−Removed: are a Cayman Islands company incorporated on February 5, 2018 as an exempted company with limited liability.
−Removed: We chose to incorporate
−Removed: in the Cayman Islands due to (i) its tax-neutrality, which allows international transactions to be structured efficiently without
−Removed: an additional layer of tax and (ii) simplicity of establishment and flexibility of administration, including easy migration to
−Removed: another jurisdiction, statutory procedure for merger or consolidation, and no takeover code or bespoke public company filing requirements.
−Removed: companies are Cayman Islands companies wishing to conduct business outside the Cayman Islands and, as such, are exempted from
−Removed: complying with certain provisions of the Companies Law.
−Removed: As an exempted company, we have applied for and received a tax exemption
−Removed: undertaking from the Cayman Islands government that, in accordance with section 6 of the Tax Concessions Law (2018 Revision) of
−Removed: the Cayman Islands, for a period of 20 years from the date of the undertaking, no law which is enacted in the Cayman Islands imposing
−Removed: any tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations shall apply to us or our operations and, in addition, that no
−Removed: tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations or which is in the nature of estate duty or inheritance tax shall
−Removed: be payable (i) on or in respect of our shares, debentures or other obligations or (ii) by way of the withholding in whole or in
−Removed: part of a payment of dividend or other distribution of income or capital by us to our shareholders or a payment of principal or
−Removed: interest or other sums due under a debenture or other obligation of us.
−Removed: were formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization
−Removed: or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities, which we refer to as a “target business.”
−Removed: Our efforts to identify a prospective target business is not limited to a particular industry or geographic location.
−Removed: we believe we are particularly well-positioned to capitalize on growing opportunities created by consumer/lifestyle assets that
−Removed: may have particular application for the PRC market (including traditional consumer staples characterized by lower cyclicality,
−Removed: such as food and beverages and household products;
−Removed: luxurious lifestyle products and retail brands, such as fashion, cosmetics,
−Removed: entertainment and leisure and other consumer discretionary products;
−Removed: E-commerce and online retailers;
−Removed: and sub-sectors within other
−Removed: high potential industries driven by retail sentiments and consumer demand such as consumer-focused pharmaceuticals, including
−Removed: sport nutrition, vitamins, dietary supplements, and other consumer-oriented healthcare services).
−Removed: believe our management team is well positioned to identify attractive risk-adjusted returns in the marketplace and that our professional
−Removed: contacts and transaction sources, ranging from industry executives, private owners, private equity funds, family offices, commercial
−Removed: and investment bankers, lawyers and other financial sector service providers and participants, in addition to the geographical
−Removed: reach of our affiliates, will continue to enable us to pursue a broad range of opportunities.
−Removed: Our management believes that its
−Removed: collective ability to identify and implement value creation initiatives has been an essential driver of past performance and will
−Removed: continue to remain central to its differentiated acquisition strategy.
−Removed: In addition, we believe our alliance with Symphony, which
−Removed: purchased from us, through an affiliate, an aggregate of 13,000,000 private warrants, will continue to allow us to potentially
−Removed: access/leverage relevant Asian distribution networks, enhance our insights into PRC consumer demand, and deepen our connections
−Removed: with leading relevant Asian trading houses.
−Removed: past performance by our management team and Symphony is not a guarantee either (i) of success with respect to any business combination
−Removed: we may consummate or (ii) that we will be able to identify a suitable candidate for our initial business combination.
−Removed: investors should not rely upon the historical record of our management or of Symphony as indicative of future performance.
−Removed: deploy a proactive sourcing strategy, focusing on companies where the combination of the operating experience, relationships and
−Removed: capital markets expertise of our management team and Symphony can be catalysts to enhancing the overall value proposition of the
−Removed: potential target acquisition.
−Removed: others, we believe the consumer/lifestyle sectors represent a particularly attractive deal sourcing ground that leverages both
−Removed: our team’s and our sponsor partner’s respective skill sets, and that could potentially serve as a strong platform
−Removed: for future bolt-on acquisitions.
−Removed: Our investment thesis, inter alia, is supported by the following trends:
−Removed: is expected to remain a major driver in global consumer demands, particularly in the luxury lifestyle sector.
−Removed: By 2018, retail
−Removed: sales in China may potentially surpass that of the United States for the first time to become the world’s largest consumer
−Removed: McKinsey, the global strategy consultancy, forecasts that fueled by rapid growth in per capita income especially in second
−Removed: and third-tier cities.
−Removed: China’s luxury consumers will grow from its present roughly one-third of the global luxury market
−Removed: to roughly 44% by 2025.
−Removed: Understanding and leveraging China market insights are key components of our consumer/lifestyle strategy
−Removed: sentiments in China have become increasingly polarized.
−Removed: While a growing affinity towards local brands has been observed for goods
−Removed: such as sportswear and appliances due to rising national pride, selected high-profile Western brands remain a much-desired symbol
−Removed: of prestige, fashion and quality.
−Removed: As a result, we believe that branding strategies in China will require new levels of sophistication
−Removed: and precision in balancing these two trends.
−Removed: In this regard, we believe Symphony’s track record in formulating and implementing
−Removed: China distribution strategies for foreign brands will be particularly valuable.
−Removed: anticipate certain categories of international consumer products may be better positioned to reap benefits from a China-oriented
−Removed: strategy than others such as:
−Removed: already in a mature or near saturation phase in their home markets but with strong under-exploited growth potential in Asia, with
−Removed: nutritional/health foods in the US being but one such possible example;
−Removed: undervalued or fatigued international fashion/lifestyle brands facing erosion of legacy value (due, perhaps, to loss of major
−Removed: licensing contracts, repeated failures to meet revenue targets, and/or unsuccessful product innovations, among others) that might
−Removed: be revamped and turned around through a fresh entrance into Asia’s developing markets, thereby extending their product lives;
−Removed: entrants into the Chinese market encumbered by subsequent failed execution (due, perhaps, to lack of a strong local distribution
−Removed: partner, reputation damage from mismanagement, and/or failed localization initiatives), where fresh partners/leadership could
−Removed: successfully address such past challenges or correct any past failures.
−Removed: anticipate that technology will be another key driver of potential opportunities in the consumer/lifestyle sector, such as where
−Removed: selected distressed retailers, under e-commerce pressure, might benefit from injection of a robust digitization/online strategy.
−Removed: In such cases, we may explore forming strategic alliances between acquired fatigued international consumer brands and leading
−Removed: Chinese e-commerce players as a viable next step to capture synergy and create value.
−Removed: By doing so, we expect to benefit from China’s
−Removed: fast growing e-commerce sector, which contributed to 42% of the global market in 2016, up from less than 1% in 2005.
−Removed: anticipate deleveraging will remain an important theme for many of Asia’s major economies, particularly China and India.
−Removed: To the extent possible, we will seek to take advantage of such distressed situations by identifying and acquiring high-quality
−Removed: consumer business franchises from relevant over-leveraged conglomerates that might be available at a substantial discount, particularly
−Removed: in cases where our management or sponsor may have actionable relationships with such potential sellers.
−Removed: objective is to generate meaningful returns through a disciplined strategy of underwriting intrinsic worth and affecting positive
−Removed: change to unlock value, with a priority focus on the consumer/lifestyle sector.
−Removed: Consistent with such objective, we have identified
−Removed: the following general criteria and guidelines in evaluating potential target businesses:
−Removed: businesses in the consumer/lifestyle sector that are potentially positioned to benefit from our industry networks and insights,
−Removed: or in other high-potential industries that can equally benefit from, inter alia, (a) the rebranding and optimization of distribution
−Removed: channels, (b) a rigorous Greater China execution and/or distribution strategy, and/or (c) application of e-commerce initiatives
−Removed: that can drive strong efficiency gains and/or improve staggered sales;
−Removed: businesses that are available for sale at substantial discounts due to the deleveraging needs of their respective parent companies;
−Removed: businesses that are at an inflection point, such as those requiring additional management expertise, have untapped potential for
−Removed: new products or services, or where we believe we can drive improved financial performance and where acquisition through a publicly
−Removed: listed vehicle may help facilitate growth;
−Removed: businesses that have recently been pressured by significant waves of devaluation whose growth potential can be re-animated through
−Removed: further related sector add-on acquisitions and complementary strategic alliances.
−Removed: In such cases, we may seek to create value through
−Removed: the simultaneous acquisition and merger of multiple targets with significant synergetic values.
−Removed: However, we do not intend to purchase
−Removed: multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination unless we believe a specific
−Removed: case can be made for such action;
−Removed: businesses, in general, that suggest unrecognized and underpriced value;
−Removed: businesses that will offer attractive risk-adjusted equity returns for our shareholders.
−Removed: Financial returns will be evaluated based
−Removed: on (a) the ability to achieve cost savings, (b) the potential for organic growth in cash flows, (c) the ability to accelerate
−Removed: growth, including through the opportunity for follow-on acquisitions and (d) the prospects of benefiting from other value creation
−Removed: Potential upside from improvement in earnings and an improved capital structure will be weighed against any identified
−Removed: downside risks.
−Removed: criteria and guidelines are not exhaustive.
−Removed: Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combination
−Removed: may be based, to the extent relevant, on the preceding criteria and guidelines as well as other considerations, factors and criteria
−Removed: that our management may deem relevant at the time.
−Removed: Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may complete a business combination with
−Removed: a target business that does not meet any of the preceding criteria and guidelines.
−Removed: funds in the trust account of $251,886,105 as of December 31, 2018 available to use for a business combination (assuming no stockholder
−Removed: seeks conversion of their shares or seeks to sell their shares to us in a tender offer in relation to such business combination),
−Removed: we offer a target business a variety of options such as providing the owners of a target business with shares in a public company
−Removed: and a public means to sell such shares, providing capital for the potential growth and expansion of its operations or strengthening
−Removed: its balance sheet by reducing its debt ratio.
−Removed: Because we are able to consummate our initial business combination using our cash,
−Removed: debt or equity securities, or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use the most efficient combination that
−Removed: will allow us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to fit its needs and desires.
−Removed: Activities Since Inception
−Removed: August 20, 2018, we consummated our initial public offering of 22,000,000 units, each unit consisting of one ordinary share, par
−Removed: value $0.0001 per share, one half of one warrant, each whole warrant exercisable for one ordinary shares at an exercise price
−Removed: of $11.50 per share, and one right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one ordinary share upon consummation of our initial business
−Removed: combination, pursuant to the registration statements on Form S-1 (File Nos.
−Removed: 333-226423 and 333-226859).
−Removed: The units were sold in
−Removed: our initial public offering at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $220,000,000 (before underwriting
−Removed: discounts and commissions and offering expenses).
−Removed: Simultaneously with the consummation of our initial public offering, we completed
−Removed: the private placement of 11,800,000 warrants, issued to an affiliate of Symphony, at a price of $0.50 per warrant, generating
−Removed: gross proceeds of $5,900,000.
−Removed: August 22, 2018, the underwriters of our initial public offering exercised their over-allotment option in full and purchased 3,000,000
−Removed: units at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $30.0 million.
−Removed: On August 22, 2018, simultaneously
−Removed: with the sale of the over-allotment units, we completed a private placement for an additional 1,200,000 warrants, issued to an
−Removed: affiliate of Symphony, at a price of $0.50 per warrant, generating gross proceeds of $600,000.
−Removed: million of the net proceeds from the initial public offering (including the over-allotment) and the private placements with Symphony
−Removed: were deposited in a trust account established for the benefit of our public stockholders.
−Removed: units began trading on August 16, 2018 on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol TKKSU.
−Removed: Commencing on September 12, 2018,
−Removed: the securities comprising the units began separate trading.
−Removed: The units, ordinary shares and warrants are trading on the Nasdaq
−Removed: Capital Market under the symbols “TKKSU,”
−Removed: “TKKSC”
−Removed: and “TKKSW,”
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: a Business Combination
−Removed: are not presently engaged in, and we will not engage in, any substantive commercial business until our initial business combination.
−Removed: We intend to utilize cash derived from the proceeds of our initial public offering and the private placement of private warrants,
−Removed: our share capital, debt or a combination of these in effecting a business combination.
−Removed: Although substantially all of the net proceeds
−Removed: of our initial public offering and the private placement of private warrants are intended to be applied generally toward effecting
−Removed: a business combination as described in this report, the proceeds are not otherwise being designated for any more specific purposes.
−Removed: A business combination may involve the acquisition of, or merger with, a company which does not need substantial additional capital
−Removed: but which desires to establish a public trading market for its shares, while avoiding what it may deem to be adverse consequences
−Removed: of undertaking a public offering itself.
−Removed: These include time delays, significant expense, loss of voting control and compliance
−Removed: with various Federal and state securities laws.
−Removed: In the alternative, we may seek to consummate a business combination with a company
−Removed: that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or growth.
−Removed: While we may seek to effect simultaneous business
−Removed: combinations with more than one target business, we will probably have the ability, as a result of our limited resources, to effect
−Removed: only a single business combination.
−Removed: of Target Businesses
−Removed: anticipate that target business candidates will continue to be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including
−Removed: investment bankers, venture capital funds, private equity funds, leveraged buyout funds, management buyout funds and other members
−Removed: of the financial community.
−Removed: Target businesses may be brought to our attention by such unaffiliated sources as a result of being
−Removed: solicited by us through calls or mailings.
−Removed: These sources may also introduce us to target businesses they think we may be interested
−Removed: in on an unsolicited basis, since many of these sources will have read our public filings and know what types of businesses we
−Removed: are targeting.
−Removed: Our officers and directors, as well as their respective affiliates, may also bring to our attention target business
−Removed: candidates that they become aware of through their business contacts as a result of formal or informal inquiries or discussions
−Removed: they may have, as well as attending trade shows or conventions.
−Removed: In no event, however, will any of our existing officers, directors,
−Removed: special advisors or initial shareholders, or any entity with which they are affiliated, be paid any finder’s fee, consulting
−Removed: fee or other compensation prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the consummation of a business combination
−Removed: (regardless of the type of transaction) other than the $15,000 per month administrative services fee, the repayment of any loans
−Removed: from our sponsor, officers and directors for working capital purposes and reimbursement of any out-of-pocket expenses.
−Removed: to enter into a business combination with a target business that is affiliated with our officers, directors or initial shareholders,
−Removed: we will do so only if we have obtained an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that
−Removed: commonly renders valuation opinions that the business combination is fair to our unaffiliated shareholders from a financial point
−Removed: However, as of the date of this report, there is no affiliated entity that we consider a business combination target.
−Removed: of a Target Business and Structuring of a Business Combination
−Removed: to the limitations that a target business have a fair market value of at least 80% of the balance in the trust account at the
−Removed: time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination, as described above in more detail, our management
−Removed: has virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective target business.
−Removed: In evaluating a prospective
−Removed: target business, our management may consider a variety of factors in addition to those listed in the sections titled “Business
−Removed: Strategies”
−Removed: and “Acquisition Criteria,”
−Removed: above, including one or more of the following:
−Removed: condition and results of operation;
−Removed: and skill of management and availability of additional personnel;
−Removed: requirements;
−Removed: ● competitive
−Removed: of development of its products, processes or services;
−Removed: of current or potential market acceptance of the products, processes or services;
−Removed: ● proprietary
−Removed: features and degree of intellectual property or other protection for its products, processes or services;
−Removed: environment of the industry;
−Removed: associated with effecting the business combination.
−Removed: believe such factors will be important in evaluating prospective target businesses, regardless of the location or industry in
−Removed: which such target business operates.
−Removed: However, this list is not intended to be exhaustive.
−Removed: Furthermore, we may decide to enter
−Removed: into a business combination with a target business that does not meet these criteria and guidelines.
−Removed: evaluation relating to the merits of a particular business combination will be based, to the extent relevant, on the above factors
−Removed: as well as other considerations deemed relevant by our management in effecting a business combination consistent with our business
−Removed: In evaluating a prospective target business, we will conduct an extensive due diligence review which will encompass,
−Removed: among other things, meetings with incumbent management and inspection of facilities, as well as review of financial and other
−Removed: information which is made available to us.
−Removed: This due diligence review will be conducted either by our management or by unaffiliated
−Removed: third parties we may engage, although we have no current intention to engage any such third parties.
−Removed: time and costs required to select and evaluate a target business and to structure and complete the business combination cannot
−Removed: presently be ascertained with any degree of certainty.
−Removed: Any costs incurred with respect to the identification and evaluation of
−Removed: a prospective target business with which a business combination is not ultimately completed will result in a loss to us and reduce
−Removed: the amount of capital available to otherwise complete a business combination.
−Removed: structures to comply with regulations in certain Chinese industries
−Removed: may need to adopt alternative structures in the event that we elect to acquire a target company in certain Chinese industries.
−Removed: The Chinese government has restricted or limited direct foreign ownership of certain kinds of assets and companies operating in
−Removed: a wide variety of industries, including certain aspects of telecommunications, advertising, food production, and heavy equipment
−Removed: manufacturers.
−Removed: The Chinese government may apply these restrictions in other industries in the future.
−Removed: In addition, there can be
−Removed: restrictions on the foreign ownership of businesses that are determined from time to time to be in “important industries”
−Removed: that may affect the national economic security or having “famous Chinese brand names”
−Removed: or “well established Chinese
−Removed: brand names.”
−Removed: Subject to the review requirements of the Ministry of Commerce and other relevant agencies as discussed elsewhere
−Removed: for acquisitions of assets and companies in China and subject to the various percentage ownership limitations that exist from
−Removed: time to time, acquisitions involving foreign investors and parties in the various restricted categories of assets and industries
−Removed: may nonetheless sometimes be consummated using contractual arrangements with permitted Chinese parties which could, for example,
−Removed: result in a structure where, in exchange for our payment of the acquisition consideration, the target business would be majority
−Removed: or wholly owned by Chinese residents whom we designate, and the target business would continue to hold the requisite licenses
−Removed: necessary to operate its business.
