5,000,000 Units
INFINITY
CROSS BORDER ACQUISITION CorpORATION
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
New York, New York
July 19, 2012
EarlyBirdCapital, Inc.
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
As Representative of the Underwriters
named on Schedule A hereto
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Infinity Cross Border
Acquisition Corporation, a British Virgin Islands company (the “Company”), hereby confirms its agreement with
EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. (the “Representative”) and with the other underwriters named on Schedule A
hereto, for which the Representative is acting as representative (the Representative, with such other underwriters being collectively
referred to herein as the “Underwriters” or, individually, an “Underwriter”) as follows:
1.
Purchase and Sale of Securities.
1.1. Firm
Securities.
1.1.1. Purchase
of Firm Units. On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions
herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell to the several Underwriters, severally and not jointly, an aggregate of
5,000,000 units (the “Firm Units”) of the Company at a purchase price (net of discounts and commissions) of
$7.72 per Firm Unit. The Underwriters, severally and not jointly, agree to purchase from the Company the number of Firm Units set
forth opposite their respective names on Schedule A.
1.1.2. The
Firm Units are to be offered initially to the public (the “Offering”) at the offering price of $8.00 per Firm
Unit. Each Firm Unit consists of one ordinary share of the Company, no par value (the “Ordinary Shares”), and
one warrant to purchase one Ordinary Share (the “Warrant”). The Ordinary Shares
and the Warrants included in the Firm Units will not be separately transferable until 90 days after the effective date (“Effective
Date”) of the Registration Statement (as defined in Section 2.1.1 hereof) unless the Representative informs the Company
of its decision to allow earlier separate trading, but in no event will the Representative allow separate trading until the preparation
of an audited balance sheet of the Company reflecting receipt by the Company of the proceeds of the Offering and the filing of
a Report of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
which includes such balance sheet. The Company will file the Report of Foreign Private Issuer
on Form 6-K promptly upon, but in no event more than four (4) business days following, the consummation of the Offering.
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1.1.3. Each
Warrant shall entitle its holder to purchase one Ordinary Share for $7.00 per share during the period commencing
on the later of the consummation by the Company of its Business Combination (as defined below) and one year from the Closing Date
(defined below) and terminating on the earlier of (i) the three-year anniversary of the consummation of a Business Combination,
(ii) the liquidation of the Trust Account (defined below) if the Company is unable to
consummate a Business Combination by the Termination Date (as defined in Section 7.6.1) or (iii) upon redemption
of the Warrants. As used herein, the term “Business Combination” shall
mean the Company acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation, contractual control arrangement
with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more
businesses or entities. The Company has the right to redeem the Warrants in whole but not in part, upon
not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice at a price of $0.01 per Warrant at any time while the Warrants are exercisable;
provided, however, that the last sale price of the Ordinary Shares has been at least $10.50 for any twenty (20) trading days within
a thirty (30) trading day period ending on the third (3rd) Business Day (defined below) prior to the day on which notice is delivered,
and provided that, if, and only if, there is a current registration statement in effect with respect to the Ordinary Shares underlying
such Warrants commencing five business days prior to the 30-day trading period and continuing each day thereafter until the date
of redemption. For purpose of clarity, the Sponsor Warrants (as defined in Section 1.4.2) and the EBC Warrants (as defined in Section
1.4.3) are not redeemable provided they are held by the initial purchasers of such warrants or their permitted transferees.
As used herein, the term “Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any day on which
national banks in New York, New York are not open for business.
1.1.4. Payment
and Delivery. Delivery and payment for the Firm Units shall be made at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the third (3rd)
Business Day following the commencement of trading of the Firm Units, or at such earlier time
as shall be agreed upon by the Representative and the Company at the offices of the Representative or at such other place as shall
be agreed upon by the Representative and the Company. The closing of the Offering is referred to herein as the “Closing”
and the hour and date of delivery and payment for the Firm Units is referred to herein as the “Closing Date.”
Payment for the Firm Units shall be made on the Closing Date through the facilities of Depository Trust Company (“DTC”)
by wire transfer in Federal (same day) funds. The Company shall receive an aggregate of $40,450,000 net proceeds from the sale
of the Firm Units, the Sponsor Warrants and EBC Warrants, of which $40,000,000 shall be deposited
into the trust account (the “Trust Account”) established by the Company for the benefit of the Public Shareholders
(as defined below), as described in the Registration Statement and pursuant to the terms of an Investment Management Trust Agreement
(the “Trust Agreement”) between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“CST&T”).
The remaining proceeds (less actual expense payments or other fees payable pursuant to this Agreement) shall be paid to the order
of the Company upon delivery of certificates (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative) representing
the Firm Units (or through the facilities of the DTC for the account of the Representative). The Firm Units shall be registered
in such name or names and in such authorized denominations as the Representative may request in writing at least two (2) Business
Days prior to the Closing Date. The Company will permit the Representative to examine and package the Firm Units for delivery
at least one (1) full Business Day prior to the Closing Date. The Company shall not be obligated to sell or deliver the Firm
Units except upon tender of payment by the Representative for all the Firm Units. As used herein, the term “Public Shareholders”
means the holders of Ordinary Shares sold as part of the Units in the Offering or acquired in the aftermarket, including any of
the Insiders (as defined in Section 1.4.1 herein) to the extent they acquire such Ordinary Shares in the Offering or in the aftermarket
(and solely with respect to such Ordinary Shares).
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1.2. Over-Allotment
Option
1.2.1. The
Representative shall have the option (the “Over-Allotment Option”) to purchase all or less than all of the additional
750,000 units (the “Option Units”) for the purposes of covering any over-allotments in connection with the distribution
and sale of the Firm Units. Such Option Units shall, at the Representative’s election, be purchased for each account of the
several Underwriters in the same proportion as the number of Firm Units set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name on Schedule
A hereto bears to the total number of units of Firm Units (subject to adjustment by the Representative to eliminate fractions).
Such Option Units shall be identical in all respects to the Firm Units. The Firm Units and the Option Units are hereinafter collectively
referred to as the “Units,” and the Units, the Ordinary Shares and the Warrants included in the Units and the
Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Public Securities.”
No Option Units shall be sold or delivered unless the Firm Units previously have been, or simultaneously are, sold and delivered.
The right to purchase the Option Units, or any portion thereof, may be exercised from time to time and to the extent not previously
exercised may be surrendered and terminated at any time upon notice by the Representative to the Company. The purchase price to
be paid for each Option Unit (net of discounts and commissions) will be $7.72 per Option Unit.
1.2.2. Exercise
of Option. The Over-Allotment Option granted pursuant to Section 1.2.1 hereof may be exercised by the Representative as to
all (at any time) or any part (from time to time) of the Option Units within 45 days after the Effective Date. The Representative
will not be under any obligation to purchase any Option Units prior to the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option. The Over-allotment
Option granted hereby may be exercised by the giving of oral notice to the Company by the Representative, which must be confirmed
in accordance with Section 10.1 herein setting forth the number of Option Units to be purchased and the date and time for delivery
of and payment for the Option Units (the “Option Closing Date”), which will not be later than five (5) full
Business Days after the date of the notice or such other time as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Representative, at
the offices of the Representative or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Representative. Upon exercise
of the Over-Allotment Option, the Company will become obligated to convey to the Representative, and, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, the Representative will become obligated to purchase, the number of Option Units specified in such
notice.
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1.2.3. Payment
and Delivery. Payment for the Option Units shall be made on the Option Closing Date at the Representative’s election
by wire transfer in Federal (same day) funds or by certified or bank cashier’s check(s) in New York Clearing House funds,
payable as follows: $7.72 per Option Unit shall be deposited in the Trust Fund pursuant to the Trust Agreement upon delivery of
certificates (in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative) representing the Option Units (or through the facilities
of DTC) for the account of the Representative). The certificates representing the Option Units to be delivered will be in such
denominations and registered in such names as the Representative requests not less than two full business days prior to the Closing
Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and will be made available to the Representative for inspection, checking
and packaging at the aforesaid office of the Company’s transfer agent or correspondent not less than one full business day
prior to such Closing Date.
1.3. Representative’s
Purchase Option. The Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to the Representative (and/or its designees) on the Closing Date
an option (“Representative’s Purchase Option”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 500,000 units (the “Representative’s
Units”) for an aggregate purchase price of $100.00. The Representative’s Purchase Option shall be exercisable
whether for cash or on a cashless basis, in whole or in part, commencing on the later of the consummation of a Business Combination
or one year from the Effective Date and expiring on the five-year anniversary of the Effective Date at an initial exercise price
per Representative’s Unit of $8.80, which is equal to one hundred ten percent (110%) of the initial public offering price
of a Unit. On the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver to the Representative, upon payment therefor, certificates for
the Representative’s Purchase Option in the name or names and in such denominations as the Representative may request. The
Representative’s Purchase Option, the Representative’s Units, the Ordinary Shares included in the Representative’s
Units, the Warrants included in the Representative’s Units (the “Representative’s Warrants”) and
the Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Representative’s Warrants are hereinafter referred to collectively as the
“Representative’s Securities.” The Public Securities and the Representative’s Securities are hereinafter
referred to collectively as the “Securities.” Delivery and payment for the Representative’s Purchase Option
shall be made on the Closing Date. The Company shall deliver to the Representative, upon payment therefor, certificates for the
Representative’s Purchase Option in the name or names and in such authorized denominations as the Representative may request.
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1.4. Private
Placement.
1.4.1. The
Company issued to certain persons and entities referenced in Part II, Item 7 of the Registration Statement (collectively, the “Insiders”),
for aggregate consideration of $25,000, 1,437,500 Ordinary Shares (the “Insider Shares”) in a private placement
intended to be exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”).
No underwriting discounts, commissions or placement fees have been or will be payable in connection with the sale of the Insider
Shares. Until one year after the consummation of Business Combination, except for limited exceptions, the Insiders will not be
able to sell or transfer their securities. The Insiders shall have no right to any liquidation distributions with respect to any
portion of the Insider Shares in the event the Company fails to consummate a Business Combination within the required time period.
The Insiders shall not have redemption rights with respect to the Insider Shares (whether the Company engages in a proxy solicitation
to approve a Business Combination or in a tender offer). To the extent that the Over-allotment Option is not exercised by the Underwriters
in full or in part, up to 187,500 Ordinary Shares out of the 1,437,500 Insider Shares shall be subject to forfeiture by the Insiders.
The Insiders will be required to forfeit only a number of Ordinary Shares necessary to maintain their 20% ownership interest in
the Ordinary Shares after giving effect to the Offering and exercise, if any, of the Underwriters’ Over-allotment Option.
1.4.2.
Simultaneously with the Closing Date, certain of the Insiders will purchase from the Company pursuant to a Subscription Agreement
(as defined in Section 2.25.2 hereof), an aggregate of 4,000,000 (or 4,381,818 if the Over-allotment Option is exercised in full)
warrants (the “Sponsor Warrants”) at a purchase price of $0.50 per Sponsor Warrant in a private placement (the
“Private Placement”) intended to be exempt from registration under the Act. The Sponsor Warrants
will be identical to the Warrants except that the Sponsor Warrants will be exercisable for cash or on a cashless basis, at the
holder’s option, and will not be redeemable by the Company, in each case so long as they are still held by the initial purchasers
or their affiliates. None of the Sponsor Warrants or the Ordinary Shares
issuable upon exercise of the Sponsor Warrants (except for limited exceptions) may
be sold, assigned or transferred by the initial purchasers or their affiliates until the consummation of a Business Combination.
No underwriting discounts, commissions or placement fees have been or will be payable in connection with the Private Placement.
