EX-3.1 2 tm2225088d22_ex3-1.htm EXHIBIT 3.1

 

Exhibit 3.1 

 

THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)

 

OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

 

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

 

SIXTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

Adlai Nortye Ltd. 阿诺医药集团有限公司

 

(adopted by Special Resolution passed on June 23, 2021)

 

 

 

June 23, 2021

 

 

 

CAYMAN ISLANDS

 

 

 

 

THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)

 

OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

 

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

 

SIXTH AMENDED AND RESTATED MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

Adlai Nortye Ltd. 阿诺医药集团有限公司

 

(adopted by Special Resolution passed on June 23, 2021)

 

1.The name of the Company is Adlai Nortye Ltd. The Company has a foreign character name in addition to its name. The foreign character name of the Company is 阿诺医药集团有限公司.

 

2.The registered office of the Company is at Harneys Fiduciary (Cayman) Limited, 4th Floor, Harbour Place, 103 South Church Street, P.O. Box 10240, Grand Cayman KY1-1002, 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 shall include the following:

 

(a)To act and to perform all the functions of a holding company in all of its branches and to co-ordinate the policy and administration of any subsidiary company or companies wherever incorporated or carrying on business or of any group of companies of which the Company or any subsidiary company is a member or which are in any manner controlled directly or indirectly by the Company.

 

(b)(i) To carry on the business of an investment company and to act as promoters and entrepreneurs and to carry on business as financiers, capitalists, concessionaires, merchants, brokers, traders, dealers, agents, importers and exporters and to undertake and carry on and execute all kinds of investment, financial, commercial, mercantile, trading and other operations.

 

(ii)To carry on whether as principals, agents or otherwise howsoever the business of realtors, developers, consultants, estate agents or managers, builders, contractors, engineers, manufacturers, dealers in or vendors of all types of property including services.

 

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(c)To exercise and enforce all rights and powers conferred by or incidental to the ownership of any shares, stock, obligations or other securities including all such powers of veto or control as may be conferred by virtue of the holding by the Company of some special proportion of the issued or nominal amount thereof, to provide managerial and other executive, supervisory and consultant services for or in relation to any company in which the Company is interested upon such terms as may be thought fit.

 

(d)To purchase or otherwise acquire, sell, exchange, surrender, lease, mortgage, charge, convert, turn to account, dispose of and deal with real and personal property and rights of all kinds and, in particular, mortgages, debentures, produce, concessions, options, contracts, patents, annuities, licenses, stocks, shares, bonds, policies, book debts, business concerns, undertakings, claims, privileges and causes in action of all kinds.

 

(e)To subscribe for, conditionally or unconditionally, to underwrite, issue on commission or otherwise, take, hold, deal in and convert stocks, shares and securities of all kinds and to enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits, reciprocal concessions or cooperation with any person or company and to promote and aid in promoting, to constitute, form or organize any company, syndicate or partnership of any kind, for the purpose of acquiring and undertaking any property and liabilities of the Company or of advancing, directly or indirectly, the objects of the Company or for any other purpose which the Company may think expedient.

 

(f)To stand surety for or to guarantee, support or secure the performance of all or any of the obligations of any person, firm or company whether or not related or affiliated to the Company in any manner and whether by personal covenant or by mortgage, charge or Lien upon the whole or any part of the undertaking, property and assets of the Company, both present and future, including its uncalled capital or by any such method and whether or not the Company shall receive valuable consideration therefor.

 

(g)To engage in or carry on any other lawful trade, business or enterprise which may at any time appear to the Directors of the Company capable of being conveniently carried on in conjunction with any of the aforementioned businesses or activities or which may appear to the Directors of the Company likely to be profitable to the Company.

 

In the interpretation of this Memorandum of Association in general and of this Clause 3 in particular, no object, business or power specified or mentioned shall be limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object, business or power, or the name of the Company, or by the juxtaposition of two or more objects, businesses or powers and that, in the event of any ambiguity in this clause or elsewhere in this Memorandum of Association, the same shall be resolved by such interpretation and construction as will widen and enlarge and not restrict the objects, businesses and powers of and exercisable by the Company. If and to the extent that there are inconsistencies between the provisions of the Shareholders’ Agreement and those of this Memorandum of Association, the terms of the Shareholders’ Agreement shall prevail. The parties agree to take all actions necessary or advisable, as promptly as practicable after the discovery of such inconsistency, to amend this Memorandum of Association so as to eliminate such inconsistency.

 

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4.Except as prohibited or limited by the Companies ACT (AS REVISED), as amended, supplemented, reissued or restated from time to time, the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object and shall have and be capable of from time to time and at all times exercising any and all of the powers at any time or from time to time exercisable by a natural person or body corporate in doing in any part of the world whether as principal, agent, contractor or otherwise whatever may be considered by it necessary for the attainment of its objects and whatever else may be considered by it as incidental or conducive thereto or consequential thereon, including the power to make any alterations or amendments to this Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association of the Company considered necessary or convenient in the manner set out in the Articles of Association of the Company, and the power to do any of the following acts or things, viz:

 

to pay all expenses of and incidental to the promotion, formation and incorporation of the Company; to register the Company to do business in any other jurisdiction; to sell, lease or dispose of any property of the Company; to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, debentures, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants, options and other negotiable or transferable instruments; to lend money or other assets and to act as guarantors; to borrow or raise money on the security of the undertaking or on all or any of the assets of the Company including uncalled capital or without security; to invest monies of the Company in such manner as the Directors determine; to promote other companies; to sell the undertaking of the Company for cash or any other consideration; to distribute assets in specie to Members of the Company; to make charitable or benevolent donations; to pay pensions or gratuities or provide other benefits in cash or kind to Directors, officers, employees, past or present, and their families; to purchase Directors and officers liability insurance and to carry on any trade or business and generally to do all acts and things which, in the opinion of the Company or the Directors, may be conveniently, profitably or usefully acquired and dealt with, carried on, executed or done by the Company in connection with the business aforesaid PROVIDED THAT the Company shall only carry on the businesses with the required license in the event that such a license is required under the laws of the Cayman Islands.

 

5.The liability of each Member is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on such Member’s shares.

 

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6.The share capital of the Company is US$50,000 divided into 500,000,000 shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 each, of which, 440,646,909 shall be designated as Ordinary Shares, 14,560,000 shall be designated as Series A Preferred Shares, 13,507,896 shall be designated as Series B Preferred Shares, 14,653,013 shall be designated as Series C Preferred Shares and 16,632,182 shall be designated as Series D Preferred Shares, each with power for the Company insofar as is permitted by law, to redeem or purchase any of its shares and to increase or reduce the said capital subject to the provisions of the Companies Act (As Revised) 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.

  

7.If the Company is registered as exempted, its operations will be carried on subject to the provisions of Section 174 of the Companies Act (As Revised) and, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act (As Revised) and the Articles of Association, it shall have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands.

 

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THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)

 

OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

 

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

 

SIXTH AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

Adlai Nortye Ltd. 阿诺医药集团有限公司

 

(adopted by Special Resolution passed on June 23, 2021)

 

1In these Articles, Table A in the Schedule to the Statute does not apply and, unless there is something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith:

 

  Affiliate means, in respect of a Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, such Person, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) in the case of a natural Person, shall include, without limitation, such Person’s spouse, parents, children, siblings, mother-in-law and father-in-law and brothers and sisters-in-law, (b) in the case of a holder of Preferred Shares, shall include (i) any Person who holds Shares as a nominee for such holder of Preferred Shares, (ii)  any shareholder of such holder of Preferred Shares, (iii) any entity or individual which has a direct and indirect interest in such holder of Preferred Shares (including, if applicable, any general partner or limited partner) or any fund manager thereof; (iv) any Person that directly or indirectly Controls, is Controlled by, under common Control with, or is managed by such holder of Preferred Shares, its shareholder, the general partner or the fund manager of such holder of Preferred Shares or its shareholder, (v) the relatives of any individual referred to in (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, and (vi) any trust Controlled by or held for the benefit of such individuals. For the avoidance of doubt, any of the holders of Preferred Shares shall not be deemed to be an Affiliate of any Group Company and vice versa.

 

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  Applicable Original Issue Price means (i) with respect to Series A Preferred Shares, the Series A Original Issue Price; (ii) with respect to the Series B Preferred Shares, the Series B Original Issue Price, (iii) with respect to Series C Preferred Shares, the Series C Original Issue Price, (iv) with respect to Series D Preferred Shares, the Series D Original Issue Price.

 

  Applicable Conversion Price means (i) with respect to Series A Preferred Shares, the Series A Conversion Price; (ii) with respect to the Series B Preferred Shares, the Series B Conversion Price, (iii) with respect to Series C Preferred Shares, the Series C Conversion Price, (iv) with respect to Series D Preferred Shares, the Series D Conversion Price.

 

  Articles means these Articles as originally framed or as from time to time altered by a Special Resolution and in accordance with Article 20.

 

  Auditors means the persons for the time being performing the duties of auditors of the Company.

 

  Available Funds has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 19(d).

 

  Board of Directors means the board of directors of the Company.

 

  Business Day” or “business day means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or a day on which banks are required to be closed in the Cayman Islands, the United States, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or the PRC.

 

  BVI Companies means Alpine Bioscience Ltd and Adlai Nortye (BVI) Ltd.

 

  BVI Company mean any of the foregoing company.

 

  Charter Documents means, with respect to a particular legal entity, the articles of incorporation, certificate of incorporation, formation or registration (including, if applicable, certificates of change of name), memorandum of association, articles of association, bylaws, articles of organization, limited liability company agreement, trust deed, trust instrument, operating agreement, joint venture agreement, business license, or similar or other constitutive, governing, or charter documents, or equivalent documents, of such entity.

 

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  Company means Adlai Nortye Ltd. 阿诺医药集团有限公司.

 

  Compensation Committee has the meaning ascribed to it in the Article 93.

 

  Control with respect to any third-party, shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, and shall be deemed to exist for any Person (a) when such Person holds at least thirty percent (30%) of the outstanding voting securities of such third party and no other party owns a greater number of outstanding voting securities of such third party or (b) over other members of such party’s immediate family. Immediate family members include, without limitation, a person’s spouse, parents, children, siblings, mother-in-law and father-in-law and brothers and sisters-in-law. The terms “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

  debenture means debenture stock, mortgages, bonds and any other such securities of the Company whether constituting a charge on the assets of the Company or not.

 

  Deemed Liquidation Event has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 128(g).

 

  Directors means the members of the Board of Directors of the Company for the time being.

 

  ESOP has the meaning ascribed to it in the Shareholders’ Agreement.

 

  Founder Holdcos means Aries CN Ltd. and Gemini CN Ltd.   “Founder Holdco” means any of them.

 

  Group Company means each of the Company, the BVI Companies, the HK Company, the US Company, the PRC Company and 7 Subsidiary of the foregoing, and “Group Companies” refers to all of the Group Companies collectively.

 

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  HK Company means Adlai Nortye (HK) Limited (阿诺医药(香港)有限公司).

 

  Holding Entity with respect to Shenzhen Yuanming, shall mean QHYM Investment Ltd.; with respect to Beijing Kunrong, shall mean BJKR Management Ltd.; with respect to Suzhou Detong, shall mean Dexuan (Shanghai) Enterprise Management Center (Limited Partnership) (德绚(上海) 企业管理中心(有限合伙)); with respect to Beijing Kunrong, shall mean BJKR Management Ltd.; with respect to Hangzhou Jinyin, shall mean JIN YIN (BVI) LIMITED.; with respect to Hangzhou Lainuo, shall mean LAI NUO (BVI) LIMITED; with respect to Hangzhou Lvyi, shall mean LV YI (BVI) LIMITED; with respect to Shanghai Ruihe, shall mean Yingzhi International Limited.

 

  Hong Kong means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

 

  IAS means the applicable International Accounting Standards published by the International Accounting Standards Board from time to time.

 

  Indebtedness of any Person means, without duplication, each of the following of such Person: (1) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (2) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade payables entered into in the ordinary course of business), (3) all reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments, (4) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced that are incurred in connection with the acquisition of properties, assets or businesses, (5) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in either case with respect to any property or assets acquired with the proceeds of such indebtedness (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (6) all obligations that are capitalized in accordance with the applicable accounting standards, (7) all obligations under banker’s acceptance, letter of credit or similar facilities, (8) all obligations to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any Equity Securities of such Person, (9) all obligations in respect of any interest rate swap, hedge or cap agreement, and (10) all guarantees issued in respect of the Indebtedness referred to in clauses (1)   through (10) above of any other Person, but only to the extent of the Indebtedness guaranteed.

 

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  Investors means all of the Series A Investors, the Series B Investors, the Series C Investors and the Series D Investors, and “Investor” means each of them.

 

  Investor Directors has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 69, and “Investor Director” means each of them.

 

  Investor Director Majority means a majority of all of the Investor Directors; in case there are two Investor Directors, the Investor Director Majority shall mean two Investor Directors.

 

  Junior Shares means all classes and series of shares that are junior in rights and preferences to the Preferred Shares, including the Ordinary Shares.

 

  Key Parties” or “Founders means LU Yang ( 路杨 ), a PRC citizen with ID number 330681197904100012 and YANG Donghui (杨东晖), a PRC citizen with ID number 360102197706096334.

 

  Law” or “law means any and all provisions of any applicable constitution, treaty, statute, law, regulation, ordinance, code, rule, or rule of common law, any governmental approval, concession, grant, franchise, license, agreement, directive, requirement, or other governmental restriction or any similar form of decision of, or determination by, or any interpretation or administration of any of the foregoing by, any Governmental Authority, in each case as amended, and any and all applicable order, ruling, decision, verdict, decree, writ, subpoena, mandate, precept, command, directive, consent, approval, award, judgment, injunction or other similar determination or finding by, before or under the supervision of any Governmental Authority.

 

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  Lien means any claim, charge, easement, encumbrance, lease, covenant, security interest, lien, option, pledge, rights of others, or restriction (whether on voting, sale, transfer, disposition or otherwise), whether imposed by contract, understanding, law, equity or otherwise.

 

  Liquidation Event has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 128.

 

  Management Shareholders means the Founders, and the Founder Holdcos.

 

  Member means a duly registered holder from time to time of the shares in the capital of the Company.

 

  Memorandum of Association means the Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association of the Company, as amended and restated from time to time in accordance with Article 20.

 

  month means calendar month.

 

  Ordinary Resolution a Members resolution passed either (i) as a written resolution signed by all Members entitled to vote, or (ii) at a meeting by Members holding not less than fifty percent (50%) of all the outstanding shares of the Company, calculated on an as-converted basis (which Members, 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 an ordinary resolution has been duly given), subject to Article 20.

 

  Ordinary Shares means the ordinary shares in the capital of the Company, par value of US$0.0001 per share.

 

  Ordinary Share Equivalents mean any Ordinary Shares and any rights, options, or warrants to purchase or exercisable for Ordinary Shares, or 10 securities of any type whatsoever that are, or may become, convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable for said equity securities, including, without limitation, the Preferred Shares.

