CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Under the supervision and with the participation
−Removed: of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer, we conducted an evaluation
−Removed: of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, as such
−Removed: term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer
−Removed: and principal financial and accounting officer have concluded that during the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures were effective.
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures are designed
−Removed: to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in our Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported
−Removed: within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated
−Removed: to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer or persons performing similar functions,
−Removed: as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: Report does not include a report of management’s assessment regarding internal control over financial reporting due to a
−Removed: transition period established by rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission for newly public companies.
−Removed: This annual report
−Removed: does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As a smaller reporting company, management’s report is not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm.
+Added: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial
+Added: and accounting officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end
+Added: of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act.
+Added: on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer have concluded that during
+Added: the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
+Added: controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in our Exchange Act reports is
+Added: recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such
+Added: information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial
+Added: officer or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Management’s
+Added: Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
+Added: is responsible for the preparation of our financial statements and related information.
+Added: Management uses its best judgment to ensure
+Added: that the financial statements present fairly, in material respects, our financial position and results of operations in conformity
+Added: with generally accepted accounting principles.
+Added: Management is responsible for establishing
+Added: and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in the Exchange Act.
+Added: These internal controls are
+Added: designed to provide reasonable assurance that the reported financial information is presented fairly, that disclosures are adequate
+Added: and that the judgments inherent in the preparation of financial statements are reasonable.
+Added: There are inherent limitations in the
+Added: effectiveness of any system of internal controls including the possibility of human error and overriding of controls.
+Added: Consequently,
+Added: an ineffective internal control system can only provide reasonable, not absolute, assurance with respect to reporting financial
+Added: Our internal control over financial reporting
+Added: includes policies and procedures that:
+Added: (i) pertain to maintaining records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect
+Added: our transactions;
+Added: (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary for preparation of our financial
+Added: statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and that the receipts and expenditures of company assets
+Added: are made in accordance with our management and directors authorization;
+Added: and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding the prevention
+Added: of or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of assets that could have a material effect on our financial
+Added: Under the supervision of management, including
+Added: our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control
+Added: over financial reporting based on the framework in Internal Control - Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
+Added: Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) and subsequent guidance prepared by the Commission specifically for smaller
+Added: public companies as of December 31, 2018.
+Added: Based on that evaluation, our management concluded that our internal control over financial
+Added: reporting was effective as of December 31, 2018.
+Added: Our management, including our Chief Executive
+Added: Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal controls will
+Added: prevent all error and all fraud.
+Added: A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not
+Added: absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met.
+Added: Further, the design of a control system must reflect the
+Added: fact that there are resource constraints and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs.
+Added: Due to the inherent
+Added: limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances
+Added: of fraud, if any, within our company have been detected.
+Added: This annual report does not include an
+Added: attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Management’s
+Added: report was not subject to attestation by the company’s registered public accounting firm pursuant to SEC rules that permit
+Added: us to provide only management’s report on internal control over financial reporting in this annual report on Form 10-K.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial
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DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
−Removed: The following table sets forth information about our directors and
−Removed: executive officers as of April 16, 2018.
+Added: The following table sets forth information about our directors
+Added: and executive officers as of March 15, 2018.
Non-executive Chairman of the Board
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President, Chief Financial Officer and Director
−Removed: Chief Operating Officer
Michele Smith
−Removed: Maryann Tseng
−Removed: Below is a summary of the business experience of each of our executive
−Removed: officers and directors
+Added: Below is a summary of the business experience of each of our
+Added: executive officers and directors
Anthony Ho has been our non-executive
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company since August 2015.
+Added: From August 2018 until present, Mr.
+Added: Wang has served as the Chairman and CEO of TKK Symphony Acquisition
+Added: Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed SPAC focused on Asian consumer opportunities.
Since May 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Wang has been the Vice General Manager (non-executive) of CMIG Capital Company Limited.
+Added: Wang has been the Vice General Manager
+Added: (non-executive) of CMIG Capital Company Limited.
From February 2016 to May 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Wang was the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of China Minsheng Financial Holding
−Removed: Corporation Limited (HKEx:
+Added: Wang was the Chief Executive Officer and Executive
+Added: Director of China Minsheng Financial Holding Corporation Limited (HKEx:
Since 1991, Mr.
−Removed: Wang has been the founder, owner and manager of Amerinvest Group, a personal investment
+Added: Wang has been the founder, owner
+Added: and manager of Amerinvest Group, a personal investment firm.
From September 2015 until December 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Wang was a Senior Advisor to TPG China, Limited (Growth Platform).
−Removed: 2006 to August 2015, Mr.
−Removed: Wang was a Partner at TPG, served as a Co-Chairman of TPG Greater China and the Head of TPG Growth North
+Added: Wang was a Senior Advisor
+Added: to TPG China, Limited (Growth Platform).
+Added: From May 2006 to August 2015, Mr.
+Added: Wang was a Partner at TPG, served as a Co-Chairman of
+Added: TPG Greater China and the Head of TPG Growth North Asia.
Prior to joining TPG, Mr.
−Removed: Wang was the CEO and Executive Director of TOM Group Limited (HKEx:
−Removed: 2383) from mid-2000 to early
−Removed: 2006, a Chinese-language media and internet conglomerate in Greater China.
−Removed: Previously, Mr.
−Removed: Wang was with Goldman Sachs from 1993
−Removed: to 2000, including serving as the Head of China High Technology in Hong Kong, and manager at HSBC Private Equity from November
−Removed: 1992 to June 1993, and a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Co.
−Removed: from November 1989 to September 1992.
−Removed: Wang has served
−Removed: on several boards, including:
−Removed: Independent Non-Executive Director of Sands China Limited (since July 2017 to present);
−Removed: of Evolution Media China (March 2016 until December 2017);
−Removed: Non-executive director of China Renewable Energy Investment Limited
+Added: Wang was the CEO and Executive Director of TOM
+Added: Group Limited (HKEx:
+Added: 2383) from mid-2000 to early 2006, a Chinese-language media and internet conglomerate in Greater China.
+Added: Wang was with Goldman Sachs from 1993 to 2000, including serving as the Head of China High Technology in Hong Kong, and manager
+Added: at HSBC Private Equity from November 1992 to June 1993, and a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Co.
+Added: from November 1989 to
+Added: September 1992.
+Added: Wang has served on several boards, including:
+Added: Independent Non-Executive Director of Sands China Limited (since
+Added: July 2017 to present);
+Added: Chairman of Evolution Media China (March 2016 until December 2017);
+Added: Non-executive director of China Renewable
+Added: Energy Investment Limited (HKEx:
987) (June 2011 to October 2015);
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2318) (1994 to 2000);
−Removed: and Director of China
−Removed: Resources Land Limited (HKEx:
+Added: and Director of China Resources Land Limited (HKEx:
1109) (1996 to 1999).
−Removed: Wang graduated from Yunnan University, China, with a Bachelor of Science
−Removed: degree in Chemistry, and from the University of Oxford, UK, with multiple degrees including a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy,
−Removed: Politics and Economics, an Oxford Master of Arts, and a Master of Science degree in Forestry.
−Removed: In addition, from June 2011 to May
+Added: Wang graduated from Yunnan University, China, with
+Added: a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, and from the University of Oxford, UK, with multiple degrees including a Bachelor of
+Added: Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, an Oxford Master of Arts, and a Master of Science degree in Forestry.
+Added: from June 2011 to May 2013, Mr.
Wang was a member of the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.
−Removed: From May 2011 to Nov 2015, Mr.
−Removed: as the Chairman of the Industry Policy Committee (IPC) of China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA).
−Removed: a Standing Committee Member of the 9th, 10th and 11th Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative
−Removed: Conference from January 2003 until January 2018.
+Added: From May 2011 to
+Added: Nov 2015, Mr.
+Added: Wang served as the Chairman of the Industry Policy Committee (IPC) of China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
+Added: He was also a Standing Committee Member of the 9th, 10th and 11th Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s
+Added: Political Consultative Conference from January 2003 until January 2018.
Cannon has been our President,
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a privately owned investment firm, focused on Asian private investments.
−Removed: From June 2014 until July 2016, Mr.
−Removed: Cannon was CEO and
−Removed: a director of DT Asia Acquisition Corp, a Nasdaq-listed SPAC, which successfully consummated its merger with a Chinese company,
−Removed: China Lending Corporation (NASD:
+Added: From June 2018 until present, Mr.
+Added: Cannon has served as
+Added: the CFO and President of Twelve Seas Investment Company, a Nasdaq-listed SPAC focused on European opportunities.
+Added: From June 2014
+Added: until July 2016, Mr.
+Added: Cannon was CEO and a director of DT Asia Acquisition Corp, a Nasdaq-listed SPAC, which successfully consummated
+Added: its merger with a Chinese company, China Lending Corporation (NASD:
From April 2010 until October 2014, Mr.
−Removed: Cannon was a Partner and Head of China for RedBridge
−Removed: Group Ltd, a boutique merchant banking firm focused on Chinese and Arabian Gulf cross-border investments.
−Removed: From June 2009 until
−Removed: October 2014, Mr.
+Added: Partner and Head of China for RedBridge Group Ltd, a boutique merchant banking firm focused on Chinese and Arabian Gulf cross-border
+Added: From June 2009 until October 2014, Mr.
Cannon was a senior advisor at Ackrell & Co, a U.S.
broker-dealer.
−Removed: From May 2007 until April 2010, Mr.
−Removed: served in various capacities with Hambrecht Asia Acquisition Corp., a Nasdaq-listed SPAC.
−Removed: Cannon was a co-founder, initial
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer and a director, and then VP of Acquisitions, for Hambrecht Asia Acquisition Corp.
−Removed: From July 2005 until
−Removed: October 2008, Mr.
−Removed: Cannon served as a Managing Director of Asian investment banking for WR Hambrecht & Co.
−Removed: Prior to WR Hambrecht
+Added: May 2007 until April 2010, Mr.
+Added: Cannon served in various capacities with Hambrecht Asia Acquisition Corp., a Nasdaq-listed SPAC.
+Added: Cannon was a co-founder, initial Chief Financial Officer and a director, and then VP of Acquisitions, for Hambrecht Asia Acquisition
+Added: From July 2005 until October 2008, Mr.
+Added: Cannon served as a Managing Director of Asian investment banking for WR Hambrecht
+Added: Prior to WR Hambrecht & Co, Mr.
Cannon worked at the following investment banking firms:
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and Salomon Brothers (1991-1993).
−Removed: Cannon graduated from
−Removed: the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor degree in Economics.
−Removed: currently an advisor to the Royal family of Cambodia.
−Removed: In addition, he serves as a board member of the Cambodian Hotel Association.
−Removed: Alan Kai Yuu Chow has been our Chief
−Removed: Operating Officer since July 2017.
−Removed: From September 2016 to April 2018, Mr.
−Removed: Chow has been the Head of Operations of CM Asset Management
−Removed: (Hongkong) Company Limited.
−Removed: From February 2014 to September 2016, Mr.
−Removed: Chow was Head of Operations and Risk Management of Neo-Criterion
−Removed: Capital Limited, a boutique asset manager focused on China A-Shares investment.
−Removed: From August 2012 to January 2014, Mr.
−Removed: Vice President of Operations of the Absolute Return Platform under the China Everbright umbrella, where he was responsible for
−Removed: running operations for this hedge fund platform.
−Removed: From 2005 to 2012, Mr.
−Removed: Chow held various roles in risk management and product
−Removed: control on both the buy and sell sides, including at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and Maple Leaf Capital.
−Removed: From 2000 to 2002,
−Removed: Chow started his career as a software designer at Nortel Networks in Canada.
−Removed: He graduated from Queen’s University of
−Removed: Canada with an MBA degree in 2003 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 2000.
−Removed: Chow is a CAIA and FRM
−Removed: Charterholder.
−Removed: Bing Lin has been our director since
−Removed: November 2016 and previously served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from July 2017 through February 19, 2018.
−Removed: had served as a Managing Director of CM Asset Management (Hongkong) Company Limited, the investment manager of our sponsor, from
−Removed: March 2016 until December 2017.
−Removed: From November 2014 to December 2015, Mr.
−Removed: Lin founded and ran Gaohui Fund, a pan-Asia long/short
−Removed: From February 2012 to October 2014, Mr.
−Removed: Lin was an Executive Director and a member of the investment committee of
−Removed: Keywise Capital Management (HK) Limited.
−Removed: From November 2005 to December 2011, Mr.
−Removed: Lin was a Principal and Chief Investment Officer
−Removed: of MICH Investments Limited.
−Removed: From August 2004 to October 2005, Mr.
−Removed: Lin was a Portfolio Manager for SSgA’s Emerging Market
−Removed: Equity group.
−Removed: SSgA is one of the largest institutional asset managers worldwide.
−Removed: From September 2002 to July 2004, Mr.
−Removed: a research analyst of Joho Capital, LLC in New York.
−Removed: From January 1998 to August 2000, Mr.
−Removed: Lin was a CPA at Ernst & Young LLP
−Removed: in the United States.
−Removed: Lin received a B.A.
−Removed: in Accounting from Franklin University in 1996, an M.S.
−Removed: in accounting from Kent State
−Removed: University in 1997, and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 2002.
−Removed: He lectures at Peking University
−Removed: as an Adjunct Professor and is a standing committee member of the Shanghai Finance Federation.
−Removed: Jiong Shao has been our director since
−Removed: October 2017.
+Added: Cannon graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor degree in
+Added: Cannon is currently an advisor to the Royal family of Cambodia.
+Added: In addition, he serves as a board member of the
+Added: Cambodian Hotel Association.
+Added: Jiong Shao has been our director
+Added: since October 2017.
Shao recently joined Sorrento Therapeutics, a California based Nasdaq-listed biotech company as its Executive
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a member of the New Jersey and New York bars and is on inactive status with the Massachusetts and Ohio bars.
−Removed: Tzu Wen Maryann Tseng has been our director
−Removed: since October 2017.
−Removed: In October 2017, Ms.
−Removed: Tseng joined CLSA Limited, a brokerage and investment group, as a Managing Director.
−Removed: August 2010 to September 2017, Ms.
−Removed: Tseng was an Executive Director with Morgan Stanley in the Institutional Equity Division, servicing
−Removed: global financial managers.
−Removed: Prior to Morgan Stanley, from July 2006 to May 2010, Ms.
−Removed: Tseng was a Director at Deutsche Bank and BOCI,
−Removed: specializing in equity markets.