1.4.3. Simultaneously
with the Closing Date, the Representative and/or its designees will purchase from the Company pursuant to a Subscription Agreement
an aggregate of 400,000 (or 438,182 if the Over-allotment Option is exercised in full) Warrants (“EBC Warrants”)
at $0.50 per EBC Warrant in the Private Placement. The EBC Warrants
will be identical to the Warrants except that the EBC Warrants will be exercisable for cash or on a cashless basis, at the holder’s
option, and will not be redeemable by the Company, in each case so long as they are still held by the initial purchasers or their
affiliates. Additionally, the period during which the EBC Warrants are exercisable may not be extended beyond the date that is
five years from the effective date of the Registration Statement. None of
the EBC Warrants or the Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the EBC Warrants (except for limited exceptions) may
be sold, assigned or transferred by the initial purchasers or their affiliates until the consummation of a Business Combination.
No underwriting discounts, commissions or placement fees have been or will be payable in connection with the Private Placement.
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1.5. Working
Capital; Trust Account Proceeds.
1.5.1. Working
Capital. Upon consummation of the Offering, it is intended that $450,000 of the proceeds from the sale of the Firm Units and
Sponsor Warrants and EBC Warrants will be released to the Company to fund the working capital requirements of the Company.
1.5.2. Trust
Account Proceeds. Prior to the liquidation of the Trust Account in the event the Company has not completed a Business Combination
by the Termination Date, (i) funds may be released to the Company from the Trust Account in accordance with the Trust Agreement
to purchase Ordinary Shares in accordance with Section 3.31 hereof, (ii) interest income on the funds held in the Trust Account
may be released to the Company from the Trust Account to pay any taxes incurred by the Company and (iii) interest income on the
funds held in the Trust Account may be released to the Company from the Trust Account to fund the Company’s working capital
and general corporate requirements, all as more fully described in the Prospectus.
2.
Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and
warrants to the Underwriters as follows:
2.1. Filing
of Registration Statement.
2.1.1. Pursuant
to the Act. The Company has filed with the Commission a registration statement and an amendment or amendments thereto,
on Form F-1 (File No. 333- 173575), including any related preliminary prospectus (the “Preliminary
Prospectus”, including any prospectus that is included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to the effectiveness
of the Registration Statement), for the registration of the Public Securities under the Act, which registration statement and amendment
or amendments have been prepared by the Company in conformity with the requirements of the Act, and the rules and regulations (the
“Regulations”) of the Commission under the Act. The conditions for use of Form F-1 to register the Offering
under the Act, as set forth in the General Instructions to such Form, have been satisfied. Except as the context may otherwise
require, such registration statement, as amended, on file with the Commission at the time the registration statement becomes effective
(including the prospectus, financial statements, schedules, exhibits and all other documents filed as a part thereof or incorporated
therein and all information deemed to be a part thereof as of such time pursuant to Rule 430A of the Regulations), is hereinafter
called the “Registration Statement,” and the form of the final prospectus dated the Effective Date included
in the Registration Statement (or, if applicable, the form of final prospectus containing information permitted to be omitted at
the time of effectiveness by Rule 430A of the Regulations filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 of the Regulations), is
hereinafter called the “Prospectus.” For purposes of this Agreement, “Time
of Sale”, as used in the Act, means 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement. Prior to the Time of
Sale, the Company prepared preliminary prospectuses, dated July 6, 2012, for distribution by the Underwriters (together the “Statutory
Prospectus”). If the Company has filed, or is required pursuant to the terms hereof to file, a registration statement
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act registering additional Securities of any type (a “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement”),
then, unless otherwise specified, any reference herein to the term “Registration Statement” shall be deemed
to include such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. Other than a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, which, if filed, becomes effective
upon filing, no other document with respect to the Registration Statement has heretofore been filed with the Commission. All of
the Public Securities have been registered under the Act pursuant to the Registration Statement or, if any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement is filed, will be duly registered under the Securities Act with the filing of such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
The Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission on the date hereof. If, subsequent
to the date of this Agreement, the Company or the Representative has determined that at the Time of Sale the Statutory Prospectus
included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted a statement of material fact necessary to make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and have agreed to provide an opportunity to purchasers
of the Firm Units to terminate their old purchase contracts and enter into new purchase contracts, then the Statutory Prospectus
will be deemed to include any additional information available to purchasers at the time of entry into the first such new purchase
contract.
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2.1.2. Pursuant
to the Exchange Act. The Company has filed with the Commission a Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File Number 001-35602)
providing for the registration under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), of
the Units, the Ordinary Shares and the Warrants. The registration of the Units, Ordinary Shares and Warrants under the Exchange
Act has been declared effective by the Commission on the date hereof.
2.2. No
Stop Orders, etc. Neither the Commission nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any foreign or state regulatory authority
has issued any order or threatened to issue any order preventing or suspending the use of any Statutory Prospectus or Prospectus
or has instituted or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, threatened to institute any proceedings with respect to such
an order.
2.3. Disclosures
in Registration Statement.
2.3.1. 10b-5
Representation. At the time of effectiveness of the Registration Statement (or at the time any post-effective amendment
to the Registration Statement) and at all times subsequent thereto up to the Closing Date, the Registration Statement, the Statutory
Prospectus and the Prospectus contained or will contain all material statements that are required to be stated therein in accordance
with the Act and the Regulations, and did or will, in all material respects, conform to the requirements of the Act and the Regulations.
On the Effective Date and at the Time of Sale, the Registration Statement did not, and on the Closing Date it will not, contain
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to
make the statements therein not misleading; on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the
Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) 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;
and at the Time of Sale, the Statutory Prospectus does 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 light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that the representation and warranty made in this Section 2.3.1 does not apply to (i) statements contained
in the section captioned “Underwriting—Selling Restrictions” or (ii) statements made or statements omitted in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company with respect to the Underwriter by the Underwriter
expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus or Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement
thereto, which information, it is agreed, shall consist solely of the subsection captioned “Pricing
of this Offering.”
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2.3.2. Disclosure
of Agreements. The agreements and documents described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus conform to the descriptions thereof contained therein and there are no agreements or other documents required to be
described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus or to be filed with the Commission as exhibits
to the Registration Statement, that have not been so described or filed. Each agreement or other instrument (however characterized
or described) to which the Company is a party or by which its property or business is or may be bound or affected and (i) that
is referred to in the Registration Statement or attached as an exhibit thereto, or (ii) is material to the Company’s business,
has been duly and validly executed by the Company, is in full force and effect in all material respects and is enforceable against
the Company and, to the Company’s knowledge, the other parties thereto, in accordance with its terms, except (x) as such
enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally,
(y) as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution provision may be limited under the foreign, federal and state securities
laws, and (z) that the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to the
equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought, and none of such agreements
or instruments has been assigned by the Company, and neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any other party
is in breach or default thereunder and, to the Company’s knowledge, no event has occurred that, with the lapse of time or
the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a breach or default thereunder. To the Company’s knowledge, performance
by the Company of the material provisions of such agreements or instruments will not result in a violation of any existing applicable
law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any governmental agency or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction
over the Company or any of its assets or businesses, including, without limitation, those relating to environmental laws and regulations.
2.3.3. Prior
Securities Transactions. No securities of the Company have been sold by the Company or by or on behalf of, or for the
benefit of, any person or persons controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Company since the date of the Company’s
formation, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement.
2.3.4. Regulations.
The disclosures in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus concerning the effects of foreign, federal,
state and local regulation on the Company’s business as currently contemplated are correct in all material respects and do
not omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made,
not misleading.
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2.4. Changes
After Dates in Registration Statement.
2.4.1. No
Material Adverse Change. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the
Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, except as otherwise specifically stated therein: (i) there
has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or business prospects of the Company; (ii) there
have been no material transactions entered into by the Company, other than as contemplated pursuant to this Agreement; (iii) no
member of the Company’s board of directors or management has resigned from any position with the Company and (iv) no event
or occurrence has taken place which materially impairs, or would likely materially impair, with the passage of time, the ability
of the members of the Company’s board of directors or management to act in their capacities with the Company as described
in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus.
2.4.2. Recent
Securities Transactions, etc. Subsequent to the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus
and except as may otherwise be indicated or contemplated herein or therein, the Company has not: (i) issued any securities or incurred
any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, for borrowed money; or (ii) declared or paid any dividend or made any other
distribution on or in respect to its capital stock.
2.5. Independent
Accountants. Xxx Xxxx, a BDO member firm (“ZH”), whose report is filed with the Commission as part of the
Registration Statement and included in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, are independent
registered public accountants as required by the Act, the Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the
“PCAOB”), including the rules and regulations promulgated by such entity. To the Company’s knowledge,
ZH is duly registered and in good standing with the PCAOB. ZH has not, during the periods covered by the financial statements
included in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, provided to the Company any non-audit services,
as such term is used in Section 10A(g) of the Exchange Act.
2.6. Financial
Statements; Statistical Data.
2.6.1. Financial
Statements. The financial statements, including the notes thereto and supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement,
the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, fairly present the financial position and the results of operations of the Company
at the dates and for the periods to which they apply; and such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with United
States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied throughout the periods involved; and the supporting schedules
included in the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein in conformity with the Regulations.
No other financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included or incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus. The
Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus disclose all material off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements,
obligations (including contingent obligations), and other relationships of the Company with unconsolidated entities or other persons
that may have a material current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, results
of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources, or significant components of revenues or expenses. There
are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements which are required to be included in the Registration Statement, the
Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus in accordance with Regulation S-X of the Regulations which have
not been included as so required.
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2.6.2. Statistical
Data. The statistical, industry-related and market-related data included in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus
and/or the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources which the Company reasonably and in good faith believes are reliable
and accurate, and such data agree with the sources from which they are derived.
2.7. Authorized
Capital; Options, etc. The Company had at the date or dates indicated in each of the Registration Statement, the Statutory
Prospectus and the Prospectus, as the case may be, duly authorized, issued and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the Registration
Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus. Based on the assumptions stated in the Registration Statement, the
Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, the Company will have on the Closing Date the adjusted stock capitalization set forth
therein. Except as set forth in, or contemplated by, the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, on
the Effective Date and on the Closing Date, there will be no options, warrants, or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire
any authorized, but unissued Ordinary Shares or any security convertible into Ordinary Shares, or any contracts or commitments
to issue or sell Ordinary Shares or any such options, warrants, rights or convertible securities.
2.8. Valid
Issuance of Securities, etc.
2.8.1. Outstanding
Securities. All issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and
are fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof have no rights of rescission with respect thereto, and are not subject to
personal liability by reason of being such holders; and none of such securities were issued in violation of the preemptive rights
of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual rights granted by the Company. The outstanding Ordinary Shares
conform to the descriptions thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus. All offers,
sales and any transfers of the outstanding Ordinary Shares of the Company were at all relevant times either registered under the
Act and the applicable state securities or Blue Sky laws or exempt from such registration requirements.
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2.8.2. Securities
Sold Pursuant to this Agreement. The Securities have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance and when issued and paid
for in accordance with this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof are not and will
not be subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders; the Securities are not and will not be subject to the preemptive
rights of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual rights granted by the Company; and all corporate action
required to be taken for the authorization, issuance and sale of the Securities has been duly and validly taken. The Securities
conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus
and the Prospectus, as the case may be. When issued, the Representative’s Purchase Option, the Representative’s
Warrants, the Sponsor Warrants, the EBC Warrants and the Warrants will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company
to issue and sell, upon exercise thereof and payment of the respective exercise prices therefor, the number and type of securities
of the Company called for thereby in accordance with the terms thereof and such Representative’s Purchase Option, Representative’s
Warrants, Sponsor Warrants, the EBC Warrants and Warrants are enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective
terms, except: (i) as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’
rights generally; (ii) as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution provision may be limited under foreign, federal
and state securities laws; and (iii) that the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief
may be subject to the equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.
The Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Representative’s Purchase Option, the Representative’s Warrants,
the Sponsor Warrants, the EBC Warrants and the Warrants have been reserved for issuance upon the exercise of the Warrant upon payment
of the consideration therefore, and when issued in accordance with the terms thereof, will be duly and validly authorized, validly
issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof are not and will not be subject to personal liability by reason of being
such holders.
2.8.3. No
Integration. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates has, prior to the date hereof, made any offer or sale of any securities
which are required to be “integrated” pursuant to the Act or the Regulations with the offer and sale of the Securities
pursuant to the Registration Statement.
2.9. Registration
Rights of Third Parties. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus,
no holders of any securities of the Company or any rights exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into securities of the
Company have the right to require the Company to register any such securities of the Company under the Act or to include any such
securities in a registration statement to be filed by the Company.
2.10. Validity
and Binding Effect of Agreements. This Agreement, the Warrant Agreement (as defined in Section 2.24 hereof), the
Trust Agreement, the Subscription Agreements (as defined in Section 2.25.2 hereof), the Services Agreement (as defined in Section
2.25.5), the Representative’s Purchase Option, the M&A Agreement (as defined in Section 2.34) and the Registration Rights
Agreement (as defined in Section 2.25.7) have been duly and validly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered
by the Company and will constitute valid and binding agreements of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with
their respective terms, except: (i) as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar
laws affecting creditors’ rights generally; (ii) as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution provision may be
limited under foreign, federal and state securities laws; and (iii) that the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and
other forms of equitable relief may be subject to the equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding
therefor may be brought.
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2.11. No
Conflicts, etc. The execution, delivery, and performance by the Company of this Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the
Trust Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Services Agreement, the Representative’s Purchase Option, the M&A Agreement
and the Registration Rights Agreement, the consummation by the Company of the transactions herein and therein contemplated and
the compliance by the Company with the terms hereof and thereof do not and will not, with or without the giving of notice or the
lapse of time or both: (i) result in a breach or violation of, or conflict with any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute
a default under, or result in the creation, modification, termination or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any
property or assets of the Company pursuant to the terms of any agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which
the Company is a party or bound or to which its property is subject except pursuant to the Trust Agreement; (ii) result in any
violation of the provisions of the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company; or (iii) violate
any existing applicable statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any governmental agency or court, domestic
or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties, business or assets.
2.12. No
Defaults; Violations. No material default or violation exists in the due performance and observance of any term, covenant
or condition of any material license, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, note, loan or credit agreement, or any other
agreement or instrument evidencing an obligation for borrowed money, or any other material agreement or instrument to which the
Company is a party or by which the Company may be bound or to which any of the properties or assets of the Company is subject.
The Company is not in violation of any term or provision of its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association or
in violation of any material franchise, license, permit, applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment or decree of any governmental
agency or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties or businesses.
2.13. Corporate
Power; Licenses; Consents.
2.13.1. Conduct
of Business. The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority, and has all necessary authorizations, approvals,
orders, licenses, certificates and permits of and from all governmental regulatory officials and bodies that it needs as of the
date hereof to conduct its business for the purposes described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus. The disclosures in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus concerning the effects
of foreign, federal, state and local regulation on this Offering and the Company’s business purpose as currently contemplated
are correct in all material respects and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Since its formation,
the Company has conducted no business and has incurred no liabilities other than in connection with and in furtherance of the Offering.
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2.13.2. Transactions
Contemplated Herein. The Company has all corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to carry out
the provisions and conditions hereof, and all consents, authorizations, approvals and orders required in connection therewith have
been obtained. No consent, authorization or order of, and no filing with, any court, government agency or other body, foreign
or domestic, is required for the valid issuance, sale and delivery, of the Securities and the consummation of the transactions
and agreements contemplated by this Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Services
Agreement, the Representative’s Purchase Option, the M&A Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and as contemplated
by the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and Prospectus, except with respect to applicable foreign, federal and
state securities laws and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”).
2.14. D&O
Questionnaires. To the Company’s knowledge, all information contained in the questionnaires (the “Questionnaires”)
completed by each of the Company’s officers, directors, 5% beneficial owners and owners of unregistered securities acquired
within the past 180 days (the “Directors/Officers”) immediately prior to the Offering and provided to the Representative,
as such Questionnaires may have been updated from time to time and confirmed by each of the Directors/Officers, as well as the
biographies previously provided to the Representative, is true and correct and the Company has not become aware of any information
which would cause the information disclosed in the Questionnaires to become inaccurate and incorrect.
2.15. Litigation;
Governmental Proceedings. There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry, arbitration, investigation, litigation or governmental
proceeding pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against, or involving the Company or, to the Company’s
knowledge, any of the Directors/Officers or any of the Insiders, which has not been disclosed in the Registration Statement, the
Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus or in the Questionnaires.
2.16. Good
Standing. The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation and is in good standing under
the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation
in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of business requires such qualification, except
where the failure to qualify would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings,
business or properties of the Company, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set
forth in or contemplated in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto) (a “Material
Adverse Effect”).
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2.17. No
Contemplation of a Business Combination. Prior to the date hereof, no Company Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) has, and as
of the Closing, the Company and such Company Affiliates will not have: (a) had any specific Business Combination under consideration
or contemplation; (b) directly or indirectly, contacted any potential operating assets, business or businesses which the Company
may seek to acquire (each, a “Target Business”) or any owner, officer, director, manager, agent or representative
thereof or had any substantive discussions, formal or otherwise, with respect to effecting any potential Business Combination with
the Company or taken any measure, directly or indirectly to locate a Target Business; or (c) engaged or retained any agent or other
representative to identify or locate any Target Business for the Company.
2.18. Transactions
Affecting Disclosure to FINRA.
2.18.1. Except
as described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, there are no claims, payments, arrangements,
agreements or understandings relating to the payment of a finder’s, consulting or origination fee by the Company or any Company
Affiliate with respect to the sale of the Securities hereunder or any other arrangements, agreements or understandings of the Company
or, to the Company’s knowledge, any Initial Shareholder that may affect the Underwriters’ compensation, as determined
by FINRA.
2.18.2. The
Company has not made any direct or indirect payments (in cash, securities or otherwise) to: (i) any person, as a finder’s
fee, consulting fee or otherwise, in consideration of such person raising capital for the Company or introducing to the Company
persons who raised or provided capital to the Company; (ii) to any FINRA member; or (iii) to any person or entity that has any
direct or indirect affiliation or association with any FINRA member, within the twelve months prior to the Effective Date.
2.18.3. To
the Company’s knowledge, no officer or director or any direct or indirect beneficial owner of 5% or greater of any class
of the Company’s securities, including the Insiders and holders of securities to be purchased in the Private Placement (whether
debt or equity, registered or unregistered, regardless of the time acquired or the source from which derived) (any such individual
or entity, a “Company Affiliate”) is a member, a person associated, or affiliated with a member of FINRA except
for the purchasers of the EBC Warrants.
2.18.4. To
the Company’s knowledge, no Company Affiliate is an owner of stock or other securities of any member of FINRA (other than
securities purchased on the open market) except for the purchasers of the EBC Warrants.
2.18.5. To
the Company’s knowledge, no Company Affiliate has made a subordinated loan to any member of FINRA.
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2.18.6. No
proceeds from the sale of the Public Securities (excluding underwriting compensation), the Representative’s Securities or
the Insider Shares will be paid to any FINRA member, or any persons associated or affiliated with a member of FINRA, except as
specifically authorized herein.
2.18.7. Except
as contemplated herein, the Company has not issued any warrants or other securities, or granted any options, directly or indirectly
to anyone who is a potential underwriter in the Offering or a related person (as defined by FINRA rules) of such an underwriter
within the 180-day period prior to the initial filing date of the Registration Statement.
2.18.8. To
the Company’s knowledge, no person to whom securities of the Company have been privately issued within the 180-day period
prior to the initial filing date of the Registration Statement has any relationship or affiliation or association with any member
of FINRA.
2.18.9. To
the Company’s knowledge, no FINRA member intending to participate in the Offering has a conflict of interest (as defined
by FINRA rules) with the Company.
2.18.10. Except
with respect to the Representative or Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (“DB”) in connection with the Offering, the Company
has not entered into any agreement or arrangement (including, without limitation, any consulting agreement or any other type of
agreement) during the 180-day period prior to the initial filing date of the Registration Statement, which arrangement or agreement
provides for the receipt of any item of value and/or the transfer or issuance of any warrants, options, or other securities from
the Company to a FINRA member, any person associated with a member (as defined by FINRA rules), any potential underwriters in the
Offering and/or any related persons.
2.18.11. The
Company previously entered into a non-binding engagement letter with DB dated February 25, 2011 (“DB Engagement Letter”).
The DB Engagement Letter has terminated by its terms. The Company has paid an aggregate of DB $25,000 as reimbursement for background
searches on the Insiders obtained by DB and other expenses related to the Offering. No other money is owed, or will be paid, by
the Company to DB.
2.19. Taxes.
2.19.1.
There are no transfer taxes or other similar fees or charges under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, U.S. federal law or
the laws of any U.S. state or any political subdivision thereof, required to be paid in connection with the execution and delivery
of this Agreement or the issuance or sale by the Company of the Securities.
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2.19.2. The
Company has filed all non-U.S., U.S. federal, state and local tax returns that are required to be a filed or has requested extensions
thereof, except in any case in which the failure to so file would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and has paid all taxes required
to be paid by it and any other assessment, fine or penalty levied against it, to the extent that any of the foregoing in due and
payable, except for any such assessment, fine or penalty that is currently being contested in good faith or as would not have a
Material Adverse Effect.
2.19.3. The
Company is not a Passive Foreign Investment Company for Federal income tax purposes.
2.20. Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act. Neither the Company nor any of the Company Affiliates or any other person acting on behalf of
the Company is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that: (i) would result in a violation by such persons
of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”)
or otherwise subject the Company to any damage or penalty in any civil, criminal or governmental litigation or proceeding; (ii)
if not done in the past, might have had a Material Adverse Effect or (iii) if not continued in the future, might adversely affect
the assets, business or operations of the Company, including, without limitation, given or agreed to give any money, gift or similar
benefit (other than legal price concessions to customers in the ordinary course of business) to any customer, supplier, employee
or agent of a customer or supplier, or official or employee of any governmental agency or instrumentality of any government (domestic
or foreign) or any political party or candidate for office (domestic or foreign) or any political party or candidate for office
(domestic or foreign) or other person who was, is, or may be in a position to help or hinder the business of the Company (or assist
it in connection with any actual or proposed transaction). The Company’s internal accounting controls and procedures are
sufficient to cause the Company to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
2.21. Currency
and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act. The operations of the Company are and have been conducted at all times in compliance
with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transaction Reporting Act of 1970,
as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar
rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money
Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body
or any arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company,
threatened.
2.22. Bank
Secrecy Act; Money Laundering; Patriot Act. Neither the Company, nor to the Company’s knowledge, any Company Affiliate,
has violated: (i) the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended, (ii) the Money Laundering Laws or (iii) the Uniting and Strengthening of America
by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001, and/or the rules and
regulations promulgated under any such law, or any successor law.
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2.23. Officers’
Certificate. Any certificate signed by any duly authorized officer of the Company and delivered to the Representative
or to its counsel shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby.
2.24. Warrant
Agreement. The Company has entered into a warrant agreement with respect to the Warrants, Representatives’ Warrants,
Sponsor Warrants and EBC Warrants with CST&T substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement (the
“Warrant Agreement”).
2.25. Agreements
With Company Affiliates.
