01532 中国派对文化 展示文件:重大合约 – 日期为二零二四年四月十七日的配售协议
Placing Agrement
Dated the 17
th
day of April 2024
CHINA PARTYTIME CULTURE HOLDINGS LIMITED
as Company
AND
FIRST SECURITIES (HK) LIMITED
as Placing Agent
_
PLACING AGREMENT
relating to up to
295,544,224 new shares
isued by
CHINA PARTYTIME CULTURE HOLDINGS LIMITED
_
THIS PLACING AGREMENT is made on the 17
th
day of April 2024
BETWEN
- , a company
incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability and having its registered
ofice situate at Windward 3, Regata Ofice Park, PO Box 1350, Grand Cayman
KY1-1108, Cayman Islands and having its place of busines in Hong Kong situate at
Rom 225–27, 2/F., Mega Cube, 8 Wang Kwong Road, Kowlon Bay, Kowlon,
Hong Kong (the “Company”);
AND
- , a company incorporated in Hong Kong with limited
liability with Busines Registration No. 06315364 and having its registered ofice is at
Rom 1708-10, 17/F., China Insurance Group Building, 141 Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong (the “Placing Agent”).
The Company and the Placing Agent shal colectively be refered to as the “Parties” and each
individualy as a “Party” wherever apropriate hereunder.
WHEREAS:
(A) The Company has its isued ordinary shares (the “Shares”) listed on the Main Board
of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (Stock Code: 1532), and imediately
prior to the execution of this Agrement, the Company has isued and aloted
1,477,721,120 Shares al of which are fuly paid up or credited as fuly paid up;
(B) The Placing Agent is licensed by the SFC to cary out and conduct Regulated Activities
Type 1 (dealing in securities) and Type 9 (aset management) under and pursuant to
the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong) under
Central Entity No. A347;
(C) The Company intends to raise funds for (i) the proposed expansion of the Group’s
fabric care, personal hygiene and home care products busines; (i) setling the Group’s
indebtednes faling due within 12 months; and (i) its general working capital so as to
acomodate the operating cash flow neds to suport its busines operations.
(D) The Company is desirous of ofering the Placing Shares fre from any Encumbrance
(both being defined below) whatsoever for subscription and apoint the Placing Agent
on sole and exclusive basis to place and procure subscriptions for the Placing Shares
on a best efort basis subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned.
NOW IT IS HEREBY AGRED as folows:-
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1 Definitions
In this Agrement (including the Recital above), the folowing expresions shal, unles
otherwise specified or the context otherwise requires, have the folowing meanings:-
“Acting in
Concert”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Takeovers Code;
“Agrement” this placing agrement as amended, varied, modified or
revised from time to time in writing by the Parties;
“Asociate(s)” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Listing Rules;
“Authority” any administrative, governmental or regulatory comision,
board, body, authority or agency, or any stock exchange, self-
regulatory organization or other non-governmental regulatory
authority, or any court, tribunal or arbitrator, in each case
whether national, central, federal, provincial, state, regional,
municipal, local, domestic or foreign, and “Authorities” shal
be interpreted and construed acordingly;
“Board” the board of directors of the Company;
“Busines Day” any day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and
any day on which “extreme conditions” caused by super
typhons is anounced by the Government of Hong Kong or
a tropical cyclone warning No. 8 or above is hoisted or
remains hoisted betwen 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 non and is not
lowered at or before 12:00 non or on which a “black”
rainstorm warning signal is hoisted or remains in efect
betwen 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 non and is not discontinued at
or before 12:00 non) on which licensed banks generaly are
open for general busines in Hong Kong;
“CAS” the Central Clearing and Setlement System established and
operated by the Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company
Limited;
“Completion” the completion of the obligations of the parties under this
Agrement pursuant to Clause 4 and Schedule 1, which shal
take place on the Completion Date;
“Completion the date of Completion, which shal be the fifth Busines Day
after the date on which the Conditions have ben satisfied or
Date” fulfiled in acordance with this Agrement (or such other date
as the Company and the Placing Agent may agre in writing);
“Companies
Ordinance”
the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 622 of the Laws of Hong
Kong);
“CWUMP
Ordinance”
the Companies (Winding Up and Miscelaneous Provisions)
Ordinance (Chapter 32 of the Laws of Hong Kong);
“Conditions” the conditions precedent set out in Clause 2.1;
“Conected
Person(s)”
shal have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Listing Rules;
“Encumbrance” a mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, option, restriction, right of
first refusal, right of pre-emption, third-party right or interest,
other encumbrance or security interest of any kind, or any
other type of preferential arangement (including, without
limitation, a title transfer or retention arangement) having
similar efect;
“General
Mandate”
the general mandate granted by the Shareholders at the anual
general meting of the Company held on 9 June 2023 to the
Board to alot, isue and deal with up to 295,544,224 new
ordinary shares to be isued and aloted by the Company;
“Group” the Company and its subsidiaries and the expresion
“member of the Group” shal be interpreted and construed
acordingly;
“Company’s
Indemnified
Parties”
shal have the same meaning as set out in Clause 7.3(b);
“HK$” or “HKD” Hong Kong Dolars, the lawful curency of Hong Kong;
“Hong Kong” the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s
Republic of China;
“Indemnified
Parties”
shal have the same meaning as set out in Clause 7.3(a);
“Independent
Third Party”
a party which is not a Conected Person (as defined in the
Listing Rules) of the Company and which is independent of
(i) the Company and/or the Company’s Conected Persons,
and (i) the Placing Agent and/or the Placing Agent’s
Conected Persons;
“Law” any and al national, central, federal, provincial, state,
regional, municipal, local, domestic or foreign laws
(including, without limitation, any comon law or case law),
statutes, ordinances, legal codes, regulations or rules
(including, without limitation, any and al regulations, rules,
orders, judgments, decres, rulings, opinions, guidelines,
measures, notices or circulars (in each case, whether formaly
published or not and to the extent mandatory or, if not
complied with, the basis for legal, administrative, regulatory
or judicial consequences) of any Authority);
“Listing
Comite”
the listing comite apointed by the Stock Exchange for
considering aplications for listing and aproving the listing
of and dealing with securities on the Stock Exchange;
“Listing Rules” the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Main
Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;
“Long Stop Date” means 3 May 2024 (or such other date as agred by the Parties
in writing), being the latest date on which al the Conditions
have to be satisfied or fulfiled;
“Place(s)” any investor who is an individual, corporate, institutional or
other investors selected and/or procured by or on behalf of the
Placing Agent as contemplated by this Agrement and is (i)
independent of the Company (and the Group), its Conected
Person(s) and their respective Asociate(s), and (i)
independent of and not parties Acting in Concert with any
persons, other Place(s) or Shareholders to the efect that any
Placing to such investor shal not triger any mandatory ofer
obligation under Rule 26.1 of the Takeovers Code, procured
by the Placing Agent to subscribe for the Placing Shares
pursuant to the Placing Agent’s obligations hereunder;
“Place List” the comprehensive list showing the name, adres (or registered
adres if a corporation), country of incorporation (if a
corporation) and other requisite information and particulars of
the respective Places as requested by the Authorities including
the Stock Exchange and/or the SFC and the number of Placing
Shares to be subscribed by each Place;
“Placing” the proposed placing of the Placing Shares under and in
acordance on the terms and subject to the conditions set out
in this Agrement;
“Placing
Comision”
shal have the same meaning as set out in Clause 6.1;
“Placing Leter” the leter (including the form of acknowledgement and the
registration form / delivery instructions) to be signed and
isued by the Placing Agent to the respective Place(s), which
leter shal be in the format and content as set out in Schedule
2;
“Placing Period” the period comencing forthwith upon the execution of this
Agrement and expiring at 5:00 p.m. on 3 May 2024, or on
such later date as the Parties may agre in writing;
“Placing Price” HK$0.08 per Placing Share;
“Placing
Share(s)”
up to 295,544,224 new Shares to be aloted and isued by the
Company under the General Mandate and pursuant to the
terms and conditions of this Agrement on the Completion
Date, and the Placing Shares shal rank pari pasu in al
respects with the existing Shares then in isue;
“Procedings” shal have the same meaning as set out in Clause 7.3(a);
“Reimbursed
Expenses”
al SFC transaction levy, AFRC transaction levy, Stock
Exchange trading fe and CAS stock setlement fe as may
be payable by the Company in respect of the alotment and
isue of the Placing Shares to the Places and al Placing
Agent’s reasonable out-of-pocket expenses reasonably and
properly incured by the Placing Agent on actual incurence
basis and/or in which amount as may be agred betwen the
Parties in advance for and/or in relation to the Placing;
“RMB” Renminbi, the lawful curency of the People’s Republic of
China;
“SFC” the Securities and Futures Comision of Hong Kong;
“Shareholder(s)” holder(s) of the Shares from time to time;
“Shares” the ordinary shares in the Company;
“Stock Exchange” The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;
“Subsidiaries” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Listing Rules;
“Takeovers Code” the Codes on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Buy-backs
isued by the SFC; and
“Unplaced
Placing Shares”
such portfolio (if any) of the Placing Shares which are not, or
have not ben, subscribed by any Place under this Agrement
before expiration of the Placing Period.
