underwriting obligations of all non-defaulting Underwriters; and (ii) if the total number of Defaulted Shares exceeds 10% of such total, the Representatives may terminate this Agreement by notice to the Company, without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Sections 5 and 9 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.
Without relieving any defaulting Underwriter from its obligations hereunder, the Company agrees with the non-defaulting Underwriters that it will not sell any Shares hereunder on such date unless all of the Shares to be purchased on such date are purchased on such date by the Underwriters (or by substituted Underwriters selected by the Representatives with the approval of the Company or selected by the Company with the approval of the Representatives).
If a new Underwriter or Underwriters are substituted for a defaulting Underwriter in accordance with the foregoing provision, the Company or the non-defaulting Underwriters shall have the right to postpone the Closing Time or the relevant Option Closing Time for a period not exceeding five business days in order that any necessary changes in the Registration Statement and Prospectus and other documents may be effected.
The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall refer to and include any Underwriter substituted under this Section 8 with the same effect as if such substituted Underwriter had originally been named in this Agreement.
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| 9. | Indemnity and Contribution by the Company and the Underwriters: |
(a) The Company agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless each Underwriter and any person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, any “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act) of any Underwriter, and the respective directors, director nominees, officers, employees, members and agents of each Underwriter, and the successors and assigns of all of the foregoing persons, from and against, and to reimburse any and all expenses incurred in connection with, any loss, expense, liability, damage or claim (including the reasonable cost of investigation) which, jointly or severally, any such Underwriter or other person may incur under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, expense, liability, damage or claim arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the Company has filed or was required to file with the Commission or is otherwise required to retain, the Prospectus (the term Prospectus for the purpose of this Section 9 being deemed to include any Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented by the Company); (ii) any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated in any such Registration Statement, or necessary to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; (iii) any omission or alleged omission from any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Disclosure Package, Prospectus, Testing-the-Waters Communication or Marketing Material of a material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; (iv) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained the Testing-the-Waters Communications and the Marketing Materials; and (v) any act or failure to act or any alleged act or failure to act by any Underwriter in connection with, or relating in any manner to, the Shares or the offering contemplated hereby, and which is included as part of or referred to in any loss, claim, damage, liability or action arising out of or based upon any matter covered by the foregoing clauses; except, in the case of (i), (ii) and (iii) above only, insofar as any such loss, expense, liability, damage or claim arises out of or is based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission of a material fact contained in and in conformity with information furnished in writing by the Underwriters through the Representatives to the Company expressly for use in such Registration Statement, Disclosure Package or Prospectus. The indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 9(a) shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have.
If any action, suit or proceeding (a “Proceeding”) is brought against an Underwriter or other person in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Company pursuant to the foregoing paragraph, such indemnified party shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the institution of such Proceeding and the Company shall assume the defense of such Proceeding including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party and payment of any and all expenses related to such Proceeding or incurred in connection with such indemnified party’s successful enforcement of this Section 9(a); provided, however, that any failure or delay to so notify the Company will not relieve the Company of any obligation hereunder, except to the extent that its ability to defend is actually impaired by such failure or delay. Such indemnified party shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless the employment of such counsel shall have been authorized in writing by the Company in connection with the defense of such action, or the Company shall not have employed counsel to have charge of the defense of such action within a reasonable time or such indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded (based on the advice of counsel) that there may be defenses available to it or them which are different from or additional to those available to the Company (in which case the Company shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party or parties), in any of which events such fees and expenses shall be borne by the Company and paid as incurred (it being understood, however, that the Company shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys for the Underwriters or controlling persons in any one action or series of related actions in the same jurisdiction (other than local counsel in any such jurisdiction) representing the indemnified parties who are parties to such action). Anything in this paragraph to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall not be liable for any settlement of any such Proceeding effected without its consent, and the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement, compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or threatened Proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such Proceeding and does not include an admission of fault or culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of such indemnified party.
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(b) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company, the Company’s directors and director nominees, the Company’s officers that signed the Registration Statement, and any person who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and the successors and assigns of all of the foregoing persons, from and against any loss, expense, liability, damage or claim (including the reasonable cost of investigation) which the Company or any such person may incur under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, expense, liability, damage or claim arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Testing-the-Waters Communication or any Marketing Material that the Company has filed or was required to file with the Commission or is otherwise required to retain, or; (ii) any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated in any such Registration Statement, Disclosure Package, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus, Testing-the-Waters Communication or Marketing Material, or necessary to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, but in each case only insofar as such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in such Registration Statement, Disclosure Package, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus, Testing-the-Waters Communication or Marketing Material in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing by the Underwriters through the Representatives to the Company expressly for use therein. The statements set forth in the ninth paragraph and the last sentence of the eleventh paragraph under the caption “Underwriting” in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (to the extent such statements relate to the Underwriters) constitute the only information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives to the Company for purposes of Section 3(l), Section 3(m), and Section 3(n) and this Section 9. The indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 9(b) shall be in addition to any liability which the Underwriters may otherwise have.
If any Proceeding is brought against the Company, or any such person in respect of which indemnity may be sought against any Underwriter pursuant to the foregoing paragraph, the Company, or such person shall promptly notify the Representatives in writing of the institution of such Proceeding and the Representatives, on behalf of the Underwriters, shall assume the defense of such Proceeding, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party and payment of any and all expenses related to such Proceeding or incurred in connection with such indemnified party’s successful enforcement of this Section 9(b); provided however, that any failure or delay to so notify the Representatives will not relieve the Underwriters of any obligation hereunder, except to the extent that its ability to defend is actually impaired by such failure or delay. Such indemnified party shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless the employment of such counsel shall have been authorized in writing by the Representatives in connection with the defense of such action or the Representatives shall not have employed counsel to have charge of the defense of such action within a reasonable time or such indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded (based on the advice of counsel) that there may be defenses available to it or them which are different from or additional to those available to the Underwriters (in which case the Representatives shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party or parties), in any of which events such fees and expenses shall be borne by such Underwriter and paid as incurred (it being understood, however, that the Underwriters shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys in any one action or series of related actions in the same jurisdiction (other than local counsel in any such jurisdiction) representing the indemnified parties who are parties to such action). Anything in this paragraph to the contrary notwithstanding, no Underwriter shall be liable for any settlement of any such Proceeding effected without its written consent, and the Underwriters shall not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement, compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or threatened Proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such Proceeding and does not include an admission of fault or culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of such indemnified party.
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(c) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9 is, for any reason, unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Sections 9(a) and (b) in respect of any losses, expenses, liabilities, damages or claims referred to therein, then each applicable indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, expenses, liabilities, damages or claims (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of the Shares or (ii) if (but only if) the allocation provided by (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, expenses, liabilities, damages or claims, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total proceeds from the offering (net of underwriting discounts and commissions but before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, expenses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating, preparing to defend or defending any Proceeding. The provisions set forth in Sections 9(a) and 9(b) with respect to notice of commencement of any Proceeding shall apply if a claim for contribution is to be made under this Section 9(c); provided, however, that no additional notice shall be required with respect to any action for which notice has been duly given under Sections 9(a) or 9(b) for purposes of indemnification.
(d) The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in Section 9(c)(i) and, if applicable, Section 9(c)(ii) above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the underwriting discounts and commissions applicable to the Shares purchased by such Underwriter. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 9 are several, and not joint, in proportion to their respective underwriting commitments as set forth opposite their respective names on Schedule I hereto.
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| 10. | Survival: |
The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in Section 9 and the covenants, warranties and representations of the Company contained in Sections 3 and 4 of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, or any person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and the respective directors, director nominees, officers, employees and agents of each Underwriter or by or on behalf of the Company, its directors, director nominees and officers, or any person who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and shall survive any termination of this Agreement and the sale and delivery of the Shares. The Company and each Underwriter agree promptly to notify the others of the commencement of any litigation or proceeding against it and, in the case of the Company, against any of the Company’s officers, directors and director nominees, in connection with the sale and delivery of the Shares, or in connection with the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or the Prospectus.
| 11. | Duties: |
Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create a partnership, joint venture or agency relationship between the parties. The Underwriters undertake to perform such duties and obligations only as expressly set forth herein. Such duties and obligations of the Underwriters with respect to the Shares shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Agreement, and the Underwriters shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations with respect to the Shares as are specifically set forth in this Agreement. The Company acknowledges and agrees that: (i) the purchase and sale of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the public offering price of the Shares and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other hand, and the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; (ii) in connection with each transaction contemplated hereby and the process leading to such transaction, each Underwriter is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the financial advisor, agent or fiduciary of the Company or its affiliates, shareholders, stockholders, creditors or employees or any other party; (iii) no Underwriter has assumed or will assume an advisory, agency or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters); (iv) the several Underwriters and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Company and that the several Underwriters have no obligation to disclose any of such interests; and (v) the Underwriters have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering contemplated hereby and the Company has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters disclaim any implied duties (including any fiduciary duty), covenants or obligations arising from the Underwriters’ performance of the duties and obligations expressly set forth herein. The Company hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company may have against the several Underwriters with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency, advisory, fiduciary or similar duty.
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| 12. | Notices: |
Except as otherwise herein provided, all statements, requests, notices and agreements shall be in writing and effective only on receipt and, if sent to the Representatives, will be mailed, delivered or e-mailed to: B. Riley Securities, Inc., 1300 17th Street N., Suite 1300 Arlington, Virginia 22209, Attention: Syndicate Department, and Needham & Company, LLC, 250 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10177, Attention: Corporate Finance Department, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to the Underwriter’s counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, 1301 Avenue of the Americas, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Jeeho M. Lee and David Ni, or, if sent the Company, will be mailed, delivered or e-mailed to WhiteFiber, Inc. 31 Hudson Yards, Floor 11, Suite 30, New York, New York 10001, Attention: Sam Tabar, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to the Company’s counsel at White & Case LLP, 609 Main Street, Suite 2900, Houston, TX 77002, Attention: Laura Katherine Mann. Any party hereto may change the address for receipt of communications by giving written notice to the others.
| 13. | Governing Law: |
This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles. Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby shall be instituted in the (i) the federal courts of the United States of America located in the City and County of New York, Borough of Manhattan and (ii) the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York, Borough of Manhattan (collectively, the “Specified Courts”), and the Company and each Underwriter irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction (except for proceedings instituted in regard to the enforcement of a judgment of any such court, as to which such jurisdiction is non-exclusive) of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. The Company and each Underwriter irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or other proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
| 14. | Parties at Interest: |
The Agreement herein set forth has been and is made solely for the benefit of the Underwriters, the Company, and the controlling persons, directors, director nominees, officers, and other persons referred to in Section 9 hereof, and their respective successors, assigns, executors and administrators. No other person, partnership, association or corporation (including a purchaser, as such purchaser, from any of the Underwriters) shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement.
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| 15. | Successors and Assigns: |
This Agreement shall be binding upon each of the Underwriters and the Company and their respective successors and assigns and any successor or assign of any substantial portion of the Company’s and any of the Underwriters’ respective businesses and/or assets. The term “successors and assigns” shall not include a purchaser of any of the Shares from the Underwriter merely because of such purchase.
| 16. | Counterparts and Facsimile Signatures: |
This Agreement may be signed by the parties in counterparts which together shall constitute one and the same agreement among the parties. A facsimile or .pdf signature shall constitute an original signature for all purposes.
| 17. | Partial Unenforceability: |
The invalidity or unenforceability of any section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, paragraph or provision hereof. If any section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.
| 18. | Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes: |
(a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity (as defined below) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime (as defined below), the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
(b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate (as defined below) of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights (as defined below) under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
For purposes of this Agreement, (A) “BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k); (B) “Covered Entity” means any of the following: (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b); (C) “Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable; and (D) “U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
| 19. | General Provisions: |
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement may not be amended or modified unless in writing by all of the parties hereto, and no condition herein (express or implied) may be waived unless waived in writing by each party whom the condition is meant to benefit. The section headings in this Agreement have been inserted as a matter of convenience of reference and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
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Execution Version
If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding among the Company and the Underwriters, please so indicate in the space provided below for the purpose, whereupon this Agreement shall constitute a binding agreement among the Company and the Underwriters.
| Very truly yours, | ||
| WHITEFIBER, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Sam Tabar | |
| Name: | Sam Tabar | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
| Accepted and agreed to as | ||
| of the date first above written: | ||
| B. RILEY SECURITIES, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Jimmy Baker | |
| Name: | Jimmy Baker | |
| Title: | co-CEO | |
| For itself and as Representative of the other | ||
| Underwriters named on Schedule I hereto. | ||
| NEEDHAM & COMPANY, LLC | ||
| By | /s/ Matthew Castrovince | |
| Name: | Matthew Castrovince | |
| Title: | Managing Director | |
| For itself and as Representative of the other | ||
| Underwriters named on Schedule I hereto. | ||
Schedule I
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Underwriter |
Number of Initial Shares to be Purchased |
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| B. Riley Securities, Inc. | 4,785,000 | |||
| Needham & Company, LLC | 2,631,563 | |||
| Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. | 739,688 | |||
| Roth Capital Partners, LLC | 565,312 | |||
| Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC | 391,875 | |||
| Clear Street LLC | 261,562 | |||
| Total | 9,375,000 | |||
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Schedule II
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses
None.
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Schedule III
Pricing Terms
| Number of Initial Ordinary Shares: | 9,375,000 | |||
| Number of Additional Ordinary Shares: | 1,406,250 | |||
| Public Offering Price per Ordinary Share: | $ | 17.00 | ||
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EXHIBIT A
Form of Lock-up Agreement
Re: WHITEFIBER, INC. - Initial Public Offering
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned understands that you, as representative (the “Representative”), propose to enter into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) on behalf of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I to such agreement (collectively, the “Underwriters”), with WhiteFiber, Inc., a Cayman Islands corporation (the “Company”), providing for a public offering (the “Offering”) of ordinary shares (the “Shares”) of the Company (the “Ordinary Shares”) pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed or to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in the Underwriting Agreement.
In consideration of the agreement by the Underwriters to offer and sell the Shares, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees that, during the period beginning from the date of this letter agreement (this “Letter Agreement”) and continuing to and including the date 180 days after the date of the final prospectus (the “Prospectus”) with respect to the Offering (the “Restricted Period”), the undersigned will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise dispose of any Ordinary Shares of the Company, or any options or warrants to purchase any Ordinary Shares of the Company, or any securities convertible into, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive Ordinary Shares of the Company, whether now owned or hereinafter acquired, owned directly by the undersigned (including holding as a custodian) or with respect to which the undersigned has beneficial ownership within the rules and regulations of the SEC (collectively, the “Lock-Up Shares”). The foregoing restriction is expressly agreed to preclude the undersigned from engaging in any hedging or other transaction that is designed to or that reasonably could be expected to lead to or result in a sale or disposition of the Lock-Up Shares even if such Lock-Up Shares would be disposed of by someone other than the undersigned. Such prohibited hedging or other transactions would include without limitation any short sale or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including without limitation any put or call option) with respect to any of the Lock-Up Shares or with respect to any security that includes, relates to, or derives any significant part of its value from such Lock-Up Shares.
If the undersigned is an officer, director or director nominee of the issuer, the undersigned further agrees that the foregoing provisions shall be equally applicable to any issuer-directed Shares the undersigned may purchase in the Offering.
