Axonex AI Group Ltd 6-K, filed Oct 20, 2026
Axonex AI Group Ltd (AXNX)
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Axonex AI Group Ltd filed this 6-K on October 20, 2026.
Axonex AI Group Limited approved a two (2)-for-five (5) reverse stock split on October 2, 2026, with post-split Nasdaq trading beginning October 22, 2026. The split is intended to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s $1.00 minimum bid price. AI summary
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of October 2026
Commission File Number: 001-42462
Axonex AI Group Limited
Unit 506-8, 5/F, Laford Centre
838 Lai Chi Kok Road
Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong
(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 ☐
On October 2, 2026, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Axonex AI Group Limited (the “Company”) approved a reverse stock split of all of the Company’s issued and unissued shares, including the Class A ordinary shares with no par value (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”) and Class B ordinary shares with no par value, at a ratio of two (2)-for-five (5), such that every five (5) shares of each class will be combined into two (2) shares of the same class (the “Reverse Stock Split”). Pursuant to the BVI Business Companies Act (as amended) and the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Board is authorized to effect the Reverse Stock Split without the approval of the Company’s shareholders. Accordingly, no shareholder vote, consent or approval is required or will be sought in respect of the Reverse Stock Split.
Upon the opening of the market on October 22, 2026, the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares will begin trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”) on a post-Reverse Stock Split basis under the current symbol “AXNX”. The new CUSIP number following the Reverse Stock Split will be G6146G125. The Reverse Stock Split will reduce the number of outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares of the Company from 15,190,742 to approximately 6,076,297 Class A Ordinary Shares, and the number of outstanding Class B Ordinary Shares from [*] to approximately [*], in each case subject to the rounding up of fractional shares described below. Every five (5) outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares or Class B Ordinary Shares will be combined into and automatically become two (2) post-Reverse Stock Split Class A Ordinary Shares or Class B Ordinary Shares, as applicable. No fractional shares will be issued as a result of the Reverse Stock Split. Instead, any fractional shares that would have resulted from the Reverse Stock Split will be rounded up to the next whole number.
After the Reverse Stock Split, all options, warrants and other convertible securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split will be adjusted by dividing the number of Class A Ordinary Shares into which the options, warrants and other convertible securities are exercisable or convertible by two and one-half (2.5) in accordance with the terms of the plans, agreements or arrangements governing such options, warrants and other convertible securities and subject to rounding to the nearest whole share.
The Reverse Stock Split is intended for the Company to regain compliance with a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share for continued listing on Nasdaq, as set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Minimum Bid Requirement”).
In connection with the Reverse Stock Split, the Company amended and restated its Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association to reflect the adjustment of the number of authorized shares of the Company. A copy of such amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company is filed hereto as Exhibit 3.1.
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Exhibit Index
| Exhibit Number |
Description of Exhibit | |
| 3.1 | Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association |
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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: October 20, 2026 | Axonex AI Group Limited | |
| By: | /s/ Hoi Lung Chan | |
| Name: | Hoi Lung Chan | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board | |
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Exhibit 3.1
Territory of the Virgin Islands
The BVI Business Companies Act, 2004
FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF
Axonex AI Group Limited
Incorporated as a BVI business company on 18 October 2023
Adopted
by a resolution of directors passed on 2 October, 2026
and filed on 9 October, 2026
Territory of the British Virgin Islands
The BVI Business Companies Act 2004
Fifth Amended and Restated
Memorandum of Association
of
Axonex AI Group Limited
a company limited by shares
(Adopted
by a resolution of directors passed on 2 October, 2026
and filed on 9 October, 2026)
| 1 | Name |
The name of the Company is Axonex AI Group Limited.
| 2 | Status |
The Company is a company limited by shares.
| 3 | Registered office and registered agent |
| 3.1 | The first registered office of the Company is at Ritter House, Wickhams Cay II, PO Box 3170, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, the office of the first registered agent. |
| 3.2 | The first registered agent of the Company is Ogier Global (BVI) Limited of Ritter House, Wickhams Cay II, PO Box 3170, Road Town, Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands. |
| 3.3 | The Company may change its registered office or registered agent by a Resolution of Directors or a Resolution of Members. The change shall take effect upon the Registrar registering a notice of change filed under section 92 of the Act. |
| 4 | Capacity and powers |
| 4.1 | The Company has, subject to the Act and any other British Virgin Islands legislation for the time being in force, irrespective of corporate benefit: |
| (a) | full capacity to carry on or undertake any business or activity, do any act or enter into any transaction; and |
| (b) | for the purposes of 4.1(a), full rights, powers and privileges. |
| 4.2 | There are no limitations on the business that the Company may carry on. |
| 5 | Number and classes of Shares |
| 5.1 | The Company is authorised to issue a maximum of 112,000,000 shares of no par value each divided into (i) 100,800,000 class A ordinary shares of no par value each (the Class A Ordinary Shares) and (ii) 11,200,000 class B ordinary shares of no par value each (the Class B Ordinary Shares). |
| 5.2 | The Company may at the discretion of the Board of Directors, but shall not otherwise be obliged to, issue fractional Shares or round up or down fractional holdings of Shares to its nearest whole number and a fractional Share shall have the corresponding fractional rights, obligations and liabilities of a whole Share of the same class or series of Shares. |
| 6 | Designations powers preferences of Shares |
| 6.1 | Each Class A Ordinary Share in the Company confers upon the Member: |
| (a) | the right to one (1) vote at a meeting of the Members of the Company or on any Resolution of Members; |
| (b) | the right to an equal share in any dividend paid by the Company on the Ordinary Shares; and |
| (c) | the right to an equal share in the distribution to the holders of Ordinary Shares of the surplus assets of the Company on its liquidation. |
For the avoidance of doubt, Class A Ordinary Shares are not convertible into Class B Ordinary Shares at any time.