1.2 Construction and Certain References
(a) References in this Agrement to persons include references to bodies corporate
and references to the singular include references to the plural and vice versa.
(b) Reference to Recital and Clauses are references to the recital and clauses of this
Agrement.
(c) In this Agrement unles otherwise expresly stated herein, references to any
statute, statutory provision or the Listing Rules includes a reference to that
statute, statutory provision or the Listing Rules as from time to time amended,
extended or re-enacted.
(d) the Recitals and the Schedules shal form, and shal be demed to be, an integral
part of this Agrement and shal have the same force and efect as any other
provision herein.
1.3 Headings
Headings are inserted for convenience only and shal not afect the interpretation of
this Agrement.
2. CONDITIONS
2.1 Completion of the Placing is conditional upon al the folowing conditions being
fulfiled on or before the Long Stop Date:
(a) the pasing by the Board of resolutions to aprove this Agrement and the
transactions contemplated hereunder;
(b) the Listing Comite granting or agreing to grant aproval for the listing of, and
permision to deal in, al of the Placing Shares on the Stock Exchange; and
(c) this Agrement not having ben terminated in acordance with its terms.
2.2 The Conditions contained in Clause 2.1 above canot be waived by any Party.
2.3 If the Conditions shal not have ben satisfied or fulfiled on or before the Long Stop
Date, or any of the force majeure event set out in Clause 8 shal have ocured, subject
to Clause 6.2, al obligations and responsibilities of the Placing Agent and those of the
Company hereunder shal cease and determine forthwith and no Party shal have any
claim whatsoever against the other Party in relation thereto save for any antecedent
breach of any obligation under this Agrement and without prejudice to the acrued
rights and liabilities of each Party.
3. APOINTMENT OF THE PLACING AGENT
3.1 Apointment
Subject to the provisions of this Agrement, the Company hereby apoints the Placing
Agent as the sole and exclusive agent for and in respect of the Placing to the exclusion
of al others and the Placing Agent, relying on the representations, waranties and
undertakings of the Company herein contained and subject to the conditions as herein
mentioned, agres to act as the sole and exclusive agent of the Company to procure not
les than six (6) Places to subscribe for the Placing Shares at the Placing Agent’s sole
discretion subject to the powers confered by the Company to the Placing Agent as set
out in Clause 3.2 of this Agrement at the agregate Placing Price provided that each
subscriber shal subscribe for not les than HK$50,000 for the Placing Shares at the
Placing Price (together with the SFC transaction levy, Stock Exchange trading fe,
CAS stock setlement fe and brokerage, if any) during the Placing Period on terms
and conditions set out in this Agrement on a best efort basis. Any transaction properly
and lawfuly caried out by the Placing Agent pursuant to this Agrement shal
constitute a transaction caried out at the request of the Company. The Company agres,
promptly on reasonable request by the Placing Agent, to execute or do, or procure that
there shal be executed and done, al such deds, documents and things as the Placing
Agent may dem necesary for such purposes.
3.2 Powers
The Company hereby confirms that this apointment confers on the Placing Agent al
powers, authorities and discretion on behalf of the Company which are lawfuly,
reasonably and properly necesary for, or reasonably incidental to, the Placing and the
conduct thereof, and the Company hereby irevocably agre to ratify and confirm
everything which the Placing Agent may lawfuly, reasonably and properly do in the
exercise of such powers, authorities and discretions under and/or in acordance with
this Agrement. The choice of Places and the amount of the Placing Shares to be
alocated to any particular Place shal be determined by the Placing Agent at its sole
and absolute discretion provided that each Place shal be an Independent Third Party
and subject to any objection the Stock Exchange and/or the SFC may have on any
particular person or company being or becoming a Place. Nonetheles, the Placing
Agent shal use its best endeavours to ensure that:
(a) each and every Place is an Independent Third Party and submit an independence
confirmation to the Stock Exchange relating to the independence of the Places;
(b) no Place or their respective ultimate beneficial owners shal become a substantial
shareholder (as defined in the Listing Rules) of the Company forthwith upon
Completion;
(c) the Placing Agent shal sign and isue Placing Leter with the Places;
(d) the Placing Agent shal as son as practicable after Completion takes place and in
any event within the time limits (if any) imposed by the Stock Exchange and the
relevant regulatory authorities provide particulars of the Places to the Stock
Exchange direct, including names, adreses, number of Placing Shares acquired
and such other information as required by the Stock Exchange and/or the relevant
regulatory authority or governmental agency in Hong Kong for delivery to the
Stock Exchange and/or the relevant authority or governmental agency in Hong
Kong; and
(e) the format and content of the Placing Leter shal not be in breach of any term of
this Agrement.
3.3 Placed Placing Shares
Subject to Clause 3.4 below, the Placing Agent shal notify the Company in writing by
no later than one (1) Busines Day after expiration of the Placing Period, which
notification shal be in such format and content substantialy the same as that set out
in Schedule 4, of the agregate number of Placing Shares which have ben placed by
or on behalf of the Placing Agent to the Places under the Placing. For avoidance of
any doubt, the Placing Agent is not underwriting the Placing Shares or any portfolio
thereof, and under no circumstance shal the Placing Agent be required to purchase any
of the Placing Shares as principal.
3.4 Unplaced Placing Shares
In the event that, at the end of the Placing Period, there are any Unplaced Placing
Shares, the Parties’ obligations under this Agrement in respect of the Unplaced
Placing Shares shal cease and no Party shal have any claim against the other in respect
of any mater arising out of this Agrement in respect of the Unplaced Placing Shares
as if the Unplaced Placing Shares were not covered by this Agrement and were not
any part of the Placing Shares at al, except as otherwise provided in this Agrement
or for any antecedent breach of any obligation under this Agrement.
3.5 Isuance of Placing Shares
Subject to Clause 2, the Company shal upon Completion alot and isue to the
respective Places the Placing Shares fre from any and al Encumbrances whatsoever
and together with al rights ataching thereto, including the right to receive al
dividends declared, made or paid on or after Completion.
3.6 No Public Ofer of Placing Shares
The Placing Agent undertakes with the Company that:
(a) no Placing Shares shal be ofered to or placed in circumstances which would
constitute an ofer to the public in Hong Kong within the meaning of the
Companies Ordinance or in any other place or would result in a prospectus (as
defined in the CWUMP Ordinance) required to be isued by the Company or
in any maner in which the securities laws or regulations of any place may be
infringed or breached; and
(b) it shal not, directly or indirectly, ofer or sel any Placing Shares or distribute
or publish any documents in relation to the Placing in any country or
jurisdiction except under circumstances that wil result in ful compliance with
al aplicable laws and regulations and al ofers and sales of the Placing Shares
and the distribution and publication of any document relating thereto wil be
made in ful compliance with those laws and regulations.
3.7 Sub-Placing Agents
The Company hereby acknowledges that the Placing Agent, in performing its functions
under this Clause 3, may cary out the Placing itself and/or through the agency of such
other agents as the Placing Agent may agre with the Company. The Company
acknowledges the Placing Agent is authorised to apoint one or more sub-placing
agents as agred and confirmed by the Company and that such sub-placing agents shal
be agents of the Placing Agent in despatching documents relating to the Placing to the
Place(s) on the terms of and subject to the provisions of this Agrement and the
Company hereby authorises and confirms that it wil upon reasonable request by the
Placing Agent ratify and aprove al actions legaly, properly and reasonably taken or
to be taken by such agents and the Placing Agent in conection with the Placing in
acordance with or in reasonable anticipation of the terms and conditions of this
Agrement provided that al fes, comisions, costs, charges and expenses arising
from or in conection with the engagement of such agents shal be paid and borne
solely by the Placing Agent, and that the Company shal be indemnified by the Placing
Agent for or in relation to any los or damage being caused to the Company as a result
of or incidental to any apointment of sub-placing agent and/or any conduct, action,
negligence or omision to act on the part of any sub-placing agent. Subject to the terms
of this Agrement, the Placing Agent may enter into any agrements with any sub-
placing agent, but the Company shal not be, and shal not be regarded as, any party to
any such agrement with any sub-placing agent. The Placing Agent shal procure that
each and every sub-placing agent apointed by it shal comply with the same
obligations and responsibilities as are imposed on or asured by the Placing Agent as
stated in this Clause 3. The Company further acknowledges that such agents shal be
entitled to rely on the representations, waranties and undertakings contained in Clause
7 of this Agrement. The Placing Agent shal sign the Sub-Placing Leter in the form
which should be substantialy the same as that set out in Schedule 3 (including the
confirmation of aceptance) with the Places.
