Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Co., Ltd. 5,000,000 American Depositary Shares Representing 20,000,000 Ordinary Shares UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
5,000,000 American Depositary Shares
Representing
20,000,000 Ordinary Shares
September [ ], 2010
XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX
INCORPORATED
Xxx Xxxxxx XxxxINCORPORATED
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
U.S.A.
As Representatives of the Several Underwriters, as named in Schedule A hereto
Dear Sirs:
1. Introductory. Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Co., Ltd., a Cayman Islands company
(the “Company”), agrees with the several Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (the
“Underwriters”) to issue and sell to the Underwriters, for whom you are acting as representatives
(the “Representatives”), an aggregate of 5,000,000 American Depository Shares (“ADSs”), each ADS
representing four ordinary shares, par value US$0.001 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”), of the
Company. The 5,000,000 ADSs to be sold by the Company are herein called the “Firm Securities.” In
addition, the Company proposes to issue and sell, at the option of the Underwriters, up to an
additional 750,000 ADSs (the “Optional
Securities”). The Firm Securities and the Optional Securities are herein collectively called the
“Offered Securities.” Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference to the Firm Securities,
the Optional Securities or the Offered Securities herein also includes the underlying Ordinary
Shares (hereinafter referred to as the “Firm Shares,” “Optional Shares” and “Offered Shares”).
The ADSs purchased by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement will be evidenced by
American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) to be issued pursuant to a deposit agreement (the “Deposit
Agreement”), to be entered into among the Company, Citibank, N.A., as depositary (the
“Depositary”), and owners and beneficial owners from time to time of the ADSs.
The Company hereby acknowledges that, in connection with the proposed offering of the Shares
and ADSs, it has requested the Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated (the “Designated
Underwriter”) to administer a directed share program (the “Directed Share Program”) under which up
to 300,000 Firm ADSs, or 6.0% of the Firm ADSs to be purchased by the Underwriters (the “Reserved
ADSs”), shall be reserved for sale by the Designated Underwriter at the initial public offering
price to the Company’s officers, directors, employees and consultants and other persons having a
relationship with the Company as designated by the Company (the “Directed Share Participants”) as
part of the distribution of the ADSs by the Underwriters, subject to the terms of this Agreement, the applicable rules, regulations and
interpretations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (the “FINRA”) and all
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other applicable laws, rules and regulations. The number of ADSs available for sale to the general public
will be reduced to the extent that Directed Share Participants purchase Reserved ADSs. To the
extent that such Reserved ADSs are not orally confirmed for purchase by Directed Share Participants
by 8:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the first business day after the date of this Agreement, such
Reserved ADSs may be offered to the public as part of the public offering contemplated hereby. The
Company has supplied the Designated Underwriter with the names, addresses and telephone numbers of
the individuals or other entities which the Company has designated to be participants in the
Directed Share Program. It is understood that any number of those so designated to participate in
the Directed Share Program may decline to do so.
2. Representations and Warranties
(A) Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to, and
agree with, the several Underwriters that:
(a) Filing and Effectiveness of Registration Statement; Certain Defined Terms. The
Company has filed with the Commission a registration statement on Form F-1 (No. 333-169248)
covering the registration of the Offered Securities under the Act, including a related
preliminary prospectus or prospectuses. At any particular time, this initial registration
statement, in the form then on file with the Commission, including all information contained
in the registration statement (if any) pursuant to Rule 462(b) and then deemed to be a part
of the initial registration statement, and all 430A Information and all 430C Information,
that in any case has not then been superseded or modified, shall be referred to as the
“Initial Registration Statement.” The Company may also have filed, or may file with the
Commission, a Rule 462(b) registration statement covering the registration of Offered
Securities. At any particular time, this Rule 462(b) registration statement, in the form then
on file with the Commission, including the contents of the Initial Registration Statement
incorporated by reference therein and including all 430A Information and all 430C
Information, that in any case has not then been superseded or modified, shall be referred to
as the “Additional Registration Statement.” A registration statement on Form F-6 (No.
333-169364) relating to the ADSs has been filed with the Commission and has become effective
(such registration statement on Form F-6, including all exhibits thereto, as amended through
the time such registration statement becomes effective, being hereinafter referred to as the
“ADS Registration Statement”). The Company has also filed, in accordance with Section 12 of
the Exchange Act, a registration statement, on Form 8-A (No. 001-34869) under the Exchange
Act to register, under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, the Ordinary Shares and the ADSs
(such registration statement on Form 8-A as amended through the time such registration
statement becomes effective, being hereinafter referred to as the “Exchange Act Registration
Statement”). For purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Initial Registration
Statement, the Additional Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, the
Exchange Act Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or any amendment or
supplement, or the Final Prospectus (including any prospectus wrapper) to any of the
foregoing shall be deemed to include the copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (“XXXXX”).
As of the time of execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Initial Registration
Statement and the ADS Registration Statement have been declared effective under the Act and
the Exchange Act Registration Statement has become effective, as provided in Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
Any Additional Registration Statement has or will become
effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b). The Offered Securities all
have been or will be duly registered under the Act pursuant to the Initial Registration
Statement and, if applicable, the Additional Registration Statement.
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For purposes of this Agreement:
“430A Information,” with respect to any registration statement, means information
included in a prospectus and retroactively deemed to be a part of such registration statement
pursuant to Rule 430A(b).
“430C Information,” with respect to any registration statement, means information
included in a prospectus then deemed to be a part of such registration statement pursuant to
Rule 430C.
“Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Applicable Time” means [•]:00 [a/p]m (U.S. Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement.
“Closing Date” has the meaning defined in Section 3 hereof.
“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Effective Time” with respect to the Initial Registration Statement or, if filed prior
to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Additional Registration Statement, means
the date and time as of which such Registration Statement was declared effective by the
Commission or has become effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(c). If an Additional
Registration Statement has not been filed prior to the execution and delivery of this
Agreement but the Company has advised the Representatives that it proposes to file one,
“Effective Time” with respect to such Additional Registration Statement means the date and
time as of which such Registration Statement is filed and becomes effective pursuant to Rule
462(b).
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Final Prospectus” means the Statutory Prospectus that discloses the public offering
price, other 430A Information and other final terms of the Offered Securities and otherwise
satisfies Section 10(a) of the Act.
“General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors (other than a Bona Fide
Electronic Road Show (as defined below,)) as evidenced by its being so specified in Schedule
B to this Agreement.
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined
in Rule 433, relating to the Offered Securities in the form filed or required to be filed
with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s
records pursuant to Rule 433(g), or is a “road show that is a written communication” within
the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i), whether or not required to be filed with the Commission.
The Company has made available a “bona fide electronic road
show,” as defined in Rule 433, in compliance with Rule 433(d)(8)(ii) (the “Bona Fide
Electronic Road Show”) such that no filing of any “road show” (as defined in Rule 433(h)) is
required in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities.
“Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
that is not a General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.
The Initial Registration Statement and the Additional Registration Statement are
referred to collectively as the “Registration Statements” and individually as a “Registration
Statement.” A
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“Registration Statement” with reference to a particular time means the Initial
Registration Statement and any Additional Registration Statement as of such time. A
“Registration Statement” without reference to a time means such Registration Statement as of
its Effective Time. For purposes of the foregoing definitions, 430A Information with respect
to a Registration Statement shall be considered to be included in such Registration Statement
as of the time specified in Rule 430A.
“Rules and Regulations” means the rules and regulations of the Commission.
“Securities Laws” means, collectively, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002
(“Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx”), the Act, the Exchange Act, the Rules and Regulations, the auditing
principles, rules, standards and practices applicable to auditors of “issuers” (as defined in
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx) promulgated or approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and,
as applicable, and the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (“Exchange Rules”).
“Statutory Prospectus” with reference to a particular time means the prospectus included
in a Registration Statement immediately prior to that time, including any 430A Information or
430C Information with respect to such Registration Statement. For purposes of the foregoing
definition, 430A Information shall be considered to be included in the Statutory Prospectus
as of the actual time that form of prospectus is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
424(b) or Rule 462(c) and not retroactively.
Unless otherwise specified, a reference to a “rule” is to the indicated rule under the
Act.
(b) Compliance with Securities Act Requirements. (i) (A) At their respective Effective
Times, (B) on the date of this Agreement and (C) on each Closing Date, each of the Initial
Registration Statement, the Additional Registration Statement (if any), the ADS Registration
Statement and any amendments and supplement thereto conformed and will conform in all
respects to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will
not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and
(ii) on its date, at the time of filing of the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) or
(if no such filing is required) at the Effective Time of the Additional Registration
Statement in which the Final Prospectus is included, and on each Closing Date, the Final
Prospectus will conform in all respects to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and
Regulations and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit 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.
(c) Ineligible Issuer Status. (i) At the time of initial filing of the Initial
Registration Statement and (ii) at the date of this Agreement, the Company was not and is not
an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405.
(d) General Disclosure Package. As of the Applicable Time, neither (i) the General Use
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time and, the
preliminary prospectus, dated September 14, 2010 (which is the most recent Statutory
Prospectus distributed to investors generally) and the other information, if any, stated in
Schedule B to this Agreement to be included in the General Disclosure Package, all considered
together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), nor (ii) any individual Limited
Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the General Disclosure
Package, included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading.
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(e) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its
issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of
the Offered Securities or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the
Representatives as described in the next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any
information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information then contained
in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package or Final Prospectus. If at any time
following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or
development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would
conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement or as a result of
which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if republished immediately following such event or
development, would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would 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, (i) the Company has promptly
notified or will promptly notify the Representatives and (ii) the Company has promptly
amended or will promptly amend or supplement such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate
or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.
(f) Good Standing of the Company. The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands, with power and authority
(corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the
Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus; and the Company is
duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other
jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business
requires such qualification, except where such failure to be qualified would not,
individually or in the aggregate, result in a material adverse effect on the condition
(financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the
Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined in Section 2(A)(g) below) taken as a whole
(“Material Adverse Effect”). The Memorandum and Articles of Association or other constitutive
or organizational documents of the Company comply with the requirements of applicable Cayman
Islands law and are in full force and effect. Complete and correct copies of the Memorandum
and Articles of Association or other constitutive or organizational documents of the Company
and all amendments thereto have been delivered to the Representatives; except as set forth in
the exhibits to the Registration Statement, no change will be made to any such constitutive
documents on or after the date of this Agreement through and including each Closing Date.
(g) Subsidiaries. (i) The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any
corporation or entity other than Country Style Cooking International Restaurant Chain Group
Ltd. (“CSC Hong Kong”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated under the laws
of Hong Kong, CSC (China) Management Co., Ltd. (“CSC China”), a wholly owned subsidiary of
CSC Hong Kong incorporated under the laws of PRC, Chongqing Xinghong Growing Rich Management
Co., Ltd., Sichuan Country Style Cooking Restaurants Co., Ltd., Xi’an Country Style Cooking
Restaurants Co., Ltd., Changsha Growing Rich Country Style Cooking Restaurants Co., Ltd.,
Shanghai Growing Rich Country Style Cooking Restaurants Co., Ltd. and Wuhan Country Style
Cooking Restaurants Co., Ltd. (each hereinafter referred to as an “Operating Subsidiary” and
collectively as the “Operating Subsidiaries), each a wholly owned subsidiary of CSC China
incorporated under the laws of PRC. CSC Hong Kong, CSC China and each of the Operating
Subsidiaries shall be referred to hereinafter each as “Subsidiary” and collectively as the
“Subsidiaries”. Other than the equity interests in CSC Hong Kong, CSC China and each of the
Operating Subsidiaries, the Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any shares of stock
or any other equity interests or long-term debt securities of, or otherwise control, any
corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture, association or other entity. (ii) Each
Subsidiary of the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, with power and authority
(corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct
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its business as described in the
Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, and is duly
qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions
in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such
qualification. The constitutive documents of each Subsidiary comply with the requirements of
applicable laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation and are in full force and effect.