In addition, the undersigned agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representative, it will not, during the Restricted Period, make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any Ordinary Shares or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Ordinary Shares.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the undersigned may, without the consent of the Representative:
| (A) | transfer or dispose of the Lock-Up Shares as a bona fide gift or gifts, or for bona fide estate planning purposes, provided that the donee or donees thereof agree to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein; | |
| (B) | transfer or dispose of the Lock-Up Shares to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned, provided that the trustee of the trust agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein and any such transfer shall not involve a disposition for value; | |
| (C) | transfer or dispose of the Lock-Up Shares if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other business entity (i) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other business entity that is an affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) of the undersigned or to any investment fund or other entity controlled or managed by the undersigned or (ii) as part of a distribution, transfer or disposition by the undersigned to its stockholders, partners, members, beneficiaries or other equity holders, provided, in each case, that the transferees thereof agree to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein and any such transfer shall not involve a disposition for value; | |
| (D) | transfer or dispose of the Lock-Up Shares by will, other testamentary document or intestate succession upon the death of the undersigned, provided that the legatee, heir or other transferee agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions on transfer set forth herein and any such transfer shall not involve a disposition for value, and provided further that any required filing made pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), shall include a footnote noting the circumstances described in this clause (D) and no other public filing or announcement shall be required or shall be made voluntarily in connection with such transfer or disposition; | |
| (E) | transfer or dispose of the Lock-Up Shares by operation of law pursuant to a qualified domestic order or in connection with a divorce settlement or other court order, provided that the recipient agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein, provided further that any required filing made pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, shall include a footnote noting the circumstances described in this clause (E) and no other public filing or announcement shall be required or shall be made voluntarily in connection with such transfer or disposition; | |
| (F) | enter into a trading plan providing for the sale of the Lock-Up Shares by the undersigned, which trading plan meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act, provided, however, that such plan does not provide for, or permit, the sale of any Lock-Up Shares during the Restricted Period and no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act or other public announcement is voluntarily made or required regarding such plan during the Restricted Period; | |
| (G) | transfer or dispose of the Lock-Up Shares to the Company solely to satisfy tax withholding obligations pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plans or arrangements disclosed in the Prospectus, provided that no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act or other public filing, report or announcement shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the period beginning on the date hereof and continuing to and including the date that is 30 days after the date of the Prospectus (the “30 Day Period”), and after the 30 Day Period, if the undersigned is required to file a report under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act during the Restricted Period, the undersigned shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that the filing relates to the circumstances described in this clause (G) and no other public filing or announcement shall be required or shall be made voluntarily in connection with such transfer or disposition; |
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| (H) | transfer the Lock-Up Shares to the Company pursuant to agreements in effect on the date of the Prospectus and as described in the Prospectus under which the Company has the option to repurchase shares or forfeit the Lock-Up Shares upon termination of service of the undersigned, provided that no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act or other public filing, report or announcement shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the period beginning on the date hereof and continuing to and including the date that is 60 days after the date of the Prospectus (the “60 Day Period”), and after the 60 Day Period, if the undersigned is required to file a report under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act during the Restricted Period, the undersigned shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that the filing relates to the circumstances described in this clause (H) and no other public filing or announcement shall be required or shall be made voluntarily in connection with such repurchase or forfeiture; | |
| (I) | dispose of the Lock-Up Shares solely in connection with the “cashless” exercise of stock options or warrants to acquire Ordinary Shares described in the Prospectus or issued pursuant to an equity plan or arrangement described in the Prospectus (the term “cashless” exercise being intended to include the sale of a portion of the shares issuable upon exercise of the stock options or warrants or previously owned shares to the Company to cover payment of the exercise price) for the purpose of exercising such stock options or warrants, in any event, solely if such stock options or warrants would otherwise expire during the Restricted Period, provided that any Ordinary Shares received upon such exercise shall be subject to all of the restrictions set forth in this Letter Agreement and provided, further, that any filing required under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act shall clearly indicate in the codes and footnotes thereto that any disposition of shares in connection with a “cashless” exercise was made solely to the Company and no other public filing or announcement shall be made voluntarily in connection with such exercise; | |
| (J) | transfer or dispose of any Lock-Up Shares acquired in open market transactions after completion of the Offering, provided that no such transaction is required to be, or is, publicly announced (whether on Form 4, Form 5 or otherwise) during the Restricted Period and no other public filing or announcement shall be made voluntarily in connection with such transfer or disposition; and | |
| (K) | pursuant to a bona fide third-party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction approved by the Board of Directors and made to all holders of Ordinary Shares involving a Change of Control (as defined below), provided that, in the event that such tender offer, merger or consolidation is not completed, the undersigned’s Lock-Up Shares shall remain subject to the provisions of this Lock-Up Agreement. |
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The undersigned now has, and, except as contemplated by clauses (A) through (K) above, for the duration of the Restricted Period will have, good and marketable title to the Lock-Up Shares, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, and claims whatsoever. The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the Lock-Up Shares except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions. “Change of Control” shall mean the transfer (whether by tender offer, merger consolidation or other similar transaction), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to a person or group of affiliate persons, of the Company’s voting securities, if, after such transfer, the Company’s stockholders as of immediately prior to such transfer do not hold a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Company (or the surviving entity).
If the undersigned is an officer, director or director nominee of the Company, (i) the Representative agrees that, at least three business days before the effective date of any release or waiver of the foregoing restrictions in connection with a transfer of Ordinary Shares of the Company, the Representative will notify the Company of the impending release or waiver, and (ii) the Company has agreed in the Underwriting Agreement to announce the impending release or waiver by press release through a major news service at least two business days before the effective date of the release or waiver. Any release or waiver granted by the Representative hereunder to any such officer, director or director nominee shall only be effective two business days after the publication date of such press release. The provisions of this paragraph will not apply if (a) the release or waiver is effected solely to permit a transfer not for consideration and (b) the transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the same terms described herein to the extent and for the duration that such terms remain in effect at the time of the transfer.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, this Agreement will automatically terminate and the undersigned will be released from all of his, her or its obligations hereunder upon the earliest to occur, if any, of (i) prior to the execution of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company advises the Representative in writing that it has determined not to proceed with the Offering, (ii) the Company files an application to withdraw the registration statement related to the Offering, (iii) the Underwriting Agreement is executed but is terminated (other than the provisions thereof which survive termination) prior to payment for and delivery of the Shares to be sold thereunder, or (iv) September 30, 2025, 2025, in the event that the Underwriting Agreement has not been executed by such date; provided, however, that the Company may, by written notice to you prior to such date, extend such date for a period of up to three additional months.
This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof.
The undersigned understands that the Company and the Underwriters are relying upon this Agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the Offering. The undersigned further understands that this Agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs, legal representatives, successors, and assigns. This Agreement may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including pdf or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, e.g., www.docusign.com or www.echosign.com) or other transmission method, and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.
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EXHIBIT B
| Name | Age | Position | ||
| Sam Tabar | Chief Executive Officer | |||
| Erke Huang | Chief Financial Officer and Director | |||
| Thomas Sanfilippo | Chief Technology Officer | |||
| Billy Krassakopoulos | President of WhiteFiber and Chief Executive Officer of Enovum | |||
| Ichi Shih | Independent Director | |||
| Jiashu (Bill) Xiong | Director | |||
| Pruitt Hall | Independent Director | |||
| David Andre | Nominee for Independent Director | |||
| Bit Digital, Inc. | Shareholder |
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Exhibit 3.1
Companies Act (Revised)
Company Limited By Shares
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| AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF WHITEFIBER, INC. | ||
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(Adopted by special resolution passed on 7 August 2025) |
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| Filed: 07-Aug-2025 10:29 EST | ||
| www.verify.gov.ky File#: 412987 | Auth Code: F17059919996 |
CONTENTS
| 1 | Definitions, interpretation and exclusion of Table A | 1 | |
| Definitions | 1 | ||
| Interpretation | 3 | ||
| Exclusion of Table A Articles | 4 | ||
| 2 | Shares | 4 | |
| Power to issue Shares and options, with or without special rights | 4 | ||
| Rights attaching to Preference Shares | 5 | ||
| Power to issue fractions of a Share | 6 | ||
| Power to pay commissions and brokerage fees | 6 | ||
| Trusts not recognised | 6 | ||
| Security interests | 6 | ||
| Power to vary class rights | 6 | ||
| Effect of new Share issue on existing class rights | 7 | ||
| No bearer Shares or warrants | 7 | ||
| Treasury Shares | 7 | ||
| Rights attaching to Treasury Shares and related matters | 7 | ||
| Register of Members | 8 | ||
| Annual Return | 8 | ||
| 3 | Share certificates | 8 | |
| Issue of share certificates | 8 | ||
| Renewal of lost or damaged share certificates | 9 | ||
| 4 | Lien on Shares | 9 | |
| Nature and scope of lien | 9 | ||
| Company may sell Shares to satisfy lien | 9 | ||
| Authority to execute instrument of transfer | 10 | ||
| Consequences of sale of Shares to satisfy lien | 10 | ||
| Application of proceeds of sale | 10 | ||
| 5 | Calls on Shares and forfeiture | 11 | |
| Power to make calls and effect of calls | 11 | ||
| Time when call made | 11 | ||
| Liability of joint holders | 11 | ||
| Interest on unpaid calls | 11 | ||
| Deemed calls | 11 | ||
| Power to accept early payment | 12 | ||
| Power to make different arrangements at time of issue of Shares | 12 | ||
| Notice of default | 12 | ||
| Forfeiture or surrender of Shares | 12 | ||
| Disposal of forfeited or surrendered Share and power to cancel forfeiture or surrender | 12 | ||
| Effect of forfeiture or surrender on former Member | 12 | ||
| Evidence of forfeiture or surrender | 13 | ||
| Sale of forfeited or surrendered Shares | 13 | ||
| 6 | Transfer of Shares | 13 | |
| Form of transfer | 13 | ||
| Power to refuse registration | 14 | ||
| Notice of refusal to register | 14 | ||
| Power to suspend registration | 14 | ||
| Company may retain instrument of transfer | 14 | ||
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Filed: 07-Aug-2025 10:29 EST | |
| www.verify.gov.ky File#: 412987 | Auth Code: F17059919996 |
| 7 | Transmission of Shares | 14 | |
| Persons entitled on death of a Member | 14 | ||
| Registration of transfer of a Share following death or bankruptcy | 14 | ||
| Indemnity | 15 | ||
| Rights of person entitled to a Share following death or bankruptcy | 15 | ||
| 8 | Alteration of capital | 15 | |
| Increasing, consolidating, converting, dividing and cancelling share capital | 15 | ||
| Dealing with fractions resulting from consolidation of Shares | 16 | ||
| Reducing share capital | 16 | ||
| 9 | Redemption and purchase of own Shares | 16 | |
| Power to issue redeemable Shares and to purchase own Shares | 16 | ||
| Power to pay for redemption or purchase in cash or in specie | 17 | ||
| Effect of redemption or purchase of a Share | 17 | ||
| 10 | Meetings of Members | 17 | |
| Annual and extraordinary general meetings | 17 | ||
| Power to call meetings | 17 | ||
| Content of notice | 18 | ||
| Period of notice | 18 | ||
| Record date and persons entitled to receive notice | 19 | ||
| Accidental omission to give notice or non-receipt of notice | 19 | ||
| 11 | Proceedings at meetings of Members | 19 | |
| Quorum | 19 | ||
| Lack of quorum | 20 | ||
| Chairman | 20 | ||
| Right of a Director to attend and speak | 20 | ||
| Accommodation of Members attending meeting virtually | 20 | ||
| Security | 20 | ||
| Adjournment, postponement and cancellation | 20 | ||
| Method of voting | 21 | ||
| Outcome of vote by show of hands | 21 | ||
| Withdrawal of demand for a poll | 21 | ||
| Taking of a poll | 21 | ||
| Chairman’s casting vote | 22 | ||
| Written resolutions | 22 | ||
| Sole-Member Company | 22 | ||
| 12 | Voting rights of Members | 22 | |
| Right to vote | 22 | ||
| Rights of joint holders | 23 | ||
| Representation of corporate Members | 23 | ||
| Member with mental disorder | 23 | ||
| Objections to admissibility of votes | 24 | ||
| Form of proxy | 24 | ||
| How and when proxy is to be delivered | 24 | ||
| Voting by proxy | 26 | ||
| 13 | Number of Directors | 26 | |
| 14 | Appointment, disqualification and removal of Directors | 26 | |
| First Directors | 26 | ||
| No age limit | 26 | ||
| Corporate Directors | 26 | ||
| No shareholding qualification | 26 | ||
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| Appointment of Directors | 26 | ||
| Term of appointment | 27 | ||
| Eligibility | 27 | ||
| Removal of Directors | 27 | ||
| Resignation of Directors | 27 | ||
| Termination of the office of Director | 27 | ||
| 15 | Alternate Directors | 28 | |
| Appointment and removal | 28 | ||
| Notices | 29 | ||
| Rights of alternate Director | 29 | ||
| Appointment ceases when the appointor ceases to be a Director | 29 | ||
| Status of alternate Director | 29 | ||
| Status of the Director making the appointment | 29 | ||
| 16 | Powers of Directors | 29 | |
| Powers of Directors | 29 | ||
| Directors below the minimum number | 30 | ||
| Appointments to office | 30 | ||
| Provisions for employees | 30 | ||
| Exercise of voting rights | 31 | ||
| Remuneration | 31 | ||
| Disclosure of information | 31 | ||
| 17 | Delegation of powers | 31 | |
| Power to delegate any of the Directors’ powers to a committee | 31 | ||
| Local boards | 32 | ||
| Power to appoint an agent of the Company | 32 | ||
| Power to appoint an attorney or authorised signatory of the Company | 32 | ||
| Borrowing Powers | 33 | ||
| Corporate Governance | 33 | ||
| 18 | Meetings of Directors | 33 | |
| Regulation of Directors’ meetings | 33 | ||
| Calling meetings | 33 | ||
| Notice of meetings | 33 | ||
| Use of technology | 34 | ||
| Quorum | 34 | ||
| Chairman or deputy to preside | 34 | ||
| Voting | 34 | ||
| Recording of dissent | 34 | ||
| Written resolutions | 34 | ||
| Validity of acts of Directors in spite of formal defect | 35 | ||
| 19 | Permissible Directors' interests and disclosure | 35 | |
| Permissible interests subject to disclosure | 35 | ||
| Notification of interests | 35 | ||
| Voting where a Director is interested in a matter | 36 | ||
| 20 | Minutes | 36 | |
| 21 | Accounts and audit | 36 | |
| Auditors | 37 | ||
| 22 | Record dates | 37 | |
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| 23 | Dividends | 37 | |
| Source of dividends | 37 | ||
| Declaration of dividends by Members | 37 | ||
| Payment of interim dividends and declaration of final dividends by Directors | 38 | ||
| Apportionment of dividends | 38 | ||
| Right of set off | 38 | ||
| Power to pay other than in cash | 38 | ||
| How payments may be made | 39 | ||
| Dividends or other monies not to bear interest in absence of special rights | 39 | ||
| Dividends unable to be paid or unclaimed | 39 | ||
| 24 | Capitalisation of profits | 40 | |
| Capitalisation of profits or of any share premium account or capital redemption reserve; | 40 | ||
| Applying an amount for the benefit of Members | 40 | ||
| 25 | Share Premium Account | 40 | |
| Directors to maintain share premium account | 40 | ||
| Debits to share premium account | 40 | ||
| 26 | Seal | 41 | |
| Company seal | 41 | ||
| Duplicate seal | 41 | ||
| When and how seal is to be used | 41 | ||
| If no seal is adopted or used | 41 | ||
| Power to allow non-manual signatures and facsimile printing of seal | 41 | ||
| Validity of execution | 41 | ||
| 27 | Indemnity | 42 | |
| Release | 42 | ||
| Insurance | 42 | ||
| 28 | Notices | 43 | |
| Form of notices | 43 | ||
| Electronic communications | 43 | ||
| Persons entitled to notices | 44 | ||
| Persons authorised to give notices | 44 | ||
| Delivery of written notices | 44 | ||
| Joint holders | 44 | ||
| Signatures | 44 | ||
| Giving notice to a deceased or bankrupt Member | 45 | ||
| Date of giving notices | 45 | ||
| Saving provision | 45 | ||
| 29 | Authentication of Electronic Records | 45 | |
| Application of Articles | 45 | ||
| Authentication of documents sent by Members by Electronic means | 45 | ||
| Authentication of document sent by the Secretary or Officers of the Company by Electronic means | 46 | ||
| Manner of signing | 46 | ||
| Saving provision | 46 | ||
| 30 | Transfer by way of continuation | 47 | |
| 31 | Winding up | 47 | |
| Distribution of assets in specie | 47 | ||
| No obligation to accept liability | 47 | ||
| 32 | Amendment of Memorandum and Articles | 47 | |
| Power to change name or amend Memorandum | 47 | ||
| Power to amend these Articles | 47 | ||
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Companies Act (Revised)
Company Limited by Shares
Amended and Restated
Articles of Association
of
WHITEFIBER, INC.
