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UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities
Exchange Act of 1934
Date
of report (Date of earliest event reported): August 18,
2023
INFINT
ACQUISITION CORPORATION
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Cayman
Islands |
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001-41079
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98-1602649
|
(State
or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation) |
|
(Commission
File
Number) |
|
(I.R.S.
Employer
Identification
No.) |
32
Broadway, Suite 401
New
York, NY |
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10004
|
(Address
of principal executive offices) |
|
(Zip
Code) |
(212)
287-5010
(Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code)
Not
Applicable
(Former
name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check
the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of
the following provisions:
☐ |
Written
communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
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☐ |
Soliciting
material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
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☐ |
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) |
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☐ |
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
Securities
registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title
of each class |
|
Trading
Symbol(s) |
|
Name
of each exchange on which registered |
Units,
each consisting of one Class A ordinary shares and one-half of one Warrant |
|
IFIN.U |
|
The
New York Stock Exchange |
Class
A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share |
|
IFIN |
|
The
New York Stock Exchange |
Warrants,
each whole warrant exercisable for one Class A ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50 |
|
IFIN.WS |
|
The
New York Stock Exchange |
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405
of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging
growth company ☒
If
an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying
with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
Item
5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On
or about August 22, 2023, in connection with the Extraordinary General Meeting (as defined below), INFINT Acquisition Corporation (the
“Company”) will file an amendment (the “Extension Amendment”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum
and Articles of Association (the “Charter”) with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands to extend the date by which
the Company must consummate its initial business combination from August 23, 2023 to February 23, 2024, or such earlier date as determined
by the Company’s board of directors (the “Extended Date”). The Company’s shareholders approved the Extension
Amendment at the Extraordinary General Meeting on August 18, 2023.
The
foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Extension Amendment, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 3.1
hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item
5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
At
the Extraordinary General Meeting (the “Extraordinary General Meeting”) of the Company, which was held on August 18, 2023,
holders of 13,100,476 of the Company’s ordinary shares, which represents approximately 84.97% of the ordinary shares issued and
outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date of July 31, 2023, were represented in person or by proxy.
At
the Extraordinary General Meeting, the shareholders approved a special resolution (the “Extension Proposal”) to amend the
Charter to extend the date that the Company has to consummate a business combination from August 23, 2023 to the Extended Date.
The
affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001
per share, of the Company issued and outstanding, voting together as a single class, represented in person or by proxy and entitled to
vote thereon and who do so in person or by proxy at the Extraordinary General Meeting was required to approve the Extension Proposal.
Set
forth below are the final voting results for each of the proposals:
The
Extension Proposal
The
Extension Proposal was approved. The voting results of the ordinary shares were as follows:
For | |
Against | |
Abstain |
13,100,474 | |
2 | |
0 |
The
Adjournment Proposal
The
Adjournment Proposal was not presented at the meeting.
In
connection with the votes to approve the Extension Proposal, the holders of 2,176,003 Class A ordinary shares of the Company properly
exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.94 per share, for an aggregate
redemption amount of approximately $23.8 million, leaving approximately $81.1 million in the trust account.
Under
Cayman Islands law, the amendment to the Charter took effect upon approval of the Extension Proposal. Accordingly, the Company now has
until February 23, 2024 to consummate its initial business combination.
Item
9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)
Exhibits.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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INFINT
ACQUISITION CORPoration |
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By: |
/s/
Alexander Edgarov |
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Name:
|
Alexander
Edgarov |
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Title:
|
Chief
Executive Officer |
Date:
August 22, 2023
Exhibit 3.1
COMPANIES
ACT (AS AMENDED)
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD
AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM
AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFINT
ACQUISITION CORPORATION
(adopted
pursuant to special resolutions of the Company passed on 18 August, 2023 and effective
on
18 August, 2023)
COMPANIES
ACT (AS AMENDED)
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD
AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM
OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFINT
ACQUISITION CORPORATION
(adopted
pursuant to special resolutions of the Company passed on 18 August, 2023 and effective
on
18 August, 2023)
1. | The
name of the Company is InFinT Acquisition Corporation. |
| |
2. | The
registered office of the Company is at the offices of Mourant Governance Services (Cayman)
Limited, 94 Solaris Avenue, Camana Bay, PO Box 1348, Grand Cayman KY1-1108, Cayman Islands
or at such other place as the Directors may from time to time decide. |
| |
3. | The
objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and the Company shall have
full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited by law as provided by Section
7(4) of the Companies Act. |
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4. | The
Company shall have and be capable of exercising all the functions of a natural person of
full capacity irrespective of any question of corporate benefit as provided by Section 27(2)
of the Companies Act. |
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5. | Nothing
in the preceding paragraphs shall be deemed to permit the Company to carry on the business
of a bank or trust company without being licensed in that behalf under the provisions of
the Banks and Trust Companies Act (as amended) of the Cayman Islands, or to carry on insurance
business from within the Cayman Islands or the business of an insurance manager, agent, sub-agent
or broker without being licensed in that behalf under the provisions of the Insurance Act
(as amended) of the Cayman Islands, or to carry on the business of company management without
being licensed in that behalf under the provisions of the Companies Management Act (as amended)
of the Cayman Islands. |
6. | The
Company will not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except
in furtherance of the business of the Company carried on outside the Cayman Islands, provided
that nothing in this Memorandum of Association shall be construed as to prevent the Company
from effecting and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands, and exercising in the Cayman
Islands all of its powers necessary for the carrying on of business outside the Cayman Islands. |
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7. | The
liability of each member is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on such member’s
shares. |
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8. | The
authorised share capital of the Company is US$55,500 divided into 500,000,000 class A ordinary
shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each, 50,000,000 class B ordinary shares with a par
value of US$0.0001 each and 5,000,000 preference shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each,
with the power for the Company, insofar as is permitted by law and the Articles of Association
of the Company, to redeem, purchase or redesignate any of its shares and to increase or reduce
the said share capital subject to the Companies Act and the Articles of Association and to
issue any part of its capital, whether original, redeemed or increased with or without any
preference, priority or special privilege or subject to any postponement of rights or to
any conditions or restrictions and so that unless the conditions of issue shall otherwise
expressly declare every issue of shares whether declared to be preference or otherwise shall
be subject to the powers hereinbefore contained. |
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9. | The
Company may exercise the power contained in Section 206 of the Companies Act to deregister
in the Cayman Islands and be registered by way of continuation in another jurisdiction. |
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10. | Capitalised
terms that are not defined in this Memorandum of Association bear the meanings given to those
terms in the Articles of Association of the Company. |
COMPANIES
ACT (AS AMENDED)
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD
AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES
OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFINT
ACQUISITION CORPORATION
(adopted
pursuant to special resolutions of the Company passed on 18 August, 2023 and effective on 18 August, 2023)
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE |
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PAGE |
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TABLE
A |
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1 |
DEFINITIONS
AND INTERPRETATION |
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1 |
COMMENCEMENT
OF BUSINESS |
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7 |
SITUATION
OF REGISTERED OFFICE |
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7 |
SHARES |
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7 |
ISSUE
OF SHARES |
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8 |
SHARE
RIGHTS |
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9 |
CLASS
B SHARE CONVERSION |
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9 |
REDEMPTION,
PURCHASE AND SURRENDER OF SHARES |
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11 |
TREASURY
SHARES |
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12 |
MODIFICATION
OF RIGHTS |
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12 |
COMMISSION
ON SALES OF SHARES |
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13 |
SHARE
CERTIFICATES |
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13 |
TRANSFER
AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES |
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14 |
LIEN |
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15 |
CALL
ON SHARES |
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16 |
FORFEITURE
OF SHARES |
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17 |
ALTERATION
OF SHARE CAPITAL |
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18 |
GENERAL
MEETINGS |
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18 |
NOTICE
OF GENERAL MEETINGS |
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19 |
PROCEEDINGS
AT GENERAL MEETINGS |
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20 |
VOTES
OF SHAREHOLDERS |
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22 |
CLEARING
HOUSES |
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24 |
WRITTEN
RESOLUTIONS OF SHAREHOLDERS |
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24 |
DIRECTORS |
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24 |
TRANSACTIONS
WITH DIRECTORS |
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27 |
POWERS
OF DIRECTORS |
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28 |
PROCEEDINGS
OF DIRECTORS |
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29 |
WRITTEN
RESOLUTIONS OF DIRECTORS |
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31 |
PRESUMPTION
OF ASSENT |
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31 |
BORROWING
POWERS |
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31 |
SECRETARY |
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31 |
THE
SEAL |
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32 |
Dividends,
Distributions and Reserves |
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32 |
SHARE
PREMIUM ACCOUNT |
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33 |
ACCOUNTS |
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33 |
AUDIT |
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34 |
NOTICES |
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34 |
WINDING
UP AND FINAL DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS |
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36 |
INDEMNITY |
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36 |
DISCLOSURE |
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37 |
BUSINESS
COMBINATION |
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37 |
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES |
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40 |
CLOSING
REGISTER OF MEMBERS OR FIXING RECORD DATE |
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41 |
REGISTRATION
BY WAY OF CONTINUATION |
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42 |
FINANCIAL
YEAR |
|
42 |
AMENDMENTS
TO MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION |
|
42 |
CAYMAN
ISLANDS DATA PROTECTION |
|
42 |
COMPANIES
ACT (AS AMENDED)
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD
AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES
OF ASSOCIATION
OF
INFINT
ACQUISITION CORPORATION
(adopted
pursuant to special resolutions of the Company passed on 18 August, 2023 and effective on 18 August, 2023)
TABLE
A
1. | In
these Articles, the regulations contained in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies
Act (as defined below) do not apply except insofar as they are repeated or contained in these
Articles. |
DEFINITIONS
AND INTERPRETATION
2. | In
these Articles the following words and expressions shall have the meanings set out below
save where the context otherwise requires: |
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Applicable
Law |
with
respect to any person, all applicable provisions of all constitutions, treaties, statutes, laws (including the common law), codes,
rules, regulations, ordinances or orders of any Governmental Authority, and any orders, decisions, injunctions, awards and decrees
of or agreements with any Governmental Authority; |
|
Articles |
these
articles of association of the Company, as amended or amended and restated from time to time by Special Resolution; |
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Audit
Committee |
the
audit committee of the board of directors of the Company established pursuant to Article 171, or any successor audit committee; |
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Auditors |
the
auditor or auditors for the time being of the Company; |
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Board
of Directors |
the
Directors assembled as a board or assembled as a committee appointed by that board; |
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Business
Combination |
a
merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganisation or similar business combination involving
the Company, with one or more businesses or assets (the target business), which Business Combination: (a) must occur with
one or more target businesses that together have an aggregate fair market value of at least 80 per cent of the assets held in the
Trust Account (excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) at the
time of entering into the definitive agreement to enter into a Business Combination; and (b) must not be effectuated solely with
another blank cheque company or a similar company with nominal operations; |
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Business
Combination Provisions |
has
the meaning given in Article 188; |
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Class
or Classes |
any
class or classes of Shares as may from time to time be issued by the Company; |
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Class
A Share |
a
Class A ordinary share with a par value of US$0.0001 in the share capital of the Company; |
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Class
B Share |
a
Class B ordinary share with a par value of US$0.0001 in the share capital of the Company; |
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Class
B Share Conversion |
the
conversion of Class B Shares in accordance with these Articles; |
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Companies
Act |
the
Companies Act (as amended) of the Cayman Islands; |
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Company |
the
above-named company; |
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Designated
Stock Exchange |
means
any national securities exchange or automated system on which the Company’s securities are traded, including, but not limited
to, NASDAQ Global Market, The New York Stock Exchange or any over-the-counter (OTC) market; |
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Directors |
the
directors of the Company for the time being; |
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Dividend |
any
dividend (whether interim or final) resolved to be paid on Shares pursuant to these Articles; |
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DPA |
has
the meaning given in Article 212; |
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Electronic
Record |
has
the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act; |