(iii) All of the issued and outstanding capital stock of CSC Hong Kong, CSC China and each of
the Operating Subsidiaries has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and
nonassessable, and such capital stock is owned by the Company, directly or through a
subsidiary, free from liens, encumbrances and defects.
(h) Offered Securities and Capitalization. The Offered Securities and all other
outstanding shares of share capital of the Company have been duly authorized; the authorized
equity capitalization of the Company is as set forth in the Registration Statement, General
Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus; all outstanding shares of share capital of the
Company are, and, when the Offered Securities have been delivered and paid for in accordance
with this Agreement on each Closing Date, such Offered Securities will have been, validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable, will conform to the information in the Registration
Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus and to the description of such
Offered Securities contained in the Final Prospectus; there are no outstanding rights
(including, without limitation, preemptive rights), warrants or options to acquire, or
instruments convertible into or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock or other equity
interest in the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, or any contract, commitment, agreement,
understanding or arrangement of any kind relating to the issuance of any capital stock of the
Company or any such Subsidiary, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or any such
rights, warrants or options; the Offered Shares to be sold by the Company, when issued and
delivered against payment thereof, may be freely deposited by the Company with the Depositary
against issuance of ADRs evidencing the ADSs; the ADSs to be sold by the Company, when issued
and delivered against payment thereof, will be freely transferable by the Company to or for
the account of the Underwriters; and there are no restrictions on subsequent transfers of
such ADSs under the laws of the Cayman Islands, the PRC or the United States, except as
disclosed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus.
(i) Operating
Data of the Company. All operating data of the Company disclosed in
the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, including but
not limited to, the average traffic per restaurant per day and the average table turnover per
day, are true and accurate in all material respects.
(j) Directors and Officers. None of the Company’s directors, director nominees or
executive officers is a party to any legal, governmental or regulatory proceeding that causes
such director or officer to be unsuitable for his or her position on the board or in the
Company.
(k) Independent Accountants. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. which has certified
certain financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries, is an independent
registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries within the
applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Act.
(l) No Finder’s Fee. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, General
Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings
between the Company and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company
or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in
connection with this offering. There are no arrangements, agreements, understandings,
payments or issuance with
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respect to the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any of their officers,
directors, shareholders, partners, employees or affiliates that may affect the Underwriters’
compensation as determined by the FINRA.
(m) Registration Rights. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, General
Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings
between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to
file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company
owned or to be owned by such person or to require the Company to include such securities in
the securities registered pursuant to a Registration Statement or in any securities being
registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the Act
(collectively, “registration rights”).
(n) Listing. The Offered Securities have been approved for listing on the New York Stock
Exchange, subject only to notice of issuance.
(o) Absence of Further Requirements. No consent, approval, authorization, or order of,
or filing or registration with, any person (including any governmental agency or body or any
court) is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and the Deposit Agreement (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) in connection with the
offering, issuance and sale of the Offered Securities by the Company, except such as have
been obtained, or made and such as may be required under applicable state securities laws.
(p) Title to Property. The Company and its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title
to all real properties and all other properties and assets owned by them, in each case free
from and clear of all liens, charges, encumbrances, defects, claims, options or
restrictions that would affect the value thereof or interfere with the use made or to be
made thereof by them and the Company and each of its Subsidiaries hold any leased real or
personal property under valid and enforceable leases with no terms or provisions that would
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(q) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts Resulting from Transaction. The execution, delivery and
performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Offered
Securities by the Company hereunder, the deposit of the Offered Shares with the Depositary against
issuance of the ADRs evidencing the Offered Securities and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents in connection with this offering will not (a) conflict
with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a
default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or
imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other
agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties or assets of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject; (b) result in any violation of the provisions of the
articles of association, business license or other constituent documents of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries; (c) result in the violation of any judgment, law or statute or any order, rule or
regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority having jurisdiction
over the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets. A “Debt Repayment
Triggering Event” means any event or condition that gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of
time would give, the holder of any note, debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness (or any
person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment
of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
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(r) Possession of Licenses and Permits; Compliance with Laws. Except as disclosed in the
Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, the Company and its
Subsidiaries possess, and are in compliance with the terms of, all adequate certificates,
authorizations, franchises, licenses and permits and have made all declarations and filings
with, the appropriate domestic or foreign governmental or regulatory authorities
(collectively, “Licenses”) necessary or material to the conduct of the business now conducted
or proposed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus to
be conducted by them and have not received any notice of proceedings relating to the
revocation or modification of any Licenses. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement,
General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, the Company and its Subsidiaries are in
compliance with all applicable laws in the jurisdictions to which such entities are subject.
(s) Absence of Existing Defaults and Conflicts. Except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its respective Memorandum and Articles of Association or
other constitutive documents, or (ii) in default (or with the giving of notice or lapse of
time would be in default) under any existing obligation, agreement, covenant or condition
contained in any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, lease or other agreement or instrument
to which any of them is a party or by which any of them is bound or to which any of the
properties of any of them is subject, except in each of (i) and (ii) that otherwise would not
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(t) Authorization of Underwriting Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company.
(u) Authorization of Deposit Agreement. The Deposit Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement
of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium
or similar laws of general applicability affecting creditors’ rights or by equitable
principles relating to enforceability. Upon due execution and delivery by the Depositary of
ADRs evidencing Offered Securities and the deposit of Offered Shares in respect thereof in
accordance with the provisions of the Deposit Agreement, such ADRs will be duly and validly
issued and the persons in whose names the ADRs are registered will be entitled to the rights
specified therein and in the Deposit Agreement; and the Deposit Agreement and the ADRs conform
in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Registration Statement,
General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus.
(v) Description of Transaction Documents. Description of each Transaction Document in the
Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus conforms in all
material respects to such Transaction Document.
(w) Absence of Labor Dispute. No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries exists or is threatened, except that otherwise would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(x) Possession of Intellectual Property. (i) The Company and its Subsidiaries own,
possess or can acquire on reasonable terms trademarks, trade names, domain names, licenses,
approvals, trade secrets, know-how and other intellectual property and similar rights,
including registrations and applications for registration thereof (collectively, “Intellectual
Property Rights”) necessary or material to the conduct of the business now conducted or
proposed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus to be
conducted by them; (ii) there are no rights of third parties to any of the Intellectual
Property Rights owned by the Company or its Subsidiaries;
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(iii) there is no pending or, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others
challenging the validity, enforceability or scope of any such Intellectual Property Rights,
and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such
claim; (iv) there is no material infringement, misappropriation, breach, default or other
violation, or the occurrence of any event that with notice or the passage of time would
constitute any of the foregoing, by any third parties of any of the Intellectual Property
Rights of the Company or its Subsidiaries; (v) none of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in
violation of any Intellectual Property Rights of any third parties, and there is no pending
or, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s or any
Subsidiary’s rights in or to, or the violation of any of the terms of, any of such third
parties’ Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would
form a reasonable basis for any such claim; and (vi) none of the Intellectual Property Rights
used by the Company or its Subsidiaries in their businesses has been obtained or is being used
by the Company or its Subsidiaries in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the
Company, or any of its Subsidiaries, or, is in violation of the rights of any third parties;
except in each of (i) to (vi) above that otherwise would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(y) Environmental Laws. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, General
Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in
violation of any statute, any rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency
or body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of
hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the protection or restoration of the environment
or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, “environmental laws”), owns
or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that is subject to any
environmental laws, is liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any
environmental laws, or is subject to any claim relating to any environmental laws; and, there
is no pending investigation which might lead to such a claim, except that otherwise would no
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(z) No Stabilization. Neither the Company nor any director, officer, agent, employee,
affiliate or person acting on its behalf has taken, directly or indirectly, any action
designed, or which has constituted or might reasonably be expected to cause or result in,
under the Exchange Act or otherwise, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities.
(aa) Statistical and Market-Related Data. Any statistical and market-related data
included in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus are
based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate, and
such data agree with the sources from which they are derived. The Company has obtained the
written consent for the use of such data from such sources to the extent required.
(bb) Internal Controls and Compliance with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. The Company, its
Subsidiaries and the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) are in compliance with
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx that are applicable and all applicable Exchange Rules. Except as disclosed in
the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, the Company
maintains a system of internal controls, including, but not limited to, disclosure controls
and procedures, internal controls over accounting matters and financial reporting, an internal
audit function and legal and regulatory compliance controls (collectively, “Internal
Controls”) that comply with the Securities Laws and are sufficient to provide reasonable
assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or
specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in conformity with U.S. 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)
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the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable
intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company has
made and kept books, records and accounts which, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly
reflect in all material respects the transactions and dispositions of assets of such entity.
Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final
Prospectus, since the date of the most recent evaluation of the Internal Controls, there have
been no significant changes in the Internal Controls or in other factors that could
significantly affect the Internal Controls, including any corrective actions with regard to
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. The Internal Controls are, or upon
consummation of the offering of the Offered Securities will be, overseen by the Audit
Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board in accordance with Exchange Rules. Except as
disclosed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, the
Company has not publicly disclosed or reported to the Audit Committee or the Board, and within
the next 90 days the Company does not reasonably expect to publicly disclose or report to the
Audit Committee or the Board, a significant deficiency, material weakness, change in Internal
Controls or fraud involving management or other employees who have a significant role in
Internal Controls (each, an “Internal Control Event”), any violation of, or failure to comply
with, the Securities Laws, or any matter which, if determined adversely, would have a Material
Adverse Effect. The Company has taken all necessary actions to ensure that, upon and at all
times after the filing of the Initial Registration Statement, the Company and its Subsidiaries
and their respective officers and directors, in their capacities as such, will be in
compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx.
(cc) Absence of Accounting Issues. The Board is not reviewing or investigating, and
neither the Company’s independent auditors nor its internal auditors have recommended that the
Board review or investigate, (i) adding to, deleting, changing the application of, or changing
the Company’s disclosure with respect to, any of the Company’s material accounting policies;
(ii) any matter which could result in a restatement of the Company’s financial statements for
any annual or interim period during the current or prior three fiscal years; or (iii) any
Internal Control Event.
(dd) Litigation. There are no pending actions, suits or proceedings (including any
inquiries or investigations by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign)
against or affecting the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective
properties that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, would,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially and
adversely affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under the Transaction
Documents, or which are otherwise material in the context of the sale of the Offered
Securities; and no such actions, suits or proceedings (including any inquiries or
investigations by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign) are,
threatened or contemplated.
(ee) Exhibits. There are no statutes, regulations or contracts or other documents that
are required under the Act to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described
in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus that are not so
filed or described.
(ff) Financial Statements. The financial statements and the related notes thereto
included in each Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus
comply in all respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and the Exchange Act and
present fairly the financial position of the Company and its consolidated entities as of the
dates shown and their results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown; such
financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby; and the
schedules included in each Registration
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Statement, the General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus present fairly the
information required to be stated therein. The other financial and statistical data relating
to the Company set forth in the General Disclosure Package and each Registration Statement are
accurately presented and prepared based on the books and records of the Company. There are
no financial statements or schedules (historical or pro forma) that are required to be
included in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus but
are not included as required.