−Removed: Tsang graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and earned
−Removed: a certificate from the Stanford Senior Executive Leadership Program (including the completion of the Stanford Directors’
−Removed: College in June 2017).
−Removed: Our directors and officers will play a key
−Removed: role in identifying, evaluating, and selecting target businesses, and structuring, negotiating and consummating our initial acquisition
+Added: Our directors and officers will play a
+Added: key role in identifying, evaluating, and selecting target businesses, and structuring, negotiating and consummating our initial
+Added: acquisition transaction.
Except as described below and under “—
Conflicts of Interest,”
−Removed: none of these individuals is currently
−Removed: a principal of or affiliated with a public company or blank check company that executed a business plan similar to our business
−Removed: We believe that the skills and experience of these individuals, their collective access to acquisition opportunities and
−Removed: ideas, their contacts, and their transaction expertise should enable them to identify successfully and effect an acquisition transaction,
−Removed: although we cannot assure you that they will, in fact, be able to do so.
+Added: none of these individuals
+Added: is currently a principal of or affiliated with a public company or blank check company that executed a business plan similar to
+Added: our business plan.
+Added: We believe that the skills and experience of these individuals, their collective access to acquisition opportunities
+Added: and ideas, their contacts, and their transaction expertise should enable them to identify successfully and effect an acquisition
+Added: transaction, although we cannot assure you that they will, in fact, be able to do so.
Officer and Director Qualifications
−Removed: Our officers and board of directors are composed
−Removed: of a diverse group of leaders with a wide array of professional roles.
−Removed: In these roles, they have gained experience in core management
−Removed: skills, such as strategic and financial planning, financial reporting, compliance, risk management, and leadership development.
−Removed: Many of our officers and directors also have experience serving on boards of directors and board committees of other companies,
−Removed: and have an understanding of corporate governance practices and trends, which provides an understanding of different business processes,
−Removed: challenges, and strategies.
−Removed: Further, our officers and directors also have other experience that makes them valuable, managing and
−Removed: investing assets or facilitating the consummation of business combinations.
+Added: Our officers and board of directors are
+Added: composed of a diverse group of leaders with a wide array of professional roles.
+Added: In these roles, they have gained experience in
+Added: core management skills, such as strategic and financial planning, financial reporting, compliance, risk management, and leadership
+Added: Many of our officers and directors also have experience serving on boards of directors and board committees of other
+Added: companies, and have an understanding of corporate governance practices and trends, which provides an understanding of different
+Added: business processes, challenges, and strategies.
+Added: Further, our officers and directors also have other experience that makes them
+Added: valuable, managing and investing assets or facilitating the consummation of business combinations.
We, along with our officers and directors,
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an acquisition transaction.
−Removed: Ho is well-qualified to serve as our non-executive
−Removed: Chairman of the Board due to his in-depth knowledge and extensive experience in the global financial industry.
−Removed: Wang is well-qualified to serve as our
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and Director due to his in-depth knowledge and
−Removed: experience in the global capital markets, and specifically in private equity and public company investing, as well as his prior
−Removed: experience as an officer and director of public companies for over 22 years.
+Added: Ho is well-qualified to serve as our
+Added: non-executive Chairman of the Board due to his in-depth knowledge and extensive experience in the global financial industry.
+Added: Wang is well-qualified to serve as
+Added: our Chief Executive Officer and Director due to his in-depth knowledge and experience in the global capital markets, and specifically
+Added: in private equity and public company investing, as well as his prior experience as an officer and director of public companies
+Added: for over 22 years.
We believe Mr.
−Removed: Wang’s access to contacts
−Removed: and sources, ranging from private and public company contacts, private equity funds and investment bankers will allow us to generate
−Removed: acquisition opportunities and identify suitable acquisition candidates.
−Removed: Cannon is well-qualified to serve as our
−Removed: President, Chief Financial Officer and Director due to his in-depth knowledge and experience in the U.S.
−Removed: and China capital markets
−Removed: and his prior experience with special purpose acquisition companies.
−Removed: Alan Kai Yuu Chow
−Removed: Chow is well-qualified to serve as our
−Removed: Chief Operating Officer due to his extensive experience as a senior manager of similar investment firms.
−Removed: Lin is well-qualified to serve as a member
−Removed: of our board of directors given his significant directorship experience, in-depth knowledge and experience in the Chinese and global
−Removed: capital markets, and his board experience in the financial sector for over 18 years.
−Removed: Shao is well-qualified to serve as a member
−Removed: of our board of directors due to his extensive research experience and understanding of the financial markets, and currently servicing
−Removed: as the CFO of a biotechnology company.
+Added: Wang’s access to contacts and sources, ranging from private and public company contacts,
+Added: private equity funds and investment bankers will allow us to generate acquisition opportunities and identify suitable acquisition
+Added: Cannon is well-qualified to serve as
+Added: our President, Chief Financial Officer and Director due to his in-depth knowledge and experience in the U.S.
+Added: and China capital
+Added: markets and his prior experience with special purpose acquisition companies.
+Added: Shao is well-qualified to serve as
+Added: a member of our board of directors due to his extensive research experience and understanding of the financial markets, and currently
+Added: servicing as the CFO of a biotechnology company.
Michele Ann Smith
−Removed: Smith is well-qualified to serve as a member
−Removed: of our board of directors given her depth and track record of successfully navigating legal issues of various scope and complexity
−Removed: as an attorney.
−Removed: Tzu Wen Maryann Tseng
−Removed: Tseng is well-qualified to serve as a member
−Removed: of our board of directors given her number of years of service in the global financial industry and prior experience as a board
+Added: Smith is well-qualified to serve as
+Added: a member of our board of directors given her depth and track record of successfully navigating legal issues of various scope and
+Added: complexity as an attorney.
Board Committees
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and the performance of the Company’s internal audit function and internal control over financial
−Removed: The Audit Committee held 2 meetings during 2017.
+Added: The Audit Committee held four meetings during 2018.
The members of the Audit
−Removed: Committee are Jiong Shao, Michele Smith and Maryann Tseng, each of whom is an independent director under NASDAQ’s listing
+Added: Committee are Anthony Ho, Jiong Shao and Michele Smith, each of whom is an independent director under NASDAQ’s listing standards.
Jiong Shao is the Chairperson of the audit committee.
−Removed: The Board has determined that both Maryann Tseng and Jiong Shao
−Removed: each qualify as an “audit committee financial expert,”
+Added: The Board has determined that Jiong Shao qualifies as an “audit committee
+Added: financial expert,”
as defined under the rules and regulations of the SEC.
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and other persons.
+Added: The Nominating Committee held no meetings during 2018.
The members of the Nominating
−Removed: Committee are Jiong Shao, Michele Smith and Maryann Tseng, each of whom is an independent director under NASDAQ’s listing
+Added: Committee are Anthony Ho, Jiong Shao and Michele Smith, each of whom is an independent director under NASDAQ’s listing standards.
Jiong Shao is the Chairperson of the Nominating Committee.
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into in connection with such initial business combination.
−Removed: The members of the Compensation Committee are
−Removed: Jiong Shao, Michele Smith and Maryann Tseng, each of whom is an independent director under NASDAQ’s listing standards.
+Added: The members of the Compensation Committee
+Added: are Jiong Shao, Michele Smith and Anthony Ho, each of whom is an independent director under NASDAQ’s listing standards.
Shao is the Chairperson of the Compensation Committee.
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potential conflicts of interest:
−Removed: None of our officers and directors is
−Removed: required to commit their full time to our affairs and, accordingly, they may have conflicts of interest in allocating their time
−Removed: among various business activities.
−Removed: In the course of their other business
−Removed: activities, our officers and directors may become aware of investment and business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation
−Removed: to our company as well as the other entities with which they are affiliated.
+Added: None of our officers and directors is required to commit
+Added: their full time to our affairs and, accordingly, they may have conflicts of interest in allocating their time among various business
+Added: In the course of their other business activities, our
+Added: officers and directors may become aware of investment and business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to
+Added: our company as well as the other entities with which they are affiliated.
Our management has pre-existing fiduciary duties and
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be presented.
−Removed: Our officers and directors may in the
−Removed: future become affiliated with entities, including other blank check companies, engaged in business activities similar to
−Removed: those intended to be conducted by our company.
−Removed: The insider shares owned by our officers
−Removed: and directors will be released from escrow only if a business combination is successfully completed and subject to certain other
−Removed: Additionally, our officers and directors will not receive distributions from the trust account with respect to any
−Removed: of their insider shares if we do not complete a business combination.
−Removed: In addition, our officers and directors may loan funds to
−Removed: us after the IPO and may be owed reimbursement for expenses incurred in connection with certain activities on our behalf which
−Removed: would only be repaid if we complete an initial business combination.
−Removed: For the foregoing reasons, the personal and financial interests
−Removed: of our directors and executive officers may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business, completing
−Removed: a business combination in a timely manner and securing the release of their shares.
−Removed: Under Cayman Islands law, directors owe the
−Removed: following fiduciary duties:
−Removed: duty to act in good faith in what the
−Removed: director believes to be in the best interests of the company as a whole;
−Removed: duty to exercise powers for the purposes
−Removed: for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose;
−Removed: should not properly fetter the exercise of future discretion;
−Removed: duty not to put themselves in a position
−Removed: in which there is a conflict between their duty to the company and their personal interests;
−Removed: to exercise independent judgment.
−Removed: In addition to the above, directors also owe
−Removed: a duty of care which is not fiduciary in nature.
−Removed: This duty has been defined as a requirement to act as a reasonably diligent person
−Removed: having both the general knowledge, skill and experience that may reasonably be expected of a person carrying out the same functions
−Removed: as are carried out by that director in relation to the company and the general knowledge skill and experience which that director
−Removed: As set out above, directors have a duty not
−Removed: to put themselves in a position of conflict and this includes a duty not to engage in self-dealing, or to otherwise benefit as
−Removed: a result of their position.
−Removed: However, in some instances what would otherwise be a breach of this duty can be forgiven and/or authorized
−Removed: in advance by the shareholders provided that there is full disclosure by the directors.
−Removed: This can be done by way of permission granted
−Removed: in the memorandum and articles of association or alternatively by shareholder approval at general meetings.
+Added: officers and directors may in the future become affiliated with entities, including other blank check companies, engaged
+Added: in business activities similar to those intended to be conducted by our company.
+Added: The insider shares owned by our officers and directors
+Added: will be released from escrow only if a business combination is successfully completed and subject to certain other limitations.
+Added: Additionally, our officers and directors will not receive distributions from the trust account with respect to any of their insider
+Added: shares if we do not complete a business combination.
+Added: In addition, our officers and directors may loan funds to us after the IPO
+Added: and may be owed reimbursement for expenses incurred in connection with certain activities on our behalf which would only be repaid
+Added: if we complete an initial business combination.
+Added: For the foregoing reasons, the personal and financial interests of our directors
+Added: and executive officers may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business, completing a business combination
+Added: in a timely manner and securing the release of their shares.
+Added: Under Cayman Islands law, directors owe
+Added: the following fiduciary duties:
+Added: duty to act in good faith in what the director believes
+Added: to be in the best interests of the company as a whole;
+Added: duty to exercise powers for the purposes for which those
+Added: powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose;
+Added: directors should not properly fetter the exercise of
+Added: future discretion;
+Added: duty not to put themselves in a position in which there
+Added: is a conflict between their duty to the company and their personal interests;
+Added: duty to exercise independent judgment.
+Added: In addition to the above, directors also
+Added: owe a duty of care which is not fiduciary in nature.
+Added: This duty has been defined as a requirement to act as a reasonably diligent
+Added: person having both the general knowledge, skill and experience that may reasonably be expected of a person carrying out the same
+Added: functions as are carried out by that director in relation to the company and the general knowledge skill and experience which that
+Added: director has.
+Added: As set out above, directors have a duty
+Added: not to put themselves in a position of conflict and this includes a duty not to engage in self-dealing, or to otherwise benefit
+Added: as a result of their position.
+Added: However, in some instances what would otherwise be a breach of this duty can be forgiven and/or
+Added: authorized in advance by the shareholders provided that there is full disclosure by the directors.
+Added: This can be done by way of permission
+Added: granted in the memorandum and articles of association or alternatively by shareholder approval at general meetings.
Accordingly, as a result of multiple business
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to which they owe pre-existing fiduciary obligations and any successors to such entities have declined to accept such opportunities.
−Removed: In order to minimize potential conflicts of
−Removed: interest which may arise from multiple corporate affiliations, each of our officers and directors has contractually agreed, pursuant
−Removed: to a written agreement with us, until the earliest of a business combination, our liquidation or such time as he ceases to be an
−Removed: officer or director, to present to our company for our consideration, prior to presentation to any other entity, any suitable business
−Removed: opportunity which may reasonably be required to be presented to us, subject to any pre-existing fiduciary or contractual obligations
−Removed: he might have.
+Added: In order to minimize potential conflicts
+Added: of interest which may arise from multiple corporate affiliations, each of our officers and directors has contractually agreed,
+Added: pursuant to a written agreement with us, until the earliest of a business combination, our liquidation or such time as he ceases
+Added: to be an officer or director, to present to our company for our consideration, prior to presentation to any other entity, any suitable
+Added: business opportunity which may reasonably be required to be presented to us, subject to any pre-existing fiduciary or contractual
+Added: obligations he might have.
The following table summarizes the current
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Name of Affiliated Company
−Removed: Name of Individual
−Removed: Priority/Preference relative to CM Seven
+Added: of Individual
+Added: Priority/Preference
+Added: relative to CM Seven Star
Acquisition Corporation
CM Asset Management (Hongkong) Company Limited
−Removed: Anthony Ho, Patrick Ho
CM Asset Management will have priority over us;
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Shareholder Value Fund (our sponsor)
−Removed: Anthony Ho, Patrick Ho
Shareholder Value Fund will have priority over us;
however, as Shareholder Value Fund does not generally seek investments in excess of $50 million, we anticipate being given the opportunity to review all potential targets of greater than that size that our management team becomes aware of.
−Removed: Sorrento Therapeutics
Sorrento Therapeutics will have priority over us.
−Removed: Maryann Tseng
−Removed: CLSA Limited will have priority over us.
−Removed: Texas Kang Kai Capital Management (Hong Kong) Limited
Texas Kang Kai Capital Management (Hong Kong) Limited will have priority over us.
