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As Of Filer Filing For·On·As Docs:Size Issuer Agent 1/12/10 Daqo New Energy Corp. F-1 47:7.5M RR Donnelley/FA |
Document/Exhibit Description Pages Size
1: F-1 Registration Statement of a Foreign Private Issuer HTML 1.88M
2: EX-3.1 Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and HTML 257K
Articles of Association
3: EX-4.1 Form of Ordinary Share Certificate HTML 18K
4: EX-4.2 Form of Third Amended and Restated Memorandum and HTML 202K
Articles of Association
5: EX-4.3 Form of Deposit Agreement HTML 127K
6: EX-4.5 Investor Rights Agreement HTML 233K
7: EX-5.1 Opinion of Thorp Alberga, the Cayman Islands HTML 26K
Counsel to the Registrant
8: EX-8.3 Opinion of Jun He Law Offices Regarding Certain HTML 26K
Chinese Tax Law Matters
9: EX-10.1 2009 Share Incentive Plan HTML 80K
18: EX-10.10 English Translation of the Sales and Purchase HTML 31K
Agreement
19: EX-10.11 English Translation of the Sales and Purchase HTML 47K
Agreement
20: EX-10.12 English Translation of the Amendment Agreement HTML 18K
21: EX-10.13 English Translation of the Sales and Purchase HTML 40K
Agreement
22: EX-10.15 English Translation of the Three-Party Sales and HTML 54K
Purchase Contract
23: EX-10.16 English Translation of the Strategic Cooperation HTML 22K
Agreement
24: EX-10.17 English Translation of the Supplemental Agreement HTML 28K
to the Strategic Cooperation
25: EX-10.18 English Translation of A Sales and Purchase HTML 39K
Agreement
26: EX-10.19 English Translation of the Loan Agreement HTML 57K
10: EX-10.2 Form of Indemnification Agreement With the HTML 57K
Registrant's Directors and Officers
27: EX-10.20 English Translation of the Loan Agreement HTML 58K
28: EX-10.21 English Translation of the Loan Agreement HTML 58K
29: EX-10.22 English Translation of the Loan Agreement HTML 67K
30: EX-10.23 English Translation of the Loan Agreement HTML 57K
31: EX-10.24 English Translation of the Loan Agreement HTML 70K
32: EX-10.27 English Translation of the Trademark License HTML 28K
Agreement
33: EX-10.28 Non-Competition Agreement HTML 22K
34: EX-10.29 Technology License and Engineering Services HTML 122K
Contract
11: EX-10.3 Form of Employment Agreement Between the HTML 66K
Registrant and An Executive Officer
35: EX-10.30 English Summary of the Construction Contract HTML 27K
36: EX-10.31 English Summary of the Amendment to the HTML 16K
Construction Contract
37: EX-10.32 English Summary of the Construction Contract HTML 27K
38: EX-10.33 Series A Purchase Agreement Among the Registrant HTML 300K
Dated November 11, 2009
39: EX-10.34 English Translations of A Sales and Purchase HTML 55K
Agreement
12: EX-10.4 English Translation of the Lease Agreement HTML 189K
13: EX-10.5 English Translation of the Amended and Restated HTML 42K
Lease Agreement
14: EX-10.6 English Translation of the Supplemental Agreement HTML 20K
15: EX-10.7 English Translation of the Sales and Purchase HTML 52K
Agreement
16: EX-10.8 English Translation of the Amendment Agreement HTML 22K
17: EX-10.9 English Translation of the Amendment Agreement HTML 19K
40: EX-21.1 Subsidiaries of Registrant HTML 16K
41: EX-23.1 Consent of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. HTML 17K
42: EX-23.3 Consent of Jun He Law Offices HTML 23K
43: EX-23.4 Consent of Solarbuzz LLC HTML 16K
44: EX-23.5 Consent of Daqing Qi to Become A Director HTML 15K
45: EX-23.6 Consent of Rongling Chen to Become A Director HTML 15K
46: EX-99.1 Code of Business Conduct and Ethics of the HTML 62K
Registrant
47: EX-99.2 Opinion of Jun He Law Offices HTML 33K
| Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association |
Exhibit 3.1
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM
AND
OF
DAQO NEW ENERGY CORP.
(as adopted by Special Resolution on November 11, 2009 and effective on November 20, 2009)
THE COMPANIES LAW (2009 Revision)
Company Limited by Shares
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
DAQO NEW ENERGY CORP.
(as adopted by Special Resolution on November 11, 2009 and effective on November 20, 2009)
| 1. | The name of the Company is Daqo New Energy Corp. |
| 2. | The Registered Office of the Company shall be at the offices of International Corporation Services Ltd., PO Box 472, 2nd Floor Harbour Place, Grand Cayman KY1-1106, Cayman Islands or at such other place as the Directors may from time to time decide. |
| 3. | The objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and shall include, but without limitation, the following: |
| (a) | (i) To carry on the business of an investment company and to act as promoters and entrepreneurs and to carry on business as financiers, capitalists, concessionaires, merchants, brokers, traders, dealers, agents, importers and exporters and to undertake and carry on and execute all kinds of investment, financial, commercial, mercantile, trading and other operations. | |
| (ii) To carry on whether as principals, agents or otherwise howsoever the business of realtors, developers, consultants, estate agents or managers, builders, contractors, engineers, manufacturers, dealers in or vendors of all types of property including services. | ||
| (b) | To exercise and enforce all rights and powers conferred by or incidental to the ownership of any shares, stock, obligations or other securities including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing all such powers of veto or control as may be conferred by virtue of the holding by the Company of some special proportion of the issued or nominal amount thereof, to provide managerial and other executive, supervisory and consultant services for or in relation to any company in which the Company is interested upon such terms as may be thought fit. |
| (c) | To purchase or otherwise acquire, to sell, exchange, surrender, lease, mortgage, charge, convert, turn to account, dispose of and deal with real and personal property and rights of all kinds and, in particular, mortgages, debentures, produce, concessions, options, contracts, patents, annuities, licences, stocks, shares, bonds, policies, book debts, business concerns, undertakings, claims, privileges and choses in action of all kinds. |
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| (d) | To subscribe for, conditionally or unconditionally, to underwrite, issue on commission or otherwise, take, hold, deal in and convert stocks, shares and securities of all kinds and to enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits, reciprocal concessions or cooperation with any person or company and to promote and aid in promoting, to constitute, form or organise any company, syndicate or partnership of any kind, for the purpose of acquiring and undertaking any property and liabilities of the Company or of advancing, directly or indirectly, the objects of the Company or for any other purpose which the Company may think expedient. |
| (e) | To stand surety for or to guarantee, support or secure the performance of all or any of the obligations of any person, firm or company whether or not related or affiliated to the Company in any manner and whether by personal covenant or by mortgage, charge or lien upon the whole or any part of the undertaking, property and assets of the Company, both present and future, including its uncalled capital or by any such method and whether or not the Company shall receive valuable consideration thereof. |
| (f) | To engage in or carry on any other lawful trade, business or enterprise which may at any time appear to the Directors of the Company capable of being conveniently carried on in conjunction with any of the aforementioned businesses or activities or which may appear to the Directors or the Company likely to be profitable to the Company. |
In the interpretation of this Memorandum of Association in general and of this Clause 3 in particular no object, business or power specified or mentioned shall be limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object, business or power, or the name of the Company, or by the juxtaposition of two or more objects, businesses or powers and that, in the event of any ambiguity in this clause or elsewhere in this Memorandum of Association, the same shall be resolved by such interpretation and construction as will widen and enlarge and not restrict the objects, businesses and powers of and exercisable by the Company.
| 4. | Except as prohibited or limited by the Companies Law (2009 Revision) or the Articles, the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object and shall have and be capable of from time to time and at all times exercising any and all of the powers at any time or from time to time exercisable by a natural person or body corporate in doing in any part of the world whether as principal, agent, contractor or otherwise whatever may be considered by it necessary for the attainment of its objects and whatever else may be considered by it as incidental or conducive thereto or consequential thereon, including, but without in any way restricting the generality of the foregoing, the power to make any alterations or amendments to this Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association of the Company considered necessary or convenient in the manner set out in the Articles of Association of the Company, and the power to do any of the following acts or things, viz: to pay all expenses of and incidental to the promotion, formation and incorporation of the Company; to register the Company to do business in any other jurisdiction; to sell, lease or dispose of any property of the Company; to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, debentures, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants and other negotiable or transferable instruments; to lend money or other assets and to act as guarantors; to borrow or raise money on the security of the undertaking or on all or any of the assets of the Company including uncalled capital or without security; to invest monies of the Company in such manner as the Directors determine; to promote other companies; to sell the undertaking of the Company for cash or any other consideration; to distribute assets in specie to Members of the Company; to make charitable or benevolent donations; to pay pensions or gratuities or provide other benefits in cash or kind to Directors, officers, employees, past or present and their families; to purchase Directors and officers liability insurance and to carry on any trade or business and generally to do all acts and things which, in the opinion of the Company or the Directors, may be conveniently or profitably or usefully acquired and dealt with, carried on, executed or done by the Company in connection with the business aforesaid PROVIDED THAT the Company shall only carry on the businesses for which a licence is required under the laws of the Cayman Islands when so licensed under the terms of such laws. |
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| 5. | The liability of each Member is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on such Member’s shares. |
| 6. | The share capital of the Company is US$50,000 divided into 500,000,000 shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 comprising of (i) 460,000,000 ordinary shares of US$0.0001 par value each (“Ordinary Shares”) and (ii) 40,000,000 Series A Preferred Shares of US$0.0001 par value each (“Series A Preferred Shares”), all with power for the Company insofar as is permitted by law, to redeem or purchase any of its shares and to increase or reduce the said capital subject to the provisions of the Companies Law (2009 Revision) and the Articles of Association and to issue any part of its capital, whether original, redeemed or increased with or without any preference, priority or special privilege or subject to any postponement of rights or to any conditions or restrictions and so that unless the conditions of issue shall otherwise expressly declare every issue of shares whether declared to be preference or otherwise shall be subject to the powers hereinbefore contained PROVIDED ALWAYS that, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Memorandum of Association, the Company shall have no power to issue bearer shares, warrants, coupons or certificates. |
| 7. | If the Company is registered as exempted, its operations will be carried on subject to the provisions of Section 193 of the Companies Law (2009 Revision) and, subject to the provisions of the Companies Law (2009 Revision) and the Articles of Association, it shall have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands. |
| 8. | Unless otherwise defined, capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Articles of Association of the Company. |
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THE COMPANIES LAW (2009 Revision)
Company Limited by Shares
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
OF
DAQO NEW ENERGY CORP.