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Electronic
Transactions
Act |
the
Electronic Transactions Act (as amended) of the Cayman Islands; |
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Equity-linked
Securities |
any
debt or equity securities that are convertible, exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Shares issued in a financing transaction
in connection with a Business Combination, including, but not limited to, a private placement of equity or debt; |
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Founders |
the
Sponsor and all Shareholders immediately prior to the consummation of the IPO; |
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Governmental
Authority |
any
nation or government or any province or state or any other political subdivision thereof, or any entity, authority or body exercising
executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including any court, tribunal,
government authority, agency, department, board, commission or instrumentality or any political subdivision thereof, any court, tribunal
or arbitrator, and any self-regulatory organisation; |
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Initial
Conversion Ratio |
has
the meaning given in Article 23; |
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Investor
Group |
the
Sponsor and its affiliates, successors and assigns; |
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Investor
Group Related Person |
has
the meaning given in Article 200; |
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IPO |
the
Company’s initial public offering of securities; |
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IPO
Redemption |
has
the meaning given in Article 192; |
|
Memorandum |
the
memorandum of association of the Company, as amended or amended and restated from time to time by Special Resolution; |
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Ordinary
Resolution |
a
resolution: |
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(a) |
passed
by a simple majority of the votes of such Shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed,
by proxy, at a general meeting and where a poll is taken regard shall be had in computing a majority to the number of votes to which
each Shareholder is entitled; or |
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(b) |
approved
in writing by all of the Shareholders entitled to vote at a general meeting in one or more instruments each signed by one or more
of the Shareholders and the effective date of the resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the instrument, or the last of
such instruments, if more than one, is executed; |
|
Over-Allotment
Option |
means
the option of the Underwriter to purchase additional units sold in the IPO at a price equal to US$10.00 per unit, less underwriting
discounts and commissions; |
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paid
up |
paid
up as to the par value and any premium payable in respect of the issue of any Shares and includes credited as paid up; |
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person |
any
natural person, firm, company, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association or other entity (whether or not having separate
legal personality) or any of them as the context so requires; |
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Personal
Data |
has
the meaning given in Article 212; |
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Preference
Share |
a
preference share of a par value of US$0.0001 in the share capital of the Company; |
|
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|
Public
Share |
a
Class A Share issued as part of the units issued in the IPO; |
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|
Redemption
Price |
has
the meaning given in Article 192; |
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Register
of Members |
the
register of Shareholders to be kept pursuant to these Articles; |
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Registered
Office |
the
registered office of the Company for the time being; |
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Seal |
the
common seal of the Company including any duplicate seal; |
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|
SEC |
the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission; |
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|
|
Secretary |
any
person appointed by the Directors to perform any of the duties of the secretary of the Company, including a joint, assistant or deputy
secretary; |
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Series
|
a
series of a Class as may from time to time be issued by the Company; |
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|
Share |
means
a Class A Share, a Class B Share or a Preference Share and includes a fraction of a share in the Company; |
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|
Shareholder |
any
person registered in the Register of Members as the holder of Shares of the Company and, where two or more persons are so registered
as the joint holders of such Shares, the person whose name stands first in the Register of Members as one of such joint holders; |
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|
Share
Premium Account |
the
share premium account established in accordance with these Articles and the Companies Act; |
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signed |
includes
an electronic signature and a signature or representation of a signature affixed by mechanical means; |
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|
|
Special
Resolution |
has
the same meaning as in the Companies Act, being a resolution:
|
|
(a) |
passed
by a majority of not less than two-thirds (or, with respect to amending Article 120 or Article 128(g) prior to the consummation of
a Business Combination, a majority of not less than 90% of the votes cast at a general meeting) of such Shareholders as, being entitled
to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to
propose the resolution as a special resolution has been duly given and where a poll is taken regard shall be had in computing a majority
to the number of votes to which each Shareholder is entitled; or |
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|
(b) |
approved
in writing by all of the Shareholders entitled to vote at a general meeting in one or more instruments each signed by one or more
of the Shareholders and the effective date of the special resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the instrument or the
last of such instruments, if more than one, is executed; |
|
Sponsor
|
InFinT
Capital LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; |
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|
Treasury
Shares |
Shares
that were previously issued but were purchased, redeemed, surrendered or otherwise acquired by the Company and not cancelled; |
|
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|
Trust
Account |
the
trust account established by the Company upon the consummation of its IPO and into which a certain amount of the net proceeds of
the IPO, together with certain of the proceeds of a private placement of warrants simultaneously with the closing date of the IPO,
will be deposited; |
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|
Underwriter
|
an
underwriter of the IPO from time to time and any successor underwriter; and |
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|
US
Exchange Act |
the
United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any similar U.S. federal statute and the rules and regulations of the
SEC thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time. |
3. | In
these Articles, unless there be something in the subject or context inconsistent with such
construction: |
| (a) | words
importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa; |
| | |
| (b) | words
importing persons only shall include companies, partnerships, trusts or associations or bodies
of persons, whether corporate or not; |
| | |
| (c) | the
word “may” shall be construed as permissive and the word “shall”
shall be construed as imperative; |
| | |
| (d) | the
word “year” shall mean calendar year, the word “quarter” shall mean
calendar quarter and the word “month” shall mean calendar month; |
| | |
| (e) | a
reference to a “dollar” or “$” is a reference to the legal currency
of the United States of America; |
| | |
| (f) | a
reference to any enactment includes a reference to any modification or re-enactment thereof
for the time being in force; |
| | |
| (g) | a
reference to any meeting (whether of the Directors, a committee appointed by the Board of
Directors or the Shareholders or any class of Shareholders) includes any adjournment of that
meeting; |
| (h) | Sections
8 and 19 of the Electronic Transactions Act shall not apply; and |
| | |
| (i) | a
reference to “written” or “in writing” includes a reference to all
modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form, including in the form of an Electronic
Record. |
4. | Subject
to the two preceding Articles, any words defined in the Companies Act shall, if not inconsistent
with the subject or context, bear the same meaning in these Articles. |
| |
5. | The
table of contents to and the headings in these Articles are for convenience of reference
only and are to be ignored in construing these Articles. |
COMMENCEMENT
OF BUSINESS
6. | The
business of the Company may be commenced as soon after incorporation as the Board of Directors
shall see fit. |
SITUATION
OF REGISTERED OFFICE
7. | The
Registered Office shall be at such address in the Cayman Islands as the Directors shall from
time to time determine. The Company, in addition to the Registered Office, may establish
and maintain such other offices and places of business and agencies in such places as the
Directors may from time to time determine. |
SHARES
8. | The
Directors may impose such restrictions as they think necessary on the offer and sale of any
Shares. |
| |
9. | The
Directors may in their absolute discretion refuse to accept any application for Shares and
may accept any application in whole or in part. |
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10. | The
Company may on any issue of Shares deduct any sales charge or subscription fee from the amount
subscribed for the Shares. |
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11. | No
person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any Share upon any trust, and the Company
shall not be bound by or recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent,
future or partial interest in any Share, or (except as otherwise provided by these Articles
or as required by law) any other right in respect of any Share except an absolute right thereto
in the registered holder. |
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12. | The
Directors shall keep or cause to be kept a Register of Members as required by the Companies
Act at such place or places as the Directors may from time to time determine, and in the
absence of any such determination, the Register of Members shall be kept at the Registered
Office. |
13. | The
Directors in each year shall prepare or cause to be prepared an annual return and declaration
setting forth the particulars required by the Companies Act in respect of exempted companies
and deliver a copy thereof to the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands. |
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14. | The
Company shall not issue Shares to bearer. |
ISSUE
OF SHARES
15. | Subject
to the provisions, if any, in the Memorandum (and to any direction that may be given by the
Company in general meeting) and, where applicable, the rules and regulations of the Designated
Stock Exchange, the SEC and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under
Applicable Law, without prejudice to any rights attached to any existing Shares, the Directors
may allot, issue, grant options over or otherwise dispose of Shares (including fractions
of a Share) with or without preferred, deferred or other rights or restrictions, whether
in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise and to such persons, at such
times and on such other terms as they think proper, and may also (subject to the Companies
Act and these Articles) vary such rights, and for such purposes the Directors may reserve
an appropriate number of Shares for the time being unissued; save that the Directors shall
not allot, issue, grant options over or otherwise dispose of Shares (including fractions
of a Share) to the extent that it may affect the ability of the Company to carry out a Class
B Share Conversion as set out in these Articles. |
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16. | The
Company may issue rights, options, warrants or convertible securities or securities of a
similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or
receive any class of Shares or other securities in the Company, upon such terms as the Directors
may from time to time determine, and for such purposes the Directors may reserve an appropriate
number of Shares for the time being unissued. |
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17. | The
Company may issue units of securities in the Company, which may be comprised of whole or
fractional Shares, rights, options, warrants or convertible securities or securities of similar
nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or receive
any class of Shares or other securities in the Company, upon such terms as the Directors
may from time to time determine. The securities comprising any such units which are issued
pursuant to the IPO can only be traded separately from one another on the 52nd day following
the date of the prospectus relating to the IPO unless the Underwriter determines that an
earlier date is acceptable, subject to the Company having filed a current report on Form
8-K with the SEC and a press release announcing when such separate trading will begin. Prior
to such date, the units can be traded, but the securities comprising such units cannot be
traded separately from one another. |
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18. | Subject
to Article 39, the Directors, or the Shareholders by Ordinary Resolution, may authorise the
division of Shares into any number of Classes and sub-classes and Series and sub-series and
the different Classes and sub-classes and Series and sub-series shall be authorised, established
and designated (or re-designated as the case may be) and the variations in the relative rights
(including, without limitation, voting, dividend and redemption rights), restrictions, preferences,
privileges and payment obligations as between the different Classes and Series (if any) may
be fixed and determined by the Directors or the Shareholders by Ordinary Resolution. |
19. | The
Directors may issue fractions of a Share and, if so issued, a fraction of a Share shall be
subject to and carry the corresponding fraction of liabilities (whether with respect to nominal
or par value, premium, calls or otherwise howsoever), limitations, preferences, privileges,
qualifications, restrictions, rights (including without prejudice to the foregoing generality,
voting and participation rights) and other attributes of a Share. If more than one fraction
of a Share is issued to or acquired by the same Shareholder, such fractions shall be accumulated. |
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20. | The
premium arising on all issues of Shares shall be held in the Share Premium Account established
in accordance with these Articles. |
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21. | Payment
for Shares shall be made at such time and place and to such person on behalf of the Company
as the Directors may from time to time determine. Payment for any Shares shall be made in
such currency as the Directors may determine from time to time, provided that the Directors
shall have the discretion to accept payment in any other currency or in kind or a combination
of cash and in kind. |
SHARE
RIGHTS
| 22. | With
the exception that the holder of a Class B Share shall have the conversion rights referred
to in Article 23, the Director appointment and removal rights referred to in Article 120
and except as otherwise specified in these Articles or required by law, the rights attaching
to all Class A Shares and Class B Shares shall rank pari passu in all respects, and the Class
A Shares and Class B Shares shall vote together as a single class on all matters. |
CLASS
B SHARE CONVERSION
23. | Subject
to Article 24, Class B Shares shall automatically convert into Class A Shares on a one-for-one
basis (the Initial
Conversion Ratio) automatically on the day of the closing
of the initial Business Combination. |
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24. | Notwithstanding
the Initial Conversion Ratio: |
| (a) | in
the event that additional Class A Shares or any other Equity-linked Securities are issued
or deemed issued in excess of the amounts offered in the IPO and related to the closing of
the initial Business Combination, all Class B Shares in issue shall automatically convert
into Class A Shares at the time of the closing of the initial Business Combination and the
ratio for which the Class B Shares shall convert into Class A Shares will be adjusted so
that the number of Class A Shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B Shares will equal,
in the aggregate, 20 per cent of the sum of: (a) all Class A Shares in issue upon completion
of the IPO and after such conversion plus (b) all Class A Shares issued, or deemed issued
or issuable upon conversion or exercise of any Equity-linked Securities or rights issued
or deemed issued by the Company in connection with or in relation to the consummation of
the initial Business Combination, excluding (x) any Class A Shares or Equity-linked Securities
exercisable for or convertible into Class A Shares issued, or deemed issued, or to be issued,
to any seller in the initial Business Combination and (y) any private placement warrants
issued to the Sponsor, its affiliates or any Director or officer of the Company upon conversion
of working capital loans made to the Company; and |
| (b) | the
foregoing adjustment to the Initial Conversion Ratio may be waived as to any particular issuance
or deemed issuance of additional Class A Shares or Equity-linked Securities by the written
