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 June 2025.

 

Commission File Number 001-41681

 

WANG & LEE GROUP, Inc.

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

 

Mr. Pui Lung Ho, Chief Executive Officer

5-6/F Wing Tai Factory Building,

3 Tai Yip Street,

Kwun Tong,

Kowloon, Hong Kong

Telephone: +852 2889 1313

(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): ☐

 

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted solely to provide an attached annual report to security holders.

 

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): ☐

 

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted to furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant’s “home country”), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant’s securities are traded, as long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not required to be and has not been distributed to the registrant’s security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on EDGAR.

 

 

 

 

 

 

INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT

 

On June 9, 2025, WANG & LEE GROUP, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain institutional investors (collectively, the “Investors”), pursuant to which the Investors will purchase, subject to certain closing conditions, senior convertible notes (the “Notes”) in the aggregate amount equal to US$8,000,000 (the “Principal”), which shall be convertible into the Company’s ordinary shares (the “Ordinary Shares”), no par value per share (the “Offering”), for net proceeds of approximately US$3,570,000. The Notes have a conversion price of 85% of the lowest daily VWAP (the dollar volume-weighted average price for ordinary shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market) during the ten (10) consecutive trading days immediately preceding the conversion date (the “Conversion Price”). The Notes are due and payable 9 months from the date of closing (the “Maturity Date”). The Investors may extend the Maturity Date on one occasion for up to an additional 6 months in their sole discretion. At any time before the Maturity Date, the Investors may convert the Principal under the Notes at their option for Ordinary Shares at the Conversion Price. No public market currently exists for the Notes, and the Company does not intend to apply to list the Notes on any securities exchange or for quotation on any inter-dealer quotation system. The Purchase Agreement and Notes contain customary events of default, indemnification obligations of the Company and other obligations and rights of the parties. The Conversion Price is subject to anti-dilution provisions to reflect stock dividends and splits, and future securities offerings at lower prices with certain exceptions.

 

The Notes will be offered pursuant to the Company’s effective registration statement on Form F-3 (Registration Statement No. 333-281859) previously filed with the SEC and prospectus supplements thereunder.

 

The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement and the Notes is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such agreement, copies of which is filed herewith as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 4.1, respectively, to this Report on Form 6-K and is incorporated herein by reference. In addition, the Company is filing, as exhibit hereto, an opinion of counsel of Maples and Calder.

 

This Report on Form 6-K shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Company’s securities, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation, or sale of the Company’s securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.

 

This Form 6-K (including the documents attached as exhibits hereto) is hereby incorporated by reference into the Company’s registration statement on Form F-3 initially filed on August 30, 2024 (Registration Statement No. 333-281859).

 

Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit No.   Description
4.1   Form of Senior Convertible Note dated as of June 9, 2025
5.1   Legal Opinion of Maples and Calder
10.1   Form of Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of June 9, 2025

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

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: June 9, 2025 WANG & LEE GROUP, INC.
     
  By: /s/ Pui Lung Ho
  Name: Pui Lung Ho
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.1

 

Original Issue Date: June 9, 2025

 

$[___]

 

SENIOR CONVERTIBLE NOTE DUE MARCH 9, 2026

 

THIS SENIOR CONVERTIBLE NOTE is a duly authorized and validly issued Senior Convertible Note of WANG & LEE Group, Inc. (the “Company”), a British Virgin Islands holding company, having its principal place of business at 5-6/F, Wing Tai Factory Building, 3 Tai Yip Street, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and designated as its Senior Convertible Note due March 9, 2026 (the “Note”).

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the Company promises to pay to [_____]1 or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), or shall have paid pursuant to the terms hereunder, the principal sum of $[____] and all of the Company’s other obligations hereunder on March 9, 2026 (as such date may be extended pursuant to the proviso to this sentence, the “Maturity Date”); provided, that the Required Holders may, in their sole discretion, on one occasion, extend the Maturity Date by six (6) months by delivering a written notice to the Company no earlier than the thirtieth (30th) day, but no later than the fifth (5th) day, prior to the Maturity Date (an “Extension Notice”) and any such extension of the Maturity Date shall be effective immediately upon the Required Holder’s delivery of such Extension Notice. This Note is subject to the following additional provisions.

 

Section 1. Definitions. For the purposes hereof, in addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Note, (a) capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement and (b) the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

Additional Pre-Delivery Share Amount” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(p).

 

Bankruptcy Event” means any of the following events: (a) the Company or any Subsidiary commences a case or other proceeding under any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction relating to the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, (b) there is commenced against the Company or any Subsidiary thereof any such case or proceeding that is not stayed or dismissed within 30 days after commencement, (c) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt or any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is entered, (d) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof suffers any appointment of any custodian, receiver or the like for it or any material part of its property that is not discharged or stayed within 30 calendar days after such appointment, (e) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (f) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof calls a meeting of its creditors with a view to arranging a composition, adjustment or restructuring of its debts, (g) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof admits orally or in writing that it is generally unable to pay its debts as they become due, (h) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, by any act or failure to act, expressly indicates its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any of the foregoing or takes any corporate or other action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing.

 

 

1 NTD: To be updated for each Holder.

 

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Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(d).

 

Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York or the British Virgin Islands are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee”  or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any Governmental Authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York are generally open for use by customers on such day.

 

Buy-In” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(c)(v).

 

Change of Control Transaction” means the occurrence after the Original Issue Date of any of (a) an acquisition by an individual or legal entity or “group” (as described in Rule 13d-5(b)(1) promulgated under the Exchange Act) of effective control (whether through legal or beneficial ownership of capital stock of the Company, by contract or otherwise) of in excess of 50% of the voting securities of the Company (other than by means of conversion or exercise of the Note), (b) any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert shall have acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement that, upon consummation thereof, will result in its or their acquisition of the power to exercise, directly or indirectly, control over the management or policies of the Company or control over the equity interests of such Person entitled to vote for members of the Board of Directors of the Company on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such voting power that such Person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right) representing 50% or more of the combined voting power of such equity interests, (c) the Company (and all of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole) sells or transfers all or substantially all of its assets to another Person or (d) a replacement at one time of more than one-half of the members of the Board of Directors which is not approved by a majority of those individuals who are members of the Board of Directors on the Original Issue Date (or by those individuals who are serving as members of the Board of Directors on any date whose nomination to the Board of Directors was approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors who are members on the Original Issue Date).

 

Conversion Amount” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).

 

Conversion Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).

 

Conversion Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(b).

 

Conversion Rate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(c).

 

Delivery Share” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(p).

 

Delivery Share Application” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(p).

 

Disqualified Stock” shall mean, with respect to any person, any equity interest of such person that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other equity interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a Change of Control Transaction subject to the prior repayment in full of the Note), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other equity interests that would constitute Disqualified Stock, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date.

 

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Event of Default” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8(a).

 

Freely Tradable” means that the Conversion Shares (i) can be traded by a holder thereof that is not an Affiliate of the Company and has not been an Affiliate of the Company for the immediately preceding 90 days, or pursuant to an effective Registration Statement and (ii) are issued upon conversion of this Note free of restrictive legends.

 

Fundamental Transaction” means: (i) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company (and all of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole), directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Ordinary Shares are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Ordinary Shares, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Ordinary Shares or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Ordinary Shares are effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property, or (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off, merger or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of Persons whereby such other Person or group acquires more than 50% of the outstanding Ordinary Shares (not including any Ordinary Shares held by the other Person or other Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the other Persons making or party to, such stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination).

 

Indebtedness” of a Person shall include (a) all obligations for borrowed money or the deferred purchase price of property or services including without limitation, merchant cash advances (excluding trade credit and trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business that do not exceed $250,000 in the aggregate), (b) all obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, or other similar instruments and all reimbursement or other obligations in respect of letters of credit, surety bonds, bankers acceptances, currency swap agreements, interest rate hedging agreements, interest rate swaps or other financial products, (c) all capital lease obligations (as determined in accordance with GAAP), (d) all obligations or liabilities secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, irrespective of whether such obligation or liability is assumed by such Person, (e) any obligation arising with respect to any other transaction that is the functional equivalent of borrowing but which does not constitute a liability on the balance sheets of such Person (excluding trade credit and trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (f) Disqualified Stock, and (g) any obligation guaranteeing or intended to guarantee (whether directly or indirectly guaranteed, endorsed, co-made, discounted or sold with recourse) any of the foregoing obligations of any other Person.

 

Initial Pre-Delivery Share Amount” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(p).

 

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Investments” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition (including by merger) of equity interests of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or interest in, another Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that constitutes a business unit or all or a substantial part of the business of, such Person.

 

Liens” means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or other encumbrance upon or in any property or assets (including accounts and contract rights) owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

New Subsidiary” means, as of any date of determination, any Person in which the Company after the date of this Agreement, directly or indirectly, (i) owns or acquires any of the outstanding issued share capital or holds any equity or similar interest of such Person or (ii) controls or operates all or any part of the business, operations or administration of such Person, and all of the foregoing.

 

New York Courts” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10(d).

 

Note Register” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b).

 

Notice of Conversion” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).

 

Ordinary Shares” means the ordinary shares in the capital of the Company.

 

Ordinary Share Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Ordinary Shares, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Ordinary Shares.

 

Original Issue Date” means the date of the first issuance of this Note, regardless of any transfers of any Note and regardless of the number of instruments which may be issued to evidence such Note.

 

Outstanding Value” means as of any time of determination, the outstanding principal amount of this Note, accrued and unpaid interest, amounts which may become due hereunder, and other amounts owed pursuant to the Transaction Documents in each case, as of such time of determination; provided, however, with respect to the repayment of this Note on the Maturity Date, so long as no Event of Default has occurred prior to the Maturity Date, the Outstanding Value means the greater of (i) $[4,000,000] less the principal amount of this Note which has been converted prior to the Maturity Date and (ii) $0.

 

Permitted Indebtedness” means (a) the Indebtedness evidenced by this Note and the other Notes issued to holders pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, (b) the Indebtedness existing on the Original Issue Date and set forth on a schedule provided to the Holder prior to the date hereof, (c) unsecured Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business and not exceeding $3,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding and (d) any Indebtedness up to $3,000,000 in the aggregate, provided that the Company obtains the prior written consent of the Required Holders. For the avoidance of doubt, no Permitted Indebtedness shall be utilized by the Company in connection with any Variable Rate Transaction.

 

Permitted Lien” means the individual and collective reference to the following: (a) Liens in favor of Holder, (b) any Lien for taxes not yet due or delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP, (c) any statutory Lien arising in the ordinary course of business by operation of law with respect to a liability that is not yet due or delinquent, (d) any Lien created by operation of law, such as materialmen’s liens, mechanics’ liens and other similar liens, arising in the ordinary course of business with respect to a liability that is not yet due or delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (e) Liens incurred in connection with Permitted Indebtedness under clause (a) and (d) thereunder, and (f)  Liens existing on the Original Issue Date and set forth on a schedule provided to the Holder prior to the date hereof. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary in no event shall the aggregate amount of all Permitted Liens exceed $250,000 at any time outstanding, without the Company obtaining the prior written consent of the Required Holders.

 

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Pre-Delivery Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(p).

 

Principal Market” means the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.

 

Purchase Agreement” means the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 9, 2025 among the Company and the original Holders, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Share Delivery Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(c)(ii).

 

Subsidiary” means, as of any date of determination, any Person in which the Company, directly or indirectly, (i) owns or acquires any of the outstanding issued share capital or holds any equity or similar interest of such Person or (ii) controls or operates all or any part of the business, operations or administration of such Person.

 

Successor Entity” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(e).

 

Tax” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11.

 

Tax Deduction” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11.

 

Trading Day” means a day on which a Trading Market is open for trading.

 

Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Ordinary Shares are listed or quoted for trading on the date in question, the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

VWAP” means, for any security as of any date, the dollar volume-weighted average price for such security on the Principal Market (or, if the Principal Market is not the principal trading market for such security, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which such security is then traded), during the period beginning at 9:30 a.m., New York time, and ending at 4:00 p.m., New York time, as reported by Bloomberg through its “VAP” function (set to 09:30 start time and 16:00 end time) or, if the foregoing does not apply, the dollar volume-weighted average price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security during the period beginning at 9:30 a.m., New York time, and ending at 4:00 p.m., New York time, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no dollar volume-weighted average price is reported for such security by Bloomberg for such hours, the average of the highest closing bid price and the lowest closing ask price of any of the market makers for such security as reported in The Pink Open Market (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices). If the VWAP cannot be calculated for such security on such date on any of the foregoing bases, the VWAP of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Holder. All such determinations shall be appropriately adjusted for any share dividend, share split, stock share, recapitalization or other similar transactions during such period.