(Adopted by special resolution passed on 7 August 2025)
| 1 | Definitions, interpretation and exclusion of Table A |
Definitions
| 1.1 | In these Articles, the following definitions apply: |
Act means the Companies Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands, including any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force;
ADS means an American depository share representing an Ordinary Share;
Articles means, as appropriate:
| (a) | these articles of association as amended from time to time: or |
| (b) | two or more particular articles of these Articles; |
and Article refers to a particular article of these Articles;
Auditors means the auditor or auditors for the time being of the Company;
Bit Digital means Bit Digital, Inc., an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with company number 319983;
Board means the board of Directors from time to time;
Business Day means a day when banks in Grand Cayman, the Cayman Islands are open for the transaction of normal banking business and for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in the Cayman Islands;
Cayman Islands means the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands;
Clear Days, in relation to a period of notice, means that period excluding:
| (a) | the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given; and |
| (b) | the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect; |
Commission means Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America or other federal agency for the time being administering the U.S. Securities Act;
Company means the above-named company;
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Default Rate means ten per cent per annum;
Designated Stock Exchanges means Nasdaq Capital Market in the United States of America for so long as the Company’s Shares or ADSs are there listed and any other stock exchange on which the Company’s Shares or ADSs are listed for trading;
Designated Stock Exchange Rules means the relevant code, rules and regulations, as amended, from time to time, applicable as a result of the original and continued listing of any Shares or ADSs on the Designated Stock Exchanges;
Directors means the directors for the time being of the Company and the expression Director shall be construed accordingly;
Electronic has the meaning given to that term in the Electronic Transactions Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands;
Electronic Record has the meaning given to that term in the Electronic Transactions Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands;
Electronic Signature has the meaning given to that term in the Electronic Transactions Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands;
Fully Paid Up means:
| (a) | in relation to a Share with par value, means that the par value for that Share and any premium payable in respect of the issue of that Share, has been fully paid or credited as paid in money or money’s worth; and |
| (b) | in relation to a Share without par value, means that the agreed issue price for that Share has been fully paid or credited as paid in money or money’s worth; |
General Meeting means a general meeting of the Company duly constituted in accordance with the Articles;
Independent Director means a Director who is an independent director as defined in the Designated Stock Exchange Rules as determined by the Board;
Member means any person or persons entered on the register of Members from time to time as the holder of a Share;
Memorandum means the memorandum of association of the Company as amended from time to time;
month means a calendar month;
Officer means a person appointed to hold an office in the Company including a Director, alternate Director or liquidator and excluding the Secretary;
Ordinary Resolution means a resolution of a General Meeting passed by a simple majority of votes cast by Members who (being entitled to do so) vote in person or by proxy at that meeting. The expression includes a unanimous written resolution;
Ordinary Share means an ordinary share in the capital of the Company;
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Partly Paid Up means:
| (a) | in relation to a Share with par value, that the par value for that Share and any premium payable in respect of the issue of that Share, has not been fully paid or credited as paid in money or money’s worth; and |
| (b) | in relation to a Share without par value, means that the agreed issue price for that Share has not been fully paid or credited as paid in money or money’s worth; |
Preference Share means a preference share in the capital of the Company;
Register of Members means the register of Members maintained in accordance with the Act and includes (except where otherwise stated) any branch or duplicate register of Members;
Secretary means a person appointed to perform the duties of the secretary of the Company, including a joint, assistant or deputy secretary;
Share means a share, including an Ordinary Share and a Preference Share, in the capital of the Company and the expression:
| (a) | includes stock (except where a distinction between shares and stock is expressed or implied); and |
| (b) | where the context permits, also includes a fraction of a Share; |
Special Resolution means a resolution of a General Meeting or a resolution of a meeting of the holders of any class of Shares in a class meeting duly constituted in accordance with the Articles in each case passed by a majority of votes not less than two-thirds of votes cast by Members who (being entitled to do so) vote in person or by proxy at that meeting. The expression includes a written resolution passed in accordance with the Act;
Treasury Shares means Shares held in treasury pursuant to the Act and Article 2.17; and
U.S. 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 Commission thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time.
Interpretation
| 1.2 | In the interpretation of these Articles, the following provisions apply unless the context otherwise requires: |
| (a) | A reference in these Articles to a statute is a reference to a statute of the Cayman Islands as known by its short title, and includes: |
| (i) | any statutory modification, amendment or re-enactment; and |
| (ii) | any subordinate legislation or regulations issued under that statute. |
Without limitation to the preceding sentence, a reference to a revised Act of the Cayman Islands is taken to be a reference to the revision of that Act in force from time to time as amended from time to time.
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| (b) | Headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these Articles, unless there is ambiguity. |
| (c) | If a day on which any act, matter or thing is to be done under these Articles is not a Business Day, the act, matter or thing must be done on the next Business Day. |
| (d) | A word which denotes the singular also denotes the plural, a word which denotes the plural also denotes the singular, and a reference to any gender also denotes the other genders. |
| (e) | A reference to a person includes, as appropriate, a company, trust, partnership, joint venture, association, body corporate or government agency. |
| (f) | Where a word or phrase is given a defined meaning another part of speech or grammatical form in respect to that word or phrase has a corresponding meaning. |
| (g) | All references to time are to be calculated by reference to time in the place where the Company’s registered office is located. |
| (h) | The words written and in writing include all modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form, but do not include an Electronic Record where the distinction between a document in writing and an Electronic Record is expressed or implied. |
| (i) | The words including, include and in particular or any similar expression are to be construed without limitation. |
| 1.3 | The headings in these Articles are intended for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of these Articles. |
Exclusion of Table A Articles
| 1.4 | The regulations contained in Table A in the First Schedule of the Act and any other regulations contained in any statute or subordinate legislation are expressly excluded and do not apply to the Company. |
| 2 | Shares |
Power to issue Shares and options, with or without special rights
| 2.1 | Subject to Article 2.5 and the provisions of the Act and these Articles about the redemption and purchase of the Shares, the Directors have general and unconditional authority to allot (with or without confirming rights of renunciation), grant options over or otherwise deal with any unissued Shares to such persons, at such times and on such terms and conditions as they may decide. No Share may be issued at a discount except in accordance with the provisions of the Act. |
| 2.2 | Without limitation to the preceding Article, the Directors may so deal with the unissued Shares: |
| (a) | either at a premium or at par; or |
| (b) | with or without preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise. |
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| 2.3 | Without limitation to the two preceding Articles, the Directors may refuse to accept any application for Shares, and may accept any application in whole or in part, for any reason or for no reason. |
| 2.4 | Subject to Article 2.5, the Company may issue rights, options, warrants or convertible securities or securities of similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or receive any class of Shares or other securities in the Company at such times and on such terms and conditions as the Directors may decide. |
| 2.5 | For such period(s) of time that Bit Digital is a shareholder of the Company, the Company must not issue or agree to issue any Preference Shares, or securities that may be convertible into Preference Shares, without receiving the prior written consent of Bit Digital. |
Rights attaching to Preference Shares
| 2.6 | Before any Preference Shares of any series are issued, the Directors shall fix, by resolution or resolutions, the following provisions of such series: |
| (a) | the designation of such series and the number of Preference Shares to constitute such series; |
| (b) | whether the shares of such series shall have voting rights, in addition to any voting rights provided by the Act, and, if so, the terms of such voting rights, which may be general or limited; |
| (c) | the dividends, if any, payable on such series, whether any such dividends shall be cumulative, and, if so, from what dates, the conditions and dates upon which such dividends shall be payable, the preference or relation which such dividends shall bear to the dividends payable on any Shares of any other class of Shares or any other series of Preference Shares; |
| (d) | whether the Preference Shares or such series shall be subject to redemption by the Company, and, if so, the times, prices and other conditions of such redemption; |
| (e) | the amount or amounts payable upon Preference Shares of such series upon, and the rights of the holders of such series in, a voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up, or upon any distribution of the assets, of the Company; |
| (f) | whether the Preference Shares of such series shall be subject to the operation of a retirement or sinking fund and, if so, the extent to and manner in which any such retirement or sinking fund shall be applied to the purchase or redemption of the Preference Shares of such series for retirement or other corporate purposes and the terms and provisions relative to the operation of the retirement or sinking fund; |
| (g) | whether the Preference Shares of such series shall be convertible into, or exchangeable for, Shares of any other class of Shares or any other series of Preference Shares or any other securities and, if so, the price or prices or the rate or rates of conversion or exchange and the method, if any, of adjusting the same, and any other terms and conditions of conversion or exchange; |
| (h) | the limitations and restrictions, if any, to be effective while any Preference Shares or such series are outstanding upon the payment of dividends or the making of other distributions on, and upon the purchase, redemption or other acquisition by the Company of, the existing Shares or Shares of any other class of Shares or any other series of Preference Shares; |
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| (i) | the conditions or restrictions, if any, upon the creation of indebtedness of the Company or upon the issue of any additional Shares, including additional shares of such series or of any other class of Shares or any other series of Preference Shares; and |
| (j) | any other powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, and any qualifications, limitations and restrictions of any other class of Shares or any other series of Preference Shares. |
Power to issue fractions of a Share
| 2.7 | Subject to the Act, the Company may issue fractions of a Share of any class. A fraction of a Share shall be subject to and carry the corresponding fraction of liabilities (whether with respect to calls or otherwise), limitations, preferences, privileges, qualifications, restrictions, rights and other attributes of a Share of that class of Shares. |
Power to pay commissions and brokerage fees
| 2.8 | The Company may pay a commission to any person in consideration of that person: |
| (a) | subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally; or |
| (b) | procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions, whether absolute or conditional, |
for any Shares. That commission may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the allotment of Fully Paid Up or Partly Paid Up Shares or partly in one way and partly in another.
| 2.9 | The Company may employ a broker in the issue of its capital and pay him any proper commission or brokerage. |
Trusts not recognised
| 2.10 | Except as required by Law: |
| (a) | no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any Share on any trust; and |
| (b) | no person other than the Member shall be recognised by the Company as having any right in a Share. |
Security interests
| 2.11 | Notwithstanding the preceding Article, the Company may (but shall not be obliged to) recognise a security interest of which it has actual notice over shares. The Company shall not be treated as having recognised any such security interest unless it has so agreed in writing with the secured party. |
Power to vary class rights
| 2.12 | If the share capital is divided into different classes of Shares then, unless the terms on which a class of Shares was issued state otherwise, the rights attaching to a class of Shares may only be varied if one of the following applies: |
| (a) | the Members holding not less than two-thirds of the issued Shares of that class consent in writing to the variation; or |
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| (b) | the variation is made with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the Members holding the issued Shares of that class. |
| 2.13 | For the purpose of Article 2.12(b), all the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings apply, mutatis mutandis, to every such separate meeting except that: |
| (a) | the necessary quorum shall be one or more persons holding, or representing by proxy, not less than one third of the issued Shares of the class; and |
| (b) | any Member holding issued Shares of the class, present in person or by proxy or, in the case of a corporate Member, by its duly authorised representative, may demand a poll. |
| 2.14 | For the purposes of a separate class meeting, the Directors may treat two or more or all the classes of Shares as forming one class of Shares if the Directors consider that such classes of Shares would be affected in the same way by the proposals under consideration, but in any other case shall treat them as separate classes of Shares. |
Effect of new Share issue on existing class rights
| 2.15 | Unless the terms on which a class of Shares was issued state otherwise, the rights conferred on the Member holding Shares of any class shall not be deemed to be varied by: |
| (a) | the creation or issue of further Shares ranking pari passu with the existing Shares of that class; or |
| (b) | the issuance of any Preference Shares which, for the avoidance of doubt, may have such rights as the Directors may determine in accordance with Article 2.6. |
No bearer Shares or warrants
| 2.16 | The Company shall not issue Shares or warrants to bearers. |
Treasury Shares
| 2.17 | Shares that the Company purchases, redeems or acquires by way of surrender in accordance with the Act shall be held as Treasury Shares and not treated as cancelled if: |
| (a) | the Directors so determine prior to the purchase, redemption or surrender of those shares; and |
| (b) | the relevant provisions of the Memorandum and Articles and the Act are otherwise complied with. |
Rights attaching to Treasury Shares and related matters
| 2.18 | No dividend may be declared or paid, and no other distribution (whether in cash or otherwise) of the Company’s assets (including any distribution of assets to Members on a winding up) may be made to the Company in respect of a Treasury Share. |
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| 2.19 | The Company shall be entered in the register of Members as the holder of the Treasury Shares. However: |
| (a) | the Company shall not be treated as a Member for any purpose and shall not exercise any right in respect of the Treasury Shares, and any purported exercise of such a right shall be void; and |
| (b) | a Treasury Share shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting of the Company and shall not be counted in determining the total number of issued shares at any given time, whether for the purposes of these Articles or the Act. |
| 2.20 | Nothing in Article 2.18 prevents an allotment of Shares as Fully Paid Up bonus shares in respect of a Treasury Share and Shares allotted as Fully Paid Up bonus shares in respect of a Treasury Share shall be treated as Treasury Shares. |
| 2.21 | Treasury Shares may be disposed of by the Company in accordance with the Act and otherwise on such terms and conditions as the Directors determine. |
Register of Members
| 2.22 | The Company shall maintain or cause to be maintained the Register of Members in accordance with the Act. |
| 2.23 | 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. |
| 2.24 | The title to Shares may be evidenced and transferred in accordance with the laws applicable to the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange and, for these purposes, the Register of Members may be maintained in accordance with Article 40B of the Act. |
Annual Return
| 2.25 | The Directors in each calendar year shall prepare or cause to be prepared an annual return and declaration setting forth the particulars required by the Act and shall deliver a copy thereof to the registrar of companies for the Cayman Islands. |
| 3 | Share certificates |
Issue of share certificates
| 3.1 | 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. If the Directors resolve that share certificates shall be issued, upon being entered in the register of Members as the holder of a Share, the Directors may issue to any Member: |
| (a) | without payment, one certificate for all the Shares of each class held by that Member (and, upon transferring a part of the Member’s holding of Shares of any class, to a certificate for the balance of that holding); and |
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| (b) | upon payment of such reasonable sum as the Directors may determine for every certificate after the first, several certificates each for one or more of that Member’s Shares. |
| 3.2 | Every certificate shall specify the number, class and distinguishing numbers (if any) of the Shares to which it relates and whether they are Fully Paid Up or Partly Paid Up. A certificate may be executed under seal or executed in such other manner as the Directors determine. |
| 3.3 | Every certificate shall bear legends required under the applicable laws, including the U.S. Securities Act. |
| 3.4 | The Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate for Shares held jointly by several persons and delivery of a certificate for a Share to one joint holder shall be a sufficient delivery to all of them. |
Renewal of lost or damaged share certificates
| 3.5 | If a share certificate is defaced, worn-out, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on such terms (if any) as to: |
| (a) | evidence; |
| (b) | indemnity; |
| (c) | payment of the expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in investigating the evidence; and |
| (d) | payment of a reasonable fee, if any for issuing a replacement share certificate, |
as the Directors may determine, and (in the case of defacement or wearing-out) on delivery to the Company of the old certificate.