consent or agreement of holders of a majority of the Class B Shares then in issue consenting
as a separate class in the manner provided in Article 39. |
25. | The
applicable conversion ratio for Class B Shares shall be adjusted to account for any subdivision
(by share split, subdivision, exchange, capitalisation, rights issue, reclassification, recapitalisation
or otherwise) or combination (by reverse share split, share consolidation, exchange, reclassification,
recapitalisation or otherwise) or similar reclassification or recapitalisation of the Class
A Shares in issue into a greater or lesser number of shares occurring after the adoption
of these Articles without a proportionate and corresponding subdivision, combination or similar
reclassification or recapitalisation of the Class B Shares in issue. |
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26. | Each
Class B Share shall convert into its pro rata number of Class A Shares as set forth in this
Article 26. The pro rata share for each holder of Class B Shares will be determined as follows:
each Class B Share shall convert into such number of Class A Shares as is equal to the product
of 1 multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the total number of Class
A Shares into which all of the Class B Shares in issue shall be converted pursuant to these
Articles and the denominator of which shall be the total number of Class B Shares in issue
at the time of conversion. |
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27. | Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in these Articles, in no event may any Class B Share convert into
Class A Shares at a ratio that is less than one-for-one. |
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28. | References
in Articles 23 to 27 to converted,
conversion or exchange shall
mean the compulsory redemption without notice of Class B Shares of any Shareholder and, on
behalf of such Shareholders, automatic application of such redemption proceeds in paying
for such new Class A Shares into which the Class B Shares have been converted or exchanged
at a price per Class B Share necessary to give effect to a conversion or exchange calculated
on the basis that the Class A Shares to be issued as part of the conversion or exchange will
be issued at par. The Class A Shares to be issued on an exchange or conversion shall be registered
in the name of such Shareholder or in such name as the Shareholder may direct. |
REDEMPTION,
PURCHASE AND SURRENDER OF SHARES
29. | Subject
to the Companies Act and the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Company may: |
| (a) | issue
Shares on terms that they are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of
the Company or the Shareholder on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may determine; |
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| (b) | purchase
its own Shares (including any redeemable Shares) on such terms and in such manner as the
Directors may determine and agree with the Shareholder; |
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| (c) | make
a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own Shares in any manner authorised
by the Companies Act, including out of its capital; and |
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| (d) | accept
the surrender for no consideration of any paid up Share (including any redeemable Share)
on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may determine. |
30. | With
respect to redeeming or repurchasing the Shares: |
| (a) | Shareholders
who hold Public Shares are entitled to request the redemption of such Shares in the circumstances
described in these Articles; |
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| (b) | Shares
held by the Founders shall be surrendered by the Founders on a pro rata basis for no consideration
to the extent that the Over-Allotment Option is not exercised in full so that the Founders
will own, on an as converted basis, 20 per cent of the Company’s issued Shares after
the IPO (exclusive of any securities purchased in a private placement simultaneously with
the IPO); and |
| (c) | Public
Shares shall be repurchased by way of tender offer in the circumstances set out in these
Articles. |
31. | The
redemptions and repurchases of Shares in the circumstances described in Article 30 above
shall not require further approval of the Shareholders. |
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32. | Any
Share in respect of which notice of redemption has been given shall not be entitled to participate
in the profits of the Company in respect of the period after the date specified as the date
of redemption in the notice of redemption. |
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33. | The
redemption, purchase or surrender of any Share shall not be deemed to give rise to the redemption,
purchase or surrender of any other Share. |
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34. | The
Directors may when making payments in respect of redemption or purchase of Shares, if authorised
by the terms of issue of the Shares being redeemed or purchased or with the agreement of
the holder of such Shares, make such payment either in cash or in specie including, without
limitation, interests in a special purpose vehicle holding assets of the Company or holding
entitlement to the proceeds of assets held by the Company or in a liquidating structure. |
TREASURY
SHARES
35. | Shares
that the Company purchases, redeems or acquires (by way of surrender or otherwise) may, at
the option of the Company, be cancelled immediately or held as Treasury Shares in accordance
with the Companies Act. In the event that the Directors do not specify that the relevant
Shares are to be held as Treasury Shares, such Shares shall be cancelled. |
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36. | No
dividend may be declared or paid, and no other distribution (whether in cash or otherwise)
of the Company’s assets (including any distribution of assets to Shareholders on a
winding up) may be declared or paid in respect of a Treasury Share. |
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37. | The
Company shall be entered in the Register of Members as the holder of the Treasury Shares
provided that: |
| (a) | the
Company shall not be treated as a Shareholder for any purpose and shall not exercise any
right in respect of the Treasury Shares, and any purported exercise of such a right shall
be void; and |
| (b) | a
Treasury Share shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting of the Company
and shall not be counted in determining the total number of issued shares at any given time,
whether for the purposes of these Articles or the Companies Act, save that an allotment of
Shares as fully paid bonus shares in respect of Treasury Shares is permitted and Shares allotted
as fully paid bonus shares in respect of Treasury Shares shall be treated as Treasury Shares. |
38. | Treasury
Shares may be disposed of by the Company on any terms and conditions as determined by the
Directors. |
MODIFICATION
OF RIGHTS
39. | If
at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of Shares,
the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the
Shares of that class) may, whether or not the Company is being wound up, be varied without
the consent in writing of the holders of the issued Shares of that class where such variation
is considered by the Directors not to have a material adverse effect upon such rights; otherwise,
any such variation shall be made only with the consent in writing of the holders of not less
than two thirds of the issued Shares of that class, or with the approval of a resolution
passed by a majority of not less than two thirds of the votes cast at a separate meeting
of the holders of the Shares of that class (other than with respect to a waiver pursuant
to Article 24(b), which as stated therein shall only require the consent in writing of the
holders of a majority of the issued Shares of that class). For the avoidance of doubt, the
Directors reserve the right, notwithstanding that any such variation may not have a material
adverse effect, to obtain consent from the holders of Shares of the relevant class. To any
such meeting all the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply
mutatis mutandis, except that the necessary quorum shall be one or more persons holding
or representing by proxy at least one third in nominal or par value amount of the issued
Shares of the class (but so that if at any adjourned meeting of such holders a quorum as
above defined is not present, those Shareholders who are present shall form a quorum) and
that any holder of Shares of the class present in person or by proxy may demand a poll. |
40. | For
the purposes of a separate class meeting, the Directors may treat two or more or all the
classes of Shares as forming one class of Shares if the Directors consider that such class
of Shares would be affected in the same way by the proposals under consideration, but in
any other case shall treat them as separate classes of Shares. |
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41. | The
provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply to every class meeting
of the holders of one class of Shares except that the necessary quorum shall be one or more
Shareholders holding or representing by proxy at least twenty per cent in par value of the
issued Shares of the class and that any holder of Shares of the class present in person or
by proxy may demand a poll. |
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42. | The
rights conferred upon the holders of the Shares of any class issued with preferred or other
rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the Shares
of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further Shares ranking
pari passu therewith, any variation of the rights conferred upon the holders of Shares of
any other class, or the redemption or purchase of any Shares of any class by the Company. |
COMMISSION
ON SALES OF SHARES
43. | The
Company may, in so far as the Companies Act permits, pay a commission to any person in consideration
of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe (whether absolutely or conditionally) or procuring
or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether absolutely or conditionally) for any Shares.
Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash and/or the issue of fully or partly
paid-up Shares. The Company may also on any issue of Shares pay such brokerage as may be
lawful. |
SHARE
CERTIFICATES
44. | The
Shares will be issued in fully registered, book-entry form. A Shareholder shall only be entitled
to a share certificate if the Directors resolve that share certificates shall be issued.
Share certificates representing Shares, if any, shall be in such form as the Directors may
determine. Share certificates shall be signed by one or more Directors or other person authorised
by the Directors. The Directors may authorise certificates to be issued with the authorised
signature(s) affixed by mechanical process. All certificates for Shares shall be consecutively
numbered or otherwise identified and shall specify the Shares to which they relate. All certificates
surrendered to the Company for transfer shall be cancelled and, subject to these Articles,
no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate representing a like number
of relevant Shares shall have been surrendered and cancelled. |
45. | If
a share certificate is defaced, worn out lost or destroyed it may be renewed on such terms
(if any) as to evidence and indemnity and on payment of such fee, if any, and on such terms
if any, as to evidence and obligations to indemnify the Company as the Board of Directors
may determine and (in the case of defacement or wearing out) upon delivery of the old certificate.
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46. | Every
share certificate sent in accordance with these Articles will be sent at the risk of the
Shareholder or other person entitled to the certificate. The Company will not be responsible
for any share certificate lost or delayed in the course of delivery. |
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47. | Every
share certificate of the Company shall bear legends required under Applicable Law, including
the US Exchange Act. |
TRANSFER
AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
48. | Subject
to these Articles and the rules or regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange or any relevant
rules of the SEC or securities laws (including, but not limited to the US Exchange Act),
a Shareholder may transfer all or any of his, her or its Shares. |
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49. | The
instrument of transfer of any Share shall be in: (a) any usual or common form; (b) such form
as is prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange; or (c) any other form as the Directors
may determine, and shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and if in respect
of a nil or partly paid up Share, or if so required by the Directors, shall also be executed
on behalf of the transferee and shall be accompanied by the certificate (if any) of the Shares
to which it relates and such other evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show
the right of the transferor to make the transfer. The transferor shall be deemed to remain
the holder of a Share until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Members
in respect of the relevant Shares. |
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50. | Subject
to the terms of issue thereof and the rules or regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange
or any relevant rules of the SEC or securities laws (including, but not limited to, the US
Securities Act of 1933, as amended), the Directors may determine to decline to register any
transfer of Shares without assigning any reason therefor. If the Shares in question were
issued in conjunction with rights, options or warrants issued pursuant to these Articles
on terms that one cannot be transferred without the other, the Directors shall refuse to
register the transfer of any such Share without evidence satisfactory to them of the like
transfer of such option or warrant. |
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51. | The
registration and transfer of Shares may be suspended at such times and for such periods as
the Directors may from time to time determine. |
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52. | All
instruments of transfer which are registered shall be retained by the Company, but any instrument
of transfer which the Directors may decline to register shall (except in any case of fraud)
be returned to the person depositing the same. |
53. | In
case of the death of a Shareholder, the survivors or survivor (where the deceased was a joint
holder) and the executors or administrators of the deceased where the deceased was the sole
or only surviving holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having title
to the deceased’s interest in the Shares, but nothing in this Article shall release
the estate of the deceased holder whether sole or joint from any liability in respect of
any Share solely or jointly held by the deceased. |
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54. | Any
guardian of an infant Shareholder and any curator or other legal representative of a Shareholder
under legal disability and any person entitled to a share in consequence of the death or
bankruptcy of a Shareholder shall, upon producing such evidence of title as the Directors
may require, have the right either to be registered as the holder of the Share or to make
such transfer thereof as the deceased or bankrupt Shareholder could have made, but the Directors
shall in either case have the same right to refuse or suspend registration as they would
have had in the case of a transfer of the Shares by the infant or by the deceased or bankrupt
Shareholder before the death or bankruptcy or by the Shareholder under legal disability before
such disability. |
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55. | A
person so becoming entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Shareholder
shall have the right to receive and may give a discharge for all dividends and other money
payable or other advantages due on or in respect of the Share, but such person shall not
be entitled to receive notice of or to attend or vote at meetings of the Company, or save
as aforesaid, to any of the rights or privileges of a Shareholder unless and until such person
shall be registered as a Shareholder in respect of the Share provided always that the Directors
may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself
or to transfer the Share and if the notice is not complied with within ninety (90) days the
Directors may thereafter withhold all dividends or other monies payable or other advantages
due in respect of the Share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with. |
LIEN
56. | The
Company shall have a first and paramount lien on all Shares (whether fully paid-up or not)
registered in the name of a Shareholder (whether solely or jointly with others) for all debts,
liabilities or engagements to or with the Company (whether presently payable or not) by such
Shareholder or the Shareholder’s estate, either alone or jointly with any other person,
whether a Shareholder or not, but the Directors may at any time declare any Share to be wholly
or in part exempt from the provisions of this Article. The registration of a transfer of
any such Share shall operate as a waiver of the Company’s lien thereon. The Company’s
lien on a Share shall also extend to any amount payable in respect of that Share. |
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57. | The
Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any Shares on which the Company
has a lien, if a sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable, and is not
paid within fourteen (14) clear days after notice has been given to the holder of the Shares,
or to the person entitled to it in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder,
demanding payment and stating that if the notice is not complied with the Shares may be sold. |
58. | To
give effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise any person to execute an instrument
of transfer of the Shares sold to, or in accordance with the directions of, the purchaser.