−Removed: To the extent such agreements are employed, they may be for control of specific assets such
−Removed: as intellectual property or control of blocks of the equity ownership interests of a company.
−Removed: The agreements would be designed
−Removed: to secure for us economic benefits and to assume risk of losses and control over the subject assets or equity interests similar
−Removed: to the rights of full ownership, while leaving the technical ownership in the hands of Chinese parties.
−Removed: example, these contracts could result in a structure where, in exchange for our payment of the acquisition consideration:
−Removed: the target company would be majority owned by Chinese residents whom would be likely designated by us and the target company would
−Removed: continue to hold the requisite licenses for the target business and (ii) we would establish a new subsidiary in China which would
−Removed: provide technology, technical support, consulting and related services to the target company in exchange for fees, which would
−Removed: transfer to us substantially all of the economic benefits of ownership of the target company.
−Removed: contractual arrangements would be designed to provide the following:
−Removed: exercise of effective control over the target company;
−Removed: assumption of the economic benefits and risk of losses of the target company that are substantially similar to full ownership;
−Removed: receipt of a pledged interest in all of the issued and outstanding interests of the target company, including the right to vote
−Removed: such shares, as security for the performance of the target company’s obligations under the contractual arrangements;
−Removed: receipt of an irrevocable proxy for the maximum period permitted by law, to vote the shareholders’
−Removed: shares in the target
−Removed: company in such manner and for or against such proposals as we may determine;
−Removed: receipt of an exclusive option to purchase all or part of the equity interests in the target company owned by the Chinese residents
−Removed: whom we designate, or all or part of the assets of the target company, in each case when and to the extent permitted by Chinese
−Removed: we cannot predict the terms of any such contract that we will be able to negotiate, at a minimum, any contractual arrangement
−Removed: would need to provide us with effective control over the target’s operations and management either directly through board
−Removed: control or through affirmative and/or negative covenants and veto rights with respect to matters such as entry into material agreements,
−Removed: management changes and issuance of debt or equity securities, among other potential control provisions.
−Removed: We have not, however,
−Removed: established specific provisions which must be in an agreement in order to meet the definition of business combination.
−Removed: agreements likely also would provide for increased ownership or full ownership and control by us when and if permitted under Chinese
−Removed: law and regulation.
−Removed: If we choose to effect our initial business combination that employs the use of these types of control arrangements,
−Removed: we may have difficulty in enforcing our rights.
−Removed: Therefore, these contractual arrangements may not be as effective in providing
−Removed: us with the same economic benefits, accounting consolidation or control over a target business as would direct ownership through
−Removed: a merger or shares exchange.
−Removed: For example, if the target business or any other entity fails to perform its obligations under these
−Removed: contractual arrangements, we may have to incur substantial costs and expend substantial resources to enforce such arrangements,
−Removed: and rely on legal remedies under Chinese law, including seeking specific performance or injunctive relief, and claiming damages,
−Removed: which we cannot assure you will be sufficient to off-set the cost of enforcement and may adversely affect the benefits we expect
−Removed: to receive from the business combination.
−Removed: we believe under such contractual arrangement, we will be considered the primary beneficiary and be able to consolidate financial
−Removed: results of the target company in our consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In the event that in the future generally accepted accounting
−Removed: policies in the United States and the SEC accounting regulations change and we are deemed not to be the primary beneficiary by
−Removed: controlling the target company through such contractual arrangement, we would not be able to consolidate line by line the target
−Removed: company’s financial results in our consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: we expect that the contractual arrangements upon which we would be relying would be governed by Chinese law and would be the only
−Removed: basis of providing resolution of disputes which may arise through either arbitration or litigation in China.
−Removed: Accordingly, these
−Removed: contracts would be interpreted in accordance with Chinese law and any disputes would be resolved in accordance with Chinese legal
−Removed: Uncertainties in the Chinese legal system could limit our ability to enforce these contractual arrangements.
−Removed: event we are unable to enforce these contractual arrangements, we may not be able to exert the effective level of control over
−Removed: the target business.
−Removed: have not selected any target business on which to concentrate our search for our initial business combination and we are, therefore,
−Removed: unable to determine at this time what form an acquisition of a target business will take.
−Removed: Market Value of Target Business
−Removed: to Nasdaq listing rules, the target business or businesses that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to
−Removed: at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial
−Removed: business combination, although we may acquire a target business whose fair market value significantly exceeds 80% of the trust
−Removed: account balance.
−Removed: We currently anticipate structuring a business combination to acquire 100% of the equity interests or assets
−Removed: of the target business or businesses.
−Removed: We may, however, structure a business combination where we merge directly with the target
−Removed: business or where we acquire less than 100% of such interests or assets of the target business in order to meet certain objectives
−Removed: of the target management team or shareholders or for other reasons, but we will only complete such business combination if the
−Removed: post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires
−Removed: a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment
−Removed: Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our shareholders
−Removed: prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations
−Removed: ascribed to the target and us in the business combination transaction.
−Removed: For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we
−Removed: issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital of a target.
−Removed: In this case, we could acquire
−Removed: a 100% controlling interest in the target.
−Removed: However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our shareholders
−Removed: immediately prior to our initial business combination could own less than a majority of our issued and outstanding shares subsequent
−Removed: to our initial business combination.
−Removed: If less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses are
−Removed: owned or acquired by the post-transaction company, only the portion of such business or businesses that is owned or acquired is
−Removed: what will be valued for purposes of the 80% of net assets test.
−Removed: In order to consummate such an acquisition, we may issue a significant
−Removed: amount of our debt or equity securities to the sellers of such businesses and/or seek to raise additional funds through a private
−Removed: offering of debt or equity securities.
−Removed: Since we have no specific business combination under consideration, we have not entered
−Removed: into any such fund raising arrangement and have no current intention of doing so.
−Removed: The fair market value of the target will be
−Removed: determined by our board of directors based upon one or more standards generally accepted by the financial community (such as actual
−Removed: and potential sales, earnings, cash flow and/or book value).
−Removed: If our board is not able to independently determine that the target
−Removed: business has a sufficient fair market value, we will obtain an opinion from an unaffiliated, independent investment banking firm,
−Removed: or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions, with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria.
−Removed: are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm, or another independent entity that commonly
−Removed: renders valuation opinions, as to the fair market value if our board of directors independently determines that the target business
−Removed: complies with the 80% threshold.
−Removed: Nasdaq delists our securities from trading on its exchange, we would not be required to satisfy the fair market value requirement
−Removed: described above and could complete a business combination with a target business having a fair market value substantially below
−Removed: 80% of the balance in the trust account.
−Removed: of Business Diversification
−Removed: business combination must be with a target business or businesses that collectively satisfy the minimum valuation standard at
−Removed: the time of such acquisition, as discussed above, although this process may entail the simultaneous acquisitions of several operating
−Removed: businesses at the same time.
−Removed: Therefore, at least initially, the prospects for our success may be entirely dependent upon the future
−Removed: performance of a single business.
−Removed: Unlike other entities which may have the resources to complete several business combinations
−Removed: of entities operating in multiple industries or multiple areas of a single industry, it is probable that we will not have the
−Removed: resources to diversify our operations or benefit from the possible spreading of risks or offsetting of losses.
−Removed: By consummating
−Removed: a business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may:
−Removed: us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact upon
−Removed: the particular industry in which we may operate subsequent to a business combination, and
−Removed: in our dependency upon the performance of a single operating business or the development or market acceptance of a single or limited
−Removed: number of products, processes or services.
−Removed: we determine to simultaneously acquire several businesses and such businesses are owned by different sellers, we will need for
−Removed: each of such sellers to agree that our purchase of its business is contingent on the simultaneous closings of the other acquisitions,
−Removed: which may make it more difficult for us, and delay our ability, to complete the business combination.
−Removed: With multiple acquisitions,
−Removed: we could also face additional risks, including additional burdens and costs with respect to possible multiple negotiations and
−Removed: due diligence investigations (if there are multiple sellers) and the additional risks associated with the subsequent assimilation
−Removed: of the operations and services or products of the acquired companies in a single operating business.
−Removed: Ability to Evaluate the Target Business’
−Removed: we intend to scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting a business
−Removed: combination, we cannot assure you that our assessment of the target business’
−Removed: management will prove to be correct.
−Removed: we cannot assure you that the future management will have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public
−Removed: Furthermore, the future role of our officers and directors, if any, in the target business following a business combination
−Removed: cannot presently be stated with any certainty.
−Removed: While it is possible that some of our key personnel will remain associated in senior
−Removed: management or advisory positions with us following a business combination, it is unlikely that they will devote their full time
−Removed: efforts to our affairs subsequent to a business combination.
−Removed: Moreover, they would only be able to remain with the company after
−Removed: the consummation of a business combination if they are able to negotiate employment or consulting agreements in connection with
−Removed: the business combination.
−Removed: Such negotiations would take place simultaneously with the negotiation of the business combination and
−Removed: could provide for them to receive compensation in the form of cash payments and/or our securities for services they would render
−Removed: to the company after the consummation of the business combination.
−Removed: While the personal and financial interests of our key personnel
−Removed: may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business, their ability to remain with the company after
−Removed: the consummation of a business combination will not be the determining factor in our decision as to whether or not we will proceed
−Removed: with any potential business combination.
−Removed: Additionally, our officers and directors may not have significant experience or knowledge
−Removed: relating to the operations of the particular target business.
−Removed: a business combination, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management of the target business.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that we will have the ability to recruit additional managers, or that any such additional managers we do
−Removed: recruit will have the requisite skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.
−Removed: May Not Have the Ability to Approve an Initial Business Combination
−Removed: connection with any proposed business combination, we will either (1) seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination
−Removed: at a meeting called for such purpose at which public shareholders may seek to convert their public shares, regardless of whether
−Removed: they vote for or against the proposed business combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount
−Removed: then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable) or (2) provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to sell
−Removed: their public shares to us by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a shareholder vote) for an amount equal to
−Removed: their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), in
−Removed: each case subject to the limitations described herein.
−Removed: Notwithstanding the foregoing, our initial shareholders have agreed, pursuant
−Removed: to written letter agreements with us, not to convert any public shares held by them into their pro rata share
−Removed: of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account.
−Removed: If we determine to engage in a tender offer, such tender offer will
−Removed: be structured so that each shareholder may tender any or all of his, her or its public shares rather than some pro rata portion
−Removed: of his, her or its shares.
−Removed: The decision as to whether we will seek shareholder approval of a proposed business combination or
−Removed: will allow shareholders to sell their shares to us in a tender offer will be made by us based on a variety of factors such as
−Removed: the timing of the transaction, whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require us to seek shareholder approval or
−Removed: whether we were deemed to be a foreign private issuer (which would require us to conduct a tender offer rather than seeking shareholder
−Removed: approval under SEC rules).
−Removed: If we so choose and we are legally permitted to do so, we have the flexibility to avoid a shareholder
−Removed: vote and allow our shareholders to sell their shares pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act which regulate
−Removed: issuer tender offers.
−Removed: In that case, we will file tender offer documents with the SEC which will contain substantially the same
−Removed: financial and other information about the initial business combination as is required under the SEC’s proxy rules.
−Removed: consummate our initial business combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation
−Removed: and, solely if we seek shareholder approval, a majority of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares voted are voted in favor
−Removed: of the business combination.
−Removed: chose our net tangible asset threshold of $5,000,001 to ensure that we would avoid being subject to Rule 419 promulgated under
−Removed: the Securities Act.
−Removed: However, if we seek to consummate an initial business combination with a target business that imposes any
−Removed: type of working capital closing condition or requires us to have a minimum amount of funds available from the trust account upon
−Removed: consummation of such initial business combination, our net tangible asset threshold may limit our ability to consummate such initial
−Removed: business combination (as we may be required to have a lesser number of shares converted or sold to us) and may force us to seek
−Removed: third party financing which may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all.
−Removed: As a result, we may not be able to consummate
−Removed: such initial business combination and we may not be able to locate another suitable target within the applicable time period,
−Removed: Public shareholders may therefore have to wait until February 20, 2020 (or June 20, 2020 if we extend the period of
−Removed: time to consummate a business combination through issuance of the potential extension warrants, as described in more detail herein)
−Removed: in order to be able to receive a pro rata share of the trust account.
−Removed: initial shareholders and our officers and directors have agreed (1) to vote any ordinary shares owned by them in favor of any
−Removed: proposed business combination, (2) not to convert any ordinary shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve a proposed
−Removed: initial business combination and (3) not sell any ordinary shares in any tender in connection with a proposed initial business
−Removed: As a result, if we sought shareholder approval of a proposed transaction, we would need only 9,275,001 of our public
−Removed: shares (or approximately 37.1% of our public shares) to be voted in favor of the transaction in order to have such transaction
−Removed: approved (assuming the 200,000 shares issued to the representative of the underwriters upon the consummation of our initial public
−Removed: offering are voted in favor of the transaction).
−Removed: of our officers, directors, initial shareholders or their affiliates has indicated any intention to purchase units or ordinary
−Removed: shares in the open market or in private transactions.
−Removed: However, if we hold a meeting to approve a proposed business combination
−Removed: and a significant number of shareholders vote, or indicate an intention to vote, against such proposed business combination, our
−Removed: officers, directors, initial shareholders or their affiliates could make such purchases in the open market or in private transactions
−Removed: in order to influence the vote.
−Removed: Notwithstanding the foregoing, our officers, directors, initial shareholders and their affiliates
−Removed: will not make purchases of ordinary shares if the purchases would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act, which
−Removed: are rules designed to stop potential manipulation of a company’s stock.
−Removed: to Extend Time to Complete Business Combination
−Removed: have until February 20, 2020 to consummate our initial business combination.
−Removed: However, if we anticipate that we may not be able
−Removed: to consummate our initial business combination by February 20, 2020, we may, by resolution of our board of directors, extend the
−Removed: period of time to consummate a business combination for no more than four (4) months as set out below.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of
−Removed: our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and the trust agreement entered into between us and Continental
−Removed: Stock Transfer & Trust Company on August 15, 2018, in order for the time available for us to consummate our initial business
−Removed: combination to be extended, we must issue to holders of our public shares by way of a dividend one warrant to purchase one half
−Removed: of an ordinary share for an aggregate of up to 25,000,000 potential extension warrants.
−Removed: Each potential extension warrant would
−Removed: be identical to the warrants included in the units sold in our initial public offering.
−Removed: In the event that we extend the period
−Removed: to consummate our initial business combination by issuing the potential extension warrants referenced above, we will issue a press
−Removed: release announcing such intention at least one month prior to our February 20, 2020 deadline.
−Removed: This press release will indicate
−Removed: (i) that the record date to establish the holders of record entitled to receive the dividend of potential extension warrants will
−Removed: be February 20, 2020 and (ii) the payment date of such dividend.
−Removed: Alternatively, pursuant to the terms of our amended and restated
−Removed: memorandum and articles of association and the trust agreement entered into between us and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust
−Removed: Company on August 15, 2018, we may extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by obtaining shareholder approval,
−Removed: in which case we will afford public shareholders an opportunity to redeem their public shares.
−Removed: If we extend the period of time
−Removed: to consummate a business combination by obtaining shareholder approval, we will not issue the potential extension warrants discussed
−Removed: In either case, we are not obligated to extend the time for us to complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: Conversion/Tender
−Removed: any meeting called to approve an initial business combination, public shareholders may seek to convert their public shares, regardless
−Removed: of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate
−Removed: amount then on deposit in the trust account, less any taxes then due but not yet paid.
−Removed: Notwithstanding the foregoing, our initial
−Removed: shareholders have agreed, pursuant to written letter agreements with us, not to convert any public shares held by them into their pro
−Removed: rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account.
−Removed: The conversion rights will be effected under
−Removed: our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and Cayman Islands law as redemptions.
−Removed: If we hold a meeting to
−Removed: approve an initial business combination, a holder will always have the ability to vote against a proposed business combination
−Removed: and not seek conversion of his shares.
−Removed: Alternatively,
−Removed: if we engage in a tender offer, each public shareholder will be provided the opportunity to sell his public shares to us in such
−Removed: tender offer.
−Removed: The tender offer rules require us to hold the tender offer open for at least 20 business days.
−Removed: Accordingly, this
−Removed: is the minimum amount of time we would need to provide holders to determine whether they want to sell their public shares to us
−Removed: in the tender offer or remain an investor in our company.
−Removed: initial shareholders, officers and directors will not have conversion rights with respect to any ordinary shares owned by them,
−Removed: directly or indirectly, whether acquired prior to our initial public offering or purchased by them in the aftermarket.
−Removed: may also require public shareholders, whether they are a record holder or hold their shares in “street name,”
−Removed: tender their certificates to our transfer agent or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using Depository
−Removed: Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option, at any time at or prior to
−Removed: the vote on the business combination.
−Removed: Once the shares are converted by the legal holder, and effectively redeemed by us under
−Removed: Cayman Islands law, the transfer agent will then update our Register of Members to reflect all conversions.
−Removed: The proxy solicitation
−Removed: materials that we will furnish to shareholders in connection with the vote for any proposed business combination will indicate
−Removed: whether we are requiring shareholders to satisfy such delivery requirements.
−Removed: Accordingly, a shareholder would have from the time
−Removed: our proxy statement is mailed through the vote on the business combination to deliver his shares if he wishes to seek to exercise
−Removed: his conversion rights.
−Removed: Under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, we are required to provide at least
−Removed: 10 days’
−Removed: advance notice of any general meeting, which would be the minimum amount of time a shareholder would have to determine
−Removed: whether to exercise conversion rights.
−Removed: As a result, if we require public shareholders who wish to convert their ordinary shares
−Removed: into the right to receive a pro rata portion of the funds in the trust account to comply with the foregoing delivery
−Removed: requirements, holders may not have sufficient time to receive the notice and deliver their shares for conversion.
