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Exhibit 5.1

 

Harney Westwood & Riegels

3501 The Center

99 Queen's Road Central

Hong Kong

Tel: +852 5806 7800

Fax: +852 5806 7810

 

10 February 2021

 

raymond.ng@harneys.com

+852 5806 7883

049499-0009-RLN

 

HUALE ACOUSTICS LIMITED

13th Floor, Building B1, Wisdom Plaza

Qiaoxiang Road, Nanshan District

Shenzhen, Guangdong Province

China 518000

 

Dear Sir or Madam

 

HUALE ACOUSTICS LIMITED, Company Number 348571 (the Company)

 

We are attorneys-at-law qualified to practise in the Cayman Islands and have acted as Cayman Islands legal advisers to the Company in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1 and accompanying prospectus registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) on or around the date of this opinion under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act) (the Registration Statement), relating to the offer and sale of up to 9,125,000 US$0.0001 par value Ordinary Shares of the Company (the Resale Shares). In this opinion Companies Act means the Companies Act (2021 Revision) of the Cayman Islands.

 

We are furnishing this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement: Opinion of Cayman Islands Counsel as to validity of the Ordinary Shares.

 

For the purposes of giving this opinion, we have examined the Documents (as defined in Schedule 1). We have not examined any other documents, official or corporate records or external or internal registers and have not undertaken or been instructed to undertake any further enquiry or due diligence in relation to the transaction which is the subject of this opinion or in relation to any Cayman Islands companies other than the Company (including any companies, other than the Company, referenced in the Registration Statement).

 

In giving this opinion we have relied upon the assumptions set out in Schedule 2 which we have not verified.

 

Based solely upon the foregoing examinations and assumptions and having regard to legal considerations which we deem relevant, and subject to the qualifications set out in Schedule 3, we are of the opinion that under the laws of the Cayman Islands:

 

 

 
 

 

1 Existence and Good Standing. The Company is an exempted company duly incorporated with limited liability, and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands. It is a separate legal entity and is subject to suit in its own name.
   
2 Resale Shares. All of the Resale Shares of the Company have been duly authorised and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are free of statutory pre-emptive rights and, to our knowledge, contractual pre-emptive rights, resale rights and rights of first refusal and are fully transferable.
   
3 Share Capital. The authorized share capital of the Company US$50,000 divided into 500,000,000 shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 each. The description of the share capital as described in the Registration Statement is accurate and complete in all material respects.
   
4 Cayman Islands Law. The statements in the prospectus forming part of the Registration Statement, including in particular the tax disclosure under the section headed “Taxation”, to the extent that they constitute statements of Cayman Islands law, are accurate in all material respects as at the date of this opinion and such statements constitute our opinion.
   
5 Enforcement of Judgments. Any final and conclusive monetary judgment for a definite sum obtained against the Company in the courts of the United States (the Court) would be treated by the courts of the Cayman Islands as a cause of action in itself and sued upon as a debt at common law so that no retrial of the issues would be necessary provided that:

 

  (a) the Court had jurisdiction in the matter and the Company either submitted to such jurisdiction or was resident or carrying on business within such jurisdiction and was duly served with process;
     
  (b) the judgment given by the Court was not in respect of penalties, fines, taxes or similar fiscal or revenue obligations;
     
  (c) in obtaining judgment there was no fraud on the part of the person in whose favour judgment was given or on the part of the Court;
     
  (d) recognition or enforcement in the Cayman Islands would not be contrary to public policy; and
     
  (e) the proceedings pursuant to which judgment was obtained were not contrary to the principles of natural justice.

 

6 Court Search. Based solely on our inspection of the Register of Writs and Other Originating Process in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the Court Register) via the Court’s Digital System (as defined in Schedule 3) on 8 February 2021 (the Court Search Date) from the date of incorporation of the Company (the Court Search), the Court Register disclosed no writ, originating summons, originating motion, petition (including any winding-up petition), counterclaim nor third party notice (Originating Process) nor any amended Originating Process pending before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, in which the Company is identified as a defendant or respondent.

 

This opinion is confined to the matters expressly opined on herein and given on the basis of the laws of the Cayman Islands as they are in force and applied by the Cayman Islands courts at the date of this opinion. We have made no investigation of, and express no opinion on, the laws of any other jurisdiction. We express no opinion as to matters of fact. Except as specifically stated herein, we make no comment with respect to any representations and warranties which may be made by or with respect to the Company in any document.

 

In connection with the above opinion, we hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference made to this firm in the Registration Statement under the headings “Risk Factors” and “Enforcement of Civil Liabilities”, and elsewhere in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not believe that we are “experts” within the meaning of such term used in the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission issued thereunder with respect to any part of the Registration Statement, including this opinion as an exhibit or otherwise.