(gg) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Since the end of the period covered by the
latest audited financial statements included in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure
Package and Final Prospectus, (i) there has been no change, nor any development or event
involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or otherwise), results of
operations, business, properties or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole that is material and adverse, (ii) there has been no dividend or distribution of any
kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its share capital, (iii) there has
been no material adverse change in the share capital, short-term indebtedness, long-term
indebtedness, net current assets or net assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (iv)
neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into any material transaction or
agreement or incurred any material liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is not
disclosed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, and
(v) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sustained any material loss or
interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not
covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree
of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority.
(hh) Investment Company Act. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering
and sale of the Offered Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in
the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, will not be an
“investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the
rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Investment Company
Act”).
(ii) PFIC Status. The Company was not a “passive foreign investment company” (“PFIC”) as
defined in Section 1297 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for
its most recently completed taxable year and, based on the Company’s current income and assets
and projections as to the value of the Company’s ordinary shares and ADSs pursuant to this
offering, the Company does not expect to be classified as a PFIC for its current taxable year.
(jj) Payments in Foreign Currency. Under current laws and regulations of the Cayman
Islands and any political subdivision thereof, all dividends and other distributions declared
and payable on the Offered Securities may be paid by the Company to the holder thereof in
United States dollars or any other currency that may be converted into United State dollars
and freely transferred out of the Cayman Islands and all such payments made to holders thereof
or therein who are non-residents of the Cayman Islands will not be subject to income,
withholding or other taxes under laws and regulations of the Cayman Islands or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein and will otherwise be free and clear of any
other tax, duty, withholding or deduction in the Cayman Islands or any political subdivision
or taxing authority thereof or therein and without the necessity of obtaining any consents,
approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations, clearances or qualifications of or with any
governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their
respective properties (hereinafter referred to as “Governmental Authorizations”) in the Cayman
Islands or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein.
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(kk) Application of Net Proceeds. The application of the net proceeds from the offering
of the Offered Securities, as disclosed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure
Package and Final Prospectus, will not contravene any provision of any current and applicable
laws or the current constituent documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
contravene the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage,
deed of trust, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument currently binding
upon the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any Governmental Authorization applicable to any
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(ll) Taxes. The Company and its Subsidiaries have filed all tax returns that are required
to be filed or have been granted extensions thereof; and the Company and its Subsidiaries have
paid all taxes (including any assessments, fines or penalties) required to be paid by them.
All local and national PRC governmental tax holidays, exemptions, waivers, financial
subsidies, and other local and national PRC tax relief, concessions and preferential treatment
enjoyed by the Company or any Subsidiary (including any of their predecessors) as described in
the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus are valid, binding
and enforceable and do not violate any laws, regulations, rules, orders, decrees, guidelines,
judicial interpretations, notices or other legislation of the PRC.
(mm) No Undisclosed Relationships. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or
among the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the Founders, directors,
officers, shareholders, customers or suppliers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on
the other, that is required by the Act to be described in the Registration Statement, General
Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus and that is not so described in such documents.
(nn) No Immunity. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any of their properties,
assets or revenues is entitled to any right of immunity on the grounds of sovereignty from any
legal action, suit or proceeding, from set-off or counterclaim, from the jurisdiction of any
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxx, XXX, Xxx Xxxx or U.S. federal court, from services of process, from
attachment prior to or in aid of execution of judgment, or from any other legal process or
proceeding for the giving of any relief or for the enforcement of any judgment, in any such
court, with respect to its obligations, liabilities or any other matter under or arising out
of or in connection with the Transaction Documents. The Company waives, to the extent
permitted by law in the Transaction Documents not to plead or claim any such immunity in any
legal action, suit or proceeding based on the Transaction Documents.
(oo) Insurance. As disclosed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package
and Final Prospectus, the Company and its Subsidiaries have such insurance covering their
respective properties, operations, personnel and businesses as the Company considers customary
for the business in which they are engaged; and neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries have (i) received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital
improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue
such insurance or (ii) any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing
insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain substantially similar
coverage at reasonable cost from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue their
businesses. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has been denied any insurance coverage
which it has sought or for which it has applied.
(pp) Business Practices. None of the Company and the Subsidiaries, or any of the
respective executive officers or directors, or, any employees, representatives, consultants or
agents of the Company or any Subsidiary has offered, promised, authorized or made, directly or
indirectly, (A) any unlawful payments or (B) payments or other inducements (whether lawful or
unlawful) to any
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Government Official (as defined below), with the intent or purpose of: (i) influencing
any act or decision of such Government Official in his official capacity, (ii) inducing such
Government Official to do or omit to do any act in violation of the lawful duty of such
Government Official, (iii) securing any improper advantage for the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries, or (iv) inducing such Government Official to use his influence with a government
or instrumentality thereof, political party or international organization to affect or
influence any act or decision of such government or instrumentality, political party or
international organization, in order to assist the Company or any of the Subsidiaries in
obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person. None of the
Company and the Subsidiaries, or any of the respective executive officers or directors, or,
any employees representatives, consultants or agents of the Company or any Subsidiary has
offered, promised, authorized or made, directly or indirectly, any payments or other
inducements specified in the proceeding sentence to a Government Officials in violation of
anti-bribery laws, including but not limited to, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of
1977 or any other law, rule or regulation of similar purpose and scope. As used in this
subsection and elsewhere in this Agreement, “Government Official” means (A) any employee or
official of any government, including any employee or official of any entity owned or
controlled by a government, (B) any employee or official of a political party, (C) any
candidate for political office or his employee, or (D) any employee or official of an
international organization. For the avoidance of doubt, the term Government Official shall
include any employee or official of a television station directly or indirectly owned or
controlled by a government.
(qq) Compliance with Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its
Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial
recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting
Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering 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 or any of its Subsidiaries with
respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or threatened.
(rr) Compliance with OFAC. None of the Company, the Subsidiaries, or any of the Founders,
the respective officers, employees, directors, representatives, consultants or agents of the
Company or any Subsidiary, has conducted or entered into a contract to conduct any transaction
with the governments or any subdivision thereof, agents or representatives, residents of, or
any entity based or resident in the countries that are currently subject to any U.S. sanctions
administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”);
and none of the Company or the Subsidiaries has financed the activities of any person
currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
(ss) No Restrictions on Dividends from Subsidiary. No subsidiary of the Company is
currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any applicable laws or regulations, any
agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying dividends to
the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiaries’ capital stock, from
repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from
transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other
subsidiary of the Company. All dividends declared by a subsidiary in the PRC may under the
current laws and regulations of the PRC be freely transferred out of the PRC and may be paid
in United States dollars, subject to the successful completion of PRC formalities required for
such remittance, and except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure
Package and Final Prospectus, all such dividends and other distributions will not be subject
to withholding or other taxes under the laws and
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regulations of the PRC and are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding or
deduction in the PRC, and without the necessity of obtaining any Governmental Authorization in
the PRC.
(tt) No Transfer Taxes. Other than as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, no stamp or other issuance or transfer
taxes or duties and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes are payable by or on
behalf of the Underwriters to the government of the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong or the PRC, or
any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein in connection with (i) the
deposit with the Depositary of Offered Shares by the Company against the issuance of ADRs
evidencing Offered Securities, (ii) the sale and delivery by the Company of the Offered
Securities to or for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, (iii) the sale and
delivery outside the Cayman Islands by the several Underwriters of the Offered Securities to
the initial purchasers thereof in the manner contemplated by this Agreement or (iv) the
execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents.
(uu) No Reduction from Amounts Payable. All amounts payable by the Company under this
Agreement shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on account of any taxes
imposed, assessed or levied by the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong or the PRC or any authority
thereof or therein, nor are any taxes imposed in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong or the PRC on,
or by virtue of the execution or delivery of, such documents.
(vv) No Sale, Issuance or Distribution of Shares. The Company has not sold, issued or
distributed any shares of its capital stock during the six-month period preceding the date
hereof, including any sales pursuant to Rule 144A, Regulation D or Regulation S of the Act,
other than shares issued pursuant to employee benefit plans, qualified stock option plans or
other employee compensation plans or pursuant to outstanding options, rights or warrants.
(ww) Foreign Private Issuer. The Company is a “foreign private issuer” within the meaning
of Rule 405 under the Act.
(xx) Transaction Documents under Cayman Law. Each of the Transaction Documents is in
proper form to be enforceable against the Company in the Cayman Islands in accordance with its
terms; to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility into evidence in the
Cayman Islands of the Transaction Documents, it is not necessary that the Transaction
Documents be filed or recorded with any court or other authority in the Cayman Islands (other
than court filings in the normal course of proceedings) or that any stamp or similar tax
(other than nominal stamp duty if the Transaction Documents are executed in or brought into
the Cayman Islands) in the Cayman Islands be paid on or in respect of the Transaction
Documents or any other documents to be furnished hereunder.
(yy) Forward-Looking Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in the Registration
Statement, General Disclosure Package or Final Prospectus has been made without basis or has
been disclosed other than in good faith.
(zz) No Undisclosed Indebtedness or Arrangements. Except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, no indebtedness (actual or
contingent) and no contract or arrangement is outstanding between the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries and any Founder, director or executive officer of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or any person connected with such director or executive officer (including
his/her spouse, minor children, any company or undertaking in which he/she holds a controlling
interest);
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there are no relationships or transactions between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
on the one hand and its Founders, affiliates, officers and directors or their shareholders,
customers or suppliers on the other hand, which, although required to be disclosed, are not
disclosed in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus.
(aaa) No Undisclosed Benefits. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, the Company has no obligation to provide
retirement, death or disability benefits to any of the present or past employees of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or to any other person other than as required by the
applicable laws of the relecant iurisdictions in which the Company and its Subsidiaries
conduct thir businesses; the Company and each Subsidiary are in compliance with all applicable
laws relating to employee benefits in these jurisdictions, except where noncompliance would
not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(bbb) Critical Accounting Policies. The section entitled “Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies” in
the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus truly, accurately
and completely in all material respects describes: (i) accounting policies which the Company
believes are important in the portrayal of the Company’s financial condition and results of
operations and which require management’s most difficult, subjective or complex judgments
(“Critical Accounting Policies”); (ii) judgments and uncertainties affecting the application
of Critical Accounting Policies; and (iii) the likelihood that different amounts would be
reported under different conditions or using different assumptions; and the Board and
management of the Company have reviewed and agreed with the selection, application and
disclosure of Critical Accounting Policies and have consulted with the Company’s independent
registered public accounting firm and external counsel with regard to such disclosure.
(ccc) Liquidity and Capital Resources. The section entitled “Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources” in
the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus accurately and
fully describes, in all material respects, all trends, demands, commitments, events,
uncertainties and risks, and the potential effects thereof, that the Company believes would
materially affect liquidity and are reasonably likely to occur. The section entitled
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations—Off-balance Sheet Commitments and Arrangements” in the Registration Statement,
General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus accurately and fully describes in all respects
all off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements and obligations of the Company or its
Subsidiaries.
(ddd) Action against the Company. Under the laws of the Cayman Islands, no holder of ADSs
issued pursuant to the Deposit Agreement shall be entitled, except under the terms of the
Deposit Agreement, to seek enforcement of its rights through the Depositary or its nominee
registered as representative of the holders of the ADSs in a direct suit, action or proceeding
against the Company.
(eee) Authorization by the Company. The Registration Statement, all preliminary
prospectuses, the Final Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the ADS Registration
Statement and the Exchange Act Registration Statement, and the filing of the same with the
Commission have been duly authorized by and on behalf of the Company, and the Registration
Statement and the ADS Registration Statement have been duly executed pursuant to such
authorization by and on behalf of the Company.
