Underwriting Agreement
Exhibit 1.1
Longtop Financial Technologies Limited
10,435,500 American Depositary Shares
Representing
10,435,500 Ordinary Shares
(par value US$ 0.01 per share)
October , 2007
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx (Asia) L.L.C.
68th Floor, Xxxxxx Kong Center,
2 Queen’s Road Central,
Hong Kong
Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
48/F Xxxxxx Kong Center,
2 Queen’s Road Central,
Hong Kong
As Representatives of the several Underwriters named
in Schedule I attached hereto.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Longtop Financial Technologies Limited, an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule I attached hereto (the “Underwriters”) an aggregate of 8,529,500 American Depositary Shares representing 8,529,500 ordinary shares, par value US$ 0.01 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”), of the Company and, at the election of the Underwriters, up to 470,500 additional American Depositary Shares representing 470,500 Ordinary Shares, and the shareholders of the Company named in Schedule II attached hereto (the “Selling Shareholders”) propose, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to sell to the Underwriters an aggregate of 1,905,000 American Depositary Shares representing 1,905,000 Ordinary Shares and, at the election of the Underwriters, up to 1,095,000 additional American Depositary Shares representing 1,095,000 Ordinary Shares. The aggregate of 10,434,500 American Depositary Shares representing 10,434,500 Ordinary Shares to be sold by the Company and the Selling Shareholders is herein called the “Firm ADSs”. The aggregate of 1,565,500 additional American Depositary Shares representing up to 1,565,500 additional Ordinary Shares to be sold by the Company and the Selling Shareholders is herein called the “Optional ADSs”. The Firm ADSs and the Optional ADSs that the Underwriters elect to purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof are herein collectively called the “ADSs”. The Ordinary Shares represented by the Firm ADSs are hereinafter called the “Firm Shares” and the Ordinary Shares represented by the Optional ADSs are hereinafter called the “Optional Shares”, and the Firm Shares and the Optional Shares are herein collectively called the “Shares.”
The ADSs are to be issued pursuant to a deposit agreement (the “Deposit Agreement”), to be dated as of October , 2007, among the Company, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as depositary (the “Depositary”), and holders from time to time of the American Depositary Receipts (the “ADRs”) issued by the Depositary and evidencing the ADSs. Each ADS will initially represent the right to receive one Ordinary Share deposited pursuant to the Deposit Agreement.
It is understood by all the parties that the Underwriters are offering ADSs in the United States and internationally outside of the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”), which, for purposes of this Agreement only, excludes Taiwan, The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and The Macau Special Administrative Region.
1. (a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters that:
(i) A registration statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-146437) (the “Initial Registration Statement”) in respect of the Shares has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”); the Initial Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, each in the form heretofore delivered to you, and, excluding exhibits thereto, to you for each of the other Underwriters, have been declared effective by the Commission in such form; other than a registration statement, if any, increasing the size of the offering (a “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement”), filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), which became or will become effective upon filing, no other document with respect to the Initial Registration Statement has heretofore been filed with the Commission; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Initial Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment thereto or the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or threatened by the Commission (any preliminary prospectus included in the Initial Registration Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the rules and regulations of the Commission under the Act is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus”; the various parts of the Initial Registration Statement and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, including all exhibits thereto and including the information contained in the form of final prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof and deemed by virtue of Rule 430A under the Act to be part of the Initial Registration Statement at the time it was declared effective, each as amended at the time such part of the Initial Registration Statement became effective or such part of the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, became or hereafter becomes effective, are hereinafter collectively called the “Registration Statement”; the Preliminary Prospectus relating to the Shares and the ADSs that was included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined in Section 1(iii) hereof) is hereinafter called the “Pricing Prospectus”; such final prospectus, in the form first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, is hereinafter called the “Prospectus”; and any “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433 under the Act relating to the Shares and the ADSs is hereinafter called an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”);
(ii) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein;
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(iii) For the purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Time” is : m (New York City time) on the date of this Agreement; the Pricing Prospectus as supplemented by the pricing information listed in Schedule III attached hereto and the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses included in the Pricing Disclosure Package as specified in Schedule III, taken together (collectively, the “Pricing Disclosure Package”) as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed in Schedule III attached hereto does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus and each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein;
(iv) The Registration Statement conforms, and the Prospectus and any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus will conform, in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and do not and will not, as of the applicable effective date as to the Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and as of the applicable filing date as to the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein;
(v) A registration statement on Form F-6 (File No. 333- ) in respect of the ADSs has been filed with the Commission; such registration statement in the form heretofore delivered to you and, excluding exhibits, to you for each of the other Underwriters, has been declared effective by the Commission in such form; no other document with respect to such registration statement has heretofore been filed with the Commission; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of such registration statement has been issued and, to the knowledge of the Company, Xiaogong Jia and Weizhou Lian, as applicable, after due inquiry, no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or threatened by the Commission (the various parts of such registration statement, including all exhibits thereto, each as amended at the time such part of the registration statement became effective, being hereinafter called the “ADS Registration Statement”); and the ADS Registration Statement when it became effective conformed, and any further amendments thereto will conform, in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did not, as of the applicable effective date, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading;
(vi) A registration statement on Form 8-A (File No. No. 001-3372) in respect of the registration of the Shares and the ADSs under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), has been filed with the Commission; such registration statement in the form heretofore delivered to you and, excluding exhibits, to you for each of the other Underwriters, has been declared effective by the Commission in such form; no other document with respect to such registration statement has heretofore been filed with the Commission; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of such registration statement has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or threatened by the Commission (the various parts of such registration statement, including all exhibits thereto, each as amended at the time such part of the registration statement became effective, being hereinafter called the “Form 8-A Registration Statement”); and the Form 8-A Registration
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Statement when it became effective conformed, and any further amendments thereto will conform, in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did not and will not, as of the applicable effective date, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading;
(vii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (as defined in Clause 1a(viii) below) has sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus; and, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus, there has not been any change in the share capital, any incurrence of material short-term debt or long-term debt of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as defined in Clause 1a(viii) below) or any other material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined in Clause 1a(viii) below), otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus;
(viii) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a company in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Prospectus, and has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties or conducts any business so as to require such qualification, or is subject to no material liability or disability by reason of the failure to be so qualified in any such jurisdiction; and each of Longtop Financial Technologies Limited (“Longtop BVI”), State Prime Technology Limited (“State Prime”), Grand Legend Holdings Limited (“Grand Legend”), Xiamen Longtop System Co., Ltd. (“Longtop System”), Xiamen Longtop Technology Co., Ltd. (“Longtop Technology”), Xiamen Longtop Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Longtop Information”), Beijing Longtop Technology Co., Ltd. (“Beijing Longtop”), Shanghai Longtop Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Longtop”), Guangzhou FEnet Information Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Guangzhou FEnet”) and Advanced Business Services (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“ABS,” and together with Longtop BVI, State Prime, Grand Legend, Longtop Technology, Longtop Information, Beijing Longtop, Shanghai Longtop and Guangzhou FEnet, the “Subsidiaries”) has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, with power and authority (corporate or other) to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Prospectus, and has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties or conducts any business so as to require such qualification, or is subject to no material liability or disability by reason of the failure to be so qualified in any such jurisdiction; as of the date of this Agreement, except for the Subsidiaries, the Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any equity or other ownership interest in any corporation, partnership, joint venture or any other person;
(ix) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has good and valid title to all real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by it, including, except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, all Intellectual Properties, free and clear of all liens, charges, encumbrances, and defects, except such as are described in the Pricing Prospectus or such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by each of the Company and its Subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings leased by the Company and its Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company and its Subsidiaries;
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(x) The Company and its Subsidiaries maintain insurance covering their respective properties and product liabilities as the Company and its Subsidiaries reasonably deem adequate in accordance with customary industry practice; such insurance insures against such losses and risks to an extent which is adequate to protect the Company and its Subsidiaries and their respective businesses; all such insurance is fully in force on the date hereof and will be fully in force at the time of purchase and each additional time of purchase, if any; neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has reason to believe that it will not be able to renew any such insurance as and when such insurance expires; and there is no material insurance claim made by or against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, pending, to the knowledge of the Company after due inquiry, threatened or outstanding and no facts or circumstances exist which would reasonably be expected to give rise to any such claim and all due premiums in respect thereof have been paid;
(xi) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent or received any communication regarding early termination of any of the contracts or agreements referred to or described in the Pricing Prospectus, or referred to or described in, or filed as an exhibit to, the Registration Statement, and no such termination has been threatened by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any other party to any such contract or agreement;
(xii) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has all necessary licenses, franchises, concessions, consents, authorizations, approvals, orders, certificates and permits of and from, and has made all declarations and filings with, all governmental agencies to own, lease, license and use its properties, assets and conduct its business in the manner described in the Pricing Prospectus, except where the lack of which would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the conditions (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business operations, properties or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole (“ Material Adverse Effect”), and such licenses, franchises, concessions, consents, authorizations, approvals, orders, certificates or permits contain no material restrictions or conditions not described in the Pricing Prospectus; and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has a reasonable basis to believe that any regulatory body is considering modifying, suspending or revoking any such licenses, consents, authorizations, approvals, orders, certificates or permits, and the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with the provisions of all such licenses, consents, authorizations, approvals, orders, certificates or permits except where the lack of which would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(xiii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is (A) in breach of or in default under any laws, regulations, rules, orders, decrees, guidelines or notices of the PRC, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands (the “BVI”) and any other jurisdiction where it was incorporated or operates, (B) in breach of or in default under any approval, consent, waiver, authorization, exemption, permission, endorsement or license granted by any court or governmental agency or body of any stock exchange authorities (“Governmental Agency”) in the PRC, the Cayman Islands, the BVI or any other jurisdiction where it was incorporated or operates, (C) in violation of its constituent documents or (D) in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other material agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound except where such breach, violation or default is disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus;
(xiv) The Company has an authorized and paid-in capitalization as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, and all of the issued shares capital of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and all of the issued Ordinary Shares conform in all material respects to the description of the Ordinary Shares contained in the Pricing Prospectus; and all of the issued shares capital of each of the Subsidiaries of the Company have been duly and validly authorized
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and issued, and are fully paid and non-assessable; all of the issued shares capital Longtop BVI are duly and validly owned by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims; Longtop BVI duly and validly owns all of the equity interest in Longtop System, State Prime and Grand Legend, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims; Grand Legend duly and validly owns all of the equity interest in ABS, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims; Longtop System duly and validly owns the equity interest in Longtop Technology and Longtop Information, and, through Longtop Technology and Longtop Information, indirectly owns Beijing Longtop and Shanghai Longtop in the percentages set forth in the Pricing Prospectus under the caption “Our Corporate History and Structure,” free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims; the holders of outstanding Ordinary Shares are not entitled to preemptive or other rights to acquire the Shares or the ADSs; there are no outstanding securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or warrants, rights or options to purchase from the Company, or obligations of the Company to issue, Ordinary Shares or any other class of share capital of the Company except as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus under the captions “Capitalization” and “Related Party Transactions”; the Shares, when issued and delivered against payment therefor, may be freely deposited by the Company and the Selling Shareholders with the Depositary against issuance of ADRs evidencing ADSs; the ADSs, when issued and delivered against payment thereof, will be freely transferable by the Company and the Selling Shareholders to or for the account of the several Underwriters and (to the extent described in the Pricing Prospectus) the initial purchasers thereof; and there are no restrictions on subsequent transfers of the ADSs under the laws of the Cayman Islands, the PRC or the United States except as described in the Pricing Prospectus under the captions “Description of Share Capital”, “Description of American Depositary Shares” and “Shares Eligible for Future Sale”; there are no outstanding securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or warrants, rights or options to purchase from each of the Subsidiaries, or obligation of each of the Subsidiaries to issue equity shares or other class of share capital;
(xv) Except as described in the Registration Statement (excluding the exhibits thereto), the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, (A) no person has any preemptive rights, resale rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase any Ordinary Shares or shares of any other share capital of or other equity interests in the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and (B) no person has the right to act as an underwriter or as a financial advisor to the Company in connection with the offer and sale of the ADSs;
(xvi) The Shares to be issued underlying the ADSs to be sold by the Company to the Underwriters hereunder have been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable and will conform in all material respects to the description of the Ordinary Shares contained in the Prospectus;
(xvii) All of the Ordinary Shares issuable upon the mandatory conversion of the outstanding Series A Preferred Shares and Series B Preferred Shares (collectively, the “Preferred Shares”) as described in the Pricing Prospectus have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance; and, prior to or concurrently with the First Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4 hereof), all of the shares of Preferred Shares will be converted into Ordinary Shares and all such Ordinary Shares will be duly authorized, validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable;
(xviii) Except as disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such person or to require the Company to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the Act;
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(xix) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforceability, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles;
(xx) The Deposit Agreement has been duly authorized and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Depositary, will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforceability, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; upon issuance by the Depositary of ADRs evidencing ADSs and the deposit of Shares in respect thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Deposit Agreement, such ADRs will be duly and validly issued and the persons in whose names the ADRs are registered will be entitled to the rights specified therein and in the Deposit Agreement; and the Deposit Agreement and the ADRs conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Prospectus;
(xxi) All dividends and other distributions declared and payable on the shares of share capital of the Company may under the current laws and regulations of the Cayman Islands be paid to the Depositary, and all such dividends and other distributions will not be subject to withholding or other taxes under the laws and regulations of the Cayman Islands and are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding or deduction in the Cayman Islands and without the necessity of obtaining any consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations, clearances or qualifications of or with any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties (hereinafter referred to as “Governmental Authorizations”) in the Cayman Islands;
(xxii) All dividends and other distributions declared and payable on the shares of share capital of Longtop BVI may under the current laws and regulations of the BVI be paid to the Company, and all such dividends and other distributions will not be subject to withholding or other taxes under the laws and regulations of the BVI and are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding or deduction in the BVI and without the necessity of obtaining any Governmental Authorization in the BVI;
(xxiii) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, dividends declared with respect to after-tax retained earnings on the equity interests of Longtop System, ABS and Guangzhou FEnet may under the current laws and regulations of the PRC be paid to Longtop BVI in U.S. dollars, subject to the successful completion of PRC formalities required for such remittances and all such dividends and other distributions will not be subject to withholding or other taxes under the laws and regulations of the PRC and are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding or deduction in the PRC, and without the necessity of obtaining any Governmental Authorization in the PRC;
(xxiv) The issue and sale of the Shares to be sold by the Company hereunder and the deposit of the Shares being deposited with the Depositary against issuance of the ADRs evidencing the ADSs and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not (A) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, (B) result in any violation of the provisions of the constituent documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (C) result in any violation of any statute or any order, Rule or Regulation of any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets;
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(xxv) No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration, clearance or qualification of or with any Governmental Agency is required for the issue and sale of the Shares or the ADSs, for the deposit of the Shares being deposited with the Depositary against issuance of ADRs evidencing the ADSs to be delivered or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement, except (A) the registration under the Act of the Shares and the ADSs and listing of the Shares and the ADSs on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), (B) such Governmental Authorizations as have been duly obtained and are in full force and effect and copies of which have been furnished to you, (C) such Governmental Authorizations as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws or any laws of jurisdictions outside the Cayman Islands, the BVI and the United States in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares and ADSs by or for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters and (D) otherwise disclosed in the Registration Agreement and the Prospectus;
(xxvi) ADSs have been approved for listing on the NYSE, subject to notice of issuance;
(xxvii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in any trading activities involving commodity contracts or other trading contracts which are not currently traded on a securities or commodities exchange and for which the market value cannot be determined;
(xxviii) No stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes are payable by or on behalf of the Underwriters to the government of the Cayman Islands, the BVI or the PRC, or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein in connection with: (A) the deposit with the Depositary of the Shares by the Company and Selling Shareholders against the issuance of ADRs evidencing the ADSs, (B) the sale and delivery by the Company and Selling Shareholders of the Shares and the ADSs to or for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters or (C) the sale and delivery by the Underwriters of the Shares and the ADSs to the initial purchasers thereof in the manner contemplated by this Agreement;
