HLS
Systems International Ltd.
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Chardan
North China Acquisition Corporation
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(Exact
Name of Co-registrant as Specified in Its
Charter)
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(Exact
Name Of Co-registrant as Specified in Its
Charter)
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British
Virgin Islands
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Delaware
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(State
or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or
Organization)
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(State
or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or
Organization)
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6770
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6770
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(Primary
Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)
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(Primary
Standard Industrial Classification Code
Number)
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Not
Applicable
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20-2479743
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(I.R.S.
Employer Identification No.)
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(I.R.S.
Employer Identification
No.)
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Douglas
J. Rein
Amy
Hsiung
DLA
Piper US LLP
4365
Executive Drive, Suite 1100
San
Diego, California 92121-2133
Telephone:
(858) 677-1400
Fax:
(858) 677-1401
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we
will acquire an operating business in
China;
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we
will change our corporate domicile from the State of Delaware to
the
British Virgin Islands, which means we will be governed by the laws
of the
British Virgin Islands;
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we
will change our corporate name to “HLS Systems International Ltd.” as a
result of the redomestication
merger;
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the
majority of our board of directors and officers following the closing
of
the stock purchase will initially be persons who were designated
by
Advance Pacific;
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the
HLS Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association will
become
the equivalent of our certificate of incorporation and by-laws,
respectively;
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each
share of common stock of Chardan will automatically convert into
one share
of common stock of HLS; and
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each
outstanding warrant of Chardan will be assumed by HLS with the same
terms,
but exercisable for common stock of
HLS.
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Year
ending December 31,
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After-Tax
Profit
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2007
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$23,000,000
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2008
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$32,000,000
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2009
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$43,000,000
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2010
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$61,000,000
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2011
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$71,000,000
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To
consider and vote upon a proposal to adopt the stock purchase agreement,
dated as of February 2, 2006, as amended, among Chardan, and the
holders
of common stock of a holding company known as Gifted Time Holdings
Limited
(“Gifted Time Holdings”), a British Virgin Islands company that owns or
controls operating companies in the People’s Republic of China
collectively known as the “HollySys”, and the transactions contemplated
thereby;
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To
consider and vote upon the merger of Chardan into its wholly owned
subsidiary HLS Systems International Ltd. (“HLS”), formed under the laws
of the British Virgin Islands, for the purposes of reincorporation
and
redomestication of Chardan to the British Virgin Islands;
and
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To
consider and vote upon a proposal to adopt the Chardan 2006 Equity
Plan.
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Page
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SELECTED
HISTORICAL FINANCIAL DATA
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37
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GIFTED
TIME HISTORICAL FINANCIAL DATA
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37
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CHARDAN
HISTORICAL FINANCIAL DATA
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38
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SELECTED
UNAUDITED PRO FORMA COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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39
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COMPARATIVE
PER SHARE INFORMATION
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40
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MARKET
PRICE INFORMATION
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41
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RISK
FACTORS
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43
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FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS
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53
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THE
CHARDAN SPECIAL MEETING
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55
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CONSIDERATION
OF THE STOCK PURCHASE TRANSACTION
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59
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THE
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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80
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CHARDAN
REDOMESTICATION MERGER
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90
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THE
EXCHANGE OFFER
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100
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CHARDAN
2006 EQUITY PLAN
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107
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INFORMATION
ABOUT HOLLYSYS
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114
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MANAGEMENT’S
DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS
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125
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INFORMATION
ABOUT CHARDAN
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153
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PRO
FORMA UNAUDITED PRO FORMA COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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158
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DIRECTORS
AND MANAGEMENT
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166
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CERTAIN
RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
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171
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BENEFICIAL
OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
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173
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PRICE
RANGE OF SECURITIES AND DIVIDENDS
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175
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SHARES
ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE
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176
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DESCRIPTION
OF THE COMBINED COMPANY ’S SECURITIES FOLLOWING THE STOCK
PURCHASE
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176
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STOCKHOLDER
PROPOSALS
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179
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LEGAL
MATTERS
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179
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EXPERTS
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179
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DELIVERY
OF DOCUMENTS TO STOCKHOLDERS
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179
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WHERE
YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
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179
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INDEX
TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF CHARDAN NORTH CHINA ACQUISITION
CORP.
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FI-1
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INDEX
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF GIFTED TIME HOLDINGS
LIMITED
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FII-1
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Q.
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Why
is Chardan proposing the stock purchase?
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A.
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Chardan
was organized to effect a business combination with an operating
business
that has its primary operating facilities located in the People’s Republic
of China in any city or province north of the Yangtze River. The
operating
companies of Gifted Time Holdings, after the consummation of the
stock
purchase will be Beijing HollySys Co., Ltd., Hangzhou HollySys Automation
Co., Ltd., and Beijing HollySys Haotong Science & Technology
Development Co., Ltd. (these three companies are referred to as
“HollySys”). Together they are one of the leading automation and control
systems companies in China. The HollySys companies have, collectively,
demonstrated significant growth since commencing operations in 1996.
Chardan believes that HollySys is in a position to expand their business
through the development of additional products and the expansion
of their
customer base, including entry into the international market. As
a result,
Chardan believes that a business combination with Gifted Time Holdings
will provide Chardan stockholders with an opportunity to participate
in a
combined company with significant growth potential.
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Q.
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Why
is Chardan proposing the redomestication merger?
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A.
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Chardan
is proposing the reincorporation of itself into a company formed
under the
laws of the British Virgin Islands to align its income tax liabilities
with the location of its activities to reduce the overall impact
of
corporate income tax on the surviving company and its stockholders.
Because the future operations will be outside the United States,
the
redomestication merger is intended to reduce or entirely eliminate
the
income tax liability of the company in the United States and permit
greater flexibility in structuring acquisitions or creating subsidiaries
in China and other countries as the business of Gifted Time Holdings
expands as well as with regard to declaring dividends, should the
company
wish to do so in the future. By becoming a non-United States company,
Chardan believes that the successor company will only be taxed on
its
operations by the jurisdiction in which they are located and undertaken,
and will not be subject to additional income taxes merely by virtue
of the
location of its place of incorporation.
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Q.
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Why
is Chardan proposing the stock option plan?
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A.
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Chardan
is proposing the stock option plan to enable the company to attract,
retain and reward its directors, officers, employees and consultants
using
equity-based incentives.
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Q.
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What
is being voted on?
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A.
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There
are three proposals that you are being asked to vote on. The first
proposal is to adopt the stock purchase agreement, dated February
2, 2006,
as amended, and the transactions contemplated thereby (including
the
exchange offer). We refer to this proposal as the stock purchase
proposal.
The
second proposal is to approve the merger of Chardan with and into
HLS for
purposes of redomestication to the British Virgin Islands. We refer
to
this proposal as the redomestication merger proposal.
The
third proposal is to adopt Chardan’s 2006 Equity Plan. We refer to this
proposal as the stock option plan proposal.
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Q.
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What
vote is required in order to adopt the stock purchase
proposal?
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A.
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The
approval of the stock purchase will require the affirmative vote
of a
majority of the outstanding shares of Chardan’s common stock. If the
holders of 1,150,000 or more shares of common stock issued in Chardan’s
initial public offering vote against the stock purchase and demand
that
Chardan convert their shares into a pro rata portion of the trust
account
as of the record date, then the stock purchase will not be consummated.
No
vote of the holders of Chardan’s warrants is necessary to adopt the stock
purchase proposal or other proposals, and Chardan is not asking the
warrant holders to vote on the stock purchase proposal or the other
proposals. Chardan will not consummate the transaction described
in the
stock purchase proposal unless the redomestication merger is also
approved. Similarly, the redomestication merger will not be consummated
if
the stock purchase proposal is not approved. The approval of the
stock
option plan proposal is not a condition to the consummation of the
stock
purchase or redomestication merger proposals.
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Q.
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What
vote is required in order to adopt the redomestication
merger?
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The
affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding
shares of
Chardan common stock is required to approve the redomestication merger
proposal.
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Q.
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What
vote is required in order to adopt the stock option plan?
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A.
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The
approval of the stock option plan will require the affirmative vote
of a
majority of the shares represented and entitled to vote at the meeting.
The approval of the stock option plan is not a condition to the approval
of the stock purchase or the redomestication merger
proposals.
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Q.
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How
do the Chardan insiders intend to vote their shares?
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A.
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All
of the insiders who purchased their shares prior to the initial public
offering (including the officers and directors of Chardan) have agreed
to
vote the shares held by them on the stock purchase and redomestication
merger proposals in accordance with the vote of the majority of the
shares
of common stock issued in Chardan’s initial public offering. They have
indicated that they also will vote in favor of the stock option plan
proposal.
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Q.
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What
will I receive in the redomestication merger?
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A.
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Chardan
security holders will receive an equal number of shares of common
stock of
HLS in exchange for their Chardan common stock, and HLS will assume
the
outstanding Chardan warrants, the terms and conditions of which will
not
change, except that on exercise, they will receive HLS common stock.
However, as a result of the issuance of HLS shares in the stock purchase,
the ownership interests of Chardan stockholders will be diluted so
that
they will only own approximately 23% of HLS. If additional shares
are
issued to Advance Pacific as additional consideration, or if the
outstanding warrants are exercised, the current Chardan stockholders
will
experience further dilution in their ownership of the company. We
have
also agreed to issue up to 11,000,000 additional shares to Advance
Pacific
if HollySys’s earnings for fiscal years 2007 through 2011 reach certain
targets. Also, there are outstanding warrants to purchase 12,000,000
additional shares of Chardan stock. If some or all of the incentive
shares
are issued, or if some or all of the warrants are exercised, then
the
percentage of HLS that Chardan’s current shareholders will own will be
less than 23%.
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Q.
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How
will the redomestication merger be accomplished?
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A.
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Chardan
will merge into HLS, Chardan’s wholly owned subsidiary that is
incorporated as a British Virgin Islands company. As a result of
the
redomestication merger, each currently issued outstanding share of
common
stock of Chardan will automatically convert into a share of common
stock
of HLS. This procedure will result in your becoming a stockholder
in HLS
instead of Chardan.
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Q.
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Will
the Chardan stockholders be taxed as a result of the redomestication
merger?
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A.
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Generally
for United States federal income tax purposes, stockholders who are
United
States holders should not recognize any gain or loss as a result
of the
redomestication merger. We urge you to consult your own tax advisors
with
regard to your particular tax consequences of the redomestication
merger.
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Q.
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Will
Chardan be taxed on the redomestication merger?
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A.
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Chardan
will recognize gain, but not loss, as a result of the redomestication
merger equal to the difference, if any, between the adjusted tax
basis of
any Chardan asset and such asset’s fair market value at the effective time
of the redomestication merger.
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Q.
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How
much of the surviving company will existing Chardan stockholders
own?
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A.
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Advance
Pacific initially will receive 22,200,000 shares of common stock
of HLS,
representing 73% of the issued and outstanding shares immediately
after
the acquisition. After the stock purchase and if all the Gifted Time
Holdings preferred stockholders participate in the exchange offer
described below, if no Chardan stockholders demand that Chardan convert
their shares into a pro rata portion of the trust account and no
Chardan
stockholder exercises its appraisal rights, then Chardan’s stockholders
who own shares immediately prior to the stock purchase will own
approximately 23% of the outstanding common stock of HLS. Existing
Chardan
stockholders could own less than approximately 23% if one or more
Chardan
stockholders vote against the stock purchase proposal and demand
conversion of their shares into a pro rata portion of the trust account
or
if they exercise appraisal rights. Similarly, existing Chardan
stockholders will own less than 23% of HLS, if HLS issues (as additional
consideration) the additional shares to Advance Pacific by reason
of HLS
achieving the after-tax profit targets specified in the stock purchase
agreement for one or more of the five fiscal years beginning with
fiscal
2007. If HLS issues the additional shares as additional consideration
to
Advance Pacific, then the current stockholders of Gifted Time Holdings
will own approximately 82% of the issued and outstanding common stock
of
HLS, and existing Chardan stockholders will own approximately 18%
of the
issued outstanding common stock of HLS. The foregoing discussion
assumes
that none of the outstanding warrants to acquire common stock of
Chardan
will be exercised and that all of the shares of Gifted Time Holdings
preferred stock are exchanged for shares of common stock of HLS.
If some
or all of the warrants are exercised, then the current Chardan
stockholders will be diluted further.
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Q.
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How
much dilution will I experience?
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A.
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Currently
there are 7,000,000 shares of common stock of Chardan outstanding.
At
least 22,200,000 additional shares will be issued for acquisition
of
Gifted Time Holdings and 1,300,000 additional shares will be issued
for an
exchange offer for all of the outstanding preferred stock of Gifted
Time
Holdings, as more particularly described below. Therefore, current
shareholders will own approximately 23% of the company, which is
a
dilution of absolute ownership of 77%. To the extent shares representing
additional consideration are issued to Advance Pacific upon achieving
one
or more of the after-tax profit targets or outstanding warrants are
exercised, the current stockholders will experience further dilution
of
their ownership interest in the company.
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Q.
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What
will the name of the surviving company be after the stock
purchase?
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A.
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The
name of the surviving company following completion of the stock purchase
and redomestication merger will be “HLS Systems International
Ltd.”
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Q.
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Do
I have conversion rights?
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A.
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If
you hold shares of common stock issued in Chardan’s initial public
offering, then you have the right to vote against the stock purchase
proposal and demand that Chardan convert these shares into a pro
rata
portion of the trust account in which a substantial portion of the
net
proceeds of Chardan’s initial public offering are held. We sometimes refer
to these rights to vote against the stock purchase and demand conversion
of the shares into a pro rata portion of the trust account as conversion
rights. Holders of warrants issued by Chardan do not have any conversion
rights.
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Q.
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If
I have conversion rights, how do I exercise them?
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A.
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If
you wish to exercise your conversion rights, you must vote against
the
stock purchase proposal and at the same time demand that Chardan
convert
your shares into cash. If, notwithstanding your vote, the stock purchase
is completed, then you will be entitled to receive a pro rata portion
of
the trust account, including any interest earned thereon through
the
record date. You will be entitled to convert each share of common
stock
that you hold into approximately $__________. If you exercise your
conversion rights, then you will be exchanging your shares of Chardan
common stock for cash and will no longer own these shares. You will
be
entitled to receive cash for these shares only if you continue to
hold
these shares through the closing of the stock purchase and then tender
your stock certificate. If you do not make a demand to exercise your
conversion rights at the time you vote against the stock purchase
proposal
(or if you do not vote against the stock purchase proposal), you
will lose
your conversion rights, and that loss cannot be remedied. If the
stock
purchase is not completed, then your shares will be automatically
converted to cash.
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Q.
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What
happens to the funds deposited in the trust account after consummation
of
the stock purchase?
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A.
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Upon
consummation of the stock purchase:
· the
stockholders electing to exercise their conversion rights will receive
their pro rata portion of the funds in the trust account;
· up
to $27,000,000 of the funds in the trust account will be paid to
Advance
Pacific as part of the stock purchase consideration; and
· any
balance of the funds in the trust account will be retained by HLS
for
operating capital subsequent to the closing of the business
combination.
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Q.
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Under
the stock purchase agreement, what obligations will be owed to Advance
Pacific following the consummation of the stock purchase?
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A.
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HLS
will be obligated to pay Advance Pacific the deferred purchase price
(at
least $3 million, and possibly as much as $7 million, depending on
the
amount of funds remaining in the trust account in the event that
any of
Chardan’s stockholders exercises their conversion rights) and the
additional stock consideration based on the after-tax profits of
HLS. The
deferred cash purchase price will not be payable until HLS receives
at
least $60 million in subsequent financing or HLS generates positive
after-tax cash flow from HollySys.
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Q.
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Who
will manage the surviving company?
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A.
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The
surviving company will be managed by the current management of HollySys.
Dr. Wang Changli, who is currently the chief executive officer of
HollySys, will become the chief executive officer and a director
of HLS.
Madame Qiao Li, who is currently the Chairman of HollySys, will be
a
director and chairman of the HLS board of directors. Kerry S. Propper,
who
is currently the chief financial officer, secretary, and a director
of
Chardan, will also become a director of HLS. The four additional
directors
will be Jerry Zhang, Youxian Sun, Lewis Solomon and Leonard
Hafetz.
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Q.
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Who
will manage the subsidiaries of the surviving company following the
consummation of the stock purchase?
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A.
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The
surviving company will appoint, or arrange for the appointment of,
directors and managers of the subsidiaries of the surviving company,
including Gifted Time Holdings and HollySys, with a goal of maintaining
appropriate controls while promoting effective and efficient
operations.
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Q.
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Do
I have dissenter or appraisal rights?
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A.
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In
connection with the redomestication merger, the Chardan stockholders
have
appraisal rights under Delaware corporate law.
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Q.
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How
do I secure my dissenter or appraisal rights?
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A.
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To
secure your dissenter or appraisal rights, you must vote against
the
redomestication merger and file a demand for appraisal rights with
Chardan
before
the vote on the redomestication merger. Details about the required
contents of the appraisal demand, the deadlines for exercising rights
and
the process for determining the value of the shares are contained
in the
section “Chardan Redomestication Merger - Appraisal
Rights.”
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Q.
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What
happens if the stock purchase is not consummated?
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A.
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If
the stock purchase is not consummated, Chardan will be liquidated.
In any
liquidation, the funds held in the trust account, plus any interest
earned
thereon, together with any remaining net assets outside of the trust,
will
be distributed pro rata to Chardan’s common stockholders, excluding the
Chardan initial stockholders, each of whom has waived any right to
any
liquidation distribution.
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Q.
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When
do you expect the stock purchase to be completed?
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A.
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Pending
receipt of the required stockholder approvals, it is currently anticipated
that the stock purchase will be completed promptly following the
Chardan
special meeting on ____________, 2007.
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Q.
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If
I am not going to attend the Chardan special meeting in person, should
I
return my proxy card instead?
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A.
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Yes.
After carefully reading and considering the information contained
in this
proxy statement/prospectus, please fill out and sign your proxy card.
Then
return the enclosed proxy card in the return envelope as soon as
possible,
so that your shares may be represented at the Chardan special
meeting.
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Q.
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What
will happen if I abstain from voting or fail to vote?
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A.
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An
abstention or failure to vote will have the same effect as a vote
against
the stock purchase proposal, but will not have the effect of converting
your shares into a pro rata portion of the trust account. An abstention
or
failure to vote will also have the effect of voting against the
redomestication merger, but will have no effect on the approval of
the
stock option plan.
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Q.
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What
do I do if I want to change my vote?
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A.
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Send
a later-dated, signed proxy card to Chardan’s secretary prior to the date
of the special meeting or attend the special meeting in person and
vote.
You also may revoke your proxy by sending a notice of revocation
to
Chardan’s secretary at the address of Chardan’s corporate
headquarters.
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Q.
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If
my shares are held in “street name” by my broker, will my broker vote my
shares for me?
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A.
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No.
Your broker can vote your shares only if you provide instructions
on how
to vote. You should instruct your broker to vote your shares, following
the directions provided by your broker.
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Q.
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Do
I need to turn in my old certificates?
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A.
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No.
If you hold your securities in Chardan in certificate form, as opposed
to
holding them through your broker, you do not need to exchange them
for
certificates issued by HLS. Your current certificates will represent
your
rights in HLS. You may exchange them by contacting the transfer agent,
Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, Reorganization Department,
and following their requirements for reissuance. If you elect conversion
or appraisal, you will need to deliver your old certificate to
Chardan.
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Q.
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Who
can help answer my questions?
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A.
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If
you have questions about the stock purchase, you may write or call
Chardan
North China Acquisition Corporation, 625 Broadway, Suite 1111, San
Diego,
CA 92101. The phone number is (619)
795-4627.
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Q.
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What
is HLS’s proposed transaction?
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A.
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HLS
is offering to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Gifted Time
Preferred in exchange for shares of HLS common stock. Pursuant to
a stock
purchase agreement, subject to receipt of approval by the Chardan
stockholders and other conditions, HLS will acquire all of the outstanding
common stock of Gifted Time Holdings (representing approximately
94.5% of
the outstanding equity interests of Gifted Time Holdings). The exchange
offer is the final step in HLS’s plan to acquire all of the outstanding
shares of Gifted Time.
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Q.
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What
will I receive in exchange for my Gifted Time Preferred?
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A.
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In
exchange for each share of Gifted Time Preferred, you validly tender
and
do not properly withdraw before the expiration date, you will receive
of
one share of HLS common stock.
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Q.
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Can
HLS increase the consideration being offered in the offer for the
Gifted
Time Preferred?
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A.
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HLS,
in its sole discretion, may choose to amend the offer to change the
number
of shares of HLS common stock to be exchanged by HLS for each share
of
Gifted Time Preferred. However, HLS is under no obligation to increase
the
amount of consideration it is offering for share of Gifted Time Preferred
and has no intention of doing so. In the event that HLS were to choose
to
increase the consideration, HLS would extend the offer, if and as
required
by applicable U.S. securities laws.
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Q.
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What
are the conditions of
the offer? |
A.
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HLS’s
obligation to exchange shares of HLS common stock for shares of Gifted
Time Preferred pursuant to the exchange offer is subject to several
conditions referred to below under the section captioned “The Exchange
Offer—Conditions of the Offer ,” including the following:
· The
“stock purchase condition”—HLS must have acquired the outstanding shares
of common stock of Gifted Time Holdings.
· The
“stockholder approval condition”—The Chardan stockholders must have
approved the stock purchase and the redomestication merger.
· The
“registration statement condition”—the registration statement of which
this prospectus is a part shall have become effective, no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the registration statement shall
have been
issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated
or
threatened by the SEC, and HLS shall have received all necessary
state
securities law or “blue sky” authorizations.
The
satisfaction of any of the conditions to the exchange offer, including
those set forth above, will be determined by HLS in its good faith
discretion. In its sole discretion, HLS may waive any and all conditions
to the exchange offer, including those set forth above, to the extent
legally permissible.
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Q.
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Will
I be taxed on the HLS common stock and cash I receive?
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A.
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In
the opinion of DLA Piper US LLP, HLS’s counsel, the exchange will be
treated as a sale of shares of Gifted Time Preferred and will subject
the
holder to tax. This opinion is given in reliance on customary
representations and assumptions as to certain factual matters. See
the
section captioned “The Exchange Offer—Material U.S. Federal Income Tax
Consequences.”
BECAUSE
TAX MATTERS ARE COMPLICATED, HLS URGES YOU TO CONTACT YOUR OWN TAX
ADVISOR
TO DETERMINE THE PARTICULAR TAX CONSEQUENCES TO YOU OF THE
OFFER.
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Q.
|
What
percentage of HLS’s common stock will former holders of Gifted Time
Preferred own after the exchange offer?
|
A.
|
HLS
estimates that if all shares of Gifted Time Preferred are exchanged
pursuant to the exchange offer, former holders of Gifted Time Preferred
would own, in the aggregate, approximately 4% of the total outstanding
shares of HLS common stock (prior to any issuances of shares of HLS
based
on after-tax profit goals or upon exercise of any
warrants).
|
Q.
|
How
long do I have to decide whether to tender my shares in the exchange
offer?
|
A.
|
Unless
HLS extends the period of time during which the exchange offer is
open,
you have until 12:00 Midnight, New York City time, on
____________________, 2007, to decide whether to tender your shares
of
Gifted Time Preferred in the exchange offer. When HLS makes reference
to
the “expiration date” or the “expiration of the exchange offer” anywhere
in this prospectus and offer to exchange, this is the time to which
HLS is
referring, including, when applicable, any extension period that
may
apply. The expiration date is 30 days after the date of the Chardan
meeting, which is after the date that Chardan expects to have completed
the acquisition of the common stock of Gifted Time Holdings (assuming
that
the Chardan stockholders approve the acquisition transaction at the
Chardan meeting).
|
Q.
|
Can
the exchange offer be extended and under what
circumstances?
|
A.
|
HLS
may, in its sole discretion, extend the exchange offer at any time
or from
time to time. For instance, the exchange offer may be extended if
any of
the conditions specified in the section captioned “The Exchange
Offer—Conditions of the Offer ” are not satisfied prior to the scheduled
expiration date of the exchange offer. However, HLS will not extend
the
exchange offer for more than 30 days beyond the currently scheduled
expiration date.
|
Q.
|
How
will I be notified if the exchange offer is extended?
|
A.
|
If
HLS decides to extend the exchange offer, it will inform the holders
of
Gifted Time Preferred of that fact and will make a public announcement
of
the extension, not later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
business day after the day on which the exchange offer was otherwise
scheduled to expire.
|
Q.
|
How
do I tender my shares of Gifted Time Preferred?
|
A.
|
To
tender shares of Gifted Time Preferred, you must deliver the certificates
representing your shares of Gifted Time Preferred, together with
a
completed letter of transmittal and any other required documents
to HLS
not later than the time the exchange offer expires. For a complete
discussion on the procedures for tendering your shares of Gifted
Time
Preferred, see the section captioned “The Exchange Offer—Procedure for
Tendering.”
|
Q.
|
Until
what time can I withdraw tendered shares of Gifted Time
Preferred?
|
A.
|
You
can withdraw tendered shares of Gifted Time Preferred at any time
until
the expiration of the exchange offer and, if HLS, has not agreed
to accept
your shares of Gifted Time Preferred for exchange pursuant to the
exchange
offer, you can withdraw them at any time after ________________,
2007.
Once HLS accepts shares of Gifted Time Preferred for exchange pursuant
to
the exchange offer all tenders not previously withdrawn become
irrevocable. If HLS decides to provide a subsequent offering period,
HLS
will accept shares of Gifted Time Preferred tendered during that
period
immediately and thus you will not be able to withdraw shares of Gifted
Time Preferred tendered during any subsequent offering period. For
a
complete discussion on the procedures for withdrawing your shares
of
Gifted Time Preferred, see the section captioned “The Exchange
Offer—Withdrawal Rights.”
|
Q.
|
How
do I withdraw tendered shares of Gifted Time Preferred?
|
A.
|
To
withdraw shares of Gifted Time Preferred, you must deliver a written
notice of withdrawal, or a facsimile of one, with the required information
to HLS, during the period of time that you have the right to withdraw
the
shares of Gifted Time Preferred. For a complete discussion on the
procedures for withdrawing your shares of Gifted Time Preferred,
see the
section captioned “The Exchange Offer—Withdrawal Rights
.”
|
Q.
|
When
and how will I receive shares of HLS in exchange for my tendered
shares of
Gifted Time Preferred?
|
A.
|
HLS
will exchange all validly tendered and not properly withdrawn shares
of
Gifted Time Preferred promptly after the expiration date of the exchange
offer, subject to the terms of the exchange offer and the satisfaction
or
waiver of the conditions to the exchange offer, as set forth in the
section captioned “The Exchange Offer—Conditions of the Offer.” HLS will
pay for your validly tendered and not properly withdrawn shares of
Gifted
Time Preferred by promptly issuing shares of HLS after the expiration
date. In all cases, issuance of shares of HLS in exchange for tendered
shares of Gifted Time Preferred will be made only after timely receipt
by
HLS of certificates for such shares of Gifted Time Preferred and
a
properly completed and duly executed letter of transmittal and any
other
required documents.
|
Q.
|
If
I decide not to tender, how will the offer affect my shares of Gifted
Time
Preferred?
|
A.
|
You
will remain a holder of preferred stock of Gifted Time Holdings.
If the
stock purchase is consummated, Gifted Time Holdings will become a
subsidiary of HLS and you would hold minority interests in that
subsidiary, with no assurance of any future liquidity.
|
Q.
|
Are
dissenters’ rights available in the exchange offer?
|
A.
|
Dissenters’
rights are the rights of shareholders, in certain cases, to receive
“fair
value” for their shares, as determined by a judicial appraisal process.
Dissenters’ rights are not available in the exchange offer. See the
section captioned “The Exchange Offer—Purpose of the Offer; Dissenters’
Rights .”
|
Q.
|
Where
can I find more information on HLS and Chardan?
|
A.
|
You
can find more information about HLS and Chardan from various sources
described in the section captioned “Where You Can Find More Information
.”
|
Q.
|
Who
can I talk to if I have questions about the offer?
|
A.
|
If
you are a holder of Gifted Time Preferred, you may call Lori Johnson
at
(619) 795-4627.
|
Beneficial
Owner
|
BVI
Company
|
Percentage
of ownership of Gifted Time Holdings
|
Mei
Qinglin
|
Pioneer
Sum Investments Limited
|
5.516%
|
Wang
Changli
|
Ace
Lead Profits Limited
|
13.083%
|
Luo
An
|
Plus
View Investments Limited
|
9.084%
|
Xu
Shengheng
|
Acclaimed
Insight Investments Limited
|
22.066%
|
Song
Xuesong (legal representative and beneficial owner of Shanghai
Jinqiaotong)
|
Allied
Earn Investments Limited
|
18.388%
|
Wang
Changli
|
Sure
Grow Profits Limited
|
15.932%
|
Qiao
Li
|
Faith
Best Profits Limited
|
15.932%
|
Total
|
100%
|
Stockholder
|
Percentage
of ownership of Beijing HollySys
|
Beijing
No. 6 Institute Huasheng High-Tech Co., Ltd.*
|
24.11%
|
Beijing
New Technology Industry Development and Services Center*
|
1.78%
|
Shanghai
Jinqiaotong Industrial Development Co., Ltd. (beneficially owned
by Song
Xuesong and Qiao Yu)
|
20%
|
Wang
Changli
|
14.23%
|
Cheng
Wusi (holding stock on behalf of Xu Shengheng, who owns 24% of the
shares
of Beijing HollySys, and Mei Qinglin, who owns 6% of the shares of
Beijing
HollySys)
|
30%
|
Lou
An
|
9.88%
|
Total
|
100%
|
Stockholder
|
Percentage
of ownership of Hangzhou HollySys
|
Beijing
HollySys Co., Ltd.
|
40%
|
Gifted
Time Holdings (pursuant to stock transfer agreements entered into
with
Team Spirit and OSCAF)
|
60%
|
Total
|
100%
|
Stockholder
|
Percentage
of ownership of Advance Pacific
|
Mr.