 

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  paid-up means paid-up and/or credited as paid-up.

 

  Person means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, firm, joint venture, estate, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation, institution, public benefit corporation, entity or governmental or regulatory authority or other enterprise or entity of any kind or nature.

 

  PRC means the People’s Republic of China.

 

  PRC Company means Adlai Nortye Biopharma Co., Ltd. (杭州阿诺生物 医药科技有限公司, formerly known as 杭州阿诺生物医药科技股份有限公司).

 

  Preferred Shares means, collectively, the Series A Preferred Shares, Series B Preferred Shares, Series C Preferred Shares, Series D Preferred Shares and/or other preferred shares of the company that may be issued from time to time.

 

  Principal Business means the research, development and sales of innovative drugs and technology services in respect of drugs development.

 

  Priority Liquidation Amount has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 128(a).

 

  “Qualified IPO” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Shareholders’ Agreement.

 

  Redeemed Preferred Shares has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 19(c)(i).

 

  Redeeming Shareholders has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 19(a).

 

  Redemption Date has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 19(c)(i).

 

  Redemption Notice has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 19(c)(i).

 

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  Seal means the common seal of the Company and includes every duplicate seal.

 

  Secretary includes an Assistant Secretary and any person appointed to perform the duties of Secretary of the Company.

 

  Securities Act means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

  Series A Conversion Price means the price at which Ordinary Shares shall be deliverable upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares as stipulated in Article 16.

 

  Series A Investors means Hangzhou Jinyin Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) (杭州锦银投资合伙企业(有限合伙)) (the “Hangzhou Jinyin”), Hangzhou Lainuo Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) (杭州莱诺投资合伙企业(有限合伙)) (the “Hangzhou Lainuo”), Shanghai Ruihe Yingzhi Venture Capital Center (Limited Partnership) (上海锐合盈智创业投资中心(有限合伙)) (the “Shanghai Ruihe”) and Hangzhou Lvyi Investment Management Partnership (Limited Partnership) (杭州绿怡投资管理合伙企业(有限合伙)) (the “Hangzhou Lvyi”), each holds Shares of the Company through its applicable Holding Entity, and each of their respective successors, transferees and permitted assigns, each a “Series A Investor”.

 

  Series A Original Issue Price means the price per share at which the Series A Preferred Shares were issued, calculated by dividing the series A investment amount paid by the relevant Series A Investor by the number of Series A Preferred Shares held by such Series A Investor, subject to adjustments made for share splits, share dividends, share subdivision, recapitalizations, value adjustment, share combination and the like.

 

  Series A Preferred Shares means the series A preferred shares in the capital of the Company with a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 per share having the rights set forth in the Shareholders’ Agreement and these Articles.

 

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  “Series B Conversion Price” means the price at which Ordinary Shares shall be deliverable upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Shares as stipulated in Article 16.

 

  Series B Investors means Yuanming Prudence SPC – Healthcare Fund I Segregated Portfolio (the “Yuanming Prudence”), Matrix Partners China IV Hong Kong Limited (the “Matrix”), Shenzhen Qianhai Yuanming Healthcare Industry Investment Fund (Limited Partnership) (深圳前海元明医疗产业投资基金( 有限合伙) ) (the “Shenzhen Yuanming”), Beijing Kunrong Enterprise Management Partnership (Limited Partnership) (北京琨嵘企业管理合伙企业(有限合伙)) (the “Beijing Kunrong”), Ningbo Meishan Bonded Port Area Yahui Xinrun Investment Management Center (Limited Partnership) (宁波梅山保税港区雅惠鑫润投资管理中心(有限合伙)) (the “Ningbo Yahui”), Beijing Yahui Qianfeng Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) (北京雅惠乾沣股权投资合伙企业(有限合伙)) (the “Beijing Yahui”), Suzhou Detong Hexin Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership) (苏州市德同合心创业投资合伙企业(有限合伙), formerly known as 上海德同合心股权投资基金中心(有限合伙)”) (the “Suzhou Detong” or “Shanghai Detong”), (each of Shenzhen Yuanming, Beijing Kunrong, and Suzhou Detong holds Shares of the Company through its applicable Holding Entity), and each of their respective successors, transferees and permitted assigns, each a “Series B Investor”.

 

  Series B Original Issue Price means the price per share of RMB25 at which the Series B Preferred Shares were issued, subject to adjustments made for share splits, share dividends, share subdivision, recapitalizations, value adjustment, share combination and the like.

 

  Series B Preferred Shares means the series B preferred shares in the capital of the Company with a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 per share having the rights set forth in the Shareholders’ Agreement and these Articles.

 

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  Series B Preferred Shares Liquidation Preference has the meaning ascribed to it in Article 128(c).

 

  Series B Redemption Price means the redemption price as stipulated in Article 19(b)(ii).

 

  Series B Share Purchase Agreement means that certain Series B Preferred Share and Warrant Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, the Series B Investors and certain other parties dated June 1, 2018, and the Supplemental Agreements of the Share Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, the Investors and certain other parties dated respectively June 22, 2018.

 

  “Series C Conversion Price” means the price at which Ordinary Shares shall be deliverable upon conversion of the Series C Preferred Shares as stipulated in Article 16.

 

  Series C First Closing Date shall mean December 30, 2019.

 

  Series C Investors means HONGKONG TIGERMED CO., LIMITED (香港 泰格醫藥科技有限公司), ATCG Holdings Limited (the “ATCG”), YINGKE Investors, UNIQUE MARK VENTURES LIMITED (特誌創投有限公司) and each of their respective successors, transferees and permitted assigns, each a “Series C Investor”.

 

  Series C Original Issue Price means the per share price at which the Series C Preferred Shares were issued, calculated by dividing the investment amount paid by the relevant Series C Investor by the number of Series C Preferred Shares held by the Series C Investor, subject to adjustments made for share splits, share dividends, share subdivision, recapitalizations, value adjustment, share combination and the like. The Series C Original Issue Price under these Articles of Association is approximately at US$ 4.3472.

 

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  “Series C Preferred Shares” means the series C preferred shares in the capital of the Company with a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 per share having the rights set forth in the Shareholders’ Agreement and these Articles.
     

  “Series C Redemption Price” means the redemption price as stipulated in Article 19(b)(i).
     

  Series C Share Purchase Agreements mean Series C Share Purchase Agreement I, Series C Share Purchase Agreement II, Series C Share Purchase Agreement III and Series C Share Purchase Agreement IV. For avoidance of doubt, in the event that “Series C Share Purchase Agreement” is referred to in these Articles, such Series C Share Purchase Agreement shall merely cover and apply to the Series C Investor of such Series C Share Purchase Agreement and Series C Investors of other Series C Share Purchase Agreement shall not be applied to.
     

  Series C Share Purchase Agreement I means that certain Series C Preferred Share Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, YINGKE Domestic Investors and certain other parties dated November 20, 2019.
     

  Series C Share Purchase Agreement II means that certain Series C Preferred Share Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, HONGKONG TIGERMED CO., LIMITED (香港 泰格醫藥科技有限公司) and certain other parties dated December 23, 2019.
     

  Series C Share Purchase Agreement III means that certain Series C Preferred Share Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, ATCG and certain other parties dated January 21, 2020.
     

  Series C Share Purchase Agreement IV means that certain Series C Preferred Share Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, ICBC and certain other parties dated August 31, 2020.

 

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  Series D Conversion Price” means the price at which Ordinary Shares shall be deliverable upon conversion of the Series D Preferred Shares as stipulated in Article 16.
     
  “Series D Investors” means ATCG, Hangzhou Tigermed Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) (杭州泰格股权投资合伙企业(有限合伙)) or its designated Affiliate (the “Hangzhou Tigermed”), Triwise Kangnuo Investment Limited (the “Pingtan Qinzhi”), Qingdao Mukui Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) (青岛木奎股权投资合伙企业( 有限合伙)) or its designated Affiliate (the “Qingdao Mukui”), Wuxi Guolian Guokang Health Industry Investment Center (Limited Partnership) (无锡国联国康健康产业投资中心(有限合伙)) or its designated Affiliate (the “Wuxi Guolian”), Week8 Holdings (HK) Limited (the “Week8”), Ningbo Menovo Ruihe Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) (宁波美诺华锐合股权投资合伙企业(有限合伙)) or its designated Affiliate (the “Menovo”), Xianjin Zhizao Industry Investment Fund II (Limited Partnership) (先进制造产业投资基金二期( 有限合伙) ) (the “Xianjin Zhizao”), Legendstar Fund IV, L.P. (the “Legendstar”), China World Investment Limited or its designated Affiliate (the “CICC”) and other Series D Investors that join the Shareholders’ Agreement by delivering an Investor Joinder Agreement (as attached to the Shareholders’ Agreement as Exhibit C) to the Company, and each of their respective successors, transferees and permitted assigns, each a “Series D Investor”.
     
  “Series D Original Issue Price” means the price per share at which the Series D Preferred Shares were issued, calculated by dividing the series D investment amount paid by the relevant Series D Investor by the number of Series D Preferred Shares held by such Series D Investor, subject to adjustments made for share splits, share dividends, share subdivision, recapitalizations, value adjustment, share combination and the like. The Series C Original Issue Price under these Articles of Association is approximately at US$ 6.6137.

 

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  “Series D Preferred Shares” means the series D preferred shares in the capital of the Company with a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 per share having the rights set forth in the Shareholders’ Agreement and these Articles.

  “Series D Redemption Price” means the redemption price as stipulated in Article 19(b)(i).

  Series D Share Purchase Agreements means Series D Share Purchase Agreement I and Series D Share Purchase Agreement II; For avoidance of doubt, in the event that “Series D Share Purchase Agreement” is referred to in these Articles, such Series D Share Purchase Agreement shall merely cover and apply to the Series D Investor of such Series D Share Purchase Agreement and Series D Investors of other Series D Share Purchase Agreement shall not be applied to.

  Series D Share Purchase Agreement I means that Series D Preferred Share Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, ATCG, Hangzhou Tigermed, Pingtan Qinzhi, Qingdao Mukui, Wuxi Guolian, Week8, Menovo and certain other parties dated April 15, 2021.

  Series D Share Purchase Agreement II means that Series D Preferred Share Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, Legendstar, CICC and certain other parties dated June 21, 2021.

  Series D Share Purchase Agreement III means that Series D Preferred Share Purchase Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, Xianjin Zhizao and certain other parties dated May 26, 2021

  “Share” and “Shares” means a share or shares in the capital of the Company and includes a fraction of a share.

  

 

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  “Shareholders’ Agreement” means that certain Amended and Restated Shareholders’ Agreement by and among the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, the Group Companies, the Investors and certain other parties dated around the date hereof (including any Investor Joinder Agreement of such shareholders’ agreement), as it may be amended and/or restated from time to time in accordance with its terms.
     
  “Share Premium Account” means the account of the Company which the Company is required by the Statute to maintain, to which all premiums over nominal or par value received by the Company in respect of issues of shares from time to time are credited.
     
  “Special Resolution” means a Members resolution expressed to be a special resolution and passed either (i) as a written resolution signed by all Members entitled to vote, or (ii) at a meeting by Members holding not less than ninety percent (90%) of all the outstanding shares of the Company, calculated on an as-converted basis (which Members, 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), subject to Article 20.
     
  “Statute” means the Companies Act (As Revised) of the Cayman Islands, as amended, and every statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force.
     
  “Subsidiary” means, with respect to any subject entity (the “subject entity”), (i) any company, partnership or other entity (x) more than fifty percent (50%) of whose shares or other interests entitled to vote in the election of directors or (y) more than a fifty percent (50%) interest in the profits or capital of such entity are owned or controlled directly or indirectly by the subject entity or through one or more Subsidiaries of the subject entity, (ii) any entity whose assets, or portions thereof, are consolidated with the net earnings of the subject entity and are recorded on the books of the subject entity for financial reporting purposes in accordance with the IAS, or (iii) any entity with respect to which the subject entity has the power to otherwise direct the business and policies of that entity directly or indirectly through another Subsidiary. Notwithstanding the above, as applied to the Company, the term “Subsidiary” or “subsidiary” includes the BVI Companies, the HK Company, the US Company and the PRC Company.

 

 

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  “Trade Sale” means any of the following events:

 

(i)         the acquisition of any Group Company (whether by a sale of equity, merger or consolidation) in which in excess of 50% of such Group Company's voting power outstanding before such transaction is transferred;

 

(ii)        the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets, or Intellectual Property of any Group Company; or

 

(iii)       the exclusive licensing of all or substantially all of any Group Company's Proprietary Rights.

 

  “Transaction Documents” shall mean the Series D Share Purchase Agreements, the Series C Share Purchase Agreements, the Series B Share Purchase Agreement, the Shareholders’ Agreement and these Articles, as applicable.
     
  “US Company” means Adlai Nortye USA Inc.
     
  “Warrantors” means the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, Tai Ling Ltd. (the Non-executive Holder), and the Group Company or Group Companies, unless the text specifically indicates otherwise.
     
  “YINGKE Domestic Investors” means Pingtan Yingke Shengxin Chuangye Partnership (Limited Partnership) (平潭盈科盛鑫创业投资合伙企业 (有限合伙)), Pingtan Puxin Yingke Ruiyuan Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership) (平潭浦信盈科睿远创业投资合伙企业(有限合伙)), and Pingtan Hongtu No. 5 Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership) (平潭鸿图五号创业投资合伙企业(有限合伙))
     
  YINGKE Investors means UNIQUE MARK VENTURES LIMITED (特誌創投有限公司) (“ICBC”) and Yingke Domestic Investors.

 

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In the Articles:

 

1.1words importing the singular number include the plural number and vice-versa;

 

1.2words importing the masculine gender include the feminine gender;

 

1.3words importing persons include corporations;

 

1.4"written" and "in writing" include all modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form, including in the form of an electronic record;

 

1.5references to provisions of any law or regulation shall be construed as references to those provisions as amended, modified, re-enacted or replaced from time to time.

 

1.6any phrase introduced by the terms "including", "include", "in particular" or any similar expression shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the words preceding those terms;

 

1.7headings are inserted for reference only and shall be ignored in construing these Articles;

 

1.8any reference to any Person shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and transferees; and

 

1.9in these Articles Section 8 of the Electronic Transactions Act (2003 Revision) shall not apply.

 

2The business of the Company may be commenced as soon after incorporation as the Directors shall see fit, notwithstanding that only part of the shares may have been allotted.

 

3The Directors may pay, out of the capital or any other monies of the Company, all expenses incurred in or about the formation and establishment of the Company, including the expenses of registration.

 

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CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES

 

4Share certificates representing shares of the Company shall be in such form as shall be determined by the Directors. Share certificates may be under Seal. All certificates for shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified and shall specify the shares to which they relate. The name and address of the person to whom the shares represented thereby are issued, with the number of shares and date of issue, shall be entered in the register of Members of the Company. All certificates surrendered to the Company for transfer shall be cancelled and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate for a like number of shares shall have been surrendered and cancelled. The Directors may authorize certificates to be issued with the seal and authorized signature(s) affixed by some method or system of mechanical process.