(xxix) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has taken, directly or indirectly, any action which was designed to or which has constituted or which might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares and the ADSs;
(xxx) The statements set forth in the Pricing Prospectus under the captions “Description of Share Capital” and “Description of American Depositary Shares”, insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Ordinary Shares and the ADSs, respectively, and under the captions “Taxation” and “Underwriting”, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, are accurate, complete and fair;
(xxxi) Other than as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, there are no legal, arbitration or governmental proceedings (including, without limitation, governmental investigations or inquiries) pending to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company’s directors and officers is a party or of which any property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is the subject (A) that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company’s directors and executive officers, would have or be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect; or (B) that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Pricing Prospectus and are not so described; and except as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others;
(xxxii) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares and ADSs and the application of the proceeds thereof, will not be an “investment company”, as such term is defined in the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”);
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(xxxiii) Each of this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement is in proper form to be enforceable against the Company in the Cayman Islands in accordance with its terms; to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility into evidence in the Cayman Islands of this Agreement or the Deposit Agreement, it is not necessary that this Agreement or the Deposit Agreement be filed or recorded with any court or other authority in the Cayman Islands or that any stamp or similar tax in the Cayman Islands be paid on or in respect of this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement or any other documents to be furnished hereunder;
(xxxiv) The Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Form 8-A Registration Statement and the ADS Registration Statement and the filing of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Form 8-A Registration Statement and the ADS Registration Statement with the Commission have been duly authorized by and on behalf of the Company, and the Registration Statement, the Form 8-A Registration Statement and the ADS Registration Statement have been duly executed pursuant to such authorization by and on behalf of the Company;
(xxxv) Except as disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, in each case, (A) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries owns, possesses, licenses or has sufficient rights to use the patents and patent applications, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, Internet domain names, technology, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary rights) and other intellectual property necessary or used in any material respect to conduct their business in the manner in which it is being conducted and in the manner in which it is contemplated as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”); (B) none of the Intellectual Property is unenforceable or invalid; (C) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice of violation or conflict with (and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries knows of any basis for violation or conflict with) rights of others with respect to the Intellectual Property; (D) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company after due inquiry, reasons to expect threatened actions, suits, proceedings or claims by others that allege the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is infringing any patent, trade secret, trademark, service xxxx, copyright or other intellectual property or proprietary right; (E) the discoveries, inventions, products or processes of the Company and its Subsidiaries do not violate or conflict with any intellectual property or proprietary right of any third person, or any discovery, invention, product or process that is the subject of a patent application filed by any third person; (F) the Company and its Subsidiaries are not in breach of, and have complied in all material respects with all terms of, any license or other agreement relating to the Intellectual Property; to the extent any Intellectual Property is sublicensed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by a third party, such sublicensed rights shall continue in full force and effect if the principal third party license terminates for any reason; and there are no contracts or other documents related to the Intellectual Property required to be described in or filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement other than those described in or filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement; (G) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any non-competition or other similar restriction agreement or arrangement relating to any business or service anywhere in the world; (H) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has taken all necessary and appropriate steps to protect and preserve the confidentiality of applicable Intellectual Property (“Confidential Information”). All use or disclosure of Confidential Information owned by the Company or its Subsidiaries by or to a third party has been pursuant to a written agreement between the Company, its Subsidiaries and such third party. All use or disclosure of Confidential Information not owned by the Company or its Subsidiaries has been pursuant to the terms of a written agreement between the Company, its Subsidiaries, and the owner of such Confidential Information, or is otherwise lawful; (I) none of the software products of the Company or its Subsidiaries have been or are being distributed, in whole or in part, or were used, or are being used by the Company or its Subsidiaries in conjunction with any Public Software. “Public Software” means any software that contains, or is derived in any manner (in whole or in part) from, any software that is distributed as free software, open source software (e.g., Linux) or similar licensing or distribution models, including software licensed or distributed under any of the following licenses or distribution models, or licenses or distribution models similar to
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any of the following: (a) GNU’s General Public License (GPL) or Lesser/Library GPL (LGPL), (b) the Artistic License (e.g., PERL), (c) the Mozilla Public License, (d) the Netscape Public License, (e) the Sun Community Source License (SCSL), (f) the Sun Industry Standards License (SISL), (g) the BSD License, and (h) the Apache License;
(xxxvi) The Company has not been and does not expect to be a Passive Foreign Investment Company (“PFIC”) within the meaning of Section 1297(a) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for the taxable year 2007, and will use its best efforts not to take any action that would result in the Company becoming a PFIC in the future;
(xxxvii) Except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus, the Company has not sold, issued or distributed any shares during the six-month period preceding the date hereof, including any sales pursuant to Rule 144A, Regulation D or Regulation S promulgated under the Act, other than shares issued pursuant to employee benefit plans, qualified share option plans or other employee compensation plans or pursuant to outstanding options, rights or warrants;
(xxxviii) The Company is a “foreign private issuer” within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act;
(xxxix) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd., who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries, are independent public accountants of the Company as required by the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and are independent in accordance with the requirements of the United States Public Company Accounting Oversight Board;
(xl) Except as described in the Pricing Prospectus, no material indebtedness (actual or contingent) and no material contract or arrangement is outstanding between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and any director or executive officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any person connected with such director or executive officer (including his/her spouse, infant children, any company or undertaking in which he/she holds a controlling interest); and there are no material relationships or transactions between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on the one hand and its affiliates, officers and directors or their shareholders, customers or suppliers on the other hand which, although required to be disclosed, are not disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus;
(xli) Except as described in the Pricing Prospectus, the Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“US GAAP”); (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate actions are taken with respect to any differences; and (E) the Company has made and kept books, records and accounts which, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of assets of such entity;
(xlii) Each of the Company and the subsidiaries maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with US GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect thereto;
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(xliii) The statements set forth in the Pricing Prospectus under the caption “Risk Factor-There have been historical deficiencies with our internal controls and there remain areas of our internal and disclosure controls that require improvement. If we fail to establish or maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may be unable to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud, and investor confidence and the market price of our shares may, therefore, be adversely impacted.” insofar as they purport to describe the internal control of the Company and its Subsidiaries are true, accurate, complete and fair summaries in all material respects as of the date set forth therein;
(xliv) Except as described in the Pricing Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any material obligation to provide retirement, healthcare, death or disability benefits to any of the present or past employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or to any other person;
(xlv) No material labor dispute, work stoppage, slow down or other conflict with the employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company after due inquiry, is threatened;
(xlvi) The Section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” in the Pricing Prospectus truly, accurately and completely in all material respects describes: (A) accounting policies which the Company believes are the most important in the portrayal of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations and which require management’s most difficult, subjective or complex judgments (“Critical Accounting Policies”); (B) judgments and uncertainties affecting the application of Critical Accounting Policies; and (C) the likelihood that materially different amounts would be reported under different conditions or using different assumptions; and the Company’s Board of Directors and management have reviewed and agreed with the selection, application and disclosure of Critical Accounting Policies and have consulted with its legal counsel and independent accountants with regard to such disclosure;
(xlvii) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has: (A) entered into or assumed any contract, (B) incurred or agreed to incur any liability (including any contingent liability) or other obligation, (C) acquired or disposed of or agreed to acquire or dispose of any business or any other asset or (D) assumed or acquired or agreed to assume or acquire any liabilities (including contingent liabilities), that would, in any of clauses (A) through (D) above, be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries and that are not otherwise described in the Pricing Prospectus;
(xlviii) The Section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources” in the Pricing Prospectus accurately and fully describes: (A) all material trends, commitments, events, uncertainties and risks, and the potential effects thereof, that the Company believes would materially affect liquidity and are reasonably likely to occur; and (B) all off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, and obligations, including, without limitation, relationships with unconsolidated entities that are contractually limited to narrow activities that facilitate the transfer of or access to assets by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, such as structured finance entities and special purpose entities (collectively, “off-balance sheet arrangements”) that are reasonably likely to have a material effect on the liquidity of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the availability thereof or the requirements of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for capital resources; and (C) all factors that are reasonably likely to affect the ability of the Company or its Subsidiaries to continue using off-balance sheet arrangements;
(xlix) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in any material transactions with its directors, officers, management, shareholders, or any other affiliate, including any person who formerly held a position as directors, officers, managers and/or shareholders, on terms that are not available from unrelated third parties on an arm’s-length basis;
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(l) The descriptions of the acquisition of ABS and Fenet Corporation Limited (the “Acquisitions”) set forth in the Prospectus under the captions “Risk Factor – Risk Relating to Our Business”, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Business” are true and correct in all material respects;
(li) Each of the documents or agreements executed by the Company in connection with the Acquisitions (collectively, the “Acquisitions Documents”) has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Company, and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforceability, to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles;
(lii) The Acquisitions and the execution, delivery and performance of the Acquisitions Documents do not (A) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary or by which the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary is subject, (B) result in any violation of the provisions of the articles of association, business license or other constituent documents of the Company or any Subsidiary or (C) result in any material violation of any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any Subsidiary;
(liii) All consents, approvals authorizations, orders, registrations and qualifications required in connection with the Acquisitions and the execution, delivery and performance of the Acquisitions Documents have been made or unconditionally obtained in writing; and no such consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification has been withdrawn or is subject to any condition precedent which has not been fulfilled or performed except where the failure to obtain such consent, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(liv) No holder of any of the Shares or the ADSs after the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Deposit Agreement is or will be subject to any personal liability in respect of any liability of the Company by virtue only of its holding of any such Shares or ADSs; and except as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, there are no limitations on the rights of holders of the Shares or the ADSs to hold, vote or transfer their securities;
(lv) The audited and unaudited consolidated financial statements (and the notes and schedules thereto) of the Company and Grand Legend Holdings Limited and their subsidiaries included in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus (including without limitation interim financial statements) fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the respective entities as of the dates specified and the consolidated results of operations and changes in consolidated financial position of the respective entities for the periods specified, and such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with US GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods presented (other than as described therein); the summary and selected consolidated financial data and other unaudited financial information contained in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus (including without limitation unaudited yearly and interim financial statements and unaudited quarterly financial information included in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus) present fairly the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited consolidated financial statements included therein subject, in the case of unaudited interim financial information, to ordinary year-end adjustments consistent with past practice, and the assumptions used in preparing the pro forma financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus as of the dates specified
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provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the transactions or events described therein, the related pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions, and the pro forma columns therein reflect the proper application of those adjustments to the corresponding historical financial statement amounts; the other operating data and information contained in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, if any, has been accurately and fairly presented and prepared on a basis consistent with the financial statements and books and records of the Company; and the financial information of the Company included under “Recent Developments” in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus with respect to the quarter ended September 30, 2007 is (i) true and correct in all material respects and (ii) has been derived from (in the case of revenue amounts) or estimated in good faith (in other cases) from the Company’s accounting books and records; and the Company has in good faith reasonably determined that for the quarter ended September 30, 2007 the Company’s US GAAP total revenue will be not less than $19.0 million, US GAAP revenue from software development will be not less than $17.2 million, the gross margin percentage (excluding the impact of the acquisition of Fenet as described in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus) will exceed 71.5% and the operating income for the third quarter of 2007 will not be less than the operating income for the three months ended June 30, 2007;
(lvi) Under the laws of the Cayman Islands, each holder of ADRs evidencing ADSs issued pursuant to the Deposit Agreement shall be entitled, subject to the Deposit Agreement, to seek enforcement of its rights through the Depositary or its nominee as representative of the holders of the ADRs in a suit, action or proceeding against the Company;
(lvii) All amounts payable by the Company in respect of the ADRs evidencing the ADSs or the underlying Shares shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on account of any taxes imposed, assessed or levied by the Cayman Islands or any authority thereof or therein (except such income taxes as may otherwise be imposed by the Cayman Islands on payments hereunder to an Underwriter whose net income is subject to tax by the Cayman Islands or withholding, if any, with respect to any such income tax) nor are any taxes imposed in the Cayman Islands on, or by virtue of the execution or delivery of, such documents;
(lviii) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has paid all material taxes required to be paid through the date hereof and all material returns, reports or filings which ought to have been made by or in respect of the Company and its Subsidiaries for taxation purposes as required by the law of the jurisdictions where the Company and its Subsidiaries are incorporated, managed or engage in business have been made and all such returns are correct and on a proper basis in all material respects and are not the subject of any dispute with the relevant revenue or other appropriate authorities; all material taxes and other assessments of a similar nature (whether imposed directly or through withholding) including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto due or claimed to be due from such authorities have been paid in full except as may be being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings; the provisions included in the audited and unaudited consolidated financial statements as set out in the Pricing Prospectus included appropriate provisions required under US GAAP for all taxation in respect of accounting periods ended on or before the accounting reference date to which such audited accounts relate for which the Company was then or might reasonably be expected thereafter to become or have become liable; and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received notice of any tax deficiency with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(lix) The Company has provided or made available to you true, correct, and complete copies of all documentation pertaining to any extension of credit in the form of a personal loan made, directly or indirectly, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any director or executive officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and since September 30, 2007, none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has, directly or indirectly, including through any of its Subsidiaries: (A) extended credit, arranged to extend credit, or renewed any extension of credit, in the form of a personal loan, to or for any director or executive officer of the Company, or to or for any family member or affiliate of any director or executive officer of the Company; or (B) made any material modification, including any renewal thereof, to any term of any personal loan to any
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director or executive officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any family member or affiliate of any director or executive officer, which loan was outstanding on September 30, 2007, that (x) is outstanding on the date hereof and (y) constitutes a violation of any applicable law or regulation;
(lx) Any statistical and market-related data included in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate, and the Company has obtained the written consent for the use of such data from such sources to the extent required;
(lxi) The application of the net proceeds from the offering of ADSs, as described in the Prospectus, will not contravene any provision of any current and applicable laws or the current constituent documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or contravene the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument currently binding upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Governmental Authorization applicable to any of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(lxii) There are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with the issuance and sale of the ADSs;
(lxiii) Under the laws of the Cayman Islands, the courts of the Cayman Islands will recognize and give effect to the choice of law provisions set forth in Section 15 hereof and enforce judgments of U.S. courts obtained against the Company to enforce this Agreement; under the laws of the PRC, the choice of law provisions set forth in Section 15 hereof will be recognized by the courts of the PRC and any judgment obtained in any New York Court (as defined in Section 8(d) hereof) arising out of or in relation to the obligations of the Company under this Agreement will be recognized in PRC courts subject to the applicable provisions of the Civil Procedure Law of the PRC relating to the enforceability of foreign judgments;
(lxiv) None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, and any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, has used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to a political activity, made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; or made any unlawful bribe, payoff, influence payment, kickback, payment or rebate;
(lxv) The descriptions of the events and transactions relating to the re-domiciling in the Cayman Islands set forth in the Pricing Prospectus under the captions “Our Corporate History and Structure” (the “Restructuring”) are accurate, complete and fair;
(lxvi) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, the Restructuring does not (A) contravene any provision of applicable law or statute, Rule or Regulation of any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties (including, without limitation, the Ministry of Commerce, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the State Administration of Taxation and their respective local counterparts in the PRC), (B) contravene the articles of association, business license or other constituent documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (C) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by
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which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, or (D) result in any liability or charge on the part of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(lxvii) All Governmental Authorizations required in connection with the Restructuring have been made or unconditionally obtained in writing, and no such Governmental Authorization has been withdrawn or is subject to any condition precedent which has not been fulfilled or performed;