Ka Wa Cheng
|
100%
|
Total
|
100%
|
APH
|
Advance
Pacific Holdings Limited
|
|
BJ
HLS
|
Beijing
HollySys
|
|
HZ
HLS
|
Hangzhou
HollySys
|
|
Huasheng
|
Beijing
No. 6 Institute Huasheng High-Tech Co., Ltd.
|
|
NT
Center
|
Beijing
New Technology Industry Development and Services Center
|
|
Haotong
|
Beijing
HollySys Haotong Science & Technology Development Co.,
Ltd.
|
|
Huake
|
Beijing
Huake Electronics Co., Ltd.
|
|
Electric
|
Beijing
HollySys Electric Tech. Co., Ltd.
|
|
Hollyinfo
|
Beijing
Hollyinfo Technology Co., Ltd.
|
|
Zhonghao
|
Beijing
HollySys Zhonghao Automation Engineering Technology Co.,
Ltd.
|
|
Hengye
|
Beijing
HollySys Hengye Science & Technology Co.,
Ltd.
|
Year
ending December 31,
|
After-Tax
Profit
|
|
2007
|
$23,000,000
|
|
2008
|
$32,000,000
|
|
2009
|
$43,000,000
|
|
2010
|
$61,000,000
|
|
2011
|
$71,000,000
|
·
|
Chardan’s
stockholders have approved the stock purchase agreement and the
redomestication merger proposals;
|
·
|
holders
of 20% or more of the shares of common stock issued in Chardan’s initial
public offering do not both vote against the stock purchase proposal
and
demand conversion of their shares into cash;
and
|
·
|
the
other conditions specified in the stock purchase agreement have been
satisfied or waived.
|
·
|
if
the stock purchase is not approved and Chardan fails to consummate
an
alternative transaction within the time allotted pursuant to its
Certificate of Incorporation, Chardan will be required to liquidate.
In
such event, the shares of common stock held by Chardan’s officers and
directors will be worthless because Chardan’s officers, directors and
initial stockholders are not entitled to receive any liquidation
proceeds.
Additionally, any warrants held by such persons will expire worthless
in
the event of liquidation. Chardan’s officers and directors hold 1,250,000
shares of Chardan common stock with an aggregate market value of
$_______
as of _________, 2007, and Chardan’s officers and directors hold 220,000
shares issuable upon exercise of warrants, which have an aggregate
market
value of $_______ as of _________,
2007;
|
·
|
after
the completion of the stock purchase, Mr. Kerry Propper will serve as
a member of the board of directors of HLS;
and
|
·
|
the
management of HollySys, which after the completion of the stock purchase
will be the management of HLS, has agreed in principle to retain
Chardan
Capital, LLC, an affiliate of Dr. Propper, Chardan’s Chairman, to provide
a variety of ongoing services to HollySys. These services will include
the
following: assistance with compiling and formatting filings required
under
securities laws (but not including legal advice); working with HLS
legal
and accounting professionals to assist HLS in achieving and maintaining
compliance with the applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act and
U.S. accounting standards; establishing and maintaining the capabilities
and procedures to manage relations with investors and the financial
community effectively; and advising HLS regarding corporate structure
and
development, including any strategic business opportunities and their
potential effects on the value of the company’s stock and overall business
prospects. Chardan contemplates that these services will be provided
on a
month-to-month basis, terminable at will by HLS without penalty,
for a
monthly fee of $30,000, plus reimbursement of expenses incurred in
performing the services. There is not yet a written agreement governing
the services to be provided, although the parties may formalize the
agreement, to include these and other terms, if the stock purchase
occurs.
|
·
|
Approval
by Chardan’s stockholders of the stock purchase and redomestication merger
proposals;
|
·
|
the
absence of any order or injunction preventing consummation of the
stock
purchase;
|
·
|
the
absence of any suit or proceeding by any governmental entity or any
other
person challenging the stock purchase or seeking to obtain from Advance
Pacific or Chardan any damages;
|
·
|
at
Chardan’s stockholders’ meeting, holders of less than 1,150,000 shares of
common stock issued in Chardan’s initial public offering, vote against the
stock purchase proposal and demand that Chardan convert their shares
into
a pro rata portion of the trust account;
and
|
·
|
Certain
key members of the management team of HollySys will have entered
into
employment agreements in form and substance acceptable to Chardan,
providing, among other things, for a term of three years at compensation
levels in effect prior to the closing of the stock purchase and including
intellectual property assignment and non-competition provisions to
be in
effect for a period of two years following termination of
employment.
|
·
|
Advance
Pacific’s representations and warranties that are qualified as to
materiality must be true and correct in all respects, and those not
qualified as to materiality must be true and correct in all material
respects, as of the date of completion of the stock purchase, except
representations and warranties that address matters as of another
date,
which must be true and correct as of that other date, and Chardan
must
have received a certificate from Advance Pacific to that
effect;
|
·
|
Advance
Pacific must have performed in all material respects all obligations
required to be performed by it;
|
·
|
Gifted
Time Holdings will have acquired ownership or control of
HollySys;
|
·
|
Advance
Pacific must have received all required and unconditional approvals
or
consents of governmental authorities, and Chardan must have received
written confirmation that such approvals and consents have been
received;
|
·
|
Chardan
must have received a written opinion, dated as of the closing date,
from
Guantao Law Firm, counsel to Gifted Time Holdings and HollySys, relating
to, among other things, the validity and enforceability of the stock
consignment agreements;
|
·
|
there
must not have occurred since the date of the stock purchase agreement
any
HollySys Material Adverse Effect, as defined in the stock purchase
agreement; and
|
·
|
the
Proxy Statement/Prospectus Information, as defined in the stock purchase
agreement, accurately describes Gifted Time Holdings, HollySys and
the
business in which it is engaged, and Advance Pacific, and the Proxy
Statement/Prospectus Information does not contain any untrue statement
of
a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order
to
make the statements in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus Information
not
misleading.
|
·
|
Chardan’s
representation and warranty regarding the compliance of the stock
purchase
agreement and the agreements contemplated by the stock purchase agreement
with the applicable provisions in Chardan’s Certificate of Incorporation
must be true and correct in all respects, as of the date of completion
of
the stock purchase;
|
·
|
Chardan
must have performed in all material respects all obligations required
to
be performed by them under the stock purchase agreement;
and
|
·
|
there
must not have occurred since the date of the stock purchase agreement
any
Chardan Material Adverse Effect, as defined in the stock purchase
agreement.
|
·
|
by
mutual written consent of Chardan and Advance
Pacific;
|
·
|
by
either party if the other party amends a schedule and such amendment
or
supplement reflects a material adverse change in the condition, operations
or prospects of its business;
|
·
|
by
either party if the closing has not occurred by August 10, 2007 (unless
such terminating party is in breach of any of its material covenants,
representations or warranties);
|
·
|
by
either party if the other party has breached any of its covenants
or
representations and warranties in any material respect and has not
cured
its breach within ten business days of the notice of an intent to
terminate, provided that the terminating party is itself not in
breach;
|
·
|
by
Advance Pacific, if the board of directors of Chardan (or any committee
thereof) shall have failed to recommend or withdraw or modify in
a manner
adverse to Gifted Time Holdings its approval or recommendation of
the
stock purchase agreement and any of the transactions contemplated
thereby;
|
·
|
by
Chardan if its board of directors shall have determined in good faith,
based upon the advice of outside legal counsel, that failure to terminate
the stock purchase agreement is reasonably likely to result in the
board
of directors breaching its fiduciary duties to stockholders by reason
of a
pending, unsolicited, bona fide written proposal for a superior
transaction; or
|
·
|
by
either party if, at the Chardan stockholder meeting, the stock purchase
agreement and the redomestication merger shall fail to be approved
and
adopted by the affirmative vote of the holders of Chardan’s common stock,
or 20% or more of the shares sold in Chardan’s initial public offering
request conversion of their shares into the pro rata portion of the
trust
account in accordance with the Chardan Certificate of
Incorporation.
|
·
|
to
extend, for any reason, the period of time during which the exchange
offer
is open;
|
·
|
to
delay acceptance for exchange of, or exchange of, any Gifted Time
Preferred pursuant to the exchange offer, or to terminate the exchange
offer and not accept or exchange any Gifted Time Preferred not previously
accepted or exchanged, upon the failure of any of the conditions
of the
exchange offer to be satisfied prior to the expiration date;
and
|
·
|
to
waive any condition or otherwise amend the exchange offer in any
respect.
|
Statement
of Income Data
|
Years
Ended June 30,
|
Six
Months Ended December 31, 2006
|
|||||
2002
|
2003
|
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
|||
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
||||||
Revenue
|
$28,569,576
|
$35,985,608
|
$79,572,832
|
$89,916,604
|
$48,507,253
|
||
Gross
margin
|
30.84%
|
31.61%
|
28.58%
|
31.3%
|
35.6%
|
36.7%
|
|
Operating
income
|
3,262,957
|
3,515,563
|
7,431,631
|
13,875,018
|
18,994,434
|
9,992,431
|
|
Subsidy
income
|
212,577
|
634,612
|
2,782
|
2,292,880
|
4,355,367
|
3,250,314
|
|
Net
income (1)
|
1,664,779
|
2,227,134
|
4,735,276
|
13,703,521
|
18,051,255
|
9,593,480
|
|
Weighted
average common shares
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
|
Income
per share (1)
|
0.07
|
0.10
|
0.21
|
0.62
|
0.81
|
0.43
|
|
Cash
dividends declared per share
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
0.06
|
0.07
|
-
|
|
Balance
Sheet Data
|
At
June 30,
|
December
31, 2006
|
|||||
2002
|
2003
|
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
|||
Total
current assets
|
$28,975,207
|
$35,668,012
|
$57,507,123
|
$78,478,569
|
$96,958.442
|
$114,353,339
|
|
Total
assets
|
39,429,145
|
47,202,013
|
70,006,021
|
96,064,098
|
120,024,159
|
140,018,282
|
|
Total
current liabilities
|
23,028,811
|
24,823,166
|
45,723,094
|
56,081,886
|
60,032,366
|
91,749,509
|
|
Long-term
liability
|
6,826,062
|
9,664,871
|
5,195,370
|
6,645,321
|
5,629,011
|
3,844,133
|
|
Minority
Interest
|
2,478,779
|
3,388,627
|
4,425,419
|
6,334,435
|
9,801,634
|
11,805,023
|
|
Stockholders’
equity
|
7,095,493
|
9,325,349
|
14,662,138
|
27,002,456
|
44,561,148
|
32,619,617
|
(1) |
Gifted
Time and Chardan have no discontinued operations, therefore net income
(loss) and net income (loss) per share has been
provided in lieu of income (loss) from continuing operations and
income
(loss) from continuing operations per
share.
|
For
the Period
From
March 10, 2005 (Inception)
to
December 31, 2006
|
For
the twelve months
Ended
December
31, 2006
|
||
Revenue
|
$
|
-
|
-
|
Interest
income on trust account
|
$
|
1,178,300
|
830,429
|
Net
loss (1)
|
$
|
(469,859)
|
(368,117)
|
Net
loss per share (1)
|
$
|
(0.08)
|
(0.05)
|
Dividends
paid per share
|
$
|
-
|
-
|
Total
assets (including cash deposited in trust account in 2005)
|
$
|
31,613,416
|
31,613,416
|
Common
shares subject to possible conversion
|
$
|
5,964,017
|
5,964,017
|
Stockholders’
equity
|
$
|
24,536,967
|
24,536,967
|
(1) |
Gifted
Time and Chardan have no discontinued operations, therefore net income
(loss) and net income (loss) per share has been
provided in lieu of income (loss) from continuing operations and
income
(loss) from continuing operations per
share.
|
Year
ended December 31, 2006
|
Year
ended December 31, 2005
|
||||||||
Assuming
Maximum
Approval
|
Assuming
Minimum Approval
|
Assuming
Maximum
Approval
|
Assuming
Minimum Approval
|
||||||
Revenue
|
88,991,831
|
88,991,831
|
$88,472,077
|
$88,472,077
|
|||||
Net
income
|
17,766,130
|
17,647,033
|
14,721,636
|
14,692,681
|
|||||
Net
income per share
|
0.58
|
0.60
|
0.52
|
0.53
|
|||||
Cash
dividends declared per share
|
-
|
-
|
0.05
|
0.05
|
|||||
December
31, 2006
|
|||||||||
Total
assets
|
150,494,985
|
145,336,767
|
|||||||
Long-term
debt
|
7,707,420
|
8,806,325
|
|||||||
Stockholders’
equity
|
57,642,651
|
51,385,528
|
Number
of shares of common
stock
assumed to be issued in stock purchase:
|
Gifted
Time
|
Chardan
(2)
|
Combined
Company (2)
|
|||||||
Assuming
maximum approval
|
23,500,000
|
7,000,000
|
30,500,000
|
|||||||
77.05
|
%
|
22.95
|
%
|
100
|
%
|
|||||
Assuming
minimum approval
|
23,500,000
|
5,850,575
|
29,350,575
|
|||||||
80.07
|
%
|
19.93
|
%
|
100
|
%
|
|||||
Net
income (loss) per share - historical
on
weighted average basis
|
||||||||||
Year
ended June 30, 2005:
|
$
|
0.62
|
||||||||
Year
ended June 30, 2006:
|
$
|
0.81
|
||||||||
Six
months ended December 31, 2006
|
$
|
0.43
|
||||||||
Year
ended December 31, 2005:
|
(0.03
|
)(1)
|
||||||||
Twelve
months ended December 31, 2006
|
(0.05
|
)
|
||||||||
Net
income per share - pro forma
on
weighted average basis - diluted
Year
ended December 31, 2005:
|
||||||||||
under
maximum approval assumption
|
$
|
0.52
|
||||||||
under
minimum approval assumption
|
$
|
0.53
|
||||||||
Twelve
months ended December 31, 2006:
under
maximum approval assumption
under
minimum approval assumption
|
$
$
|
0.58
0.60
|
||||||||
Net
assets at book value per share - June 30, 2006
(3)
|
$
|
4.22
|
$
|
1.34
|
(3)
|
|||||
Net
assets at book value per share - June 30, 2006
|
$
|
891.22
|
(1) |
Operations
of Chardan are for the period from March 10, 2005 (inception) to
December
31, 2006.
|
(2) |
Historical
per share amounts for Chardan were determined based upon the actual
weighted average shares outstanding during the periods presented.
The
combined pro forma per share amounts for Chardan and Gifted Time
Holdings
were determined based upon the assumed number of shares to be issued
under
the two different levels of approval at June 30,
2006.
|
(3) |
Calculated
based on the minimum approval, to record refund of funds ($5,964,017
plus
$190,370 for related interest) to dissenting
stockholders.
|
Over-the-Counter
Bulletin Board
|
||||||||||||
Chardan
Common
Stock
|
Chardan
Warrants
|
Chardan
Units
|
||||||||||
High
|
Low
|
High
|
Low
|
High
|
Low
|
|||||||
2005
Third Quarter
|
$6.00
|
$5.17
|
$1.15
|
$0.70
|
$7.50
|
$6.15
|
||||||
2005
Fourth Quarter
|
$5.75
|
$5.15
|
$1.86
|
$1.01
|
$9.30
|
$7.20
|
||||||
2006
First Quarter
|
$12.90
|
$5.74
|
$7.38
|
$1.65
|
$27.50
|
$9.10
|
||||||
2006
Second Quarter
|
$12.60
|
$7.45
|
$7.45
|
$2.60
|
$27.40
|
$12.50
|
||||||
2006
Third Quarter
|
$9.40
|
$7.02
|
$4.60
|
$2.50
|
$18.75
|
$12.00
|
||||||
2006
Fourth Quarter
|
$8.68
|
$8.53
|
$3.60
|
$3.59
|
$16.40
|
$16.00
|
||||||
2007
First Quarter
|
$8.70
|
$7.75
|
$3.65
|
$2.80
|
$15.85
|
$13.40
|
||||||
2007
Second Quarter (through May __, 2007)
|
$____
|
$____
|
$____
|
$___
|
$____
|
$____
|
·
|
Research
and development activities on existing and potential product
solutions;
|
·
|
Additional
engineering and other technical
personnel;
|
·
|
Advanced
design, production and test
equipment;
|
·
|
Manufacturing
services that meet changing customer
needs;
|
·
|
Technological
changes in manufacturing processes;
and
|
·
|
Expansion
of manufacturing capacity.
|
·
|
discuss
future expectations;
|
·
|
contain
projections of future results of operations or financial condition;
or
|
·
|
state
other “forward-looking”
information.
|
·
|
the
number and percentage of Chardan stockholders voting against the
stock
purchase proposal;
|
·
|
the
percentage of shares of Gifted Time Preferred exchanged for shares
of HLS
pursuant to the exchange offer;
|
·
|
changing
interpretations of generally accepted accounting
principles;
|
·
|
outcomes
of government reviews, inquiries, investigations and related
litigation;
|
·
|
continued
compliance with government
regulations;
|
·
|
legislation
or regulatory environments, requirements or changes adversely affecting
the businesses in which Gifted Time Holdings and HollySys are
engaged;
|
·
|
fluctuations
in customer demand;
|
·
|
management
of rapid growth;
|
·
|
timing
of approval and market acceptance of new
products;
|
·
|
general
economic conditions; and
|
·
|
geopolitical
events and regulatory changes.
|
·
|
approve
the stock purchase proposal;
|
·
|
approve
the redomestication merger proposal;
and
|
·
|
approve
the stock option proposal.
|
·
|
has
unanimously determined that the stock purchase proposal, the
redomestication merger proposal and the stock option proposal are
fair to
and in the best interests of Chardan and its
stockholders;
|
·
|
has
unanimously approved the stock purchase proposal, the redomestication
merger proposal and the stock option
proposal;
|
·
|
unanimously
recommends that Chardan common stockholders vote “FOR” the proposal to
adopt the stock purchase agreement,
|
·
|
unanimously
recommends that Chardan common stockholders vote “FOR” the proposal to
redomesticate in the British Virgin Islands;
and
|
·
|
unanimously
recommends that Chardan common stockholders vote “FOR” the proposal to
adopt the stock option plan.
|
·
|
You
can vote by signing and returning the enclosed proxy card.
If you vote by proxy card, your “proxy,” whose name is listed on the proxy
card, will vote your shares as you instruct on the proxy card.
If
you sign and return the proxy card but do not give instructions on
how to
vote your shares, your shares will be voted as recommended by the
Chardan
board “FOR ” the adoption of the stock purchase proposal, the
redomestication merger proposal, and the stock option plan
proposal.
|
·
|
You
can vote by telephone or on the internet by following the telephone
or
Internet voting instructions that are included with your proxy card.
If
you vote by telephone or by the Internet, you should not return the
proxy
card.
|
·
|
You
can attend the special meeting and vote in person. We
will give you a ballot when you arrive. However, if your shares are
held
in the name of your broker, bank or another nominee, you must get
a proxy
from the broker, bank or other nominee. That is the only way we can
be
sure that the broker, bank or nominee has not already voted your
shares.
|
·
|
You
may send another proxy card with a later
date;
|
·
|
You
may notify Dr. Propper, Chardan’s chairman, in writing before the special
meeting that you have revoked your proxy;
and
|
·
|
You
may attend the special meeting, revoke your proxy, and vote in person,
as
indicated above.
|
·
|
vote
against the stock purchase
proposal;
|
·
|
contemporaneous
with that vote against the stock purchase proposal, send a written
demand
to Chardan (Attn: Corporate Secretary) at 625 Broadway, Suite 1111,
San
Diego, CA 92101, which demand must
state:
|
a)
|
the
name and address of the
stockholder;
|
b)
|
that
the stockholder has voted against the stock purchase
transaction;
|
c)
|
that
the stockholder demands conversion of the stockholder's shares into
cash;
and
|
d)
|
the
address for delivery of the check for the aggregate conversion payment
to
be received by the stockholder if the shares are converted to
cash.
|
·
|
the
reorganization of HollySys, which was to take into account the best
tax
arrangements for all parties;
|
·
|
the
consideration to be paid for HollySys, which is reflected in the
stock
purchase agreement;
|
·
|
the
terms of the additional consideration to be paid over time based
on
performance criteria;
|
·
|
the
desire for a stock option plan; and
|
·
|
the
inclusion of certain Gifted Time Stockholders on the board of directors
of
the surviving corporation.
|
·
|
Corporate
History and Development;
|
·
|
Industry
and Market Analysis;
|
·
|
Business
Model
|
·
|
Operations
|
·
|
Financial
Performance
|
·
|
Business
Forecasting
|
·
|
Legal
Proceedings
|
·
|
Intellectual
Property
|
·
|
Significant
Contracts and Commitments
|
·
|
Properties
|
·
|
if
the stock purchase is not approved and Chardan fails to consummate
an
alternative transaction within the time allotted pursuant to its
Certificate of Incorporation, Chardan would be required to liquidate.
In
such event, the shares of common stock held by Chardan’s directors and
officers would be worthless because Chardan’s directors and officers are
not entitled to receive any of the liquidation proceeds, and the
warrants
they hold to acquire 220,000 shares of Chardan’s common stock at an
exercise price of $5.00 per share will expire worthless. These warrants
have an aggregate market value of $___, based on the closing price
of the
warrants on ______________, 2007.
|
·
|
Chardan’s
executives and directors and certain of their affiliates own a total
1,250,000 shares of Chardan common stock that have an aggregate
market value of $__________ based on Chardan’s share price of $_____ as of
___________, 2007. However, as Chardan’s directors and executives are
contractually prohibited from selling their shares prior to August 2,
2008 (during which time the value of the shares may increase or decrease),
it is impossible to determine what the financial impact of the stock
purchase will be on Chardan’s directors and
executives;
|
·
|
the
transactions contemplated by the stock purchase agreement provide
that
Kerry S. Propper will be a director of
HLS;
|
·
|
after
completion of the stock purchase, Chardan Capital LLC, an affiliate
of Dr.
Propper, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Huang, will provide a variety of ongoing
services to HollySys. Such services will be provided on a month-to-month
basis terminable at will by HollySys without penalty, at a cost to
HollySys of $30,000 per month. There is no written agreement governing
the
services to be provided, which will be on a non-exclusive basis and
include advice and help in meeting US public reporting requirements
and
accounting standards, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, corporate structuring
and
development, stockholder relations, corporate finance and operational
capitalization and such other similar services as suggested and agreed
to
by Chardan Capital, LLC.
|
Fiscal
Year Ending
|
6/30/06
|
6/30/07
|
6/30/08
|
6/30/09
|
6/30/10
|
Sales
|
91,433,000
|
125,382,000
|
164,780,000
|
225,459,000
|
295,082,000
|
Net
Earnings
|
17,541,000
|
21,421,000
|
28,933,000
|
37,365,000
|
48,446,000
|
Margin
|
19.18%
|
17.08%
|
17.56%
|
16.57%
|
16.42%
|
Name
|
Exchange
|
Price
(USD)
|
Market
Cap (MM)
|
Shares
Outstanding (MM)
|
Enterprise
Value (MM)
|
Price
Earnings Ratio (P/E)
|
|||||||||||||
GENERAL
ELECTRIC CO
|
NYSE
|
34.85
|
367,495.16
|
10,600.81
|
603,153.06
|
20.15
|
|||||||||||||
SIEMENS
AG
|
XETRA
|
73.05
|
65,091.58
|
891.09
|
68,134.61
|
17.54
|
|||||||||||||
Tier
1 Average
|
18.85
|
||||||||||||||||||
HONEYWELL
INTERNATIONAL
|
NYSE
|
36.63
|
31,246.48
|
855.15
|
35,110.02
|
17.44
|
|||||||||||||
EMERSON
ELECTRIC CO
|
NYSE
|
62.63
|
26,097.82
|
413.09
|
28,947.99
|
18.58
|
|||||||||||||
ABB
LTD
|
VIRT-X
|
6.54
|
13,549.39
|
2,028.41
|
14,899.11
|
22.59
|
|||||||||||||
Tier
2 Average
|
19.54
|
||||||||||||||||||
ROCKWELL
AUTOMATION INC
|
NYSE
|
48.71
|
8,960.89
|
181.60
|
9,128.94
|
19.18
|
|||||||||||||
EATON
CORP
|
NYSE
|
59.90
|
9,026.93
|
147.40
|
10,597.26
|
12.20
|
|||||||||||||
YOKOGAWA
ELECTRIC
|
TOKYO
|
13.54
|
3,439.94
|
243.23
|
3,973.58
|
33.59
|
|||||||||||||
INVENSYS
PLC
|
LONDON
|
0.19
|
1,069.83
|
5,686.36
|
2,856.25
|
NA
|
|||||||||||||
ECHELON
CORP
|
NASDAQ
|
6.88
|
280.62
|
40.12
|
120.97
|
NA
|
|||||||||||||
Tier
3 Average
|
21.66
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total
Average
|
20.16
|
Consigned
Stock
|
Consigning
Owner
|
%
of Total Shares
|
|||
Beijing
HollySys
|
Ace
Lead Profits Limited (Wang Changli)
|
14.23%
|
|||
Beijing
HollySys
|
Plus
View Investments Limited (Luo An)
|
9.88%
|
|||
Beijing
HollySys
|
Acclaimed
Insight Investments Limited (Cheng Wusi)
|
24%
|
|||
Beijing
HollySys
|
Pioneer
Sum Investments Limited (Mei Qinglin)
|
6%
|
|||
Beijing
HollySys
|
Allied
Earn Investments Limited (Shanghai Jinqiaotong Industrial Development
Co.,
Ltd.)
|
20%
|
·
|
a
citizen or resident of the United
States;
|
·
|
a
corporation, partnership, or other entity created or organized in
the
United States or under the laws of the United States or any state
within
the United States;
|
·
|
an
estate whose income is includible in gross income for U.S. federal
income
tax purposes, regardless of its source;
or
|
·
|
a
trust whose administration is subject to the primary supervision
of a U.S.
court and that has one or more U.S. persons who have the authority
to
control all substantial decisions of the
trust.
|
·
|
brokers
or dealers in securities or foreign
currencies;
|
·
|
stockholders
who are subject to the alternative minimum tax provisions of the
Code;
|
·
|
tax-exempt
organizations;
|
·
|
stockholders
who are “non-United States
persons”;
|
·
|
expatriates;
|
·
|
stockholders
that have a functional currency other than the United States
dollar;
|
·
|
banks,
mutual funds, financial institutions or insurance
companies;
|
·
|
stockholders
who acquired Chardan common stock in connection with stock option
or stock
purchase plans or in other compensatory transactions;
or
|
·
|
stockholders
who hold Chardan common stock as part of an integrated investment,
including a straddle, hedge, or other risk reduction strategy, or
as part
of a conversion transaction or constructive
sale.
|
·
|
Chardan
stockholders will not recognize any gain or loss upon the receipt
of HLS
common stock in exchange for Chardan common stock in connection with
the
redomestication merger;
|
·
|
the
aggregate tax basis of the HLS common stock received by a Chardan
stockholder in connection with the redomestication merger will be
the same
as the aggregate tax basis of the Chardan common stock surrendered
in
exchange for HLS common stock;
|
·
|
the
holding period of the HLS common stock received by a Chardan stockholder
in connection with the redomestication merger will include the holding
period of the Chardan common stock surrendered in connection with
the
redomestication merger; and
|
·
|
Chardan
will recognize gain, but not loss, as a result of the redomestication
merger equal to the difference, if any, between the adjusted tax
basis in
Chardan’s assets and such asset’s fair market value at the effective time
of the redomestication merger.
|
·
|
the
name of the combined company will be HLS Systems International
Ltd.
|
·
|
the
corporate headquarters and principal executive officers will be located
at
19 Jiancaicheng Middle Road, Xisanqi, Haidan District, Beijing, China
100096, which is currently the HollySys corporate headquarters;
and
|
·
|
the
combined company will cause the common stock, warrants and units
outstanding prior to the stock purchase, which are traded on the
OTC
Bulletin Board, to continue trading on either the OTC Bulletin Board
or
the Nasdaq Stock Market. HLS has applied for listing using the symbols
HLSS for the common stock, HLSSW for the warrants and HLSSU for the
units.
|
Year
ending December 31,
|
After
Tax Profit
|
|
2007
|
$23,000,000
|
|
2008
|
$32,000,000
|
|
2009
|
$43,000,000
|
|
2010
|
$61,000,000
|
|
2011
|
$71,000,000
|
·
|
organization,
standing, power;
|
·
|
capital
structure;
|
·
|
authorization,
execution, delivery, enforceability of the stock purchase
agreement;
|
·
|
absence
of conflicts or violations under organizational documents, certain
agreements and applicable laws or decrees, as a result of the contemplated
transaction, and receipt of all required consents and
approvals;
|
·
|
absence
of certain changes or events since September 30,
2005;
|
·
|
litigation;
|
·
|
compliance
with applicable laws;
|
·
|
absence
of brokers;
|
·
|
absence
of undisclosed liabilities;
|
·
|
accuracy
of information contained in the financial statements;
and
|
·
|
completeness
and truthfulness of the information and provisions in the stock purchase
agreement.
|
·
|
ownership
of the subsidiary stock;
|
·
|
labor
relations and employee plans;
|
·
|
environmental
liability;
|
·
|
taxes,
tax returns and audits;
|
·
|
licenses
and permits;
|
·
|
the
absence of illegal or improper
transactions;
|
·
|
the
collectibility of accounts
receivable;
|
·
|
the
nature and condition of inventory;
|
·
|
the
contracts to which they are
parties;
|
·
|
intellectual
property rights;
|
·
|
non-real
estate leases;
|
·
|
insurance;
|
·
|
the
accuracy and completeness of books and records;
|
·
|
related
party transactions; and
|
·
|
affiliates
of Beijing HollySys.