−Removed: investors may not be able to exercise their conversion rights and may be forced to retain our securities when they otherwise would
−Removed: is a nominal cost associated with this tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the
−Removed: The transfer agent will typically charge the tendering broker $45 and it would be up to the broker whether or not
−Removed: to pass this cost on to the converting holder.
−Removed: However, this fee would be incurred regardless of whether or not we require holders
−Removed: seeking to exercise conversion rights.
−Removed: The need to deliver shares is a requirement of exercising conversion rights regardless
−Removed: of the timing of when such delivery must be effectuated.
−Removed: However, in the event we require shareholders seeking to exercise conversion
−Removed: rights to deliver their shares prior to the consummation of the proposed business combination and the proposed business combination
−Removed: is not consummated, this may result in an increased cost to shareholders.
−Removed: request to convert or tender such shares once made, may be withdrawn at any time up to the vote on the proposed business combination
−Removed: or expiration of the tender offer.
−Removed: Furthermore, if a holder of a public share delivered his certificate in connection with an
−Removed: election of their conversion or tender and subsequently decides prior to the vote on the business combination or the expiration
−Removed: of the tender offer not to elect to exercise such rights, he may simply request that the transfer agent return the certificate
−Removed: (physically or electronically).
−Removed: the initial business combination is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public shareholders who elected to exercise
−Removed: their conversion or tender rights would not be entitled to convert their shares for the applicable pro rata share
−Removed: of the trust account.
−Removed: In such case, we will promptly return any shares delivered by public holders.
−Removed: Liquidation of Trust Account if No Business Combination
−Removed: we do not complete a business combination by February 20, 2020 (or until June 20, 2020 if we extend the period of time to consummate
−Removed: a business combination through issuance of the potential extension warrants, as described in more detail herein), it will trigger
−Removed: our automatic winding up, liquidation and dissolution pursuant to the terms of our amended and restated memorandum and articles
−Removed: of association.
−Removed: As a result, this has the same effect as if we had formally gone through a voluntary liquidation procedure under
−Removed: the Companies Law.
−Removed: Accordingly, no vote would be required from our shareholders to commence such a voluntary winding up, liquidation
−Removed: and dissolution.
−Removed: amount in the trust account (less approximately $2,500 representing the aggregate nominal par value of the shares of our public
−Removed: shareholders) under the Companies Law will be treated as share premium which is distributable under the Companies Law provided
−Removed: that immediately following the date on which the proposed distribution is proposed to be made, we are able to pay our debts as
−Removed: they fall due in the ordinary course of business.
−Removed: If we are forced to liquidate the trust account, we anticipate that we would
−Removed: distribute to our public shareholders the amount in the trust account calculated as of the date that is two days prior to the
−Removed: distribution date (including any accrued interest, net of taxes payable).
−Removed: Prior to such distribution, we would be required to
−Removed: assess all claims that may be potentially brought against us by our creditors for amounts they are actually owed and make provision
−Removed: for such amounts, as creditors take priority over our public shareholders with respect to amounts that are owed to them.
−Removed: assure you that we will properly assess all claims that may be potentially brought against us.
−Removed: As such, our shareholders could
−Removed: potentially be liable for any claims of creditors to the extent of distributions received by them as an unlawful payment in the
−Removed: event we enter an insolvent liquidation.
−Removed: Furthermore, while we will seek to have all vendors and service providers (which would
−Removed: include any third parties we engaged to assist us in any way in connection with our search for a target business) and prospective
−Removed: target businesses execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind they may have in or to any
−Removed: monies held in the trust account, there is no guarantee that they will execute such agreements.
−Removed: Nor is there any guarantee that,
−Removed: even if such entities execute such agreements with us, they will not seek recourse against the trust account or that a court would
−Removed: conclude that such agreements are legally enforceable.
−Removed: of our initial shareholders, our sponsor and Symphony has agreed to waive its rights to participate in any liquidation of our
−Removed: trust account or other assets with respect to the insider shares and private warrants and to vote their insider shares in favor
−Removed: of any dissolution and plan of distribution which we submit to a vote of shareholders.
−Removed: There will be no distribution from the
−Removed: trust account with respect to our warrants or rights, which will expire worthless.
−Removed: They have also waived any right to receive
−Removed: the potential extension warrants on account of their insider shares.
−Removed: we are unable to complete an initial business combination and expend all of the net proceeds of our initial public offering, other
−Removed: than the proceeds deposited in the trust account, and without taking into account interest, if any, earned on the trust account.
−Removed: The amount in the trust account as of December 31, 2018 is approximately $10.08 per public share.
−Removed: proceeds deposited in the trust account could, however, become subject to the claims of our creditors which would be prior to
−Removed: the claims of our public shareholders.
−Removed: Although we will seek to have all vendors, including lenders for money borrowed, prospective
−Removed: target businesses or other entities we engage execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind
−Removed: in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public shareholders, there is no guarantee that they will
−Removed: execute such agreements or even if they execute such agreements that they would be prevented from bringing claims against the
−Removed: trust account, including but not limited to, fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims,
−Removed: as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain an advantage with a claim against
−Removed: our assets, including the funds held in the trust account.
−Removed: If any third party refused to execute an agreement waiving such claims
−Removed: to the monies held in the trust account, we would perform an analysis of the alternatives available to us if we chose not to engage
−Removed: such third party and evaluate if such engagement would be in the best interest of our shareholders if such third party refused
−Removed: to waive such claims.
−Removed: Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third party that refused to execute a waiver include
−Removed: the engagement of a third party consultant whose particular expertise or skills are believed by management to be significantly
−Removed: superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management is unable to find a provider
−Removed: of required services willing to provide the waiver.
−Removed: In any event, our management would perform an analysis of the alternatives
−Removed: available to it and would only enter into an agreement with a third party that did not execute a waiver if management believed
−Removed: that such third party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative.
−Removed: In addition, there
−Removed: is no guarantee that such entities will agree to waive any claims they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of,
−Removed: any negotiations, contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason.
−Removed: Capital Holding has agreed that, if we liquidate the trust account prior to the consummation of a business combination, it will
−Removed: be liable to pay debts and obligations to target businesses or vendors or other entities that are owed money by us for services
−Removed: rendered or contracted for or products sold to us in excess of the net proceeds of our initial public offering not held in the
−Removed: trust account, but only to the extent necessary to ensure that such debts or obligations do not reduce the amounts in the trust
−Removed: account and only if such parties have not executed a waiver agreement.
−Removed: However, we cannot assure you that it will be able to satisfy
−Removed: those obligations if it is required to do so.
−Removed: Accordingly, the actual per-share distribution could be less than $10.00 due to
−Removed: claims of creditors.
−Removed: Additionally, if we are forced to file a bankruptcy case or an involuntary bankruptcy case is filed against
−Removed: us which is not dismissed, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy law, and may be included
−Removed: in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third parties with priority over the claims of our shareholders.
−Removed: extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the trust account, we cannot assure you we will be able to return to our public shareholders
−Removed: at least $10.00 per share.
−Removed: identifying, evaluating and selecting a target business, we may continue to encounter intense competition from other entities
−Removed: having a business objective similar to ours.
−Removed: Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience identifying
−Removed: and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates.
−Removed: Many of these competitors possess greater technical, human
−Removed: and other resources than us and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these
−Removed: While we believe there may be numerous potential target businesses that we could acquire with the net proceeds of
−Removed: our initial public offering, our ability to compete in acquiring certain sizable target businesses may be limited by our available
−Removed: financial resources.
−Removed: following also may not be viewed favorably by certain target businesses:
−Removed: obligation to seek shareholder approval of a business combination or obtain the necessary financial information to be sent to
−Removed: shareholders in connection with such business combination may delay or prevent the completion of a transaction;
−Removed: obligation to convert public shares held by our public shareholders may reduce the resources available to us for a business combination;
−Removed: may require us to file a new listing application and meet its initial listing requirements to maintain the listing of our securities
−Removed: following a business combination;
−Removed: outstanding warrants and rights and the potential future dilution they represent;
−Removed: obligation to pay EarlyBirdCapital a fee of 3.5% of the gross proceeds of our initial public offering upon consummation of our
−Removed: initial business combination pursuant to the business combination marketing agreement;
−Removed: obligation to either repay or issue warrants upon conversion of up to $1,000,000 of working capital loans that may be made to
−Removed: us by our initial shareholders, officers, directors or their affiliates;
−Removed: obligation to register the resale of the insider shares, as well as the private warrants (and underlying securities) and any securities
−Removed: issued to our initial shareholders, officers, directors or their affiliates upon conversion of working capital loans;
−Removed: impact on the target business’
−Removed: assets as a result of unknown liabilities under the securities laws or otherwise depending
−Removed: on developments involving us prior to the consummation of a business combination.
−Removed: of these factors may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating a business combination.
−Removed: Our management
−Removed: believes, however, that our status as a public entity and potential access to the United States public equity markets may give
−Removed: us a competitive advantage over privately-held entities having a similar business objective as ours in acquiring a target business
−Removed: with significant growth potential on favorable terms.
−Removed: Furthermore, the fact that we will not be required to pay our underwriters
−Removed: any deferred compensation upon consummation of an initial business combination may give us a competitive advantage over other
−Removed: similarly structured blank check companies.
−Removed: we succeed in effecting a business combination, there will be, in all likelihood, intense competition from competitors of the
−Removed: target business.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that, subsequent to a business combination, we will have the resources or ability to compete
−Removed: have four executive officers.
−Removed: These individuals are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters and intend
−Removed: to devote only as much time as they deem necessary to our affairs.
−Removed: The amount of time they will devote in any time period will
−Removed: vary based on whether a target business has been selected for the business combination and the stage of the business combination
−Removed: process the company is in.
−Removed: Accordingly, once management locates a suitable target business to acquire, they will spend more time
−Removed: investigating such target business and negotiating and processing the business combination (and consequently spend more time to
−Removed: our affairs) than they would prior to locating a suitable target business.
−Removed: We presently expect our executive officers to devote
−Removed: such amount of time as they reasonably believe is necessary to our business (which could range from only a few hours a week while
−Removed: we are trying to locate a potential target business to a majority of their time as we move into serious negotiations with a target
−Removed: business for a business combination).
−Removed: We do not intend to have any full time employees prior to the consummation of a business
−Removed: Reporting and Audited Financial Statements
−Removed: have registered our units, ordinary shares, warrants and rights under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including
−Removed: the requirement that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC.
−Removed: In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange
−Removed: Act, our annual report will contain financial statements audited and reported on by our independent registered public accountants.
−Removed: will provide shareholders with audited financial statements of the prospective target business as part of any proxy solicitation
−Removed: sent to shareholders to assist them in assessing the target business.
−Removed: In all likelihood, the financial information included in
−Removed: the proxy solicitation materials will need to be prepared in accordance with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP or IFRS, depending on the circumstances,
−Removed: and the historical financial statements may be required to be audited in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: The financial
−Removed: statements may also be required to be prepared in accordance with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP for the Form 8-K announcing the closing of an initial
−Removed: business combination, which would need to be filed within four business days thereafter.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that any particular
−Removed: target business identified by us as a potential acquisition candidate will have the necessary financial information.
−Removed: To the extent
−Removed: that this requirement cannot be met, we may not be able to acquire the proposed target business.
−Removed: will be required to comply with the internal control requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act beginning for the fiscal year ending
−Removed: December 31, 2019.
−Removed: A target company may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy
−Removed: of their internal controls.
−Removed: The development of the internal controls of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley
−Removed: Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.
−Removed: are an emerging growth company as defined in the JOBS Act and will remain such for up to five years.
−Removed: However, if our non-convertible
−Removed: debt issued within a three-year period or our total revenues exceed $1.0 billion or revenues exceed $1.07 billion, or the market
−Removed: value of our ordinary shares that are held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million on the last day of the second fiscal quarter
−Removed: of any given fiscal year, we would cease to be an emerging growth company as of the following fiscal year.
−Removed: As an emerging growth
−Removed: company, we have elected, under Section 107(b) of the JOBS Act, to take advantage of the extended transition period provided in
−Removed: Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards.
+Added: provide advertisement and content production services and operate an award winning mobile and online advertising, digital media
+Added: and entertainment business in China.
+Added: After launching our CHEERS App in 2018, we are fast becoming one of the leading e-commerce
+Added: platforms in China by allowing our users to access our online store (e-Mall), video content, live streaming, and online games.
+Added: By leveraging our rich library of original professionally-produced content to drive user engagement, we have created an ecosystem
+Added: that attracts and retains a large and growing viewing audience base for our platform.
+Added: of February 28, 2020, we have distributed over 86,000 minutes of proprietary video content to our users, including short videos,
+Added: online variety shows, online dramas, live streaming, and our lifestyle video series, which achieved more than 7.5 billion views
+Added: cumulatively.
+Added: the year December 31, 2018 and 2019, downloads of our CHEERS App were approximately 6.2 million and 72.5 million, respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2018 and 2019, the cumulative number of downloads of the CHEERS App exceeded 12 million and 85 million, respectively
+Added: vision is to become a world leading mobile media and entertainment company dedicated to providing people pursuing a better life
+Added: with an integrative platform of featuring e-commerce and high quality lifestyle entertainment.
+Added: Exchange Agreement
+Added: our predecessor, was incorporated on February 5, 2018 as an Cayman Islands exempted company with limited liability.
+Added: TKK was formed
+Added: for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization
+Added: or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
+Added: In pursuit of this purpose, on February 14, 2020, TKK
+Added: consummated the transaction (the “Business Combination”) contemplated by the Share Exchange Agreement dated as of
+Added: September 6, 2019, as amended ( “Share Exchange Agreement”), by and among TKK, Glory Star New Media Group Limited,
+Added: a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Glory Star”), Glory Star New Media (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly foreign-owned
+Added: enterprise limited liability company (“WFOE”) incorporated in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”)
+Added: and indirectly wholly-owned by Glory Star, Xing Cui Can International Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated
+Added: in the PRC (“Xing Cui Can”), Horgos Glory Star Media Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated in the PRC
+Added: (“Horgos”), each of Glory Star’s shareholders (collectively, the “Sellers”), TKK Symphony Sponsor
+Added: 1, TKK’s sponsor (the “Sponsor”), in the capacity as the representative from and after the closing of the Business
+Added: Combination for TKK’s shareholders other than the Sellers, and Bing Zhang, in the capacity as the representative for the
+Added: Sellers thereunder, pursuant to which Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited (“GS Holdings”) acquired 100% of
+Added: the equity interests of Glory Star from the Sellers.
+Added: Upon closing of the
+Added: Business Combination (the “Closing”), we acquired all of the issued and outstanding securities of Glory Star in exchange
+Added: for (i) approximately 41,204,025 of our ordinary shares (“Closing Payment Shares”), or one ordinary share for approximately
+Added: 0.04854 outstanding shares of Glory Star, of which 2,060,201 of the Closing Payment Shares (the “Escrow Shares”) shall
+Added: be deposited into escrow to secure certain indemnification obligations of the Sellers, plus (ii) earnout payments consisting of
+Added: up to an additional 5,000,000 of our ordinary shares if we meet certain financial performance targets for the 2019 fiscal year,
+Added: which we believe we have met, and an additional 5,000,000 of our ordinary shares if we meet certain financial performance targets
+Added: for the 2020 fiscal year (the “Earnout Shares”).
+Added: In the event that a financial performance target is not met for the
+Added: 2019 fiscal year and/or 2020 fiscal year but we meet certain financial performance targets for the 2019 fiscal year and 2020 fiscal
+Added: year combined, the Sellers will be entitled to receive any Earnout Shares that they otherwise did not receive (the “Alternative
+Added: Earnout”).
+Added: connection with the Share Exchange Agreement:
+Added: entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (“Registration Rights Agreement”) with the Sponsor and the Sellers pursuant
+Added: to which TKK will grant certain registration rights to the Sellers with respect to the registration of the Closing Payment Shares
+Added: and Earnout Shares.
+Added: entered into a Lock-Up Agreement (“Lock-Up Agreement”) with certain Sellers that directly or indirectly own in excess
+Added: of 10% of Glory Star Group equity prior to the Closing pursuant to which each Seller party thereto agreed that such Seller will
+Added: not, during the period from the Closing and ending on the earlier of (i) with respect to 50% of the Closing Payment Shares (including
+Added: Escrow Shares) and Earnout Shares (“Restricted Securities”), (x) the six month anniversary of the date of the Closing,
+Added: (y) the date on which the Closing sale price of our ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.50 per share for any 20 trading days
+Added: within any 30 trading day period commencing after the Closing, and (z) the date after the Closing on which we consummate a liquidation,
+Added: merger, share exchange or other similar transaction with an unaffiliated third party (a “Subsequent Transaction”),
+Added: and (ii) with respect to the remaining 50% of the Restricted Securities, (x) the one year anniversary of the date of the Closing
+Added: and (y) the date after the Closing on which we consummate a Subsequent Transaction, sell, transfer, assign, pledge, hypothecate
+Added: or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, the Restricted Securities, or publicly disclose the intention to do any of the
+Added: Each Seller further agreed that the Escrow Shares will continue to be subject to such transfer restrictions until they
+Added: are released from the escrow account.
+Added: However, each Seller party thereto will be allowed to transfer any of our Restricted Securities
+Added: (other than the Escrow Shares while they are held in the escrow account) by gift, will or intestate succession or to any affiliate,
+Added: shareholder, members, party or trust beneficiary, provided in each such case that the transferee thereof agrees to be bound by
+Added: the restrictions set forth in the applicable Lock-Up Agreement.
+Added: entered into a Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement (“Non-Competition Agreement”) with certain Sellers that
+Added: directly or indirectly own in excess of 30% of Glory Star’s equity prior to the Closing (including Glory Star Group’s
+Added: chairman) and their principal shareholders (together with the applicable Seller, the “Subject Parties”).