| 4 | Lien on Shares |
Nature and scope of lien
| 4.1 | The Company has a first and paramount lien on all Shares (whether Fully Paid Up or not) registered in the name of a Member (whether solely or jointly with others). The lien is for all monies payable to the Company by the Member or the Member’s estate: |
| (a) | either alone or jointly with any other person, whether or not that other person is a Member; and |
| (b) | whether or not those monies are presently payable. |
| 4.2 | At any time the Board may declare any Share to be wholly or partly exempt from the provisions of this Article. |
Company may sell Shares to satisfy lien
| 4.3 | The Company may sell any Shares over which it has a lien if all of the following conditions are met: |
| (a) | the sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable; |
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| (b) | the Company gives notice to the Member holding the Share (or to the person entitled to it in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of that Member) demanding payment and stating that if the notice is not complied with the Shares may be sold; and |
| (c) | that sum is not paid within fourteen Clear Days after that notice is deemed to be given under these Articles, |
and Shares to which this Article 4.3 applies shall be referred to as Lien Default Shares.
| 4.4 | The Lien Default Shares may be sold in such manner as the Board determines. |
| 4.5 | To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Directors shall incur no personal liability to the Member concerned in respect of the sale. |
Authority to execute instrument of transfer
| 4.6 | To give effect to a sale, the Directors may authorise any person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Lien Default Shares sold to, or in accordance with the directions of, the purchaser. |
| 4.7 | The title of the transferee of the Lien Default Shares shall not be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in respect of the sale. |
Consequences of sale of Shares to satisfy lien
| 4.8 | On a sale pursuant to the preceding Articles: |
| (a) | the name of the Member concerned shall be removed from the register of Members as the holder of those Lien Default Shares; and |
| (b) | that person shall deliver to the Company for cancellation the certificate (if any) for those Lien Default Shares. |
| 4.9 | Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 4.8, such person shall remain liable to the Company for all monies which, at the date of sale, were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of those Lien Default Shares. That person shall also be liable to pay interest on those monies from the date of sale until payment at the rate at which interest was payable before that sale or, failing that, at the Default Rate. The Board may waive payment wholly or in part or enforce payment without any allowance for the value of the Lien Default Shares at the time of sale or for any consideration received on their disposal. |
Application of proceeds of sale
| 4.10 | 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. Any residue shall be paid to the person whose Lien Default Shares have been sold: |
| (a) | if no certificate for the Lien Default Shares was issued, at the date of the sale; or |
| (b) | if a certificate for the Lien Default Shares was issued, upon surrender to the Company of that certificate for cancellation |
but, in either case, subject to the Company retaining a like lien for all sums not presently payable as existed on the Lien Default Shares before the sale.
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| 5 | Calls on Shares and forfeiture |
Power to make calls and effect of calls
| 5.1 | Subject to the terms of allotment, the Board may make calls on the Members in respect of any monies unpaid on their Shares including any premium. The call may provide for payment to be by instalments. Subject to receiving at least 14 Clear Days' notice specifying when and where payment is to be made, each Member shall pay to the Company the amount called on his Shares as required by the notice. |
| 5.2 | Before receipt by the Company of any sum due under a call, that call may be revoked in whole or in part and payment of a call may be postponed in whole or in part. Where a call is to be paid in instalments, the Company may revoke the call in respect of all or any remaining instalments in whole or in part and may postpone payment of all or any of the remaining instalments in whole or in part. |
| 5.3 | A Member on whom a call is made shall remain liable for that call notwithstanding the subsequent transfer of the Shares in respect of which the call was made. He shall not be liable for calls made after he is no longer registered as Member in respect of those Shares. |
Time when call made
| 5.4 | A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising the call was passed. |
Liability of joint holders
| 5.5 | Members registered as the joint holders of a Share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect of the Share. |
Interest on unpaid calls
| 5.6 | 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: |
| (a) | at the rate fixed by the terms of allotment of the Share or in the notice of the call; or |
| (b) | if no rate is fixed, at the Default Rate. |
The Directors may waive payment of the interest wholly or in part.
Deemed calls
| 5.7 | Any amount payable in respect of a Share, whether on allotment or on a fixed date or otherwise, shall be deemed to be payable as a call. If the amount is not paid when due the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if the amount had become due and payable by virtue of a call. |
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Power to accept early payment
| 5.8 | The Company may accept from a Member the whole or a part of the amount remaining unpaid on Shares held by him although no part of that amount has been called up. |
Power to make different arrangements at time of issue of Shares
| 5.9 | Subject to the terms of allotment, the Directors may make arrangements on the issue of Shares to distinguish between Members in the amounts and times of payment of calls on their Shares. |
Notice of default
| 5.10 | 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 14 Clear Days' notice requiring payment of: |
| (a) | the amount unpaid; |
| (b) | any interest which may have accrued; |
| (c) | any expenses which have been incurred by the Company due to that person’s default. |
| 5.11 | The notice shall state the following: |
| (a) | the place where payment is to be made; and |
| (b) | a warning that if the notice is not complied with the Shares in respect of which the call is made will be liable to be forfeited. |
Forfeiture or surrender of Shares
| 5.12 | If the notice given pursuant to Article 5.10 is not complied with, the Directors may, before the payment required by the notice has been received, resolve that any Share the subject of that notice be forfeited. The forfeiture shall include all dividends or other monies payable in respect of the forfeited Share and not paid before the forfeiture. Despite the foregoing, the Board may determine that any Share the subject of that notice be accepted by the Company as surrendered by the Member holding that Share in lieu of forfeiture. |
Disposal of forfeited or surrendered Share and power to cancel forfeiture or surrender
| 5.13 | A forfeited or surrendered Share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Board determine either to the former Member who held that Share or to any other person. The forfeiture or surrender may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit at any time before a sale, re-allotment or other disposition. Where, for the purposes of its disposal, a forfeited or surrendered Share is to be transferred to any person, the Directors may authorise some person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Share to the transferee. |
Effect of forfeiture or surrender on former Member
| 5.14 | On forfeiture or surrender: |
| (a) | the name of the Member concerned shall be removed from the register of Members as the holder of those Shares and that person shall cease to be a Member in respect of those Shares; and |
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| (b) | that person shall surrender to the Company for cancellation the certificate (if any) for the forfeited or surrendered Shares. |
| 5.15 | Despite the forfeiture or surrender of his Shares, that person shall remain liable to the Company for all monies which at the date of forfeiture or surrender were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of those Shares together with: |
| (a) | all expenses; and |
| (b) | interest from the date of forfeiture or surrender until payment: |
| (i) | at the rate of which interest was payable on those monies before forfeiture; or |
| (ii) | if no interest was so payable, at the Default Rate. |
The Directors, however, may waive payment wholly or in part.
Evidence of forfeiture or surrender
| 5.16 | A declaration, whether statutory or under oath, made by a Director or the Secretary shall be conclusive evidence of the following matters stated in it as against all persons claiming to be entitled to forfeited Shares: |
| (a) | that the person making the declaration is a Director or Secretary of the Company, and |
| (b) | that the particular Shares have been forfeited or surrendered on a particular date. |
Subject to the execution of an instrument of transfer, if necessary, the declaration shall constitute good title to the Shares.
Sale of forfeited or surrendered Shares
| 5.17 | Any person to whom the forfeited or surrendered Shares are disposed of shall not be bound to see to the application of the consideration, if any, of those Shares nor shall his title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity in, or invalidity of the proceedings in respect of, the forfeiture, surrender or disposal of those Shares. |
| 6 | Transfer of Shares |
Form of transfer
| 6.1 | Subject to the following Articles about the transfer of Shares, and provided that such transfer complies with applicable rules of the SEC, the Designated Stock Exchange and federal and state securities laws of the United States, a Member may transfer Shares to another person by completing an instrument of transfer in a common form or in a form prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange or in any other form approved by the Directors, executed: |
| (a) | where the Shares are Fully Paid Up, by or on behalf of that Member; and |
| (b) | where the Shares are partly paid, by or on behalf of that Member and the transferee. |
| 6.2 | The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of a Share until the name of the transferee is entered into the Register of Members. |
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Power to refuse registration
| 6.3 | The Directors may refuse to register any transfer of Shares at their discretion. |
| 6.4 | If the Shares in question were issued in conjunction with rights, options or warrants issued pursuant to Article 2.4 on terms that one cannot be transferred without the other, the Directors shall refuse to register the transfer of any such Share without evidence satisfactory to them of the like transfer of such option or warrant. |
Notice of refusal to register
| 6.5 | If the Directors refuse to register a transfer of any Shares, they shall within two months after the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged with the Company send to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of the refusal. |
Power to suspend registration
| 6.6 | The Directors may suspend registration of the transfer of Shares at such times and for such periods, not exceeding 45 days in any calendar year, as they determine. |
Company may retain instrument of transfer
| 6.7 | The Company shall be entitled to retain any instrument of transfer which is registered; but an instrument of transfer which the Directors refuse to register shall be returned to the person lodging it when notice of the refusal is given. |
| 7 | Transmission of Shares |
Persons entitled on death of a Member
| 7.1 | If a Member dies, the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the deceased Members’ interest are the following: |
| (a) | where the deceased Member was a joint holder, the survivor or survivors; and |
| (b) | where the deceased Member was a sole holder, that Member’s personal representative or representatives. |
| 7.2 | Nothing in these Articles shall release the deceased Member’s estate from any liability in respect of any Share, whether the deceased was a sole holder or a joint holder. |
Registration of transfer of a Share following death or bankruptcy
| 7.3 | A person becoming entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member may elect to do either of the following: |
| (a) | to become the holder of the Share; or |
| (b) | to transfer the Share to another person. |
| 7.4 | That person must produce such evidence of his entitlement as the Directors may properly require. |
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| 7.5 | If the person elects to become the holder of the Share, he must give notice to the Company to that effect. For the purposes of these Articles, that notice shall be treated as though it were an executed instrument of transfer. |
| 7.6 | If the person elects to transfer the Share to another person then: |
| (a) | if the Share is Fully Paid Up, the transferor must execute an instrument of transfer; and |
| (b) | if the Share is nil or Partly Paid Up, the transferor and the transferee must execute an instrument of transfer. |
| 7.7 | All the Articles relating to the transfer of Shares shall apply to the notice or, as appropriate, the instrument of transfer. |
Indemnity
| 7.8 | A person registered as a Member by reason of the death or bankruptcy of another Member shall indemnify the Company and the Directors against any loss or damage suffered by the Company or the Directors as a result of that registration. |
Rights of person entitled to a Share following death or bankruptcy
| 7.9 | 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 registered as the holder of the Share. But, until he is registered as Member in respect of the Share, he shall not be entitled to attend or vote at any meeting of the Company or at any separate meeting of the holders of that class of Shares. |
| 8 | Alteration of capital |
Increasing, consolidating, converting, dividing and cancelling share capital
| 8.1 | To the fullest extent permitted by the Act, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution do any of the following and amend its Memorandum for that purpose: |
| (a) | increase its share capital by new Shares of the amount fixed by that Ordinary Resolution and with the attached rights, priorities and privileges set out in that Ordinary Resolution; |
| (b) | consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into Shares of larger amount than its existing Shares; |
| (c) | convert all or any of its Paid Up Shares into stock, and reconvert that stock into Paid Up Shares of any denomination; |
| (d) | sub-divide its Shares or any of them into Shares of an amount smaller than that fixed by the Memorandum, so, however, that in the sub-division, the proportion between the amount paid and the amount, if any, unpaid on each reduced Share shall be the same as it was in case of the Share from which the reduced Share is derived; and |
| (e) | cancel Shares which, at the date of the passing of that Ordinary Resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person, and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the Shares so cancelled or, in the case of Shares without nominal par value, diminish the number of Shares into which its capital is divided. |
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Dealing with fractions resulting from consolidation of Shares
| 8.2 | 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 deal with the fractions as it thinks fit, including (without limitation): |
| (a) | either round up or down the fraction to the nearest whole number, such rounding to be determined by the Directors acting in their sole discretion; |
| (b) | 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 |
| (c) | distribute the net proceeds in due proportion among those Members. |
| 8.3 | For the purposes of Article 8.2, the Directors may authorise some person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Shares to, in accordance with the directions of, the purchaser. The transferee shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor shall the transferee’s title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity in, or invalidity of, the proceedings in respect of the sale. |
Reducing share capital
| 8.4 | Subject to the Act and to any rights for the time being conferred on the Members holding a particular class of Shares, the Company may, by Special Resolution, reduce its share capital in any way. |
| 9 | Redemption and purchase of own Shares |
Power to issue redeemable Shares and to purchase own Shares
| 9.1 | Subject to the Act and to any rights for the time being conferred on the Members holding a particular class of Shares, the Company may by its Directors: |
| (a) | issue Shares that are to be redeemed or liable to be redeemed, at the option of the Company or the Member holding those redeemable Shares, on the terms and in the manner its Directors determine before the issue of those Shares; |
| (b) | with the consent by Special Resolution of the Members holding Shares of a particular class, vary the rights attaching to that class of Shares so as to provide that those Shares are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Company on the terms and in the manner which the Directors determine at the time of such variation; and |
| (c) | purchase all or any of its own Shares of any class including any redeemable Shares on the terms and in the manner which the Directors determine at the time of such purchase. |
The Company may make a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own Shares in any manner authorised by the Act, including out of any combination of the following: capital, its profits and the proceeds of a fresh issue of Shares.