 

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Section 2. Payments.

 

a) Repayment. The entire Outstanding Value shall be due and payable in full on the Maturity Date. This Note shall not bear interest except upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default as set forth in Section 8(b).

 

b) Pre-Payment. The Company may not prepay any portion of the Outstanding Value of this Note prior to the Maturity Date.

 

Section 3. Registration of Transfers and Exchanges.

 

a) Different Denominations. This Note is exchangeable for an equal aggregate principal amount of Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be payable for such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

b) Investment Representations. This Note has been issued subject to certain investment representations of the original Holder set forth in the Purchase Agreement and may be transferred or exchanged only in compliance with the Purchase Agreement and applicable federal and state securities laws and regulations.

 

c) Reliance on Note Register. Prior to due presentment for transfer to the Company of this Note, the Company and any agent of the Company may treat the Person in whose name this Note is duly registered on the Note Register as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment as herein provided and for all other purposes, whether or not this Note is overdue, and neither the Company nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

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Section 4. Conversion.

 

a) Voluntary Conversion. At any time after the Original Issue Date until this Note is no longer outstanding, the Outstanding Value of this Note shall be convertible, in whole or in part, into Ordinary Shares at the option of the Holder, at any time and from time to time (subject to the conversion limitations set forth in Section 4(d). The Holder shall effect conversions by delivering to the Company a Notice of Conversion, the form of which is attached hereto as Annex A (each, a “Notice of Conversion”), specifying therein the portion of the Outstanding Value of this Note to be converted (the “Conversion Amount”) and the date on which such conversion shall be effected (such date, the “Conversion Date”). Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 4(d), the Holder shall be deemed to own the Ordinary Shares converted pursuant to this Section 4(a) upon the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Conversion. If no Conversion Date is specified in a Notice of Conversion, the Conversion Date shall be the date that such Notice of Conversion is deemed delivered hereunder. On or before the 1st Trading Day following the date of receipt of a Notice of Conversion, with respect to a conversion, if the applicable Conversion Price is less than the “conversion price” specified on such Notice of Conversion, the Holder may deliver an updated Notice of Conversion to the Company correcting the Conversion Price (and the aggregate Conversion Amount) as specified in such Notice of Conversion (provided, that if such updated Notice of Conversion is not delivered to the Company on or prior to 12:00 p.m. (local time in New York, NY) on the Trading Day immediately following the applicable Conversion Date, the applicable Share Delivery Date shall be extended by one (1) Trading Day). No ink-original Notice of Conversion shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any Notice of Conversion form be required. To effect conversions hereunder, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Note to the Company unless the entire Outstanding Value of this Note has been so converted in which case the Holder shall surrender this Note as promptly as is reasonably practicable after such conversion without delaying the Company’s obligation to deliver the shares on the Share Delivery Date. The Outstanding Value of this Note will be reduced by the Conversion Amount as of the Conversion Date. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the Outstanding Value converted and the date of such conversion(s). In the event of any dispute or discrepancy, the records of the Holder shall be controlling and determinative in the absence of manifest error. The Holder, and any assignee by acceptance of this Note, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following conversion of a portion of this Note, the unpaid and unconverted Outstanding Value of this Note may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof.

 

b) Conversion Price. The conversion price in effect on any Conversion Date shall be equal to 85% of the lowest daily VWAP during the ten (10) Trading Days immediately preceding and including the Conversion Date (the “Conversion Price”).

 

c) Mechanics of Conversion.

 

i. Conversion Shares Issuable Upon Conversion of Principal Amount. The number of Conversion Shares issuable upon a conversion hereunder shall be determined by the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the Conversion Amount of this Note to be converted, by (y) the Conversion Price (the “Conversion Rate”).

 

ii. Delivery of Conversion Shares Upon Conversion. Not later than the earlier of (i) one (1) Trading Day and (ii) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period (as defined below) after each Conversion Date (the “Share Delivery Date”), the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Holder certificates or book-entry receipts representing the number of Conversion Shares being acquired upon conversion of this Note, which shall be delivered free of restrictive legends and trading restrictions of any kind. The Company shall deliver any Conversion Shares that are Freely Tradable electronically through the Depository Trust Company. As used herein, “Standard Settlement Period” means the standard settlement period, expressed in a number of Trading Days, on the Company’s primary Trading Market with respect to the Ordinary Shares as in effect on the date of delivery of the Notice of Conversion.

 

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iii. Failure to Deliver Conversion Shares. If, in the case of any Notice of Conversion, such Conversion Shares are not delivered to or as directed by the applicable Holder by the Share Delivery Date, the Holder shall be entitled to elect by written notice to the Company at any time on or before its receipt of such Conversion Shares, to rescind such Conversion, in which event the Company shall promptly return to the Holder any original Note delivered to the Company and the Holder shall promptly return to the Company the Conversion Shares issued to such Holder pursuant to the rescinded Conversion Notice. If a Notice of Conversion delivered to the Company would result in a breach of Section 4(d) below, and the Holder does not elect in writing to withdraw, in whole, such Notice of Conversion, the Company shall hold such Notice of Conversion in abeyance until such time as such Notice of Conversion may be satisfied without violating Section 4(d) below with such calculations thereunder made as of the date such Conversion Notice was initially delivered to the Company.

 

iv. Obligation Absolute. The Company’s obligations to issue and deliver the Conversion Shares upon conversion of this Note in accordance with the terms hereof are absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any action or inaction by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment against any Person or any action to enforce the same, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, limitation or termination, or any breach or alleged breach by the Holder or any other Person of any obligation to the Company or any violation or alleged violation of law by the Holder or any other Person, and irrespective of any other circumstance which might otherwise limit such obligation of the Company to the Holder in connection with the issuance of such Conversion Shares; provided, however, that such delivery shall not operate as a waiver by the Company of any such action the Company may have against the Holder. In the event the Holder of this Note shall elect to convert any or all of the Outstanding Value hereof, the Company may not refuse conversion based on any claim that the Holder or anyone associated or affiliated with the Holder has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless an injunction from a court, on notice to Holder, restraining and or enjoining conversion of all or part of this Note shall have been sought and obtained. In the absence of such injunction, the Company shall issue Conversion Shares required to be delivered hereunder in accordance with the terms hereof. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to (1) pursue actual damages, (2) lost profit resulting from or caused by the Company’s failure to honor conversions or its repudiation of its obligation to honor conversions or (3) declare an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8 for the Company’s failure to deliver Conversion Shares within the period specified herein. Without limiting the foregoing, the Holder shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief. The exercise of any such rights shall not prohibit the Holder from seeking to enforce damages pursuant to any other Section hereof or under applicable law. 

 

v. Liquidated Damages; Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Conversion Shares Upon Conversion. If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder Conversion Shares required to be issued pursuant to any provision of this Note by the second Trading Day following the applicable Share Delivery Date, the Company shall pay to the Holder, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, an amount equal to two percent (2%) per day of the product of (A) the sum of the number of Conversion Shares not delivered to the Holder on or prior to the Share Delivery Date and to which the Holder is entitled, multiplied by (B) any trading price of the Conversion Shares selected by the Holder in writing as in effect at any time during the period beginning on the Conversion Date and ending on the date that such Conversion Shares are delivered to the Holder or the Holder rescinds such conversion, as applicable. In addition to any other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder such Conversion Shares by the Share Delivery Date pursuant to Section 4(c)(ii), and if after such Share Delivery Date the Holder is required by its brokerage firm to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise), or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, Ordinary Shares to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Conversion Shares which the Holder was entitled to receive upon the conversion relating to such Share Delivery Date (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder (in addition to any other remedies available to or elected by the Holder) the amount, if any, by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including any brokerage commissions) for the Ordinary Shares so purchased exceeds (y) the product of (1) the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares that the Holder was entitled to receive from the conversion at issue multiplied by (2) the actual sale price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed (including any brokerage commissions) and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reissue (if surrendered) this Note in an Outstanding Value equal to the Conversion Amount of the attempted conversion (in which case such conversion shall be deemed rescinded) or deliver to the Holder the number of Ordinary Shares that would have been issued if the Company had timely complied with its delivery requirements under Section 4(c)(ii). For example, if the Holder purchases Ordinary Shares having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted conversion of this Note with respect to which the actual sale price of the Conversion Shares (including any brokerage commissions) giving rise to such purchase obligation was a total of $10,000 under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence, the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver Conversion Shares upon conversion of this Note as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

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vi. Reservation of Shares Issuable Upon Conversion. The Company covenants that it will at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized and unissued Ordinary Shares for the sole purpose of issuance upon conversion of this Note, each as herein provided, free from preemptive rights or any other actual contingent purchase rights of Persons other than the Holder (and the other holders of the Notes), not less than such aggregate number of Ordinary Shares equal to 200% of the number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of this Note in full at the then prevailing Conversion Price. The Company covenants that all Ordinary Shares that shall be so issuable shall, upon issue, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the purpose of this Section 4(c)(vi) is to ensure that Holder may effect Conversions of this Note from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and that the reservation of Ordinary Shares pursuant hereto is reasonable in light of the anticipated economic benefits expected by the Company and Holder from conversions of this Note by the Holder. The Company further understands that there are no limitations imposed by Holder on the Company’s ability to, any time, increase the number of its authorized and unissued Ordinary Shares and it is the sole responsibility of the Company to ensure that it has sufficient authorized and unissued Ordinary Shares to comply with its obligations hereunder, its obligations to the holders of other outstanding Convertible Securities and Options, and to take advantage of opportunities to raise capital from the sale of Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Share Equivalents. Accordingly, there shall be no presumption that Holder’s requirement that the Company adhere to this Section 4(c)(vi) causes Holder to have any control over the Company’s ability to dispose of authorized and unissued Ordinary Shares

 

vii. Fractional Shares. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the conversion of this Note. As to any fraction of a share which the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such conversion, the Company shall at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the Conversion Price or round up to the next whole share.

  

viii. Transfer Taxes and Expenses. The issuance of Conversion Shares on conversion of this Note shall be made without charge to the Holder hereof for any documentary stamp or similar taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of such Conversion Shares, provided that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any such Conversion Shares upon conversion in a name other than that of the Holder of this Note so converted and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such Conversion Shares unless or until the Person or Persons requesting the issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid. The Company shall pay all transfer agent fees required for same-day processing of any Notice of Conversion and all fees to the Depository Trust Company (or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions) required for same-day electronic delivery of the Conversion Shares.

 

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d) Holder’s Conversion Limitations. The Company shall not effect any conversion of this Note, and a Holder shall not have the right to convert any portion of this Note, to the extent that after giving effect to the conversion set forth on the applicable Notice of Conversion, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group together with the Holder or any of the Holder’s Affiliates (such Persons, “Attribution Parties”)) would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below). For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates and Attribution Parties shall include the number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of this Note with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of Ordinary Shares which would be issuable upon (i) conversion of the remaining, unconverted principal amount of this Note beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates or Attribution Parties and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein (including, without limitation, any other Notes) beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates or Attribution Parties.  Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 4(d), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of this Section 4(d), in determining the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares as reflected in (A) the Company’s most recent periodic or annual report filed with the Commission, as the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company, or (C) a more recent written notice by the Company or the Company’s transfer agent setting forth the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding.  Upon the reasonable written or oral request of a Holder, the Company shall within two Trading Days confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of Ordinary Shares then outstanding.  In any case, the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Note, by the Holder or its Affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding Ordinary Shares was reported. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 9.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of this Note. The Holder, upon notice to the Company, may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 4(d), provided that the Beneficial Ownership Limitation in no event exceeds 9.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of Ordinary Shares upon conversion of this Note held by the Holder and the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 4(d) shall continue to apply. Any increase in the Beneficial Ownership Limitation will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice is delivered to the Company. The Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 4(d) to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Beneficial Ownership Limitation contained herein or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor holder of this Note. Notwithstanding any provision of the Transaction Documents to the contrary, no amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Section 4(d), including this sentence, shall be effective until the 61st day after the date that such amendment, modification or waiver is executed by the Company and Holder. The Company agrees not to take any position that this Section 4(d) is not effective to limit the Holder’s “beneficial ownership” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of the Ordinary Shares as expressly provided herein.