| 6.2 | Each Class B Ordinary Share in the Company confers upon the Member: |
| (a) | the right to twenty (20) votes at a meeting of the Members of the Company or on any Resolution of Members; |
| (b) | the right to an equal share in any dividend paid by the Company on the Ordinary Shares; |
| (c) | the right to an equal share in the distribution to the holders of Ordinary Shares of the surplus assets of the Company on its liquidation; and |
| (d) | the Conversion Right in respect of each Class B Ordinary Share in the Member’s holding, where: |
| (i) | Each Class B Ordinary Share shall be converted at the option of the holder, at any time after issue and without the payment of any additional sum, into such Conversion Number of fully paid Class A Ordinary Shares calculated at the Conversion Rate. Such conversion shall take effect on the Conversion Date. A Conversion Notice shall not be effective if it is not accompanied by the share certificates in respect of the relevant Class B Ordinary Shares and/or such other evidence (if any) as the directors may reasonably require to prove the title of the person exercising such right (or, if such certificates have been lost or destroyed, such evidence of title and such indemnity as the directors may reasonably require). Any and all taxes and stamp, issue and registration duties (if any) arising on conversion shall be borne by the holder of Class B Ordinary Shares requesting conversion. |
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| (ii) | On the Conversion Date, every Class B Ordinary Share converted shall automatically be re-designated and re-classified as the applicable Conversion Number of Class A Ordinary Shares with such rights and restrictions attached thereto and shall rank pari passu in all respects with the Class A Ordinary Shares then in issue and the Company shall enter or procure the entry of the name of the relevant holder of converted Class B Ordinary Shares as the holder of the corresponding number of Class A Ordinary Shares resulting from the conversion of the Class B Ordinary Shares in, and make any other necessary and consequential changes to, the register of members and shall procure that, if required, certificates in respect of the relevant Class A Ordinary Shares, together with a new certificate for any unconverted Class B Ordinary Shares comprised in the certificate(s) surrendered by the holder of the Class B Ordinary Shares, are issued to the holders thereof. |
| (iii) | Until such time as the Class B Ordinary Shares have been converted into Class A Ordinary Shares, the Company shall: (A) at all times keep available for issue and free of all liens, charges, options, mortgages, pledges, claims, equities, encumbrances and other third-party rights of any nature, and not subject to any pre-emptive rights out of its authorised but unissued share capital, such number of authorised but unissued Class A Ordinary Shares as would enable all Class B Ordinary Shares to be converted into Class A Ordinary Shares and any other rights of conversion into, subscription for or exchange into Class A Ordinary Shares to be satisfied in full; and (B) not make any issue, grant or distribution or take any other action if the effect would be that on the conversion of the Class B Ordinary Shares to Class A Ordinary Shares it would be required to issue Class A Ordinary Shares at a price lower than the par value thereof (if any). |
| 6.3 | The Directors may at their discretion by Resolution of Directors redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire all or any of the Shares in the Company subject to Regulations 3 and 6 of the Articles. |
| 7 | Variation of rights |
The rights attached to any class of Shares as specified in Clause 6 may only, whether or not the Company is being wound up, be varied by a Resolution of Members, provided that only the holders of the relevant class of Shares shall be entitled to vote thereon, unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of such class.
| 8 | Rights not varied by the issue of Shares pari passu and no deemed variation |
The rights conferred upon the holders of the Shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the Shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further Shares ranking pari passu therewith and, for the avoidance of doubt, the issue of Shares in any class of Shares where such class is authorised under Clause 5.1 hereof shall not be considered to vary the terms of the Ordinary Shares or any other then existing class of Shares unless the express terms of that class provide otherwise.
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| 9 | Registered Shares |
| 9.1 | The Company shall issue registered Shares only. |
| 9.2 | The Company is not authorised to issue or have in issue bearer Shares, convert registered Shares to bearer Shares or exchange registered Shares for bearer Shares. |
| 10 | Transfer of Shares |
A Share may be transferred in accordance with Regulation 4 of the Articles.
| 11 | Amendment of Memorandum and Articles |
| 11.1 | The Company may amend its Memorandum or Articles by a Resolution of Members or by a Resolution of Directors, save that no amendment may be made by a Resolution of Directors: |
| (a) | to restrict the rights or powers of the Members to amend the Memorandum or Articles; |
| (b) | to change the percentage of Members required to pass a Resolution of Members to amend the Memorandum or Articles; |
| (c) | in circumstances where the Memorandum or Articles cannot be amended by the Members; or |
| (d) | to Clauses 7 or 8 or this Clause 11. |
| 12 | Definitions and interpretation |
| 12.1 | In this Memorandum of Association and the attached Articles of Association, if not inconsistent with the subject or context: |
Act means the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (as amended) and includes the regulations made under the Act;
Articles means the attached Articles of Association of the Company;
Audit Committee means the audit committee of the Board of Directors established pursuant to the Articles, or any successor committee;
Board of Directors means the board of directors of the Company for the time being;
Chairman of the Board has the meaning specified in Regulation 13;
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Class A Ordinary Shares has the meaning specified in Clause 5.1;
Class B Ordinary Shares has the meaning specified in Clause 5.1;
Commission means Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America or other federal agency for the time being administering the U.S. Securities Act;
Compensation Committee means the compensation committee of the Board of Directors established pursuant to the Articles, or any successor committee;
Conversion Date means in respect of a Conversion Notice means the day on which that Conversion Notice is delivered;
Conversion Notice means a written notice delivered to the Company at its Office (and as otherwise stated therein) stating that a holder of Class B Ordinary Shares elects to convert the number of Class B Ordinary Shares specified therein pursuant to Clause 6.2(d);
Conversion Number in relation to any Class B Ordinary Shares, such number of Class A Ordinary Shares as may, upon exercise of the Conversion Right, be issued at the Conversion Rate;
Conversion Rate in relation to the conversion of Class B Ordinary Shares to Class A Ordinary Shares means, at any time, on a 1:1 basis. The foregoing Conversion Rate shall also be adjusted to account for any subdivision (by share split, subdivision, exchange, capitalisation, rights issue, reclassification, recapitalisation or otherwise) or combination (by reverse share split, share consolidation, exchange, reclassification, recapitalisation or otherwise) or similar reclassification or recapitalisation of the Class A Ordinary Shares in issue into a greater or lesser number of shares occurring after the original filing of the Articles without a proportionate and corresponding subdivision, combination or similar reclassification or recapitalisation of the Class B Ordinary Shares in issue;
Conversion Right in respect of a holder of Class B Ordinary Shares, subject to the provisions of these Articles and to any applicable fiscal or other laws or regulations including the Act, to convert all or any of its Class B Ordinary Shares, into the Conversion Number of Class A Ordinary Shares in its discretion;
Designated Stock Exchange means NASDAQ Capital Market in the United States of America for so long as the Shares are there listed and any other stock exchange on which the Shares are listed for trading;
Director means any director of the Company, from time to time;
Distribution in relation to a distribution by the Company means the direct or indirect transfer of an asset, other than Shares, to or for the benefit of a Member in relation to Shares held by a Member, and whether by means of a purchase of an asset, the redemption or other acquisition of Shares, a distribution of indebtedness or otherwise, and includes a dividend;
Electronic Communication means a communication sent by electronic means including electronic posting to the Company’s website, transmission to any number, address or internet website (including the website of the Commission) or other electronic delivery methods as otherwise decided and approved by the Board of Directors.
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Eligible Person means individuals, corporations, trusts, the estates of deceased individuals, partnerships and unincorporated associations of persons;
Independent Director means a Director who is an independent director as defined in the applicable rules of the Designated Stock Exchange as determined by the Board of Directors;
Member means an Eligible Person whose name is entered, whether singularly or jointly with others, in the Register of Members of the Company as the holder of one or more Shares or fractional Shares;
Memorandum means this Memorandum of Association of the Company;
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee means the nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board of Directors established pursuant to the Articles, or any successor committee;
Ordinary Shares means Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares;
Register of Members has the meaning specified in Regulation 2.4;
Registrar means the Registrar of Corporate Affairs appointed under the Act and any deputy or assistant thereof;
Resolution of Directors means either:
| (a) | a resolution approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of Directors of the Company or of a committee of Directors of the Company by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors present at the meeting who voted except that where a Director is given more than one vote, he shall be counted by the number of votes he casts for the purpose of establishing a majority; or |
| (b) | a resolution consented to in writing by all Directors or by all members of a committee of Directors of the Company, as the case may be; |
Resolution of Members means either:
| (a) | a resolution approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of the Members of the Company by the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes of the Shares entitled to vote thereon which were present at the meeting and were voted; or |
| (b) | a resolution consented to in writing by a majority of the votes of Shares entitled to vote thereon; |
Seal means any seal which has been duly adopted as the common seal of the Company;
Securities means Shares, other securities and debt obligations of every kind of the Company, and including without limitation options, warrants and rights to acquire Shares or debt obligations;
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Share means a share issued or to be issued by the Company and shall include fractional shares in the Company;
Treasury Share means a Share that was previously issued but was repurchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired by the Company and not cancelled;
U.S. Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933 of the United States of America, as amended, or any similar federal statute and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time; and
written or any term of like import includes information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic, electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, biometric or photonic means, including electronic data interchange, electronic mail, telegram, telex or telecopy, and in writing shall be construed accordingly.