−Removed: In connection with the vote required for any
−Removed: business combination, all of our existing shareholders, including all of our officers and directors, have agreed to vote their
+Added: In connection with the vote required for
+Added: any business combination, all of our existing shareholders, including all of our officers and directors, have agreed to vote their
respective insider shares and private shares in favor of any proposed business combination.
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Code of Ethics
−Removed: We adopted a code of conduct and
−Removed: ethics applicable to our directors, officers and employees in accordance with applicable federal securities laws.
−Removed: The code of ethics
−Removed: codifies the business and ethical principles that govern all aspects of our business.
+Added: We adopted a code of conduct
+Added: and ethics applicable to our directors, officers and employees in accordance with applicable federal securities laws.
+Added: of ethics codifies the business and ethical principles that govern all aspects of our business.
Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
−Removed: Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
−Removed: of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, requires our executive officers, directors and persons who beneficially own more than
−Removed: 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission initial reports of ownership
−Removed: and reports of changes in ownership of our ordinary shares and other equity securities.
−Removed: These executive officers, directors, and
−Removed: greater than 10% beneficial owners are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms filed by
−Removed: such reporting persons.
−Removed: Based solely on our review of such forms furnished
−Removed: to us and written representations from certain reporting persons, we believe that all filing requirements applicable to our executive
−Removed: officers, directors and greater than 10% beneficial owners were filed in a timely manner.
+Added: Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
+Added: Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, requires our executive officers, directors and persons who beneficially own more
+Added: than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission initial reports of
+Added: ownership and reports of changes in ownership of our ordinary shares and other equity securities.
+Added: These executive officers, directors,
+Added: and greater than 10% beneficial owners are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms filed
+Added: by such reporting persons.
+Added: Based solely on our review of such forms
+Added: furnished to us and written representations from certain reporting persons, we believe that all filing requirements applicable
+Added: to our executive officers, directors and greater than 10% beneficial owners were filed in a timely manner.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Employment Agreements
−Removed: We have not entered into any employment agreements
−Removed: with our executive officers, and have not made any agreements to provide benefits upon termination of employment.
+Added: We have not entered into any employment
+Added: agreements with our executive officers, and have not made any agreements to provide benefits upon termination of employment.
Executive Officers and Director Compensation
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which includes persons who may seek reimbursement, or a court of competent jurisdiction if such reimbursement is challenged.
−Removed: SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED SHAREHOLDER MATTERS
−Removed: The following table sets forth as of April
+Added: SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL
+Added: OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED SHAREHOLDER MATTERS
+Added: The following table sets forth as of March
15, 2019 the number of ordinary shares beneficially owned by (i) each person who is known by us to be the beneficial owner of more
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and directors as a group.
−Removed: 10, 2018, we had 26,323,092 ordinary shares issued
+Added: As of March 15, 2019, we had 26,323,092 ordinary shares issued
and outstanding.
−Removed: Unless otherwise indicated, we believe that
−Removed: all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all ordinary shares beneficially owned by
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated, we believe
+Added: that all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all ordinary shares beneficially owned
The following table does not reflect record of beneficial ownership of any ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the
−Removed: warrants or conversion of rights, as the warrants are not exercisable within 60 days of April
−Removed: 10, 2018 and the rights are not convertible
−Removed: within 60 days of April
+Added: warrants or conversion of rights, as the warrants are not exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2019 and the rights are not convertible
+Added: within 60 days of March 15, 2019.
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner (1)
−Removed: Amount and Nature
of Beneficial
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Michele Smith
−Removed: Maryann Tseng
−Removed: Asset Management LP (3)
+Added: Glazer Capital, LLC(3)
+Added: Weiss Asset Management LP (4)
+Added: WAM GP LLC (4)
Weiss, PH.D.(4)
−Removed: Asset Management Partners Inc.
−Removed: directors and executive officers as a group (8 individuals)
+Added: Polar Asset Management Partners Inc.
+Added: All directors and executive officers as a group (5 individuals)
* Less than 1%.
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of the individuals is c/o CM Seven Star Acquisition Corporation, Suite 1306, 13/F, AIA Central, 1 Connaught Road, Central, Hong
−Removed: Stephen Ma, Suite 1306, 13/F, AIA Central, 1 Connaught
+Added: Anthony Ho, Suite 1306, 13/F, AIA Central, 1 Connaught
Road, a director of Shareholder Value Fund, has voting and dispositive power over the shares owned by Shareholder Value Fund.
−Removed: on a Schedule 13G filed by the reporting persons.
−Removed: The address for the reporting persons
−Removed: is 222 Berkeley St., 16th floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02116.
−Removed: Weiss Asset Management
−Removed: is the sole investment manager to a private investment partnership (the “Partnership”)
−Removed: and a private investment fund (“Fund”).
−Removed: WAM GP is the sole general partner
−Removed: of Weiss Asset Management.
−Removed: Andrew Weiss is the managing member of WAM GP.
−Removed: Shares reported
−Removed: for WAM GP, Andrew Weiss and Weiss Asset Management include shares beneficially owned
−Removed: by the Partnership and the Fund.
−Removed: on a Schedule 13G filed by the reporting person.
−Removed: The address for the reporting person
−Removed: is 401 Bay Street, Suite 1900, PO Box 19, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2Y4, Canada.
−Removed: Schwartz is the VP, Legal and Compliance for the reporting person.
+Added: (3) Based on a Schedule 13G filed by the reporting persons.
+Added: The address for the reporting persons is 250 West 55th Street, Suite 30A, New York, New York 10019.
+Added: Glazer serves as the
+Added: Managing Member of Glazer Capital.
+Added: (4) Based on a Schedule 13G filed by the reporting persons.
+Added: The address for the reporting persons is 222 Berkeley St., 16th floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02116.
+Added: Weiss Asset Management is
+Added: the sole investment manager to a private investment partnership (the “Partnership”) and a private investment fund
+Added: (“Fund”).
+Added: WAM GP is the sole general partner of Weiss Asset Management.
+Added: Andrew Weiss is the managing member of WAM
+Added: Shares reported for WAM GP, Andrew Weiss and Weiss Asset Management include shares beneficially owned by the Partnership and
+Added: (5) Based on a Schedule 13G filed by the reporting person.
+Added: The address for the reporting person is 401 Bay Street, Suite 1900, PO Box 19, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2Y4, Canada.
+Added: Jennifer Schwartz
+Added: is the VP, Legal and Compliance for the reporting person.
All of the insider shares issued and outstanding
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to Shareholder Value Fund, our sponsor, which were released from escrow for cancellation on November 7, 2017.
−Removed: During the escrow period, the holders of these
−Removed: shares will not be able to sell or transfer their securities except (i) for transfers to our officers, directors or their respective
−Removed: affiliates (including for transfers to an entity’s members upon its liquidation), (ii) to relatives and trusts for estate
−Removed: planning purposes, (iii) by virtue of the laws of descent and distribution upon death, (iv) pursuant to a qualified domestic relations
−Removed: order, (v) by certain pledges to secure obligations incurred in connection with purchases of our securities, (vi) by private sales
−Removed: made at or prior to the consummation of a business combination at prices no greater than the price at which the shares were originally
−Removed: purchased or (vii) to us for no value for cancellation in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination,
−Removed: in each case (except for clause (vii)) where the transferee agrees to the terms of the escrow agreement, but will retain all other
−Removed: rights as our shareholders, including, without limitation, the right to vote their ordinary shares and the right to receive cash
−Removed: dividends, if declared.
−Removed: If dividends are declared and payable in ordinary shares, such dividends will also be placed in escrow.
−Removed: If we are unable to effect a business combination and liquidate the trust account, none of our initial shareholders will receive
−Removed: any portion of the liquidation proceeds with respect to their insider shares.
+Added: During the escrow period, the holders of
+Added: these shares will not be able to sell or transfer their securities except (i) for transfers to our officers, directors or their
+Added: respective affiliates (including for transfers to an entity’s members upon its liquidation), (ii) to relatives and trusts
+Added: for estate planning purposes, (iii) by virtue of the laws of descent and distribution upon death, (iv) pursuant to a qualified
+Added: domestic relations order, (v) by certain pledges to secure obligations incurred in connection with purchases of our securities,
+Added: (vi) by private sales made at or prior to the consummation of a business combination at prices no greater than the price at which
+Added: the shares were originally purchased or (vii) to us for no value for cancellation in connection with the consummation of our initial
+Added: business combination, in each case (except for clause (vii)) where the transferee agrees to the terms of the escrow agreement,
+Added: but will retain all other rights as our shareholders, including, without limitation, the right to vote their ordinary shares and
+Added: the right to receive cash dividends, if declared.
+Added: If dividends are declared and payable in ordinary shares, such dividends will
+Added: also be placed in escrow.
+Added: If we are unable to effect a business combination and liquidate the trust account, none of our initial
+Added: shareholders will receive any portion of the liquidation proceeds with respect to their insider shares.
In order to meet our working capital needs
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by a promissory note.
−Removed: The notes could either be paid upon consummation of our initial business combination, without interest, or,
+Added: The notes would either be paid upon consummation of our initial business combination, without interest, or,
at the lender’s discretion, up to $500,000 of the notes may be converted upon consummation of our business combination into
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if $500,000 of notes were so converted).
−Removed: Our shareholders have approved any issuance of the units and underlying securities upon
−Removed: conversion of such notes, to the extent an optional conversion is included and the holder wishes to so convert them at the time
−Removed: of the consummation of our initial business combination.
+Added: Our shareholders have approved the issuance of the units and underlying securities upon
+Added: conversion of such notes, to the extent the holder wishes to so convert them at the time of the consummation of our initial business
If we do not complete a business combination, the loans will not be repaid.
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as that term is defined under the federal securities laws.
−Removed: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
−Removed: Insider Shares
+Added: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS,
+Added: AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
In July 2017, we issued an aggregate of
4,312,500 ordinary shares to certain of our initial shareholders for $25,000 in cash, at a purchase price of $0.006 share.
−Removed: On October 25,
−Removed: 2017, an additional 862,500 shares of the Company were issued to the Initial Shareholders for an aggregate amount of $6,038 in
−Removed: order to maintain our initial shareholder’s ownership percentage at 20% of the share sold in the IPO.
−Removed: On November 3, 2017, the underwriters exercised
−Removed: a portion of their over-allotment option.
−Removed: Shareholder Value Fund, our sponsor, forfeited 15,927 insider shares in proportion to
−Removed: the portion of the over-allotment option that was not exercised.
−Removed: We recorded the forfeited shares as treasury stock and simultaneously
−Removed: retired the shares.
−Removed: Such forfeited shares were immediately cancelled which resulted in the retirement of the treasury shares and
−Removed: a corresponding charge to additional paid-in capital.
−Removed: Private Units
+Added: 25, 2017, an additional 862,500 shares of the Company were issued to the Initial Shareholders for an aggregate amount of $6,038
+Added: in order to maintain our initial shareholder’s ownership percentage at 20% of the share sold in the IPO.
+Added: The underwriters exercised a portion of
+Added: their over-allotment option.
+Added: Shareholder Value Fund, our sponsor, forfeited 15,927 insider shares in proportion to the portion
+Added: of the over-allotment option that was not exercised.
+Added: We recorded the forfeited shares as treasury stock and simultaneously retired
+Added: Such forfeited shares were immediately cancelled which resulted in the retirement of the treasury shares and a corresponding
+Added: charge to additional paid-in capital.
+Added: On October 25, 2017, we sold 862,500 shares
+Added: in conjunction with an increase in the size of the IPO to maintain our initial shareholder’s ownership at a percentage of
+Added: the number of shares sold in the IPO.
30, 2017, simultaneously with the consummation of the IPO, we consummated a private placement with our Sponsor of 475,000 Private
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gross proceeds of $527,260.
−Removed: Related Party Loans
−Removed: In order to meet our working capital needs
−Removed: following the consummation of the IPO, our initial shareholders, officers and directors and their respective affiliates may, but
−Removed: are not obligated to, loan us funds, from time to time or at any time, in whatever amount they deem reasonable in their sole discretion.
−Removed: Each loan would be evidenced by a promissory note.
−Removed: The notes would either be paid upon consummation of our initial business combination,
−Removed: without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $500,000 of the notes may be converted upon consummation of our business
−Removed: combination into private units at a price of $10.00 per unit (which, for example, would result in the holders being issued units
−Removed: to acquire 55,000 ordinary shares (which includes 5,000 shares issuable upon conversion of rights) and warrants to purchase 25,000
−Removed: ordinary shares if $500,000 of notes were so converted).
−Removed: Our shareholders have approved any issuance of the units and underlying
−Removed: securities upon conversion of such notes, to the extent an optional conversion is included and the holder wishes to so convert
−Removed: them at the time of the consummation of our initial business combination.
−Removed: If we do not complete a business combination, the loans
−Removed: would not be repaid.
−Removed: On April 9, 2018, our sponsor agreed to loan
−Removed: to us an additional $500,000 pursuant to a non-convertible non-interest bearing promissory note, which will be repaid promptly
−Removed: after the date on which we consummate a business combination.
−Removed: In the event that we are unable to consummate a business combination,
−Removed: as described in the prospectus relating to the IPO, the balance of such note will be forgiven and our sponsor will not be entitled
−Removed: to any payment thereunder.
−Removed: The holders of our insider shares issued and
−Removed: outstanding on the date of the IPO, as well as the holders of the private units (and all underlying securities) and any securities
+Added: order to meet our working capital needs following the consummation of the IPO, our initial shareholders, officers and directors
+Added: and their respective affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds, from time to time or at any time, in whatever amount
+Added: they deem reasonable in their sole discretion (“Working Capital Loans”).
+Added: Each loan would be evidenced by a promissory
+Added: The notes would either be paid upon consummation of our initial business combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s
+Added: discretion, up to $500,000 of the notes may be converted upon consummation of our business combination into private units at a
+Added: price of $10.00 per unit (which, for example, would result in the holders being issued units to acquire 55,000 ordinary shares
+Added: (which includes 5,000 shares issuable upon conversion of rights) and warrants to purchase 25,000 ordinary shares if $500,000 of
+Added: notes were so converted).
+Added: Our shareholders have approved the issuance of the units and underlying securities upon conversion of
+Added: such notes, to the extent the holder wishes to so convert them at the time of the consummation of our initial business combination.
+Added: If we do not complete a business combination, the loans would not be repaid.
+Added: There was no outstanding balance under Working
+Added: Capital Loans from related party as of December 31, 2018 and 2017.