 

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Section 5. Certain Adjustments.

 

a) Stock Dividends and Stock Splits. If the Company, at any time while this Note is outstanding: (i) pays a stock dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions payable in Ordinary Shares on Ordinary Shares or any Ordinary Share Equivalents (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any Ordinary Shares issued by the Company upon conversion of, or payment of interest on, the Note), (ii) subdivides outstanding Ordinary Shares into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of a reverse stock split) outstanding Ordinary Shares into a smaller number of shares or (iv) issues, in the event of a reclassification of Ordinary Shares, any shares of capital stock of the Company, then the Conversion Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of Ordinary Shares (excluding any treasury shares of the Company) outstanding immediately before such event, and of which the denominator shall be the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after such event. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or re-classification.

 

b) Intentionally Omitted.

 

c) Intentionally Omitted.

 

d) Pro Rata Distributions. During such time as this Note is outstanding, if the Company shall declare or make any dividend or other distribution of its assets (or rights to acquire its assets) to holders of Ordinary Shares, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including, without limitation, any distribution of cash, stock or other securities, property or options by way of a dividend, spin off, reclassification, corporate rearrangement, scheme of arrangement or other similar transaction) (a “Distribution”), at any time after the issuance of this Note, then, in each such case, the Holder shall be entitled to participate in such Distribution to the same extent that the Holder would have participated therein if the Holder had held the number of Ordinary Shares acquirable upon complete conversion of this Note at the Conversion Price then in effect (without regard to any limitations on conversion hereof, including without limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation or pursuant to Section 4(a)) immediately before the date of which a record is taken for such Distribution, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of Ordinary Shares are to be determined for the participation in such Distribution (provided, however, that, to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Distribution would result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Distribution to such extent (or in the beneficial ownership of any Ordinary Shares as a result of such Distribution to such extent) and the portion of such Distribution shall be held in abeyance for the benefit of the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).

 

e) Fundamental Transaction. The Company shall not enter into or be party to a Fundamental Transaction or a Change of Control Transaction at any time while this Note is outstanding.

 

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f) Calculations. All calculations under this Section 5 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be. For purposes of this Section 5, the number of Ordinary Shares deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of Ordinary Shares (excluding any treasury shares of the Company) issued and outstanding.

 

g) Notice to the Holder.

 

i. Adjustment to Conversion Price. Whenever the Conversion Price is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 5, the Company shall promptly deliver to each Holder a notice setting forth the Conversion Price after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.

 

ii. Notice to Allow Conversion by Holder. If (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Ordinary Shares, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Ordinary Shares, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Ordinary Shares of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any rights, (D) the approval of any stockholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the Ordinary Shares, any consolidation or merger to which the Company (and all of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole) is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the Ordinary Shares are converted into other securities, cash or property or (E) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company, then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of this Note, and shall cause to be delivered to the Holder at its last address as it shall appear upon the Note Register, at least sixty (60) Trading Days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of the Ordinary Shares of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the Ordinary Shares of record shall be entitled to exchange their Ordinary Shares for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange, provided that the failure to deliver such notice or any defect therein or in the delivery thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice. To the extent that any notice provided hereunder constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 6-K. For the avoidance of doubt, the Holder shall remain entitled to convert this Note during the 60 Trading Day period commencing on the date of such notice through the effective date of the event triggering such notice except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.

 

Section 7. Covenants. As long as any portion of this Note remains outstanding:

 

a) Other than Permitted Indebtedness, except with the prior written consent of the Holder, the Company shall not and shall cause its of its Subsidiaries to not enter into, create, incur, assume, guarantee or suffer to exist any Indebtedness of any kind, including, but not limited to, a guarantee of Indebtedness of any other Person, on or with respect to any of its property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired or any interest therein or any income or profits therefrom;

 

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b) Other than Permitted Liens, the Company shall not and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not enter into, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Liens of any kind, on or with respect to any of its property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired or any interest therein or any income or profits therefrom;

 

c) The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, redeem, defease, repurchase, repay or make any payments in respect of, by the payment of cash or cash equivalents (in whole or in part, whether by way of open market purchases, tender offers, private transactions or otherwise), all or any portion of any Indebtedness (other than the Note) whether by way of payment in respect of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, such Indebtedness. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and its Subsidiaries may make regularly scheduled payments of principal and interest with respect to Permitted Indebtedness, provided that when such payment is due or is otherwise made or, after giving effect to such payment, (i) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (ii) no event that with the passage of time the giving of notice or both would constitute an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

 

d) The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, redeem or repurchase any Ordinary Shares or other equity securities or declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution out of its capital;

 

e) The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, sell, lease, license, assign, transfer, spin-off, split-off, close, convey or otherwise dispose of any assets or rights of the Company or any Subsidiary owned or hereafter acquired whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, other than (i) sales of inventory and product in the ordinary course of business and (ii) other dispositions of tangible assets not exceeding $100,000 in the aggregate;

 

f) The Company shall not enter into any business, directly or indirectly, except for those businesses in which the Company is engaged on the date of this Note or that are reasonably related thereto;

 

g) The Company shall maintain and preserve, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve, its existence, rights and privileges, and become or remain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to become or remain, duly qualified and in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of the properties owned or leased by it or in which the transaction of its business makes such qualification necessary;

 

h) The Company shall maintain and preserve, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve, all of its properties which are necessary or useful in the proper conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, at all times with the provisions of all leases to which it is a party as lessee or under which it occupies property, so as to prevent any loss or forfeiture thereof or thereunder;

 

i) The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, take all action necessary or advisable to maintain all of the Intellectual Property Rights of the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries that are necessary or material to the conduct of its business in full force and effect;

  

j) The Company shall maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations (including, without limitation, comprehensive general liability, hazard, rent and business interruption insurance) with respect to its properties (including all real properties leased or owned by it) and business, in such amounts and covering such risks as is required by any governmental authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto or as is carried generally in accordance with sound business practice by companies in similar businesses similarly situated.

 

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k) The Company and its Subsidiaries shall pay when due all taxes, fees or other charges of any nature whatsoever (together with any related interest or penalties) now or hereafter imposed or assessed against the Company and its Subsidiaries or their respective assets or upon their ownership, possession, use, operation or disposition thereof or upon their rents, receipts or earnings arising therefrom (except where the failure to pay would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material effect on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries). The Company and its Subsidiaries shall file on or before the due date therefor all personal property tax returns (except where the failure to file would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material effect on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and its Subsidiaries may contest, in good faith and by appropriate proceedings, taxes for which they maintain adequate reserves therefor in accordance with GAAP;

 

l) The Company shall not and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not enter into any transaction with any Affiliate of the Company which would be required to be disclosed in any public filing with the Commission, unless such transaction is made on an arm’s-length basis and expressly approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company (even if less than a quorum otherwise required for board approval);

 

m) The Company shall and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply with all laws applicable to it and its business and its obligations under its contracts and agreements, in each case, in all material respects and (b) maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance in all material respects by the Company and its directors, officers, employees and agents with anti-corruption laws, anti-terrorism laws, and applicable sanctions;

 

n) The Company shall not and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not form, establish or acquire any New Subsidiary unless such New Subsidiary executes and delivers a Guaranty to the Holder in a form satisfactory to the Holder, promptly thereupon;

 

o) [Reserved]; and

 

p) On the Original Issue Date, subject to Section 4(d) above, the Company shall deliver to the Holder (or its designee), either by crediting to the Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with DTC through its Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian system, or by a duly executed stock certificate, evidencing such aggregate number of Ordinary Shares (the “Pre-Delivery Shares”) equal to no more than the maximum number of Pre-Delivery Shares that may be then issued to the Holder without resulting in a breach of Section 4(d) above (the “Initial Pre-Delivery Share Amount”). In addition, at any time after the Original Issue Date, to the extent that the number of Pre-Delivery Shares is less than 4.99% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares, the Company shall so notify the Holder, and Company, upon written request from Holder, issue to the Holder, upon one (1) Trading Day prior written notice, an additional number of Pre-Delivery Shares equal to the maximum number of Pre-Delivery Shares that may be then issued to the Holder without resulting in a breach of Section 4(d) above (the “Additional Pre-Delivery Share Amount”). All Pre-Delivery Shares shall be delivered free of restrictive legends and trading restrictions of any kind. At any time the Company is required to deliver Ordinary Shares to the Holder hereunder (other than Pre-Delivery Shares)(each such share, a “Delivery Share”), whether upon conversion or otherwise, and the Holder (or its designee) holds one or more Pre-Delivery Shares, the Holder shall apply (each, a “Delivery Share Application”) such Pre-Delivery Share, on a share for share basis, as available, against each share of Ordinary Shares required to then be delivered hereunder, at which point in time, such applied Pre-Delivery Share shall cease to be a Pre-Delivery Share hereunder and shall become a Delivery Share hereunder and, consequently, the Company shall be deemed to have satisfied its delivery obligations hereunder with respect to such Delivery Share pursuant to this Note. For the avoidance of doubt, at such time as this Note is no longer outstanding, any remaining Pre-Delivery Shares shall be returned to the Company.

 

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Section 8. Events of Default.

 

a) “Event of Default” means, wherever used herein, any of the following events (whatever the reason for such event and whether such event shall be voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court, or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

 

i. any default in the payment of (A) the Outstanding Value of this Note or any other Notes issued to holders pursuant to the Purchase Agreement or (B) with respect to any other amounts owing to a Holder on any Transaction Document, as and when the same shall become due and payable if not cured within 3 Trading Days;

 

ii. the Company shall fail to observe or perform any other covenant or agreement contained in the Note or in any Transaction Document, which failure is not cured, if possible to cure, within the specified cure period and if not specified, the earlier to occur of 5 Trading Days after (A) notice of such failure sent by a Holder to the Company and (B) the Company has become or should have become aware of such failure;

 

iii. any representation or warranty made in this Note, any other Transaction Documents, any written statement pursuant hereto or thereto or any other report, financial statement or certificate made or delivered to the Holder or any other Holder shall be untrue or incorrect in any material respect as of the date when made or deemed made;

 

iv. the Company or any Subsidiary shall be subject to a Bankruptcy Event;

 

v. the Company or any Subsidiary shall default on any of its obligations under any Indebtedness including but not limited to Indebtedness under any other Notes issued to holders pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, that (a) involves an obligation greater than $650,000, whether such Indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, and (b) results in such Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise become due and payable;

 

vi. the Company shall fail for any reason to deliver Freely Tradable Conversion Shares prior to the 3rd Trading Day after a Conversion Date pursuant to Section 4(c) or immediately if the Company shall provide at any time notice to the Holder, including by way of public announcement, of the Company’s intention to not honor requests for conversions of any Notes in accordance with the terms hereof; 

 

vii. the electronic transfer by the Company of Ordinary Shares through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation is no longer available or is subject to a “chill”;

 

viii. any material provision of any Transaction Document shall at any time for any reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against the Company or the applicable Subsidiary, the validity or enforceability thereof shall be contested by any party thereto, or a proceeding shall be commenced by the Company, any Subsidiary or any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any such Subsidiary, seeking to establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof;

 

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ix. any Material Adverse Effect occurs;

 

x. (x) the suspension from trading or the failure of the Ordinary Shares to be listed on a Trading Market for a period of 5 consecutive Trading Days or (y) the threatened failure of the Ordinary Shares to be listed on a Trading Market if such failure is not cured 90 Trading Days prior to the deadline set by such Trading Market.