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(fff) Choice of Law. The choice of the laws of the State of New York as the governing law
of the Transaction Documents is a valid choice of law under the laws of the Cayman Islands and
the PRC and will be honored by courts in the Cayman Islands and the PRC, subject to the
conditions and restrictions described under the caption “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities”
in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus. The Company
and each of the Founders have the power to submit, and pursuant to Section 17 of this
Agreement and Section 7.6 of the Deposit Agreement, has legally, validly, effectively and
irrevocably submitted, to the personal jurisdiction of each New York State and United States
Federal court sitting in The City of New York (each, a “New York Court”) and has validly and
irrevocably waived any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding
brought in any such court; and the Company and each of the Founders have the power to
designate, appoint and authorize, and pursuant to Section 17 of
this Agreement and Section 7.6 of the Deposit Agreement, have legally, validly, effectively and irrevocably designated,
appointed and authorized, an agent for service of process in any action arising out of or
relating to this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement, the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus, the ADS Registration Statement or the offering of
the Offered Securities in any New York Court, and service of process in any manner permitted
by applicable laws effected on such authorized agent will be effective to confer valid
personal jurisdiction over the Company and each of the Founders as provided hereof or in the
Deposit Agreement.
Any final judgment for a fixed or readily calculable sum of money rendered by a New York
Court having jurisdiction under its own domestic laws in respect of any suit, action or
proceeding against the Company and the Founders based upon the Transaction Documents and any
instruments or agreements entered into for the consummation of the transactions contemplated
therein (i) would be declared enforceable against the Company and the Founders without
re-examination or review of the merits of the cause of action in respect of which the original
judgment was given or re-litigation of the matters adjudicated upon or payment of any stamp,
registration or similar tax or duty by the courts of the Cayman Islands, provided that (A)
adequate service of process has been effected and the defendant has had a reasonable
opportunity to be heard, (B) such judgments or the enforcement thereof are not contrary to the
law, public policy, security or sovereignty of the Cayman Islands, (C) such judgments were not
obtained by fraudulent means and do not conflict with any other valid judgment in the same
matter between the same parties, and (D) an action between the same parties in the same matter
is not pending in any Cayman Islands court at the time the lawsuit is instituted in the
foreign court, and (ii) may be recognized and enforced by the courts of the PRC subject to the
conditions and restrictions described under the caption “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities”
in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus. The Company is
not aware of any reason why the enforcement in the Cayman Islands or the PRC of such a New
York Court judgment would be, as of the date hereof, contrary to public policy of the Cayman
Islands or the PRC.
(ggg) Related Party Transactions. All the related party transactions required to be
disclosed under the Securities Laws are disclosed in the Registration Statement, General
Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus under the heading “Related Party Transactions,” and
such disclosure is true and accurate in all material respects.
(hhh) Merger or Consolidations. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has
entered into any memorandum of understanding, letter of intent, definitive agreement or any
similar agreements with respect to a merger or consolidation or an acquisition or disposition
of assets, technologies, business units or businesses that would have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(iii) Termination of Contracts. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent
or received any communication regarding termination of, or intent not to renew, any of the
contracts or agreements referred to or described in the Registration Statement, General
Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, or referred to or described in, or filed as an
exhibit to, the Registration Statement, and no such termination or non-renewal has been
threatened by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by any other party to any such
contract or agreement, except where such actions would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(jjj) Compliance with PRC Regulations. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries that were
incorporated outside of the PRC has complied with, and has taken, or is in the process of
taking steps to comply with, and to ensure compliance by each of its shareholders, option
holders, directors, officers and employees and Directed Share Participants that is, or is
directly or indirectly owned or controlled by, a PRC resident or citizen with any applicable
rules and regulations of the relevant PRC government agencies (including but not limited to
the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission and the State
Administration of Foreign Exchange) relating to overseas investment by PRC residents and
citizens (the “PRC Overseas Investment and Listing Regulations”), including, without
limitation, requesting each shareholder, option holder, director, officer, employee and
Directed Share Participants that is, or is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by, a
PRC resident or citizen to complete any registration and other procedures required under
applicable PRC Overseas Investment and Listing Regulations.
(kkk) PRC Mergers and Acquisitions Rules. The Company and each of its directors and
officers who signed the Initial Registration Statement is aware of and has been advised as to
the content of the Rules on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign
Investors (the “PRC Mergers and Acquisition Rules”) jointly promulgated by the Ministry of
Commerce, the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the State Tax
Administration, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, the China Securities
Regulatory Commission (the “CSRC”) and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of the PRC
on August 8, 2006, including the relevant provisions thereof which purport to require offshore
special purpose entities formed for listing purposes and controlled directly or indirectly by
PRC companies or individuals, to obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to the listing and
trading of their securities on an overseas stock exchange. The Company has received legal
advice specifically with respect to the PRC Mergers and Acquisitions Rules from its PRC
counsel and the Company understands such legal advice. All governmental authorization required
under applicable PRC Laws for the series of transactions or events conducted and completed to
establish the current ownership structures of the Company and CSC China and the Operating
Subsidiaries as described under “Corporate History and Structure” in the Registration
Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus have been obtained; such
transactions and events and the current ownership structures of the Company and the CSC China
and the Operating Subsidiaries, (A) are in compliance with all applicable PRC laws and
regulations, including, without limitation, the PRC Mergers and Acquisition Rules; (B) do not
violate, breach, contravene or otherwise conflict with any applicable PRC laws or statute,
rule or regulation of any PRC governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Company and CSC
China and the Operating Subsidiaries; (C) have not been challenged by any governmental agency
and there are no legal, arbitration, governmental or other legal proceedings, pending before
or threatened or contemplated by any governmental agency. The issuance and sale of the
Offered Securities, the listing and trading of the Offered Securities on the New York Stock
Exchange or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents is
not and will not be, as of the date hereof or at each Closing Date, as the case may be,
adversely affected by the PRC Mergers and Acquisitions Rules or any official clarifications,
guidance, interpretations or implementation rules in connection with or related to the PRC
Mergers and Acquisitions Rules.
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(lll) Affiliation. There are no affiliations or associations between (i) any member of
the FINRA and (ii) the Company, the Founders or any of the Company’s officers, directors or 5%
or greater security holders or any beneficial owner of the Company’s unregistered equity
securities that were acquired at any time on or after the 180th day immediately preceding the
date the Registration Statement was first submitted to the Commission.
(mmm) Representation of Founders, Officers and/or Directors. Any certificate signed by
any Founder, officer or director of the Company and delivered to the Representatives as
required or contemplated by this Agreement shall constitute a representation and warranty
hereunder by the Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.
(B) Representations and Warranties of the Founders. Each of Ms. Xxxx Xx and Xx. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx (collectively, the “Founders”), jointly and severally represents and warrants as to and in
respect of itself to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters and the Company that:
(a) (i) (A) At their respective Effective Times, (B) on the date of this Agreement and
(C) on each Closing Date, each of the Initial Registration Statement, the Additional
Registration Statement (if any), the ADS Registration Statement and any amendments and
supplement thereto conformed and will conform in all respects to the requirements of the Act
and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not include any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading, and (ii) on its date, at the time of filing of the
Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) or (if no such filing is required) at the Effective
Time of the Additional Registration Statement in which the Final Prospectus is included, and
on each Closing Date, the Final Prospectus will conform in all respects to the requirements of
the Act and the Rules and Regulations and will not include any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit 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.
(b) As of the Applicable Time, neither (i) the General Use Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus(es) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time and, the preliminary prospectus,
dated September 14, 2010 (which is the most recent Statutory Prospectus distributed to
investors generally) and the other information, if any, stated in Schedule B to this Agreement
to be included in the General Disclosure Package, all considered together, nor (ii) any
individual Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the
General Disclosure Package, included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to
state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times
through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Offered Securities or until any
earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Representatives as described in the
next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted,
conflicts or will conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement,
General Disclosure Package or Final Prospectus. If at any time following issuance of an Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which
such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information then
contained in the Registration Statement or as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, if republished immediately following such event or development, would include an
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would 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, (i) the Company has promptly notified or will promptly
notify the Representatives and (ii) the Company has promptly amended or will promptly
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amend or supplement such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such
conflict, untrue statement or omission.
(d) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of
such Founder; and to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility into
evidence in the PRC, Cayman Islands, or Hong Kong of this Agreement, it is not necessary that
this Agreement be filed or recorded with any court or other authority in the PRC, Cayman
Islands, or Hong Kong or that any stamp or similar tax in the PRC, Cayman Islands, or Hong
Kong be paid on or in respect of this Agreement or any other documents to be furnished
hereunder;
(e) No governmental authorizations are required for the execution and delivery by such
Founder of this Agreement; and such Founder has full legal right, power and authority
(corporate and other) to enter into this Agreement;
(f) The compliance by such Founder with all of the provisions of this Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not conflict with or
result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default
under, any material statute, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other
agreement or instrument to which such Founder is a party or by which such Founder is bound, or
to which any of the property or assets of such Founder is subject, nor will such action result
in any violation of any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental
agency having jurisdiction over such Founder or the property of such Founder;
(g) Neither such Founder nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on its or their
behalf has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed to or
which has constituted or which might reasonably be expected to cause or result in
stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the
sale or resale of the Offered Shares or the ADSs; and
(h) Each Founder that is a PRC resident or PRC citizen is in compliance with any
applicable SAFE Rules and Regulations (as defined below), including without limitation, having
completed or being in the process of completing any registration and other procedures required
under applicable SAFE Rules and Regulations.
3. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of Offered Securities. On the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements and subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, the Company agrees to sell to the several Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters
agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of [•]
per ADS (representing the initial public offering price less underwriting commissions and
concessions), the respective number of Firm Securities set forth opposite the names of the
Underwriters in Schedule A hereto, plus any additional number of Firm Securities which such
Underwriter may become obligated to purchase pursuant to the provisions of Section 10 hereof
(rounded up or down at the discretion of the Representatives to avoid fractions).
The Company will deliver the Firm Securities to or as instructed by the Representatives
for the accounts of the several Underwriters through the facilities of DTC in a form
reasonably acceptable to the Representatives against payment of the purchase price by the
Underwriters in Federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an account at a bank acceptable
to the Representatives drawn to the order of the Company at [•] A.M., U.S. Eastern time, on
[•], or at such other time not later than seven full business days thereafter as the
Representatives and the Company determine, such time being herein referred to as the “First
Closing Date.” For purposes of Rule 15c6-1 under
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the Exchange Act, the First Closing Date (if later than the otherwise applicable
settlement date) shall be the settlement date for payment of funds and delivery of securities
for all the Firm Securities sold pursuant to the offering. The Firm Securities so to be
delivered or evidence of their issuance will be made available for checking at the office of
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP at 00/X, XXXX Xxxxx, 0 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxx, at
least 24 hours prior to the First Closing Date.
In addition, upon written notice from the Representatives given to the Company from time
to time not more than 30 days subsequent to the date of the Final Prospectus, the Underwriters
may purchase all or less than all of the Optional Securities at the same purchase price per
ADS to be paid for the Firm Securities. The Company agrees to sell to the Underwriters the
number of Optional Securities specified in such notice and the Underwriters agree, severally
and not jointly, to purchase such Optional Securities. Such Optional Securities shall be
purchased for the account of each Underwriter in the same proportion as the number of Firm
Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name bears to the total number of Firm
Securities (subject to adjustment by the Representatives to eliminate fractions) and may be
purchased by the Underwriters only for the purpose of covering over-allotments made in
connection with the sale of the Firm Securities. No Optional Securities shall be sold or
delivered unless the Firm Securities previously have been, or simultaneously are, sold and
delivered. The right to purchase the Optional Securities or any portion thereof may be
exercised from time to time not more than 30 days subsequent to the date of the Final
Prospectus and to the extent not previously exercised may be surrendered and terminated at any
time upon notice by the Representatives to the Company.