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Power to pay for redemption or purchase in cash or in specie
| 9.2 | When making a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of Shares, the Directors may make the payment in cash or in specie (or partly in one and partly in the other) if so authorised by the terms of the allotment of those Shares or by the terms applying to those Shares in accordance with Article 9.1, or otherwise by agreement with the Member holding those Shares. |
Effect of redemption or purchase of a Share
| 9.3 | Upon the date of redemption or purchase of a Share: |
| (a) | the Member holding that Share shall cease to be entitled to any rights in respect of the Share other than the right to receive: |
| (i) | the price for the Share; and |
| (ii) | any dividend declared in respect of the Share prior to the date of redemption or purchase; |
| (b) | the Member’s name shall be removed from the register of Members with respect to the Share; and |
| (c) | the Share shall be cancelled or held as a Treasury Share, as the Directors may determine. |
| 9.4 | For the purpose of Article 9.3, the date of redemption or purchase is the date when the Member's name is removed from the register of Members with respect to the Shares the subject of the redemption or purchase. |
| 10 | Meetings of Members |
Annual and extraordinary general meetings
| 10.1 | The Company may, but shall not (unless required by the Designated Stock Exchange Rules) be obligated to, in each year hold a general meeting as an annual general meeting, which, if held, shall be convened by the Board, in accordance with these Articles. |
| 10.2 | All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings. |
Power to call meetings
| 10.3 | The Directors may call a general meeting at any time. |
| 10.4 | If there are insufficient Directors to constitute a quorum and the remaining Directors are unable to agree on the appointment of additional Directors, the Directors must call a general meeting for the purpose of appointing additional Directors. |
| 10.5 | The Directors must also call a general meeting if requisitioned in the manner set out in the next two Articles. |
| 10.6 | The requisition must be in writing and given by one or more Members who together hold at least ten per cent of the rights to vote at such general meeting. |
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| 10.7 | The requisition must also: |
| (a) | specify the purpose of the meeting. |
| (b) | be signed by or on behalf of each requisitioner (and for this purpose each joint holder shall be obliged to sign). The requisition may consist of several documents in like form signed by one or more of the requisitioners; and |
| (c) | be delivered in accordance with the notice provisions. |
| 10.8 | Should the Directors fail to call a general meeting within 21 Clear Days’ from the date of receipt of a requisition, the requisitioners or any of them may call a general meeting within three months after the end of that period. |
| 10.9 | Without limitation to the foregoing, if there are insufficient Directors to constitute a quorum and the remaining Directors are unable to agree on the appointment of additional Directors, any one or more Members who together hold at least five per cent of the rights to vote at a general meeting may call a general meeting for the purpose of considering the business specified in the notice of meeting which shall include as an item of business the appointment of additional Directors. |
| 10.10 | If the Members call a meeting under the above provisions, the Company shall reimburse their reasonable expenses. |
Content of notice
| 10.11 | Notice of a general meeting shall specify each of the following: |
| (a) | the date and the hour of the meeting; |
| (b) | whether the meeting will be held virtually, at a physical place or both; |
| (c) | if the meeting is to be held in any part at a physical place, the address of such place; |
| (d) | if the meeting is to be held in two or more places or in any part virtually, the technology that will be used to facilitate the meeting; |
| (e) | subject to paragraph (f) and the requirements of (to the extent applicable) the Designated Stock Exchange Rules, the general nature of the business to be transacted; and |
| (f) | if a resolution is proposed as a Special Resolution, the text of that resolution. |
| 10.12 | In each notice there shall appear with reasonable prominence the following statements: |
| (a) | that a Member who is entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote instead of that Member; and |
| (b) | that a proxyholder need not be a Member. |
Period of notice
| 10.13 | At least ten (10) days' notice (exclusive of the day on which the notice is served or deemed to be served, but inclusive of the day for which the notice is given) of any general meeting must be given to Members. |
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| 10.14 | Subject to the Act, a meeting may be convened on shorter notice, subject to the Act with the consent of the Member or Members who, individually or collectively, hold at least ninety per cent of the voting rights of all those who have a right to vote at that meeting. |
Record date and persons entitled to receive notice
| 10.15 | Subject to the provisions of these Articles and to any restrictions imposed on any Shares, the notice shall be given to the following people: |
| (a) | the Members |
| (b) | persons entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member; |
| (c) | the Directors; and |
| (d) | the Auditors. |
| 10.16 | The Board may determine that the Members entitled to receive notice of and vote at a meeting are those persons entered on the register of Members at the close of business on a day determined by the Board. |
Accidental omission to give notice or non-receipt of notice
| 10.17 | Proceedings at a meeting shall not be invalidated by the following: |
| (a) | an accidental failure to give notice of the meeting to any person entitled to notice; or |
| (b) | non-receipt of notice of the meeting by any person entitled to notice. |
| 10.18 | In addition, where a notice of meeting is published on a website proceedings at the meeting shall not be invalidated merely because it is accidentally published: |
| (a) | in a different place on the website; or |
| (b) | for part only of the period from the date of the notification until the conclusion of the meeting to which the notice relates. |
| 11 | Proceedings at meetings of Members |
Quorum
| 11.1 | Save as provided in the following Article, no business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present in person or by proxy. A quorum is as follows: |
| (a) | if the Company has only one Member: that Member; |
| (b) | if the Company has more than one Member: one or more Members holding Shares that represent not less than one-third of the votes that may be cast by holders of the outstanding Shares carrying the right to vote at such general meeting. |
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Lack of quorum
| 11.2 | If a quorum is not present within fifteen minutes of the time appointed for the meeting, or if at any time during the meeting it becomes inquorate, then the following provisions apply: |
| (a) | If the meeting was requisitioned by Members, it shall be cancelled. |
| (b) | In any other case, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same time and place seven days hence, or to such other time or place as is determined by the Directors. If a quorum is not present within fifteen minutes of the time appointed for the adjourned meeting, then the Members present in person or by proxy shall constitute a quorum. |
Chairman
| 11.3 | The chairman of a general meeting shall be the chairman of the Board or such other person as the Directors may determine. Absent any such person being present within fifteen minutes of the time appointed for the meeting, the Directors present shall elect one of their number to chair the meeting. |
| 11.4 | If no Director is present within fifteen minutes of the time appointed for the meeting, or if no Director is willing to act as chairman, the Members present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote shall choose one of their number to chair the meeting. |
Right of a Director to attend and speak
| 11.5 | Even if a Director is not a Member, he shall be entitled to attend and speak at any general meeting and at any separate meeting of Members holding a particular class of Shares. |
Accommodation of Members attending meeting virtually
| 11.6 | A Member entitled to receive notice and attend a meeting will be deemed to be in attendance at such meeting despite their attendance being virtual if adequate facilities are available to ensure that the Member is able to: |
| (a) | participate in the business for which the meeting has been convened; and |
| (b) | hear all that happens at the meeting. |
Security
| 11.7 | In addition to any measures which the Board may be required to take due to the location or venue of the meeting, the Board may make any arrangement and impose any restriction it considers appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances to ensure the security of a meeting including, without limitation, the searching of any person attending the meeting and the imposing of restrictions on the items of personal property that may be taken into the meeting place. The Board may refuse entry to, or eject from, a meeting a person who refuses to comply with any such arrangements or restrictions. |
Adjournment, postponement and cancellation
| 11.8 | A meeting may be: |
| (a) | postponed or cancelled prior to the meeting at the discretion of the Directors by written notice provided to all persons entitled to attend the meeting, unless the meeting was requisitioned by Members or otherwise called by Members pursuant to Article 10.8; or |
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| (b) | adjourned, with or without an appointed date for resumption, at any time during the meeting at the discretion of the chairman with the consent of the Members constituting a quorum. |
| 11.9 | The chairman must adjourn a meeting if so directed by Members constituting a quorum at the meeting. |
| 11.10 | No business can be transacted at an adjourned meeting other than business which might properly have been transacted at the original meeting. |
| 11.11 | Should a meeting be adjourned for more than 7 Clear Days, whether because of a lack of quorum or otherwise, Members shall be given at least seven Clear Days' notice of the date, time and place of the adjourned meeting and the general nature of the business to be transacted. Otherwise it shall not be necessary to give any notice of the adjournment. |
Method of voting
| 11.12 | A resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless before, or on, the declaration of the result of the show of hands, a poll is duly demanded. Subject to the Act, a poll may be demanded: |
| (a) | by the chairman of the meeting; |
| (b) | by at least two Members having the right to vote on the resolutions; |
| (c) | by any Member or Members present who, individually or collectively, hold at least ten per cent of the voting rights of all those who have a right to vote on the resolution. |
Outcome of vote by show of hands
| 11.13 | Unless a poll is duly demanded, a declaration by the chairman as to the result of a resolution and an entry to that effect in the minutes of the meeting shall be conclusive evidence of the outcome of a show of hands without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution. |
Withdrawal of demand for a poll
| 11.14 | The demand for a poll may be withdrawn before the poll is taken, but only with the consent of the chairman. The chairman shall announce any such withdrawal to the meeting and, unless another person forthwith demands a poll, any earlier show of hands on that resolution shall be treated as the vote on that resolution; if there has been no earlier show of hands, then the resolution shall be put to the vote of the meeting. |
Taking of a poll
| 11.15 | A poll demanded on the question of adjournment shall be taken immediately. |
| 11.16 | A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken either immediately or at an adjourned meeting at such time and place as the chairman directs, not being more than thirty Clear Days after the poll was demanded. |
| 11.17 | The demand for a poll shall not prevent the meeting continuing to transact any business other than the question on which the poll was demanded. |
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| 11.18 | A poll shall be taken in such manner as the chairman directs. He may appoint scrutineers (who need not be Members) and fix a place and time for declaring the result of the poll. If, through the aid of technology, the meeting is held virtually or in more than place, the chairman may appoint scrutineers virtually and in more than place; but if he considers that the poll cannot be effectively monitored at that meeting, the chairman shall adjourn the holding of the poll to a date, place and time when that can occur. |
Chairman’s casting vote
| 11.19 | In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded shall not be entitled to a second or casting vote. |
Written resolutions
| 11.20 | Members may pass a resolution in writing without holding a meeting if the following conditions are met: |
| (a) | all Members entitled to vote are given notice of the resolution as if the same were being proposed at a meeting of Members; |
| (b) | all Members entitled so to vote; |
| (i) | sign a document; or |
| (ii) | sign several documents in the like form each signed by one or more of those Members; and |
| (c) | the signed document or documents is or are delivered to the Company, including, if the Company so nominates, by delivery of an Electronic Record by Electronic means to the address specified for that purpose. |
Such written resolution shall be as effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Members entitled to vote duly convened and held.
| 11.21 | If a written resolution is described as a Special Resolution or as an Ordinary Resolution, it has effect accordingly. |
| 11.22 | The Directors may determine the manner in which written resolutions shall be put to Members. In particular, they may provide, in the form of any written resolution, for each Member to indicate, out of the number of votes the Member would have been entitled to cast at a meeting to consider the resolution, how many votes he wishes to cast in favour of the resolution and how many against the resolution or to be treated as abstentions. The result of any such written resolution shall be determined on the same basis as on a poll. |
Sole-Member Company
| 11.23 | If the Company has only one Member, and the Member records in writing his decision on a question, that record shall constitute both the passing of a resolution and the minute of it. |
| 12 | Voting rights of Members |
Right to vote
| 12.1 | Unless their Shares carry no right to vote, or unless a call or other amount presently payable has not been paid, all Members are entitled to vote at a general meeting, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, and all Members holding Shares of a particular class of Shares are entitled to vote at a meeting of the holders of that class of Shares. |
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| 12.2 | Members may vote in person or by proxy. |
| 12.3 | On a show of hands, every Member shall have one vote. For the avoidance of doubt, an individual who represents two or more Members, including a Member in that individual’s own right, that individual shall be entitled to a separate vote for each Member. |
| 12.4 | On a poll, a Member shall have one vote for each Share they hold, unless any Share carries special voting rights. |
| 12.5 | No Member is bound to vote on his Shares or any of them; nor is he bound to vote each of his Shares in the same way. |
Rights of joint holders
| 12.6 | If Shares are held jointly, only one of the joint holders may vote. If more than one of the joint holders tenders a vote, the vote of the holder whose name in respect of those Shares appears first in the register of Members shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holder. |
Representation of corporate Members
| 12.7 | Save where otherwise provided, a corporate Member must act by a duly authorised representative. |
| 12.8 | A corporate Member wishing to act by a duly authorised representative must identify that person to the Company by notice in writing. |
| 12.9 | The authorisation may be for any period of time, and must be delivered to the Company before the commencement of the meeting at which it is first used. |
| 12.10 | The Directors of the Company may require the production of any evidence which they consider necessary to determine the validity of the notice. |
| 12.11 | Where a duly authorised representative is present at a meeting that Member is deemed to be present in person; and the acts of the duly authorised representative are personal acts of that Member. |
| 12.12 | A corporate Member may revoke the appointment of a duly authorised representative at any time by notice to the Company; but such revocation will not affect the validity of any acts carried out by the duly authorised representative before the Directors of the Company had actual notice of the revocation. |
Member with mental disorder
| 12.13 | A Member in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction (whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere) in matters concerning mental disorder may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by that Member’s receiver, curator bonis or other person authorised in that behalf appointed by that court. |
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| 12.14 | For the purpose of the preceding Article, evidence to the satisfaction of the Directors of the authority of the person claiming to exercise the right to vote must be received not less than 24 hours before holding the relevant meeting or the adjourned meeting in any manner specified for the delivery of forms of appointment of a proxy, whether in writing or by Electronic means. In default, the right to vote shall not be exercisable. |
Objections to admissibility of votes
| 12.15 | An objection to the validity of a person’s vote may only be raised at the meeting or at the adjourned meeting at which the vote is sought to be tendered. Any objection duly made shall be referred to the chairman whose decision shall be final and conclusive. |
Form of proxy
| 12.16 | An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in any common form or in any other form approved by the Directors. |
| 12.17 | The instrument must be in writing and signed in one of the following ways: |
| (a) | by the Member; or |
| (b) | by the Member’s authorised attorney; or |
| (c) | if the Member is a corporation or other body corporate, under seal or signed by an authorised officer, secretary or attorney. |
If the Directors so resolve, the Company may accept an Electronic Record of that instrument delivered in the manner specified below and otherwise satisfying the Articles about authentication of Electronic Records.