3.8 Agency
Without prejudice to any other provision herein, any transaction legaly, properly and
reasonably caried out by the Placing Agent (and any sub-placing agent refered to in
Clause 3.7) under and in acordance with this Agrement (and not as principal) on
behalf of the Company shal constitute a transaction caried out at the request of the
Company and as its agent and not in respect of the Placing Agent’s own acount and
the Placing Agent shal not be responsible for any los or damage to any persons
(including the Company) arising from any such transaction except for any los or
damage sufered or incured by any fraud, wilful default or gros negligence on the
part of the Placing Agent or its sub-placing agent and/or as a result, directly or
indirectly, of any breach or non-compliance by the Placing Agent (or any sub-placing
agent refered to in Clause 3.7) with its obligations under this Agrement (or any sub-
placing agrement with any sub-placing agent as refered to in Clause 3.7). The
Company, hereby acknowledges and agres that the Placing Agent is not acting as a
fiduciary, and owe no fiduciary duty whatsoever to the Company, and likewise, the
Placing Agent has no obligation to the Company with respect to the Placing except the
obligations expresly set forth in this Agrement.
4. COMPLETION
4.1 Subject to the fulfilment of the Conditions, Completion shal take place at 5:00 p.m.
(Hong Kong time) on the Completion Date at the Hong Kong ofice of the Company
(or at such other time and venue as agred betwen the Parties in writing) in acordance
with the completion mechanics as set out in Schedule 1.
4.2 In the event that either Party shal without any reasonable ground fail to do anything
required to be done by it under this Clause 4, without prejudice to any other right or
remedy available to the other Party, such other Party may:
(a) defer Completion to a day not more than ten (10) Busines Days after the date
initialy fixed for Completion (and so that the provision of this Sub-Clause (a) shal
aply to Completion as so defered); or
(b) proced to Completion insofar as is practicable but without prejudice to such other
Party’s right vis-a-vis the Party in default; or
(c) rescind this Agrement without liability on its part.
4.3 If for any reason (other than any breach by the Placing Agent of its obligations
hereunder) the Placing is not completed, the Company shal remain liable for the
payment of the levy as refered to in Clauses 6.1.1(d) to the extent already incured but
the Company shal not be liable for any comision refered to in Clause 6.1.1(a) in
such case.
5. UNDERTAKINGS
5.1 Information
The Company hereby undertakes to provide the Placing Agent, at its reasonable request,
with al such information known to it or reasonably ought to be known to it after having
made al reasonable enquires and relating to the Company as may be reasonably
required by the Placing Agent in conection with the Placing whether or not for the
purpose of complying with al requirements of aplicable Law or of the Stock
Exchange or of the SFC.
5.2 Significant Change
The Company shal procure that particulars of every significant new factor known to
it which is in its reasonable opinion capable of materialy adversely afecting
asesment of the Placing Shares in the context of the Placing which arises from the
execution of this Agrement until the Completion Date shal be promptly notified and
provided to the Placing Agent.
5.3 Further Asurance
Without prejudice to the foregoing obligations, the Company undertakes with the
Placing Agent that it shal do al such other acts and things as may be reasonably
required to be done by it to cary into efect the Placing in acordance with the terms
of this Agrement.
6. PAYMENT OF FES, COMISIONS AND EXPENSES
6.1 Fes, Comisions and Expenses
6.1.1 In consideration of the services of the Placing Agent in relation to the Placing,
the Company shal pay to the Placing Agent such amounts as set out hereunder,
and the Placing Agent shal be entitled to deduct such amounts pursuant to
paragraph 2 of Schedule 1:
(a) subject to Completion having taken place, the Company shal pay to the
Placing Agent a placing comision, in HKD, which shal be equivalent
to one and two tenths per cent. (1.2%) of the agregate amount of the
Placing Price multiplied by the number of Placing Shares placed by the
Placing Agent during the Placing Period or a minimum comision of
HK$400,000 (the “Placing Comision”), and the Placing Agent is
hereby irevocably authorised to deduct from the payment to be made by
it to the Company at Completion pursuant to paragraph 2 of Schedule 1
for setlement and discharge of the Placing Comision;
(b) the Company shal reimburse the Placing Agent for the Reimbursed
Expenses;
(c) for the purposes of Sub-Clause (b) above, the Company shal pay the
Placing Agent the Reimbursed Expenses, and the Placing Agent is
hereby irevocably authorised to deduct from the payment to be made by
it to the Company at Completion pursuant to Schedule 1 for setlement
and discharge of the Reimbursed Expenses; and
(d) SFC transaction levy, AFRC transaction levy, Stock Exchange trading
fe and CAS stock setlement fe, if any, as may be payable by the
Company in respect of the alotment and isue of the Placing Shares to
the Places or, where apropriate, the Placing Agent or its nomine,
which amounts the Placing Agent are hereby authorised to deduct from
the payments to be made by it to the Company pursuant to Schedule 1
for the purposes of paying on the Company’s behalf such costs, charges,
fes and expenses.
6.1.2 The failure of the Placing Agent for whatever reasons to deduct the relevant
amounts from the proceds of the Placing at Completion as set out in Sub-
Clause 6.1.1 shal not relieve the Company of its liability to pay the Placing
Agent for such amounts which, to the extent not deducted from the proceds of
the Placing acording to Sub-Clause 6.1.1, shal be paid by the Company to the
Placing Agent not later than 7 Busines Days from the date of receipt by the
Company of a writen request from the Placing Agent for the payment of such
amounts from time to time.
6.2 Brokerage
The Company hereby acknowledges that, in adition to the comisions, costs,
charges and expenses refered to in Clause 6.1, the Placing Agent shal be entitled to
kep for its own acount any brokerage fes that it may receive from the Places.
6.3 Payment
Al payments to be made by the Company pursuant to this Clause 6 shal be made in
ful without any set-of, deduction or witholding whatsoever. Further, al amounts
payable to the Placing Agent or its afiliates under this Agrement (if any) shal be
exclusive of taxes. As such, the Company shal pay such aditional amount as may be
necesary in order that, after deduction or witholding for or on acount of any present
or future tax, every payment to the Placing Agent or its afiliates shal not be les than
the amount to which the Placing Agent or its afiliates shal be entitled.
6.4 Company’s Expenses
The Company shal be liable for the costs and expenses of its own legal and other
profesional advisers and out-of-pocket expenses incured in conection with the
Placing.
6.5 Placing Agent’s Legal Fes
The Company shal be liable for the reasonable legal fes properly incured by the
Placing Agent in the preparation of this Agrement and conducting the Placing as
contemplated under this Agrement.
7. REPRESENTATIONS, WARANTIES AND UNDERTAKINGS
7.1 Representations and Waranties
7.1.1 In consideration of the Placing Agent entering into this Agrement and agreing
to perform its obligations hereunder, the Company represents and warants to
the Placing Agent that:
(a) each member of the Group is duly incorporated and is validly existing
under the laws of its incorporation, is not in liquidation or receivership
and has ful power and authority to own its properties, to conduct its
busines and is lawfuly qualified to do busines in those jurisdictions
in which busines is conducted by it;
(b) the entire portfolio of isued ordinary shares in the Company is listed
on the Main Board of Stock Exchange, and apart from ordinary shares,
the Company has not isued or aloted any other clas of shares;
(c) the Placing Shares wil be isued fuly paid up and ranking pari pasu
in al respects, including as to the right to receive al dividends and other
distributions which may be declared made or paid after Completion and
wil be isued fre and clear of al Encumbrances;
(d) subject to the fulfilment of the Conditions, the Company has ful power
and authority to isue the Placing Shares and to enter into and perform
its obligations under this Agrement. This Agrement has ben duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes
valid and legaly binding obligations of the Company enforceable in
acordance with its terms;
(e) subject to the fulfilment of the Conditions set out in Clause 2.1, the isue
of the Placing Shares wil not cause any breach of any agrement to
which it is a Party or by which it is bound and wil not infringe or exced
any limits on, powers of; or restrictions on or the terms of any contract,
obligation or comitment of the Company, the efect of such breach is
to materialy and adversely afect the financial condition of the Group
(taken as a whole); and
(f) the Company wil duly comply with the obligations imposed upon it by
its constitutional documents, the Listing Rules and al aplicable laws
and regulations in respect of or by reason of the maters contemplated
by this Agrement.