(lxviii) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, each of the Company and its Subsidiaries that were incorporated outside of the PRC has taken, or is in the process of taking, all reasonable steps to comply with, and to make good faith effort to ensure compliance by each of its shareholders, option holders, directors, officers and employees who are, or are directly or indirectly owned or controlled by, PRC residents or citizens with any applicable rules and regulations of the relevant PRC government agencies (including but not limited to the Ministry of Commerce, the CSRC, the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange) relating to overseas investment by PRC residents and citizens or overseas listing by offshore special purpose vehicles controlled directly or indirectly by PRC companies and individuals, such as the Company (the “PRC Overseas Investment and Listing Regulations”), including without limitation, requiring each shareholder, option holder, director, officer and employees that is, or is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by, a PRC resident or citizen to complete any registration and other procedures required under applicable PRC Overseas Investment and Listing Regulations;
(lxix) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, (A) the Restructuring and the legal documents governing the Restructuring have been effected prior to the date hereof in compliance with the Rules on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors jointly promulgated by the Ministry of Commerce, the State Asset Administration Commission, the State Tax Bureau, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of the PRC on August 8, 2006 (the “M&A Rules”) and any official clarifications guidance, interpretations or implementation rules in connection with or related to the M&A Rules (collectively, the “M&A Rules and Related Clarifications”); (B) (i) the Restructuring, the legal documents governing the Restructuring and the consummation thereof and the execution and the delivery of each such document and the performance of the obligations thereunder and (ii) the issuance and sale of the Shares and the ADSs, the listing and trading of the ADSs on the NYSE and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement and the Power of Attorney did not, does not and will not contravene any provision of the M&A Rules and Related Clarifications; and (C) all consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations, filings and qualifications required under the M&A Rules and Related Clarifications in connection with (i) the Restructuring, the legal documents governing the Restructuring and the execution, delivery and performance of such documents and (ii) the issuance and sale of the Shares and the ADSs, the listing and trading of the ADSs on the NYSE and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement and the Power of Attorney have been made or unconditionally obtained in writing, including, without limitation, all actions necessary for the approval of the Restructuring, the legal documents governing the Restructuring, the issuance and sale of the Shares and the ADSs, the listing and trading of the ADSs on the NYSE and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement and the Power of Attorney by any governmental agency under the M&A Rules and Related Clarifications, and no such consent, approval, authorization, order, registration, filing or qualification has been withdrawn or revoked or is subject to any condition precedent which has not been fulfilled or performed;
(lxx) The statements set forth in the Pricing Prospectus under the captions “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Doing Business in China — The approval of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, or the CSRC, may be required in
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connection with this offering under a recently adopted PRC regulation; any requirement to obtain prior CSRC approval could delay this offering, and a failure to obtain this approval, if required, could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, reputation and trading price of our ADSs, and may also create uncertainties for this offering.” and “Regulations — Regulation on Overseas Listings” are fair and accurate summaries of the matters described therein, and nothing has been omitted from such summaries which would make the same misleading in any material respect;
(lxxi)(i) None of the Company or its Subsidiaries, employees, directors and officers and, to the Company’s knowledge, none of the Company’s agents: (a) does or plans to conduct or otherwise get involved with any business with or involving the government of, or any person or project located in, any country targeted by any of the economic sanctions promulgated by any Executive Order issued by the President of the United States or administered by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (the “OFAC”); (b) supports or facilitates or plans to support or facilitate or otherwise get involved with any such business or project; (ii) the Company is not controlled (within the meaning of the Executive Orders or regulations promulgating such economic sanctions or the laws authorizing such promulgation) by any such government or person; (iii) the proceeds from the offering of the ADSs contemplated hereby will not be used to fund any operations in, to finance any investments, projects or activities in, or to make any payments to, any country targeted by any of such economic sanctions, or to make any payments to, or finance any activities with, any person so targeted or any person in a country so targeted; and (iv) the Company maintains and has implemented adequate internal controls and procedures to monitor and audit transactions that are reasonably designed to detect and prevent any use of the proceeds from the offering of the ADSs contemplated hereby that is inconsistent with any of the Company’s representations and obligations under clause (iii) of this paragraph or in the Pricing Prospectus;
(lxxii) None of the Company or its Subsidiaries, employees, directors and officers and, to the Company’s knowledge, none of the Company’s agents does any business with the government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate located in Cuba within the meaning of Section 517.075, Florida Statutes;
(lxxiii) The Company and its Subsidiaries and their respective properties, assets and operations are in compliance with, and the Company and each of its Subsidiaries hold all permits, authorizations and approvals required under Environmental Laws (as defined below); there are no past, present or reasonably anticipated future events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices, actions, omissions or plans that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any material costs or liabilities to the Company or any Subsidiary under, or to interfere with or prevent compliance by the Company or any Subsidiary with, Environmental Laws; neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (A) is the subject of any investigation, (B) has received any notice or claim, (C) is a party to or affected by any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding, (D) is bound by any judgment, decree or order or (E) has entered into any agreement, in each case relating to any alleged violation of any Environmental Law or any actual or alleged release or threatened release or cleanup at any location of any Hazardous Materials (as defined below) (as used herein, “Environmental Law” means any national, provincial, municipal or other local or foreign law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, notice, directive, decree, judgment, injunction, permit, license, authorization or other binding requirement, or common law, relating to health, safety or the protection, cleanup or restoration of the environment or natural resources, including those relating to the distribution, processing, generation, treatment, storage, disposal, transportation, other handling or release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials, and “Hazardous Materials” means any material (including, without limitation, pollutants, contaminants, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes) that is regulated by or may give rise to liability under any Environmental Law);
(lxxiv) In the ordinary course of their business, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries conduct periodic reviews of the effect of the Environmental Laws on their respective businesses, operations and properties, in the course of which they identify
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and evaluate associated costs and liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for cleanup, closure of properties or compliance with the Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties);
(lxxv) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into any memorandum of understanding, letter of intent, definitive agreement or any similar agreements with respect to a merger or consolidation or a material acquisition or disposition of assets, technologies, business units or businesses;
(lxxvi) There are no affiliations or associations between (A) any member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”) and (B) the Company or any of the Company’s officers, directors or 5% or greater security holders or any beneficial owner of the Company’s unregistered equity securities that were acquired at any time on or after the 180th day immediately preceding the date the Registration Statement was initially filed with the Commission, except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement (excluding the exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus;
(lxxvii) There are no business relationships or related-party transactions involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any other person required to be described in the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus which have not been described as required; and
(lxxviii) Each “forward-looking statement” (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Act or Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, has been made or reaffirmed with a reasonable basis and in good faith.
In addition, any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and delivered to the Underwriters or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the ADSs shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each of the Underwriters.
(b) Each of the Selling Shareholders severally represents and warrants as to and in respect of itself to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters and the Company that:
(i) Such Selling Shareholder, if an entity, has been duly organized and is validly existing as a company or a limited partnership, as the case may be, in good standing in its jurisdiction of formation;
(ii) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, all Governmental Authorizations required for the deposit of the Shares being deposited by such Selling Shareholder with the Depositary against issuance of the ADRs evidencing the ADSs to be delivered at each Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4 hereof), for the sale and delivery of the ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder and for the execution and delivery by such Selling Shareholder of this Agreement, the Power of Attorney and the Custody Agreement hereinafter referred to, and for the sale and delivery of the ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder, have been obtained; and such Selling Shareholder has full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement, the Power of Attorney and the Custody Agreement and to sell, assign, transfer and deliver the ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder;
(iii) The sale of the ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder, the deposit of the Shares by such Selling Shareholder with the Depositary against issuance of the ADRs evidencing the ADSs to be delivered by such Selling Shareholder at each Time of Delivery and the compliance by such Selling Shareholder with all of the provisions of this Agreement, the
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Deposit Agreement, the Power of Attorney and the Custody Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which such Selling Shareholder is a party or by which such Selling Shareholder is bound, or to which any of the property or assets of such Selling Shareholder is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the constituent documents of such Selling Shareholder if such Selling Shareholder is a corporation, the partnership agreement of such Selling Shareholder if such Selling Shareholder is a partnership or any statute or any order, Rule or Regulation of any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over such Selling Shareholder or the property of such Selling Shareholder;
(iv) There are no affiliations or associations between any member of the NASD and such Selling Shareholder, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement (excluding the exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus; none of the proceeds received by such Selling Shareholder from the sale of the Shares and ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder will be paid to a member of the NASD or any affiliate of (or person “associated with,” as such terms are used in the Rules of the NASD) such member;
(v) Such Selling Shareholder has, and immediately prior to each Time of Delivery such Selling Shareholder will have, good and valid title to the Shares to be represented by the ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder at such Time of Delivery, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims; and, upon delivery of the ADSs representing such Shares and payment therefor pursuant hereto, good and valid title to such ADSs, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims, will pass to the several Underwriters;
(vi) Neither such Selling Shareholder nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on its or their behalf has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed to or which has constituted or which might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares or the ADSs;
(vii) The sale of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to this Agreement is not prompted by any material information concerning the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which is not set forth in the Registration Statement (excluding the exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus;
(viii) Such Selling Shareholder has not, prior to the execution of this Agreement, offered or sold any Shares by means of any “prospectus” (within the meaning of the Act), or used any “prospectus” (within the meaning of the Act) in connection with the offer or sale of the Shares and ADSs, in each case other than the then most recent Preliminary Prospectus;
(ix) The Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, as it relates to such Selling Shareholder, complied and, as then amended or supplemented, will comply with all applicable provisions of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; the Registration Statement, as it relates to the Selling Shareholder, did not, as of its effective time, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; at no time during the period that begins on the earlier of the date of such Preliminary Prospectus and the date such Preliminary Prospectus was filed with the Commission and ends at the time of purchase did or will any Preliminary Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, as such Preliminary Prospectus relates to such Selling Shareholder, include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and at no
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time during such period did or will any Preliminary Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, together with any combination of one or more of the then issued Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, in each case as they relate to the Selling Shareholder, include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and at no time during the period that begins on the earlier of the date of the Prospectus and the date the Prospectus is filed with the Commission and ends at the later of the time of purchase, the latest additional time of purchase, if any, and the end of the period during which a prospectus is required by the Act to be delivered (whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under the Act or any similar rule) in connection with any sale of ADSs did or will the Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, as the Prospectus relates to such Selling Shareholder, include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and at no time during the period that begins on the date of such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and ends at the time of purchase did or will any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus relates to such Selling Shareholder, include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(x) The ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder, when issued and delivered against payment therefor, will be freely transferable by the Selling Shareholders to or for the account of the several Underwriters and (to the extent described in the Prospectus) the initial purchasers thereof; and there are no restrictions on subsequent transfers of such ADSs under the laws of the Cayman Islands, the PRC or the United States except as described in the Pricing Prospectus under the captions “Description of Share Capital”, “Description of American Depositary Shares” and “Shares Eligible for Future Sale”;
(xi) No stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes are payable by or on behalf of the Underwriters to the government of the Cayman Islands, the BVI or the PRC, or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein in connection with (A) the deposit with the Depositary of the Shares by such Selling Shareholder against the issuance of ADRs evidencing the ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder, (B) the sale and delivery by such Selling Shareholder of the Shares and the ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder to or for the respective accounts of the Underwriters or (C) the sale and delivery by the Underwriters of the Shares and such ADSs to the initial purchasers thereof;
(xii) All amounts payable by such Selling Shareholder under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on account of any taxes imposed, assessed or levied by the Cayman Islands, the BVI or the PRC or any authority thereof or therein, nor are any taxes imposed in the Cayman Islands, the BVI or the PRC on, or by virtue of the execution of this Agreement or the sale and delivery of the Shares and ADSs;
(xiii) Each of this Agreement, the Custody Agreement and the Power of Attorney has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of such Selling Shareholder, and is enforceable against such Selling Shareholder in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforceability, to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; and to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility into evidence in the Cayman Islands, the BVI or the PRC of this Agreement, it is not necessary that this Agreement, the Custody Agreement or the Power of Attorney be filed or recorded with any court or other authority in the Cayman Islands, the BVI or the PRC or that any stamp or similar tax in the Cayman Islands, the BVI or the PRC be paid on or in respect of this Agreement, the Custody Agreement or any other documents to be furnished hereunder;
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(xiv) Certificates in negotiable form representing all of the Shares and ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder have been placed in custody under a Custody Agreement (the “Custody Agreement”), in the form heretofore furnished to you, duly executed and delivered by such Selling Shareholder to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as custodian (the “Custodian”), and such Selling Shareholder has duly executed and delivered a Power of Attorney (the “Power of Attorney”), in the form heretofore furnished to you, appointing the persons indicated in Schedule II attached hereto, and each of them, as such Selling Shareholder’s attorneys-in-fact (the “Attorneys-in-Fact”) with authority to execute and deliver this Agreement on behalf of such Selling Shareholder, to determine the purchase price to be paid by the Underwriters to the Selling Shareholders as provided in Section 2 hereof, to authorize the delivery of the Shares and ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder and otherwise to act on behalf of such Selling Shareholder in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Custody Agreement;
(xv) The Shares represented by the certificates held in custody for such Selling Shareholder under the Custody Agreement are subject to the interests of the Underwriters hereunder; the arrangements made by such Selling Shareholder for such custody, and the appointment by such Selling Shareholder of the Attorneys-in-Fact by the Power of Attorney, are to that extent irrevocable; the obligations of the Selling Shareholders hereunder shall not be terminated by operation of law, whether by the death or incapacity of any individual Selling Shareholder or, in the case of an estate or trust, by the death or incapacity of any executor or trustee or the termination of such estate or trust, or in the case of a partnership or corporation, by the dissolution of such partnership or corporation, or by the occurrence of any other event; if any individual Selling Shareholder or any such executor or trustee should die or become incapacitated, or if any such estate or trust should be terminated, or if any such partnership or corporation should be dissolved, or if any other such event should occur, before the delivery of the Shares and ADSs hereunder, certificates representing the Shares and ADSs shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Selling Shareholders in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and of the Custody Agreement; and actions taken by the Attorneys-in-Fact pursuant to the Powers of Attorney shall be as valid as if such death, incapacity, termination, dissolution or other event had not occurred, regardless of whether or not the Custodian, the Attorneys-in-Fact, or any of them, shall have received notice of such death, incapacity, termination, dissolution or other event;
(xvi) Other than this Agreement, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between such Selling Shareholder and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against such Selling Shareholder or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares and the ADSs;
(xvii) In order to document the Underwriters’ compliance with the reporting and withholding provisions of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 with respect to the transactions herein contemplated, such Selling Shareholder will deliver to you prior to or at the First Time of Delivery (as hereinafter defined) a properly completed and executed United States Treasury Department Form W-8BEN (or other applicable form or statement specified by Treasury Department regulations in lieu thereof);
(xviii) (i) Neither such Selling Shareholder nor any of its Subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, directors and officers and, to the Company’s knowledge, none of the Company’s agents : (a) does or plans to conduct or otherwise get involved with any business with or involving the government of, or any person or project located in, any country targeted by any of the economic sanctions promulgated by any Executive Order issued by the President of the United States or administered by OFAC; (b) supports or facilitates or plans to support or facilitate or otherwise get involved with any such business or project; (ii) such Selling Shareholder is not controlled (within the meaning of the Executive Orders or regulations promulgating such economic sanctions or the laws authorizing such promulgation) by any such government or person; and (iii) the proceeds received by such Selling Shareholder from the sale of ADSs pursuant to this Agreement will not be used to fund any operations in, to finance any
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investments, projects or activities in, or to make any payments to, any country targeted by any of such economic sanctions, or to make any payments to, or finance any activities with, any person so targeted or any person in a country so targeted; and (iv) such Selling Shareholder maintains and has implemented adequate internal controls and procedures to monitor and audit transactions that are reasonably designed to detect and prevent any use of the proceeds from the offering of the ADSs contemplated hereby that is inconsistent with any of the Company’s representations and obligations under clause (iii) of this paragraph or in the Pricing Prospectus;
(xix) Neither such Selling Shareholder nor any of its Subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, directors and officers and, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, none of the Company’s agents does any business with the government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate located in Cuba within the meaning of Section 517.075, Florida Statutes; and
(xx) Such Selling Shareholder has reviewed the Pricing Disclosure Package and the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 hereof and, to such Selling Shareholder’s knowledge, the Pricing Disclosure Package does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
In addition, any certificate signed by any Selling Shareholders (or, with respect to any Selling Shareholder that is not an individual, any officer of such Selling Shareholder or of any of such Selling Shareholder’s Subsidiaries) or by any representative of the Selling Shareholders and delivered to the Underwriters or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the ADSs shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by such Selling Shareholder, as to matters covered thereby, to each of the Underwriters.
2. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, (a) the Company and each Selling Shareholder agree, severally and not jointly, to sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company and each of the Selling Shareholders, at a purchase price per ADS of US$ , the number of Firm ADSs (to be adjusted by you so as to eliminate fractional shares) determined by multiplying the aggregate number of Firm ADSs to be sold by the Company and each of the Selling Shareholders as set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule II attached hereto by a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate number of Firm ADSs to be purchased by such Underwriter as set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I attached hereto and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of Firm ADSs to be purchased by all of the Underwriters from the Company and all of the Selling Shareholders hereunder and (b) in the event and to the extent that the Underwriters shall exercise the election to purchase Optional ADSs as provided below, the Company and each Selling Shareholder agree, severally and not jointly, to sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company and each of the Selling Shareholders, at the purchase price per ADS set forth in clause (a) of this Section 2, that portion of the number of Optional ADSs as to which such election shall have been exercised (to be adjusted by you so as to eliminate fractional shares) determined by multiplying such number of Optional ADSs by a fraction the numerator of which is the maximum number of Optional ADSs which such Underwriter is entitled to purchase as set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I attached hereto and the denominator of which is the maximum number of Optional ADSs that all of the Underwriters are entitled to purchase hereunder.
The Company and each Selling Shareholder, as and to the extent indicated in Schedule II attached hereto, hereby grant, severally and not jointly, to the Underwriters the right to purchase at their election up to 1.565.500 Optional ADSs, at the purchase price per ADS set forth in the paragraph above, for the sole purpose of covering sales of shares in excess of the number of Firm ADSs. Any such election to purchase Optional ADSs shall be made in proportion to the maximum number of Optional ADSs to be sold by the Company and each Selling Shareholder as set forth in Schedule II attached hereto initially with respect to the Optional ADSs to be sold by the Company and then among the Selling Shareholders in proportion to the maximum number of Optional ADSs to be sold by
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each Selling Shareholder as set forth in Schedule II attached hereto. Any such election to purchase Optional ADSs may be exercised only by written notice from you to the Company, given within a period of 30 calendar days after the date of this Agreement and setting forth the aggregate number of Optional ADSs to be purchased and the date on which such Optional ADSs are to be delivered, as determined by you but in no event earlier than the First Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4 hereof) or, unless you, the Company and the Selling Shareholders otherwise agree in writing, earlier than two or later than ten business days after the date of such notice.
3. Upon the authorization by you of the release of the Firm ADSs, the several Underwriters propose to offer the Firm ADSs for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus.
4. (a) The ADSs to be purchased by each Underwriter hereunder, in definitive form, and in such authorized denominations and registered in such names as the Representatives may request upon at least forty-eight hours’ notice to the Company and the Selling Shareholders prior to a Time of Delivery (as defined below) (the “Notification Time”), shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company and the Selling Shareholders to the Representatives, through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), for the account of such Underwriter, against payment by or on behalf of such Underwriter of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of Federal (same-day) funds to the account(s) specified by the Company and the Selling Shareholders to the Representatives at least forty-eight hours in advance of such Time of Delivery. The Company and the Selling Shareholders will cause the certificates representing the ADSs to be made available for checking at least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of Delivery with respect thereto at the office of DTC or its designated custodian (the “Designated Office”). The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be, with respect to the Firm ADSs, 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on October __, 2007 or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing, and, with respect to the Optional ADSs, 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the date specified by the Representatives in the written notice given by the Representatives of the Underwriters’ election to purchase such Optional ADSs, or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing. Such time and date for delivery of the Firm ADSs is herein called the “First Time of Delivery”, such time and date for delivery of the Optional ADSs, if not the First Time of Delivery, is herein called the “Second Time of Delivery”, and each such time and date for delivery is herein called a “Time of Delivery”.
(b) The documents to be delivered at each Time of Delivery by or on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 hereof, including the cross-receipt for the ADSs and any additional documents requested by the Underwriters pursuant to Section 8(s) hereof, will be delivered at the offices of O’Melveny & Xxxxx, 31st Floor, XXX Xxxxx, 0 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxx (the “Closing Location”), and the ADSs will be delivered as specified in Section (a) above, all at such Time of Delivery. A meeting will be held at the Closing Location at 4:00 p.m., Hong Kong time, on the New York Business Day next preceding such Time of Delivery, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered pursuant to the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties hereto. For the purposes of this Section 4, “New York Business Day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
5. (a) The Company agrees with each of the Underwriters:
(i) To prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by you and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act not later than the Commission’s close of business on the second business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement, or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be required by Rule 430A(a)(3) under the Act; to make no further amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus prior to the last Time of Delivery which shall be disapproved in writing by you, through fax, email or other electronic means or written forms, promptly after reasonable notice thereof; to advise you, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus has been filed and to furnish you copies
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thereof; to file promptly all material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act; to advise you, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or other prospectus in respect of the ADSs, of the suspension of the qualification of the ADSs for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or for additional information; in the event of such request for amendment or supplement, to provide you and your counsel copies of any proposed amendment or supplement for review and comment a reasonable amount of time prior to any proposed filing and to file no such amendment or supplement to which shall be disapproved by you; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or other prospectus or suspending any such qualification, promptly to use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order;
(ii) Promptly from time to time to take such action as you may reasonably request to qualify the ADSs for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as you may request and to comply with such laws so as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary to complete the distribution of the ADSs, provided that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction;
(iii) Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next succeeding the date of this Agreement and from time to time, to furnish the Underwriters with written (three of which will be signed and include exhibits and the remainder of which will be delivered without exhibits) and electronic copies of the Prospectus in New York City in such quantities as you may reasonably request, and, if the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is required at any time prior to the expiration of nine months after the time of issue of the Prospectus in connection with the offering or sale of the ADSs and if at such time any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary during such same period to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to comply with the Act, to notify you and upon your request to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as many written (three of which will be signed and include exhibits and the remainder of which will be delivered without exhibits) and electronic copies as you may from time to time reasonably request of an amended Prospectus or a supplement to the Prospectus which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; and in case any Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) in connection with sales of any of the ADSs at any time nine months or more after the time of issue of the Prospectus, upon your request but at the expense of such Underwriter, to prepare and deliver to such Underwriter as many written and electronic copies as you may request of an amended or supplemented Prospectus complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act;
(iv) To furnish to you one copy for each Representative and one copy for United States counsel to the Underwriters of the Registration Statement, as initially filed with the Commission, and of all amendments thereto (including all exhibits thereto and sufficient copies of the foregoing (other than exhibits) for distribution of a copy to each of the other Underwriters;
(v) To furnish to you as early as practicable prior to the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase, as the case may be, but not later than two business days prior thereto, a copy of the latest available unaudited interim and monthly consolidated financial statements, if any, of the Company and its Subsidiaries which have been read by the Company’s independent public accountants, as stated in their letter to be furnished pursuant to Section 8(h) hereof;
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(vi) To make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than sixteen months after the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) under the Act), a consolidated earnings statement of the Company and its Subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158);
(vii) During the period beginning from the date hereof and continuing to and including the date 180 days after the date of the Prospectus (the “Lock-Up Period”) not to offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, right or warrant to purchase, make any short sale, file a registration statement with respect to, or otherwise dispose of (including entering into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequence of ownership interests), except as provided hereunder, (A) any ADSs or Ordinary Shares or securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the ADSs or Ordinary Shares, including but not limited to any options or warrants to purchase Ordinary Shares or any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, ADSs or Ordinary Shares or any such substantially similar securities; and (B) any ordinary shares of Company’s Subsidiaries or depositary shares or depositary receipts representing such ordinary shares, including but not limited to any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive such ordinary shares or such depositary shares or depositary receipts or any such substantially similar securities (in each case other than pursuant to employee stock option plans existing on the date of this Agreement and which are described in the Pricing Prospectus), without your prior written consent; provided, however, that if (1) during the last 17 days of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company releases earnings results or announces material news or a material event or (2) prior to the expiration of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company announces, or if the Representatives determine, that it will release earnings results during the 15-day period following the last day of the initial Lock-Up Period, then in each case the Lock-Up Period will be automatically extended until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of release of the earnings results or the announcement of the material news or material event, as applicable, unless the Representatives waive, in writing, such extension;
(viii) During the Lock-Up Period, to cause each of its Subsidiaries not to offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, right or warrant to purchase, make any short sale, file a registration statement with respect to, or otherwise dispose of (including entering into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequence of ownership interests), except as provided hereunder and under this Agreement: (A) any ADSs or Ordinary Shares or any securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the ADSs or Ordinary Shares, including but not limited to any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, ADSs or Ordinary Shares or any such substantially similar securities; and (B) any ordinary shares of any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or depositary shares or depositary receipts representing such ordinary shares, including but not limited to any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive such ordinary shares or such depositary shares or depositary receipts or any such substantially similar securities, without your prior written consent; provided, however, that if (1) during the last 17 days of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company releases earnings results or announces material news or a material event or (2) prior to the expiration of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company announces, or if the Representatives determine, that it will release earnings results during the 15-day period following the last day of the initial Lock-Up Period, then in each case the Lock-Up Period will be automatically extended until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of release of the earnings results or the announcement of the material news or material event, as applicable, unless the Representatives waive, in writing, such extension; and the Company will provide the Representatives and
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each shareholder subject to the Lock-Up Period pursuant to the lockup letters described in Section 8(q) with prior notice of any such announcement that gives rise to an extension of the Lock-Up Period;
(ix) During the Lock-Up Period (including any automatic extension thereof as contemplated in Sections 5(a)(vii) and (viii) above), the Company (i) will not waive, terminate or amend or fail to enforce, the Depositary Letter (as defined in Section 8(x)) and (ii) will cause each Company option holder and holder of interests to acquire Ordinary Shares from Well Active International Limited that has not entered into a Lock-Up Agreement as contemplated by Section 8(q) to be subject to and comply with the restrictions set forth in the Lock-Up Agreements including (x) providing each such option holder and interest holder notice of such restrictions immediately upon closing of the offering and (y) including a legend with respect to such restrictions on the certificates evidencing the Ordinary Shares to be issued to any such option holder upon exercise of the options or interest holder upon acquisition of Ordinary Shares from Well Active during the Lock-Up Period; and the Company will provide the Representatives, the Depositary and each option and interest holder with prior notice of any announcement that gives rise to an automatic extension of the Lock-Up Period (as contemplated in Sections 5(a)(vii) and (viii)) above);
(x) To furnish to its shareholders within such period required by the Exchange Act after the end of each fiscal year an annual report (in English) (including a balance sheet and statements of income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries prepared in conformity with US GAAP and certified by independent public accountants) and, as soon as practicable after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal quarter ending after the effective date of the Registration Statement), to make available to its shareholders consolidated summary financial information of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such quarter in reasonable detail; provided, however, that the Company may satisfy the requirements of this subsection by making any such reports, communications or information publicly available on its website or the Commission’s XXXXX Internet data base;
(xi) During a period of five years from the effective date of the Registration Statement, to furnish to you copies of all reports or other communications (financial or other) furnished to shareholders, and to deliver to you (i) as soon as they are available, copies of any reports and financial statements furnished to or filed with the Commission or any securities exchange on which any class of securities of the Company is listed; and (ii) such additional information concerning the business and financial condition of the Company as you may from time to time reasonably request (such financial statements to be on a consolidated basis to the extent the accounts of the Company and its Subsidiaries are consolidated in reports furnished to its shareholders generally or to the Commission); provided, however, that the Company may satisfy the requirements of this subsection by making any such reports, communications or information publicly available on its website or the Commission’s XXXXX Internet data base;
(xii) To use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the ADSs pursuant to this Agreement in the manner specified in the Pricing Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”;
(xiii) Prior to each Time of Delivery to deposit Ordinary Shares with the Depositary in accordance with the provisions of the Deposit Agreement and otherwise to comply with the Deposit Agreement so that ADRs evidencing ADSs will be executed (and, if applicable, countersigned) and issued by the Depositary against receipt of such Ordinary Shares and delivered to the Underwriters at such Time of Delivery;
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(xiv) Not to (and to cause its affiliates not to) take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed to or which constitutes or which would reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company or facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares and the ADSs;