+Added: Non-Competition Agreements, for a period of three (3) years after the Closing, each Subject Party and our affiliates will not,
+Added: without our prior written consent, anywhere in the PRC or any other markets directly or indirectly engage in which we are engaged,
+Added: or are actively contemplating to become engaged, in the Business (as defined below) (or own, manage, finance or control, or become
+Added: engaged or serve as an officer, director, employee, member, partner, agent, consultant, advisor or representative of, an entity
+Added: that engages in) of online media and entertainment services (collectively, the “Business”).
+Added: However, the Subject Parties
+Added: and their respective affiliates may own passive investments of no more than 3% of any class of outstanding equity interests in
+Added: a competitor that is publicly traded, so long as the Subject Parties and their affiliates and their respective directors, officers,
+Added: managers and employees who were involved with the our business, and the immediate family members of the Subject Parties or their
+Added: respective affiliates, are not involved in the management or control of such competitor.
+Added: Under the Non-Competition Agreements,
+Added: during such restricted period, the Subject Parties also will not, without our prior written consent, (i) solicit or hire our employees,
+Added: consultants or independent contractors as of the Closing (or during the year prior to the Closing) or otherwise interfere with
+Added: our relationships with such persons, (ii) solicit or divert our customers as of the Closing (or during the year prior to the
+Added: Closing) relating to the Business or otherwise interfere with our contractual relationships with such persons, or (iii) interfere
+Added: with or disrupt any of our vendors, suppliers, distributors, agents or other service providers for a purpose competitive with
+Added: us as it relates to the Business.
+Added: The Subject Parties will also agree in each Non-Competition Agreement to not disparage us and
+Added: to keep confidential and not use our confidential information.
+Added: after the Business Combination, our public shareholders own approximately 5.05% of GS Holdings, TKK’s former directors,
+Added: officers and initial shareholders, including the Sponsor, and EarlyBirdCapital, Inc.
+Added: (“EBC”) own approximately 12.16%
+Added: of GS Holdings, and the Sellers own approximately 82.79% of GS Holdings.
+Added: giving effect to the Business Combination transaction and the issuance of the Closing Payment Shares described above, there are
+Added: 49,767,866 of our ordinary shares issued and outstanding.
+Added: connection with the Business Combination, TKK initiated a tender offer to purchase for cash up to 25,000,000 of its ordinary shares
+Added: at a price of $10.28 per share and a contingent cash payment equal to a pro rata portion of any additional accrued interest remaining
+Added: in TKK’s Company’s trust account in excess of $10.28 per share, net to the seller in cash, without interest, less
+Added: any applicable withholding taxes (“Tender Offer”).
+Added: The Tender Offer was made pursuant to a Schedule TO filed by TKK
+Added: with the SEC on October 17, 2019, as amended.
+Added: The Tender Offer expired at 5:00 p.m.
+Added: New York City time on February 13, 2020.
+Added: of the expiration of the Tender Offer, a total of 24,986,159 ordinary shares have been validly tendered and not withdrawn and
+Added: at the final price of approximately $10.31 per share, net to the seller in cash.
+Added: Upon the expiration of the Tender Offer and the
+Added: closing of the Business Combination, the total amount of funds in the TKK’s trust account of $257,863,157 were released
+Added: and distributed as follows:
+Added: (1) $257,720,393 for the repurchase of 24,986,156 ordinary shares to shareholders who elected tender
+Added: their ordinary shares, and (2) $142,764 for the payment of fees and expenses related to the Business Combination.
+Added: connection with the Business Combination, on February 14, 2020, we entered into a Business Combination Marketing Agreement Fee
+Added: Amendment (“Fee Amendment”) with EBC whereby EBC agreed to amend the fees payable under the Business Combination Marketing
+Added: Agreement, dated August 15, 2018, by and between EBC and TKK (“Original Marketing Agreement”).
+Added: Under the Original
+Added: Marketing Agreement, EBC agreed to assist TKK in connection with TKK’s business combination with one or more businesses
+Added: or entities in exchange for a cash fee equal to 3.5% of the gross proceeds received in the IPO.
+Added: In addition, TKK agreed to reimburse
+Added: EBC for up to $20,000 of its reasonable costs and expenses incurred by it.
+Added: Under the Fee Amendment, EBC agreed to reduce its fee
+Added: of $8.75 million due under the Original Agreement and forgo reimbursement of expenses in exchange for a convertible promissory
+Added: note in the amount of $4.0 million without interest (“EBC Note”).
+Added: The EBC Note is for a period of one year and is
+Added: convertible, at EBC’s option, into our ordinary shares at the conversion price equal to the volume-weighted average price
+Added: of our ordinary shares on Nasdaq or such other securities exchange or securities market on which our ordinary shares are then
+Added: listed or quoted, for the ten trading days prior to such conversion date;
+Added: provided, however, the conversion price shall not be
+Added: less than $5.00 (the “Floor Price”).
+Added: The EBC Note automatically converts into our ordinary shares on the maturity
+Added: EBC Note includes a covenant that we will use our best efforts to register the shares issuable under the EBC Note pursuant to
+Added: a registration statement with the SEC as soon as practicable, and obtain effectiveness of such registration statement with 180
+Added: calendar days from the date of the EBC Note (“Effectiveness Deadline”).
+Added: In the event such registration statement is
+Added: not effective by the Effectiveness Deadline, the Floor Price shall automatically decrease to $4.00, and by one dollar ($1.00)
+Added: for every 30-day period thereafter;
+Added: provided, however, the Floor Price shall not be less than $1.00.
+Added: February 14, 2020, we entered into an amended and restated promissory note with the Sponsor (the “Amended Sponsor Note”)
+Added: to (i) extend the maturity date from the closing of the Business Combination to a date that is one year from the closing of the
+Added: Business Combination and (ii) increased the principal amount of the note to $1.4 million, which included $300,000 in advances
+Added: we received from the Sponsor from November 2019 to January 2020.
+Added: In addition, under the Amended Sponsor Note, we granted the Sponsor
+Added: the right to convert the $1.4 million Amended Sponsor Note to our ordinary shares at the conversion price equal to the volume-weighted
+Added: average price of our ordinary shares on Nasdaq or such other securities exchange or securities market on which our ordinary shares
+Added: are then listed or quoted, for the ten trading days prior to such conversion date;
+Added: provided, however, the conversion price shall
+Added: not be less than $5.00.
+Added: The Amended Sponsor Note automatically converts into our ordinary shares on the maturity date.
+Added: in 2016, we focused on providing advertisement and content production services and becoming a leading mobile and online advertising,
+Added: media and entertainment business in China by creating professionally-produced content featuring lifestyle, culture and fashion.
+Added: In 2018, we expanded into e-commerce services by introducing our CHEERS APP which integrated our e-commerce services with professionally-produced
+Added: Primary to our vision, we continue to produce, create and add to our rich library of short videos, drama series, and
+Added: live streaming, which we own and stream on our mobile app, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and online platform, as well as
+Added: for distributions and licensing to other medium such as Chinese television stations and third party online streaming platforms
+Added: throughout China and the world.
+Added: Leveraging the popularity of our professionally-produced content and distribution networks, we
+Added: drive viewing audiences to our CHEERS App ecosystem to convert them as users of our online video steaming services and as customers
+Added: to our e-Mall and online games.
+Added: CHEERS App is our core platform serving millions of users in China.
+Added: Most of the users are attracted to download our mobile app
+Added: after they watch our professionally-produced content (both long and short videos on various distribution channels) featuring,
+Added: lifestyle, culture and fashion.
+Added: Central to our business model, the CHEERS App has been developed into a comprehensive content-driven
+Added: e-commerce platform in which shoppers can access multiple segments such as online store (e-Mall), live streamings, original short
+Added: videos, and online games.
+Added: The mobile app users can watch our high-quality video content and shop in our in-app e-Mall.
+Added: combination has become a prevalent trend in Chinese e-commerce innovation.
+Added: following is a summary of our CHEERS App:
+Added: (Online Store).
+Added: our brand, large viewing audience, and users of CHEERS App video app, in April 2019, we launched our e-Mall platform where we
+Added: offer products to our users through third party merchants that we have screened and approved.
+Added: We charge third-party merchants
+Added: on our e-Mall platform a service fee and a commission for the sales of their products.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, our e-Mall carried over 13,180 Stock Keeping Units (“SKUs”) and recorded over RMB133.76 million
+Added: (US$19.36 million) in the volume of merchandise sold through its CHEERS App - gross merchandise value (“GMV”), achieving
+Added: an impressive monthly GMV of RMB33.73 million (US$4.82 million) in December 2019, up from only RMB1.3 million (US$0.2 million)
+Added: in April 2019.
+Added: June, 2018, we launched our first live streaming called Shopping Genius.
+Added: We now have 4 live streaming in production including
+Added: Shopping Genius, Bargaining Genius, Guessing Game, Unbeatable Lucky Card, each 90 minute segments, where users can interact with
+Added: each other and the hosts, obtain discount coupons by participating in our real-time online games and quizzes, and make purchases
+Added: in our e-Mall with these discount coupons.
+Added: In addition, as requested by some clients, some live streaming are customized in order
+Added: to lead the audience to make purchases in the clients’
+Added: online stores and/or in other e-commerce platforms such as JD.com
+Added: and Taobao.com.
+Added: We monetize live streaming by promoting products where our subscribers can purchase products through our e-Mall.
+Added: In addition, our e-commerce suppliers and distributors of our e-Mall have the option to enter separate advertising agreements
+Added: with us to promote their products in our live streaming.
+Added: show promotes various products for sale on e-Mall and provides an opportunity for viewers to participate in question and answer
+Added: games for the discount coupons for the promotional products.
+Added: show promotes various products for sale on e-Mall and allows viewers to compete with each other for discount coupons for the
+Added: promotional products.
+Added: is a live game show that allows viewers to win points that go towards discounts for purchase of items in e-Mall.
+Added: is a live game show that allows viewers to win points that go towards discounts for purchase of items in e-Mall.
+Added: stream our professionally-produced content on CHEERS App where we generate advertising revenues from traditional pre-video, in-video,
+Added: banner advertisements, and pop-up advertisements.
+Added: We also generate revenues from soft product placements that are incorporated
+Added: into our original video content.
+Added: We leverage our deep library of professionally-produced content, large viewing audience base,
+Added: and big data analytics capabilities to help our advertisers target their specific demographics in China.
+Added: have developed four (4) online games for CHEERS App where players can play the games that we have developed in-house.
+Added: online games through users’
+Added: in-app purchases of gift packages and game privileges.
+Added: In February, 2017, we started
+Added: production of our series TV shows, which contain six (6) lifestyle shows including Cheers Food, Cheers Health, Cheers Fashion,
+Added: Cheers Baby, Cheers Space and Cheers World, each episodes are 30 minutes in length.
+Added: Our series TV shows are unique in the content
+Added: creation and production, with trending lifestyle updates filmed both in-studio and outdoors.
+Added: We generate revenues from our series
+Added: TV shows by licensing to TV stations with exclusive advertising times and charging advertising fees, and by displaying products
+Added: of our e-Mall.
+Added: We distribute and promote our series TV shows content on a variety of online video platforms, mobile apps, IPTV
+Added: and television channels where we generate advertising revenues from traditional pre-video, in-video, and pop-up advertisements.
+Added: We also generate revenues from soft product placements that are incorporated into our series TV shows.
+Added: We produce and license
+Added: our series TV shows for airing on local broadcast, basic cable television networks, and throughout China.
+Added: Our shows can be seen
+Added: on satellite stations such as Anhui Satellite Television and Shenzhen Satellite Television, which are year-to-year contracts.
+Added: The following is a summary of our series TV shows:
+Added: TV program features and promotes healthy lifestyle.
+Added: TV program features high-end fashion and beauty, and is touted as the fashion bible in the fashion field.
+Added: TV program is China’s only leading short tourism program that brings together the world’s best tourism destinations,
+Added: sharing travel experiences from unique perspectives of the visitors and the cultural scene of the destinations.
+Added: fully recommended by the cultural centers or consulates of foreign embassies in China and has close ties and cooperation with
+Added: embassies in many countries around the world.
+Added: TV program is hosted by Cao Ying, who shares the parenting experience of parents in the form of question and answer format,
+Added: and in-depth interviews.
+Added: This is one of few programs of this type in China.
+Added: TV programs centers around food and the stories between people and food from various perspectives.
+Added: Since the launch of Shenzhen
+Added: Satellite TV, our average ranking has remained stable within the top 8 in China.
+Added: regular weekly programs focus on home décor and interior design.
+Added: & Variety Shows
+Added: have partnered with third parties to produce and license original online drama and variety show series for distribution on online
+Added: video platforms.
+Added: We currently developed the following drama series and variety shows:
+Added: Greatest Hero
+Added: TV series My Greatest Hero explores the lives of a high school tennis team.
+Added: This program is in partnership with iQIYI
+Added: and has become one of the most popular youth TV series amongst young people.
+Added: variety show was developed in 2018 as a “light-variety”
+Added: 2019, we developed season 2 of this variety show.
+Added: It is currently one of the most popular variety shows in China.
+Added: on the contract with our partners, we can either share revenues generated by the number of viewers, or share advertising revenues
+Added: generated by the contents.
+Added: distribute and promote our professionally-produced contents on CHEERS App and on a variety of online video platforms, mobile apps,
+Added: IPTV and television channels where we generate advertising revenues from traditional pre-video, in-video, and pop-up advertisements.
+Added: We also generate revenues from soft product placements that are incorporated into our original video content, including our online
+Added: short videos.
+Added: In addition, our e-Mall suppliers and distributors have the option to enter into separate advertising agreements
+Added: for displaying their products in our live streamings.
+Added: All items displayed in the live streamings can be purchased in e-Mall.
+Added: leverage our deep library of professionally-produced content, wide distribution channel, and big data analytics capabilities to
+Added: help our advertisers target their specific demographics in China.
+Added: provide brand advertising services to third-party advertising agencies by producing variety shows, short videos, and live streaming
+Added: according to customers’
+Added: needs for a fee.
+Added: We also provide planning, shooting, and post-production services for a fee.
+Added: Licensing and Distribution
+Added: time to time we may also acquire rights to rebroadcast and/or distribute third-party film and television drama.
+Added: of e-commerce in China
+Added: growing e-commerce market scale, as well as the population of online shoppers in China, have built a solid industry outlook for
+Added: emerging e-commerce platforms.
+Added: In an October 2019 market research study that we commissioned, Market Overview of Content-Driven
+Added: E-commerce Platform in China , iResearch Consulting reported that the total e-commerce market sales in China has reached RMB15,242
+Added: billion in 2018, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.6% from 2014 to 2018.
+Added: The e-commerce sales in China grows faster
+Added: than that of total retail sales of consumer goods in China, which has a CAGR of 8.8% from 2014 to 2018.
+Added: National Bureau of Statistics, iResearch
+Added: population of online shoppers has reached 610 million in 2018, of which 97% are also mobile shoppers, according to iResearch.
+Added: The total population of online shoppers in China is expected to reach 900 million by 2021, at a CAGR of 13.8%.
+Added: CNNIC, iResearch
+Added: of online video users
+Added: development of high-speed internet network and the growing popularity of short video platforms have fueled the growth of online
+Added: video viewership.
+Added: According to iResearch report, the population of online video users in China has reached 0.59 billion by the
+Added: end of 2018, with a CAGR of 17% from 2014 to 2018.
+Added: Online video users take up 69% of total internet users by the end of 2018,
+Added: while it was only 47% by the end of 2014.
+Added: CNNIC, iResearch
+Added: content-driven e-commerce platforms
+Added: the rapid growth of e-commerce market and online video users, many e-commerce platforms started to leverage video content in assisting
+Added: the customer acquisition of their e-commerce platforms.
+Added: video content-driven e-commerce platform refers to an e-commerce platform with promotional and advertising video content that
+Added: encourage or incentivize customers in making purchase on our e-commerce platform.
+Added: The video content adopted by most platforms
+Added: are live streaming shows and short videos.
+Added: video content-driven e-commerce platform can be PGC, UGC, or PUGC content-driven, depending on who produces the content:
+Added: refers to Professional Generated Content, which relies on professional video producers and is normally more costly to produce.
+Added: However, it also has the highest commercial value for our attention to details and consistent quality;
+Added: refers to User Generated Content, which features contents produced by the general public;
+Added: refers to Professional User Generated Content, which is the combination of PGC and UGC.
+Added: video content-driven e-commerce platform can usually monetize video content through following means:
+Added: ● Advertising
+Added: revenue for in-video product placement, start screen ads, in-app banner ads, and other forms of advertisements;
+Added: revenue from video producers and live streamers on the platform when transactions are completed and settled;
+Added: e-commerce sales of commodities on the platform.
+Added: PGC video content-driven e-commerce platform
+Added: proprietary PGC video content-driven e-commerce platform is a segment of content-driven e-commerce platform, with in-house professional
+Added: video production and proprietary e-commerce platform.
+Added: When compared with other video content-driven e-commerce platforms, a proprietary
+Added: PGC video content-driven e-commerce platform usually have larger advantage in maintaining high-quality content production with
+Added: dedicated professional production team.
+Added: proprietary PGC video content-driven e-commerce platform industry is still at an early stage of development with high growth rate
+Added: but limited qualified market participants.
+Added: However, many e-commerce platforms have or are planning on developing video content
+Added: on their platforms in 2019.
+Added: to iResearch report, the market scale of proprietary PGC video content-driven e-commerce platforms in terms of GMV is approximately
+Added: RMB2.6 billion in 2018, with a CAGR of 191.5% from 2016 to 2018.
+Added: The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 47.6% to RMB19.5
+Added: billion in 2023.
+Added: successful factors for video content-driven E-commerce platforms
+Added: of commodities:
+Added: A platform must be careful and thoughtful in selecting commodities with high popularity and reasonable profit
+Added: margin to keep customers attracted.