|
·
|
their
acquisition of HLS common stock being solely for their own
account;
|
·
|
their
status as accredited investors;
|
·
|
the
adequacy of the information they received regarding
Chardan;
|
·
|
the
restricted nature of the securities that they will receive under
the stock
purchase agreement; and
|
·
|
the
placement of legends on the certificates representing the securities
issued to them under the stock purchase
agreement.
|
·
|
filings
with the SEC and the accuracy and completeness of the information
contained in those filings, including the financial statements and
the
lack of undisclosed liabilities;
and
|
·
|
the
amount of funds contained in the trust
account.
|
·
|
not
declare, set aside or pay any dividends on, or make any other
distributions in respect of, any of their capital
stock;
|
·
|
not
pledge, sell, transfer, dispose or otherwise encumber or grant any
rights
or interests to any others in the HollySys stock or the HollySys
operating
companies stock;
|
·
|
not
pledge, sell, transfer, lease dispose of or otherwise encumber any
property or assets of any HollySys Operating Company, other than
in
accordance with past practice or in the normal course of
business;
|
·
|
not
issue, deliver, sell or grant any shares of its capital stock, any
securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or any options,
warrants
or rights to acquire, any shares of capital
stock;
|
·
|
not
make or agree to a general wage or salary increase or enter into
any
employment contract, increase the compensation payable or to become
payable to any officer or employee of any HollySys Operating Company
or
adopt or increase the benefits of any bonus, insurance, pension or
other
employee benefit plan, payment or arrangement, except for those increases
consistent with past practices, normally occurring as the result
of
regularly scheduled salary reviews and increases, and except for
increases
directly or indirectly required as a result of changes in applicable
laws;
|
·
|
not
amend the organization documents of the HollySys operating
companies;
|
·
|
not
merge or consolidate with, or acquire all or substantially all the
assets
of, or otherwise acquire, any other business
operations;
|
·
|
not
make any payments outside the ordinary course of
business;
|
·
|
not
make any capital expenditures, except in accordance with prudent
business
and operational practices consistent with prior
practice;
|
·
|
provide
Chardan with access to information regarding the business of the
HollySys
operating companies;
|
·
|
maintain
in effect insurance of the types and in the amounts customarily acquired
to protect the assets and business of the HollySys operating
companies;
|
·
|
protect
the confidential information of the HollySys operating companies
that they
have received in the course of the
negotiations;
|
·
|
refrain
from competing with the HollySys operating
companies;
|
·
|
refrain
from any discussions or negotiations with any other party regarding
the
issuance of any capital stock or the sale or transfer of any portion
of
the business of any HollySys operating
company;
|
·
|
refrain
from engaging in any transaction involving the securities of
Chardan;
|
·
|
disclose
certain material information that arises or comes to be known between
the
date of the stock purchase agreement and the date of the
closing;
|
·
|
use
their best efforts to obtain all authorizations, consents, orders
and
approvals that may be or become necessary for their execution and
delivery
of, and the performance of their obligations pursuant to, the stock
purchase agreement;
|
·
|
not
acquire any rights to or use any of the intellectual property of
the
HollySys operating companies;
|
·
|
pay
any taxes that become due as a result of the issuance to them of
HLS
common stock;
|
·
|
do
all things necessary to effectuate the HollySys stock purchase transaction
contemplated under the stock purchase
agreement;
|
·
|
complete
the restructuring related to the formation and ownership of Gifted
Time
Holdings and have Gifted Time Holdings obtain any required stockholder
approval for the stock purchase transaction contemplated under the
stock
purchase agreement;
|
·
|
provide
to Chardan such information as is necessary regarding Gifted Time
Holdings
and the HollySys operating companies as is required under the rules
of the
SEC for the proxy statements; and
|
·
|
provide
to Chardan interim internal financial and management reports regarding
the
conduct of the business of the HollySys operating
companies.
|
·
|
conduct
its business in the ordinary course, not sell or issue any capital
securities of Chardan, encumber any of the assets of Chardan or incur
any
debt out of the ordinary course, not declare or pay any dividend,
or make
any general wage increase;
|
·
|
not
change its Certificate of Incorporation, by-laws, articles or other
organizational documents;
|
·
|
call
the stockholders meeting to which this proxy
relates;
|
·
|
incorporate
HLS;
|
·
|
cause
the board of HLS, after the closing, to initially consist of seven
persons, of which two members will be designated by Advance Pacific,
one
member will be designated by the board of Chardan and four members
will
satisfy the independence requirements of Nasdaq;
and
|
·
|
apply
to have the shares of HLS listed in the Nasdaq Global Market following
the
closing.
|
·
|
solicit,
initiate or encourage the submission of any acquisition
proposal;
|
·
|
enter
into any agreement with respect to any acquisition proposal;
or
|
·
|
participate
in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any person
any
information with respect to, or take any other action to facilitate
any
inquiries or the making of any proposal that constitutes, or may
reasonably be expected to lead to, any acquisition
proposal.
|
·
|
the
board of directors determines, in good faith that the acquisition
proposal
constitutes or is reasonably likely to lead to a superior proposal;
and
|
·
|
the
board of directors determines in good faith that failure to submit
such
superior proposal to its stockholders would cause the board of directors
to violate its fiduciary duties to the stockholders under applicable
law.
|
·
|
solicit,
initiate or encourage discussions regarding or the submission of
any
acquisition proposal;
|
·
|
enter
into any agreement with respect to any acquisition proposal;
or
|
·
|
participate
in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any person
any
information with respect to, or take any other action to facilitate
any
inquiries or the making of any proposal that constitutes, or may
reasonably be expected to lead to, any acquisition
proposal.
|
·
|
obtaining
all necessary actions or non-actions, waivers, consents and approvals
from
governmental entities and making all necessary registrations and
filings,
including filings with governmental entities, if any, and taking
all
reasonable steps as may be necessary to obtain an approval or waiver
from,
or to avoid an action or proceeding by, any governmental
entity;
|
·
|
obtaining
all necessary consents, approvals or waivers from third
parties;
|
·
|
defending
any lawsuits or other legal proceedings, whether judicial or
administrative, challenging the stock purchase agreement or any other
agreement contemplated by the stock purchase agreement or the consummation
of the stock purchase or other transactions contemplated by the stock
purchase agreement including seeking to have any stay or temporary
restraining order entered by any court or other governmental entity
vacated or reversed; and
|
·
|
executing
and delivering any additional instruments necessary to consummate
the
stock purchase or other transactions contemplated by the stock purchase
agreement and to fully carry out the purposes of the stock purchase
agreement and the transaction agreements contemplated by the stock
purchase agreement.
|
·
|
any
representation or warranty made by it contained in the stock purchase
agreement becoming inaccurate or misleading;
or
|
·
|
the
failure by it to comply with or satisfy in any material respect any
covenant, condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied
by it
under the stock purchase agreement.
|
·
|
to
consult with each other before issuing, and provide each other the
opportunity to review and comment upon, any press release or other
public
statements with respect to the stock purchase and the other transactions
contemplated by the stock purchase agreement;
and
|
·
|
not
to issue any press release or make any public statement prior to
this
consultation, except as may be required by applicable laws or court
process.
|
·
|
HLS
will have delivered the HLS stock and made the payments specified
in the
stock purchase agreement, and Advance Pacific will have received
confirmations of the payment of the cash portion thereof and such
other
documents, certificates and instruments as may be reasonably requested
by
Advance Pacific;
|
·
|
Advance
Pacific must have received a legal opinion, dated as of the closing,
from
DLA Piper US LLP, counsel to
Chardan;
|
·
|
HLS
will be an existing company under the laws of the British Virgin
Islands;
|
·
|
Gifted
Time Holdings shall have entered into, effective as of the closing,
the
employment agreements with the key executives, Dr. Wang Changli and
Madame
Qiao Li, the forms of which are exhibits to the stock purchase agreement;
|
·
|
Chardan
must have performed all its obligations and all of Chardan’s
representations and warranties must be true and correct;
|
·
|
at
the closing, there will have been no material adverse change in the
assets, liabilities or financial condition of Chardan and HLS from
that
shown in the Chardan balance sheet and related statements of income,
and
between the date of the stock purchase agreement and the closing
date,
there will have not occurred an event which, in the reasonable opinion
of
HollySys, would have had a material adverse effect on the operations,
financial condition or prospects of Chardan and HLS;
|
·
|
effective
as of the closing, the directors of Chardan who are not continuing
as
directors and officers of Chardan (or HLS, as the case may be) will
have
resigned and agreed that they have no claim for employment compensation
in
any form from Chardan; and
|
·
|
disbursement
of funds held in the trust account maintained for
Chardan.
|
·
|
Advance
Pacific will have delivered the Gifted Time Holdings
stock;
|
·
|
the
stock consignment agreements will have been executed and
delivered;
|
·
|
at
the closing, there will have been no material adverse change in the
assets, liabilities, financial condition or prospects of Gifted Time
Holdings, HollySys or its business from that shown or reflected in
the
financial statements of September 30, 2005 and as to be described
in the
Chardan proxy statement, and between the date of the stock purchase
agreement and the closing date, there shall not have occurred an
event
which, in the reasonable opinion of Chardan would have a material
adverse
effect on Gifted Time Holdings or
HollySys;
|
·
|
the
information about Gifted Time Holdings, HollySys and their subsidiaries
and management provided for inclusion in the Chardan proxy statement
at
the time of its distribution and at the closing, will accurately
reflect
the business, Gifted Time Holdings, HollySys and Advance Pacific,
and not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omission;
|
·
|
Chardan
must have received a legal opinion, dated as of the closing, from
Guantao
Law Firm, counsel to Gifted Time Holdings and HollySys, regarding
the
validity and enforceability of the stock consignment
agreements;
|
·
|
Gifted
Time Holdings, HollySys and each Gifted Time Stockholder must have
performed all their obligations and all of their representations
and
warranties must be true and correct;
and
|
·
|
each
of Dr. Wang Changli and Madame Qiao Li will have entered into the
form of
employment agreement which is an exhibit to the stock purchase
agreement.
|
·
|
by
mutual written consent of Chardan and Advance
Pacific;
|
·
|
by
either party if the other party amends a schedule and such amendment
or
supplement reflects a material adverse change in the condition, operations
or prospects of its business;
|
·
|
by
either party if the closing has not occurred by August 10, 2007 (unless
such terminating party is in breach of any of its material covenants,
representations or warranties);
|
·
|
by
either party if the other party has breached any of its covenants
or
representations and warranties in any material respect and has not
cured
its breach within 10 business days of the notice of an intent to
terminate, provided that the terminating party is itself not in
breach;
|
·
|
by
Chardan if its board of directors shall have determined in good faith,
based upon the advice of outside legal counsel, that failure to terminate
the stock purchase agreement is reasonably likely to result in the
board
of directors breaching its fiduciary duties to stockholders by reason
of a
pending, unsolicited, bona fide written proposal for a superior
transaction; or
|
·
|
by
either party if, at the Chardan stockholder meeting, the stock purchase
agreement and redomestication merger and the transactions contemplated
thereby shall fail to be approved and adopted by the affirmative
vote of
the holders of Chardan’s common stock, or 20% or more of the shares sold
in the initial public offering are presented for conversion into
the pro
rata portion of the trust account in accordance with the Chardan
certificate of incorporation.
|
·
|
Dr.
Wang Changli as the chief executive officer,
and
|
·
|
Madame
Qiao Li as the chairperson.
|
Provision
|
Chardan
|
HLS
|
||
Number
of Authorized Shares
|
21
million shares of which 20 million are shares of common stock, $.0001
par
value per share and 1 million are shares of preferred stock, par
value
$.0001 per share
|
101
million shares of which 100 million are ordinary shares; and 1 million
are
preference shares, each with a par value of $.001 per
share
|
||
Par
Value
|
Stated
in United States dollars.
Changes
in capital generally require stockholder approval
|
No
par value
Changes
in capital may be made upon resolution of members or
directors.
|
||
Preferred
(Preference) Shares
|
Directors
may fix the designations, powers, preferences, rights, qualifications,
limitations and restrictions by resolution.
|
Same
as Chardan, but subject to the memorandum.
|
||
Registered
Shares
|
Shares
of capital stock of Chardan to be registered shares.
|
Same
as Chardan
|
||
Purpose
of Corporation
|
To
engage in any lawful act not prohibited by law.
|
Same
as Chardan subject to the prohibition of conducting certain business
activities in the BVI ( i.e.,
banking,
insurance and local BVI businesses).
|
||
Amendment
of Certificate of Incorporation
|
Requires
stockholder vote and, except in limited circumstances, by the board
of
directors.
|
Requires
vote of the members, being a person that holds shares, or as permitted
by
the BCA by the board of directors and articles.
|
||
Provision
|
Chardan
|
HLS
|
Registered
Office
|
9
East Loockerman Street
Kent
County
Dover,
Delaware
|
P.O.
Box 173
Kingston
Chambers
Road
Town,
Tortola,
British Virgin Islands
|
||
Transfer
Agent
|
Continental
Stock Transfer & Trust Company
|
Same
as Chardan
|
||
Voting
Rights
|
Common
stock: one share, one vote on all matters before the holders of the
common
stock.
Other
classes of equity may have voting rights as assigned to them by the
board
of directors or as approved by stockholders.
Directors
elected by plurality, all other matters either by majority of issued
and
outstanding or majority of those present and entitled to vote as
specified
by law.
|
Same
as Chardan
Directors
elected by plurality as provided in memorandum and articles; all
other
matters by a majority of those shares present and entitled to
vote.
|
||
Redemption
of Equity
|
Shares
may be repurchased or otherwise acquired, provided the capital of
the
company will not be impaired by the acquisition.
Company
may hold or sell treasury shares.
|
Same
as Chardan
|
||
Stockholder/Member
consent
|
Permitted
as required for a vote at a meeting
|
Same
as Chardan
|
||
Notice
Requirements for Stockholder/Member Nominations and Other
Proposals
|
In
general, to bring a matter before an annual meeting or to nominate
a
candidate for director, a stockholder must give notice of the proposed
matter or nomination not less than 60 days and not more than 90 days
prior
to public disclosure of the date of annual meeting.
In
the event that less than 70 days notice or prior public disclosure
of the
date of the meeting is given or made to stockholder, to be timely,
the
notice must be received by the company no later than the close of
business
on the 10th day
following the day on which such notice of the date of the meeting
was
mailed or public disclosure was made, whichever first
occurs.
|
To
bring a matter before an annual meeting or to nominate a candidate
for
director, a member must give notice to the company of not less than
30
days nor more than 60 days.
If
the member is making a proposal on a matter or nominating a candidate
for
director and there is less than 40 days notice or prior public disclosure
of the date is given or made to members, to be timely, must be received
no
later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day
on
which such notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or such public
disclosure was made.
|
||
Meetings
of Stockholders/Members - Presence
|
In
person or by proxy or other appropriate electronic means.
|
In
person or by proxy or by any teleconference means where persons can
hear
one another.
|
||
Meeting
of Stockholder/Member - Notice
|
Not
less than 10 days or more than 60 days.
|
Not
less than seven days; no maximum limit.
|
||
Provision
|
Chardan
|
HLS
|
Meeting
of Stockholders/Members - Call of Meeting
|
Regular
and annual meetings shall be called by the directors. Special meetings
may
be called only by majority of board of directors, chief executive
officer
or by a majority of the issued and outstanding capital stock entitled
to
vote.
|
Meetings
may be called by the directors or by members holding 30 percent of
the
outstanding votes. The articles require an annual meeting of the
members
for the election of directors to be called by the directors.
Meetings
on short notice may be called upon waiver or presence of all the
members
holding shares entitled to vote or 90% of the total number of shares
entitled to vote agree to short notice.
|
||
Meeting
of Stockholders /Members- Place
|
Within
or without Delaware
|
Within
or outside the BVI as the directors consider necessary or
desirable.
|
||
Meeting
of Stockholders/Members - Quorum
|
Majority
of the capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote
at
meeting. Meeting may be adjourned for up to 30 days without additional
notice to stockholders.
|
One-half
of the votes of the shares of each class or series entitled to vote.
Adjournment for such time as directors determine.
|
||
Meeting
of Stockholders/Members - Record Date
|
As
fixed by the directors, no more than 60 days and no less than 10
days
before the meeting. If not fixed, the day before notice of meeting
is
given.
|
As
fixed by the directors
|
||
Directors
- Election
|
By
the stockholders as entitled by their terms, including the holders
of
common stock.
|
By
the members as entitled by their terms, including the holders of
common
stock
|
||
Directors
- Term
|
Staggered
board of three classes; for terms of three years
|
Annual
term
|
||
Directors
- Removal
|
By
the stockholders for cause.
|
By
resolution of the members for cause or without cause on a vote of
the
members representing 66-2/3 of the shares entitled to vote or the
directors for any reason on a resolution signed by all the other
directors
absent from meetings for six months without leave of the board, death
or
incapacity.
|
||
Directors
- Vacancy
|
May
be filled by majority of remaining directors (unless they are the
result
of the action of stockholders) and newly created vacancies may be
filled
by majority of remaining directors.
|
May
be filled by members or the board of directors.
|
||
Directors
- Number
|
Unless
established by certificate of incorporation, as determined by board
of
directors, but not less than one.
|
Same
as Chardan.
|
||
Provision
|
Chardan
|
HLS
|
Directors
- Quorum and Vote Requirements
|
A
majority of the entire board. The affirmative vote of a majority
of
directors present at a meeting at which there is a quorum constitutes
action by the board of directors.
|
One-half
of the total number of directors, present in person or by alternate,
except if there are only two or less directors then a quorum will
be all
the directors.
|
||
Directors
- Managing Director
|
Not
applicable
|
Provision
for the board to select one or more directors to be managing directors,
provide for special remuneration and assign such powers as the board
determines so long as it is not a power that requires board
approval.
|
||
Directors
- Powers
|
All
powers to govern the corporation not reserved to the
stockholders.
|
Same
as Chardan
|
||
Directors
- Committees
|
Directors
may establish one or more committees with the authority that the
board
determines.
|
Same
as Chardan
|
||
Directors
- Consent Action
|
Directors
may take action by written consent of all directors, in addition
to action
by meeting.
|
By
written consent in same manner as if at a meeting in persons, by
directors
or by alternate.
|
||
Director
- Alternates
|
Not
permitted
|
Directors
may, by written instrument, appoint an alternate who need not be
a
director, who may attend meetings in the absence of the director
and vote
and consent in the place of the directors.
|
||
Directors
- Appoint Officers
|
Directors
appoint the officers of the corporation, subject to the by-laws,
with such
powers as they determine.
|
Same
as Chardan, subject to the articles of association
|
||
Director
- Limitation of Liability
|
Directors
liability is limited, except for (i) breach of loyalty, (ii) act
not in
good faith or which involves international misconduct or a knowing
violation of law, (iii) willful violation of law in respect of payment
of
dividend or redeeming shares, or (iv) actions in which director receives
improper benefit.
|
Duty
to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests
of the
company and exercise care, diligence and skill of a reasonably prudent
person acting in comparable circumstances. No provisions in the
memorandum, articles or agreement may relieve a director, officer,
or
agent from the duty to act in accordance with the memorandum or articles
or from personal liability arising from the management of the business
or
affairs of the company.
|
||
Director
- Indemnification Insurance
|
Company
may purchase insurance in relation to any person who is or was a
director
or officer of the company.
|
Same
as Chardan, extends to a liquidator of the company.
|
||
Provision
|
Chardan
|
HLS
|
Amendments
to Organizational Documents
|
Amendments
must be approved by the board of directors and by a majority of the
outstanding stock entitled to vote on the amendment, and if applicable,
by
a majority of the outstanding stock of each class or series entitled
to
vote on the amendment as a class or series. By-laws may be amended
by the
stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting or, if so provided by
the
certificate of incorporation, by the board of directors.
|
Amendments
to the memorandum and articles may be made by resolution of the members
or
by the directors.
|
||
Sale
of Assets
|
The
sale of all or substantially all the assets of the company requires
stockholder approval.
|
Subject
to the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the sale of more than 50%
of the assets of the company requires member approval.
|
||
Dissenters
Rights
|
Provision
is made under Delaware corporate law to dissent and obtain fair value
of
shares in connection with certain corporate actions that require
stockholder approval or consent.
|
Provision
is made under the BCA to dissent and obtain fair value of shares
in
connection with certain corporate actions that require member approval
or
consent.
|
·
|
to
extend, for any reason, the period of time (up to a maximum of 20
days)
during which the exchange offer is
open;
|
·
|
to
delay acceptance for exchange of, or exchange of, any Gifted Time
Preferred pursuant to the exchange offer, or to terminate the exchange
offer and not accept or exchange any Gifted Time Preferred not previously
accepted or exchanged, upon the failure of any of the conditions
of the
exchange offer to be satisfied prior to the expiration date;
and
|
·
|
to
waive any condition or otherwise amend the exchange offer in any
respect.
|
·
|
no
warrants to purchase shares of HLS common stock, of which there were
12,000,000 outstanding as of January 31, 2007, are exercised prior
to the
expiration of the offer;
|
·
|
no
holders of Chardan common stock elect to redeem such shares or exercise
dissenter’s rights in connection with their approval of the stock purchase
agreement and the redomestication merger;
and
|
·
|
HLS
exchanges all of the shares of Gifted Time Preferred pursuant to
the
exchange offer;
|
·
|
a
citizen or resident of the United
States;
|
·
|
a
corporation, partnership, or other entity created or organized in
the
United States or under the laws of the United States or any state
within
the United States;
|
·
|
an
estate whose income is includible in gross income for U.S. federal
income
tax purposes, regardless of its source;
or
|
·
|
a
trust whose administration is subject to the primary supervision
of a U.S.
court and that has one or more U.S. persons who have the authority
to
control all substantial decisions of the
trust.
|
·
|
brokers
or dealers in securities or foreign
currencies;
|
·
|
shareholders
who are subject to the alternative minimum tax provisions of the
Code;
|
·
|
tax-exempt
organizations;
|
·
|
shareholders
who are “non-United States
persons”;
|
·
|
expatriates;
|
·
|
shareholders
that have a functional currency other than the United States
dollar;
|
·
|
banks,
mutual funds, financial institutions or insurance
companies;
|
·
|
shareholders
who acquired Gifted Time Preferred in connection with stock option
or
stock purchase plans or in other compensatory transactions;
or
|
·
|
shareholders
who hold Gifted Time Preferred as part of an integrated investment,
including a straddle, hedge, or other risk reduction strategy, or
as part
of a conversion transaction or constructive
sale.
|
·
|
the
“stockholder approval” condition - the holders of Chardan stock must have
approved the stock purchase and the redomestication merger;
|
·
|
the
“stock purchase condition” - HLS must have acquired the outstanding shares
of Gifted Time common stock; and
|
·
|
the
“registration statement condition”—the registration statement of which
this prospectus is a part shall have become effective, no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the registration statement shall
have been
issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated
or
threatened by the SEC, and HLS shall have received all necessary
state
securities law or “blue sky”
authorizations.
|
·
|
stock
options;
|
·
|
stock
appreciation rights;
|
·
|
restricted
stock;
|
·
|
restricted
stock units;
|
·
|
performance
units and shares
|
·
|
deferred
compensation awards; and
|
·
|
other
stock-based awards.
|
·
|
are
intended to qualify as “incentive stock options” within the meaning of
Section 422 of the Code; or
|
·
|
are
not intended to be so qualified.
|
·
|
expressly
provided in the plan,
|
·
|
expressly
provided in the grant of an award,
or
|
·
|
discussed
above with respect to the transferability of stock options in certain
limited exceptions,
|
·
|
Offer
maintenance and training services to its customers, which help to
cut
costs and improve operating
efficiency.
|
Location
|
Approximate
Sq. Meters
|
Ownership
|
Beijing
|
18,000
|
Owned
|
Beijing
|
4,937
|
Leased
|
Hangzhou
|
25,000
|
Owned
|
·
|
New
Huake Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
(37.5%);
|
·
|
Beijing
Haotong Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd.
(70%);
|
·
|
HollySys
Information Technology Co., Ltd.
(40%);
|
·
|
HollySys
Zhonghao Automation Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. (“HollySys Zhonghao”)
(89.11%);
|
·
|
HollySys
Electric Technology Co., Ltd.
(40%);
|
·
|
Beijing
TechEnergy Co., Ltd. (50%);
|
·
|
Beijing
HollySys Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.
(20%);
|
·
|
Beijing
Bestpower Electrical Technology Ltd. (18.49%);
and
|
·
|
IPE
Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (31.15%).
|
Company
Names
|
Operating
period
|
Operating
life
|
Beijing
HollySys Co., Ltd.
|
Sep.
25, 1996-Sep. 24, 2026
|
30
|
Hangzhou
HollySys Automation Co., Ltd.
|
Sep.
24, 2003-Sep. 23, 2053
|
50
|
Beijing
HollySys Haotong Science & Technology Development Co.,
Ltd.
|
Oct.
26, 2000-Oct. 25, 2020
|
20
|
Beijing
No. 6 Institute New Huake Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
|
Aug.
28, 2001-Aug. 27, 2011
|
10
|
Beijing
HollySys Electric Tech. Co., Ltd.
|
June
22, 2000-June 21, 2010
|
10
|
Beijing
HollySys Information Technology Co., Ltd.
|
June
25, 2002-June 24, 2022
|
20
|
Beijing
HollySys Hengye Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
|
Aug.
15, 2000-Aug. 14, 2030
|
30
|
HollySys
Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.
|
Sep.
26, 2005-Sep. 25, 2015
|
10
|
Beijing
HollySys Zhonghao Automation Engineering Technology Co.,
Ltd.
|
July
8, 1999-July 7, 2049
|
50
|
Beijing
TechEnergy Co., Ltd.
|
Oct.
18, 2005-Oct. 17, 2025
|
20
|
Beijing
Bestpower Electrical Technology Ltd.
|
Aug.