2.25.1. Insider
Letters. The Company has caused to be duly executed legally binding and enforceable agreements (except (i) as such enforceability
may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as enforceability
of any indemnification, contribution or non-compete provision may be limited under foreign, federal and state securities laws,
and (iii) that the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to the equitable
defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought) in the form annexed as an exhibit to
the Registration Statement (the “Insider Letters”), pursuant to which each of the Company Affiliates agrees
to certain matters, including but not limited to, the voting of Ordinary Shares held by them and certain matters described as being
agreed to by them under the “Proposed Business” section of the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus
and Prospectus.
2.25.2. Subscription
Agreements. The Insiders and the purchasers of the EBC Warrants have each executed
and delivered a subscription agreement, the form of which is annexed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement (individually
a “Subscription Agreement” and collectively, the “Subscription Agreements”), pursuant to
which the Insiders have agreed, among other things, to purchase on the Closing Date an aggregate of 4,400,000 Sponsor Warrants
(or 4,820,000 Sponsor Warrants if the Over-allotment Option is exercised in full) in the Private Placement. Pursuant to the Subscription
Agreements, the Insiders and the purchasers of the EBC Warrants have waived any and all rights and claims they may have to any
proceeds, and any interest thereon, held in the Trust Account in respect of the Sponsor Warrants and EBC Warrants in the event
that a Business Combination is not consummated and the Trust Account is liquidated in accordance with the terms of the Trust Agreement.
The Sponsor Warrants and EBC Warrants have been duly authorized and, when issued and paid for
in accordance with the Subscription Agreements, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof are
not and will not be subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders; the Sponsor Warrants and EBC Warrants are not
and will not be subject to the preemptive rights of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual rights granted
by the Company; and all corporate action required to be taken for the authorization, issuance and sale of the Sponsor Warrants
and EBC Warrants has been duly and validly taken.
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2.25.3. Warrant
Repurchases. Certain of the Insiders have committed that they or their designees will
purchase up to 40% of the Warrants in the aftermarket at $0.40 per Warrant commencing on the later of 61 days after the date of
the Prospectus or the date the Warrants commence separate trading and ending on the earlier of the date of the announcement of
the Business Combination or until the maximum number of such Warrants have been purchased and then will purchase at $0.60 per Warrant
the balance of the outstanding Warrants in a tender offer that will commence after our announcement of a Business Combination and
filing of proxy or tender offer materials related to such Business Combination.
2.25.4.
Non-Competition/Solicitation. No Directors/Officers are subject to any non-competition agreement or non-solicitation agreement
with any employer or prior employer which could materially affect each Director’s/Officer’s ability to be and act in
the capacity of a Director/Officer of the Company.
2.25.5. Administrative
Services. The Company has entered into an agreement (“Services Agreement”) with Infinity-C.S.V.C. Management
Ltd. (“Infinity-C.S.V.C”) substantially in the form annexed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement pursuant
to which Infinity-C.S.V.C., will make available to the Company general and administrative services including office space, utilities
and secretarial support for the Company’s use for $10,000 per month payable until the consummation by the Company of a Business
Combination.
2.25.6. Loans.
Certain of the Insiders made loans to the Company in the aggregate amount of $55,940 (the “Insider Loans”) pursuant
to promissory notes substantially in the form annexed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. The Insider Loans do not bear
any interest and are repayable by the Company on the consummation of the Offering.
2.25.7. Registration
Rights Agreement. The Company, the Insiders and the holders of the EBC Warrants have entered into a registration rights agreement
(“Registration Rights Agreement”) substantially in the form annexed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement,
whereby the Insiders and the holders of the EBC Warrants will be entitled to certain registration rights with respect to the Insider
Shares, Sponsor Warrants and EBC Warrants as set forth in such Registration Rights Agreement and described more fully in the Registration
Statement.
2.26. Investment
Management Trust Agreement. The Company has entered into the Trust Agreement with respect to certain proceeds of the
Offering and the Private Placement substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, pursuant to which
the funds held in the Trust Account may be released under limited circumstances.
2.27. Investments.
No more than 45% of the “value” (as defined in Section 2(a)(41) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“Investment
Company Act”)) of the Company’s total assets (exclusive of cash items and “Government Securities,”
as defined in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act) consist of, and no more than 45% of the Company’s net income
after taxes is derived from, securities other than Government Securities.
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2.28. Investment
Company Act. The Company is not required, and upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated and the application
of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Prospectus will not be required, to register as an “investment company”
under the Investment Company Act.
2.29. Subsidiaries.
The Company does not own an interest in any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other
business entity.
2.30. Related
Party Transactions. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among any of the Company or any Company Affiliate,
on the one hand, and any director, officer, shareholder, customer or supplier of the Company or any Company Affiliate, on the other
hand, which is required by the Act, the Exchange Act or the Regulations to be described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory
Prospectus and the Prospectus which is not so described as required. There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances
for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of
any of the officers or directors of the Company or any of their respective family members, except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus. The Company has not extended or maintained credit, arranged for the extension
of credit, or renewed an extension of credit, in the form of a personal loan to or for any director or officer of the Company.
2.31. No
Influence. The Company has not offered, or caused the Underwriters to offer, the Firm Units to any person or entity with the
intention of unlawfully influencing: (a) a customer or supplier of the Company or any affiliate of the Company to alter the customer’s
or supplier’s level or type of business with the Company or such affiliate or (b) a journalist or publication to write or
publish favorable information about the Company or any such affiliate.
2.32. Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx.
The Company is in material compliance with the provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, as amended (“SOX”),
and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and related or similar rules and regulations promulgated by any governmental
or self regulatory entity or agency, that are applicable to it as of the date hereof.
2.33. Nasdaq
Eligibility. As of the Effective Date, the Public Securities have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq Capital Markets (“NASDAQ”).
There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or any of the Company's directors or officers, in their capacities
as such, to comply with (as and when applicable), and immediately following the effectiveness of the Registration Statement the
Company will be in compliance with, the NASDAQ Marketplace Rules, as amended.
2.34. M&A
Agreement. The Company and the Representative have entered into a separate merger and investment
banking agreement substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement (the “M&A Agreement”).
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2.35. Emerging
Growth Status. From the enactment of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act on April 5, 2012 through the date hereof, the
Company has been and is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Act (an “Emerging Growth
Company”).
2.36. Testing-The-Waters
Communications. The Company (a) has not engaged in any Testing-the-Waters Communication and (b) has not authorized anyone to
engage in Testing-the-Waters Communications. “Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any oral or written communication
with potential investors undertaken in reliance on Section 5(d) of the Act.
2.37. Definition
of “Knowledge”. As used in herein, the term “knowledge of the Company” (or similar language)
shall mean the knowledge of the Company’s Directors/Officers, with the assumption that such officers and directors shall
have made reasonable and diligent inquiry of the matters presented.
3. Covenants
of the Company. The Company covenants and agrees as follows:
3.1. Amendments
to Registration Statement. The Company will deliver to the Representative, prior to filing, any amendment or supplement
to the Registration Statement or Prospectus proposed to be filed after the Effective Date and shall not file any such amendment
or supplement to which the Representative shall reasonably object in writing.
3.2. Federal
Securities Laws.
3.2.1. Compliance.
During the time when a prospectus is required to be delivered under the Act, the Company will use all reasonable efforts to comply
with all requirements imposed upon it by the Act, the Regulations and the Exchange Act and by the regulations under the Exchange
Act, as from time to time in force, so far as necessary to permit the continuance of sales of or dealings in the Public Securities
in accordance with the provisions hereof and the Prospectus. If at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Public Securities
is required to be delivered under the Act, any event shall have occurred as a result of which, in the opinion of counsel for the
Company or counsel for the Underwriters, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented includes
an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any 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, or if it is necessary during such
period to amend the Registration Statement or amend or supplement the Statutory Prospectus and Prospectus to comply with the Act,
the Company will notify the Representative promptly and prepare and file with the Commission, subject to Section 3.1 hereof,
an appropriate amendment to the Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to the Statutory Prospectus and Prospectus (at
the expense of the Company) so as to correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance.
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3.2.2. Filing
of Final Prospectus. The Company will file the Prospectus (in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative)
with the Commission pursuant to the requirements of Rule 424 of the Regulations.
3.2.3. Exchange
Act Registration. For a period of five years from the Effective Date (except in connection with a going private transaction),
or until such earlier time upon which the Trust Account is to be liquidated if a Business Combination has not been consummated
by the Termination Date, the Company will use its best efforts to maintain the registration of the Units, Ordinary Shares and Warrants
(in the case of the Units and the Warrants, until the Warrants expire and are no longer exercisable or have been exercised in full)
under the provisions of the Exchange Act. The Company will not deregister the Units, Ordinary Shares or Warrants under the
Exchange Act without the prior written consent of the Representative.
3.2.4. Free
Writing Prospectuses. The Company represents and agrees that it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Public
Securities that would constitute an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 under the 1933 Act, without the
prior consent of the Representative. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representative is hereinafter referred
to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and has complied with and will comply with
the applicable requirements of Rule 433 of the 1933 Act, including timely Commission filing where required, legending and record
keeping.
3.2.5. Intentionally
Omitted.
3.2.6. Exchange
Act Filings. From the Effective Date until the earlier of five years after the consummation of the Company’s initial
Business Combination, or the liquidation of the Trust Account if a Business Combination is not consummated by the Termination Date,
the Company shall timely file with the Commission via the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“XXXXX”)
such statements and reports as are required to be filed by a company registered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, as if
the Company were a company incorporated in the United States (it being agreed, however, that with respect to quarterly and annual
financial information, the Company may furnish such information on Form 6-K or Form 20-F, as the case may be, and with respect
to proxy solicitation materials a preliminary proxy statement shall not be required to be filed with the Commission or delivered
to the Company’s shareholders).
3.2.7. Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Compliance. As soon as it is legally required to do so, the Company shall take all actions necessary to obtain and thereafter
maintain material compliance with each applicable provision of SOX and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and related
or similar rules and regulations promulgated by any other governmental or self regulatory entity or agency with jurisdiction over
the Company.
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3.3. Emerging
Growth Company Status. The Company will promptly notify the Representative if the
Company ceases to be an Emerging Growth Company at any time prior to the earlier of five years after the consummation of
the Company’s initial Business Combination, or the liquidation of the Trust Account if a Business Combination is not consummated
by the Termination Date,.
3.4. Delivery
of Materials to Underwriters. The Company will deliver to each of the several Underwriters, without charge and from time
to time during the period when a prospectus is required to be delivered under the Act or the Exchange Act, such number of copies
of each Statutory Prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to such documents as such Underwriters may reasonably
request and, as soon as the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto becomes effective, deliver to the Representative
two manually executed Registration Statements, including exhibits, and all post-effective amendments thereto and copies of all
exhibits filed therewith or incorporated therein by reference and all manually executed consents of certified experts.
3.5. Effectiveness
and Events Requiring Notice to the Representative. The Company will use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement
to remain effective and will notify the Representative immediately and confirm the notice in writing: (i) of the effectiveness
of the Registration Statement and any amendment thereto; (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any post-effective amendment thereto or preventing or suspending the use of any
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or of the initiation, or the threatening, of any proceeding for that purpose; (iii) of
the issuance by any foreign or state securities commission of any proceedings for the suspension of the qualification of the Public
Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction or of the initiation, or the threatening, of any proceeding for that purpose;
(iv) of the mailing and delivery to the Commission for filing of any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus;
(v) of the receipt of any comments or request for any additional information from the Commission; and (vi) of the happening of
any event during the period described in Section 3.4 hereof that, in the judgment of the Company or its counsel, makes any
statement of a material fact made in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus untrue or that requires
the making of any changes in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and Prospectus in order to make the statements
therein, (with respect to the Prospectus and the Statutory Prospectus and in light of the circumstances under which they were made),
not misleading. If the Commission or any foreign or state securities commission shall enter a stop order or suspend such
qualification at any time, the Company will make every reasonable effort to obtain promptly the lifting of such order.