+Added: On May 23, 2018, the Sponsor loaned to
+Added: the Company an additional $500,000 pursuant to a non-convertible non-interest bearing promissory note, which will be repaid promptly
+Added: after the date on which the Company consummates a Business Combination.
+Added: In the event that the Company is unable to consummate a
+Added: Business Combination, the balance of such note will be forgiven and the Sponsor will not be entitled to any payment thereunder.
+Added: The holders of our insider shares issued
+Added: and outstanding on the date of the IPO, as well as the holders of the private units (and all underlying securities) and any securities
our initial shareholders, officers, directors or their affiliates may be issued in payment of working capital loans made to us,
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are no less favorable to us than those that would be available to us with respect to such a transaction from unaffiliated third
+Added: On January 24, 2019 we issued an unsecured
+Added: promissory note in the aggregate principal amount of up to $1,100,000 to Shareholder Value Fund, the Company’s initial public
+Added: offering sponsor (“SVF”).
+Added: $1,100,000 has been fully drawn down on January 24, 2019.
+Added: The note does not bear interest
+Added: and matures upon closing of a business combination.
+Added: In the event that the company does not close a business combination, the note
+Added: will not be repaid.
+Added: On January 24, 2019 our Sponsor and Kaixin
+Added: extended the time available to us to complete a business combination to April 30, 2019 by depositing $2,063,629.30 into our trust
+Added: In conjunction with the extension, we issued unsecured promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $2,063,629.30
+Added: to SVF and Kaixin in exchange for those entities depositing such amount into the Company’s trust account.
+Added: The notes do not
+Added: bear interest and mature upon closing of a business combination by us.
+Added: In addition, the notes may be converted by the holder into
+Added: our units (identical to the units issued in our initial public offering) at a price of $10.00 per unit.
Related Party Policy
−Removed: Our Code of Ethics requires us to avoid, wherever
−Removed: possible, all related party transactions that could result in actual or potential conflicts of interests, except under guidelines
−Removed: approved by the board of directors (or the audit committee).
−Removed: Related-party transactions are defined as transactions in which (1)
−Removed: the aggregate amount involved will or may be expected to exceed $120,000 in any calendar year, (2) we or any of our subsidiaries
−Removed: is a participant, and (3) any (a) executive officer, director or nominee for election as a director, (b) greater than 5% beneficial
−Removed: owner of our ordinary shares, or (c) immediate family member, of the persons referred to in clauses (a) and (b), has or will have
−Removed: a direct or indirect material interest (other than solely as a result of being a director or a less than 10% beneficial owner of
−Removed: another entity).
−Removed: A conflict of interest situation can arise when a person takes actions or has interests that may make it difficult
−Removed: to perform his or her work objectively and effectively.
−Removed: Conflicts of interest may also arise if a person, or a member of his or
−Removed: her family, receives improper personal benefits as a result of his or her position.
−Removed: We also require each of our directors and executive
−Removed: officers to annually complete a directors’
+Added: Our Code of Ethics requires us to avoid,
+Added: wherever possible, all related party transactions that could result in actual or potential conflicts of interests, except under
+Added: guidelines approved by the board of directors (or the audit committee).
+Added: Related-party transactions are defined as transactions
+Added: in which (1) the aggregate amount involved will or may be expected to exceed $120,000 in any calendar year, (2) we or any of our
+Added: subsidiaries is a participant, and (3) any (a) executive officer, director or nominee for election as a director, (b) greater than
+Added: 5% beneficial owner of our ordinary shares, or (c) immediate family member, of the persons referred to in clauses (a) and (b),
+Added: has or will have a direct or indirect material interest (other than solely as a result of being a director or a less than 10% beneficial
+Added: owner of another entity).
+Added: A conflict of interest situation can arise when a person takes actions or has interests that may make
+Added: it difficult to perform his or her work objectively and effectively.
+Added: Conflicts of interest may also arise if a person, or a member
+Added: of his or her family, receives improper personal benefits as a result of his or her position.
+Added: We also require each of our directors and
+Added: executive officers to annually complete a directors’
and officers’
−Removed: questionnaire that elicits information about related party
−Removed: transactions.
+Added: questionnaire that elicits information about related
+Added: party transactions.
Our audit committee, pursuant to its written
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of a director, employee or officer.
−Removed: To further minimize potential conflicts of
−Removed: interest, we have agreed not to consummate a business combination with an entity which is affiliated with any of our initial shareholders
−Removed: unless we obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that the business combination is fair to our unaffiliated
−Removed: shareholders from a financial point of view.
−Removed: Furthermore, in no event will any of our existing officers, directors or initial shareholders,
−Removed: or any entity with which they are affiliated, be paid any finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation prior to, or
−Removed: for any services they render in order to effectuate, the consummation of a business combination.
+Added: To further minimize potential conflicts
+Added: of interest, we have agreed not to consummate a business combination with an entity which is affiliated with any of our initial
+Added: shareholders unless we obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that the business combination is fair to our
+Added: unaffiliated shareholders from a financial point of view.
+Added: Furthermore, in no event will any of our existing officers, directors
+Added: or initial shareholders, or any entity with which they are affiliated, be paid any finder’s fee, consulting fee or other
+Added: compensation prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the consummation of a business combination.
Director Independence
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Public Accounting Fees
−Removed: During the period from November 28, 2016 (inception)
−Removed: through December 31, 2017, the firm of UHY LLP, has acted as our principal independent registered public accounting firm.
−Removed: The following
−Removed: is a summary of fees paid or to be paid to UHY LLP for services rendered.
−Removed: Audit fees consist of fees billed
−Removed: for professional services rendered for the audit of our year-end financial statements and services that are normally provided by
−Removed: UHY LLP in connection with regulatory filings.
+Added: During the period from November 28, 2016
+Added: (inception) through December 31, 2017, the firm of UHY LLP, has acted as our principal independent registered public accounting
+Added: The following is a summary of fees paid or to be paid to UHY LLP for services rendered.
+Added: Audit fees consist of fees
+Added: billed for professional services rendered for the audit of our year-end financial statements and services that are normally provided
+Added: by UHY LLP in connection with regulatory filings.
The aggregate fees billed by UHY LLP for professional services rendered for the
audit of our annual financial statements, review of the financial information included in our Forms 10-Q for the respective periods,
−Removed: the registration statement, the closing 8-K and other required filings with the SEC for the period from November 28, 2016 (inception)
−Removed: through December 31, 2016 and for the year ended December 31, 2017 totaled $0 and $132,389, respectively.
−Removed: The above amounts include
−Removed: interim procedures and audit fees, as well as attendance at audit committee meetings.
+Added: the registration statement, the closing 8-K and other required filings with the SEC for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018
+Added: totaled $132,389 and $120,634, respectively.
+Added: The above amounts include interim procedures and audit fees, review of required filings
+Added: with the SEC, as well as attendance at audit committee meetings.
Audit-Related Fees.
−Removed: We did not pay UHY LLP
−Removed: for consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards during the period from November 28, 2016 (inception)
−Removed: through December 31, 2016 and for the year ended December 31, 2017.
−Removed: We did not pay UHY LLP for tax planning
−Removed: and tax advice for the period from November 28, 2016 (inception) through December 31, 2016 and for the year ended December 31,
+Added: We did not pay UHY
+Added: LLP for consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards during the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018.
+Added: We did not pay UHY LLP for tax
+Added: planning and tax advice for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018.
All Other Fees.
−Removed: We did not pay UHY LLP for
−Removed: other services for the period from November 28, 2016 (inception) through December 31, 2016 and for the year ended December 31,
+Added: We did not pay UHY LLP
+Added: for other services for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018.
Pre-Approval of Services
−Removed: audit committee had not yet been formed when the work commenced in 2017, the audit committee was not able to pre-approve all of
−Removed: the foregoing services, although all such services were approved by our board of directors.
+Added: our audit committee had not yet been formed when the work commenced in 2017, the audit committee was not able to pre-approve all
+Added: of the foregoing services, although all such services were approved by our board of directors.
All services subsequent to the formation
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(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on September 29, 2017)
+Added: Share Exchange Agreement dated November 2, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-k filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on November 6, 2018)
Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on October 18, 2017)
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(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on October 18, 2017)
+Added: Promissory Note in the principal amount of $1,100,000 dated January 24, 2019
+Added: Promissory Note in the principal amount of $1,013,629.30 dated January 24, 2019
+Added: Promissory Note in the principal amount of $1,050,000.00
+Added: Convertible Loan Agreement dated January 28, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on February 1, 2019)
+Added: Subscription Agreement dated January 29, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on February 1, 2019)
Form of Code of Ethics (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on October 18, 2017)
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Form of Compensation Committee Charter (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.3 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on October 18, 2017)
+Added: Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14 and Rule 15d-14(a), promulgated under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
+Added: Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14 and Rule 15d-14(a), promulgated under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
+Added: Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
+Added: Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
XBRL Instance Document
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the
−Removed: Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of
+Added: the Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
−Removed: April 16, 2018
−Removed: /s/ Stephen N.
−Removed: Chief Financial Office
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
−Removed: this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
+Added: March 22, 2019
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act
+Added: of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the
+Added: dates indicated.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, this report has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
−Removed: Director, Chairman
−Removed: April 16, 2018
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: April 16, 2018
−Removed: (Principal Executive
−Removed: President, Chief
−Removed: Financial Officer and Director
−Removed: April 16, 2018
−Removed: (Principal Accounting
−Removed: and Financial Officer)
−Removed: April 16, 2018
−Removed: April 16, 2018
−Removed: April 16, 2018
+Added: Chief Executive Officer and Director
+Added: March 22, 2019
+Added: (Principal Executive Officer)
+Added: President, Chief Financial Officer and Director
+Added: March 22, 2019
+Added: (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)
+Added: March 22, 2019
+Added: March 22, 2019
+Added: March 22, 2019
Michele Smith
−Removed: April 16, 2018
−Removed: Maryann Tseng
EXHIBIT INDEX
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(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on September 29, 2017)
+Added: Share Exchange Agreement dated November 2, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-k filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on November 6, 2018)
Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on October 18, 2017)
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(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on October 18, 2017)
−Removed: Promissory Note dated April 9, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on April 13, 2018)
+Added: Promissory Note in the principal amount of $1,100,000 dated January 24, 2019
+Added: Promissory Note in the principal amount of $1,013,629.30 dated January 24, 2019
+Added: Promissory Note in the principal amount of $1,050,000.00
+Added: Convertible Loan Agreement dated January 28, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on February 1, 2019)
+Added: Subscription Agreement dated January 29, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on February 1, 2019)
Form of Code of Ethics (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on October 18, 2017)
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Notes to Financial Statements
−Removed: OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
−Removed: the Board of Directors and Shareholders
−Removed: Seven Star Acquisition Corporation
−Removed: on the Financial Statements
−Removed: have audited the accompanying balance sheets of CM Seven Star Acquisition Corporation (the “Company”) as of December
−Removed: 31, 2017 and 2016, and the related statements of operations, changes in shareholders’
−Removed: equity, and cash flows for the year
−Removed: ended December 31, 2017 and the period from November 28, 2016 to December 31, 2016, and the related notes (collectively referred
−Removed: to as the financial statements).
−Removed: In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
−Removed: position of the Company as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2017 and the period from November 28, 2016 to December 31, 2016, in conformity with accounting principles generally
−Removed: accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on
−Removed: the Company’s financial statements based on our audit.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company
−Removed: Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance
−Removed: with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the
−Removed: conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit
−Removed: to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial
−Removed: As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but
−Removed: not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT
+Added: REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: To the Board of Directors and Shareholders
+Added: CM Seven Star Acquisition Corporation
+Added: Opinion on the Financial Statements
+Added: We have audited the accompanying balance
+Added: sheets of CM Seven Star Acquisition Corporation (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2018 and 2017, and the related statements
+Added: of operations, changes in shareholders’
+Added: equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December
+Added: 31, 2018, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the financial statements).
+Added: In our opinion, the financial statements
+Added: present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2018 and 2017, and the results
+Added: of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2018, in conformity with accounting
+Added: principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Substantial Doubt about the Company’s
+Added: Ability to Continue as a Going Concern
+Added: The accompanying financial statements
+Added: have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, if
+Added: the Company is not able to consummate a business combination before April 30, 2019, the Company will commence an automatic winding
+Added: up, dissolution and liquidation unless it seeks and receives the consent of its shareholders to otherwise extend the life of the
+Added: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The financial
+Added: statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: Basis for Opinion
+Added: These financial statements are the responsibility
+Added: of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based
+Added: on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB)
+Added: and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable
+Added: rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance
+Added: with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
+Added: whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required
+Added: to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are
+Added: required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
+Added: on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to
−Removed: error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence
−Removed: regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.
−Removed: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles
−Removed: used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
−Removed: We have served as
−Removed: the Company’s auditor since 2017.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures
+Added: to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
+Added: that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures
+Added: in the financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
+Added: by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audits provide a
+Added: reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2017.
New York, New York
−Removed: April 16, 2018
+Added: March 22 , 2019
CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
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Total Current Assets
−Removed: Cash held in Trust Account
+Added: Cash and securities held in Trust Account
$ 210,554,208
+Added: $ 207,010,349
Liabilities and Shareholders’
−Removed: Accounts payable and accrued expense
+Added: Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Due to related parties
+Added: Due to Sponsor
Total current liabilities
−Removed: Ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, 20,199,048 shares at redemption value at December 31, 2017
+Added: Ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, 20,424,778 and 20,199,048 shares at redemption value at December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively
Shareholders’
−Removed: Equity (Deficit):
Preferred shares, $0.0001 par value;
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200,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: 6,124,044 shares (excluding 20,199,048 shares subject to possible redemption) and 1 share issued and outstanding at December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively
+Added: 5,898,314 shares (excluding 20,424,778 shares subject to possible redemption) and 6,124,044 shares (excluding 20,199,048 shares subject to possible redemption) issued and outstanding at December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively
Additional paid-in capital
−Removed: Accumulated earnings (deficit)
+Added: Retained earnings
Total shareholders’
−Removed: equity (deficit)
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’
$ 210,554,208
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral
−Removed: part of these financial statements.
+Added: $ 207,010,349
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these financial statements.
CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
−Removed: For the Period from
−Removed: November 28, 2016 to
−Removed: December 31, 2017
−Removed: December 31, 2016
+Added: For the Years Ended
Formation and operating costs
Loss from operations
+Added: Realized loss from sale of investment
Interest income
Total other income
−Removed: Net income (loss)
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted
Basic and diluted net income per ordinary share
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral
−Removed: part of these financial statements.
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these financial statements.
CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
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Equity (Deficit)
−Removed: Balance as of November 28, 2016 (Inception)
−Removed: Issuance of ordinary shares to director upon formation
−Removed: Balance as of December 31, 2016
+Added: Balance as of January 1, 2017
Cancellation of ordinary shares to director
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Reclassification of ordinary shares subject to possible conversion
+Added: (20,199,048 )
+Added: (201,988,460 )
+Added: (201,990,480 )
Balance as of December 31, 2017
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
+Added: Reclassification of ordinary shares subject to possible conversion
+Added: Balance as of December 31, 2018
+Added: (1) This number excludes 20,424,778 and 20,199,048 ordinary
+Added: shares subject to possible redemption at December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these financial statements.
CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
−Removed: November 28, 2016
−Removed: to December 31,
+Added: For the Years Ended
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
−Removed: Net income (loss)
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net income/(loss) to net cash used in operating activities:
−Removed: Formation costs paid by related party
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in operating activities:
+Added: Realized loss from sale of investment
Interest earned on investment held in Trust Account
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(206,362,930 )
−Removed: Proceeds from sale of investment held in Trust Account
+Added: Proceeds from sales and redemptions of investment held in Trust Account
Purchase of investment held in Trust Account
(626,140,347 )
+Added: (179,999,831 )
Net cash used in investing activities
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Proceeds from private placement
+Added: Proceeds from underwriter’s unit purchase option
Proceeds from sale of ordinary shares to initial shareholders
Proceeds from Sponsor loan
−Removed: Proceeds from underwriter’s unit purchase option
−Removed: Repayment of advances from related party
Repayment of Sponsor loan
+Added: Repayment of advances from related party
Payments of deferred offering costs
−Removed: Net cash provided by financing activities
−Removed: Net Change in Cash
+Added: Net cash provided from financing activities
+Added: Net (Decrease) Increase in Cash
Cash - Beginning
Cash - Ending
−Removed: Supplemental Disclosure of Non-cash Financing Activities:
−Removed: Payments of prepaid expenses associated with proposed public offering made by related party
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral
−Removed: part of these financial statements.
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these financial statements.
CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
+Added: December 31, 2018
Note 1 —
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efforts to identify a prospective target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic location.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2017, the Company had not
−Removed: yet commenced any operations.
+Added: As of December 31, 2018, the Company had
+Added: not yet commenced any operations generating revenue.
The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
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proceeds of $180,000,000, which is described in Note 3.
−Removed: Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial
−Removed: Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 475,000 units (the “Private Units”) at a price of $10.00 per Unit
−Removed: in a private placement to the Company’s sponsor (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $4,750,000, which
−Removed: is described in Note 4.
−Removed: Contained in the underwriting agreement for
−Removed: the Public Offering is an overallotment option allowing the underwriters to purchase from the Company up to an additional 2,700,000
+Added: Simultaneously with the closing of the
+Added: Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 475,000 units (the “Private Units”) at a price of $10.00
+Added: per Unit in a private placement to the Company’s sponsor (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $4,750,000,
+Added: which is described in Note 4.
+Added: Contained in the underwriting agreement
+Added: for the Public Offering is an overallotment option allowing the underwriters to purchase from the Company up to an additional 2,700,000
Public Units and the sale of an additional 54,000 Private Units at $10.00 per Unit (as described in Note 3 –
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Offering and Note 4 - Private Placement).
−Removed: The Company received a commitment from the Sponsor to purchase additional Private Units
−Removed: in order to maintain the amount of cash in the Trust equal to $10.00 per Public Share (as described in Note 4 - Private Placement).
On November 3, 2017, the underwriters exercised
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exercise of over-allotment option on November 3, 2017, an additional $26,362,930 of net proceeds
−Removed: ($10.00 per Unit) was placed in the Trust Account, bringing the aggregate proceeds held in the Trust Account to $206,362,930.
+Added: ($10.00 per Unit) was placed in the Trust Account, bringing the aggregate proceeds held in the Trust Account to $206,362,930, as
+Added: of November 3, 2017.
The funds in the Trust Account can be invested
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Initial Business Combination
−Removed: The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect
−Removed: to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Units, although substantially all
−Removed: of the net proceeds are intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Combination.
−Removed: The Company’s Business
−Removed: Combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance
−Removed: in the Trust Account (as defined below) (net of taxes payable) at the time of the signing an agreement to enter into a Business
−Removed: However, the Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-Business Combination company owns or acquires
−Removed: 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient
−Removed: for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
−Removed: There is no assurance that the
−Removed: Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
−Removed: The Company will provide its shareholders with
−Removed: the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares included in the Public Units sold in the Initial Public Offering (the
−Removed: “Public Shares”) upon the completion of a Business Combination either (i) in connection with a shareholder meeting
+Added: The Company’s management has broad
+Added: discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Units, although
+Added: substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Combination.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: Business Combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of
+Added: the balance in the Trust Account (as defined below) (net of taxes payable) at the time of the signing an agreement to enter into
+Added: a Business Combination.
+Added: However, the Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-Business Combination company
+Added: owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in
+Added: the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
+Added: no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.
+Added: The Company will provide its shareholders
+Added: with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares included in the Public Units sold in the Initial Public Offering
+Added: (the “Public Shares”) upon the completion of a Business Combination either (i) in connection with a shareholder meeting
called to approve the Business Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer.
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released to the Company to pay its tax obligations).
−Removed: The ordinary shares subject to redemption will
−Removed: be recorded at a redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering, in accordance
−Removed: with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.”
−Removed: case, the Company will proceed with a Business Combination if the Company has net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such
−Removed: consummation of a Business Combination and a majority of the issued and outstanding shares voted are voted in favor of the Business
−Removed: If a shareholder vote is not required by law and the Company does not decide to hold a shareholder vote for business
−Removed: or other legal reasons, the Company will, pursuant to Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, conduct the
−Removed: redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and file tender offer
−Removed: documents with the SEC prior to completing a Business Combination.
−Removed: If, however, a shareholder approval of the transaction is required
−Removed: by law, or the Company decides to obtain shareholder approval for business or other legal reasons, the Company will offer to redeem
−Removed: shares in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to the proxy rules and not pursuant to the tender offer rules.
−Removed: Company seeks shareholder approval in connection with a Business Combination, the Initial Shareholders (defined in Note 5 - Related
−Removed: Party Transactions) have agreed to vote their initial shares and private shares, as well as any public shares acquired in or after
−Removed: this offering, in favor of any proposed business combination.
−Removed: Additionally, each public shareholder may elect to redeem their Public
−Removed: Shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction.
−Removed: The Company will have 15 months from the closing
−Removed: of the Initial Public Offering to consummate a Business Combination (the “Combination Period”).
−Removed: If the Company is unable
−Removed: to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, it will trigger the automatic winding up, dissolution and liquidation
−Removed: pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
−Removed: However, if the Company anticipates that
−Removed: it may not be able to consummate a Business Combination within 15 months, the Company may, but is not obligated to, extend the
−Removed: period of time to consummate a Business Combination by an additional three months (for a total of up to 18 months to complete a
−Removed: Business Combination).
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association and the trust agreement
−Removed: entered into between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, in order to extend the time available
−Removed: for the Company to consummate a Business Combination, the Company’s insiders or their affiliates or designees, upon five
−Removed: days advance notice prior to the applicable deadline, must deposit into the trust account $2,063,629 ($0.10 per share), on or prior
−Removed: to the date of the applicable deadline.
−Removed: The insiders will receive a non-interest bearing, unsecured promissory note equal to the
−Removed: amount of any such deposit that will not be repaid in the event that the Company is unable to close a Business Combination unless
−Removed: there are funds available outside the trust account to do so.
−Removed: Such notes would either be paid upon consummation of the initial
−Removed: Business Combination, or, at the lender’s discretion, converted upon consummation of the Business Combination into additional
−Removed: private units at a price of $10.00 per unit.
−Removed: The Company’s stockholders have approved the issuance of the private units upon
−Removed: conversion of such notes, to the extent the holder wishes to so convert such notes at the time of the consummation of a Business
−Removed: In the event that the Company receives notice from its insiders five days prior to the applicable deadline of their
−Removed: intent to effect an extension, the Company intends to issue a press release announcing such intention at least three days prior
−Removed: to the applicable deadline.
−Removed: In addition, the Company intends to issue a press release the day after the applicable deadline announcing
−Removed: whether or not the funds had been timely deposited.
−Removed: The Company’s insiders and their affiliates or designees are not obligated
−Removed: to fund the trust account to extend the time for the Company to complete its initial Business Combination.
−Removed: To the extent that some,
−Removed: but not all, of the Company’s insiders, decide to extend the period of time to consummate its initial Business Combinations,
−Removed: such insiders (or their affiliates or designees) may deposit the entire amount required.
−Removed: The amount in the Trust Account (less the aggregate
−Removed: nominal par value of the shares of the Company’s public shareholders) under the Companies Law will be treated as share premium
−Removed: which is distributable under the Companies Law provided that immediately following the date on which the proposed distribution
−Removed: is proposed to be made, the Company is able to pay the debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business.
−Removed: If the Company
−Removed: is forced to liquidate the Trust Account, the public shareholders would be distributed the amount in the Trust Account calculated
−Removed: as of the date that is two days prior to the distribution date (including any accrued interest).
−Removed: The Initial Shareholders have agreed to (i)
−Removed: vote their insider shares (as well as any Public Shares acquired in or after this offering) in favor of any proposed Business Combination
−Removed: (ii) waive their conversion rights with respect to their initial share (as well as any other shares acquired in or after this offering)
−Removed: in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination, (iii) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the
−Removed: Trust Account with respect to their initial shares if the Company fails to consummate a Business Combination within the Combination
−Removed: Period and (iv) not to propose an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association
−Removed: that would affect the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of its Public Shares if the Company
−Removed: does not complete a Business Combination, unless the Company provides the public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their
−Removed: shares in conjunction with any such amendment.
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
+Added: The ordinary shares subject to redemption
+Added: will be recorded at a redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering, in
+Added: accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.”
+Added: In such case, the Company will proceed with a Business Combination if the Company has net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001
+Added: upon such consummation of a Business Combination and a majority of the issued and outstanding shares voted are voted in favor of
+Added: the Business Combination.
+Added: If a shareholder vote is not required by law and the Company does not decide to hold a shareholder vote
+Added: for business or other legal reasons, the Company will, pursuant to Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association,
+Added: conduct the redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and file
+Added: tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing a Business Combination.
+Added: If, however, a shareholder approval of the transaction
+Added: is required by law, or the Company decides to obtain shareholder approval for business or other legal reasons, the Company will
+Added: offer to redeem shares in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to the proxy rules and not pursuant to the tender offer
+Added: If the Company seeks shareholder approval in connection with a Business Combination, the Initial Shareholders (defined in
+Added: Note 5 - Related Party Transactions) have agreed to vote their initial shares and private shares, as well as any public shares
+Added: acquired in or after this offering, in favor of any proposed business combination.
+Added: Additionally, each public shareholder may elect
+Added: to redeem their Public Shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction.
+Added: The Company will have 15 months (to January
+Added: 2019) from the closing of the Initial Public Offering to consummate a Business Combination (the “Combination Period”).
+Added: If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, it will trigger the automatic winding
+Added: up, dissolution and liquidation pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
+Added: if the Company anticipates that it may not be able to consummate a Business Combination within 15 months, the Company may, but
+Added: is not obligated to, extend the period of time to consummate a Business Combination by an additional three months (for a total
+Added: of up to 18 months to complete a Business Combination).
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles
+Added: of Association and the trust agreement entered into between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC,
+Added: in order to extend the time available for the Company to consummate a Business Combination, the Company’s insiders or their
+Added: affiliates or designees, upon five days advance notice prior to the applicable deadline, must deposit into the trust account $2,063,629
+Added: ($0.10 per share), on or prior to the date of the applicable deadline.
+Added: The insiders will receive a non-interest bearing, unsecured
+Added: promissory note equal to the amount of any such deposit that will not be repaid in the event that the Company is unable to close
+Added: a Business Combination unless there are funds available outside the trust account to do so.
+Added: Such notes would either be paid upon
+Added: consummation of the initial Business Combination, or, at the lender’s discretion, converted upon consummation of the Business
+Added: Combination into additional private units at a price of $10.00 per unit.
+Added: The Company’s stockholders have approved the issuance
+Added: of the private units upon conversion of such notes, to the extent the holder wishes to so convert such notes at the time of the
+Added: consummation of a Business Combination.
+Added: In the event that the Company receives notice from its insiders five days prior to the
+Added: applicable deadline of their intent to effect an extension, the Company issued a press release announcing such intention at least
+Added: three days prior to the applicable deadline.
+Added: In addition, the Company issued a press release the day after the applicable deadline
+Added: announcing whether or not the funds had been timely deposited.
+Added: The Company’s insiders and their affiliates or designees are
+Added: not obligated to fund the trust account to extend the time for the Company to complete its initial Business Combination.
+Added: extent that some, but not all, of the Company’s insiders, decide to extend the period of time to consummate its initial Business
+Added: Combinations, such insiders (or their affiliates or designees) may deposit the entire amount required.
+Added: The amount in the Trust Account (less the
+Added: aggregate nominal par value of the shares of the Company’s public shareholders) under the Companies Law will be treated as
+Added: share premium which is distributable under the Companies Law provided that immediately following the date on which the proposed
+Added: distribution is proposed to be made, the Company is able to pay the debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business.
+Added: If the Company is forced to liquidate the Trust Account, the public shareholders would be distributed the amount in the Trust Account
+Added: calculated as of the date that is two days prior to the distribution date (including any accrued interest).
+Added: The Initial Shareholders have agreed to
+Added: (i) vote their insider shares (as well as any Public Shares acquired in or after this offering) in favor of any proposed Business
+Added: Combination (ii) waive their conversion rights with respect to their initial share (as well as any other shares acquired in or
+Added: after this offering) in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination, (iii) to waive their rights to liquidating
+Added: distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their initial shares if the Company fails to consummate a Business Combination
+Added: within the Combination Period and (iv) not to propose an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles
+Added: of Association that would affect the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of its Public Shares
+Added: if the Company does not complete a Business Combination, unless the Company provides the public shareholders with the opportunity
+Added: to redeem their shares in conjunction with any such amendment.