(xv) To use its best efforts to include for listing the Shares and ADSs on NYSE;
(xvi) To file with the Commission such information on Form 20-F as may be required by Rule 463 under the Act;
(xvii) If the Company elects to rely upon Rule 462(b), the Company shall file a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission in compliance with Rule 462(b) by 10:00 p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on the date of this Agreement, and the Company shall at the time of filing either pay to the Commission the filing fee for the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or give irrevocable instructions for the payment of such fee pursuant to Rule 111(b) under the Act;
(xviii) Upon request of any Underwriter, to furnish, or cause to be furnished, to such Underwriter an electronic version of the Company’s trademarks, servicemarks and corporate logo for use on the website, if any, operated by such Underwriter for the purpose of facilitating the on-line offering of the ADSs (the “License”); provided, however, that the License shall be used solely for the purpose described above, is granted without any fee and may not be assigned or transferred;
(xix) To indemnify and hold each of the Underwriters harmless against any documentary, stamp or similar issuance or transfer taxes, duties or fees and any transaction levies, commissions or brokerage charges, including any interest and penalties, which are or may be required to be paid in connection with the creation, allotment, issuance, offer and distribution of the Shares and ADSs to be sold by the Company and the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement;
(xx) To comply with Rule 433(d) under the Act (without reliance on Rule 164(b) under the Act) and with Rule 433(g) under the Act;
(xxi) Prior to each Time of Delivery, to issue no press release or other communication directly or indirectly and hold no press conferences with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, assets, or liabilities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or the offering of the ADSs, without your prior consent;
(xxii) Not, at any time at or after the execution of this Agreement, to, directly or indirectly, offer or sell any Shares or ADSs by means of any “prospectus” (within the meaning of the Act), or use any “prospectus” (within the meaning of the Act) in connection with the offer or sale of the Shares or ADSs, in each case other than the Prospectus;
(xxiii) Prior to or concurrently with the First Time of Delivery, to effect the conversion of all of the Preferred Shares into Ordinary Shares and to ensure that all such Ordinary Shares are duly authorized, validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable prior to or concurrently with the First Time of Delivery;
(xxiv) Not to facilitate any shareholder’s conversion of Ordinary Share to ADSs during the Lock-Up Period and not to release the Depositary from the obligations set forth in, or otherwise amend, terminate or fail to enforce, the Depositary Agreement without the consent of the Representatives;
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(xxv) Use its best efforts to procure its shareholders who are PRC residents to comply with any applicable registrations or approvals required by PRC State Administration of Foreign Exchange;
(xxvi) To use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the ADSs pursuant to this Agreement in the manner specified in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”. The Company will not use any of the proceeds from the offering of the ADSs contemplated hereby to fund any operations in, to finance any investments, projects or activities in, or to make any payments to, any country, or to make any payments to, or finance any activities with, any person, targeted by any of the economic sanctions promulgated by any Executive Order issued by the President of the United States or administered by the OFAC. The Company will maintain and implement adequate internal controls and procedures to monitor and audit transactions that are reasonably designed to detect and prevent any use of the proceeds from the offering of the ADSs contemplated hereby that is inconsistent with any of the Company’s representations and obligations under the preceding sentence; and
(xxvii) As promptly as possible, in accordance with the requirements under applicable US securities law, to establish and maintain and evaluate “disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act) and “internal control over financial reporting” (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures shall be designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its Subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s chief executive officer and chief financial officer by others within those entities, and such disclosure controls and procedures shall be effective to perform the functions for which they are established; the Company’s independent auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company shall be advised of: (A) all significant deficiencies, if any, in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data; and (B) all fraud, if any, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a role in the Company’s internal controls; all material weaknesses, if any, in internal controls shall be identified to the Company’s independent auditors; such internal control over financial reporting shall be designed by the Company’s chief executive officer and chief financial officer, or under their supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with US GAAP; there shall be no significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly adversely affect internal controls, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses; and the Company will take all necessary actions to ensure that, upon and at all times after the filing of the Registration Statement, the Company and its Subsidiaries and their respective officers and directors, in their capacities as such, will be in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”) and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;
(c) Each of the Selling Shareholders severally and not jointly agrees with each of the Underwriters:
(i) During the Lock-Up Period, such Selling Shareholder will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, right or warrant to purchase, make any short sale, file a registration statement with respect to, or otherwise dispose of (including entering into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequence of ownership interests), except as provided hereunder and under this Agreement: (A) any ADSs or Ordinary Shares or any securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the ADSs or Ordinary Shares, including but not limited to any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, ADSs or Ordinary Shares or any such substantially similar securities; and (B) any ordinary shares of any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or depositary shares or depositary receipts representing such ordinary shares, including but not limited to any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive such ordinary shares or such
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depositary shares or depositary receipts or any such substantially similar securities (in each case other than pursuant to a bona fide gift by an individual to a donee or a sale or transfer by an entity to an affiliate, provided that such donee or affiliate agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth therein), without your prior written consent; provided, however, that if (1) during the last 17 days of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company releases earnings results or announces material news or a material event or (2) prior to the expiration of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company announces, or if the Representatives determine, that it will release earnings results during the 15-day period following the last day of the initial Lock-Up Period, then in each case the Lock-Up Period will be automatically extended until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of release of the earnings results or the announcement of the material news or material event, as applicable, unless the Representatives waive, in writing, such extension;
(ii) Prior to each Time of Delivery, to deposit, or cause to be deposited on their behalf pursuant to the Custody Agreement, Ordinary Shares with the Depositary in accordance with the provisions of the Deposit Agreement and otherwise to comply with the Deposit Agreement so that ADRs evidencing ADSs will be executed (and, if applicable, countersigned) and issued by the Depositary against receipt of such Ordinary Shares and delivered to the Underwriters at such Time of Delivery;
(iii) Not to (and to cause its affiliates not to) take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed to or which constitutes or which might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company or facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares or the ADSs;
(iv) To indemnify and hold each of the Underwriters harmless against any documentary, stamp or similar issuance or transfer taxes, duties or fees and any transaction levies, commissions or brokerage charges, including any interest and penalties, which are or may be required to be paid in connection with the creation, allotment, issuance, offer and distribution of the Shares and ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder and the execution and delivery of this Agreement;
(v) Not, at any time at or after the execution of this Agreement, to offer or sell any Shares or ADSs by means of any “prospectus” (within the meaning of the Act), or use any “prospectus” (within the meaning of the Act) in connection with the offer or sale of the Shares or ADSs, in each case other than the Prospectus;
(vi) To pay or cause to be paid all taxes, if any, on the transfer and sale of the Shares and the ADSs being sold by such Selling Shareholder;
(vii) To advise you promptly, and if requested by you, confirm such advice in writing, so long as a prospectus is required by the Act to be delivered (whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under the Act or any similar rule) in connection with any sale of ADSs, of (A) any material change in the general affairs, management, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (B) any change in information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, relating to such Selling Shareholder or (C) any new material information relating to the Company or relating to any matter stated in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, which comes to the attention of such Selling Shareholder; and
(viii) Not to use any of the proceeds received by such Selling Shareholder from the sale of the ADSs pursuant to this Agreement to fund any operations in, to finance any investments, projects or activities in, or to make any payments to, any country, or to make any payments to, or finance any activities with, any person, targeted by any of the economic sanctions promulgated by any Executive Order issued by the President of the United States or administered by the OFAC.
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6. (a) The Company represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Representatives, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Shares and the ADSs that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act; each Underwriter represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Company and the Representatives, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Shares and the ADSs that would constitute a free writing prospectus; any such free writing prospectus the use of which has been consented to by the Company and the Representatives is listed on Schedule III attached hereto;
(b) The Company has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 under the Act applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission or retention where required and legending; and the Company represents that it has satisfied and agrees that it will satisfy the conditions under Rule 433 under the Act to avoid a requirement to file with the Commission any electronic road show; and
(c) The Company agrees that if at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus any event occurred or occurs as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will give prompt notice thereof to the Representatives and, if requested by the Representatives, will prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or other document which will correct such conflict, statement or omission; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions in an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through Representatives expressly for use therein.
7. The Company and each of the Selling Shareholders, jointly and severally, covenant and agree with each of the several Underwriters that the Company and such Selling Shareholder will pay or cause to be paid (i) all the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and accountants in connection with the registration of the Shares and ADSs and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing, reproduction and filing of the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, the Form 8 Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and amendments or supplements thereto, and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and to dealers, (ii) the cost of printing or producing any Agreement among Underwriters, this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement, any dealer agreements, any powers of attorney, any closing documents (including compilations thereof) and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the ADSs (except the underwriters will pay the fees of their legal or other professional advisors), (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Shares and the ADSs for offering and sale under state or foreign securities laws as provided in Section 5 hereof, other than the fees and disbursements of counsel and other professional advisors for the Underwriters, except that the Company and the Selling Shareholders will reimburse the Underwriters for the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with any Blue Sky surveys, (iv) all fees and expenses in connection with the application for including the ADSs for quotation on NYSE and any registration thereof under the Exchange Act, (v) all fees and expenses in connection with any required review by the NASD of the terms of the sale of the Shares and the ADSs (including, without limitation, NASD filing fees), (vi) the fees and disbursements of any transfer agent or registrar for the ADSs, (vii) out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Underwriters for personnel of the Company on the roadshow in excess of four persons, (viii) the costs and expenses of qualifying the ADSs for inclusion in the book-entry settlement system of the DTC, (ix) all expenses and taxes arising as a result of the deposit by the Company and each of the Selling Shareholders of the Shares with the Depositary and the issuance and delivery of the ADRs evidencing ADSs in exchange therefor by the Depositary to the Company, of the sale and delivery of the ADSs and the Shares by the Company to or for the account of the Underwriters and to the initial purchasers thereof in the manner contemplated under this Agreement, including, in any such case, any the Cayman Islands income, capital gains, withholding, transfer or other tax asserted against an Underwriter by reason of the purchase and sale of an ADS or a Share pursuant to this Agreement, (xi) the fees and expenses of the Depositary as agreed by the Company and the Depositary and any custodian appointed under the Deposit Agreement, other than the fees and expenses to be paid by holders of ADRs (other than the Underwriters in connection with the initial purchase of ADSs), (xii) the fees and expenses of the Authorized Agent (as defined in Section 15 hereof), (xiii) the cost of preparing the ADRs; and (xiv) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of the Company’s obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section.
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8. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, as to the ADSs to be delivered at each Time of Delivery, shall be subject, in their discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company and of the Selling Shareholders herein are, at and as of such Time of Delivery, true and correct, the condition that the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have performed all of their respective obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions:
(a) The Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; all material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 433; if the Company has elected to rely upon Rule 462(b) under the Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have become effective by 10:00 p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on the date of this Agreement; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to your reasonable satisfaction;
(b) O’Melveny & Xxxxx LLP, United States counsel to the Underwriters, shall have furnished to you such written opinion and letter, dated such Time of Delivery, with respect to the matters as you may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;
(c) Fangda Partners, PRC counsel to the Underwriters, shall have furnished to you such written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, with respect to the same matters covered in subsection (e) below as well as such other related matters as you may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;
(d) Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, United States counsel to the Company and the Selling Shareholders, shall have furnished to you their written opinion, dated such Time of Delivery, shall have furnished to you their written opinion, dated such Time of Delivery, in the form attached as Annex V hereto.
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(e) Global Law Office counsel to the Company and the Selling Shareholders, shall have furnished to you such written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that:
For purposes of this clause (e), (A) “PRC Law” means all applicable laws, regulations, rules, orders, decrees, guidelines judicial interpretations, public policies and other legislation of the PRC in effect on the date of this opinion; (B) “Governmental Agency” means any national, provincial or local governmental, regulatory or administrative authority, agency or commission in the PRC, or any court, tribunal or any other judicial or arbitral body in the PRC, or any body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory, or taxing authority or power of similar nature in the PRC; (C) “Governmental Authorizations” means all approvals, consents, waivers, sanctions, certificates, authorizations, filings, disclosures, registrations, exemptions, permissions, endorsements, annual inspections, clearances, qualifications, permits and licenses required by any Governmental Agency pursuant to any PRC Law; and (D) “Underwriting Agreement” means this Agreement.
