FBS Global Ltd F-1/A, filed Jan 6, 2025
FBS Global Ltd (FBGL)
As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2025
Registration No. 333-283619
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Amendment No. 3 to
Form F-1
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
FBS Global Limited
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Not Applicable
(Translation of Registrants name into English)
| Cayman Islands | 3990 | Not Applicable | ||
| (State
or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |
(Primary
Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) |
(I.R.S.
Employer Identification No.) |
74 Tagore Lane, #02-00 Sindo Industrial Estate
Singapore 787498
Tel: +65 62857781
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Cogency Global, Inc.
122 E. 42nd Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10168
Tel: (800) 221-0102
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
| David L. Ficksman, Esq. | William S. Rosenstadt, Esq. | |
| R. Joilene Wood, Esq. | Yarona L. Yieh, Esq. | |
| Troy Gould PC | Ortoli Rosenstadt LLP | |
| 1801 Century Park East, Suite 1600 | 366 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor | |
| Los Angeles, CA 90067-2367 | New York, NY 10017 | |
| Tel: (310) 553-4441 | Tel: (212) 588-0022 |
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. ☒
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.
Emerging growth company ☒
If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
† The term new or revised financial accounting standard refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.
The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Amendment No. 3 to the registration statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-283619) (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed solely to file Exhibit 99.1 thereto. This Amendment No. 3 does not modify any provision of the preliminary prospectus contained in Part I to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, the preliminary prospectus has been omitted.
PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
Cayman Islands’ laws do not limit the extent to which a company’s articles of association may provide indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent that any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as providing indemnification against fraud or the consequences of committing a crime.
Our Amended and Restated Articles of Association permits indemnification of our directors and officers, and their personal representatives, against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, expenses, losses, damages or liabilities incurred or sustained by such persons, other than by reason of such person’s dishonesty, willful default or fraud, in or about the conduct of our Company’s business or affairs (including as a result of any mistake of judgment) or in the execution or discharge of his duties, powers, authorities or discretions, including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by such director or officer in defending (whether successfully or otherwise) any civil proceedings concerning our Company or its affairs in any court whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere.
We intend to enter into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and officers. These agreements will require us to indemnify these individuals to the fullest extent permitted under Cayman Islands law against liabilities that may arise by reason of their service to us, and to advance expenses incurred as a result of any proceeding against them as to which they could be indemnified, subject to our Company reserving its rights to recover the full amount of such advances in the event that he or she is subsequently found to have been negligent or otherwise have breached his or her trust or fiduciary duties to our Company or to be in default thereof, or where the Cayman Islands courts have declined to grant relief.
The form of underwriting agreement filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this registration statement will also provide for indemnification of us and our officers and directors.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
ITEM 7. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES
During the past three years, we have issued and sold the following securities without registering such securities under the Securities Act. We believe that each of the following issuances was exempt from registration under the Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act regarding transactions not involving a public offering or in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act regarding sales by an issuer in offshore transactions. No underwriters were involved in these issuances of securities.
Ordinary Shares
Upon incorporation on March 10, 2022, the Registrant had issued to the subscriber one ordinary share of par value US$1.00, which was transferred to Mr. Kelvin Ang on the same day. Pursuant to a group reorganization on August 2, 2022, the Registrant issued an aggregate of 11,249,000 Ordinary Shares, par value US$0.001, as follows:
| Securities/Purchaser | Date of Sale or Issuance | Number of Securities | Consideration | |||
| Kelvin Ang | August 2, 2022 | 10,165,663 Ordinary Shares | Issued pursuant to the Company’s acquisition of the issued shares of Success Elite Developments Limited | |||
| Master Stride Limited | August 2, 2022 | 555,723 Ordinary Shares | Issued pursuant to the Company’s acquisition of the issued shares of Success Elite Developments Limited | |||
| Fame Hall Investment Limited | August 2, 2022 | 528,614 Ordinary Shares | Issued pursuant to the Company’s acquisition of the issued shares of Success Elite Developments Limited |
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ITEM 8. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
| (a) | Exhibits |
See “Exhibit Index” beginning on page II-4 of this registration statement.
| (b) | Financial Statement Schedules |
All supplement schedules are omitted because of the absence of conditions under which they are required or because the data is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto.