+Added: ● Sustainable
+Added: high-quality video content:
+Added: A platform must be able to sustain consistent video content quality and avoid publishing any video
+Added: that may result in negative publicity, or even regulatory punishment.
+Added: customer inflow:
+Added: A platform must secure a solid channel for customer acquisition and to keep all customer activities within a
+Added: proprietary ecosystem in order to minimize customer loss.
+Added: to iResearch report, we are amongst the top 5 video content-driven e-commerce platforms in China in terms of monthly GMV in August
+Added: competitors include Alibaba (Nasdaq:
+Added: BABA), Pin Duoduo (Nasdaq:
+Added: PDD), Douyu (Nasdaq:
+Added: DOYU), Qu Toutiao (Nasdaq:
+Added: Media (SZ.300413), and TVZone Media (SH.603721) for users, shoppers, and advertising customers.
+Added: We also compete with other
+Added: internet media and entertainment services, such as internet and social platforms that offer content in emerging and
+Added: innovative media formats, as well as major TV stations.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, we had 173 full time employees.
+Added: We have entered into written employment contracts with all of our employees
+Added: in accordance with PRC Labor Law and Contract Law.
+Added: None of our employees is covered by collective bargaining contracts.
+Added: that we maintain a good working relationship with our employees and we have not experienced any significant labor disputes or
+Added: any difficulty in recruiting staff for our operations.
+Added: required by PRC regulations, we participate in various government statutory social security plans, including a pension contribution
+Added: plan, a medical insurance plan, an unemployment insurance plan, a work-related injury insurance plan, a maternity insurance plan
+Added: and a housing provident fund.
+Added: We are required under PRC law to contribute to social security plans at specified percentages of
+Added: the salaries, bonuses and certain allowances of our employees up to a maximum amount specified by the local government from time
+Added: An employer that fails to make social insurance contributions may be ordered to rectify the non-compliance and pay the
+Added: required contributions within a stipulated deadline and be subject to a late fee.
+Added: success depends largely on our ability to protect our core technology and intellectual property.
+Added: To accomplish this, we rely on
+Added: our trade secrets, including know-how, confidentiality clauses in standard labor agreements and third party nondisclosure agreements,
+Added: copyright laws, trademarks, intellectual property licenses and other contractual rights to establish and protect our proprietary
+Added: rights in our technology.
+Added: We currently do not own any patents and do not have any pending patent applications.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, we owned 45 registered trademarks and 16 trademark registration applications in the PRC, and 4 registered
+Added: trademark applications in Hong Kong.
+Added: In addition, as of December 31, 2019, we have 31 registered copyrights in the PRC (including
+Added: copyrights with respect to 28 software products developed by it relating to various aspects of our operations and 3 copyright
+Added: The software and registered works are crucial to our business.
+Added: time to time, we may become involved in various lawsuits and legal proceedings which arise in the ordinary course of business.
+Added: However, litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties and an adverse result in these or other matters may arise from time to
+Added: time that may harm our business.
+Added: To the best knowledge of management, there are no material legal proceedings pending against
+Added: are no proceedings in which any of our directors, officers, or any beneficial shareholder of more than five percent (5%) of our
+Added: voting securities is an adverse party or has a material interest adverse to us.
+Added: from fluctuations in the level of advertising spending resulting from changes in the overall economic and market conditions in
+Added: China, our revenues are affected by seasonal fluctuations in business and consumer spending that also affect the level of advertising
+Added: spending over time in China.
+Added: Our quarterly operating results have fluctuated in the past and may continue to fluctuate depending
+Added: upon a number of factors, many of which are out of our control.
+Added: Our operating results tend to be seasonal.
+Added: As a result, detailed
+Added: attention shall be paid when comparing our operating results on a period-to-period basis.
+Added: For example, online user numbers tend
+Added: to be higher during holidays and end of the year, and advertising revenues tend to be higher at the end of the year.
+Added: do not maintain any property insurance policies covering equipment and facilities for losses due to fire, earthquake, flood or
+Added: any other disaster.
+Added: Consistent with customary industry practice in China, we do not maintain business interruption insurance or
+Added: key employee insurance for our executive officers.
+Added: Uninsured damage to any of our equipment or buildings or a significant product
+Added: liability claim could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.
+Added: and Development
+Added: We were incorporated as
+Added: an exempted company under the laws of the Cayman Islands on February 5, 2018 under the name TKK Symphony Acquisition Corporation.
+Added: In connection with the Share Exchange Agreement, we changed our name from “TKK Symphony Acquisition Corporation”
+Added: “Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Ltd”(“GS Holdings”).
+Added: As a result of the Business Combination, all
+Added: of our business operations are conducted through our subsidiaries and our VIEs.
+Added: following is a brief description of each of our subsidiaries and VIEs:
+Added: Glory Star New Media Group Limited (“Glory Star”) is
+Added: a limited company incorporated on November 30, 2018, under the laws of the Cayman Islands.
+Added: Glory Star is authorized to issue 5,000,000
+Added: ordinary shares of which 2,000,000 ordinary shares are issued and outstanding.
+Added: Glory Star is wholly owned by GS Holdings.
+Added: Glory Star New Media Group HK Limited (“Glory Star HK”) is a limited company incorporated on December
+Added: 18, 2018, under the Companies Ordinance of Hong Kong.
+Added: The total amount of share capital of Glory Star HK is HKD 1.00 with one
+Added: (1) authorized share.
+Added: Glory Star HK is wholly owned by Glory Star.
+Added: Glory Star New Media (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“WFOE”) is a wholly foreign-owned enterprise established by Glory
+Added: Star HK on March 13, 2019.
+Added: WFOE has been issued a business license (No.
+Added: 91110113MA01HN7N6P) by the Beijing Administration for
+Added: Industry and Commerce Shunyi District Bureau on April 4, 2019.
+Added: Xing Cui Can International Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Xing Cui Can”) is a limited liability company
+Added: incorporated under laws of PRC on September 7, 2016, and the current shareholders are:
+Added: Bing Zhang, Jia Lu, Ran Zhang, Yixing He,
+Added: Ronghui Zhang, Hui Lin, Hui Jin, Hanying Li, Yinghao Zhang, and Jiancong Xiao, all of whom are PRC residents.
+Added: Xing Cui Can currently
+Added: holds a business license issued by Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce Chaoyang District Bureau.
+Added: Through a series
+Added: of contractual agreements, WFOE is deemed to control Xing Cui Can and have rights to consolidate all of Xing Cui Can’s audited
+Added: financial results.
+Added: Horgos Glory Star Media Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Horgos”) is a limited liability company incorporated under laws of PRC on November
+Added: The current shareholders are Xing Cui Can, Bing Zhang, Jia Lu, Ran Zhang, Yixing He, Ronghui Zhang, Hui Lin, Hui Jin,
+Added: Hanying Li, Yinghao Zhang and Everest Venture Capital Investment Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Everest”).
+Added: Horgos currently holds a business
+Added: license issued by Horgos Market Supervisory Authority.
+Added: Xianhong Liang and Jiancong Xiao are the beneficial owners of Horgos through
+Added: Through a series of contractual agreements, WFOE is deemed to control Horgos and have rights to consolidate all of Horgos’s
+Added: audited financial results.
+Added: to the incorporation of Glory Star, on August 31, 2017 (the “Acquisition Date”), Horgos completed the acquisition
+Added: of 100% of the equity interest of Leshare Star (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Beijing Leshare”), a company incorporated
+Added: in the PRC, which is mainly engaged in internet advertising activities and owns a copyright of “Fashion Star Short Video
+Added: App Leshare Software.”
+Added: Horgos purchased all 100% equity interest of Beijing Leshare from six individual shareholders with
+Added: a consideration of $0.
+Added: Prior to the acquisition, Mr.
+Added: Bing Zhang was the chief operation officer of Horgos and had a 65% equity
+Added: interest in Beijing Leshare, hence the acquisition was deemed as a related party transaction.
+Added: Beijing Leshare’s assets and
+Added: liabilities were recorded at their carrying values as of the Acquisition Date, and the results of operations of Beijing Leshare
+Added: are consolidated with the results of operations of Glory Star Group, starting on August 31, 2017.
+Added: addition, on October 26, 2018, Messrs.
+Added: Bing Zhang, Ran Zhang and Jia Lu, management of Horgos, acquired 51% of the equity interest
+Added: from Lead Eastern Investment Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Dangdai Dongfang”) in a management buy-out for RMB39.4 million ($6.0 million)
+Added: based on the then net asset value of Horgos (“MBO”).
+Added: Prior to the MBO, Dangdai Dongfang was the largest shareholder
+Added: of Horgos, and wanted Horgos to focus on traditional advertising and the production of content for the cable TV networks, the
+Added: business of Horgos at that time.
+Added: However, the management of Horgos wanted to expand and transform Horgos into an online media
+Added: and e-commerce company which is what the Glory Star Group is today.
+Added: However, at that time, Dangdai Dongfang did not wish to make
+Added: the additional investments into Horgos’
+Added: new business and was in fact looking to liquidate its holdings in Horgos.
+Added: Immediately following the closing of the MBO, Dangdai Dongfang ceased to be a shareholder
+Added: of Horgos and Mr.
+Added: Bing Zhang, directly and indirectly through Xing Cui Can, became the controlling shareholders of Horgos, holding
+Added: 72.58% of the equity interest in Horgos.
+Added: principal executive offices are located at 22F, Xinhua Technology Building, No.
+Added: 8 Tuofangying Road, Jiangtai District, Chaoyang
+Added: District, Beijing.
+Added: Star New Media Group Holdings Limited is a Cayman Islands holding company and conducts our operations in China through our PRC
+Added: subsidiaries and VIEs.
+Added: Through our Hong Kong subsidiary Glory Star HK, we own a direct equity interest in WFOE, our wholly-owned
+Added: PRC subsidiary.
+Added: WFOE has entered into a series of contractual arrangements with (i) Xing Cui Can and our shareholders, and (ii)
+Added: Horgos and our shareholders, which allows us to exercise effective control over Xing Cui Can and Horgos and receive substantially
+Added: all the economic benefit of Xing Cui Can and Horgos.
+Added: Any failure by the VIEs or their respective shareholders to perform their
+Added: obligations under these contractual arrangements, and any failure by us to maintain effective control over Xing Cui Can and Horgos,
+Added: would result in our inability to continue to consolidate our VIEs’
+Added: financial results of operations in our financial results
+Added: of operations and would have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: following diagram illustrates our corporate structure.
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated, equity interests depicted in this diagram are
+Added: The relationships between WFOE and Xing Cui Can, and WFOE and Horgos as illustrated in this diagram are governed by
+Added: the VIE Contracts and do not constitute equity ownership.
+Added: Arrangements among WFOE, the VIEs and the VIEs Shareholders
+Added: PRC laws and regulations impose certain restrictions or prohibitions on foreign ownership of companies that engage in
+Added: value-added telecommunication services, and certain other business.
+Added: Glory Star HK is a company registered in Hong Kong.
+Added: is considered a foreign-invested enterprise.
+Added: To comply with PRC laws and regulations, we primarily conduct our business in
+Added: China through the VIE’s based on the VIE Contracts.
+Added: As a result of VIE Contracts, Glory Star HK exerts control over
+Added: Glory Star’s consolidated affiliated entities in the PRC and consolidates their operating results in our financial
+Added: statements under U.S.
+Added: The following is a summary of the VIE Contracts that provide us with effective control of the
+Added: VIEs and that enables it to receive substantially all of the economic benefit from our operations.
+Added: that give us effective control of the VIEs
+Added: Cooperation Agreement .
+Added: WFOE entered into separate business cooperation agreements with Xing Cui Can and Horgos, and their
+Added: respective shareholders in September 2019, pursuant to which (1) each VIE shall not enter into any transaction which may materially
+Added: affect such VIE’s assets, obligations, rights and operations without the written consent of WFOE;
+Added: (2) each VIE and the VIE
+Added: shareholders agree to accept suggestions by WFOE in respect of the employment and dismissal of such VIE’s employees, daily
+Added: operations, dividend distribution and financial management of such VIE;
+Added: and (3) the VIE and the VIE shareholders shall only appoint
+Added: individuals designated by WFOE as the director, general manager, chief financial officer and other senior management members.
+Added: In addition, each of the VIE shareholders agree that (i) unless required by WFOE, will not make any decisions or otherwise request
+Added: the VIE to distribute any profits, funds, assets or property to the VIE shareholders, or (ii) issue any dividends or other distribution
+Added: with respect to the shares of the VIE held by the VIE shareholders.
+Added: The term of each business cooperation agreement is perpetual
+Added: unless terminated by WFOE upon thirty (30) days advance notice, or upon the transfer of all shares of the respective VIEs to WFOE
+Added: (or our designee).
+Added: Option Agreement .
+Added: WFOE entered into separate exclusive option agreements with Xing Cui Can and Horgos, and their respective
+Added: shareholders in September 2019.
+Added: Pursuant to these exclusive option agreements, the VIE shareholders have granted WFOE (or our
+Added: designee) an option to acquire all or a portion of each of their equity interests in the VIEs at the price equivalent to the lowest
+Added: price then permitted under PRC law.
+Added: If the equity interests are transferred in installments, the purchase price for each installment
+Added: shall be pro rata to the equity interests transferred.
+Added: WFOE may, at our sole discretion, at any time exercise the option granted
+Added: by the VIE shareholders.
+Added: Moreover, WFOE may transfer such option to any third party.
+Added: The VIE shareholders may not, among other
+Added: obligations, change or amend the articles of association and bylaws of the VIE, increase or decrease the registered capital of
+Added: the VIEs, sell, transfer, mortgage or dispose of their equity interest in any way, or incur, inherit, guarantee or assume any
+Added: debt except for debts incurred in the ordinary course of business unless otherwise expressly agreed to by WFOE, and enter into
+Added: any material contracts except in the ordinary course of business unless otherwise expressly agreed to by WFOE.
+Added: The term of each
+Added: of these exclusive option agreements is 10 years and will be extended automatically for successive 5 year terms except where WFOE
+Added: provides prior written notice otherwise.
+Added: The exclusive option agreements may be terminated by WFOE upon thirty (30) days advance
+Added: notice, or upon the transfer of all shares of the respective VIEs to WFOE (or our designee).
+Added: Pledge Agreement .
+Added: WFOE entered into separate share pledge agreements with Xing Cui Can and Horgos, and their respective shareholders
+Added: in September 2019.
+Added: Pursuant to these share pledge agreements, the VIE shareholders have pledged all of their equity interests
+Added: in the VIEs as priority security interest in favor of WFOE to secure the performance of the VIEs and their shareholders’
+Added: performance of their obligations under, where applicable, (i) the Master Exclusive Service Agreement, (ii) the Business Cooperation
+Added: Agreement, and (iii) the Exclusive Option Agreements (collectively the “Principal Agreements”).
+Added: WFOE is entitled to
+Added: exercise our right to dispose of the VIE shareholders’
+Added: pledged interests in the equity of the VIE in the event that either
+Added: the VIE shareholders or the VIE fails to perform their respective obligations under the Principal Agreements.
+Added: The equity pledge
+Added: agreements will remain in full force and remain effective until the VIE and the VIE shareholders have satisfied their obligations
+Added: under the Principal Agreements.
+Added: Agreements and Powers of Attorney .
+Added: WFOE entered into separate Proxy Agreements and Powers of Attorney with Xing Cui Can and
+Added: Horgos, and their respective shareholders in September 2019.
+Added: Pursuant to the proxy agreements and powers of attorney, each VIE
+Added: shareholder irrevocably nominates and appoints WFOE or any natural person designated by WFOE as our attorney-in-fact to exercise
+Added: all rights of such VIE equity holder in such VIE, including, but not limited to, (i) execute and deliver any and all written decisions
+Added: and to sign any minutes of meetings of the board or shareholder of the VIE, (ii) make shareholder’s decisions on any matters
+Added: of the VIE, including without limitation, the sale, transfer, mortgage, pledge or disposal of any or all of the assets of the
+Added: VIE, (iii) sell, transfer, pledge or dispose of any or all shares in the VIE, (iv) nominate, appoint, or remove the directors,
+Added: supervisors and senior management members of the VIE when necessary, (v) oversee the business performance of the VIE, (vi) have
+Added: full access to the financial information of the VIE, (vii) file any shareholder lawsuits or take other legal action against the
+Added: VIE’s directors or senior management members, (viii) approve annual budget or declare dividends, (ix) manage and dispose
+Added: of the assets of the VIE, (x) have the full rights to control and manage the VIE’s finance, accounting and daily operations,
+Added: (xi) approve filing of any documents with the relevant governmental authorities or regulatory bodies, and (xii) any other rights
+Added: provided by the VIE’s charters and/or the relevant laws and regulations on the VIE shareholders.
+Added: The proxy agreements and
+Added: powers of attorney shall remain in effect during the term of the Exclusive Service Agreements.
+Added: and Guarantee Letter .
+Added: Each of the VIE shareholders signed a confirmation and guarantee letter in September 2019, pursuant
+Added: to which each VIE equity holder agreed to fully implement the arrangements set forth in the Principal Agreements, Share Pledge
+Added: Agreement, and the Proxy Agreement and Power of Attorney, and agreed to not carry out any act which may be contrary to the purpose
+Added: or intent of such agreements.
+Added: Each of the VIE shareholders’
+Added: spouses, if applicable, signed a spousal consent in September 2019 pursuant to
+Added: which the spouse of each of the shareholders acknowledges that the equity interests in Horgos and Xing Cui Can held by the spouse
+Added: will be disposed according to the arrangements set forth in the Principal Agreements, Share Pledge Agreement, and the Proxy Agreement
+Added: and Power of Attorney and undertakes not to carry out any act with the intent to interfere with the arrangements set forth in
+Added: aforementioned agreements, and agree to be bound by the aforementioned agreements if they receive any equity interests in Horgos
+Added: and Xing Cui Can.
