EX-5.1 3 ea023371007ex5-1_hangfeng.htm OPINION OF OGIER REGARDING THE VALIDITY OF THE ORDINARY SHARES BEING REGISTERED

Exhibit 5.1

 

 

  

Hang Feng Technology Innovation Co., Ltd.

Unit 2008, 20/F, Cheung Kong Center

2 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

  D  +852 3656 6054
  E  nathan.powell@ogier.com
  D  +852 3656 6073
  E  rachel.huang@ogier.com
   
  Reference: NMP/RYH/512666.00001

 

25 July 2025

 

Hang Feng Technology Innovation Co., Ltd. (the Company)

 

We have acted as Cayman Islands counsel to the Company in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1, including all amendments and supplements thereto (the Registration Statement) to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended to date (the Act). The Registration Statement relates to the offering by the Company (the Offering) of 1,375,000 ordinary shares of US$0.0001 par value each of the Company (the Ordinary Shares), and plus an option for a period of 45 days granted to the representative of the underwriters, Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC (the Representative), of the Offering after the date of the Registration Statement to issue up to 206,250 additional Ordinary Shares, pursuant to an option (the Over-allotment Option) (collectively, the IPO Shares).

 

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

 

1Documents examined

 

For the purposes of giving this opinion, we have examined originals, copies, or drafts of the following documents (the Documents):

 

(a)the certificate of incorporation of the Company dated 15 October 2024 issued by the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands (the Registrar);

 

(b)the memorandum and articles of association of the Company filed with the Registrar on 15 October 2024 (the Memorandum and Articles);

 

 

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Partners

Nicholas Plowman

Nathan Powell

Anthony Oakes

Oliver Payne

Kate Hodson

David Nelson

Justin Davis

Joanne Collett

Dennis Li

Cecilia Li**

Rachel Huang**

Yuki Yan**

Florence Chan*

Richard Bennett**

James Bergstrom

 

 

 

*   admitted in New Zealand

** admitted in England and Wales

‡     not ordinarily resident in Hong Kong

 

 

 

(c)a copy of the certificate of good standing of the Company dated 22 July 2025 issued by the Registrar (the Certificate of Good Standing).

 

(d)the register of directors of the Company filed with the Registrar on 22 October 2024 and as provided to us on 14 May 2025 (the ROD);

 

(e)the register of members of the Company as provided to us on 22 July 2025 (the ROM, and together with the ROD, the Registers);

 

(f)a certificate from the sole director of the Company dated 25 July 2025 as to certain matters of facts (the Director’s Certificate);

 

(g)a copy of the written resolutions of the sole director of the Company dated 26 May 2025 approving, among other things, the Company’s filing of the Registration Statement and issuance of the IPO Shares (the Director Resolutions);

 

(h)a search of the Cayman Online Registry Information Service conduced against the Company at the Registrar on 24 July 2025 (the CORIS Search);

 

(i)the Register of Writs maintained by the office of the Clerk of Courts in the Cayman Islands as inspected by us on 24 July 2025;

 

(j)a draft copy of the underwriting agreement as exhibited to the Registration Statement (the Underwriting Agreement); and

 

(k)the Registration Statement.

 

2Assumptions

 

In giving this opinion we have relied upon the assumptions set forth in this paragraph 2 without having carried out any independent investigation or verification in respect of those assumptions:

 

(a)all original documents examined by us are authentic and complete;

 

(b)all copy documents examined by us (whether in facsimile, electronic or other form) conform to the originals and those originals are authentic and complete;

 

(c)all signatures, seals, dates, stamps and markings (whether on original or copy documents) are genuine;

 

(d)each of the Certificate of Good Standing, Registers and the Director’s Certificate is accurate and complete as at the date of this opinion;

 

(e)all copies of the Registration Statement are true and correct copies and where any Document has been provided to us in draft or undated form, that Document conforms in every material respect to the latest drafts of the same produced to us and, where any Document has been provided to us in successive drafts marked-up to indicate changes to such documents, all such changes have been so indicated;

 

(f)the Director Resolutions were duly passed in accordance with the then memorandum and articles of association of the Company and remain in full force and effect and the sole director of the Company has acted in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company and has exercised the standard of care, diligence and skill that is required of him or her in approving the Offering and the sole director of the Company has no financial interest in or other relationship to a party of the transactions contemplated by the Documents which has not been properly disclosed in the Director Resolutions;

 

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(g)neither the sole director nor the shareholders of the Company have taken any steps to appoint a liquidator of the Company, restructuring officer and no receiver has been appointed over any of the Company’s property or assets;

 

(h)there is no provision of the law of any jurisdiction, other than the Cayman Islands, which would have any implication in relation to the opinions expressed herein;

 

(i)the CORIS Search which we have examined is accurate and that the information disclosed by the CORIS Search is true and complete and that such information has not since been altered;

 

(j)the Register of Writs constitutes a complete and accurate record of the proceedings affecting the Company before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands as at the time we conducted our investigation of such register;

 

(k)upon the issuance of the IPO Shares, the Company will receive consideration for the full issue price thereof which shall be equal to at least the par value thereof; and

 

(l)no invitation has been or will be made by or on behalf of the Company to the public in the Cayman Islands to subscribe for any IPO Shares and none of the IPO Shares have been offered or issued to residents of the Cayman Islands.