+Added: Share Exchange Agreement
+Added: On November 2, 2018, the Company entered
+Added: into a share exchange agreement with Renren Inc.
+Added: (“Renren”
+Added: or the “Seller”) and Kaixin Auto Group (“Kaixin”)
+Added: pursuant to which the Company would acquire all of the outstanding equity interests of Kaixin (the “Acquisition”).
+Added: Kaixin was founded in 2015 by its corporate parent, Renren, to capitalize on growth in China’s used car financing industry.
+Added: Kaixin operates a unique business model that includes on-line and brick-and-mortar dealerships as well as a network of parties
+Added: that provide a range of value-added and after-sale services.
+Added: 100% of the acquisition consideration will
+Added: be newly issued ordinary shares of the Company and amounts remaining in the Company’s trust account at the closing of the
+Added: business combination are expected to be used for Kaixin’s capital growth.
+Added: Upon closing of the acquisition, Kaixin shareholders
+Added: will receive approximately 28.3 million in ordinary shares as consideration and up to approximately 19.5 million additional ordinary
+Added: shares based on incentive earnouts (as described in more detail below), issuable in the future upon achievement of certain financial
+Added: results and/or stock prices, and subject to certain indemnification arrangements.
+Added: In addition, approximately 4.7 million ordinary
+Added: shares will be issued at closing or reserved for issuance to Kaixin’s management under its equity incentive plan.
+Added: If Kaixin’s revenue equals or exceeds
+Added: RMB5.0 billion in 2019 (USD 725.7 million), Renren will receive 1.95 million shares.
+Added: If Kaixin’s 2019 Adjusted Earnings
+Added: Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (“EBITDA”) equals RMB150 million (USD 21.8 million), Renren
+Added: will receive 3.9 million shares, increasing proportionally to 7.8 million shares if 2019 Adjusted EBITDA equals or exceeds RMB200
+Added: million (USD 29.0 million).
+Added: If Kaixin’s 2020 Adjusted EBITDA equals RMB340 million (USD 49.3 million), Renren will receive
+Added: 4.875 million shares, increasing proportionally to 9.75 million shares if 2020 Adjusted EBITDA equals or exceeds RMB480 million
+Added: (USD 69.7 million).
+Added: Notwithstanding the Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA achieved by the post-transaction company for any period, Kaixin
+Added: shareholders will receive the 2019 earnout shares if the Company’s stock price is higher than $13.00 for any sixty days in
+Added: any period of ninety consecutive trading days during a fifteen month period following the closing, and will receive the 2019 earnout
+Added: shares and the 2020 earnout shares if the Company’s stock price is higher than $13.50 for any sixty days in any period of
+Added: ninety consecutive trading days during a thirty month period following the closing.
+Added: On January 25, 2019, the Company extended
+Added: the time required for the Company to complete its proposed Business Combination with Kaixin Auto Group (“Kaixin”),
+Added: for an additional three-months, ending April 30, 2019.
+Added: The Sponsor or its designees and Kaixin deposited an aggregate amount of
+Added: $2,063,629, of which Kaixin funded $1,050,000 and the Sponsor funded $1,013,629, representing $0.10 per public share, into the
+Added: Company’s Trust account on January 25, 2019 pursuant to the terms of the investment management trust agreement entered into
+Added: by the Company at the time of the Company’s initial public offering and pursuant to the terms of the definitive share exchange
+Added: agreement previously entered into by the Company and Kaixin.
+Added: Conditions to Closing
+Added: General Conditions
+Added: Consummation of the Share Exchange Agreement
+Added: and the Acquisition is conditioned on, among other things, (i) the absence of any order, stay, judgment or decree by any government
+Added: agency making the Acquisition illegal or otherwise preventing the Acquisition;
+Added: (ii) the Company receiving approval from its shareholders
+Added: to the Acquisition, and (iii) the Company having in excess of $5 million in tangible assets upon closing of the Acquisition (not
+Added: including any amounts contributed by the Company or the Seller or by investors or financing introduced or procured by the Company
+Added: or the Seller).
+Added: Kaixin and the Seller’s Conditions to Closing
+Added: The obligations of the Seller and Kaixin to consummate the transactions
+Added: contemplated by the Share Exchange Agreement, in addition to the conditions described above, are conditioned upon each of the following,
+Added: among other things:
+Added: The Company complying with all of its obligations under the Share Exchange Agreement;
+Added: the representations and warranties of the Company being true on and as of the closing date of the Acquisition;
+Added: Kaixin receiving a legal opinion from the Company’s counsel in the Cayman Islands;
+Added: there having been no material adverse effect to Kaixin’s business.
+Added: The Company’s Conditions to Closing
+Added: The obligations of The Company to consummate the transactions
+Added: contemplated by the Share Exchange Agreement, in addition to the conditions described above in the first paragraph of this section,
+Added: are conditioned upon each of the following, among other things:
+Added: Kaixin complying with all of its obligations under the Share Exchange Agreement;
+Added: the representations and warranties of Kaixin being true on and as of the closing date of the acquisition and Kaixin complying with all required covenants in the Share Exchange Agreement;
+Added: there having been no material adverse effect to The Company’s business;
+Added: the Company receiving a legal opinion from Kaixin’s counsel in the PRC and Cayman Islands;
+Added: the forfeiture by the Seller of all loans listed on the relevant disclosure schedule made to Kaixin or its subsidiaries;
+Added: Kaixin selling one of its subsidiaries to an affiliate of the Seller.
+Added: Accounting for the Acquisition
+Added: The Business Combination will be accounted
+Added: for as a “reverse merger”
+Added: in accordance with U.S.
+Added: Under this method of accounting the Company will be treated
+Added: as the “acquired”
+Added: company for financial reporting purposes.
+Added: This determination is primarily based on the fact that
+Added: subsequent to the Business Combination, Kaixin securityholders are expected to have a majority of the voting power of the combined
+Added: company, Kaixin comprising all of the ongoing operations of the combined entity, Kaixin comprising a majority of the governing
+Added: body of the combined company, and Kaixin’s senior management comprising all of the senior management of the combined company.
+Added: Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the Business Combination will be treated as the equivalent of Kaixin issuing stock for the
+Added: net assets of the Company, accompanied by a recapitalization.
+Added: The net assets of the Company will be stated at fair value which
+Added: approximates historical costs as the Company has only cash and short-term liabilities.
+Added: No goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.
+Added: Operations prior to the Business Combination will be those of Kaixin.
However, the holders of the initial shares
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the Trust Account from the remaining assets outside of the trust account.
−Removed: If such funds are insufficient, the Sponsor
−Removed: has contractually agreed to advance the Company the funds necessary to complete such liquidation (currently anticipated to be no
−Removed: more than approximately $18,500) and has contractually agreed not to seek repayment for such expenses.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2017, the Company had cash
−Removed: outside the Trust Account of $165,405 available for working capital needs.
−Removed: All remaining cash was held in the Trust Account and
−Removed: is generally unavailable for our use, prior to an initial Business Combination, and is restricted for use either in a Business
+Added: If such funds are insufficient, the Sponsor has contractually
+Added: agreed to advance the Company the funds necessary to complete such liquidation (currently anticipated to be no more than approximately
+Added: $18,500) and has contractually agreed not to seek repayment for such expenses.
+Added: As of December 31, 2018, the Company had
+Added: cash outside the Trust Account of $39,643 available for working capital needs.
+Added: All remaining cash was held in the Trust Account
+Added: and is generally unavailable for use, prior to an initial Business Combination, and is restricted for use either in a Business
Combination or to redeem ordinary shares.
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to be withdrawn as described above.
−Removed: Through December 31, 2017, the Company’s
−Removed: liquidity needs were satisfied through receipt of $31,038 from the sale of the insider shares, advances from our sponsor and an
−Removed: affiliate of our sponsor in an aggregate amount of $663,009 which were repaid upon the IPO, and the remaining net proceeds from
−Removed: the IPO and Private Placement (as described in Note 5).
−Removed: On April 9, 2018, the Sponsor agreed to loan to the Company an additional
−Removed: $500,000 pursuant to a non-convertible non-interest bearing promissory note, which will be repaid promptly after the date on which
−Removed: the Company consummates a Business Combination.
−Removed: In the event that we are unable to consummate a business combination, as described
−Removed: in the prospectus relating to the IPO, the balance of such note will be forgiven and our sponsor will not be entitled to any payment
+Added: Through the date of this report, the Company’s
+Added: liquidity needs were satisfied through receipt of $31,038 from the sale of the insider shares, advances from the Company’s
+Added: Sponsor and an affiliate of the Sponsor in an aggregate amount of $663,009 which were repaid upon the IPO, and the remaining net
+Added: proceeds from the IPO and Private Placement (as described in Note 3 and Note 4).
+Added: On May 23, 2018 and January 24, 2019, the Sponsor
+Added: loaned to the Company an additional $500,000 (see Note 5) and $1,100,000 (see Note 9), respectively, pursuant to the non-convertible
+Added: non-interest bearing promissory notes, which will be repaid promptly after the date on which the Company consummates a Business
+Added: In the event that the Company is unable to consummate a Business Combination, the balance of such note will be forgiven
+Added: and the Sponsor will not be entitled to any payment.
Until consummation of its Business Combination,
−Removed: the Company will be using the funds not held in the Trust Account, and any additional funding from our Sponsor’s promissory
−Removed: note commitment, for identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates, performing business due diligence on prospective
−Removed: target businesses, traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate
−Removed: documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, selecting the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating
−Removed: and consummating the Business Combination.
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
−Removed: If the Company’s estimates of the costs
−Removed: of undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating Business Combination is less than the actual amount necessary to do so, the
−Removed: Company may have insufficient funds available to operate its business prior to the Business Combination.
−Removed: Moreover, the Company
−Removed: will need to raise additional capital through loans from its Sponsor, officers, directors, or third parties.
−Removed: None of the Sponsor,
−Removed: officers or directors are under any obligation to advance funds to, or to invest in, the Company.
−Removed: If the Company is unable to raise
−Removed: additional capital, it may be required to take additional measures to conserve liquidity, which could include, but not necessarily
−Removed: be limited to, curtailing operations, suspending the pursuit of its business plan, and reducing overhead expenses.
−Removed: cannot provide any assurance that new financing will be available to it on commercially acceptable terms, if at all.
−Removed: These conditions
−Removed: raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: These financial statements do not include
−Removed: any adjustments that might result from the outcome of these uncertainties.
+Added: the Company will be using the funds not held in the Trust Account for identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates,
+Added: performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses, traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations
+Added: of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, selecting
+Added: the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating and consummating the Business Combination.
+Added: On November 2, 2018, the Company entered
+Added: into a Share Exchange Agreement with Kaixin Auto Group.
+Added: The initial Business Combination is expected to close during the first
+Added: quarter of 2019.
+Added: The Company has engaged several professional firms for services regarding the transaction, resulting in a significant
+Added: increase in the Company’s expenditures for merger and acquisition related activities.
+Added: If the Company is not able to consummate
+Added: a Business Combination before April 30, 2019, the Company will commence an automatic winding up, dissolution and liquidation unless
+Added: it seeks and receives the consent of its’
+Added: shareholders to otherwise extend the life of the Company.
+Added: These conditions raise
+Added: substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: These financial statements do not include any
+Added: adjustments that might result from the outcome of these uncertainties.
Note 2 —
−Removed: Significant Accounting Policies
+Added: Significant Accounting
Basis of Presentation
−Removed: The accompanying balance sheet is presented
−Removed: in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and pursuant to
−Removed: the rules and regulations of the SEC.
+Added: The accompanying financial statements of
+Added: the Company are presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”)
+Added: and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC.
+Added: In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring
+Added: adjustments) have been made that are necessary to present fairly the financial position, and the results of its operations and
+Added: its cash flows.
Emerging Growth Company Status
−Removed: The Company is an “emerging growth company,”
−Removed: as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart
−Removed: our Business Startups Act of 2012, (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting
−Removed: requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to,
−Removed: not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure
−Removed: obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements
−Removed: of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously
−Removed: Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act
−Removed: exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private
+Added: The Company is an “emerging growth
+Added: company,”
+Added: as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the “Securities Act”), as modified
+Added: by the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act of 2012, (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions
+Added: from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including,
+Added: but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
+Added: Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions
+Added: from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute
+Added: payments not previously approved.
+Added: Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS
+Added: Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private
companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of
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Use of Estimates
−Removed: The preparation of financial statements in
−Removed: conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities
−Removed: and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses
−Removed: during the reporting period.
+Added: The preparation of financial statements
+Added: in conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and
+Added: liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts
+Added: of expenses during the reporting period.
Actual results could differ from those estimates.
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
Cash and Cash Equivalents
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The Company did not have any cash equivalents
−Removed: as of December 31, 2017 and 2016.
+Added: as of December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017.
Investment Held in Trust Account
−Removed: Investment consist
+Added: Investment consists
of cash in United States Money Market and United States Treasury securities.
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securities are recorded at amortized cost and adjusted for the amortization or accretion of premiums or discounts.
−Removed: A decline in the market
−Removed: value of held-to-maturity securities below cost that is deemed to be other than temporary, results in an impairment that reduces
−Removed: the carrying costs to such securities' fair value.
−Removed: The impairment is charged to earnings and a new cost basis for the security
−Removed: is established.
−Removed: To determine whether an impairment is other than temporary, the Company considers whether it has the ability and
−Removed: intent to hold the investment until a market price recovery and considers whether evidence indicating the cost of the investment
−Removed: is recoverable outweighs evidence to the contrary.
−Removed: Evidence considered in this assessment includes the reasons for the impairment,
−Removed: the severity and the duration of the impairment, changes in value subsequent to year-end, forecasted performance of the investee,
−Removed: and the general market condition in the geographic area or industry the investee operates in.
+Added: A decline in the
+Added: market value of held-to-maturity securities below cost that is deemed to be other than temporary, results in an impairment that
+Added: reduces the carrying costs to such securities’
+Added: The impairment is charged to earnings and a new cost basis for
+Added: the security is established.
+Added: To determine whether an impairment is other than temporary, the Company considers whether it has the
+Added: ability and intent to hold the investment until a market price recovery and considers whether evidence indicating the cost of the
+Added: investment is recoverable outweighs evidence to the contrary.