Each time for the delivery of and payment for the Optional Securities, being herein
referred to as an “Optional Closing Date,” which may be the First Closing Date (the First
Closing Date and each Optional Closing Date, if any, being sometimes referred to as a “Closing
Date”), shall be determined by the Representatives but shall be not later than five full
business days after written notice of election to purchase Optional Securities is given. The
Company will deliver the Optional Securities being purchased on each Optional Closing Date to
or as instructed by the Representatives for the accounts of the several Underwriters in a form
reasonably acceptable to the Representatives against payment of the purchase price therefor in
Federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an account at a bank acceptable to the
Representatives drawn to the order of the Company. The Optional Securities being purchased on
each Optional Closing Date or evidence of their issuance will be made available for checking
at the above office of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP at a reasonable time in advance of such
Optional Closing Date.
4. Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to
offer the Offered Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Final Prospectus.
5. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:
(a) Additional Filings. Unless filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) as part of the Additional
Registration Statement in accordance with the next sentence, the Company will file the Final
Prospectus, in a form approved by the Representatives, with the Commission pursuant to and in
accordance with subparagraph (1) (or, if applicable and if consented to by the
Representatives, subparagraph (4)) of Rule 424(b) not later than the earlier of (A) the second
business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or (B) the fifteenth
business day after the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement. The Company will
advise the Representatives promptly of any such filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and provide
satisfactory evidence to the Representatives of such timely filing. If an Additional
Registration Statement is necessary to register a portion of the Offered Securities under the
Act but the Effective Time thereof has not occurred as of the
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execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company will file the Additional
Registration Statement or, if filed, will file a post-effective amendment thereto with the
Commission pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 462(b) on or prior to 10:00 P.M., U.S.
Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement or, if earlier, on or prior to the time the Final
Prospectus is finalized and distributed to any Underwriter, or will make such filing at such
later date as shall have been consented to by the Representatives.
(b) Filing of Amendments; Response to Commission Requests. The Company will promptly
advise the Representatives of any proposal to amend or supplement at any time the Initial
Registration Statement, any Additional Registration Statement or any Statutory Prospectus and
will not effect such amendment or supplementation without the Representatives’ consent; and
the Company will also advise the Representatives promptly of (i) the effectiveness of any
Additional Registration Statement (if its Effective Time is subsequent to the execution and
delivery of this Agreement), (ii) any amendment or supplementation of a Registration Statement
or any Statutory Prospectus, (iii) any request by the Commission or its staff for any
amendment to any Registration Statement, for any supplement to any Statutory Prospectus or for
any additional information, (iv) the institution by the Commission of any stop order
proceedings in respect of a Registration Statement or the threatening of any proceeding for
that purpose, and (v) the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the
suspension of the qualification of the Offered Securities in any jurisdiction or the
institution or threatening of any proceedings for such purpose. The Company will use its best
efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the suspension of any such
qualification and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.
(c) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws. If, at any time when a prospectus relating
to the Offered Securities is (or but for the exemption in Rule 172 would be) required to be
delivered under the Act by any Underwriter or dealer, any event occurs as a result of which
the Final Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is
necessary at any time to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Final Prospectus
to comply with the Act, the Company will promptly notify the Representatives of such event and
will promptly prepare and file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the
Underwriters and the dealers and any other dealers upon request of the Representatives, an
amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment which
will effect such compliance. Neither the Representatives’ consent to, nor the Underwriters’
delivery of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the
conditions set forth in Section 7 hereof.
(d) Rule 158. As soon as practicable, but not later than the Availability Date (as
defined below), the Company will make generally available to its security holders an earnings
statement covering a period of at least 12 months beginning after the Effective Time of the
Initial Registration Statement (or, if later, the Effective Time of the Additional
Registration Statement) which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule
158 under the Act. For the purpose of the preceding sentence, “Availability Date” means the
45th day after the end of the fourth fiscal quarter following the fiscal quarter that includes
such Effective Time, except that, if such fourth fiscal quarter is the last quarter of the
Company’s fiscal year, “Availability Date” means the 90th day after the end of such fourth
fiscal quarter.
(e) Furnishing of Prospectuses. The Company will furnish to the Representatives copies of
each Registration Statement (four of which will be signed and will include all exhibits), each
related Statutory Prospectus, and, so long as a prospectus relating to the Offered Securities
is (or but for the exemption in Rule 172 would be) required to be delivered under the Act, the
Final
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Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to such documents, in each case in such
quantities as the Representatives request. The Final Prospectus shall be so furnished on or
prior to 3:00 P.M., U.S. Eastern time, on the second business day following the execution and
delivery of this Agreement. All other documents shall be so furnished as soon as available.
The Company will pay the expenses of printing and distributing to the Underwriters all such
documents.
(f) Blue Sky Qualifications. The Company will arrange for the qualification of the
Offered Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives
designate and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the
distribution.
(g) Reporting Requirements. During the period of five years hereafter, the Company will
furnish to the Representatives and, upon request, to each of the other Underwriters, as soon
as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, a copy of its annual report to stockholders
for such year; and the Company will furnish to the Representatives (i) as soon as available, a
copy of each report and any definitive proxy statement of the Company filed with the
Commission under the Exchange Act or mailed to stockholders, and (ii) from time to time, such
other information concerning the Company as the Representatives may reasonably request.
However, so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of either Section 13
or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and is timely filing reports with the Commission on
XXXXX, it is not required to furnish such reports or statements to the Underwriters.
(h) Payment of Expenses. The Company covenants and agrees with each of the several
Underwriters that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees,
disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and accountants in connection with the
registration of the Offered Securities under the Act and all other expenses in connection with
the preparation, printing, reproduction and filing of the Registration Statements, any
preliminary prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Final Prospectus and
amendments or supplements thereto, and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the
Underwriters and dealers, (ii) the cost of printing or producing any Agreement among
Underwriters, this Agreement, the Deposit Agreement, the Blue Sky
Memorandum, any dealer
agreements, any powers of attorney, any closing documents (including any compilations thereof)
and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the
Offered Securities, (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Offered
Securities for offering and sale under state or foreign securities laws, (iv) all filing fees in
connection with the application for including the Offered Securities for listing on the
NYSE and any registration thereof under the Exchange Act, (v) all fees and expenses in
connection with any required review by the FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Offered
Securities, (vi) the cost of preparing certificates representing the Offered
Securities, (vii) the cost and charges of any transfer agent or registrar for the Offered
Securities, (viii) all the costs and expenses relating to presentations or meetings undertaken
in connection with the marketing of the offering and sale of the Offered Securities to
prospective investors, including without limitation, expenses associated with the production
of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection
with the road show presentations, travel, accommodation and meal expenses, and other road show
expenses incurred by the officers of the Company and any such consultants, and the cost of any
aircraft chartered in connection with the road show, which have been paid by the
Representatives on behalf of the Company and shall be reimbursed by the Company to the
Representatives; (ix) any taxes as provided under Section 5(1)
hereunder, (x) all expenses in
connection with the road show reasonably incurred by the Underwriters
up to US$[ ].
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in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, (xi) the costs and expenses of qualifying the Offered
Securities for inclusion in the book-entry settlement system of the DTC, (xii) all expenses
and taxes arising as a result of the deposit by the Company of the Offered Shares with the
Depositary and the issuance and delivery of the ADRs evidencing the Offered Securities in
exchange therefor by the Depositary to the Company, of the sale and delivery of the Offered
Securities by the Company to or for the account of the Underwriters and of the sale and
delivery of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters to each other and to the initial
purchasers thereof in the manner contemplated under this Agreement, including, in any such
case, any of the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and PRC income, capital gains, withholding,
transfer or other tax asserted against an Underwriter by reason of the purchase and sale of
the Offered Securities pursuant to this Agreement, (xiii) the fees and expenses of the
Depositary as agreed by the Company and the Depositary and any custodian appointed under the
Deposit Agreement, other than the fees and expenses to be paid by holders of ADRs (other than
the Underwriters in connection with the initial purchase of Offered ADSs), (xiv) the fees and
expenses of the authorized agent (as defined in Section 17 hereof), and (xv) all other costs
and expenses incident to the performance of the Company’s obligations hereunder which are not
otherwise specifically provided for in this subsection.
Except as expressly provided in this section, the Company will not pay any fees, disbursements or expenses of
the counsel to the Underwriters (other than the fees, disbursements or expenses of the
Underwriters’ special counsel for the Directed Share Program).
The Company hereby agrees that the Representatives may deduct and withhold from the gross proceeds
to be paid to the Company the underwriting commission and a portion of the gross proceeds in an
estimated amount, which is mutually agreed upon by the Company and the Underwriters, with regard to
the expenses incurred by the Company but paid by the Underwriters on behalf of the Company and the
expenses incurred by the Underwriters and the Company agrees to reimburse pursuant to this section.
(i) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the net proceeds received by it in connection
with this offering in the manner described in the “Use of Proceeds” section of the
Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus. The Company does not
intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the Offered Securities by it hereunder to
repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of any Underwriter.
(j) No Stabilization. Neither the Company nor any director, officer, agent, employee,
affiliate or person acting on its behalf will take, directly or indirectly, any action
designed, or which will constitute or might reasonably be expected to cause or result in,
under the Exchange Act or otherwise, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities.
(k) Taxes. The Company will indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters against any
documentary, stamp or similar issue tax, including any interest and penalties, on the
creation, issue and sale of the Offered Securities and on the execution and delivery of the
Transaction Documents. All payments to be made by the Company hereunder shall be made without
withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties or
governmental charges whatsoever unless the Company is compelled by law to deduct or withhold
such taxes, duties or charges. In that event, the Company shall pay such additional amounts as
may be necessary in order that the net amounts received after such withholding or deduction
shall equal the amounts that would have been received if no withholding or deduction had been
made.
(l) Restriction on Sale of Securities. For the period specified below (the “Lock-Up
Period”), the Company will not, directly or indirectly, take any of the following actions with
respect to its Ordinary Shares or ADSs, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or
exercisable for any of its Ordinary Shares or ADSs (the “Lock-Up Securities”): (i) offer,
sell, issue, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of the Lock-Up Securities, (ii)
offer, sell, issue, contract to sell, contract to purchase or grant any option, right or
warrant to purchase the Lock-Up Securities, (iii)
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enter into any swap, hedge or any other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part,
the economic consequences of ownership of the Lock-Up Securities, (iv) establish or increase a
put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position in the Lock-Up
Securities within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act or (v) file with the
Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to the Lock-Up Securities, or
publicly disclose the intention to take any such action, without the prior written consent of
the Representatives. The foregoing will not apply to (A) the issuance of the ordinary shares
represented by the ADSs to be sold in this offering and the sale of such ADSs; (B) the grant
of employee stock options, restricted shares or other awards pursuant to the terms of the
Company’s existing Share Incentive Plan; or (C) the issuance of ordinary shares of the Company
upon the vesting of options or restricted share units outstanding as of the date of this
Agreement. The initial Lock-Up Period will commence on the date hereof and continue for 180
days after the date hereof; provided, however, that if (1) during the last 17 days of the
initial Lock-Up Period, the Company releases earnings results or material news or a material
event relating to the Company occurs or (2) prior to the expiration of the initial Lock-Up
Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results or becomes aware that
material news or a material event will occur during the 16-day period beginning on the last
day of the initial Lock-Up Period, then in each case the Lock-Up Period will be extended until
the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of release of the earnings results
or the occurrence of the materials news or event, as applicable, unless the Representatives
waive, in writing, such extension. The Company will provide the Representatives with notice of
any announcement described in clause (2) of the preceding sentence that gives rise to an
extension of the Lock-Up Period.