 

5Notwithstanding Article 4 of these Articles, if a share certificate be defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of a fee of one dollar (US$l.00) or such lesser sum and on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and the payment of the expenses incurred by the Company in investigating evidence, as the Directors may prescribe.

 

ISSUE OF SHARES

 

6Subject to the relevant provisions, if any, in the Memorandum of Association and these Articles and to any direction that may be given by the Company in general meeting and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares (including, without limitation, any right of participation, pre-emptive right or similar right under the Shareholders’ Agreement), the Directors may allot, issue, grant options over or otherwise dispose of shares of the Company (including fractions of a share) with or without preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions, whether with 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. The Company shall not issue shares in bearer form.

 

7The Company shall maintain a register of its Members and every person whose name is entered as a Member in the register of Members shall be entitled without payment to receive within two (2)  months after allotment or lodgment of transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of issue shall provide) one (1) certificate for all his shares or several certificates each for one or more of his shares upon payment of fifty cents (US$0.50) for every certificate after the first or such less sum as the Directors shall from time to time determine provided that in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of the several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.

 

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TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

8The instrument of transfer of any share shall be in writing and shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and the transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of a share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register in respect thereof.

 

9The Directors may in their absolute discretion decline to register any transfer of Shares with reasonable cause. The Directors shall register any transfer of Shares except where holders proposing or effecting the transfers of the Shares are subject to binding written agreements with the Company which restrict the transfer of the Shares held by such holders and such holders have not complied with the terms of such agreements or the restrictions have not been waived in accordance with their terms. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer they shall notify the transferee within five (5) Business Days of such refusal, providing a detailed explanation of the reason therefor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a transfer complies with the holder’s transfer obligations and restrictions set forth in agreements with the Company, the Directors shall register such transfer.

 

10The registration of transfers may be suspended at such time and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine, provided always that such registration shall not be suspended for more than thirty (30) days in any year.

 

11Any transfer, sale, assignment, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance or disposition of in any way whatsoever of Shares by any Shareholder and/or its director or indirect equity holder(s) shall be subject to the provisions and restrictions set forth in any agreements binding on the Company, including, without limitation, the Shareholders’ Agreement.

 

REDEEMABLE SHARES

 

12 (a)Subject to the provisions of the Statute, these Articles, and the Memorandum of Association, shares may be issued on the terms that they are, or at the option of the Company or the holder are, to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as the Company, before the issue of the shares, may by a Special Resolution determine.

 

(b)Subject to the provisions of the Statute, these Articles, and the Memorandum of Association, the Company may purchase its own shares (including fractions of a share), including any redeemable shares, provided that, except in the case of a purchase in accordance with Article 128(f), the manner of purchase has first been authorized by the Company in general meeting and may make payment therefor in any manner authorized by the Statute, including out of its capital.

 

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VARIATION OF RIGHTS OF SHARES

 

13Subject to Article 20, 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 and except where these Articles or the Statute impose any stricter quorum, voting or procedural requirements in regard to the variation of rights attached to a specific class, be varied with the consent in writing of the holders representing at least four fifth (4/5) of the issued shares of that class, or with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class.

 

The provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply to every such general meeting of the holders of one class of shares except that the necessary quorum shall be as stipulated in these Articles.

 

14The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.

 

COMMISSION ON SALE OF SHARES

 

15The Company may in so far as the Statute from time to time permits, pay a commission to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe whether absolutely or conditionally for any shares of the Company. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the lodgment of fully or partly paid-up shares or a combination of any of the foregoing. The Company may also on any issue of shares pay such brokerage as may be lawful.

 

CONVERSION OF PREFERRED SHARES

 

16The holders of the Preferred Shares have the following conversion rights described below with respect to the conversion of the Preferred Shares into Ordinary Shares. The number of Ordinary Shares to which a holder shall be entitled upon conversion of any Preferred Share shall be the quotient of the Applicable Original Issue Price divided by the then-effective Applicable Conversion Price. The “Applicable Conversion Price” shall initially equal the Applicable Original Issue Price, and each shall be adjusted from time to time as provided in Article 17 below but shall not be less than par value of the Preferred Shares.

 

(a)Optional Conversion. Subject to and in compliance with the provisions of this Article 16(a) and subject to complying with the requirements of the Statute, any Preferred Share may, at the option of the holder thereof, be converted at any time into fully-paid and nonassessable Ordinary Shares based on the then-effective Applicable Conversion Price.

  

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(b)Automatic Conversion. Without any action being required by the holder of such share and whether or not the certificates representing such share are surrendered to the Company or its transfer agent, each Preferred Share shall automatically be converted, based on the then-effective Applicable Conversion Price, into Ordinary Shares upon the closing of a Qualified IPO. Any conversion pursuant to this Article 16(b) shall be referred to as an “Automatic Conversion”.

 

(c)Mechanics of Conversion. No fractional Ordinary Share shall be issued upon conversion of the Preferred Shares. In lieu of any fractional shares to which the holder would otherwise be entitled, the Company shall pay cash equal to such fraction multiplied by the then-effective Applicable Conversion Price. Before any holder of Preferred Shares shall be entitled to convert the same into full Ordinary Shares and to receive certificates therefor, the holder shall surrender the certificate or certificates for the applicable Preferred Shares, duly endorsed, at the principal office of the Company or of any transfer agent for the Preferred Shares to be converted and shall give written notice to the Company at such office that the holder elects to convert the same. The Company shall promptly issue and deliver at such office to such holder of the Preferred Shares a certificate or certificates for, a copy of the Company’s register of Member showing such holder of the Preferred Shares as a holder of the number of Ordinary Shares to which the holder shall be entitled as aforesaid certified by the Company’s share registrar and a check payable to the holder in the amount of any cash amounts payable as the result of a conversion into fractional Ordinary Shares. The Preferred Shares converted into Ordinary Shares shall be cancelled and shall not be reissued. Such conversion shall be deemed to have been made immediately prior to the close of business on the date of such surrender of the certificate or certificates for the Preferred Shares to be converted, and the person or persons entitled to receive the Ordinary Shares issuable upon such conversion shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder or holders of such Ordinary Shares on such date. For the avoidance of doubt, no conversion shall prejudice the right of a holder of Preferred Shares to receive dividends and other distributions declared but not paid as at the date of conversion on the Preferred Shares being converted.

 

The Company may give effect to any conversion pursuant to the Articles by one or more of the following methods:

 

(i)If the total nominal par value of the Preferred Shares being converted is equal to the total nominal par value of the Ordinary Shares into which such Preferred Shares convert such that each Preferred Share is convertible into one (1) Ordinary Share and both the Preferred Share and the Ordinary Share have the same par value, the Company may, by resolution of the Board, redesignate the Preferred Shares to Ordinary Shares. On re-designation, each Preferred Share to be converted shall become an Ordinary Share with the rights, privileges, terms and obligations of the class of Ordinary Shares and the converted Ordinary Shares shall thenceforth form part of the class of the Ordinary Shares (and shall cease to form part of the class of Preferred Shares for all purposes).

 

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(ii)The Board may by resolution resolve to redeem the Preferred Shares for the purpose of this Article (and, for accounting and other purposes, may determine the value therefor) and in consideration therefor issue fully-paid Ordinary Shares in relevant number.

 

(iii)The Board may by resolution adopt any other method permitted by Statute including capitalizing reserves to pay up new Ordinary Shares, or by making a fresh issue of Ordinary Shares, except that if conversion is capable of being effected in the manner described in paragraph (i) above, the conversion shall be effected in that manner in preference to any other method permitted by law or the Articles.

 

(d)Availability of Shares Issuable Upon Conversion. The Company shall at all times keep available out of its authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares, free of Liens of any kind, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the Preferred Shares, such number of its Ordinary Shares as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all outstanding Preferred Shares, and if at any time the number of authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares shall not be sufficient to effect the conversion of all then outstanding Preferred Shares, in addition to such other remedies as shall be available to the holder of such Preferred Shares, the Company shall take such corporate action as may, in accordance with the Articles and the Statute, be necessary to increase its authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares to such number of shares as shall be sufficient for such purposes.

 

(e)Cessation of Certain Rights on Conversion. Subject to Article 16(c), on the date of conversion of any series of Preferred Shares to Ordinary Shares, the holder of the Preferred Shares to be converted shall cease to be entitled to any rights in respect of such Preferred Shares and accordingly his name shall be removed from the register of Members as the holder of such Preferred Shares and shall correspondingly be inserted onto the register of Members as the holder of the number of Ordinary Shares into which such Preferred Shares converts.

 

 

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(f)Ordinary Shares Resulting from Conversion. The Ordinary Shares resulting from the conversion of the Preferred Shares:

 

(i)shall be credited as fully paid and non-assessable;

 

(ii)shall rank pari passu in all respects and form one class with the Ordinary Shares then issued; and

 

(iii)shall entitle the holder to all dividends payable on the Ordinary Shares by reference to a record date after the date of conversion.

 

ADJUSTMENTS TO APPLICABLE CONVERSION PRICE

 

17(a) Special Definitions. For purposes of this Article 17, the following definitions shall apply:

 

(i)Options” mean rights, options or warrants to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire either Ordinary Shares or Convertible Securities.

 

(ii)Convertible Securities” shall mean any notes, debentures, preferred shares or other securities or rights which are ultimately convertible into or exchangeable for Ordinary Shares.

 

(iii)Additional Ordinary Shares” (each an “Additional Ordinary Share”) shall mean all Ordinary Share Equivalents (including reissued shares) issued (or, pursuant to Article 17(c), deemed to be issued) by the Company, other than:

 

(A)Ordinary Shares issued upon conversion of Preferred Shares;

 

(B)in the aggregate up to 15,000,000 Ordinary Shares (including any of such shares which are repurchased and subject to adjustments made for share splits, share subdivision, share combination and the like) issued or issuable to officers, directors, employees and consultants of the Company pursuant to ESOP approved by the Directors and in accordance with Article 20 hereof; and

 

(C)those issued as a dividend or distribution on Preferred Shares or any event for which adjustment is made pursuant to Article 17(g), 17(h) or 17(i) hereof;

 

(D)any Series D Preferred Shares issued under the Series D Share Purchase Agreements.

 

 

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(b)No Adjustment of Applicable Conversion Price. No adjustment in the Applicable Conversion Price shall be made in respect of the issuance of Additional Ordinary Shares unless the consideration for any Additional Ordinary Share issued or deemed to be issued by the Company is less than Applicable Conversion Price in effect on the date of any immediately prior to such issue.

 

(c)Deemed Issue of Additional Ordinary Shares. In the event the Company issues any Options or Convertible Securities or shall fix a record date for the determination of holders of any class of securities entitled to receive any such Options or Convertible Securities, then the maximum number (as set forth in the instrument relating thereto without regard to any provisions contained therein for a subsequent adjustment of such number that would result in an adjustment pursuant to clause (ii) below) of Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Options or, in the case of Convertible Securities and Options therefor, the conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities, shall be deemed to be Additional Ordinary Shares issued as of the time of such issue or, in case such a record date shall have been fixed, as of the close of business on such record date, provided, that Additional Ordinary Shares shall not be deemed to have been issued unless the consideration per share (determined pursuant to Article 17(f) hereof) of such Additional Ordinary Shares would be less than the Applicable Conversion Price in effect on the date of and immediately prior to such issue, or such record date, and provided, further that in any such case in which Additional Ordinary Shares are deemed to be issued:

 

(i)no further adjustment in the Applicable Conversion Price shall be made upon the subsequent issue of Convertible Securities or Ordinary Shares upon the exercise of such Options or conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities;

 

(ii)if such Options or Convertible Securities by their terms provide, with the passage of time or otherwise, for any increase or decrease in the consideration payable to the Company, or increase or decrease in the number of Ordinary Shares issuable, upon the exercise, conversion or exchange thereof, the Applicable Conversion Price computed upon the original issue thereof (or upon the occurrence of a record date with respect thereto), and any subsequent adjustments based thereon, shall, upon any such increase or decrease becoming effective, be recomputed to reflect such increase or decrease insofar as it affects such Options or the rights of conversion or exchange under such Convertible Securities;

 

(iii)upon the expiration of any such Options or any rights of conversion or exchange under such Convertible Securities which shall not have been exercised, the Applicable Conversion Price computed upon the original issue thereof (or upon the occurrence of a record date with respect thereto), and any subsequent adjustments based thereon, shall, upon such expiration, be recomputed as if:

  

 

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(A)in the case of Convertible Securities or Options for Ordinary Shares, the only Additional Ordinary Shares issued were Ordinary Shares, if any, actually issued upon the exercise of such Options or the conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities and the consideration received therefor was the consideration actually received by the Company for the issue of all such Options, whether or not exercised, plus the consideration actually received by the Company upon such exercise, or for the issue of all such Convertible Securities which were actually converted or exchanged, plus the additional consideration, if any, actually received by the Company upon such conversion or exchange; and

 

(B)in the case of Options for Convertible Securities, only the Convertible Securities, if any, actually issued upon the exercise thereof were issued at the time of issue of such Options, and the consideration received by the Company for the Additional Ordinary Shares deemed to have been then issued was the consideration actually received by the Company for the issue of all such Options, whether or not exercised, plus the consideration deemed to have been received by the Company upon the issue of the Convertible Securities with respect to which such Options were actually exercised;

 

(iv)no re-adjustment pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) above shall have the effect of increasing the Applicable Conversion Price to an amount which exceeds the lower of (i) the Applicable Conversion Price on the original adjustment date, or

(ii) the Applicable Conversion Price that would have resulted from any issuance of Additional Ordinary Shares between the original adjustment date and such re- adjustment date; and

 

(v)in the case of any Options which expire by their terms not more than thirty (30) days after the date of issue thereof, no adjustment of the Applicable Conversion Price shall be made until the expiration or exercise of all such Options, whereupon such adjustment shall be made in the manner provided in clause (iii) above.

 

 

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(d)Dilutive Issuance

 

(i)Anti-dilutive Right of Series D Investors. If the Company issues any Additional Ordinary Shares, the subscription price per share of the Additional Ordinary Shares shall not be less than the Series D Original Issue Price, otherwise, the Company shall issue new Series D Preferred Shares to the Series D Investors at the nominal price or the minimum price allowed by applicable laws until the adjusted Series D Original Issue Price (and accordingly the Series D Conversion Price) is reduced to such subscription price per share of the Additional Ordinary Shares. The Company and the Management Shareholders shall bear joint and several all of the fees incurred during such share compensation (including but not limited to all additional compensation, expenses and tax burden for Series D Investors due to equity compensation and free transfer). Unless the adjustment has been completed or shall be completed at the same time with such new issuance, the Company shall not consummate such new issuance.