| 12.2 | In the Memorandum and the Articles, unless the context otherwise requires a reference to: |
| (a) | a Regulation is a reference to a regulation of the Articles; |
| (b) | a Clause is a reference to a clause of the Memorandum; |
| (c) | voting by Member is a reference to the casting of the votes attached to the Shares held by the Member voting; |
| (d) | the Act, the Memorandum or the Articles is a reference to the Act or those documents as amended; |
| (e) | the singular includes the plural and vice versa; |
| (f) | where a meeting of (i) Members; (ii) a class of Members; (iii) the Board of Directors; or (iv) any committee of the Board of Directors, is required to be convened for a place, such place may be a physical place, or a virtual place, or both, and where a meeting is convened for or including a virtual place any person, including the person duly appointed as the chairperson of such meeting, may attend such meeting by virtual attendance and such virtual attendance shall constitute presence in person at that meeting; |
| (g) | the term “virtual place” includes a discussion facility or forum with a telephonic, electronic or digital identifier; and |
| (h) | the term “virtual attendance” means attendance at a virtual place by means of conference telephone or other digital or Electronic Communications equipment or software or other facilities by means of which all the persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each other. |
| 12.3 | Any words or expressions defined in the Act unless the context otherwise requires bear the same meaning in the Memorandum and Articles unless otherwise defined herein. |
| 12.4 | Headings are inserted for convenience only and shall be disregarded in interpreting the Memorandum and Articles. |
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We, Ogier Global (BVI) Limited of Ritter House, Wickhams Cay II, PO Box 3170, Road Town, Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands, for the purpose of incorporating a BVI business company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands hereby sign this Memorandum of Association.
Dated 18 October 2023
Incorporator
Signed for and on behalf of Ogier Global (BVI) Limited of Ritter House, Wickhams Cay II, PO Box 3170, Road Town, Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands
| SGD: Toshra Glasgow | |
| Signature of authorised signatory | |
| Toshra Glasgow | |
| Print name |
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Territory of the British Virgin Islands
The BVI Business Companies Act 2004
Fifth Amended and Restated
Articles of Association
of
Axonex AI Group Limited
a company limited by shares
(Adopted by a resolution of directors passed on 2 October, 2026
and filed on 9 October, 2026)
| 1 | Registered Shares |
| 1.1 | The Company may issue certificates signed by a Director of the Company or under the Seal specifying the number of Shares held by a Member (and the signature of the Director and the Seal may be facsimiles) if the Board of Directors so resolves by a Resolution of Directors. Every certificate shall bear legends required under the applicable laws, including the U.S. Securities Act (to the extent applicable). |
| 1.2 | Any Member receiving a certificate shall indemnify and hold the Company and its Directors and officers harmless from any loss or liability which it or they may incur by reason of any wrongful or fraudulent use or representation made by any person by virtue of the possession thereof. If a certificate for Shares is worn out or lost it may be renewed on production of the worn out certificate or on satisfactory proof of its loss together with such indemnity as may be required by a Resolution of Directors. |
| 1.3 | If several Eligible Persons are registered as joint holders of any Shares, any one of such Eligible Persons may give an effectual receipt for any Distribution. |
| 1.4 | Nothing in these Articles shall require title to any Shares or other Securities to be evidenced by a certificate if the Act and the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange on which the Shares or other Securities are listed (if so listed) permit otherwise. |
| 1.5 | Subject to the Act and the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange on which any Shares or other Securities may be listed (if so listed), the Board of Directors without further consultation with the holders of any Shares or Securities may resolve that any class or series of Shares or other Securities in issue or to be issued from time to time may be issued, registered or converted to uncertificated form and be subject to the practices instituted by the operator of the relevant system. No provision of these Articles will apply to any uncertificated shares or Securities to the extent that they are inconsistent with the holding of such shares or securities in uncertificated form or the transfer of title to any such shares or securities by means of a relevant system. |
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| 1.6 | Conversion of Shares held in certificated form into Shares held in uncertificated form, and vice versa, may be made in such manner as the Board of Directors, in its absolute discretion, may think fit (subject always to the requirements of the relevant system concerned). The Company or any duly authorised transfer agent shall enter on the Register of Members how many Shares are held by each member in uncertificated form and certificated form and shall maintain the register of members in each case as is required by the relevant system concerned. Notwithstanding any provision of these Articles, a class or series of Shares shall not be treated as two classes by virtue only of that class or series comprising both certificated shares and uncertificated shares or as a result of any provision of these Articles which applies only in respect of certificated shares or uncertificated shares. |
| 1.7 | Nothing contained in Regulations 1.5 and 1.6 is meant to prohibit the Shares from being able to trade electronically. |
| 2 | Shares |
| 2.1 | Subject to the provisions of these Articles and, where applicable, the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange on which any Shares or other Securities are listed (if so listed), the unissued Shares of the Company shall be at the disposal of the Directors and Shares and other Securities may be issued and option to acquire Shares or other Securities may be granted at such times, to such Eligible Persons, for such consideration and on such terms as the Directors may by Resolution of Directors determine. |
| 2.2 | Section 46 of the Act does not apply to the Company. |
| 2.3 | A Share may be issued for consideration in any form or a combination of forms, including money, a promissory note, real property, personal property (including goodwill and know-how), services rendered or a contract for future services. |
| 2.4 | No Shares may be issued for a consideration other than money, unless a Resolution of Directors has been passed stating: |
| (a) | the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares; and |
| (b) | that, in their opinion, the present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue is not less than the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares. |
| 2.5 | Subject to Regulation 2.8, the Company shall keep a register of members (the Register of Members) containing: |
| (a) | the names and addresses of the persons who hold Shares; |
| (b) | the number of each class and series of Shares held by each Member; |
| (c) | the date on which the name of each Member was entered in the Register of Members; and |
| (d) | the date on which any Eligible Person ceased to be a Member. |
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| 2.6 | The Register of Members may be in any such form as the Directors may approve, but if it is in magnetic, electronic or other data storage form, the Company must be able to produce legible evidence of its contents. Until the Directors otherwise determine, if any magnetic, electronic or other data storage form is used in this respect, that shall be the original Register of Members. |
| 2.7 | A Share is deemed to be issued when the name of the Member is entered in the Register of Members. |
| 2.8 | For so long as the Company or any of its Shares is listed on a Designated Stock Exchange, the company may keep a share register containing the information referred to in Regulation 2.5 or such other information as these Articles permit or as may be approved by a Resolution of Members. |