(m) Listing of Securities. The Company will use its best efforts to have the Offered
Securities accepted for listing on the New York Stock Exchange and maintain the listing of the
Offered Securities on the New York Stock Exchange.
(n) Deposit of Shares. The Company will, prior to the First Closing Date or the
Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, deposit the Offered Shares with the Depositary in
accordance with the provisions of the Deposit Agreement and otherwise comply with the Deposit
Agreement so that ADSs will be issued by the Depositary against receipt of such Offered Shares
and delivered to the Underwriters at the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the
case may be.
(o) Filing of Reports. The Company, during the period when a prospectus (or, in lieu
thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is required to be delivered
under the Act in connection with the offer or sale of the Offered Securities, will file all
reports and other documents required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant
to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the Rules and Regulations within
the time periods required thereby.
(p) License of Trademarks. Upon request of any Underwriter, the Company will furnish, or
cause to be furnished, to such Underwriter an electronic version of the Company’s trademarks,
servicemarks and corporate logo for use on the website, if any, operated by such Underwriter
for the purpose of facilitating the offering of the Offered Securities.
(q) Judgment and Approval. The Company agrees that (i) it will not attempt to avoid any
judgment applied or denied to it in a court of competent jurisdiction outside the Cayman
Islands.
(r) Compliance with SAFE Rules and Regulations. The Company will comply in all material
respects with any applicable rules and regulations of the State Administration of Foreign
Exchange (the “SAFE Rules and Regulations”), and will use its best efforts to cause its
directors, officers, option holders and shareholders named in the Company’s share register
that are, or that are directly or indirectly owned or controlled by, PRC residents or PRC
citizens, to comply in all material
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respects with the SAFE Rules and Regulations applicable to them in connection with the
Company, including, without limitation, requesting each shareholder named in the Company’s
share register, option holder, director and officer that is, or is directly or indirectly
owned or controlled by, a PRC resident or PRC citizen to complete any registration and other
procedures required under applicable SAFE Rules and Regulations.
(s) Interim Financial Statements. The Company will furnish to the Representatives as
early as practicable prior to the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase, as the
case may be, but not later than two business days prior thereto, a copy of the latest
available unaudited interim and monthly consolidated financial statements, if any, of the
Company and the Subsidiaries which have been read by the Company’s independent registered
public accountants, as stated in their letter to be furnished pursuant to Section 7(a) hereof.
(t) Accounting Controls. The Company and its Subsidiaries will undertake measures to
implement, by the time such systems are required by the Exchange Act, systems of “internal
control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that
comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the
supervision of, their respective principal executive and principal financial officers, or
persons performing similar functions, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external
purposes in accordance with US GAAP, including, but not limited to internal accounting
controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in
accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are
recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with US GAAP
and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance
with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for
assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is
taken with respect to any differences.
(u) Compliance with Laws. The Company will comply with and will require the Company’s
directors and executive officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with all applicable
securities laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act.
(v) OFAC. The Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the Offered
Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any
subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the
activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
(w) Transfer Restrictions. The Company will at all times maintain transfer restrictions
(including the inclusion of legends in share certificates, as may be required) with respect to
the Company’s Ordinary Shares which are subject to transfer restrictions pursuant to this
Agreement and the Lock-Up Agreements entered into pursuant to Section 7(p) hereof and shall
ensure compliance with such restrictions on transfer of restricted Ordinary Shares. And the
Company will not release the Depositary from the obligations set forth in, or otherwise amend,
terminate or fail to enforce the Depositary Agreement and the Depositary Letter (as defined in
Section 7(r), without the prior written consent of the Representatives during the Lock-up
Period. The Company will retain all share certificates which are by their terms subject to
transfer restrictions until such time as such transfer restrictions are no longer applicable
to such securities.
(x) Prior to each Closing Date, the Company will not issue any press release or other
communication directly or indirectly and will not hold any press conference with respect to
the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or the Variable Interest Entity, the financial condition,
results of
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operations, business, properties, assets, or liabilities of the Company, any of the
Subsidiaries or the Variable Interest Entity, or the offering of the ADSs, without the prior
consent of the Representatives.
(y) To cause each Directed Share Participant to be restricted from sale, transfer,
assignment, pledge or hypothecation to such extent as may be required by the FINRA and its
rules, and to direct the transfer agent to place stop transfer restrictions upon such Reserved
ADSs during such period of time as may be required by the FINRA and its rules; and to comply
with all applicable securities and other laws, rules and regulations in each jurisdiction in
which the Reserved ADSs are offered in connection with the Directed Share Program.
6. Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains
the prior consent of the Representatives, and each Underwriter represents and agrees that,
unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company and the Representatives, it has not made
and will not make any offer relating to the Offered Securities that would constitute an Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as
defined in Rule 405, required to be filed with the Commission. Any such free writing
prospectus consented to by the Company and the Representatives is hereinafter referred to as a
“Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents that it has treated and agrees
that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing
prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and has complied and will comply with the requirements of
Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including making timely
Commission filing where required, legending and record keeping. The Company represents that it
has satisfied and agrees that it will satisfy the conditions in Rule 433 to avoid a
requirement to file with the Commission any electronic road show. The Company agrees that if
at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus any event occurred or
occurs as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would conflict with the
information in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Final
Prospectus or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will give prompt notice thereof to
the Representatives and, if requested by the Representatives, will prepare and furnish without
charge to each Underwriter an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or other document which will
correct such conflict, statement or omission; provided, however, that this representation and
warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions in an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company
by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein.
7. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the several
Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Securities on the First Closing Date and the
Optional Securities to be purchased on each Optional Closing Date will be subject to the
accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Founders (as though made
on such Closing Date), to the accuracy of the statements of Company officers made pursuant to
the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Founders of their respective
obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) Accountants’ Comfort Letter. The Representatives shall have received letters, dated,
respectively, the date hereof and each Closing Date, from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. in
form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, together with signed or reproduced
copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters containing statements and information
of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect
to the financial
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statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.
(b) Effectiveness of Registration Statement. The Registration Statement, the ADS
Registration Statement and the Exchange Act Registration Statement shall have become
effective. If the Effective Time of the Additional Registration Statement (if any) is not
prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, such Effective Time shall have occurred
not later than 10:00 P.M., U.S. Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement or, if earlier,
the time the Final Prospectus is finalized and distributed to any Underwriter, or shall have
occurred at such later time as shall have been consented to by the Representatives. The Final
Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance with the Rules and
Regulations and Section 5 (a) hereof. Prior to such Closing Date, no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the ADS Registration Statement shall have been
issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or, to the knowledge of
the Company or the Representatives, shall be 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 counsel to the Underwriters. A prospectus containing the Rule 430A
Information shall have been filed with the Commission in the manner and within the time frame
required by Rule 424(b) without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8) or a post-effective amendment
providing such information shall have been filed and declared effective in accordance with the
requirements of Rule 430A.
(c) No Material Adverse Change. Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this
Agreement, there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development or event involving
a prospective change, in the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations,
business, properties or prospects or of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole
which, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it
impractical or inadvisable to market the Offered ADSs; (ii) any loss or interference with the
Company’s or any Subsidiary’s business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether
or not covered by insurance, or any change in the share capital or short-term debt or long
term debt of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the effect of which, in the judgment of
the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impractical or inadvisable to market
the Offered Securities; (iii) a change in U.S., the PRC, the Cayman Islands or international
financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates, exchange controls the
effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, impractical to
market or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Offered Securities, whether in the primary
market or in respect of dealings in the secondary market; (iv) any suspension or material
limitation of trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq
Stock Market, or any setting of minimum or maximum prices for trading on such exchange; (v)
any suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the
over-the-counter market; (vi) any banking moratorium declared by U.S. federal, New York, PRC
or the Cayman Islands authorities; (vii) any major disruption of settlements of securities,
payment or clearance services in the United States, the PRC or the Cayman Islands; (viii) any
attack on, outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving the United
States, the Cayman Islands or the PRC, any declaration of war by the U.S. Congress, the PRC or
any other national or international calamity or emergency if, in the judgment of the
Representatives, the effect of any such attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration,
calamity or emergency is such as to make it impractical or inadvisable to market the Offered
Securities or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Offered Securities.
(d) Adverse Developments in PRC Mergers and Acquisitions Rules. There shall not be any
adverse legislative or regulatory developments in the PRC, including but not limited to the
PRC Mergers and Acquisitions Rules and Related Clarifications, which in the sole judgment of
the
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Representatives after consultation with the Company, would make it inadvisable to proceed
with the public offering or the delivery of the Offered Securities at the First Closing Date
or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, on the terms and in the manner
contemplated in this Agreement.
(e) Opinion of United States Counsel for the Company. The Representatives and the
Depositary shall have received an opinion or opinions from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx &
Xxxx LLP, United States counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(f) Opinion of United States Counsel for Underwriters. The Representatives shall have
received an opinion or opinions from Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, United States counsel for
the Underwriters, dated such Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the Representatives
may require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they
request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(g) Opinion of PRC Counsel for the Company. The Company shall have received an opinion
from Jingtian & Gongcheng Attorneys at Law, PRC counsel for the Company, dated such Closing
Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives. A copy of such opinion shall
have been provided to the Representatives and Depositary with consent from such counsel.
(h) Opinion of PRC Counsel for Underwriters. The Representatives shall have received an
opinion from Fangda Partners, PRC counsel for the Underwriters, dated such Closing Date, with
respect to such matters as the Representatives may require, and the Company shall have
furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to
pass upon such matters.
(i) Opinion of Cayman Islands Counsel for the Company. The Representatives and the
Depositary shall have received an opinion from Xxxxxx and Calder, Cayman Islands counsel for
the Company, dated such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Representatives.
(j) Opinion of Hong Kong Counsel for the Company. The Representatives shall have received
an opinion from Li & Partners, Hong Kong counsel for the Company, dated
such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(k) Opinion of Counsel for the Depositary. The Representatives shall have received an
opinion from Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the counsel for the Depositary, dated such
Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(l) Officers’ Certificate. The Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated
such Closing Date, of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the
Company in which such officers shall state that: the representations and warranties of the
Company in this Agreement are true and correct; all operating data disclosed in the
Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, including but not
limited to, the average traffic per restaurant per day and the average table turnover per day,
are true and accurate in all material respects; the Company has complied with all agreements
and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to
such Closing Date; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or
the ADS Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been
instituted or, are contemplated by the Commission; the Additional Registration Statement (if
any) satisfying the requirements of subparagraphs (1) and (3) of Rule 462(b) was timely filed
pursuant to Rule 462(b), including payment of the applicable
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filing fee in accordance with Rule 111(a) or (b) of Regulation S-T of the Commission; and,
subsequent to the date of the most recent financial statements in the Registration Statement,
General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change,
nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition
(financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus or as described in such
certificate.
(m) Chief Executive Officer’s Certificate. The Representatives shall have received a
certificate, dated such Closing date, of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company , in form
and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.
(n) Founders’ Certificate. The Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated
such Closing Date, of each of the Founders, in which each of the Founders shall state that:
the representations and warranties of him/her in this Agreement are true and correct as of
such Closing Date; and each of the Founders has complied with all agreements and satisfied all
conditions on his/her part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing
Date.
(o) Lock-up Agreements. On or prior to the date hereof, the Representatives shall have
received lock-up letters from each of the directors, officers, existing shareholders of the
Company and each stock option holder of the Company, such parties to the Lock-up Agreements
are listed in Annex I hereto, substantially in the form and substance set forth in Annex II
hereto.