7.1.2 In consideration of the Company entering into this Agrement and agreing to
perform its obligations hereunder, the Placing Agent represents and warants to
the Company that:
(a) the Placing Agent is duly incorporated and is validly existing under the
laws of its incorporation, is not in liquidation or receivership and has ful
power and authority to own its properties, to conduct its busines and is
lawfuly qualified to do busines in those jurisdictions in which busines
is conducted by it;
(b) the Placing Agent has obtained al corporate authorisations and al
governmental, statutory, regulatory or other consents, licences and
authorisations required to empower it to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agrement where failure to obtain them would
adversely afect its ability to enter into and perform its obligations under
this Agrement to which it is a party; and
(c) this Agrement has ben duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Placing Agent and constitutes valid and legaly binding obligations of
the Placing Agent enforceable in acordance with its terms.
7.2 Repetition
7.2.1 The representations and waranties set out in Clause 7.1.1 are given as at the
date hereof and shal be demed to be repeated by the Company on the Long
Stop Date and the Completion Date, as if given or made on such date, with
reference in each case to the facts and circumstances then subsisting. The
Company undertakes to inform the Placing Agent of any mater or event
coming to its atention prior to the Completion Date which would, or would
reasonably be considered to, render or have rendered any of the representations
and waranties set out in Clause 7.1.1 untrue, inacurate or misleading in any
material respect.
7.2.1 The representations and waranties set out in Clause 7.1.2 are given as at the
date hereof and shal be demed to be repeated by the Placing Agent on the
Long Stop Date and the Completion Date, as if given or made on such date,
with reference in each case to the facts and circumstances then subsisting. The
Placing Agent undertakes to inform the Company of any mater or event
coming to its atention prior to the Completion Date which would, or would
reasonably be considered to, render or have rendered any of the representations
and waranties set out in Clause 7.1.2 untrue, inacurate or misleading in any
material respect.
7.3 Indemnity
(a) The Company undertakes to indemnify the Placing Agent and its directors,
oficers, employes, agents, advisors and representatives which shal have ben
involved in efecting the Placing (the “Indemnified Parties”) on demand
against al or any claim, actions, liabilities, demands, procedings,
investigations or judgements (the “Procedings”) brought or established
against or threatened to be brought or established against any of the
Indemnified Parties by any purchaser of any of the Placing Shares or by any
Authority or any other person, directly or indirectly arising out of or in
conection with the Placing or any breach or aleged breach of the
representations, waranties and undertakings by the Company set out in
Clauses 7.1.1 and 7.2.1 above and against al reasonable loses and al
reasonable costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable legal fes as they
are properly and reasonably incured) which any of the Indemnified Parties
may sufer or incur (including al such reasonable loses, costs, charges or
expenses sufered or incured in disputing or defending any Procedings),
except for any los, costs, charge or expenses sufered or incured by the fraud,
wilful default or gros negligence on the part of the relevant Indemnified Party.
(b) The Placing Agent undertakes to indemnify the Company and its directors,
oficers, employes, agents, advisors and representatives which shal have ben
involved in efecting the Placing (the “Company’s Indemnified Parties”) on
demand against al or any Procedings brought or established against or
threatened to be brought or established against any of the Company’s
Indemnified Parties by any purchaser of any of the Placing Shares or by any
Authority or any other person, directly or indirectly arising out of or in
conection with the Placing or any breach or aleged breach of the
representations, waranties and undertakings by the Placing Agent set out in
Clauses 7.1.2 and 7.2.2 above and against al reasonable loses and al
reasonable costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable legal fes as they
are properly and reasonably incured) which any of the Company’s Indemnified
Parties may sufer or incur (including al such reasonable loses, costs, charges
or expenses sufered or incured in disputing or defending any Procedings),
except for any los, costs, charge or expenses sufered or incured by the fraud,
wilful default or gros negligence on the part of the relevant Company’s
Indemnified Party.
7.4 Ful Force and Efect
Clause 7.3 shal remain in ful force and efect notwithstanding completion of the
Placing or any premature termination of this Agrement (whichever shal be
apropriate).
7.5 Further Asurance
7.5.1 The Company shal use its best endeavours at any time prior to or on the
Completion Date not to do or omit to do anything which may cause any of the
representation and waranties made by it and set out in Clause 7.1.1 to be untrue
in any respect.
7.5.2 The Placing Agent shal use its best endeavours at any time prior to or on the
Completion Date not to do or omit to do anything which may cause any of the
representation and waranties made by it and set out in Clause 7.1.2 to be untrue
in any respect.
7.6 No Release
Any liability to the Placing Agent hereunder may in whole or in part be released
compounded or compromised and time or indulgence may be given by the Placing
Agent as regard, any person under such liability without prejudicing the Placing
Agent’s rights against any other person under the same or a similar liability.
8. FORCE MAJEURE
If at any time betwen the execution of this Agrement and up to 8:00 p.m. on the
Completion Date, the folowing ocurs:
(a) there is any change in national, international, financial, exchange control,
political, economic conditions in Hong Kong which in the reasonable opinion
of the Placing Agent would be materialy adverse in the consumation of the
Placing; or
(b) there is any breach of the waranties, representations and undertakings given
by the Company in this Agrement and such breach is considered by the
Placing Agent on reasonable grounds to be material in the context of the
Placing; or
(c) there is any material change (whether or not forming part of a series of changes)
in market conditions which in the reasonable opinion of the Placing Agent
would materialy and prejudicialy afect the Placing or makes it inadvisable or
inexpedient for the Placing to proced,
then the Placing Agent may, in its reasonable opinion, after consultation with the
Company, terminate this Agrement by giving notice in writing to the Company at any
time up to 8:00 a.m. on the Completion Date.
The Company may, in its reasonable opinion, after consultation with the Placing Agent,
terminate this Agrement by notice in writing to the Placing Agent at any time up to
8:00 a.m. on the Completion Date if there is a breach of the waranties, representations
and undertakings given by the Placing Agent in the Placing Agrement and such breach
is considered by the Company on reasonable grounds to be material.
If this Agrement shal be terminated pursuant to this Clause 8, al liabilities of the
Parties to this Agrement shal cease and determine and no Party shal have any claim
against the other Party in respect of any mater or thing arising out of or in conection
with this Agrement save in respect of any antecedent breach of any obligation under
this Agrement.
9. TIME OF THE ESENCE
Any time, date or period mentioned in this Agrement may be extended by mutual
agrement of the Parties in writing but, as regards any time, date or period originaly
fixed or any date or period so extended as aforesaid, time shal be of the esence.
10. CONFIDENTIALITY
10.1 Each Party irevocably undertakes with the other Party that it wil not at any time (save
as required by the Listing Rules, any Law or upon request by the Stock Exchange)
make any anouncement on the Placing or in conection with this Agrement unles
the other Party shal have given its prior writen consent to such anouncement (which
consent shal not be unreasonably witheld or delayed and may be given either
generaly or in a specific case or cases and may be subject to conditions).
10.2 No public anouncement or comunication of any kind shal be made on the Placing
or in respect of this Agrement unles specificaly agred betwen the Parties or unles
an anouncement is required pursuant to the Listing Rules, any Law or upon request
by the Stock Exchange.
11. NOTICES
11.1 Adreses
Al notices delivered hereunder shal be in writing in the English language and shal
be comunicated to the folowing adreses:
If to the Placing Agent, to:
FIRST SECURITIES (HK) LIMITED
Adres : Rom 1708-10, 17/F., China Insurance Group Building, 141 Des Voeux
Road Central, Hong Kong
Facsimile : (852) 2865 6730
Atention : Marko Tsui
If to the Company, to:
CHINA PARTYTIME CULTURE HOLDINGS LIMITED
Adres : Rom 225–27, 2/F. Mega Cube, 8 Wang Kwong Road Kowlon Bay,
Kowlon Hong Kong
Facsimile : (852) 3013-8913
Atention : The Board of Directors
11.2 Service
Any such notice shal be served either by hand or by facsimile. Any notice shal be
demed to have ben served, if served by hand, when delivered and if sent by facsimile,
on receipt of the confirmation of sucesful transmision. Any notice received on a day
which is not a Busines Day shal be demed to be received on the next Busines Day.
12. WAIVER
No failure or delay by any Party in exercising any right, power or remedy under this
Agrement shal operate as a waiver thereof, nor shal any single or partial exercise of
the same preclude any further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other rights, power
or remedy. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no waiver by any Party of
any breach of any provision hereof shal be demed to be a waiver of any subsequent
breach of that or any other provision hereof.