| 2.9 | Subject to the provisions of the Act, Shares may be issued on the terms that they are redeemable, or at the option of the Company be liable to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as the Directors before or at the time of the issue of such Shares may determine. The Directors may issue options, warrants, rights or convertible securities or securities or a similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or receive any class of Shares or Securities on such terms as the Directors may from time to time determine. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Directors may also issue options, warrants, other rights to acquire shares or convertible securities on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may determine. |
| 3 | Forfeiture |
| 3.1 | Shares that are not fully paid on issue are subject to the forfeiture provisions set forth in this Regulation and for this purpose Shares issued for a promissory note or a contract for future services are deemed to be not fully paid. |
| 3.2 | A written notice of call specifying the date for payment to be made shall be served on the Member who defaults in making payment in respect of the Shares. |
| 3.3 | The written notice of call referred to in Regulation 3.2 shall name a further date not earlier than the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the notice on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall contain a statement that in the event of non-payment at or before the time named in the notice the Shares, or any of them, in respect of which payment is not made will be liable to be forfeited. |
| 3.4 | Where a written notice of call has been issued pursuant to Regulation 3.2 and the requirements of the notice have not been complied with, the Directors may, at any time before tender of payment, forfeit and cancel the Shares to which the notice relates. |
| 3.5 | The Company is under no obligation to refund any moneys to the Member whose Shares have been cancelled pursuant to Regulation 3.3 and that Member shall be discharged from any further obligation to the Company. |
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| 4 | Transfer of Shares |
| 4.1 | Subject to Regulation 4.2, certificated Shares may be transferred by a written instrument of transfer signed by the transferor and containing the name and address of the transferee, which shall be sent to the Company for registration. |
| 4.2 | For so long as the Shares are listed on a Designated Stock Exchange, Shares may be transferred without the need for a written instrument of transfer if the transfer is carried out in accordance with the laws, rules, procedures and other requirements applicable to shares registered on the Designated Stock Exchange. |
| 4.3 | The transfer of a Share is effective when the name of the transferee is entered on the Register of Members. |
| 4.4 | If the Directors of the Company are satisfied that an instrument of transfer relating to Shares has been signed but that the instrument has been lost or destroyed, they may resolve by Resolution of Directors: |
| (a) | to accept such evidence of the transfer of Shares as they consider appropriate; and |
| (b) | that the transferee’s name should be entered in the Register of Members notwithstanding the absence of the instrument of transfer. |
| 4.5 | Subject to the Memorandum, the personal representative of a deceased Member may transfer a Share even though the personal representative is not a Member at the time of the transfer. |
| 5 | Distributions |
| 5.1 | The Directors of the Company may, by Resolution of Directors, authorise a distribution at a time and of an amount they think fit if they are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that, immediately after the distribution, the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due. |
| 5.2 | Dividends may be paid in money, Shares or other property. |
| 5.3 | The Company may, by Resolution of Directors, from time to time pay to the Members such interim dividends as appear to the Directors to be justified by the profits of the Company, provided always that they are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that, immediately after the distribution, the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due. |
| 5.4 | Notice in writing of any dividend that may have been declared shall be given to each Member in accordance with Regulation 21 and all dividends unclaimed for three (3) years after notice shall have been given to a Member may be forfeited by Resolution of Directors for the benefit of the Company. |
| 5.5 | No dividend shall bear interest as against the Company and no dividend shall be paid on Treasury Shares. |
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| 6 | Redemption of Shares and Treasury Shares |
| 6.1 | The Company may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire and hold its own Shares save that the Company may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire its own Shares without the consent of the Member whose Shares are to be purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired unless the Company is permitted or required by the Act or any other provision in the Memorandum or Articles to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire the Shares without such consent. |
| 6.2 | The purchase redemption or other acquisition by the Company of its own Shares is deemed not to be a distribution where: |
| (a) | the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires the Shares pursuant to a right of a Member to have his Shares redeemed or to have his Shares exchanged for money or other property of the Company, or |
| (b) | the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires the Shares by virtue of the provisions of section 176 or section 179 of the Act; or |
| (c) | the Company acquires its own fully paid Shares pursuant to section 59(1A) of the Act. |
| 6.3 | Sections 60, 61 and 62 of the Act shall not apply to the Company. |
| 6.4 | Shares that the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires pursuant to this Regulation may be cancelled or held as Treasury Shares except to the extent that such Shares are in excess of 50 percent of the issued Shares in which case they shall be cancelled but they shall be available for reissue. |
| 6.5 | All rights and obligations attaching to a Treasury Share are suspended and shall not be exercised by the Company while it holds the Share as a Treasury Share. |
| 6.6 | Treasury Shares may be disposed of by the Company on such terms and conditions (not otherwise inconsistent with the Memorandum and Articles) as the Company may by Resolution of Directors determine. |
| 6.7 | Where Shares are held by another body corporate of which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, shares having more than 50 per cent of the votes in the election of Directors of the other body corporate, all rights and obligations attaching to the Shares held by the other body corporate are suspended and shall not be exercised by the other body corporate. |
| 7 | Mortgages and charges of Shares |
| 7.1 | A Member may by an instrument in writing mortgage or charge his Shares. |
| 7.2 | There shall be entered in the Register of Members at the written request of the Member: |
| (a) | a statement that the Shares held by him are mortgaged or charged; |
| (b) | the name of the mortgagee or chargee; and |
| (c) | the date on which the particulars specified in Regulations 7.2(a) and 7.2(b) above are entered in the Register of Members. |
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| 7.3 | Where particulars of a mortgage or charge are entered in the Register of Members, such particulars may be cancelled: |
| (a) | with the written consent of the named mortgagee or chargee or anyone authorised to act on his behalf; or |
| (b) | upon evidence satisfactory to the Directors of the discharge of the liability secured by the mortgage or charge and the issue of such indemnities as the Directors shall consider necessary or desirable. |
| 7.4 | Whilst particulars of a mortgage or charge over Shares are entered in the Register of Members pursuant to this Regulation: |
| (a) | no transfer of any Share the subject of those particulars shall be effected; |
| (b) | the Company may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any such Share; and |
| (c) | no replacement certificate shall be issued in respect of such Shares, |
without the written consent of the named mortgagee or chargee.