(formerly known as MEGA STAND INTERNATIONAL LIMITED)
(as adopted by Special Resolution on November 11, 2009 and effective on November 20, 2009)
| 1. | In these Articles Table A in the Schedule to the Statute does not apply and, unless there be something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith, |
| “Additional Shares” | means all Shares issued by the Company; provided that the term “Additional Shares” does not include (i) any Ordinary Shares issued to employees, officers, consultants or directors of the Company pursuant to the Share Incentive Plan or a stock option plan, stock purchase plan, or other equity incentive plan duly approved pursuant to Article 7A(6); (ii) Ordinary Shares issued as a dividend or distribution on Preferred Shares; (iii) Shares issued or issuable in connection with any share split, share dividend, combination, recapitalization or other similar transaction of the Company; or (iv) Ordinary Shares issued or issuable upon conversion or exercise of the Preferred Shares. | |
| “Affiliate” | means, except with respect to individuals, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, Controls, is Controlled by or is under common Control with such Person, and with respect to an individual, anyone who is a Relative. | |
| “Articles” | means the Articles as originally framed or as from time to time altered by Special Resolution. | |
| “Auditors” | means the persons for the time being performing the duties of auditors of the Company. | |
| “Board” | means the board of directors of the Company. | |
| “Business Day” | means a day (i) other than Saturday or Sunday, and (ii) on which commercial banks are open for business in the PRC, Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands. | |
| “Company” | means the above named Company. | |
| “Control” | of a given Person means the power or authority, whether exercised or not, to direct the business, management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, which power or authority shall conclusively be presumed to exist upon possession of beneficial ownership or power to direct the vote of more than fifty percent (50%) of the votes entitled to be cast at a meeting of the members or shareholders of such Person or power to control the composition of a majority of the board of directors of such Person; the term “Controlled” has the meaning correlative to the foregoing. | |
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| “Conversion Price” | has the meaning specified in Article7A(4). | |
| “Daqo New Material” | means Daqo New Material Co., Ltd., a company organized and existing under the laws of the People’s Republic of China. | |
| “debenture” | means debenture stock, mortgages, bonds and any other such securities of the Company whether constituting a charge on the assets of the Company or not. | |
| “Deemed Liquidation Event” | has the meaning specified in Article 7A(2)(b). | |
| “Directors” | means the directors for the time being of the Company. | |
| “dividend” | includes bonus. | |
| “Equity Securities” | means, with respect to a Person, any shares, share capital, registered capital, ownership interest, equity interest, or other securities, and any option, warrant, or right to subscribe for, acquire or purchase any of the foregoing, or any other security or instrument convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for any of the foregoing, or any equity appreciation, phantom equity, equity plans or similar rights with respect to such Person, and, with respect to the Company, shall include any Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Share Equivalents of the Company. | |
| “Group Company” | means each of the Company, Daqo New Material, and the WFOEs, together with, if any, each Subsidiary of any of the foregoing, and each Person that is, directly or indirectly, Controlled by any of the foregoing, including but not limited to each joint venture in which any of the foregoing holds more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power, and “Group” refers to all of Group Companies collectively. | |
| “Key Employee” | means each of the president, chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, the chief operating officer, the chief technology officer, the chief sales and marketing officer, the general manager, any other manager with the title of “senior vice president” or higher or any other employee with responsibilities similar to any of the foregoing, of each Group Company and “Key Employees” mean such Persons collectively. | |
| “Indemnification Agreements” | means the Indemnification Agreements dated November [ ], 2009 by and between the Company and each of the Series A Directors. | |
| “Investor Rights Agreement” | means that certain Investor Rights Agreement dated November [ ], 2009 by and among the Company and other parties thereto. | |
| “Major Shareholder” | means each of Guangfu Xu, a citizen of the PRC with PRC identification card number 321124194211100512, and Xiang Xu, a citizen of the PRC with PRC identification card number 321124197103030514. | |
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| “Major Shareholder Holdco” | means each of Gold Intellect Limited and Plenty China Limited, each a company organized and validly existing under the laws of the British Virgin Island. | |
| “Material Adverse Effect” | means any (i) event, occurrence, fact, condition, change or development that has had, has, or could reasonably be expected to have, either alone or together with other events, occurrences, facts, conditions, changes or developments, a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, employees, operations, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, assets or liabilities of any Group Company taken as a whole, or (ii) material impairment of the ability of any Group Company, Major Shareholder Holdco or Major Shareholder to perform the obligations of such Person under any of the Transaction Documents. | |
| “Material Breach” | means a breach of a representation, warranty or covenant that has or may reasonable be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or such breach that will cause an increase of the liabilities or decrease of the assets of the Group in an amount in excess of US$2 million. | |
| “Member” | shall bear the meaning as ascribed to it in the Statute. | |
| “Memorandum” | means the amended and restated memorandum of association of the Company to be adopted by resolution in writing of all Members of the Company. | |
| “month” | means calendar month. | |
| “Ordinary Shares” | has the meaning specified in Article 6 of the Memorandum of Association. | |
| “Ordinary Share Equivalents” | means warrants, options and rights exercisable for Ordinary Shares or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Ordinary Shares, including, without limitation, the Preferred Shares. | |
| “Original Series A Issue Date” | means the date of issuance by the Company of its first Series A Preferred Share pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement. | |
| “Original Series A Issue Price” | means US$1.851. | |
| “paid-up” | means paid-up and/or credited as paid-up. | |
| “Person” | means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, proprietorship, association, limited liability company, firm, trust, estate or other enterprise or entity. | |
| “PRC” | means the People’s Republic of China, but solely for the purposes of these Articles, excluding Hong Kong, Macau and the islands of Taiwan. | |
| “Preferred Shares” | means the Series A Preferred Shares. | |
| “Qualified Exchange” | means the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Market System or the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. | |
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| “Qualified IPO” | means the closing of the first firm commitment fully underwritten public offering of Ordinary Shares or securities representing such Ordinary Shares of the Company (i) with gross proceeds to the Company of at least US$80 million and that reflects a pre-money market valuation (based on the price per share offered to the public in the offering) of the Company of at least US$275 million and that results in such securities being listed on a Qualified Exchange, or (ii) otherwise approved by the Board, including the affirmative votes of both Series A Directors. | |
| “Redemption Closing” | has the meaning specified in Article 7A(5)(a)(iii). | |
| “Redemption Notice” | has the meaning specified in Article 7A(5)(a)(i). | |
| “Redemption Price” | has the meaning specified in Article 7A(5)(a)(ii). | |
| “registered office” | means the registered office for the time being of the Company. | |
| “Related Party” | means an officer, director or employee of any Group Company or any “affiliate” or “associate” (as those terms are defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended) of any of them. | |
| “Relative” | means a husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, or spouse of any of these, or a person living in the same household with an individual. | |
| “Seal” | means the common seal of the Company and includes every duplicate seal. | |
| “Series A Conversion Price” | has the meaning specified in Article 7A(4)(d). | |
| “Series A Director” | means the Director(s) appointed pursuant to Article 96A(a). | |
| “Series A Preferred Shares” | has the meaning specified in Article 6 of the Memorandum of Association. | |
| “Secretary” | includes an Assistant Secretary and any person appointed to perform the duties of Secretary of the Company. | |
| “Shares” | means Ordinary Shares and Series A Preferred Shares and may also be referenced as “shares” and includes any fraction of a share. | |
| “Share Incentive Plan” | means the Company’s 2009 share incentive plan adopted in August 2009, as such plan may be amended and restated from time to time. | |
| “Share Purchase Agreement” | means that certain Share Purchase Agreement dated as of November 11, 2009 by and among the Company and other parties thereto. | |
| “shareholder” | has the same meaning as “Member.” | |
| “Special Resolution” | has the same meaning as in the Statute and includes a resolution approved in writing as described therein. | |
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| “Statute” | means the Companies Law of the Cayman Islands as amended and every statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force. | |
| “Subsidiary” | means, with respect to any specified Person, any Person of which the specified Person, directly or indirectly, owns or Controls more than fifty percent (50%) of the issued and outstanding authorized share capital, voting interests or registered capital. | |
| “Transaction Documents” | means these Articles and the Memorandum, the Share Purchase Agreement, the Investor Rights Agreement, the Indemnification Agreements and the exhibits attached to any of the foregoing. | |
| “written” and “in writing” | include all modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form. | |
| “WFOE” | means each of Chongqing Daqo New Energy Co., Ltd. and Nanjing Daqo New Energy Co., Ltd., each a company organized and existing under the laws of the People’s Republic of China, and “WFOEs” means both of the foregoing entities collectively. | |
Words importing the singular number only include the plural number and vice versa.
Words importing the masculine gender only include the feminine gender.