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS
| 1. | The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriter at the closing specified in the underwriting agreements, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriter to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser. |
| 2. | The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement, unless the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) below is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of a prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement: |
(i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;
(ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and
(iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.
| 3. | For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. |
| 4. | To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. |
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| 5. | To file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement to include any financial statements required by Item 8.A. of Form 20-F at the start of any delayed offering or throughout a continuous offering. Financial statements and information otherwise required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, need not be furnished, provided, that the registrant includes in the prospectus, by means of a post-effective amendment, financial statements required pursuant to this paragraph (a)(4) and other information necessary to ensure that all other information in the prospectus is at least as current as the date of those financial statements. |
| 6. | That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to any purchaser; |
(i) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and
(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.
| 7. | That, for the purpose of determining liability of a registrant under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser: |
(i) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of an undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
(ii) any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of an undersigned registrant or used or referred to by an undersigned registrant;
(iii) the portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about an undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of an undersigned registrant; and
(iv) any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by an undersigned registrant to the purchaser.
| 8. | Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. |
| 9. | For the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser, if the registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use. |
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EXHIBIT INDEX
*Previously filed
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-1 and has duly caused this registration statement, as amended, to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Singapore, on January 3, 2025.
| FBS Global Limited | ||
| By: | /s/ Kelvin Ang | |
| Name: | Kelvin Ang | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
We, the undersigned directors and executive officers of FBS Global Limited and its subsidiaries hereby severally constitute and appoint Kelvin Ang singly (with full power to act alone), our true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution in him for him and in his name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign this Registration Statement on Form F-1 and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement (or any other Registration Statement for the same offering that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, and him, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as full to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement, as amended, has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| Date: January 3, 2025 | /s/ Kelvin Ang |
| Kelvin Ang, Chief Executive Officer & Director | |
| (Principal Executive Officer) | |
| Date: January 3, 2025 | /s/ Chew Chong Ye |
| Chew Chong Ye, Chief Financial Officer | |
| (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer) | |
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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REGISTRANT
Pursuant to the Securities Act, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of America, has signed this registration statement or amendment thereto in New York, NY, United States of America on January 2, 2025.
| AUTHORIZED U.S. REPRESENTATIVE | ||
| By: | /s/ Colleen A. De Vries | |
| Name: | Colleen A. De Vries | |
| Title: | Senior Vice President of behalf of Cogency Global, Inc. | |
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Exhibit 23.1
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM’S CONSENT
We consent to the inclusion in this Registration Statement on Amendment No. 3 to Form F-1 of our report dated June 27, 2024, with respect to our audits of consolidated financial statements of FBS Global Limited and its subsidiaries as of December 31, 2022 and 2023 and for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023, which report appears in the Prospectus, which is part of this Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to our Firm under the heading “Experts” in such Prospectus.
/s/ Marcum Asia CPAs LLP
Marcum Asia CPAs LLP
New York, New York
January 3, 2025
Exhibit 99.3
January 3, 2025
VIA EDGAR
Division of Corporation Finance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
| Re: | FBS Global Limited – Registration Statement on Form F-1 |
| Request for Waiver and Representation Under Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, FBS Global Limited, a foreign private issuer organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), is submitting this letter via EDGAR to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in connection with the Company’s filing on the date hereof of its registration statement on Form F-1 (the “Registration Statement”) relating to the initial public offering (“IPO”) of the Company’s ordinary shares.
This letter respectfully requests a waiver of the requirements of Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F (“Item 8.A.4”). The Registration Statement contains audited consolidated financial statements for the two years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2023, in each case prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, and unaudited interim financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2024.
Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F states that in the case of a company’s initial public offering, the registration statement on Form F-1 must contain audited financial statements as of a date not older than 12 months from the date of the offering unless a representation is made pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4. The Company is making this representation pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4, as amended and in effect as of the date hereof, which provides that a company may instead comply with the 15-month requirement “if the company is able to represent that it is not required to comply with the 12-month requirement in any other jurisdiction outside the United States and that complying with the 12-month requirement is impracticable or involves undue hardship.”
The Company hereby represents that:
| 1. | The Company is not currently a public reporting company in any jurisdiction. | |
| 2. | The Company is not required by any jurisdiction outside the United States to prepare, and has not prepared, financial statements audited under any generally accepted auditing standards for any interim period subsequent to June 30, 2024. | |
| 3. | Compliance with Item 8.A.4 at present is impracticable and involves undue hardship for the Company. | |
| 4. | The Company does not anticipate that its audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 will be available until after April 1, 2025 | |
| 5. | In no event will the Company seek effectiveness of its Registration Statement if its audited financial statements are older than 15 months at the time of the offering. |
The Company is filing this representation as an exhibit to the Registration Statement pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4.
| Sincerely, | |
| /s/ Kelvin Ang | |
| Kelvin Ang | |
| Chief Executive Officer and Director |