3,750,000 American Depositary Shares REDGATE MEDIA GROUP American Depositary Shares Representing 7,500,000 Common Shares (par value US$0.0025 per share) UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
3,750,000 American Depositary Shares
American Depositary Shares Representing 7,500,000 Common Shares
(par value US$0.0025 per share)
, 2010
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Carret & Co., LLC
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
I-Bankers Securities, Inc.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
As Representatives of the Several Underwriters
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Redgate Media Group, an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited
liability (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, to issue
and sell to you and the other underwriters named on Schedule I to this Agreement (the
“Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate
of 3,750,000 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) representing 7,500,000 shares (the “Firm ADSs”) of
the Company’s common shares, par value US$0.0025 per share (the “Common Shares”). The respective
amounts of the Firm ADSs to be purchased by each of the several Underwriters are set forth opposite
their names on Schedule I hereto. In addition, the Company proposes to grant to the Underwriters
an option to purchase up to an additional 562,500 ADSs representing 1,125,000 shares (the
“Option ADSs”) of Common Shares for the purpose of covering over-allotments in connection with the
sale of the Firm ADSs. The Firm ADSs and the Option ADSs are collectively called the “Offered
ADSs.”
The Offered ADSs are to be issued pursuant to a deposit agreement, to be dated as of ,
2010 (the “Deposit Agreement”), and to be entered into among the Company, Citibank, N.A., as
depositary (the “Depositary”), and holders and beneficial owners from time to time of ADSs issued
thereunder. Each ADS will initially represent the right to receive two Common Share(s) deposited
pursuant to the Deposit Agreement.
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The Company has prepared and filed in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the published rules and regulations thereunder (the
“Rules”) adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a Registration
Statement (as hereinafter defined) on Form F-1 (No. 333-164983), including a Preliminary Propectus
relating to the ADSs, and such amendments thereof as may have been required to the date of this
Agreement. Copies of such Registration Statement (including all amendments thereof) and of the
related Preliminary Prospectus (as hereinafter defined) have heretofore been delivered by the
Company to you. The term “Preliminary Prospectus” means any Preliminary Propectus included at any
time as a part of the Registration Statement or filed with the Commission by the Company pursuant
to Rule 424(a) of the Rules. The term “Registration Statement” as used in this Agreement means the
initial registration statement (including all exhibits, financial schedules and all documents and
information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement through incorporation by reference or
otherwise), as amended at the time and on the date it becomes effective (the “Effective Date”),
including the information (if any) contained in the form of final prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and deemed to be part thereof at the time of
effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A of the Rules. If the Company has filed an abbreviated
registration statement to register additional Common Shares pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Rules
(the “462(b) Registration Statement”), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement
shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement. The term “Prospectus” as used
in this Agreement means the prospectus in the form included in the Registration Statement at the
time of effectiveness or, if Rule 430A of the Rules is relied on, the term Prospectus shall also
include the final prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to and within the time limits
described in Rule 424(b) of the Rules. Reference made herein to any Preliminary Prospectus, the
Statutory Prospectus (as hereinafter defined) or to the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and
include any documents incorporated by reference therein, including pursuant to Item 5 of Form F-1
under the Securities Act, as of the date of such Preliminary Prospectus, the Statutory Prospectus,
or the Prospectus, as the case may be, or thereafter, and any reference to any amendment or
supplement to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include
any document filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”),
after the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, and
incorporated by reference in such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be.
All references in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus, or any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing shall include any copy thereof
filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System
(“XXXXX”).
The Company understands that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of the Offered
ADSs, as set forth in and pursuant to the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, as soon after
the Effective Date and the date of this Agreement as the Representatives deem advisable. The
Company hereby confirms that the Underwriters and dealers have been authorized to distribute or
cause to be distributed each Preliminary Prospectus, and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (as
hereinafter defined) and are authorized to distribute the Prospectus (as from time to time amended
or supplemented if the Company furnishes amendments or supplements thereto to the Underwriters).
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1. Sale, Purchase, Delivery and Payment for the ADSs. On the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements contained in, and subject to the terms and conditions
of, this Agreement:
(a) The Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the
Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price
of US$ per ADS (the “Initial Price”), the number of Firm ADSs set forth opposite the name of
such Underwriter under the column “Number of Firm ADSs to be Purchased” on Schedule I to this
Agreement, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 9 hereof.
(b) The Company hereby grants to the several Underwriters an option (the “Over-Allotment
Option”) to purchase, severally and not jointly, all or any part of the Option ADSs at the Initial
Price. The number of Option ADSs to be purchased by each Underwriter shall be the same percentage
(adjusted by the Representatives to eliminate fractions) of the total number of Option ADSs to be
purchased by the Underwriters as such Underwriter is purchasing of the Firm ADSs. Such option may
be exercised by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters only to cover over-allotments in
the sales of the Firm ADSs by the Underwriters and may be exercised in whole or in part at any time
on or before 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the business day before the Firm ADSs Closing Date
(as defined below), and from time to time thereafter within 30 days after the date of this
Agreement, in each case upon written, facsimile or telegraphic notice, or verbal or telephonic
notice confirmed by written, facsimile or telegraphic notice, by the Representatives to the Company
at least two business days before the Option ADSs Closing Date (as defined below), setting forth
the number of Option ADSs to be purchased and the time and date (but in no event prior to the Firm
ADSs Closing Date) of such purchase.
(c) Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of the American Depositary Receipts
(“ADRs”) evidencing the ADSs for, the Firm ADSs shall be made at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on
the third business day following the date of this Agreement or at such time on such other date, not
later than ten business days after the date of this Agreement, as shall be agreed upon by the
Company and the Representatives (such time and date of delivery and payment are called the “Firm
ADSs Closing Date”). In addition, in the event that any or all of the Option ADSs are purchased by
the Underwriters, payment of the purchase price, and delivery of the ADRs, for such Option ADSs
shall be made at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each date of delivery as specified in the
notice from the Representatives to the Company (such time and date of delivery and payment are
called the “Option ADSs Closing Date”). The Firm ADSs Closing Date and any Option ADSs Closing
Date are called, individually, a “Closing Date” and together, the “Closing Dates.”
(d) Payment shall be made to the Company by wire transfer of immediately available funds
against delivery of the Firm ADSs to the Representatives or for the respective accounts of the
Underwriters through the facilities of the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”).
(e) The ADRs evidencing the ADSs shall be registered in such names and shall be in such
denominations as the Representatives shall request at least two full business days before the Firm
ADSs Closing Date or, in the case of Option ADSs, on the day of notice of
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exercise of the Over-Allotment Option. The Company will cause the ADRs representing the ADSs
to be made available for checking and packaging, at the office of the Depositary or the Custodian,
on the full business day before the Firm ADSs Closing Date (or the Option ADSs Closing Date in the
case of the Option ADSs).
2. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants
to each Underwriter as of the date hereof, as of the Firm ADSs Closing Date and as of each Option
ADSs Closing Date (if any), as follows:
(a) On the Effective Date, the Registration Statement complied, and on the date of the
Prospectus, the date any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective
and the date any supplement to or amendment of the Prospectus is filed with the Commission, each of
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply, in all
material respects, with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules. The Registration
Statement did not, as of the Effective Date, and will not, as of the date any post-effective
amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective, contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in
order to make the statements therein not misleading; and on the date of the Prospectus, the date
any supplement to or amendment of the Prospectus is filed with the Commission and each Closing
Date, as the case may be, the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or will omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading. When any Preliminary
Prospectus was first filed with the Commission (whether filed as part of the Registration Statement
or any amendment thereto or pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the Rules) and when any amendment thereof or
supplement thereto was first filed with the Commission, such Preliminary Prospectus, as amended or
supplemented, complied, in all material respects, with the applicable provisions of the Securities
Act and the Rules and did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein
not misleading. If applicable, each Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus delivered to the
Underwriters for use in connection with this offering was identical to the electronically
transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to XXXXX, except to the extent
permitted by Regulation S-T. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the representations and
warranties in this paragraph 2(a) shall apply to statements in, or omissions from, the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus made in reliance upon, and in conformity
with, information furnished in writing by the Representatives on behalf of the several Underwriters
specifically for use in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus,
as the case may be (the “Underwriter Information”).
(b) As of the Applicable Time (as hereinafter defined), neither (i) the Statutory Prospectus
(as defined below) and the price to the public and the number of ADSs offered and sold, as
indicated on the cover page of the Prospectus, all considered together (collectively, the “General
Disclosure Package”), nor (ii) any individual Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when considered
together with the General Disclosure Package, included 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 the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall
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not apply to statements in or omissions from the General Disclosure Package or any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information.
Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including any electronic road show (including without
limitation any “bona fide electronic road show” as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) under the Securities
Act, each, a “Road Show”) (i) is identified in Schedule III hereto; and (ii) complied when issued,
and complies, in all material respects, with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules.
The Company has made at least one version of the Road Show available without restriction by means
of graphic communication to any person, including any potential investor in the Offered ADSs (and
if there is more than one version of a Road Show for the Offering that is a written communication,
the version available without restriction was made available no later than the other versions).
As used in this Section and elsewhere in this Agreement:
“Applicable Time” means 6:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Underwriting
Agreement.
“Statutory Prospectus” as of any time means the Preliminary Prospectus relating to the Offered
ADSs that is included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to the Applicable Time.
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means each “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405
of the Rules) prepared by or on behalf of the Company or used or referred to by the Company in
connection with the offering of the ADSs, including, without limitation, each Road Show.
(c) The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order
preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or
preventing the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been
instituted or are threatened under the Securities Act. Any required filing of any Preliminary
Prospectus and/or the Prospectus and any supplement thereto pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules
has been or will be made in the manner and within the time period required by such Rule 424(b).
Any material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) or Rule 163(b)(2) of the
Rules has been or will be made in the manner and within the time period required by such Rules.
(d) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus does not conflict with information contained in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. The foregoing sentence
does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and
in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the
Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such
information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as
such in Section 6 hereof.
(e) A registration statement on Form F-6 (File No. 333-165039) in respect of the ADSs (the
“ADS Registration Statement”) has been filed with the Commission and has
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been declared effective; the ADS Registration Statement, including all exhibits thereto, when
it became effective, complied, and as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will comply, in all
respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules, and the ADS
Registration Statement, when it became effective, did not, and as amended or supplemented, if
applicable, will not, include any 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.
(f) The financial statements of the Company (including all notes thereto) included in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and Prospectus present fairly in all
material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated entities
at the dates indicated and the statements of operations, statements of owners’ equity and
statements of cash flows of the Company and its consolidated entities for the periods specified;
and such financial statements and related notes thereto, and the unaudited financial information
filed with the Commission as part of the Registration Statement, have been prepared in conformity
with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied throughout the periods involved
other than as described therein. No other financial statements are required to be included in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. The summary and selected
financial data included in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly in all
material respects the information shown therein as at the respective dates and for the respective
periods specified and have been presented on a basis consistent with the consolidated financial
statements set forth in the Prospectus. The pro forma financial statements and the related notes
thereto included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus
present fairly in all material respects the information shown therein, have been prepared in
accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines with respect to pro forma financial
statements and have been properly compiled on the bases described therein, and the assumptions used
in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments therein are appropriate to give
effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein.
(g) PricewaterhouseCoopers Xxxxx Xxxx CPAs Limited Company (the “Auditor”), whose reports are
filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement, is and, during the periods
covered by their reports, was (A) independent public accountants as required by the Securities Act
and the Rules; (B) in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of
accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X; and (C) a registered public accounting firm as
defined by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) whose registration has not
been suspended or revoked and who has not requested such registration to be withdrawn.
(h) The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association
or entity other than those listed in Exhibit A hereto.
(i) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries, including each entity (corporation, partnership,
joint venture, association or other business organization) controlled directly or indirectly by the
Company, (each, a “Subsidiary”), is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation or organization and each such entity has
all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as
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is currently being conducted as described in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, and to own, lease and operate its properties except where the failure to be in good
standing or have such requisite power or authority would not have a material adverse effect on the
properties, condition, financial or otherwise, or on the results of operations or business affairs
of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”). All of the
issued shares of capital stock of, or other ownership interests in, each Subsidiary (except for
Shanghai Yarun Culture Communications Co., Ltd. (“Yarun”) and Guangzhou Winclick Information and
Technology Co., Ltd. (“Winclick”)) have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully
paid and non-assessable and are owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, free and clear of
any lien, charge, mortgage, pledge, security interest, claim, limitation on voting rights, equity,
trust or other encumbrance, preferential arrangement, defect or restriction of any kind whatsoever.
Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing
as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted by it
or location of the assets or properties owned, leased or licensed by it requires such
qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing, individually or
in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and to the Company’s knowledge, no
proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing, or
seeking to revoke, limit or curtail, such power and authority or qualification.
(j) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has all requisite corporate power and authority,
and all necessary authorizations, approvals, consents, orders, licenses, certificates and permits
of and from all governmental or regulatory bodies or any other person or entity (collectively, the
“Permits”), to own, lease and license its assets and properties and conduct its business, all of
which are valid and in full force and effect, except where the lack of such Permits, individually
or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each of its
Subsidiaries has fulfilled and performed in all material respects all of its obligations with
respect to such Permits and no event has occurred that allows, or after notice or lapse of time
would allow, revocation or termination thereof or results in any other material impairment of the
rights of the Company thereunder. Except as may be required under the Securities Act and state and
foreign Blue Sky laws, no other Permits are required to enter into, deliver and perform this
Agreement or the Deposit Agreement and to issue and sell the ADSs.
(k) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries owns or possesses legally enforceable rights to
use all patents, patent rights, inventions, trademarks, trademark applications, trade names,
service marks, copyrights, copyright applications, licenses, know-how and other similar rights and
proprietary knowledge (collectively, “Intangibles”) necessary for the conduct of its business.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice of, or is not aware of, any
infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any Intangibles.
(l) At the time of filing the Registration Statement and at the date hereof, the Company was
not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Rules.
(m) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has good and marketable title in fee simple to
all real property, and good and marketable title to all other property owned by it, in each case
free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims, security interests and defects, except
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such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere
with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its Subsidiaries. All
property held under lease by the Company and its Subsidiaries is held by them under valid, existing
and enforceable leases, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims, security interests and
defects, except such as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made or
proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its Subsidiaries. Subsequent to the
respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
(i) there has not been any event which could have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sustained any loss or interference with its assets,
businesses or properties (whether owned or leased) from fire, explosion, earthquake, flood or other
calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any court or
legislative or other governmental action, order or decree which would have a Material Adverse
Effect; and (iii) since the date of the latest balance sheet included in the Registration Statement
or Prospectus, neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries has (A) issued any securities or incurred
any long-term or material liability or obligation, direct or contingent, for borrowed money, except
such liabilities or obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, (B) entered into any
transaction not in the ordinary course of business or (C) except for regular dividends on the
Common Shares in amounts per share that are consistent with past practice, declared or paid any
dividend or made any distribution on any shares of its stock or redeemed, purchased or otherwise
acquired or agreed to redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of its capital stock.
(n) Except for the entities incorporated in the PRC as listed on Schedule IV (each a “PRC
Entity”) and any of the Subsidiaries incorporated in the PRC, the Company has no direct or indirect
subsidiaries or any other entity over which it has direct or indirect effective control
incorporated or operating in the PRC. Each PRC Entity has been duly organized and validly exists as
a corporation, partnership or limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the PRC.
The liability of the Company in respect of equity interests held in each PRC Entity is limited to
its investment therein. Each PRC Entity’s business license is in full force and effect. Each of the
PRC Entity (i) has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as is currently being
conducted and as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus, and to own, lease and operate its respective properties, and (ii) is duly qualified to
do business as a foreign corporation, partnership or limited liability company in each jurisdiction
in which the character or location of its properties (owned, leased or licensed) or the nature or
conduct of its business makes such qualification necessary, except, in each case, as disclosed in
the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or for those failures
to be so qualified which (individually or in the aggregate) could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect. The Articles of Association of each PRC Entity comply with the
requirements of applicable PRC law, including the PRC Company Law, and are in full force and
effect.
(o) There is no document, contract or other agreement required to be described in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or to be filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement which is not described or filed as required by the Securities
Act or Rules. Each description of a contract, document or other agreement in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus accurately reflects in all material
respects the terms of the underlying contract, document or other agreement. Each contract,
document or other agreement described in the Registration Statement, the General
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Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or listed in the exhibits to the Registration Statement
is, unless otherwise described therein, in full force and effect and is valid and enforceable by
and against the Company or the Subsidiaries, if a Subsidiary is a party, as the case may be, in
accordance with its terms. Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries, if a Subsidiary is a
party, is in default in the observance or performance of any term or obligation to be performed by
it under any such agreement, and no event has occurred which with notice or lapse of time or both
would constitute such a default, in any such case which default or event, individually or in the
aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect. No default exists, and no event has occurred
which with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute a default, in the due performance and
observance of any term, covenant or condition, by the Company or a Subsidiary, if a Subsidiary is a
party thereto, of any other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries
is a party or by which the Company or its properties or business or a Subsidiary or its properties
or business may be bound or affected, which default or event, individually or in the aggregate,
would have a Material Adverse Effect.