Words importing persons only include corporations.
| 2. | The business of the Company may be commenced as soon after incorporation as the Directors shall see fit, notwithstanding that part only of the shares may have been allotted. |
| 3. | The Directors may pay, out of the capital or any other monies of the Company, all expenses incurred in or about the formation and establishment of the Company including the expenses of registration. |
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
| 4. | Certificates representing shares of the Company shall be in such form as shall be determined by the Directors. Such certificates may be under Seal. All certificates for shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified and shall specify the shares to which they relate. The name and address of the person to whom the shares represented thereby are issued, with the number of shares and date of issue, shall be entered in the register of Members of the Company. All certificates surrendered to the Company for transfer shall be cancelled and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate for a like number of shares shall have been surrendered and cancelled. The Directors may authorise certificates to be issued with the seal and authorised signature(s) affixed by some method or system of mechanical process. |
| 5. | Notwithstanding Article 4 of these Articles, if a share certificate be defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of a fee of one dollar (US$1.00) or such less sum and on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and the payment of the expenses incurred by the Company in investigating evidence, as the Directors may prescribe. |
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ISSUE OF SHARES
| 6. | Subject to the provisions, if any, in that behalf in the Memorandum and in these Articles (including but not limited to Article 7A(6)) and to any direction that may be given by the Company in general meeting and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares, the Directors may allot, issue, grant options over or otherwise dispose of shares of the Company (including fractions of a share) with or without preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise and to such persons, at such times and on such other terms as they think proper PROVIDED ALWAYS that, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in these Articles, the Company shall be precluded from issuing bearer shares, warrants, coupons or certificates. |
| 7. | The Company shall maintain a register of its Members and every person whose name is entered as a Member in the register of Members shall be entitled, upon request without payment to receive within ten Business Days after allotment or lodgement of transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of issue shall provide) one certificate for all his shares or several certificates each for one or more of his shares upon payment of fifty cents (US$0.50) for every certificate after the first or such less sum as the Directors shall from time to time determine provided that in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of the several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders. |
| 7A. | DESIGNATIONS, POWERS, PREFERENCES, ETC. OF SHARES |
(1) Dividends
| (a) | Subject to the provisions of the Statute and these Articles, no dividends shall be declared or paid on any Ordinary Shares, unless and until a dividend in like amount is declared and paid on each outstanding Series A Preferred Share (on an as-if-converted basis). |
| (b) | Each holder of a Series A Preferred Share shall be entitled to receive, on an annual basis, preferential, non-cumulative dividends at the rate equal to eight percent (8%) of the Original Series A Issue Price (as adjusted for any share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations or similar transactions) for each Series A Preferred Share held by such holder, payable in cash when and as such cash becomes legally available therefor on parity with each other, prior and in preference to any dividend on any Ordinary Shares; provided that such dividends shall be payable only when, as, and if declared by the Board. |
| (c) | In addition to any dividend pursuant to subsection (b) above, the holders of Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive on a pari passu basis, when, as and if declared at the sole discretion of the Board, but only out of funds that are legally available therefor, cash dividends at the rate or in the amount as the Board considers appropriate. |
(2) Liquidation Preference
| (a) | Liquidation Preferences. Upon any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary: |
| (i) | Before any distribution or payment shall be made to the holders of any Ordinary Shares, each holder of Series A Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive an amount equal to the Original Series A Issue Price (adjusted for any |
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| share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions), plus all dividends declared and unpaid with respect thereto (as adjusted for any share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions) per Series A Preferred Share then held by such holder. If, upon any such liquidation, distribution, or winding up, the assets of the Company shall be insufficient to make payment of the foregoing amounts in full on all Series A Preferred Shares, then such assets shall be distributed among the holders of Series A Preferred Shares, ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled thereon. |
| (ii) | After distribution or payment in full of the amount distributable or payable on the Preferred Shares pursuant to subsection (i) above, the remaining assets of the Company available for distribution to shareholders shall be distributed ratably among the holders of outstanding Preferred Shares and Ordinary Shares based on the number of Ordinary Shares held by each holder, assuming full conversion of all such Preferred Shares. |
| (b) | Liquidation on Sale or Merger. The following events shall be treated as a liquidation (each, a “Deemed Liquidation Event”) under this Article 7A(2) unless waived by the holders of at least a majority of the then outstanding Preferred Shares, voting together as a single class on an as-converted basis: |
| (i) | any consolidation, amalgamation or merger of the Company with or into any Person, or any other corporate reorganization, including a sale or acquisition of Shares of the Company, in which the shareholders of the Company immediately before such transaction own less than fifty percent 50% of the Company’s voting power immediately after such transaction (excluding any transaction effected solely for tax purposes or to change the Company’s domicile); or |
| (ii) | a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or |
| (iii) | the exclusive licensing of all or substantially all of the Company’s intellectual property that is used to generally all or substantially all of the Company’s revenues to a third party, |
and upon any such event, any proceeds resulting to the shareholders of the Company therefrom shall be distributed in accordance with the terms of paragraph (a) of this Article 7A(2).
| (c) | In the event the Company proposes to distribute assets other than cash in connection with any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company (including any Deemed Liquidation Event), the value of the assets to be distributed to the holder of the Preferred Shares and Ordinary Shares shall be determined in good faith by the majority of the Board, which majority shall include all of the Series A Directors, or by a liquidator if one is appointed. Any securities not subjected to investment letter or similar restrictions on free marketability shall be valued as follows: |
| (i) | If traded on a securities exchange, the value shall be deemed to be the average of the security’s closing prices on such exchange over the thirty (30) day period ending one (1) day prior to the distribution; |
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| (ii) | If traded over-the-counter, the value shall be deemed to be the average of the closing bid prices over the thirty (30) day period ending three (3) days prior to the distribution; and |
| (iii) | If there is no active public market, the value shall be the fair market value thereof as determined in good faith by the majority of the Board, which majority shall include all of the Series A Directors, or by a liquidator if one is appointed, which determination shall take into the account, among other factors, any lock-ups or other restrictions which would reduce the ability of the shareholder to freely sell and transfer the securities. |
The method of valuation of securities subject to investment letter or other restrictions on free marketability shall be adjusted to make an appropriate discount from the market value determined as above in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) to reflect the fair market value thereof as determined in good faith by the Board, or by a liquidator if one is appointed. The holders of at least a majority of the then outstanding Preferred Shares shall have the right to challenge any determination by the Board of fair market value pursuant to this Article 7A(2)(c), in which case the determination of fair market value shall be made by an independent appraiser selected jointly by the Board and the challenging parties, the cost of such appraisal to be borne equally by the Company and the challenging parties.
(3) Voting Rights. Subject to the provisions of the Memorandum and these Articles, at all general meetings of the Company: (i) each holder of a Ordinary Share issued and outstanding shall have one (1) vote in respect of each Ordinary Share held by such holder, and (ii) each holder of a Preferred Share shall be entitled to that number of votes as equals the total number of Ordinary Shares into which such holder’s Preferred Shares are convertible immediately after the close of business on the record date of the determination of the Company’s shareholders entitled to vote or, if no such record date is established, at the date such vote is taken or any written consent of the Company’s shareholders is first solicited. Subject to provisions to the contrary elsewhere in the Memorandum and these Articles, or as required by the Statute, the holders of Preferred Shares shall vote together with the holders of Ordinary Shares, and not as a separate class or series, on all matters put before the shareholders.
(4) Conversion Rights. The holders of the Preferred Shares shall have the following rights described below with respect to the conversion of the Preferred Shares into Ordinary Shares. The number of Ordinary Shares to which a holder shall be entitled upon conversion of any Series A Preferred Share shall be, for each Series A Preferred Share, the Original Series A Issue Price divided by the then-effective Series A Conversion Price. For the avoidance of doubt, the initial conversion ratio for Series A Preferred Shares to Ordinary Shares shall be 1:1, and all shall be subject to adjustment based on adjustments of the Series A Conversion Price (the “Conversion Price”), as set forth below:
| (a) | Optional Conversion. |
| (i) | Subject to and in compliance with the provisions of this Article 7A(4)(a), and subject to compliance with the requirements of the Statute, any Preferred Share may, at the option of the holder thereof, be converted at any time into fully-paid and nonassessable Ordinary Shares based on the then-effective Conversion Price. |
| (ii) | The holder of any Preferred Shares who desires to convert such shares into Ordinary Shares shall surrender the certificate or certificates therefor, duly endorsed, at the office of the Company or any transfer agent for the Preferred Shares, and shall give written notice to the Company at such office that such holder has elected to convert such |
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| shares. Such notice shall state the number of Preferred Shares being converted. Thereupon, the Company shall promptly issue and deliver to such holder at such office a certificate or certificates for the number of Ordinary Shares to which the holder is entitled. |
| (b) | Automatic Conversion. Without any action being required by the holder of such share and whether or not the certificates representing such share are surrendered to the Company or its transfer agent, the Preferred Shares shall automatically be converted into Ordinary Shares upon (i) the closing of a Qualified IPO, or (ii) the written request to the Company made by the holders of no less than a majority of the then outstanding Preferred Shares, acting together as a single class, in each case based on the then-effective Conversion Price. |
| (c) | The Company shall not be obligated to issue certificates for any Ordinary Shares issuable upon the conversion of any Preferred Shares unless the certificate or certificates evidencing such Preferred Shares is either delivered as provided below to the Company or any transfer agent for the Preferred Shares, or the holder notifies the Company or its transfer agent that such certificate has been lost, stolen or destroyed and executes an agreement satisfactory to the Company to indemnify the Company from any loss incurred by it in connection with such certificate. The Company shall, as soon as practicable after receipt of certificates for Preferred Share, or satisfactory agreement for indemnification in the case of a lost certificate, promptly issue and deliver at its office to the holder thereof a certificate or certificates for the number of Ordinary Shares to which the holder is entitled. No fractional Ordinary Shares shall be issued upon conversion of the Preferred Shares, and the number of Ordinary Shares to be so issued to a holder of converting Preferred Share (after aggregating all fractional Ordinary Shares that would be issued to such holder) shall be rounded to the nearest whole share (with one-half being rounded upward). Any person entitled to receive Ordinary Shares issuable upon the automatic conversion of the Preferred Shares shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder of such Ordinary Shares on the date of such conversion. |
| (d) | The Directors may effect such conversion in any manner available under applicable law, including redeeming or repurchasing the Preferred Shares and applying the proceeds thereof towards payment for the new Ordinary Shares. For purposes of the repurchase or redemption, the Directors may, subject to the Company being able to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business, make payments out of its capital. |
| (e) | Adjustments to Conversion Price. The “Series A Conversion Price” shall initially equal the Original Series A Issue Price, and shall be adjusted from time to time as provided below. |
| (i) | Adjustment for Share Splits and Combinations. If the Company shall at any time, or from time to time, effect a subdivision of the outstanding Ordinary Shares, the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such subdivision shall be proportionately decreased. Conversely, if the Company shall at any time, or from time to time, combine the outstanding Ordinary Shares into a smaller number of shares, the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the combination shall be proportionately increased. Any adjustment under this paragraph shall become effective at the close of business on the date the subdivision or combination becomes effective. |
| (ii) | Adjustment for Ordinary Share Dividends and Distributions. If the Company makes (or fixes a record date for the determination of holders of Ordinary Shares entitled to receive) a dividend or other distribution to the holders of |