| 8 | Meetings and consents of Members |
| 8.1 | Any Director of the Company may convene meetings of the Members at such times and in such manner and places within or outside the British Virgin Islands as the Director considers necessary or desirable. A meeting may also be convened to be held by electronic means, provided that notice thereof includes all necessary joining instructions and that the means for holding the meeting allow all members to speak and be heard simultaneously. A meeting held by electronic means shall be considered to be held at the place where the chairman is at the time the meeting is opened. |
| 8.2 | Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares have the right to receive notice of, attend, speak and vote at meetings of the Members. Unless otherwise required by the Act, the Memorandum or these Articles, holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares shall, at all times, vote together as a single class on all matters submitted to a vote for Members’ consent. |
| 8.3 | Upon the written request of Members entitled to exercise 30 per cent or more of the voting rights in respect of the matter for which the meeting is requested the Directors shall convene a meeting of Members. |
| 8.4 | The Director convening a meeting of Members shall give not less than seven (7) clear calendar days’ written notice of a meeting of Members to: |
| (a) | those Members whose names on the date the notice is given appear as Members in the Register of Members of the Company and are entitled to vote at the meeting; and |
| (b) | the other Directors. |
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| 8.5 | The convener or conveners of a meeting of Members may fix the date notice is given of a meeting, or such other date as may be specified in the notice, as the record date for determining those Members that are entitled to vote at the meeting. |
| 8.6 | A meeting of Members held in contravention of the requirement to give notice is valid if Members holding at least 90 per cent of the total voting rights on all the matters to be considered at the meeting have waived notice of the meeting and, for this purpose, the presence of a Member at the meeting shall constitute waiver in relation to all the Shares which that Member holds. |
| 8.7 | The inadvertent failure of a Director who convenes a meeting to give notice of a meeting to a Member or another Director, or the fact that a Member or another Director has not received notice, does not invalidate the meeting. |
| 8.8 | A Member may be represented at a meeting of Members by a proxy who may speak and vote on behalf of the Member. A proxy need not be a Member of the Company. |
| 8.9 | The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing and shall be executed under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing, or, if the appointor is a corporation under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised in that behalf. An instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to include the power to demand or join or concur in demanding a poll. |
| 8.10 | The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting no later than the time for holding the meeting, or adjourned meeting provided that the chairman of the meeting may at his discretion direct that an instrument of proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited upon receipt of telex, cable or telecopy confirmation from the appointor that the instrument of proxy duly signed is in the course of transmission to the Company. |
| 8.11 | The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in substantially the following form or such other form as the chairman of the meeting shall accept as properly evidencing the wishes of the Member appointing the proxy. |
Axonex AI Group Limited
I/We being a Member of the above Company HEREBY APPOINT [ ] or failing him [ ] of [ ] to be my/our proxy to vote for me/us at the meeting of Members to be held on the [ ] day of [ ], 20[ ] and at any adjournment thereof.
(Any restrictions on voting to be inserted here.)
Signed this [ ] day of [ ], 20[ ]
| Member |
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| 8.12 | The following applies where Shares are jointly owned: |
| (a) | each of them may be present in person or by proxy at a meeting of Members and may speak as a Member; |
| (b) | if only one of the joint owners is present in person or by proxy they may vote on behalf of all joint owners; and |
| (c) | if two or more of the joint owners are present in person or by proxy they must vote as one and in the event of disagreement between any of the joint owners of Shares then the vote of the joint owner whose name appears first (or earliest) in the Register of Members in respect of the relevant Shares shall be recorded as the vote attributable to the Shares. |
| 8.13 | A Member shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of Members if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and the meeting itself may be held generally by electronic means, provided that in all such cases all Members participating in the meeting are able to hear each other. All persons seeking to attend and participate in a meeting at a virtual place shall be responsible for maintaining adequate facilities to enable them to do so, and any inability of a person or persons to attend or participate in meeting by way of digital or Electronic Communications equipment or software or other facilities shall not invalidate the proceedings of that meeting. |
| 8.14 | A meeting of Members is duly constituted if, at the commencement of the meeting, there are present in person or by proxy not less than 50 per cent of the votes of the Shares entitled to vote on Resolutions of Members to be considered at the meeting. If the Company has two or more classes of Shares, a meeting may be quorate for some purposes and not for others. A quorum may comprise a single Member or proxy and then such person may pass a Resolution of Members and a certificate signed by such person accompanied where such person holds a proxy by a copy of the proxy instrument shall constitute a valid Resolution of Members. |
| 8.15 | If within two hours from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Members, shall be dissolved; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the next business day in the jurisdiction in which the meeting was to have been held at the same time and place or to such other time and place as the Directors may determine, and if at the adjourned meeting there are present within one hour from the time appointed for the meeting in person or by proxy not less than one third of the votes of the Shares or each class or series of Shares entitled to vote on the matters to be considered by the meeting, those present shall constitute a quorum but otherwise the meeting shall either be dissolved or stand further adjourned at the discretion of the Chairman of the Board or, if different, the chairman of the meeting. |
| 8.16 | At every meeting of Members, the Chairman of the Board or their nominee shall preside as chairman of the meeting. The chairman of the meeting shall be deemed to be present in person at the meeting if he or she participates by telephone or other electronic means and all Members participating in the meeting are able to communicate with the chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board or if the Chairman of the Board or their nominee is not present at the meeting, either physically in person, by telephone or other electronic means, if appropriate, the Members present shall choose one of their number to be the chairman. If the Members are unable to choose a chairman for any reason, then the person representing the greatest number of voting Shares present in person or by proxy at the meeting shall preside as chairman failing which the oldest individual Member or representative of a Member present shall take the chair. |
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| 8.17 | The chairman may adjourn any meeting from time to time, and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. For the avoidance of doubt, a meeting can be adjourned for as many times as may be determined to be necessary by the chairman and a meeting may remain open indefinitely for as long a period as may be determined by the chairman. |
| 8.18 | At any meeting of the Members the chairman of the meeting is responsible for deciding in such manner as he considers appropriate whether any resolution proposed has been carried or not and the result of his decision shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes of the meeting. If the chairman has any doubt as to the outcome of the vote on a proposed resolution, he shall cause a poll to be taken of all votes cast upon such resolution. If the chairman fails to take a poll then any Member present in person or by proxy who disputes the announcement by the chairman of the result of any vote may immediately following such announcement demand that a poll be taken and the chairman shall cause a poll to be taken. If a poll is taken at any meeting, the result shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes of the meeting. |
| 8.19 | Subject to the specific provisions contained in this Regulation for the appointment of representatives of Members other than individuals the right of any individual to speak for or represent a Member shall be determined by the law of the jurisdiction where, and by the documents by which, the Member is constituted or derives its existence. In case of doubt, the Directors may in good faith seek legal advice and unless and until a court of competent jurisdiction shall otherwise rule, the Directors may rely and act upon such advice without incurring any liability to any Member or the Company. |
| 8.20 | Any Member who is not a natural person may by resolution of its Directors or other governing body authorise such individual as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of Members or of any class of Members, and the individual so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same rights on behalf of the Member which he represents as that Member could exercise if it were an individual. |