13. GENERAL PROVISIONS
13.1 Agrement Binding
This Agrement supersedes al and any previous agrements, arangements or
understanding betwen the Parties relating to the maters refered to in this Agrement
and this Agrement constitutes the entire agrement betwen the Parties with respect
to its subject mater and no variation of this Agrement shal be efective unles made
in writing and signed by al Parties. Further, this Agrement shal be binding on and
enure for the benefit of the Parties and, subject to Clause 13.2, each Party’s sucesors
and permited asigns.
13.2 Asignment
Save and except otherwise than in acordance with Clause 3.7, no Party hereto shal
asign any of its rights under this Agrement (al of which shal be incapable of
asignment) or purport to do so.
13.3 Variation
No variation, revision, amendment or suplement of or to this Agrement shal be
efective unles such variation, revision, amendment or suplement is agred by the
Parties in writing. Further, no variation, revision, amendment or suplement of or to
this Agrement shal constitute a general waiver of any provision herein, nor shal it
afect any acrued right, obligation or liability of any Party under or pursuant to this
Agrement, and the rights and obligations of the respective Parties under or pursuant
to this Agrement shal remain in ful force and efect except and only to the extent
that they are so varied, revised, amended or suplemented.
13.4 Severability
Any provision of this Agrement shal be severable, and if for any reason any provision
of this Agrement is declared by any court of Hong Kong to be invalid, unenforceable
or ilegal under any Law, then, to the fulest extent permited by the Law, such invalidity,
unenforceability or ilegality shal not impair the operation of or afect those portions
of this Agrement which are valid, enforceable and legal.
13.5 Rights Cumulative
The rights and remedies provided in this Agrement are cumulative and not exclusive
of any rights or remedies provided by Law.
13.6 Execution
This Agrement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the Parties on
separate counterparts, each of which is an original, but al of which together constitute
one and the same instrument.
14. GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION AND MISCELANEOUS
14.1 Governing Law
This Agrement shal be regulated and governed by, and shal be construed in
acordance with, the laws of Hong Kong, and the Parties hereby irevocably submit to
the jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.
14.2 Counterparts
This Agrement may be executed by the Parties in counterparts, each of which when
so executed and delivered shal be an original, but al of which shal together constitute
one and the same instrument.
14.3 No Third Party Rights
Any person who is not a Party shal have no right under the Contract (Rights of Third
Parties) Ordinance (Chapter 623 of the Laws of Hong Kong) to enforce or enjoy the
benefit of any term of this Agrement.
AS WITNES the hands of the duly authorised representatives of the Parties on the day and
year first before writen.
The Company
SIGNED by )
Xu Chengwu )
for and on behalf of )
CHINA PARTYTIME CULTURE )
HOLDINGS LIMITED )
in the presence of : )
The Placing Agent
SIGNED by )
Wong Wah )
for and on behalf of )
First Securities (HK) Limited )
in the presence of : )
Schedule 1
Completion Mechanics
1. The Company’s Obligations:
The Company shal, at 5:00 p.m. (or such other time as agred betwen the Parties in
writing) on the Completion Date,
(A) alot and isue the Placing Shares in acordance with Place List (with such
further information and/or particulars of or relating to each Place as is
reasonably required to enable the share registrars of the Company to isue
definitive certificates for the relevant Placing Shares);
(B) procure the names of the Places (or where apropriate, HKSC Nomines
Limited or other nomines) to be entered into the register of members of the
Company with respect to such portfolio of Placing Shares subscribed by each
such Place; and
(C) procure that definitive share certificate for the Placing Shares to be isued and
despatched, or delivered through CAS for imediate credit to such stock
acounts as shal be notified by the Placing Agent to the Company no later than
5:00 p.m. on the Busines Day imediately preceding the Completion Date.
2. The Placing Agent’s obligations:
Subject to Clause 6 of the Agrement, the Placing Agent (or its nomines or agents)
and/or the Places shal at Completion make or procure the making of payments in
HKD and/or RMB to the banking acount designated by the Company (as notified by
the Company to the Placing Agent not les than two (2) Busines Days before the
Completion Date) the agregate Placing Price of the Placing Shares (up to 295,544,224
Placing Shares) for which the Placing Agent has procured subscription under the
Placing during the Placing Period after deducting therefrom the amounts refered to in
Clause 6 of the Agrement, and the payment of the above amounts shal constitute a
ful and complete discharge of the obligations of the Placing Agent hereunder.
Schedule 2
Form of Placing Leter
[Leterhead of the Placing Agent]
[Date]
To : [name of Places]
[adres of Places]
Dear Sirs,
Re : China Partytime Culture Holdings Limited (the “Company”)
Placing of up to 295,544,224 new Shares isued by the Company (the “Placing”)
_
We refer to our recent telephone conversation during which an oral contract was concluded
betwen us (acting on behalf of Company) and you whereby you agred, on the terms and
conditions stated below, to subscribe for [*] new Shares to be isued by the Company (the
“Relevant Shares”). Under a placing agrement dated 17 April 2024 (the “Placing
Agrement”) made betwen ourselves (as the sole and exclusive placing agent) and the
Company, we, as the sole and exclusive placing agent, have agred to place up to 295,544,224
new Shares to be isued by the Company on a best efort basis during the period betwen the
date of the the Placing Agrement and expiring at 5:00 p.m. on 3 May 2024 (both days
inclusive). Completion of the Placing shal be subject to the satisfaction or fulfilment (or
waiving, whichever shal be apropriate) of such conditions precedent as set out in Clause 2 of
the Placing Agrement (the “Conditions”).
The Placing Agrement, and therefore the Placing, may be terminated if the Conditions are not
fulfiled by 3 May 2024 or the ocurence of any force majeure event enlisted in Clause 8 of
the Placing Agrement, in which case our contract with you shal also be terminated. Subject
to fulfilment of the Conditions, completion of the Placing shal take place on the fifth Busines
Day after the date on which the Conditions has ben satisfied or fulfiled in acordance with the
Placing Agrement (or such other date as the Company and us may agre in writing) (the
“Completion Date”).
1. Unles the context requires otherwise, capitalized terms defined in the Placing
Agrement shal have the same meanings when used in this leter.
2. The total consideration payable for the Relevant Shares is HK$1.002585 (together with
the SFC transaction levy of 0.0027%, AFRC transaction levy of 0.00015%, Stock
Exchange trading fe of 0.00565% and brokerage of 0.25% if aplicable) (colectively,
the “Subscription Money”).
3. You wil make available to us as son as posible and, in any event, for value in cleared
and available funds at such time and on such date as we shal notify you one busines
day before, the ful amount of the Subscription Money to the folowing acount:
Name of the bank : [*]
Acount name : [*]
Acount number : [*]
Reference : [*]
4. If there is any delay in payment of the Subscription Money, we may at our option:
(a) charge you a default interest at the interest rate per anum of [*] per cent. above
the PRIME lending rate quoted by The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited on the date faling imediately after the due date specified
in paragraph 3 above, calculated on a daily acrued basis; and/or
(a) terminate the contract recorded in this leter and in such event al obligations
and liabilities on the part of the Company or ourselves arising in conection
herewith shal cease and terminate but without prejudice to any claim which the
Company or we may have against you arising out of your failure to comply with
your obligations hereunder; and/or
(b) to pay on your behalf the whole of the Subscription Money, to acept delivery
of the Relevant Shares or any of them (whether in your name or in our name (as
your nomine), and at our absolute discretion at any time pledge such Relevant
Shares or any of them as security and sel the Relevant Shares to repay al or
part of the Subscription Money owed by you to us. We wil charge you for any
deficit including our expenses in conection therewith but without prejudice to
any claim which the Company or the relevant lender or we may have against
you arising out of your failure to comply with your obligations hereunder and
you shal remain liable for any deficit.
5. The Placing of the Relevant Shares is subject to the conditions set out in the Placing
Agrement. You have acknowledged your obligation to subscribe for the Relevant
Shares is binding, irevocable and unconditional except in the event that the conditions
to which the Placing is subject to has not ben fulfiled in acordance with the terms of
the Placing Agrement, your obligation to subscribe for the Relevant Shares wil cease
and the amount paid by you hereunder wil be repaid to you without interest.