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| Ordinary Shares payable in Additional Ordinary Shares, the Conversion Price then in effect shall be decreased as of the time of such issuance (or in the event such record date is fixed, as of the close of business on such record date) by multiplying such Conversion Price then in effect by a fraction (i) the numerator of which is the total number of Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding immediately prior to the time of such issuance or the close of business on such record date, and (ii) the denominator of which is the total number of Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding immediately prior to the time of such issuance or the close of business on such record date plus the number of Ordinary Shares issuable in payment of such dividend or distribution. |
| (iii) | Adjustments for Other Dividends. If the Company at any time, or from time to time, makes (or fixes a record date for the determination of holders of Ordinary Shares entitled to receive) a dividend or other distribution payable in Equity Securities of the Company other than Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Share Equivalents, then, and in each such event, provision shall be made so that, upon conversion of any Preferred Share thereafter, the holder thereof shall receive, in addition to the number of Ordinary Shares issuable thereon, the amount of Equity Securities of the Company which the holder of such share would have received had the Preferred Shares been converted into Ordinary Shares immediately prior to such event, all subject to further adjustment as provided herein. |
| (iv) | Reorganizations, Mergers, Consolidations, Reclassifications, Exchanges, Substitutions. If at any time, or from time to time, any capital reorganization or reclassification of the Ordinary Shares (other than as a result of a share dividend, subdivision, split or combination otherwise treated above) occurs or the Company is consolidated, merged or amalgamated with or into another Person (other than a consolidation, merger or amalgamation treated as a Liquidation Event), then in any such event, provision shall be made so that, upon conversion of any Preferred Share thereafter, the holder thereof shall receive the kind and amount of shares and other securities and property which the holder of such share would have received had the Preferred Shares been converted into Ordinary Shares on the date of such event, all subject to further adjustment as provided herein, or with respect to such other securities or property, in accordance with any terms applicable thereto. |
| (v) | Sale of Shares below the Conversion Price. |
| (A) | Adjustment of Conversion Price Upon Issuance of Additional Shares. In the event the Company shall at any time after the Original Series A Issue Date issue Additional Shares, without consideration or for a consideration per share less than the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such issue, then the Conversion Price shall be reduced, concurrently with such issue, to a price equal to the issue price of such Additional Shares. |
| (B) | Determination of Consideration. For the purpose of making any adjustment to any Conversion Price or the number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Shares, as provided above: |
| (1) | To the extent it consists of cash, the consideration received by the Company for any issue or sale of securities shall be computed at the net amount of cash received by the Company after deduction of any underwriting or similar commissions, compensations, discounts or concessions paid or allowed by the Company in connection with such issue or sale; |
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| (2) | To the extent it consists of property other than cash, consideration other than cash received by the Company for any issue or sale of securities shall be computed at the fair market value thereof (as determined in good faith by a majority of the Board, which majority shall include all Series A Directors), as of the date of the adoption of the resolution specifically authorizing such issue or sale, irrespective of any accounting treatment of such property; and |
| (3) | If Additional Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Share Equivalents exercisable, convertible or exchangeable for Additional Ordinary Shares are issued or sold together with other stock or securities or other assets of the Company for consideration which covers both, the consideration received for the Additional Ordinary Shares or such Ordinary Share Equivalents shall be computed as that portion of the consideration received (as determined in good faith by a majority of the Board, which majority shall include all Series A Directors, or by an independent appraiser, if so appointed) to be allocable to such Additional Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Share Equivalents. |
| (C) | No Exercise. If all of the rights to exercise, convert or exchange any Ordinary Share Equivalents shall expire without any of such rights having been exercised, the Conversion Price as adjusted upon the issuance of such Ordinary Share Equivalents shall be readjusted to the Conversion Price which would have been in effect had such adjustment not been made. |
| (vi) | Other Dilutive Events. In case any event shall occur as to which the other provisions of this Article 7A(4)(e) are not strictly applicable, but the failure to make any adjustment to any Conversion Price would not fairly protect the conversion rights of the applicable series of Preferred Shares in accordance with the essential intent and principles hereof, then, in each such case, the Company, in good faith, shall determine the appropriate adjustment to be made, on a basis consistent with the essential intent and principles established in this Article 7A(4)(e) necessary to preserve, without dilution, the conversion rights of such series of Preferred Shares. |
| (vii) | Certificate of Adjustment. In the case of any adjustment or readjustment of a Conversion Price, the Company, at its sole expense, shall compute such adjustment or readjustment in accordance with the provisions hereof and prepare a certificate showing such adjustment or readjustment, and shall mail such certificate, by first class mail, postage prepaid, to each registered holder of such series of Preferred Shares at such holder’s address as shown in the |
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| Company’s books. The certificate shall set forth such adjustment or readjustment, showing in detail the facts upon which such adjustment or readjustment is based, including a statement of (i) the consideration received or deemed to be received by the Company for any Additional Ordinary Shares issued or sold or deemed to have been issued or sold, (ii) the number of Additional Ordinary Shares issued or sold or deemed to be issued or sold, (iii) the Conversion Price in effect before and after such adjustment or readjustment, and (iv) the number of Ordinary Shares and the type and amount, if any, of other property which would be received upon conversion of such series of Preferred Shares after such adjustment or readjustment. |
| (viii) | Notice of Record Date. In the event the Company shall propose to take any action of the type or types requiring an adjustment to a Conversion Price or the number or character of the Preferred Shares as set forth herein, the Company shall give notice to the holders of such Preferred Shares, which notice shall specify the record date, if any, with respect to any such action and the date on which such action is to take place. Such notice shall also set forth such facts with respect thereto as shall be reasonably necessary to indicate the effect of such action (to the extent such effect may be known at the date of such notice) on the Conversion Price and the number, kind or class of shares or other securities or property which shall be deliverable upon the occurrence of such action or deliverable upon the conversion of Preferred Shares. In the case of any action which would require the fixing of a record date, such notice shall be given at least twenty (20) days prior to the date so fixed, and in the case of all other actions, such notice shall be given at least thirty (30) days prior to the taking of such proposed action; provided, however, the foregoing notice requirement may be waived by the written consent of holders representing a majority of the then outstanding Preferred Shares. |
| (ix) | Reservation of Shares Issuable Upon Conversion. The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the Preferred Shares, such number of its Ordinary Shares as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all outstanding Preferred Shares. If at any time the number of authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares shall not be sufficient to effect the conversion of all then outstanding Preferred Shares, the Company will take such corporate action as may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary to increase its authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares to such number of shares as shall be sufficient for such purpose. |
| (x) | Notices. Any notice required or permitted pursuant to this Article 7A(4) shall be given in writing and shall be given either personally or by sending it by next-day or second-day courier service, fax, electronic mail or similar means to each holder of record at the address of such holder appearing on the books of the Company. Where a notice is sent by next-day or second-day courier service, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying and sending by next-day or second-day service through an internationally-recognized courier a letter containing the notice, with a confirmation of delivery, and to have been effected at the expiration of two (2) days after the letter containing the same is sent as aforesaid. Where a notice is sent by fax or electronic mail, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, and sending such notice through a transmitting organization, with a written confirmation of delivery, and to have been effected on the day the same is sent as aforesaid. |
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| (xi) | Payment of Taxes. The Company will pay all taxes (other than taxes based upon income) and other governmental charges that may be imposed with respect to the issue or delivery of Ordinary Shares upon conversion of Preferred Shares, excluding any tax or other charge imposed in connection with any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of Ordinary Shares in a name other than that in which the Preferred Share so converted were registered. |
(5) Redemption
| (a) | Optional Redemption. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in the Memorandum and the Articles, the Preferred Shares shall be redeemable at the option of holders of the Preferred Shares as provided herein: |
| (i) | Optional Redemption Date. Upon the earliest of (i) a breach by any Group Company, any Major Shareholder or any Major Shareholder Holdco of Section 7.3 of the Share Purchase Agreement, (ii) any Material Breach by any Group Company, any Major Shareholder or any Major Shareholder Holdco of any other representation, warranty or covenant in any of the Transaction Documents and (iii) second (2nd) anniversary of the Original Series A Issue Date, each holder of Preferred Shares, upon written request to the Company, may require that the Company redeem all or any part of the Preferred Shares held thereby, in accordance with the subsection (ii) below. |
| (ii) | Redemption Process. Following receipt of a request for redemption from any such holder according to subsection (i) above, the Company shall within five (5) Business Days give written notice (the “Redemption Notice”) to each holder of record of the Preferred Share, at the address last shown on the records of the Company for such holder(s). Such notice shall indicate that a holder of the Preferred Shares has elected redemption of all or a part of its Preferred Shares pursuant to the provisions of this Article 7A(5)(a), shall specify the redemption date, and shall direct any other holders of Preferred Shares wishing to participate in the redemption to notify the Company within ten (10) Business Days and submit their share certificates to the Company on or before the scheduled redemption date. Any other holders of the Preferred Shares shall have the right to participate in the redemption by giving written notice to the Company within ten (10) Business Days of the receipt of the Redemption Notice, specifying the number of the Preferred Shares held thereby to be redeemed. |
| (iii) | Redemption Price. The redemption price for each Series A Preferred Share redeemed pursuant to this Article 7A(5)(a) shall be equal to the sum of (i) one hundred percent (100%) of the Original Series A Issue Price, (ii) an amount equal to interest on the Original Series A Issue Price for the period between the Original Series A Issue Date and the redemption date at an interest rate of 8% per annum, compounded annually, and (iii) all declared but unpaid dividends thereon up until the date of redemption, in each case above, proportionally adjusted for any share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations or similar transactions (the “Redemption Price”). |
| (iv) | Procedure. The closing (the “Redemption Closing”) of any redemption of the Preferred Shares pursuant to this Article 7A(5)(a) will take place within thirty (30) days after the notice period in subsection (i) above expires at the |
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| offices of the Company, or such later date or other place as the holders of a majority of the Preferred Shares to be redeemed in such redemption may mutually agree in writing. At the Redemption Closing, subject to applicable law, the Company will, from any source of assets or funds legally available therefor, redeem each Preferred Share to be redeemed in the redemption by paying in cash therefor the Redemption Price against surrender by such holder at the Company’s principal office of the certificate representing such share. |
| (b) | Insufficient Funds. If the Company’s assets or funds which are legally available on the date that any redemption payment under this Article 7A(5) is due are insufficient to pay in full all redemption payments to be paid at the Redemption Closing, or if the Company is otherwise prohibited by applicable law from making such redemption, those assets or funds which are legally available shall be used to the extent permitted by applicable law to pay all redemption payments due on such date ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which the holders to which such redemption payments are due would otherwise be respectively entitled thereon. Thereafter, all assets or funds of the Company that become legally available for the redemption of shares shall immediately be used to pay the redemption payment which the Company did not pay on the date that such redemption payments were due. Without limiting any rights of the holders of Preferred Shares which are set forth in these Articles, or are otherwise available under law, the balance of any shares subject to redemption hereunder with respect to which the Company has become obligated to pay the redemption payment but which it has not paid in full shall continue to have all the powers, designations, preferences and relative participating, optional, and other special rights (including, without limitation, rights to accrue dividends) which such shares had prior to such date, until the redemption payment has been paid in full with respect to such shares. |
(6) Protective Provisions.