+Added: Evidence considered in this assessment includes the reasons for the
+Added: impairment, the severity and the duration of the impairment, changes in value subsequent to year-end, forecasted performance of
+Added: the investee, and the general market condition in the geographic area or industry the investee operates in.
Premiums and discounts
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information available in the circumstances.
−Removed: The fair value hierarchy is categorized into
−Removed: three levels based on the inputs as follows:
+Added: The fair value hierarchy is categorized
+Added: into three levels based on the inputs as follows:
Level 1 —
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Valuations based on (i) quoted prices in active markets for similar assets and liabilities, (ii) quoted prices in markets that are not active for identical or similar assets, (iii) inputs other than quoted prices for the assets or liabilities, or (iv) inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by market through correlation or other means.
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
Level 3 —
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assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures,”
−Removed: approximates the carrying amounts represented in the balance sheet.
−Removed: The fair values of cash and cash equivalents, prepaid assets,
−Removed: accounts payable and accrued expenses, due to related parties are estimated to approximate the carrying values as of December 31,
−Removed: 2017 due to the short maturities of such instruments.
−Removed: The following table presents information about
−Removed: the Company’s assets and liabilities that were measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2017, and indicates
−Removed: the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques the Company utilized to determine such fair value.
−Removed: Quoted Prices In
−Removed: Active Markets
+Added: approximates the carrying amounts represented in the condensed balance sheet.
+Added: The fair values of cash, prepaid assets, accounts
+Added: payable and accrued expenses, due to related parties and due to Sponsor are estimated to approximate the carrying values as of
+Added: December 31, 2018 due to the short maturities of such instruments.
+Added: The following table presents information
+Added: about the Company’s assets and liabilities that were measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2018
+Added: and 2017 and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques the Company utilized to determine such fair value.
Money Market held in Trust Account
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$ 210,451,869
+Added: Money Market held in Trust Account
+Added: Treasury Securities held in Trust Account
+Added: $ 206,785,848
+Added: $ 206,776,908
Ordinary Shares Subject to Possible Redemption
The Company accounts for its ordinary shares
−Removed: subject to possible conversion in accordance with the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480
+Added: subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480
“Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.”
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Accordingly, at December 31,
−Removed: 2017, ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are presented as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’
−Removed: section of the Company’s balance sheet.
+Added: 2018 and December 31, 2017, ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are presented as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’
+Added: equity section of the Company’s balance sheets.
Warrants and Rights
−Removed: Since the Company is not required to net cash
−Removed: settle the Warrants and Rights and the Warrants and Rights are exercisable upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination,
+Added: Since the Company is not required to net
+Added: cash settle the Warrants and Rights and the Warrants and Rights are exercisable upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination,
the management determined that the Warrants and Rights will be classified within shareholders’
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Net Income per Ordinary Share
−Removed: The Company complies with accounting and disclosure
−Removed: requirements ASC Topic 260, “Earnings Per Share.”
−Removed: Net income per ordinary share is computed by dividing net income
−Removed: by the weighted average number of ordinary shares issued and outstanding for the year.
−Removed: At December 31, 2017, the Company did not
−Removed: have any dilutive securities and other contracts that could, potentially, be exercised or converted into ordinary shares and then
−Removed: share in the income of the Company.
−Removed: As a result, diluted income per ordinary share is the same as basic income per ordinary shares
−Removed: for the periods.
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
+Added: The Company complies with accounting and
+Added: disclosure requirements ASC Topic 260, “Earnings Per Share.”
+Added: Net income per ordinary share is computed by dividing
+Added: net income by the weighted average number of ordinary shares issued and outstanding for the period.
+Added: At December 31, 2018 and 2017,
+Added: the Company did not have any dilutive securities and other contracts that could, potentially, be exercised or converted into ordinary
+Added: shares and then share in the income of the Company.
+Added: As a result, diluted income per ordinary share is the same as basic income
+Added: per ordinary share for the periods presented.
Concentration of Credit Risk
−Removed: Financial instruments that potentially subject
−Removed: the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash accounts in a financial institution, which at times, may exceed the
−Removed: Federal depository insurance coverage of $250,000.
−Removed: The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes
−Removed: the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such accounts.
+Added: Financial instruments that potentially
+Added: subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash accounts in a financial institution, which at times, may exceed
+Added: the Federal depository insurance coverage of $250,000.
+Added: The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management
+Added: believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such accounts.
The Company accounts for income taxes under
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to be established when it is more likely than not that all or a portion of deferred tax assets will not be realized.
−Removed: ASC 740 also clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income
−Removed: taxes recognized in an enterprise’s financial statements and prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement process for
−Removed: financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return.
−Removed: For those benefits
−Removed: to be recognized, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities.
−Removed: provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim period, disclosure and transition.
+Added: ASC 740 also clarifies the accounting for
+Added: uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an enterprise’s financial statements and prescribes a recognition threshold and
+Added: measurement process for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax
+Added: For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by taxing
+Added: ASC 740 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim period,
+Added: disclosure and transition.
The Company has identified the Cayman Islands as its only “major”
tax jurisdiction, as defined.
−Removed: Based on the Company’s
−Removed: evaluation, it has been concluded that there are no significant uncertain tax positions requiring recognition in the Company’s
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: Since the Company was incorporated on November 28, 2016, the evaluation was performed for the tax years ended
−Removed: December 31, 2016 and 2017 which will be the only periods subject to examination.
−Removed: The Company believes that its income tax positions
−Removed: and deductions would be sustained on audit and does not anticipate any adjustments that would result in a material changes to its
−Removed: financial position.
−Removed: The Company’s policy for recording interest and penalties associated with audits is to record such items
−Removed: as a component of income tax expense.
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
+Added: Based on the Company’s evaluation, it has been concluded that there are no significant uncertain tax positions requiring
+Added: recognition in the Company’s financial statements.
+Added: Since the Company was incorporated on November 28, 2016, the evaluation
+Added: was performed through the 2018 tax year.
+Added: The Company believes that its income tax positions and deductions would be sustained on
+Added: audit and does not anticipate any adjustments that would result in a material changes to its financial position.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: policy for recording interest and penalties associated with audits is to record such items as a component of income tax expense.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
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Initial Public Offering
−Removed: Pursuant to the Initial Public Offering on
−Removed: October 30, 2017, the Company sold 18,000,000 Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per Unit.
+Added: Pursuant to the Initial Public Offering
+Added: on October 30, 2017, the Company sold 18,000,000 Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per Unit.
On November 3, 2017, in connection
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Note 4 - Private Placements
−Removed: Simultaneously with the Initial Public Offering,
−Removed: the Company’s Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 475,000 Private Units at $10.00 per Unit (for a total purchase price of $4,750,000).
+Added: Simultaneously with the Initial Public
+Added: Offering, the Company’s Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 475,000 Private Units at $10.00 per Unit (for a total purchase
+Added: price of $4,750,000).
On November 3, 2017, in connection with the underwriters’
−Removed: partial exercise of their over-allotment option, the Company consummated
−Removed: the sale of an additional 52,726 Private Units at $10.00 per Unit.
−Removed: The proceeds from the Private Units were added to the proceeds
−Removed: from the Initial Public Offering held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: The Private Units are identical to the units
−Removed: sold in the Initial Public Offering except the Private Units will be non-redeemable.
−Removed: The purchasers of the Private Units have agreed
−Removed: not to transfer, assign or sell any of the Private Units or underlying securities (except to the same permitted transferees as
−Removed: the insider shares) until the completion of the Business Combination.
+Added: partial exercise of their over-allotment
+Added: option, the Company consummated the sale of an additional 52,726 Private Units at $10.00 per Unit (for a total purchase price of
+Added: The proceeds from the Private Units were added to the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering held in the Trust Account.
+Added: The Private Units are identical to the
+Added: units sold in the Initial Public Offering except the Private Units will be non-redeemable.
+Added: The purchasers of the Private Units
+Added: have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of the Private Units or underlying securities (except to the same permitted transferees
+Added: as the insider shares) until the completion of the Business Combination.
If the Company does not complete a Business
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The Initial Shareholders
−Removed: will maintain 20% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares after the Initial Public Offering and the exercise of the
−Removed: over-allotment.
−Removed: The Initial Shareholders have agreed not to
−Removed: transfer, assign or sell any of the Insider Shares (except to certain permitted transferees) until (1) with respect to 50% of the
−Removed: Insider Shares, the earlier of one year after the date of the consummation of the Business Combination and the date on which the
−Removed: closing price of the common shares equals or exceeds $12.50 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share capitalizations, reorganizations
−Removed: and recapitalizations) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing after the Business Combination and (2)
−Removed: with respect to the remaining 50% of the Insider Shares, one year after the date of the consummation of the Business Combination,
+Added: maintained 20% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares after the Initial Public Offering and the exercise of the over-allotment.
+Added: The Initial Shareholders have agreed not
+Added: to transfer, assign or sell any of the Insider Shares (except to certain permitted transferees) until (1) with respect to 50% of
+Added: the Insider Shares, the earlier of one year after the date of the consummation of the Business Combination and the date on which
+Added: the closing price of the common shares equals or exceeds $12.50 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share capitalizations,
+Added: reorganizations and recapitalizations) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing after the Business Combination
+Added: and (2) with respect to the remaining 50% of the Insider Shares, one year after the date of the consummation of the Business Combination,
or earlier, in either case, if, subsequent to the Business Combination, the Company consummates a liquidation, merger, stock exchange
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Related Party Advances
−Removed: On July 4, 2017, the Sponsor loaned the Company
−Removed: $300,000 for costs associated with the Initial Public Offering.
+Added: On July 4, 2017, the Sponsor loaned the
+Added: Company $300,000 for costs associated with the Initial Public Offering.
On September 1, 2017, the Sponsor loaned the Company another
−Removed: On October 24, 2017 and October 26, 2017, the Sponsor advanced the Company an additional $71,000 and $7,507, respectively, for
−Removed: costs associated with the Initial Public Offering.
+Added: On October 24, 2017 and October 26, 2017, the Sponsor advanced the Company an additional $71,000 and $7,507, respectively,
+Added: for costs associated with the Initial Public Offering.
The loans are non-interest bearing, unsecured and due on demand.
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on October 31, 2017 and November 8, 2017, respectively.
−Removed: For the period from November 28, 2016 through December 31, 2017,
−Removed: an affiliate of the Sponsor has advanced to the Company an aggregate of $84,502 in regards to the formation costs and costs associated
−Removed: with the Initial Public Offering.
−Removed: Such advances were non-interest bearing.
−Removed: These advances were repaid by the Company on July 17,
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
−Removed: Note 5 –
−Removed: Related Party Transactions (cont.)
+Added: On May 23, 2018, the Sponsor loaned to
+Added: the Company an additional $500,000 pursuant to a non-convertible non-interest bearing promissory note, which will be repaid promptly
+Added: after the date on which the Company consummates a Business Combination.
+Added: In the event that the Company is unable to consummate a
+Added: Business Combination, the balance of such note will be forgiven and the Sponsor will not be entitled to any payment thereunder.
+Added: As of December 31, 2018 and 2017, amount
+Added: due to related parties were $18,918 and $4,289, respectively.
+Added: The amounts were unpaid reimbursements for the operating expenses
+Added: paid by the officers on behalf of the Company.
Related Party Loans
−Removed: In order to meet our working capital needs
−Removed: following the IPO, our initial shareholders, officers and directors or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us
−Removed: funds, from time to time or at any time, in whatever amount they deem reasonable in their sole discretion (“Working Capital
−Removed: Loans”).
+Added: In order to meet the working capital needs
+Added: following the IPO, the initial shareholders, officers and directors or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan the
+Added: Company funds, from time to time or at any time, in whatever amount they deem reasonable in their sole discretion (“Working
+Added: Capital Loans”).
Each loan would be evidenced by a promissory note.
−Removed: The notes could either be paid upon consummation of our initial
−Removed: business combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $500,000 of the notes may be converted upon
−Removed: consummation of our business combination into private units at a price of $10.00 per unit (which, for example, would result in
−Removed: the holders being issued units to acquire 55,000 ordinary shares (which includes 5,000 shares issuable upon conversion of rights)
+Added: The notes could either be paid upon consummation of the
+Added: initial Business Combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $500,000 of the notes may be converted
+Added: upon consummation of the Business Combination into private units at a price of $10.00 per unit (which, for example, would result
+Added: in the holders being issued units to acquire 55,000 ordinary shares (which includes 5,000 shares issuable upon conversion of rights)
and warrants to purchase 25,000 ordinary shares if $500,000 of notes were so converted).
−Removed: Our shareholders have approved any issuance
−Removed: of the units and underlying securities upon conversion of such notes, to the extent an optional conversion is included and the
−Removed: holder wishes to so convert them at the time of the consummation of our initial business combination.
−Removed: If we do not complete a business
−Removed: combination, the loans will not be repaid.
−Removed: On April 9, 2018, our Sponsor agreed to loan
−Removed: to us an additional $500,000 pursuant to a non-convertible non-interest bearing promissory note, which will be repaid promptly
−Removed: after the date on which we consummate a business combination.
−Removed: In the event that we are unable to consummate a business combination,
−Removed: as described in the prospectus relating to the IPO, the balance of such note will be forgiven and our sponsor will not be entitled
−Removed: to any payment thereunder.
−Removed: Note 6 —Investment Held in Trust Account
−Removed: As of December 31, 2017, investment in the
−Removed: Company’s Trust Account consisted of $8,940 in United States Money Market and $206,776,908 in U.S.
+Added: The Company’s shareholders have
+Added: approved any issuance of the units and underlying securities upon conversion of such notes, to the extent an optional conversion
+Added: is included and the holder wishes to so convert them at the time of the consummation of the initial Business Combination.
+Added: Company does not complete a Business Combination, the loans will not be repaid.
+Added: There was no outstanding balance under Working
+Added: Capital Loans from related party as of December 31, 2018 and 2017.
+Added: Note 6 —Investment Held in Trust
+Added: As of December 31, 2018, investment in
+Added: the Company’s Trust Account consisted of $3,600 in cash and $210,451,869 in U.S.
Treasury Securities.
−Removed: Company classifies its United States Treasury and equivalent securities as held-to-maturity in accordance with FASB ASC 320 “Investments
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: 2017, investment in the Company’s Trust Account consisted of $8,940 in United States Money Market and $206,776,908 in U.S.