The purchaser or the purchaser’s nominee shall be registered as the holder of the Shares
comprised in any such transfer, and the purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application
of the purchase money, nor shall the purchaser’s title to the Shares be affected by
any irregularity or invalidity in the sale or the exercise of the Company’s power of
sale under these Articles. |
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59. | The
net proceeds of such sale, after payment of costs, shall be applied in payment of such part
of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable and any residue
shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the Shares before
the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the Shares at the date of the sale. |
CALL
ON SHARES
60. | Subject
to the terms of the allotment the Directors may from time to time make calls upon the Shareholders
in respect of any monies unpaid on their Shares (whether in respect of par value or premium),
and each Shareholder shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen (14) days’ notice
specifying the time or times of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times so specified
the amount called on the Shares. A call may be revoked or postponed as the Directors may
determine. A call may be required to be paid by instalments. A person upon whom a call is
made shall remain liable for calls made upon them notwithstanding the subsequent transfer
of the Shares in respect of which the call was made. |
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61. | A
call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising
such call was passed. |
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62. | The
joint holders of a Share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect
thereof. |
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63. | If
a call remains unpaid after it has become due and payable, the person from whom it is due
shall pay interest on the amount unpaid from the day it became due and payable until it is
paid at such rate as the Directors may determine, but the Directors may waive payment of
the interest wholly or in part. |
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64. | An
amount payable in respect of a Share on allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account
of the par value of the Share or premium or otherwise, shall be deemed to be a call and if
it is not paid all the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if that amount had become
due and payable by virtue of a call. |
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65. | The
Directors may issue Shares with different terms as to the amount and times of payment of
calls, or the interest to be paid. |
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66. | The
Directors may, if they think fit, receive an amount from any Shareholder willing to advance
all or any part of the monies uncalled and unpaid upon any Shares held by such Shareholder,
and may (until the amount would otherwise become payable) pay interest at such rate as may
be agreed upon between the Directors and the Shareholder paying such amount in advance. |
67. | No
such amount paid in advance of calls shall entitle the Shareholder paying such amount to
any portion of a dividend declared in respect of any period prior to the date upon which
such amount would, but for such payment, become payable. |
FORFEITURE
OF SHARES
68. | If
a call remains unpaid after it has become due and payable the Directors may give to the person
from whom it is due not less than fourteen (14) clear days’ notice requiring payment
of the amount unpaid together with any interest which may have accrued. The notice shall
specify where payment is to be made and shall state that if the notice is not complied with
the Shares in respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited. |
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69. | If
the notice is not complied with any Share in respect of which it was given may, before the
payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors.
Such forfeiture shall include all dividends or other monies declared payable in respect of
the forfeited Share and not paid before the forfeiture. |
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70. | A
forfeited Share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such
manner as the Directors think fit and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or disposition
the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit. Where for the purposes
of its disposal a forfeited Share is to be transferred to any person the Directors may authorise
some person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Share in favour of that person. |
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71. | A
person any of whose Shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Shareholder in respect
of them and shall surrender to the Company for cancellation the certificate for the Shares
forfeited and shall remain liable to pay to the Company all monies which at the date of forfeiture
were payable by such person to the Company in respect of those Shares together with interest,
but such person’s liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received
payment in full of all monies due and payable by such person in respect of those Shares. |
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72. | A
certificate in writing under the hand of one Director or officer of the Company that a Share
has been forfeited on a specified date shall be conclusive evidence of the fact as against
all persons claiming to be entitled to the Share. The certificate shall (subject to the execution
of any instrument of transfer) constitute a good title to the Share and the person to whom
the Share is disposed of shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money,
if any, nor shall such person’s title to the Share be affected by any irregularity
or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the
Share. |
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73. | The
provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any
sum which, by the terms of issue of a Share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on
account of the par value of the Share or by way of premium as if it had been payable by virtue
of a call duly made and notified. |
ALTERATION
OF SHARE CAPITAL
74. | The
Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution increase its share capital by such sum
to be divided into Shares of such classes and amounts, with such rights, priorities and privileges
annexed thereto as the resolution shall prescribe. |
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75. | All
new Shares shall be subject to the provisions of these Articles with reference to transfer,
transmission and otherwise. |
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76. | Subject
to the Companies Act, the Company may by Special Resolution from time to time reduce its
share capital in any way, and in particular, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
power, may: |
| (a) | cancel
any paid-up share capital which is lost, or which is not represented by available assets;
or |
| (b) | pay
off any paid-up share capital which is in excess of the requirements of the Company, |
and
may, if and so far as is necessary, alter the Memorandum by reducing the amounts of its share capital and of its Shares accordingly.
77. | The
Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution alter (without reducing) its share capital
by: |
| (a) | consolidating
and dividing all or any of its share capital into Shares of larger amount than its existing
Shares; |
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| (b) | sub
dividing its Shares, or any of them, into Shares of smaller amount than that fixed by the
Memorandum so, however, that in the sub division the proportion between the amount paid and
the amount, if any, unpaid on each reduced Share shall be the same as it was in the case
of the Share from which the reduced Share is derived; or |
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| (c) | cancelling
any Shares which, at the date of the passing of the Ordinary Resolution, have not been taken,
or agreed to be taken by any person, and diminishing the amount of its authorised share capital
by the amount of the Shares so cancelled. |
GENERAL
MEETINGS
78. | For
so long as any Shares are traded on a Designated Stock Exchange, the Company shall in each
year hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting, and shall specify the meeting
as such in the notices calling it, unless such Designated Stock Exchange does not require
the holding of an annual general meeting. Any annual general meeting shall be held at such
time and place as the Directors shall appoint in accordance with the rules of the Designated
Stock Exchange and if no other time and place is prescribed by them, it shall be held at
the Registered Office on the second Wednesday in December of each year at ten o’clock
in the morning. At these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented. |
79. | All
general meetings (other than annual general meetings) shall be called extraordinary general
meetings. |
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80. | The
Directors may proceed to convene a general meeting whenever they think fit, including, without
limitation, for the purposes of considering a liquidation of the Company, and they shall
convene a general meeting on the requisition of the Shareholders holding at the date of the
deposit of the requisition not less than 30 per cent in par value of such of the paid-up
capital of the Company as at the date of the deposit carries the right of voting at general
meetings. |
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81. | The
requisition: |
| (a) | must
be in writing and state the objects of the meeting; |
| (b) | must
be signed by each requisitionist and deposited at the Registered Office; and |
| (c) | may
consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists. |
82. | If
the Directors do not within twenty-one (21) days from the date of the deposit of the requisition
duly proceed to convene a general meeting, the requisitionists, or any of them representing
more than one-half of the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves convene a general
meeting, but any meeting so convened shall not be held no later than the day which falls
three months after the expiration of the said twenty-one (21) days. |
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83. | A
general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner
as nearly as possible as that in which general meetings are convened by the Directors. A
general meeting may be convened in the Cayman Islands or at such other location, as the Directors
think fit. |
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84. | Shareholders
seeking to bring business before the annual general meeting or to nominate candidates for
election as Directors at the annual general meeting must deliver notice to the principal
executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor
earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the scheduled date of the annual
general meeting. |
NOTICE
OF GENERAL MEETINGS
85. | Five
(5) calendar days’ notice at least specifying the place, the day and the hour of any
general meeting, and in case of special business the general nature of such business (and
in the case of an annual general meeting specifying the meeting as such), shall be given
in the manner hereinafter mentioned to such persons as are under these Articles or the conditions
of issue of the Shares held by them entitled to receive notices from the Company. If the
Directors determine that prompt Shareholder action is advisable, they may shorten the notice
period for any general meeting to such period as the Directors consider reasonable. |
86. | A
general meeting shall, notwithstanding that it is called by shorter notice than that specified
in the preceding Article, be deemed to have been duly called with regard to the length of
notice if it is so agreed: |
| (a) | in
the case of a meeting called as the annual general meeting by all the Shareholders entitled
to attend and vote thereat; and |
| (b) | in
the case of any other meeting by a majority in number of the Shareholders having a right
to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together holding not less than ninety-five
(95) per cent in nominal value of the Shares giving that right. |
87. | In
every notice calling a general meeting, there shall appear with reasonable prominence a statement
that a Shareholder entitled to attend and vote either (i) is entitled to appoint one or more
proxies to attend such meeting and vote instead of such Shareholder and that a proxy need
not also be a Shareholder or (ii) has appointed a proxy who, unless such appointment is revoked,
will attend such meeting and vote on behalf of such Shareholder. |
88. | The
accidental omission to give notice to, or the non-receipt of notice by, any person entitled
to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at any general meeting. |
PROCEEDINGS
AT GENERAL MEETINGS
89. | All
business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an extraordinary general meeting,
and also all business that is transacted at an annual general meeting with the exception
of declaring or approving the payment of dividends, the consideration of the accounts and
balance sheet and the reports of the Directors and Auditors, the election of Directors in
the place of those retiring, the appointment of additional Directors, the fixing of the remuneration
of the Directors and the fixing of the remuneration of the Auditors. |
90. | No
business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum is present. Save as otherwise
provided in these Articles a quorum shall be the presence, in person or by proxy, of one
or more persons holding at least a majority in par value of the issued Shares which confer
the right to attend and vote thereat. |
91. | Save
as otherwise provided for in these Articles, if within half an hour from the time appointed
for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened on the requisition of or
by Shareholders, shall be dissolved. In any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same
day in the next week, at the same time and place or to such other day and at such other time
and place as the Directors may determine and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not
present within fifteen (15) minutes from the time appointed for holding the meeting, the
Shareholders present shall be a quorum. |
92. | A
person may, with the consent of the Directors, participate at a general meeting by means
of telephone, video or similar communication equipment by way of which all persons participating
in such meeting can hear each other and such participation shall be deemed to constitute
presence in person at such meeting. |
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93. | The
Chairperson (if any) or, if absent, the Deputy Chairperson (if any) of the Board of Directors,
or, failing him or her, some other Director nominated by the Directors shall preside as Chairperson
at every general meeting, but if at any meeting neither the Chairperson nor the Deputy Chairperson
nor such other Director be present within fifteen (15) minutes after the time appointed for
holding the meeting, or if neither of them be willing to act as Chairperson, the Directors
present shall choose some Director present to be Chairperson or if no Directors be present,
or if all the Directors present decline to take the chair, the Shareholders present shall
choose some Shareholder present to be Chairperson. |
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94. | The
Chairperson may with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if
so directed by the meeting) adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place
but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting except business which might
lawfully have been transacted at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. The Chairperson
may adjourn any meeting without the consent of such meeting if, in his sole opinion, he considers
it necessary to do so to: secure the orderly conduct or proceedings of the meeting; or give
all persons present in person or by proxy and having the right to speak and/or vote at such
meeting, the ability to do so, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting
other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
When a meeting is adjourned for thirty (30) days or more, five (5) calendar days’ notice
at the least specifying the place, the day and the hour of the adjourned meeting, shall be
given as in the case of the original meeting but it shall not be necessary to specify in
such notice the nature of the business to be transacted at the adjourned meeting. Save as
aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business
to be transacted at an adjourned meeting. |
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95. | The
Directors may cancel or postpone any duly convened general meeting at any time prior to such
meeting, except for general meetings requisitioned by the Shareholders in accordance with
these Articles, for any reason or for no reason at any time prior to the time for holding
such meeting or, if the meeting is adjourned, the time for holding such adjourned meeting.
