JZXN Jiuzi Holdings Inc

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 6-K

 

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the month of October 2022

 

Commission file number: 001-40405

 

JIUZI HOLDINGS INC.

(Registrant’s name)

 

No.168 Qianjiang Nongchang Gengwen Road, 15^th Floor

Economic and Technological Development Zone

Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City

Zhejiang Province 310000

People’s Republic of China

(Address of principal executive office)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

 

Form 20-F ☒       Form 40-F ☐

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ☐

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): ☐

 

 

 

This current report on Form 6-K is being filed to disclose the home country rule exemption of Jiuzi Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) that it intends to disclose in its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022.

 

As a business company incorporated in the Cayman Islands that is listed on Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”), the Company is subject to Nasdaq corporate governance listing standards. Under Nasdaq rules, listed non-U.S. companies may, in general, follow their home country corporate governance practices in lieu of some of the Nasdaq corporate governance requirements. Pursuant to the home country rule exemption set forth under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5620(a), which provides (with certain exceptions not relevant to the conclusions expressed herein) that a Foreign Private Issuer may follow its home country practice in lieu of the requirements of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5600 Series, the Company has elected to be exempt from the following requirement:

 

(a)

Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5620 which provides that (with certain exceptions not relevant to the conclusions expressed herein) each company listing common stock or voting preferred stock, and their equivalents, shall hold an annual meeting of shareholders no later than one year after the end of the company’s fiscal year-end.

 

A copy of the home country rule exemption letter from the Company’s legal counsel is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Home Country Exemption Letter

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: October 31, 2022	JIUZI HOLDINGS INC.
	By:	/s/ Shuibo Zhang
	Name:	Shuibo Zhang
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

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