2, 1999-Aug. 1, 2049
|
50
|
IPE
Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
|
July
26, 2005-July 25,2025
|
20
|
For
Fiscal years Ended June 30,
|
For
Six Months Ended
December 31, |
||||
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
2005
|
2006
|
|
Number
of new contracts won during the year
|
599
|
702
|
927
|
389
|
571
|
Total
amount of new contracts (mm)
|
$88.29
|
$90.06
|
$117.17
|
$62.22
|
$74.95
|
Average
price per contract
|
$147,398
|
$128,286
|
$126,397
|
$159,941
|
$131,261
|
As
of June 30,
|
As
of December 31,
|
||||
Backlog
Situation:
|
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
2005
|
2006
|
Contracts
newly entered and unfinished (mm)
|
$56.92
|
$46.95
|
$54.95
|
$38.63
|
$38.32
|
Contracts
started in the prior year and unfinished (mm)
|
$15.43
|
$23.98
|
$31.80
|
$40.68
|
$61.17
|
Total
amount of backlog (mm)
|
$72.35
|
$70.93
|
$86.75
|
$79.31
|
$99.49
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||
Beginning
balance
|
$
|
881,052
|
$
|
1,594,215
|
$
|
1,430,736
|
||
Expense
accrued
|
1,708,767
|
1,273,616
|
947,311
|
|||||
Expense
incurred
|
(995,604
|
)
|
(1,437,095
|
)
|
(435,124
|
)
|
||
Ending
balance
|
$
|
1,594,215
|
$
|
1,430,736
|
$
|
1,942,923
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||
(unaudited)
|
||||||||
Billed
accounts receivable
|
$
|
25,020,334
|
$
|
25,776,682
|
$
|
35,086,362
|
||
Unbilled
account receivable
|
25,985,132
|
42,912,201
|
38,148,516
|
|||||
$
|
51,005,466
|
$
|
68,688,883
|
$
|
73,234,878
|
Within
1 year
|
1-2
years
|
2-3
years
|
3-5
years
|
Above
5 years
|
||||||
Percentage
|
2%
|
5%
|
|
15%
|
50%
|
100%
|
Under
1 year
|
1-2
Years
|
2-3
Years
|
3-4
Years
|
4-5
Years
|
5+
Years
|
||
06/30/06
|
|||||||
Ending
Balance
|
18,117,014
|
4,791,406
|
1,452,371
|
313,733
|
625,792
|
476,365
|
|
Percentage
|
70.28%
|
18.59%
|
5.63%
|
1.22%
|
2.43%
|
1.85%
|
|
Reported
Bad Debt Provision
|
360,070
|
219,916
|
220,442
|
179,258
|
295,196
|
476,365
|
|
06/30/05
|
|||||||
Ending
Balance
|
20,191,612
|
3,175,337
|
323,995
|
638,553
|
291,382
|
399,455
|
|
Percentage
|
80.70%
|
12.69%
|
1.29%
|
2.55%
|
1.16%
|
1.60%
|
|
Reported
Bad Debt Provision
|
389,744
|
156,493
|
46,593
|
323,808
|
145,691
|
399,455
|
|
06/30/04
|
|||||||
Ending
Balance
|
8,841,871
|
1,617,717
|
1,249,505
|
404,118
|
306,327
|
314,427
|
|
Percentage
|
69.44%
|
12.70%
|
9.81%
|
3.17%
|
2.41%
|
2.47%
|
|
Reported
Bad Debt Provision
|
170,159
|
80,358
|
192,908
|
202,059
|
153,163
|
314,427
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
|||||||
(Unaudited)
|
|||||||||
Beginning
balance
|
$
|
1,113,084
|
$
|
1,461,645
|
$
|
1,751,247
|
|||
Additions
charged to expense
|
460,926
|
664,282
|
568,450
|
||||||
Recovery
|
(112,365
|
)
|
(179,059
|
)
|
-
|
||||
Write-off
|
-
|
(195,621
|
)
|
(12,173
|
)
|
||||
Ending
balance
|
$
|
1,461,645
|
$
|
1,751,247
|
$
|
2,307,524
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
|||||||
(Unaudited)
|
|||||||||
Beginning
balance
|
$
|
107,400
|
$
|
139,924
|
$
|
77,856
|
|||
Additions
charged to expense
|
32,524
|
-
|
8,578
|
||||||
Recovery
|
-
|
(30,549
|
)
|
-
|
|||||
Write-off
|
-
|
(31,519
|
)
|
-
|
|||||
Ending
balance
|
$
|
139,924
|
$
|
77,856
|
$
|
86,434
|
·
|
$1.06
million decrease from accounts receivable
(positive);
|
·
|
$3.87
million increase from inventory;
|
·
|
$1.55
million decrease from other receivable
(positive);
|
·
|
$614,000
increase from deposits and other assets
(negative);
|
·
|
$1.47
million decrease in advance to suppliers
(positive);
|
·
|
$5.90
million increase from advance from customers
(positive);
|
·
|
$99,000
decrease in tax payable (negative);
|
·
|
$847,000
increase from accounts payable; and
|
·
|
$1.30
million decrease from accrued
liabilities.
|
·
|
$2.09
million decrease from accounts receivable
(positive);
|
·
|
$946,000
million increase from inventory;
|
·
|
$885,000
million decrease from other receivable
(positive);
|
·
|
$1.37
million increase from deposits and other assets
(negative);
|
·
|
$3.28
million decrease in advance to suppliers
(positive);
|
·
|
$69,000
decrease from advance from customers
(negative);
|
·
|
$1.21
million increase in tax payable
(positive);
|
·
|
$7.25
million decrease from accounts payable; and
|
·
|
$1.02
million decrease from accrued
liabilities.
|
·
|
$11.05
million of increase in accounts receivable
(negative);
|
·
|
$4.77
million of decrease in inventory;
|
·
|
$976,000
of decrease in advance to
suppliers;
|
·
|
$428,000
of increase in other receivable
(negative);
|
·
|
$80,000
of decrease in deposits and other assets;
|
·
|
$7.53
million of decrease in advance from customers
(negative);
|
·
|
$1.22
million of increase in accounts payable;
|
·
|
$597,000
of decrease in accruals and other payable (negative); and
|
·
|
$1.67
million of decrease in income tax
payable.
|
Item
|
Less
than 1 year
|
1-2
years
|
2-3
years
|
3-5
years
|
More
than 5 years
|
Total
|
$
|
$
|
$
|
$
|
$
|
$
|
|
Long-term
Bank Loans
|
5,003,565
|
1,876,337
|
3,752,674
|
-
|
-
|
10,632,576
|
Interest
payable
|
7.002%
|
5.76%
|
6.03%-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Short-term
Bank Loans
|
7,130,080
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
7,130,080
|
Interest
payable
|
5,517%
|
|||||
Short-term
loan from a related party
|
2,501,783
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2,501,783
|
Interest
payable
|
5.76%
|
|||||
Operating
Lease Commitment (1)
|
92,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
92,000
|
Purchase
Commitment (2)
|
2,758,909
|
470,505
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
3,229,544
|
Total
|
17,486,336
|
2,346,972
|
3,752,674
|
23,585,982
|
Years
ending June 30,
|
Amount
|
|
2007
|
$
|
56,531
|
2008
|
137,422
|
|
2009
|
148,514
|
|
2010
|
156,179
|
|
2011
|
163,988
|
|
2012
|
8,557
|
|
$
|
671,191
|
RMB
|
US
Dollars
|
|||
Plant
and building construction
|
1,772,386
|
221,706
|
||
Equipment
|
24,045,556
|
3,007,838
|
||
Total
|
25,817,942
|
3,229,544
|
Lender
|
Balance
at June 30, 2006
|
Maturity
Date
|
Interest
Rate
|
Floating
or Fixed Interest Rate
|
Current
portion
|
Long-term
loans
|
|||||
Bank
of Beijing
|
1,876,337
|
July
15, 2007
|
5.49%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
CITIC
Trust & Investment Co., Ltd.
|
5,003,565
|
January
21, 2007
|
7.002%
|
Fixed
rate
|
5,002,752
|
China
Development Bank
|
3,752,674
|
June
28, 2009
|
6.03%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
Total
|
10,632,576
|
5,002,752
|
|||
Short-term
loans
|
|||||
CITIC
Industrial Bank
|
1,250,891
|
October
19, 2006
|
5.22%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
China
Merchants Bank
|
1,250,891
|
August
22, 2006
|
5.58%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China (Hangzhou)
|
1,250,891
|
August
16, 2006
|
5.58%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China (Hangzhou)
|
1,876,337
|
November
9, 2006
|
5.58%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China (Hangzhou)
|
625,446
|
April
29, 2007
|
5.58%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China (HangZhou)
|
875,625
|
December
20, 2006
|
5.58%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
Total
|
7,130,081
|
||||
Short-term
bank loan from related parties
|
|||||
HollySys
Information Technology
|
2,501,783
|
November
5,2006
|
5.76%
|
Fixed
rate
|
|
Total
|
2,501,783
|
·
|
To
maintain leadership in China’s DCS
market;
|
·
|
To
enhance the Company’s leading position in
technology;
|
·
|
To
leverage the Company’s large customer base to offer a set of total
solutions; and
|
·
|
To
focus on high-value tailored technology
services.
|
·
|
amounts
paid to stockholders of Chardan who do not approve the stock purchase
and
elect to convert their shares of common stock into their pro-rata
share of
the trust account; and
|
·
|
the
cash payment being paid to Advance Pacific in the stock
purchase.
|
·
|
Payment
of the accrued expenses of Chardan as of the date of the closing
of the
transaction;
|
·
|
To
support internal expansion of HLS’s operations, including increased
hiring, expansion of existing facilities or the acquisition or
construction of new facilities, expenditures to increase the geographic
markets in which HLS operates and expansion of the production and
distribution networks needed to accomplish that geographic market
extension; and
|
·
|
To
increase research and development to enable HLS to expand its product
offerings, including the development of nuclear power plant automation
and
transportation automation.
|
·
|
Maximum
Approval: This presentation assumes that 100% of Chardan stockholders
approve the Stock Purchase Transaction;
and
|
·
|
Minimal
Approval: This presentation assumes that only 80.01% of Chardan
stockholders approve the Stock Purchase Transaction. (Accordingly,
1,149,425 shares were assumed to be redeemable upon voting against
approving the contemplated Stock Purchase Transaction, and the amount
of
$5,964,017, plus related interest, was set aside for possible
redemption).
|
(a)
|
to
record the release of funds held in trust by
Chardan.
|
(b)
|
to
record the cash portion of the purchase price, including the initial
cash
payment, and the accrual of the remaining payment for an aggregate
of
$30,000,000.
|
(c)
|
to
record an estimated reduction in interest income due to payment of
the
cash portion of the purchase price.
|
(d)
|
assuming
maximum approval, to reclassify common stock held in trust to permanent
equity and to record related deferred interest as
income.
|
(e)
|
assuming
minimum approval, to record the refund of funds to dissenting
shareholders.
|
(f)
|
to
record the stock portion of the purchase price, the issuance of 22,200,000
shares of Chardan common stock for all the shares of common stock
of
Gifted Time Holdings Limited and the exchange of 1,300,000 shares
of
Chardan common stock for each outstanding share of Gifted Time Preferred
Stock.
|
(g)
|
to
eliminate the accumulated deficit (as adjusted when assuming maximum
approval) of Chardan, as Gifted Time Holdings Limited will be the
continuing entity for accounting
purposes.
|
(h)
|
Pro
forma net income per share was calculated by dividing pro forma net
income
by the weighted average number of shares outstanding as
follows:
|
Year
Ended
December
31, 2006
|
|||
Maximum
Approval
(100%)
|
Minimum
Approval
(80.01%)
|
||
Shares
issued in the Transaction
|
23,500,000
|
23,500,000
|
|
Weighted
average shares outstanding in Chardan
|
7,000,000
|
5,850,575
|
|
Incremental
shares relating to warrants exercised
|
5,350,267
|
5,350,267
|
|
Incremental
shares relating to Underwriter’s
purchase
option
|
233,717
|
233,717
|
|
Weighted
average common shares - diluted
|
36,083,984
|
34,934,559
|
(i)
|
to
record the receipt of funds upon collection of notes receivable from
the
sole stockholder and the use of $25,000,000 of such funds to repay
notes
payable and to record the expensing of the related loan
discount.
|
Gifted
Time
Holdings
Limited
|
Chardan
North China
Acquisition
Corporation
|
Pro
Forma
Adjustments
|
Pro
forma
Combined
|
||
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
||||
ASSETS
|
|||||
Current
Assets:
|
|||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$
18,776,034
|
$
529
|
31,294,931
|
(a)
|
28,934,781
|
(26,136,713)
|
(b)
|
||||
5,000,000
|
(i)
|
||||
Investments
held in trust
|
-
|
31,294,931
|
(31,294,931)
|
(a)
|
-
|
Contract
performance deposit in banks
|
4,081,084
|
-
|
4,081,084
|
||
Short-term
deposit
|
576,620
|
-
|
576,620
|
||
Accounts
receivable
|
70,927,354
|
-
|
70,927,354
|
||
Other
receivables
|
1,922,262
|
-
|
1,922,262
|
||
Advances
to suppliers
|
6,751,474
|
-
|
6,751,474
|
||
Inventories
|
11,205,969
|
-
|
11,205,969
|
||
Deferred
tax assets
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||
Prepaid
expenses and other current assets
|
112,542
|
25,768
|
|
138,310
|
|
Total
current assets
|
114,353,339
|
31,321,228
|
(21,136,713)
|
124,537,854
|
|
Property,
plant and equipment, net
|
17,141,826
|
-
|
17,141,826
|
||
Long
term investments
|
8,523,117
|
-
|
8,523,117
|
||
Long
term deferred tax asset
|
292,188
|
292,188
|
|||
Total
assets
|
$
140,018,282
|
$
31,613,416
|
$
(21,136,713)
|
$150,494,985
|
|
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
|
|||||
Current
Liabilities:
|
|||||
Short-term
bank loans
|
10,251,022
|
-
|
10,251,022
|
||
Short-term
bank loan from related parties
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||
Current
portion of long-term loans
|
7,047,578
|
7,047,578
|
|||
Notes
payable
|
22,974,742
|
(25,000,000)
|
(i)
|
3,745,798
|
|
$
5,771,056
|
(i)
|
||||
Accounts
payable
|
19,043,621
|
507,871
|
19,551,492
|
||
Deferred
revenue
|
13,457,598
|
13,457,598
|
|||
Dividend
payable
|
-
|
-
|
|||
Accrued
payroll and related expense
|
6,693,765
|
-
|
6,693,765
|
||
Income
tax payable
|
1,069,738
|
203,955
|
1,273,693
|
||
Warranty
liabilities
|
1,942,923
|
-
|
1,942,923
|
||
Other
tax payables
|
5,438,921
|
-
|
5,438,921
|
||
Accrued
liabilities
|
3,092,177
|
-
|
3,092,177
|
||
Amounts
due to related parties
|
545,777
|
107,500
|
653,277
|
||
Deferred
tax liabilities
|
191,647
|
191,647
|
|||
Deferred
interest
|
-
|
293,106
|
(293,106)
|
(d)
|
-
|
Total
Current Liabilities
|
91,749,509
|
1,112,432
|
(19,522,050)
|
73,339,891
|
|
Long-term
loans
|
3,844,133
|
-
|
3,844,133
|
||
Remaining
payment to HollySys stockholders
|
-
|
-
|
3,863,287
|
(b)
|
3,863,287
|
Total
Liabilities
|
95,593,642
|
1,112,432
|
(15,658,763)
|
81,047,311
|
|
Common
stock subject to redemption
|
-
|
5,964,017
|
(5,964,017)
|
(d)
|
-
|
Minority
Interests
|
11,805,023
|
-
|
|
11,805,023
|
|
Stockholders’
equity
|
|||||
Preferred
stock
|
13,000
|
(13,000)
|
(f)
|
-
|
|
Common
stock
|
222,000
|
700
|
(219,780)
|
(f)
|
3,050
|
|
130
|
(f)
|
|||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
19,021,697
|
25,006,126
|
(30,000,000)
|
(b)
|
20,047,737
|
219,780
|
(f)
|
||||
5,964,017
|
(d)
|
||||
(176,753)
|
(g)
|
||||
12,870
|
(f)
|
||||
Appropriated
earnings
|
6,316,795
|
-
|
6,316,795
|
||
Note
receivable from the sole stockholder
|
(30,000,000)
|
30,000,000
|
(i)
|
-
|
|
Retained
earnings (accumulated deficit)
|
34,687,294
|
(469,859)
|
293,106
|
(d)
|
28,916,238
|
176,753
|
(g)
|
||||
(5,771,056)
|
(i)
|
||||
Cumulative
translation adjustments
|
2,358,831
|
-
|
2,358,831
|
||
Total
shareholders’ equity
|
32,619,617
|
24,536,967
|
486,067
|
57,642,651
|
|
Total
liabilities and shareholders’ equity
|
$140,018,282
|
$31,613,416
|
$(21,136,713)
|
$150,494,985
|
Gifted
Time
Holdings
Limited
|
Chardan
North China
Acquisition
Corporation
|
Pro
Forma
Adjustments
|
|
Pro
forma
Combined
|
|
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
||||
ASSETS
|
|||||
Current
Assets:
|
|||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$
18,776,034
|
$
529
|
31,294,931
|
(a)
|
$
23,776,563
|
(25,037,808)
|
(b)
|
||||
(6,257,123)
|
(e)
|
||||
5,000,000
|
(i)
|
||||
Investments
held in trust
|
-
|
31,294,931
|
(31,294,931)
|
(a)
|
-
|
Contract
performance deposit in banks
|
4,081,084
|
-
|
4,081,084
|
||
Short-term
deposit
|
576,620
|
-
|
576,620
|
||
Accounts
receivable
|
70,927,354
|
-
|
70,927,354
|
||
Other
receivables
|
1,922,262
|
-
|
1,922,262
|
||
Advances
to suppliers
|
6,751,474
|
-
|
6,751,474
|
||
Inventories
|
11,205,969
|
-
|
11,205,969
|
||
Deferred
tax assets
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||
Prepaid
expenses and other current assets
|
112,542
|
25,768
|
|
138,310
|
|
Total
current assets
|
114,353,339
|
31,321,228
|
(26,294,931)
|
119,379,636
|
|
Property,
plant and equipment, net
|
17,141,826
|
-
|
17,141,826
|
||
Long
term investments
|
8,523,117
|
-
|
8,523,117
|
||
Long
term deferred tax asset
|
292,188
|
292,188
|
|||
Total
assets
|
$
140,018,282
|
$
31,613,416
|
$
(26,294,931)
|
$145,336,767
|
|
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
|
|||||
Current
Liabilities:
|
|||||
Short-term
bank loans
|
10,251,022
|
-
|
10,251,022
|
||
Short-term
bank loan from related parties
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||
Current
portion of long-term loans
|
7,047,578
|
-
|
7,047,578
|
||
Notes
payable
|
22,974,742
|
-
|
$
(25,000,000)
|
(i)
|
3,745,798
|
$5,771,056
|
(i)
|
||||
Accounts
payable
|
19,043,621
|
507,871
|
19,551,492
|
||
Deferred
revenue
|
13,457,598
|
-
|
13,457,598
|
||
Dividend
payable
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||
Accrued
payroll and related expense
|
6,693,765
|
-
|
6,693,765
|
||
Income
tax payable
|
1,069,738
|
203,955
|
1,273,693
|
||
Warranty
liabilities
|
1,942,923
|
-
|
1,942,923
|
||
Other
tax payables
|
5,438,921
|
-
|
5,438,921
|
||
Accrued
liabilities
|
3,092,177
|
-
|
3,092,177
|
||
Amounts
due to related parties
|
545,777
|
107,500
|
653,277
|
||
Deferred
tax liabilities
|
191,647
|
-
|
191,647
|
||
Deferred
interest
|
-
|
293,106
|
(293,106)
|
(e)
|
-
|
Total
Current Liabilities
|
91,749,509
|
1,112,432
|
(19,522,050)
|
73,339,891
|
|
Long-term
loans
|
3,844,133
|
-
|
3,844,133
|
||
Remaining
payment to HollySys stockholders
|
-
|
-
|
4,962,192
|
(b)
|
4,962,192
|
Total
Liabilities
|
95,593,642
|
1,112,432
|
(14,559,858)
|
82,146,216
|
|
Common
stock subject to redemption
|
|
5,964,017
|
(5,964,017)
|
(e)
|
-
|
Minority
Interests
|
11,805,023
|
-
|
|
11,805,023
|
|
Stockholders’
equity
|
|||||
Preferred
stock
|
13,000
|
-
|
(13,000)
|
(f)
|
-
|
Common
stock
|
222,000
|
700
|
(219,780)
|
(f)
|
2,935
|
(115)
|
(e)
|
||||
130
|
(f)
|
||||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
19,021,697
|
25,006,126
|
(30,000,000)
|
(b)
|
13,790,729
|
219,780
|
(d)
|
||||
(469,859)
|
(g)
|
||||
115
|
(e)
|
||||
12,870
|
(f)
|
||||
Appropriated
earnings
|
6,316,795
|
-
|
6,316,795
|
||
Note
receivable from the sole stockholder
|
(30,000,000)
|
-
|
30,000,000
|
(i)
|
-
|
Retained
earnings (accumulated deficit)
|
34,687,294
|
(469,859)
|
469,859
|
(g)
|
28,916,238
|
(5,771,056)
|
(i)
|
||||
Cumulative
translation adjustments
|
2,358,831
|
-
|
2,358,831
|
||
Total
shareholders’ equity
|
32,619,617
|
24,536,967
|
(5,771,056)
|
51,385,528
|
|
Total
liabilities and shareholders’ equity
|
$
140,018,282
|
$
31,613,416
|
$
(26,294,931)
|
$145,336,767
|
Gifted
Time
Holdings
Limited
|
Chardan
North China
Acquisition
Corporation
|
Pro
Forma
Adjustments
|
|
Pro
forma
Combined
|
|
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
||||
Integrated
contact revenue
|
$ 85,584,074
|
$
-
|
$
85,584,074
|
||
Products
sales
|
3,407,757
|
-
|
3,407,757
|
||
Total
revenue
|
88,991,831
|
-
|
|
88,991,831
|
|
Costs
of integrated contacts
|
53,637,798
|
-
|
53,637,798
|
||
Cost
of products sold
|
1,574,359
|
-
|
|
1,574,359
|
|
Gross
Profit
|
33,779,674
|
-
|
33,779,674
|
||
Operating
expenses
|
|||||
Selling
and marketing expenses
|
7,068,288
|
-
|
7,068,288
|
||
General
and administrative expenses
|
6,414,846
|
1,098,964
|
7,513,810
|
||
Research
and development expenses
|
77,724
|
-
|
77,724
|
||
Loss
on disposal of assets
|
49,193
|
-
|
|
49,193
|
|
Total
operating expenses
|
13,610,051
|
1,098,964
|
|
14,659,822
|
|
Income
(loss) from operations
|
20,169,623
|
(1,098,964)
|
19,070,659
|
||
Interest
expense
|
(1,467,425)
|
(1,765)
|
(1,469,190)
|
||
Other
income (expenses)
|
245,963
|
-
|
245,963
|
||
Investment
income
|
82,912
|
830,429
|
(711,332)
|
(c
)
|
202,009
|
Subsidy
income
|
4,868,653
|
-
|
|
4,868,653
|
|
Income
before income taxes and minority interest
|
23,899,726
|
(270,300)
|
(711,332)
|
22,918,094
|
|
Income
taxes
|
2,170,923
|
(97,817)
|
|
2,073,106
|
|
Income
(loss) before minority interests
|
21,728,803
|
(172,483)
|
(711,332)
|
20,844,988
|
|
Minority
interests
|
(3,078,858)
|
-
|
|
(3,078,858)
|
|
Net
income (loss)
|
$
18,649,945
|
$
(172,483)
|
$
(711,332)
|
$
17,766,130
|
|
Weighted
average common shares outstanding - basic
|
7,000,000
|
23,500,000
|
30,500,000
|
||
Net
income (loss) per share
|
$
(0.02)
|
(h)
|
$ 0.58
|
||
Weighted
average common shares outstanding - diluted
|
12,583,984
|
23,500,000
|
36,083,984
|
||
Net
income (loss) per share
|
$
0.49
|
||||
Gifted
Time
Holdings
Limited
|
Chardan
North China
Acquisition
Corporation
|
Pro
Forma
Adjustments
|
|
Pro
forma
Combined
|
|
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
||||
Integrated
contact revenue
|
$
85,584,074
|
$
-
|
$
85,584,074
|
||
Products
sales
|
3,407,757
|
-
|
3,407,757
|
||
Total
revenue
|
88,991,831
|
-
|
|
88,991,831
|
|
Costs
of integrated contacts
|
53,637,798
|
-
|
53,637,798
|
||
Cost
of products sold
|
1,574,359
|
-
|
|
1,574,359
|
|
Gross
Profit
|
33,779,674
|
-
|
33,779,674
|
||
Operating
expenses
|
|||||
Selling
and marketing expenses
|
7,068,288
|
-
|
7,068,288
|
||
General
and administrative expenses
|
6,414,846
|
1,098,964
|
7,513,810
|
||
Research
and development expenses
|
77,724
|
-
|
77,724
|
||
Loss
on disposal of assets
|
49,193
|
-
|
|
49,193
|
|
Total
operating expenses
|
13,610,051
|
1,098,964
|
|
14,659,822
|
|
Income
(loss) from operations
|
20,169,623
|
(1,098,964)
|
19,070,659
|
||
Interest
expense
|
(1,467,425)
|
(1,765)
|
(1,469,190)
|
||
Other
income (expenses)
|
245,963
|
-
|
245,963
|
||
Investment
income
|
82,912
|
830,429
|
(830,429)
|
(c
)
|
82,912
|
Subsidy
income
|
4,868,653
|
-
|
|
4,868,653
|
|
Income
before income taxes and minority interest
|
23,899,726
|
(270,300)
|
(830,429)
|
22,798,997
|
|
Income
taxes
|
2,170,923
|
(97,817)
|
-
|
2,073,106
|
|
Income
(loss) before minority interests
|
21,728,803
|
(172,483)
|
(830,429)
|
20,725,891
|
|
Minority
interests
|
(3,078,858)
|
-
|
-
|
(3,078,858)
|
|
Net
income (loss)
|
$
18,649,945
|
$
(172,483)
|
$
(830,429)
|
$
17,647,033
|
|
Weighted
average common shares outstanding - basic
|
5,850,575
|
23,500,000
|
29,350,575
|
||
Net
income (loss) per share
|
$
(0.03)
|
(h)
|
$
0.60
|
||
Weighted
average common shares outstanding - diluted
|
11,434,559
|
23,500,000
|
34,934,559
|
||
Net
income (loss) per share
|
$
0.51
|
Name
|
Age
|
Position
|
|
Qiao
Li
|
49
|
Chairperson
of the Board
|
|
Wang
Changli
|
43
|
Director
and Chief Executive Officer
|
|
Kerry
S. Propper
|
30
|
Director
|
|
Jerry
Zhang
|
35
|
Director
|
|
Youxian
Sun
|
66
|
Director
|
|
Lewis
Solomon
|
Director
|
||
Leonard
Hafetz
|
66
|
Director
|
Annual
Compensation
|
||||
Name
|
Year
|
Salary
($)
|
Bonus
($)
|
|
Wang
Changli
|
2005
2004
2003
|
62,500
62,500
62,500
|
165,912
228,638
8,551
|
|
Qiao
Li
|
2005
2004
2003
|
0
0
0
|
0
0
0
|
Name
|
Number
of
Shares
|
Relationship
to Us
|
||
Li
Zhang
|
120,810
|
Chief
Executive Officer and Director
|
||
Kerry
Propper
|
177,600
|
Chief
Financial Officer, Secretary and Director
|
||
Jiangnan
Huang
|
120,810
|
Executive
Vice President and Director
|
||
Chardan
Capital Partners
|
508,380
|
Stockholder
|
||
SUJG,
Inc.
|
72,400
|
Stockholder
|
Name
and Address of
Beneficial
Owner
|
Shares
of Chardan
Common
Stock
|
Approximate
Percentage of
Outstanding
Common Stock(1)
|
Richard
D. Propper, M.D. (2)
|
749,474
|
10.7%
|
Craig
Samuels (3)
|
988,600
|
14.1%
|
Jeffrey
L. Feinberg (4)
|
2,260,903
|
32.3%
|
Jack
Silver (5)
|
1,573,400
|
22.5%
|
Royce
& Associates, LLC (6)
|
416,700
|
5.95%
|
(1)
|
Beneficial
ownership has been determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Unless otherwise noted, we believe
that
all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power
with
respect to all shares of our common stock beneficially owned by them.
|
(2) |
Dr.
Propper’s shares of Chardan Common Stock include 110,000 shares issuable
upon exercise of warrants. The business address of Dr. Propper is
625
Broadway, Suite 111, San Diego, California 92101.
|
(3) |
Mr.
Samuels’ shares of Chardan Common Stock represent 988,600 shares issuable
upon exercise of warrants. This information is derived from a Schedule
13G
filed by the above person with the SEC on February 12,
2007.
|
(4) |
Mr.
Feinberg’s shares of Chardan Common Stock include 841,580 shares issuable
upon exercise of warrants. The securities reported as held by Mr.
Feinberg
represent shares of Common Stock held by
Mr. Feinberg in
his personal account;
JLF Partners I, L.P., JLF Partners II, L.P. and JLF Off Shore Fund,
Ltd.
to which JLF Asset Management LLC serves as the management
company and/or
investment manager. Mr.
Feinberg is the managing member of JLF Asset Management, LLC. The
business
address of Mr. Feinberg and these entities is 2775 Via de la Valle,
Suite
204, Del Mar, California 92014. This information is derived from
a Form 3
filed by the above persons with the SEC on March 7, 2007, a Form
4 field
by the above persons with the SEC on March 7, 2007 and a Schedule
13G/A
filed by the above persons with the SEC on February
13, 2007.
|
(5) |
The
business address of Mr. Silver is SIAR
Capital
LLC, 660 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10021. These shares include
(i) 164,000
shares held by Sherleigh Associates, Inc. profit sharing plan
(“Sherleigh Profit”),
a trust of which Mr. Silver is the trustee, (ii) 200,000 shares held
by Sherleigh Associates, Inc. defined benefit plan
(“Sherleigh Defined”), (iii) 774,400 shares issuable upon exercise of
warrants held by Sherleigh Profit and (iv) 435,000 shares issuable
upon
exercise of warrants held by Sherleigh Defined which provide that
they may
not be exercised until the consummation of a business
combination.
The foregoing information is derived from a Schedule 13G/A
filed with the SEC on February
14, 2007.
|
(6) |
The
business address of Royce & Associates, LLC is 141 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10019. The
foregoing information is derived from a Schedule 13G/A
filed with the SEC on January
19, 2007.
|
·
|
each
director and executive officer; and
|
·
|
all
directors and officers as a group.
|
Name(1)
|
Shares
of
Chardan
Common
Stock
|
Approximate
Percentage
of
Outstanding
Common
Stock(2)
|
Richard
D. Propper, M.D.
|
749,474(3)(4)
|
10.7%
|
Kerry
Propper
|
388,500(4)(5)
|
5.55%
|
Li
Zhang
|
188,513(4)
|
2.7%
|
Jiangnan
Huang
|
151,013
|
2.2%
|
Directors
and officers as a group (four persons)
|
1,477,500(4)
|
21%
|
(1)
|
Unless
otherwise indicated, the business address of each of the individuals
is
c/o Chardan, 625 Broadway, Suite 1111, San Diego, CA
92101.
|
(2)
|
Beneficial
ownership and percentage has been determined in accordance with Rule
13d-3
under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.
|
(3)
|
Represents
shares of common stock held by Chardan Capital Partners. A family
limited
liability company established for the benefit of Dr. Propper’s family owns
approximately 40% of such entity.
|
(4)
|
Dr.
Richard Propper’s shares of Common Stock includes 110,000 shares issuable
upon exercise of warrants. Kerry Propper’s shares of Common Stock includes
72,500 shares issuable upon exercise of warrants. Li Zhang’s shares of
Common Stock includes 37,500 shares issuable upon exercise of warrants.