| 12.18 | The Directors may require the production of any evidence which they consider necessary to determine the validity of any appointment of a proxy. |
| 12.19 | A Member may revoke the appointment of a proxy at any time by notice to the Company duly signed in accordance with Article 12.17. |
| 12.20 | No revocation by a Member of the appointment of a proxy made in accordance with Article 12.19 will affect the validity of any acts carried out by the relevant proxy before the Directors of the Company had actual notice of the revocation. |
How and when proxy is to be delivered
| 12.21 | Subject to the following Articles, the Directors may, in the notice convening any meeting or adjourned meeting, or in an instrument of proxy sent out by the Company, specify the manner by which the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited and the place and the time (being not later than the time appointed for the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting to which the proxy relates) at which the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited. In the absence of any such direction from the Directors in the notice convening any meeting or adjourned meeting or in an instrument of proxy sent out by the Company, the form of appointment of a proxy and any authority under which it is signed (or a copy of the authority certified notarially or in any other way approved by the Directors) must be delivered so that it is received by the Company before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the form of appointment of proxy proposes to vote. They must be delivered in either of the following ways: |
| (a) | In the case of an instrument in writing, it must be left at or sent by post: |
| (i) | to the registered office of the Company; or |
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| (ii) | to such other place within the Cayman Islands specified in the notice convening the meeting or in any form of appointment of proxy sent out by the Company in relation to the meeting. |
| (b) | If, pursuant to the notice provisions, a notice may be given to the Company in an Electronic Record, an Electronic Record of an appointment of a proxy must be sent to the address specified pursuant to those provisions unless another address for that purpose is specified: |
| (i) | in the notice convening the meeting; or |
| (ii) | in any form of appointment of a proxy sent out by the Company in relation to the meeting; or |
| (iii) | in any invitation to appoint a proxy issued by the Company in relation to the meeting. |
| (c) | Notwithstanding Article 12.21(a) and Article 12.21(b), the chairman of the Company may, in any event at his discretion, direct that an instrument of proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited. |
| 12.22 | Where a poll is taken: |
| (a) | if it is taken more than seven Clear Days after it is demanded, the form of appointment of a proxy and any accompanying authority (or an Electronic Record of the same) must be delivered in accordance with Article 12.21 before the time appointed for the taking of the poll; |
| (b) | if it to be taken within seven Clear Days after it was demanded, the form of appointment of a proxy and any accompanying authority (or an Electronic Record of the same) must be delivered in accordance with Article 12.21 before the time appointed for the taking of the poll. |
| 12.23 | If the form of appointment of proxy is not delivered on time, it is invalid. |
| 12.24 | When two or more valid but differing appointments of proxy are delivered or received in respect of the same Share for use at the same meeting and in respect of the same matter, the one which is last validly delivered or received (regardless of its date or of the date of its execution) shall be treated as replacing and revoking the other or others as regards that Share. lf the Company is unable to determine which appointment was last validly delivered or received, none of them shall be treated as valid in respect of that Share. |
| 12.25 | The Board may at the expense of the Company send forms of appointment of proxy to the Members by post (that is to say, pre-paying and posting a letter), or by Electronic communication or otherwise (with or without provision for their return by pre-paid post) for use at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of Shares, either blank or nominating as proxy in the alternative any one or more of the Directors or any other person. lf for the purpose of any meeting invitations to appoint as proxy a person or one of a number of persons specified in the invitations are issued at the Company’s expense, they shall be issued to all (and not to some only) of the Members entitled to be sent notice of the meeting and to vote at it. The accidental omission to send such a form of appointment or to give such an invitation to, or the non-receipt of such form of appointment by, any Member entitled to attend and vote at a meeting shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting |
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Voting by proxy
| 12.26 | A proxy shall have the same voting rights at a meeting or adjourned meeting as the Member would have had except to the extent that the instrument appointing him limits those rights. Notwithstanding the appointment of a proxy, a Member may attend and vote at a meeting or adjourned meeting. If a Member votes on any resolution a vote by his proxy on the same resolution, unless in respect of different Shares, shall be invalid. |
| 12.27 | The instrument appointing a proxy to vote at a meeting shall be deemed also to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll and, for the purposes of Article 11.13, a demand by a person as proxy for a Member shall be the same as a demand by a Member. Such appointment shall not confer any further right to speak at the meeting, except with the permission of the chairman of the meeting. |
| 13 | Number of Directors |
| 13.1 | There shall be a Board consisting of not less than one person provided however that the Company may by Ordinary Resolution increase or reduce the limits in the number of Directors. Unless fixed by Ordinary Resolution, the maximum number of Directors shall be unlimited. |
| 14 | Appointment, disqualification and removal of Directors |
First Directors
| 14.1 | The first Directors shall be appointed in writing by the subscriber or subscribers to the Memorandum, or a majority of them. |
No age limit
| 14.2 | There is no age limit for Directors save that they must be at least eighteen years of age. |
Corporate Directors
| 14.3 | Unless prohibited by law, a body corporate may be a Director. If a body corporate is a Director, the Articles about representation of corporate Members at general meetings apply, mutatis mutandis, to the Articles about Directors’ meetings. |
No shareholding qualification
| 14.4 | Unless a shareholding qualification for Directors is fixed by Ordinary Resolution, no Director shall be required to own Shares as a condition of his appointment. |
Appointment of Directors
| 14.5 | A Director may be appointed by Ordinary Resolution or by the Directors. Any appointment may be to fill a vacancy or as an additional Director. |
| 14.6 | A remaining Director may appoint a Director even though there is not a quorum of Directors. |
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| 14.7 | No appointment can cause the number of Directors to exceed the maximum (if one is set); and any such appointment shall be invalid. |
| 14.8 | For so long as Shares or ADSs are listed on a Designated Stock Exchange, the Directors shall include at least such number of Independent Directors as applicable law, rules or regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange Rules require as determined by the Board. |
Term of appointment
| 14.9 | Each Director appointed shall hold office until the next annual general meeting (unless re-appointed by Ordinary Resolution at such annual general meeting) or such time as they resign, are removed from office by Ordinary Resolution or otherwise ceases to be eligible to be a director of the Company. |
Eligibility
| 14.10 | No person (other than a Director retiring in accordance with these Articles) shall be appointed or re-appointed a Director at any general meeting unless: |
| (a) | he is recommended by the Board; or |
| (b) | not less than seven nor more than forty-two Clear Days before the date appointed for the meeting, a Member (other than the person to be proposed) entitled to vote at the meeting has given to the Company notice of his intention to propose a resolution for the appointment of that person, stating the particulars which would, if he were so appointed, be required to be included in the Company’s register of Directors and a notice executed by that person of his willingness to be appointed. |
Removal of Directors
| 14.11 | A Director may be removed by Ordinary Resolution. |
Resignation of Directors
| 14.12 | A Director may at any time resign office by giving to the Company notice in writing or, if permitted pursuant to the notice provisions, in an Electronic Record delivered in either case in accordance with those provisions. |
| 14.13 | Unless the notice specifies a different date, the Director shall be deemed to have resigned on the date that the notice is delivered to the Company. |
Termination of the office of Director
| 14.14 | A Director may retire from office as a Director by giving notice in writing to that effect to the Company at the registered office, which notice shall be effective upon such date as may be specified in the notice, failing which upon delivery to the registered office. |
| 14.15 | Without prejudice to the provisions in these Articles for retirement (by rotation or otherwise), a Director’s office shall be terminated forthwith if: |
| (a) | he is prohibited by the law of the Cayman Islands from acting as a Director; or |
| (b) | he is made bankrupt or makes an arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; or |
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| (c) | he resigns his office by notice to the Company; or |
| (d) | he only held office as a Director for a fixed term and such term expires; or |
| (e) | dies or in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner by whom he is being treated he becomes physically or mentally incapable of acting as a Director; or |
| (f) | he is given notice by the majority of the other Directors (not being less than two in number) to vacate office (without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any agreement relating to the provision of the services of such Director); or |
| (g) | he is made subject to any law relating to mental health or incompetence, whether by court order or otherwise; or |
| (h) | without the consent of the other Directors, he is absent from meetings of Directors for a continuous period of six months. |
| 15 | Alternate Directors |
Appointment and removal
| 15.1 | Any Director may appoint any other person, including another Director, to act in his place as an alternate Director. No appointment shall take effect until the Director has given notice of the appointment to the Board. |
| 15.2 | A Director may revoke his appointment of an alternate at any time. No revocation shall take effect until the Director has given notice of the revocation to the Board. |
| 15.3 | A notice of appointment or removal of an alternate Director shall be effective only if given to the Company by one or more of the following methods: |
| (a) | by notice in writing in accordance with the notice provisions contained in these Articles; |
| (b) | if the Company has a facsimile address for the time being, by sending by facsimile transmission to that facsimile address a facsimile copy or, otherwise, by sending by facsimile transmission to the facsimile address of the Company's registered office a facsimile copy (in either case, the facsimile copy being deemed to be the notice unless Article 29.7 applies), in which event notice shall be taken to be given on the date of an error-free transmission report from the sender’s fax machine; |
| (c) | if the Company has an email address for the time being, by emailing to that email address a scanned copy of the notice as a PDF attachment or, otherwise, by emailing to the email address provided by the Company's registered office a scanned copy of the notice as a PDF attachment (in either case, the PDF version being deemed to be the notice unless Article 29.7 applies), in which event notice shall be taken to be given on the date of receipt by the Company or the Company's registered office (as appropriate) in readable form; or |
| (d) | if permitted pursuant to the notice provisions, in some other form of approved Electronic Record delivered in accordance with those provisions in writing. |
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Notices
| 15.4 | All notices of meetings of Directors shall continue to be given to the appointing Director and not to the alternate. |
Rights of alternate Director
| 15.5 | An alternate Director shall be entitled to attend and vote at any Board meeting or meeting of a committee of the Directors at which the appointing Director is not personally present, and generally to perform all the functions of the appointing Director in his absence. An alternate Director, however, is not entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company for services rendered as an alternate Director. |
Appointment ceases when the appointor ceases to be a Director
| 15.6 | An alternate Director shall cease to be an alternate Director if: |
| (a) | the Director who appointed him ceases to be a Director; or |
| (b) | the Director who appointed him revokes his appointment by notice delivered to the Board or to the registered office of the Company or in any other manner approved by the Board; or |
| (c) | in any event happens in relation to him which, if he were a Director of the Company, would cause his office as Director to be vacated. |
Status of alternate Director
| 15.7 | An alternate Director shall carry out all functions of the Director who made the appointment. |
| 15.8 | Save where otherwise expressed, an alternate Director shall be treated as a Director under these Articles. |
| 15.9 | An alternate Director is not the agent of the Director appointing him. |
| 15.10 | An alternate Director is not entitled to any remuneration for acting as alternate Director. |
Status of the Director making the appointment
| 15.11 | A Director who has appointed an alternate is not thereby relieved from the duties which he owes the Company. |
| 16 | Powers of Directors |
Powers of Directors
| 16.1 | Subject to the provisions of the Act, the Memorandum and these Articles the business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors who may for that purpose exercise all the powers of the Company. |
| 16.2 | No prior act of the Directors shall be invalidated by any subsequent alteration of the Memorandum or these Articles. However, to the extent allowed by the Act, Members may, by Special Resolution, validate any prior or future act of the Directors which would otherwise be in breach of their duties. |
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Directors below the minimum number
| 16.3 | lf the number of Directors is less than the minimum prescribed in accordance with these Articles, the remaining Director or Directors shall act only for the purposes of appointing an additional Director or Directors to make up such minimum or of convening a general meeting of the Company for the purpose of making such appointment. lf there are no Director or Directors able or willing to act, any two Members may summon a general meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors. Any additional Director so appointed shall hold office (subject to these Articles) only until the dissolution of the annual general meeting next following such appointment unless he is re-elected during such meeting. |
Appointments to office
| 16.4 | The Directors may appoint a Director: |
| (a) | as chairman of the Board; |
| (b) | as managing Director; |
| (c) | to any other executive office, |
for such period, and on such terms, including as to remuneration as they think fit.
| 16.5 | The appointee must consent in writing to holding that office. |
| 16.6 | Where a chairman is appointed he shall, unless unable to do so, preside at every meeting of Directors. |
| 16.7 | If there is no chairman, or if the chairman is unable to preside at a meeting, that meeting may select its own chairman; or the Directors may nominate one of their number to act in place of the chairman should he ever not be available. |
| 16.8 | Subject to the provisions of the Act, the Directors may also appoint and remove any person, who need not be a Director: |
| (a) | as Secretary; and |
| (b) | to any office that may be required |
for such period and on such terms, including as to remuneration, as they think fit. In the case of an Officer, that Officer may be given any title the Directors decide.
| 16.9 | The Secretary or Officer must consent in writing to holding that office. |
| 16.10 | A Director, Secretary or other Officer of the Company may not the hold the office, or perform the services, of auditor. |
Provisions for employees
| 16.11 | The Board may make provision for the benefit of any persons employed or formerly employed by the Company or any of its subsidiary undertakings (or any member of his family or any person who is dependent on him) in connection with the cessation or the transfer to any person of the whole or part of the undertaking of the Company or any of its subsidiary undertakings. |
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Exercise of voting rights
| 16.12 | The Board may exercise the voting power conferred by the Shares in any body corporate held or owned by the Company in such manner in all respects as it thinks fit (including, without limitation, the exercise of that power in favour of any resolution appointing any Director as a Director of such body corporate, or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the Directors of such body corporate). |
Remuneration
| 16.13 | Every Director may be remunerated by the Company for the services he provides for the benefit of the Company, whether as Director, employee or otherwise, and shall be entitled to be paid for the expenses incurred in the Company’s business including attendance at Directors’ meetings. |
| 16.14 | Until otherwise determined by the Company by Ordinary Resolution, the Directors (other than alternate Directors) shall be entitled to such remuneration by way of fees for their services in the office of Director as the Directors may determine. |
| 16.15 | Remuneration may take any form and may include arrangements to pay pensions, health insurance, death or sickness benefits, whether to the Director or to any other person connected to or related to him. |
| 16.16 | Unless his fellow Directors determine otherwise, a Director is not accountable to the Company for remuneration or other benefits received from any other company which is in the same group as the Company or which has common shareholdings. |
Disclosure of information
| 16.17 | The Directors may release or disclose to a third party any information regarding the affairs of the Company, including any information contained in the register of Members relating to a Member, (and they may authorise any Director, Officer or other authorised agent of the Company to release or disclose to a third party any such information in his possession) if: |
| (a) | the Company or that person, as the case may be, is lawfully required to do so under the laws of any jurisdiction to which the Company is subject; or |
| (b) | such disclosure is in compliance with the rules and regulations of the SEC and/or the Designated Stock Exchange Rules; or |
| (c) | such disclosure is in accordance with any contract entered into by the Company; or |
| (d) | the Directors are of the opinion such disclosure would assist or facilitate the Company’s operations. |
| 17 | Delegation of powers |
Power to delegate any of the Directors’ powers to a committee
| 17.1 | The Directors may delegate any of their powers to any committee consisting of one or more persons who need not be Members. Persons on the committee may include non-Directors so long as the majority of those persons are Directors. Any such committee shall be made up of such number of Independent Directors as required from time to time by the Designated Stock Exchange Rules or otherwise required by applicable law. |
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| 17.2 | The delegation may be collateral with, or to the exclusion of, the Directors’ own powers. |
| 17.3 | The delegation may be on such terms as the Directors think fit, including provision for the committee itself to delegate to a sub-committee; save that any delegation must be capable of being revoked or altered by the Directors at will. |
| 17.4 | Unless otherwise permitted by the Directors, a committee must follow the procedures prescribed for the taking of decisions by Directors. |
| 17.5 | The Board shall establish an audit committee, a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee. Each of these committees shall be empowered to do all things necessary to exercise the rights of such committee set forth in these Articles. Each of the audit committee, compensation committee and nominating and corporate governance committee shall consist of at least three Directors (or such larger minimum number as may be required from time to time by the Designated Stock Exchange Rules). The majority of the committee members on each of the compensation committee and nominating and corporate governance committee shall be Independent Directors. The audit committee shall be made up of such number of Independent Directors as required from time to time by the Designated Stock Exchange Rules or otherwise required by applicable law. |
Local boards
| 17.6 | The Board may establish any local or divisional board or agency for managing any of the affairs of the Company whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere and may appoint any persons to be members of a local or divisional Board, or to be managers or agents, and may fix their remuneration. |
| 17.7 | The Board may delegate to any local or divisional board, manager or agent any of its powers and authorities (with power to sub-delegate) and may authorise the members of any local or divisional board or any of them to fill any vacancies and to act notwithstanding vacancies. |
| 17.8 | Any appointment or delegation under this Article 17.8 may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Board thinks fit and the Board may remove any person so appointed, and may revoke or vary any delegation. |
Power to appoint an agent of the Company
| 17.9 | The Directors may appoint any person, either generally or in respect of any specific matter, to be the agent of the Company with or without authority for that person to delegate all or any of that person’s powers. The Directors may make that appointment: |
| (a) | by causing the Company to enter into a power of attorney or agreement; or |
| (b) | in any other manner they determine. |
Power to appoint an attorney or authorised signatory of the Company
| 17.10 | The Directors may appoint any person, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the attorney or the authorised signatory of the Company. The appointment may be: |
| (a) | for any purpose; |
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| (b) | with the powers, authorities and discretions; |
| (c) | for the period; and |
| (d) | subject to such conditions |
as they think fit. The powers, authorities and discretions, however, must not exceed those vested in, or exercisable, by the Directors under these Articles. The Directors may do so by power of attorney or any other manner they think fit.
| 17.11 | Any power of attorney or other appointment may contain such provision for the protection and convenience for persons dealing with the attorney or authorised signatory as the Directors think fit. Any power of attorney or other appointment may also authorise the attorney or authorised signatory to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in that person. |
| 17.12 | The Board may remove any person appointed under Article 17.10 and may revoke or vary the delegation. |
Borrowing Powers
| 17.13 | The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and assets both present and future and uncalled capital, or any part thereof, and to issue debentures and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or its parent undertaking (if any) or any subsidiary undertaking of the Company or of any third party. |
Corporate Governance
| 17.14 | The Board may, from time to time, and except as required by applicable law or the Designated Stock Exchange Rules, adopt, institute, amend, modify or revoke the corporate governance policies or initiatives of the Company, which shall be intended to set forth the guiding principles and policies of the Company and the Board on various corporate governance related matters as the Board shall determine by resolution from time to time. |
| 18 | Meetings of Directors |
Regulation of Directors’ meetings
| 18.1 | Subject to the provisions of these Articles, the Directors may regulate their proceedings as they think fit. |
Calling meetings
| 18.2 | Any Director may call a meeting of Directors at any time. The Secretary must call a meeting of the Directors if requested to do so by a Director. |
Notice of meetings
| 18.3 | Notice of a Board meeting may be given to a Director personally or by word of mouth or given in writing or by Electronic communications at such address as he may from time to time specify for this purpose (or, if he does not specify an address, at his last known address). A Director may waive his right to receive notice of any meeting either prospectively or retrospectively. |
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Use of technology
| 18.4 | A Director may participate in a meeting of Directors through the medium of conference telephone, video or any other form of communications equipment providing all persons participating in the meeting are able to hear and speak to each other throughout the meeting. |
| 18.5 | A Director participating in this way is deemed to be present in person at the meeting. |
Quorum
| 18.6 | The quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of Directors shall be two unless the Directors fix some other number. |
Chairman or deputy to preside
| 18.7 | The Board may appoint a chairman and one or more deputy chairman or chairmen and may at any time revoke any such appointment. |
| 18.8 | The chairman, or failing him any deputy chairman (the longest in office taking precedence if more than one is present), shall preside at all Board meetings. If no chairman or deputy chairman has been appointed, or if he is not present within five minutes after the time fixed for holding the meeting, or is unwilling to act as chairman of the meeting, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to act as chairman of the meeting. |
Voting
| 18.9 | A question which arises at a Board meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. If votes are equal the chairman may, if he wishes, exercise a casting vote. |
Recording of dissent
| 18.10 | A Director present at a meeting of Directors shall be presumed to have assented to any action taken at that meeting unless: |
| (a) | his dissent is entered in the minutes of the meeting; or |
| (b) | he has filed with the meeting before it is concluded signed dissent from that action; or |
| (c) | he has forwarded to the Company as soon as practical following the conclusion of that meeting signed dissent. |
A Director who votes in favour of an action is not entitled to record his dissent to it.
