EX-5.1 4 ea021301207ex5-1_charming.htm OPINION OF HARNEY WESTWOOD & RIEGELS REGARDING THE VALIDITY OF THE CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES BEING REGISTERED

Exhibit 5.1

 

Harney Westwood & Riegels
3501 The Center
99 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 5806 7800
Fax: +852 5806 7810

 

27 May 2025

 

raymond.ng@harneys.com

+852 5806 7883

063372-0001-RLN

 

Charming Medical Limited

Unit 8, 3/F., Qwomar Trading Complex

Blackburne Road, Port Purcell, Road Town, Tortola

British Virgin Islands VG1110

 

Dear Sir or Madam

 

Charming Medical Limited (the Company)

 

We are lawyers qualified to practise in the British Virgin Islands and have acted as British Virgin Islands advisers to the Company in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1 (the Registration Statement), including all amendments or supplements thereto, and accompanying prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), relating to the offering by the Company of (a) up to 1,600,000 class A ordinary shares of par value US$0.0001 per share and (b) an option to issue up to 240,000 class A ordinary shares of par value US$0.0001 per share to cover the over-allotment option to be granted to the underwriter (collectively, the IPO Shares).

 

We are furnishing this opinion as Exhibits 5.1, 8.1 and 23.2 to the Registration Statement.

 

For the purposes of giving this opinion, we have examined the Documents (as defined in Schedule 1) which we regard as necessary in order to issue this opinion. 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.

 

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 British Virgin Islands:

 

 

 

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1Existence and Good Standing. The Company is a BVI business company duly incorporated with limited liability, and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands. The Company is a separate legal entity and is subject to suit in its own name.

 

2Maximum Number of Authorised Shares. Based on our review of the M&A (as defined in Schedule 1), the Company is authorised to issue up to a maximum of 75,000,000 ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001, comprising (i) 60,000,000 class A ordinary shares of par value of US$0.0001 each and (ii) 15,000,000 class B ordinary shares of par value of US$0.0001 each.

 

3Valid Issuance of IPO Shares. The allotment and issuance of the IPO Shares as contemplated by the Registration Statement have been duly authorised and, when allotted, issued and fully paid for in accordance with the Registration Statement, and when the names of the shareholders are entered in the register of members of the Company, the IPO Shares will be validly allotted, issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

4British Virgin Islands Law. The statements under the headings “Risk Factors”, “Taxation”, “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities” and “Description of Shares” in the prospectus forming part of the Registration Statement, to the extent that they constitute statements of British Virgin Islands law, are accurate in all material respects as at the date of this opinion and such statements constitute our opinion.

 

This opinion is confined to the matters expressly opined on herein and given on the basis of the laws of the British Virgin Islands as they are in force and applied by the British Virgin 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. Except as specifically stated herein, 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 the Registration Statement. We express no opinion with respect to the commercial terms of the transactions the subject of this opinion.

 

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”, “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities”, “Taxation” and “Legal Matters” and elsewhere in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Rules and Regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

This opinion is limited to the matters referred to herein and shall not be construed as extending to any other matter or document not referred to herein.

 

This opinion shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the British Virgin Islands.

 

Yours faithfully

 

/s/ Harney Westwood & Riegels

 
Harney Westwood & Riegels

 

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Schedule 1

 

List of Documents and Records Examined

 

1the certificate of incorporation of the Company dated 28 February 2024;

 

2the second amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company filed on 23 May 2025 (the M&A);

 

3the register of directors of the Company provided to us on 7 May 2025;

 

4the register of members of the Company provided to us on 7 May 2025;

 

5a copy of the written resolutions of the sole director of the Company dated 14 May 2025 (the Resolutions);

 

6a certificate of good standing in respect of the Company issued by the Registrar of Corporate Affairs dated 25 April 2025;

 

7a certificate of incumbency in respect of the company issued by the registered agent of the Company, Overseas Company Services Limited, on 23 April 2025;

 

8a certificate from a director of the Company dated 27 May 2025, a copy of which is attached hereto (the Director’s Certificate); and

 

9the Registration Statement filed with the Commission on 27 May 2025.

 

(1 to 7 above are the Corporate Documents, and 1 to 9 above are the Documents).

 

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Schedule 2

 

Assumptions

 

1Authenticity of Documents. All original Documents are authentic, all signatures, initials and seals are genuine, all copies of Documents are true and correct copies.

 

2Corporate Documents. All matters required by law to be recorded in the Corporate Documents are so recorded, 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.

 

3Director’s Certificate. The contents of the Director’s Certificate are true and accurate as at the date of this opinion and there is no information not contained in the Director’s Certificate that will in any way affect this opinion.

 

4No Steps to Wind-up. The directors and shareholders of the Company have not taken any steps to appoint a liquidator of the Company and no receiver has been appointed over any of the property or assets of the Company.

 

5Resolutions. The written Resolutions have been duly executed (and where executed by a corporate entity, such execution has been duly authorised if so required) by or on behalf of each director or shareholder (as the case may be), and the signatures and initials thereon are those of a person or persons in whose name the Resolutions have been expressed to be signed. The Resolutions remain in full force and effect.

 

6Unseen Documents. Save for the Documents provided to us there are no resolutions, agreements, documents or arrangements which materially affect, amend or vary the transactions envisaged in the Registration Statement.

 

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Schedule 3

 

Qualifications

 

1Foreign Statutes. We express no opinion in relation to provisions making reference to foreign statutes in the Registration Statement.

 

2Commercial Terms. 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 of the documents or instruments cited in this opinion or otherwise with respect to the commercial terms of the transactions the subject of this opinion.

 

3Meaning of Non-Assessable. In this opinion the phrase non-assessable means, with respect to the issuance of IPO Shares, that a shareholder shall not, in respect of the relevant IPO Shares, have any obligation to make further contributions to the Company’s assets (except in exceptional circumstances, such as involving fraud, the establishment of an agency relationship or an illegal or improper purpose or other circumstances in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil).

 

4Good Standing. To maintain the Company in good standing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, it must pay its annual licence fees to the Registrar of Corporate Affairs, and comply with its mandated statutory obligations.

 

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Annex

 

Director’s Certificate

 

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