  

(ii)Anti-dilutive Right of Series C Investors. If the Company issues any Additional Ordinary Shares, the subscription price per share of the Additional Ordinary Shares shall not be less than the Series C Original Issue Price, otherwise, the Company shall issue new Series C Preferred Shares to the Series C Investors at the nominal price or the minimum price allowed by applicable laws until the adjusted Series C Original Issue Price (and accordingly the Series C Conversion Price) is reduced to such subscription price per share of the Additional Ordinary Shares. The Company and the Management Shareholders shall bear joint and several all of the fees incurred during such share compensation (including but not limited to all additional compensation, expenses and tax burden for Series C Investors due to equity compensation and free transfer). Unless the adjustment has been completed or shall be completed at the same time with such new issuance, the Company shall not consummate such new issuance.

 

(iii)Adjustment of Series B Conversion Price upon Issuance of Additional Ordinary Shares. In the event that the Company shall issue Additional Ordinary Shares without consideration or for a consideration per share received by the Company (net of any selling concessions, discounts or commissions) that is less than the Series B Conversion Price in effect on the date of and immediately prior to such issue, then and in such event, the Series B Conversion Price shall be reduced, concurrently with such issue, to a price of such Additional Ordinary Shares. The Company and the Management Shareholders shall bear joint and several all of the fees incurred during such share compensation (including but not limited to all additional compensation, expenses and tax burden for Series B Investors due to equity compensation and free transfer)

 

 

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(e)Pre-money Valuation Adjustment. The Group Companies, the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos and the Non-Executive Holder shall jointly and severally undertake that Group Companies will achieve the following business objectives: (the “Business Objectives”):

 

(i)promote at least three (3) products (self-developed or by introduction) to the next clinical stage within eighteen (18) months from December 30, 2019, on the basis of existing clinical pipelines; and

 

(ii)will obtain the approval of one (1) new drug application from the competent authority for drug administration in the US or PRC, within three (3) years from December 30, 2019.

 

If the applicable Group Companies fail to meet any of the above two committed business objectives within the aforesaid timelines, the Series C Investors shall be entitled to request the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos and the Non-Executive Holder to, and the Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos and the Non-Executive Holder shall, in ten (10) days upon recipient of such request served by the Series C Investors in writing to, jointly make up the share compensation accordingly therefore to make the pre-money valuation of the Company immediately before the investment by the Series C Investors under the Transaction Documents (i.e. US$250,000,000) be adjusted to 70% thereof (i.e., US$175,000,000). The share compensation arrangement shall be made on the basis of a nominal transfer price. The applicable transferors under the foregoing share compensation arrangement shall bear any and all taxes and expenses (if any, including the reimbursement of any such nominal transfer price) arising from such transfer to the extent that the Series C Investors shall not bear any taxes or expenses arising from such adjustment under this Article 17(e).

 

The Parties further agree that such share compensation under this Article 17(e) shall not impair or limit any rights of the Series C Investors under the Transaction Documents, including but not limited to the redemption/repurchase rights under the Shareholders’ Agreement and right of the Series C Investors to claim penalty(ies) under the Transaction Documents.

 

(f)Determination of Consideration. For purposes of this Article 17, the consideration received by the Company for the issue of any Additional Ordinary Shares shall be computed as follows:

 

(i)Cash and Property. Except as provided in clause (ii) below, such consideration shall:

 

(A)insofar as it consists of cash, be computed at the aggregate amount of cash received by the Company, excluding amounts paid or payable for accrued interest or accrued dividends;

 

(B)insofar as it consists of property other than cash, be computed at the fair value thereof at the time of such issue, as determined in good faith by the Directors (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority); provided, however, that no value shall be attributed to any services performed by any employee, officer or director of the Company; and

 

 

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(C)in the event Additional Ordinary Shares are issued together with other shares or securities or other assets of the Company for consideration which covers both, be the proportion of such consideration so received with respect to such Additional Ordinary Shares, computed as provided in clauses (A) and (B) above, as determined in good faith by the Directors (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority).

 

(ii)Options and Convertible Securities. The consideration per share received by the Company for Additional Ordinary Shares deemed to have been issued pursuant to Article 17(c), relating to Options and Convertible Securities, shall be determined by dividing

 

(A)the total amount, if any, received or receivable by the Company (net of any selling concessions, discounts or commissions) as consideration for the issue of such Options or Convertible Securities, plus the minimum aggregate amount of additional consideration (as set forth in the instruments relating thereto, without regard to any provision contained therein for a subsequent adjustment of such consideration) payable to the Company upon the exercise of such Options or the conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities, or in the case of Options for Convertible Securities, the exercise of such Options for Convertible Securities and the conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities by

 

(B)the maximum number of Ordinary Shares (as set forth in the instruments relating thereto, without regard to any provision contained therein for a subsequent adjustment of such number) issuable upon the exercise of such Options or the conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities.

 

(g)Adjustments for Shares Dividends, Subdivisions, Combinations or Consolidations of Ordinary Shares. In the event the outstanding Ordinary Shares shall be subdivided (by share dividend, share split, or otherwise), into a greater number of Ordinary Shares, the Applicable Conversion Price then in effect shall, concurrently with the effectiveness of such subdivision, be proportionately decreased. In the event the outstanding Ordinary Shares shall be combined or consolidated, by reclassification or otherwise, into a lesser number of Ordinary Shares, the Applicable Conversion Price then in effect shall, concurrently with the effectiveness of such combination or consolidation, be proportionately increased.

 

 

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(h)Adjustments for Other Distributions. In the event the Company makes, or files a record date for the determination of holders of Ordinary Shares entitled to receive any distribution payable in securities or assets of the Company other than Ordinary Shares, then and in each such event, provision shall be made so that the holders of Preferred Shares shall receive upon conversion thereof, in addition to the number of Ordinary Shares receivable thereupon, the amount of securities or assets of the Company which they would have received had their Preferred Shares been converted into Ordinary Shares on the date of such event and had they thereafter, during the period from the date of such event to and including the date of conversion, retained such securities or assets receivable by them as aforesaid during such period, subject to all other adjustment called for during such period under this Article 17 with respect to the rights of the holders of the Preferred Shares.

 

(i)Adjustments for Reclassification, Exchange and Substitution. If the Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Shares shall be changed into the same or a different number of shares of any other class or classes of shares, whether by capital reorganization, reclassification or otherwise (other than a subdivision or combination of shares provided for above), then and in each such event, the holder of each applicable Preferred Share shall have the right thereafter to convert such share into the kind and amount of shares and other securities and property receivable upon such reorganization or reclassification or other change by holders of the number of Ordinary Shares that would have been subject to receipt by the holders upon conversion of the applicable series of Preferred Shares immediately before that change, all subject to further adjustment as provided herein.

 

(j)No Impairment. The Company shall not, by amendment of these Articles or its Memorandum of Association or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms to be observed or performed hereunder by the Company but shall at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of Article 17 and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the rights of the Preferred Shares hereunder against impairment.

 

(k)Certificate as to Adjustments. Upon the occurrence of each adjustment or re-adjustment of the Applicable Conversion Price pursuant to this Article 17, the Company shall, at its expense, promptly compute such adjustment or re-adjustment in accordance with the terms hereof and furnish to each holder of Preferred Shares a certificate setting forth such adjustment or re-adjustment and showing in detail the facts upon which such adjustment or re-adjustment is based. The Company shall, upon the written request at any time of any holder of Preferred Shares, furnish or cause to be furnished to such holder a like certificate setting forth (i) such adjustments and re-adjustments, (ii) the Applicable Conversion Price at the time in effect, and (iii) the number of Ordinary Shares and the amount, if any, of other property which at the time would be received upon the conversion of each series of Preferred Shares.

 

 

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(l)Miscellaneous.

 

(i)All calculations under this Article 17 shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one hundredth (1/100) of a share. Upon conversion of such number of Preferred Shares, the resultant aggregate number of Ordinary Shares to be issued to each holder of Preferred Shares if not a whole number (but part or fraction of a Ordinary Share), shall be rounded up to the nearest multiple of one (1) Ordinary Share such that the resultant aggregate number of Ordinary Shares to be issued to such holder of Preferred Shares shall be a whole number.

 

(ii)The holders representing more than fifty percent (50%) of each series of Preferred Shares shall have the right to challenge any determination by the Directors of fair value pursuant to this Article 17, in which case such determination of fair value shall be made by an independent appraiser selected jointly by the Directors and the challenging parties, the cost of such appraisal to be borne equally by the Company and the challenging parties.

 

(iii)No adjustment in the Applicable Conversion Price need be made if such adjustment would result in a change in such Applicable Conversion Price of less than US$0.005. Any adjustment of less than US$0.005 which is not made shall be carried forward and shall be made at the time of and together with any subsequent adjustment which, on a cumulative basis, amounts to an adjustment of US$0.005 or more in the Applicable Conversion Price.

 

NOTICES OF RECORD DATE

 

18In the event that the Company shall propose at any time:

 

(a)to declare any dividend or distribution upon its Ordinary Shares, whether in cash, property, shares or other securities, whether or not a regular cash dividend and whether or not out of earnings or earned surplus;

 

(b)to offer for subscription to the holders of any class or series of its shares on a pro-rata basis, any additional shares of shares of any class or series or other rights;

 

 

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(c)to effect any reclassification or recapitalization of its Ordinary Shares outstanding involving a change in the Ordinary Shares; or

 

(d)to merge or consolidate with or into any other corporation, or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all its property or business, or to liquidate, dissolve or wind up,
   
 then, in connection with each such event, the Company shall send to the holders of the Preferred Shares:

 

(i)at least twenty (20) days’ prior written notice specifying the date on which a record shall be taken for such dividend, distribution or subscription rights (and specifying the date on which the holders of Ordinary Shares shall be entitled thereto) or for determining rights to vote in respect of the matters referred to in (c) and (d) above; and

 

(ii)in the case of the matters referred to in (c) and (d) above, at least twenty (20) days’ prior written notice specifying the date when the same shall take place (and specifying the date on which the holders of Ordinary Shares shall be entitled to exchange their Ordinary Shares for securities or other property deliverable upon the occurrence of such event).

 

Each such written notice shall be delivered personally or given by first class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the holders of the Preferred Shares at the address for each such holder as shown on the books of the Company.

 

REDEMPTION/REPURCHASE

 

19In any event and notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided under these Articles, the Series D Preferred Shares shall be redeemed prior and in preference to all other class of Preferred Shares and the Ordinary Shares; and the Series C Preferred Shares shall be redeemed prior and in preference to the Series B Preferred Shares, the Series A Preferred Shares and the Ordinary Shares. The Parties further agree that the payment of the Series C Redemption Price, the Series B Redemption Price and/or any payment of redemption of any Series A Preferred Shares shall only be made after the Series D Investors have fully acquired the corresponding Series D Redemption Price/Series D Repurchase Price; and the payment of the Series B Redemption Price and/or any payment of redemption of any Series A Preferred Shares shall only be made after the Series C Investors have fully acquired the corresponding Series C Redemption Price/Series C Repurchase Price.

 

(a)At any time after the earlier of the following, any Series D Investor, Series C Investor or Series B Investor (each a “Series D Redeeming Shareholder”, “Series C Redeeming Shareholder” or “Series B Redeeming Shareholder”, as the case may be, and collectively the “Redeeming Shareholders”) shall be entitled to require the Company to redeem all or portion of the outstanding Preferred Shares held by them, and/or require each of the Warrantors to jointly and severally redeem or repurchase all or portion of the outstanding Preferred Shares held by them:

 

 

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(i)the Company fails to complete a Qualified IPO at the earlier of (a) September 7, 2023; and (b) two (2) years after the date of Closing (as defined in the Series D Share Purchase Agreement I);

 

(ii)(applicable to Series C Redeeming Shareholder Shareholders and Series D Redeeming Shareholders only) with respect to any Series C Investor or Series D Investor, such Series C Investor or Series D Investor fails to achieve the investment return which is 100% of its investment amount and plus an amount that would accrue on its investment amount at a simple interest rate of ten percent (10%) per annum (if such period is less than a year, such interest amount shall be calculated proportionally) through transfer, dividends of the Preferred Shares, or disposal in any other way approved by such Series C Investor or Series D Investor plus the value of the Preferred Shares (if any) still held by such Series C Investor or Series D Investor by September 7, 2023 (with respect to Series C Investors) or by three (3) years following its Closing (with respect to Series D Investors); for the purpose of these Articles, the investment amount of the YINGKE Domestic Investors shall be calculated in the currency of RMB on the date of exchange into the relevant USD amount of the Purchase Price under the Series C Share Purchase Agreement I;

 

(iii)(applicable to Series C Redeeming Shareholders only) the applicable Group Company(ies) fail(s) to meet any of the committed business objectives within the timelines specified under these Articles;

 

(iv)(applicable to Series C Redeeming Shareholders only) the applicable Group Company(ies) fail(s) to obtain approval of new medicine application from the competent authority for drug administration of its first medicine in the U.S. or the PRC by December 30, 2022;

 

(v)(applicable to Series C Redeeming Shareholders and Series D Redeeming Shareholders only) the first disapproval or rejection by any competent governmental authority (including, without limitation, the National Medical Products Administration of the PRC or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) of the application made by any Group Company with respect to any of its new drugs;

 

(vi)in case that the Group Companies meet the requirements for a Qualified IPO, any of the Group Companies or the Management Shareholders refuses the Qualified IPO or declines to make necessary cooperation for such Qualified IPO, or the Group Companies fail to complete the Qualified IPO due to any reasons attributable to any Management Shareholder;

 

 

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(vii)without the written consent of the Investor Director Majority, Series C Investors and Series D Investors, Key Parties terminate their employment contracts with the applicable Group Company(ies) or fail to comply their commitment to work full time as per the agreement with certain Series C Investors or Series D Investors prior to the latest to occur of the following events: (a) such Series C Investors or Series D Investors’ exit; (b) the occurrence of a Qualified IPO; (c) the expiry of the two (2) years period after the Closing; and (d) September 7, 2023;

 

(viii)material change of Principal Business, business scope of the Group Companies without the written consent of the Investor Director Majority, Series C Investors and Series D Investors;

 

(ix)any Significant Intellectual Property of any Group Company becomes invalid, frozen, or is transferred, authorized, pledged, encumbered, hypothecated to any third party without prior written consent of the Investor Director Majority;

 

(x)the occurrence of a material breach by any Group Company or any Management Shareholders of any of their respective representations, warranties, covenants or undertakings under the Transaction Documents and failure by applicable Group Companies or Management Shareholders to make remedy within thirty (30) days after so required;

 

(xi)the occurrence of a material breach by any Group Company or any Management Shareholder of any of mandatory laws or regulations in the applicable jurisdiction; and

 

(xii)the occurrence of any material dishonesty problem by any Group Company or any Management Shareholder.