| (a) | Preferred Shareholder Majority Approval Required. In addition to any other rights provided by law and these Articles, as for so long as any Series A Preferred Share remains outstanding, each Group Company shall not take any of the following actions without obtaining the prior written consent of holders representing a majority of the then outstanding Preferred Shares: |
| (i) | any amendment, alteration, or repeal of any provision of the constitutional documents thereof (except as may be appropriate or necessary to consummate a Qualified IPO); |
| (ii) | any increase in the authorized share capital thereof (except as may be appropriate or necessary to consummate a Qualified IPO); |
| (iii) | any authorization or designation of any new class or series of shares or any other Equity Securities thereof; |
| (iv) | any redemption or repurchase of the Equity Securities thereof (except redemption or repurchase pursuant to the Share Incentive Plan or any other share incentive plan duly adopted pursuant to subsection (viii) hereof); |
| (v) | the sale of all or substantially all of the assets thereof, whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise; |
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| (vi) | any action that results in the payment or declaration of a dividend or other distribution thereby; |
| (vii) | any voluntary dissolution or liquidation thereof or any reclassification or recapitalization of the outstanding equity thereof (in the case of reclassification or recapitalization, except as may be appropriate or necessary to consummate a Qualified IPO); |
| (viii) | the adoption or a change in the terms of any bonus or profit sharing scheme or any employee share option or share participation scheme or plan; |
| (ix) | any increase or decrease of the authorized number of members of the board of directors thereof (except as may be appropriate or necessary to consummate a Qualified IPO); |
| (x) | the issuance of any Equity Securities thereof (except as may be appropriate or necessary to consummate a Qualified IPO); |
| (xi) | the undertaking of any voluntary dissolution or liquidation thereof or any reclassification or recapitalization of the outstanding equity capital thereof (except as may be appropriate or necessary to consummate a Qualified IPO); |
| (xii) | the disposal of the whole or substantial part of the intellectual property, goodwill or assets thereof; |
| (xiii) | any initial public offering other than a Qualified IPO; and |
| (xiv) | authorization, agreement or undertaking to do any of the foregoing. |
For the avoidance of doubt, any matter set forth in this Article 7A(6) does not need to be determined or approved by Members other than the holders of Preferred Shares, unless the Statute or these Articles require otherwise, and Article 7A(6) does not intend to, nor does it, create any additional rights to Members that are not holders of Preferred Shares. In the context of such matters set forth in Article 7A(6) which are by Statute required to be determined or approved by the Members in general, the consent of the holders of at least 50% of the Preferred Shares shall be deemed obtained if the matter is approved at a general meeting of the Company with the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 50% of the Preferred Shares or by way of a unanimous written resolution of all Members.
| (b) | Series A Directors Approval Required. In addition to any other rights provided by law and these Articles, as for so long as Granite Global Ventures III L.P. or NewMargin Growth Fund, L.P. has the right to appoint any Series A Director on the Board and for so long as any Series A Preferred Share remains outstanding, the Company shall not, and shall cause each other Group Company not to, take any of the following actions without obtaining the prior written consent or affirmative votes of all Series A Directors: |
| (i) | hire, dismiss or make any significant change in the responsibilities of Key Employees; |
| (ii) | borrow any money or obtain any financial facilities in excess of the amounts over US$1 million other than pursuant to a budget duly approved under subsection (viii) hereof; |
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| (iii) | create, allow to arise or issue any debenture constituting a pledge, lien, or charge on all or any of the assets or rights (including intellectual property rights) thereof in the transaction value over US$1 million other than pursuant to a budget duly approved under subsection (viii) hereof; |
| (iv) | license or otherwise transfer any of material patents, copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property thereof other than in the ordinary course of business; |
| (v) | purchase or lease any real property in the transaction value over US$1 million other than pursuant to a budget duly approved under subsection (viii) hereof; |
| (vi) | acquire any investment or incur any commitment in excess of the amounts over US$1 million other than pursuant to a budget duly approved under subsection (viii) hereof; |
| (vii) | adopt the annual business plan thereof or make any substantial change in the such business plan; |
| (viii) | approve quarterly and annual budgets therefor and deviations in excess of 25 percent therefrom; |
| (ix) | appoint or change the auditors; |
| (x) | establish any new subsidiary or joint venture; |
| (xi) | make any material amendment of the accounting policies or any change to the financial year thereof; |
| (xii) | enter into, terminate or make any change to agreements with any Related Party or another Group Company in an amount over US$1 million other than pursuant to a budget duly approved under subsection (viii) hereof; and |
| (xiii) | authorize, agree or undertake to do any of the foregoing. |
TRANSFER OF SHARES
| 8. | The instrument of transfer of any share shall be in writing and shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and the transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of a share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register in respect thereof. |
| 9. | The Directors may in their absolute discretion decline to register any transfer of shares without assigning any reason therefor, provided however that the Directors shall have no discretion in relation to the transfer of Shares to any chargee (or its nominee) pursuant to any share charge agreement that may be agreed up by a shareholder with the consent of the Company and shall forthwith, upon presentation to the Company of any share transfer form transferring Shares to the chargee (or to any nominee of the chargee) as confirmed to the Company by the chargee, proceed to register the transfer of shares contained in any such share transfer form. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer, other than a transfer of shares to the Chargee (or its nominee) which the Directors shall be required to register forthwith, they shall notify the transferee within five Business Days of such refusal. |
| 10. | The registration of transfers may be suspended at such time and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine, provided always that such registration shall not be suspended for more than 10 days in any year. |
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REDEEMABLE SHARES
| 11. | (a) | Subject to the provisions of the Statute, the Memorandum and these Articles, shares may be issued on the terms that they are, or at the option of the Company or the holder are, to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as the Company, before the issue of the shares, may by Special Resolution determine. | ||
| (b) | Subject to the provisions of the Statute, the Memorandum and these Articles, the Company may purchase its own shares (including fractions of a share), including any redeemable shares, provided that the manner of purchase has first been authorised by the Company in general meeting and may make payment therefor in any manner authorised by the Statute, including out of capital. | |||
VARIATION OF RIGHTS OF SHARES
| 12. | Subject to Article 7A(6), if at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may, whether or not the Company is being wound up, be varied with the consent in writing of the holders of a majority of the issued shares of that class, or with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. |
The provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply to every such general meeting of the holders of one class of shares except that the necessary quorum shall be one person holding or representing by proxy at least one-third of the issued shares of the class and that any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy may demand a poll.