 

b) Remedies Upon Event of Default. Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default and until 30 Trading Days after such Event of Default is cured (the “Event of Default Redemption Right Period”), this Note shall become, at the Holder’s election, immediately due and payable in cash at the Outstanding Value of this Note to be redeemed multiplied by (B) 120% (the “Event of Default Redemption Price”); provided that such acceleration shall be automatic, without any notice or other action of the Required Holders required, in respect of an Event of Default occurring pursuant to clause (iv) of Section 8(a). Commencing on the occurrence and continuance of any Event of Default, the interest rate on this Note shall be the greater of 15% and the maximum amount allowed by law. Interest shall accrue daily from the occurrence of an Event of Default and shall cease upon the cure of such same and shall be calculated based on a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Interest hereunder will be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered on the records of the Company regarding registration and transfers of this Note (the “Note Register”). Upon the payment in full of the amount owing set forth above, the Holder shall promptly surrender this Note to or as directed by the Company. In connection with such acceleration described herein, the Holder need not provide, and the Company hereby waives, any presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, and the Holder may immediately and without expiration of any grace period enforce any and all of its rights and remedies hereunder and all other remedies available to it under applicable law. Such acceleration may be rescinded and annulled by Holder at any time prior to payment hereunder and the Holder shall have all rights as a holder of the Note until such time, if any, as the Holder receives full payment pursuant to this Section 8(b). No such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. In addition, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8(a)(vi), the Holder shall be entitled to an amount in cash equal to the product of the undelivered Freely Tradable Conversion Shares that should have been delivered to the Holder pursuant to the applicable Conversion Notice but for such Event of Default multiplied by the prevailing traded price of the Conversion Shares at such time.

 

c) During the Event of Default Redemption Right Period, the Holder may effect conversions in accordance with Section 4, using the Event of Default Redemption Price and at a Conversion Price equal to the lesser of (x) the Conversion Price on the applicable Conversion Date and (y) the Conversion Price one Trading Day prior to the occurrence of such Event of Default.

 

d) Notice. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to this Note, the Company shall within one (1) Business Day deliver written notice thereof via electronic mail and overnight courier (with next day delivery specified) to the Holder.

 

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Section 9 Miscellaneous.

 

a) Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Holder hereunder, including, without limitation, any Notice of Conversion, shall be in writing and delivered personally, by email attachment, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service, addressed to the Company, at the address set forth above, or such other email address, or address as the Company may specify for such purposes by notice to the Holder delivered in accordance with this Section 9(a).  Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Company hereunder shall be in writing and delivered personally, by email attachment, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service addressed to each Holder at the email address or address of the Holder appearing on the books of the Company, or if no such email attachment or address appears on the books of the Company, at the principal place of business of such Holder, as set forth in the Purchase Agreement.  Any notice or other communication or deliveries hereunder shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via email attachment to the email address set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any date, (ii) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via email attachment to the email address set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (iii) the second Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (iv) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.

 

b) Absolute Obligation. Except as expressly provided herein, no provision of this Note shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, liquidated damages and accrued interest, as applicable, on this Note at the time, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. This Note is a direct debt obligation of the Company. This Note ranks pari passu with all other Notes now or hereafter issued under the terms set forth herein.

 

c) Lost or Mutilated Note. If this Note shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall execute and deliver, in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of a mutilated Note, or in lieu of or in substitution for a lost, stolen or destroyed Note, a new Note for the principal amount of this Note so mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, but only upon receipt of evidence of such loss, theft or destruction of such Note, and of the ownership hereof, reasonably satisfactory to the Company.

  

d) Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Note shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflict of laws thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretation, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by any of the Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective Affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan (the “New York Courts”). Each party hereto hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New York Courts for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of such New York Courts, or such New York Courts are improper or inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Note and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Note or the transactions contemplated hereby. If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Note, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its attorney’s fees and other costs and expenses incurred in the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

 

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e) Waiver. Any waiver by the Company or the Required Holders of a breach of any provision of this Note shall not operate as or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of this Note. The failure of the Company or the Required Holders to insist upon strict adherence to any term of this Note on one or more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive that party of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Note on any other occasion. Any waiver by the Company or the Required Holders must be in writing.

 

f) Severability. If any provision of this Note is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the balance of this Note shall remain in effect, and if any provision is inapplicable to any Person or circumstance, it shall nevertheless remain applicable to all other Persons and circumstances. If it shall be found that any interest or other amount deemed interest due hereunder violates the applicable law governing usury, the applicable rate of interest due hereunder shall automatically be lowered to equal the maximum rate of interest permitted under applicable law. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on this Note as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Note, and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefits or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Holder, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such as though no such law has been enacted.

 

g) Remedies, Characterizations, Other Obligations, Breaches and Injunctive Relief.  The remedies provided in this Note shall be cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this Note and any of the other Transaction Documents at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or other injunctive relief), and nothing herein shall limit the Holder’s right to pursue actual damages for any failure by the Company to comply with the terms of this Note. The Company covenants to the Holder that there shall be no characterization concerning this instrument other than as expressly provided herein. Amounts set forth or provided for herein with respect to payments, conversion and the like (and the computation thereof) shall be the amounts to be received by the Holder and shall not, except as expressly provided herein, be subject to any other obligation of the Company (or the performance thereof). The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to the Holder and that the remedy at law for any such breach may be inadequate. The Company therefore agrees that, in the event of any such breach or threatened breach, the Holder shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an injunction restraining any such breach or any such threatened breach, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required. The Company shall provide all information and documentation to the Holder that is reasonably requested by the Holder to enable the Holder to confirm the Company’s compliance with the terms and conditions of this Note.

 

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h) Next Business Day. Whenever any payment or other obligation hereunder shall be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

i) Headings. The headings contained herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Note and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

j) Amendment. No provision of this Note may be modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed by the Company and the Required Holders; provided that no such modification, supplementation or amendment unreasonably impairs the rights of the Holder under this Note.

 

k) Construction. The parties agree that each and every reference to Conversion Price and Conversion Shares in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Conversion Shares that occur after the date hereof.

 

Section 10. Disclosure. Upon receipt or delivery by the Company of any notice in accordance with the terms of this Note, in the event that the Company believes that such notice contains material, non-public information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries, the Company shall so indicate in such notice that it contains material, non-public information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries and, simultaneously with the delivery of such notice to the Holder, the Company shall publicly disclose the contents of such notice in a Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the Commission. If the Company does not indicate to the Holder with delivery of such notice that it contains material, non-public information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries, the Holder shall be allowed to presume that all matters set forth in such notice do not constitute material, nonpublic information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries.

 

Section 11. Certain Tax Matters. All payments to be made by the Company under this Note (whether in cash or on Ordinary Shares) shall be made without any Tax Deduction (as defined below) unless a Tax Deduction is required by law. The Company shall promptly upon becoming aware that it must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) notify the Holder accordingly. If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by the Company, the amount of the payment due from the Company under this Note shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due under this Note if no Tax Deduction had been required. If the Company is required to make a Tax Deduction, it shall make that Tax Deduction and any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law. Within thirty 30 days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Company shall deliver to the Holder evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Holder that the Tax Deduction has been made and that any appropriate payment has been paid to the relevant taxing authority. For greater certainty, (i) this Section 11 applies to all payments, whether in the form of cash, Ordinary Shares or otherwise, made under this Note, and (ii) the Company is obligated to indemnify the Holder pursuant to this Section 11 in the event that a Tax Deduction is required in respect of any payment to be made to the Holder under this Note and the company and/or its subsidiaries fail to comply with this Section 11. For purposes of this Section 11, “Tax” means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same) and “Tax Deduction” means any deduction or withholding for or on account of any Tax. 

 

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(Signature Page Follows)

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed by a duly authorized officer as of the date first above indicated.

 

  WANG & LEE GROUP, INC.
     
  By:  
  Name: Pui Lung HO
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

  

 

 

 

ANNEX A

 

NOTICE OF CONVERSION

  

The undersigned hereby elects to convert principal under the Senior Convertible Note due March 9, 2026 of WANG & LEE Group, Inc., a British Virgin Islands holding company, having its principal place of business at 5-6/F, Wing Tai Factory Building, 3 Tai Yip Street, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong (the “Company”), into shares of ordinary shares (the “Ordinary Shares”), of the Company according to the conditions hereof, as of the date written below. If shares of Ordinary Shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto and is delivering herewith such certificates and opinions as reasonably requested by the Company in accordance therewith. No fee will be charged to the holder for any conversion, except for such transfer taxes, if any.

 

By the delivery of this Notice of Conversion the undersigned represents and warrants to the Company that its ownership of the Ordinary Shares does not exceed the amounts specified under Section 4 of this Note, as determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act.

 

The undersigned agrees to comply with the prospectus delivery requirements under the applicable securities laws in connection with any transfer of the aforesaid shares of Ordinary Shares.

 

Conversion calculations:

 

Conversion Date:

 

Principal Amount of Note to be Converted:

 

Aggregate accrued and unpaid Interest with respect to such portion of the Principal Amount to be converted:

 

Aggregate Conversion Amount to be converted:

 

Conversion Price:

 

Number of shares of Ordinary Shares to be issued:

 

Signature:

 

Name:

 

Address for Delivery of Ordinary Shares Certificates:

 

  Or  
     
  DWAC Instructions:  
       
  Broker No:    

  

 

 

 

Exhibit 5.1

 

 

Our ref: ANQ/793463-000009/40550036v1

 

Wang & Lee Group Inc.

Kingston Chambers

P.O. Box 173

Road Town, Tortola

British Virgin Islands

 

9 June 2025

 

Dear Sirs

 

Wang & Lee Group, Inc. (the “Company”)

 

We have acted as counsel as to British Virgin Islands law to the Company in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-281859) initially filed 30 August 2024, as amended (the “Base Prospectus”) and the prospectus supplement dated on or about the date hereof (the Base Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement are together, the “Registration Statement”) including all amendments or supplements thereto, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) for the purposes of registering with the Commission under the Securities Act, the offering and sale of:

 

  (a) senior convertible notes due August 2029 with an aggregate principal value of US$8,000,000 and convertible into ordinary shares of no par value each in the Company; and
     
  (b) ordinary shares of no par value each in the Company from time to time on conversion of the Notes (the “Ordinary Shares”).

 

This opinion letter is given in accordance with the terms of the Legal Matters section of the Registration Statement.

 

 

 
 

 

1Documents Reviewed

 

We have reviewed originals, copies, drafts or conformed copies of the following documents:

 

1.1 The public records of the Company on file and available for public inspection at the Registry of Corporate Affairs in the British Virgin Islands (the “Registry of Corporate Affairs”) on 6 June 2025, including the Company’s certificate of incorporation and the memorandum and articles of association of the Company registered on 20 June 2022 (the “Memorandum and Articles”).
   
1.2 A list of the Company’s directors provided by the Registry of Corporate Affairs dated 29 May 2025 (the “Registry List of Directors”).
   
1.3 The records of proceedings available from a search of the electronic records maintained on the Judicial Enforcement Management System and the E-Litigation Portal from 1 January 2000 and available for inspection on 6 June 2025 at the British Virgin Islands High Court Registry (the “High Court Registry”).
   
1.4 The written resolutions of the board of directors of the Company dated 29 May 2025.
   
1.5 A Certificate of Incumbency dated 28 May 2025, issued by Maples Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, the Company’s registered agent (the “Registered Agent’s Certificate”).
   
1.6 A certificate of good standing with respect to the Company issued by the Registrar of Corporate Affairs dated 28 May 2025 (the “Certificate of Good Standing”).
   
1.7 A certificate from a director of the Company (the “Director’s Certificate”) (a copy of which is appended to this opinion at Appendix A).
   
1.8 The Registration Statement.
   
1.9 The securities purchase agreement dated 6 June 2025 and entered into between the Company and each Buyer identified on the signature page thereto thereto (each a “Buyer”) (the “SPA”).
   
1.10 The proposed form of a senior convertible note due 29 August 2025 proposed to be entered into by the Company and each Buyer (each a “Note”, together the “Notes”).

 

The documents listed in paragraphs 1.9 and 1.10 above shall be referred to collectively herein as the “Documents”.

 

2Assumptions

 

The following opinions are given only as to, and based on, circumstances and matters of fact existing and known to us on the date of this opinion letter. These opinions only relate to the laws of the British Virgin Islands which are in force on the date of this opinion letter. In giving the following opinions we have relied (without further verification) upon the completeness and accuracy, as at the date of this opinion letter, of the Registry List of Directors, Registered Agent’s Certificate, the Director’s Certificate and the Certificate of Good Standing. We have also relied upon the following assumptions, which we have not independently verified:

 

2.1 The Documents have been or will be authorised and duly executed and unconditionally delivered by or on behalf of all relevant parties in accordance with all relevant laws (other than, with respect to the Company, the laws of the British Virgin Islands).
   
2.2 The Documents are, or will be, legal, valid, binding and enforceable against all relevant parties in accordance with their terms under the laws of the State of New York (the “Relevant Law”) and all other relevant laws (other than, with respect to the Company, the laws of the British Virgin Islands).