The Directors shall give the Shareholders notice in writing of any cancellation or postponement.
A postponement may be for a stated period of any length or indefinitely as the Directors
may determine. |
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96. | At
any general meeting, a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show
of hands unless a poll is, before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands,
demanded by the Chairperson or any other Shareholder present in person or by proxy. |
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97. | Unless
a poll be so demanded, a declaration by the Chairperson that a resolution has on a show of
hands been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an
entry to that effect made in the Company’s minute book containing the minutes of the
proceedings of the meeting, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the
number or the proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution. |
98. | If
a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner and at such place as the Chairperson
may direct (including the use of a ballot or voting papers, or tickets) and the result of
a poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded.
The Chairperson may, in the event of a poll, appoint scrutineers and may adjourn the meeting
to some place and time fixed by the Chairperson for the purpose of declaring the result of
the poll. |
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99. | In
the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairperson
of the meeting at which the show of hands or at which the poll is taken, shall not be entitled
to a second or casting vote. |
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100. | A
poll demanded on the election of a Chairperson and a poll demanded on a question of adjournment
shall be taken forthwith. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time
and place as the Chairperson directs not being more than ten days from the date of the meeting
or adjourned meeting at which the poll was demanded. |
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101. | The
demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for the transaction of any
business other than the question on which the poll has been demanded. |
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102. | A
demand for a poll may be withdrawn and no notice need be given of a poll not taken immediately. |
VOTES
OF SHAREHOLDERS
103. | Subject
to any rights or restrictions attached to any Shares,
on a show of hands every holder of Shares present and entitled
to vote thereon shall have one vote. On a poll every holder of Shares, present in person
or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, shall be entitled to one vote in respect of each
Share held by them. |
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104. | In
the case of joint holders of a Share, the vote of the senior holder who tenders a vote, whether
in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint
holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names
stand in the Register of Members in respect of the Shares. |
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105. | A
Shareholder who has appointed special or general attorneys or a Shareholder who is subject
to a disability may vote on a poll, by such Shareholder’s attorney, committee, receiver,
curator bonis or other person in the nature of a committee, receiver, or curator bonis appointed
by a court and such attorney, committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person may on a
poll vote by proxy; provided that such evidence as the Directors may require of the authority
of the person claiming to vote shall, unless otherwise waived by the Directors, have been
deposited at the Registered Office not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the time for
holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which such person claims to vote. |
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106. | No
objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned
meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed
at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall
be referred to the Chairperson of the meeting, whose decision shall be final and conclusive. |
107. | On
a poll votes may be given either personally or by proxy and a Shareholder entitled to more
than one vote need not, if the Shareholder votes, use all their votes or cast all the votes
the Shareholder uses in the same way. |
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108. | The
instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of the
appointor’s attorney duly authorised in writing, or if the appointor is a corporation,
either under its common seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney so authorised. |
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109. | Any
person (whether a Shareholder or not) may be appointed to act as a proxy. A Shareholder may
appoint more than one proxy to attend on the same occasion. |
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110. | The
instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under
which it is signed, or a certified copy of such power or authority, must be deposited at
the Registered Office, or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice
of meeting or in the instrument of proxy issued by the Company, no later than the time appointed
for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting; provided that the Chairperson of the meeting
may in the Chairperson’s discretion accept an instrument of proxy sent by fax, email
or other electronic means. |
111. | An
instrument of proxy shall: |
| (a) | be
in any common form or in such other form as the Directors may approve; |
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| (b) | be
deemed to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll and to vote on any amendment
of a resolution put to the general meeting for which it is given as the proxy thinks fit;
and |
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| (c) | subject
to its terms, be valid for any adjournment of the general meeting for which it is given. |
112. | The
Directors may at the expense of the Company send to the Shareholders instruments of proxy
(with or without prepaid postage for their return) for use at any general meeting, either
in blank or nominating in the alternative any one or more of the Directors or any other persons.
If for the purpose of any meeting invitations to appoint as proxy a person or one of a number
of persons specified in the invitations are issued at the expense of the Company, such invitations
shall be issued to all (and not to some only) of the Shareholders entitled to be sent a notice
of the meeting and to vote thereat by proxy. |
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113. | A
vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding
the death or insanity of the principal or the revocation of the instrument of proxy, or of
the authority under which the instrument of proxy was executed; provided that no intimation
in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer shall have been received by the
Company at the Registered Office before commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting
at which the instrument of proxy is used. |
114. | Anything
which under these Articles a Shareholder may do by proxy that Shareholder may also do by
a duly appointed attorney. The provisions of these Articles relating to proxies and instruments
appointing proxies apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such attorney and the instrument
appointing that attorney. |
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115. | Any
Shareholder which is a corporation or partnership may, by a resolution of its directors or
other governing body, authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative
at any meeting or meetings of the Company. The person so authorised shall be entitled to
exercise the same powers on behalf of such corporation or partnership as the corporation
or partnership could exercise if it were a Shareholder who was an individual and such corporation
or partnership shall for the purposes of these Articles be deemed to be present in person
at any such meeting if a person so authorised is present. |
CLEARING
HOUSES
116. | If
a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), being a corporation, is a Shareholder it may, by resolution
of its directors or other governing body or by power of attorney, authorise such person or
persons as it thinks fit to act as its representative or representatives at any general meeting
or at any meeting of any class of Shareholders provided that, if more than one person is
so authorised, the authorisation shall specify the number and class of Shares in respect
of which each such person is so authorised. A person so authorised pursuant to this Article
shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the clearing house (or its nominee)
which that person represents as that clearing house (or its nominee) could exercise if it
were an individual Shareholder holding the number and Class of Shares specified in such authorisation. |
WRITTEN
RESOLUTIONS OF SHAREHOLDERS
117. | A
resolution in writing signed by all the Shareholders for the time being entitled to receive
notice of, attend and vote at a general meeting shall be as valid and effective as a resolution
passed at a general meeting duly convened and held and may consist of several documents in
the like form each signed by one or more of the Shareholders. |
DIRECTORS
118. | There
shall be a Board of Directors consisting of not less than one person (exclusive of alternate
Directors), provided, however, that the Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution
increase or reduce the limits in the number of Directors. |
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119. | A
Director need not be a Shareholder but shall be entitled to receive notice of and attend
all general meetings. |
120. | Prior
to the consummation of an initial Business Combination, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution
of the holders of the Class B Shares (only) appoint any person to be a Director or remove
any Director for any reason. For the avoidance of doubt: |
| (a) | prior
to the consummation of an initial Business Combination, holders of Class A Shares shall have
no right to vote on the appointment or removal of any Director; provided, however, that if
all of the Class B Shares are converted prior to the date of the initial Business Combination,
the holders of Class A Shares will have the right to vote on the election of Directors; and
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| (b) | following
the consummation of an initial Business Combination, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution
(of all Shareholders entitled to vote) appoint or remove any Director in accordance with
these Articles. |
121. | For
so long as any of the Shares are traded on a Designated Stock Exchange, the Directors shall
be divided into three (3) classes designated as Class I, Class II and Class III, respectively.
Directors shall be assigned to each class in accordance with a resolution or resolutions
adopted by the Board of Directors. At the first annual general meeting after the IPO, the
term of office of the Class I Directors shall expire and Class I Directors shall be elected
for a full term of three (3) years. At the second annual general meeting after the IPO, the
term of office of the Class II Directors shall expire and Class II Directors shall be elected
for a full term of three (3) years. At the third annual general meeting after the IPO, the
term of office of the Class III Directors shall expire and Class III Directors shall be elected
for a full term of three (3) years. At each succeeding annual general meeting, Directors
shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years to succeed the Directors of the class
whose terms expire at such annual general meeting. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions
of this Article, each Director shall hold office until the expiration of his or her term,
until his or her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified or until his or her
earlier death, resignation or removal. No decrease in the number of Directors constituting
the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent Director. The term limits
in this Article shall not apply to any Directors appointed prior to the first annual general
meeting. |
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122. | The
Directors may appoint any person to be a Director, either to fill a vacancy or as an additional
Director; provided that the appointment does not cause the number of Directors to exceed
any number fixed by or in accordance with these Articles as the maximum number of Directors.