The shares of Common Stock for the directors and officers as a group
includes 220,000 shares issuable upon exercise of
warrants.
|
(5)
|
Includes
90,500 shares of common stock held by SUJG, Inc. Mr. Propper is a
director
of that entity and controls the voting and disposition of the Chardan
shares held by that entity.
|
Over-the-Counter
Bulletin Board
|
||||||||||||
Chardan
Common
Stock
|
Chardan
Warrants
|
Chardan
Units
|
||||||||||
High
|
Low
|
High
|
Low
|
High
|
Low
|
|||||||
2005
Third Quarter
|
$6.00
|
$5.17
|
$1.15
|
$0.70
|
$7.50
|
$6.15
|
||||||
2005
Fourth Quarter
|
$5.75
|
$5.15
|
$1.86
|
$1.01
|
$9.30
|
$7.20
|
||||||
2006
First Quarter
|
$12.90
|
$5.74
|
$7.38
|
$1.65
|
$27.50
|
$9.10
|
||||||
2006
Second Quarter
|
$12.60
|
$7.45
|
$7.45
|
$2.60
|
$27.40
|
$12.50
|
||||||
2006
Third Quarter
|
$9.40
|
$7.02
|
$4.60
|
$2.50
|
$18.75
|
$12.00
|
||||||
2006
Fourth Quarter
|
$8.68
|
$8.53
|
$3.60
|
$3.59
|
$16.40
|
$16.00
|
||||||
2007
First Quarter
|
$8.70
|
$7.75
|
$3.65
|
$2.80
|
$15.85
|
$13.40
|
||||||
2007
Second Quarter (through May __, 2007)
|
·
|
the
completion of the stock purchase;
or
|
·
|
August 2,
2006.
|
·
|
in
whole and not in part;
|
·
|
at
a price of $.01 per warrant at any time after the warrants become
exercisable;
|
·
|
upon
not less than 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption to each
warrantholder; and
|
·
|
if,
and only if, the reported last sale price of the common stock equals
or
exceeds $8.50 per share, for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading
day
period ending on the third business day prior to the notice of redemption
to warrantholders.
|
Page
|
|
Condensed
Financial Statements
|
|
Report
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
|
FI-2
|
Balance
Sheet
|
FI-3
|
Statements
of Operation
|
FI-4
|
Statement
of Stockholders’ Equity
|
FI-5
|
Statement
of Cash Flows
|
FI-6
|
Notes
to Financial Statements
|
FI-7
|
December
31, 2006
|
December
31, 2005
|
||||||
ASSETS
|
|||||||
Current
assets:
|
|||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$
|
529
|
$
|
856,380
|
|||
Investments
held in trust
|
31,294,931
|
30,260,861
|
|||||
Prepaid
expenses and other
|
25,768
|
58,503
|
|||||
Total
current assets
|
31,321,228 | 31,175,744 | |||||
Long
term deferred tax asset
|
292,188
|
177,370
|
|||||
Total
Assets
|
$
|
31,613,416
|
$
|
31,353,114
|
|||
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
|
|||||||
Current
liabilities:
|
|||||||
Accounts
payable and accrued liabilities
|
$
|
507,871
|
$
|
224,498
|
|||
Income
taxes payable
|
203,955
|
173,120
|
|||||
Notes
payable, related parties
|
107,500
|
-
|
|||||
Deferred
interest
|
293,106
|
86,395
|
|||||
Total
current liabilities
|
1,112,432
|
484,013
|
|||||
Commitments
|
|||||||
Common
stock subject to possible conversion 1,149,425
shares at conversion value
|
5,964,017
|
5,964,017
|
|||||
Stockholders'
equity:
|
|||||||
Preferred
stock, $.0001 par value, 1,000,000
|
-
|
-
|
|||||
shares
authorized, none issued
|
|||||||
Common
stock, $.0001 par value: 20,000,000
|
700
|
700
|
|||||
shares
authorized, 7,000,000 shares issued and outstanding
|
|||||||
(includes
1,149,425 shares subject to possible conversion)
|
|||||||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
25,006,126
|
25,006,126
|
|||||
Accumulated
deficit
|
(469,859
|
)
|
(101,742
|
)
|
|||
Total
stockholders' equity
|
24,536,967
|
24,905,084
|
|||||
Total
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
|
$
|
31,613,416
|
$
|
31,353,114
|
From
|
From
|
|||||||||
March
10, 2005
|
March
10, 2005
|
|||||||||
Twelve
Months
|
(Inception)
|
(Inception)
|
||||||||
Ended
|
Through
|
Through
|
||||||||
December
31, 2006
|
December
31, 2005
|
December
31, 2006
|
||||||||
Costs
and Expenses
|
||||||||||
Admin
and office support
|
90,000
|
37,500
|
127,500
|
|||||||
Consulting
|
-
|
66,700
|
66,700
|
|||||||
Insurance
|
63,320
|
29,167
|
92,487
|
|||||||
Marketing
|
119,765
|
-
|
119,765
|
|||||||
Professional
fees
|
543,473
|
127,957
|
671,430
|
|||||||
State
franchise tax
|
24,001
|
23,775
|
47,776
|
|||||||
Travel
|
195,433
|
147,091
|
342,524
|
|||||||
Other
operating costs
|
62,972
|
21,673
|
84,645
|
|||||||
Total
costs and expenses
|
1,098,964
|
453,863
|
1,552,827
|
|||||||
Operating
loss
|
(1,098,964
|
)
|
(453,863
|
)
|
(1,552,827
|
)
|
||||
Other
income (expense):
|
||||||||||
Interest
income
|
830,429
|
347,871
|
1,178,300
|
|||||||
Interest
expense
|
(1,765
|
)
|
-
|
(1,765
|
)
|
|||||
Net
loss before income tax provision
|
(270,300
|
)
|
(105,992
|
)
|
(376,292
|
)
|
||||
Income
tax (provision) benefit
|
(97,817
|
)
|
4,250
|
(93,567
|
)
|
|||||
Net
loss
|
$
|
(368,117
|
)
|
$
|
(101,742
|
)
|
$
|
(469,859
|
)
|
|
Loss
per share - basic and diluted
|
(0.05
|
)
|
(0.03
|
)
|
(0.08
|
)
|
||||
Weighted
average shares outstanding - basic and diluted
|
7,000,000
|
4,020,202
|
5,747,352
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
Common
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Shares
|
|
Amount
|
Additional
Paid-In Capital
|
Accumulated(Deficit)
|
Stockholders'
Equity(Deficit)
|
|||||||||||
Issuance
of common shares to initial shareholders on March 10, 2005 at
$0.02 per share
|
1,250,000
|
$
|
125
|
$
|
24,875
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
25,000
|
|||||||
Sale
of 5,750,000 units, net of underwriters' discount and offering
expenses
(includes
1,149,425 shares subject to possible conversion)
|
5,750,000
|
575
|
30,945,168
|
-
|
30,945,743
|
|||||||||||
Proceeds
subject to possible conversion of 1,149,425 shares
|
-
|
-
|
(5,964,017
|
)
|
-
|
(5,964,017
|
)
|
|||||||||
Proceeds
from issuance of an underwriter's option
|
-
|
-
|
100
|
-
|
100
|
|||||||||||
Loss
for the period ended December 31, 2005
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(101,742
|
)
|
(101,742
|
)
|
|||||||||
Balance
at December 31, 2005
|
7,000,000
|
$
|
700
|
$
|
25,006,126
|
$
|
(101,742
|
)
|
$
|
24,905,084
|
||||||
Loss
for the period ended December 31, 2006
|
(368,117
|
)
|
(368,117
|
)
|
||||||||||||
Balance
at December 31, 2006
|
7,000,000
|
$
|
700
|
$
|
25,006,126
|
$
|
(469,859
|
)
|
$
|
24,536,967
|
From
|
From
|
|||||||||
March
10, 2005
|
March
10, 2005
|
|||||||||
|
Twelve
Months
|
(Inception)
|
(Inception)
|
|||||||
Ended
|
Through
|
Through
|
||||||||
December
31, 2006
|
December
31, 2005
|
December
31, 2006
|
||||||||
Cash
Flows from Operating Activities:
|
||||||||||
Net
loss
|
$
|
(368,117
|
)
|
$
|
(101,742
|
)
|
$
|
(469,859
|
)
|
|
Adjustments
to reconcile net loss to net cash used
in operating activities:
|
||||||||||
Amortization
of discounts and interest earned on securities held in
trust
|
(1,034,069
|
)
|
(425,861
|
)
|
(1,459,930
|
)
|
||||
Changes
in operating Assets and Liabilities:
|
||||||||||
Prepaid
expenses and other current assets
|
32,734
|
(48,333
|
)
|
(15,599
|
)
|
|||||
Deferred
tax asset
|
(114,818
|
)
|
(177,370
|
)
|
(292,188
|
)
|
||||
Accounts
payable and accrued liabilities
|
283,374
|
224,498
|
507,872
|
|||||||
Income
taxes payable
|
30,835
|
173,120
|
203,955
|
|||||||
Deferred
interest
|
206,710
|
86,395
|
293,105
|
|||||||
Net
cash used by operating activities
|
(963,351
|
)
|
(269,293
|
)
|
(1,232,644
|
)
|
||||
Cash
Flows from Investing Activities:
|
||||||||||
Purchases
of investments held in trust
|
-
|
(29,835,000
|
)
|
(29,835,000
|
)
|
|||||
Net
cash used by investing activities
|
-
|
(29,835,000
|
)
|
(29,835,000
|
)
|
|||||
Cash
Flows from Financing Activities
|
||||||||||
Proceeds
from issuance of common stock
|
-
|
34,525,000
|
34,525,000
|
|||||||
Proceeds
from issuance of option
|
-
|
100
|
100
|
|||||||
Payment
of costs associated with public offering
|
-
|
(3,554,257
|
)
|
(3,554,257
|
)
|
|||||
Advance
to affiliate
|
-
|
(10,170
|
)
|
(10,170
|
)
|
|||||
Proceeds
from related party loans
|
107,500
|
-
|
107,500
|
|||||||
Net
cash provided by financing activities
|
107,500
|
30,960,673
|
31,068,173
|
|||||||
Net
increase in cash and cash equivalents
|
(855,851
|
)
|
856,380
|
529
|
||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, beginning of the period
|
856,380
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, end of the period
|
$
|
529
|
$
|
856,380
|
$
|
529
|
Cash
paid for taxes
|
$
|
181,800
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
181,800
|
||||
Cash
paid for interest
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
Unsecured
demand notes payable - shareholder notes bearing an interest rate
at the prime rate published in the Wall Street Journal, as
adjusted from time to time, due on various dates during
2007.
|
$
107,500
|
Year
ended
December
31, 2006
|
Period
ended December 31, 2005
|
||||||
Current
|
|||||||
Federal
|
$
|
121,511
|
$
|
134,731
|
|||
State
|
91,124
|
38,389
|
|||||
Total
Current
|
212,635
|
173,120
|
|||||
Less
deferred income taxes
|
(114,818
|
)
|
(177,370
|
)
|
|||
Total
income taxes
|
$
|
97,817
|
$
|
(4,250
|
)
|
December
31, 2006
|
December
31, 2005
|
||||||
Deferred
interest income
|
77,152
|
|
36,328
|
||||
Deferred
operating costs
|
452,595
|
141,042
|
|||||
Deferred
transaction fees
|
151,656
|
37,238
|
|||||
681,403
|
214,608
|
||||||
Valuation
allowance
|
(389,215
|
)
|
(37,238
|
)
|
|||
$
|
292,188
|
$
|
177,370
|
Year
ended
|
Period ended
|
||||||
|
December
31, 2006
|
December
31, 2005
|
|||||
Federal
statutory rate
|
(34.0
|
%)
|
(34.0
|
%)
|
|||
Valuation
allowance
|
130.2
|
%
|
35.1
|
%
|
|||
Tax
free interest, net of deferred interest
|
(64.3
|
%)
|
-
|
||||
State
rate, net of federal benefit
|
2.4
|
%
|
(4.8
|
%)
|
|||
Permanent
book/tax differences
|
0.9
|
%
|
0.6
|
%
|
|||
Other
|
1.0
|
%
|
(0.9
|
%)
|
|||
Effective
income tax rate
|
36.2
|
%
|
(4.0
|
%)
|
Page
|
|
Consolidated
Financial Statements
|
|
Report
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
|
FII-2
|
Consolidated
Balance Sheets
|
FII-3
|
Consolidated
Statements of Income
|
FII-4
|
Consolidated
Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
|
FII-5
|
Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows
|
FII-6
|
Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements
|
FII-7
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
ASSETS
|
||||||||||
Current
Assets:
|
||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$
|
9,234,139
|
$
|
10,979,248
|
$
|
18,776,034
|
||||
Contract
performance deposit in banks
|
955,432
|
2,551,098
|
4,081,084
|
|||||||
Term
deposit
|
704,120
|
562,901
|
576,620
|
|||||||
Accounts
receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts $1,461,645 and
$1,751,247,and
$2,307,524
|
49,543,821
|
66,937,636
|
70,927,354
|
|||||||
Other
receivables, net of allowance for doubtful accounts $139,924 and
$77,856
and $86,434
|
2,498,811
|
2,545,941
|
1,922,262
|
|||||||
Advances
to suppliers
|
7,035,178
|
5,546,085
|
6,751,474
|
|||||||
Inventories,
net of provision $0 and $392,807,and $337,486
|
8,448,166
|
7,830,842
|
11,205,969
|
|||||||
Prepaid
consulting fee
|
58,902
|
4,691
|
112,542
|
|||||||
Total
current assets
|
78,478,569
|
96,958,442
|
114,353,339
|
|||||||
Property,
plant and equipment, net
|
13,904,262
|
17,784,554
|
17,141,826
|
|||||||
Long
term investments
|
3,681,267
|
5,281,163
|
8,523,117
|
|||||||
Total
assets
|
$
|
96,064,098
|
$
|
120,024,159
|
$
|
140,018,282
|
||||
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
|
||||||||||
Current
liabilities:
|
||||||||||
Short-term
bank loans
|
$
|
8,699,329
|
$
|
7,130,081
|
$
|
10,251,022
|
||||
Short-term
bank loan from related parties
|
2,416,480
|
2,501,783
|
-
|
|||||||
Current
portion of long-term loans
|
1,208,240
|
5,003,565
|
7,047,578
|
|||||||
Notes
payables, net of discount of $7,012,258
|
-
|
-
|
22,974,742
|
|||||||
Accounts
payable
|
17,364,691
|
16,523,600
|
19,043,621
|
|||||||
Deferred
revenue
|
10,787,462
|
9,526,769
|
13,457,598
|
|||||||
Dividend
payable
|
333,894
|
1,250,891
|
-
|
|||||||
Accrued
payroll and related expense
|
3,740,483
|
5,311,795
|
6,693,765
|
|||||||
Income
tax payable
|
269,067
|
518,293
|
1,069,738
|
|||||||
Warranty
liabilities
|
1,594,215
|
1,430,736
|
1,942,923
|
|||||||
Other
tax payables
|
6,481,446
|
6,109,895
|
5,438,921
|
|||||||
Accrued
liabilities
|
2,651,059
|
3,953,885
|
3,092,177
|
|||||||
Amounts
due to related parties
|
456,766
|
479,124
|
545,777
|
|||||||
Deferred
tax liabilities
|
78,754
|
291,949
|
191,647
|
|||||||
Total
current liabilities
|
56,081,886
|
60,032,366
|
91,749,509
|
|||||||
Long-term
liabilities:
|
||||||||||
Long-term
loans
|
6,645,321
|
5,629,011
|
3,844,133
|
|||||||
Total
liabilities
|
62,727,207
|
65,661,377
|
95,593,642
|
|||||||
Minority
interest
|
6,334,435
|
9,801,634
|
11,805,023
|
|||||||
Stockholders’
equity:
|
||||||||||
Preferred
stock, par value $0.01 per share,1,500,000 shares authorized, 1,300,000
shares issued and outstanding
|
-
|
-
|
13,000
|
|||||||
Common
stock, par value $0.01 per share, 33,500,000 shares authorized, 22,200,000
shares issued and outstanding.
|
220,000
|
220,000
|
222,000
|
|||||||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
11,763,060
|
11,778,663
|
19,021,697
|
|||||||
Appropriated
earnings
|
3,296,008
|
6,316,795
|
6,316,795
|
|||||||
Note
receivable from the sole stockholder
|
-
|
-
|
(30,000,000
|
)
|
||||||
Retained
earnings
|
11,721,091
|
25,093,814
|
34,687,294
|
|||||||
Cumulative
translation adjustments
|
297
|
1,149,876
|
2,358,831
|
|||||||
Total
stockholder’s equity
|
27,002,456
|
44,561,148
|
32,619,617
|
|||||||
Total
liabilities and stockholders' equity
|
$
|
96,064,098
|
$
|
120,024,159
|
$
|
140,018,282
|
Years
Ended June 30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||||||||
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
2005
|
2006
|
||||||||||||
|
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited) | ||||||||||||||
Revenues:
|
||||||||||||||||
Integrated
contract revenue
|
$
|
51,224,340
|
$
|
75,027,422
|
$
|
86,187,820
|
$
|
46,916,576
|
$
|
46,312,830
|
||||||
Products
sales
|
1,849,916
|
4,545,410
|
3,728,784
|
2,515,450
|
2,194,423
|
|||||||||||
Total
revenues
|
53,074,256
|
79,572,832
|
89,916,604
|
49,432,026
|
48,507,253
|
|||||||||||
Cost
of integrated contracts
|
37,569,353
|
52,164,176
|
57,107,242
|
32,887,535
|
29,418,091
|
|||||||||||
Cost
of products sold
|
338,167
|
2,518,835
|
842,813
|
540,390
|
1,271,936
|
|||||||||||
Gross
profit
|
15,166,736
|
24,889,821
|
31,966,549
|
16,004,101
|
17,817,226
|
|||||||||||
Operating
expenses:
|
||||||||||||||||
Selling
|
4,521,884
|
5,646,565
|
6,378,462
|
3,382,998
|
4,072,824
|
|||||||||||
General
and administrative
|
2,678,262
|
5,136,383
|
6,483,223
|
3,789,349
|
3,720,972
|
|||||||||||
Research
and development
|
383,059
|
202,344
|
77,724
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Impairment
loss
|
139,937
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Loss
on disposal of assets
|
11,963
|
29,511
|
32,706
|
14,512
|
30,999
|
|||||||||||
Total
operating expenses
|
7,735,105
|
11,014,803
|
12,972,115
|
7,186,859
|
7,824,795
|
|||||||||||
Income
from operations
|
7,431,631
|
13,875,018
|
18,994,434
|
8,817,242
|
9,992,431
|
|||||||||||
Other
income (expense), net
|
31,792
|
194,547
|
61,228
|
(89,846
|
)94,889
|
|||||||||||
Interest
expense, net
|
(832,110
|
)
|
(555,796
|
)
|
(1,088,582
|
)
|
(580,379
|
(959,222
|
))
|
|||||||
Investment
income (loss)
|
90,492
|
664,889
|
618,843
|
544,223
|
8,292
|
|||||||||||
Subsidy
income
|
2,782
|
2,292,880
|
4,355,367
|
2,737,028
|
3,250,314
|
|||||||||||
Income
before income taxes
|
6,724,587
|
16,471,538
|
22,941,290
|
11,428,268
|
12,386,704
|
|||||||||||
Income
taxes expenses
|
947,768
|
401,468
|
1,368,838
|
249,035
|
1,051,120
|
|||||||||||
Income
before minority interest
|
5,776,819
|
16,070,070
|
21,572,452
|
11,179,233
|
11,335,584
|
|||||||||||
Minority
interest
|
1,041,543
|
2,366,549
|
3,521,197
|
2,184,443
|
1,742,104
|
|||||||||||
Net
income
|
$
|
4,735,276
|
$
|
13,703,521
|
$
|
18,051,255
|
$
|
8,994,790
|
$
|
9,593,480
|
||||||
Weighted
average number of common shares
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
|||||||||||
Weighted
average number of diluted common shares
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,200,000
|
22,277,717
|
|||||||||||
Basic
earnings per share
|
$
|
0.21
|
$
|
0.62
|
$
|
0.81
|
$
|
0.41
|
$
|
0.43
|
||||||
Diluted
earnings per share
|
$
|
0.21
|
$
|
0.62
|
$
|
0.81
|
$
|
0.41
|
$
|
0.43
|
||||||
Other
comprehensive income:
|
||||||||||||||||
Net
income
|
$
|
4,735,276
|
$
|
13,703,521
|
$
|
18,051,255
|
$
|
8,994,790
|
$
|
9,593,480
|
||||||
Translation
adjustments
|
1,212
|
(2,119
|
)
|
1,149,579
|
796,241
|
1,208,955
|
||||||||||
Comprehensive
income
|
$
|
4,736,488
|
$
|
13,701,402
|
$
|
19,200,834
|
$
|
9,791,031
|
$
|
10,802,435
|
Common
Stock
|
|
Preferred
Stock
|
|
Additional
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accumulated
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
Shares
|
|
Amount
|
|
Shares
|
|
Amount
|
|
Paid-in Capital |
|
Note
Receivable
|
Appropriated
Earnings
|
Retained
Earnings
|
Comprehensive
Income
(Loss)
|
Total
|
|||||||||||||||
Balance
at July 1, 2003
|
22,200,000
|
$
|
220,000
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
8,751,044
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
527,153
|
$
|
(176,052
|
)
|
$
|
1,204
|
$
|
9,325,349
|
||||||||||||
Capital
infused
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
600,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
600,000
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Forgiveness
of accounts payable
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
301
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
301
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Net
income for the year
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
4,735,276
|
-
|
4,735,276
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Appropriation
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
683,890
|
(683,890
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Translation
adjustments
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1,212
|
1,212
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Balance
at June 30, 2004
|
22,200,000
|
220,000
|
-
|
-
|
9,351,345
|
1,211,043
|
3,875,334
|
2,416
|
14,662,138
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Donation
received
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
11,715
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
11,715
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Net
income for the year
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
13,703,521
|
-
|
13,703,521
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Appropriation
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2,084,965
|
(2,084,965
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends
declared
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(1,372,799
|
)
|
-
|
(1,372,799
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Converted
into capital
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2,400,000
|
-
|
-
|
(2,400,000
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Translation
adjustments
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(2,119
|
)
|
(2,119
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Balance
at June 30, 2005
|
22,200,000
|
220,000
|
-
|
11,763,060
|
3,296,008
|
11,721,091
|
297
|
27,002,456
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Forgiveness
of accounts payable
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
10,018
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
10,018
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Donation
received
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
5,585
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
5,585
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Net
income for the period
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
18,051,255
|
-
|
18,051,255
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Appropriation
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
3,020,787
|
(3,020,787
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends
declared
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(1,657,745
|
)
|
-
|
(1,657,745
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Translation
adjustments
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1,149,579
|
1,149,579
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Balance
at June 30, 2006
|
22,200,000
|
220,000
|
-
|
-
|
11,778,663
|
-
|
6,316,795
|
25,093,814
|
1,149,876
|
44,561,148
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Issuing
preferred shares
|
-
|
-
|
1,300,000
|
$
|
13,000
|
7,239,390
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
7,252,390
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Donation
received
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
3,162
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
3,162
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Forgiveness
of accounts payable
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
482
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
482
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Net
income for the period (unaudited)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
9,593,480
|
-
|
9,593,480
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Note
receivable
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(30,000,000
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(30,000,000
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Translation
adjustments (unaudited)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1,208,955
|
1,208,955
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Balance
at December 31, 2006 (unaudited)
|
22,200,000
|
$
|
222,000
|
1,300,000
|
$
|
13,000
|
$
|
19,021,697
|
$
|
(30,000,000
|
)
|
$
|
6,316,795
|
$
|
34,687,294
|
$
|
2,358,831
|
$
|
32,619,617
|
||||||||||||
Years
Ended June 30,
|
|
Six
Months Ended
December
31
|
||||||||||||||
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
|||||||||||||||
Cash
flows from operating activities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Net
income
|
$
|
4,735,276
|
$
|
13,703,521
|
$
|
18,051,255
|
$
|
8,994,790
|
$
|
9,593,480
|
||||||
Adjustments
to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating
activities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Minority
interests
|
1,041,543
|
2,366,549
|
3,521,197
|
2,184,443
|
1,742,104
|
|||||||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
|
921,204
|
820,863
|
1,570,135
|
651,442
|
777,311
|
|||||||||||
Amortization
of long term deferred assets
|
-
|
49,840
|
52,292
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Allowance
for doubtful accounts
|
364,034
|
381,085
|
454,674
|
103,254
|
564,855
|
|||||||||||
Provision
for inventories
|
-
|
-
|
392,807
|
420,299
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Impairment
loss
|
139,937
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Amortization
of discount to notes payable
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
227,132
|
|||||||||||
Loss
on disposal of fixed assets
|
11,963
|
29,511
|
32,706
|
14,512
|
30,999
|
|||||||||||
Income
from equity investment
|
(90,492
|
)
|
(664,889
|
)
|
(618,843
|
)
|
(544,223
|
)
|
(8,292
|
)
|
||||||
Deferred
tax assets (liabilities)
|
60,313
|
61,211
|
207,929
|
(17,065
|
)
|
(106,102
|
)
|
|||||||||
Changes
in operating assets and liabilities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Accounts
receivables
|
(8,339,720
|
)
|
(19,389,033
|
)
|
(17,294,804
|
)
|
(5,371,127
|
)
|
(4,310,910
|
)
|
||||||
Inventories
|
(3,596,096
|
)
|
1,174,095
|
228,392
|
573,282
|
(3,299,359
|
)
|
|||||||||
Advance
to suppliers
|
(2,783,687
|
)
|
(1,807,680
|
)
|
1,479,866
|
293,454
|
(1,178,251
|
)
|
||||||||
Other
receivables
|
(531,053
|
)
|
(958,797
|
)
|
(74,103
|
)
|
(948,706
|
)
|
598,945
|
|||||||
Deposits
and other assets
|
(242,852
|
)
|
(162,771
|
)
|
(1,533,590
|
)
|
(988,429
|
)
|
(1,602,027
|
)
|
||||||
Advance
from customers
|
6,383,686
|
(1,135,349
|
)
|
(1,204,724
|
)
|
(2,056,544
|
)
|
3,842,831
|
||||||||
Accounts
payable
|
5,487,989
|
6,711,573
|
(538,111
|
)
|
1,699,511
|
2,546,681
|
||||||||||
Accruals
and other payable
|
3,936,289
|
3,339,142
|
2,317,997
|
2,315,380
|
1,016,069
|
|||||||||||
Tax
payable
|
702,573
|
(970,732
|
)
|
(241,052
|
)
|
(22,459
|
)
|
(121,099
|
)
|
|||||||
Net
cash provided by (used in) operating activities
|
8,200,907
|
3,548,139
|
7,286,127
|
7,301,814
|
10,314,367
|
|||||||||||
Cash
flows from investing activities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Purchase
of fixed assets
|
(1,912,101
|
)
|
(5,627,592
|
)
|
(5,473,890
|
)
|
(4,143,125
|
)
|
(186,669
|
)
|
||||||
Note
receivable from the sole stockholder
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(30,000,000
|
)
|
||||||||||
Disposal
(Purchase) of short-term investments
|
(2,288,874
|
)
|
1,812,331
|
135,556
|
407,377
|
-
|
||||||||||
Addition
to long-term investments
|
(142,574
|
)
|
(225,368
|
)
|
(1,300,927
|
)
|
(1,288,692
|
)
|
(3,112,056
|
)
|
||||||
Proceeds
from disposing assets
|
1,766
|
358,443
|
389,462
|
350,943
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Dividends
received from long-term investments
|
44,650
|
20,165
|
178,950
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Interest
received from short-term investments
|
41,831
|
148,837
|
53,837
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Net
cash used in investing activities
|
(4,255,302
|
)
|
(3,513,184
|
)
|
(6,017,012
|
)
|
(4,673,497
|
)
|
(33,298,725
|
)
|
||||||
Cash
flows from financing activities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Capital
infused
|
600,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Proceeds
from notes payable
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
29,987,000
|
|||||||||||
Proceeds
from issuing preferred shares
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
13,000
|
|||||||||||
Proceeds
from (Repayments to) short-term loans
|
1,691,516
|
3,020,600
|
(1,876,337
|
)
|
888,276
|
384,413
|
||||||||||
Proceeds
from long-term bank loans
|
-
|
6,645,321
|
3,752,674
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Repayments
to long term loans
|
(2,053,984
|
)
|
(6,403,581
|
)
|
(1,250,891
|
)
|
(1,007,478
|
)
|
-
|
|||||||
Due
to related parties
|
263,669
|
143,763
|
(209,558
|
)
|
1,006,697
|
(11,040
|
)
|
|||||||||
Donation
received
|
-
|
2,892
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Dividend
paid
|
-
|
(1,508,125
|
)
|
(1,075,559
|
)
|
(333,894
|
)
|
(1,281,378
|
)
|
|||||||
Net
cash provided by financing activities
|
501,201
|
1,900,870
|
(659,671
|
)
|
553,601
|
29,091,995
|
||||||||||
Effect
of foreign exchange rate changes
|
(2,955
|
)
|
5,573
|
1,135,665
|
514,690
|
1,689,149
|
||||||||||
Net
increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
|
4,443,851
|
1,941,398
|
1,745,109
|
3,696,608
|
7,796,786
|
|||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, beginning of period
|
2,848,890
|
7,292,741
|
9,234,139
|
9,234,139
|
10,979,248
|
|||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, end of period
|
$
|
7,292,741
|
$
|
9,234,139
|
$
|
10,979,248
|
$
|
12,930,747
|
$
|
18,776,034
|
||||||
·
|
Beijing
HollySys Co., Ltd. (74.11%); and
|
·
|
Hangzhou
HollySys Automation Co., Ltd. (60% as Beijing HollySys Co., Ltd.
holds the
remaining 40% interest in Hangzhou HollySys Automation Co.,
Ltd.)