(p) There are no business relationships or related-party transactions involving the Company or
any of the Subsidiaries or any other person required under the Securities Act or Rules to be
described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that have
not been described as required.
(q) The statistical and market related data included in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company
believes to be reliable and accurate.
(r) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary (i) is in violation of its certificate or articles
of incorporation, by-laws, certificate of formation, limited liability company agreement,
partnership agreement or other organizational documents, (ii) is in default under, and no event has
occurred which, with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute a default under, or result
in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge, mortgage, pledge, security interest, claim,
limitation on voting rights, equity, trust or other encumbrance, preferential arrangement, defect
or restriction of any kind whatsoever, upon, any property or assets of the Company or any
Subsidiary pursuant to, any bond, debenture, note, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan
agreement or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound or to
which any of its properties or assets is subject or (iii) is in violation of any statute, law,
rule, regulation, ordinance, directive, judgment, decree or order of any judicial, regulatory or
other legal or governmental agency or body, foreign or domestic, except (in the case of clauses
(ii) and (iii) above) for violations or defaults that could not (individually or in the aggregate)
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(s) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(t) Neither the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the Deposit Agreement
by the Company nor the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby
(including, without limitation, the issuance and sale by the Company of the Offered ADSs) will give
rise to a right to terminate or accelerate the due date of any payment due under, or conflict with
or result in the breach of any term or provision of, or
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constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute
a default) under, or require any consent or waiver under, or result in the execution or imposition
of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of the Company or the Subsidiaries
pursuant to the terms of, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument
to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by which either the Company or the
Subsidiaries or any of their properties or businesses is bound, or any franchise, license, permit,
judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries or violate any provision of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries, except for such consents or waivers which have already been obtained and are in full
force and effect.
(u) 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.
(v) 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 registered as representative of the holders of
the ADRs in a direct suit, action or proceeding against the Company.
(w) Neither the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the Deposit Agreement
by the Company nor the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby
(including, without limitation, the issuance and sale by the Company of the ADSs) are or will be,
as of the date hereof or at each Closing Date, adversely affected by the Regulations on Mergers and
Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (the “M&A Rules”) or 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”).
(x) The statements set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the
captions “Risk Factors—Risks Related to the People’s Republic of China—Any requirement to obtain
prior CSRC approval could delay this offering and failure to obtain this approval, if required,
could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and reputation as well as
the trading price of our ADSs, and could also create uncertainties for this offering.” when taken
together with the statements under “Regulations on Overseas Listing,” are fair and accurate
summaries of the matters described therein in all material respects, and nothing has been omitted
from such summaries that would make the same misleading in any material respect.
(y) Each of the Company and the 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
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ensure compliance by each of its shareholders, option holders that is, or is directly or
indirectly owned or controlled by, a PRC resident or citizen with any applicable rules and
regulations of the relevant PRC government agencies (including but not limited to the Ministry of
Commerce, 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 (the “PRC Overseas Investment and Listing Regulations”), including, without limitation,
requesting each shareholder, option holder 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.
(a) (A) Each party to each of the agreements described under the caption “Our Corporate
Structure—Contractual Arrangements” in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus relating
to the Company’s corporate structure to which any of Redgate Media AD Co., Ltd. (“Wanli”), Beijing
Redgate Online Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Redgate Online”) and the shareholders of Wanli
and Redgate Online is a party (collectively, the “VIE Agreements”) has the legal right, power and
authority (corporate and other, as the case may be) to enter into and perform its respective
obligations under the VIE Agreements and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the
execution, delivery and performance of, and have authorized, executed and delivered, each of the
VIE Agreements; and each of the VIE Agreements constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation
of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be
limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws of general
applicability affecting creditors’ rights or by equitable principles relating to enforceability and
except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus. The execution and delivery by Wanli, Redgate Online and shareholders of Wanli and
Redgate Online of, and the performance by Wanli, Redgate Online and shareholders of Wanli and
Redgate Online of their respective obligations under, each of the VIE Agreements and the
consummation by Wanli, Redgate Online and shareholders of Wanli and Redgate Online of the
transactions contemplated therein did not, does not and will not: (i) 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, lease, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which
the Company, Wanli, Redgate Online and shareholders of Wanli and Redgate Online, as the case may
be, are a party or by which the Company, Wanli, Redgate Online and shareholders of Wanli and
Redgate Online are bound or to which any of the properties or assets of the Company, Wanli, Redgate
Online and shareholders of Wanli and Redgate Online are subject; (ii) result in any violation of
the provisions of constitutive documents or business license of the Company, Wanli or Redgate
Online, as the case may be; or (iii) except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, result in any violation of any PRC statute or any order,
rule or regulation of any PRC governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Company, Wanli,
Redgate Online and shareholders of Wanli and Redgate Online or any of their properties, except, in
the case of the clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in
the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(B) To ensure the legality, validity, enforceability and performance of each of the VIE
Agreements in the PRC, it is not necessary that any such document be filed or
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recorded with any court or other authority in the PRC, except that (i) the exercise of the
options to purchase all of the equity interest in Wanli under the deeds of agreement among Redgate
Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“Redgate Beijing”), Redgate Media (Hong Kong) Limited (“Redgate Media
(Hong Kong)”), Wanli and the shareholders of Wanli (the “Wanli Call Option Agreement”) shall be
approved by and/or registered with the relevant PRC governmental authorities; and (ii) the equity
pledge under the equity pledge agreement among Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx (Xxxx Xxxx) and the
shareholders of Wanli shall be registered with the relevant PRC governmental authorities to effect
the pledge thereunder; nor is it necessary that any stamp or similar tax be paid on or in respect
of any of the VIE Agreements, except for any tax implication for exercise of the call options under
the Wanli Call Option Agreement depending on the exercise price and the general power of tax
authority to re-assess transactions under the Wanli Call Option Agreement.
(b) The Company has authorized the outstanding capital stock as set forth under the caption
“Capitalization” in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The certificates evidencing
the ADSs are in due and proper legal form and have been duly authorized for issuance by the
Company. All of the issued and outstanding Common Shares have been duly and validly issued and are
fully paid. There are no statutory preemptive or other similar rights to subscribe for or to
purchase or acquire any Common Shares of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any such rights
pursuant to its Certificate of Incorporation or by-laws or any agreement or instrument to or by
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or bound. The ADSs, when issued and sold
pursuant to this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and none of them will be
issued in violation of any preemptive or other similar right. Except as disclosed in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no outstanding
option, warrant or other right calling for the issuance of, and there is no commitment, plan or
arrangement to issue, any ADS or share of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any security
convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, such ADS or shares. All grants of options on
the Common Shares were validly issued and properly approved by the Board of Directors of the
Company in material compliance with all applicable laws and the terms of the plans under which such
options were issued and were recorded in the Company’s financial statements in accordance with
GAAP, and no such grants involved any “back dating”, “forward dating,” “spring loading” or similar
practices with respect to the effective date of grant. The Common Shares and the ADSs conform in
all material respects to all statements in relation thereto contained in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. All outstanding shares of capital
stock of each of the Company’s Subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued and are
fully paid and are owned directly by the Company or by a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company
free and clear of any security interests, liens, encumbrances, equities or claims, except as
described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(c) The Common Shares underlying the Offered ADSs to be purchased by the Underwriters have
been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement,
will be validly issued and fully paid, and the issuance of such Common Shares will not be subject
to any preemptive or similar rights. The Common Shares may be freely deposited by the Company with
the Depositary or its nominee against issuance of ADRs evidencing the ADSs as contemplated by the
Deposit Agreement.
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(d) Upon the due issuance by the Depositary of ADRs evidencing the ADSs against deposit of
Common Shares in accordance with the provisions of the Deposit Agreement, such ADRs will be duly
and validly issued and persons in whose names such ADRs are registered will be entitled to the
rights of registered holders of ADRs specified therein and in the Deposit Agreement.
(e) The statements set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the
captions “Description of Share Capital” and “Description of American Depositary Shares,” insofar as
they purport to constitute summaries of the terms of the Common Shares, ADSs and ADRs, or describe
the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, are accurate and fair summaries or
descriptions of such terms and provisions in all material respects.
(f) No holder of any security of the Company has any right, which has not been waived, to have
any security owned by such holder included in the Registration Statement or to demand registration
of any security owned by such holder for a period of 180 days after the date of this Agreement.
Each director and executive officer of the Company and each shareholder of the Company listed on
Schedule II hereto has delivered to the Representatives his lock-up agreement in the form attached
to this Agreement as Exhibit A hereto (“Lock-Up Agreement”).
(g) There are no legal 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 could individually
or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to the knowledge of the Company, no such
proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others.