 

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2.3 The choice of the Relevant Law as the governing law of the Documents has been made in good faith and would be regarded as a valid and binding selection which will be upheld by the courts of the State of New York and any other relevant jurisdiction (other than the British Virgin Islands) as a matter of the Relevant Law and all other relevant laws (other than the laws of the British Virgin Islands).
   
2.4 Copies of documents, conformed copies or drafts of documents provided to us are true and complete copies of, or in the final forms of, the originals.
   
2.5 All signatures, initials and seals are genuine.
   
2.6 The capacity, power, authority and legal right of all parties under all relevant laws and regulations (other than, with respect to the Company, the laws and regulations of the British Virgin Islands) to enter into, execute, unconditionally deliver and perform their respective obligations under the Documents.
   
2.7 That all public records of the Company which we have examined are accurate and that the information disclosed by the searches which we conducted against the Company at the Registry of Corporate Affairs and the High Court Registry is true and complete and that such information has not since then been altered and that such searches did not fail to disclose any information which had been delivered for registration but did not appear on the public records at the date of our searches.
   
2.8 No invitation has been or will be made by or on behalf of the Company to the public in the British Virgin Islands to subscribe for any of the Ordinary Shares.
   
2.9 There is no contractual or other prohibition or restriction (other than as arising under British Virgin Islands law) binding on the Company prohibiting or restricting it from entering into and performing its obligations under the Documents and the Registration Statement.
   
2.10 No monies paid to or for the account of any party under the Documents or any property received or disposed of by any party to the Documents in each case in connection with the Documents or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby represent or will represent proceeds of criminal conduct or criminal property or terrorist property (as defined in the Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act (As Revised)).
   
2.11 There is nothing contained in the minute book or corporate records of the Company (which we have not inspected) which would or might affect the opinions set out below.
   
2.12 The Company will receive or has received, cash consideration or non-cash consideration in consideration for the issue of the Ordinary Shares and none of the Ordinary Shares were, or will be, issued for less than par value.
   
2.13 The Company will have sufficient authorised and unissued shares under the Memorandum and Articles at the time any Ordinary Shares were or are issued.
   
2.14 The Notes are, or will be, issued and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of a duly authorised, executed and delivered SPA.

 

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2.15 At the time of the conversion of the Notes into Ordinary Shares in accordance with the terms and provisions of the applicable Documents and the Registration Statement (the “Conversion”):

 

  (a) the laws of the British Virgin Islands (including the Act (as defined below)) will not have changed in such way as to materially impact the Conversion;
     
  (b) the Company will have sufficient authorised but unissued Ordinary Shares to effect the Conversion in accordance with the Documents and the Memorandum and Articles and the Act;
     
  (c) the Company will not have been struck off or placed in liquidation;
     
  (d) the issue price for each Ordinary Share issued upon Conversion will not be less than the par value of such share; and
     
  (e) the terms and provisions of the Documents relating to the Conversion and the terms of the Memorandum and Articles will not have been altered, amended or restated or subject to any adjustment.

 

2.16 The Ordinary Shares that will be issued pursuant to the Documents will be duly registered, and will continue to be registered, in the Company’s register of members.
   
2.17 There is nothing under any law (other than the laws of the British Virgin Islands) which would or might affect the opinions set out below. We have not made any investigation of the laws, rules or regulations of any jurisdiction other than the laws of the British Virgin Islands.

 

Save as aforesaid we have not been instructed to undertake and have not undertaken any further enquiry or due diligence in relation to the transaction the subject of this opinion.

 

3Opinions

 

Based upon, and subject to, the foregoing assumptions and the qualifications set out below, and having regard to such legal considerations as we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that:

 

3.1 The Company is a company limited by shares incorporated with limited liability under the BVI Business Companies Act (As Revised) (the “Act”), is in good standing at the Registry of Corporate Affairs and is validly existing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands.
   
3.2 With respect to the Notes to be issued pursuant to the SPA, when (a) the board of directors of the Company has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issue thereof, the terms of the offering thereof and related matters; and (b) such Notes issued thereunder have been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Company and authenticated in the manner set forth in the relevant SPA relating to such issue of Notes and delivered against due payment therefor pursuant to, and in accordance with, the terms of the Registration Statement and any relevant prospectus supplement, such Notes issued pursuant to the relevant SPA will have been duly executed, issued and delivered
   
3.3 With respect to the Ordinary Shares to be offered and issued by the Company upon conversion of the Notes as contemplated by the Documents and the Registration Statement when: (a) the board of directors of the Company has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issue thereof, the terms of the offering thereof and related matters; (b) the issue of such Ordinary Shares have been recorded in the Company’s register of members; and (c) the subscription price of such Ordinary Shares have been fully paid in cash or other consideration approved by the board of directors of the Company, the Ordinary Shares will be duly authorised, validly issued, fully-paid and non-assessable. As a matter of British Virgin Islands law, a share is only issued when it has been entered in the register of members.

 

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4 Qualifications

 

The opinions expressed above are subject to the following qualifications:

 

4.1The obligations assumed by the Company under the Documents will not necessarily be enforceable in all circumstances in accordance with their terms. In particular:

 

  (a) enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganisation, readjustment of debts or moratorium or other laws of general application relating to or affecting the rights of creditors;
     
  (b) enforcement may be limited by general principles of equity. For example, equitable remedies such as specific performance may not be available, inter alia, where damages are considered to be an adequate remedy;
     
  (c) where obligations are to be performed in a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands, they may not be enforceable in the British Virgin Islands to the extent that performance would be illegal under the laws of that jurisdiction; and
     
  (d) some claims may become barred under relevant statutes of limitation or may be or become subject to defences of set off, counterclaim, estoppel and similar defences.

 

4.2 To maintain the Company in good standing with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, annual filing fees must be paid and returns made to the Registrar of Corporate Affairs within the time frame prescribed by law.
   
4.3 Under British Virgin Islands law, the register of members is prima facie evidence of title to shares and this register would not record a third party interest in such shares. However, there are certain limited circumstances where an application may be made to a British Virgin Islands court for a determination on whether the register of members reflects the correct legal position. Further, the British Virgin Islands court has the power to order that the register of members maintained by a company should be rectified where it considers that the register of members does not reflect the correct legal position. For the purposes of the opinion given in paragraph 3.13, there are no circumstances or matters of fact known to us on the date of this opinion letter which would properly form the basis for an application for an order for rectification of the register of members of the Company, but if such an application were made in respect of the Ordinary Shares, then the validity of such shares may be subject to re-examination by a British Virgin Islands court.
   
4.4 Except as specifically stated herein, we make no comment with respect to any representations and warranties which may be made by or with respect to the Company in any of the documents or instruments cited in this opinion or otherwise with respect to the commercial terms of the transactions the subject of this opinion.
   
4.5 In this opinion letter, the phrase “non-assessable” means, with respect to the issuance of shares, that a shareholder shall not, in respect of the relevant shares and in the absence of a contractual arrangement, or an obligation pursuant to the memorandum and articles of association, to the contrary, have any obligation to make further contributions to the Company’s assets (except in exceptional circumstances, such as involving fraud, the establishment of an agency relationship or an illegal or improper purpose or other circumstances in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil).
   
4.6 The search of records of proceedings available at the High Court Registry would not reveal any proceeding which has been placed under seal or anonymised (whether by order of the Court or pursuant to the practice of the High Court Registry).

 

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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm under the heading “Legal Matters” in the Registration Statement. In providing our consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

We express no view as to the commercial terms of the Documents or whether such terms represent the intentions of the parties and make no comment with regard to warranties or representations that may be made by the Company.

 

The opinions in this opinion letter are strictly limited to the matters contained in the opinions section above and do not extend to any other matters. We have not been asked to review and we therefore have not reviewed any of the ancillary documents relating to the Documents and express no opinion or observation upon the terms of any such document.

 

This opinion is addressed to you and may be relied upon by you, your counsel and purchasers of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement. This opinion is limited to the matters detailed herein and is not to be read as an opinion with respect to any other matter.

 

Yours faithfully  
   
/s/ Maples and Calder  
Maples and Calder  

 

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Appendix A

 

Director’s Certificate

 

To: Maples and Calder
  5th Floor, Ritter House
  PO Box 173
  Road Town
  Tortola
  British Virgin Islands

 

9 June 2025

 

Wang & Lee Group, Inc. (the “Company”)

 

I, the undersigned, being a director of the Company, am aware that you are being asked to provide a legal opinion in relation to certain aspects of British Virgin Islands law (the “Opinion”). Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms used in this certificate have the meaning given to them in the Opinion. I hereby certify that:

 

1 The Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company registered on 20 June 2022 remain in full force and effect and are unamended.
   
2 The director resolutions dated 29 May 2025 (the “Written Resolutions”) were duly passed in the manner prescribed in the Memorandum and Articles (including, without limitation, with respect to the disclosure of interests (if any) by directors of the Company). The Written Resolutions have not been amended, varied or revoked in any respect and the directors of the Company have not restricted or limited the powers of any future directors of the Company in any way.
   
3 The Company is authorised to issue an unlimited number of no par value shares of a single class.
   
4 Immediately prior to the issuance of any the Ordinary Shares, the Company will have sufficient authorised but unissued shares in order for Ordinary Shares to be issued as contemplated by the Registration Statement.
   
5 The shareholders of the Company (the “Shareholders”) have not restricted or limited the powers of the directors of the Company in any way.
   
6 The directors of the Company at the date of the Written Resolutions and at the date of this certificate were and are Pui Lung Ho, Olivia Sarah Annabel Marion Serre, Juan Ruiz-Coello, Chun Yip, Edmund Chan and Wood Shing Kei Sze.
   
7 The minute book and corporate records of the Company as maintained at its registered office in the British Virgin Islands and on which the Registered Agent’s Certificate were prepared are complete and accurate in all material respects, and all minutes and resolutions filed therein represent a complete and accurate record of all meetings of the members and directors (or any committee thereof) (duly convened in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles) and all resolutions passed at the meetings, or passed by written resolution or consent, as the case may be.

 

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8 The Company has not created any charges over any of its property or assets.
   
9 Prior to, at the time of, and immediately following approval of the transactions the subject of the Registration Statement the Company was, or will be, able to pay its debts as they fell, or fall, due, and the transactions to which the Documents and the Registration Statement relate will not cause the Company to become unable to pay its debts as they fall due. The Company has entered, or will enter, into the transactions the subject of the Documents and the Registration Statement for proper value, not with an intention to defraud or wilfully defeat an obligation owed to any creditor and the transactions contemplated thereby do not and will not give any creditor an unfair preference.
   
10 Each director of the Company considers the entry by the Company into the transactions as contemplated by the Registration Statement to be of commercial benefit to the Company and has acted in good faith in the best interests of the Company, and for a proper purpose of the Company, in relation to the transactions which are the subject of the Opinion.
   
11 Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (if any) has an interest in any land in the British Virgin Islands.
   
12 To the best of my knowledge and belief, having made due inquiry, the Company is not the subject of legal, arbitral, administrative or other proceedings in any jurisdiction. Nor have the Directors and/or the Shareholders taken any steps to have the Company struck off or placed in liquidation, nor have any steps been taken to wind up the Company. Nor has any receiver been appointed over any of the Company’s property or assets.
   
13 The Company has at no time had employees.
   
14 No invitation has been made or will be made by or on behalf of the Company to the public in the British Virgin Islands to subscribe for any of the Ordinary Shares.
   
15 To the best of my knowledge and belief, having made due inquiry, there are no circumstances or matters of fact existing which may properly form the basis for an application for an order for rectification of the register of members of the Company.
   
16 The Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to the Registration Statement and the Documents have been, or will be, duly registered, and will continue to be registered, in the Company’s register of members.
   
17 The Company is not a central bank, monetary authority or other sovereign entity of any state and is not a subsidiary, direct or indirect, of any sovereign entity or state.
   
18 There is no contractual or other prohibition or restriction (other than as arising under British Virgin Islands law) binding on the Company prohibiting or restricting it from entering into and performing its obligations under the Registration Statement and the Documents.

 

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I confirm that you may continue to rely on this certificate as being true and correct on the day that you issue the Opinion, unless I shall have previously notified you in writing personally to the contrary.