+Added: Treasury Securities.
+Added: The Company classifies its United States Treasury Bills and equivalent securities as held-to-maturity in accordance
+Added: with FASB ASC 320 “Investments —
Debt and Equity Securities”.
−Removed: Held-to-maturity treasury securities are recorded at amortized cost and adjusted for
−Removed: the amortization or accretion of premiums or discounts.
−Removed: The Company did not have a Trust Account as of December 31, 2016.
−Removed: considers all investments with original maturities of more than three months but less than one year to be short-term investments.
−Removed: The carrying value approximates the fair value due to the short term maturity.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2017, cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: held in trust account is $206,785,848.
−Removed: The carrying value, excluding gross unrealized holding loss and fair value of held to maturity
−Removed: securities on December 31, 2017 are as follows:
+Added: Held-to-maturity treasury securities are recorded
+Added: at amortized cost and adjusted for the amortization or accretion of premiums or discounts.
+Added: The Company considers all investments
+Added: with original maturities of more than three months but less than one year to be short-term investments.
+Added: The carrying value approximates
+Added: the fair value due to the short term maturity.
+Added: As of December 31, 2018 and 2017, cash and investments held in trust account are
+Added: $210,455,469 and $206,785,848, respectively.
+Added: The carrying value, excluding gross unrealized holding gain (loss) and fair value
+Added: of held to maturity securities on December 31, 2018 and 2017 are as follows:
Gross Unrealized
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$ 210,470,644
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
+Added: Gross Unrealized
+Added: Treasury Securities
+Added: $ 206,785,848
+Added: $ 206,715,209
+Added: In February 2018, the Company sold the U.S.
+Added: Treasury Securities
+Added: in a net carrying value of $207,176,264 for a total cash of $207,078,506.
+Added: The Company recorded a realized loss from sale of investment
+Added: in the amount of $97,758 accordingly.
+Added: In August 2018, the Company redeemed the expired treasury bills for total cash proceeds of
+Added: $208,816,500 and re-invested in U.S.
+Added: Treasury Bills.
+Added: In December 2018, the Company redeemed the expired treasury bills for total
+Added: cash proceeds of $210,224,000 and re-invested in U.S.
+Added: Treasury Bills.
Note 7 –
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Underwriters Agreement
−Removed: The Company granted the underwriters a 45-day
−Removed: option to purchase up to 2,700,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments at the Initial Public Offering price, less the underwriting
−Removed: discounts and commissions.
+Added: The Company granted the underwriters a
+Added: 45-day option to purchase up to 2,700,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments at the Initial Public Offering price, less
+Added: the underwriting discounts and commissions.
On October 25, 2017, the underwriters were
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its shareholders to discuss a potential Business Combination and the target business’
−Removed: attributes, introduce the Company
−Removed: to potential investors that are interested in purchasing securities, assist the Company in obtaining shareholder approval for
−Removed: the Business Combination and assist the Company with its press releases and public filings in connection with an Business Combination.
+Added: attributes, introduce the Company to
+Added: potential investors that are interested in purchasing securities, assist the Company in obtaining shareholder approval for the
+Added: Business Combination and assist the Company with its press releases and public filings in connection with an Business Combination.
The Company will pay EBC a cash fee equal to 3.5% of the gross proceeds raised in the offering for such services upon the consummation
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fees which might become payable), provided that up to 1.0%
−Removed: 1.0% of the gross proceeds raised in the offering payable to EBC may be allocated at the Company’s sole discretion to one
−Removed: or more advisors that assist in identifying and consummating an Business Combination.
−Removed: The Company will also reimburse EBC for
−Removed: up to $20,000 of its reasonable costs and expenses incurred by it (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) in
−Removed: connection with the performance of its services.
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
−Removed: Note 7 –
−Removed: Commitments & Contingencies (cont.)
+Added: of the gross proceeds raised in the offering payable to EBC may be allocated at the Company’s sole discretion to one or more
+Added: advisors that assist in identifying and consummating an Business Combination.
+Added: The Company will also reimburse EBC for up to $20,000
+Added: of its reasonable costs and expenses incurred by it (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) in connection with
+Added: the performance of its services.
Unit Purchase Option
−Removed: On October 30, 2017, the Company sold the underwriter
−Removed: (and/or its designees), for $100, an option to purchase up to 900,000 Units exercisable at $10.00 per Unit (or an aggregate exercise
−Removed: price of $9,000,000) commencing on the later of the first anniversary of the effective date of the registration statement related
−Removed: to the Initial Public Offering and the consummation of a Business Combination.
−Removed: The unit purchase option may be exercised for cash
−Removed: or on a cashless basis, at the holder’s option, and expires five years from the effective date of the registration statement
−Removed: related to the Initial Public Offering.
−Removed: The Units issuable upon exercise of this option are identical to those offered in the Initial
−Removed: Public Offering.
+Added: On October 30, 2017, the Company sold the
+Added: underwriter (and/or its designees), for $100, an option to purchase up to 900,000 Units exercisable at $10.00 per Unit (or an aggregate
+Added: exercise price of $9,000,000) commencing on the later of the first anniversary of the effective date of the registration statement
+Added: related to the Initial Public Offering and the consummation of a Business Combination.
+Added: The unit purchase option may be exercised
+Added: for cash or on a cashless basis, at the holder’s option, and expires five years from the effective date of the registration
+Added: statement related to the Initial Public Offering.
+Added: The Units issuable upon exercise of this option are identical to those offered
+Added: in the Initial Public Offering.
The Company accounted for the unit purchase
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Shareholders’
−Removed: Preferred Shares - The Company
−Removed: is authorized to issue a total of 2,000,000 preferred shares of a par value of $0.0001 each.
−Removed: At December 31, 2017 and 2016, there
−Removed: were no shares of preferred shares issued or outstanding.
−Removed: Ordinary Shares - The Company
−Removed: is authorized to issue a total of 200,000,000 ordinary shares of a par value of $0.0001 each.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2017, the Company
−Removed: has issued an aggregate of 6,124,044 ordinary shares, excluding 20,199,048 shares of ordinary shares subject to possible redemption.
−Removed: At December 31, 2016, there was 1 ordinary share issued and outstanding.
−Removed: Warrants - Each whole Public
−Removed: Warrant is at $11.50 per whole share and exercisable for one ordinary share.
−Removed: Because the warrants may only be exercised for whole
−Removed: numbers of shares, only a whole number of warrants may be exercised at any given time.
−Removed: The warrants will become exercisable on
−Removed: the later of the completion of a Business Combination and 12 months from October 25, 2017.
+Added: Preferred Shares - The
+Added: Company is authorized to issue a total of 2,000,000 preferred shares of a par value of $0.0001 each.
+Added: At December 31, 2018 and 2017,
+Added: there were no shares of preferred shares issued or outstanding.
+Added: Ordinary Shares - The
+Added: Company is authorized to issue a total of 200,000,000 ordinary shares of a par value of $0.0001 each.
+Added: As of December 31, 2018,
+Added: the Company has issued an aggregate of 5,898,314 ordinary shares, excluding 20,424,778 shares of ordinary shares subject to possible
+Added: As of December 31, 2017, the Company has issued an aggregate of 6,124,044 ordinary shares, excluding 20,199,048 shares
+Added: of ordinary shares subject to possible redemption.
+Added: Warrants - Each whole
+Added: Public Warrant is exercisable for one Ordinary Share at a price of $11.50 per full share.
+Added: Because the warrants may only be exercised
+Added: for whole numbers of shares, only a whole number of warrants may be exercised at any given time.
+Added: The warrants will become exercisable
+Added: on the later of the completion of a Business Combination and 12 months from October 25, 2017.
If a registration statement covering
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the Business Combination, public warrant holders may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during
−Removed: any period when we shall have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a cashless basis pursuant
−Removed: to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act.
−Removed: In such event, each holder would pay the exercise price by
−Removed: surrendering the warrants for that number of ordinary shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the
−Removed: number of ordinary shares underlying the warrants, multiplied by the difference between the exercise price of the warrants and
−Removed: the “fair market value”
+Added: any period when the Company shall have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a cashless
+Added: basis pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act.
+Added: In such event, each holder would pay the exercise
+Added: price by surrendering the warrants for that number of ordinary shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product
+Added: of the number of ordinary shares underlying the warrants, multiplied by the difference between the exercise price of the warrants
+Added: and the “fair market value”
(defined below) by (y) the fair market value.
The “fair market value”
−Removed: the average reported last sale price of the ordinary shares for the 10 trading days ending on the day prior to the date of exercise.
−Removed: The warrants issued in the Private Units (“Private
−Removed: Warrants”) are identical to the Public Warrants sold in this offering except the Private Warrants will be non-redeemable
−Removed: and may be exercised on a cashless basis, in each case so long as they continue to be held by the initial purchasers or their permitted
−Removed: The Company may redeem the outstanding warrants
−Removed: (excluding the Private Warrants), in whole and not in part, at a price of $0.01 per warrant:
−Removed: ● at any time while the warrants
−Removed: are exercisable,
+Added: mean the average reported last sale price of the ordinary shares for the 10 trading days ending on the day prior to the date of
+Added: The warrants issued in the Private Units
+Added: (“Private Warrants”) are identical to the Public Warrants sold in this offering except the Private Warrants will be
+Added: non-redeemable and may be exercised on a cashless basis, in each case so long as they continue to be held by the initial purchasers
+Added: or their permitted transferees.
+Added: The Company may redeem the outstanding
+Added: warrants (excluding the Private Warrants), in whole and not in part, at a price of $0.01 per warrant:
+Added: ● at any time while the warrants are exercisable,
● upon a minimum of 30 days’
−Removed: prior written notice of redemption,
−Removed: CM SEVEN STAR ACQUISITION CORPORATION
−Removed: NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: For the Period from November 28,
−Removed: 2016 to December 31, 2016 and For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
−Removed: ● if, and only if, the last
−Removed: sales price of the ordinary shares equals or exceeds $18.00 per share for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading day period ending
−Removed: three business days before we send the notice of redemption, and
−Removed: ● if, and only if, there is
−Removed: a current registration statement in effect with respect to the ordinary shares underlying such warrants at the time of redemption
−Removed: and for the entire 30-day trading period referred to above and continuing each day thereafter until the date of redemption.
+Added: prior written notice
+Added: of redemption,
+Added: ● if, and only if, the last sales price of the ordinary
+Added: shares equals or exceeds $18.00 per share for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading day period ending three business days before
+Added: the Company sends the notice of redemption, and
+Added: ● if, and only if, there is a current registration statement
+Added: in effect with respect to the ordinary shares underlying such warrants at the time of redemption and for the entire 30-day trading
+Added: period referred to above and continuing each day thereafter until the date of redemption.
If the Company calls the warrants for redemption
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Accordingly, the rights may expire worthless.
−Removed: Note 9 —
+Added: Note 9 –
Subsequent Events
−Removed: April 9, 2018, the Sponsor agreed to loan to the Company an additional $500,000 pursuant to a non-convertible non-interest bearing
−Removed: promissory note, which will be repaid promptly after the date on which the Company consummates a Business Combination.
−Removed: If the Company
−Removed: does not complete the Business Combination, the loans would be forgiven, and the Sponsor will not be entitled to any payment .
+Added: On January 24, 2019, the Sponsor loaned
+Added: to the Company an additional $1,100,000 pursuant to a non-convertible non-interest bearing promissory note, which will be repaid
+Added: promptly after the date on which the Company consummates a Business Combination.
+Added: Thereafter, the total of all Sponsor loans to
+Added: the Company was $1,600,000.
+Added: In the event that the Company is unable to consummate a Business Combination, the balance of such note
+Added: will be forgiven and the Sponsor will not be entitled to any payment.
+Added: On January 25, 2019, the Company issued
+Added: two promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $2,063,629 to its Sponsor and Kaixin.
+Added: The promissory note issued
+Added: to the Sponsor was $1,013,629 and the promissory note issued to Kaixin was $1,050,000.
+Added: The $2,063,629 received by the Company upon
+Added: issuance of the notes was deposited into the Company’s Trust Account for the benefit of its public stockholders in order
+Added: to extend the period of time the Company has to complete a business combination for an additional three months, from January
+Added: 30, 2019 to April 30, 2019.
+Added: The Sponsor and Kaixin have the right to convert the notes in whole or in part into Private Units of
+Added: the Company, by providing written notice of this intention to convert these notes at least one business day prior to the closing
+Added: of a Business Combination.
+Added: The notes do not bear interest and are payable promptly after the date the Company completes a business
+Added: On January 28, 2019, the Company entered
+Added: into a convertible loan agreement with Kaixin and Kunlun Tech Limited (“Kunlun”), pursuant to which Kunlun agreed to
+Added: fund, subject to customary closing conditions, a $23 million convertible loan to Kaixin (the “Loan”), with interest
+Added: payable at the rate stipulated by the People’s Bank of China.
+Added: The first tranche of the Loan, in the amount of $20 million,
+Added: was funded to Kaixin on January 28, 2019, and the remaining $3 million is to be funded on or before January 31, 2020.
+Added: Upon completion of the Proposed Business
+Added: Combination with Kaixin, all amounts outstanding under the Loan will automatically be converted into the Company units (each unit
+Added: having the same underlying securities as were issued in Initial Public Offering) at a conversion price of $10.00 per unit.
+Added: amount payable under the second tranche of the Loan will, if funded after the completion of the Proposed Business Combination,
+Added: automatically convert into the Company units at a conversion price of $10.00 per unit.
+Added: In the event that the business combination
+Added: does not close, Kaixin will be responsible for repaying the Note.
+Added: On January 29, 2019, the Company entered
+Added: into a subscription agreement (the “Subscription Agreement”) with one accredited investor to sell 750,000 of its units
+Added: (each unit having the same underlying securities as were issued in the Initial Public Offering) at a price of $10.00 per unit.
+Added: The closing would take place on the closing date of the business combination.
+Added: The closing is subject to customary conditions, including
+Added: that the business combination must close prior to or concurrently with the closing of the sale of the units.
+Added: The investor received
+Added: certain demand and piggyback registration rights pursuant to the terms of the Subscription Agreement.
+Added: Closing of each concurrent
+Added: subscription (as defined in Section 5.5 of the Subscription Agreement) shall have taken place prior to or concurrently with the
+Added: closing resulting in the Company having received gross proceeds of no less than $25,000,000 (including the subscription price)
+Added: on or before closing date.
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