+Added: that enable us to receive substantially all of the economic benefit from the VIEs
+Added: Exclusive Service Agreements .
+Added: WFOE entered into separate Exclusive Service Agreements with Xing Cui Can and Horgos in September
+Added: 2019, pursuant to which WFOE provides exclusive technology support and services, staff training and consultation services, public
+Added: relation services, market development, planning and consultation services, human resource management services, licensing of intellectual
+Added: property, and other services as determined by the parties.
+Added: In exchange, the VIEs pay service fees to WFOE equal to the pre-tax
+Added: profits of the VIEs less (i) accumulated losses of the VIEs and their subsidiaries in the previous financial year, (ii) operating
+Added: costs, expenses, and taxes, and (iii) reasonable operating profits under applicable PRC tax law and practices.
+Added: During the term
+Added: of these agreements, WFOE has the right to adjust the amount and time of payment of the service fees at our sole discretion without
+Added: the consent of the VIEs.
+Added: WFOE (or our service provider) will own any intellectual property arising from the performance of these
+Added: The term of each of these Exclusive Service Agreements is perpetual unless terminated by WFOE upon thirty (30) days’
+Added: advance notice, or upon the transfer of all shares of the respective VIEs to WFOE (or our designee) 10 years under the Option
+Added: of Our Industry
+Added: PRC government imposes extensive controls and regulations over the e-commerce industry and media industry, including television,
+Added: advertising, media content production.
+Added: This section summarizes the principal PRC regulations that are relevant to our lines of
+Added: on Foreign Investment
+Added: Catalogue of Industries for Foreign Investment
+Added: June 28, 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission (the “NDRC”), and Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”),
+Added: promulgated the Foreign Investment Catalog which was implemented on July 28, 2017.
+Added: For foreign investment, the Foreign
+Added: Investment Catalog is divided into encouraged industries, restricted industries and prohibited industries, and industries which
+Added: are not listed in the Foreign Investment Catalog are categorized as the permitted industries for foreign investment.
+Added: of restricted industries and prohibited industries in the Foreign Investment Catalog was abolished by the Special Administrative
+Added: Measures for Foreign Investment Access (Negative List) (2018 Edition) , which was then replaced by Special Administrative
+Added: Measures for Foreign Investment Access (Negative List) (2019 Edition) (the “2019 Negative List”) promulgated on
+Added: June 30, 2019 by NDRC and MOFCOM and implemented on July 30, 2019.
+Added: According to the 2019 Negative List, foreign investment in
+Added: value-added telecommunications services (except for e-commerce) falls within the Negative List.
+Added: As a result, foreign investors
+Added: can only conduct investment activities through equity or contractual joint ventures with certain shareholding requirements and
+Added: approvals from competent authorities.
+Added: PRC partners are required to hold the majority interests in the joint ventures and approval
+Added: from MOFCOM, or the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) for the incorporation of the joint ventures
+Added: and the business operations.
+Added: October 8, 2016, the MOFCOM promulgated the Interim Administrative Measures for Record-filing of the Incorporation and Change
+Added: of Foreign-invested Enterprises , or FIE Interim Administrative Measures, as amended on June 30, 2018.
+Added: Under the FIE Interim
+Added: Administrative Measures, the incorporation and change of Foreign-invested Enterprises, or FIE, are subject to record filing procedures,
+Added: instead of prior approval requirements, provided that the incorporation or change does not trigger any special entry administrative
+Added: measures required by the government.
+Added: If the incorporation or change of FIE matter is subject to the special entry administration
+Added: measures, the approval of the MOFCOM or their local counterparts is still required.
+Added: Direct Investment in Value-Added Telecommunications Companies
+Added: to the Provisions on Administration of Foreign-Invested Telecommunications Enterprises promulgated by the State Council
+Added: on December 11, 2001, as amended on September 10, 2008 and February 6, 2016, or the FITE Regulations, the ultimate foreign equity
+Added: ownership in a value-added telecommunications services provider may not exceed 50%.
+Added: Moreover, for a foreign investor to acquire
+Added: any equity interest in a value-added telecommunication business in China, it must satisfy a number of stringent performance and
+Added: operational experience requirements, including demonstrating good track records and experience in operating value-added telecommunication
+Added: business overseas.
+Added: Foreign investors that meet these requirements must obtain approvals from the MIIT, and MOFCOM or their authorized
+Added: local counterparts, which retain considerable discretion in granting approvals.
+Added: issued the Circular on Strengthening the Administration of Foreign Investment in and Operation of Value-added Telecommunications
+Added: Business , or the MIIT Circular, on July 13, 2006.
+Added: The MIIT Circular indicates a PRC company that holds an Internet Content
+Added: Provider License, or the ICP License, is prohibited from leasing, transferring or selling the ICP License to foreign investors
+Added: in any form, and from providing any assistance, including resources, sites or facilities, to foreign investors that conduct value-added
+Added: telecommunications business illegally in China.
+Added: Moreover, the domain names and registered trademarks used by an operating company
+Added: providing value-added telecommunications service must be legally owned by such company and/or our shareholders.
+Added: In addition, such
+Added: company’s operation premises and equipment must comply with our approved ICP License, and such company should improve our
+Added: internal internet and information security standards and emergency management procedures.
+Added: June 19, 2015, MIIT issued the Circular on Loosening the Restrictions on Shareholding by Foreign Investors in Online Data Processing
+Added: and Transaction Processing Business (for-profit E-commerce) , or the Circular 196.
+Added: The Circular 196 allows a foreign investor
+Added: to hold 100% of the equity interest in a PRC entity that provides online data processing and transaction processing services (for-profit
+Added: With respect to the applications for a license for on-line data processing and transaction processing business (for-profit
+Added: e-commerce), the requirements for the proportion of foreign equity are governed by this Circular, other requirements and corresponding
+Added: approval procedures are subject to the FITE Regulations.
+Added: However, due to the lack of additional interpretation from PRC regulatory
+Added: authorities, it remains unclear as to what impact MIIT Circular 2015 may have on us or other PRC internet companies with similar
+Added: corporate and contractual structures.
+Added: view of these restrictions on foreign direct investment in value-added telecommunications services and certain other types of
+Added: businesses under which our business may fall, including internet culture services and radio/television programs production and
+Added: operation business, we may rely on contractual arrangements with our VIEs to operate such business in China.
+Added: For more information,
+Added: please see “Our Corporate Structure.”
+Added: Due to the lack of interpretative guidance from the relevant PRC governmental
+Added: authorities, there are uncertainties regarding whether PRC governmental authorities would consider our corporate structure and
+Added: contractual arrangements to constitute foreign ownership of a value-added telecommunications business.
+Added: Investment Law
+Added: The National People’s
+Added: Congress (NPC) Standing Committee promulgated the Foreign Investment Law on March 15, 2019, which came into effect on January
+Added: 1, 2020, to replace the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises, the Law of the People’s
+Added: Republic of China on Sino-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures and the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Sino-Foreign Cooperative
+Added: Joint Ventures as the basic law on foreign investment in the PRC.
+Added: Foreign Investment Law stipulates that the foreign investors’
+Added: capital contributions, profits, capital gains, income from
+Added: asset disposal, intellectual property royalties, legally obtained compensation or indemnification, and liquidation income that
+Added: are made or obtained in China, may be freely remitted in or out of China in RMB or foreign exchange according to law.
+Added: it further stipulates that the state protects the legitimate rights and interests of intellectual property rights held by foreign
+Added: investors and FIEs.
+Added: In formulating specific normative documents concerning foreign investment, local governments’
+Added: at various levels and their relevant departments shall comply with the provisions of laws and regulations, including Foreign Investment
+Added: Without the basis of laws and regulations, local governments shall not reduce or prejudice FIEs’
+Added: legitimate rights
+Added: and interests, impose additional regulatory burden, set additional impediments for FIE on accessing specific markets, or interfere
+Added: with the FIE’s normal business activities.
+Added: to the lack of additional interpretation from PRC regulatory authorities, it is unclear how the Foreign Investment Law will be
+Added: implemented in practice by the PRC government authorities and whether the offshore companies controlled by the PRC investors through
+Added: variable interest entities structure be deemed as foreign investment remains to be seen.
+Added: For more information, please see “Risk
+Added: Factors —
+Added: Risks Relating to Doing Business in China –
+Added: Substantial uncertainties and restrictions with respect to the
+Added: political and economic policies of the PRC government and PRC laws and regulations could have a significant impact upon how our
+Added: business may conducted in the PRC and accordingly on the results of our operations and financial condition.”
+Added: Related to E-Commerce
+Added: 2005, the General Office of the State Council issued Several Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Electronic Commerce
+Added: to stress the significance of the e-commerce and the importance of regulating the development of e-commerce.
+Added: In 2007, MOFCOM
+Added: promulgated the Guiding Opinions on Online Trading (for Tentative Implementation), under which, the term “Online Trading”
+Added: is defined as the commodity or service trading conducted between the buyer and the seller by making use of internet and the behaviors
+Added: of online trading participants.
+Added: to the Opinions of the Ministry of Commerce on Promoting the Regularized Development of the E-Commerce promulgated by MOFCOM
+Added: in 2007, which required to, among others, regularize the information release and transmission behaviors of all parties concerned
+Added: to online trading, applaud legal, regularized, fair and equitable online marketing, electronic contracting, after-sale services
+Added: and other e-commerce trading acts, prevent and settle various kinds of trading disputes, regularize electronic payment acts and
+Added: ensuring the safe flow of funds.
+Added: Opinions on Promoting E-Commerce Application was promulgated by MOFCOM in October 2013, which aims to further promote the
+Added: development of e-commerce, guide the healthy and speedy development of network retailing, strengthen the development of e-commerce
+Added: for rural villages and agricultural products, support the development of urban community e-commerce application system and promote
+Added: innovative application of cross-border e-commerce.
+Added: May 2015, the State Council promulgated the Opinions on Striving to Develop E-commerce to Speed Up the Cultivation of New Economic
+Added: Driving Force in order to lower the requirements for market access, further simplify the registration of registered capital,
+Added: deeply promote the reform from ”certificate before license”
+Added: to ”license before certificate”
+Added: of e-commerce and simplify the approval process for the overseas listing of e-commerce enterprises in the territory and encourage
+Added: the cross-border RMB direct investment in the field of e-commerce.
+Added: addition, in December 2016, Guiding Opinions on Fully Enhancing the Credit Construction in the E-commerce Sector was issued
+Added: by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and other governmental authorities.
+Added: These opinions require that e-commerce
+Added: platforms (a) establish and perfect internal credit constraint mechanisms, and make full use of big data technologies to strengthen
+Added: the credit control in terms of commodity quality, intellectual property rights, service level, etc.;
+Added: (b) establish the business
+Added: credit early risk warning system, and promptly publish the relevant information to society and risk prompts for seriously dishonest
+Added: businesses selling forged and fake commodities and hyping credit by malicious scalping, according to requirements of relevant
+Added: industrial competent and regulatory authorities;
+Added: (c) establish and improve a report and complaint handling mechanism and responsively
+Added: submit clues on suspected illegalities and irregularities identified to relevant industrial competent and regulatory authorities,
+Added: and (d) coordinate with relevant authorities concerning investigation and treatment of business operators on e-commerce platforms.
+Added: In the event an e-commerce platform fails to actively fulfill our responsibilities, the relevant industrial competent or regulatory
+Added: authority is authorized to promptly take measures, such as engage in communications, provide notification and impose administrative
+Added: punishments in accordance with the law.
+Added: We believe that we are currently in material compliance with the guidance provided by
+Added: the opinions.
+Added: by Third-Party Platform Providers for Online Food Trading
+Added: In July 2016, the
+Added: State Food and Drug Administration promulgated the Measures for Investigation and Handling of Illegal Acts Involving
+Added: Online Food Safety , pursuant to which a third-party platform provider for online food trading in the PRC is required to
+Added: file a record with the food and drug administration at the provincial level and obtain a filing number.
+Added: If an online food
+Added: trading third-party platform provider fails to complete such filing, the provider may be ordered to make rectifications and
+Added: given a warning by the competent food and drug administration, and failure to make such rectification may be subject to fines
+Added: ranging from RMB5,000 to RMB30,000.
+Added: As of March 18, 2019, Glory Star Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd has completed the required
+Added: filing formalities with the relevant food and drug administration.
+Added: Relating to Product Quality and Consumer Rights Protection
+Added: on the PRC Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law , as amended in and effective March 2014, and the Administrative
+Added: Measures on Online Trading, or Online Trading Measures, by State Administration for Industry and Commerce, or SAIC, on January
+Added: 29, 2014, have provided stringent requirements and obligations on business operators, including internet business operators and
+Added: platform service providers.
+Added: For example, consumers are entitled to return goods purchased online, subject to certain exceptions,
+Added: within seven days upon receipt of such goods for no reason.
+Added: To ensure that sellers and service providers comply with these laws
+Added: and regulations, the platform operators are required to implement rules governing transactions on the platform, monitor the information
+Added: posted by sellers and service providers, and report any violations by such sellers or service providers to the relevant authorities.
+Added: In addition, online marketplace platform providers may, pursuant to the relevant PRC consumer protection laws, be exposed to liabilities
+Added: if the lawful rights and interests of consumers are infringed upon in connection with consumers’
+Added: purchase of goods or acceptance
+Added: of services on online marketplace platforms and the online marketplace platform providers fail to provide consumers with the contact
+Added: information of the seller or manufacturer.
+Added: Furthermore, online marketplace platform providers may be jointly and severally liable
+Added: with sellers and manufacturers if they are aware or should be aware that any seller or manufacturer is using the online platform
+Added: to infringe upon the lawful rights and interests of consumers and fail to take measures necessary to prevent or stop such activity.
+Added: Tort Liability Law of the PRC, which was enacted by the Standing Committee of the NPC, or SCNPC, in December 2009 and took effect
+Added: in July 2010, also provides that if an online service provider is aware that an online user is committing infringing activities,
+Added: such as selling counterfeit products, through our internet services and fails to take necessary measures, it will be jointly liable
+Added: with the said online user for such infringement.
+Added: If the online service provider receives any notice from the infringed party on
+Added: any infringing activities, the online service provider will take necessary measures, including deleting, blocking and unlinking
+Added: the infringing content, in a timely manner.
+Added: Otherwise, it will be jointly liable with the respective online user for the extended
+Added: an e-commerce platform service provider, we are subject to the PRC Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law, the Online Trading
+Added: Measures and the Tort Liability Law of the PRC and believe that we are currently in compliance with these regulations in all material
+Added: on the Media Industry
+Added: According to the Provisions
+Added: on the Administration of Radio and Television Program Production promulgated by the State Administration of Radio, Film
+Added: and Television, or SARFT, on July 19, 2004 and took effect in August 20, 2004, and was amended on August 28, 2015, entities
+Added: engaging in (i) the production of television programs, such as feature programs, general programs, drama series and
+Added: animations, and (ii) the trading activities and agency services on the copyrights of such programs, must first obtain
+Added: preliminary approval from the SARFT or their provincial branches for license.
+Added: Horgos and Glory Star Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd
+Added: have obtained the required approvals accordingly.
+Added: on the Advertising Industry
+Added: Relating to Advertising Law
+Added: principal regulations governing advertising businesses in China include Advertising Law promulgated by SCNPC on October
+Added: 27, 1994, which was amended on April 24, 2015 and October 26, 2018.
+Added: Under the Advertising Law, advertisers refer to any legal
+Added: persons, economic organizations or individuals that, directly or through agents, design, produce and publish advertisements to
+Added: promote products or services.
+Added: Advertisement operators refer to those legal persons, economic organizations or individuals consigned
+Added: to provide advertisement content design, production and agency services.
+Added: Advertisement publishers refer to those legal persons
+Added: or other economic organizations that publish advertisements for the advertisers or for those advertisement operators that are
+Added: consigned by the advertisers.
+Added: An advertisement should present distinct and clear descriptions of the product’s function,
+Added: place of origin, quality, price, manufacturer, validity period, warranties or the contents, forms, quality, price or promises
+Added: of the services offered.
+Added: False advertising that may mislead consumers and compromise legal rights and interests of consumers will
+Added: subject the advertiser to civil liabilities.
+Added: Where the advertising operator or advertising publisher is unable to provide the
+Added: real name, address or valid contact information of the advertiser, the consumers may require the advertising operator or advertising
+Added: publisher make compensation in advance.
+Added: For false advertisements of goods or services other than those stipulated in the preceding
+Added: paragraph which caused harm to consumers, where the advertising operator, advertising publisher and advertising spokesperson knew
+Added: or should have known the falsity yet still provided design, production, agency or publishing services, or provide recommendation
+Added: or endorsement, they will bear joint and several liability with the advertiser.
+Added: advertising laws and regulations provide specific content requirements for advertisements in China, which include prohibitions
+Added: on, among other things, misleading content, superlative wording, socially destabilizing content or content involving obscenities,
+Added: superstition, violence, discrimination or infringement of the public interest.
+Added: Advertisements for anesthetic, psychotropic, toxic
+Added: or radioactive drugs are also prohibited.
+Added: It is prohibited to disseminate tobacco advertisements via broadcast, film, television
+Added: or print media, or in any waiting lounge, theater, cinema, conference hall, stadium or other public area.
+Added: There are also specific
+Added: restrictions and requirements regarding advertisements that relate to matters such as patented products or processes, pharmaceuticals,
+Added: medical instruments, agrochemicals, foodstuff, alcohol and cosmetics.
+Added: In addition, all advertisements relating to pharmaceuticals,
+Added: medical instruments, agrochemicals and veterinary pharmaceuticals advertised through broadcast, film, television, newspaper, magazine
+Added: and other forms of media, together with any other advertisements which are subject to censorship by administrative authorities
+Added: according to relevant laws and administrative regulations, must be submitted to the relevant administrative authorities for content
+Added: approval prior to dissemination.