 

(b)Redemption/Repurchase Price:

 

(i)The redemption/repurchase price (the “Series D Redemption Price”/“Series D Repurchase Price”) for each Series D Share held by Series D Redeeming Shareholders and the redemption/repurchase price (the “Series C Redemption Price”/“Series C Repurchase Price”) for each Series C Share held by Series C Redeeming Shareholders shall be the higher of:

 

(X)equal to 100% of the Applicable Original Issue Price, plus an amount that would accrue on Applicable Original Issue Price at a simple interest rate of ten percent (10%) per annum from the date of Series D Share Purchase Agreements or Series C Share Purchase Agreements, as the case may be, and ending on the date when any amounts due and payable in respect of such Series D Preferred Shares or Series C Preferred Shares under the Shareholders’ Agreement being paid in full (if such period is less than a year, such interest amount shall be calculated proportionally) (the “Redemption/Repurchase Interest”), and plus all unpaid dividends; for the purpose of this Article 19(c), with respect to YINGKE Domestic Investors, the aggregated amount of the Series C Original Issue Prices shall be the investment amount calculated in the currency of RMB on the date of exchange into the relevant USD amount of the Purchase Price under its Series C Share Purchase Agreement, and the payment of the Series C Redemption Price/Series C Repurchase Price including the Redemption/Repurchase Interest shall be made in the currency of RMB or USD equivalent by the immediate exchange rate between USD and RMB quoted by People’s Bank of China on the date of payment of the Redemption/Repurchase Price; or

 

 

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(Y)the corresponding net asset value of the Group Company calculated proportionally on a pro rata and as-converted basis. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing net asset value shall refer to such amount appraised by the third-party institutions chosen jointly by the Series D Investors or the Series C Investors, as the case may be, the Group Companies and the Management Shareholders; or

 

(Z)the fair market value of such Series D Preferred Shares or Series C Preferred Shares, as the case may be, requested to be redeemed or repurchased. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing fair market value shall refer to such value appraised by the third-party institutions chosen jointly by the Series D Investors or the Series C Investors, as the case may be, the Group Companies and the Management Shareholders.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Series D Investors and Series C Investors shall be entitled to choose any of the above (X), (Y) or (Z) to determine the Redemption Price/Repurchase Price. The Company and the Group Company shall execute the redemption/repurchase upon the request of Series D Investors or Series C Investors, as the case may be, and pay the corresponding Redemption Price/Repurchase Price.

 

(ii)The redemption price (the “Series B Redemption Price”) for each Series B Share held by the Series B Redeeming Shareholders shall be the higher of: (X) one hundred percent (100%) of the Series B Original Issue Price, plus an amount that would accrue on the Series B Original Issue Price at a simple interest rate of ten percent (10%) per annum, during the period commencing from the corresponding closing date of such Series B Preferred Shares and ending on the date when any amounts due and payable in respect of such Series B Preferred Share under this article shall be paid in full (if such period is less than a year, such interest amount shall be calculated proportionally), plus all declared but unpaid dividends with respect thereto per Series B Preferred Share up to the actual payment date of the Series B Redemption Price, proportionally adjusted for share subdivisions, share dividends, reorganizations, reclassifications, consolidations or mergers, or (Y) the fair market value of such Series B Preferred Shares requested to be redeemed. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing fair market value shall refer to such value appraised by the third-party institutions chosen jointly by the Series B Investors, the Group Companies and the Management Shareholders.

 

 

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(c)Redemption/Repurchase Procedure.

 

(i)The Redeeming Shareholders shall exercise their redemption right provided herein by delivering a written notice (the “Redemption Notice”) to the Company or any Group Company as the case may be, stating the number of Series B Preferred Shares, Series C Preferred Shares or Series D Preferred Shares, as the case may be, to be redeemed (the “Redeemed Preferred Shares”), as applicable. Following receipt of the Redemption Notice, the Company shall give written notice (and forward the Redemption Notice) to other shareholders, at the address last shown on the records of the Company for such holders. The Redemption Notice shall indicate that the Redeeming Shareholders have elected redemption, and shall specify the class, number and price of Redeemed Preferred Shares, and redemption date which shall be not more than thirty (30) days from the date of the Redemption Notice (the “Redemption Date”).

 

(ii)The Series D Investors and the Series C Investors also have the right to deliver a written notice to the Key Parties and/or the Founder Holdcos and Non- Executive Holder or any Group Company stating the number of Series D Preferred Shares or Series C Preferred Shares, as the case may be, to be repurchased (the “Repurchased Preferred Shares”), as applicable (the “Repurchase Notice”) to the Company at the address last shown on the records of the Company for such holders. The Repurchase Notice shall indicate that the Series D Investors or Series C Investors, as the case may be, have elected redemption, and shall specify the class, number and price of Repurchased Preferred Shares, and repurchase date which shall be not more than thirty (30) days from the date of the Repurchase Notice (the “Repurchase Date”).

 

(iii)At the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date, subject to applicable laws, the Company, Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos, Non-Executive Holder and/or any Group Company will, from any source of assets or funds legally available therefore, redeem the Redeemed Preferred Shares, or repurchase the Repurchased Preferred Shares by paying in cash therefore the applicable Redemption Price or Repurchase Price against surrender by such Redeeming Shareholders at the Company’s principal office of the certificate representing such shares. From and after the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date, if the Company, Key Parties, the Founder Holdcos and/or the Non-Executive Holder makes the Redemption Price or Repurchase Price available to Redeeming Shareholders, all rights of Redeeming Shareholders (except the right to receive the Redemption Price or Repurchase Price therefore) will cease with respect to such Redeemed Preferred Shares or Repurchased Preferred Shares, and such Redeemed Preferred Shares will not thereafter be transferred on the books of the Company or be deemed outstanding for any purpose whatsoever.

 

 

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(d)Redemption/Repurchase Preference.

 

The Series D Investors shall rank more senior to any holder of any other class or series of equity securities of the Group Companies with respect to any redemption or repurchase request of any kind. The Series C Investors shall rank more senior to any holder (other than the Series D Investors) of any other class or series of equity securities of the Group Companies with respect to any redemption or repurchase request of any kind. In particular, to the extent that the assets or funds of the Key Parties, Founder Holdcos, Non-Executive Holder and the Group Companies, as applicable, which are legally available on the date that any redemption or repurchase payment under this Article 19 is due (the “Available Funds”) are insufficient to pay in full all applicable redemption or repurchase payments, then the Available Funds shall nonetheless be paid and applied on the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date (as applicable) as follows:

 

(i)First, be paid and applied on the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date (as applicable) in a pro-rata manner against each Series D Redeemed Preferred Share, in accordance with the relative full amounts owed thereon, and the shortfall shall be paid and applied from time to time out of legally available funds immediately as and when such funds become legally available against each Series D Redeemed Preferred Share in accordance with the relative remaining amounts owed thereon;

 

(ii)Second, be paid and applied on the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date (as applicable) in a pro-rata manner against each Series C Redeemed Preferred Share in accordance with the relative full amounts owed thereon, and the shortfall shall be paid and applied from time to time out of legally available funds immediately as and when such funds become legally available against each Series C Redeemed Preferred Share in accordance with the relative remaining amounts owed thereon.

 

(iii)Third, be paid and applied on the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date (as applicable) in a pro-rata manner against each Series B Redeemed Preferred Share in accordance with the relative full amounts owed thereon, and the shortfall shall be paid and applied from time to time out of legally available funds immediately as and when such funds become legally available against each Series B Redeemed Preferred Share in accordance with the relative remaining amounts owed thereon. Before Series B Redemption Price are paid in full, the Company shall issue and deliver to the Series B Redeeming Shareholders a promissory note for the amount of the Series B Redemption Price due but not paid pursuant to this Article 19; provided, that such promissory note shall be due and payable no later than the first (1st) anniversary of the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date (as applicable), and the full amount due under such promissory note shall accrue interest daily (on the basis of a 365-day year) at a simple interest rate of ten percent (10%) per annum.

 

 

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(f)Other Limited Redemption. If the Company is otherwise prohibited by applicable law from redeeming all Redeemed Preferred Shares at the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date (as applicable), those assets or funds which are legally available shall be used to the extent permitted by applicable law to pay all redemption payments due on such date ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which the holders to which such redemption payments are due would otherwise be respectively entitled thereon. Thereafter, all assets or funds of the Company that become legally available for the redemption of shares shall immediately be used to pay the redemption payment which the Company did not pay on the date that such redemption payments were due.

 

(g)Un-redeemed Shares. Without limiting any rights of the holders of Series B Preferred Shares, Series C Preferred Shares or Series D Preferred Shares which are set forth in these Articles, or are otherwise available under law, the balance of any shares subject to redemption hereunder with respect to which the Company has become obligated to pay the redemption payment but which it has not paid in full shall continue to have all the powers, designations, preferences and relative participating, optional, and other special rights (including, without limitation, rights to accrue dividends) which such shares had prior to such date, until the redemption payment has been paid in full with respect to such shares.

 

(h)Management Shareholders’ Liability. Each of the Management Shareholders hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to the holders of Series B Preferred Shares, Series C Preferred Shares (which is preferred comparing with Series B Preferred Shares) and Series D Preferred Shares (which is preferred comparing with Series C Preferred Shares and Series B Preferred Shares) the proper and punctual performance by the Company of the Company’s obligations under this Article 19. Each of the Management Shareholders further irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes and covenants to the holders of Series B Preferred Shares, Series C Preferred Shares and Series D Preferred Shares that, upon the occurrence of any of the redemption events in this Article 19, each of the holders of Series B Preferred Shares, Series C Preferred Shares and Series D Preferred Shares shall have a put option to sell to the Management Shareholders all or any portion of the Series B Preferred Shares, Series C Preferred Shares or Series D Preferred Shares requested to be redeemed at the per share price equal to the Series B Redemption Price, Series C Redemption Price or Series D Redemption Price, as the case may be. For the avoidance of doubt, the obligations of the Company and the Management Shareholders under this Article 19 to the holders of Series B Preferred Shares, Series C Preferred Shares and Series D Preferred Shares shall be on a joint and several basis. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, absent from willful misconduct and/or fraud and/or gross negligence of any Management Shareholder, the redemption or repurchase obligations of each Management Shareholder shall be limited to the fair market value of all the then outstanding Shares directly or indirectly held by such Management Shareholder in the Group Companies.

 

 

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(i)Termination of Redemption/Repurchase Rights. The Right of Redemption/Repurchase for each Redeeming Shareholder as provided in this Article 19 shall terminate on the date of the first submission of the first listing application form with the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Market by the Company; provided that, in the event that the Qualified IPO does not occur within twelve (12) months following such submission, the right of Redemption/Repurchase for each Redeeming Shareholder as provided in this Article 19 shall automatically restore.

 

PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

 

20Protective Provisions

 

20.1Acts of the Group Companies Requiring Approval of the Investor Director Majority.

 

In addition to such other limitations as may be provided hereof, the Company shall not take, permit to occur, approve, authorize, or agree or commit to do any of the following, and the Company shall not permit any other Group Company to take, permit to occur, approve, authorize, or agree or commit to do any of the following, whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, whether directly or indirectly, and whether or not by amendment, merger, consolidation, scheme of arrangement, amalgamation, or otherwise, unless approved in advance in writing by a majority of the Board (including the affirmative vote of Investor Director Majority):

 

(i)          any amendment of the Charter Documents of any Group Company;

 

(ii)          any adoption or change of annual budget plan and/or settlement plan of any Group Company;

 

(iii)          any action that increases, reduces or cancels the authorized or issued share capital of the Company or issues, allots, purchases or redeems any convertible securities or a right of subscription in respect of shares or any share warrant or any options or any action diluting or reducing the effective shareholding of any Investor in any Group Company;

 

 

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(iv)          any approval of the liquidation, winding up, dissolution of any Group Company or the commitment to any of the foregoing; any approval of the reorganization, merger, consolidation, reconstruction, change of control, or arrangement of any of the Group Companies or the commitment to any of the foregoing;

 

(v)          any appointment or replacement of CEO, the responsible person for the department of each of finance, research and development, clinic medicine and marketing of any Group Company and the determination of their compensation;

 

(vi)          any sale, transfer, lease, or other disposal of any assets, business, good will, interests, rights and obligations under any Contract of any Group Company valued in excess of RMB20,000,000 or outside the Principle Business;

 

(vii)          any sale, transfer, lease, or other disposal of any significant intellectual properties of any Group Company in connection with its Principle Business;

 

(viii)          setting up any new subsidiary or branch or establishment of any joint venture, joint operation or partnership relation with any third party;

 

(ix)          making any investment in other entities;

 

(x)          except among the Group Companies, any loan incurred for the ordinary operation of the Group Company or for the purpose of government subsidies, any incurrence of Indebtedness or loan of any Group Company involving an amount in excess of RMB30,000,000 individually or in the aggregate in twelve consecutive months; providing guarantee to any Person involving an amount in excess of RMB20,000,000 individually or in the aggregate;

 

(xi)          any incurrence of expenditure of any Group Company involving an amount in excess of the amount equal to twenty percent (20%) of the annual budget plan individually or in the aggregate that is out of the annual budget plan;

 

(xii)          any transaction or series of transactions outside the Principle Business or not market standard between any Group Company and any of its shareholder, director, officer or key employee or their affiliates, any affiliates of any Group Company or any shareholder, director, officer or key employee of such affiliates of any Group Company;

 

(xiii)          any adoption, amendment, settlement or change of the terms of any bonus, benefit or profit sharing scheme or any employee share option or share participation schemes; the administration of any bonus, benefit or profit sharing scheme or any employee share option or share participation schemes;

 

 

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(xiv)          any appointment or removal of the auditors or law firms or asset appraisal institutions of any Group Company, or any change in the accounting and financial policies of any Group Company;

 

(xv)          any approval of the initial public offering plan of any Group Company, including but not limited to the jurisdiction, stock exchange, timing, valuation, raised funds, underwriter and agent with respect to such initial public offering (matters as to stock exchanges for listing other than New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ or Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, or the pre-money valuation being less than US$650 million shall be further subject to the consent of the Investor Director Majority, Series C Investors and Series D Investors);

 

(xvi)          initiating or conciliating any significant litigation or arbitration, or any litigation or arbitration involving an amount in excess of RMB20,000,000;

 

(xvii)          ceasing to conduct the business of the Group Companies substantially as now conducted, making major change to any part of the Group Companies’ business or entering into business that is not ancillary or incidental to the Group Companies’ current business;

 

(xviii)          making any distribution of profits amongst the shareholders by way of dividend, capitalization of reserves or otherwise, or deciding not to make any distribution of profits amongst the shareholders by way of dividend;

 

(xix)          any amendment or change of the rights, preferences, privileges, or powers of or concerning, or the limitations or restrictions provided for the benefit of, the Preferred Shares;

 

(xx)          any change of the size or composition of the board of directors of any Group Company or committee thereof and the manner in which the directors of each Group Company are appointed, except in compliance with Section 7.1 of the Shareholders’ Agreement;

 

NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS

 

21No person shall be recognized by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognize (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future, or partial interest in any share, or any interest in any fractional part of a share, or (except only as is otherwise provided by these Articles or the Statute) any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

 

 

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LIEN ON SHARES

 

22The Company shall have a first and paramount Lien and charge on all shares (whether fully paid-up or not) registered in the name of a Member (whether solely or jointly with others) for all debts, liabilities or engagements to or with the Company (whether presently payable or not) by such Member or his estate, either alone or jointly with any other person, whether a Member 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 (if any) thereon. The Company’s Lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all dividends or other monies payable in respect thereof.