 

Signature: /s/ Pui Lung HO  
     
Name: Pui Lung HO  
     
Title: Director  

 

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Exhibit 10.1

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of June 9, 2025, between WANG & LEE GROUP, Inc., a British Virgin Islands holding company, having its principal place of business at 5-6/F, Wing Tai Factory Building, 3 Tai Yip Street, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong (the “Company”), and each buyer identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a “Buyer” and collectively, the “Buyers”).

 

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company securities of the Company as more fully described in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Buyer agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS

 

1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement: (a) capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Notes (as defined herein), and (b) the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

 

Action” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(j).

 

Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

Board of Directors” means the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Company.

 

Business Day” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.

 

Buyer Party” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.9.

 

Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Notes pursuant to Section 2.1.

 

Closing Date” means the Trading Day on which all the Transaction Documents referred to in Section 2.2 have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

 

 

 

Company British Virgin Islands Counsel” means Maples and Calder.

 

Company U.S. Counsel” means Loeb & Loeb LLP.

 

Conversion Shares” means the Ordinary Shares issued, or issuable, pursuant to the terms of the Notes, including all Pre- Delivery Shares issued or issuable pursuant to the Note.

 

Convertible Securities” means any share or other security (other than Options) that is at any time and under any circumstances, directly or indirectly, convertible into, exercisable or exchangeable for, or which otherwise entitles the holder thereof to acquire, any Ordinary Shares.

 

Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, any of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership, membership or profit interests in) such Person, any of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership, membership or profit interests in) such Person, any of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership, membership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and any of the other ownership, membership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination.

 

Evaluation Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(y).

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles, applied on a consistent basis, as set forth in statements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

 

Governmental Authority” means any nation, state, county, city, town, village, district, or other political jurisdiction of any nature, federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, or other government, governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental agency, branch, department, official, or entity and any court or other tribunal), multi-national organization or body; or body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory, or taxing authority or power of any nature or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, including any entity or enterprise owned or controlled by a government or a public international organization or any of the foregoing.

 

Guarantor” means each Subsidiary of the Company.

 

Guaranty” means a guaranty of the Notes executed by the Guarantors in a form acceptable to the Buyers.

 

Indebtedness” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.

 

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Intellectual Property Rights” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(n).

 

Issuance Failure” means the failure of the Company to issue Conversion Shares in accordance with the terms of the Note.

 

IT Systems and Data” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(aa).

 

Lien” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.

 

Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(b).

 

Maximum Rate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.16.

 

Money Laundering Laws” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(x).

 

Notes” means the Senior Convertible Notes due, subject to the terms therein, nine (9) months after the issuance thereof at the Closing, provided that the Required Holders may, in their sole discretion, extend the Maturity Date, on one occasion, by up to an additional six (6) months by delivering written notice to the Company no earlier than the thirtieth (30) day, but no later than the fifth (5th) day, prior to the Maturity Date, issued and sold by the Company to the Buyers pursuant to this Agreement at each of the Closing, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

Notice Deadline” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.8(b).

 

Operating Documents” means, for any Person, such Person’s formation documents, as certified by the Secretary of State (or equivalent agency) of such Person’s jurisdiction of formation, organization or incorporation on a date that is no earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date and, (a) if such Person is a corporation, its bylaws or Articles of Association in current form, (b) if such Person is a limited liability company, its limited liability company agreement or operating agreement (or similar agreement), and (c) if such Person is a partnership, its partnership agreement (or similar agreement), each of the foregoing with all current amendments, restatements and modifications thereto.

 

Options” means any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase Ordinary Shares or Convertible Securities.

 

Ordinary Shares” means the ordinary shares of the Company with no par value, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

 

Participation Maximum” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.8(a).

 

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Participation Notice” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.8(b).

 

Permits” means all permits, licenses, registrations, certificates, orders, approvals, authorizations, consents, waivers, franchises, variances and similar rights issued by or obtained from any Governmental Authority.

 

Permitted Liens” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.

 

Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

 

Pre-Notice” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.8(b)(i).

 

Pre- Delivery Shares” has the meaning set forth in the Notes.

 

Principal Amount” means, as to each Buyer, the amounts set forth below such Buyer’s signature block on the signature pages hereto next to the heading “Principal Amount,” which shall equal $8,000,000 for all of the Notes.

 

Principal Market” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.

 

Pro Rata Portion” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.8(a).

 

Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.

 

Prospectus” means the base prospectus included in the Registration Statement.

 

Prospectus Supplement” means the supplement to the Prospectus complying with Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act that is filed with the Commission and delivered by the Company to each Buyer at the Closing for the offer and sale of the Notes and the Conversion Shares.

 

Registration Statement” means the effective registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-281859) initially filed with Commission on August 30, 2024, including all information, documents and exhibits filed with or incorporated by reference into such registration statement, which registers the sale of the Securities to the Buyers.

 

Required Approvals” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(e).

 

Responsible Officer” means with respect to any Person, any of the Chief Executive Officer, President or Chief Financial Officer of such Person. Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference to a Responsible Officer herein shall be a reference to a Responsible Officer of Borrower.

 

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Required Holders” means (i) prior to the Closing Date, each Buyer entitled to purchase Notes at the Closing and (ii) after the Closing Date, (x) Alto Opportunity Master Fund, SPC - Segregated Master Portfolio B, so long as Alto Opportunity Master Fund, SPC - Segregated Master Portfolio B holds any Securities, or (y) otherwise,  holders of a majority of the Securities outstanding as of such time (excluding any Securities held by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as of such time).

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such Rule.

 

Rule 424” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

SEC Reports” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(h).

 

Securities” means the Notes and the Conversion Shares.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Subscription Amount” means, as to each Buyer, the aggregate amount to be paid for Securities purchased hereunder as specified below such Buyer’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount” in immediately available funds. The “Subscription Amount” for the Notes shall be $4,000,000.

 

Subsequent Placement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.8(a).

 

Subsequent Placement Notice” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.8(b).

 

Subsidiaries” and “Subsidiary” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.

 

Trading Day” shall have the meaning assigned such term in the Notes.

 

Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, and all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed by the Company or any Guarantor in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

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ARTICLE II.

PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1 Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell the Notes, in the aggregate principal amount of $8,000,000. On the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver to each Buyer its respective Note, and the Company and each Buyer shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing, including a delivery, via wire transfer, of immediately available funds equal to such Buyer’s Subscription Amount for the Closing as set forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Buyer. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur on the Closing Date by the exchange of documents by facsimile, pdf or other electronic means. The Company covenants that, if the Buyer delivers a Notice of Conversion (as defined in the Notes) to convert the Notes between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver Conversion Shares to such Buyer on the Closing Date in connection with such Notice of Conversion. Additionally, in the event that the Closing Date is not on or before the 1st Trading Day following the date hereof, thereafter and prior to the Closing Date each Buyer in its sole discretion and by written notice to the Company (each such notice, an “Advanced Closing Notice”), may elect to purchase, in lieu of some or any portion of the Notes, the Conversion Shares underlying such Notes (or applicable portion thereof) otherwise issuable hereunder at the Closing at the Conversion Price (such Conversion Shares, “Advanced Conversion Shares”); provided, however, that, to the extent that the Advanced Conversion Shares issuable in connection with an Advanced Closing Notice would other cause a Buyer (together with such Buyer’s Affiliates, and any Person acting as a group together with such Buyer or any of such Buyer’s Affiliates) to beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below), such Advanced Closing Notice shall be automatically and without further action by the Company or the Buyer be reduced such that the Advanced Conversion Shares issuable to such Buyer do not exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 9.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding. Upon receipt of an Advance Closing Notice, the Buyer shall deliver the applicable Subscription Amount and the Company shall deliver the applicable Advanced Conversion Shares on the 1st Trading Day following receipt of the Advanced Closing Notice. Delivery of the Advanced Conversion Shares shall otherwise be made pursuant to terms of the Notes.

 

2.2 Deliveries.

 

(i) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Buyer the following:

 

1. this Agreement and each other Transaction Document, duly executed by the Company and/or Guarantors, as applicable;

 

2. a certificate of good standing of the Company issued by the Registry of Corporate Affairs in the British Virgin Islands;

 

3. an ink-original Note registered in the name of such Buyer in accordance with its Principal Amount for the Closing;

 

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4. a Guaranty duly executed by the applicable Guarantor of the Company;

 

5. legal opinions of Company British Virgin Islands Counsel and Company U.S. Counsel, in each case, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to such Buyer; and

 

6. the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement (which may be delivered in accordance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).

 

(ii) On or prior to the Closing Date, each Buyer shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company the following:

 

1. this Agreement duly executed by such Buyer; and

 

2. such Buyer’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified in writing by the Company.

 

2.3 Closing Conditions.

 

(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i) the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Buyers contained herein (except to the extent expressly made as of a specific date, in which case they shall be accurate in all material respects as of such date);

 

(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of each Buyer required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

 

(iii) the delivery by each Buyer of the items set forth in Section 2.2 as applicable.

 

(b) The respective obligations of the Buyers hereunder in connection with the Closing Date are subject to the following conditions being met or waived in the Buyers’ sole and absolute discretion:

 

(i) the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein, provided that, the representations and warranties of the Company that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect shall be accurate in all respects when made and on such date, in both cases except to the extent expressly made as of a specific date, in which case they shall be accurate in all material respects or all respects, as applicable, as of such date;

 

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(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

 

(iii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2, as applicable;

 

(iv) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date of this Agreement

 

(v) there shall have been no event or circumstance that would constitute an “Event of Default” under the Notes or that would with passage of time, the giving of notice or both become an “Event of Default” under the Notes;

 

(vi) the Company shall have delivered, an ink-original Note registered in the name of such Buyer in accordance with its Principal Amount for the Closing;

 

(vii) from the date of this Agreement to the Closing Date, trading in the Ordinary Shares shall not have been suspended or halted by the Principal Market or the Commission (nor shall such suspension or halt be threatened by the Principal Market or the Commission, including but not limited, receipt by the Company of any notice of non-compliance with maintenance requirements by the Principal Market) and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on the Principal Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of such Buyer, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Notes at the Closing;

 

(viii) the Company is in compliance with the maintenance and listing requirements required by the Principal Market, is in compliance with all filing obligations required by law or regulation, and to the Company’s knowledge, is reasonably expected to remain in compliance through the twelve (12) month anniversary of the Closing Date and the Company may issue Conversion Shares pursuant to the terms of the Notes without violating any rules or regulations of the Principal Market;

 

(ix) the Company is, and reasonably expects to remain for the foreseeable future, a “foreign private issuer” as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act;

 

(x) the Company is not in possession of any material, non-public information regarding itself that has not been publicly disclosed at least five (5) days prior to the Closing Date; and

 

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(xi) the Company shall have delivered to the Buyers the number of Pre-Delivery Shares (as defined in the Notes) required to be delivered to each such Buyer pursuant to the Notes.

 

ARTICLE III.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company. the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:

 

(a) Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect Subsidiaries of the Company are set forth in the SEC Reports. The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the share capital or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens, options or warrants, and all of the issued and outstanding share capital of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities.

 

(b) Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its respective constitution, memorandum and articles of association, certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, would not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform or pay in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii), or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.

 

(c) Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further authorization, approval or action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s shareholders in connection herewith or therewith. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, administration, judicial management and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies, and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

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(d) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s constitution, memorandum and articles of association, certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien (other than pursuant to the Transaction Documents) upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the receipt of the Required Approvals,  conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of the Principal Market, or any court or Governmental Authority, Principal Market, to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as would not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e) Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other foreign, federal, state, local or other Governmental Authority in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than: (i) the filing with the Commission of the Prospectus Supplement, (ii) notification to the Principal Market for the listing of the Conversion Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iii) such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities laws or the rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (collectively, the “Required Approvals”). The Company is not aware of any circumstances that given the passage of time would result in the Company not being able to obtain the Required Approvals and has no knowledge of any violation of the requirements of the Principal Market that would result in a delisting or suspension of the Ordinary Shares in the foreseeable future. 