(p) Execution of Deposit Agreement. The Company and the Depositary shall have executed
and delivered the Deposit Agreement and the Deposit Agreement shall be in full force and
effect and the Company and the Depositary shall have taken all actions necessary to permit the
deposit of the Offered Shares and the issuance of the Offered Securities in accordance with
the Deposit Agreement.
(q) Depositary’s Letter. The Company shall have entered into a side letter agreement with
the Depositary, substantially in the form and substance set forth in Annex III hereto (the
“Depositary Letter”), instructing the Depositary, during the Lock-Up Period, not to accept any
deposit by the persons specified therein of any Ordinary Shares into the Company’s ADR
facility or issue any new ADRs evidencing American Depositary Shares to any such person
subject to the exceptions stated in the Depositary Letter or further instructions by the
Company.
(r) Depositary’s Certificates. The Depositary shall have furnished or caused to be
furnished to you at such Closing Date, certificates satisfactory to you evidencing the deposit
with it of the Offered Shares being so deposited against issuance of ADRs evidencing the
Offered Securities to be delivered by the Company at such Closing Date, and the execution,
countersignature (if applicable), issuance and delivery of ADRs evidencing such Offered
Securities pursuant to the Deposit Agreement and such other matters related thereto as the
Representatives may reasonably request.
(s) No Legal Impediment to Issuance. No action shall have been taken and no statute,
rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or
foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of such Closing Date, prevent the
issuance or sale of the Offered Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state
or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of such Closing Date, prevent the
issuance or sale of the Offered Securities.
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(t) Additional Documents. On or prior to such Closing Date, the Representatives shall
have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may require for the purpose of
enabling the Underwriters to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities as
herein contemplated, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations or
warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings
taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities as
herein contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the
Representatives.
(u) Exchange Listing. The Offered Securities shall have been approved to be listed on the
New York Stock Exchange.
(v) DTC Settlement. On or prior to the First Closing Date, the Offered Securities shall
be eligible for clearance and settlement through the facilities of DTC.
(w) No litigation. There shall not be any litigation, proceedings, investigations,
processes for administrative sanctions or other actions initiated or threatened by any
Governmental Agency, in each case with due authority, against or involving any party hereto,
in the PRC or elsewhere, that seeks to declare non-compliant, unlawful or illegal, under PRC
laws, rules and regulations or otherwise, the issuance and sales of the Offered Securities,
the listing and trading of the Offered Securities on the New York Stock Exchange or the
transactions contemplated by Transaction Documents.
(x) Filing of Amendments. No Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus or amendment or
supplement to the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement or the Statutory
Prospectus shall have been filed to which the Representatives object in writing.
(y) Payment of Commission Fees. The Company shall have paid the required Commission
filing fees relating to the Offered Securities in such amount and within the time frame
provided in the Act and the Rule 456(b)(1) thereunder.
(z) No FINRA Objection. FINRA shall not have raised any objection with respect to the
fairness or reasonableness of the underwriting or other arrangements of the transactions
contemplated hereby.
The Company will furnish the Representatives with such conformed copies of such opinions,
certificates, letters and documents as the Representatives reasonably request. The
Representatives may in their sole discretion waive on behalf of the Underwriters compliance
with any conditions to the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, whether in respect of an
Optional Closing Date or otherwise.
If any condition specified in this Section shall not have been fulfilled or waived when
and as required to be fulfilled, this Agreement, or, in the case of any condition to the
purchase of Optional Securities on a Optional Closing Date which is after the First Closing
Date, the obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase the relevant Optional Securities
shall be deemed terminated by the Company at any time at or prior to the First Closing Date or
such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be unless as otherwise provided, and such
termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in
Section 11.
8. Indemnification and Contribution.
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(a) Indemnification of Underwriters by
the Company. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its
partners, members, directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates and each person, if any,
who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the
Exchange Act (each, an “Indemnified Party”), from and against any and all losses, claims,
damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Indemnified Party may become subject,
under the Act, the Exchange Act, other Federal or state statutory law or regulation or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of
any material fact contained in any part of any Registration Statement at any time, any
Statutory Prospectus as of any time, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission of a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading
or the Directed Share Program, and will reimburse each Indemnified Party for any legal or
other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection with investigating
or defending against any loss, claim, damage, liability, action, litigation, investigation or
proceeding whatsoever (whether or not such Indemnified Party is a party thereto), whether
threatened or commenced, and in connection with the enforcement of this provision with respect
to any of the above as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company
will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage
or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in
or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in conformity
with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the
Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only
such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in
subsection.
(b) Indemnification of Underwriters by the Founders. Each of the Founders, severally and jointly,
agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Party to the same extent as the indemnity
and expenses reimbursement set forth in paragraph (a) above; provided, however, that each Founder’s
agreement to indemnify and hold harmless hereunder shall only apply insofar as such losses, claims,
damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any violations of any provisions set forth
in Section 2(B). Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in this Agreement, in no event
shall the aggregate liability of the Founders to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement shall
exceed the gross proceeds received by the Company in this Offering multiplied by the aggregated
percentage that both of the Founders hold, directly and indirectly, in the Company immediately
after the completion of this Offering.
(c) Indemnification of the Company and the Founders. Each Underwriter will severally and
not jointly indemnify and hold harmless the Company, and each Founder (each, an “Underwriter
Indemnified Party”), against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which such
Underwriter Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act, other
Federal or state statutory law or regulation or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims,
damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any part of any
Registration Statement at any time, any Statutory Prospectus as of any time, the Final
Prospectus, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the
omission or the alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the
extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission
was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company
by such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, and will
reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter Indemnified
Party in connection with investigating or defending against any such loss, claim, damage,
liability, action, litigation, investigation or proceeding whatsoever (whether or not such
Underwriter Indemnified Party is a party thereto), whether threatened or commenced, based upon
any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission as
such expenses are incurred, it being understood and agreed that the only such information
furnished by any Underwriter consists of the following information in the Final Prospectus
furnished on behalf of each Underwriter: the concession and reallowance figures appearing in
the third paragraph and sales to discretionary
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accounts appearing in the fourteenth paragraph and the information discussing possible
stabilization measures appearing in the sixteenth and seventeenth paragraphs under the caption
“Underwriting.”
(d) Actions against Parties; Notification. Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party
under this Section of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will,
if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under subsection
(a), (b) or (c) above, notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the
failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may
have under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above except to the extent that it has been materially
prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and
provided further that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from
any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a),
(b) or (c) above. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and it
notifies the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be
entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other
indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel
satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the
indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and after notice from the
indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof,
the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section for any
legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the
defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall,
without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any
pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a
party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such
settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability
on any claims that are the subject matter of such action and (ii) does not include a statement
as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of an
indemnified party.
(e) Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in this Section is unavailable or
insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above,
then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in
subsection (a), (b) or (c) above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the
relative benefits received by the Company and the Founders on the one hand and the
Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Offered Securities or (ii) if the
allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion
as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above
but also the relative fault of the Company and the Founders on the one hand and the
Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Founders on the one hand
and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as, in the case
of the Company, the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received
by the Company, and in the case of the Founders, the product of the share holding percentage
of such Founder immediately after this Offering and the total net proceeds from the offering
(before deducting expenses) received by the Company, bear to the total underwriting discounts
and commissions received by the Underwriters. The relative fault shall be determined by
reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material
fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information
supplied by the Company and the Founders or the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent,
knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement
or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims,
damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection
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(e) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such
indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is
the subject of this subsection (e). Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (e), no
Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the
total price at which the Offered Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public
were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has
otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or
omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the
meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was
not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations in this
subsection (e) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting
obligations and not joint. The Company, each of the Founders, and the Underwriters agree that
it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8(e) were
determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for
such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the
equitable considerations referred to in this Section 8(e).
9. Termination. The Representatives may terminate this Agreement, by notice to the
Company and the Founders, at any time at or prior to the First Closing Date, if there has been
(i) any change, or any development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition
(financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole which, in the judgment of the Representatives,
is material and adverse and makes it impractical or inadvisable to market the Offered
Securities; (ii) any change or development involving a prospective change, in the United
States, Cayman Islands, PRC or international financial, political or economic conditions or
currency exchange rates or exchange controls the effect of which is such as to make it, in the
judgment of the Representatives, impractical to market or to enforce contracts for the sale of
the Offered Securities, whether in the primary market or in respect of dealings in the
secondary market; (iii) any suspension or material limitation of trading in securities
generally on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, or any setting of
minimum or maximum prices for trading on such exchange; (iv) any suspension of trading of any
securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market; (v) any banking
moratorium declared by any U.S. federal, New York, Cayman Islands, or PRC authorities; (vi)
any major disruption of settlements of securities, payment, or clearance services in the
United States, Cayman Islands, PRC or any other country where such securities are listed; or
(vii) any attack on, outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving the
United States, Cayman Islands or PRC, any declaration of war by Congress or any other national
or international calamity or emergency if, in the judgment of the Representatives, the effect
of any such attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration, calamity or emergency is such as
to make it inadvisable to market the Offered Securities or to enforce contracts for the sale
of the Offered Securities.
10. Default of Underwriters. If any Underwriter or Underwriters default in their
obligations to purchase Offered Securities hereunder on either the First or any Optional
Closing Date and the aggregate number of Offered Securities that such defaulting Underwriter
or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed 10% of the total number of
Offered Securities that the Underwriters are obligated to purchase on such Closing Date, the
Representatives may make arrangements satisfactory to the Company for the purchase of such
Offered Securities by other persons, including any of the Underwriters, but if no such
arrangements are made by such Closing Date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated
severally, in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the Offered
Securities that such defaulting Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase on such Closing
Date. If any Underwriter or Underwriters so default and the aggregate number of Offered
Securities with respect to which such default or defaults occur
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exceeds 10% of the total number of Offered Securities that the Underwriters are obligated
to purchase on such Closing Date and arrangements satisfactory to the Representatives and the
Company for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons are not made within 24
hours after such default, this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any
non-defaulting Underwriter and the Company, except as provided in Section 11 (provided that if
such default occurs with respect to Optional Securities after the First Closing Date, this
Agreement will not terminate as to the Firm Securities or any Optional Securities purchased
prior to such termination). As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes any
person substituted for an Underwriter under this Section. Nothing herein will relieve a
defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
11. Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations. The respective indemnities,
agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company, or its officers,
the Founders and of the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement
will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation, or statement as to the
results thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company and each of the
Founders, or any of their respective representatives, officers or directors or any controlling
person, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Offered Securities. If the purchase
of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated for any reason other than
solely because of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 10 hereof, the Company
will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including fees and
disbursements of counsel) reasonably incurred by them in connection with the offering of the
Offered Securities, and the respective obligations of the Company and each of the Founders,
and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 8 hereof shall remain in effect. In addition, if any
Offered Securities have been purchased hereunder, the representations and warranties in
Section 2 and all obligations under Section 5 shall also remain in effect.
12. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and, if sent to the
Underwriters, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to the Representatives,
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, X.X. 00000,
Attention: Equity Capital Markets, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Eleven Madison
Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010-3629, Attention: LCD-IBD, or, if sent to the Company and each of
the Founders, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to it at 00-0
Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx District, Chongqing, People’s Republic of
China, Attention: the Chief Financial Officer; provided, however, that any notice to an
Underwriter pursuant to Section 8 will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to
such Underwriter.
13. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the
parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers and directors and controlling
persons referred to in Section 8, and no other person will have any right or obligation
hereunder.
14. Representation of Underwriters. The Representatives will act for the several
Underwriters in connection with this offering, and any action under this Agreement taken by
the Representatives jointly or by either Representative individually will be binding upon all
the Underwriters.
15. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute
one and the same Agreement.
16. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company and each of the Founders acknowledge
and agree that:
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(a) No Other Relationship. The Representatives have been retained solely to act as
underwriters in connection with the sale of Offered Securities and that no fiduciary, advisory
or agency relationship between the Company and each of the Founders on the one hand, and the
Representatives on the other, has been created in respect of any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or the Final Prospectus, irrespective of whether the
Representatives have advised or is advising the Company and each of the Founders on other
matters;
(b) Arms’ Length Negotiations. The price of the Offered Securities set forth in this
Agreement was established by the Company and the Founders following discussions and
arms-length negotiations with the Representatives and the Company and the Founders are capable
of evaluating and understanding and understand and accept the terms, risks and conditions of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(c) Absence of Obligation to Disclose. The Company and the Founders have been advised
that the Representatives and their affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions
which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and the Founders and that
the Representatives have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the
Company and the Founders by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and
(d) Waiver. The Company and each of the Founders waives, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, any claims any of them may have against the Representatives for breach of fiduciary
duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agree that the Representatives shall have no
liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company and each of the Founders in respect of
such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or
in right of the Company or each of the Founders, including their respective stockholders,
employees or creditors, if applicable.
17. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance
with, the laws of the State of New York.
The Company and each of the Founders hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of
the Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit
or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated
hereby. The Company and each of the Founders irrevocably and unconditionally waive any
objection to the laying of venue of any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in Federal and state courts in the Borough
of Manhattan in The City of New York and irrevocably and unconditionally waive and agree not
to plead or claim in any such court that any such suit or proceeding in any such court has
been brought in an inconvenient forum. The Company and each of the Founders irrevocably
appoint Law Debenture as their respective authorized agent in the Borough of Manhattan in The
City of New York upon which process may be served in any such suit or proceeding, and agree
that service of process upon such agent, and written notice of said service to the Company and
each of the Founders by the person serving the same to the address provided in Section 12,
shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company and each of the
Founders in any such suit or proceeding. The Company and each of the Founders further agree 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 this
Agreement.
The obligation of the Company and each of the Founders pursuant to this Agreement in
respect of any sum due to any Underwriter shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency
other than United States dollars, not be discharged until the first business day, following
receipt by such Underwriter of any sum adjudged to be so due in such other currency, on which
(and only to the
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extent that) such Underwriter may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase
United States dollars with such other currency; if the United States dollars so purchased are
less than the sum originally due to such Underwriter hereunder, the Company and each of the
Founders agree, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify
such Underwriter against such loss. If the United States dollars so purchased are greater than
the sum originally due to such Underwriter hereunder, such Underwriter agrees to pay to the
Company and each of the Founders an amount equal to the excess of the dollars so purchased
over the sum originally due to such Underwriter hereunder.
(Signature Page Follows)
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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Representatives’ understanding of our
agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company one of the counterparts hereof, whereupon it
will become a binding agreement among the Company, the Founders and the several Underwriters
in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours, | |||||
COUNTRY STYLE COOKING RESTAURANTS CHAIN CO., LTD. | |||||
By: | |||||
Name: | |||||
Title: |
Xxxx Xx | |||||
By: | |||||
Name: | |||||
Title: |
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx | |||||
By: | |||||
Name: | |||||
Title: |
The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date
first above written.
XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED | |||||
By: | |||||
Name: | |||||
Title: |
CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC | |||||
By: | |||||
Name: | |||||
Title: | |||||
Acting on behalf of themselves and as the Representatives of the several Underwriters |
SCHEDULE A
Number of Firm | Maximum Number of | |||||||
Underwriter | Securities | Optional Securities | ||||||
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated |
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Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC |
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Xxxxx and Company, LLC |
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Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. |
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Total
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ANNEX I
Parties to the Lock-up Agreement
Xxxx Xx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
SIG China Investments One, Ltd
Sequoia Capital China II, L.P.
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Wenge Li
Qiurong Du
Xxxx Xx
Xxx X. Xxxx
Xxxxx Xxx Xx
Xxxx Xxx
Xx-Xxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xx
Caimin Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxx Zhang
Shengshun Li
Le Ding
Xxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx He
Xxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxx Xxx
Quanli Xxxx
Xx Zhang
Xxxxx Xxx
Xxxxx Xxxx
Gansheng Tian
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Xi Xxx
Xxx Jia
Xxx Xxxxx
Wu Chen
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
SIG China Investments One, Ltd
Sequoia Capital China II, L.P.
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Wenge Li
Qiurong Du
Xxxx Xx
Xxx X. Xxxx
Xxxxx Xxx Xx
Xxxx Xxx
Xx-Xxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xx
Caimin Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxx Zhang
Shengshun Li
Le Ding
Xxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx He
Xxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxx Xxx
Quanli Xxxx
Xx Zhang
Xxxxx Xxx
Xxxxx Xxxx
Gansheng Tian
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Xi Xxx
Xxx Jia
Xxx Xxxxx
Wu Chen
ANNEX II
LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
_______, 2010
Merrill Lync | h, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated |
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000,
X.X.X.
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000,
X.X.X.
Credit Suisse Securities USA (LLC)
Eleven Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010-3629
U.S.A.
Eleven Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010-3629
U.S.A.
as Representatives of the several Underwriters named in the Schedule A to the Underwriting
Agreement
Dear Sirs:
As an inducement to the Underwriters to execute the Underwriting Agreement on or around
September [27], 2010, among Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Co., Ltd. (the “Company”), Ms.
Xxxx Xx and Xx. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, as the Founders, and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx
Incorporated and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as the Representatives on behalf of the
several Underwriters named in Schedule A of the Underwriting Agreement, pursuant to which an
offering will be made that is intended to result in the establishment of a public market for the
American Depositary Shares (the “ADSs”), each representing four ordinary shares, par value US$0.001
per ordinary share (the “Ordinary Shares”) of the Company, the undersigned hereby agrees with each
Underwriter named in the Underwriting Agreement that during the period specified in the following
paragraph (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not ,without the prior written consent of
the Representatives, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise
dispose of any Ordinary Shares or ADSs of the Company, or any securities convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for any of Ordinary Shares or ADSs of the Company (the “Lock-Up
Securities”), or enter into a transaction which would have the same effect, or (ii) enter into any
swap, hedge or other arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic
consequences of ownership of the Lock-Up Securities, whether any such transaction described in (i)
or (ii) is to be settled by delivery of the Ordinary Shares, ADSs or such other securities, in cash
or otherwise, or (iii) publicly disclose the intention to make any such offer, sale, contract to
sell, pledge or disposition, or to enter into any such transaction, swap, hedge or other
arrangement, or (iv) make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of
any Lock-Up Securities.
The initial Lock-Up Period will commence on the date of this Lock-Up Agreement and continue
and include the date 180 days after the public offering date set forth on the final prospectus used
to sell the ADSs pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, to which the Underwriters are or expect to
become parties; provided, however, that if (i) during the last 17 days of the initial Lock-Up
Period, the Company releases earnings results or material news or a material event relating
to the Company occurs or (ii) prior to the expiration of the initial
Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results or become aware that
material news or a material event will occur during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of
the initial Lock-Up Period, then in either case the Lock-Up Period will be
extended until the
expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of the release of the earnings results or the
occurrence of the material news or event, as applicable, unless the Representatives waive, in
writing, such an extension.
The undersigned hereby acknowledges and agrees that written notice of any extension of the
Lock-Up Period pursuant to the previous paragraph will be delivered by the Representatives to the
Company (in accordance with Section 12 of the Underwriting Agreement) and that any such notice
properly delivered will be deemed to have been given to, and received, by the undersigned. The
undersigned further agrees that, prior to engaging in any transaction or taking any other action
that is subject to the terms of this Lock-Up Agreement during the period from the date of this
Lock-Up Agreement to and including the 34th day following the expiration of the initial
Lock-Up Period, it will give notice thereof to the Company and will not consummate such transaction
or take any such action unless it has received written confirmation from the Company that the
Lock-Up Period (as may have been extended pursuant to the previous paragraph) has expired.
Any Lock-Up Securities received upon exercise of any options and vesting of any restricted
shares or restricted share units granted to the undersigned will also be subject to this Agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the aforementioned restrictions on transfers of the Lock-Up
Securities shall not apply to the following types of transfers, provided that the transferee agrees
to be bound in writing by the terms of this Agreement prior to such transfer: (i) a transfer of
Lock-Up Securities to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned and/or the
immediate family of the undersigned may be made; (ii) transfers upon death by will or intestacy to
the undersigned’s immediate family, dispositions from any grantor retained annuity trust
established for the direct benefit of the undersigned and/or a member of the immediate family of
the undersigned pursuant to the terms of such trust; and (iii) distributions to any partnership,
corporation or limited liability company controlled by the undersigned or by a member of the
immediate family of the undersigned. Furthermore, the undersigned may sell Ordinary Shares of the
Company purchased by the undersigned on the open market following the public offering if such sales
are not required to be reported in any public report or filing with the Securities Exchange
Commission or otherwise. No filing by any party (donor, donee, transferor or transferee) under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 shall be required or shall be voluntarily made in connection with
such transfers referred to in this paragraph.
In furtherance of the foregoing, the Company and its transfer agent and registrar are hereby
authorized to decline to make any transfer of Lock-Up Securities if such transfer would constitute
a violation or breach of this Agreement.
This Agreement shall be binding on the undersigned and the successors, heirs, personal
representatives and assigns of the undersigned. This Agreement shall lapse and become null and
void if the offering shall not have closed on or before December 31, 2010. This agreement shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Very truly yours, | ||||
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
Annex III
Form of Depositary Letter
[•], 2010
Citibank, N.A. — ADR Depositary
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is hereby made to that certain Deposit Agreement, dated as of October [1], 2010 (the
“Deposit Agreement”), by and among Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Co., Ltd., a
company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), Citibank, N.A.,
as Depositary (the “Depositary”), and all Holders and Beneficial Owners from time to time
of American Depositary Shares issued thereunder. All capitalized terms used but not otherwise
defined herein shall have the meaning given to such terms in the Deposit Agreement.
The Company hereby instructs the Depositary, as contemplated in Section [2.3] of the Deposit
Agreement not to accept Shares under Section [2.3] of the Deposit Agreement for the purpose of
issuance of ADSs unless the Company has consented to such deposit. Attached hereto as Exhibit
A is a form of consent the Company intends to use for purposes of consenting to a deposit of
Shares under Section [2.3] of the Deposit Agreement.
COUNTRY STYLE COOKING RESTAURANT CHAIN CO., LTD. |
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By: | ||||
Name: | Xxxx Xx | |||
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
FORM OF CONSENT
COUNTRY STYLE COOKING RESTAURANT CHAIN CO., LTD.
COUNTRY STYLE COOKING RESTAURANT CHAIN CO., LTD.
, 20
Citibank Hong Kong, Custodian
10 /F, Harbour Front II
00, Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxx
10 /F, Harbour Front II
00, Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxx
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Co., Ltd. (the “Company”) hereby consents to
the deposit into the ADR facility existing under the terms of the Deposit Agreement, dated as of
October [1], 2010 (the “Deposit Agreement”), by and among the Company, Citibank, N.A., as
Depositary, and the Holders and Beneficial Owners from time to time of American Depositary Shares
issued thereunder, by the person(s) listed below of the Shares set forth opposite their name (none
of which are “Restricted Securities” within the meaning given to such term in the Deposit
Agreement).
Depositor | Shares | |
COUNTRY STYLE COOKING RESTAURANT CHAIN CO., LTD. |
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By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||