|
June
30,
|
|
December
31,
|
|
|||||||
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
2006
|
||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
Billed
accounts receivable
|
$
|
25,020,334
|
$
|
25,776,682
|
$
|
35,086,362
|
||||
Unbilled
account receivable
|
25,985,132
|
42,912,201
|
38,148,516
|
|||||||
$
|
51,005,466
|
$
|
68,688,883
|
$
|
73,234,878
|
Within
1 year
|
1-2
years
|
2-3
years
|
3-5
years
|
Above
5 years
|
||||||
Percentage
|
2%
|
5%
|
15%
|
50%
|
100%
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
Beginning
balance
|
$
|
1,113,084
|
$
|
1,461,645
|
$
|
1,751,247
|
||||
Additions
charged to expense
|
460,926
|
664,282
|
568,450
|
|||||||
Recovery
|
(112,365
|
)
|
(179,059
|
)
|
-
|
|||||
Write-off
|
-
|
(195,621
|
)
|
(12,173
|
)
|
|||||
Ending
balance
|
$
|
1,461,645
|
$
|
1,751,247
|
$
|
2,307,524
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
Beginning
balance
|
$
|
107,400
|
$
|
139,924
|
$
|
77,856
|
||||
Additions
charged to expense
|
32,524
|
-
|
8,578
|
|||||||
Recovery
|
-
|
(30,549
|
)
|
-
|
||||||
Write-off
|
-
|
(31,519
|
)
|
-
|
||||||
Ending
balance
|
$
|
139,924
|
$
|
77,856
|
86,434
|
Land
use right
|
49
years
|
||
Buildings
|
30
years
|
||
Machinery
|
5
years
|
||
Software
|
5
years
|
||
Vehicles
and other equipment
|
5
years
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
Raw
materials
|
$
|
2,799,849
|
$
|
2,787,715
|
$
|
2,578,281
|
||||
Work
in progress
|
943,574
|
1,503,618
|
1,110,161
|
|||||||
Finished
goods
|
4,690,852
|
3,915,887
|
7,750,636
|
|||||||
Low
value consumables
|
13,891
|
16,429
|
22,397
|
|||||||
Provision
|
-
|
(392,807
|
)
|
(337,486
|
)
|
|||||
$
|
8,448,166
|
$
|
7,830,842
|
$
|
11,123,989
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
Land
use right
|
$
|
697,603
|
$
|
722,228
|
$
|
739,830
|
||||
Buildings
|
5,190,628
|
12,833,072
|
12,953,630
|
|||||||
Machinery
|
1,432,699
|
1,844,165
|
3,767,602
|
|||||||
Electronic
equipment
|
1,927,300
|
2,163,249
|
1,413,106
|
|||||||
Software
|
303,908
|
397,618
|
449,686
|
|||||||
Motor
vehicles
|
469,939
|
691,086
|
809,269
|
|||||||
Office
furniture
|
217,162
|
164,657
|
213,955
|
|||||||
Other
equipment
|
175,848
|
294,885
|
717,842
|
|||||||
Construction
in progress
|
6,190,432
|
2,181,608
|
213,132
|
|||||||
16,605,519
|
21,292,568
|
21,278,052
|
||||||||
Accumulated
depreciation
|
(2,701,257
|
)
|
(3,508,014
|
)
|
(4,136,227
|
)
|
||||
$
|
13,904,262
|
$
|
17,784,554
|
$
|
17,141,825
|
June
30, 2005
|
Interest
Held
|
Long-term
Investment
At
Cost
|
Equity
in Investee Company
|
Advance
to Investee Company
|
Subtotal
|
|||||||||||
Equity
Method
|
||||||||||||||||
HollySys
Information Technology
|
40
|
%
|
$
|
1,771,222
|
$
|
4,721
|
$
|
203,271
|
$
|
1,979,214
|
||||||
HollySys
Electric Machinery
|
40
|
%
|
639,901
|
318,991
|
48,330
|
1,007,222
|
||||||||||
New
Huake Electric Tech
|
37.5
|
%
|
181,236
|
9,390
|
48,330
|
238,956
|
||||||||||
HollySys
Zhonghao Automation
Engineering
|
89.11
|
%
|
108,743
|
(15,340
|
)
|
-
|
93,403
|
|||||||||
Subtotal
|
2,701,102
|
317,762
|
299,931
|
3,318,795
|
||||||||||||
Cost
Method
|
||||||||||||||||
Zhongjijing
Investment Consulting
|
5
|
%
|
362,472
|
-
|
-
|
362,472
|
||||||||||
Total
|
$
|
3,063,574
|
$
|
317,762
|
$
|
299,931
|
$
|
3,681,267
|
June
30, 2006
|
Interest
Held
|
Long-term
Investment
at
Cost
|
Equity
in Investee Company
|
Advance
to Investee Company
|
Subtotal
|
|||||||||||
Equity
Method
|
||||||||||||||||
HollySys
Information Technology
|
40
|
%
|
$
|
1,861,498
|
$
|
25,963
|
$
|
13,305
|
$
|
1,900,766
|
||||||
HollySys
Electric Machinery
|
40
|
%
|
662,490
|
605,737
|
-
|
1,268,227
|
||||||||||
New
Huake Electric Tech
|
37.5
|
%
|
187,634
|
43,676
|
31,272
|
262,582
|
||||||||||
HollySys
Zhonghao Automation Engineering
|
89.11
|
%
|
112,583
|
(9,718
|
)
|
-
|
102,865
|
|||||||||
Beijing
Techenergy Co., Ltd.
|
50
|
%
|
1,250,891
|
50,223
|
20,306
|
1,321,420
|
||||||||||
Subtotal
|
$
|
4,075,096
|
$
|
715,881
|
$
|
64,883
|
$
|
4,855,860
|
||||||||
Cost
Method
|
||||||||||||||||
Zhongjijing
Investment Consulting
|
5
|
%
|
375,267
|
-
|
-
|
375,267
|
||||||||||
Beijing
HollySys Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.
|
20
|
%
|
50,036
|
-
|
-
|
50,036
|
||||||||||
Total
|
$
|
4,500,39
|
$
|
715,881
|
$
|
64,883
|
$
|
5,281,163
|
December
31, 2006
|
Interest
Held
|
Long-term
Investment
At
Cost
|
Equity
in Investee Company
|
Advance
to Investee Company
|
Subtotal
|
|||||||||||
|
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||||
Equity
Method
|
||||||||||||||||
HollySys
Information Technology
|
40
|
%
|
$
|
1,921,081
|
$
|
(6,366
|
)
|
$
|
148,077
|
$
|
2,062,792
|
|||||
HollySys
Electric Machinery
|
40
|
%
|
678,636
|
703,813
|
-
|
1,382,449
|
||||||||||
New
Huake Electric Tech
|
38
|
%
|
192,207
|
54,615
|
32,034
|
278,856
|
||||||||||
HollySys
Zhonghao Automation Engineering
|
89.11
|
%
|
142,968
|
(37,585
|
)
|
-
|
105,383
|
|||||||||
Beijing
Techenergy Co., Ltd.
|
50
|
%
|
1,281,378
|
55,724
|
19,841
|
1,356,943
|
||||||||||
IPE
Biotechnology Co., Ltd
|
31.15
|
%
|
1,537,653
|
(77,542
|
)
|
-
|
1,460,111
|
|||||||||
Subtotal
|
$
|
5,753,923
|
$
|
692,659
|
$
|
199,952
|
$
|
6,646,534
|
||||||||
Cost
Method
|
||||||||||||||||
Zhongjijing
Investment Consulting
|
5
|
%
|
384,413
|
-
|
-
|
384,413
|
||||||||||
Beijing
HollySys Equipment Technology Co., LTD.
|
20
|
%
|
51,255
|
-
|
-
|
51,255
|
||||||||||
Beijing
Best Power Electrical Technology Co., Ltd
|
18.49
|
%
|
1,440,915
|
-
|
-
|
1,440,915
|
||||||||||
Total
|
$
|
7,630,506
|
$
|
692,659
|
$
|
199,952
|
$
|
8,523,117
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
Beginning
balance
|
$
|
881,052
|
$
|
1,594,215
|
$
|
1,430,736
|
||||
Expense
accrued
|
1,708,767
|
1,273,616
|
947,311
|
|||||||
Expense
incurred
|
(995,604
|
)
|
(1,437,095
|
)
|
(435,124
|
)
|
||||
Ending
balance
|
$
|
1,594,215
|
$
|
1,430,736
|
$
|
1,942,923
|
June
30,
|
December,
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
RMB-denominated
loan (RMB24 million) from Industry and Commercial Bank of China,
maturing
on December 26, 2005, bearing interest at 5.58% per annum, guaranteed
by
China Electronic Information Industry Group Co., Ltd.
|
$
|
1,208,240
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
||||
RMB-denominated
loan (RMB15 million) from Beijing Bank, maturing on July 15, 2007,
bearing
interest at 5.49% per annum, guaranteed by Beijing Zhongguancun
Science
Technology Guaranty Co., Ltd.
|
1,812,360
|
1,876,337
|
1,922,067
|
|||||||
RMB-denominated
loan (RMB40 million) from CITIC Trust & Investment Co., Ltd., maturing
January 21, 2007, bearing interest at 7.002% per annum, guaranteed
by
Beijing Zhongguancun Science Technology Guaranty Co., Ltd. and
HollySys
pledged a portion of its property located in Beijing to Zhongguancun
Science Technology Guaranty Co., Ltd. As collateral.
|
4,832,961
|
5,003,565
|
5,125,511
|
|||||||
RMB-denominated
loan (RMB30 million) from China Development Bank, maturing June
28, 2009,
bearing interest at 6.03% per annum, guaranteed by Beijing Zhongguancun
Science Technology Guaranty Co., Ltd. and HollySys pledged a portion
of
its property located in Beijing to Zhongguancun Science Technology
Guaranty Co., Ltd. As collateral.
|
-
|
3,752,674
|
3,844,133
|
|||||||
Current
portion
|
(1,208,240
|
)
|
(5,003,565
|
)
|
(7,047,578
|
)
|
||||
$
|
6,645,321
|
$
|
5,629,011
|
$
|
3,844,133
|
Years
ending June 30,
|
.
|
Amount
|
2007
|
$
|
5,003,565
|
2008
|
1,876,337
|
|
2009
|
3,752,674
|
|
2010
|
-
|
|
2011
|
-
|
|
$
|
10,632,576
|
Years
Ended June 30,
|
||||||||||
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
||||||||
HollySys
|
3,920,001
|
4,186,152
|
2,870,448
|
|||||||
Beijing
HollySys Haotong
|
(48,749
|
)
|
310,763
|
920,958
|
||||||
Hangzhou
HollySys
|
2,853,335
|
11,974,623
|
19,149,884
|
|||||||
Total
|
$
|
6,724,587
|
$
|
16,471,538
|
$
|
22,941,290
|
Years
Ended June 30,
|
||||||||||
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
||||||||
Income
taxes:
|
||||||||||
Current
|
$
|
887,455
|
$
|
340,257
|
$
|
1,160,909
|
||||
Deferred
|
60,313
|
61,211
|
207,929
|
|||||||
$
|
947,768
|
$
|
401,468
|
$
|
1,368,838
|
Years
Ended June 30,
|
|||||||
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
|||||
Statutory
rate
|
33.0
|
%
|
33.0
|
%
|
33.0
|
%
|
|
Income
tax rate reduction
|
(14.9
|
)
|
(24.1
|
)
|
(20.5
|
)
|
|
Permanent
difference
|
(4.1
|
)
|
(6.9
|
)
|
(6.5
|
)
|
|
Effective
income tax rate
|
14.0
|
%
|
2.0
|
%
|
6.0
|
%
|
June
30,
|
December,
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
Allowance
for doubtful accounts
|
$
|
211,481
|
$
|
267,870
|
$
|
263,681
|
||||
Inventory
provision
|
-
|
66,789
|
43,699
|
|||||||
Deferred
revenue
|
216,211
|
311,198
|
231,858
|
|||||||
Unamortized
goodwill
|
50,583
|
45,387
|
46,493
|
|||||||
Unamortized
deferred expenses
|
12,785
|
6,618
|
6,779
|
|||||||
Warranty
liabilities
|
92,310
|
192,259
|
147,230
|
|||||||
Inventory
cost adjustment
|
16,005
|
1,026
|
1,051
|
|||||||
Unbilled
accounts receivable
|
(678,129
|
)
|
(1,183,096
|
)
|
(932,438
|
)
|
||||
Net
deferred tax liabilities
|
$
|
(78,754
|
)
|
$
|
(291,949
|
)
|
$
|
(191,647
|
)
|
Name
of Related Parties
|
Relationship
with the Company
|
|
HollySys
Zhonghao Automation Engineering Technology Co., Ltd.
(a
China based entity)
|
89.11%
owned by HollySys
|
|
HollySys
information Technology Co., Ltd. (a China based entity)
|
40%
owned by HollySys
|
|
New
Huake Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
(a
China based entity)
|
37.5%
owned by HollySys
|
|
Shenzhen
HollySys Automation Engineering Co., Ltd.
(a
China based entity with a full reserve for impairment and liquidated
on
May 23, 2006)
|
52%
owned by HollySys
|
|
Beijing
Techenergy Co., Ltd.
|
50ûowned
by HollySys
|
|
HollySys
Electric Tech Co., Ltd (a China based entity)
|
40%
owned by HollySys
|
|
HollySys
Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. (a China based entity)
|
20%
owned by HollySys
|
|
Beijing
Best Power Electrical Technology Co., Ltd.
(a
China based entity)
|
18.49%
owned by HollySys
|
|
IPE
Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (a China based entity)
|
31.15%
owned by HollySys
|
|
Zhongjijing
Investment & Consulting Co., Ltd.
(a
China based entity)
|
5%
owned by HollySys
|
|
Sixth
Institute of Information Industry
|
One
of the owners in HollySys
|
|
Shanghai
Jinqiaotong Industrial Development Co., Ltd.
(a
China based entity)
|
One
of the owners in HollySys
|
June
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||
2005
|
2006
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||||
Hangzhou
HollySys System Engineering Co., Ltd.
|
$
|
80,862
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
||||
HollySys
Zhonghao Automation Engineering Technology Co., Ltd.
|
200,767
|
219,019
|
227,790
|
|||||||
Sixth
Institute of Information Industry
|
163,055
|
20,222
|
-
|
|||||||
Shenzhen
HollySys Automation Engineering Co., Ltd.
|
12,082
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||
Beijing
TechEnergy Co., Ltd.
|
-
|
239,883
|
317,987
|
|||||||
$
|
456,766
|
$
|
479,124
|
$
|
545,777
|
Years
Ended June 30,
|
Six
Months Ended December 31,
|
|||||||||||||||
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
2005
|
2006
|
||||||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
|||||||||||||||
Subsidies
received:
|
$
|
1,398,360
|
$
|
1,662,261
|
$
|
2,460,028
|
$
|
1,255,008
|
$
|
3,420,511
|
||||||
HollySys
|
R
& D expenses offset
|
(1,395,578
|
)
|
(67,262
|
)
|
(677,207
|
)
|
(395,544
|
)
|
(1,650,401
|
)
|
|||||
Interest
expenses offset
|
-
|
(241,648
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||
Subsidies
income
|
2,782
|
1,353,351
|
1,782,821
|
859,464
|
1,770,110
|
|||||||||||
Subsidies
received:
|
115,914
|
1,825,287
|
3,736,146
|
2,339,694
|
1,988,140
|
|||||||||||
Hangzhou |
R
& D expenses offset
|
(115,914
|
)
|
(885,758
|
)
|
(1,163,600
|
)
|
(481,828
|
)
|
(525,333
|
)
|
|||||
HollySys |
Subsidies
income
|
-
|
939,529
|
2,572,546
|
1,857,856
|
1,462,807
|
||||||||||
Subsidies
received:
|
52,993
|
62,082
|
23,087
|
19,708
|
43,304
|
|||||||||||
Haotong |
R
& D expenses offset
|
(52,993
|
)
|
(62,082
|
)
|
(23,087
|
)
|
(25,907
|
)
|
|||||||
Subsidies
income
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
19,708
|
17,397
|
|||||||||||
Subsidies
received:
|
1,567,267
|
3,549,630
|
6,219,261
|
3,614,400
|
5,451,955
|
|||||||||||
Total |
R
& D expenses offset
|
(1,564,485
|
)
|
(1,015,102
|
)
|
(1,863,894
|
)
|
(877,372
|
)
|
(2,201,641
|
)
|
|||||
Interest
expenses offset
|
-
|
(241,648
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||
Subsidies
income
|
$
|
2,782
|
$
|
2,292,880
|
$
|
4,355,367
|
$
|
2,737,028
|
$
|
3,250,314
|
Cash
Paid
|
Years
Ended June 30,
|
Six
Months Ended
December
31
|
||||||||||||||
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
2005
|
2006
|
||||||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
|||||||||||||||
Interest
|
$
|
867,621
|
$
|
991,880
|
$
|
993,379
|
$
|
930,302
|
$
|
724,318
|
||||||
Income
tax
|
184,976
|
1,311,003
|
933,410
|
274,444
|
625,392
|
|||||||||||
$
|
1,052,597
|
$
|
2,302,883
|
$
|
1,926,789
|
$
|
1,204,746
|
$
|
1,349,710
|
Non-cash
transactions
|
Years
Ended June 30,
|
|
Six
Months Ended December 31,
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
||||||||
(Unaudited)
|
(Unaudited)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
$
|
301
|
$
|
9,123
|
$
|
10,018
|
$
|
9,924
|
$
|
482
|
||||||||||||
Minority
interest
|
$
|
105
|
$
|
3,186
|
$
|
3,500
|
$
|
3,467
|
$
|
449
|
||||||||||||
Accounts
payable
|
$
|
(406
|
)
|
-
|
$
|
(13,518
|
)
|
$
|
(13,391
|
)
|
$
|
(931
|
)
|
|||||||||
Long-term
investment
|
-
|
$
|
(12,309
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||
Retained
earning
|
-
|
$
|
(2,400,000
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||
Discount
to notes payable
|
(7,239,390
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
-
|
$
|
2,400,000
|
$
|
5,585
|
$
|
5,532
|
$
|
7,242,552
|
|||||||||||||
Minority
interest
|
-
|
-
|
$
|
645
|
$
|
639
|
$
|
365
|
||||||||||||||
Electronic
equipment
|
-
|
-
|
$
|
(6,230
|
)
|
$
|
(6,171
|
)
|
$
|
(3,527
|
)
|
|||||||||||
Retained
earning
|
-
|
$
|
(1,343,140
|
)
|
$
|
(927,035
|
)
|
-
|
||||||||||||||
Minority
interest
|
-
|
-
|
$
|
(323,856
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||
Dividend
payable
|
-
|
$
|
1,343,140
|
$
|
1,250,891
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||
Retained
earning
|
$
|
(683,890
|
)
|
|
$
|
(2,084,965
|
)
|
$
|
(3,020,787
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||
Appropriated
earnings
|
$
|
683,890
|
$
|
2,084,965
|
$
|
3,020,787
|
-
|
-
|
Years
ending June 30,
|
Amount
|
||
2007
|
$
|
56,531
|
|
2008
|
137,422
|
||
2009
|
148,514
|
||
2010
|
156,179
|
||
2011
|
163,988
|
||
2012
|
8,557
|
||
$
|
671,191
|
Years
Ending June 30,
|
After
Tax Profit
|
||
2007
|
$
|
23,000,000
|
|
2008
|
32,000,000
|
||
2009
|
43,000,000
|
||
2010
|
61,000,000
|
Years
Ending December 31,
|
After
Tax Profit
|
||
2007
|
$
|
23,000,000
|
|
2008
|
32,000,000
|
||
2009
|
43,000,000
|
||
2010
|
61,000,000
|
||
2011
|
71,000,000
|
Page
|
||
THE
HOLLYSYS HOLDINGS STOCK PURCHASE
|
3
|
|
1.1
|
Purchase
and Sale
|
3
|
1.2
|
Purchase
Price
|
3
|
1.3
|
Earn-Out
Agreement
|
4
|
ARTICLE
II
|
THE
CLOSING
|
5
|
2.1
|
The
Closing
|
5
|
2.2
|
Deliveries
|
5
|
2.3
|
Additional
Agreements
|
6
|
2.4
|
Further
Assurances
|
6
|
ARTICLE
III
|
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE HOLLYSYS STOCKHOLDER AND HOLLYSYS
HOLDINGS
|
6
|
3.1
|
The
HollySys Stock
|
6
|
3.2
|
Organization
of HollySys Holdings
|
7
|
3.3
|
Authority
and Corporate Action; No Conflict
|
7
|
3.4
|
Consents
and Approvals
|
8
|
3.5
|
Licenses,
Permits, Etc
|
8
|
3.6
|
Taxes,
Tax Returns and Audits
|
8
|
3.7
|
Compliance
with Law
|
9
|
3.8
|
Litigation
|
9
|
3.9
|
Records
|
9
|
3.10
|
Brokers
|
9
|
3.11
|
Disclosure
|
9
|
3.12
|
Acquisition
of Chardan Sub Stock
|
9
|
3.13
|
Survival
of Representations and Warranties
|
10
|
ARTICLE
IV
|
REPRESENTATION
AND WARRANTIES RELATING TO BJ HLS, HZ HLS AND HOLLYSYS
SUBSIDIARY
|
10
|
4.1
|
The
HollySys Subsidiary Stock
|
11
|
4.2
|
Organization
of BJ HLS, HZ HLS and HollySys Subsidiary
|
11
|
4.3
|
No
Conflict
|
11
|
4.4
|
Consents
and Approvals
|
12
|
4.5
|
Financial
Statements
|
12
|
4.6
|
No
Undisclosed Liabilities
|
12
|
4.7
|
Real
Property
|
12
|
4.8
|
Certain
Personal Property
|
13
|
4.9
|
Non-Real
Estate Leases
|
13
|
4.10
|
Accounts
Receivable
|
13
|
4.11
|
Inventory
|
13
|
4.12
|
Contracts,
Obligations and Commitments
|
13
|
4.13
|
Licenses,
Permits, Etc
|
14
|
4.14
|
Intellectual
Property Rights
|
15
|
Page
|
||
4.15
|
Title
to and Condition of Assets
|
16
|
4.16
|
Taxes,
Tax Returns and Audits
|
18
|
4.17
|
Absence
of Certain Changes
|
19
|
4.18
|
Employee
Plans; Labor Matters
|
20
|
4.19
|
Compliance
with Law
|
20
|
4.20
|
No
Illegal or Improper Transactions
|
20
|
4.21
|
Related
Transactions
|
21
|
4.22
|
Records
|
21
|
4.23
|
Insurance
|
21
|
4.24
|
Litigation
|
21
|
4.25
|
Settled
Litigation
|
21
|
4.26
|
Brokers
|
21
|
4.27
|
Affiliates
|
21
|
4.28
|
Disclosure
|
22
|
4.29
|
Survival
of Representations and Warranties
|
22
|
ARTICLE
V
|
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF CNCAC
|
22
|
5.1
|
Organization
|
22
|
5.2
|
Capitalization
|
22
|
5.3
|
Authority
and Corporate Action; No Conflict
|
23
|
5.4
|
Consents
and Approvals
|
24
|
5.5
|
Valid
Issuance of Chardan Sub Stock
|
24
|
5.6
|
Financial
Statements
|
24
|
5.7
|
SEC
Reports
|
25
|
5.8
|
Trust
Fund
|
25
|
5.9
|
No
Undisclosed Liabilities
|
25
|
5.10
|
Absence
of Certain Changes
|
25
|
5.11
|
Compliance
with Law
|
26
|
5.12
|
Litigation
|
26
|
5.13
|
Brokers
|
27
|
5.14
|
Survival
of Representations and Warranties
|
27
|
5.15
|
Records
|
27
|
5.16
|
Disclosure
|
27
|
ARTICLE
VI
|
COVENANTS
REGARDING HOLLYSYS, HOLLYSYS SUBSIDIARY AND THE HOLLYSYS
STOCKHOLDER
|
27
|
6.1
|
Conduct
of the Business
|
27
|
6.2
|
Access
to Information
|
29
|
6.3
|
Insurance
|
29
|
6.4
|
Protection
of Confidential Information; Non-Competition
|
29
|
6.5
|
Post-Closing
Assurances
|
31
|
6.6
|
No
Other Negotiations
|
31
|
6.7
|
No
Securities Transactions
|
31
|
6.8
|
Fulfillment
of Conditions
|
31
|
Page
|
||
6.9
|
Disclosure
of Certain Matters
|
32
|
6.10
|
Regulatory
and Other Authorizations; Notices and Consents
|
32
|
6.11
|
Use
of Intellectual Property
|
32
|
6.12
|
Related
Tax
|
32
|
6.13
|
HollySys
Acquisition
|
33
|
6.14
|
HollySys
Holdings
|
33
|
6.15
|
HollySys
Proxy Information
|
33
|
6.16
|
Interim
Financial Information
|
33
|
ARTICLE
VII
|
COVENANTS
OF CNCAC
|
33
|
7.1
|
Conduct
of the Business
|
33
|
7.2
|
Stockholder
Meeting
|
35
|
7.3
|
Fulfillment
of Conditions
|
35
|
7.4
|
Disclosure
of Certain Matters
|
35
|
7.5
|
Chardan
Sub Incorporation
|
35
|
7.6
|
Post-Closing
Assurances
|
36
|
7.7
|
Regulatory
and Other Authorizations; Notices and Consents
|
36
|
7.8
|
Books
and Records
|
36
|
7.9
|
Nasdaq
Listing
|
37
|
ARTICLE
VIII
|
ADDITIONAL
COVENANTS OF THE PARTIES
|
37
|
8.1
|
Other
Information
|
37
|
8.2
|
Mail
Received After Closing
|
37
|
8.3
|
Further
Action
|
37
|
8.4
|
Schedules
|
37
|
8.5
|
Execution
of Agreements
|
38
|
8.6
|
Confidentiality
|
38
|
8.7
|
Public
Announcements
|
38
|
8.8
|
Board
of Chardan Sub
|
38
|
8.9
|
Stock
Option Pool
|
39
|
8.10
|
HollySys
Stock Acquisition
|
39
|
ARTICLE
IX
|
CONDITIONS
TO CLOSING
|
39
|
9.1
|
Conditions
to Each Party’s Obligations
|
39
|
9.2
|
Conditions
to Obligations of HollySys, HollySys Subsidiary and the HollySys
Stockholders
|
40
|
9.3
|
Conditions
to Obligations of CNCAC
|
41
|
ARTICLE
X
|
INDEMNIFICATION
|
43
|
10.1
|
Indemnification
by HollySys Stockholders
|
43
|
10.2
|
Indemnification
by CNCAC
|
43
|
10.3
|
Notice,
Etc
|
43
|
10.4
|
Limitations
|
44
|
10.5
|
Adjustment
to Purchase Price; Setoff
|
45
|
Page
|
||
10.6
|
Claims
on behalf or in right of CNCAC and Chardan Sub
|
45
|
ARTICLE
XI
|
TERMINATION
AND ABANDONMENT
|
45
|
11.1
|
Methods
of Termination
|
45
|
11.2
|
Effect
of Termination
|
47
|
11.3
|
No
Claim Against Trust Fund
|
47
|
ARTICLE
XII
|
DEFINITIONS
|
47
|
12.1
|
Certain
Defined Terms
|
47
|
ARTICLE
XIII
|
GENERAL
PROVISIONS
|
50
|
13.1
|
Expenses
|
50
|
13.2
|
Notices
|
50
|
13.3
|
Amendment
|
51
|
13.4
|
Waiver
|
51
|
13.5
|
Headings
|
52
|
13.6
|
Severability
|
52
|
13.7
|
Entire
Agreement
|
52
|
13.8
|
Benefit
|
52
|
13.9
|
Governing
Law
|
52
|
13.10
|
Counterparts
|
52
|
13.11
|
Approval
of Contemporaneous Transactions
|
52
|
13.12
|
Regulatory
Requirements
|
52
|
After-Tax
Profit Targets for 12 Months Ending
|
||||
December
31
2007
|
December
31
2008
|
December
31
2009
|
December
31
2010
|
December
31
2011
|
$23,000,000
|
$32,000,000
|
$43,000,000
|
$61,000,000
|
$71,000,000
|
Shares
Issuable Upon Achieving or Exceeding the Respective After-Tax Profit
Targets
|
||||
December
31
2007
|
December
31
2008
|
December
31
2009
|
December
31
2010
|
December
31
2011
|
2,000,000
|
2,000,000
|
2,000,000
|
2,000,000
|
3,000,000
|
(a)
|
If
to the HollySys Stockholder:
|
(b)
|
If
to CNCAC or the CNCAC Initial
Stockholders:
|
CHARDAN
NORTH CHINA ACQUISITION CORPORATION
By: /s/
Richard
Propper
Name:
Richard Propper
Title: Chairman
|
ADVANCE
PACIFIC HOLDING LIMITED
By: /s/
Ka Wa
Cheng
Name:
Ka Wa Cheng
Title:
|
Only
with respect to Sections 6.4, 6.11, 6.13, 8.2 and 8.10:
|
|
SHANGHAI
JINQIAOTONG INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CO.
By:
/s/ Song
Xuesong
Name:
Song Xuesong
Title:
CEO
|
LOU
AN
By:
/s/ Lou
An
Name:
Lou An
|
WANG
CHANGLI
By:
/s/ Wang
Changli
Name:
Wang Changli
|
TEAM
SPIRIT INDUSTRIAL LIMITED
By:
/s/ Wang
Changli
Name:
Wang Changli
|
CHENG
WUSI
By:
/s/ Cheng
Wusi
Name:
Cheng Wusi
|
OSCAF
INTERNATIONAL CO.