 

(f) Issuance of the Securities; Registration. The Notes are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued free and clear of all Liens. The Conversion Shares are duly authorized and, when issued in accordance with the Notes shall be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens, preemptive or similar rights, defects, claims, charges, taxes and rights of first refusal. The Company has prepared and filed the Registration Statement in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, which became effective on January 27, 2025, including the Prospectus, and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have been required to the date of this Agreement. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission. The Company shall file the Prospectus Supplement with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b). At the time the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto became effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at the Closing Date, conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

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(g) Capitalization. The Company is authorized to issue unlimited number of Ordinary Shares, no par value per share. The capitalization of the Company is substantially as set forth in the SEC Reports. The Company has 31,752,885 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of the date hereof. The Company has not issued any share capital since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee share options under the Company’s stock incentive plans, the issuance of Ordinary Shares to employees or consultants pursuant to the Company’s stock incentive plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Options or Convertible Securities outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire any Ordinary Shares, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional Ordinary Shares, Options or Convertible Securities. The issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue Ordinary Shares or other securities to any Person (other than the Buyers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any Subsidiary with any provision that adjusts the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price of such security or instrument upon an issuance of securities by the Company or any Subsidiary. There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any Subsidiary that contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company or such Subsidiary. The Company does not have any stock appreciation rights or “phantom stock” plans or agreements or any similar plan or agreement. All of the outstanding shares of share capital of the Company are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance with all applicable foreign, federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any shareholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. There are no shareholders’ agreements, or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s share capital to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

  

(h) SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof (the foregoing materials filed prior to the date hereof, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has qualified for a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company is not currently, and has never been, an issuer subject to paragraph (i) of Rule 144 such that resales pursuant to Rule 144 are unavailable. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

 

(i) Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since the date of the latest financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its shareholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its share capital, and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the issuance of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement, to the knowledge of the Company, no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, properties, operations, assets or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least one (1) Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is made.

 

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(j) Litigation. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, there is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation of any nature pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, the Principal Market, governmental or administrative agency, regulatory authority or self-regulatory organization (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “Action”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities, or (ii) would have, or would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Company, any Subsidiary, or any current director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty. There has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by a Governmental Authority involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company. The Commission has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act.

 

(k) Compliance. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any applicable judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator, Principal Market, governmental or administrative agency, regulatory authority, self-regulatory organization (federal, state, county, local or foreign) or other Governmental Authority, or (iii) is or has been in violation of any applicable statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any Governmental Authority, including without limitation all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, bribery and corruption, occupational health and safety, product quality and safety, employment and labor matters, employee benefits and laws related to the protection of the environment, except, in each case of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(l) Regulatory Permits. The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all Permits necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except where the failure to possess such Permits would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Permit.

 

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(m) Title to Assets. The Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for (i) Permitted Liens, (ii) Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries, and (iii) Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, for which appropriate reserves have been made therefor in accordance with GAAP and, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance, except as would not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(n) Intellectual Property. To the knowledge of the Company, the Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights as described in the SEC Reports as necessary or required for use in connection with their respective businesses and which the failure to so have would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). None of the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a written notice that any of the Intellectual Property Rights has expired, terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be abandoned, within two years from the date of this Agreement. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as would not have or reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their Intellectual Property Rights, except where failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(o) Insurance. The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance coverage, and there are no pending or threatened claims against such directors’ and officers’ insurance coverage. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business without a significant increase in cost.

 

(p) Certain Fees. Other than any payment to Maxim Group LLC, no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company or any Subsidiaries to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Buyers shall have no obligation with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees payable by the Company or any Subsidiary of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

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(q) Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Buyers or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information. The Company understands and confirms that the Buyers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Buyers regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their respective businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby is true and correct in all material respects and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not materially misleading. The press releases disseminated by the Company since January 1, 2025, taken as a whole with the SEC Reports, do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made and when made, not materially misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Buyer makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2.

 

(r) Solvency; Seniority. Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder: (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s tangible assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, consolidated and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for administration, judicial management, reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date. The SEC Reports sets forth as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. As of the Closing Date, (1) no Indebtedness or other claim against the Company is senior to the Notes in right of payment, whether with respect to interest or upon liquidation or dissolution, or otherwise, and (2) no Indebtedness or other claim against any Guarantor is senior to such Guarantor’s obligations under the Guaranty in right of payment, whether with respect to interest or upon liquidation or dissolution, or otherwise.

 

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(s) Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries each (i) has made or filed all United States federal, state and local income and all foreign income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations, and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company or of any Subsidiary know of no basis for any such claim. The Company is not and has never been a United States real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897 of the Code and the Company shall so certify upon Buyer’s reasonable request at any time.

 

(t) Acknowledgment Regarding Buyers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Buyers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Buyer is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Buyer or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Buyers’ purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Buyer that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.

 

(u) Acknowledgment Regarding Buyer’s Trading Activity. It is understood and acknowledged by the Company that (i) following the public disclosure of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, in accordance with the terms thereof, none of the Buyers have been asked by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to agree, nor has any Buyer agreed with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to desist from effecting any transactions in or with respect to (including, without limitation, purchasing or selling, long and/or short) any securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold any of the Securities for any specified term; and (ii) each Buyer may rely on the Company’s obligation to timely deliver Ordinary Shares upon conversion, exercise or exchange, as applicable, of the Securities as and when required pursuant to the Transaction Documents for purposes of effecting trading in the Ordinary Shares of the Company.

 

(v) Office of Foreign Assets Control; Money Laundering. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary, is currently subject to any United States sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Treasury Department (“OFAC”) or the equivalent law of any foreign jurisdiction. The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1977, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder or the equivalent law of any foreign jurisdiction (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, threatened.

 

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(w) Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with any applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company and the Subsidiaries have established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and the Subsidiaries and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures of the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the end of the period covered by the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act or the Company’s most recent registration with the Commission (such date, the “Evaluation Date”). The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation Date, except as set forth in the SEC Reports, there have been no changes in the internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting of the Company and its Subsidiaries.

 

(x) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Ordinary Shares are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Ordinary Shares under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. The Company is, and has no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements. The Ordinary Shares are currently eligible for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company and the Company is current in payment of the fees to the Depository Trust Company in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

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(y) Cybersecurity. (i)(x) There has been no security breach or other compromise of or relating to any of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data (including the data of its respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of it), equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”) and (y) the Company and the Subsidiaries have not been notified of, and has no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in, any security breach or other compromise to its IT Systems and Data; (ii) the Company and the Subsidiaries are presently in compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) the Company and the Subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable safeguards to maintain and protect its material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and Data; and (iv) the Company and the Subsidiaries have implemented backup and disaster recovery technology consistent with industry standards and practices.

 

(z) Investment Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become an “investment company” subject to registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(aa) No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. There are no disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers which could affect the Company’s ability to perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents.

 

(bb) No-Off Balance Sheet Arrangements. There are no off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations (including contingent obligations) or liabilities of the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

(cc) No Manipulation of Price. Neither the Company, its Subsidiaries, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of its or its Subsidiaries’ employees, directors or shareholders, has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that has constituted or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act, or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any security of the Company.

 

(dd) Certain Matters related to Management. No member of the Company’s management (a) has had a petition under the federal bankruptcy laws or any state insolvency laws filed by or against them, or has had a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer appointed by a court for the business or property of (i) them, (ii) any partnership in which they were a general partner at, or within two years before, the time of such filing or (iii) any company or business association of which they were an executive officer at, or within two years before, the time of such filing; (b) been convicted in a criminal proceeding or named the subject of a pending criminal proceeding, excluding traffic violations and driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs offenses; (c) been the subject of any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court, permanently or temporarily enjoining or limiting them from any activity in connection with the purchase or sale of any security or commodity; (d) been found by a court in a civil action or by the Commission to have violated any federal or state securities law, and the judgment in such civil action or finding by the Commission has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated; or (e) been found by a court in a civil action or by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) to have violated any federal commodities law, and the judgment in such civil action or finding by the CFTC has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated.

 

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(ee) ERISA. All of the Company’s stock incentive plans are in compliance in all material respects with the applicable laws.

 

(ff) No Broker-Dealer. The Company and its Board of Directors, severally, acknowledges and agrees that the Buyers are not acting as a broker, dealer, underwriter or agent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The Company and its Subsidiaries shall not, and the Company shall direct its agents, affiliates and representatives not to, take the position that the Buyers are acting in any manner as a broker, dealer or agent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any respect (whether pursuant to the transactions contemplated hereby or otherwise).

 

3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Buyers. Each Buyer, for itself and for no other Buyer, hereby represents and warrants the following as of the Closing Date (except to the extent expressly made as of a specific date therein, in which case they shall be accurate as of such date):

 

(a) Organization; Authority. Such Buyer is an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by such Buyer of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of such Buyer. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Buyer, and when delivered by such Buyer in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Buyer, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, administration, judicial management and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies, and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

The Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Buyer’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the transaction contemplated hereby. The Buyers acknowledge and agree that neither the Company nor any Subsidiary makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than such representations and warranties.

 

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ARTICLE IV.

OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

 

4.1 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of the Principal Market such that it would require stockholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless stockholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.2 Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding Ordinary Shares, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Securities pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Buyer and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other shareholders of the Company

 

4.3 Redemption and Conversion Procedures. The form of Notice of Conversion included in the Notes sets forth the totality of the procedures required of the Buyers in order to convert the Notes. Without limiting the preceding sentences, no ink-original Notice of Conversion shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any such notice be required in order to convert the Notes. No additional legal opinion, other information or instructions shall be required of the Buyers to convert their Notes. The Company shall honor conversions of the Notes and shall deliver Conversion Shares in accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the Transaction Documents.

 

4.4 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall by not later than 9:00 a.m. (local time in New York, New York) on June 9, 2025 (a) issue a press release, reasonably acceptable to the Buyers, disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby (the “Press Release”) and (b) file a Current Report on Form 6-K with the Commission, including copies of the Transaction Documents (or the forms thereof) as exhibits thereto. Upon the issuance of the Press Release, the Company represents to the Buyers that it shall have publicly disclosed all “material, non-public information” delivered to any of the Buyers by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and the Buyers shall consult with each other in issuing any other public announcements or press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor the Buyers shall issue any such public announcement or press release nor otherwise make any such public statement or communication without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any disclosure of the Buyers, or without the prior consent of the Required Holders, with respect to any disclosure of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, then the disclosing party shall, to the extent lawful and practicable (having regard to time and in the case of the Company, the Company’s continuous disclosure obligations), promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public announcement, press release, public statement or communication.

 

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4.5 Disclosure of Material Information; No Obligation of Confidentiality.

 

(a) Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf including any officer, director, employee or agent of the Company or the Subsidiaries, has provided prior to the date hereof or will in the future provide any Buyer or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information unless prior thereto such Buyer shall have entered into a written agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Buyer shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. In the event of a breach of the foregoing covenant by the Company, or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, in addition to any other remedy provided herein or in the Transaction Documents, the Company shall, unless otherwise agreed by the Required Holders, publicly disclose any “material, non-public information” in a Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the Commission within one (1) Business Day following the date that it discloses such information to any Buyer or such earlier time as may be required by applicable law. Any Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the Commission by the Company pursuant to this Section 4.5(a) shall be subject to prior review and comment by the applicable Buyers. From and after the filing of any such Current Report on Form 6-K pursuant to this Section 4.5(a), no Buyer shall be deemed to be in possession of any material, nonpublic information regarding the Company existing as of the time of such filing. If the Company fails to file a Current Report on Form 6-K within the time required in this Section 4.5(a), each affected Buyer may, in its sole discretion, make a public disclosure of such information that it believes in its sole discretion constitutes material, non-public information of the Company, without Company or its personnel’s permission. Except as required by law, the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the relevant Buyer, disclose such Buyer’s name in the Current Report on Form 6-K, or other disclosure, made pursuant to this Section 4.5(a).

 

(b) Except pursuant to any confidentiality agreement entered into by a Buyer as described in Section 4.5(a), no Buyer shall be deemed to have any obligation of confidentiality with respect to (i) any non-public information of the Company disclosed to such Buyer in breach of Section 4.5(a) (whether or not the Company files a Current Report on Form 6-K as provided above), (ii) the fact that any Buyer has exercised any of its rights and/or remedies under the Transaction Documents, or (iii) any information obtained by any Buyer as a result of exercising any of its rights and/or remedies under the Transaction Documents. In addition, no Buyer shall be deemed to be in breach of any duty to the Company and/or to have misappropriated any non-public information of the Company, if such Buyer engages in transactions of securities of the Company, including, without limitation, any hedging transactions, short sales or any “derivative” transactions while in possession of such non-public information.