3.6. Review
of Financial Statements. Until the earlier of five years from the Effective Date (or until consummation of a Business
Combination if a majority of the board of directors of the Company after such consummation are not members of the Company’s
current management), or until the liquidation of the Trust Account if a Business Combination is not consummated by the Termination
Date, the Company, at its expense, shall cause its regularly engaged independent certified public accountants to review (but not
audit) the Company’s financial statements for each of the first three fiscal quarters prior to the announcement of quarterly
financial information and the filing of the Company’s Reports on Form 6-K with respect to its quarterly results.
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3.7. Affiliated
Transactions.
3.7.1. Business
Combinations. The Company will not consummate a Business Combination (i) with a company that is affiliated with any Insider,
Initial Shareholder, officer or director, (ii) by partnering, submitting joint bids, or entering into any similar transaction with
any Insider, Initial Shareholder, officer or director or their affiliates or (iii) with a portfolio company of, or otherwise affiliated
with, or has received a financial investment from, any of the private equity firms with which the Initial Shareholders, officers
or directors are affiliated, unless in each case the Company obtains an opinion from an independent investment banking firm which
is a member of FINRA and is reasonably acceptable to the Representative that the Business Combination is fair to the Company’s
shareholders from a financial point of view.
3.7.2. Services
Agreement. The Company has entered into the Services Agreement with Infinity-C.S.V.C. pursuant to which it will make available
to the Company general and administrative services including office space, utilities and secretarial support for the Company’s
use for $10,000 per month. The Company shall not enter into any other arrangement for the provision of such services with any Insider
that will require the Company to pay in excess of $10,000 per month for such services.
3.7.3. Compensation.
Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Company shall not pay any Initial Shareholder or Company Affiliate or any
of their affiliates any fees or compensation from the Company, for services rendered to the Company prior to, or in connection
with, this Offering or the consummation of a Business Combination.
3.8. Secondary
Market Trading and Standard & Poor’s. If the Company does not maintain the listing of the Public Securities on NASDAQ
or another national securities exchange, the Company will (i) apply to be included in Standard & Poor’s Daily News and
Corporation Records Corporate Descriptions for a period of five years from the consummation of a Business Combination, (ii) take
such commercially reasonable steps as may be necessary to obtain a secondary market trading exemption for the Company’s securities
in the State of California and (iii) take such other action as may be reasonably requested by the Representative to obtain a secondary
market trading exemption in such other states as may be requested by the Representative.
3.9. Intentionally
Omitted.
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3.10. Reports
to the Representative.
3.10.1. Periodic
Reports, etc. For a period of five years from the Effective Date or until such earlier time upon which the Company is
required to be liquidated and dissolved, the Company will furnish to the Representative and its counsel copies of such financial
statements and other periodic and special reports as the Company from time to time furnishes generally to holders of any class
of its securities, and promptly furnish to the Representative: (i) a copy of each periodic report the Company shall be required
to file with the Commission; (ii) a copy of every press release and every news item and article with respect to the Company
or its affairs which was released by the Company; (iii) a copy of each Current Report on Form 8-K or Report of Foreign Private
Issuer on Form 6-K and any Schedules 13D, 13G, 14D-1 or 13E-4 received or prepared by the Company; (iv) five copies of each registration
statement filed by the Company with the Commission under the Securities Act; and (v) such additional documents and information
with respect to the Company and the affairs of any future subsidiaries of the Company as the Representative may from time to time
reasonably request; provided that the Representative shall sign, if requested by the Company, a Regulation FD compliant confidentiality
agreement which is reasonably acceptable to the Representative and its counsel in connection with the Representative’s receipt
of such information. Documents filed with the Commission pursuant to XXXXX shall be deemed to have been delivered to the Representative
pursuant to this section.
3.10.2. For
a period of five years following the Effective Date or until such earlier time upon which the Company is required to be liquidated,
the Company shall retain a transfer and warrant agent acceptable to the Representative. CST&T is acceptable to the Underwriters.
3.11. Disqualification
of Form F-1 and Form F-3. Until the earlier of seven years from the date hereof or until the Warrants have expired
and are no longer exercisable, the Company will not take any action or actions which may prevent or disqualify the Company’s
use of Form F-1 or Form F-3 (or other appropriate form) for the registration of the Warrants under the Act.
3.12. Payment
of Expenses. The Company hereby agrees to pay on each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, to the
extent not paid at Closing Date, all fees and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company under this
Agreement, including, but not limited to: (i) the preparation, printing, filing and mailing (including the payment of postage with
respect to such mailing) of the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus, and the final Prospectus and mailing of this
Agreement and related documents, including the cost of all copies thereof and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto supplied
to the Underwriters in quantities as may be required by the Underwriters; (ii) the printing, engraving, issuance and delivery of
the Units, the Ordinary Shares and the Warrants included in the Units, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon; (iii)
NASDAQ filing fees or, if necessary, the qualification of the Public Securities under state or foreign securities or Blue Sky laws;
(iv) fees and expenses (including legal fees not to exceed $15,000) incurred in registering the Offering with FINRA; (v) fees and
disbursements of the transfer and warrant agent; (vi) the preparation and delivery of transaction lucite cubes or similar commemorative
items in a style and quantity as reasonably requested by the Representative; (vii) all costs and expenses of the Company associated
with “road show” marketing and “due diligence” trips for the Company’s management to meet with prospective
investors, including without limitation, all travel, food and lodging expenses associated with such trips incurred by the Company
or such management; and (viii) all other costs and expenses customarily borne by an issuer incident to the performance of its obligations
hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section 3.12. The Company also
agrees that it will pay an aggregate amount not to exceed $18,000 (including amounts paid to any firm previously engaged as the
representative for the Offering) for an investigative search firm of the Representative’s choice to conduct an investigation
of the principals of the Company as shall be mutually selected by the Representative and the Company. The Representative
may deduct from the net proceeds of the Offering payable to the Company on the Closing Date the expenses set forth above (which
shall be mutually agreed upon between the Company and the Representative prior to Closing) to be paid by the Company to the Representative
and others. If the Offering is not consummated because the Company has materially breached any of its obligations hereunder, then
the Company shall reimburse the Representative in full for their respective out of pocket accountable expenses actually incurred
through such date, including, without limitation, fees of counsel to the Representative (which legal fees shall not exceed $100,000).
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3.13. M&A
Agreement. The Company and the Representative have entered into the M&A Agreement.
3.14. Application
of Net Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from this Offering received by it in a manner substantially
consistent with the application described under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus.
3.15. Delivery
of Earnings Statements to Security Holders. The Company will make generally available to its security holders as soon
as practicable, but not later than the first day of the sixteenth full calendar month following the Effective Date, an earnings
statement (which need not be certified by independent public or independent certified public accountants unless required by the
Act or the Regulations, but which shall satisfy the provisions of Rule 158(a) under Section 11(a) of the Act) covering a period
of at least twelve consecutive months beginning after the Effective Date.
3.16. Notice
to FINRA.
3.16.1. Business
Combination. For a period of ninety days following the Effective Date, in the event any person or entity (regardless of any
FINRA affiliation or association) is engaged to assist the Company in its search for a Business Combination candidate or to provide
any similar Business Combination-related services, the Company will provide the following information (the “Business Combination
Information”) to FINRA and the Representative: (i) complete details of all services and copies of agreements
governing such services (which details or agreements may be appropriately redacted to account for privilege or confidentiality
concerns); and (ii) justification as to why the person or entity providing the Business Combination-related services should
not be considered an “underwriter and related person” with respect to the Company’s initial public offering,
as such term is defined in Rule 5110 of FINRA’s Conduct Rules. The Company also agrees that proper disclosure
of such arrangement or potential arrangement will be made in either the proxy statement or tender offer documents which the Company
will file for purposes of soliciting shareholder approval for the Business Combination. Upon the Company’s delivery of the
Business Combination Information to the Representative, the Company hereby expressly authorizes the Representative to provide such
information directly to FINRA as a result of representations the Representative have made to FINRA in connection with the Offering.
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3.16.2. Broker/Dealer.
In the event the Company intends to register as a broker/dealer, merge with or acquire a registered broker/dealer, or otherwise
become a member of FINRA, it shall promptly notify FINRA.
3.17. Stabilization. Neither
the Company, nor, to its knowledge, any of its employees, directors or shareholders (without the consent of the Representative)
has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that has constituted or that might reasonably be expected
to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act, or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the
Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Units.
3.18. Internal
Controls. From and after the Closing Date, the Company will maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient
to provide reasonable assurances that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary in order to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only
in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared
with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
3.19. Accountants.
For a period of five years from the Effective Date or until such earlier time upon which the Trust Account is required to be liquidated,
the Company shall retain ZH or other independent public accountants reasonably acceptable to the Representative.
3.20. Form
6-K’s. The Company has retained ZH to audit the financial statements of the Company as of the Closing Date (the
“Audited Financial Statements”) reflecting the receipt by the Company of the proceeds of the Offering.
Within four (4) Business Days of the Closing Date, the Company shall file a Report of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K with the
Commission, which Report shall contain the Company’s Audited Financial Statements. If the Over-Allotment Option has not been
exercised on the Effective Date, the Company will also file an amendment to the Form 6-K, or a new Form 6-K, to provide updated
financial information of the Company to reflect the exercise and consummation of the Over-Allotment Option.
3.21. FINRA.
The Company shall advise FINRA if it is aware that any 5% or greater shareholder of the Company becomes an affiliate or associated
person of a FINRA member participating in the distribution of the Securities.
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3.22. Corporate
Proceedings. All corporate proceedings and other legal matters necessary to carry out the provisions of this Agreement and
the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been done to the reasonable satisfaction to counsel for the Underwriters.
3.23. Investment
Company. The Company shall cause the proceeds of the Offering to be held in the Trust Account to be invested only as set forth
in the Trust Agreement as in effect on the date hereof and disclosed in the Prospectus. The Company will otherwise conduct its
business in a manner so that it will not become subject to the Investment Company Act. Furthermore, once the Company consummates
a Business Combination, it will be engaged in a business other than that of investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading
securities.
3.24. Press
Releases. The Company agrees that it will not issue press releases or engage in any other publicity, without the Representative’s
prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld), for a period of forty (40) days after the Closing Date; provided that
in no event shall the Company be prohibited from issuing any press release or engaging in any other publicity required by law.
3.25. Intentionally
Omitted.
3.26. Electronic
Prospectus. The Company shall cause to be prepared and delivered
to the Representative, at its expense, promptly, but in no event later than two (2) Business Days from the effective date of this
Agreement, an Electronic Prospectus to be used by the Underwriters in connection with the Offering. As used herein, the term “Electronic
Prospectus” means a form of prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, that meets each of the following conditions:
(i) it shall be encoded in an electronic format, satisfactory to the Representative, that may be transmitted electronically by
the other Underwriters to offerees and purchasers of the Units for at least the period during which a Prospectus relating to the
Units is required to be delivered under the Securities Act; (ii) it shall disclose the same information as the paper prospectus
and prospectus filed pursuant to XXXXX, except to the extent that graphic and image material cannot be disseminated electronically,
in which case such graphic and image material shall be replaced in the electronic prospectus with a fair and accurate narrative
description or tabular representation of such material, as appropriate; and (iii) it shall be in or convertible into a paper format
or an electronic format, satisfactory to the Representative, that will allow recipients thereof to store and have continuously
ready access to the prospectus at any future time, without charge to such recipients (other than any fee charged for subscription
to the Internet as a whole and for on-line time). The Company hereby confirms that it has included or will include in the Prospectus
filed pursuant to XXXXX or otherwise with the Commission and in the Registration Statement at the time it was declared effective
an undertaking that, upon receipt of a request by an investor or his or her representative within the period when a prospectus
relating to the Units is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, the Company shall transmit or cause to be transmitted
promptly, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus.