Any Director appointed in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office for the
remainder of the full term of the class of Directors in which the new directorship was created
or the vacancy occurred and until such Director’s successor shall have been duly elected
and qualified or until his or her earlier resignation, death or removal. When the number
of Directors is increased or decreased, the Board of Directors shall, subject to Article
121, determine the class or classes to which the increased or decreased number of Directors
shall be apportioned; provided, however, that no decrease in the number of Directors shall
shorten the term of any incumbent Director. |
123. | Each
Director shall be entitled to such remuneration as approved by the Board of Directors and
this may be in addition to such remuneration as may be payable under any provision of these
Articles. Such remuneration shall be deemed to accrue from day to day. The Directors and
the Secretary may also be paid all travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred
by them in attending and returning from meetings of the Directors or any committee of the
Directors or general meetings or in connection with the business of the Company. The Directors
may in addition to such remuneration as aforesaid grant special remuneration to any Director
who, being called upon, shall perform any special or extra services to or at the request
of the Company. |
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124. | Articles
120 and 128(g) may only be amended by a Special Resolution passed by a majority of not less
than two-thirds of the votes cast at a general meeting including a simple majority of the
holders of Class B Shares (and if the Shareholders vote in favour of such amendment but the
approval of a simple majority of the holders of Class B Shares has not yet been obtained,
the holders of a simple majority of Class B Shares shall have, in such vote, voting rights
equal to the aggregate voting power of all the Shareholders who voted in favour of the resolution
plus one). |
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125. | Each
Director shall have the power to nominate another Director or any other person to act as
alternate Director in the Director’s place at any meeting of the Directors at which
the Director is unable to be present and at the Director’s discretion to remove such
alternate Director. On such appointment being made the alternate Director shall (except as
regards the power to appoint an alternate Director) be subject in all respects to the terms
and conditions existing with reference to the other Directors and each alternate Director,
whilst acting in the place of an absent Director, shall exercise and discharge all the functions,
powers and duties of the Director being represented. Any Director who is appointed as alternate
Director shall be entitled at a meeting of the Directors to cast a vote on behalf of their
appointor in addition to the vote to which such Director is entitled in their own capacity
as a Director, and shall also be considered as two Directors for the purpose of making a
quorum of Directors. Any person appointed as an alternate Director shall automatically vacate
such office as an alternate Director if and when the Director by whom the alternate Director
has been appointed vacates their office of Director. The remuneration of an alternate Director
shall be payable out of the remuneration of the Director appointing such alternate Director
and shall be agreed between them. |
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126. | Every
instrument appointing an alternate Director shall be in such common form as the Directors
may approve. |
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127. | The
appointment and removal of an alternate Director shall take effect when lodged at the Registered
Office or delivered at a meeting of the Directors. |
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128. | The
office of a Director shall be vacated in any of the following events namely: |
| (a) | if
the Director resigns their office by notice in writing signed by that Director and left at
the Registered Office; |
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| (b) | if
the Director is absent (for the avoidance of doubt, without being represented by proxy or
an alternate Director appointed by that Director) from three consecutive meetings of the
Board of Directors without special leave of absence from the Directors, and the Directors
pass a resolution that the relevant Director has by reason of such absence vacated office; |
| (c) | if
the Director becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with such Director’s
creditors generally; |
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| (d) | if
the Director dies or is found to be or becomes of unsound mind; |
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| (e) | if
the Director ceases to be a Director by virtue of, or becomes prohibited from being a Director
by reason of, an order made under any provisions of any law or enactment; |
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| (f) | if
the Director is requested by all of the other Directors to vacate office; |
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| (g) | prior
to the consummation of an initial Business Combination, if the Director is removed from office
by Ordinary Resolution of the holders of the Class B Shares (only); or |
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| (h) | following
the consummation of an initial Business Combination, if the Director is removed from office
by Ordinary Resolution (of all Shareholders entitled to vote). |
TRANSACTIONS
WITH DIRECTORS
129. | A
Director or alternate Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company
(other than the office of Auditor) in conjunction with their office of Director on such terms
as to tenure of office and otherwise as the Directors may determine. |
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130. | No
Director or intending Director shall be disqualified by their office from contracting with
the Company either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract or any
contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director
is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or
being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by any such
contract or arrangement by reason of such Director holding that office or of the fiduciary
relationship thereby established, but the nature of the Director’s interest must be
declared by such Director at the meeting of the Directors at which the question of entering
into the contract or arrangement is first taken into consideration, or if the Director was
not at the date of that meeting interested in the proposed contract or arrangement, then
at the next meeting of the Directors held after such Director becomes so interested, and
in a case where the Director becomes interested in a contract or arrangement after it is
made, then at the first meeting of the Directors held after such Director becomes so interested. |
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131. | In
the absence of some other material interest than is indicated below, provided a Director
who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or proposed contract
with the Company declares (whether by specific or general notice) the nature of their interest
at a meeting of the Directors that Director may vote in respect of any contract or proposed
contract or arrangement notwithstanding that the Director may be interested therein and if
such Director does so their vote shall be counted and such Director may be counted in the
quorum at any meeting of the Directors at which any such contract or proposed contract or
arrangement shall come before the meeting for consideration. |
132. | Where
proposals are under consideration concerning the appointment (including fixing or varying
the terms of appointment) of two or more Directors to offices or employments with the Company
or any company in which the Company is interested, such proposals may be divided and considered
in relation to each Director separately and in such cases each of the Directors concerned
shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except
that concerning the Director’s own appointment. |
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133. | Any
Director may act by independently or through the Director’s firm in a professional
capacity for the Company, and the Director or the firm shall be entitled to remuneration
for professional services as if the Director were not a Director, provided that nothing herein
contained shall authorise a Director or the Director’s firm to act as Auditor to the
Company. |
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134. | Any
Director may continue to be or become a director, managing director, manager or other officer
or shareholder of any company promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested,
and no such Director shall be accountable for any remuneration or other benefits received
by the Director as a director, managing director, manager or other officer or shareholder
of any such other company. The Directors may exercise the voting power conferred by the shares
in any other company held or owned by the Company or exercisable by them as directors of
such other company, in such manner in all respects as they think fit (including the exercise
thereof in favour of any resolution appointing themselves or any of them directors, managing
directors or other officers of such company, or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration
to the directors, managing directors or other officers of such company). |
POWERS
OF DIRECTORS
135. | The
business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who may exercise all such powers
of the Company as are not by the Companies Act or by these Articles required to be exercised
by the Company in general meeting, subject nevertheless to any regulations of these Articles,
to the Companies Act, and to such regulations being not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations
or provisions as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, but no regulations
made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which
would have been valid if such regulations had not been made. The general powers given by
this Article shall not be limited or restricted by any special authority or power given to
the Directors by any other Article. |
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136. | The
Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney appoint any company,
firm or person or any fluctuating body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly
by the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with
such powers authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by
the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as
they may think fit, and any such appointment may contain such provisions for the protection
and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorneys as the Directors may think fit,
and may also authorise any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities
and discretions vested in such attorney. The Directors may also appoint any person to be
the agent of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions
(not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and
for such period and on such conditions as they determine, including authority for the agent
to delegate all or any of their powers. |
137. | The
Directors on behalf of the Company may pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement
to any Director who has held any other salaried office or place of profit with the Company
or to the Director’s widow or dependants and may make contributions to any fund and
pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance. |
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138. | The
Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge
its undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital or any part
thereof and to issue debentures, debenture stock, mortgages, bonds and other such securities
whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of
any third party. |
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139. | The
Directors shall have the authority to present a winding up petition on behalf of the Company
without the sanction of a resolution passed by the Company in general meeting. |
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140. | All
cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable or transferable
instruments drawn by the Company, and all receipts for monies paid to the Company shall be
signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner
as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine. |
PROCEEDINGS
OF DIRECTORS
141. | The
Directors may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate
their meetings, as they think fit. Questions and matters arising at any meeting shall be
determined by a majority of votes. In the case of an equality of votes, the Chairperson shall
have a second or casting vote. A Director may, and the Secretary on the requisition of a
Director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Directors. |
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142. | A
Director or Directors may participate in any meeting of the Board, or of any committee appointed
by the Board of Directors of which such Director or Directors are members, by means of telephone,
video or similar communication equipment by way of which all persons participating in such
meeting can hear each other and such participation shall be deemed to constitute presence
in person at the meeting. |
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143. | The
quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the
Directors and, unless so fixed, shall be a majority of the Directors then in office. |
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144. | The
continuing Directors or a sole continuing Director may act notwithstanding any vacancies
in their number, but if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the minimum
number fixed by or in accordance with these Articles the continuing Directors or Director
may act for the purpose of filling up vacancies in their number, or of summoning general
meetings, but not for any other purpose. If there be no Directors or Director able or willing
to act, then any two Shareholders may summon a general meeting for the purpose of appointing
Directors. |
145. | The
Directors may from time to time elect and remove a Chairperson and, if they think fit, a
Deputy Chairperson and determine the period for which they respectively are to hold office.
The Chairperson or, failing him or her, the Deputy Chairperson shall preside at all meetings
of the Directors, but if there be no Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson, or if at any meeting
the Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson be not present within five (5) minutes after the time
appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be
Chairperson of the meeting. |
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146. | A
meeting of the Directors for the time being at which a quorum is present shall be competent
to exercise all powers and discretions for the time being exercisable by the Directors. |
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147. | Without
prejudice to the powers conferred by these Articles, the Directors may delegate any of their
powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit.
Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any
regulations that may be imposed on them by the Directors. The Directors may, by power of
attorney or otherwise, appoint any person to be an agent of the Company on such condition
as the Directors may determine, provided that the delegation is not to the exclusion of their
own powers. |
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148. | The
meetings and proceedings of any such committee consisting of two or more Directors shall
be governed by the provisions of these Articles regulating the meetings and proceedings of
the Directors so far as the same are applicable and are not superseded by any regulations
made by the Directors under the preceding Article. |
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149. | The
Directors may appoint such officers as they consider necessary on such terms, at such remuneration
and to perform such duties, and subject to such provisions as to disqualification and removal
as the Directors may think fit. Unless otherwise specified in the terms of the officer’s
appointment an officer may be removed by resolution of the Directors or Shareholders. |
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150. | All
acts done by any meeting of Directors, or of a committee of Directors or by any person acting
as a Director, shall, notwithstanding it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect
in the appointment of any such Director or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any
of them were disqualified, or had vacated office, or were not entitled to vote, be as valid
as if every such person had been duly appointed, and was qualified and had continued to be
a Director and had been entitled to vote. |
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151. | The
Directors shall cause minutes to be made of: |
| (a) | all
appointments of officers made by the Directors; |
| (b) | the
names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of Directors;
and |
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| (c) | all
resolutions and proceedings of all meetings of the Company and of the Directors and of any
committee of Directors. |
Any
such minutes, if purporting to be signed by the Chairperson of the meeting at which the proceedings took place, or by the Chairperson
of the next succeeding meeting, shall, until the contrary be proved, be conclusive evidence of their proceedings.