 

4.6 Use of Proceeds. The Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes hereunder for general corporate purposes and shall not use such proceeds: (a) the repayment of any Indebtedness, or (b) in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1970, as amended or the equivalent law of any foreign jurisdiction, as applicable, or OFAC regulations or the equivalent law of any foreign jurisdiction, as applicable.

 

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4.7 Indemnification of Buyers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.7, the Company will indemnify and hold each Buyer and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Buyer (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Buyer Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs, awards, orders, penalties and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs, interest and attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Buyer Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (i) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (ii) any action instituted against the Buyer Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by the Company, its employees or directors, or any stockholder or creditor of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Buyer Party, arising out of or relating to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. For the avoidance of doubt, the indemnification provided herein is intended to and shall cover direct claims brought by the Company against the Buyer Parties. If any action shall be brought against any Buyer Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Buyer Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and, except with respect to direct claims brought by the Company, the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Buyer Party.  Any Buyer Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Buyer Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Buyer Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel, which shall be the case with respect to any direct claims by the Company.  The Company will not be liable to any Buyer Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Buyer Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is finally judicially determined to be attributable to any Buyer Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Buyer Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by this Section 4.7 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Buyer Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

4.8 Participation in Future Financing.

 

(a) From the date hereof through the date that is twelve (12) months after the Maturity Date (as defined in the Notes) of the Notes upon any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Share Equivalents for cash consideration, Indebtedness or a combination of units thereof (a “Subsequent Placement”), the Buyers shall have the right to purchase their respective Pro Rata Portion of 30% of such Subsequent Placement (the “Participation Maximum”), on the same terms, conditions and price provided for in the Subsequent Placement For purposes hereof “Pro Rata Portion” means the ratio of (x) the Subscription Amount of Notes purchased on the Closing Dates by a Buyer participating under this Section 4.8 and (y) the sum of the aggregate Subscription Amount of Notes purchased on the Closing Dates by all Buyers participating under this Section 4.8.

 

(b) In the case of a Subsequent Placement:

 

(i) At least five (5) Business Days prior to the closing of a Subsequent Placement, the Company shall deliver to each Buyer a written notice asking the Buyer if it consents to the receipt of material non-public information pursuant to this Section 4.8 (“Pre-Notice”). If a Buyer consents to the receipt of material non-public information, it shall so notify the Company within two (2) Trading Days after receipt of the Pre-Notice. If such Buyer so consents, the Company shall promptly, but no later than one (1) Trading Day after such consent, deliver the details of such proposed Subsequent Placement (the “Subsequent Placement Notice”) to such Buyer. The Subsequent Placement Notice shall describe in reasonable detail the proposed terms of such Subsequent Placement, the amount of proceeds intended to be raised thereunder and the Person or Persons through or with whom such Subsequent Placement is proposed to be effected and shall include a term sheet or similar document relating thereto as an attachment.

 

(ii) Any Buyer desiring to participate in such Subsequent Placement shall provide written notice (the “Participation Notice”) to the Company by not later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Trading Day after delivery of the Subsequent Placement Notice (the “Notice Deadline”), with such Participation Notice setting forth: (i) that such Buyer is willing to participate in the Subsequent Placement and willing to execute the relevant transaction documents for the Subsequent Placement on the terms and conditions set forth in such transaction documents; (ii) the amount of such Buyer’s participation; and (iii) each participating Buyer’s representing and warranting that such Buyer has such funds ready, willing, and available for investment on the terms set forth in the Subsequent Placement. If the Buyer fails to deliver the Participation Notice to the Company by the Notice Deadline, such Buyer shall forfeit its right to participate in the Subsequent Placement.

 

(iii) If by the Notice Deadline, the Company receives Participation Notices that are, in the aggregate, less than the Participation Maximum, then the Company may effect the remaining portion of such Subsequent Placement, including the difference between the amount to be purchased by Buyers and the Participation Maximum, on the terms and with the Persons set forth in the Subsequent Placement.

 

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(iv) The Company and each Buyer agree that if any Buyer elects to participate in the Subsequent Placement, the transaction documents related to the Subsequent Placement shall not include any term or provision that, directly or indirectly, will, or is intended to, exclude one or more of the Buyers from participating in a Subsequent Placement, including, but not limited to, provisions whereby such Buyer shall be required to agree to any restrictions on trading as to any of the Securities purchased hereunder or be required to consent to any amendment to or termination of, or grant any waiver, release or the like under or in connection with, this Agreement, without the prior written consent of such Buyer; providedhowever, that in the event any such term or provision is included in such transaction documents, and any Buyer executes such transaction documents, the execution thereof shall be considered such Buyer’s prior written consent thereto.

 

(v) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.8 and unless otherwise agreed to by such Buyer, the Company will either confirm in writing to such Buyer that the transaction with respect to the Subsequent Placement has been abandoned or will deliver a notice to Buyer of its intention to issue the securities in the Subsequent Placement, in either case by the tenth (10th) Business Day following the Notice Deadline. If by such tenth (10th) Business Day following the Notice Deadline, no public disclosure regarding a transaction with respect to the Subsequent Placement has been made, and no notice regarding such transaction has been received by such Buyer, such transaction shall be deemed to have been abandoned and such Buyer shall not be deemed to be in possession of any material, non-public information with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

4.9 Variable Rate Transactions. From the date hereof and for so long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Company shall be prohibited from, other than with a Buyer, effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Ordinary Shares, Options or Convertible Securities (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company agrees to or enters into an agreement to (i) issue or sell any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive additional Ordinary Shares either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon and/or varies with the trading prices of or quotations for the Ordinary Shares at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities, or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Ordinary Shares or (ii) enters into, or effects a transaction under, any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may issue securities at a future determined price. Any Buyer shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages. In addition, the Company covenants and agrees that it will not enter into any agreement, undertaking or covenant with a third party that prohibits the Company or its Subsidiaries from entering into, effecting or announcing a Variable Rate Transaction or similar transaction with the Buyers or their Affiliates at any time.

 

4.10 [Reserved].

 

4.11 No Restrictive Legends. The Notes and the Conversion Shares shall be issued free and clear of any restrictive legends under the Securities Act or otherwise.

 

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ARTICLE V.

MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1 Fees and Expenses. At the Closing, the Company has agreed to reimburse the Buyers for their reasonable and documented legal fees and out-of-pocket expenses, not to exceed $75,000 in the aggregate. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Buyers.

 

5.2 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

5.3 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, (b) the next Business Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Business Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Business Day, (c) the second Business Day following the date of mailing, if sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto. To the extent that any notice provided pursuant to any Transaction Document constitutes, or contains material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 6-K.

 

5.4 Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Required Holders or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

5.5 Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

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5.6 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Required Holders. Any Buyer may assign, with written notice to the Company of such assignment, any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Buyer assigns or transfers any Securities in compliance with the Transaction Documents, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Buyers.”

 

5.7 No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.7 and this Section 5.7.

 

5.8 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

 

5.9 Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.

 

5.10 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a PDF format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or PDF signature page were an original thereof.

 

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5.11 Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 

5.12 Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Buyer exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Buyer may rescind or withdraw, in its discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant redemption or exercise notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights..

 

5.13 Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction and receipt of a customary lost Security affidavit and indemnity.

 

5.14 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Buyers and the Company will be entitled to seek specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents. The Company acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to pay and perform its obligations under the Notes in accordance with the terms thereof is absolute and unconditional. Accordingly, in no event shall any determination or allegation that a Buyer is (i) an unregistered securities dealer (within the meaning of the Exchange Act), (ii) acting as an underwriter with respect to the Company’s securities, (iii) engaged in a distribution (within the meaning of Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act) of the Ordinary Shares or (iv) the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or a Buyer’s trading activities violate public policy or any applicable securities laws, in any case, be a defense to the Company’s obligation to repay any amounts due and payable to a Buyer under the Notes. In no event shall any Buyer be liable to the Company for consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages or lost profit.

 

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5.15 Payment Set Aside; Currency. To the extent that the Company or any Guarantor makes a payment or payments to any Buyer hereunder or pursuant to any of the other Transaction Documents or any of the Buyers enforce or exercise their rights hereunder or thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, any Guarantor, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, foreign, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, all dollar amounts referred to in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents are in United States Dollars (“U.S. Dollars”), and all amounts owing under this Agreement and all other Transaction Documents shall be paid in U.S. Dollars. All amounts denominated in other currencies (if any) shall be converted into the U.S. Dollar equivalent amount in accordance with the Exchange Rate on the date of calculation. “Exchange Rate” means, in relation to any amount of currency to be converted into U.S. Dollars pursuant to this Agreement, the U.S. Dollar exchange rate as published in the Wall Street Journal on the relevant date of calculation.

 

5.16 Usury. To the extent it may lawfully do so, the Company hereby agrees not to insist upon or plead or in any manner whatsoever claim, and will resist any and all efforts to be compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, usury laws wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, in connection with any claim, action or proceeding that may be brought by any Buyer in order to enforce any right or remedy under any Transaction Document. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in any Transaction Document, it is expressly agreed and provided that the total liability of the Company under the Transaction Documents for payments in the nature of interest shall not exceed the maximum lawful rate authorized under applicable law (the “Maximum Rate”), and, without limiting the foregoing, in no event shall any rate of interest or default interest, or both of them, when aggregated with any other sums in the nature of interest that the Company may be obligated to pay under the Transaction Documents exceed such Maximum Rate. It is agreed that if the maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law and applicable to the Transaction Documents is increased or decreased by statute or any official governmental action subsequent to the date hereof, the new maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law will be the Maximum Rate applicable to the Transaction Documents from the effective date thereof forward, unless such application is precluded by applicable law. If under any circumstances whatsoever, interest in excess of the Maximum Rate is paid by the Company to any Buyer with respect to indebtedness evidenced by the Transaction Documents, such excess shall be applied by such Buyer to the unpaid principal balance of any such indebtedness or be refunded to the Company, the manner of handling such excess to be at such Buyer’s election.

 

5.17 Independent Nature of Buyers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Buyer under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and no Buyer shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Buyer under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Buyers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Buyers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Buyer shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Buyer to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. The Company has elected to provide all Buyers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Buyers.

 

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5.18 Liquidated Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.

 

5.19 Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

5.20 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and Ordinary Shares in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Ordinary Shares that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

5.21 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.

 

5.22 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by any Buyer, as to such Buyer’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Buyers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before the fifth (5th) Trading Day following the date hereof, providedhowever, that no such termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).

 

5.23 Judgment Currency.

 

(a) If for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment against the Company or any Guarantor in connection with this Agreement or any other Transaction Document in any court in any jurisdiction it becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (such other currency being hereinafter in this Section 5.23 referred to as the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due in US Dollars under this Agreement, the conversion shall be made at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Trading Day immediately preceding:

 

(i) the date actual payment of the amount due, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of New York or in the courts of any other jurisdiction that will give effect to such conversion being made on such date: or 

 

(ii) the date on which the foreign court determines, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of any other jurisdiction (the date as of which such conversion is made pursuant to this Section 5.23(a)(ii) being hereinafter referred to as the “Judgment Conversion Date”).

 

(b) If in the case of any proceeding in the court of any jurisdiction referred to in Section 5.23(a), there is a change in the Exchange Rate prevailing between the Judgment Conversion Date and the date of actual payment of the amount due, the applicable party shall pay such adjusted amount as may be necessary to ensure that the amount paid in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the amount of US Dollars which could have been purchased with the amount of Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial order at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Judgment Conversion Date.

 

(c) Any amount due from the Company under this provision shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other amounts due under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.

 

[Signature Pages Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

WANG & LEE GROUP, INC.   Address for Notice:
       
By:     E-mail:
Name: Pui Lung HO   joe.ho@wangnlee.com.hk;
Title: Chief Executive Officer   mgt@wangnlee.com.hk
       
With a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:    

 

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Left Blank;

Signature Page for Buyer Follows]

 

[Ayrton- Wang & Lee- Securities Purchase Agreement Signature Page]

 

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

Name of Buyer:   

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Buyer:   

 

Name of Authorized Signatory:   

 

Title of Authorized Signatory:   

 

Email Address of Authorized Signatory:   

 

Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory:   

 

Address for Notice to Buyer:

 

Address for Delivery of Securities to Buyer (if not same as address for notice):

 

Subscription Amount for the Notes: $

 

Principal Amount of Notes: $

 

[Ayrton- Wang & Lee- Securities Purchase Agreement Signature Page]

 

 

 

 

Exhibit A

 

Form of Senior Notes

 

[Attached.]

 

 

 


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