+Added: Advertisers are required
+Added: by PRC advertising laws and regulations to ensure that the content of the advertisements they prepare are true and accurate as
+Added: well as in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
+Added: In providing advertising services, advertising service providers
+Added: and advertising publishers must review the prescribed supporting documents provided by advertisers for advertisements and verify
+Added: that the content of the advertisements complies with applicable PRC laws and regulations.
+Added: Violation of these regulations may result
+Added: in penalties, including fines, confiscation of advertising income, orders to cease dissemination of the advertisements and orders
+Added: to publish an advertisement correcting the misleading information.
+Added: In circumstances involving serious violations, the SAIC or their
+Added: local branches may revoke violators’
+Added: licenses or permits for advertising business operations.
+Added: Furthermore, advertisers, advertising
+Added: service providers or advertising distributors may be subject to civil or criminal liability if they infringe on the legal rights
+Added: and interests of third parties in the course of their advertising business.
+Added: Relating to Internet Advertising
+Added: July 4, 2016, the SAIC promulgated the Interim Measures for the Administration of Internet Advertising , or the Internet
+Added: Advertising Measures, which became effective on September 1, 2016.
+Added: The Internet Advertising Measures provides additional compliance
+Added: requirements for online advertising business in addition to those requirements set forth in the Advertising Law.
+Added: Pursuant to the
+Added: Internet Advertising Measures, Internet Advertising refers to the commercial advertising for direct or indirect marketing goods
+Added: or services in the form of text, image, audio, video, or others means through websites, webpages, internet apps, or other internet
+Added: Major additional compliance requirements are:
+Added: (i) advertisements must be identifiable and marked with the word “advertisement,”
+Added: enabling consumers to distinguish them from non-advertisement content;
+Added: (ii) publishing advertisements on the Internet through
+Added: a pop-up page or in other forms shall provide a prominently marked “CLOSE”
+Added: button to ensure “one-click closure;”
+Added: (iii) sponsored search results must be clearly distinguished from organic search results;
+Added: (iv) it is forbidden to send advertisements
+Added: or advertisement links by email without the recipient’s permission or induce Internet users to click on an advertisement
+Added: in a deceptive manner;
+Added: and (v) internet information service providers that do not participate in the operation of internet advertisements
+Added: should stop publishing illegal advertisements if they know or should know that the advertisements are illegal.
+Added: According to Internet
+Added: Advertising Measures, it is not allowed to publish the online advertisement for prescription drugs, tobaccos and goods or services
+Added: prohibited from publish according to applicable laws and administrative regulations.
+Added: In addition, all advertisements for medical
+Added: treatment, pharmaceuticals, food formula for special medical purposes, medical devices, pesticides, veterinary drugs, healthcare
+Added: food and other special goods or services must be submitted to the relevant administrative authorities for content approval prior
+Added: to publishing.
+Added: Related to Internet Information Security and Privacy Protection
+Added: government authorities have enacted laws and regulations with respect to internet information security and protection of personal
+Added: information from any abuse or unauthorized disclosure.
+Added: Internet information in China is regulated and restricted from a national
+Added: security standpoint.
+Added: The SCNPC enacted the Decisions on Maintaining Internet Security in 2000 , and was amended on August
+Added: 27, 2009, which may subject violators to criminal punishment in China for any effort to:
+Added: (i) gain improper entry into a computer
+Added: or system of strategic importance;
+Added: (ii) disseminate politically disruptive information;
+Added: (iii) leak state secrets;
+Added: false commercial information;
+Added: or (v) infringe intellectual property rights.
+Added: The Ministry of Public Security has promulgated measures
+Added: that prohibit use of the internet in ways which, among other things, result in a leakage of state secrets or a spread of socially
+Added: destabilizing content.
+Added: If an internet information service provider violates these measures, the Ministry of Public Security and
+Added: the local security bureaus may revoke the service provider’s operating license and shut down our websites.
+Added: Under the Several Provisions
+Added: on Regulating the Market Order of Internet Information Services issued by the MIIT in 2011, an internet information service
+Added: provider may not collect any user personal information or provide any such information to third parties without the consent of
+Added: the users and it must expressly inform the users of the method, content and purpose of the collection and processing of such user
+Added: personal information and may only collect such information necessary to provide its services.
+Added: An internet information service provider
+Added: is also required to properly maintain the user personal information, and in case of any leak or likely leak of the user personal
+Added: information, the internet information service provider must take immediate remedial measures and, in severe circumstances, make
+Added: an immediate report to the telecommunications regulatory authority.
+Added: In addition, pursuant to the Decision on Strengthening the
+Added: Protection of Online Information issued by the SCNPC in December 2012 and the Order for the Protection of Telecommunication
+Added: and Internet User Personal Information issued by the MIIT in July 2013, any collection and use of user personal information
+Added: must (i) be subject to the consent of the user;
+Added: (ii) be in accordance with the principles of legality, rationality and necessity;
+Added: and (iii) be within the specified purposes, methods and scopes.
+Added: internet information service provider must also keep such information strictly confidential, and is prohibited from divulging,
+Added: tampering or destroying any such information, or selling or providing such information to other parties.
+Added: An internet information
+Added: service provider is required to take technical and other measures to prevent the collected personal information from any unauthorized
+Added: disclosure, damage or loss.
+Added: Any violation of these laws and regulations may subject the internet information service provider
+Added: to warnings, fines, confiscation of illegal gains, revocation of licenses, cancellation of filings, shut down of websites or even
+Added: criminal liabilities.
+Added: addition, pursuant to the Notice on Legally Punishing Criminal Activities Infringing upon the Personal Information of Citizens
+Added: issued by of the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security
+Added: in 2013, and the Interpretation on Several Issues regarding Legal Application in Criminal Cases Infringing upon the Personal
+Added: Information of Citizens issued by the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate in May 2017,
+Added: the following activities may constitute the crime of infringing upon a citizen’s personal information:(i) providing a citizen’s
+Added: personal information to specified persons or releasing a citizen’s personal information online or through other methods
+Added: in violation of relevant national provisions;
+Added: (ii) providing legitimately collected information relating to a citizen to others
+Added: without such citizen’s consent (unless the information is processed, not traceable to a specific person and not recoverable);
+Added: (iii) collecting a citizen’s personal information in violation of applicable rules and regulations when performing a duty
+Added: or providing services;
+Added: or (iv) collecting a citizen’s personal information by purchasing, accepting or exchanging such information
+Added: in violation of applicable rules and regulations.
+Added: pursuant to the Ninth Amendment to the Criminal Law issued by the SCNPC in August 29, 2015, which became effective in November
+Added: 2015, any internet service provider that fails to fulfill the obligations related to internet information security administration
+Added: as required by applicable laws and refuses to rectify upon orders is subject to criminal penalty for the result of (i) any dissemination
+Added: of illegal information in large scale;
+Added: (ii) any severe effect due to the leakage of the client’s information;
+Added: serious loss of criminal evidence;
+Added: or (iv) other severe situation.
+Added: In addition, any individual or entity that (a) sells or provides
+Added: personal information to others in a way violating the applicable law, or (b) steals or illegally obtains any personal information
+Added: is subject to criminal penalty in severe situation.
+Added: November 2016, the SCNPC promulgated the Network Security Law of the People’s Republic of China , or the Network Security
+Added: Law, effective June 1, 2017.
+Added: The Network Security Law is formulated to maintain the network security, safeguard the cyberspace
+Added: sovereignty, national security and public interests, protect the lawful rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other
+Added: organizations, and requires that a network operator, which includes, among others, internet information services providers, take
+Added: technical measures and other necessary measures in accordance with the provisions of applicable laws and regulations as well as
+Added: the compulsory requirements of the national and industrial standards to safeguard the safe and stable operation of the networks,
+Added: effectively respond to network security incidents, prevent illegal and criminal activities, and maintain the integrity, confidentiality
+Added: and availability of network data.
+Added: The Network Security Law emphasizes that any individuals and organizations that use networks
+Added: is required to comply with the PRC Constitution and laws, abide by public order and cannot endanger network security or make use
+Added: of networks to engage in unlawful activities such as endangering national security, economic order and social order, and infringing
+Added: the reputation, privacy, intellectual property rights and other lawful rights and interests of other people.
+Added: The Network Security
+Added: Law has reaffirmed the basic principles and requirements as specified in other existing laws and regulations on personal information
+Added: protections, such as the requirements on the collection, use, processing, storage and disclosure of personal information, and
+Added: internet service providers being required to take technical and other necessary measures to ensure the security of the personal
+Added: information they have collected and prevent the personal information from being divulged, damaged or lost.
+Added: Any violation of the
+Added: provisions and requirements under the Network Security Law may subject the internet service provider to warnings, fines, confiscation
+Added: of illegal gains, revocation of licenses, cancellation of filings, closedown of websites or even criminal liabilities.
+Added: comply with these PRC laws and regulations, we have adopted internal procedures to monitor content displayed on our website and
+Added: However, due to the large amount of data we generate and process, we may not be able to properly protect customers’
+Added: personal information and safeguard our networks.
+Added: See “Risk Factors —
+Added: Risks Relating to Our Business and Industry –
+Added: Our business generates and processes a large amount of data, and the improper use or disclosure of such data could harm our reputation
+Added: as well as have a material adverse effect on our business and prospects.”
+Added: Related to Intellectual Property Rights
+Added: the Copyright Law , issued in 1990 and most recently amended in 2010, or the Copyright Law, and our related Implementing
+Added: Regulations issued in 2002 and amended in 2013, creators of protected works enjoy personal and property rights with respect to
+Added: publication, authorship, alteration, integrity, reproduction, distribution, lease, exhibition, performance, projection, broadcasting,
+Added: dissemination via information network, production, adaptation, translation, compilation and related activities.
+Added: Other than the
+Added: rights of authorship, alternation and integrity of an author which shall be unlimited in time, the term of a copyright is the
+Added: life of the individual author plus 50 years, but for by a corporation the term is 50 years after first publication.
+Added: In consideration
+Added: of the social benefit and costs of copyrights, the PRC authorities balance copyright protections with limitations that permit
+Added: certain uses, such as for private study, research, personal entertainment and teaching, without compensation to the author or
+Added: prior authorization.
+Added: Measures for Administrative Protection of Copyright Related to Internet , which was jointly promulgated by the National
+Added: Copyright Administration, or NCA, and the MIIT on April 29, 2005, and became effective on May 30, 2005, provides that upon receipt
+Added: of an infringement notice from a legitimate copyright holder, an operator of Internet information services, or ICP operator, must
+Added: take remedial actions immediately by removing or disabling access to the infringing content.
+Added: If an ICP operator knowingly transmits
+Added: infringing content or fails to take remedial actions after receipt of a notice of infringement that harms public interest, the
+Added: ICP operator could be subject to administrative penalties, including an order to cease infringing activities, confiscation by
+Added: the authorities of all income derived from the infringement activities, or payment of fines.
+Added: May 18, 2006, the State Council promulgated the Regulations on the Protection of the Right to Network Dissemination of Information
+Added: (as amended in 2013) .
+Added: Under these regulations, an owner of the network dissemination rights with respect to written works
+Added: or audio or video recordings who believes that information storage, search or link services provided by an Internet service provider
+Added: infringe his or her rights may require that the Internet service provider delete, or disconnect the links to, such works or recordings.
+Added: order to further implement the Computer Software Protection Regulations promulgated by the State Council in 2001 and amended
+Added: in January 2013, the National Copyright Administration issued the Computer Software Copyright Registration Procedures in 2002,
+Added: which apply to software copyright registration, license contract registration and transfer contract registration.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, we had twenty-eight (28) registered software copyrights and three (3) work copyrights.
+Added: on Trademarks
+Added: Registered trademarks are
+Added: protected by the Trademark Law of the PRC (Revised in 2019) which was adopted in 1982 and subsequently amended in 1993,
+Added: 2001, 2013 and 2019, respectively as well as by the Implementation Regulations of the PRC Trademark Law adopted by the State
+Added: Council in 2002 and as most recently amended on April 29, 2014.
+Added: The Trademark Office under the SAIC handles trademark registrations.
+Added: The Trademark Office grants a ten-year term to registered trademarks and the term may be renewed for another ten-year period upon
+Added: request by the trademark owner.
+Added: A trademark registrant may license their registered trademarks to another party by entering into
+Added: trademark license agreements, which must be filed with the Trademark Office for record.
+Added: As with patents, the Trademark Law has
+Added: adopted a first-to-file principle with respect to trademark registration.
+Added: If a trademark applied for is identical or similar to
+Added: another trademark that has already been registered or subject to a preliminary examination and approval for use on the same or
+Added: similar kinds of products or services, such trademark application may be rejected.
+Added: Any person applying for the registration of
+Added: a trademark may not injure existing trademark rights first obtained by others, nor may any person register in advance a trademark
+Added: that has already been used by another party and has already gained a “sufficient degree of reputation”
+Added: party’s use.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, we had forty-five (45) registered trademarks and sixteen (16) trademarks registration applications in the
+Added: on Domain Names
+Added: MIIT promulgated the Measures on Administration of Internet Domain Names , or the Domain Name Measures, on August 24, 2017,
+Added: which took effect on November 1, 2017, and replaced the Administrative Measures on China Internet Domain Name promulgated
+Added: by MII on November 5, 2004.
+Added: According to the Domain Name Measures, the MIIT is in charge of the administration of PRC internet
+Added: domain names.
+Added: The domain name registration follows a first-to-file principle.
+Added: Applicants for registration of domain names must
+Added: provide the true, accurate and complete information of their identities to domain name registration service institutions.
+Added: applicants will become the holder of such domain names upon the completion of the registration procedure.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, we had 3 domain names in PRC.
+Added: The PRC Labor Contract
+Added: Law was promulgated on June 29, 2007, as amended on December 28, 2012, and became effective on July 1, 2013.
+Added: According to the
+Added: PRC Labor Contract Law of PRC, labor contracts must be entered into if labor relationships are to be established between an entity
+Added: and the employees.
+Added: The entity cannot require the employees to work in excess of the time limit as permitted under the relevant
+Added: labor laws and regulations and shall pay the employees wages that are no lower than local standards on minimum wages.
+Added: shall also abide by the aforementioned laws and regulations and perform procedures for dissolution and termination of labor contracts,
+Added: payment of labor remuneration and economic compensation, use of labor dispatch and payment of social insurance.
+Added: on Social Insurance and Housing Provident Fund
+Added: to the PRC Social Insurance Law issued by the SCNPC on October 28, 2010, and implemented on July 1, 2011, and subsequently
+Added: revised on December 29, 2018, the state established a social insurance system including basic pension insurance, basic medical
+Added: insurance, unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance and maternity insurance, under which both employers and individuals
+Added: are required to pay social insurance premiums.
+Added: Migrant workers participate in such social insurance schemes, and foreigners employed
+Added: within the territory of the PRC also participate in social insurance as well.
+Added: Violations of the PRC Social Insurance Law may result
+Added: in the imposition of fines, and criminal liability may be incurred in serious cases.
+Added: An employer that fails to make social insurance
+Added: contributions may be ordered to rectify the non-compliance and pay the required contributions within a stipulated deadline and
+Added: be subject to a late fee of 0.05% per day, as the case may be.
+Added: If the employer still fails to rectify the failure to make social
+Added: insurance contributions within the deadline, it may be subject to a fine ranging from one to three times the amount overdue.
+Added: to the Regulations on Management of Housing Provident Fund which was promulgated and implemented by the State Council on
+Added: April 3, 1999, and subsequently revised on March 24, 2002, and March 24, 2019, enterprises in China are required to register with
+Added: the housing provident fund management center within 30 days from the date of establishment, and complete the procedures for establishment
+Added: of housing accumulation fund accounts for their employees within 20 days from the date of registration.
+Added: In violation of such regulation,
+Added: an enterprise that fails to make housing fund contributions may be ordered to rectify the noncompliance and pay the required contributions
+Added: within a stipulated deadline.
+Added: on Foreign Exchange Registration of Offshore Investment by PRC Residents
+Added: On July 4, 2014, State Administration
+Added: of Foreign Exchange, or the SAFE, promulgated the Circular on Relevant Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Control on Domestic
+Added: Residents’
+Added: Offshore Investment and Financing and Roundtrip Investment through Special Purpose Vehicles , or SAFE Circular
+Added: 37, which replaced the former circular commonly known as “SAFE Circular 75”
+Added: promulgated by SAFE on October 21, 2005.
+Added: SAFE Circular 37 requires PRC residents to register with local branches of SAFE in connection with their direct establishment or
+Added: indirect control of an offshore entity, for the purpose of overseas investment and financing, with such PRC residents’
+Added: owned assets or equity interests in domestic enterprises or offshore assets or interests, referred to in SAFE Circular 37 as a
+Added: “special purpose vehicle.”
+Added: SAFE Circular 37 further requires amendment to the registration in the event of any significant
+Added: changes with respect to the special purpose vehicle, such as increase or decrease of capital contributed by PRC individuals, share
+Added: transfer or exchange, merger, division or other material event.
+Added: In the event that a PRC shareholder holding interests in a special
+Added: purpose vehicle fails to fulfill the required SAFE registration, the PRC subsidiaries of that special purpose vehicle may be prohibited
+Added: from making profit distributions to the offshore parent and from carrying out subsequent cross-border foreign exchange activities,
+Added: and the special purpose vehicle may be restricted in our ability to contribute additional capital into our PRC subsidiary.
+Added: failure to comply with the various SAFE registration requirements described above could result in liability under PRC law for evasion
+Added: of foreign exchange controls.
+Added: SAFE promulgated the Notice on Further Simplifying and Improving the Administration of the Foreign
+Added: Exchange Concerning Direct Investment in February 2015, which took effect on June 1, 2015.
+Added: This notice has amended SAFE Circular
+Added: 37 requiring PRC residents or entities to register with qualified banks rather than SAFE or their local branches in connection
+Added: with their establishment or control of an offshore entity established for the purpose of overseas investment or financing.