6. By agreing to subscribe for the Relevant Shares, you have represented and
acknowledged your agrement that :
(a) your agrement to subscribe for the Relevant Shares constitutes your
irevocable instruction and authority to us (or some person nominated by us for
such purpose) on your behalf to complete and/or execute any documents and
generaly do al such other things as we (or such nominated person) may
consider necesary or desirable in conection with your subscription of the
Relevant Shares and to efect registration of the Relevant Shares in your name
(or name of your nomines) and otherwise to give efect to your subscription of
the Relevant Shares; you wil on demand indemnify and kep indemnified the
Company and us and our respective afiliates, and our respective oficers, agents,
advisors and employes, for loses or liabilities incured by any of them arising
out of or in conection with any breach of the oral contract to subscribe for the
Relevant Shares constituted by our telephone conversation, or any other breach
of your obligations hereunder;
(b) you had at al material times and stil have ful power and authority to enter into
the contract recorded in this leter to subscribe for the Relevant Shares for your
own acount or for the acount of one or more persons for whom you exercise
investment discretion and your oral agrement to do so as record herein
constitutes your valid and legaly binding obligation and is enforceable in
acordance with its terms;
(c) you wil comply with the laws, regulations, rules and restrictions which may be
aplicable in your jurisdiction and you have obtained or wil obtain any consent,
aproval or authorization required for you to subscribe for and acept delivery
of the Relevant Shares and to ensure that no obligations are imposed on the
Company or us in any jurisdiction as a result of such action;
(d) you wil acknowledge the confidential nature of the maters to which the Placing
relates and, acordingly, you wil not disclose the existence or the contents of
this leter or any related mater to any third party without our prior writen
consent;
(e) you wil comply strictly with the terms of this leter and the enclosed Form of
Acknowledgement;
(f) you agre that neither we nor any of our oficers or employes has any authority
to make any representation or waranty, expres or implied, with respect to the
information contained in this leter, nor shal any such person be liable to you
under the Placing in respect of the information contained herein or the basis of
any of the opinions expresed herein or for any omision or inacuracy
contained herein. By counter-signing the enclosed copy of this leter and
returning it to us, you acknowledge and agre the foregoing and that we have
not made any waranty, representation recomendation as to the merits of the
Relevant Shares, purchase or ofer thereof, or as to the conditions, financial or
otherwise, of the Company or its subsidiaries or as to any other mater relating
thereto or in conection therewith. Nothing herein shal be construed as a
recomendation to you to subscribe for the Relevant Shares. You confirm that
you have not relied on any statement, opinion or representation made by us to
induce you to subscribe for the Relevant Shares and that you have and wil
continue to make you own apraisal of the Placing of the Relevant Shares and
the other maters refered to in this Placing Leter. You confirm that you have
relied upon your own investigations and resources in deciding to invest in the
Relevant Shares;
(g) you have confirmed that you or in the case where you are acting on behalf of a
principal, the ultimate subscriber(s) of the Relevant Shares, are (a) independent
of and not conected with the Company (and its subsidiaries), its Conected
Person(s) and their respective Asociate(s) and (b) are independent of and not
be parties Acting in Concert with any persons, other place(s) or shareholders
of the Company to the efect that any placing of the Relevant Shares to you or
your principal shal not triger any mandatory ofer obligation under Rule 26.1
of the Takeovers Code;
(h) your agrement to subscribe for the Relevant Shares shal constitute your
irevocable instruction that the registration of al such Relevant Shares in respect
of which this aplication is acepted and shal be recorded in the Company’s
register of members outside Hong Kong prior to the isue of the relevant
certificates for the Relevant Shares;
(i) you wil suply us, imediately upon notification, with such information as
may be requested by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and the
Securities and Futures Comision;
(j) you irevocably authorize us to produce this leter to any interested party in any
administrative or legal proceding or oficial enquiry with respect to the maters
covered herein; and
(k) you hereby undertake that you or in the case where you are acting on behalf of
a principal, the ultimate subscriber(s) of the Relevant Shares, are/is independent
from the Company or its subsidiaries, the directors, chief executive or
substantial shareholder of the Company and are not persons who are/is
“conected person(s)” or “asociate(s)” of the Company, the directors, chief
executive or substantial shareholders as defined under the Listing Rules and not
Acting in Concert with any of the substantial shareholders of the Company. You
also undertake to suply us with al the necesary information regarding the
identity of the places promptly as and when required by the Authorities in
Hong Kong.
7. You have confirmed that as at the date hereof none of you and any of your sub-place
have any interest in the capital of the Company provided that where you and/or any of
your sub-place has an interest in the capital of the Company, you confirm that such
interests have ben fuly and acurately disclosed in the Form of Acknowledgement.
8. Any information suplied by you on the Form of Acknowledgement or otherwise in
conection with the Placing may be “personal data” for the purpose of the Personal
Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Chapter 486 of the Laws of Hong Kong) (the “Ordinance”).
To aply for the Relevant Shares, you must provide personal data requested and if
necesary information is not suplied it may result in delay in the procesion of your
aplication or your aplication may not be considered. It may also prevent or delay
registration of any Relevant Shares which you have sucesfuly aplied for in your
name or as you may direct and/or dispatch the certificates to which you are entitled.
You agre and acknowledge that :
(a) the personal data (if any) which you provide to use in conection with the
Placing may be used, held and/or stored (by whatever means) :
(i) in conection with the Placing;
(i) maintaining or updating the relevant register of holders of securities of
the Company;
(i) making disclosures as required by law, regulations or rules (whether
statutory or otherwise) or regulators;
(iv) other purposes incidental or asociated with the above and/or to enable
the Company and its registrars to discharge their obligations to holders
of securities and/or to enable us and the Company to discharge their
obligations to regulators;
(b) the personal data provided to us wil be kept confidential but the Company, its
registrars and us, may to the extent necesary for achieving the purposes
mentioned in 9(a) above or any of the above said person, makes such enquires
as it considers necesary to confirm the acuracy of the personal data provided
and in particular it may disclose, obtains transfer (whether within or outside
Hong Kong) such personal data to, from or with any and al of the folowing
persons and entities:
(i) the Company or its agents such as overseas registrar or their profesional
adviser;
(i) any agents, contractors or third party service providers who ofer
administrative, telecomunications computer, payment or other
services to the Company and/or the registrars of the Company in
conection with the operation of their respective busines;
(i) any regulatory or governmental bodies;
(iv) any other persons or institutions which holders of securities have or
propose to have dealings, such as bankers, solicitors or stockholder;
(c) the Ordinance provides rights to ascertain whether the Company and the
registrars of the Company hold your personal data, to obtain a copy of that data,
and to corect any data that is inacurate;
(d) the Company and the registrar of the Company have the right to charge a
reasonable fe for the procesing of any data aces request. Al requests for
aces to data or corection of data or for information regarding policies and
practices and kinds of data held should be adresed to us for the atention of
Compliance Oficer, the Company for the atention of the Company Secretary
or (as the case may be) the registrars of the Company for the atention of the
Privacy Compliance Oficer.
9. By signing the enclosed Form of Acknowledgement, you hereby agre, confirm and
acknowledge that,
(a) you have not relied on any information, representation or waranty suplied or
made by or on behalf of ourselves, the Company or any other party involved in
the Placing;
(b) you have received al information you believe is necesary or apropriate in
conection with you purchase of the Relevant Shares;
(c) other than the anouncement to be made by the Company on or around 17 April
2024 as required by the Listing Rules, no disclosure document, placing
document or prospectus has ben prepared in conection with the Placing;
(d) time is the esence in relation to the agrement constituted by your aceptance
of our ofer;
(e) you have not relied on any investigation that we or any of our afiliates or any
persons acting on our or their behalf may have conducted with respect to the
Relevant Shares or the Company, and none of such persons has made any
representation to you, expres or implied, with respect to the Relevant Shares
or the Company; you have conducted your own investigation with respect to the
Relevant Shares and the Company including, without limitation, the income tax
consequences of purchasing, owning or disposing of the Relevant Shares in light
of your particular situation and tax residence(s) as wel as any consequences
arising under the laws of any other taxing jurisdiction;
(f) the Shares (or the Shares, subject to the having become efective) are listed on
the Stock Exchange and that the Company is therefore required to publish
certain busines and financial information in acordance with the rules and
practices of the Stock Exchange and that you are able to obtain or aces such
information without undue dificulty;
(g) you wil not hold us or any of our respective afiliates responsible for any
mistatements in or omisions from any publicly available information
concerning the Company;
(h) you have the ability to bear the economic risk of your investment in the Relevant
Shares, have adequate means of providing for your curent and contingent neds,
have no ned for liquidity with respect to your investment in the Relevant Shares
and are able to sustain a complete los of your investment in the Relevant Shares;
(i) except for any liability which canot by law be excluded, neither we, nor the
Company, nor any of their respective related bodies corporate, nor any directors,
oficers, employes or advisers of us or the Company or any of their respective
related bodies corporate, acept any responsibility in relation to the Placing;
(j) by signing the enclosed Form of Acknowledgement and purchasing the
Relevant Shares, you are in compliance with al relevant laws, rules and
regulations;
(k) by signing the enclosed Form of Acknowledgement, you agre to the terms and
conditions of the Placing as recorded in this leter from us and to have made the
representations, waranties, covenants, acknowledgements, agrements and
confirmations herein;
(l) you have instructed us to remit the Subscription Money to the Company on your
behalf and you wil sign the Form of Acknowledgement on the understanding
that the Company shal only have recourse to us; and
(m) we and our afiliates wil rely upon the truth and acuracy of the representations,
waranties, covenants, acknowledgements, agrements and confirmations made
by you in this leter pursuant to your signature on the enclosed Form of
Acknowledgement.