152. | A
Director but not an alternate Director may be represented at any meetings of the Board of
Directors by a proxy appointed in writing by the Director. The proxy shall count towards
the quorum and the vote of the proxy shall for all purposes be deemed to be that of the appointing
Director. |
WRITTEN
RESOLUTIONS OF DIRECTORS
153. | A
resolution in writing signed by all the Directors for the time being entitled to attend and
vote at a meeting of the Directors (an alternate Director being entitled to sign such a resolution
on behalf of their appointor) shall be as valid and effective as a resolution passed at a
meeting of the Directors duly convened and held and may consist of several documents in the
like form each signed by one or more of the Directors (or their alternates). |
PRESUMPTION
OF ASSENT
154. | A
Director or alternate Director who is present at a meeting of the Board of Directors at which
action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken
unless the Director’s dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless
the Director shall file his or her written dissent from such action with the person acting
as the secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent
by registered mail to such person immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such
right to dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in favour of such action. |
BORROWING
POWERS
155. | The
Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and hypothecate, mortgage,
charge or pledge its undertaking, property, and assets or any part thereof, and to issue
debentures, debenture stock or other securities, whether outright or as collateral security
for any debt liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. |
SECRETARY
156. | The
Directors may appoint any person to be a Secretary who shall hold office for such term, at
such remuneration and upon such conditions and with such powers as they think fit. Any Secretary
so appointed by the Directors may be removed by the Directors or by the Company by Ordinary
Resolution. Anything required or authorised to be done by or to the Secretary may, if the
office is vacant or there is for any other reason no Secretary capable of acting, be done
by or to any assistant or deputy Secretary or if there is no assistant or deputy Secretary
capable of acting, by or to any officer of the Company authorised generally or specially
in that behalf by the Directors, provided that any provisions of these Articles requiring
or authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director and the Secretary shall not be satisfied
by its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director and as, or in the place
of, the Secretary. |
157. | No
person shall be appointed or hold office as Secretary who is: |
| (a) | the
sole Director; or |
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| (b) | a
corporation the sole director of which is the sole Director; or |
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| (c) | the
sole director of a corporation which is the sole Director. |
THE
SEAL
158. | The
Directors shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal and the Seal shall never be used
except by the authority of a resolution of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors
authorised by the Directors in that behalf. The Directors may keep for use outside the Cayman
Islands a duplicate Seal. The Directors may from time to time as they see fit (subject to
the provisions of these Articles relating to share certificates) determine the persons and
the number of such persons in whose presence the Seal or the facsimile thereof shall be used,
and until otherwise so determined the Seal or the duplicate thereof shall be affixed in the
presence of any one Director or the Secretary, or of some other person duly authorised by
the Directors. |
Dividends,
Distributions and Reserves
159. | Subject
to the Companies Act, these Articles, and the special rights attaching to Shares of any class,
the Directors may, in their absolute discretion, declare dividends and distributions on Shares
in issue and authorise payment of the dividends or distributions out of the funds of the
Company lawfully available therefor. No dividend or distribution shall be paid except out
of the realised or unrealised profits of the Company, or out of the Share Premium Account,
or as otherwise permitted by the Companies Act. |
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160. | Except
as otherwise provided by the rights attached to Shares, or as otherwise determined by the
Directors, all dividends and distributions in respect of Shares shall be declared and paid
according to the par value of the Shares that a Shareholder holds. If any Share is issued
on terms providing that it shall rank for dividend or distribution as from a particular date,
that Share shall rank for dividend or distribution accordingly. |
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161. | The
Directors may deduct and withhold from any dividend or distribution otherwise payable to
any Shareholder all sums of money (if any) then payable by the Shareholder to the Company
on account of calls or otherwise or any monies which the Company is obliged by law to pay
to any taxing or other authority. |
162. | The
Directors may declare that any dividend or distribution be paid wholly or partly by the distribution
of specific assets and in particular of shares, debentures or securities of any other company
or in any one or more of such ways and, where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution,
the Directors may settle the same as they think expedient and in particular may issue fractional
Shares and fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof and
may determine that cash payments shall be made to any Shareholder upon the basis of the value
so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all Shareholders and may vest any such specific
assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Directors. |
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163. | Any
dividend, distribution, interest or other monies payable in cash in respect of Shares may
be paid by wire transfer to the holder or by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed
to the registered address of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the registered
address of the holder who is first named on the Register of Members or to such person and
to such address as such holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every such cheque
or warrant shall (unless the Directors in their sole discretion otherwise determine) be made
payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent. Any one of two or more joint holders
may give effectual receipts for any dividends, bonuses, or other monies payable in respect
of the Share held by them as joint holders. |
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164. | Any
dividend or distribution which cannot be paid to a Shareholder and/or which remains unclaimed
after six (6) months from the date of declaration of such dividend or distribution may, in
the discretion of the Directors, be paid into a separate account in the Company’s name,
provided that the Company shall not be constituted as a trustee in respect of that account
and the dividend or distribution shall remain as a debt due to the Shareholder. Any dividend
or distribution which remains unclaimed after a period of six years from the date of declaration
of such dividend or distribution shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company. |
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165. | No
dividend or distribution shall bear interest against the Company. |
SHARE
PREMIUM ACCOUNT
166. | The
Directors shall establish an account on the books and records of the Company to be called
the Share Premium Account and shall carry to the credit of such account from time to time
a sum equal to the amount or value of the premium paid on the issue of any Share. |
ACCOUNTS
167. | The
Directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to all sums of money
received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt or expenditure
takes place, all sales and purchases of goods by the Company and the assets and liabilities
of the Company. Proper books shall not be deemed to be kept if there are not kept such books
of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s
affairs and to explain its transactions. |
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168. | The
books of account shall be kept at the Registered Office or at such other place as the Directors
think fit, and shall always be open to inspection by the Directors. |
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169. | The
Board of Directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what
time and places and under what conditions or articles the accounts and books of the Company
or any of them shall be open to the inspection of Shareholders not being Directors, and no
Shareholder (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspection of any account or book
or document of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Board of Directors
or by resolution of the Shareholders. |
AUDIT
170. | The
accounts relating to the Company’s affairs shall be audited in such manner as may be
determined from time to time by resolution of the Shareholders or failing any such determination,
by the Board of Directors, or failing any determination as aforesaid, shall not be audited. |
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171. | Without
prejudice to the freedom of the Directors to establish any other committee, if any of the
Shares (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on the Designated Stock Exchange,
and if required by the Designated Stock Exchange, the Directors shall establish and maintain
an audit committee (the Audit
Committee) as a committee of the Board of Directors and
shall adopt a formal written audit committee charter and review and assess the adequacy of
the formal written charter on an annual basis. The composition and responsibilities of the
Audit Committee shall comply with the rules and regulations of the SEC and the Designated
Stock Exchange. The Audit Committee shall meet at least once every financial quarter, or
more frequently as circumstances dictate. |
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172. | If
any of the Shares (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on the Designated
Stock Exchange, the Company shall conduct an appropriate review of all related party transactions
on an ongoing basis and shall utilise the Audit Committee for the review and approval of
potential conflicts of interest. |
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173. | The
remuneration of the Auditor shall be fixed by the Audit Committee, if one exists, and otherwise
by the Board of Directors. |
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174. | Any
payment made to members of the Audit Committee (if one exists) shall require the review and
approval of the Directors, with any Director interested in such payment abstaining from such
review and approval. |
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175. | The
Audit Committee shall monitor compliance with the terms of the IPO and, if any non-compliance
is identified, the Audit Committee shall be charged with the responsibility to take all action
necessary to rectify such non-compliance or otherwise cause compliance with the terms of
the IPO. |
NOTICES
176. | Any
notice or document may be served by the Company on any Shareholder: |
| (b) | by
registered post or courier to that Shareholder’s address as appearing in the Register
of Members; or |
| (c) | by
cable, telex, facsimile, e-mail or any other electronic means should the Directors deem it
appropriate. |
177. | In
the case of joint holders of a Share, all notices shall be given to that one of the joint
holders whose name stands first in the Register of Members in respect of the joint holding,
and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the joint holders. |
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178. | Any
Shareholder present, either personally or by proxy, at any meeting of the Company shall for
all purposes be deemed to have received due notice of such meeting and, where requisite,
of the purposes for which such meeting was convened. |
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179. | Any
summons, notice, order or other document required to be sent to or served upon the Company,
or upon any officer of the Company may be sent or served by leaving the same or sending it
through the post in a prepaid letter envelope or wrapper, addressed to the Company or to
such officer at the Registered Office. |
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180. | Where
a notice or other document is sent by registered post, service of that notice or other document
shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying and posting an envelope
containing it, and that notice or other document shall be deemed to have been received on
the third day (not including Saturdays or Sundays or public holidays) following the day on
which it was posted. Where a notice or other document is sent by courier, service of that
notice or other document shall be deemed to be effected by delivery of the notice or other
document to a courier company, and that notice or other document shall be deemed to have
been received on the fifth day (not including Saturdays or Sundays or public holidays in
the Cayman Islands) following the day on which it was delivered to the courier company. Where
a notice or other document is sent by cable, telex or facsimile, service of that notice or
other document shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing and sending it, and
that notice or other document shall be deemed to have been received on the same day that
it was transmitted. Where a notice or other document is sent by email, service of that notice
or other document shall be deemed to be effected by transmitting the email to the email address
provided by the intended recipient and that notice or other document shall be deemed to have
been received on the same day that it was sent, and it shall not be necessary for the receipt
of the email to be acknowledged by the recipient. |
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181. | Any
notice or document delivered or sent by post to or left at the registered address of any
Shareholder in pursuance of these Articles shall notwithstanding that such Shareholder be
then dead, insane, bankrupt or dissolved, and whether or not the Company has notice of such
death, insanity, bankruptcy or dissolution, be deemed to have been duly served in respect
of any Share registered in the name of such Shareholder as sole or joint holder, unless the
Shareholder’s name shall at the time of the service of the notice or document, have
been removed from the Register of Members as the holder of the Share, and such service shall
for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service of such notice or document on all persons
interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under such Shareholder) in the
Share. |
WINDING
UP AND FINAL DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS
182. | If
the Company shall be wound up the liquidator shall apply the assets of the Company in satisfaction
of creditors’ claims in such manner and order as such liquidator thinks fit. |
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183. | If
the Company shall be wound up, and the assets available for distribution amongst the Shareholders
shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the share capital, such assets shall be distributed
so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be borne by the Shareholders in proportion
to the par value of the Shares held by them. If in a winding up the assets available for
distribution amongst the Shareholders shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of
the share capital at the commencement of the winding up, the surplus shall be distributed
amongst the Shareholders in proportion to the par value of the Shares held by them at the
commencement of the winding up subject to a deduction from those Shares in respect of which
there are monies due of all monies payable to the Company for unpaid calls or otherwise.
This Article is without prejudice to the rights of the holders of Shares issued upon special
terms and conditions. |
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184. | If
the Company shall be wound up (whether the liquidation is voluntary, under supervision or
by the Court) the liquidator may, with the authority of a Special Resolution, divide among
the Shareholders in specie the whole or any part of the assets of the Company, and whether
or not the assets shall consist of property of a single kind, and may for such purposes set
such value as the liquidator deems fair upon any one or more class or classes of property,
and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the Shareholders. The
liquidator may, with the like authority, vest any part of the assets in trustees upon such
trusts for the benefit of Shareholders as the liquidator, with the like authority, shall
think fit, and the liquidation of the Company may be closed and the Company dissolved, but
so that no Shareholder shall be compelled to accept any Shares in respect of which there
is liability. |
INDEMNITY
185. | Every
Director or officer of the Company shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company
against any liability incurred by that Director or officer as a result of any act or failure
to act in carrying out their functions other than such liability (if any) that the Director
or officer may incur by their own actual fraud, wilful default or wilful neglect. No such
Director or officer shall be liable to the Company for any loss or damage in carrying out
their functions unless that liability arises through the actual fraud, wilful default or
wilful neglect of such Director or officer. References in this Article to actual fraud, wilful
default or wilful neglect mean a finding to such effect by a competent court in relation
to the conduct of the relevant party. |
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186. | The
Directors shall have the power to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any
person who is or was a Director or officer of the Company indemnifying them against any liability
which may lawfully be insured against by the Company. |
DISCLOSURE
187. | Any
Director, officer or authorised agent of the Company shall, if lawfully required to do so
under the laws of any jurisdiction to which the Company is subject or in compliance with
the rules of any stock exchange upon which the Company’s shares are listed or in accordance
with any contract entered into by the Company, be entitled to release or disclose any information
in their possession regarding the affairs of the Company including, without limitation, any
information contained in the Register of Members. |
BUSINESS
COMBINATION
188. | Notwithstanding
any other provision of these Articles, Articles 188 to 199 (the Business
Combination Provisions) shall apply during the period commencing
upon the adoption of these Articles and terminating upon the first to occur of the consummation
of any Business Combination and the distribution of the Trust Account pursuant to these Articles.