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(i) Each of the PRC Subsidiaries has been duly organized and is validly existing with legal person status and limited liability under PRC Law and its business license is in full force and effect; each of the PRC Subsidiaries has been duly qualified as a foreign-invested enterprise or a domestic limited liability company invested by foreign-invested enterprises; all of the registered capital of each of the PRC Subsidiaries has been fully paid, non assessable and is beneficially owned by the Company, free and clear of any liens, security interest, other encumbrances or adverse claims; the articles of association, the business license and other constitutional documents of each of the PRC Subsidiaries comply with the requirements of the applicable PRC Law and are in full force and effect; each of the PRC Subsidiaries has full power and authority (corporate and other) and all Governmental Authorizations of or with any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over it or any of its properties and assets required for the ownership or lease of property by it and the conduct of its business and has the legal right and authority to own, use, lease and operate its assets and to conduct its business in the manner presently conducted and as described in the Prospectus;
(ii) Each of the PRC Subsidiaries has obtained all Governmental Authorizations required under PRC Law for the ownership interest by its applicable shareholder or shareholders as described in the Prospectus; and there are no outstanding rights, warrants or options to acquire, or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for, nor any agreements or other obligations to issue or other rights to convert any obligation into, any equity interest in any of the PRC Subsidiaries;
(iii) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, each of the PRC Subsidiaries has legal and valid title to all of its respective properties and assets, in each case, free and clear of all liens, charges, encumbrances, equities, claims, defects, options and restrictions; each lease agreement to which any of the PRC Subsidiaries is a party is duly executed and legally binding; the leasehold interests of each of the PRC Subsidiaries are fully protected by the terms of the lease agreements, which are valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with their terms under PRC Law; and none of the Company and the PRC Subsidiaries owns, operates, manages or has any other right or interest in any other material real property of any kind, except as described in the Prospectus;
(iv) All Governmental Authorizations required under PRC Law in connection with the establishment of the overseas affiliated companies of Longtop Systems, including without limitation the Company, Longtop International Holdings Limited, State Prime Technology Limited, Grand Legend Holdings Limited, Longtop International Inc, Minecode LLC and Longtop International Incorporated, have been obtained, none of such Governmental Authorizations has been withdrawn or revoked nor are there circumstances which may give rise to such Governmental Authorizations being withdrawn or revoked, and no such Governmental Authorizations are subject to any condition precedent which has not been fulfilled or performed;
(v) Each of the PRC Subsidiaries has all necessary Governmental Authorizations of, from, and with all Governmental Agencies to own, lease, license and use its properties, assets and conduct its business in the manner described in the Prospectus and such Governmental Authorizations contain no materially burdensome restrictions or conditions not described in the Prospectus; none of the PRC Subsidiaries has any reason to believe that any Governmental Agency is considering modifying, suspending or revoking any such Governmental Authorizations and the business operations of each of the PRC Subsidiaries as described in the prospectus are in compliance with all applicable PRC Laws in all material respects;
(vi) All dividends and other distributions declared and payable upon the equity interests in each of Longtop System, Longtop Software and ABS may under PRC Law be paid to its applicable foreign shareholder in Renminbi that may be converted into U.S. dollars and freely transferred out of the PRC; all dividends and other distributions declared and payable upon the equity interests in each of Longtop Technology, Longtop Information, Beijing Longtop and Shanghai Longtop may under PRC Law be paid to its applicable shareholder or shareholders in Renminbi; the dividends and other distributions of each
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of the PRC Subsidiaries are not and, except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, will not be subject to withholding or other taxes under PRC Law and, except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding or deduction in the PRC, and without the necessity of obtaining any Governmental Authorization in the PRC;
(vii) Neither the Company, nor any of the PRC Subsidiaries, nor any of their respective affiliated companies is (A) in breach of or in default under any PRC Law, (B) in breach of or in default under any Governmental Authorization granted by any Governmental Agency in the PRC, (C) in violation of their respective constitutional documents, business licenses or permits or (D) in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties and assets may be bound;
(viii) The statements in the Prospectus under “Summary”, “Risk Factors”, “Use of Proceeds”, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, “Business”, “Regulation”, “Management”, “Related Party Transactions”, “Taxation” and “Enforcement of Civil Liabilities” to the extent such statements relate to matters of PRC Law or to the provisions of documents therein described, are true and accurate in all material respects, and nothing has been omitted from such statements which would make the same misleading in any material respect;
(ix) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, each of the PRC Subsidiaries is the exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in and to its Intellectual Property, and each of the PRC Subsidiaries has a valid right to use the Intellectual Property as currently used or as currently contemplated to be used by such PRC Subsidiary, in each case, as described in the Prospectus;
(x) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is infringing, misappropriating or violating any intellectual property right of any third party in the PRC; and no Intellectual Property is subject to any outstanding decree, order, injunction, judgment or ruling restricting the use of such Intellectual Property in the PRC that would impair the validity or enforceability of such Intellectual Property;
(xi) No security interests or other liens have been created with respect to any of the Intellectual Property;
(xii) No stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes are payable by or on behalf of the Underwriters to any Governmental Agency in connection with (a) the sale and delivery by the Company and the Selling Shareholder of the ADSs to or for the respective accounts of the Underwriters or (b) the sale and delivery outside the PRC by the Underwriters of the ADSs to the initial purchasers thereof in the manner contemplated in the Underwriting Agreement;
(xiii) The irrevocable submission of each of the Company and the Selling Shareholder to the jurisdiction of any court of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “New York Court”), the waiver by each of the Company and the Selling Shareholder of any objection to the venue of a proceeding in a New York Court, the waiver and agreement not to plead an inconvenient forum, the waiver of sovereign immunity and the agreement of each of the Company and the Selling Shareholder that the Underwriting Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York are legal, valid and binding under PRC Law and will be respected by PRC courts; service of process effected in the manner set forth in the Underwriting Agreement will be effective, insofar as PRC Law is concerned, to confer valid personal jurisdiction over each of the Company and the Selling Shareholder; and any judgment obtained in a New York Court arising out of or in relation to the obligations of
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each of the Company and the Selling Shareholder under the Underwriting Agreement will be recognized in PRC courts subject to the conditions described under the caption “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities” in the Prospectus;
(xiv) The indemnity and contribution provisions set forth in Section 9 of the Underwriting Agreement do not contravene PRC Law;
(xv) To the best of our knowledge after due inquiry and based on the records maintained by the provincial courts and courts in major cities in the PRC where any of the PRC Subsidiaries has operations and other than as set forth in the Prospectus, there are no legal, arbitration or governmental proceedings in progress or pending to which the Company, or any of the PRC Subsidiaries is a party or of which any property of any of the PRC Subsidiaries is the subject; and, to the best of our knowledge after due inquiry, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by any Governmental Agency or threatened by others; to the best of our knowledge after due inquiry, none of the directors and executive officers of the Company and the PRC Subsidiaries are currently subject to any litigation proceedings, bankruptcy proceedings or any investigation, hearing or proceeding brought or instituted by any Governmental Agency in the PRC and nor are there any such proceedings pending or threatening to happen;
(xvi) The issue and sale of the ADSs being delivered at such Time of Delivery, the listing and trading of the ADSs on the NYSE, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement, the compliance by the Selling Shareholder with all of the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement, the Custody Agreement and the Power of Attorney, and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument known to us to which the Company or any of the PRC Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of the PRC Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of the PRC Subsidiaries is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the articles of association, business license or any other constitutional documents of any of the PRC Subsidiaries or any PRC Law, including without limitation the Regulations on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (the “M&A Rule”) issued on August 8, 2006 by six PRC regulatory agencies and the notice published by CSRC on its official website on September 21, 2006, which specifies the documents and materials that are required to be submitted for obtaining CSRC approval, (together with the M&A Rule, collectively, the “Rules”), having jurisdiction over any of the PRC Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties and assets;
(xvii) No Governmental Authorization of, from or with any Governmental Agency in the PRC is required for the issue and sale of the ADSs and the listing and trading of the ADSs on the NYSE. The Rules provide that offshore special purpose vehicles formed for listing purposes and controlled directly or indirectly by PRC companies or individuals (“SPVs”) shall obtain the approval of the CSRC and the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) prior to the listing and trading of their securities on an overseas stock exchange. While the CSRC and MOFCOM generally have jurisdiction over overseas listings of SPVs like the Company, neither CSRC nor MOFCOM will require any of the Company and PRC Subsidiaries to obtain their approval for the issue and sale of the ADSs and the listing and trading of the ADSs on the NYSE given the fact that the Company’s current corporate structure resulted primarily from the acquisitions of equity interests in Longtop System was legally completed and the Company and Longtop System have obtained all necessary Governmental Authorizations from the Governmental Agencies, including the MOFCOM and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (the “SAFE”), prior to the effectiveness of the Rules. As the Company has already obtained all requisite Governmental Authorizations from all Governmental Agencies for the acquisition of equity interests in Longtop System and completed such acquisition prior to the effectiveness of the Rules, neither the Company nor any of the PRC Subsidiaries is required to obtain the approval of the CSRC pursuant to the Rules in
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connection with the listing and trading of the Company’s securities on the NYSE, even if the listing and trading of the Company’s securities on the NYSE commences after September 8, 2006;
(xviii) No Governmental Authorization of or with any Governmental Agency in the PRC is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement, the Custody Agreement and the Power of Attorney;
(xix) The application of the net proceeds to be received by the Company from the issue and sale of the ADSs as contemplated by the Prospectus will not contravene any provision of applicable PRC Law, or the articles of association, the business license or other constitutional documents of any of the PRC Subsidiaries or contravene the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument binding upon any of the PRC Subsidiaries, or any judgment, order or decree of any Governmental Agency in the PRC;
(xx) The descriptions set forth in the Prospectus under the captions “Summary—Our Corporate Structure” are accurate, complete and fair;
(xxi) The acquisitions of certain PRC Subsidiaries as described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (the “Acquisitions”) do not contravene or conflict with (i) the respective constitutional and other organizational documents of any of such PRC Subsidiaries, (ii) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other evidence of indebtedness, or any license, lease, contract or other agreement or instrument to which any of such PRC Subsidiaries is a party or by which they or any of their properties and assets may be bound or affected, or (iii) any PRC Law or any other applicable laws, rules or regulations of any governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Company or such PRC Subsidiaries or any of their properties and assets (including, without limitation, MOFCOM, SAFE, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the PRC State Council and the SAIC);
(xxii) All Governmental Authorizations, including without limitation the Governmental Authorizations required under PRC Law in connection with the Acquisition, have been made or unconditionally obtained in writing and are in full force and effect, and no such Governmental Authorization has been withdrawn or revoked nor are there any circumstances which may give rise to any of such Governmental Authorizations being withdrawn or revoked or is subject to any condition precedent which has not been fulfilled or performed; and
(xxiii) The entry into, delivery, and performance or enforcement of the Underwriting Agreement, the Custody Agreement or the Power of Attorney in accordance with their respective terms will not subject any of the Underwriters to any requirement to be licensed or otherwise qualified to do business in the PRC, nor will any Underwriter be deemed to be resident, domiciled, carrying on business through an establishment or place in the PRC or in breach of any PRC Law by reason of entry into, delivery, performance or enforcement of the Underwriting Agreement, the Custody Agreement or the Power of Attorney.
Global Law Firm has acted as PRC counsel to the Company in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus. Although Global Law Firm does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus except to the extent set forth in this Opinion given in paragraphs (i) through (xxiii) above, based on the foregoing, nothing has come to its attention that causes it to believe that:
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(a) the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading;
(b) the Prospectus, as of its date and as of such Delivery Date, contained or contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or
(c) the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, together with the information included on Schedule III to the Underwriting Agreement and the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses set forth on a schedule to such opinion acceptable to counsel to the Underwriters, as of the Applicable Time, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
In rendering such opinion, Global Law Firm may state that (A) with respect to all matters of United States federal and New York State law it has relied upon the opinions of United States counsel for the Company and (B) with respect to all matters of Cayman Islands and BVI law it has relied upon the opinions of Cayman Islands and BVI counsel for the Company.
(f) Xxxxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxx, Cayman Islands and BVI counsel for the Company and the Selling Shareholders, shall have furnished to you their written opinion, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that:
(i) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a company in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus;
(ii) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Prospectus, and all of the issued shares of capital stock of the Company (including the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery) have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; the holders of outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are not entitled to preemptive or other rights to acquire the ADSs to be deposited by the Company and the Selling Shareholders or to be purchased from the Company and the Selling Shareholders under this Agreement which have not been complied with; the Shares to be deposited by the Company and the Selling Shareholders may be freely deposited by the Company with the Depositary against issuance of ADRs evidencing ADSs; and the ADSs and the Shares to be sold by the Company and the Selling Shareholders are freely transferable by the Company to or for the account of the several Underwriters in the manner contemplated herein;
(iii) Longtop BVI has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the BVI; and all of its issued shares of capital stock have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, and are owned directly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims;
(iv) Grand Legend has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the BVI; and all of its issued shares of capital stock have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, and are owned directly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims;
(v) Each of the Selling Shareholders that is an entity has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a company in good standing in its jurisdiction of incorporation;
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(vi) To the best of such counsel’s knowledge, after having conducted a search of the register of writs and other originating processes, and other than as set forth in the Prospectus, there are no legal, arbitration or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject which, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on the current or future consolidated financial position, shareholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and, to the best of such counsel’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by any Governmental Agency or threatened by others;
(vii) Each of this Agreement, the Custody Agreement and the Power of Attorney has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Selling Shareholders and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company and the Selling Shareholders enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforceability, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles;
(viii) The Deposit Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, moratorium, reorganization and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles;
(ix) Each of this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement is in proper form to be enforceable against the Company in the Cayman Islands in accordance with its terms; to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility into evidence in the Cayman Islands of this Agreement or the Deposit Agreement, it is not necessary that this Agreement or the Deposit Agreement be filed or recorded with any court or other authority in the Cayman Islands or that any stamp or similar tax in the Cayman Islands be paid on or in respect of this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement or any other documents to be furnished hereunder or thereunder;
(x) The issue and sale of the Shares and the ADSs being delivered at such Time of Delivery and the deposit of the Shares with the Depositary against issuance of the ADSs evidencing the ADRs to be delivered at such Time of Delivery and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Agreement, and the Deposit Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument known to such counsel to which the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend is a party or by which the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the constituent documents of the Company or any statute or any order, Rule or Regulation known to such counsel of any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend or any of their respective properties;
(xi) The sale of the ADSs to be sold by the Selling Shareholders hereunder and the compliance by the Selling Shareholders with all of the provisions of this Agreement, the Custody Agreement and the Power of Attorney and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument known to such counsel to which a Selling Shareholder is a party or by which a Selling Shareholder is bound, or to which any of the property or assets of a Selling Shareholder is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the constituent documents of a Selling Shareholder or any order, Rule or Regulation known to such counsel of any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over a Selling Shareholder or the property of a Selling Shareholder;
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(xii) No Governmental Authorization of or with any Governmental Agency in the Cayman Islands is required for the issue and sale of the Shares and the ADSs, the deposit of the Shares with the Depositary against issuance of the ADRs evidencing the ADSs to be delivered at such Time of Delivery or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement;
(xiii) Immediately prior to such Time of Delivery each Selling Shareholder had good and valid title to the Shares and ADSs to be sold at such Time of Delivery by such Selling Shareholder under this Agreement, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims, and full right, power and authority to sell, assign, transfer and deliver the Shares and ADSs to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder and thereunder; and, upon delivery of the ADSs representing such Shares and payment therefore pursuant to this Agreement, good and valid title to such ADSs, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims, will be transferred to each of the several Underwriters;
(xiv) The statements set forth in the Prospectus under the caption “Description of Share Capital”, insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Ordinary Shares are accurate, complete and fair;
(xv) The statements set forth in the Prospectus under the caption “Taxation – Cayman Islands Taxation”, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, are accurate, complete and fair;
(xvi) No stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes are payable by or on behalf of the Underwriters to the Cayman Islands or to any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein in connection with (A) the deposit with the Depositary of Shares by the Company and the Selling Shareholders against the issuance of ADRs evidencing the ADSs, (B) the sale and delivery by the Company of the ADSs and the Shares to or for the respective accounts of the Underwriters or (C) the sale and delivery outside the Cayman Islands by the Underwriters of the ADSs and the Shares to the initial purchasers thereof in the manner contemplated herein;
(xvii) Insofar as matters of the Cayman Islands law are concerned, the Registration Statement and the filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission have been duly authorized by and on behalf of the Company; and the Registration Statement has been duly executed pursuant to such authorization by and on behalf of the Company;
(xviii) Each of the Company’s agreement and the Selling Shareholders’ agreement to the choice of law provisions set forth in Section 15 hereof will be recognized by the courts of the Cayman Islands; the Company and the Selling Shareholders can xxx and be sued in their own names under the laws of the Cayman Islands; the irrevocable submission of the Company and the Selling Shareholders to the exclusive jurisdiction of a New York Court, the waiver by the Company and the Selling Shareholders of any objection to the venue of a proceeding of a New York Court and the agreement of the Company and the Selling Shareholders that this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York are legal, valid and binding; service of process effected in the manner set forth in Section 15 hereof will be effective, insofar as the law of the Cayman Islands is concerned, to confer valid personal jurisdiction over the Company and the Selling Shareholders; and judgment obtained in a New York Court arising out of or in relation to the obligations of the Company or a Selling Shareholder under this Agreement would be enforceable against the Company or such Selling Shareholder, respectively, in the courts of the Cayman Islands;
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(xix) The indemnification and contribution provisions set forth in Section 9 hereof and Section of the Deposit Agreement do not contravene the public policy or laws of the Cayman Islands or the BVI;
(xx) All dividends and other distributions declared and payable on the shares of capital stock of the Company may under the current laws and regulations of the Cayman Islands be paid to the Depositary and freely transferred out of the Cayman Islands, and all such dividends and other distributions will not be subject to withholding or other taxes under the laws and regulations of Cayman Islands and are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding or deduction in the Cayman Islands and without the necessity of obtaining any Governmental Authorization in the Cayman Islands;
(xxi) All dividends and other distributions declared and payable on the shares of capital stock of each of Longtop BVI and Grand Legend may under the current laws and regulations of the BVI be paid to the Company and freely transferred out of the BVI, and all such dividends and other distributions will not be subject to withholding or other taxes under the laws and regulations of the BVI and are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding or deduction in the BVI and without the necessity of obtaining any Governmental Authorization in the BVI; and
(xxii) None of the Company, Longtop BVI and Grand Legend is in violation of its constituent documents or in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound; the Restructuring does not (A) contravene any provision of applicable Cayman Islands or BVI law or statute, Rule or Regulation of any Governmental Agency having jurisdiction over the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend or any of their properties, (B) contravene the articles of association, business license or other constituent documents of the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend, or (C) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend is a party or by which the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company, Longtop BVI or Grand Legend is subject.]