| 13. | Subject to Article 7A(6), the rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith. |
COMMISSION ON SALE OF SHARES
| 14. | Subject to the provisions of these Articles, the Company may in so far as the Statute from time to time permits pay a commission to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe whether absolutely or conditionally for any shares of the Company. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the lodgement of fully or partly paid-up shares or partly in one way and partly in the other. The Company may also on any issue of shares pay such brokerage as may be lawful. |
NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS
| 15. | No person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future, or partial interest in any share, or any interest in any fractional part of a share, or (except only as is otherwise provided by these Articles or the Statute) any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder. |
LIEN ON SHARES
| 16. | The Company shall have a first and paramount lien and charge on all shares (whether fully paid-up or not) registered in the name of a Member (whether solely or jointly with others) for all debts, liabilities or engagements to or with the Company (whether presently payable or not) by such Member or his estate, either alone or jointly with any other person, whether a |
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| Member or not, but the Directors may at any time declare any share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this Article. The registration of a transfer of any such share shall operate as a waiver of the Company’s lien (if any) thereon. The Company’s lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all dividends or other monies payable in respect thereof. |
| 17. | The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any shares on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless a sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable, nor until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice in writing stating and demanding payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable, has been given to the registered holder or holders for the time being of the share, or the person, of which the Company has notice, entitled thereto by reason of his death or bankruptcy. |
| 18. | To give effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer, and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale. |
| 19. | The proceeds of such sale shall be received by the Company and applied in payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable and the residue, if any, shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the shares before the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the date of the sale. |
CALL ON SHARES
| 20. | (a) | The Directors may from time to time make calls upon the Members in respect of any monies unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the nominal value of the shares or by way of premium or otherwise) and not by the conditions of allotment thereof made payable at fixed terms, provided that no call shall be payable at less than one month from the date fixed for the payment of the last preceding call, and each Member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen days notice specifying the time or times of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times so specified the amount called on the shares. A call may be revoked or postponed as the Directors may determine. A call may be made payable by instalments. | ||
| (b) | A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising such call was passed. | |||
| (c) | The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof. | |||
| 21. | If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on a day appointed for payment thereof, the persons from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the sum from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at such rate not exceeding ten per cent per annum as the Directors may determine, but the Directors shall be at liberty to waive payment of such interest either wholly or in part. |
| 22. | Any sum which by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable on allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise, shall for the purposes of these Articles be deemed to be a call duly made, notified and payable on the date on which by the terms of issue the same becomes payable, and in the case of non-payment all the relevant provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified. |
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| 23. | The Directors may, on the issue of shares, differentiate between the holders as to the amount of calls or interest to be paid and the times of payment. |
| 24. | (a) | The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any Member willing to advance the same, all or any part of the monies uncalled and unpaid upon any shares held by him, and upon all or any of the monies so advanced may (until the same would but for such advances, become payable) pay interest at such rate not exceeding (unless the Company in general meeting shall otherwise direct) seven per cent per annum, as may be agreed upon between the Directors and the Member paying such sum in advance. |
| (b) | No such sum paid in advance of calls shall entitle the Member paying such sum to any portion of a dividend declared in respect of any period prior to the date upon which such sum would, but for such payment, become presently payable. |
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
| 25. | (a) | If a Member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call or to make any payment required by the terms of issue on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of the call, instalment or payment remains unpaid, give notice requiring payment of so much of the call, instalment or payment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued and all expenses that have been incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment. Such notice shall name a day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of giving of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made, and shall state that, in the event of non-payment at or before the time appointed the shares in respect of which such notice was given will be liable to be forfeited. |
| (b) | If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends declared in respect of the forfeited share and not actually paid before the forfeiture. |
| (c) | A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit and at any time before a sale or disposition the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit. |
| 26. | A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in respect of the forfeited shares, but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay to the Company all monies which, at the date of forfeiture were payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares together with interest thereon, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all monies whenever payable in respect of the shares. |
| 27. | A certificate in writing under the hand of one Director or the Secretary of the Company that a share in the Company has been duly forfeited on a date stated in the declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the fact therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the consideration given for the share on any sale or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of and he shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the share. |
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| 28. | The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified. |
REGISTRATION OF EMPOWERING INSTRUMENTS
| 29. | The Company shall be entitled to charge a fee not exceeding one dollar (US$1.00) on the registration of every probate, letters of administration, certificate of death or marriage, power of attorney, notice in lieu of distringas, or other instrument. |
TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
| 30. | In case of the death of a Member, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased where he was a sole holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares, but nothing herein contained shall release the estate of any such deceased holder from any liability in respect of any shares which had been held by him solely or jointly with other persons. |
| 31. | (a) | Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a Member (or in any other way than by transfer) may, upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by the Directors and subject as hereinafter provided, elect either to be registered himself as holder of the share or to make such transfer of the share to such other person nominated by him as the deceased or bankrupt person could have made and to have such person registered as the transferee thereof, but the Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the share by that Member before his death or bankruptcy as the case may be. |
| (b) | If the person so becoming entitled shall elect to be registered himself as holder he shall deliver or send to the Company a notice in writing signed by him stating that he so elects. |
| 32. | A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of the holder (or in any other case than by transfer) shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share, except that he shall not, before being registered as a Member in respect of the share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company PROVIDED HOWEVER that the Directors may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share and if the notice is not complied with within ninety days the Directors may thereafter withhold payment of all dividends, bonuses or other monies payable in respect of the share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with. |
AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION, CHANGE OF LOCATION OF
REGISTERED OFFICE & ALTERATION OF CAPITAL
| 33. | (a) | Subject to and in so far as permitted by the provisions of the Statute and these Articles, the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution alter or amend its Memorandum otherwise than with respect to its name and objects and may, without restricting the generality of the foregoing: |
| (i) | increase the share capital by such sum to be divided into shares of such amount or without nominal or par value as the resolution shall prescribe and with such rights, priorities and privileges annexed thereto, as the Company in general meeting may determine. |
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| (ii) | consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares; |
| (iii) | by subdivision of its existing shares or any of them divide the whole or any part of its share capital into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum or into shares without nominal or par value; |
| (iv) | cancel any shares which at the date of the passing of the resolution have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person. |
| (b) | All new shares created hereunder shall be subject to the same provisions with reference to the payment of calls, liens, transfer, transmission, forfeiture and otherwise as the shares in the original share capital. |
| (c) | Subject to the provisions of the Statute and these Articles, the Company may by Special Resolution change its name or alter its objects. |
| (d) | Without prejudice to Article 11 hereof and subject to the provisions of the Statute and these Articles, the Company may by Special Resolution reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund. |
| (e) | Subject to the provisions of the Statute and these Articles, the Company may by resolution of the Directors change the location of its registered office. |
CLOSING REGISTER OF MEMBERS OR FIXING RECORD DATE
| 34. | For the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of Members or any adjournment thereof, or Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination of Members for any other proper purpose, the Directors of the Company may provide that the register of Members shall be closed for transfers for a stated period but not to exceed in any case 40 days. If the register of Members shall be so closed for the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of Members such register shall be so closed for at least ten days immediately preceding such meeting and the record date for such determination shall be the date of the closure of the register of Members. |
| 35. | In lieu of or apart from closing the register of Members, the Directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of Members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of the Members and for the purpose of determining the Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend the Directors may, at or within 90 days prior to the date of declaration of such dividend fix a subsequent date as the record date for such determination. |
| 36. | If the register of Members is not so closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of Members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of Members or Members entitled to receive payment of a dividend, the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the resolution of the Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of Members. When a determination of Members entitled to vote at any meeting of Members has been made as provided in this section, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof. |
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GENERAL MEETING
| 37. | (a) | Subject to paragraph (c) hereof, the Company shall within one year of its incorporation and in each year of its existence thereafter hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it. The annual general meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint and if no other time and place is prescribed by them, it shall be held at the registered office on the second Wednesday in December of each year at ten o’clock in the morning. |
| (b) | At these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented. |
| (c) | If the Company is exempted as defined in the Statute it may but shall not be obliged to hold an annual general meeting. |
| 38. | (a) | The Directors may whenever they think fit, and they shall on the requisition of Members of the Company holding at the date of the deposit of the requisition not less than one-tenth of such of the paid-up capital of the Company as at the date of the deposit carries the right of voting at general meetings of the Company, proceed to convene a general meeting of the Company. |
| (b) | The requisition must state the objects of the meeting and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the registered office of the Company and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists. |
| (c) | If the Directors do not within 21 days from the date of the deposit of the requisition duly proceed to convene a general meeting, the requisitionists, or any of them representing more than one-half of the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves convene a general meeting, but any meeting so convened shall not be held after the expiration of three months after the expiration of the said 21 days. |
| (d) | A general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which general meetings are to be convened by Directors. |
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS
| 39. | At least five days notice shall be given of an annual general meeting or any other general meeting. Every notice shall be exclusive of the day on which it is given or deemed to be given and of the day for which it is given and shall specify the place, the day and the hour of the meeting and the general nature of the business and shall be given in manner hereinafter mentioned or in such other manner if any as may be prescribed by the Company PROVIDED that a general meeting of the Company shall, whether or not the notice specified in this regulation has been given and whether or not the provisions of Article 38 have been complied with, be deemed to have been duly convened if it is so agreed: |
| (a) | in the case of a general meeting called as an annual general meeting by all the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat or their proxies; and |
| (b) | in the case of any other general meeting, by holders of not less than the appropriate proportion of all those Shares which are in issue at the time which would be required to approve the actions submitted to the Members for approval at such meeting, or their proxies. |
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| 40. | The accidental omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings of that meeting. |
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
| 41. | No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of Members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. The holders of at least fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate voting power of all of the Ordinary Shares and at least fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate voting power of all of the Preferred Shares (on an as-converted basis) entitled to notice of and to attend and vote at such general meeting present in person or by proxy or if a company or other non-natural person by its duly authorized representative shall be a quorum. A person shall be deemed to be present at a general meeting if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and all persons participating in the meeting are able to hear each other. |
| 42. | A resolution (including a Special Resolution) in writing (in one or more counterparts) signed by all Members for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings (or being corporations by their duly authorised representatives) shall be as valid and effective as if the same had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held. |
| 43. | If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Members, shall be dissolved and in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such other time or such other place as the Directors may determine and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting the Members present shall be a quorum. |
| 44. | The Chairman, if any, of the Board of Directors shall preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the Company, or if there is no such Chairman, or if he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for the holding of the meeting, or is unwilling to act, the Directors present shall elect one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting. |
| 45. | If at any general meeting no Director is willing to act as Chairman or if no Director is present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting. |