(h) All necessary corporate action has been duly and validly taken by the Company to authorize
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the issuance and sale of the ADSs by
the Company.
(i) All necessary corporate action has been duly and validly taken by the Company to authorize
the execution, delivery and performance of the Deposit Agreement by the Company. The Deposit
Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and will
constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in
accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles.
(j) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is involved in any labor dispute, nor, to
the knowledge of the Company, is any such dispute threatened, which dispute would have a Material
Adverse Effect. The Company is not aware of any threatened or pending litigation between the
Company or its Subsidiaries and any of its executive officers which, if adversely determined, could
have a Material Adverse Effect and has no reason to believe that such officers will not remain in
the employment of the Company.
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(k) No transaction has occurred between or among the Company and any of its officers or
directors, shareholders or any affiliate or affiliates of any such officer or director or
shareholder that is required to be described in and is not described in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(l) The Company has not taken, nor will it take, directly or indirectly, any action designed
to or that might be reasonably expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the
price of the Common Shares or any other “reference security” (as defined in Rule 100 of Regulation
M under the Exchange Act (“Regulation M”)) whether to facilitate the sale or resale of the Common
Shares, ADSs or otherwise, and has taken no action which would directly or indirectly violate
Regulation M. The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters may engage in passive market making
transactions in the ADSs on the NASDAQ Global Market in accordance with Regulation M.
(m) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has filed all necessary tax returns which are
required to be filed through the date hereof, which returns are true and correct in all material
respects or has received timely extensions thereof, and has paid all taxes shown on such returns
and all assessments received by it to the extent that the same are material and have become due.
There are no tax audits or investigations pending, which if adversely determined would have a
Material Adverse Effect; nor, to the Company’s best knowledge, are there any material proposed
additional tax assessments against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(n) The ADSs have been duly authorized for listing on the NASDAQ Global Market, subject to
official notice of issuance. A registration statement has been filed on Form 8-A (File No. 001-34640)
pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act; 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, to the best of the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, 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 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.
(o) The Company has taken no action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating
the registration of the ADSs under the Exchange Act or the listing of the ADSs on the NASDAQ Global
Market, nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission or the NASDAQ Global
Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing.
(p) The books, records and accounts of the Company and its Subsidiaries accurately and fairly
reflect the transactions in, and dispositions of, the assets of, and the results
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of operations of, the Company and its Subsidiaries. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries
maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances 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
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability,
(iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets
at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(q) The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term
is defined in Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act), which: (i) are reasonably designed to ensure
that material information required to be disclosed by the Company will be made known to the
Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer by others within the
Company; (ii) provide for the periodic evaluation of the effectiveness of such disclosure controls
and procedures at the end of the periods in which the periodic reports are required to be prepared;
and (iii) are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for which they were
established.
(r) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, the Company is not aware of (i) any material weakness or significant deficiency in the
design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to
record, process, summarize and report financial data or any material weaknesses in internal
controls; or (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
who have a role in the Company’s internal controls.
(s) Except as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, there are no material off-balance sheet arrangements (as defined in Item 303 of
Regulation S-K) that have or are reasonably likely to have a material current or future effect on
the Company’s financial condition, revenues or expenses, changes in financial condition, results of
operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.
(t) The Company’s Board of Directors has validly appointed an audit committee whose
composition satisfies the requirements of Rule 4350(d)(2) of the NASDAQ Global Market and the Board
of Directors and/or the audit committee has adopted a charter that satisfies the requirements of
Rule 4350(d)(1) of the NASDAQ Global Market. The audit committee has reviewed the adequacy of its
charter within the past twelve months.
(u) The Company is actively taking steps to ensure that it will be in compliance with all
other applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, any related rules and regulations
promulgated by the Commission and corporate governance requirements under applicable NASDAQ
regulations upon the effectiveness of such provisions and has no reason to believe that it will not
be able to comply with such provisions at the time of effectiveness.
(v) The Company and its Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial
responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are customary in the businesses
in which they are engaged or propose to engage after giving effect to the transactions
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described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; all policies of insurance and
fidelity or surety bonds insuring the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company’s or its
Subsidiaries’ respective businesses, assets, employees, officers and directors are in full force
and effect; the Company and each of its Subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms of such
policies and instruments in all material respects; and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of
the Company has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance
coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as
may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that is not materially greater than the current
cost. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been denied any insurance coverage which
it has sought or for which it has applied.
(w) Each approval, consent, order, authorization, designation, declaration or filing of, by or
with any regulatory, administrative or other governmental body necessary in connection with the
execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated required to be obtained or
performed by the Company (except such additional steps as may be required by the Commission, the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) or may be necessary to qualify the Offered ADSs
for public offering by the Underwriters under the state securities or Blue Sky laws) has been
obtained or made and is in full force and effect.
(x) There are no affiliations with FINRA among the Company’s officers, directors or, to the
best of the knowledge of the Company, any five percent or greater shareholder of the Company,
except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus or otherwise disclosed in writing to the Representatives. All of the information
provided to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters by the Company, its officers and
directors and holders of any securities (debt or equity) or options to acquire any securities of
the Company in connection with letters, filings or other supplemental information provided to FINRA
pursuant to FINRA Rules 5110 and 5190 and NASD Conduct Rule 2720 is true, complete and correct.
(y) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, 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 transactions contemplated by
this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement or, to the Company’s knowledge, any arrangements,
agreements, understandings, payments or issuance with respect to the Company or any of its
officers, directors, shareholders, partners, employees, Subsidiaries or affiliates that may affect
the Underwriters’ compensation as determined by FINRA.
(z) (i) Each of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material
respects with all rules, laws and regulation relating to the use, treatment, storage and disposal
of toxic substances and protection of health or the environment (“Environmental Laws”) which are
applicable to its business; (ii) neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries has received any notice
from any governmental authority or third party of an asserted claim under Environmental Laws; (iii)
each of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has received all permits, licenses or other
approvals required of it under applicable Environmental Laws to
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conduct its business and is in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit,
license or approval; (iv) to the Company’s knowledge, no facts currently exist that will require
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to make future material capital expenditures to comply with
Environmental Laws; and (v) no property which is or has been owned, leased or occupied in the
United States by the Company or its Subsidiaries has been designated as a Superfund site pursuant
to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation of Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42
U.S.C. Section 9601, et. seq.) or otherwise designated as a contaminated site under applicable
United States state or local law. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been named
as a “potentially responsible party” under the CERCLA 1980.
(aa) In the ordinary course of its business, the Company periodically reviews the effect of
Environmental Laws on the business, operations and properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries,
in the course of which the Company identifies and evaluates associated costs and liabilities
(including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up,
closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws, or any permit, license or approval,
any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties).
On the basis of such review, the Company has reasonably concluded that such associated costs and
liabilities would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(bb) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Offered ADSs
and the application of net proceeds thereof as described in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, will not be an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”).
(cc) The Company believes that it is not a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”) as
defined in Section 1297 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) in 2009, and
that the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and the application of the net
proceeds as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the caption “Use
of Proceeds” will not cause it to become a PFIC in 2010.
(dd) The Company or any other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company
including, without limitation, any director, officer, agent or employee of the Company or its
Subsidiaries, has not, directly or indirectly, while acting on behalf of the Company or its
Subsidiaries (i) used any corporate funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other
unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or
domestic government officials or employees or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns
from corporate funds; (iii) violated any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as
amended; or (iv) made any other unlawful payment.
(ee) Since the adoption of Section 13(k) of the Exchange Act, neither the Company nor any of
its Subsidiaries has extended or maintained credit, arranged for the extension of credit, in the
form of a personal loan, to or for any director or executive officer (or equivalent thereof) of the
Company and/or such Subsidiary except for such extensions of credit as are expressly permitted by
Section 13(k) of the Exchange Act.
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(ff) The operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all
times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the
applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions and the rules and regulations thereunder
(collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any
court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of
it Subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the best knowledge of
the Company, threatened.
(gg) Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any
director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the
U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds
of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary,
joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any
person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
(hh) None of the Company, its directors or its officers has distributed nor will distribute
prior to the later of (A) the Firm ADSs Closing Date, or the Option ADSs Closing Date and (B)
completion of the distribution of the ADSs; and (C) the expiration of 25 days after the date of the
Prospectus, any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the ADSs other than
any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, the Registration Statement and other materials, if any,
permitted by the Securities Act and consistent with Section 5(f) below.
(ii) Except to the extent described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, all dividends and other distributions declared and payable on the
equity interests of the Company and its Subsidiaries may under current laws and regulations of the
Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, British Virgin Islands and the PRC be converted into foreign currency
that may be freely transferred out of the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands and
the PRC, as the case may be, 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, Hong Kong, the
British Virgin Islands and the PRC and are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding
or deduction in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands and the PRC without the
necessity of obtaining governmental authorization in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, the British
Virgin Islands and the PRC.