 

This opinion may be used only in connection with the offer and sale of the Resale Shares while the Registration Statement is effective.

 

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Yours faithfully  
   
Harney Westwood & Riegels  

 

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Schedule 1

 

List of Documents Examined

 

1 the Certificate of Incorporation dated 25 February 2019 and the Certificate of Merger dated 26 April 2019;
   
2 the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company dated 25 February 2019;
   
3 a Certificate of Good Standing in respect of the Company issued by the Registrar of Companies dated 9 February 2021;
   
4 the Court Register via the Court’s Digital System from the incorporation date of the Company to 8 February 2021;
   
5 a copy of the written resolutions of the sole director of the Company dated 30 December 2020 approving the filing of the Registration Statement, and authorising the registration of the Resale Shares (the Resolutions); and
   
6 the Registration Statement,

 

(1 to 5 above are the Corporate Documents, and together with 6 above, the Documents).

 

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Schedule 2

 

Assumptions

 

1 Resale Shares. The Resale Shares were issued in accordance with the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association.
   
2 Director. The sole director of the Company considers the resale of the Resale Shares in accordance with the Registration Statement to be in the best interests of the Company and the sole director does not have any financial interest in or other relationship to a party or the transactions contemplated by the Registration Statement which has not been properly disclosed in the Resolutions.
   
3 Authenticity of Documents. All original Documents are authentic, all signatures, initials and seals are genuine, all copies of the Documents are true and correct copies and the Registration Statement conforms in every material respect to the latest draft of the same produced to us and, where the Registration Statement has been provided to us in successive drafts marked-up to indicate changes to such documents, all such changes have been so indicated.
   
4 Corporate Documents. All matters required by law to be recorded in the Corporate Documents are so recorded, and all corporate minutes, resolutions, certificates, documents and records which we have reviewed are accurate and complete, and all facts expressed in or implied thereby are accurate and complete.
   
5 Court Search. The Court Register examined by us for the period from the date of incorporation of the Company to the Court Search Date via the Court’s Digital System on the Court Search Date, constitutes a complete record of the proceedings for such period before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
   
6 No Steps to Wind-up. The sole director and shareholders of the Company have not taken any steps to have the Company struck off or placed in liquidation, no steps have been taken to wind up the Company and no receiver has been appointed over any of the property or assets of the Company.
   
7 Unseen Documents. Save for the Documents provided to us there are no resolutions, agreements, documents or arrangements which might materially affect, amend or vary our opinions expressed herein.

 

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Schedule 3

 

Qualifications

 

1 Foreign Statutes. We express no opinion in relation to provisions making reference to foreign statutes in the Registration Statement.
   
2 Amendment. A Cayman Islands court would not treat as definitive a statement in a contract that it could only be amended or waived in writing, but would be able to consider all the facts of the case (particularly where consideration had passed) to determine whether a verbal amendment or waiver had been effected and, if it found that it had, such verbal amendment or waiver would be deemed to have also amended the stated requirement for a written agreement.
   
3 Stamp Duty. Cayman Islands stamp duty may be payable if the original documents to which the Company is a party are executed in, brought to, or produced before a court of, the Cayman Islands.
   
4 Good Standing. The Company shall be deemed to be in good standing at any time if all fees (including annual filing fees) and penalties under the Companies Act have been paid and the Registrar of Companies has no knowledge that the Company is in default under the Companies Act.
   
5 Court Search. The search of the Court Register has been undertaken on a digital system made available through the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the Court’s Digital System), and through inadvertent errors or delays in updating the digital system (and/or the Register from which the digital information is drawn) may not constitute a complete record of all proceedings as at the Court Search Date and in particular may omit details of very recent filings. The Court Search of the Court Register would not reveal, amongst other things, an Originating Process filed with the Grand Court which, pursuant to the Grand Court rules or best practice of the Clerk of the Courts’ office, should have been entered in the Court Register but was not in fact entered in the Court Register (properly or at all), or any Originating Process which has been placed under seal or anonymised (whether by order of the Court or pursuant to the practice of the Clerk of the Courts’ office).
   
6 Conflict of Laws. An expression of an opinion on a matter of Cayman Islands law in relation to a particular issue in this opinion should not necessarily be construed to imply that the Cayman Islands courts would treat Cayman Islands law as the proper law to determine that issue under its conflict of laws rules.
   
7 Sanctions. The obligations of the Company may be subject to restrictions pursuant to United Nations and European Union sanctions as implemented under the laws of the Cayman Islands.
   
8 Economic Substance. We have undertaken no enquiry and express no view as to the compliance of the Company with the International Tax Co-operation (Economic Substance) Act (2020 Revision).

 

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