+Added: on Foreign Currency Exchange
+Added: principal regulation governing foreign currency exchange in China is the Foreign Exchange Administration Rules of the PRC ,
+Added: or the Foreign Exchange Administration Rules, promulgated on January 29, 1996, as subsequently amended on January 14, 1997, and
+Added: August 1, 2008.
+Added: Under these rules, RMB is generally freely convertible for payments of current account items, such as trade and
+Added: service-related foreign exchange transactions and dividend payments, but not freely convertible for capital account items, such
+Added: as capital transfer, direct investment, investment in securities, derivative products or loan unless prior approval of SAFE is
+Added: the Foreign Exchange Administration Rules, foreign-invested enterprises in the PRC may purchase foreign exchange without the approval
+Added: of SAFE for paying dividends by providing certain evidencing documents, such as board resolutions and tax certificates, or for
+Added: trade and services-related foreign exchange transactions by providing commercial documents evidencing such transactions.
+Added: are also allowed to retain foreign currency, subject to an approval by SAFE of a cap amount, to satisfy foreign exchange liabilities.
+Added: In addition, foreign exchange transactions involving overseas direct investment or investment and exchange in securities and derivative
+Added: products abroad are subject to registration with SAFE and approval or file with the relevant governmental authorities if necessary.
+Added: On November 19, 2012, SAFE
+Added: promulgated the Circular of Further Improving and Adjusting Foreign Exchange Administration Policies on Foreign Direct Investment,
+Added: which was amended on May 4, 2015, and October 10, 2018, respectively.
+Added: This Circular substantially amends and simplifies the current
+Added: foreign exchange procedure.
+Added: Pursuant to this circular, the opening of various special purpose foreign exchange accounts, such as
+Added: pre-establishment expenses accounts, foreign exchange capital accounts and guarantee accounts, the reinvestment of RMB proceeds
+Added: by foreign investors in the PRC, and remittance of foreign exchange profits and dividends by a foreign-invested enterprise to our
+Added: foreign shareholders no longer require the approval or verification of SAFE, and multiple capital accounts for the same entity
+Added: may be opened in different provinces, which was not possible previously.
+Added: In addition, SAFE promulgated the Circular on Printing
+Added: and Distributing the Provisions on Foreign Exchange Administration over Domestic Direct Investment by Foreign Investors and the
+Added: Supporting Documents in May 2013 and was further amended on October 10, 2018, which specifies that the administration by SAFE
+Added: or their local branches over direct investment by foreign investors in the PRC shall be conducted by way of registration and banks
+Added: shall process foreign exchange business relating to the direct investment in the PRC based on the registration information provided
+Added: by SAFE and their branches.
+Added: February 13, 2015, SAFE promulgated the Notice on Further Simplifying and Improving the Administration of the Foreign Exchange
+Added: Concerning Direct Investment, or SAFE Notice 13.
+Added: After SAFE Notice 13 became effective on June 1, 2015, instead of applying
+Added: for approvals regarding foreign exchange registrations of foreign direct investment and overseas direct investment from SAFE,
+Added: entities and individuals will be required to apply for such foreign exchange registrations from qualified banks.
+Added: The qualified
+Added: banks, under the supervision of SAFE, will directly examine the applications and conduct the registration.
+Added: The Circular on Reforming
+Added: the Management Approach regarding the Settlement of Foreign Capital of Foreign-invested Enterprise , or the SAFE Circular No.
+Added: 19, which was promulgated by the SAFE on March 30, 2015 and became effective on June 1, 2015, provides that a foreign-invested
+Added: enterprise may, according to their actual business needs, settle with a bank the portion of the foreign exchange capital in their
+Added: capital account for which the relevant foreign exchange administration has confirmed monetary capital contribution rights and interests
+Added: (or for which the bank has registered the injection of the monetary capital contribution into the account).
+Added: Pursuant to the SAFE
+Added: Circular No.19, for the time being, foreign-invested enterprises are allowed to settle 100% of their foreign exchange capitals
+Added: on a discretionary basis;
+Added: a foreign-invested enterprise shall truthfully use their capital for our own operational purposes within
+Added: the scope of business;
+Added: where an ordinary foreign-invested enterprise makes domestic equity investment with the amount of foreign
+Added: exchanges settled, the invested enterprise shall first go through domestic re-investment registration and open a corresponding
+Added: account for foreign exchange settlement pending payment with the foreign exchange administration or the bank at the place where
+Added: it is registered.
+Added: Circular on Reforming and Regulating Policies on the Control over Foreign Exchange Settlement of Capital Accounts , or the
+Added: SAFE Circular No.
+Added: 16, which was promulgated by the SAFE and became effective on June 9, 2016, provides that enterprises registered
+Added: in the PRC may also convert their foreign debts from foreign currency into Renminbi on a self-discretionary basis.
+Added: The SAFE Circular
+Added: 16 also provides an integrated standard for conversion of foreign exchange under capital account items (including but not
+Added: limited to foreign currency capital and foreign debts) on self-discretionary basis, which applies to all enterprises registered
+Added: Enterprise Income Tax
+Added: According to the Enterprise
+Added: Income Tax, or EIT Law , which was promulgated by the NPC on March 16, 2007, and implemented on January 1, 2008, and subsequently
+Added: revised on February 24, 2017, and December 29, 2018, and the Implementation Regulations of EIT Law, which was promulgated by the
+Added: State Council on December 6, 2007, and implemented on January 1, 2008 and amended on April 23, 2019, enterprises are divided into
+Added: resident enterprises and non-resident enterprises.
+Added: Resident enterprises, which refer to enterprises that are set up in accordance
+Added: with the PRC law, or that are set up in accordance with the law of the foreign country (region) but with actual administration
+Added: institution in China, pay enterprise income tax originating both within and outside China at the tax rate of 25%.
+Added: enterprises refer to entities established under foreign law whose actual administration institution is not within China but have
+Added: institution or premises in China, or which do not have institution or premises in China but have income sourced within China.
+Added: enterprises that have set up institutions or premises in China pay enterprise income tax at the tax rate of 25% in relation to
+Added: the income originated from China and obtained by the aforementioned institutions or premises, as well as the income incurred outside
+Added: China, provided there is an actual relationship between such income and the aforementioned institutions or premises.
+Added: For non-resident
+Added: enterprises that have no institutions or premises in China, or, although they have institutions or premises in China, there is
+Added: no actual relationship between the income and the aforementioned institutions or premises, they pay enterprise income tax at the
+Added: tax rate of 10% in relation to the income originated from China.
+Added: The aforementioned income includes income from sales of goods,
+Added: provision of labor services, transfer of property, equity investment including dividends, interest income, rental income, income
+Added: from royalties, donations and other income.
+Added: In addition, according to the EIT Law and the Implementation Regulations of EIT Law,
+Added: for the income incurred from equity investment including dividends and bonus among eligible resident enterprises, and the income
+Added: which is incurred from equity investment including dividends and bonus obtained from resident enterprise by non-resident enterprises
+Added: that have set up institutions or premises in China and the income has an actual relationship with such institutions or premises,
+Added: such incomes are tax-free income.
+Added: High and New Technology Enterprises
+Added: to EIT Law and its implementation rules, certain “high and new technology enterprises”
+Added: that hold independent ownership
+Added: of core intellectual property and simultaneously meet a list of other criteria, financial or non-financial, as stipulated in the
+Added: implementation rules, will enjoy a reduced 15% enterprise income tax rate.
+Added: The State Administration of Taxation, the Ministry
+Added: of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the Administrative Rules for the Certification of High and
+Added: New Technology Enterprises delineating the specific criteria and procedures for the “high and new technology enterprises”
+Added: certification in April 2008.
+Added: October 15, 2019, one of our VIE subsidiaries, Leshare Star (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (悦享星光(北京)科技有限公司),
+Added: was recognized as a “high and new technology enterprise”
+Added: by the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission,
+Added: Beijing Municipal Finance Bureau and Beijing Municipal Tax Service of State Taxation Administration and will be entitled to a
+Added: preferential tax rate of 15%, subject to certain qualification criteria, from 2020 to 2022.
+Added: to Several Opinions on Promoting the Development of High and New Technology Enterprises in Zhongguancun Science Park, Administrative
+Added: Measures for Zhongguancun High and New Technology Enterprise Bank (For Trial Implementation) and Measures for Financial Support
+Added: of Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone to Enhance Innovation Ability and Optimize Innovation Environment,
+Added: the enterprise recognized as qualified high and new technology enterprises by Zhongguancun Science Park Management Committee is
+Added: entitled to a series of special services and financial supports when it meets certain criteria, such as financial incentive for
+Added: being award of patents and registration of international trademarks, more opportunities of participate in intergovernmental scientific
+Added: and technological cooperation projects, more opportunities of its technologies, products and services enter the international
+Added: market, entrepreneurship training related services and other preferential treatments.
+Added: December 10, 2019 and December 16, 2019, Leshare Star (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.(悦享星光(北京)科技有限公司)and
+Added: Glory Star Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd.(耀世星辉(北京)传媒有限公司)were
+Added: recognized as qualified high and new technology enterprises by Zhongguancun Science Park Management Committee and will entitle
+Added: them aforesaid preferential treatments, subject to certain qualification criteria, from 2019 to 2021.
+Added: on PRC Value-added Tax
+Added: to the Interim Regulations of PRC on Value-added Tax, which was promulgated by the State Council on December 13, 1993 and
+Added: subsequently revised on November 10, 2008, February 6, 2016 and November 19, 2017 and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation
+Added: of the Interim Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Value-added Tax which was promulgated by the Ministry
+Added: of Finance (the “MOF”) on December 25, 1993, and subsequently revised on December 15, 2008 and October 28, 2011, entities
+Added: and individuals that sell goods or labor services of processing, repair or replacement, sell services, intangible assets, or immovables,
+Added: or import goods within the territory of China are taxpayers of value-added tax (“VAT”), and pay VAT in accordance
+Added: Unless otherwise stipulated, the VAT rate is 17% for taxpayers selling goods, labor services, or tangible movable property
+Added: leasing services or importing goods;
+Added: 11% for taxpayers selling transportation, postal, basic telecommunications, construction,
+Added: or immovable leasing services, selling immovables, transferring land use rights, or selling or importing specific goods;
+Added: otherwise stipulated, 6% for taxpayers selling services or intangible assets.
+Added: On March 23, 2016, the MOF
+Added: and the SAT published the Circular of the MOF and the SAT on Fully Launch of the Pilot Scheme for the Conversion of Business
+Added: Tax to Value-added Tax and annexes, pursuant to which entities and individuals that sell services, intangible assets, or immovables
+Added: pay VAT instead of business tax since May 1, 2016.
+Added: to the Circular of the MOF and the SAT on Adjusting Value-added Tax Rate, which was promulgated by the MOF and the SAT
+Added: on April 4, 2018, and became effective on May 1, 2018, the tax rates for the taxable sales or goods import activity, which were
+Added: subject to the tax rates of 17% and 11%, respectively, were adjusted to 16% and 10%, respectively.
+Added: to the Circular on Policies in Relation to the Deepening of Value-added Tax Reforms, which was jointly promulgated by the
+Added: MOF, the SAT and the General Administration of Customs on March 20, 2019, the tax rate of 16% and 10% originally applicable to
+Added: general VAT taxpayers’
+Added: VAT taxable sales or goods import shall be adjusted to 13% and 9%, respectively.
+Added: The EIT Law prescribes a
+Added: standard withholding tax rate of 20% on dividends and other PRC sourced passive income of non-resident enterprises.
+Added: The Implementation
+Added: Rules reduced the rate from 20% to 10%.
+Added: The central government of the PRC and the government of Hong Kong signed the Arrangement
+Added: between the Mainland of the PRC and Hong Kong for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with
+Added: respect to Taxes on Income on August 21, 2006, or the Arrangement.
+Added: According to the Arrangement, no more than 5% withholding
+Added: tax shall apply to dividends paid by a PRC company to a Hong Kong resident, provided that the recipient is a company that holds
+Added: at least 25% of the equity interests of the PRC company and is deemed as the “beneficial owner”
+Added: under the Arrangement.
+Added: Notice on the Implementation of the Fourth Protocol of Arrangement between Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong SAR on Avoidance of
+Added: Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income (Announcement [2016] No.12 of the State Administration
+Added: of Taxation), Announcement of the State Administration of Taxation on the Implementation of the Third Protocol of Arrangement
+Added: between Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong SAR on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes
+Added: on Income , Announcement [2011] No.1 , Notice on the Implementation of the Second Protocol of Arrangement between Chinese
+Added: Mainland and Hong Kong SAR on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income
+Added: (Guo Shui Han [2008] No.
+Added: 685) and Circular of the State Administration of Taxation on Interpreting and Implementing Some Clauses
+Added: in the Arrangement between Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR concerning Avoiding Double Taxation and Preventing Tax Evasion on Income
+Added: (Guo Shui Han [2007] No.
+Added: 403), which was partially repealed on January 4, 2011 and August 27, 2015, have amended the Arrangement
+Added: February 3, 2018, the SAT promulgated Announcement of the State Administration of Taxation on Issues Relating to “Beneficial
+Added: in Tax Treaties, State Administration of Taxation Announcement [2018] No.
+Added: 9 , Circular 9, which clarifies that
+Added: a beneficial owner shall be a person who has ownership and control over the income and the rights and property from which the
+Added: income is derived.
+Added: To prove “beneficial owner”
+Added: status, the applicant shall submit the materials pursuant to the provisions
+Added: of Article 7 of the Announcement of the State Administration of Taxation on Promulgation of the “
+Added: Administrative Measures
+Added: on Entitlement of Non-residents to Treatment under Tax Treaties”
+Added: (State Administration of Taxation Announcement [2015]
+Added: 60, was amended by Announcement of the State Administration of Taxation on Partially Amending Taxation Regulatory Documents
+Added: on June 15, 2018).
+Added: Therein, where an applicant is a “beneficial owner”
+Added: pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of
+Added: this Announcement, the applicant shall also provide, in addition to the tax resident identity of the applicant, the tax resident
+Added: identity documents of the person who satisfies the criteria for “beneficial owner”
+Added: and the person who satisfies the
+Added: criteria, issued by the tax authorities in charge at the country (region) where he/she resides;
+Added: where the applicant is a “beneficial
+Added: pursuant to the provisions of item (4) of Article 4 of this Announcement, the applicant shall also provide, in addition
+Added: to the tax resident identity document of the applicant, the tax resident identity documents of the person who holds 100% of the
+Added: applicant’s shares directly or indirectly and the multi-tier holders, issued by the tax authorities in charge at the country
+Added: (region) for which the said person and the multi-tier holders are residents;
+Added: the tax resident identity document shall prove that
+Added: the person is a tax resident in the year in which the income is obtained or the preceding year.
+Added: on Tax regarding Indirect Transfer
+Added: On February 3, 2015, the
+Added: SAT issued the Circular on Issues of Enterprise Income Tax on Indirect Transfers of Assets by Non-PRC Resident Enterprises ,
+Added: or Circular 7.
+Added: Pursuant to Circular 7, an “indirect transfer”
+Added: of assets, including equity interests in a PRC resident
+Added: enterprise, by non-PRC resident enterprises, may be re-characterized and treated as a direct transfer of PRC taxable assets, if
+Added: such arrangement does not have a reasonable commercial purpose and is established for the purpose of avoiding payment of PRC enterprise
+Added: As a result, gains derived from such indirect transfer may be subject to PRC enterprise income tax.
+Added: When determining
+Added: whether there is a “reasonable commercial purpose”
+Added: of the transaction arrangement, considerations include, inter alia,
+Added: (i) whether the main value of the equity interest of the relevant offshore enterprise derives directly or indirectly from PRC taxable
+Added: (ii) whether the assets of the relevant offshore enterprise mainly consists of direct or indirect investment in China or
+Added: if our income is mainly derived from China;
+Added: and (iii) whether the offshore enterprise and their subsidiaries directly or indirectly
+Added: holding PRC taxable assets have real commercial nature evidenced by their actual function and risk exposure.
+Added: According to the Circular
+Added: 7, where the payer fails to withhold any or sufficient tax, the transferor shall declare and pay such tax to the tax authority
+Added: by itself within the statutory time limit.
+Added: Late payment of applicable tax will subject the transferor to default interest.
+Added: Circular 7 does not apply to transactions of sale of shares by investors through a public stock exchange where such shares were
+Added: acquired on a public stock exchange.
+Added: On October 17, 2017, the SAT issued the Circular on Issues of Tax Withholding regarding Non-PRC
+Added: Resident Enterprise Income Tax, or SAT Circular 37, which further elaborates the relevant implemental rules regarding the calculation,
+Added: reporting and payment obligations of the withholding tax by the non-resident enterprises.
+Added: Nonetheless, there remain uncertainties
+Added: as to the interpretation and application of the SAT Circular 7.
+Added: The SAT Circular 7 may be determined by the tax authorities to
+Added: be applicable to our offshore transactions or sale of our shares or those of our offshore subsidiaries where non-resident enterprises,
+Added: being the transferors, were involved.
+Added: Regarding Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors
+Added: On August 8, 2006, six PRC
+Added: regulatory agencies, including MOFCOM, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the
+Added: State Administration for Taxation, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the CSRC and SAFE, jointly adopted the Regulations
+Added: on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors , or the M&A Rules, which became effective on September
+Added: 8, 2006, and were amended on June 26, 2009.
+Added: The M&A Rules, among other things, include provisions that purport to require an
+Added: offshore special purpose vehicle formed for the purpose of acquiring PRC domestic companies and controlled by PRC individuals to
+Added: obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to the listing and trading of such special purpose vehicle’s securities on an overseas
+Added: stock exchange.
+Added: On September 21, 2006, the CSRC published on their official website procedures regarding approval of overseas listings
+Added: by special purpose vehicles.
+Added: The CSRC approval procedures require the filing of an application and supporting documents with the
+Added: OF OUR BUSINESS
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