(jj) The statements in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the captions
“Business¾Legal and Administrative Proceedings,” “Related Party Transactions,” “Regulation”
and “Taxation”, insofar as such statements constitute a summary of documents referred to therein or
matters of law, are accurate in all material respects and accurately present the information with
respect to such documents and matters. Accurate copies of all contracts and other documents
required to be filed as exhibits to, or described in, the Registration Statement have been so filed
with the Commission or are fairly described in the Registration Statement, as the case may be.
(kk) The Company is a “foreign private issuer” within the meaning of Rule 405 under the
Securities Act.
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(ll) Under the laws of the Cayman Islands, the courts of the Cayman Islands recognize and give
effect to the choice of law provisions set forth herein 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 herein will be recognized by the courts of the PRC and any judgment
obtained in a New York Court (as defined below) 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.
(mm) Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates (within the meaning of Rule 144 under the
Securities Act) has, prior to the date hereof, made any offer or sale of any securities which could
be “integrated” (within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations) with the
offer and sale of the ADSs pursuant to the Registration Statement. Except as described in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has not sold
or issued any shares of Common Shares during the six-month period preceding the date hereof,
including any sales pursuant to Rule 144A under, or Regulations D or S of, the Securities Act,
other than shares issued pursuant to employee benefit plans, qualified stock options plans or other
employee compensation plans or pursuant to outstanding options, rights or warrants.
(nn) 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 registered as representative of the holders of
the ADRs in a direct suit, action or proceeding against the Company.
Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Representatives or
to counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to
each Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby.
The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters and, for purposes of the opinions to be
delivered pursuant to Section 4 hereof, counsel to the Company and counsel to the Underwriters,
will rely upon the accuracy and truthfulness of the foregoing representations and hereby consents
to such reliance.
3. Conditions of the Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters
under this Agreement are several and not joint. The respective obligations of the Underwriters to
purchase the Offered ADSs are subject to each of the following terms and conditions:
(a) Notification that the Registration Statement and the ADS Registration Statement have
become effective shall have been received by the Representatives and the Prospectus shall have been
timely filed with the Commission in accordance with Section 4(a) of this Agreement and any material
required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules shall have been timely
filed with the Commission in accordance with such rule.
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(b) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or
any “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of the Rules), shall have been or shall be in
effect and no order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the ADS
Registration Statement shall be in effect and no proceedings for such purpose shall be pending
before or threatened by the Commission, and any requests for additional information on the part of
the Commission (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall
have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Commission and the Representatives. If the
Company has elected to rely upon Rule 430A, Rule 430A information previously omitted from the
effective Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A shall have been transmitted to the
Commission for filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the prescribed time period and the Company
shall have provided evidence satisfactory to the Underwriters of such timely filing, or a
post-effective amendment providing such information shall have been promptly filed and declared
effective in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430A.
(c) The representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement and in the
certificates delivered pursuant to Section 3(d) shall be true and correct when made and on and as
of each Closing Date as if made on such date. The Company shall have performed all covenants and
agreements and satisfied all the conditions contained in this Agreement required to be performed or
satisfied by it at or before such Closing Date.
(d) The Representatives s hall have received on each Closing Date a certificate, addressed to
the Representatives and dated such Closing Date, of the chief executive or chief operating officer
and the chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of the Company to the effect that: (i)
the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company in this Agreement were true and
correct when made and are true and correct as of such Closing Date; (ii) the Company has performed
all covenants and agreements and satisfied all conditions contained herein; (iii) they have
carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, and
any individual Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and, in their opinion (A) as of the Effective Date
the Registration Statement and Prospectus did not include, and as of the Applicable Time, neither
(i) the General Disclosure Package, nor (ii) any individual Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when
considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included, any untrue statement of a
material fact and did not 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, and (B) since the Effective Date no event has occurred which should have been set forth
in a supplement or otherwise required an amendment to the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus; and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement has been issued and, to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose
have been instituted or are pending under the Securities Act.
(e) The Representatives shall have received: (i) simultaneously with the execution of this
Agreement a signed letter from the Auditor addressed to the Representatives and dated the date of
this Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, containing
statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to
underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained
in the Registration Statement and the Disclosure Package, and (ii) on each Closing Date, a signed
letter from the Auditor addressed to the Representatives and
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dated the date of such Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Representatives containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in
accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain
financial information contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(f) The Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date a written opinion of Xxxxxxxx
& Xxxxxxxx LLP, United States counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the
Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(g) The Representatives shall have received a written opinion of Robertsons, Hong Kong
counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters in form and
substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(h) The Representatives shall have received a written opinion of Xxxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxx,
Cayman Islands counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters in
form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(i) The Representatives shall have received a written opinion of Xxxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxx,
British Virgin Islands counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the
Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(j) The Representatives shall have received a written opinion of Fangda Partners, PRC counsel
for the Company, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(k) The Representatives shall have received a written opinion of XXX Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(l) The Representatives shall have received a written opinion of Commerce & Finance Law Offices,
PRC counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(m) The Representatives shall have received a written opinion of Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx &
Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Depositary, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters in
form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(n) All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Firm ADSs and the Option ADSs as
herein contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives,
and their counsel.
(o) The Representatives shall have received copies of the Lock-up Agreements executed by each
entity or person listed on Schedule III hereto.
(p) The ADSs shall have been approved for listing on the NASDAQ Global Market, subject only to
official notice of issuance.
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(q) FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the
underwriting terms and arrangements.
(r) The Company and the Depositary shall have executed and delivered the Deposit Agreement in
form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and the Deposit Agreement shall be in full
force and effect.
(s) The Representatives shall be reasonably satisfied that since the respective dates as of
which information is given in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, (i) there shall not have been any material change in the capital stock of the Company
or any material change in the indebtedness (other than in the ordinary course of business) of the
Company, (ii) except as set forth or contemplated by the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no material oral or written agreement or other transaction
shall have been entered into by the Company that is not in the ordinary course of business or that
could reasonably be expected to result in a material reduction in the future earnings of the
Company, (iii) no loss or damage (whether or not insured) to the property of the Company shall have
been sustained that had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (iv) no
legal or governmental action, suit or proceeding affecting the Company or any of its properties
that is material to the Company or that affects or could reasonably be expected to affect the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have been instituted or, to the Company’s
knowledge, threatened and (v) there shall not have been any material change in the assets,
properties, condition (financial or otherwise), or in the results of operations, business affairs
or business prospects of the Company or its Subsidiaries, considered as a whole, that makes it
impractical or inadvisable in the Representatives’ judgment to proceed with the purchase or
offering of the Offered ADSs as contemplated hereby.
(t) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives such
further certificates or documents as the Representatives shall have reasonably requested.
4. Covenants and other Agreements of the Company and the Underwriters.
(a) The Company covenants and agrees as follows:
(i) The Company shall promptly advise the Representatives in writing (A) when any
post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement shall have become effective or any
supplement to the Prospectus shall have been filed, (B) of any request by the Commission for
any amendment of the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for any additional
information, (C) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the ADS Registration Statement or of any
order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Propectus or any “free writing
prospectus”, as defined in Rule 405 of the Rules, or the institution or threatening of any
proceeding for that purpose and (D) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with
respect to the suspension of the qualification of the ADSs for sale in any jurisdiction or
the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company shall not
file any amendment of the Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus or any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus unless the Company has furnished
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the Representatives a copy prior to filing and shall not file any such proposed
amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably object. The Company shall
use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and, if issued, to
obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.
(ii) If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the ADSs (or, in lieu thereof, a
notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Rules) is required to be delivered under the
Securities Act and the Rules, any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as then
amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to
amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Rules, the
Company shall promptly prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the second sentence
of paragraph (i) of this Section 4(a), an amendment or supplement which shall correct such
statement or omission or an amendment which shall effect such compliance.
(iii) If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there
occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement and the ADS
Registration Statement or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or would omit
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at the subsequent time, not
misleading, the Company will promptly notify the Representatives and will promptly amend or
supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct
such conflict, untrue statement or omission.
(iv) The Company shall make generally available to its shareholders and to the
Representatives as soon as practicable, but not later than 60 days after the end of the
12-month period beginning at the end of the fiscal quarter of the Company during which the
Effective Date occurs (or 90 days if such 12-month period coincides with the Company’s
fiscal year), an earning statement (which need not be audited) of the Company, covering a
period of at least 12 months beginning after the Effective Date, which shall satisfy the
provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act or Rule 158 of the Rules.