 

3Opinions

 

On the basis of the examinations and assumptions referred to above and subject to the limitations and qualifications set forth in paragraph 4 below, we are of the opinion that:

 

Corporate status

 

(a)The Company has been duly incorporated as an exempted company with limited liability and is validly existing and in good standing with the Registrar under the laws of the Cayman Islands.

 

Authorised share capital

 

(b)The authorised share capital of the Company is USD50,000.00 divided into 500,000,000 shares of a nominal or par value of USD0.0001 each.

 

Valid issuance of shares

 

(c)The issuance and allotment of the IPO Shares have been duly authorised and, when issued and allotted in accordance with the Registration Statement, the terms in the underwriting agreement referred to within the Registration Statement, the then effective memorandum and articles of association of the Company and the duly passed Director Resolutions and once consideration is paid for in accordance with the Registration Statement, will be validly issued and allotted, fully paid and non-assessable. Once the register of members of the Company has been updated to reflect the issuance as fully paid, the shareholders recorded in the register of members will be deemed to have legal title to the IPO Shares set against their respective names.

 

Registration statement - taxation

 

(d)The statements contained in the Registration Statement in the section headed “Material Tax Considerations - Cayman Islands Taxation”, insofar as they purport to summarise the laws or regulations of the Cayman Islands, are accurate in all material respects and that such statements constitute our opinion.

 

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4Limitations and Qualifications

 

4.1We offer no opinion:

 

(a)as to any laws other than the laws of the Cayman Islands, and we have not, for the purposes of this opinion, made any investigation of the laws of any other jurisdiction , and we express no opinion as to the meaning, validity, or effect of references in the Documents to statutes, rules, regulations, codes or judicial authority of any jurisdiction other than the Cayman Islands; or

 

(b)except to the extent that this opinion expressly provides otherwise, as to the commercial terms of, or the validity, enforceability or effect of the Registration Statement, the accuracy of representations, the fulfilment of warranties or conditions, the occurrence of events of default or terminating events or the existence of any conflicts or inconsistencies among the Registration Statement and any other agreements into which the Company may have entered or any other documents.

 

4.2Under the Companies Act (Revised) (Companies Act) of the Cayman Islands, annual returns in respect of the Company must be filed with the Registrar, together with payment of annual filing fees. A failure to file annual returns and pay annual filing fees may result in the Company being struck off the Register of Companies, following which its assets will vest in the Financial Secretary of the Cayman Islands and will be subject to disposition or retention for the benefit of the public of the Cayman Islands.

 

4.3In good standing means only that as of the date of the Certificate of Good Standing the Company is up-to-date with the filing of its annual returns and payment of annual fees with the Registrar. We have made no enquiries into the Company’s good standing with respect to any filings or payment of fees, or both, that it may be required to make under the laws of the Cayman Islands other than the Companies Act.

 

4.4We are not aware of any Cayman Islands authority as to when the courts would set aside the limited liability of a shareholder in a Cayman Islands company. Our opinion on the subject is based on the Companies Act and English common law authorities, the latter of which are persuasive but not binding in the courts of the Cayman Islands. Under English authorities, circumstances in which a court would attribute personal liability to a shareholder are very limited, and include: (a) such shareholder expressly assuming direct liability (such as a guarantee); (b) the company acting as the agent of such shareholder; (c) the company being incorporated by or at the behest of such shareholder for the purpose of committing or furthering such shareholder’s fraud, or for a sham transaction otherwise carried out by such shareholder. In the absence of these circumstances, we are of the opinion that a Cayman Islands’ court would have no grounds to set aside the limited liability of a shareholder.

 

4.5In this opinion, the phrase “non-assessable” means, with respect to the Ordinary Shares of the Company, that a shareholder shall not, solely by virtue of its status as a shareholder, be liable for additional assessments or calls on the Ordinary Shares by the Company or its creditors (except in exceptional circumstances, such as involving fraud, the establishment of an agency relationship or an illegal or improper purpose or other circumstance in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil).

 

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4.6Our examination of the Register of Writs cannot conclusively reveal whether or not there is:

 

(a)any current or pending litigation in the Cayman Islands against the Company; or

 

(b)any application for the winding up or dissolution of the Company or the appointment of any liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy or restructuring officer in respect of the Company or any of its assets,

 

as notice of these matters might not be entered on the Register of Writs immediately or updated expeditiously or the court file associated with the matter or the matter itself may not be publicly available (for example, due to sealing orders having been made). Furthermore, we have not conducted a search of the summary court. Claims in the summary court are limited to a maximum of CI $20,000.

 

4.7Cayman Islands stamp duty will be payable if a Document is executed in, or brought to, the Cayman Islands (including being produced to a court of the Cayman Islands).

 

4.8A company, unit trust or exempted limited partnership that is a “private fund”, as such term is defined in the Private Funds Act (Revised), is prohibited from accepting capital contributions from investors in respect of investments until it is registered with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.

 

5Governing law of this opinion

 

5.1This opinion is:

 

(a)governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, the laws of the Cayman Islands;

 

(b)limited to the matters expressly stated in it; and

 

(c)confined to, and given on the basis of, the laws and practice in the Cayman Islands at the date of this opinion.

 

5.2Unless otherwise indicated, a reference to any specific Cayman Islands legislation is a reference to that legislation as amended to, and as in force at, the date of this opinion.

 

6Reliance

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm under the headings “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities”, “Legal Matters” and “Material Tax Considerations - Cayman Islands Taxation” of 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 may be used only in connection with the offer and sale of the IPO Shares while the Registration Statement is effective.

 

Yours faithfully

 

/s/ Ogier  

Ogier