In the event of a conflict between the Business Combination Provisions and any other provision
of these Articles, the Business Combination Provisions shall prevail. |
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189. | Prior
to the consummation of any Business Combination, the Company shall either: |
| (a) | submit
such Business Combination to the Shareholders for approval; or |
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| (b) | provide
Shareholders with the opportunity to have their Shares repurchased by means of a tender offer
for a per-Share repurchase price payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit
in the Trust Account, calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the
Business Combination, including interest earned on the Trust Account and not previously released
to the Company to pay tax obligations, if any (less up to US$100,000 of interest to pay dissolution
expenses), divided by the number of Public Shares then in issue, provided that the Company
shall not repurchase Public Shares in an amount that would cause the Company’s net
tangible assets to be less than US$5,000,001. |
190. | If
the Company initiates any tender offer in accordance with Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of
the US Exchange Act in connection with a Business Combination, it shall file tender offer
documents with the SEC prior to completing such Business Combination which contain substantially
the same financial and other information about such Business Combination and the redemption
rights as is required under Regulation 14A of the US Exchange Act. If, alternatively, the
Company holds a Shareholder vote to approve a proposed Business Combination, the Company
will conduct any redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to Regulation
14A of the US Exchange Act, and not pursuant to the tender offer rules, and file proxy materials
with the SEC. |
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191. | At
a general meeting called for the purposes of approving a Business Combination pursuant to
these Articles, in the event that a majority of the Shares are voted for the approval of
the Business Combination, the Company shall be authorised to consummate the Business Combination. |
192. | Any
Shareholder holding Public Shares who is not a Founder, Director or officer of the Company
may, contemporaneously with any vote on a Business Combination, elect to have their Public
Shares redeemed for cash (IPO
Redemption), provided that no such Shareholder acting together
with any affiliate or any other person with whom such Shareholder is acting in concert or
as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the US Exchange Act) may exercise
this redemption right with respect to more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) per cent of
the Public Shares without the prior consent of the Company, and provided further that any
Shareholder that holds Public Shares beneficially through a nominee must identify itself
to the Company in connection with any redemption election in order to validly redeem such
Public Shares. In connection with any vote held to approve a proposed Business Combination,
holders of Public Shares seeking to exercise their redemption rights will be required to
either tender their certificates (if any) to the Company’s transfer agent or to deliver
their shares to the transfer agent electronically using The Depository Trust Company’s
DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option, in each case
up to two business days prior to the initially scheduled vote on the proposal to approve
a Business Combination. If so demanded, the Company shall pay any such redeeming Shareholder,
regardless of whether he or she is voting for or against such proposed Business Combination,
a per-Share redemption price payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit
in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the
Business Combination, including interest earned on the Trust Account and not previously released
to the Company to pay tax obligations, if any, divided by the number of Public Shares then
in issue (such redemption price being referred to herein as the Redemption Price),
provided that the Company shall not redeem Public Shares in an amount that would cause the
Company’s net tangible assets to be less than US$5,000,001. |
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193. | The
Redemption Price shall be paid promptly following the consummation of the relevant Business
Combination. If the proposed Business Combination is not approved or completed for any reason
then such redemptions shall be cancelled and share certificates (if any) returned to the
relevant Shareholders as appropriate. |
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194. | In
the event that: |
| (a) | either
(i) the Company does not consummate a Business Combination on or before 23 February 2024 or such earlier date as determined by the Board of Directors, or (ii) a resolution
of the Shareholders is passed pursuant to the Companies Act to commence the voluntary liquidation
of the Company prior to the consummation of a Business Combination for any reason, the Company
shall: (A) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (B) as promptly as
reasonably possible but not more than ten (10) business days thereafter, redeem the Public
Shares, at a per-Share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit
in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the Trust Account and not previously released
to the Company to pay tax obligations, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution
expenses), divided by the number of Public Shares then in issue, which redemption will completely
extinguish public Shareholders’ rights as Shareholders (including the right to receive
further liquidation distributions, if any); and (C) as promptly as reasonably possible following
such redemption, subject to the approval of the Company’s remaining Shareholders and
the Directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of sub-articles (B) and (C), to
its obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and in all cases
subject to the other requirements of Applicable Law; and |
| (b) | any
amendment is made to Article 194(a) that would affect the substance or timing of the Company’s
obligation to redeem 100% of the Public Shares if the Company has not consummated an initial
Business Combination on or before 23 February 2024 or such earlier date as determined
by the Board of Directors, or any amendment is made with respect to any other provision
of these Articles relating to the rights of holders of Class A Shares, each holder of Public
Shares who is not a Founder, Director or officer of the Company shall be provided with the
opportunity to redeem their Public Shares upon the approval of any such amendment at a per-Share
price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account,
including interest earned on the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company
to pay its tax obligations, if any (less up to US$100,000 of interest to pay dissolution
expenses), divided by the number of Public Shares then in issue, provided that the Company
shall not redeem Public Shares in an amount that would cause the Company’s net tangible
assets to be less than US$5,000,001. Any amounts due in connection with a redemption under
this Article 194(b) shall be paid promptly following the relevant amendment of Article 194(a).
If the proposed amendment of Article 194(a) is not approved or completed for any reason then
such redemptions shall be cancelled and share certificates (if any) returned to the relevant
Shareholders as appropriate. |
195. | Reserved |
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196. | Except
for the withdrawal of interest to pay tax obligations, if any, none of the funds held in
the Trust Account shall be released from the Trust Account until the earlier of an IPO Redemption
pursuant to Article 192, a repurchase of Shares by means of a tender offer pursuant to Article
189(b), a distribution of the Trust Account pursuant to Article 194(a) or an amendment under
Article 194(b). In no other circumstance shall a holder of Public Shares have any right or
interest of any kind in the Trust Account. |
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197. | After
the issue of Public Shares, and prior to the consummation of a Business Combination, the
Directors shall not issue additional Shares or any other securities that would entitle the
holders thereof to: |
| (a) | receive
funds from the Trust Account; or |
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| (b) | vote
on (i) any Business Combination or any other proposal presented to the Shareholders prior
to or in connection with the completion of a Business Combination, or (ii) a proposed amendment
to these Articles to extend the time the Company has to consummate a Business Combination
beyond 23 February 2024 or such earlier date as determined by the Board of Directors,
or otherwise amend any of the Business Combination Provisions. |
198. | The
Company must complete one or more Business Combinations having an aggregate fair market value
of at least 80 per cent of the assets held in the Trust Account (excluding the amount of
deferred underwriting discounts held in the Trust Account and taxes payable on the income
earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the Company’s signing a definitive agreement
in connection with a Business Combination. An initial Business Combination must not be effectuated
solely with another blank cheque company or a similar company with nominal operations. |
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199. | A
Director may vote in respect of any Business Combination in which the Director has a conflict
of interest with respect to the evaluation of such Business Combination, provided that the
Director must disclose such interest or conflict to the other Directors. |
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200. | The
Company may enter into a Business Combination with a target business that is affiliated with
the Sponsor, the Directors or officers of the Company if such transaction is approved by
a majority of the independent directors (as defined pursuant to the rules and regulations
of the Designated Stock Exchange) and the Directors that did not have an interest in such
transaction. In the event the Company enters into a Business Combination with an entity that
is affiliated with the Sponsor, the Directors or officers of the Company, the Company, or
a committee of independent directors (as defined pursuant to the rules and regulations of
the Designated Stock Exchange), will obtain an opinion that the Business Combination is fair
to the Company from a financial point of view from either an independent investment banking
firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions. |
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
201. | In
recognition and anticipation of the facts that: (a) directors, managers, officers, members,
partners, managing members, employees and/or agents of one or more members of the Investor
Group (each of the foregoing, an Investor
Group Related Person) may serve as Directors and/or officers
of the Company; and (b) the Investor Group engages, and may continue to engage in the same
or similar activities or related lines of business as those in which the Company, directly
or indirectly, may engage and/or other business activities that overlap with or compete with
those in which the Company, directly or indirectly, may engage, the provisions of these Articles
under this heading “Business Opportunities” are set forth to regulate and define
the conduct of certain affairs of the Company as they may involve the Shareholders and the
Investor Group Related Persons, and the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Company
and its Directors, officers and Shareholders in connection therewith. |
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202. | To
the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Investor Group and the Investor Group
Related Persons shall have no duty, except and to the extent expressly assumed by contract,
to refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities
or lines of business as the Company. |
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203. | To
the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Company renounces any interest or expectancy
of the Company in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any potential transaction
or matter which may be a corporate opportunity for either the Investor Group or the Investor
Group Related Persons, on the one hand, and the Company, on the other. |
204. | To
the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Investor Group and the Investor Group
Related Persons shall have no duty to communicate or offer any such corporate opportunity
to the Company and shall not be liable to the Company or the Shareholders for breach of any
fiduciary duty as a Shareholder, Director and/or officer of the Company solely by reason
of the fact that such party pursues or acquires such corporate opportunity for itself, himself
or herself, directs such corporate opportunity to another person, or does not communicate
information regarding such corporate opportunity to the Company. |
| |
205. | Except
as provided elsewhere in these Articles, the Company renounces any interest or expectancy
of the Company in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any potential transaction
or matter which may be a corporate opportunity for both the Company and the Investor Group,
about which a Director and/or officer of the Company who is also an Investor Group Related
Person acquires knowledge. |
| |
206. | To
the extent a court might hold that the conduct of any activity related to a corporate opportunity
that is renounced in these Articles to be a breach of duty to the Company or its Shareholders,
the Company and (if applicable) each Shareholder hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted
by Applicable Law, any and all claims and causes of action that the Company or such Shareholder
may have for such activities described in these Articles. To the fullest extent permitted
by Applicable Law, the provisions of these Articles apply equally to activities conducted
in the future and that have been conducted in the past. |
CLOSING
REGISTER OF MEMBERS OR FIXING RECORD DATE
207. | For
the purpose of determining Shareholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting
of Shareholders or any adjournment thereof, or Shareholders entitled to receive payment of
any Dividend or other distribution, or in order to make a determination of Shareholders for
any other purpose, the Directors may, by any means in accordance with the requirements of
any Designated Stock Exchange, provide that the Register of Members shall be closed for transfers
for a stated period which shall not in any case exceed forty days. |
| |
208. | In
lieu of, or apart from, closing the Register of Members, the Directors may fix in advance
or arrears a date as the record date for any such determination of Shareholders entitled
to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of the Shareholders or any adjournment thereof, or
for the purpose of determining the Shareholders entitled to receive payment of any Dividend
or other distribution, or in order to make a determination of Shareholders for any other
purpose. |
| |
209. | If
no record date is fixed for the determination of Shareholders entitled to notice of or to
vote at a meeting of Shareholders or Shareholders entitled to receive payment of a dividend,
the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the resolution of
the Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the record
date for such determination of Shareholders. When a determination of Shareholders entitled
to vote at any meeting has been made in the manner provided in the preceding Article, such
determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof. |
REGISTRATION
BY WAY OF CONTINUATION
210. | The
Company may by Special Resolution resolve to be registered by way of continuation in a jurisdiction
outside the Cayman Islands or such other jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated,
registered or existing. The Directors may cause an application to be made to the Registrar
of Companies to deregister the Company in the Cayman Islands or such other jurisdiction in
which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing and may cause all such
further steps as they consider appropriate to be taken to effect the transfer by way of continuation
of the Company. |
FINANCIAL
YEAR
211. | The
Directors shall determine the financial year of the Company and may change the same from
time to time. Unless they determine otherwise, the financial year shall end on 31 December
in each year. |
AMENDMENTS
TO MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
212. | Subject
to these Articles, the Company may from time to time alter or add to these Articles or alter
or add to the Memorandum with respect to any objects, powers or other matters specified therein
by passing a Special Resolution. |
CAYMAN
ISLANDS DATA PROTECTION
213. | The
Company is a “data controller” for the purposes of the Data Protection Act (as
amended) of the Cayman Islands (the DPA).
By virtue of subscribing for and holding Shares in the Company, Shareholders provide the
Company with certain information (Personal Data)
that constitutes “personal data” under the DPA. Personal Data includes, without
limitation, the following information relating to a Shareholder and/or any natural person(s)
connected with a Shareholder (such as a Shareholder’s individual directors, members
and/or beneficial owner(s)): name, residential address, email address, corporate contact
information, other contact information, date of birth, place of birth, passport or other
national identifier details, national insurance or social security number, tax identification,
bank account details and information regarding assets, income, employment and source of funds. |
214. | The
Company processes such Personal Data for the purposes of: |
| (a) | performing
contractual rights and obligations (including under the Memorandum and these Articles); |
| | |
| (b) | complying
with legal or regulatory obligations (including those relating to anti-money laundering and
counter-terrorist financing, preventing and detecting fraud, sanctions, automatic exchange
of tax information, requests from governmental, regulatory, tax and law enforcement authorities,
beneficial ownership and the maintenance of statutory registers); and |
| | |
| (c) | the
legitimate interests pursued by the Company or third parties to whom Personal Data may be
transferred, including to manage and administer the Company, to send updates, information
and notices to Shareholders or otherwise correspond with Shareholders regarding the Company,
to seek professional advice (including legal advice), to meet accounting, tax reporting and
audit obligations, to manage risk and operations and to maintain internal records. |
215. | The
Company transfers Personal Data to certain third parties who process the Personal Data on
the Company’s behalf, including third party service providers that it appoints or engages
to assist with its management, operation, administration and legal, governance and regulatory
compliance. In certain circumstances, the Company may be required by law or regulation to
transfer Personal Data and other information with respect to one or more Shareholders to
a governmental, regulatory, tax or law enforcement authority. That authority may, in turn,
exchange this information with another governmental, regulatory, tax or law enforcement authority
established in or outside the Cayman Islands. |
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