(v) The Company shall furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters,
without charge, two signed copies of the Registration Statement (including all exhibits
thereto and amendments thereof) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration
Statement (without exhibits thereto) and the ADS Registration Statement and all amendments
thereof and the ADS Registration Statement, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an
Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Securities Act or the Rules, as many copies of
any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and any
amendments thereof and supplements thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request.
If applicable, the copies of the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement,
Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and Prospectus and each amendment
and supplement thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the electronically
transmitted copies
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thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to XXXXX, except to the extent permitted by
Regulation S-T.
(vi) The Company shall cooperate with the Representatives and their counsel in
endeavoring to qualify the ADSs for offer and sale in connection with the offering under the
laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may reasonably designate and shall
maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the ADSs;
provided, however, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith, as a
condition thereof, to qualify as a foreign corporation or to execute a general consent to
service of process in any jurisdiction or subject itself to taxation as doing business in
any jurisdiction.
(vii) The Company, during the period when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the
notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Rules) is required to be delivered under the
Securities Act and the Rules or the Exchange Act, will file all reports and other documents
required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15 of the Exchange
Act within the time periods required by the Exchange Act and the regulations promulgated
thereunder.
(viii) Without the prior written consent of the Representatives, for a period of 180
days after the date of this Agreement, the Company and each of its individual directors and
executive officers shall not issue, sell or register with the Commission (other than on Form
S-8 or on any successor form), or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any equity
securities of the Company (or any securities convertible into, exercisable for or
exchangeable for equity securities of the Company), except for the issuance of the ADSs
pursuant to the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus
and the issuance of shares pursuant to the Company’s existing employee share option scheme
or founders share option scheme as described in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus. In the event that during this period, (A) any shares are issued pursuant to the
Company’s existing employee share option scheme or founders share option scheme that are
exercisable during such 180 day period or (B) any registration is effected on Form S-8 or on
any successor form relating to shares that are exercisable during such 180 period, the
Company shall obtain the written agreement of such grantee or purchaser or holder of such
registered securities that, for a period of 180 days after the date of this Agreement, such
person will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, offer for sale,
sell, distribute, grant any option for the sale of, or otherwise dispose of, directly or
indirectly, or exercise any registration rights with respect to, any Common Shares (or any
securities convertible into, exercisable for, or exchangeable for any Common Shares) owned
by such person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Company represents and warrants that
each such grantee or purchaser or holder of such registered securities shall be subject to
similar lockup restrictions as set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto and the Company shall
enforce such rights and impose stop-transfer restrictions on any such sale or other transfer
or disposition of such shares until the end of the applicable period and (ii) if (x) during
the last 17 days of the 180 day period described in this Section 5(a)(vii) the Company
issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company
occurs; or (y) prior to the expiration of such 180 day period, the Company announces that it
will release earnings
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results during the 16 day period beginning on the last day of the 180 day period; the
restrictions imposed during this Section 5(a)(vii) shall continue to apply until the
expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the
occurrence of the material news or material event; provided, however, that this sentence
shall not apply if the research published or distributed on the Company is compliant under
Rule 139 of the Securities Act and the Company’s securities are actively traded as defined
in Rule 101(c)(1) of Regulation M of the Exchange Act.
(ix) On or before completion of this offering, the Company shall make all filings
required under applicable securities laws and by the NASDAQ Global Market (including any
required registration under the Exchange Act). Additionally, the Company shall report the
use of proceeds from the issuance of the ADSs as may be required under Rule 463 under the
Securities Act.
(x) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company will issue no press release or other
communications directly or indirectly and hold no press conference with respect to the
Company, the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business affairs or
business prospects of any of them, or the offering of the ADSs without the prior written
consent of the Representatives unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and
after notification to the Representatives, such press release or communication is required
by law.
(xi) The Company will apply the net proceeds from the offering of the ADSs in the
manner set forth under “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus.
(b) The Company agrees to pay, or reimburse if paid by the Representatives, whether or not
the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, all costs and
expenses incident to the public offering of the ADSs and the performance of the obligations of the
Company under this Agreement and the Deposit Agreement including those relating to: (i) the
preparation, printing, reproduction filing and distribution of the Registration Statement, the ADS
Registration Statement and the Form 8-A Registration Statement, including all exhibits thereto,
each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, all amendments and
supplements thereto, and the printing, filing and distribution of this Agreement; (ii) the
preparation and delivery of the ADRs to the Underwriters; (iii) the registration or qualification
of the ADSs for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various jurisdictions
referred to in Section 5(a)(vi), including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the
Underwriters in connection with such registration and qualification and the preparation, printing,
distribution and shipment of preliminary and supplementary Blue Sky memoranda; (iv) the furnishing
(including costs of shipping and mailing) to the Representatives and to the Underwriters of copies
of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments or supplements to the
Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and of the several documents required by this
Section to be so furnished, as may be reasonably requested for use in connection with the offering
and sale of the ADSs by the Underwriters or by dealers to whom ADSs may be sold; (v) the filing
fees of FINRA in connection with its review of the terms of the public offering and reasonable
fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such review; (vi)
inclusion of the ADSs for quotation on the NASDAQ Global Market; (vii) all transfer taxes, if any,
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respect to the sale and delivery of the ADSs by the Company to the Underwriters; (viii) the
costs and charges of any transfer agent, registrar or depositary; Subject to the provisions of
Section 8, the Underwriters agree to pay, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are
consummated or this Agreement is terminated, all costs and expenses incident to the performance of
the obligations of the Underwriters under this Agreement not payable by the Company pursuant to the
preceding sentence, including, without limitation, the fees and disbursements of counsel for the
Underwriters, stock transfer taxes payable on resale of any of the ADSs by them and any advertising
expenses connected with any offers they may make. The Underwriters’ roadshow expenses, except for the cost of presentation meals, and the advance of
US$25,000 made by the Company to the Underwriters to cover the latter’s roadshow expenses shall be
deducted from the 1% non-accountable expense allowance payable to the Underwriters with respect to
the Firm ADSs.
(c) The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Underwriters has acted and is acting
solely in the capacity of a principal in an arm’s length transaction between the Company and the
Underwriters with respect to the offering of ADSs contemplated hereby (including in connection with
determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor, agent or fiduciary to the
Company. Additionally, the Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters have not and will
not advise the Company as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any
jurisdiction. The Company has consulted with their own advisors concerning such matters and shall
be responsible for making their own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions
contemplated hereby, and the Underwriters shall have no responsibility or liability to the Company
with respect thereto, whether arising prior to or after the date hereof. Any review by the
Underwriters of the Company, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such
transactions have been and will be performed solely for the benefit of the Underwriters and shall
not be on behalf of the Company. The Company 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 duty
to the company in connection with any such transaction or the process leading thereto.
(d) The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the
Representative, and each Underwriter represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior
consent of the Company and the Representative, it has not made and will not make any offer relating
to the ADSs that would constitute an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, or
that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405, required to be
filed with the Commission. 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 where required, legending and record keeping. The Company represents that is has
satisfied and agrees that it will satisfy the conditions set forth in Rule 433 of the Rules to
avoid a requirement to file with the Commission any Road Show. The Company consents to the use by
any Underwriter of a free writing prospectus that (a) is not an “issuer free writing prospectus” as
defined in Rule 433, and (b) contains only (i) information describing the preliminary terms of the
ADSs or their offering or (ii) information that describes the final terms of the ADSs or their
offering and that is included in the final term sheet of the Company contemplated in section 5(e)
above.
(e) The Company agrees to furnish to the Representatives a copy of each proposed free writing
prospectus to be prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and not to use
or refer to any proposed free writing prospectus to which the Representatives reasonably object,
and not to take any action that would result in an Underwriter
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or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the
Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Underwriter that the
Underwriter otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.
(f) Upon the closing of the Offering, the Company will issue to the Underwriters a five-year
warrant to purchase a number of Common Shares equal to 5.0% of the Common Shares issued in the
Offering. The exercise price of such warrant will be 120% of the offering price of the Company’s
common shares in the Offering; in this connection, each of the Underwriters represents to the
Company that it is a qualified institutional buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A under the
Securities Act.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Carret & Co., LLC and I-Bankers Securities, Inc, on behalf of the several
Underwriters, may, in their joint discretion, waive in writing the performance by the Company of
any one or more of the foregoing covenants or extend the time for their performance.