10. This leter of confirmation and al the atachments constitutes the whole agrement
betwen the parties hereto and no variations hereof shal be efective unles made in
writing.
11. Time shal be of the esence in this leter of confirmation.
12. This leter constitutes confirmation of a pre-existing contract which remains in force
regardles of whether or not you return the signed Form of Acknowledgement. The oral
contract concluded betwen you and ourselves in respect of your agrement to
subscribe for the Relevant Shares as recorded in this leter is governed by, and shal be
construed in acordance with, the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”).
Please acknowledge your receipt of this leter which sets out the terms and conditions of the
oral contract concluded betwen us relating to your aceptance of the Placing and participation
for the Relevant Shares by signing and returning it to us the enclosed duplicate copy of this
leter, together with the atached form of registration details duly completed and your
agrement to our use of the personal data suplied, as son as posible and, in any event, so as
to reach us (for the atention of []) on or before [ p.m.] on [*] by facsimile, at fax no. (852)
[*], with the original to be delivered to us as son as posible. Both Parts 1 and 2 of the Form
of Acknowledgement must be completed.
By signing and returning the Form of Acknowledgement enclosed herewith, you undertake that,
in the event you are subscribing for the Relevant Shares for the acount of any of your clients,
you shal procure that such client shal be informed of the foregoing provisions and shal agre
to be bound by the foregoing provisions as if such client were party to the agrement evidenced
by this leter.
If you wish to realocate any of your Relevant Shares, please provide ful details of the persons
to whom you wish the realocations to be made, together with the amount of the Relevant
Shares you wish each nominated person to receive, in Part 2 of the Form of Acknowledgement
atached.
This agrement is governed by and construed in acordance with the laws of Hong Kong. You
hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Hong Kong as regards any
claim or mater arising hereunder.
No amendment to the terms and conditions of this leter wil be aceptable to us.
Yours faithfuly,
For and on behalf of
FIRST SECURITIES (HK) LIMITED
Authorised Signatory
FORM OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
[Date]
To : First Securities (HK) Limited
Rom 1708-10, 17/F.,
China Insurance Group Building,
141 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong
Atention: The Responsible Oficers
Dear Sirs,
Re : China Partytime Culture Holdings Limited (the “Company”)
Placing of up to 295,544,224 new Shares isued by the Company (the “Placing”)
_
PART 1 – TO BE COMPLETED BY AL SUBSCRIBERS
I / We acknowledge receipt of your leter dated [•] confirming the terms and conditions of the
oral contract in conection with the Placing which was concluded betwen you and ourselves
(the “Placing Leter”). I / We confirm that:
(a) I / We have agred to subscribe for the Relevant Shares as specified in the Placing Leter
on the terms and conditions of the contract recorded in the Placing Leter;
(b) [*] certificates in respect of the Relevant Shares should be isued in the name of the
place refered to in Part 2 atached;
(c) I / We being the beneficial(s) (in the case where 1/we are acting on behalf of a principal,
the ultimate beneficial owner of the Relevant Shares) is / am / are independent of and
not conected with the Company, the directors, chief executives and substantial
shareholders of the Company and their respective asociates (within the meaning of the
Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
Limited (the “Listing Rules”) and not Acting in Concert with any of the substantial
shareholders of the Company, and each of my / our sub-places, if any, of the Relevant
Shares are independent of and not conected with the Company, directors, chief
executives, and substantial shareholders of the Company and their respective asociates
(within the meaning of the Listing Rules) and not Acting in Concert with any of the
substantial shareholders of the Company;
(d) I / We being the beneficial owner(s) (in the case where I/we are acting on behalf of a
principal, the ultimate beneficial owner of the Relevant Shares) am / are (a) independent
of and not conected with the Company (and its subsidiaries), its conected person(s)
and their respective asociate(s) (within the meaning of the Listing Rules) and (b) are
independent of and not be parties Acting in Concert with any persons, other place(s)
or shareholders of the Company to the efect that any placing of the Relevant Shares to
me shal not triger any mandatory ofer obligation under Rule 26.1 of the Takeovers
Code.
(e) I / We confirm that I / we am / are not an employe of the Company and have no previous
busines relationship with the Company, save as described below:
(If there is no previous busines relationship, please insert “None”, otherwise, please
provide particulars)
(e) I / We confirm that as at the date hereof, I / We and al of my/our sub-places do not
have any interest in the share capital of the Company;
or
I/We confirm that as at the date hereof, I /We are the beneficial owner of
shares in the capital of the Company.
Yours faithfuly,
For and on behalf of
[name of Place]
Authorised Signatory
PART 2 – REGISTRATION FORM / DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS
TO BE COMPLETED BY AL SUBSCRIBERS (Al sections must be completed in ful)
(Please use block leters)
Name of Place (in ful):
Name of beneficial owner (if aplicable):
Adres:
Busines Registration Certificate No./ Pasport No./ Hong Kong I.D. Card No.*:
Please atach a copy of the Busines Registration Certificate/Pasport/Hong Kong Identity
Card (as the case may be)
Share certificates wil be isued in the name of the Place set out above and the certificate of
the Relevant Shares and al comunications with the Place as holder of the Relevant Shares
wil be delivered to the Place by ordinary mail at the risk of the Place at the adres set out
above.
PLEASE FIL IN THE FOLOWING IF YOU ARE A HOLDER
OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF SHARES IN
CHINA PARTYTIME CULTURE HOLDINGS LIMITED
Number of shares interested in:
Name(s) of registered holder of the shares:
Name(s) of beneficial owner(s) of the shares (if aplicable):
Schedule 3
Form of Sub-Placing Leter
[Leterhead of the Placing Agent]
STRICTLY PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
[Date]
To : [name of Sub-placing agent]
Atn : [*]
Fax : [*]
Dear Sirs / Madam,
Re : China Partytime Culture Holdings Limited (the “Company”)
Placing of up to 295,544,224 new Shares isued by the Company (the “Placing”)
_
Pursuant to the Placing Agrement dated 17 April 2024 (the “Placing Agrement”), the
Company has apointed us (the “Placing Agent”) as the placing agent to place up to
295,544,224 new Shares to be isued by the Company in acordance with the Placing
Agrement. As agred by the Company, we are authorised under the Placing Agrement to
apoint one or more sub-placing agents. We have pleasure in ofering you a sub-placing
participation of [*] new Shares (the “Sub-placing Participation”) subject to the terms set out
below, for a sub-placing comision of [*] per cent. of the amount of the new Shares/ the
principal amount placed.
Unles the context requires otherwise, terms defined in the Placing Agrement shal have the
same meanings when used in this leter.
1. Condition of the Placing and the Sub-placing Participation
The ofer to you of the Sub-placing Participation is conditional upon the Placing
Agrement becoming fuly unconditional by 3 May 2024 or such later date as may be
agred or any of the force majeure event sets out in Clause 8 of the Placing Agrement
shal have ocured.
If the conditions precedent under Clause 2.1 (the “Conditions”) of the Placing
Agrement shal not have ben satisfied or fulfiled by 3 May 2024 or any of the force
majeure event sets out in Clause 8 of the Placing Agrement shal have ocured, in
which case our contract with you wil also be terminated. Subject to fulfilment of the
Conditions, completion of the placing of the Relevant Shares wil take place on the
fifth Busines Day after the date on which the Conditions has ben satisfied in
acordance with the Placing Agrement (or such other date as the Company and us may
agre in writing) (the “Completion Date”).
Under the Placing Agrement, the Placing Agent’s obligations wil be subject to the
satisfaction of the Conditions, and we as the Placing Agent wil be entitled to terminate
our obligations under the Placing Agrement in certain circumstances ocuring by or
before 8:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time) on Busines Day imediately before the
Completion Date (both being defined in the Placing Agrement). The circumstances in
or under which we, as the Placing Agent, may terminate our obligations under the
Placing are set out in Clause 8 of the Placing Agrement. It is a term of this sub-placing
leter that the question as to whether the right to terminate such obligations is exercised
shal be determined at the absolute discretion of us as the Placing Agent. If we as the
Placing Agent exercise that right, or if any conditions of the Placing Agrement or this
leter are not fulfiled, al sub-placing participation, including the right to receive any
sub-placing comision, shal cease to be valid, binding and efective, and no party
shal have any right or liability in respect thereof.