 

23The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit but subject to the transfer restrictions set forth under the Shareholders’ Agreement, any shares on which the Company has a Lien, but no sale shall be made unless a sum in respect of which the Lien exists is presently payable, nor until the expiration of fourteen (14) days after a notice in writing stating and demanding payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the Lien exists as is presently payable, has been given to the registered holder or holders for the time being of the share, or the person, of which the Company has notice, entitled thereto by reason of his death or bankruptcy.

 

24To give effect to any such sale, the Directors may authorize some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer, and he shall not be bound by the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.

 

25The proceeds of such sale shall be received by the Company and applied in payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the Lien exists as is presently payable and the residue, if any, 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

 

26(a) The Directors may from time to time make calls upon the Members in respect of any monies unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the nominal value of the shares or by way of premium or otherwise) and not by the conditions of allotment thereof made payable at fixed terms, provided that no call shall be payable at less than one (1) month from the date fixed for the payment of the last preceding call, and each Member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen (14) days’ notice specifying the time or times of payment) pay to the Company at the specified time or times the amount called on the shares. A call may be revoked or postponed as the Directors may determine. A call may be made payable by installments.

 

(b)A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorizing such call was passed.
   

 (c)The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof.

 

 

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27If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on a day appointed for payment thereof, the persons from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the sum from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at such rate as the Directors may determine, but the Directors shall be at liberty to waive payment of such interest either wholly or in part.

 

28Any sum which by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable on allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise, shall for the purposes of these Articles be deemed to be a call duly made, notified and payable on the date on which by the terms of issue the same becomes payable, and in the case of non-payment, all the relevant provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

 

29The Directors may, on the issue of shares, differentiate between the holders as to the amount of calls or interest to be paid and the time of payment.

 

30(a) The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any Member willing to advance the same, all or any part of the monies uncalled and unpaid upon any shares held by him, and upon all or any of the monies so advanced may (until the same would but for such advances, become payable) pay interest at a rate as may be agreed upon between the Directors and the Member paying such sum in advance.

 

(b)No such sum paid in advance of calls shall entitle the Member paying such sum to any portion of a dividend declared in respect of any period prior to the date upon which such sum would, but for such payment, become presently payable.

 

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

 

31 (a)       If a Member fails to pay any call or installment of a call or to make any payment required by the terms of issue on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of the call, installment or payment remains unpaid, give notice requiring payment of any part of the call, installment or payment that is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued and all expenses that have been incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment. Such notice shall name a day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen (14) days from the date of giving of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made, and shall state that, in the event of non-payment at or before the time appointed the shares in respect of which such notice was given will be liable to be forfeited.

 

 

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(b)If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends declared in respect of the forfeited share and not actually paid before the forfeiture.

 

(c)A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit but subject to the transfer restrictions set forth under the Shareholders’ Agreement, and at any time before a sale or disposition, the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors see fit.

 

32A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in respect of the forfeited shares, but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay to the Company all monies which, at the date of forfeiture, were payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares together with interest thereon, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all monies whenever payable in respect of the shares.

 

33A certificate in writing under the hand of one (1) Director or the Secretary of the Company that a share in the Company has been duly forfeited on a date stated in the declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the fact stated therein as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the consideration given for the share on any sale or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favor of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of and he shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound by the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his 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.

 

34The 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 nominal value of the share or by way of premium as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

 

REGISTRATION OF EMPOWERING INSTRUMENTS

 

35The Company shall be entitled to charge a fee not exceeding US$l.00 on the registration of every probate, letter of administration, certificate of death or marriage, power of attorney, notice in lieu of destrings, or other instrument.

 

 

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TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

 

36In case of the death of a Member, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased where he was the sole holder, shall be the only persons recognized by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares, but nothing herein contained shall release the estate of any such deceased holder from any liability in respect of any shares which had been held by him solely or jointly with other persons.

 

37(a) Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a Member (or in any other way than by transfer) may, upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by the Directors and subject as hereinafter provided, elect either to be registered himself as holder of the share or to make such transfer of the share to such other person nominated by him as the deceased or bankrupt person could have made and to have such person registered as the transferee thereof, but the Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the share by that Member before his death or bankruptcy, as the case may be.

 

(b)If the person so becoming entitled shall elect to be registered himself as holder, he shall deliver or send to the Company a notice in writing signed by him stating that he so elects.

 

38A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of the holder (or in any other case than by transfer) shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share, except that he shall not, before being registered as a Member in respect of the share, be entitled to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company; provided, however, 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 payment of all dividends, bonuses or other monies payable in respect of the share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.

 

AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION,
ALTERATION OF CAPITAL & CHANGE OF LOCATION OF REGISTERED OFFICE

 

39(a) Subject to and in so far as permitted by the provisions of the Statute and these Articles in particular Article 20, the Company may from time to time by a Special Resolution alter or amend its Memorandum of Association with respect to any objects, powers or other matters specified therein, or by an Ordinary Resolution:

 

(i)increase the share capital by such sum to be divided into shares of such amount or without nominal or par value as the resolution shall prescribe and with such rights, priorities and privileges annexed thereto, as the Company in general meeting may determine;

 

 

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(ii)consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares;

 

(iii)by subdivision of its existing shares or any of them divide the whole or any part of its share capital into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum of Association or into shares without nominal or par value; and

 

(iv)cancel any shares that at the date of the passing of the resolution have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person.

 

(b)All new shares created hereunder shall be subject to the same provisions with reference to the payment of calls, Liens, transfer, transmission, forfeiture and otherwise as the shares in the original share capital.

 

(c)Without prejudice to Article 12 hereof and subject to the provisions of the Statute and Article 20, the Company may by a Special Resolution reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund.

 

(d)Subject to the provisions of the Statute, the Company may by a resolution of the Directors change the location of its registered office.

 

CLOSING REGISTER OF MEMBERS OR FIXING RECORD DATE

 

40For the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of Members or any adjournment thereof, or Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination of Members for any other proper purpose, the Directors may provide that the register of Members shall be closed for transfers for a stated period but not exceeding ten (10) days in any case. If the register of Members shall be so closed for the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of Members, such register shall be so closed for at least ten (10) days immediately preceding such meeting and the record date for such determination shall be the date of the closure of the register of Members.

 

41In lieu of or apart from closing the register of Members, the Directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of Members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of the Members and for the purpose of determining the Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend, the Directors may, at or within ninety (90) days prior to the date of declaration of such dividend fix a subsequent date as the record date for such determination.

 

 

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42If the register of Members is not so closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of Members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of Members or Members 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 Members. When a determination of Members entitled to vote at any meeting of Members has been made as provided in this section, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof.

 

GENERAL MEETING

 

43(a) Subject to Article 43(c) hereof, the Company shall within one (1) year of its incorporation and in each year of its existence thereafter hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it. The annual general meeting of each year shall be held at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint. The Company shall hold Board meetings at least once a quarter and shall hold general meetings at least once a year.

 

(b)At these meetings, the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented.

 

(c)If the Company is exempted as defined in the Statute, it may but shall not be obliged to hold an annual general meeting.

 

44(a) The Directors may whenever they think fit, and they shall on the requisition of Members of the Company holding at the date of the deposit of the requisition not less than one-tenth (1/10) of the paid-up capital of the Company as at the date of the deposit carries the right of voting at general meetings of the Company, proceed to convene a general meeting of the Company.

 

(b)The requisition must state the objects of the meeting and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the registered office of the Company and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists.

 

(c)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 fifty percent (50%) of the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves convene a general meeting, but any meeting so convened shall not be held after the expiration of three (3) months after the expiration of the said twenty-one (21) days.

 

 

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(d)A general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner as the general meetings convened by Directors.

 

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

 

45At least twenty (20) days’ notice shall be given for an annual general meeting or any other general meeting. Every notice shall be exclusive of the day on which it is given or deemed to be given and shall specify the place, the day and the hour of the meeting and the general nature of the business and shall be given in the manner hereinafter mentioned or in such other manner as may be prescribed by the Company PROVIDED that a general meeting of the Company shall, whether or not the notice specified in this Article has been given and whether or not the provisions of Article 44 have been complied with, be deemed to have been duly convened if it is so agreed:

 

(a)in the case of a general meeting called as an annual general meeting by all the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat or their proxies; and

 

(b)in the case of any other general meeting by a majority in number of the Members having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together holding not less than ninety percent (90%) in nominal value or in the case of shares without nominal or par value ninety percent (90%) of the shares in issue, or their proxies.

 

46The accidental omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings of that meeting.

 

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

 

  47(a)No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of Members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. Subject to the Statute and these Articles (including Article 20), Members holding not less than ninety percent (90%) of all the outstanding shares of the Company, calculated on an as-converted basis which shall include at least a majority of the Ordinary Shares then outstanding (other than Ordinary Shares issued upon the conversion of any Preferred Shares), Yuanming Prudence, Matrix, ATCG and YINGKE Investors, present in person or by proxy shall be a quorum provided always that if the Company has one (1) Member of record, the quorum shall be that one (1) Member present in person or by proxy.

 

(b)A person may participate at a general meeting by telephone conference or other communications equipment by means of which all the persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each other. Participation by a person in a general meeting in this manner is treated as presence in person at that meeting.

 

 

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48Subject to Article 20, a resolution (including a Special Resolution) in writing (in one or more counterparts) signed by all the Members which for the time are entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings (or being corporations by their duly authorized representatives), shall each be as valid and effective as if the same had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held.

 

49If within thirty (30) minutes from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Members, shall be dissolved and in any other case, it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, the Members present shall be a quorum. Provided that the matters discussed in such adjourned meeting shall be limited to those stated in the first written notice and agendas of the general meetings.

 

50The Chairman, if any, of the Board of Directors shall preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the Company, or if there is no such Chairman, or if he shall not be present within fifteen (15) minutes after the time appointed for the holding of the meeting, or is unwilling to act, the Directors present shall elect one (1) of their member to be Chairman of the meeting.

 

51If at any general meeting no Director is willing to act as Chairman or if no Director is present within fifteen (15) minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Members present shall choose one of their members to be Chairman of the meeting.

 

52The Chairman may, with the consent of any general meeting duly constituted hereunder, 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 other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a general meeting is adjourned for thirty (30) days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original 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 general meeting.

 

53At any general meeting, a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll.

 

54Each poll shall be taken in such manner as the Chairman directs and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the general meeting.

 

55The Chairman of the general meeting shall not be entitled to a second or casting vote under any circumstance.

 

 

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VOTES OF MEMBERS

 

56Except as otherwise required by law or as set forth herein, the holder of each Ordinary Share issued and outstanding shall have one (1) vote for each Ordinary Share held by such holder, and the holder of each series of Preferred Shares shall be entitled to the number of votes equal to the number of Ordinary Shares into which such series of Preferred Shares could be converted at the record date for determination of the Members entitled to vote on such matters, or, if no such record date is established, at the date such vote is taken or any written consent of Members is solicited, such votes to be counted together with all other shares of the Company having general voting power and not counted separately as a class. Holders of the Ordinary Shares and Preferred Shares shall be entitled to notice of any Members’ meeting in accordance with these Articles, and except as otherwise set forth in these Articles, shall vote together and not as separate classes.

 

57In the case of joint holders of record, the vote of the senior 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.

 

58A Member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court, having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee, receiver, curator bonis, or other person in the nature of a committee, receiver or curator bonis appointed by that court, and any such committee, receiver, curator bonis or other persons may vote by proxy.

 

59No Member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless he is registered as a Member of the Company on the record date for such meeting nor unless all calls or other sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the Company have been paid.

 

60No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the general meeting or adjourned general meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered and every vote not disallowed at such general meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the Chairman of the general meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

 

61Votes may be given either personally or by proxy.

 

 

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PROXIES

 

62The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing and shall be executed under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorized in writing, or, if the appointor is a corporation, under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorized in its behalf. A proxy need not be a Member of the Company.

 

63The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting no later than the time for holding the meeting, or adjourned meeting, provided that the Chairman of the Meeting may at his discretion direct that an instrument of proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited upon receipt of facsimile or electronic mail confirmation from the appointor that the instrument of proxy duly signed is in the course of transmission to the Company.

 

64The instrument appointing a proxy may be in any usual or common form and may be expressed to be for a particular meeting or any adjournment thereof or generally until revoked. An instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to include the power to demand or join or concur in demanding a poll.

 

65A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the share in respect of which the proxy is given, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer as aforesaid shall have been received by the Company at the registered office before the commencement of the general meeting, or adjourned meeting at which it is sought to use the proxy.

 

66Any corporation which is a Member of record of the Company may in accordance with its articles of association or in the absence of such provision by resolution of its Directors or other governing body authorize such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of Members of the Company, and the person so authorized shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual Member of record of the Company.

 

67Shares of its own capital belonging to the Company or held by it in a fiduciary capacity shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting and shall not be counted in determining the total number of outstanding shares at any given time.

 

68Any Member may irrevocably appoint a proxy and in such case (i) such proxy shall be irrevocable in accordance with the terms of the instrument of appointment; (ii) the Member may not vote at any meeting at which the holder of such proxy votes; and (iii) the Company shall be obliged to recognize the holder of such proxy until such time as the Company is notified in writing that the proxy has been revoked in accordance with its terms.

 

 

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DIRECTORS

 

69There shall be a Board of Directors consisting of not more than nine (9) Directors (exclusive of alternate Directors), LU Yang ( 路 杨 ) through his Founder Holdco, shall have the right to nominate, designate, appoint, remove, replace and reappoint five (5) Directors. For so long as each of the following Investors holds any Share then outstanding, (a) Yuanming Prudence shall be entitled to designate one (1) Director, (b) Matrix shall be entitled to designate one (1) Director, (c) the YINGKE Investors shall be entitled to jointly designate one (1) Director, and (d) ATCG shall be entitled to designate one (1) Director (collectively the “Investor Directors” and each an “Investor Director”). Any vacancy on the Board occurring because of the death, resignation or removal of a Director shall be filled by the vote or written consent of the same shareholder or shareholders who nominated and elected such Director; provided, however, that, without the consent of the Investor Director Majority, the Company shall not from time to time by an ordinary resolution increase or reduce the limit in the number of Directors. For the purpose of Qualified IPO, the parties herein agree that the Company’s Board shall be reorganized in due course, after which, (i) three (3) Directors shall be the independent non- executive directors (as elected according to the applicable listing rules with the appointments being effective upon listing), and for the other six (6) Directors, (ii) LU Yang (路杨) through his Founder Holdco shall have the right to nominate, designate, appoint, remove, replace and reappoint four (4) Directors; and (iii) the Investors shall have the right to nominate, designate, appoint, remove, replace and reappoint two (2) Directors. Beijing Yahui and Ningbo Yahui shall be entitled to jointly designate one (1) observer in a non-voting capacity, Suzhou Detong shall be entitled to designate one (1) observer in a non-voting capacity, ICBC shall be entitled to designate one (1) observer in a non-voting capacity (collectively the “Investor Observers” and each an “Investor Observer”).

