F-1/A 1 d425047df1a.htm AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO FORM F-1 AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO FORM F-1

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2025

Registration No. 333-282164

 

 
 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

AMENDMENT NO. 4

TO

FORM F-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Yuanbao Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Not Applicable

(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)

 

 

 

Cayman Islands   6411   Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

Building 2, No.8 Beichen West Road,

Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101,

The People’s Republic of China

+86 10 64849901

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

Cogency Global Inc.

122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor

New York, NY 10168

(212) 947-7200

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

 

Mengyu Lu, Esq.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

c/o 26th Floor, Gloucester Tower

The Landmark

15 Queen’s Road Central

Hong Kong

+852 3761-3300

 

Justin You Zhou, Esq.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

58th Floor, China World Tower A

No. 1 Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue

Chaoyang District, Beijing 100004

People’s Republic of China

+86 10 5737-9315

 

Benjamin Su, Esq.

Daying Zhang, Esq.

Latham & Watkins LLP

18th Floor, One Exchange Square

8 Connaught Place

Central, Hong Kong

People’s Republic of China

+852 2912-2500

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

as soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.

Emerging growth company ☒

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

† The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 
 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Amendment No. 4 to Form F-1 is being filed solely for the purpose of filing Exhibit 107 to this registration statement on Form F-1, or the Registration Statement, and to amend and restate the exhibit index set forth in Part II of the Registration Statement. No changes have been made to the Registration Statement other than this explanatory note as well as revised versions of the cover page and exhibit index of the Registration Statement. This Amendment No. 4 does not contain copies of the prospectus included in the Registration Statement which remains unchanged from the Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement, filed on April 24, 2025. This Amendment No. 4 consists only of the cover page, this explanatory note, and Part II of the Registration Statement.


PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime.

The post-offering memorandum and articles of association that we expect to adopt and to become effective immediately prior to the completion of this offering provide that we shall indemnify our directors and officers (each an indemnified person) against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, expenses, losses, damages or liabilities incurred or sustained by such indemnified person, other than by reason of such person’s own dishonesty, willful default or fraud, in or about the conduct of our company’s business or affairs (including as a result of any mistake of judgment) or in the execution or discharge of his duties, powers, authorities or discretions, including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by such indemnified person in defending (whether successfully or otherwise) any civil proceedings concerning our company or its affairs in any court whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere.

Pursuant to the indemnification agreements, the form of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to this registration statement, we agree to indemnify our directors and executive officers against certain liabilities and expenses incurred by such persons in connection with claims made by reason of their being such a director or officer.

The underwriting agreement, the form of which will be filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this registration statement, will also provide indemnification for us and our officers and directors for certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act, but only to the extent that such liabilities are caused by information relating to the underwriters furnished to us in writing expressly for use in this registration statement and certain other disclosure documents.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

Item 7. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

During the past three years, we have issued the following options to acquire our ordinary shares without registering the securities under the Securities Act. We believe that the following issuances were exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act regarding sales by an issuer in offshore transactions. No underwriters were involved in these issuances.

 

Securities/Purchaser

   Date of
Issuance
     Number of
Securities
     Consideration  

Options

        

Certain directors, officers and employees

    
various
dates
 
 
    

options to
purchase
ordinary shares
 

 
    

Past and future services
provided by these
individuals to us
 
 
 

Item 8. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

 

(a)

Exhibits

See Exhibit Index beginning on page II-4 of this registration statement.

 

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(b)

Financial Statement Schedules

Schedules have been omitted because the information required to be set forth therein is not applicable or is shown in the Consolidated Financial Statements or the Notes thereto.

Item 9. Undertakings

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriter at the closing specified in the underwriting agreements, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriter to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:

 

   

For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

 

   

For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

   

For the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

 

   

For the purpose of determining any liability of the registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

   

Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

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Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

 

   

The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

   

Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement to include any financial statements required by Item 8.A of Form 20-F at the start of any delayed offering or throughout a continuous offering.

 

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Yuanbao Inc.