Written resolutions
| 18.11 | The Directors may pass a resolution in writing without holding a meeting if all Directors sign a document or sign several documents in the like form each signed by one or more of those Directors. |
| 18.12 | A written resolution signed by a validly appointed alternate Director need not also be signed by the appointing Director. |
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| 18.13 | A written resolution signed personally by the appointing Director need not also be signed by his alternate. |
| 18.14 | A resolution in writing passed pursuant to Article 18.11, Article 18.12 and/or Article 18.13 shall be as effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held; and it shall be treated as having been passed on the day and at the time that the last Director signs (and for the avoidance of doubt, such day may or may not be a Business Day). |
Validity of acts of Directors in spite of formal defect
| 18.15 | All acts done by a meeting of the Board, or of a committee of the Board, or by any person acting as a Director or an alternate Director, shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any Director or alternate Director or member of the committee, or that any of them were disqualified or had vacated office or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and qualified and had continued to be a Director or alternate Director and had been entitled to vote. |
| 19 | Permissible Directors' interests and disclosure |
Permissible interests subject to disclosure
| 19.1 | Save as expressly permitted by these Articles or as set out below, a Director may not have a direct or indirect interest or duty which conflicts or may possibly conflict with the interests of the Company. |
| 19.2 | If, notwithstanding the prohibition in the preceding Article, a Director discloses to their fellow Directors the nature and extent of any material interest or duty in accordance with the next Article, he may: |
| (a) | be a party to, or otherwise interested in, any transaction or arrangement with the Company or in which the Company is or may otherwise be interested; or |
| (b) | be interested in another body corporate promoted by the Company or in which the Company is otherwise interested. In particular, the Director may be a Director, secretary or officer of, or employed by, or be a party to any transaction or arrangement with, or otherwise interested in, that other body corporate. |
| 19.3 | Such disclosure may be made at a meeting of the board or otherwise (and, if otherwise, it must be made in writing). The Director must disclose the nature and extent of his direct or indirect interest in or duty in relation to a transaction or arrangement or series of transactions or arrangements with the Company or in which the Company has any material interest. |
| 19.4 | If a Director has made disclosure in accordance with the preceding Article, then they shall not, by reason only of their office, be accountable to the Company for any benefit that he derives from any such transaction or arrangement or from any such office or employment or from any interest in any such body corporate, and no such transaction or arrangement shall be liable to be avoided on the ground of any such interest or benefit. |
Notification of interests
| 19.5 | For the purposes of the preceding Articles: |
| (a) | a general notice that a Director gives to the other directors that he is to be regarded as having an interest of the nature and extent specified in the notice in any transaction or arrangement in which a specified person or class of persons is interested shall be deemed to be a disclosure that he has an interest in or duty in relation to any such transaction of the nature and extent so specified; and |
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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. |
| 19.6 | A Director shall not be treated as having an interest in a transaction or arrangement if he has no knowledge of that interest and it is unreasonable to expect the director to have that knowledge. |
Voting where a Director is interested in a matter
| 19.7 | A Director may vote at a meeting of directors on any resolution concerning a matter in which that Director has an interest or duty, whether directly or indirectly, so long as that director discloses any material interest pursuant to these Articles. The Director shall be counted towards a quorum of those present at the meeting. If the Director votes on the resolution, his vote shall be counted. |
| 19.8 | Where proposals are under consideration concerning the appointment of two or more Directors to offices or employment with the Company or any body corporate in which the Company is interested, the proposals may be divided and considered in relation to each Director separately and each of the directors concerned shall be entitled to vote and be counted in the quorum in respect of each resolution except that concerning his or her own appointment. |
| 20 | Minutes |
| 20.1 | The Company shall cause minutes to be made in books of: |
| (a) | all appointments of Officers and committees made by the Board and of any such Officer’s remuneration; and |
| (b) | the names of Directors present at every meeting of the Directors, a committee of the Board, the Company or the holders of any class of shares or debentures, and all orders, resolutions and proceedings of such meetings. |
| 20.2 | Any such minutes, if purporting to be signed by the chairman of the meeting at which the proceedings were held or by the chairman of the next succeeding meeting or the Secretary, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters stated in them. |
| 21 | Accounts and audit |
| 21.1 | The Directors must ensure that proper accounting and other records are kept, and that accounts and associated reports are distributed in accordance with the requirements of the Act. |
| 21.2 | The books of account shall be kept at the registered office of the Company and shall always be open to inspection by the Directors. No Member (other than a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by the Act or as authorised by the Directors or by Ordinary Resolution. |
| 21.3 | Unless the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shall end on 31 December in each year and begin on 1 January in each year. |
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Auditors
| 21.4 | The Audit Committee may appoint an Auditor of the Company who shall hold office on such terms as the Directors determine. |
| 21.5 | At any general meeting convened and held at any time in accordance with these Articles, the Members may, by Ordinary Resolution, remove the Auditor before the expiration of his term of office. If they do so, the Members shall, by Ordinary Resolution, at that meeting appoint another Auditor in his stead for the remainder of his term. |
| 21.6 | The Auditors shall examine such books, accounts and vouchers; as may be necessary for the performance of their duties. |
| 21.7 | The Auditors shall, if so requested by the Directors, make a report on the accounts of the Company during their tenure of office at the next annual general meeting following their appointment, and at any time during their term of office, upon request of the Directors or any general meeting of the Company. |
| 22 | Record dates |
| 22.1 | Except to the extent of any conflicting rights attached to Shares, the resolution declaring a dividend on Shares of any class, whether it be an Ordinary Resolution of the Members or a Director’s resolution, may specify that the dividend is payable or distributable to the persons registered as the holders of those Shares at the close of business on a particular date, notwithstanding that the date may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is passed. |
| 22.2 | If the resolution does so specify, the dividend shall be payable or distributable to the persons registered as the holders of those Shares at the close of business on the specified date in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of the dividend of transferors and transferees of any of those Shares. |
| 22.3 | The provisions of this Article apply, mutatis mutandis, to bonuses, capitalisation issues, distributions of realised capital profits or offers or grants made by the Company to the Members. |
| 23 | Dividends |
Source of dividends
| 23.1 | Dividends may be declared and paid out of any funds of the Company lawfully available for distribution. |
| 23.2 | Subject to the requirements of the Act regarding the application of a company’s Share premium account and with the sanction of an Ordinary Resolution, dividends may also be declared and paid out of any share premium account. |
Declaration of dividends by Members
| 23.3 | Subject to the provisions of the Act, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution declare dividends in accordance with the respective rights of the Members but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the Directors. |
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Payment of interim dividends and declaration of final dividends by Directors
| 23.4 | The Directors may declare and pay interim dividends or recommend final dividends in accordance with the respective rights of the Members if it appears to them that they are justified by the financial position of the Company and that such dividends may lawfully be paid. |
| 23.5 | Subject to the provisions of the Act, in relation to the distinction between interim dividends and final dividends, the following applies: |
| (a) | Upon determination to pay a dividend or dividends described as interim by the Directors in the dividend resolution, no debt shall be created by the declaration until such time as payment is made. |
| (b) | Upon declaration of a dividend or dividends described as final by the Directors in the dividend resolution, a debt shall be created immediately following the declaration, the due date to be the date the dividend is stated to be payable in the resolution. |
If the resolution fails to specify whether a dividend is final or interim, it shall be assumed to be interim.
| 23.6 | In relation to Shares carrying differing rights to dividends or rights to dividends at a fixed rate, the following applies: |
| (a) | If the share capital is divided into different classes, the Directors may pay dividends on Shares which confer deferred or non-preferred rights with regard to dividends as well as on Shares which confer preferential rights with regard to dividends but no dividend shall be paid on Shares carrying deferred or non-preferred rights if, at the time of payment, any preferential dividend is in arrears. |
| (b) | The Directors may also pay, at intervals settled by them, any dividend payable at a fixed rate if it appears to them that there are sufficient funds of the Company lawfully available for distribution to justify the payment. |
| (c) | If the Directors act in good faith, they shall not incur any liability to the Members holding Shares conferring preferred rights for any loss those Members may suffer by the lawful payment of the dividend on any Shares having deferred or non-preferred rights. |
Apportionment of dividends
| 23.7 | 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 apportioned and paid proportionately to the amount Paid Up on the Shares during the time or part of the time in respect of which the dividend is paid. But if a Share is issued on terms providing that it shall rank for dividend as from a particular date, that Share shall rank for dividend accordingly. |
Right of set off
| 23.8 | The Directors may deduct from a dividend or any other amount payable to a person in respect of a Share any amount due by that person to the Company on a call or otherwise in relation to a Share. |
Power to pay other than in cash
| 23.9 | If the Directors so determine, any resolution declaring a dividend may direct that it shall be satisfied wholly or partly by the distribution of assets. If a difficulty arises in relation to the distribution, the Directors may settle that difficulty in any way they consider appropriate. For example, they may do any one or more of the following: |
| (a) | issue fractional Shares; |
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| (b) | fix the value of assets for distribution and make cash payments to some Members on the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of Members; and |
| (c) | vest some assets in trustees. |
How payments may be made
| 23.10 | A dividend or other monies payable on or in respect of a Share may be paid in any of the following ways: |
| (a) | if the Member holding that Share or other person entitled to that Share nominates a bank account for that purpose - by wire transfer to that bank account; or |
| (b) | by cheque or warrant sent by post to the registered address of the Member holding that Share or other person entitled to that Share. |
| 23.11 | For the purposes of Article 23.10(a), the nomination may be in writing or in an Electronic Record and the bank account nominated may be the bank account of another person. For the purposes of Article 23.10(b), subject to any applicable law or regulation, the cheque or warrant shall be made to the order of the Member holding that Share or other person entitled to the Share or to his nominee, whether nominated in writing or in an Electronic Record, and payment of the cheque or warrant shall be a good discharge to the Company. |
| 23.12 | If two or more persons are registered as the holders of the Share or are jointly entitled to it by reason of the death or bankruptcy of the registered holder (Joint Holders), a dividend (or other amount) payable on or in respect of that Share may be paid as follows: |
| (a) | to the registered address of the Joint Holder of the Share who is named first on the register of Members or to the registered address of the deceased or bankrupt holder, as the case may be; or |
| (b) | to the address or bank account of another person nominated by the Joint Holders, whether that nomination is in writing or in an Electronic Record. |
| 23.13 | Any Joint Holder of a Share may give a valid receipt for a dividend (or other amount) payable in respect of that Share. |
Dividends or other monies not to bear interest in absence of special rights
| 23.14 | Unless provided for by the rights attached to a Share, no dividend or other monies payable by the Company in respect of a Share shall bear interest. |
Dividends unable to be paid or unclaimed
| 23.15 | If a dividend cannot be paid to a Member or remains unclaimed within six weeks after it was declared or both, the Directors may pay it into a separate account in the Company’s name. If a dividend is paid into a separate account, the Company shall not be constituted trustee in respect of that account and the dividend shall remain a debt due to the Member. |
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| 23.16 | A dividend that remains unclaimed for a period of six years after it became due for payment shall be forfeited to, and shall cease to remain owing by, the Company. |
| 24 | Capitalisation of profits |
Capitalisation of profits or of any share premium account or capital redemption reserve;
| 24.1 | The Directors may resolve to capitalise: |
| (a) | any part of the Company’s profits not required for paying any preferential dividend (whether or not those profits are available for distribution); or |
| (b) | any sum standing to the credit of the Company's share premium account or capital redemption reserve, if any. |
| 24.2 | The amount resolved to be capitalised must be appropriated to the Members who would have been entitled to it had it been distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions. The benefit to each Member so entitled must be given in either or both of the following ways:: |
| (a) | by paying up the amounts unpaid on that Member's Shares; |
| (b) | by issuing Fully Paid Up Shares, debentures or other securities of the Company to that Member or as that Member directs. The Directors may resolve that any Shares issued to the Member in respect of Partly Paid Up Shares (Original Shares) rank for dividend only to the extent that the Original Shares rank for dividend while those Original Shares remain Partly Paid Up. |
Applying an amount for the benefit of Members
| 24.3 | The amount capitalised must be applied to the benefit of Members in the proportions to which the Members would have been entitled to dividends if the amount capitalised had been distributed as a dividend. |
| 24.4 | Subject to the Act, if a fraction of a Share, a debenture or other security is allocated to a Member, the Directors may issue a fractional certificate to that Member or pay him the cash equivalent of the fraction. |
| 25 | Share Premium Account |
Directors to maintain share premium account
| 25.1 | The Directors shall establish a share premium account in accordance with the Act. They shall carry to the credit of that account from time to time an amount equal to the amount or value of the premium paid on the issue of any Share or capital contributed or such other amounts required by the Act. |
Debits to share premium account
| 25.2 | The following amounts shall be debited to any share premium account: |
| (a) | on the redemption or purchase of a Share, the difference between the nominal value of that Share and the redemption or purchase price; and |
| (b) | any other amount paid out of a share premium account as permitted by the Act. |
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| 25.3 | Notwithstanding the preceding Article, on the redemption or purchase of a Share, the Directors may pay the difference between the nominal value of that Share and the redemption purchase price out of the profits of the Company or, as permitted by the Act, out of capital. |
| 26 | Seal |
Company seal
| 26.1 | The Company may have a seal if the Directors so determine. |
Duplicate seal
| 26.2 | Subject to the provisions of the Act, the Company may also have a duplicate seal or seals for use in any place or places outside the Cayman Islands. Each duplicate seal shall be a facsimile of the original seal of the Company. However, if the Directors so determine, a duplicate seal shall have added on its face the name of the place where it is to be used. |
When and how seal is to be used
| 26.3 | A seal may only be used by the authority of the Directors. Unless the Directors otherwise determine, a document to which a seal is affixed must be signed in one of the following ways: |
| (a) | by a Director (or his alternate) and the Secretary; or |
| (b) | by a single Director (or his alternate). |
If no seal is adopted or used
| 26.4 | If the Directors do not adopt a seal, or a seal is not used, a document may be executed in the following manner: |
| (a) | by a Director (or his alternate) and the Secretary; or |
| (b) | by a single Director (or his alternate); or |
| (c) | in any other manner permitted by the Act. |
Power to allow non-manual signatures and facsimile printing of seal
| 26.5 | The Directors may determine that either or both of the following applies: |
| (a) | that the seal or a duplicate seal need not be affixed manually but may be affixed by some other method or system of reproduction; |
| (b) | that a seal, if any, or a signature required by these Articles need not be manual but may be a mechanical or Electronic Signature. |
Validity of execution
| 26.6 | If a document is duly executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Company, it shall not be regarded as invalid merely because, at the date of the delivery, the Secretary, or the Director, or other Officer or person who signed the document or affixed the seal for and on behalf of the Company ceased to be the Secretary or hold that office and authority on behalf of the Company. |
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| 27 | Indemnity |
| 27.1 | To the extent permitted by law, the Company shall indemnify each existing or former Director (including alternate Director), Secretary and other Officer of the Company (including an investment adviser or an administrator or liquidator) and their personal representatives against: |
| (a) | all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, expenses, losses, damages or liabilities incurred or sustained by the existing or former Director (including alternate Director), Secretary or Officer in or about the conduct of the Company's business or affairs or in the execution or discharge of the existing or former Director's (including alternate Director's), Secretary’s or Officer’s duties, powers, authorities or discretions; and |
| (b) | without limitation to paragraph (a), all costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by the existing or former Director (including alternate Director), Secretary or Officer in defending (whether successfully or otherwise) any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative proceedings (whether threatened, pending or completed) concerning the Company or its affairs in any court or tribunal, whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere. |
No such existing or former Director (including alternate Director), Secretary or Officer, however, shall be indemnified in respect of any matter arising out of his own dishonesty, wilful default or fraud.