| 46. | The Chairman may, with the consent of any general meeting duly constituted hereunder, and shall if so directed by the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a general meeting is adjourned for 30 days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting; save as aforesaid it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned general meeting. |
| 47. | At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is, before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands, demanded by the Chairman or any other Member present in person or by proxy. |
| 48. | Unless a poll be so demanded a declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has on a show of hands been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the Company’s Minute Book containing the |
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| Minutes of the proceedings of the meeting shall be conclusive evidence of that fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution. |
| 49. | The demand for a poll may be withdrawn. |
| 50. | Except as provided in Article 52, if a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the Chairman directs and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the general meeting at which the poll was demanded. |
| 51. | In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the general meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded, shall be entitled to a second or casting vote. |
| 52. | A poll demanded on the election of a Chairman or on a question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time as the Chairman of the general meeting directs and any business other than that upon which a poll has been demanded or is contingent thereon may be proceeded with pending the taking of the poll. |
VOTES OF MEMBERS
| 53. | Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, every Member of record present in person or by proxy at a general meeting shall have one vote for each share registered in his name in the register of Members. |
| 54. | In the case of joint holders of record the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of Members. |
| 55. | A Member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court, having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee, receiver, curator bonis, or other person in the nature of a committee, receiver or curator bonis appointed by that court, and any such committee, receiver, curator bonis or other persons may vote by proxy. |
| 56. | No Member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless he is registered as a shareholder of the Company on the record date for such meeting nor unless all calls or other sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the Company have been paid. |
| 57. | No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the general meeting or adjourned general meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered and every vote not disallowed at such general meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the Chairman of the general meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive. |
| 58. | On a poll or on a show of hands votes may be given either personally or by proxy. |
PROXIES
| 59. | The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing and shall be executed under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing, or, if the appointor is a corporation under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised in that behalf. A proxy need not be a Member of the Company. An appointment of a proxy which is expressed to be irrevocable and is |
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| made by way of security for any obligations owed by the relevant Member to any person shall be irrevocable without the prior written consent of such person so long as the relevant obligation remains outstanding. |
| 60. | The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting no later than the time for holding the meeting, or adjourned meeting provided that the Chairman of the Meeting may at his discretion direct that an instrument of proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited upon receipt of telex, cable or telecopy confirmation from the appointor that the instrument of proxy duly signed is in the course of transmission to the Company. |
| 61. | The instrument appointing a proxy may be in any usual or common form and may be expressed to be for a particular meeting or any adjournment thereof or generally until revoked. An instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to include the power to demand or join or concur in demanding a poll. |
| 62. | A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the share in respect of which the proxy is given provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer as aforesaid shall have been received by the Company at the registered office before the commencement of the general meeting, or adjourned meeting at which it is sought to use the proxy. |
| 63. | Any corporation which is a Member of record of the Company may in accordance with its Articles or in the absence of such provision by resolution of its Directors or other governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of Members of the Company, and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual Member of record of the Company. |
| 64. | Shares of its own capital belonging to the Company or held by it in a fiduciary capacity shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting and shall not be counted in determining the total number of outstanding shares at any given time. |
DIRECTORS
| 65. | There shall be a Board of Directors consisting of not less than one or more than seven (7) persons (exclusive of alternate Directors) PROVIDED HOWEVER that the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution increase or reduce the limits in the number of Directors, subject to the provision of Article 7A(6). The first Directors of the Company shall be determined in writing by, or appointed by a resolution of, the subscribers of the Memorandum or a majority of them. |
| 66. | The remuneration to be paid to the Directors shall be such remuneration as the Directors shall determine. Such remuneration shall be deemed to accrue from day to day. The Directors shall also be entitled to be paid their travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in going to, attending and returning from meetings of the Directors, or any committee of the Directors, or general meetings of the Company, or otherwise in connection with the business of the Company, or to receive a fixed allowance in respect thereof as may be determined by the Directors from time to time, or a combination partly of one such method and partly the other. |
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| 67. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors may by resolution award special remuneration to any Director of the Company undertaking any special work or services for, or undertaking any special mission on behalf of, the Company other than his ordinary routine work as a Director. Any fees paid to a Director who is also counsel or solicitor to the Company, or otherwise serves it in a professional capacity shall be in addition to his remuneration as a Director. |
| 68. | Subject to these Articles, a Director or alternate Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of Auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and on such terms as to remuneration and otherwise as the Directors may determine. |
| 69. | Subject to these Articles, a Director or alternate Director may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director or alternate Director. |
| 70. | A shareholding qualification for Directors may be fixed by the Company in general meeting, but unless and until so fixed no qualification shall be required. |
| 71. | Subject to these Articles, a Director or alternate Director of the Company may be or become a director or other officer of or otherwise interested in any company promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested as shareholder or otherwise and no such Director or alternate Director shall be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as a director or officer of, or from his interest in, such other company. |
| 72. | In addition to any further restrictions set forth in these Articles, no person shall be disqualified from the office of Director or alternate Director or prevented by such office from contracting with the Company, either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract or any contract or transaction entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director or alternate Director shall be in any way interested be or be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director or alternate Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by any such contract or transaction by reason of such Director holding office or of the fiduciary relation thereby established. A Director (or his alternate Director in his absence) shall be at liberty to vote in respect of any contract or transaction in which he is so interested as aforesaid PROVIDED HOWEVER that the nature of the interest of any Director or alternate Director in any such contract or transaction shall be disclosed by him or the alternate Director appointed by him at or prior to its consideration and any vote thereon. |
| 73. | A general notice that a Director or alternate Director is a shareholder of any specified firm or company and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction with such firm or company shall be sufficient disclosure under Article 72 and after such general notice it shall not be necessary to give special notice relating to any particular transaction. |
ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
| 74. | Subject to the exception contained in Article 82, a Director who expects to be unable to attend Directors’ Meetings because of absence, illness or otherwise may appoint any person to be an alternate Director to act in his stead and such appointee whilst he holds office as an alternate Director shall, in the event of absence therefrom of his appointor, be entitled to attend meetings of the Directors and to vote thereat and to do, in the place and stead of his appointor, any other act or thing which his appointor is permitted or required to do by virtue of his being a Director as if the alternate Director were the appointor, other than appointment of an alternate to himself, and he shall ipso facto vacate office if and when his appointor ceases to be a Director or removes the appointee from office. Any appointment or removal under this Article shall be effected by notice in writing under the hand of the Director making the same. |
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POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS
| 75. | The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors (or a sole Director if only one is appointed) who may pay all expenses incurred in promoting, registering and setting up the Company, and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not, from time to time by the Statute, or by these Articles, or such regulations, being not inconsistent with the aforesaid, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting PROVIDED HOWEVER that no regulations made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if that regulation had not been made; PROVIDED FURTHER that, for the avoidance of doubt and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Directors shall undertake none of those acts described in Article 7A(6) or Article 12 without the prior approval therein required. |
| 76. | The Directors may from time to time and at any time by powers of attorney appoint any company, firm, person or body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purpose and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such powers of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorneys as the Directors may think fit and may also authorise any such attorney to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him. |
| 77. | All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments and all receipts for monies paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed as the case may be in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine. |
| 78. | The Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose: |
| (a) | of all appointments of officers made by the Directors; |
| (b) | of the names of the Directors (including those represented thereat by an alternate or by proxy) present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors; |
| (c) | of all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company and of the Directors and of committees of Directors. |
| 79. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors on behalf of the Company may pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement to any Director who has held any other salaried office or place of profit with the Company or to his widow or dependants and may make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance. |
| 80. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital or any part thereof and to issue debentures, debenture stock and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. |
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MANAGEMENT
| 81. | (a) | Subject to these Articles, the Directors may from time to time provide for the management of the affairs of the Company in such manner as they shall think fit and the provisions contained in the three next following paragraphs shall be without prejudice to the general powers conferred by this paragraph. |
| (b) | Subject to these Articles, the Directors from time to time and at any time may establish any committees, local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company and may appoint any persons to be members of such committees or local boards or any managers or agents and may fix their remuneration. |
| (c) | Subject to these Articles, the Directors from time to time and at any time may delegate to any such committee, local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in the Directors and may authorise the members for the time being of any such local board, or any of them to fill up any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies and any such appointment or delegation may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit and the Directors may at any time remove any person so appointed and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby. |
| (d) | Subject to these Articles, any such delegates as aforesaid may be authorised by the Directors to subdelegate all or any of the powers, authorities, and discretions for the time being vested in them. |
MANAGING DIRECTORS
| 82. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors may, from time to time, appoint one or more of their body (but not an alternate Director) to the office of Managing Director for such term and at such remuneration (whether by way of salary, or commission, or participation in profits, or partly in one way and partly in another) as they may think fit but his appointment shall be subject to determination ipso facto if he ceases from any cause to be a Director and no alternate Director appointed by him can act in his stead as a Director or Managing Director. |
| 83. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors may entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director any of the powers exercisable by them upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they may think fit and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers. |
PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
| 84. | Except as otherwise provided by these Articles, the Directors shall meet together for the despatch of business, convening, adjourning and otherwise regulating their meetings as they think fit. Subject to these Articles, questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes of the Directors and alternate Directors present at a meeting at which there is a quorum, the vote of an alternate Director not being counted if his appointor be present at such meeting. |
| 85. | A Director or alternate Director may, and the Secretary on the requisition of a Director or alternate Director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Directors by at least seven days notice in writing to every Director and alternate Director which notice shall set forth the general nature of the business to be considered unless notice is waived by all the Directors (or their alternates) either at, before or after the meeting is held and PROVIDED FURTHER if notice is given in person, by cable, telex or telecopy the same shall be deemed to have been given on the day it is delivered to the Directors or transmitting organisation as the case may be. The provisions of Article 40 shall apply mutatis mutandis with respect to notices of meetings of Directors. |
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| 86. | The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors shall be a majority of the Directors then appointed to the Board, including all then appointed Series A Directors. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present solely due to the absence of any Series A Director, the meeting shall not require the presence of such Series A Director. For the avoidance of doubt, for any matters that require the affirmative votes of the Series A Directors, the meeting on which such matters are decided must include all then Series A Directors duly appointed. For the purposes of this Article an alternate Director or proxy appointed by a Director shall be counted in a quorum at a meeting at which the Director appointing him is not present. |
| 87. | Subject to these Articles, the continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors the continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose. |
| 88. | The Directors may elect a Chairman of their Board and determine the period for which he is to hold office; but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the Chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting. |
| 89. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of the Board of Directors (including Alternate Directors in the absence of their appointors) as they think fit; any committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the Directors and these Articles. |
| 90. | A committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper. Subject to these Articles, questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present. |
| 91. | All acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of Directors (including any person acting as an alternate Director) shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any Director or alternate Director, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and qualified to be a Director or alternate Director as the case may be. |