By:
/s/ Qiao
Li
Name:
Qiao Li
|
1
|
NAME
|
2
|
COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
|
The
Company is a company limited by shares. The liability of each member
is
limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on such member's
shares.
|
3
|
REGISTERED
OFFICE
|
4
|
REGISTERED
AGENT
|
The
first registered agent of the Company will be Maples Finance BVI
Limited
of P.O. Box 173, Kingston Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British
Virgin
Islands or such other registered agent as the directors or members
may
decide from time to time.
|
5
|
GENERAL
OBJECTS AND POWERS
|
6
|
LIMITATIONS
ON THE COMPANY'S BUSINESS
|
(a)
|
carry
on banking or trust business, unless it is licensed under the Banks
and
Trust Companies Act, 1990;
|
(b)
|
carry
on business as an insurance or as a reinsurance company, insurance
agent
or insurance broker, unless it is licensed under an enactment authorising
it to carry on that business;
|
(c)
|
carry
on the business of company management unless it is licensed under
the
Companies Management Act, 1990;
|
(d)
|
carry
on the business of providing the registered office or the registered
agent
for companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands;
or
|
(e)
|
carry
on the business as a mutual fund, mutual fund manager or mutual
fund
administrator unless it is licensed under the Mutual Funds Act,
1996.
|
7
|
AUTHORISED
SHARES
|
(a)
|
The
Company is authorised to issue one hundred and one million shares
of two
classes as follows:-
|
(i) |
one
hundred million shares in one series of US$0.001 par value each
(“Ordinary
Shares”); and
|
(ii) |
one
million preference shares in one series of US$0.001 par value each
(“Preferred Shares”).
|
(b)
|
The
shares in the Company shall be issued in the currency of the United
States
of America.
|
(c)
|
Each
Ordinary Share in the Company confers on the
holder:
|
(i)
|
the
right to one vote at a meeting of the members of the Company or
on any
resolution of the members of the
Company;
|
(ii)
|
the
right to an equal share in any dividend paid by the Company in
accordance
with the Act; and
|
(iii)
|
the
right to an equal share in the distribution of the surplus assets
of the
Company.
|
(d)
|
Preferred
Shares
|
(i)
|
The
rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions attaching to the
Preferred
Shares shall be those provided pursuant to the Act as modified
or negated
by the directors of the Company on the issuance of the Preferred
Shares.
|
(ii)
|
The
Board of Directors of the Company is authorised, subject to limitations
prescribed by law and the provisions of this Clause 7, to amend
the
Company’s Memorandum of Association to provide for the creation from time
to time of one or more series of Preferred Shares or classes of
shares
having preferred rights, and pursuant to such amendment to establish
the
number of shares and series to be included in each such class,
and to fix
the designation, relative rights, preferences, qualifications and
limitations of the shares of each such class. The authority of
the Board
of Directors with respect to each class shall include, but not
be limited
to, determination of the following:
|
(a) |
the
number of shares and series constituting that class and the distinctive
designation of that class;
|
(b)
|
the
distribution rate on the shares of that class, whether distributions
shall
be cumulative, and, if so, from which date or dates, and whether
they
shall be payable in preference to, or in another relation to, the
distributions payable on any other class or classes of
shares;
|
(c)
|
whether
that class shall have voting rights, in addition to the voting
rights
provided by law, and, if so, the terms of such voting
rights;
|
(d)
|
whether
that class shall have conversion or exchange priviledges, and,
if so, the
terms and conditions of such conversion or exchange, including
provision
for adjustment of the conversion or exchange rate in such events
as the
Board of Directors shall determine;
|
(e)
|
whether
or not the shares of that class shall be redeemable, and, if so,
the terms
and conditions of such redemption, including the manner of selecting
shares for redemption if less than all shares are to be redeemed,
the date
or dates upon or after which they shall be redeemable, and the
amount per
share payable in case of redemption, which amount may vary under
different
conditions and at different redemption
dates;
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(f)
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whether
that class shall be entitled to the benefit of a sinking fund to
be
applied to the purchase or redemption of shares of that class,
and, if so,
the terms and amounts of such sinking
fund;
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(g)
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the
right of the shares of that class to the benefit of conditions
and
restrictions upon the creation of indebtedness of the Company or
any
subsidiary, upon the issue of any additional shares (including
additional
shares of such class of any other class) and upon the payment of
dividends
or the making of other distribution on, and the purchase, redemption
or
other acquisition by the Company or any subsidiary of any outstanding
shares of the Company;
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(h)
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the
right of the shares of that class in the event of any voluntary
or
involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company
and
whether such rights shall be in preference to, or in another relation
to,
the comparable rights of any other class or classes of shares;
and
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(i)
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any
other relative, participating, optional or other special rights,
qualifications, limitations or restrictions of that
class.
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8
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REGISTERED
SHARES ONLY
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9
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AMENDMENTS
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1
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References
in these Articles of Association ("Articles")
to the Act shall mean the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004.
The following
Articles shall constitute the Articles of the Company. In these
Articles,
words and expressions defined in the Act shall have the same
meaning and,
unless otherwise required by the context, the singular shall
include the
plural and vice versa, the masculine shall include the feminine
and the
neuter and references to persons shall include corporations
and all legal
entities capable of having a legal
existence.
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2
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Every
person whose name is entered as a member in the share register,
being the
holder of registered shares, shall without payment, be entitled
to a
certificate signed by a director or under the common seal of
the Company
with or without the signature of any director or officer of
the Company
specifying the share or shares held and the par value thereof,
provided
that in respect of shares held jointly by several persons,
the Company
shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate and delivery
of a
certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall
be
sufficient delivery to all.
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3
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If
a certificate 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 the directors may reasonably require. Any
member
receiving a share certificate shall indemnify and hold the
Company and its
officers harmless from any loss or liability which it or they
may incur by
reason of wrongful or fraudulent use or representation made
by any person
by virtue of the possession of such a
certificate.
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4
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Subject
to the provisions of the Memorandum of Association and these
Articles, the
unissued shares of the Company (whether forming part of the
original or
any increased authorised shares) shall
be at the disposal of the directors who
may offer, allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of
them to such
persons at such times and for such consideration, being not
less than the
par value of the shares being disposed of, and upon such terms
and
conditions as the directors may determine, and in the absence
of fraud the
decision of the directors as to the value of the consideration
received by
the Company in respect of the issue is conclusive unless a
question of law
is involved.
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5
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Without
prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the
holders of any
existing shares or class of shares, any share in the Company
may be issued
with such preferred, deferred or other special rights or such
restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting or otherwise
as the
directors may from time to time
determine.
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6
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Subject
to the provisions of the Act in this regard, 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.
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7
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Shares
in the Company may be issued for money, services rendered,
personal
property, an estate in real property, a promissory note or
other binding
obligation to contribute money or property or any combination
of the
foregoing as shall be determined by a resolution of
directors.
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8
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A
share issued by the Company upon conversion of, or in exchange
for,
another share or a debt obligation or other security in the
Company, shall
be treated for all purposes as having been issued for money
equal to the
consideration received or deemed to have been received by the
Company in
respect of the other share, debt obligation or
security.
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9
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The
Company may issue fractions of a share and a fractional share
shall have
the same corresponding fractional liabilities, limitations,
preferences,
privileges, qualifications, restrictions, rights and other
attributes of a
whole share of the same class or series of
shares.
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10
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The
directors may redeem any share issued by the Company at a
premium.
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11
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If
at any time the Company is authorised to issue shares of more
than one
class
the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided
by the terms
of issue of the shares of that class) may, whether or not the
Company is
being wound up, be varied with the consent in writing of the
holders of a
majority of the issued shares of that class and the holders
of a majority
of the issued shares of any other class of shares which may
be affected by
such variation.
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12
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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.
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13
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Except
as required by the Act, no person shall be recognised by the
Company as
holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not
be bound by or
be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice
thereof) any
equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share
or any
interest in any fractional part of a share or (except as provided
by these
Articles or by the Act) any other rights in respect of any
share except
any absolute right to the
entirety thereof by the registered
holder.
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14
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Subject
to any limitations in the Memorandum of Association, shares
in the Company
shall
be
transferred by a written instrument of transfer signed by the
transferor
and containing the name and address of the transferee. The
instrument of
transfer shall also be signed by the transferee if registration
as a
holder of the shares imposes a liability to the Company on
the transferee.
The instrument of transfer of a registered share shall be sent
to the
Company for registration.
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15
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Subject
to the Memorandum of Association, these Articles and to Section
54(5) of
the Act, the Company shall, on receipt of an instrument of
transfer, enter
the name of the transferee of the share in the register of
members unless
the directors resolve to refuse or delay the registration of
the transfer
for reasons that shall be specified in the
resolution.
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16
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Subject
to Sections 52(2) and 53 of the Act, the executor or administrator
of a
deceased member, the guardian of an incompetent member or the
trustee of a
bankrupt member shall be the only person recognised by the
Company as
having any title to his share, save that and only in the event
of death,
incompetence or bankruptcy of any member or members of the
Company as a
consequence of which the Company no longer has any directors
or members,
then upon the production of any documentation which is reasonable
evidence
of the applicant being entitled to:
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(a)
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a
grant of probate of the deceased's will, or grant of letters
of
administration of the deceased's estate, or confirmation of
the
appointment as executor or administrator (as the case may be),
of a
deceased member's estate; or
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(b)
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the
appointment of a guardian of an incompetent member;
or
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(c)
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the
appointment as trustee of a bankrupt member;
or
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(d)
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upon
production of any other reasonable evidence of the applicant's
beneficial
ownership of, or entitlement to the
shares,
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to
the Company's registered agent in the British Virgin Islands
together with
(if so requested by the registered agent) a notarised copy
of the share
certificate(s) of the deceased, incompetent or bankrupt member,
an
indemnity in favour of the registered agent and appropriate
legal advice
in respect of any document issued by a foreign court, then
the
administrator, executor, guardian or trustee in bankruptcy
(as the case
may be) notwithstanding that their name has not been entered
in the share
register of the Company, may by written resolution of the applicant,
endorsed with written approval by the registered agent, be
appointed a
director of the Company or entered in the share register as
the legal and
or beneficial owner of the shares.
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17
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The
production to the Company of any document which is reasonable
evidence of:
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(a)
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a
grant of probate of the will, or grant of letters of administration
of the
estate, or confirmation of the appointment as executor, of
a deceased
member; or
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(b)
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the
appointment of a guardian of an incompetent member; or
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(c)
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the
trustee of a bankrupt member; or
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(d)
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the
applicant's legal and or beneficial ownership of the shares,
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18
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Any
person becoming entitled by operation of law or otherwise to
a share or
shares in consequence of the death, incompetence or bankruptcy
of any
member may be registered as a member upon such evidence being
produced as
may reasonably be required by the directors. An application
by any such
person to be registered as a member shall for all purposes
be deemed to be
a transfer of shares of the deceased, incompetent or bankrupt
member and
the directors shall treat it as
such.
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19
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Any
person who has become entitled to a share or shares in consequence
of the
death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any member may, instead
of being
registered himself, request in writing that some person to
be named by him
be registered as the transferee of such share or shares and
such request
shall likewise be treated as if it were a
transfer.
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20
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What
amounts to incompetence on the part of a person is a matter
to be
determined by the court having regard to all the relevant evidence
and the
circumstances of the case.
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21
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Subject
to the provisions of the Act in this regard, the directors
may, on behalf
of the Company purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of
the Company's
own shares for such consideration as they consider fit, and
either cancel
or hold such shares as treasury shares. The directors may dispose
of any
shares held as treasury shares on such terms and conditions
as they may
from time to time determine. Shares may be purchased or otherwise
acquired
in exchange for newly issued shares in the
Company.
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22
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No
purchase, redemption or other acquisition of shares shall be
made unless
the directors determine that immediately after the purchase,
redemption or
other acquisition the Company will be able to pay its debts
as they fall
due and the value of the assets of the Company exceeds its
liabilities.
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23
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Shares
that the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires pursuant
to the
preceding Regulation may be cancelled or held as treasury shares
except to
the extent that such shares are in excess of 80 percent of
the issued
shares of the Company in which case they shall be cancelled
but they shall
be available for reissue.
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24
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Subject
to the provisions to the contrary
in;
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(a)
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the
Memorandum of Association or these
Articles;
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(b)
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the
designations, powers, preferences, rights, qualifications,
limitations and
restrictions with which the shares were issued;
or
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(c)
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the
subscription agreement for the issue of the
shares;
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25
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Any
action required or permitted to be taken by the members must
be effected
at a duly called meeting (as described in Regulations 28, 29
and 30) of
the members entitled to vote on such action and may not be
effected by
written resolution.
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26
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The
directors may convene meetings of the members of the Company
at such times
and in such manner and places as the directors consider necessary
or
desirable, and they shall convene such a meeting upon the written
request
of members entitled to exercise at least fifty (50) percent
of the voting
rights in respect of the matter for which the meeting is
requested.
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27
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An
annual meeting of members for election of directors and for
such other
business as may come before the meeting shall be held each
year at such
date and time as may be determined by the
directors.
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28
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Seven
(7) days notice at the least specifying the place, the day
and the hour of
the meeting and general nature of the business to be conducted
shall be
given in the manner hereinafter mentioned to such persons whose
names on
the date the notice is given appear as members in the share
register of
the Company and are entitled to vote at the
meeting.
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29
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The
directors may fix the record date for determining those shares
that are
entitled to vote at the meeting.
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30
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Notwithstanding
Article 28, a meeting of members held in contravention of the
requirement
to give notice is valid if members holding a ninety (90) percent
majority
of:
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(a)
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the
total voting rights on all the matters to be considered at
the meeting;
or
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(b)
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the
votes of each class or series of shares where members are entitled
to vote
thereon as a class or series together with an absolute majority
of the
remaining votes,
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31
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The
inadvertent failure of the directors to give notice of a meeting
to a
member or the fact that a member has not received the notice,
shall not
invalidate the meeting.
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32
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A
member shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of members
if he
participates by telephone or other electronic means and all
members
participating in the meeting are able to hear each
other.
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33
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The
following shall apply in respect of joint ownership of
shares:
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(a)
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if
two or more persons hold shares jointly each of them may be
present in
person or by proxy at a meeting of members and may speak as
a
member;
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(b)
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if
only one of the joint owners is present in person or by proxy
he may vote
on behalf of all joint owners; and
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(c)
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if
two or more of the joint owners are present in person or by
proxy they
must vote as one.
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34
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No
business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum
of members is
present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business.
Save as set out
in Regulation 35 a quorum shall consist of the holder or holders
present
in person or by proxy entitled to exercise at least fifty (50)
percent of
the voting rights of the shares of each class or series of
shares entitled
to vote as a class or series thereon and the same proportion
of the votes
of the remaining shares entitled to vote
thereon.
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35
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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 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 resolutions
to be
considered by the meeting, those present shall constitue a
quorum but
other wise the meeting shall be dissolved.
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36
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At
every meeting the members present shall choose someone of their
number to
be the chairman (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
at the
meeting shall preside as Chairman failing which the oldest
individual
member present at the meeting or failing any member personally
attending
the meeting, the proxy present at the meeting representing
the oldest
member of the Company, shall take the
chair.
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37
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At
any meeting of members, only such business shall be conducted
as shall
have been brought before such
meeting:
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(a)
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by
or at the direction of the Chairman of the Board of Directors
(as defined
in Regulation 84); or
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(b)
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by
any member who is a holder of record at the time of the giving
of the
notice provided for in Regulation 28 who is entitled to vote
at the
meeting and who complies with the procedures set out in Regulation
43.
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38
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The
Chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, 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.
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39
|
At
any meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall
be decided
on a show of hands by a simple majority unless a poll is (before
or on the
declaration of the result of the show of hands)
demanded:
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(a)
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by
the Chairman; or
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(b)
|
by
any member present in person or by proxy and holding not less
than one
tenth of the total voting shares issued by the Company and
having the
right to vote at the meeting.
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40
|
Unless
a poll be so demanded, a declaration by the Chairman that a
resolution
has, on a show of hands been carried, and an entry to that
effect in the
book containing the minutes of
the proceedings of the Company, shall be sufficient evidence
of the fact,
without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded
in favour
of or against such resolution.
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41
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If
a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as
the Chairman
directs, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the
resolution
of the meeting at
which the poll was demanded. The demand for a poll may be
withdrawn.
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42
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In
the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands,
or
on a poll, the Chairman of
the meeting at which the show of hands takes place, or at which
the poll
is demanded, shall be entitled to a second or casting
vote.
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43
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For
business to be properly brought to the annual meeting of members
by a
member, the member must have given timely written notice thereof,
either
by personal delivery or by prepaid registered post to the secretary
of the
Company (the “Secretary”)
at the principal executive offices of the Company. To be timely,
a
member’s notice must be received at the principal executive offices
of the
Company, not less than 120 days in advance of the first anniversary
of the
date that the Company’s (or the Company’s predecessor’s) proxy statement
was sent to members in connection with the previous year’s annual meeting
of members, except that if no annual meeting was held in the
previous year
or the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 calendar
days earlier
than the date of the prior year’s annual meeting, notice by a member to be
timely must be received not later than the close of business
on the tenth
day following the day on which the date of the annual meeting
is publicly
announced (including by disclosure in a press release or in
a document
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission). For the
purposes of
this Article 43, any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) of the
original
meeting whereby the meeting will reconvene within 30 days from
original
date shall be deemed, for purposes of notice, to be a continuation
of the
original meeting and no business may be brought before any
reconvened
meeting unless such timely notice of such business was given
to the
Secretary for the meeting as original scheduled. A member’s notice to the
Secretary shall set out as to each matter that the member wishes
to be
brought before the meeting of
members:
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(i)
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a
brief description of the business desired to be brought before
the
meeting;
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(ii)
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the
name and address of record of the member proposing such
business;
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(iii)
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the
class and number of shares of the Company which are beneficially
owned by
such member;
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(iv)
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any
material interest of such member in such business;
and
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(v)
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if
the member intends to solicit proxies in support of such member’s
proposal, a representation to that
effect.
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44
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Notwithstanding
the aforegoing, nothing in Regulation 43 shall be interpreted
or construed
to require the inclusion of information about any such proposal
in any
proxy statement distributed by, at the direction of, or on
behalf of, the
directors. The chairman of a meeting of members shall, if the
facts so
warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business
was not
properly brought before the meeting in accordance with the
provisions of
this Regulation 44 and, if he should so determine, he shall
so declare to
the meeting and any such business not properly brought before
the meeting
shall not be transacted. However, the notice requirements set
out in
Regulation 43 shall be deemed satisfied by a member if the
member has
notified the Company of his intention to present a proposal
at a meeting
of members and such member’s proposal has been included in a proxy
statement that has been distributed by, at the direction of,
or on behalf
of, the directors to solicit proxies for such meeting; provided
that, if
such member does not appear or send a qualified representative,
as
determined by the chairman of the meeting, to present such
proposal at
such meeting, the Company need not present such proposal for
a vote at
such meeting notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such
vote may have
been received by the Company.
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45
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At
any meeting of members whether on a show of hands or on a poll
every
holder of a voting share present in person or by proxy shall
have one vote
for every voting share of which he is the
holder.
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46
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Subject
to the Memorandum of Association or these Articles, an action
that may be
taken by members of the Company at a meeting of members may
also be taken
by a resolution of members consented to in writing or by telex,
telegram,
cable or other written electronic communication, without the
need for any
notice.
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47
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If
a committee is appointed for any member who is of unsound mind,
that
member may vote by such committee.
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48
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.
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49
|
Any
person other than an individual which is a member of the Company
may by
resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise
such person
as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting
of the
Company or of any class of members of the Company, and the
person so
authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on
behalf of the
person which he represents as that person could exercise if
it were an
individual member of the Company.
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50
|
Votes
may be given either personally or by
proxy.
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51
|
The
instrument appointing a proxy shall be produced at the place
appointed for
the meeting before the time for holding the meeting at which
the person
named in such instrument proposes to
vote.
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52
|
Subject
to Article 53
below, an instrument appointing a proxy shall be in such form
as the
Chairman of the meeting shall accept as properly evidencing
the wishes of
the member appointing the proxy.
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53
|
The
instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the
hand of the
appointer or in electronic form signed by the appointer unless
the
appointer is a corporation or other form of legal entity other
than one or
more individuals holding as joint owner in which case the instrument
appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of an
individual
duly authorised by such corporation or legal entity to execute
the same.
The Chairman of any meeting at which a vote is cast by proxy
so authorised
may call for a notarially certified copy of such authority
which shall be
produced within seven days of being so requested failing which
the vote or
votes cast by such proxy shall be
disregarded.
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54
|
Directors
of the Company may attend and speak with members of the Company
and at any
separate meeting of the holders of any class or series of shares
in the
Company.
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55
|
No
business of the Company shall be conducted at a meeting of
members except
in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations 34 to
55.
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56
|
Any
corporation or other form of corporate legal entity which is
a member of
the Company may by resolution of its directors or other governing
body
authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative
at any
meeting of the members or any class of members of the Company,
and the
person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same
powers on
behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation
could
exercise if it were an individual member of the
Company.
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(A)
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DIRECTORS
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57
|
Subject
to any subsequent amendment to change the number of directors,
the number
of the directors shall be not less than one or more than fifteen.
Subject
to the requirements of the Memorandum of Association, the directors
may by
a resolution of directors, amend this Regulation 57 to change
the number
of directors.
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58
|
Subject
to Regulation 57 to change the number of directors, the continuing
directors may act, notwithstanding any casual vacancy in their
body, so
long as there remain in office not less than the prescribed
minimum of
directors duly qualified to act, but if the number falls below
the
prescribed minimum, the remaining directors shall not act except
for the
purpose of filling such vacancy.
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59
|
The
first director or directors shall be appointed by the registered
agent of
the Company. Thereafter, the directors shall be appointed by
the members
or the directors for such terms as the members or directors
may determine
and may be removed by a resolution of the majority of the members
of the
Company, being for the purposes of this Regulation 59 only,
an affirmative
vote of the holders of 66 2/3 percent or more of the outstanding
votes of
the shares entitled to vote thereon or by a resolution of directors
.
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60
|
Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 114 of the Act, each director holds
office until
his successor takes office or until his earlier death, resignation
or
removal by the members as per Regulation 59 or a resolution
passed by the
majority of the remaining directors.
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61
|
A
vacancy in the board of directors may be filled by a resolution
of members
or a resolution passed by the majority of the remaining
directors.
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62
|
A
director shall not require a share qualification, but nevertheless
shall
be entitled to attend and speak at any meeting of the members
and at any
separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the
Company. A
director must be an individual.
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63
|
A
director, by writing under his hand deposited at the registered
office of
the Company, may from time to time appoint another director
or another
person to be his alternate. Every such alternate shall be entitled
to be
given notice of meetings of the directors and to attend and
vote as a
director at any such meeting at which the director appointing
him is not
personally present and generally at such meeting to have and
exercise all
the powers, rights, duties and authorities of the director
appointing him.
Every such alternate shall be deemed to be an officer of the
Company and
shall not be deemed to be an agent of the director appointing
him. If
undue delay or difficulty would be occasioned by giving notice
to a
director of a resolution of which his approval is sought in
accordance
with Article 92
his alternate (if any) shall be entitled to signify approval
of the same
on behalf of that director. The remuneration of an alternate
shall be
payable out of the remuneration payable to the director appointing
him,
and shall consist of such portion of the last mentioned remuneration
as
shall be agreed between such alternate and the director appointing
him. A
director by writing under his hand deposited at the registered
office of
the Company may at any time revoke the appointment of an alternate
appointed by him. If a director shall die or cease to hold
the office of
director, the appointment of his alternate shall thereupon
cease and
terminate.
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64
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The
directors may, by resolution, fix the emolument of directors
in respect of
services rendered or to be rendered in any capacity to the
Company. The
directors may also be paid such travelling, hotel and other
expenses
properly incurred by them in attending and returning from meetings
of the
directors, or any committee of the directors or meetings of
the members,
or in connection with the business of the Company as shall
be approved by
resolution of the directors.
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65
|
Any
director who, by request, goes or resides abroad for any purposes
of the
Company, or who performs services which in the opinion of the
Board go
beyond the ordinary duties of a director, may be paid such
extra
remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation
in
profits or otherwise) as shall be approved by resolution of
the
directors.
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66
|
The
Company may pay to a director who at the request of the Company
holds any
office (including a directorship) in, or renders services to,
any company
in which the Company may be interested, such remuneration (whether
by way
of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise)
in respect
of such office or services as shall be approved by resolution
of the
directors.
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67 |
(a) Nominations
of persons for election to the Board of Directors shall be
made only at a
meeting of members and only:
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(i)
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by
or at the direction of the directors;
or
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(ii)
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by
a member entitled to vote for the election of directors who
complies with
the notice procedures set out
below.
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(b)
|
Such
nominations, other than those made by or at the direction of
the
directors, shall be made pursuant to timely notice in writing
to the
Secretary. To be timely, a member’s notice must be received at the
principal executive offices of the Company not less than 120
days in
advance of the first anniversary of the date that the Company’s (or the
Company’s predecessor’s) proxy statement was sent to members in connection
with the previous year’s annual meeting of members, except that if no
annual meeting was held in the previous year or the date of
the annual
meeting is more than 30 calendar days earlier than the date
of the prior
year’s annual meeting, notice by a member to be timely must be received
not later than the close of business on the tenth day following
the day on
which the date of the annual meeting is publicly announced
(including by
disclosure in a press release or in a document filed with the
Securities
and Exchange Commission).. For the purposes of this Regulation
67, any
adjournment or postponement of the original meeting whereby
the meeting
will reconvene within 30 days from the original date shall
be deemed for
the purposes of this notice to be a continuation of the original
meeting
and no nominations by a member of persons to be elected directors
of the
Company may be made at any such reconvened meeting unless pursuant
to a
notice which was timely for the meeting on the date original
scheduled.
Each such notice shall set out
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(i)
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the
name and address of the member who intends to make the nomination
and of
the persons to be nominated.
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(ii)
|
a
representation that the member is a holder of record of shares
in the
Company entitled to vote at such meeting and that he intends
to appear in
person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the persons specified
in the
notice;
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(iii)
|
a
description of all arrangements or understandings between the
member and
each nominee and any other person (naming such person) pursuant
to which
the nominations are to be made by the
member.
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(iv)
|
such
other information regarding each nominee proposed by such member
as would
have been required to be included in a proxy statement filed
pursuant to
the proxy rules of the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission,
had each nominee been nominated, or intended to be nominated,
by the
directors;
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(v)
|
the
consent of each nominee to serve as a director of the Company
if so
elected; and
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(vi)
|
if
the member intends to solicit proxies in support of such member’s
nominees, a representation to that
effect.
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68
|
The
office of director shall be vacated if the
director:
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(a)
|
is
removed
from office by resolution of members; or
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(b)
|
is
removed from office by resolution of the directors of the Company;
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(c)
|
becomes
disqualified to act as a director under Section 111 of the
Act;
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(d)
|
absent
from meetings of the directors for six consecutive months without
leave of
the board of directors, provided that the directors shall have
power to
grant any director leave of absence for any or an indefinite
period;
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(e)
|
if
he dies; or
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(f)
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if
he becomes of unsound mind.
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69
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(a)
|
A
director may hold any other office or position of profit under
the Company
(except that of auditor) in conjunction with his office of
director, and
may act in a professional capacity to the Company on such terms
as to
remuneration and otherwise as the directors shall
arrange.
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(b)
|
A
director may be or become a director or officer of, or otherwise
be
interested in any company promoted by the Company, or in which
the Company
may be interested, as a member or otherwise and no such director
shall be
accountable for any remuneration or other benefits received
by him as
director or officer or from his interest in such other company.
The
directors may also exercise the voting powers conferred by
the shares in
any other company held or owned by the Company in such manner
in all
respects as they think fit, including the exercise thereof
in favour of
any resolutions appointing them, or of their number, directors
or officers
of such other company, or voting or providing for the payment
of
remuneration to the directors or officers of such other company.
A
director may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting
rights in the
manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or be about
to become, a
director or officer of such other company, and as such in any
other manner
is, or may be, interested in the exercise of such voting rights
in the
manner aforesaid.
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(c)
|
No
director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting
with the
Company either as a vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall
any such
contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the
Company in
which any director shall be in any way interested be voided,
nor shall any
director so contracting or being so interested be liable to
account to the
Company for any profit realised by any such contract or arrangement,
by
reason of such director holding that office or by reason of
the fiduciary
relationship thereby established, provided the procedure in
Regulation
69
(d) below
is followed.
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(d)
|
A
director of the Company shall, immediately after becoming aware
of the
fact that he is interested in a transaction entered into or
to be entered
into by the Company, disclose such interest to the board of
directors.
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(e) |
A
director of the Company is not required to comply with Regulation
69 (d)
above if:
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(i)
|
the
transaction or proposed transaction is between the director
and the
Company; and
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(ii)
|
the
transaction or proposed transaction is or is to be entered
into in the
ordinary course of the Company's business and on usual terms
and
conditions.
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(f)
|
For
the purposes of Regulation 69(d) above,
a disclosure to the board to the effect that a director is
a member,
director, officer or trustee of another named company or other
person 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
company or
person, is a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation
to that
transaction.
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(g)
|
Subject
to Section 125(1) of the Act, the failure by a director to
comply with
Regulation 69(d) does
not affect the validity of a transaction entered into by the
director or
the Company.
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70
|
The
directors of the Company may, by resolution of directors, appoint
officers
of the Company at such times as shall be considered necessary
or
expedient, and such officers may consist of a President, one
or more Vice
Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer and/or such other
officers as may
from time to time be deemed desirable. The officers shall perform
such
duties as shall be prescribed at the time of their appointment
subject to
any modifications in such duties as may be prescribed by the
directors
thereafter, but in the absence of any specific allocation of
duties it
shall be the responsibility of the President to manage the
day to day
affairs of the Company, the Vice Presidents to act in order
of seniority
in the absence of the President, but otherwise to perform such
duties as
may be delegated to them by the President, the Secretary to
maintain the
registers, 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.
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71
|
Any
person may hold more than one office and no officer need be
a director or
member of the Company. The officers shall remain in office
until removed
from office by the directors, whether or not a successor is
appointed.
|
72
|
Any
officer who is a body corporate may appoint any person its
duly authorised
representative for the purpose of representing it and of transacting
any
of the business of the officers.