| 27.2 | To the extent permitted by Act, the Company may make a payment, or agree to make a payment, whether by way of advance, loan or otherwise, for any legal costs incurred by an existing or former Director (including alternate Director), Secretary or Officer of the Company in respect of any matter identified in Article 27.1 on condition that the Director (including alternate Director), Secretary or Officer must repay the amount paid by the Company to the extent that it is ultimately found not liable to indemnify the Director (including alternate Director), Secretary or that Officer for those legal costs. |
Release
| 27.3 | To the extent permitted by Act, the Company may by Special Resolution release any existing or former Director (including alternate Director), Secretary or other Officer of the Company from liability for any loss or damage or right to compensation which may arise out of or in connection with the execution or discharge of the duties, powers, authorities or discretions of his office; but there may be no release from liability arising out of or in connection with that person’s own dishonesty. |
Insurance
| 27.4 | To the extent permitted by Act, the Company may pay, or agree to pay, a premium in respect of a contract insuring each of the following persons against risks determined by the Directors, other than liability arising out of that person’s own dishonesty: |
| (a) | an existing or former Director (including alternate Director), Secretary or Officer or auditor of: |
| (i) | the Company; |
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| (ii) | a company which is or was a subsidiary of the Company; |
| (iii) | a company in which the Company has or had an interest (whether direct or indirect); and |
| (b) | a trustee of an employee or retirement benefits scheme or other trust in which any of the persons referred to in paragraph (a) is or was interested. |
| 28 | Notices |
Form of notices
| 28.1 | Save where these Articles provide otherwise, and subject to the Designated Stock Exchange Rules, any notice to be given to or by any person pursuant to these Articles shall be: |
| (a) | in writing signed by or on behalf of the giver in the manner set out below for written notices; or |
| (b) | subject to the next Article, in an Electronic Record signed by or on behalf of the giver by Electronic Signature and authenticated in accordance with Articles about authentication of Electronic Records; or |
| (c) | where these Articles expressly permit, by the Company by means of a website. |
Electronic communications
| 28.2 | A notice may only be given to the Company in an Electronic Record if: |
| (a) | the Directors so resolve or otherwise accept the notice; or |
| (b) | any Director or Officer provides the giver of the notice an electronic address to which the notice may be sent and a notice is sent to that address within a reasonable period of time. |
| 28.3 | A notice may not be given by Electronic Record to a person other than the Company unless the recipient has provided the giver of the notice an electronic address to which notice may be sent. |
| 28.4 | Subject to the Act, the Designated Stock Exchange Rules and to any other rules which the Company is bound to follow, the Company may also send any notice or other document pursuant to these Articles to a Member by publishing that notice or other document on a website where: |
| (a) | the Company and the Member have agreed to his having access to the notice or document on a website (instead of it being sent to him); |
| (b) | the notice or document is one to which that agreement applies; |
| (c) | the Member is notified (in accordance with any requirements laid down by the Act and, in a manner for the time being agreed between him and the Company for the purpose) of: |
| (i) | the publication of the notice or document on a website; |
| (ii) | the address of that website; and |
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| (iii) | the place on that website where the notice or document may be accessed, and how it may be accessed; and |
| (d) | the notice or document is published on that website throughout the publication period, provided that, if the notice or document is published on that website for a part, but not all of, the publication period, the notice or document shall be treated as being published throughout that period if the failure to publish that notice of document throughout that period is wholly attributable to circumstances which it would not be reasonable to have expected the Company to prevent or avoid. For the purposes of this Article 28.4 "publication period" means a period of not less than twenty-one days, beginning on the day on which the notification referred to in Article 28.4(c) is deemed sent. |
Persons entitled to notices
| 28.5 | Any notice or other document to be given to a Member may be given by reference to the register of Members as it stands at any time within the period of twenty-one days before the day that the notice is given or (where and as applicable) within any other period permitted by, or in accordance with the requirements of, (to the extent applicable) the Designated Stock Exchange Rules and/or the Designated Stock Exchanges. No change in the register of Members after that time shall invalidate the giving of such notice or document or require the Company to give such item to any other person. |
Persons authorised to give notices
| 28.6 | A notice by either the Company or a Member pursuant to these Articles may be given on behalf of the Company or a Member by a Director or company secretary of the Company or a Member. |
Delivery of written notices
| 28.7 | Save where these Articles provide otherwise, a notice in writing may be given personally to the recipient, or left at (as appropriate) the Member’s or Director’s registered address or the Company’s registered office, or posted to that registered address or registered office. |
Joint holders
| 28.8 | Where Members are joint holders of a Share, all notices shall be given to the Member whose name first appears in the register of Members. |
Signatures
| 28.9 | A written notice shall be signed when it is autographed by or on behalf of the giver, or is marked in such a way as to indicate its execution or adoption by the giver. |
| 28.10 | An Electronic Record may be signed by an Electronic Signature. |
Evidence of transmission
| 28.11 | A notice given by Electronic Record shall be deemed sent if an Electronic Record is kept demonstrating the time, date and content of the transmission, and if no notification of failure to transmit is received by the giver. |
| 28.12 | A notice given in writing shall be deemed sent if the giver can provide proof that the envelope containing the notice was properly addressed, pre-paid and posted, or that the written notice was otherwise properly transmitted to the recipient. |
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| 28.13 | A Member present, either in person or by proxy, at any meeting of the Company or of the holders of any class of Shares shall be deemed to have received due notice of the meeting and, where requisite, of the purposes for which it was called. |
Giving notice to a deceased or bankrupt Member
| 28.14 | A notice may be given by the Company to the persons entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member by sending or delivering it, in any manner authorised by these Articles for the giving of notice to a Member, addressed to them by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the bankrupt or by any like description, at the address, if any, supplied for that purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled. |
| 28.15 | Until such an address has been supplied, a notice may be given in any manner in which it might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred. |
Date of giving notices
| 28.16 | A notice is given on the date identified in the following table |
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| (A) Personally | At the time and date of delivery |
| (B) By leaving it at the Member's registered address | At the time and date it was left |
| (C) By posting it by prepaid post to the street or postal address of that recipient | 48 hours after the date it was posted |
| (D) By Electronic Record (other than publication on a website), to recipient's Electronic address | 48 hours after the date it was sent |
| (E) By publication on a website | 24 hours after the date on which the Member is deemed to have been notified of the publication of the notice or document on the website |
Saving provision
| 28.17 | None of the preceding notice provisions shall derogate from the Articles about the delivery of written resolutions of Directors and written resolutions of Members. |
| 29 | Authentication of Electronic Records |
Application of Articles
| 29.1 | Without limitation to any other provision of these Articles, any notice, written resolution or other document under these Articles that is sent by Electronic means by a Member, or by the Secretary, or by a Director or other Officer of the Company, shall be deemed to be authentic if either Article 29.2 or Article 29.4 applies. |
Authentication of documents sent by Members by Electronic means
| 29.2 | An Electronic Record of a notice, written resolution or other document sent by Electronic means by or on behalf of one or more Members shall be deemed to be authentic if the following conditions are satisfied: |
| (a) | the Member or each Member, as the case may be, signed the original document, and for this purpose Original Document includes several documents in like form signed by one or more of those Members; and |
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| (b) | the Electronic Record of the Original Document was sent by Electronic means by, or at the direction of, that Member to an address specified in accordance with these Articles for the purpose for which it was sent; and |
| (c) | Article 29.7 does not apply. |
| 29.3 | For example, where a sole Member signs a resolution and sends the Electronic Record of the original resolution, or causes it to be sent, by facsimile transmission to the address in these Articles specified for that purpose, the facsimile copy shall be deemed to be the written resolution of that Member unless Article 28.7 applies. |
Authentication of document sent by the Secretary or Officers of the Company by Electronic means
| 29.4 | An Electronic Record of a notice, written resolution or other document sent by or on behalf of the Secretary or an Officer or Officers of the Company shall be deemed to be authentic if the following conditions are satisfied: |
| (a) | the Secretary or the Officer or each Officer, as the case may be, signed the original document, and for this purpose Original Document includes several documents in like form signed by the Secretary or one or more of those Officers; and |
| (b) | the Electronic Record of the Original Document was sent by Electronic means by, or at the direction of, the Secretary or that Officer to an address specified in accordance with these Articles for the purpose for which it was sent; and |
| (c) | Article 29.7 does not apply. |
This Article 29.4 applies whether the document is sent by or on behalf of the Secretary or Officer in his own right or as a representative of the Company.
| 29.5 | For example, where a sole Director signs a resolution and scans the resolution, or causes it to be scanned, as a PDF version which is attached to an email sent to the address in these Articles specified for that purpose, the PDF version shall be deemed to be the written resolution of that Director unless Article 29.7 applies. |
Manner of signing
| 29.6 | For the purposes of these Articles about the authentication of Electronic Records, a document will be taken to be signed if it is signed manually or in any other manner permitted by these Articles. |
Saving provision
| 29.7 | A notice, written resolution or other document under these Articles will not be deemed to be authentic if the recipient, acting reasonably: |
| (a) | believes that the signature of the signatory has been altered after the signatory had signed the original document; or |
| (b) | believes that the original document, or the Electronic Record of it, was altered, without the approval of the signatory, after the signatory signed the original document; or |
| (c) | otherwise doubts the authenticity of the Electronic Record of the document |
and the recipient promptly gives notice to the sender setting the grounds of its objection. If the recipient invokes this Article, the sender may seek to establish the authenticity of the Electronic Record in any way the sender thinks fit.
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| 30 | Transfer by way of continuation |
| 30.1 | The Company may, by Special Resolution, resolve to be registered by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside: |
| (a) | the Cayman Islands; or |
| (b) | such other jurisdiction in which it is, for the time being, incorporated, registered or existing. |
| 30.2 | To give effect to any resolution made pursuant to the preceding Article, the Directors may cause the following: |
| (a) | an application be made to the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands to deregister the Company in the Cayman Islands or in the other jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing; and |
| (b) | all such further steps as they consider appropriate to be taken to effect the transfer by way of continuation of the Company. |
| 31 | Winding up |
Distribution of assets in specie
| 31.1 | If the Company is wound up the Members may, subject to these Articles and any other sanction required by the Act, pass a Special Resolution allowing the liquidator to do either or both of the following: |
| (a) | in accordance with any rights attaching to the Shares, to divide in specie among the Members the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and, for that purpose, to value any assets and to determine how the division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members; and/or |
| (b) | to vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees for the benefit of Members and those liable to contribute to the winding up. |
No obligation to accept liability
| 31.2 | No Member shall be compelled to accept any assets if an obligation attaches to them. |
| 31.3 | The Directors are authorised to present a winding up petition |
| 31.4 | The Directors have the authority to present a petition for the winding up of the Company to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on behalf of the Company without the sanction of a resolution passed at a general meeting. |
| 32 | Amendment of Memorandum and Articles |
Power to change name or amend Memorandum
| 32.1 | Subject to the Act, the Company may, by Special Resolution: |
| (a) | change its name; or |
| (b) | change the provisions of its Memorandum with respect to its objects, powers or any other matter specified in the Memorandum. |
Power to amend these Articles
| 32.2 | Subject to the Act and as provided in these Articles, the Company may, by Special Resolution, amend these Articles in whole or in part. |
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| www.verify.gov.ky File#: 412987 | Auth Code: F17059919996 |
Exhibit 99.1
WhiteFiber Announces Pricing of Upsized Initial Public Offering
NEW YORK, August 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — WhiteFiber, Inc. (“WhiteFiber” or the “Company”), today announced the pricing of its upsized initial public offering of 9,375,000 ordinary shares at a public offering price of $17.00 per share. In connection with the offering, WhiteFiber has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,406,250 ordinary shares at the initial public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
The ordinary shares are expected to begin trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market on August 7, 2025 under the symbol “WYFI.”
The closing of the offering is expected to occur on August 8, 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
B. Riley Securities and Needham & Company are acting as the joint book-running managers for the offering. Macquarie Capital is also acting as a book-runner for the offering. Roth Capital Partners is acting as lead manager for the offering. Craig-Hallum and Clear Street are acting as co-managers for the offering.
A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC and was declared effective on August 6, 2025. The offering is being made solely by means of a prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus, when available, may be obtained from: B. Riley Securities, 1300 17th Street North, Suite 1300, Arlington, VA 22209, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (703) 312-9580 or by email at prospectuses@brileysecurities.com; or from: Needham & Company, LLC, 250 Park Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10177, Attn: Prospectus Department, prospectus@needhamco.com or by telephone at (800) 903-3268.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About WhiteFiber
WhiteFiber is a provider of artificial intelligence (“AI”) infrastructure solutions. WhiteFiber owns high-performance computing data centers and provides cloud services to customers. Our vertically integrated model combines specialized colocation, hosting, and cloud services engineered to maximize performance, efficiency, and margin for generative AI workloads. In connection with this offering, WhiteFiber is being carved out of Bit Digital, Inc. and will operate as a separate public company upon the completion of this offering.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are “forward-looking statements.” These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “intends,” “expects,” or similar expressions, involving known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements may be included throughout this press release, and include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the expected timing for trading of the Company’s ordinary shares on The Nasdaq Capital Market and the expected timing for the closing of the offering. By their nature, forward-looking statements are not statements of historical fact or guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions or changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict or quantify. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by any applicable securities laws.
Investor Contact:
IR@whitefiber.com
Exhibit 99.2
WhiteFiber Announces Closing of Upsized Initial Public Offering
NEW YORK, August 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — WhiteFiber, Inc. (Nasdaq: WYFI) (“WhiteFiber” or the “Company”), today announced the closing of its upsized initial public offering of 9,375,000 ordinary shares at a public offering price of $17.00 per share. The ordinary shares began trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market on August 7, 2025 under the symbol “WYFI.”
WhiteFiber received aggregate gross proceeds of $159.4 million from the initial public offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. In addition, WhiteFiber granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,406,250 ordinary shares at the initial public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
B. Riley Securities and Needham & Company acted as the joint book-running managers for the offering. Macquarie Capital also acted as a book-runner for the offering. Roth Capital Partners acted as lead manager for the offering. Craig-Hallum and Clear Street acted as co-managers for the offering.
A registration statement relating to these securities was filed with the SEC and declared effective on August 6, 2025. The offering was made solely by means of a prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus may be obtained from: B. Riley Securities, 1300 17th Street North, Suite 1300, Arlington, VA 22209, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (703) 312-9580 or by email at prospectuses@brileysecurities.com; or from: Needham & Company, LLC, 250 Park Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10177, Attn: Prospectus Department, prospectus@needhamco.com or by telephone at (800) 903-3268.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About WhiteFiber
WhiteFiber is a provider of artificial intelligence (“AI”) infrastructure solutions. WhiteFiber owns high-performance computing data centers and provides cloud services to customers. Our vertically integrated model combines specialized colocation, hosting, and cloud services engineered to maximize performance, efficiency, and margin for generative AI workloads. In connection with this offering, WhiteFiber is being carved out of Bit Digital, Inc. and will operate as a separate public company upon the completion of this offering.
Investor Contact:
IR@whitefiber.com