 

70The remuneration to be paid to the Directors shall be such remuneration as the Directors shall determine (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority). Such remuneration shall be deemed to accrue from day to day. The Company shall also reimburse Investor Directors and Investor Observers for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with Board duties and meetings including their reasonable traveling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in going to, attending and returning from meetings of the Directors, or any committee of the Directors, or general meetings of the Company.

 

71Subject to the prior written approval of the Board (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority), the Directors may by resolution award special remuneration to any Director of the Company undertaking any special work or services for, or undertaking any special mission on behalf of the Company other than his ordinary routine work as a Director. Any fees paid to a Director who is also counsel or solicitor to the Company, or otherwise serves it in a professional capacity, shall be in addition to his remuneration as a Director.

 

 

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72A Director or alternate Director may hold any other office or place of profit in the Company (other than the office of Auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and on such terms as to remuneration and otherwise as the Directors may determine (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority).

 

73A Director or alternate Director may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director or alternate Director.

 

74A shareholding qualification for Directors may be fixed by the Company in general meeting, but unless and until so fixed, no shareholding qualification for Directors shall be required.

 

75A Director or alternate Director of the Company may be or become a director or other officer of or otherwise interested in any company promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested as a shareholder or otherwise and no such Director or alternate Director shall be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as a director or officer of, or from his interest in, such other company.

 

76No person shall be disqualified from the office of Director or alternate Director or prevented by such office from contracting with the Company, either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract or any contract or transaction entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director or alternate Director shall be in any way interested be or be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director or alternate Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit realized by any such contract or transaction by reason of such Director holding office or of the fiduciary relation thereby established. A Director (or his alternate Director in his absence) shall be at liberty to vote in respect of any contract or transaction in which he is so interested as aforesaid; provided, however, that the nature of the interest of any Director or alternate Director in any such contract or transaction shall be disclosed by him or the alternate Director appointed by him at or prior to its consideration and any vote thereon.

 

77A general notice or disclosure to the Directors or otherwise contained in the minutes of a meeting or a written resolution of the Directors or any committee thereof that a Director or alternate Director is a Member of any specified firm or company and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction with such firm or company shall be sufficient disclosure under Article 76 and after such general notice it shall not be necessary to give special notice relating to any particular transaction.

 

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ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

 

78A Director who expects to be unable to attend Directors’ meetings because of absence, illness or otherwise may appoint any person to be an alternate Director to act in his stead and such appointee whilst he holds office as an alternate Director shall, in the event of absence therefrom of his appointor, be entitled to attend meetings of the Directors and to vote thereat and to do, in the place and stead of his appointor, any other act or thing which his appointor is permitted or required to do by virtue of his being a Director as if the alternate Director were the appointor, other than appointment of an alternate to himself, and he shall ipso facto vacate office if and when his appointor ceases to be a Director or removes the appointee from office. Any appointment or removal under this Article shall be effected by notice in writing under the hand of the Director making the same.

 

POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS

 

79The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors (or a sole Director if only one is appointed). The Directors may pay all expenses incurred in promoting, registering and setting up the Company, and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not, from time to time by the Statute, or by these Articles, or such regulations, as may be prescribed by the Company in a general meeting required to be exercised by the Company in general meetings PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no regulations made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if that regulation had not been made.

 

80Subject to Article 20, all cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments 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.

 

81The Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose:

 

(a)of all appointments of officers made by the Directors;

 

(b)of the names of the Directors (including those represented thereat by an alternate or by proxy) present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors;

 

(c)of all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company and of the Directors and of committees of Directors.

 

 

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The Company shall cause copies of all such minutes to be delivered to the holders of the Preferred Shares within thirty (30) days after the relevant meeting.

 

82The 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 his 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.

 

83Subject to Article 20, the Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital or any part thereof and to issue debentures, debenture stock and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

 

MANAGEMENT

 

84(a) The Directors may from time to time and at any time provide for the management of the affairs of the Company in such manner as they shall think fit and the provisions contained in the next three (3) paragraphs shall be without prejudice to the general powers conferred by this paragraph.

 

(b)The Directors may from time to time and at any time establish any committees, local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company and may appoint any persons to be members of such committees or local boards or any managers or agents (including the Investor Directors) and may fix their remuneration (which shall be subject to the approval of the Board, including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority).

 

(c)The Directors may from time to time and at any time delegate to any such committee, local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in the Directors and may authorize the members for the time being of any such local board, or any of them to fill any vacancy therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies and any such appointment or delegation may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit and the Directors may at any time remove any person so appointed and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.

 

(d)Any such delegate as aforesaid may be authorized by the Directors to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities, and discretions for the time being vested in them.

 

 

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MANAGING DIRECTORS

 

85Subject to Article 20, the Directors may, from time to time, appoint one or more of their body (but not an alternate Director) to the office of a Managing Director for such term and at such remuneration (whether by way of salary, or commission, or participation in profits, or a combination of any of the foregoing) as they may think fit but his appointment shall be subject to determination ipso facto if he ceases for any cause to be a Director and no alternate Director appointed by him can act in his stead as a Director or a Managing Director.

 

86The Directors may entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director any of the powers exercisable by them upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they may think fit and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.

 

PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

 

87Except as otherwise provided by these Articles, the Directors shall meet together for the despatch of business, convening, adjourning and otherwise regulating their meetings as they think fit, but no less frequent than once every quarter. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority (unless a higher vote is required pursuant to the Statute or these Articles) of votes of the Directors and alternate Directors present at a meeting at which there is a quorum, the vote of an alternate Director not being counted if his appointor be present at such meeting.

 

88A Director or alternate Director may, and the Secretary on the requisition of a Director or alternate Director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Directors by at least seven (7) days’ notice in writing to every Director and alternate Director, which notice shall set forth the general nature of the business to be considered unless notice is waived by all the Directors (or their alternates) either at, before or after the meeting is held and PROVIDED, FURTHER, if notice is given in person, by facsimile or electronic mail the same shall be deemed to have been given on the day it is delivered to the Directors or transmitting organization, as the case may be. The provisions of Article 45 shall apply mutatis mutandis with respect to notices of meetings of Directors.

 

89The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business shall be five (5) Directors, inclusive of all the Investor Directors, provided, however, that if such quorum cannot be obtained for a Board meeting after two (2) consecutive notices of Board meetings have been sent by the Company with the first notice providing not less than seven (7) days’ prior notice and the second notice providing not less than two (2) days’ prior notice, then the attendance of any five (5) Directors shall constitute a quorum; provided further that the matters discussed in such adjourned meeting shall be limited to those stated in the first written notice and agendas of the Board meetings. A Director and his appointed alternate Director shall be considered only one (1) person for the purpose of quorum, PROVIDED, ALWAYS, that if there shall at any time be only a sole Director, the quorum shall be one. For the purposes of this Article, an alternate Director or proxy appointed by a Director shall be counted in a quorum at a meeting at which the Director appointing him is not present.

 

 

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90The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board of Directors, but if and so long as their number is reduced below the minimum number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles, the continuing Directors, notwithstanding that the number of Directors is reduced below the number fixed by or in accordance with these Articles as the quorum or that there is only one continuing Director, may act for the purpose of filling vacancies in the Board or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but not for any other purpose.

 

91The Directors may elect a Chairman of the Board of Directors and determine the period for which he is to hold office; but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any meeting, the Chairman is not present within five (5) minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their member to be the Chairman of the meeting.

 

92The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of the Board of Directors (including Alternate Directors in the absence of their appointors) 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 it by the Directors.

 

93A committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper. Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority (unless a higher vote is required pursuant to the Statute or these Articles) of votes of the members present, including the approval of the Investor Director Majority. Subject to this provision, if and when the Board deems necessary, the Company shall establish and maintain a compensation committee (the “Compensation Committee”), and the Investor Directors shall be members of such Compensation Committee and shall be required to establish a quorum for any meeting or action to be taken by such committee. Subject to Article 20, the Compensation Committee shall propose the terms of the Company’s share incentive plans and all grants of awards thereunder (including the ESOP) to the Board for approval and shall have the power and authority to (a) administer the Company’s share incentive plans (including the ESOP) and to grant options thereunder, and (b) approve all management compensation levels and arrangements unless such rights are vested on the Investor Director Majority under Article 20, and shall have such other powers and authorities as the Board shall delegate to it.

 

94All acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of Directors (including any person acting as an alternate Director) shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any Director or alternate Director, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and qualified to be a Director or alternate Director, as the case may be.

 

 

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95Members of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or of such committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. Subject to Article 20, a resolution in writing (in one or more counterparts), signed by all the Directors for the time being or all the members of a committee of Directors (an alternate Director being entitled to sign such resolution on behalf of his appointor) shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors or committee, as the case may, be duly convened and held.

 

96(a) A Director may be represented at any meetings of the Board of Directors by a proxy appointed by him in which event the presence or vote of the proxy shall for all purposes be deemed to be that of the Director.

 

(b)The provisions of Articles 62-65 shall mutatis mutandis apply to the appointment of proxies by Directors.

 

VACATION OF OFFICE OF DIRECTOR

 

97The office of a Director shall be vacated:

 

(a)if he gives notice in writing to the Company that he resigns the office of Director;

 

(b)if he absents himself (without being represented by proxy or an alternate Director appointed by him) from three (3) consecutive meetings of the Board of Directors without special leave of absence from the Directors, and they pass a resolution that he has by reason of such absence vacated office;

 

(c)if he dies, becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally;

 

(d)if he is found a lunatic or becomes of unsound mind; or

 

(e)if he is removed pursuant to Articles 69 and 98.

 

 

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APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

 

98The Directors of the Company may only be appointed as provided in Article 69. No Director designated or appointed pursuant to this Article may be removed from office unless (A) such removal is directed or approved of the Member(s) which originally designated or appointed such Director, or (B) the Member(s) originally entitled to designate or appoint such Director pursuant to this Article is no longer so entitled to designate or appoint such Director. Any vacancy on the Board of Directors occurring because of the death, resignation or removal of a director shall be filled by the vote or written consent of the same Member or Members who nominated and elected such Director.

 

99In the absence of reasonable cause, a Director of the Company shall only be removed by the Members who nominated and elected him as provided in Article 69.

 

PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT

 

100A Director of the Company 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 his dissent shall be entered in the Minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his 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 favor of such action.

 

SEAL

 

101(a) The Company may, if the Directors so determine, have a Seal which shall, subject to Article 101(c) below, only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorized by the Directors in that behalf and every instrument to which the Seal has been affixed shall be signed by one (1) person who shall be either a Director or the Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer or some person appointed by the Directors for such purpose.

 

(b)The Company may have a duplicate Seal or Seals each of which shall be a facsimile of the Seal of the Company and, if the Directors so determine, with the addition on its face of the name of every place where it is to be used.

 

(c)A Director, Secretary or other officer or representative or attorney may without further authority of the Directors affix the Seal of the Company over his signature alone to any document of the Company required to be authenticated by him under Seal or to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere wheresoever.

 

 

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OFFICERS

 

102Subject to Article 20, the Company may have a chief executive officer, a president, a chief financial officer, a secretary or a secretary-treasurer appointed by the Directors who may also from time to time appoint such other officers as they consider necessary, all for such terms, at such remuneration and to perform such duties, and subject to such provisions as to disqualification and removal as the Directors from time to time prescribe.

 

DIVIDENDS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND RESERVE

 

103(a) Subject to the Statute and these Articles, in particular Article 87, the Directors may from time to time declare dividends (including interim dividends) and distributions on shares of the Company outstanding and authorize payment of the same out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefor and in accordance with the provisions of this Article 103. Each holder of the Ordinary Shares (on as-converted basis) shall be entitled to receive dividends ratably on the number of Ordinary Shares, out of any funds legally available therefor, pro rata based on the number of Ordinary Shares held by each holder.

 

Unless and until any dividends or other distributions in like amount have been paid in full on the Preferred Shares (on an as-converted basis), the Company shall not declare, pay or set apart for payment, any dividend and other distributions on any Junior Shares or make any payment on account of, or set apart for payment, money for a sinking or other similar fund for, the purchase, redemption or other retirement of, any Junior Shares or any warrants, rights, calls or options exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into any Junior Shares, or make any distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, and whether in cash, obligations or shares of the Company or other property.

 

(b)Dividends shall be paid on the Preferred Shares, payable out of funds or assets when and as such funds or assets become legally available therefor on parity with each other, on an as-converted basis and prior and in preference to any dividend (payable other than in Ordinary Shares) on the Junior Shares; provided that such dividends shall be payable only when, as, and if declared by the Board of Directors (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority).

 

(c)No dividends (other than those payable solely in-kind in the form of Ordinary Shares) shall be declared or paid on any Junior Shares during any previous or current fiscal year of the Company until all accrued dividends in the amounts set forth in subsections (a) and (b) above shall have been paid or declared and set apart during that fiscal year and unless and until a dividend in like amount as is declared or paid on such Junior Share has been declared or paid on each outstanding Preferred Share (on an as-converted basis).

 

 

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104The Directors may, before declaring any dividends or distributions, set aside such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for any purpose of the Company and pending such application may, at the like discretion, be employed in the business of the Company.

 

105No dividend or distribution shall be payable except out of the profits of the Company, realized or unrealized, or out of the Share Premium Account or as otherwise permitted by the Statute.

 

106Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividends or distributions, if dividends or distributions are to be declared on a class of shares they shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares of such class outstanding on the record date for such dividend or distribution as determined in accordance with these Articles but no amount paid or credited as paid on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purpose of this Article as paid on the share.

 

107The Directors may deduct from any dividend or distribution payable to any Member all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise.

 

108The Directors may declare that any dividend or distribution be paid wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets and in particular of paid up shares, debentures, or debenture stock 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 certificates 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 Members upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all Members and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Directors.

 

109Any dividend, distribution, interest or other monies payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid 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 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 be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent. Any one of two (2) 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.

 

110No dividend or distribution shall bear interest against the Company.

 

 

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CAPITALIZATION

 

111Subject to Article 20, the Company may upon the recommendation of the Directors by an ordinary resolution authorize the Directors to capitalize any sum standing to the credit of any of the Company’s reserve accounts (including Share Premium Account and capital redemption reserve fund) or any sum standing to the credit of profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution and to appropriate such sum to Members in the proportions in which such sum would have been divisible amongst them had the same been a distribution of profits by way of dividend and to apply such sum on their behalf in paying up in full unissued shares for allotment and distribution credited as fully paid up to and amongst them in the proportion aforesaid. In such event the Directors shall do all acts and things required to give effect to such capitalization, with full power to the Directors to make such provisions as they think fit for the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrue to the Company rather than to the Members concerned). The Directors may authorize any person to enter on behalf of all of the Members interested into an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalization and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.

 

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

 

112The Directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to:

 

(a)all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt or expenditure takes place;

 

(b)all sales and purchases of goods by the Company; and

 

(c)the assets and liabilities of the Company.