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(B)
|
MANAGING
DIRECTORS
|
73
|
The
directors may from time to time and by resolution of directors
appoint one
or more of their number to be a managing director or joint
managing
director and may, subject to any contract between him or them
and the
Company, from time to time terminate his or their appointment
and appoint
another or others in his or their place or
places.
|
74
|
A
director appointed in terms of the provisions of Regulation
75 to the
office of managing director of the Company may be paid, in
addition to the
remuneration payable in terms of Regulation 66, such remuneration
not
exceeding a reasonable maximum in each year in respect of such
office as
may be determined by a disinterested quorum of the
directors.
|
75
|
The
directors may from time to time, by resolution of directors,
entrust and
confer upon a managing director for the time being such of
the powers and
authorities vested in them as they think fit, save that no
managing
director shall have any power or authority with respect to
the matters
requiring a resolution of directors under the
Act.
|
76
|
The
business of the Company shall be managed by the directors who
may pay all
expenses incurred preliminary to and in connection with the
formation and
registration of the Company, and may exercise all such powers
of the
Company necessary for managing and for directing and supervising,
the
business and affairs of the Company as are not by the Act or
by these
Articles required to be exercised by the members subject to
any delegation
of such powers as may be authorised by these Articles and permitted
by the
Act and to such requirements as may be prescribed by resolution
of the
members, but no requirement made by resolution of the members
shall
prevail if it be inconsistent with these Articles nor shall
such
requirement invalidate any prior act of the directors which
would have
been valid if such requirement had not been
made.
|
77
|
The
board of directors may entrust to and confer upon any director
or officer
any of the powers exercisable by it upon such terms and conditions
and
with such restrictions as it thinks fit, and either collaterally
with, or
to the exclusion of, its own powers, and may from time to time
revoke,
withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers. Subject
to the
provisions of Section 110 of the Act, the directors may delegate
any of
their powers to committees consisting of such member or members
of their
body as they think fit. Any committees so formed shall in the
exercise of
powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may be
imposed on it
by the directors or the provisions of the
Act.
|
78
|
The
directors may from time to time by power of attorney appoint
any company,
firm or person or body of persons to be the attorney or attorneys
of the
Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities
and
discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by
the directors
under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such
conditions
as the directors think fit.
|
79
|
Any
director who is a body corporate may appoint any person its
duly
authorised representative for the purpose of representing it
at meetings
of the directors and of transacting any of the business of
the
directors.
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80
|
All
cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other
negotiable
instruments and all receipts for monies paid to the Company,
shall be
signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed as
the case may
be, in such manner as the directors shall from time to time
by resolution
determine.
|
81
|
The
directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow
money and
to mortgage or charge its undertakings and property, to issue
debentures,
debenture stock and other securities whenever money is borrowed
or as
security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company
or of any
third party.
|
82
|
The
continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in
their body,
save that if the number of directors shall have been fixed
at two or more
persons and by reason of vacancies having occurred in the board
of
directors there shall be only one continuing director, he shall
be
authorised to act alone only for the purpose of appointing
another
director.
|
83
|
The
meetings of the board of directors and any committee thereof
shall be held
at such place or places as the directors shall
decide.
|
84
|
The
directors may elect a chairman (the "Chairman
of the Board of Directors")
of their meeting and determine the period for which he is to
hold office.
If no such Chairman of the Board of Directors is elected, or
if at any
meeting the Chairman of the Board of Directors is not present
at the time
appointed for holding the meeting, the directors present may
choose one of
their number to be Chairman of the Board of Directors for the
meeting. If
the directors are unable to choose a Chairman of the Board
of Directors,
for any reason, then the oldest director present at the meeting
shall
preside as the Chairman of the Board of
Directors.
|
85
|
The
directors may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn
and
otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit. Questions
arising at
any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case
of an
equality in votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting
vote. A
director may at any time summon a meeting of the directors.
If the Company
shall have only one director, the provisions hereinafter contained
for
meetings of the directors shall not apply but such sole director
shall
have full power to represent and act for the Company in all
matters and in
lieu of minutes of a meeting shall record in writing and sign
a note of
memorandum of all matters requiring a resolution of the directors.
Such
note or memorandum shall constitute sufficient evidence of
such resolution
for all purposes.
|
86
|
A
director shall be given not less than three (3) days notice
of a meeting
of the directors.
|
87
|
Notwithstanding
Regulation 88, a meeting of directors held in contravention
of Regulation
884 is valid if a majority of the directors, entitled to vote
at the
meeting, have waived the notice of the meeting; and, for this
purpose, the
presence of a director at the meeting shall be deemed to constitute
waiver
on his part.
|
88
|
The
inadvertent failure to give notice of a meeting to a director,
or the fact
that a director has not received the notice shall not invalidate
the
meeting.
|
89
|
A
meeting of the 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 2 directors in which case the quorum shall be
2.
|
90
|
If
within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting
a quorum is
not present, the meeting shall be
dissolved.
|
91
|
Any
one or more members of the board of directors or any committee
thereof may
participate in a meeting of such board of directors or committee
by means
of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment
allowing all
persons participating in the meeting to hear each other at
the same time.
Participating by such means shall constitute presence in person
at a
meeting.
|
92
|
A
resolution approved by a majority of the directors for the
time being
entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the directors or
of a committee
of the directors and taking the form of one or more documents
in writing
or by telefax or other written or electronic communication
shall be as
valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of
the directors
or of such committee duly convened and held, without the need
for any
notice.
|
93
|
The
directors may, by resolution of directors, designate one or
more
committees, each consisting of one or more
directors.
|
94
|
Each
committee of directors has such powers and authorities of the
directors,
including the power and authority to affix the Seal, as are
set forth in
the resolution of directors establishing the committee, except
that no
committee has any power or authority to amend the Memorandum
of
Association or these Articles, to appoint directors or fix
their
emoluments or to appoint officers or agents of the
Company.
|
95
|
The
meeting and proceedings of each committee of directors consisting
of 2 or
more directors shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions
of
these Articles regulating the proceedings of directors so far
as the same
are not superseded by any provisions in the resolution establishing
the
committee.
|
96
|
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, 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.
|
(b) |
CONFLICT
OF INTERESTS
|
97
|
No
agreement or transaction between the Company and one or more
of its
directors or any person in which any director has a financial
interest or
to whom any director is related, including as a director of
that other
person, is void or voidable for this reason only or by reason
only that
the director is present at the meeting of directors or at the
meeting of
the committee of directors that approves the agreement or transaction
or
that the vote or consent of the director is counted for that
purpose if
the material facts of the interest of each director in the
agreement or
transaction and his interest in or relationship to any other party to the
agreement or transaction are disclosed in good faith or are
known by the
other directors.
|
98
|
A
director who has an interest in any particular business to
be considered
at a meeting of directors or members may be counted for purposes
of
determining whether the meeting is duly
constituted.
|
99
|
The
directors shall provide for the safe custody of the common
seal (if any)
of the Company. The common seal when affixed to any instrument
except as
provided in Regulation 2, shall be witnessed by a director
or officer of
the Company or any other person so authorised from time to
time by the
directors. The directors may provide for a facsimile of the
common seal
and approve 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 common seal has
been affixed to
such instrument and the same had been signed as hereinbefore
described.
|
(c) |
DISTRIBUTIONS
|
100
|
Subject
to the provisions of the Act, the directors of a Company may,
by
resolution, authorise a distribution by the Company at a time,
and of an
amount, and to any members they think fit if they are satisfied,
on
reasonable grounds, that the Company will, immediately after
the
distribution, satisfy the solvency test as stipulated in Section
56 of the
Act.
|
101
|
Subject
to the rights of the holders of shares entitled to special
rights as to
distributions, all distributions shall be declared and paid
according to
the par value of the shares in issue, excluding those shares
which are
held by the Company as Treasury Shares at the date of declaration
of the
distribution.
|
102
|
The
directors may, before recommending any distribution, set aside
out of the
profits of the Company such sums as they think proper as a
reserve or
reserves which shall, at their discretion, either be employed
in the
business of the Company or be invested in such investments
as the
directors may from time to time think
fit.
|
103
|
If
several persons are registered as joint holders of any share,
any of them
may give effectual receipt for any distribution or other monies
payable on
or in respect of the share.
|
104
|
Notice
of any distribution that may have been declared shall be given
to each
member in manner hereinafter mentioned and all distributions
unclaimed for
three years after having been declared may be forfeited by
the directors
for the benefit of the Company.
|
105
|
No
distribution shall bear interest against the Company and no
distribution
shall be paid on treasury shares or shares held by another
company of
which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, shares having
more than
50 percent of the vote in electing
directors.
|
106
|
A
share issued as a distribution by the Company shall be treated
for all
purposes as having been issued for money equal to the surplus
that is
transferred to capital upon the issue of the
share.
|
(d) |
COMPANY
RECORDS
|
107
|
The
Company shall keep records that:
|
(a)
|
are
sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions;
and
|
(b)
|
will,
at any time, enable the financial position of the Company to
be determined
with reasonable accuracy.
|
108
|
The
Company shall keep:
|
(a) |
minutes
of all meetings of:
|
(i)
|
directors,
|
(ii)
|
members,
|
(iii)
|
committees
of directors, and
|
(iv)
|
committees
of members;
|
(b) |
copies
of all resolutions consented to
by:
|
(i)
|
directors,
|
(ii)
|
members,
|
(iii)
|
committees
of directors, and
|
(iv)
|
committees
of members;
|
(c)
|
an
imprint of the common seal at the registered office of the
Company.
|
109
|
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 of classes of members
maintained in accordance with Regulation
110 ;
and
|
(b)
|
minutes
of meetings and resolutions of directors and committees of
directors
maintained in accordance with Regulation
110 .
|
110
|
The
Company shall keep the following documents at the office of
its registered
agent:
|
(a)
|
the
Memorandum of Association and Articles of the
Company;
|
(b)
|
the
register of members maintained in accordance with Regulation
115
or
a copy of the register of members;
|
(c)
|
the
register of directors maintained in accordance with Regulation
115 or
a copy of the register of directors;
|
(d)
|
copies
of all notices and other documents filed by the Company in
the previous
ten years; and
|
(e)
|
a
copy of the register of charges kept by the Company pursuant
to Section
162(1) of the Act.
|
111
|
(a)
|
Where
the Company keeps a copy of the register of members or the
register of
directors at the office of its registered agent, it shall
|
(i)
|
within
15 days of any change in the register, notify the registered
agent, in
writing,
of the change; and
|
(ii)
|
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.
|
(b)
|
Where
the place at which the original register of members or the
original
register of directors is changed, the Company shall provide
the registered
agent with the physical address of the new location of the
records within
14 days of the change of location.
|
112
|
The
Company shall keep a register to be known as a register of
directors
containing the names and addresses of the persons who are directors
of the
Company, the date on which each person whose name is entered
in the
register was appointed as a director of the Company, the date
on which
each person named as a director ceased to be a director of
the Company,
and such other information as may be
prescribed.
|
113
|
The
Company shall maintain an accurate and complete register of
members
showing the full names and addresses of all persons holding
registered
shares in the Company, the number of each class and series
of registered
shares held by such person, the date on which the name of each
member was
entered in the register of members and where applicable, the
date such
person ceased to hold any registered shares in the Company.
|
114
|
The
records, documents and registers required by Articles 107
to
113
inclusive
shall be open to the inspection of the directors at all
times.
|
115
|
The
directors shall from time to time determine whether and to
what extent and
at what times and places and under what conditions the records,
documents
and registers of the Company or any of them shall be open to
the
inspection of members not being directors, and no member (not
being a
director) shall have any right of inspecting any records, documents
or
registers of the Company except as conferred by the Act or
authorised by
resolution of the directors.
|
(i)
|
AUDIT
|
116
|
The
members may by resolution call for the accounts of the Company
to be
examined by an auditor.
|
117
|
The
directors may be resolution determine the audit committee to
be appointed
by them at such remuneration as may from time to time be agreed,
to be
solely responsible for selecting the independent accountants
to audit the
Company’s financial records.
|
118
|
The
Company may by resolution of members call for the directors
to prepare
periodically a profit and loss account and a balance sheet.
The profit and
loss account and balance sheet shall be drawn up so as to give
respectively a true and fair view of the profit and loss of
the Company
for the financial period and a true and fair view of the state
of affairs
of the Company as at the end of the financial
period.
|
119
|
The
auditor may be a member of the company but no director or officer
shall be
eligible during his continuance in
office.
|
120
|
Every
auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all
times to the
books of accounts of the Company, and shall be entitled to
require from
the officers of the Company such information and explanations
as he thinks
necessary for the performance of his
duties.
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The
report of the auditor shall be annexed to the accounts upon
which he
reports, and the auditor shall be entitled to receive notice
of, and to
attend, any meeting at which the Company's audited Profit and
Loss Account
and Balance Sheet is to be
presented.
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NOTICES
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122
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Any
notice, information or written statement required to be given
to members
shall be served by mail addressed to each member at the address
shown in
the share register.
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123
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All
notices directed to be given to the members shall, with respect
to any
registered shares to which persons are jointly entitled, be
given to
whichever of such persons is named first in the share register,
and notice
so given shall be sufficient notice to all the holders of such
shares.
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Any
notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served
within five
days of posting, and in proving such service it shall be sufficient
to
prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed
and
mailed with the postage prepaid.
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(iii)
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PENSION
AND SUPERANNUATION FUND
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The
directors may establish and maintain or procure the establishment
and
maintenance of any non-contributory or contributory pension
or
superannuation funds for the benefit of, and give or procure
the giving of
donations, gratuities, pensions, allowances or emoluments to
any persons
who are or were at any time in the employment or service of
the Company or
any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or is allied
to or
associated with the Company or with any such subsidiary, or
who are or
were at any time directors or officers of the Company or of
any such other
company as aforesaid or who hold or held any salaried employment
or office
in the Company or such other company, or any persons in whose
welfare the
Company or any such other company as aforesaid is, or has been
at any
time, interested, and to the wives, widows, families and dependents
of any
such persons, and make payments for or towards the insurance
of such
persons as aforesaid, and may do any of the matters aforesaid
either alone
or in conjunction with any such other company as aforesaid.
A director
holding any such employment or office shall be entitled to
participate in
and retain for his own benefit any such donation, gratuity,
pension,
allowance or emolument.
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WINDING
UP
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The
Company may be voluntarily liquidated under Part XII of the
Act if it has
no liabilities and it is able to pay its debts as they become
due. If the
Company shall be wound up, the liquidator may, in accordance
with a
resolution of members, divide amongst the members in specie
or in kind the
whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they
shall consist
of property of the same kind or not) and may for such purpose
set such
value as he deems fair upon any such property to be divided
as aforesaid
and may determine how such division shall be carried out as
between the
members or different classes of members. The liquidator may
vest the whole
or any part of such assets in trustees upon such trust for
the benefit of
the contributors as the liquidator shall think fit, but so
that no member
shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities
whereon there
is any liability.
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The
Company may alter or modify the conditions contained in these
Articles as
originally drafted or as amended from time to time by a resolution
of the
directors or the members.
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128
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The
Company may by resolution of members or by a resolution passed
unanimously
by all directors of the Company continue as a company incorporated
under
the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands
in the
manner provided under those laws.
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1.
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Establishment,
Purpose and Term of Plan
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1
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1.1
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Establishment
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1
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1.2
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Purpose
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1
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1.3
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Term
of Plan
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1
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2.
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Definitions
and Construction
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1
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2.1
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Definitions
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1
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2.2
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Construction
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7
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3.
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Administration
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7
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3.1
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Administration
by the Committee
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7
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3.2
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Authority
of Officers
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7
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3.3
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Administration
with Respect to Insiders
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7
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3.4
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Committee
Complying with Section 162(m)
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7
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3.5
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Powers
of the Committee
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7
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3.6
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Indemnification
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9
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3.7
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Arbitration
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9
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3.8
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Repricing
Prohibited
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9
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4.
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Shares
Subject to Plan
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10
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4.1
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Maximum
Number of Shares Issuable
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10
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4.2
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Adjustments
for Changes in Capital Structure
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10
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5.
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Eligibility
and Award Limitations
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11
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5.1
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Persons
Eligible for Awards
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11
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5.2
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Participation
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11
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5.3
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Incentive
Stock Option Limitations
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11
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5.4
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Award
Limits
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12
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6.
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Terms
and Conditions of Options
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13
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6.1
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Exercise
Price
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13
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6.2
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Exercisability
and Term of Options
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13
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6.3
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Payment
of Exercise Price
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14
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6.4
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Effect
of Termination of Service
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14
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6.5
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Transferability
of Options
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15
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7.
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Terms
and Conditions of Stock Appreciation Rights
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15
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7.1
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Types
of SARs Authorized
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15
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7.2
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Exercise
Price
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15
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7.3
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Exercisability
and Term of SARs
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16
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7.4
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Deemed
Exercise of SARs
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16
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7.5
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Effect
of Termination of Service
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16
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7.6
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Nontransferability
of SARs
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16
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8.
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Terms
and Conditions of Restricted Stock Awards
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16
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8.1
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Types
of Restricted Stock Awards Authorized
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16
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8.2
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Purchase
Price
|
17
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8.3
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Purchase
Period
|
17
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8.4
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Vesting
and Restrictions on Transfer
|
17
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8.5
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Voting
Rights; Dividends and Distributions
|
17
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8.6
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Effect
of Termination of Service
|
17
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8.7
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Nontransferability
of Restricted Stock Award Rights
|
18
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9.
|
Terms
and Conditions of Performance Awards
|
18
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9.1
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Types
of Performance Awards Authorized
|
18
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9.2
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Initial
Value of Performance Shares and Performance Units
|
18
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9.3
|
Establishment
of Performance Period, Performance Goals and Performance
Award
Formula
|
18
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9.4
|
Measurement
of Performance Goals
|
19
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9.5
|
Settlement
of Performance Awards
|
20
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9.6
|
Voting
Rights; Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions
|
20
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9.7
|
Effect
of Termination of Service
|
21
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9.8
|
Nontransferability
of Performance Awards
|
21
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10.
|
Terms
and Conditions of Restricted Stock Unit Awards
|
21
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10.1
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Grant
of Restricted Stock Unit Awards
|
22
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10.2
|
Vesting
|
22
|
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10.3
|
Voting
Rights, Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions
|
22
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10.4
|
Effect
of Termination of Service
|
22
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10.5
|
Settlement
of Restricted Stock Unit Awards
|
23
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10.6
|
Nontransferability
of Restricted Stock Unit Awards
|
23
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11.
|
Deferred
Compensation Awards
|
23
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11.1
|
Establishment
of Deferred Compensation Award Programs
|
23
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11.2
|
Terms
and Conditions of Deferred Compensation Awards
|
24
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12.
|
Other
Stock-Based Awards
|
25
|
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13.
|
Effect
of Change in Control on Options and SARs
|
25
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13.1
|
Accelerated
Vesting
|
25
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13.2
|
Assumption
or Substitution
|
25
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13.3
|
Effect
of Change in Control on Restricted Stock and Other Type
of
Awards
|
26
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14.
|
Compliance
with Securities Law
|
26
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15.
|
Tax
Withholding
|
26
|
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15.1
|
Tax
Withholding in General
|
26
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15.2
|
Withholding
in Shares
|
27
|
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16.
|
Amendment
or Termination of Plan
|
27
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17.
|
Miscellaneous
Provisions
|
27
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17.1
|
Repurchase
Rights
|
27
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17.2
|
Provision
of Information
|
27
|
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17.3
|
Rights
as Employee, Consultant or Director
|
27
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17.4
|
Rights
as a Stockholder
|
28
|
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17.5
|
Fractional
Shares
|
28
|
|
17.6
|
Severability
|
28
|
|
17.7
|
Beneficiary
Designation
|
28
|
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17.8
|
Unfunded
Obligation
|
28
|
__________,
2006
|
Board
adopts Plan with a reserve of [__________]
(__________) shares.
|
__________,
2006
|
Stockholders
approve Plan.
|
·
|
has
participated in the preparation of the financial statements of
the Company
or any current subsidiary at any time during the past three (3)
years;
or
|
·
|
accepts
any consulting, advisory, or other compensatory fee, directly or
indirectly, from the Company, other than in his or her capacity
as a
member of the Committee, the Board, or any other committee of the
Board;
or
|
·
|
is
an affiliate of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, other
than a
director who meets the independence requirements of the Nasdaq
Stock
Market.
|
·
|
Perform
his or her duties in an honest and ethical
manner.
|
·
|
Handle
all actual or apparent conflicts of interest between his or her
personal
and professional relationships in an ethical
manner.
|
·
|
Take
all necessary actions to ensure full, fair, accurate, timely, and
understandable disclosure in reports and documents that the Company
files
with, or submits to, government agencies and in other public
communications.
|
·
|
Company
with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of federal, state
and
local governments.
|
·
|
Proactively
promote and be an example of ethical behavior in the work
environment.
|
·
|
you,
or a member of your family, receive improper personal benefits
as a result
of your position in the Company;
|
·
|
you
use Company’s property for your personal
benefit;
|
·
|
you
engage in activities that interfere with your loyalty to the Company
or
your ability to perform Company duties or responsibilities
effectively;
|
·
|
you,
or a member of your family, have a financial interest in a customer,
supplier, or competitor which is significant enough to cause divided
loyalty with the Company or the appearance of divided loyalty (the
significance of a financial interest depends on many factors, such
as size
of investment in relation to your income, net worth and/or financial
needs, your potential to influence decisions that could impact
your
interests, and the nature of the business or level of competition
between
the Company and the supplier, customer or
competitor);
|
·
|
you,
or a member of your family, acquire an interest in property (such
as real
estate, patent or other intellectual property rights or securities)
in
which you have reason to know the Company has, or might have, a
legitimate
interest;
|
·
|
you,
or a member of your family, receive a loan or a guarantee of a
loan from a
customer, supplier or competitor (other than a loan from a financial
institution made in the ordinary course of business and on an arm’s-length
basis);
|
·
|
you
divulge or use the Company’s confidential information - such as financial
data, customer information, or computer programs - for your own
personal
or business purposes;
|
·
|
you
make gifts or payments, or provide special favors, to customers,
suppliers
or competitors (or their immediate family members) with a value
significant enough to cause the customer, supplier or competitor
to make a
purchase, or take or forego other action, which is beneficial to
the
Company and which the customer, supplier or competitor would not
otherwise
have taken; or
|
·
|
you
are given the right to buy stock in other companies or you receive
cash or
other payments in return for promoting the services of an advisor,
such as
an investment banker, to the
Company.
|
·
|
Compliance
Officer.
The Corporate Compliance Officer is the General Counsel, or in
the absence
of such person, the Chief Financial Officer. The Compliance Officer’s
responsibility is to ensure communication, training, monitoring,
and
overall compliance with the Code. The Compliance Officer will,
with the
assistance and cooperation of the Company’s officers, directors and
managers, foster an atmosphere where employees are comfortable
in
communicating and reporting concerns and possible Code violations.
|
·
|
Access
to the Code.
The Company shall ensure that employees, officers and directors
may access
the Code on the Company’s website. New employees will receive a copy of
the Code as part of their new hire information. [From time to time,
the
Company will sponsor employee training programs in which the Code
and
other Company policies and procedures will be
discussed.]
|
·
|
Monitoring.
Managers are the “go to” persons for employee questions and concerns
relating to the Code. Managers or supervisors will immediately
report any
violations or allegations of violations to the Compliance Officer.
Managers will work with the Compliance Officer in assessing areas
of
concern, potential violations, any needs for enhancement of the
Code or
remedial actions to effect the Code’s policies and overall compliance with
the Code and other related policies.
|
·
|
Internal
Investigation.
When an alleged violation of the Code is reported, the Company
shall take
prompt and appropriate action in accordance with the law and regulations
and otherwise consistent with good business practice. If the suspected
violation appears to involve either a possible violation of law
or an
issue of significant corporate interest, or if the report involves
a
complaint or concern of any person, whether employee, a stockholder
or
other interested person regarding the Company’s financial disclosure,
internal accounting controls, questionable auditing or accounting
matters
or practices or other issues relating to the Company’s accounting or
auditing, then the manager or investigator should immediately notify
the
Compliance Officer, who, in turn, shall notify the Chair of the
Audit
Committee. If a suspected violation involves any director or executive
officer or if the suspected violation concerns any fraud, whether
or not
material, involving management or other employees who have a significant
role in the Company’s internal controls, any person who received such
report should immediately report the alleged violation to the Compliance
Officer and, in every such case, the Chair of the Audit Committee.
The
Compliance Officer or the Chair of the Audit Committee, as applicable,
shall assess the situation and determine the appropriate course
of action,
including the conduct of an investigation, as
appropriate.
|
·
|
Disciplinary
Actions.
Subject to the following sentence, the Compliance Officer, after
consultation with the Vice President of Human Resources, shall
be
responsible for implementing the appropriate disciplinary action
in
accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures for any employee who
is found to have violated the Code. If a violation has been reported
to
the Audit Committee or another committee of the Board, that Committee
shall be responsible for determining appropriate disciplinary action.
Any
violation of applicable law or any deviation from the standards
embodied
in this Code will result in disciplinary action, up to and including
termination of employment. In addition to imposing discipline upon
employees involved in non-compliant conduct, the Company also will
impose
discipline, as appropriate, upon an employee’s supervisor, if any, who
directs or approves such employees’ improper actions, or is aware of those
actions but does not act appropriately to correct them, and upon
other
individuals who fail to report known non-compliant conduct. In
addition to
imposing its own discipline, the Company will bring any violations
of law
to the attention of appropriate law enforcement
personnel.
|
·
|
Retention
of Reports and Complaints.
All reports and complaints made to or received by the Compliance
Officer or
the Chair of the Audit Committee relating to violations of this
Code shall
be logged into a record maintained for this purpose by the Compliance
Officer and this record of such report shall be retained for five
years.
|
·
|
Required
Government Reporting.
Whenever conduct occurs that requires a report to the government,
the
Compliance Officer shall
be responsible for complying with such reporting
requirements.
|
·
|
Corrective
Actions.
Subject to the following sentence, in the event of a violation
of the
Code, the manager and the Compliance Officer should
assess the situation to determine whether the violation demonstrates
a
problem that requires remedial action as to Company policies and
procedures. If a violation has been reported to the Audit Committee
or
another committee of the Board, that committee shall be responsible
for
determining appropriate remedial or corrective actions. Such corrective
action may include providing revised public disclosure, retraining
Company
employees, modifying Company policies and procedures, improving
monitoring
of compliance under existing procedures and other action necessary
to
detect similar non-compliant conduct and prevent it from occurring
in the
future. Such corrective action shall be documented, as appropriate.
|
Exhibit
|
Description
|
2.1
|
Amended
and Restated Stock Purchase Agreement (Included in Annex A of the
proxy
statement/prospectus)(1)
|
2.2
|
Agreement
and Plan of Merger between Chardan North China Acquisition Corporation
and
Registrant**
|
3.1
|
Memorandum
of Association of Registrant (Included in Annex B of the proxy
statement/prospectus)**
|
3.2
|
Articles
of Association of Registrant (Included in Annex C of the proxy
statement/prospectus)**
|
4.1
|
Form
of Unit Purchase Option (Incorporated by reference from Registration
Statement 333-125016, Exhibit 4.4)
|
4.2
|
Form
of Warrant Agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust
Company and Chardan North China Acquisition Corp. (Incorporated
by
reference from Registration Statement 333-125016, Exhibit
4.5)
|
5.1
|
Opinion
of Maples &Calder**
|
8.1
|
Tax
Opinion of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP**
|
10.1
|
Chardan
North China Acquisition Corporation 2006 Equity Plan (Included
in Annex D
of the proxy statement/prospectus)
|
10.2
|
Form
of Stock Consignment Agreement**
|
10.3
|
Form
of Employment Agreement**
|
10.4
|
Registration
Rights Agreement (Incorporated by reference from Registration Statement
333-125016, Exhibit 10.11)
|
10.5
|
Opinion
re Consignment Agreements of Guantao Law Firm**
|
10.6
|
Sale
and Purchase Agreement in Relation to the Ownership Interest of
Hangzhou
HollySys Automation Co., Ltd. between Team Spirit Industrial Limited
and
Gifted Time Holdings Limited**
|
10.7
|
Sale
and Purchase Agreement in Relation to the Ownership Interest of
Hangzhou
HollySys Automation Co., Ltd. between OSCAF International Co.,
Ltd. and
Gifted Time Holdings Limited**
|
10.8
|
List
of Schedules to Stock Purchase Agreement**
|
10.9
|
Employment
Agreement between Wang Changli and HLS Systems International
Ltd.**
|
10.10
|
Employment
Agreement between Qiao Li and HLS Systems International
Ltd.**
|
10.11
|
Employment
Agreement between Wang Changli and Beijing HollySys**
|
10.12
|
Reorganization
Agreement between Cheng Wusi, Wang Changli, Lou An, Shanghai Jingqiaotong
Industrial Development Co., Ltd., Team Spirit Industrial Limited
and OSCAF
International Co., as amended**
|
10.13
|
Opinion
re Stock Purchase Agreements and Reorganization Agreement of Guantao
Law
Firm**
|
10.14
|
Financial
Advisory Agreement by and among Beijing HollySys Co., Ltd., Hangzhou
HollySys Automation Co., Ltd. and their shareholders and Upper
Mix
Investments Limited and Time Keep Investment Limited.
**
|
10.15
|
Letter
of Transmittal for Exchange Offer**
|
10.16
|
Form
of promissory note used in bridge loan
|
10.17
|
Guarantee
of Advance Pacific Holdings Limited
|
23.1
|
Consent
of Goldstein Golub Kessler LLP
|
23.2
|
Consent
of BDO Reanda Certified Public Accountants Ltd.
|
23.3
|
Consent
of Maples & Calder (included in Exhibit 5.1)**
|
23.4
|
Consent
of Guantao Law Firm (included in Exhibit 10.5 and Exhibit
10.13)**
|
23.5
|
Consent
of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP (included in
Exhibit 8.1)**
|
99.1
|
Proxy
Card**
|
(1) |
As
required by paragraph (b)(2) of Item 601 of Regulation S-K, this
exhibit
does not contain schedules and similar attachments to this exhibit.
The
registrant will furnish supplementally a copy of any omitted schedules
to
the Commission upon request.
|
* |
To
be filed by amendment.
|
** |
Previously
filed.
|
Signature
|
Title(s)
|
Date
|
|
/s/
Richard D. Propper
Richard
D. Propper
|
Chairman
of the Board
|
May
___, 2007
|
|
/s/
Li Zhang
Li
Zhang
|
Chief
Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)
|
May
___, 2007
|
|
/s/
Kerry S. Propper
Kerry
S. Propper
|
Chief
Financial Officer, Secretary and Director (Principal Accounting
Officer)
|
May
___, 2007
|
|
/s/
Jiangnan Huang
Jiangnan
Huang
|
Executive
Vice President and Director
|
May
___, 2007
|