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description of Document

 1.1**    Form of Underwriting Agreement
 3.1**    Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Registrant, as currently in effect
 3.2**    Form of the Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Registrant, effective immediately prior to the completion of this offering
 4.1**    Registrant’s Specimen American Depositary Receipt (included in Exhibit 4.3)
 4.2**    Registrant’s Specimen Certificate for Ordinary Shares
 4.3**    Form of Deposit Agreement, among the Registrant, the depositary and the holders and beneficial owners of American Depositary Shares issued thereunder
 4.4**    The Fourth Amended and Restated Shareholders Agreement among the Registrant and other parties thereto dated April 13, 2021
 5.1**    Opinion of Maples and Calder (Hong Kong) LLP regarding the validity of the ordinary shares being registered and certain Cayman Islands tax matters
 8.1**    Form of opinion of Maples and Calder (Hong Kong) LLP regarding certain Cayman Islands tax matters (included in Exhibit 5.1)
 8.2**    Opinion of Han Kun Law Offices regarding certain PRC tax matters (included in Exhibit 99.2)
10.1**    2020 Share Option Plan
10.2**    2024 Equity Incentive Plan
10.3**    Form of Indemnification Agreement between the Registrant and its directors and executive officers
10.4**    Form of Employment Agreement between the Registrant and its executive officers
10.5**    English translation of the executed form of the Amended Exclusive Business Cooperation Agreement dated January 1, 2024
10.6†**    English translation of the executed form of the Exclusive Equity Option Agreement dated March 17, 2020
10.7†**    English translation of the executed form of the Equity Pledge Agreement dated March 17, 2020
10.8†**    English translation of the executed form of the Exclusive Asset Purchase Agreement dated March 17, 2020
10.9†**    English translation of the executed form of the Shareholder Entrustment Agreement dated March 17, 2020
10.10†**    English translation of the executed form of the Power of Attorney dated March 17, 2020
10.11†**    English translation of the executed form of the Spousal Consent Letter dated March 17, 2020
10.12†**    English translation of the executed form of the Undertaking Letter dated March 17, 2020
10.13†**    English translation of the executed form of the Loan Agreement dated September 16, 2020
10.14†**    English translation of the executed form of the Equity Pledge Agreements dated September 17, 2020
10.15**    Subscription Agreement between the Registrant, Qiming Venture Partners VII, L.P. and Qiming VII Strategic Investors Fund, L.P., dated November 21, 2024

 

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Exhibit
Number

  

Description of Document

21.1**    Significant Subsidiaries of the Registrant
23.1**    Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm
23.2**    Consent of Maples and Calder (Hong Kong) LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.3**    Consent of Han Kun Law Offices (included in Exhibit 99.2)
23.4**    Consent of Dong Li, independent director nominee
23.5**    Consent of Xu Han, independent director nominee
24.1**    Powers of Attorney (included on signature page)
99.1**    Code of Business Conduct and Ethics of the Registrant
99.2**    Opinion of Han Kun Law Offices regarding certain PRC law matters
99.4**    Consent of Frost & Sullivan
99.5**    Representations under Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F
107    Filing Fee Table
 
**

Previously Filed.

Certain confidential portions of this exhibit were omitted by means of marking such portions with brackets and asterisks because the identified confidential portions (i) are not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed, or constituted personally identifiable information that is not material.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-1 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Beijing, China, on April 29, 2025.

 

Yuanbao Inc.
By:  

/s/ Rui Fang

  Name: Rui Fang
  Title: Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

 

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on April 29, 2025.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Rui Fang

  

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

Rui Fang

*

   Director

Ying Li

*

   Director

Shuli Sun

/s/ Huirui Wan

  

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

Huirui Wan

 

*By  

/s/ Rui Fang

  Name: Rui Fang
  Attorney-in-fact

 

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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of Yuanbao Inc., has signed this registration statement or amendment thereto in New York on April 29, 2025.

 

Authorized U.S. Representative
Cogency Global Inc.
By:  

/s/ Colleen A. De Vries

  Name: Colleen A. De Vries
  Title: Senior Vice President

 

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