In giving such opinion, such counsel may state that (A) with respect to all matters of United States federal and New York law they have relied upon the opinions of United States counsel for the Company delivered pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section 8 and (B) with respect to all matters of PRC law they have relied upon the opinions of PRC counsel for the Company delivered pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section 8.
(g) White & Case LLP, counsel for the Depositary, shall have furnished to you their written opinion, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that:
(i) The Deposit Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Depositary and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Depositary enforceable against the Depositary in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement of it may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws of general application relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and by general principles of equity;
(ii) Upon execution and delivery by the Depositary of ADRs evidencing the ADSs against the deposit of Shares in accordance with the provisions of the Deposit Agreement, the ADRs will be duly and validly issued and will entitle the holders thereof to the rights specified therein and in the Deposit Agreement; and
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(iii) The ADS Registration Statement has been filed and declared effective and, to the best of such counsel’s knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the ADS Registration Statement or any part thereof has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated under the Act and the ADS Registration Statement, and each amendment as of their respective effective dates, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
(h) On the date of the Prospectus at a time prior to the execution of this Agreement, at 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement filed subsequent to the date of this Agreement and also at each Time of Delivery, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. shall have furnished to you a letter or letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect set forth in Annex I attached hereto;
(i) No Preliminary Prospectus, Pricing Prospectus, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Prospectus or amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus shall have been filed to which you shall have objected in writing;
(j) (A) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus, and (B) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Prospectus there shall not have been any change in the share capital or short-term or long-term debt of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (A) or (B), is in your judgment so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus;
(k) On or after the Applicable Time (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company’s debt securities or preferred shares by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities or preferred shares;
(l) All outstanding Preferred Shares have been converted into Ordinary Shares in accordance with the terms of the Preferred Shares;
(m) Certificates in negotiable form representing all of the Shares underlying the ADSs to be sold by the Company and each Selling Shareholder hereunder will be placed in custody with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as custodian for the Depositary;
(n) On or after the Applicable Time there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the Nasdaq Global Market, the New York Stock Exchange, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited or the London Stock Exchange; (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on NYSE; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York, London, Hong Kong, the PRC, the Cayman Islands or the BVI declared by the relevant authorities, or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, the PRC the Cayman Islands or the BVI; (iv) a change or development involving a prospective change in taxation affecting the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or the Shares or the ADSs or the transfer thereof; (v) the enactment, publication, decree or other promulgation of any statute, regulation, Rule or order of any Governmental
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Agency materially affecting the business or operations of the Company or its Subsidiaries; (vi) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, the PRC, the Cayman Islands or the BVI or the declaration by the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, the PRC, the Cayman Islands or the BVI of a national emergency or war; or (vii) the occurrence of any other calamity or crisis or any change in financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or controls in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, the PRC, the Cayman Islands or the BVI or elsewhere, if the effect of any such event specified in clauses (v), (vi) or (vii), in the sole judgment of the Representatives, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares and the ADSs being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus;
(o) The ADSs to be sold by the Company and the Selling Shareholders at such Time of Delivery shall have been duly included for quotation on NYSE;
(p) The Depositary shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to you at such Time of Delivery certificates satisfactory to you evidencing the deposit with it of the Shares being so deposited against issuance of ADRs evidencing the ADSs to be delivered by the Company and the Selling Shareholders at such Time of Delivery, and the execution, countersignature (if applicable), issuance and delivery of ADRs evidencing such ADSs pursuant to the Deposit Agreement;
(q) Each party set forth in Annex II attached hereto shall have entered into an agreement (each a “Lock-Up Agreement”) in the form attached as Annex III hereto;
(r) The Company shall have complied with the provisions of Section 5(a)(iii) hereof with respect to the furnishing of Prospectuses on the New York Business Day next succeeding the date of this Agreement;
(s) The Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to you at such Time of Delivery certificates of officers of the Company and of the Selling Shareholders, respectively, satisfactory to you as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Selling Shareholders, respectively, herein at and as of such Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the Company and the Selling Shareholders of all of their respective obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery, and as to such other matters as you may reasonably request, including, without limitation, certificates of officers of the Company satisfactory to you with respect to the memorandum and articles of association and other organizational documents of the Company, all resolutions of the board of directors of the Company and other corporate actions relating to this Agreement and the authorization, issue and sale of the Shares and ADSs and the incumbency and specimen signatures of signing officers, and the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have furnished or caused to be furnished certificates as to the matters set forth in subsections (a), (j) and (k) of this Section, and as to such other matters as you may reasonably request;
(t) There shall not be any litigation, proceedings, investigations, processes for administrative sanctions or other actions initiated or threatened by any Governmental Agency before any Governmental Agency, in each case with due authority, against or involving any party hereto, in the PRC or elsewhere, that seeks to declare non-compliance, unlawful or illegal, under PRC laws, rules and regulations, the issuance and sales of the Shares and ADSs, the listing and trading of the ADSs on the NYSE or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement and the Power of Attorney;
(u) There shall not be any adverse legislative or regulatory developments related to the M&A Rules and Related Clarifications which in the sole judgment of the Representatives would make it inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares and the ADSs being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement (including any such development that results in either PRC counsel to the Company or PRC counsel to the Underwriters not being able to confirm, on the date of the Prospectus at a time prior to the execution of this Agreement and at such Time of Delivery, the respective opinions of such counsel);
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(v) (i) The Custody Agreement shall have been executed by each of the Selling Shareholders or Attorneys-in-Fact on behalf of the Selling Shareholders and (ii) certificates in negotiable form representing all of the Shares to be represented by ADSs to be sold at such Time of Delivery by each of the Selling Shareholders shall have been placed in custody under the Custody Agreement, duly executed and delivered by such Selling Shareholder to the Custodian, at or prior to the date at least one business day prior to such Time of Delivery; and
(w) The Company shall have entered into a side letter agreement with the Depositary, substantially in the form and substance set forth in Annex IV hereto (the “Depositary Letter”), instructing the Depositary, during the Lock-Up Period, not to accept any deposit by the persons specified therein of any Ordinary Shares in the Company’s ADR facility or issue any new ADRs evidencing the ADSs to any such person subject to the exceptions stated in the Depositary Letter or further instructions by the Company.
9. (a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (ii) any challenge to the compliance, legality or legitimacy of the issuance and sale of the Shares and the ADSs, the listing and trading of the ADSs on the NYSE or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement and the Power of Attorney under PRC laws, rules and regulations or otherwise, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that with respect to clause (i) of this paragraph, the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein.
(b) Each of the Selling Shareholders will severally and not jointly indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred, in each case to the extent that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company or such Underwriter by such Selling Shareholder expressly for use therein.
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(c) Each Underwriter will severally and not jointly indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each Selling Shareholder against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company or such Selling Shareholder become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein; and will reimburse the Company and each Selling Shareholder for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or such Selling Shareholder in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred.
(d) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under such subsection. In case any such action shall be brought against any indemnified party and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (which shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent of the indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such action or claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional release of the indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
(e) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the ADSs. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (f) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders bear to the total underwriting discounts and
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commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the U.S. Prospectus. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or any Selling Shareholder on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company, each of the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (g) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this subsection (g). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (g) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (g), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the ADSs underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations in this subsection (g) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.
(f) The obligations of the Company and the Selling Shareholders under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company and the respective Selling Shareholders may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and to each broker-dealer affiliate of any Underwriter; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company (including any person who, with his or her consent, is named in the Registration Statement as about to become a director of the Company) and any Selling Shareholder and to each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Selling Shareholder within the meaning of the Act.
10. (a) If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase the ADSs which it has agreed to purchase hereunder at a Time of Delivery, you may in your discretion arrange for you or another party or other parties to purchase such ADSs on the terms contained herein. If within thirty-six hours after such default by any Underwriter you do not arrange for the purchase of such ADSs, then the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall be entitled to a further period of thirty-six hours within which to procure another party or other parties satisfactory to you to purchase such ADSs on such terms. In the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, you notify the Company and the Selling Shareholders that you have so arranged for the purchase of such ADSs, or the Company and the Selling Shareholders notify you that they have so arranged for the purchase of such ADSs, you or the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have the right to postpone such Time of Delivery for a period of not more than seven days, in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees to file promptly any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which in your opinion may thereby be made necessary. The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall include any person substituted under this Section with like effect as if such person had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such ADSs.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the ADSs of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you, the Company and the Selling Shareholders as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate number of such ADSs which remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate number of all the ADSs to be purchased at such Time of Delivery, then the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the number
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of ADSs which such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder at such Time of Delivery and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase its pro rata share (based on the number of ADSs which such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder) of the ADSs of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the ADSs of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you, the Company and the Selling Shareholders as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate number of such ADSs which remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate number of all the ADSs to be purchased at such Time of Delivery, or if the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b) above to require non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase ADSs of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters, then this Agreement (or, with respect to the Second Time of Delivery, the obligations of the Underwriters to purchase, and of the Company and the Selling Shareholders to sell, the Optional ADSs) shall thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter, the Company or the Selling Shareholders, except for the expenses to be borne by the Company and the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters as provided in Section 7 hereof and the indemnity and contribution agreements in Section 9 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
11. The respective indemnities and contribution provisions in Section 9, and the agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Company, or any of the Selling Shareholders, or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, or any controlling person of any Selling Shareholder, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the ADSs.
12. (a) This Agreement shall become effective when the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement.
(b) The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, if any of the conditions set forth in Section 8 is not satisfied.
(c) If the Representatives elect to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Section 12, the Company, the Selling Shareholders and each other Underwriter shall be notified promptly in writing.
(d) If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof, neither the Company nor any of the Selling Shareholders shall then be under any liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof; but, if for any other reason, any ADSs are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company and the Selling Shareholders as provided herein, the Company and each of the Selling Shareholders will, upon the occurrence of any failure to complete the sale and delivery of the ADSs, promptly (and, in any event, not later than 30 days), jointly and severally, reimburse the Underwriters through you for all out-of-pocket expenses approved in writing by you, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the ADSs not so delivered, but the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall then be under no further liability to any Underwriter in respect of the ADSs not so delivered except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof.
13. In all dealings hereunder, you shall act on behalf of each of the Underwriters, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Underwriter made or given by you. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to you as the Representatives at, in the case of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx (Asia) L.L.C., 68th Floor, Xxxxxx Kong Center, 2 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, facsimile number: (000) 0000-0000, Attention: Legal Department and in the case of
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Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., 48/F Xxxxxx Kong Center, 2 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, facsimile number: (000) 0000-0000, Attention: Legal Department; if to the Company shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to Longtop Financial Technologies Limited x/x 00/X, Xxxxx X, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx, 000000, the People’s Republic of China; if to any Selling Shareholder shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to such Selling Shareholder c/o Longtop Financial Technologies Limited x/x 00/X, Xxxxx X, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx, 000000, the People’s Republic of China, Attention: Weizhou Lian; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 9(e) hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to such Underwriter at its address set forth in its Underwriters’ Questionnaire, or telex constituting such Questionnaire, which address will be supplied to the Company by you upon request. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt thereof.
14. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholders and, to the extent provided in Sections 9 and 11 hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company, any Selling Shareholder or any Underwriter, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the ADSs from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase.
15. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably (i) agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding against the Company or the Selling Shareholder brought by any Underwriter or by any person who controls any Underwriter arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby may be instituted in any New York Court, (ii) waives, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding and (iii) submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Company and the Selling Shareholders irrevocably waives any immunity to jurisdiction to which it may otherwise be entitled or become entitled (including sovereign immunity, immunity to pre-judgment attachment, post-judgment attachment and execution) in any legal suit, action or proceeding against it arising out of or based on this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby which is instituted in any New York Court or in any competent court in the Cayman Islands. Each of the Company and the Selling Shareholders has appointed Law Debenture Corporate Services Inc., located at 4th Floor, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its authorized agent (the “Authorized Agent”) upon whom process may be served in any such action arising out of or based on this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby which may be instituted in any New York Court by any Underwriter or by any person who controls any Underwriter, expressly consents to the jurisdiction of any such court in respect of any such action, and waives any other requirements of or objections to personal jurisdiction with respect thereto. Such appointment shall be irrevocable. Each of the Company and the Selling Shareholders represents and warrants that the Authorized Agent has agreed to act as such agent for service of process and agrees to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents and instruments, that may be necessary to continue such appointment in full force and effect as aforesaid. Service of process upon the Authorized Agent and written notice of such service to the Company shall be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process upon the Company and the Selling Shareholders as the case may be.
16. In respect of any judgment or order given or made for any amount due hereunder that is expressed and paid in a currency (the “judgment currency”) other than United States dollars, the Company and the Selling Shareholders, as the case may be, will indemnify each Underwriter against any loss incurred by such Underwriter as a result of any variation as between (i) the rate of exchange at which the United States dollar amount is converted into the judgment currency for the purpose of such judgment or order and (ii) the rate of exchange at which an Underwriter is able to purchase United States dollars with the amount of the judgment currency actually received by such Underwriter. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent obligation of the Company and the Selling Shareholders and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “rate of exchange” shall include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of or conversion into United States dollars.