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3.27. Reservation
of Shares. The Company will reserve and keep available that maximum number of its authorized but unissued securities which
are issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, Sponsor Warrants, EBC Warrants and the Representative’s Securities outstanding
from time to time.
3.28. Sponsor
Warrants, EBC Warrants and Warrants purchased by Insiders. The Company hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Sponsor Warrants,
the EBC Warrant, as well as any Warrants purchased by the Insiders in the open market after the Offering, shall be exercisable
on a cashless basis and shall not be redeemable by the Company, in each event so long as such warrants are held by the initial
holders or their affiliates or permitted transferees.
3.29. Future
Financings. The Company agrees that neither it, nor any successor or subsidiary of the Company, will consummate any public
or private equity or debt financing prior to or in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination, unless all investors
in such financing expressly waive, in writing, any rights in or claims against the Trust Account.
3.30. NASDAQ
Maintenance. Until the consummation of a Business Combination, the Company will use
commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the listing by NASDAQ of the Securities.
3.31. Intentionally
Omitted.
3.32. Intentionally
Omitted.
3.33. Private
Placement Proceeds. On the Closing Date, the Company shall cause to be deposited the proceeds from the sale of the Sponsor
Warrants in the Trust Account.
3.34. Private
Share Purchases. If the Company engages in a shareholder vote in connection with any proposed Business Combination and the
Insiders do not purchase $10,000,000 of Ordinary Shares from Public Shareholders in the open market, the Insiders will have the
option, but not the obligation, to purchase from the Company Ordinary Shares at a purchase price of $8.00 per share in a private
placement to occur simultaneously with the consummation of the Business Combination until they have spent an aggregate of $10,000,000
in such open market purchases and private placement purchases from the Company. Alternatively, if the Company offers Public Shareholders
the right to redeem their shares in connection with a Business Combination through a tender offer, the Sponsors will have the option,
but not the obligation, to purchase from the Company up to 1,250,000 Ordinary Shares in a private placement to occur simultaneously
with the consummation of the Business Combination at a purchase price of $8.00 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of up
to $10,000,000.
4.
Conditions.
4.1. Conditions
of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Units, as
provided herein, shall be subject to the continuing accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company as of the date
hereof and as of the Closing Date to the accuracy of the statements of officers of the Company made pursuant to the provisions
hereof and to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following conditions:
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4.1.1. Regulatory
Matters.
4.1.1.1. Effectiveness
of Registration Statement. The Registration Statement shall have become effective not later than 5:00 p.m., New York
time, on the date of this Agreement or such later date and time as shall be consented to in writing by the Representative, and,
at the Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings
for the purpose shall have been instituted or shall be pending or contemplated by the Commission and any request on the part of
the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx (“GM”).
4.1.1.2. FINRA
Clearance. By the Effective Date, the Representative shall have received clearance from FINRA as to the amount of compensation
allowable or payable to the Underwriters as described in the Registration Statement.
4.1.1.3. No
Commission Stop Order. At the Closing Date, the Commission has not issued any order or threatened to issue any order preventing
or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any part thereof, and has not instituted or, to the Company’s
knowledge, threatened to institute any proceedings with respect to such an order.
4.1.1.4. NASDAQ
Listing. The Public Securities shall have been approved for listing on NASDAQ.
4.1.2. Company
Counsel Matters.
4.1.2.1. Closing
Date Opinion of Company Counsel. On the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of
Ellenoff Xxxxxxxx & Schole LLP dated as of the Closing Date, addressed to the Representative as representative for the several
Underwriters and in form reasonably acceptable to GM.
4.1.2.2. Closing
Date Opinion of BVI Counsel. On the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Ogier
dated as of the Closing Date, addressed to the Representative as representative for the several Underwriters and in form reasonably
acceptable to GM.
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4.1.2.3. Reliance.
In rendering such opinion, such counsels may rely: (i) as to matters involving the application of laws other than the laws of the
United States and jurisdictions in which they are admitted, to the extent such counsel deems proper and to the extent specified
in such opinion, if at all, upon an opinion or opinions (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative) of
other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Representative, familiar with the applicable laws; and (ii) as to matters of fact,
to the extent they deem proper, on certificates or other written statements of officers of the Company and officers of departments
of various jurisdiction having custody of documents respecting the corporate existence or good standing of the Company, provided
that copies of any such statements or certificates shall be delivered to the Underwriters’ counsel if requested. The
opinions of counsel for the Company and any opinion relied upon by such counsel for the Company shall include a statement to the
effect that it may be relied upon by counsel for the Underwriters in its opinion delivered to the Underwriters.
4.1.3. Cold
Comfort Letter. At the time this Agreement is executed, and at the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received
a letter, addressed to the Representative as representative for the several Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory
in all respects (including the non-material nature of the changes or decreases, if any, referred to in clause (iii) below) to the
Representative and to GM from ZH dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date:
(i)
Confirming that they are independent accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and
the applicable Regulations and that they have not, during the periods covered by the financial statements included in the
Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, provided to the Company any non-audit services, as such
term is used in Section 10A(g) of the Exchange Act;
(ii) Stating
that in their opinion the financial statements of the Company included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply
as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the published Regulations thereunder;
(iii) Stating
that, on the basis of a limited review which included a reading of the latest available unaudited interim financial statements
of the Company (with an indication of the date of the latest available unaudited interim financial statements), a reading of the
latest available minutes of the shareholders and board of directors and the various committees of the board of directors, consultations
with officers and other employees of the Company responsible for financial and accounting matters and other specified procedures
and inquiries, nothing has come to their attention which would lead them to believe that: (a) the unaudited financial statements
of the Company included in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus do not comply as to form in
all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the Regulations or are not fairly presented in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a basis substantially consistent with that of the audited financial
statements of the Company included in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus; or (b) at a date
not later than five days prior to the Effective Date or Closing Date, as the case may be, there was any change in the capital stock
or long-term debt of the Company, or any decrease in the shareholders’ equity of the Company as compared with amounts shown
in the December 31, 2011 balance sheet included in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, other
than as set forth in or contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, or, if there was
any decrease, setting forth the amount of such decrease, and (c) during the period from December 31, 2011 to a specified date not
later than two (2) days prior to the Effective Date or Closing Date, as the case may be, there was any decrease in revenues, net
earnings or net earnings per Ordinary Share, in each case as compared with the corresponding period in the preceding year and as
compared with the corresponding period in the preceding quarter, other than as set forth in or contemplated by the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, or, if there was any such decrease, setting forth the amount of such decrease;
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(iv) Setting
forth, at a date not later than five days prior to the Effective Date, the amount of liabilities of the Company;
(v) Stating
that they have compared specific dollar amounts, numbers of shares, percentages of revenues and earnings, statements and other
financial information pertaining to the Company set forth in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus
in each case to the extent that such amounts, numbers, percentages, statements and information may be derived from the general
accounting records, including work sheets, of the Company and excluding any questions requiring an interpretation by legal counsel,
with the results obtained from the application of specified readings, inquiries and other appropriate procedures (which procedures
do not constitute an examination in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards) set forth in the letter and found them
to be in agreement;
(vi) Stating
that they have not during the immediately preceding five year period brought to the attention of the Company’s management
any reportable condition related to internal structure, design or operation as defined in the Statement on Auditing Standards No.
60 “Communication of Internal Control Structure Related Matters Noted in an Audit,” in the Company’s internal
controls; and
(vii) Statements
as to such other matters incident to the transaction contemplated hereby as the Representative may reasonably request.
4.1.4. Officers’
Certificates.
4.1.4.1. Officers’
Certificate. As of each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, the Representative shall have received
a certificate of the Company signed by the Chairman of the Board or either Co-President and the Secretary or Assistant Secretary
of the Company (in their capacities as such), respectively, to the effect that the Company has performed all covenants and complied
with all conditions required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by the Company prior to and as of the Closing Date
and that the conditions set forth in Section 4.1.5 hereof have been satisfied as of such date and that, as of Closing Date,
the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are true and correct. In addition, the
Representative will have received such other and further certificates of officers of the Company as the Representative may reasonably
request.
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4.1.4.2. Secretary’s
Certificate. As of each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, the Representative shall have received
a certificate of the Company signed by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company, respectively, certifying: (i) that
the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company are true and complete, have not been modified and
are in full force and effect; (ii) that the resolutions relating to the Offering are in full force and effect and have not been
modified; (iii) all correspondence between the Company or its counsel and the Commission; (iv) all correspondence between the Company
or its counsel and NASDAQ; and (v) as to the incumbency of the officers of the Company. The documents referred to in such
certificate shall be attached to such certificate.
4.1.5. No
Material Changes. Prior to each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any: (i) there shall have been no
material adverse change or development involving a material adverse change in the condition or prospects or the business activities,
financial or otherwise, of the Company from the latest dates as of which such condition is set forth in the Registration Statement,
the Statutory Prospectus and Prospectus; (ii) no action suit or proceeding, at law or in equity, shall have been pending or threatened
against the Company or any Company Affiliate before or by any court or foreign, federal or state commission, board or other administrative
agency wherein an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding may materially adversely affect the business, operations, prospects or
financial condition or income of the Company, except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and Prospectus;
(iii) no stop order shall have been issued under the Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by
the Commission; and (iv) the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements
thereto shall contain all material statements which are required to be stated therein in accordance with the Act and the Regulations
and shall conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Regulations, and none of the Registration Statement,
the Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto shall contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case
of the Statutory Prospectus and Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made), not misleading.
4.1.6. Delivery
of Agreements.
4.1.6.1. Effective
Date Deliveries. On the Effective Date, the Company shall have delivered to the Representative executed copies of the
Trust Agreement, the Services Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Registration Rights Agreements,
the M&A Agreement and all of the Insider Letters.
4.1.6.2. Closing
Date Deliveries. On the Closing Date, the Company shall have delivered to the Representative the Representative’s
Purchase Option.
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4.1.7. Sponsor
Warrants. On the Closing Date, the Insiders shall have purchased the Sponsor Warrants and the purchase price for such Sponsor
Warrants shall be deposited into the Trust Account.
4.2. Conditions
of the Company’s Obligations. The obligations of the Company to deliver the Units, as provided herein, shall be subject
to the continuing accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Underwriters as of the date hereof and as of the Closing
Date and to the performance by the Underwriters of their obligations hereunder and to the following condition:
4.2.1. EBC
Warrants. On the Closing Date, the aggregate purchase price of the EBC Warrants shall be deposited into the Trust Account.
5.
Indemnification.
5.1. Indemnification
of Underwriters.