5. Indemnification.
(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person, if
any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section
20 of the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including any
reasonable investigation, legal and other expenses incurred in connection with, and any amount paid
in settlement of, any action, suit or proceeding or any claim asserted), to which they, or any of
them, may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other Federal, state or
foreign law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the ADS
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or any “issuer-information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the
Rules, any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or in any Blue Sky application or other
information or other documents executed by the Company filed in any state or other jurisdiction to
qualify any or all of the ADSs under the securities laws thereof (any such application, document or
information being hereinafter referred to as a “Blue Sky Application”) or arise out of or are
based upon any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that such
indemnity shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter (or any person controlling such
Underwriter) on account of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities arising from the sale of the
ADSs to any person by such Underwriter if such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue
statement or omission was made in such Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the ADS
Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or such amendment or supplement thereto, or in any Blue Sky Application in reliance upon
and in conformity with the Underwriter Information. This indemnity agreement will be in addition
to any liability which the Company may otherwise have.
(b) Each Underwriter agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each person, if
any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20
of the Exchange Act, each director of the Company, and each officer of the Company who signs the
Registration Statement, against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities (including any
reasonable investigation, legal and other expenses incurred in connection with defending any action
or claim) to which they, or any of them, may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange
Act or other Federal, state or foreign law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are
based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue
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statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration
Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or
are based upon any 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 such Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the ADS
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto in reliance upon and in conformity with
the Underwriter Information; provided, however, that the obligation of each Underwriter to
indemnify the Company (including any controlling person, director or officer thereof) shall be
limited to the net proceeds received by the Company from such Underwriter.
(c) Any party that proposes to assert the right to be indemnified under this Section will,
promptly after receipt of notice of commencement of any action, suit or proceeding against such
party in respect of which a claim is to be made against an indemnifying party or parties under this
Section, notify each such indemnifying party of the commencement of such action, suit or
proceeding, enclosing a copy of all papers served. No indemnification provided for in Section 6(a)
or 6(b) shall be available to any party who shall fail to give notice as provided in this Section
6(c) if the party to whom notice was not given was unaware of the proceeding to which such notice
would have related and was prejudiced by the failure to give such notice, but the omission so to
notify such indemnifying party of any such action, suit or proceeding shall not relieve it from any
liability that it may have to any indemnified party for contribution or otherwise than under this
Section. In case any such action, suit or proceeding 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 in, and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any
other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably
satisfactory to such indemnified party, and after notice from the indemnifying party to such
indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof and the approval by the
indemnified party of such counsel, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified
party for any legal or other expenses, except as provided below and except for the reasonable costs
of investigation subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense
thereof. The indemnified party shall have the right to employ its counsel in any such action, but
the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i)
the employment of counsel by such indemnified party has been authorized in writing by the
indemnifying parties, (ii) the indemnified party shall have been advised by counsel that there may
be one or more legal defenses available to it which are different from or in addition to those
available to the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying parties shall not have the
right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party) or (iii) the
indemnifying parties shall not have employed counsel to assume the defense of such action within a
reasonable time after notice of the commencement thereof, in each case the fees and expenses of
counsel shall be at the expense of the indemnifying parties. An indemnifying party shall not be
liable for any settlement of any action, suit, and proceeding or claim effected without its written
consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
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6. Contribution. In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in
circumstances in which the indemnification provided for in Section 6(a) or 6(b) is due in
accordance with its terms but for any reason is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an
indemnified party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to
therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate losses, liabilities,
claims, damages and expenses (including any investigation, legal and other expenses reasonably
incurred in connection with, and any amount paid in settlement of, any action, suit or proceeding
or any claims asserted, but after deducting any contribution received by any person entitled
hereunder to contribution from any person who may be liable for contribution) incurred by such
indemnified party, as incurred, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative
benefits received by the Company and the Underwriters from the offering of the ADSs pursuant to
this Agreement or, if such allocation is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to above but also the relative fault
of the Company and the Underwriters in connection with the statements or omissions, which resulted
in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Underwriters shall be deemed
to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering received by
the Company and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in
each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate
Initial Price of the ADSs. 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 the
Underwriters and the parties’ relevant intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to
correct or prevent such statement or omission.
The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution
pursuant to this Section 7 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. The aggregate amount of losses,
liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above
shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified
party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or
proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever
based upon any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, no Underwriter (except as may be provided in the
Agreement Among Underwriters) 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 damages which such underwriter has otherwise been
required to pay by reason of any 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 Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if any, who controls an
Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange
Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each 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, each officer of the Company who signed the
Registration Statement,
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and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Section 15 of the
Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, shall have the same rights to contribution as the
Company. Any party entitled to contribution will, promptly after receipt of notice of commencement
of any action, suit or proceeding against such party in respect of which a claim for contribution
may be made against another party or parties under this Section 7, notify such party or parties
from whom contribution may be sought, but the omission so to notify such party or parties from whom
contribution may be sought shall not relieve the party or parties from whom contribution may be
sought from any other obligation it or they may have hereunder or otherwise than under this Section
7. No party shall be liable for contribution with respect to any action, suit, proceeding or claim
settled without its written consent. The Underwriter’s obligations to contribute pursuant to this
Section 7 are several in proportion to their respective underwriting commitments and not joint.
7. Termination.
(a) This Agreement may be terminated with respect to the ADSs to be purchased on a Closing
Date by the Representatives by notifying the Company at any time at or before a Closing Date in the
absolute discretion of the Representatives if: (i) there has occurred any material adverse change
in the securities markets or any event, act or occurrence that has materially disrupted, or in the
opinion of the Representatives, will in the future materially disrupt, the securities markets or
there shall be such a material adverse change in general financial, political or economic
conditions or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States
is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, inadvisable or impracticable to
market the ADSs or enforce contracts for the sale of the ADSs; (ii) there has occurred any outbreak
or material escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the
financial markets of the United States is such as to make it, in the judgment of the
Representatives, inadvisable or impracticable to market the ADSs or enforce contracts for the sale
of the ADSs; (iii) trading in the ADSs or any securities of the Company has been suspended or
materially limited by the Commission or trading generally on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the
American Stock Exchange, Inc., the NASDAQ National Market, the London Stock Exchange or The Stock
Exchange of Hong Kong Limited has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum
ranges for prices for securities shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities
have been required, by any of said exchanges or by such system or by order of the Commission, the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or any other governmental or regulatory authority; or (iv)
a banking moratorium in New York, London, Hong Kong, the PRC or the Cayman Islands has been
declared by the relevant authorities; (v) in the judgment of the Representatives, there has been,
since the time of execution of this Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information
is given in the Prospectus, any material adverse change in the assets, properties, condition,
financial or otherwise, or in the results of operations, business affairs or business prospects of
the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary
course of business; or (vi) the Company shall have sustained a loss by strike, fire, flood,
earthquake, accident or other calamity of such character as in the judgment of the Representatives
may interfere materially with the conduct of the business and operations of the Company regardless
of whether or not such loss shall have been insured.
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(b) If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to any of its provisions, the Company shall
not be under any liability to any Underwriter, and no Underwriter shall
be under any liability to the Company, except that (y) the Company will
reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and
disbursements of their counsel) incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale
of the Ordinary Shares underlying the ADSs or in contemplation of performing their obligations
hereunder and (z) no Underwriter who shall have failed or refused to purchase the Ordinary Shares
underlying the ADSs agreed to be purchased by it under this Agreement, without some reason
sufficient hereunder to justify cancellation or termination of its obligations under this
Agreement, shall be relieved of liability to the Company or to the other
Underwriters for damages occasioned by its failure or refusal.
8. Substitution of Underwriters. If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation
to purchase on any Closing Date the ADSs agreed to be purchased hereunder on such Closing Date, the
Representatives shall have the right, within 36 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one or
more of the non-defaulting Underwriters, or any other underwriters, to purchase such ADSs on the
terms contained herein. If, however, the Representatives shall not have completed such
arrangements within such 36-hour period, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of
36 hours within which to procure another party or other parties satisfactory to the Underwriters to
purchase such ADSs on such terms. If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of
the ADSs of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the Representatives and the Company as
provided above, the aggregate number of ADSs which remains unpurchased on such Closing Date does
not exceed 10% of the aggregate number of all the ADSs that all the Underwriters are obligated to
purchase on such date, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting
Underwriter to purchase the number of ADSs which such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder at
such date 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. In any such
case, either the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the applicable
Closing Date for a period of not more than seven days in order to effect any necessary changes and
arrangements (including any necessary amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or
Prospectus or any other documents), and the Company agrees to file promptly any amendments to the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus which in the opinion of the Company and the Underwriters
and their counsel may thereby be made necessary.
If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the ADSs of a defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters by the Representatives and the Company as provided above, the aggregate
number of such ADSs which remains unpurchased exceeds 10% of the aggregate number of all the ADSs
to be purchased at such date, then this Agreement, or, with respect to a Closing Date which occurs
after the Firm ADSs Closing Date, the obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and of the
Company to sell the Option ADSs to be purchased and sold on such date, shall terminate, without
liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter to the Company, and without liability on
the part of the Company, except as provided in Sections 5(b), 6, 7 and 8. The provisions of this
Section 9 shall not in any way affect the liability of any defaulting Underwriter to the Company or
the nondefaulting Underwriters arising out of such
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default. The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall include any person
substituted under this Section 9 with like effect as if such person had originally been a party to
this Agreement with respect to such ADSs.