 

Proper books shall not be deemed to be kept if such books of account are not kept as necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to explain its transactions.

 

113The Directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of Members not being Directors and no Member (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by Statute or authorized by the Directors or by the Company in general meeting.

 

 

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114The Directors may from time to time cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Company in general meeting profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and such other reports and accounts as may be required by law.

 

AUDIT

 

115The Directors shall deliver to the holders of the Preferred Shares (i) annual audited consolidated financial statements within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year; (ii) monthly bank statements of each Group Company and monthly unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Group Companies within thirty (30) days after the end of each calendar month; (iii) quarterly unaudited consolidated financial statements within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter; semiannually unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Group Companies within thirty (30) days after the end of each half year; and (iv) an annual consolidated budget within forty-five (45) days prior to the end of each fiscal year. All audits shall be performed in accordance with International Accounting Standards (IAS) or other accounting principle as approved by the Investor Director Majority by a reputable accounting firm acceptable to the Investor Director Majority.

 

116Any holder of the Preferred Shares or its appointee shall have the right of inspection (including the right of access, examine and copy all books of account of the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries).

 

117For so long as any holder of the Preferred Shares continues to hold the Preferred Shares (or Ordinary Shares received upon conversion of the Preferred Shares), the Company shall provide each such holder with copies of (i) promptly after filing, all of the Company’s annual and periodic reports made available to its Members as well as all public reports (including any periodic, interim, or extraordinary reports) filed with the Securities and Futures Commission of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the China Securities and Regulatory Commission of the People’s Republic of China, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or any other stock exchange or securities regulatory authority; and (ii) promptly upon request, current versions of investment documents and all documents relating to any subsequent financings by the Company, or otherwise affecting the Preferred Shares or the holders of the Preferred Shares, in each case with all amendments and restatements.

 

118Subject to Article 20, the Company may at any annual general meeting appoint an Auditor or Auditors of the Company who shall hold office until the next annual general meeting and may fix his or their remuneration.

 

119Subject to Article 20, the Directors may before the first annual general meeting appoint an Auditor or Auditors of the Company who shall hold office until the first annual general meeting unless previously removed by an ordinary resolution of the Members in general meeting in which case the Members at that meeting may appoint Auditors. The Directors may fill any casual vacancy in the office of Auditor but while any such vacancy continues, the surviving or continuing Auditor or Auditors, if any, may act. The remuneration of any Auditor appointed by the Directors under this Article may be fixed by the Directors.

 

 

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120Every Auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the Company and shall be entitled to require from the Directors and Officers of the Company such information and explanation as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors.

 

121Auditors shall at the next annual general meeting following their appointment and at any other time during their term of office, upon request of the Directors or any general meeting of the Members, make a report on the accounts of the Company in general meeting during their tenure of office.

 

NOTICES

 

122Notices shall be in writing and may be given by the Company to any Member either personally or by sending it by overnight or international courier, facsimile or electronic mail to him or to his address as shown in the register of Members. No matter whether the recipient signs such notice in person or not, or the recipient refuses to sign or changes the communication address, such notices shall be deemed to be served.

 

123(a) Where a notice is sent by overnight or international courier, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying and posting a letter containing the notice, with a confirmation of delivery, and to have been effected at the expiration of sixty (60) hours after the letter containing the same is sent by overnight or international courier as aforesaid.

 

(b)Where a notice is sent by facsimile or electronic mail, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected on the day the same is sent as aforesaid.

 

124A notice may be given by the Company to the joint holders of record of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder first named on the register of Members in respect of the share.

 

125A notice may be given by the Company to the person or persons which the Company has been advised are entitled to a share or shares in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member by sending it through overnight or international courier as aforesaid in a pre-paid letter addressed to them by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description at the address supplied for that purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled, or at the option of the Company by giving the notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.

 

 

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126Notice of every general meeting shall be given in any manner hereinbefore authorized to:

 

(a)every person shown as a Member in the register of Members as of the record date for such meeting except that in the case of joint holders the notice shall be sufficient if given to the joint holder first named in the register of Members; and

 

(b)every person upon whom the ownership of a share devolves by reason of his being a legal personal representative or a trustee in bankruptcy of a Member of record where the Member of record but for his death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting.

 

No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.

 

WINDING UP

 

127Subject to these Articles, if the Company shall be wound up, the liquidator may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution of the Company and any other sanction required by the Statute, divide amongst the Members in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members. The liquidator may with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of such assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories as the liquidator, with the like sanction, shall think fit, but so that no Member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability.

 

LIQUIDATION PREFERENCE.

 

128Upon any liquidation, closure, dissolution, merger or acquisition of any Group Company; or the transfer of a controlling interest (i.e., more than 50% of the equity) by the shareholders of any Group Company (excluding the Investors); or the sale of the majority of any Group Company's assets to third parties; or the transfer of the majority of any Group Company's Intellectual Property to third parties; or any event that can be defined as a transfer of control of any Group Company; or any transfer of the Shares of any Group Company (excluding the Shares of the Company held by the Investors) or shares of the Founder Holdco without the prior written consent of the Investor Director Majority, Series C Investors and Series D Investors; or any breach of the Warrantors under the Transaction Documents which would cause Series C Investors and Series D Investors intend to claim for termination of any of the Transaction Documents (each a “Liquidation Event”), distributions to the Members of the Company shall be made in the following manner:

 

 

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(a)Firstly, before any distribution or payment shall be made to the holders of any Ordinary Shares, Series C Preferred Shares, Series B Preferred Shares and Series A Preferred Shares, each Series D Preferred Share shall be entitled to receive, on parity with each other, an amount equal to: with respect to each Series D Preferred Share issued and outstanding, 100% of the Series D Original Issue Price, plus an amount that would accrue on the Series D Original Issue Price (adjusted only for increase by any share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions) at a simple interest rate of fifteen percent (15%) per annum (if such period is less than a year, such interest amount shall be calculated proportionally), and plus all declared but unpaid dividends with respect thereto per Series D Preferred Share (“Priority Liquidation Amount”). If, upon any Liquidation Event, the assets of the Company shall be insufficient to make payment of the foregoing amounts in full on all Series D Preferred Shares, then such assets shall be distributed among the holders of Series D Preferred Shares ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled thereon.

 

(b)Secondly, if there are any assets or funds remaining after the Priority Liquidation Amount has been fully paid, before any distribution or payment shall be made to the holders of Ordinary Shares, Series B Preferred Shares and Series A Preferred Shares, each Series C Preferred Share shall be entitled to receive, on parity with each other, an amount equal to: with respect to each Series C Preferred Share issued and outstanding, one hundred percent (100%) of the Series C Original Issue Price, plus an amount that would accrue on the Series C Original Issue Price (adjusted only for increase by any share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions) at a simple interest rate of fifteen percent (15%) per annum (if such period is less than a year, such interest amount shall be calculated proportionally), and plus all declared but unpaid dividends with respect thereto per Series C Preferred Share (the “Series C Preferred Shares Liquidation Preference”). If, upon any Liquidation Event, the assets of the Company shall be insufficient to make payment of the foregoing amounts in full on all Series C Preferred Shares, then such assets shall be distributed among the holders of Series C Preferred Shares ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled thereon.

 

 

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(c)Thirdly, if there are any assets or funds remaining after the Series C Preferred Shares Liquidation Preference has been fully paid, before any distribution or payment shall be made to the holders of any Ordinary Shares and Series A Preferred Shares, each Series B Preferred Share shall be entitled to receive, on parity with each other, an amount equal to the higher of (the “Series B Preferred Shares Liquidation Preference”): (i) one hundred percent (100%) of the Series B Original Issue Price, plus an amount that would accrue on the Series B Original Issue Price at a simple interest rate of fifteen percent (15%) per annum, during the period commencing from the date of issuance of such Series B Preferred Share and ending on the date when any amounts due and payable in respect of such Series B Preferred Share under this article shall be paid in full (if such period is less than a year, such interest amount shall be calculated proportionally), plus all declared but unpaid dividends with respect thereto per Series B Preferred Share up to the actual payment date of the Series B Preferred Shares Liquidation Preference, proportionally adjusted for share subdivisions, share dividends, reorganizations, reclassifications, consolidations or mergers; or (ii) two hundred percent (200%) of the Series B Original Issue Price; or (iii) the distributions in proportion to the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares held by them (with outstanding Preferred Shares treated on an as-if-converted basis). If, upon any Liquidation Event, the assets of the Company shall be insufficient to make payment of the foregoing amounts in full on all Series B Preferred Shares, then such assets shall be distributed among the holders of Series B Preferred Shares ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled thereon.

 

(d)Fourthly, if there are any assets or funds remaining after the Series B Preferred Shares Liquidation Preference has been fully paid, before any distribution or payment shall be made to the holders of Ordinary Shares, each Series A Preferred Share shall be entitled to receive, on parity with each other, an amount equal to one hundred and fifty percent (150%) of the Series A Original Issue Price, plus all dividends declared and unpaid with respect thereto per Series A Preferred Share, then held by such holder. If, upon any Liquidation Event, the assets of the Company shall be insufficient to make payment of the foregoing amounts in full on all Series A Preferred Shares, then such assets shall be distributed among the holders of Series A Preferred Shares ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled thereon.

 

(e)After distribution or payment in full of the amount distributable or payable on the Preferred Shares pursuant to above paragraph (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Article 128, the remaining assets of the Company available for distribution to Members shall be distributed ratably among the holders of outstanding Ordinary Shares and the holders of outstanding Preferred Shares in proportion to the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares held by them (with outstanding Preferred Shares treated on an as-if-converted basis). For the avoidance of doubt, in case that the Liquidation Event or Deemed Liquidation Event occurs within three (3) years after the closing of the Series B Investors, the ESOP shares that have not been granted, vested or exercised shall be canceled and such distribution amount for the ESOP shares shall be distributed to the Series D Investors, Series C Investors and Series B Investors in proportion to their relative shareholding in the Group Companies.

 

 

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(f)Subject to then effective applicable laws and regulations, if any holder of Preferred Shares fails to receive the amounts set forth in above sub-article (a), (b), (c) and/or (d) (if applicable) in full for whatever reason, each holder of Ordinary Shares (excluding the Ordinary Shares converted from the Preferred Shares) shall and subject to the assets or cash it received from the Company in such Liquidation Event or Deemed Liquidation Event, transfer such assets or cash to the holder of Preferred Shares until all the amount set forth in above sub-article (a), (b), (c) and/or (d) (if applicable) have been fully paid to such holder of Preferred Shares in the subsequence and mechanism as set forth above.

 

(g)Liquidation on Sale or Merger. The following events shall be treated as a liquidation under this Article 128 unless waived by the Investor Director Majority (each, a “Deemed Liquidation Event”):

 

(1)(A) any consolidation, amalgamation or merger of the Company and/or any Group Company with or into any other Person or other corporate reorganization, in which the Members of the Company or shareholders of such Group Company immediately prior to such consolidation, amalgamation, merger or reorganization, own less than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of Company or any other Group Company immediately after such consolidation, merger, amalgamation or reorganization, or (B) any transaction or series of related transactions to which the Company is a party in which in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the Company’s or any other Group Company’s voting power is transferred, but in case of (B) excluding any transaction effected solely for tax purposes or to change the Company’s domicile or any other Group Company’s domicile without resulting in any change to any Investor’s shareholding percentage in the Company (or the post-restructuring Group Companies);

 

(2)the sale, exchange, transfer or other disposition, in one or a series of related transactions, of a majority of the outstanding share capital of any Group Company to one Person or a group of Persons acting in concert, under circumstances in which the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding share capital of any Group Company immediately prior to such transaction beneficially own less than a majority in voting power of the outstanding share capital of the surviving entity or the acquiring Person immediately following such transaction;

 

(3)a sale, lease, transfer or other disposition, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, by any Group Company of all or substantially all of the assets of any Group Company; or

 

 

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(4)the exclusive licensing of all or substantially all of the Group Companies intellectual property to a third party,

 

and upon any such event, any proceeds resulting to the Members of the Company therefrom shall be distributed in accordance with the terms of paragraph (a) through (e) of this Article 128.

 

(h)In the event the Company proposes to distribute assets other than cash in connection with any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, the value of the assets to be distributed to the holder of the Preferred Shares and Ordinary Shares shall be determined in good faith by the Board of Directors (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority), or by a liquidator if one is appointed. Any securities not subject to investment letter or similar restrictions on free marketability shall be valued as follows:

 

(i)if traded on a securities exchange, the value shall be deemed to be the average of the security’s closing prices on such exchange over the thirty (30) day period ending one (1) day prior to the distribution;

 

(ii)if traded over-the-counter, the value shall be deemed to be the average of the closing bid prices over the thirty (30) day period ending three (3) days prior to the distribution; and

 

(iii)if there is no active public market, the value shall be the fair market value thereof as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority).

 

(i)The method of valuation of securities subject to investment letter or other restrictions on free marketability shall be adjusted to make an appropriate discount from the market value determined as above in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) to reflect the fair market value thereof as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors (including the affirmative votes of the Investor Director Majority), or by a liquidator if one is appointed. The Investor Director Majority shall have the right to challenge any determination by the Board of Directors of fair market value pursuant to this Article 128(h), in which case the determination of fair market value shall be made by an independent appraiser selected jointly by the Board of Directors and the challenging parties, the cost of such appraisal to be borne by the Company.

 

 

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INDEMNITY

 

129The Directors and officers for the time being of the Company and any trustee for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and their respective heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company from and against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them shall or may incur or sustain by reason of any act done or omitted in or about the execution of their duty in their respective offices or trusts, except such (if any) as they shall incur or sustain by or through their own willful neglect or default and no such Director, officer or trustee shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other Director, officer or trustee or for joining in any receipt for the sake of conformity or for the solvency or honesty of any banker or other persons with whom any monies or effects belonging to the Company may be lodged or deposited for safe custody or for any insufficiency of any security upon which any monies of the Company may be invested or for any other loss or damage due to any such cause as aforesaid or which may happen in or about the execution of his office or trust unless the same shall happen through the willful neglect or default of such Director, officer or trustee.

 

FINANCIAL YEAR

 

130Unless the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shall end on December 31 in each year and, following the year of incorporation, shall begin on January 1 in each year.

 

AMENDMENTS OF ARTICLES

 

131Subject to the Statute and to any quorum, voting or procedural requirements expressly imposed by these Articles in regard to the variation of rights attached to a specific class of shares of the Company, the Company may at any time and from time to time by a Special Resolution, change the name of the Company or alter or amend these Articles or the Memorandum of Association, in whole or in part.

 

TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION

 

132If the Company is exempted as defined in the Statute, it shall, subject to the provisions of the Statute and with the approval of a Special Resolution, have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands.

 

MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS

 

133Subject to Article 20, the Company shall have the power to merge or consolidate with one or more other constituent companies (as defined in the Statute) upon such terms as the Directors may determine and (to the extent required by the Statute) with the approval of a Special Resolution.

  

 

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