5.1.1. General.
Subject to the conditions set forth below, the Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each of the Underwriters and each
dealer selected by the Representative that participates in the offer and sale of the Units (each a “Selected Dealer”)
and each of their respective directors, officers and employees and each person, if any, who controls any such Underwriter or Selected
Dealer (“Controlling Person”) within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20(a) of the
Exchange Act, and its counsel, against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever (including but not limited
to any and all legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, commenced
or threatened, or any claim whatsoever, whether arising out of any action between any of the Underwriters and the Company
or between any of the Underwriters and any third party or otherwise) to which they or any of them may become subject under the
Act, the Exchange Act or any other foreign, federal, state or local statute, law, rule, regulation or ordinance or at common law
or otherwise or under the laws, rules and regulation of foreign countries, arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in (i) any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, or the Prospectus
(as from time to time each may be amended and supplemented); (ii) in any post-effective amendment or amendments or any new registration
statement and prospectus relating to any the securities of the Company described herein; or (iii) any application or other document
or written communication (in this Section 5 collectively called “application”) executed by the Company
or based upon written information furnished by the Company in any jurisdiction in order to qualify the Units under the securities
laws thereof or filed with the Commission, any foreign or state securities commission or agency, NASDAQ, the Amex, the OTC Bulletin
Board or any securities exchange (in each case other than statements contained in the section captioned “Underwriting—Selling
Restrictions”); or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, unless such statement
or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company with respect to an Underwriter
by or on behalf of such Underwriter expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement the Prospectus
or any amendment or supplement thereof, or in any application, as the case may be, which furnished written information, it is expressly
agreed, consists solely of the information described in clause (ii) of the last sentence of Section 2.3.1. With respect to
any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in the Preliminary Prospectus, the indemnity agreement
contained in this paragraph shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter to the extent that any loss, liability, claim, damage
or expense of such Underwriter results from the fact that a copy of the Prospectus was not given or sent to the person asserting
any such loss, liability, claim or damage at or prior to the written confirmation of sale of the Securities to such person as required
by the Act and the Regulations, and if the untrue statement or omission has been corrected in the Prospectus, unless such failure
to deliver the Prospectus was a result of non-compliance by the Company with its obligations under Section 3.4 hereof. The Company
agrees promptly to notify the Representative of the commencement of any litigation or proceedings against the Company or any of
its officers, directors or controlling persons in connection with the issue and sale of the Securities or in connection with the
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus.
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5.1.2. Procedure.
If any action is brought against an Underwriter or controlling person in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Company
pursuant to Section 5.1.1, such Underwriter shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the institution of such action
and the Company shall assume the defense of such action, including the employment and fees of counsel (subject to the reasonable
approval of such Underwriter) and payment of actual expenses. Such Underwriter or controlling person shall have the right
to employ its or their own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such
Underwriter or such controlling person unless: (i) the employment of such counsel at the expense of the Company shall have been
authorized in writing by the Company in connection with the defense of such action; (ii) the Company shall not have employed counsel
to have charge of the defense of such action; or (iii) such indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded that there
may be defenses available to it or them which are different from or additional to those available to the Company (in which case
the Company shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party or parties), in any
of which events the reasonable fees and expenses of not more than one additional firm of attorneys selected by the Underwriter
and/or controlling person shall be borne by the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if the
Underwriter or controlling person shall assume the defense of such action as provided above, the Company shall have the right to
approve the terms of any settlement of such action which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
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5.2. Indemnification
of the Company. Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors,
officers, and employees and agents who control the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20
of the Exchange Act, and its counsel, against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the foregoing
indemnity from the Company to the several Underwriters, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or
alleged untrue statements or omissions made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment
or supplement thereto, or in any application, in reliance upon, and in strict conformity with, written information furnished to
the Company with respect to such Underwriter by or on behalf of the Underwriter expressly for use in such Registration Statement,
Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto or in any such application, which furnished written
information, it is expressly agreed, consists solely of the information described in clause (ii) of the last sentence of Section
2.3.1. In case any action shall be brought against the Company or any other person so indemnified based on any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto or any application, and in respect
of which indemnity may be sought against any Underwriter, such Underwriter shall have the rights and duties given to the Company,
and the Company and each other person so indemnified shall have the rights and duties given to the several Underwriters by the
provisions of Section 5.1.2.
5.3. Contribution.
5.3.1. Contribution
Rights. In order to provide for just and equitable contribution under the Act in any case in which (i) any person
entitled to indemnification under this Section 5 makes claim for indemnification pursuant hereto but it is judicially determined
(by the entry of a final judgment or decree by a court of competent jurisdiction and the expiration of time to appeal or the denial
of the last right of appeal) that such indemnification may not be enforced in such case notwithstanding the fact that this Section 5
provides for indemnification in such case, or (ii) contribution under the Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise may be required on
the part of any such person in circumstances for which indemnification is provided under this Section 5, then, and in each
such case, the Company and the Underwriters shall contribute to the aggregate losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses
of the nature contemplated by said indemnity agreement incurred by the Company and the Underwriters, as incurred, in such proportions
that the Underwriters are responsible for that portion represented by the percentage that the underwriting discount appearing on
the cover page of the Prospectus bears to the initial offering price appearing thereon and the Company is responsible for the balance;
provided, that, no person guilty of a fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall
be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Section 5.3.1, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which
the total price at which the Public Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds
the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay in respect of such losses, liabilities, claims,
damages and expenses. For purposes of this Section, each director, officer and employee of an Underwriter or the Company,
as applicable, and each person, if any, who controls an Underwriter or the Company, as applicable, within the meaning of Section 15
of the Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Underwriters or the Company, as applicable.
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5.3.2. Contribution
Procedure. Within fifteen days after receipt by any party to this Agreement (or its representatives) of notice of the
commencement of any action, suit or proceeding, such party will, if a claim for contribution in respect thereof is to be made against
another party (“contributing party”), notify the contributing party of the commencement thereof, but the omission
to so notify the contributing party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any other party other than for
contribution hereunder. In case any such action, suit or proceeding is brought against any party, and such party notifies
a contributing party or its representatives of the commencement thereof within the aforesaid fifteen days, the contributing party
will be entitled to participate therein with the notifying party and any other contributing party similarly notified. Any
such contributing party shall not be liable to any party seeking contribution on account of any settlement of any claim, action
or proceeding effected by such party seeking contribution on account of any settlement of any claim, action or proceeding effected
by such party seeking contribution without the written consent of such contributing party. The contribution provisions contained
in this Section are intended to supersede, to the extent permitted by law, any right to contribution under the Act, the Exchange
Act or otherwise available. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 5.3 are several
and not joint.
6.
Default by an Underwriter.
6.1. Default
Not Exceeding 10% of Firm Units. If any Underwriter or Underwriters shall default in its or their obligations to purchase
the Firm Units and if the number of the Firm Units with respect to which such default relates does not exceed in the aggregate
10% of the number of Firm Units that all Underwriters have agreed to purchase hereunder, then such Firm Units to which the default
relates shall be purchased by the non-defaulting Underwriters in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder.
6.2. Default
Exceeding 10% of Firm Units. In the event that the default addressed in Section 6.1 above relates to more than 10% of
the Firm Units, the Representative may, in their discretion, arrange for the Representative or for another party or parties to
purchase such Firm Units to which such default relates on the terms contained herein. If within one (1) Business Day after
such default relating to more than 10% of the Firm Units the Representative do not arrange for the purchase of such Firm Units,
then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of one (1) Business Day within which to procure another party or parties
satisfactory to the Representative to purchase said Firm Units on such terms. In the event that neither the Representative
nor the Company arrange for the purchase of the Firm Units to which a default relates as provided in this Section 6, this
Agreement may be terminated by the Representative or the Company without liability on the part of the Company (except as provided
in Sections 3.12 and 5 hereof) or the several Underwriters (except as provided in Section 5 hereof); provided that
nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the other several Underwriters and to the Company
for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.
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6.3. Postponement
of Closing Date. In the event that the Firm Units to which the default relates are to be purchased by the non-defaulting
Underwriters, or are to be purchased by another party or parties as aforesaid, the Representative or the Company shall have the
right to postpone the Closing Date for a reasonable period, but not in any event exceeding five (5) Business Days, in order to
effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statement and/or the Prospectus, as the case may be,
or in any other documents and arrangements, and the Company agrees to file promptly any amendment to, or to supplement, the Registration
Statement and/or the Prospectus, as the case may be, that in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters may thereby be made necessary.
The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall include any party substituted under this Section 6 with
like effect as if it had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such Securities.
7.
Additional Covenants.
7.1. Additional
Shares or Options. The Company hereby agrees that until the Company consummates a Business Combination, it shall not
issue any Ordinary Shares or any options or other securities convertible into Ordinary Shares or any preferred shares which participate
in any manner in the Trust Account or which vote as a class with the Ordinary Shares on a Business Combination.
7.2. Trust
Account Waiver Acknowledgments. The Company hereby agrees that, prior to commencing its due diligence investigation of any
Target Business or obtaining the services of any vendor, it will use its best efforts to have such Target Business or vendor acknowledges
in writing, whether through a letter of intent, memorandum of understanding or other similar document (and subsequently acknowledges
the same in any definitive document replacing any of the foregoing), that (a) it has read the Prospectus, and understands that
the Company has established the Trust Account, initially in an amount of $40,000,000 for the benefit of the Public Shareholders
and that, except for the interest earned on the amounts held in the Trust Account, the Company may disburse monies from the Trust
Account only: (i) to the Public Shareholders in the event of the conversion of their shares or the redemption of their shares if
the Company does not consummate a Business Consummation, (ii) to purchase Ordinary Shares prior to the consummation of a Business
Combination in accordance with the Trust Agreement or (iii) to the Company after it consummates a Business Combination, and (b)
for and in consideration of the Company (1) agreeing to evaluate such Target Business for purposes of consummating a Business Combination
with it or (2) agreeing to engage the services of the vendor, as the case may be, such Target Business or vendor agrees that it
does not have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies of the Trust Account (“Claim”)
and waives any Claim it may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with
the Company and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason whatsoever. The foregoing
letters shall substantially be in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and B, respectively.
7.3. Insider
Letters. The Company shall not take any action or omit to take any action which would cause a breach of any of the Insider
Letters executed between each Company Affiliate and the Representative and will not allow any amendments to, or waivers of, such
Insider Letters without the prior written consent of the Representative.
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7.4. Amended
and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association. The Company shall not take any action or omit to take any action
that would cause the Company to be in breach or violation of its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
7.5. Tender
Offer, Proxy and Other Information. The Company shall provide the Representative with copies of all proxy or tender offer
documentation and other information and all related material sent to Public Shareholders in connection with a Business Combination.
In addition, the Company shall furnish any other state in which the Offering was registered, such information as may be requested
by such state.
7.6. Acquisition/Liquidation
of Trust Account Procedure. The Company agrees that it will comply with its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of
Association in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination or the failure to consummate a Business Combination within
18 months from the closing of the Offering (subject to extension for an additional three-month period, as described in the Prospectus)
(either such date being referred to as the “Termination Date”).
7.7. Rule
419. The Company agrees that it will use its best efforts to prevent the Company from becoming subject to Rule 419 under the
Act prior to the consummation of any Business Combination, including, but not limited to, using its best efforts to prevent any
of the Company’s outstanding securities from being deemed to be a “xxxxx stock” as defined in Rule 3a-51-1 under
the Exchange Act during such period.
7.8. Presentation
of Potential Target Businesses. The Company shall cause each of the Company Affiliates to agree that, in order to minimize
potential conflicts of interest which may arise from multiple affiliations, the Company Affiliates will present to the Company
for its consideration, prior to presentation to any other person or company, any suitable opportunity to acquire an operating business,
until the earlier of the consummation by the Company of a Business Combination, the liquidation of the Trust Account or until such
time as the Company Affiliates cease to be affiliates of the Company, subject to any pre-existing fiduciary obligations the Company
Affiliates might have.
7.9. Target
Net Assets. The Company agrees that the Target Business that it acquires must have a fair market value equal to at least 80%
of the balance in the Trust Account at the time of signing the definitive agreement for the Business Combination with such Target
Business. The fair market value of such business must be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company based upon standards
generally accepted by the financial community, such as actual and potential sales, earnings, cash flow and book value. If the Board
of Directors of the Company is not able to independently determine that the target business meets such fair market value requirement,
the Company will obtain an opinion from an unaffiliated, independent investment banking firm and reasonably acceptable to the Representative
with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. The Company is not required to obtain an opinion from an investment banking
firm as to the fair market value if the Company’s Board of Directors independently determines that the Target Business does
have sufficient fair market value.