9. Miscellaneous. The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities
and other statements of the Company and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or
made by or on behalf of them 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 the Company or any of their respective officers, directors or controlling
persons referred to in Sections 5, 6 and 7 hereof, and shall survive delivery of and payment for
the ADSs. In addition, the provisions of Sections 4(b), 5, 6, 7 and 8 shall survive the
termination or cancellation of this Agreement.
This Agreement has been and is made for the benefit of the Underwriters, the Company and their
respective successors and assigns, and, to the extent expressed herein, for the benefit of persons
controlling any of the Underwriters, or the Company, and directors and officers of the Company, and
their respective successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under
or by virtue of this Agreement. The term “successors and assigns” shall not include any purchaser
of ADSs from any Underwriter merely because of such purchase.
All notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and mailed or delivered or by
telephone or telegraph if subsequently confirmed in writing, (a) if to the Representatives, Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, Carret & Co., LLC: 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, attention: and
I-Bankers Securities, Inc., 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, attention: , with a
copy to XXX Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, 00/X, Xxxxxxxxx Tower, The Landmark, 15 Queen’’s Road Central,
Central, Hong Kong and (b) if to the Company, Suite 2703, The Centrium, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxx Xxxx, attention: Chief Financial Officer.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
New York. The Company irrevocably (a) submits to the jurisdiction of any court of the State of New
York or the United State District Court for the Southern District of the State of New York for the
purpose of any suit, action, or other proceeding arising out of this Agreement, or any of the
agreements or transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement, the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus (each, a “Proceeding”), (b) agrees that all claims in respect of any
Proceeding may be heard and determined in any such court, (c) waives, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, any immunity from jurisdiction of any such court or from any legal process
therein, (d) agrees not to commence any Proceeding other than in such courts, and (e) waives, to
the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim that such Proceeding is brought in an inconvenient
forum. The Company hereby irrevocably designates CT Corporation System Inc, 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. THE COMPANY (ON
BEHALF OF ITSELF AND, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ON BEHALF OF ITS RESPECTIVE EQUITY
HOLDERS AND CREDITORS) HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY
CLAIM BASED UPON,
ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT AND THE
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TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS
AGREEMENT, THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, THE ADS REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND THE PROSPECTUS.
If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a sum due
hereunder into any currency other than United States dollars, the parties hereto agree, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, that the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in
accordance with normal banking procedures the relevant party or parties could purchase United
States dollars with such other currency in The City of New York on the business day preceding that
on which final judgment is given. The obligation of each party hereto with respect to any sum due
from it to any other party hereto or any person controlling any such other party shall,
notwithstanding any judgment in a currency other than United States dollars, not be discharged
until the first business day following receipt by such other party or controlling person of any sum
in such other currency, and only to the extent that such other party or controlling person may in
accordance with normal banking procedures purchase United States dollars with such other currency.
If the United States dollars so purchased are less than the sum originally due to such other party
or controlling person hereunder, the first-mentioned party agrees as a separate obligation and
notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify such other party or controlling person against such
loss. If the United States dollars so purchased are greater than the sum originally due to such
other party or controlling person hereunder, such other party or controlling person agrees to pay
to the first-mentioned party an amount equal to the excess of the United States dollars so
purchased over the sum originally due to such other party or controlling person hereunder.
All payments made by the Company under this Agreement will be made without withholding or
deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental
charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of the Cayman Islands, the PRC or the
British Virgin Islands or any political subdivision or any taxing authority thereof or therein
unless the Company is or becomes required by law to withhold or deduct such taxes, duties,
assessments or other governmental charges. In such event, the Company will pay such additional
amounts as will result, after such withholding or deduction, in the receipt by each Underwriter and
each person controlling any Underwriter, as the case may be, of the amounts that would otherwise
have been receivable in respect thereof, except to the extent such taxes, duties, assessments or
other governmental charges are imposed or levied by reason of such Underwriter’s or controlling
person’s being connected with the Cayman Islands, the PRC or the British Virgin Islands other than
by reason of its being an Underwriter or a person controlling any Underwriter under this Agreement.
This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same
instrument.
Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement among us.
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Confirmed:
XXXXX XXXXXX, CARRET & CO., LLC
I-BANKERS SECURITIES, INC.
I-BANKERS SECURITIES, INC.
Acting as representatives of the several
Underwriters named in Schedule I annexed
hereto.
Underwriters named in Schedule I annexed
hereto.
By XXXXX XXXXXX, CARRET & CO., LLC
By |
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Title: | ||||
By I-BANKERS SECURITIES, INC. | ||||
By |
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Title: |
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SCHEDULE I
Name
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Number of Firm ADSs to Be Purchased |
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Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Carret & Co., LLC I-Bankers Securities, Inc. |
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SCH I - 1
SCHEDULE II
Lock-up Signatories
SCH II - 1
SCHEDULE III
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses
SCH III - 1
SCHEDULE IV
PRC Entities
Exhibit A
FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
, 2010
I-Bankers Securities, Inc.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned understands that I-Bankers Securities, Inc. (“I-Bankers”), as a
representative, proposes to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting
Agreement”) with Redgate Media Group, a company organized and existing under the laws of the
Cayman Islands (the “Company”) providing for the public offering (the “Public
Offering”) by the underwriters of American Depository Shares (“ADSs”), representing
common shares (“Common Shares”) of the Company, par value US$0.0025 per share.
To induce I-Bankers and other representatives (together with I-Bankers, the
"Representatives”) of the underwriters, if any, to continue their efforts in connection
with the Public Offering, the undersigned hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of
the Representatives, it will not, during the period commencing on the date of the final prospectus
relating to the Public Offering (the “Prospectus”) and ending on the 180th day
thereafter (the “Lock-up Period”), (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any
option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or
warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any ADSs or
Common Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for ADSs or Common
Shares, or (2) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in
part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of ADSs or Common Shares, whether any such
transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of ADSs or Common
Shares or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. The foregoing sentence shall not apply to
(a) transactions relating to ADSs or Common Shares or other securities acquired in open market
transactions after the completion of the Public Offering or (b) transfers of ADSs or Common Shares
or any security convertible into ADSs or Common Shares (w) as a bona fide gift, (x) by will or
intestacy, (y) to a family member or trust for the benefit of a family member or (z) holders of
ownership interests in the undersigned or to entities wholly owned by the undersigned, provided
that in the case of any transfer or distribution pursuant to clause (b), each donee, distributee or
transferee shall sign and deliver a lock-up letter substantially in the form of this letter. In
addition, the undersigned agrees that, without the prior written consent of the
Representatives, it will not, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending 180 days
after the date of the Prospectus, make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to, the
registration of any ADSs or Common Shares or any security convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for ADSs or Common Shares. The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of
stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of
the undersigned’s, ADSs or Common Shares except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.
If (i) the Company issues an earnings release or material news, or a material event relating
to the Company occurs, during the last 17 days of the Lock-up Period, or (ii) prior to the
expiration of the Lock-up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results
during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-up Period, the restrictions imposed
by this agreement shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on
the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event,
unless the Representatives waives such extension.
No provision in this agreement shall be deemed to restrict or prohibit the exercise or
exchange by the undersigned of any option or warrant to acquire ADSs or Common Shares, or
securities exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into ADSs or Common Shares, provided that
the undersigned does not transfer the ADSs or Common Shares acquired on such exercise or exchange
during the Lock-up Period, unless otherwise permitted pursuant to the terms of this agreement. In
addition, no provision herein shall be deemed to restrict or prohibit the entry into or
modification of a so-called “10b5-1” plan at any time (other than the entry into or modification of
such a plan in such a manner as to cause the sale of any ADSs or Common Shares or any securities
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for ADSs or Common Shares within the Lock-up
Period).
The undersigned understands that the Company and the Representatives are relying upon this
agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the Public Offering. The undersigned further
understands that this agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs,
legal representatives, successors and assigns.
The undersigned understands that, if the Underwriting Agreement is not executed by March 31,
2010, or if the Underwriting Agreement (other than the provisions thereof which survive
termination) shall terminate or be terminated prior to payment for and delivery of the ADSs to be
sold thereunder, the undersigned shall be released from all obligations under this letter
agreement.
Whether or not the Public Offering actually occurs depends on a number of factors, including
market conditions. Any Public Offering will only be made pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, the
terms of which are subject to negotiation between the Company and the Representatives.
(Signature pages follow.)
Very truly yours, | ||||