| 92. | Members of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board or of such committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. A resolution in writing (in one or more counterparts), signed by all the Directors for the time being or all the members of a committee of Directors (an alternate Director being entitled to sign such resolution on behalf of his appointor) shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors or committee as the case may be duly convened and held. |
| 93. | (a) | A Director may be represented at any meetings of the Board of Directors by a proxy appointed by him in which event the presence or vote of the proxy shall for all purposes be deemed to be that of the Director. |
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| (b) | The provisions of Articles 59-62 shall mutatis mutandis apply to the appointment of proxies by Directors. |
VACATION OF OFFICE OF DIRECTOR
| 94. | The office of a Director shall be vacated: |
| (a) | if he gives notice in writing to the Company that he resigns the office of Director; |
| (b) | if he absents himself (without being represented by proxy or an alternate Director appointed by him) from three consecutive meetings of the Board of Directors without special leave of absence from the Directors, and they pass a resolution that he has by reason of such absence vacated office; |
| (c) | if he dies, becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; |
| (d) | if he is found a lunatic or becomes of unsound mind. |
APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
| 95. | Subject to these Articles, the Company may by ordinary resolution appoint any person to be a Director and may in like manner remove any Director and may in like manner appoint another person in his stead. |
| 96. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors shall have power at any time and from time to time to appoint any person to be a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the existing Directors but so that the total amount of Directors (exclusive of alternate Directors) shall not at any time exceed the number fixed in accordance with these Articles. |
| 96A. | APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS. |
| (a) | For so long as Granite Global Ventures III L.P., together with its Affiliates, holds in aggregate at least five percent (5%) of the Company’s issued and outstanding Shares, Granite Global Ventures III L.P. shall have the right to designate one (1) director on the Board at any time prior to the first (1st) anniversary of the Qualified IPO. For so long as NewMargin Growth Fund, L.P., together with its Affiliates, holds in aggregate at least five percent (5%) of the Company’s issued and outstanding Shares, NewMargin Growth Fund, L.P. shall have the right to designate one (1) director on the Board at any time prior to the first (1st) anniversary of the Qualified IPO. During the period commencing on the first (1st) anniversary of the Qualified IPO and terminating on the third (3rd) anniversary of the Qualified IPO, Granite Global Ventures III L.P. and NewMargin Growth Fund, L.P. shall have the right to jointly designate one (1) director on the Board, for so long as such Persons, together with their respective Affiliates, hold in aggregate at least five percent (5%) of the Company’s issued and outstanding Shares. |
| (b) | For so long as a Qualified IPO has not been consummated, holders of Ordinary Shares representing a majority of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares shall have the right to designate five (5) directors on the Board. |
| (c) | Any director not elected in the manner provided in sub-paragraphs (a) or (b) above shall be elected by the members at a general meeting, with holders of Series A Preferred Shares and Ordinary Shares voting together on an as-converted basis and not as separate classes. |
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| (d) | Any Person or group of Persons entitled to designate any individual to be elected as a director of the Board pursuant to this Article 96A shall have the right to remove any such director occupying such position and to fill any vacancy caused by the death, disability, retirement, resignation or removal of any director occupying such position. If a vacancy is created on the Board at any time by the death, disability, retirement, resignation or removal of any director designated pursuant to this Section 96A, the replacement to fill such vacancy shall be designated in the same manner, in accordance with this Section 96A, as the director whose seat was vacated. |
PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT
| 97. | A Director of the Company who is present at a meeting of the Board of Directors at which action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the Minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent from such action with the person acting as the Secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered mail to such person immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such right to dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in favour of such action. |
SEAL
| 98. | (a) | The Company may, if the Directors so determine, have a Seal which shall, subject to paragraph (c) hereof, only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised by the Directors in that behalf and every instrument to which the Seal has been affixed shall be signed by one person who shall be either a Director or the Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer or some person appointed by the Directors for the purpose. | ||
| (b) | The Company may have for use in any place or places outside the Cayman Islands a duplicate Seal or Seals each of which shall be a facsimile of the Common Seal of the Company and, if the Directors so determine, with the addition on its face of the name of every place where it is to be used. | |||
| (c) | A Director, Secretary or other officer or representative or attorney may without further authority of the Directors affix the Seal of the Company over his signature alone to any document of the Company required to be authenticated by him under Seal or to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere wheresoever. |
OFFICERS
| 99. | The Company may have a President, a Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer appointed by the Directors who may also from time to time appoint such other officers as they consider necessary, all for such terms, at such remuneration and to perform such duties, and subject to such provisions as to disqualification and removal as the Directors from time to time prescribe. |
DIVIDENDS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND RESERVE
| 100. | Subject to the Statute and these Articles, the Directors may from time to time declare dividends (including interim dividends) and distributions on shares of the Company outstanding and authorise payment of the same out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefore. |
| 101. | Subject to the Statute and these Articles, the Directors may, before declaring any dividends or distributions, set aside such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for any purpose of the Company and pending such application may, at the like discretion, be employed in the business of the Company. |
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| 102. | No dividend or distribution shall be payable except out of the profits of the Company, realised or unrealised, or out of the share premium account or as otherwise permitted by the Statute. |
| 103. | Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividends or distributions, if dividends or distributions are to be declared on a class of shares they shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares of such class outstanding on the record date for such dividend or distribution as determined in accordance with these Articles but no amount paid or credited as paid on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purpose of this Article as paid on the share. |
| 104. | The Directors may deduct from any dividend or distribution payable to any Member all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise. |
| 105. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors may declare that any dividend or distribution be paid wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets and in particular of paid up shares, debentures, or debenture stock of any other company or in any one or more of such ways and where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution, the Directors may settle the same as they think expedient and in particular may issue fractional certificates and fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any Members upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all Members and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Directors. |
| 106. | Any dividend, distribution, interest or other monies payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed to the registered address of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the holder who is first named on the register of Members or to such person and to such address as such holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent. Any one of two or more joint holders may give effectual receipts for any dividends, bonuses, or other monies payable in respect of the share held by them as joint holders. |
| 107. | No dividend or distribution shall bear interest against the Company. |
CAPITALISATION
| 108. | Subject to these Articles, the Company may upon the recommendation of the Directors by ordinary resolution authorise the Directors to capitalise any sum standing to the credit of any of the Company’s reserve accounts (including share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund) or any sum standing to the credit of profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution and to appropriate such sum to Members in the proportions in which such sum would have been divisible amongst them had the same been a distribution of profits by way of dividend and to apply such sum on their behalf in paying up in full unissued shares for allotment and distribution credited as fully paid up to and amongst them in the proportion aforesaid. In such event the Directors shall do all acts and things required to give effect to such capitalisation, with full power to the Directors to make such provisions as they think fit for the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrue to the Company rather than to the Members concerned). Subject to these Articles, the Directors may authorise any person to enter on behalf of all of the Members interested into an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalisation and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned. |
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BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
| 109. | The Directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to: |
| (a) | all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt or expenditure takes place; |
| (b) | all sales and purchases of goods by the Company; |
| (c) | the assets and liabilities of the Company. |
Proper books shall not be deemed to be kept if there are not kept such books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to explain its transactions.
| 110. | Subject to any agreement binding on the Company, the Directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of Members not being Directors and no Member (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by Statute or authorised by the Directors or by the Company in general meeting. |
| 111. | The Directors may from time to time cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Company in general meeting profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and such other reports and accounts as may be required by law. |
AUDIT
| 112. | Subject to these Articles, the Directors may at any time appoint an Auditor or Auditors of the Company who shall hold office for a period specified by the Directors. |
| 113. | The remuneration of any Auditor appointed by the Directors under this Article may be fixed by the Directors. |
| 114. | Every Auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the Company and shall be entitled to require from the Directors and Officers of the Company such information and explanation as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors. |
| 115. | Auditors shall at the next annual general meeting following their appointment and at any other time during their term of office, upon request of the Directors or any general meeting of the Members, make a report on the accounts of the Company in general meeting during their tenure of office. |
NOTICES
| 116. | Notices shall be in writing and may be given by the Company to any Member either personally or by sending it by post, cable, telex or telecopy to him or to his address as shown in the register of Members, such notice, if mailed, to be forwarded airmail if the address be outside the Cayman Islands. |
| 117. |
(a) | Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying and posting a letter containing the notice, and to have been effected at the expiration of 60 hours after the letter containing the same is posted as aforesaid. |
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| (b) | Where a notice is sent by cable, telex, telecopy or electronic message, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, and sending such notice through a transmitting organisation and to have been effected on the day the same is sent as aforesaid. |
| 118. | A notice may be given by the Company to the joint holders of record of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder first named on the register of Members in respect of the share. |
| 119. | A notice may be given by the Company to the person or persons which the Company has been advised are entitled to a share or shares in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member by sending it through the post as aforesaid in a pre-paid letter 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 supplied for that purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled, or at the option of the Company by giving the notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred. |
| 120. | Notice of every general meeting shall be given in any manner hereinbefore authorised to: |
| (a) | every person shown as a Member in the register of Members as of the record date for such meeting except that in the case of joint holders the notice shall be sufficient if given to the joint holder first named in the register of Members. |
| (b) | every person upon whom the ownership of a share devolves by reason of his being a legal personal representative or a trustee in bankruptcy of a Member of record where the Member of record but for his death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting; and |
No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.
WINDING UP
| 121. | If the Company shall be wound up, any liquidator must be approved by a Special Resolution approved by the majority in voting power of the Members, which must include the affirmative vote of the majority of the Series A Preferred Shares then outstanding. |
| 122. | If the Company shall be wound up, the assets available for distribution amongst the Members shall be distributed in accordance with Article 7A(2); provided that no Member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability. |
INDEMNITY
| 123. | To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Directors and officers for the time being of the Company and any trustee for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and their heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives respectively shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company from and against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them shall or may incur or sustain by reason of any act done or omitted in or about the execution of their duty in their respective offices or trusts, except such (if any) as they shall incur or sustain by or through their own wilful neglect or default respectively and no such Director, officer or trustee shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other Director, officer or trustee or for joining in any receipt for the sake of conformity or for the solvency or honesty of any banker or other persons with whom any monies or effects belonging to the Company may be lodged or deposited for safe custody or for any insufficiency of any security upon which any monies of the Company may be invested or for any other loss or damage due to any such cause as aforesaid or which may happen in or about the execution of his office or trust unless the same shall happen through the wilful neglect or default of such Director, |
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| Officer or trustee. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Directors and officers for the time being of the Company and any trustee for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and their heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives respectively shall not be personally liable to the Company or its Members for monetary damages for breach of their duty in their respective offices, except such (if any) as they shall incur or sustain by or through their own willful neglect or willful default respectively. |
FINANCIAL YEAR
| 124. | Unless the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shall end on 31st December in each year and, following the year of incorporation, shall begin on 1st January in each year. |
AMENDMENTS OF ARTICLES
| 125. | Subject to the Statute and these Articles, the Company may at any time and from time to time by Special Resolution alter or amend these Articles in whole or in part. |
TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION
| 126. | If the Company is exempted as defined in the Statute, it shall, subject to the provisions of the Statute and with the approval of a Special Resolution, have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands. |
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| This ‘F-1’ Filing | Date | Other Filings | ||
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| Filed on: | 1/12/10 | 8-A12B, F-6 | ||
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As Of Filer Filing For·On·As Docs:Size Issuer Filing Agent 4/29/24 Daqo New Energy Corp. 20-F 12/31/23 94:12M Toppan Merrill/FA 4/27/23 Daqo New Energy Corp. 20-F 12/31/22 92:12M Toppan Merrill/FA2 8/05/22 Daqo New Energy Corp. S-8 8/05/22 5:226K Toppan Merrill/FA 3/30/22 Daqo New Energy Corp. 20-F 12/31/21 98:10M Toppan Merrill/FA2 4/22/21 Daqo New Energy Corp. 20-F 12/31/20 107:12M Toppan Merrill/FA |