| 8.21 | The chairman of any meeting at which a vote is cast by proxy or on behalf of any Member other than an individual may at the meeting but not thereafter call for a notarially certified copy of such proxy or authority which shall be produced within seven (7) calendar days of being so requested or the votes cast by such proxy or on behalf of such Member shall be disregarded. |
| 8.22 | Directors of the Company may attend and speak at any meeting of Members and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class or series of Shares. |
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| 8.23 | An action that may be taken by the Members at a meeting may also be taken by a Resolution of Members consented to in writing, without the need for any prior notice. If any Resolution of Members is adopted otherwise than by the unanimous written consent of all Members, a copy of such resolution shall forthwith be sent to all Members not consenting to such resolution. The consent may be in the form of counterparts, each counterpart being signed by one or more Members. If the consent is in one or more counterparts, and the counterparts bear different dates, then the resolution shall take effect on the earliest date upon which Eligible Persons holding a sufficient number of votes of Shares to constitute a Resolution of Members have consented to the resolution by signed counterparts. |
| 9 | Directors |
| 9.1 | The first Directors of the Company shall be appointed by the first registered agent within thirty (30) calendar days of the incorporation of the Company; and thereafter, the Directors shall be elected by Resolution of Members or by Resolution of Directors for such term as the Members or Directors determine. |
| 9.2 | No person shall be appointed as a Director of the Company unless he has consented in writing to act as a Director. |
| 9.3 | The minimum number of Directors shall be one and there shall be no maximum number of Directors. For as long as the Shares are listed or quoted on any Designated Stock Exchange, the Board of Directors shall include at least such number of Independent Directors as applicable law, rules or regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange require as determined by the Directors. |
| 9.4 | Each Director holds office for the term, if any, fixed by the Resolution of Members or Resolution of Directors appointing him, or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. If no term is fixed on the appointment of a Director, the Director serves indefinitely until his earlier death, resignation or removal. |
| 9.5 | A Director may be removed from office with or without cause by, |
| (a) | a Resolution of Members passed at a meeting of Members called for the purposes of removing the Director or for purposes including the removal of the Director or by a written resolution passed by a least seventy-five per cent (75%) of the Members of the Company entitled to vote; or |
| (b) | a Resolution of Directors. |
| 9.6 | A Director may resign his office by giving written notice of his resignation to the Company and the resignation has effect from the date the notice is received by the Company or from such later date as may be specified in the notice. |
| 9.7 | A Director shall resign forthwith as a Director if he is, or becomes, disqualified from acting as a Director under the Act. |
| 9.8 | The Directors may at any time appoint any person to be a Director either to fill a vacancy or as an addition to the existing Directors. Where the Directors appoint a person as Director to fill a vacancy, the term shall not exceed the term that remained when the person who has ceased to be a Director ceased to hold office. |
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| 9.9 | A vacancy in relation to Directors occurs if a Director dies or otherwise ceases to hold office prior to the expiration of his term of office. |
| 9.10 | The Company shall keep a register of directors containing: |
| (a) | the names and addresses of the persons who are Directors of the Company; |
| (b) | the date on which each person whose name is entered in the register was appointed as a Director of the Company; |
| (c) | the date on which each person named as a Director ceased to be a Director of the Company; and |
| (d) | such other information as may be prescribed by the Act. |
| 9.11 | The register of directors may be kept in any such form as the Directors may approve, but if it is in magnetic, electronic or other data storage form, the Company must be able to produce legible evidence of its contents. Until a Resolution of Directors determining otherwise is passed, the magnetic, electronic or other data storage shall be the original register of directors. |
| 9.12 | The Directors or, if the Shares (or depository receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on any Designated Stock Exchange and if required by the rules of such Designated Stock Exchange, any committee thereof, may, by a Resolution of Directors, fix the emoluments of Directors with respect to services to be rendered in any capacity to the Company. |
| 9.13 | A Director is not required to hold a Share as a qualification to office. |
| 10 | Powers of directors |
| 10.1 | The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by, or under the direction or supervision of, the Directors of the Company. The Directors of the Company have all the powers necessary for managing, and for directing and supervising, the business and affairs of the Company. The Directors may pay all expenses incurred preliminary to and in connection with the incorporation of the Company and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Act or by the Memorandum or the Articles required to be exercised by the Members. |
| 10.2 | If the Company is the wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company, a Director of the Company may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a Director, act in a manner which he believes is in the best interests of the holding company even though it may not be in the best interests of the Company. |
| 10.3 | If the Company is a subsidiary, but not a wholly owned subsidiary, of a holding company, and the shareholders other than the holding company agree in advance, a Director of the Company may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a Director in connection with the carrying out of the joint venture, act in a manner which he believes is in the best interests of a Member or some Members even though it may not be in the best interests of the Company. |
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| 10.4 | If the Company is carrying out a joint venture between shareholders, a Director of the Company may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a Director, act in a manner which he believes is in the best interests of the holding company even though it may not be in the best interests of the Company. |
| 10.5 | Each Director shall exercise his powers for a proper purpose and shall not act or agree to the Company acting in a manner that contravenes the Memorandum, the Articles or the Act. Each Director, in exercising his powers or performing his duties, shall act honestly and in good faith in what the Director believes to be the best interests of the Company. |
| 10.6 | Any Director which is a body corporate may appoint any individual as its duly authorised representative for the purpose of representing it at meetings of the Directors, with respect to the signing of consents or otherwise. |
| 10.7 | The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body. |
| 10.8 | The Directors may by Resolution of Directors exercise all the powers of the Company to incur indebtedness, liabilities or obligations and to secure indebtedness, liabilities or obligations whether of the Company or of any third party. |
| 10.9 | All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as shall from time to time be determined by Resolution of Directors. |
| 10.10 | Section 175 of the Act shall not apply to the Company. |
| 11 | Proceedings of directors |
| 11.1 | Any one Director of the Company may call a meeting of the Directors by sending a written notice to each other Director. |
| 11.2 | The Directors of the Company or any committee thereof may meet at such times and in such manner and places within or outside the British Virgin Islands as the notice calling the meeting provides. |
| 11.3 | A Director is deemed to be present at a meeting of Directors if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and all Directors participating in the meeting are able to hear each other. |
| 11.4 | A Director shall be given not less than three (3) calendar days’ notice of meetings of Directors, but a meeting of Directors held without three (3) calendar days’ notice having been given to all Directors shall be valid if all the Directors entitled to vote at the meeting who do not attend waive notice of the meeting, and for this purpose the presence of a Director at a meeting shall constitute waiver by that Director. The inadvertent failure to give notice of a meeting to a Director, or the fact that a Director has not received the notice, does not invalidate the meeting. |
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| 11.5 | A meeting of Directors is duly constituted for all purposes if at the commencement of the meeting there are present in person or by alternate not less than one-half of the total number of Directors, unless there are only two (2) Directors in which case the quorum is two (2). |
| 11.6 | A Director may by a written instrument appoint an alternate who need not be a Director and the alternate shall be entitled to attend meetings in the absence of the Director who appointed him and to vote or consent in place of the Director until the appointment lapses or is terminated. |