By acepting the Sub-placing Participation, you acknowledge that your obligation to
sub-place new Shares hereunder is binding, irevocable and unconditional expect (i) in
the event the Placing is terminated by us as the Placing Agent; or (i) in the event that
the Conditions have not ben fulfiled or waived in acordance with the terms of the
Placing Agrement, whereupon your obligation to sub-place new Shares wil cease and
any amount paid by you hereunder wil be repaid to you without interest.
2. Obligations for placed and unplaced shares
If by 5:00 p.m. on the last day of the Placing Period (as defined in the Placing
Agrement), al the new Shares have ben validly subscribed for in acordance with
the terms of the Placing Agrement, your obligations hereunder wil cease and we wil,
subject to your Sub-placing Participation becoming fuly unconditional, pay to you the
sub-placing comision to which you are entitled as mentioned above.
If, however, by 5:00 p.m. on the last day of the Placing Period (as defined in the Placing
Agrement), al or any of the new Shares have not ben validly aplied for in
acordance with the terms of the Placing Agrement, we may, at our absolute discretion,
cal upon you to subscribe for such amount of the Shares as we may specify in writing
as being the proportion of the shortfal atributable to your Sub-placing Participation,
up to the amount of your Sub-placing Participation. You agre that, forthwith upon
being notified by us, with respect to the number of the new Shares which you are to
take up hereunder, you wil pay to us the amount due on aplication for the new Shares
to be taken up by you les the amount of sub-placing comision payable by us to you
as mentioned above. If we have not received payment from you on the busines day
next folowing the day we have notified you of the number of the new Shares which
you are to take up, we reserve the right to charge interest on the amount overdue
calculated on the basis of [*] per cent. per anum above the PRIME lending rate in
HKD quoted from time to time by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Limited.
As with each other sub-placing agent, your Sub-placing Participation wil be reduced
to the extent that valid subscriptions for the new Shares are made or procured by you,
together with payment in respect thereof to be made in acordance with paragraph 4
below.
Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, if you default in making payment in
respect of al or any part of the new Shares which you are caled upon to subscribe as
aforesaid, we aditionaly reserve the right to regard the agrement constituted by your
aceptance of the ofer hereunder as repudiated by your breach of such condition and
acordingly we are discharged from al liabilities and obligations under or in respect
of such agrement (without prejudice to our right to claim damages for any los
sufered by us). Folowing such repudiation and discharge we may (without prejudice
to our right to claim damages as aforesaid) sel or dispose of or procure the sale or
disposal of such new Shares on such terms (including price) and in such maner and
at such time as we think fit.
3. Information on places
You wil provide to The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock
Exchange”) and other Authorities with a list of places for al of the new Shares placed
by you no later than a date to be notified, together with information as required under,
or as we or the Company may require in order to comply with, the Rules Governing
the Listing of Securities on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
Limited (the “Listing Rules”).
4. Payment and delivery
The agregate net consideration payable by you in respect of your Sub-placing
Participation is HK$[] which represents [] new Shares taken up by you net of the
[*]% sub-placing comision.
Please arange payment of the above-mentioned agregate net consideration by
telegraphic transfer in HKD in god funds for value at such time and on such date as
we shal notify you one busines day before to the folowing acount:
Name of bank : [*]
Acount name : [*]
Acount number : [*]
Reference : [*]
A copy of the remitance advice should be sent to [*] of [adres], for the atention of
Responsible Oficers (fax no: (852) [*]) by no later than such time and on such date as
we shal notify you one busines day before.
5. Representations
By agreing to acept the Sub-placing Participation, you have represented and
acknowledged your agrement that:
(a) you represent and agre that, you wil not ofer or sel any of the new Shares
which alocated by you in any jurisdiction or in any circumstances in which
such ofer or sale is not authorised or to any person to whom it is unlawful to
make such ofer, sale or invitation except under circumstances that wil result
in compliance with any aplicable laws and/or regulations.
(b) you wil at al times observe and comply strictly with the seling restrictions as
set out in the Placing Agrement;
(c) you had at al material times and stil have ful power and authority to enter
into this sub-placing agrement and your aceptance of the Sub-placing
Participation wil not (a) result in breach of any law, rule, regulation, order,
judgment, decre, ruling, notice or circular of any court, government or
regulatory body to which you are subject; or (b) require the sanction, consent,
aproval, permision or authorisation of any person (including any government
or regulatory body);
(d) you wil comply with the laws, regulations and restrictions which may be
aplicable in your jurisdiction and you have obtained or wil obtain any consent,
aproval or authorization required for you to perform the Sub-placing
Participation and to ensure that no obligations are imposed on the Company or
us in any jurisdiction as a result of such action;
(e) you wil acknowledge the confidential nature of the maters to which the
Placing relates and, acordingly, you wil not disclose the existence or the
contents of this leter or any related mater to any third party without our prior
writen consent;
(f) you wil, and wil procure that al the placings done in the Sub-placing
Participation wil, comply strictly with the terms of this leter and the Placing
Agrement; and
(g) you wil suply us or to the Stock Exchange and/or the Securities and Futures
Comision directly, imediately upon notification, with such information as
may be requested by the Stock Exchange and the Securities and Futures
Comision.
In acepting the Sub-placing Participating, we acknowledge and confirm that you have
relied on the representations and waranties given by the Company as contained in the
Placing Agrement
6. Miscelaneous
The ofer to you of the Sub-placing Participation is made on the further condition that
no realowance in respect of any part of such participation in the Placing may be
granted by you to any person on the basis of a sub-placing comision in exces of [*]
per cent. of the amount of the new Shares in respect of which the realowance is made.
This leter of confirmation and al the atachments constitutes the whole agrement
betwen the parties hereto and no variations hereof shal be efective unles made in
writing.
Time shal be of the esence in this leter of confirmation.
This leter is governed by, and shal be construed in acordance with, the laws of the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.
*
If you wish to acept this ofer of the Sub-placing Participation on and subject to the terms
and conditions set out above, please reply to this ofer by fax to [] or [] as son as posible
and in any event by not later than [] p.m. on [] and return to our ofice at [*] Hong Kong by
no later than [time] on [*] the enclosed copy of this leter duly signed to your aceptance of
the above mentioned terms and conditions.
No amendment to the terms and conditions of this leter wil be aceptable to us.
Yours faithfuly,
For and on behalf of
FIRST SECURITIES (HK) LIMITED
Authorised Signatory
CONFIRMATION OF ACEPTANCE
To : First Securities (HK) Limited
Rom 1708-10, 17/F.,
China Insurance Group Building,
141 Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong
Atn: The Responsible Oficers
Re : China Partytime Culture Holdings Limited (the “Company”)
Placing of up to 295,544,224 new Shares isued by the Company (the “Placing”)
_
I/We confirm my/our aceptance of the above-mentioned sub-placing participation on and
subject to the terms and conditions set out in your leter dated [*], of which the foregoing is a
copy, and I/we undertake to aply for and to pay on demand the subscription moneys due in
respect of any the Placing Shares which I/we may be caled upon to take up as a result of this
participation and I/we hereby irevocably confer on you the authority set out in your leter.
I/We also confirm that I/we am/are an independent third party not asociated with any of the
“conected persons” (as defined in the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock
Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Listing Rules”) of the Company and I/we am/are not
an asociate (as defined in the Listing Rules) of conected person within the meaning of the
Listing Rules and not Acting in Concert with any of the substantial shareholders of the
Company.
For and on behalf of
[Name of Sub-placing agent]
_
[Authorised Signatory]
Date: [•]
Schedule 4
Form of Writen Notification
[Leterhead of Placing Agent]
STRICTLY PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
[Date]
To : China Partytime Culture Holdings Limited
Atn : The Company Secretary
Fax : (852) 3013-8913
Dear Sirs,
Re : China Partytime Culture Holdings Limited (the “Company”)
Placing of up to 295,544,224 new Shares isued by the Company (the “Placing”)
_
We refer to the Placing Agrement (the “Placing Agrement”) dated 17 April 2024 entered
into betwen you and us. Capitalized terms used herein shal have same meanings as defined
in the Placing Agrement.
We hereby notify you that we suced in procuring [number] Places for [*] Placing Shares in
the total amount of HK$[*]. We therefore would like to proced with the completion of the
placing of [*] Placing Shares in acordance with Clause 4 of the Placing Agrement.
Yours faithfuly,
For and on behalf of
FIRST SECURITIES (HK) LIMITED
_
Authorised Signatory