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17. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement. As used herein, the term “business day” shall mean any day when the Commission’s office in Washington, D.C. is open for business.
18. Each of the Company and the Selling Shareholders acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of the ADSs pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company and such Selling Shareholders, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each Underwriter is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of the Company or any Selling Shareholder, (iii) no Underwriter has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company or such Selling Shareholder with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company or any Selling Shareholder on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company or such Selling Shareholder except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement and (iv) each of the Company and the Selling Shareholders has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. Each of the Company and the Selling Shareholders agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company or any Selling Shareholder, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.
19. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the parties and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) among the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
20. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
21. Each of the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all rights to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
22. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
23. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each of the Company and the Selling Shareholders is authorized to disclose to any persons the U.S. Federal and State income tax treatment and tax structure of the potential transaction and all materials of any kind (including tax opinions and other tax analyses) provided to the Company and the Selling Shareholders relating to that treatment and structure, without the Underwriters imposing any limitation of any kind. However, any information relating to the tax treatment and tax structure shall remain confidential (and the foregoing sentence shall not apply) to the extent necessary to enable any person to comply with securities laws. For this purpose, “tax structure” is limited to any facts that may be relevant to that treatment.
Any person executing and delivering this Agreement as Attorney-in-Fact for a Selling Shareholder represents by so doing that he has been duly appointed as Attorney-in-Fact by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to a validly existing and binding Power of Attorney which authorizes such Attorney-in-Fact to take such action.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us five counterparts hereof, and upon the acceptance hereof by you, on behalf of each of the Underwriters, this letter and such acceptance hereof shall constitute a binding agreement among each of the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholders. It is understood that your acceptance of this letter on behalf of each of the Underwriters is pursuant to the authority set forth in a form of Agreement among Underwriters, the form of which shall be submitted to the Company and the Selling Shareholders for examination upon request, but without warranty on your part as to the authority of the signers thereof.
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Very truly yours, | ||
Longtop Financial Technologies Limited | ||
By: |
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Name: | Weizhou Lian | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
The Selling Shareholders named in Schedule II attached hereto | ||
By: |
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Name: | Weizhou Lian | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
As Attorney-in-Fact acting on behalf of each of the Selling Shareholders named in Schedule II attached hereto |
Accepted as of the date hereof on behalf of each of the Underwriters
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx (Asia) L.L.C | ||
By: |
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Name: | ||
Title: | ||
Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. | ||
By: |
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Name: | ||
Title: |
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SCHEDULE I
Underwriter |
Total Number of Firm ADSs to be Purchased |
Number of Optional ADSs to | ||
Xxxxxxx Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. |
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Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. |
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Xxxxxxxxx & Company, Inc. |
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Total |
10,434,500 | 1,565,500 | ||
SCH-I
SCHEDULE II
Total Number of Firm ADSs to be Sold |
Number of Optional ADSs to be Sold if Maximum Option Exercised | |||
The Company. |
8,529,500 | 470,500 | ||
The Selling Shareholders: |
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Bloomwell International Limited |
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Well Active International Limited |
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Wisdom Legend Investment Limited |
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Total |
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SCH-II
SCHEDULE III
(a) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses included in the Pricing Disclosure Package: Issuer Free Writing Prospectus dated October 19, 2007 and filed with the SEC on October 19, 2007
(b) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses not included in the Pricing Disclosure Package: electronic roadshow available at xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx and xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
(c) Information other than the Pricing Prospectus that comprise the Pricing Disclosure Package: the price to the public of the ADSs: US$ per ADS.
SCH-III
ANNEX I
FORM OF COMFORT LETTER
Pursuant to Section 8(h) of the Underwriting Agreement, the accountants shall furnish letters to the Underwriters to the effect that:
(i) They are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder;
(ii) In their opinion, the financial statements and any supplementary financial information and schedules (and, if applicable, financial forecasts and/or pro forma financial information) examined by them and included in the Prospectus or the Registration Statement comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the related published rules and regulations thereunder; and, if applicable, they have made a review in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants of the unaudited consolidated interim financial statements, selected financial data, pro forma financial information, financial forecasts and/or condensed financial statements derived from audited financial statements of the Company for the periods specified in such letter, as indicated in their reports thereon, copies of which have been separately furnished to the representatives of the Underwriters (the “Representatives”);
(iii) They have made a review in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants of the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income, consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statements of cash flows included in the Prospectus as indicated in their reports thereon copies of which have been separately furnished to the Representatives and on the basis of specified procedures including inquiries of officials of the Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters regarding whether the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements referred to in paragraph (vi)(A)(i) below comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the related published rules and regulations, nothing came to their attention that cause them to believe that the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements do not comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the related published rules and regulations;
(iv) They have compared the information in the Prospectus under selected captions with the disclosure requirements of Regulation S-K and on the basis of limited procedures specified in such letter nothing came to their attention as a result of the foregoing procedures that caused them to believe that this information does not conform in all material respects with the disclosure requirements of Items 8 and 11 of Form 20-F and Regulation S-K;
(v) On the basis of limited procedures, not constituting an examination in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, consisting of a reading of the unaudited financial statements and other information referred to below, a reading of the latest available interim financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries, inspection of the minute books of the Company and its Subsidiaries since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Prospectus, inquiries of officials of the Company and its Subsidiaries responsible for financial and accounting matters and such other inquiries and procedures as may be specified in such letter, nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe that:
(A) (i) the unaudited consolidated statements of income, consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statements of cash flows included in the Prospectus do not comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the related published rules and regulations, or (ii) any material modifications should be made to the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income, consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statements of cash flows included in the Prospectus for them to be in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles;
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(B) any other unaudited income statement data and balance sheet items included in the Prospectus do not agree with the corresponding items in the unaudited consolidated financial statements from which such data and items were derived, and any such unaudited data and items were not determined on a basis substantially consistent with the basis for the corresponding amounts in the audited consolidated financial statements included in the Prospectus;
(C) the unaudited financial statements which were not included in the Prospectus but from which were derived any unaudited condensed financial statements referred to in clause (A) and any unaudited income statement data and balance sheet items included in the Prospectus and referred to in clause (B) were not determined on a basis substantially consistent with the basis for the audited consolidated financial statements included in the Prospectus;
(D) any unaudited pro forma consolidated condensed financial statements included in the Prospectus do not comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the published rules and regulations thereunder or the pro forma adjustments have not been properly applied to the historical amounts in the compilation of those statements;
(E) as of a specified date not more than five days prior to the date of such letter, there have been any changes in the consolidated share capital (other than issuances of share capital upon exercise of options and stock appreciation rights, upon earn-outs of performance shares and upon conversions of convertible securities, in each case which were outstanding on the date of the latest financial statements included in the Prospectus) or any increase in the consolidated long-term debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries, or any decreases in consolidated net current assets or shareholders’ equity or other items specified by the Representatives, or any increases in any items specified by the Representatives, in each case as compared with amounts shown in the latest balance sheet included in the Prospectus, except in each case for changes, increases or decreases which the Prospectus discloses have occurred or may occur or which are described in such letter; and
(F) for the period from the date of the latest financial statements included in the Prospectus to the specified date referred to in clause (E) there were any decreases in consolidated net revenues or operating profit or the total or per share amounts of consolidated net income or other items specified by the Representatives, or any increases in any items specified by the Representatives, in each case as compared with the comparable period of the preceding year and with any other period of corresponding length specified by the Representatives, except in each case for decreases or increases which the Prospectus discloses have occurred or may occur or which are described in such letter; and
(vi) In addition to the examination referred to in their report(s) included in the Prospectus and the limited procedures, inspection of minute books, inquiries and other procedures referred to in paragraph (iii) above, they have carried out certain specified procedures, not constituting an examination in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, with respect to certain amounts, percentages and financial information specified by the Representatives, which are derived from the general accounting records of the Company and its Subsidiaries, which appear in the Prospectus, or in Part II of, or in exhibits and schedules to, the Registration Statement specified by the Representatives, and have compared certain of such amounts, percentages and financial information with the accounting records of the Company and its Subsidiaries and have found them to be in agreement.
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ANNEX II
PARTIES TO EXECUTE LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
Xiaogong Jia
Weizhou Lian
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx Xxx
Xxx Xxxx
Shousheng Ye
Zuoji Xxxx
Xxx Xx
Xxxx Xxx
Xxx Wu
Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Bloomwell International Limited
Concentra Holdings Limited
Cathay ITfinancial Services Ltd.
Tiger Global Private Investment Partners III, L.P.
Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IV, L.P.
Well Active International Limited
Wisdom Legend Investment Limited
Alphabest Investment Ltd.
FEnet Co., Ltd.
Hunter Global Investors Fund I L.P.
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ANNEX III
FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
Longtop Financial Technologies Limited
Lock-Up Agreement
, 2007
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx (Asia) L.L.C.
68th Floor, Xxxxxx Kong Center
2 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
48/F Xxxxxx Kong Center
2 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
As Representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I attached hereto.
Re: Longtop Financial Technologies Limited
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned understands that you, as representatives (the “Representatives”), propose to enter into an underwriting agreement, on behalf of the several underwriters named in Schedule I to such agreement (collectively, the “Underwriters”), with Longtop Financial Technologies Limited, a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), and the selling shareholders (the “Selling Shareholders”) and certain other parties named in such agreement, providing for a public offering of American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) representing ordinary shares of the Company, par value US$0.01 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”), pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333- ) and/or a Registration Statement on Form F-6 (File No. 333- ) to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
In consideration of the agreement by the Underwriter to offer and sell the ADSs, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees that, during the period beginning from the date of the final prospectus covering the public offering of the ADSs (the “Prospectus”) and continuing to and including the date 180 days after the date of such final Prospectus (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, right or warrant to purchase, make any short sale, file a registration statement with respect to, or otherwise dispose of (including entering into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequence of ownership interests): (A) any ADSs or Ordinary Shares or any securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the ADSs or Ordinary Shares, including but not limited to any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, ADSs or Ordinary Shares or any such substantially similar securities; and (B) any ordinary shares of the Company’s subsidiaries or controlled affiliates or depositary shares or depositary receipts representing such ordinary shares, including but not limited to any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for or that
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represent the right to receive such common shares or such depositary shares or depositary receipts or any such substantially similar securities, whether now owned or hereinafter acquired, owned directly by the undersigned (including holding as a custodian) or with respect to which the undersigned has beneficial ownership within the rules and regulations of the SEC (in each case other than pursuant to a bona fide gift by an individual to a donee or a sale or transfer by an entity to an affiliate; provided that such donee or affiliate agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein), without your prior written consent; provided, however, that if (1) during the last 17 days of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company releases earnings results or announces material news or a material event or (2) prior to the expiration of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company announces, or if the Representatives determine, that it will release earnings results during the 15-day period following the last day of the initial Lock-Up Period, then in each case the Lock-Up Period will be automatically extended until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of release of the earnings results or the announcement of the material news or material event, as applicable, unless any one Representative waives, in writing, such extension. The foregoing restriction is expressly agreed to preclude the undersigned from engaging in any hedging or other transaction which is designed to or which reasonably could be expected to lead to or result in a sale or disposition of the undersigned’s ADSs or Ordinary Shares or any securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the ADSs or Ordinary Shares even if such securities would be disposed of by someone other than the undersigned. Such prohibited hedging or other transactions would include without limitation any short sale or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including without limitation any put or call option) with respect to any of such securities or with respect to any security that includes, relates to, or derives any significant part of its value from such securities.
The undersigned hereby acknowledges that the Company has agreed in the Underwriting Agreement to provide written notice of any event that would result in an extension of the Lock-Up Period pursuant to the previous paragraph to the undersigned (in accordance with Section 13 of the Underwriting Agreement) and agrees that any such notice properly delivered will be deemed to have been given to, and received by, the undersigned. The undersigned hereby further agrees that, prior to engaging in any transaction or taking any other action that is subject to the terms of this Lock-Up Agreement during the period from the date of this Lock-Up Agreement to and including the 34th day following the expiration of the initial Lock-Up Period, it will give notice thereof to the Company and will not consummate such transaction or take any such action unless it has received written confirmation from the Company that the Lock-Up Period (as such may have been extended pursuant to the previous paragraph) has expired.
The undersigned understands that the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters are relying upon this Lock-Up Agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the offering. The undersigned further understands that this Lock-Up Agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs, legal representatives, successors, and assigns.
This Lock-Up Agreement shall terminate upon the expiration of the Lock-Up Period or in the event that there is no delivery of, and payment for, the ADSs pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, upon 3 days’ prior written notice of such non-delivery and non-payment given by the undersigned to you.
(Signature page to follow)
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ANNEX IV
FORM OF DEPOSITARY LETTER
October , 2007
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to the Deposit Agreement dated as of October , 2007 among Longtop Financial Technologies Limited (the “Company”), Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as depositary, (the “Depositary”), and Owners and Beneficial Owners of the American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) issued thereunder (the “Deposit Agreement”). Any capitalized term used but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Deposit Agreement.
Pursuant to the Deposit Agreement, the Company hereby instructs the Depositary, for a period beginning from October , 2007, which is the date of the prospectus in relation to the public offering of the ADSs, and continuing to and including the date 180 days thereafter (the “Lock-Up Period”), not to accept any deposit of any Common Shares in the Company’s ADR facility by, or issue any new ADRs evidencing the ADSs to, any shareholder whose name appear on the Company’s member register as of the date hereof and attached hereto as Exhibit A, or any holder of outstanding options under the Company’s 2005 share incentive plan listed in Exhibit B hereto or any purchaser of Common Shares from Well Active International Limited listed in Exhibit C hereto, except as further instructed by the Company. For avoidance of doubt, this Letter Agreement shall not affect the right of ADR holders to cancel their ADRs, withdraw the underlying Common Shares and/or re-deposit Common Shares pursuant to General Instructions of Form F-6.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (A) during the last 17 days of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company releases earnings results or announces material news or a material event or (B) prior to the expiration of the initial Lock-Up Period, the Company announces, or if the representatives determine, that the Company will release earnings results during the 15-day period following the last day of the initial Lock-Up Period, then in each case the Lock-Up Period imposed by this Letter Agreement will be extended until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of the release of the earnings results or the occurrence of the material news or event, as applicable, unless the representatives of the underwriters waive, in writing, such an extension. In the event that the Lock-Up Period is extended pursuant to the foregoing, the Company shall further instruct the Depositary to extend the restrictions imposed by this Letter Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the Depositary shall not be regarded as having notice of an extension of the Lock-Up Period until it receives written notice of such extension from the Company.
This agreement shall terminate upon the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, or upon any further instructions from the Company. This agreement shall not be amended without the prior written consent of the representatives for the Company’s initial public offering of ADSs consummated on the date hereof.
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Longtop Financial Technologies Limited | ||
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Name: | Weizhou Lian | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
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Acknowledged and agreed:
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, | ||
as Depositary | ||
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ANNEX V
FORM OF OPINION BY XXXXXX & XXXXXXX LLP
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