| 11.7 | If the Company has only one Director the provisions herein contained for meetings of Directors do not apply and such sole Director has full power to represent and act for the Company in all matters as are not by the Act, the Memorandum or the Articles required to be exercised by the Members. In lieu of minutes of a meeting the sole Director shall record in writing and sign a note or memorandum of all matters requiring a Resolution of Directors. Such a note or memorandum constitutes sufficient evidence of such resolution for all purposes. |
| 11.8 | At meetings of Directors at which the Chairman of the Board is present, he shall preside as chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board or if the Chairman of the Board is not present, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting. If the Directors are unable to choose a chairman for any reason, then the oldest individual Director present (and for this purpose an alternate director shall be deemed to be the same age as the Director that he represents) shall take the chair. |
| 11.9 | An action that may be taken by the Directors or a committee of Directors at a meeting may also be taken by a Resolution of Directors or a resolution of a committee of Directors consented to in writing by all Directors or by all members of the committee, as the case may be, without the need for any notice. The consent may be in the form of counterparts each counterpart being signed by one or more Directors. If the consent is in one or more counterparts, and the counterparts bear different dates, then the resolution shall take effect on the date upon which the last Director has consented to the resolution by signed counterparts. |
| 12 | Committees |
| 12.1 | The Directors may, by Resolution of Directors, designate one or more committees, each consisting of one or more Directors, and delegate one or more of their powers, authorities and discretions, including without limitation, the power to affix the Seal and the power to sub-delegate, to any committee consisting of one or more Directors (including, without limitation, the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating Committee). Any such delegation may be made subject to any conditions the Directors may impose and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers and any such delegation may be revoked or altered by the Directors. Subject to any such conditions, the proceedings of a committee of Directors shall be governed by the Articles regulating the proceedings of Directors, so far as they are capable of applying. |
| 12.2 | The Directors may establish any committees, local boards or agencies or appoint any person to be a manager or agent for managing the affairs of the Company and may appoint any person to be a member of such committees, local boards or agencies. Any such appointment may be made subject to any conditions the Directors may impose, and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers and any such appointment may be revoked or altered by the Directors. Subject to any such conditions, the proceedings of any such committee, local board or agency shall be governed by the Articles regulating the proceedings of Directors, so far as they are capable of applying. |
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| 12.3 | The Directors may adopt formal written charters for committees and, if so adopted, shall review and assess the adequacy of such formal written charters on an annual basis. Each of these committees shall be empowered to do all things necessary to exercise the rights of such committee set forth in the Articles and shall have such powers as the Directors may delegate pursuant to the Articles and as required by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under applicable law. Each of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating Committee, if established, shall consist of such number of Directors as the Directors shall from time to time determine for such minimum number as may be required from time to time by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under applicable law). For so long as any class of Shares is listed on the Designated Stock Exchange, the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, if established, shall be made up of such number of Independent Directors as is required from time to time by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under applicable law. |
| 12.4 | Where the Directors delegate their powers to a committee of Directors they remain responsible for the exercise of that power by the committee, unless they believed on reasonable grounds at all times before the exercise of the power that the committee would exercise the power in conformity with the duties imposed on Directors of the Company under the Act. |
| 12.5 | The Directors have no power to delegate to a committee of Directors any of the following powers: |
| (a) | to amend the Memorandum or the Articles; |
| (b) | to designate committees of Directors; |
| (c) | to delegate powers to a committee of Directors; |
| (d) | to appoint Directors; |
| (e) | to appoint an agent; |
| (f) | to approve a plan of merger, consolidation or arrangement; or |
| (g) | to make a declaration of solvency or to approve a liquidation plan. |
| 12.6 | Regulations 12.5(b) and 12.5(c) do not prevent a committee of Directors, where authorised by the Resolution of Directors appointing such committee or by a subsequent Resolution of Directors, from appointing a sub-committee and delegating powers exercisable by the committee to the sub-committee. |
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| 12.7 | The meetings and proceedings of each committee of Directors consisting of two (2) or more Directors shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions of the Articles regulating the proceedings of Directors so far as the same are not superseded by any provisions in the Resolution of Directors establishing the committee. |
| 13 | Officers and agents |
| 13.1 | The Company may by Resolution of Directors appoint officers of the Company at such times as may be considered necessary or expedient. Such officers may consist of a Chairman of the Board of Directors (the Chairman of the Board), a Chief Executive Officer, a President, a Chief Financial Officer, one or more vice-presidents, secretaries and treasurers and such other officers as may from time to time be considered necessary or expedient. Any number of offices may be held by the same person. |
| 13.2 | The officers shall perform such duties as are prescribed at the time of their appointment subject to any modification in such duties as may be prescribed thereafter by Resolution of Directors. In the absence of any specific prescription of duties it shall be the responsibility of the Chairman of the Board to preside at meetings of Directors and Members, the Chief Executive Officer to manage the day to day affairs of the Company, the vice-presidents to act in order of seniority in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer but otherwise to perform such duties as may be delegated to them by the Chief Executive Officer, the secretaries to maintain the Register of Members, minute books and records (other than financial records) of the Company and to ensure compliance with all procedural requirements imposed on the Company by applicable law, and the treasurer to be responsible for the financial affairs of the Company. |
| 13.3 | The emoluments of all officers shall be fixed by Resolution of Directors. |
| 13.4 | The officers of the Company shall hold office until their death, resignation or removal. Any officer elected or appointed by the Directors may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by Resolution of Directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Company may be filled by Resolution of Directors. |
| 13.5 | The Directors may, by a Resolution of Directors, appoint any person, including a person who is a Director, to be an agent of the Company. An agent of the Company shall have such powers and authority of the Directors, including the power and authority to affix the Seal, as are set forth in the Articles or in the Resolution of Directors appointing the agent, except that no agent has any power or authority with respect to the matters specified in Regulation 12.5. The Resolution of Directors appointing an agent may authorise the agent to appoint one or more substitutes or delegates to exercise some or all of the powers conferred on the agent by the Company. The Directors may remove an agent appointed by the Company and may revoke or vary a power conferred on him. |
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| 14 | Conflict of interests |
| 14.1 | A Director of the Company shall, forthwith after becoming aware of the fact that he is interested in a transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company, disclose the interest to all other Directors of the Company. |
| 14.2 | For the purposes of Regulation 14.1, a disclosure to all other Directors to the effect that a Director is a member, Director or officer of another named entity or has a fiduciary relationship with respect to the entity or a named individual and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction which may, after the date of the entry or disclosure, be entered into with that entity or individual, is a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to that transaction. |
| 14.3 | A Director of the Company who is interested in a transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company may: |
| (a) | vote on a matter relating to the transaction; |
| (b) | attend a meeting of Directors at which a matter relating to the transaction arises and be included among the Directors present at the meeting for the purposes of a quorum; and |
| (c) | sign a document on behalf of the Company, or do any other thing in his capacity as a Director, that relates to the transaction, |
and, subject to compliance with the Act shall not, by reason of his office be accountable to the Company for any benefit which he derives from such transaction and no such transaction shall be liable to be avoided on the grounds of any such interest or benefit.