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8.
Representations and Agreements to Survive Delivery. Except as the context
otherwise requires, all representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to be
representations, warranties and agreements at the Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as applicable, and such
representations, warranties and agreements of the Underwriters and Company, including the indemnity agreements contained in
Section 5 hereof, shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on
behalf of any Underwriter, the Company or any controlling person, and shall survive termination of this Agreement or the
issuance and delivery of the Securities to the several Underwriters until the earlier of the expiration of any
applicable statute of limitations and the seventh (7th) anniversary of the later of the Closing Date, at which time the
representations, warranties and agreements shall terminate and be of no further force and effect.
9.
Effective Date of This Agreement and Termination Thereof.
9.1. Effective
Date. This Agreement shall become effective on the Effective Date at the time the Registration Statement is declared
effective by the Commission.
9.2. Termination.
The Representative shall have the right to terminate this Agreement at any time prior to any Closing Date: (i) if any domestic
or international event or act or occurrence has materially disrupted or, in the Representative’s sole opinion, will in the
immediate future materially disrupt, general securities markets in the United States; or (ii) if trading on the New York Stock
Exchange, the NYSE Amex, NASDAQ or on the OTC Bulletin Board (or successor trading market) shall have been suspended, or minimum
or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have been fixed, or maximum
ranges for prices for securities shall have been required on the OTC Bulletin Board or by order of the Commission or any other
government authority having jurisdiction, or (iii) if the United States shall have become involved in a war or an increase in existing
major hostilities, or (iv) if a banking moratorium has been declared by a New York State or federal authority, or (v) if a moratorium
on foreign exchange trading has been declared which materially adversely impacts the United States securities market, or (vi) if
the Company shall have sustained a material loss by fire, flood, accident, hurricane, earthquake, theft, sabotage or other calamity
or malicious act which, whether or not such loss shall have been insured, will, in the Representative’s sole opinion, make
it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Units, or (vii) if any of the Company’s representations, warranties or
covenants hereunder are breached, or (viii) if the Representative shall have become aware after the date hereof of a Material Adverse
Effect on the Company, or such adverse material change in general market conditions, including, without limitation, as a result
of terrorist activities after the date hereof, as in the Representative’s sole judgment would make it impracticable to proceed
with the offering, sale and/or delivery of the Units or to enforce contracts made by the Underwriters for the sale of the Units.
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9.3. Expenses.
In the event that this Agreement shall not be carried out for any reason whatsoever, within the time specified herein or any extensions
thereof pursuant to the terms herein, the obligations of the Company to pay the out of pocket expenses related to the transactions
contemplated herein shall be governed by Section 3.12 hereof.
9.4. Indemnification.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision contained in this Agreement, any election hereunder or any termination of this Agreement,
and whether or not this Agreement is otherwise carried out, the provisions of Section 5 shall not be in any way effected by,
such election or termination or failure to carry out the terms of this Agreement or any part hereof.
10.
Miscellaneous.
10.1. Notices.
All communications hereunder, except as herein otherwise specifically provided, shall be in writing and shall be mailed, delivered
by hand or reputable overnight courier, delivered by facsimile transmission (with printed confirmation of receipt) and confirmed,
or by electronic transmission via PDF and shall be deemed given when so mailed, delivered, or faxed or transmitted (or if mailed,
two days after such mailing):
If to the Representative:
EarlyBirdCapital, Inc.
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Fax No.: (000) 000-0000
Attn: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
With a copy (which shall not constitute
notice) to:
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Fax No.: (000) 000-0000
Attn: Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Esq.
Email: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Infinity Cross Border Acquisition Corporation
c/o Infinity-C.S.V.C. Management Ltd.
3 Azrieli Xxxxxx (Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx)
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx 00000
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Fax No.: x000-0-0000000
Attn: Xxxx Chess
Email: xxxxx@xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx.xxx
With a copy (which shall not constitute
notice) to:
Ellenoff Xxxxxxxx & Schole
LLP
000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attn: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Esq.
Fax: (000) 000-0000
Email: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
10.2. Headings.
The headings contained herein are for the sole purpose of convenience of reference, and shall not in any way limit or affect the
meaning or interpretation of any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement.
10.3. Amendment.
This Agreement may only be amended by a written instrument executed by each of the parties hereto.
10.4. Entire
Agreement. This Agreement (together with the other agreements and documents being delivered pursuant to or in connection
with this Agreement) constitute the entire agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof,
and supersede all prior agreements and understandings of the parties, oral and written, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
10.5. Binding
Effect. This Agreement shall inure solely to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the Representative, the Underwriters,
the Company and the controlling persons, directors and officers referred to in Section 5 hereof, and their respective successors,
legal representatives and assigns, and no other person shall have or be construed to have any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under or in respect of or by virtue of this Agreement or any provisions herein contained.
10.6. Governing
Law, Venue, etc.
10.6.1. In
connection with Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law of the State of New York, this Agreement shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without regard to principles of conflicts of law that would result
in the application of the substantive law of another jurisdiction. The parties hereto agree that any action, proceeding or claim
arising out of or relating in any way to this Agreement shall be resolved through final and biding arbitration in accordance with
the International Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”). The arbitration shall be brought
before the AAA International Center for Dispute Resolution’s offices in New York City, New York, will be conducted in English
and will be decided by a panel of three arbitrators selected from the AAA Commercial Disputes Panel and that the arbitrator panel’s
decision shall be final and enforceable by any court having jurisdiction over the party from whom enforcement is sought. The cost
of such arbitrators and arbitration services, together with the prevailing party’s legal fees and expenses, shall be borne
by the non-prevailing party or as otherwise directed by the arbitrators. The Company hereby appoints, without power of revocation,
Ellenoff Xxxxxxxx & Schole LLP, 000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Fax
No.: (000) 000-0000, Attn: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Esq., as their respective agent to accept and acknowledge on its behalf service
of any and all process which may be served in any arbitration, action, proceeding or counterclaim in any way relating to or arising
out of this Agreement. The Company further agrees to take any and all action as may be necessary to maintain such designation and
appointment of such agent in full force and effect for a period of seven years from the date of the Effective Date.
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10.6.2. THE
COMPANY (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ON BEHALF OF ITS EQUITY HOLDERS AND CREDITORS) HEREBY
WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY CLAIM BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT AND
THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT, THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND THE PROSPECTUS.
10.6.3. The
Company agrees that the prevailing party(ies) in any such action shall be entitled to recover from the other party(ies) all of
its reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses relating to such action or proceeding and/or incurred in connection with the
preparation therefor.
10.7. Execution
in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, and by the different parties hereto in separate
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same
agreement, and shall become effective when one or more counterparts has been signed by each of the parties hereto and delivered
to each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of a signed counterpart of this Agreement by fax or email/.pdf transmission shall
constitute valid and sufficient delivery thereof.
10.8. Waiver,
etc. The failure of any of the parties hereto to at any time enforce any of the provisions of this Agreement shall not
be deemed or construed to be a waiver of any such provision, nor to in any way effect the validity of this Agreement or any provision
hereof or the right of any of the parties hereto to thereafter enforce each and every provision of this Agreement. No waiver
of any breach, non-compliance or non-fulfillment of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be effective unless set forth
in a written instrument executed by the party or parties against whom or which enforcement of such waiver is sought; and no waiver
of any such breach, non-compliance or non-fulfillment shall be construed or deemed to be a waiver of any other or subsequent breach,
non-compliance or non-fulfillment.
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10.9. No
Fiduciary Relationship. The Company hereby acknowledges that the Underwriters are acting solely as underwriters in connection
with the offering of the Company's securities. The Company further acknowledges that the Underwriters are acting pursuant to a
contractual relationship created solely by this Agreement entered into on an arm's length basis and in no event do the parties
intend that the Underwriters act or be responsible as a fiduciary to the Company, its management, shareholders, creditors or any
other person in connection with any activity that the Underwriters may undertake or have undertaken in furtherance of the offering
of the Company's securities, either before or after the date hereof. The Underwriters hereby expressly disclaim any fiduciary or
similar obligations to the Company, either in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading
up to such transactions, and the Company hereby confirms its understanding and agreement to that effect. The Company and the Underwriters
agree that they are each responsible for making their own independent judgments with respect to any such transactions, and that
any opinions or views expressed by the Underwriters to the Company regarding such transactions, including but not limited to any
opinions or views with respect to the price or market for the Company's securities, do not constitute advice or recommendations
to the Company. The Company hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company may
have against the Underwriters with respect to any breach or alleged breach of any fiduciary or similar duty to the Company in connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading up to such transactions.
[Signature Page Follows]
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If the foregoing correctly sets forth the
understanding between the Underwriters and the Company, please so indicate in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon
this letter shall constitute a binding agreement between us.
Agreed to and accepted
as of the date first written above:
EARLYBIRDCAPITAL, INC., as Representative of the several
Underwriters
By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxx |
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx |
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Title: |
Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement,
dated July 19, 2012]
SCHEDULE A
INFINITY
CROSS BORDER ACQUISITION CORPORATION
5,000,000 Units
Underwriter | |
Number of Firm Units to be Purchased | |
EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. | |
| 4,500,000 | |
Ladenburg Xxxxxxxx & Co. Inc. | |
| 500,000 | |
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TOTAL | |
| 5,000,000 | |
EXHIBIT A
Form of Target Business Letter
Infinity Cross Border Acquisition Corporation
c/o Infinity-C.S.V.C. Management Ltd.
3 Azrieli Xxxxxx (Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx)
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx 00000
Fax No.: ___________
Attn:
Gentlemen:
Reference is
made to the Final Prospectus of Infinity Cross Border Acquisition Corporation (the “Company”),
dated ______ __, 2012 (the “Prospectus”). Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have
the meanings assigned to them in Prospectus.
We
have read the Prospectus and understand that the Company has established the Trust Account, initially
in an amount of at least $40,000,000 for the benefit of the Public Shareholders and that, except for the interest earned on the
amounts held in the Trust Account, the Company may disburse monies from the Trust Account only:
(i) to Public Shareholders in the event of the redemption of their shares or the dissolution and liquidation of the Trust Account;
or (ii) to the Company concurrently with or after it consummates a Business Combination.
For
and in consideration of the Company agreeing to evaluate the undersigned for purposes of consummating
a Business Combination with it, the undersigned hereby agrees that it does not have any right, title, interest or claim of any
kind in or to any monies in the Trust Account (each, a “Claim”) and hereby waives any Claim it may have in the
future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with the Company and
will not seek recourse against the Trust for any reason whatsoever.
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EXHIBIT B
Form of Vendor Letter
Infinity Cross Border Acquisition Corporation
c/o Infinity-C.S.V.C. Management Ltd.
3 Azrieli Xxxxxx (Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx)
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx 00000
Fax No.: ___________
Attn:
Gentlemen:
Reference is
made to the Final Prospectus of Infinity Cross Border Acquisition Corporation (the “Company”),
dated _________ __, 2011 (the “Prospectus”). Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have
the meanings assigned to them in Prospectus.
We
have read the Prospectus and understand that the Company has established the Trust Account, initially
in an amount of at least $40,000,000 for the benefit of the Public Shareholders and that, except for the interest earned on the
amounts held in the Trust Account, the Company may disburse monies from the Trust Account only:
(i) to Public Shareholders in the event of the redemption of their shares or the dissolution and liquidation of the Trust Account;
or to the Company concurrently with or after it consummates a Business Combination.
For
and in consideration of the Company agreeing to use the services of the undersigned, the undersigned
hereby agrees that it does not have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies in the Trust Account (each,
a “Claim”) and hereby waives any Claim it may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any services
provided to the Company and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason whatsoever.
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Authorized Signature of Vendor |