| 15 | Indemnification |
| 15.1 | Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided the Company may indemnify against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with legal, administrative or investigative proceedings any person who: |
| (a) | is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that the person is or was a Director of the Company; or |
| (b) | is or was, at the request of the Company, serving as a Director of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise. |
| 15.2 | The Company may only indemnify a person pursuant to Regulation 15.1 if the person acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of criminal proceedings, the person had no reasonable cause to believe that their conduct was unlawful. |
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| 15.3 | The decision of the Directors as to whether the person acted honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company and as to whether the person had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful is, in the absence of fraud, sufficient for the purposes of the Articles, unless a question of law is involved. |
| 15.4 | The termination of any proceedings by any judgment, order, settlement, conviction or the entering of a nolle prosequi does not, by itself, create a presumption that the person did not act honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company or that the person had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. |
| 15.5 | The Company may purchase and maintain insurance in relation to any person who is or was a Director, officer or liquidator of the Company, or who at the request of the Company is or was serving as a Director, officer or liquidator of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against the person and incurred by the person in that capacity, whether or not the Company has or would have had the power to indemnify the person against the liability as provided in the Articles. |
| 16 | Records |
| 16.1 | The Company shall keep the following documents at the office of its registered agent: |
| (a) | the Memorandum and the Articles; |
| (b) | the Register of Members, or a copy of the Register of Members; |
| (c) | the register of directors, or a copy of the register of directors; |
| (d) | copies of all annual returns filed by the Company with its registered agent, for a period of 5 years; and |
| (e) | copies of all notices and other documents filed by the Company with the Registrar in the previous 10 years. |
| 16.2 | If the Company maintains only a copy of the Register of Members or a copy of the register of directors at the office of its registered agent, it shall: |
| (a) | within 15 calendar days of any change in either register, notify the registered agent in writing of the change; and |
| (b) | provide the registered agent with a written record of the physical address of the place or places at which the original Register of Members or the original register of directors is kept. |
| 16.3 | The Company shall keep the following records at the office of its registered agent or at such other place or places, within or outside the British Virgin Islands, as the Directors may determine: |
| (a) | minutes of meetings and Resolutions of Members and classes of Members; |
| (b) | minutes of meetings and Resolutions of Directors and committees of Directors; |
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| (c) | an impression of the Seal, if any; and |
| (d) | the records and underlying documentation of the Company. |
| 16.4 | The Company shall retain the records and underlying documentation of the Company for a period of at least five (5) years from the date of completion of the transaction to which the records and underlying documentation relate or the Company terminates the business relationship to which the records and underlying documentation relate; and provide its registered agent without delay any records and underlying documentation in respect of the Company that the registered agent requires pursuant to Regulation 16.8. |
| 16.5 | The registered agent of the Company shall keep and maintain a record of the places or places outside the British Virgin Islands at which the Company keeps its records and underlying documentation and such record shall include the name of the Company and address of the person who maintains and controls the Company’s records and underlying documentation. |
| 16.6 | Where any original records referred to in this Regulation are maintained other than at the office of the registered agent of the Company, and the place at which the original records is changed, the Company shall provide the registered agent with the physical address of the new location of the records of the Company within 14 calendar days of the change of location. |
| 16.7 | The records kept by the Company under this Regulation shall be in written form or either wholly or partly as electronic records complying with the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act. |
| 16.8 | Whenever required to do so by the Financial Services Commission or any other competent authority in the British Virgin Islands acting pursuant to the exercise of a power under an enactment, the registered agent of the Company shall require from the Company, records and underlying documentation in respect of the Company. |
| 17 | Registers of charges |
| 17.1 | The Company shall maintain at the office of its registered agent a register of charges in which there shall be entered the following particulars regarding each mortgage, charge and other encumbrance created by the Company: |
| (a) | the date of creation of the charge; |
| (b) | a short description of the liability secured by the charge; |
| (c) | a short description of the property charged; |
| (d) | the name and address of the trustee for the security or, if there is no such trustee, the name and address of the chargee; |
| (e) | unless the charge is a security to bearer, the name and address of the holder of the charge; and |
| (f) | details of any prohibition or restriction contained in the instrument creating the charge on the power of the Company to create any future charge ranking in priority to or equally with the charge. |
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| 18 | Continuation |
The Company may by Resolution of Members or by a Resolution of Directors continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands in the manner provided under those laws.
| 19 | Seal |
The Company may have more than one Seal and references herein to the Seal shall be references to every Seal which shall have been duly adopted by Resolution of Directors. The Directors shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal and for an imprint thereof to be kept at the registered office. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein the Seal when affixed to any written instrument shall be witnessed and attested to by the signature of any one Director or other person so authorised from time to time by Resolution of Directors. Such authorisation may be before or after the Seal is affixed, may be general or specific and may refer to any number of sealings. The Directors may provide for a facsimile of the Seal and of the signature of any Director or authorised person which may be reproduced by printing or other means on any instrument and it shall have the same force and validity as if the Seal had been affixed to such instrument and the same had been attested to as hereinbefore described.
| 20 | Accounts and audit |
| 20.1 | The Company shall keep records and underlying documentation that are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s transactions and that will, at any time, enable the financial position of the Company to be determined with reasonable accuracy. |
| 20.2 | The Directors may by Resolution of Directors appoint an auditor of the Company who shall hold office on such terms as the Directors determine. |
| 20.3 | Notwithstanding Regulation 20.2, the Company shall, within 9 months after the end of each year, file an annual return with its registered agent in the prescribed statutory form, provided that, if the Company has a financial year that is not a calendar year, then the return shall be filed instead within 9 months of the end of that financial year. |
| 20.4 | If the office of the auditor becomes vacant by resignation or death of the auditor, or by their becoming incapable of acting by reason of illness or other disability at a time when their services are required, the Directors shall fill the vacancy and subject to Regulation 20.5, determine the renumeration of such auditor. |
| 20.5 | The remuneration of the auditors of the Company shall be fixed by the Audit Committee (if one exists). |
| 20.6 | Every auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books of account and vouchers of the Company, and shall be entitled to require from the Directors and officers of the Company such information and explanations as he thinks necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors. |
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| 20.7 | The auditors of the Company shall be entitled to receive notice of, and to attend any meetings of Members at which the Company’s profit and loss account and balance sheet are to be presented. |
| 20.8 | For so long as the Shares are listed or quoted on the Designated Stock Exchange, and if required by the Designated Stock Exchange, |
| (a) | the Directors shall establish and maintain an audit committee as a committee of the Board of Directors, the composition and responsibilities of which shall comply with the rules and regulations of the Commission and the Designated Stock Exchange subject to any available exemptions therefrom and the operation of the Act. In such case, the Directors shall adopt a formal written audit committee charter and review and assess the adequacy of the formal written charter on an annual basis; |
| (b) | at least one member of the Audit Committee shall be an “audit committee financial expert” as determined by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Commission and/or other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under applicable law. The “audit committee financial expert” shall have such past employment experience in finance or accounting, requisite professional certification in accounting or any other comparable experience or background which results in the individual’s financial sophistication; |
| (c) | the audit committee (once established) shall meet at least once every financial quarter, or more frequently as circumstances dictate; and |
| (d) | the Company shall conduct an appropriate review of all related party transactions on an ongoing basis and, if required, shall utilise the audit committee for the review and approval of potential conflicts of interest. |
| 21 | Notices |
| 21.1 | Any notice, information or written statement to be given by the Company to Members may be given by personal service, mail, facsimile or other similar means of Electronic Communications, addressed to each Member at the address shown in the Register of Members. |
| 21.2 | Any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on the Company may be served by leaving it, or by sending it by registered mail addressed to the Company, at its registered office, or by leaving it with, or by sending it by registered mail to, the registered agent of the Company. |
| 21.3 | Service of any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on the Company may be proved by showing that the summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement was delivered to the registered office or the registered agent of the Company or that it was mailed in such time as to admit to its being delivered to the registered office or the registered agent of the Company in the normal course of delivery within the period prescribed for service and was correctly addressed and the postage was prepaid. |
| 22 | Voluntary winding up |
The Company may by a Resolution of Members or by a Resolution of Directors appoint a voluntary liquidator.
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We, Ogier Global (BVI) Limited of Ritter House, Wickhams Cay II, PO Box 3170, Road Town, Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands, for the purpose of incorporating a BVI business company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands hereby sign these Articles of Association.
Dated 18 October 2023
Incorporator
Signed for and on behalf of Ogier Global (BVI) Limited of Ritter House, Wickhams Cay II, PO Box 3170, Road Town, Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands
| SGD: Toshra Glasgow | |
| Signature of authorised signatory | |
| Toshra Glasgow | |
| Print name |
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