UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of October 2021
Commission File Number: 001-39407
Li Auto Inc.
(Registrant’s Name)
11 Wenliang Street
Shunyi District, Beijing 101399
People’s Republic of China
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F x Form 40-F ¨
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ¨
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EXHIBIT INDEX
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Li Auto Inc. |
By |
/s/ Tie Li | ||
Name | : | Tie Li | |
Title | : | Director and Chief Financial Officer |
Date: October 19, 2021
Exhibit 99.1
Li Auto Inc. to Hold Extraordinary General Meeting on November 16, 2021
BEIJING, China, October 19, 2021 — Li Auto Inc. (“Li Auto” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015), an innovator in China’s new energy vehicle market, today announced that it will hold an extraordinary general meeting (the “EGM”) of the Company’s shareholders (the “EGM Notice”) at 11:00 a.m. Beijing time (or soon after the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting, both of which are defined below) on November 16, 2021 at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing each of the Proposed Resolutions as defined and set forth in the notice of the EGM (the EGM Notice”). The EGM Notice and the form of proxy for the EGM are available on the Company’s website at http://ir.lixiang.com. The board of directors of the Company fully supports the Proposed Resolutions and recommends that shareholders and holders of American depositary shares (“ADSs”) vote in favor of the Proposed Resolutions.
The Company will hold a class meeting of holders of Class A ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class A Meeting”) and a class meeting of holders of Class B ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class B Meeting”) convened on the same date and at the same place as the EGM, for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing the Class-based Resolution as defined and set forth respectively in the notices of each of the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting. The notices and forms of proxy for each of the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting are available on the Company’s website at http://ir.lixiang.com.
Holders of record of ordinary shares of the Company at the close of business on October 13, 2021, Hong Kong time, are entitled to notice of, to attend and vote at, the EGM or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and, as applicable, the Class A Meeting or the Class B Meeting. Holders of record of ADSs as of the close of business on October 13, 2021, New York time, who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying Class A ordinary shares must give voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of the ADSs.
The Company has filed its annual report on Form 20-F, including its audited financial statements, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The Company’s annual report on Form 20-F can be accessed on the Company’s website at http://ir.lixiang.com and on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
About Li Auto Inc.
Li Auto Inc. is an innovator in China’s new energy vehicle market. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, and sells premium smart electric vehicles. Through innovations in product, technology, and business model, the Company provides families with safe, convenient, and refined products and services. Li Auto is a pioneer to successfully commercialize extended-range electric vehicles in China. Its first model, Li ONE, is a six-seat, large premium electric SUV equipped with a range extension system and advanced smart vehicle solutions. The Company started volume production of Li ONE in November 2019 and released the 2021 Li ONE in May 2021. The Company leverages technology to create value for its users. It concentrates its in-house development efforts on its proprietary range extension system, next-generation electric vehicle technology, and smart vehicle solutions. Beyond Li ONE, the
Company will expand its product line by developing new vehicles, including BEVs and EREVs, to target a broader consumer base.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.lixiang.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements that may constitute “forward-looking” statements pursuant to the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “aims,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” “likely to,” and similar statements. Li Auto may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials, and in oral statements made by its officers, directors, or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Li Auto’s beliefs, plans, and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: Li Auto’s strategies, future business development, and financial condition and results of operations; Li Auto’s limited operating history; risks associated with extended-range electric vehicles, Li Auto’s ability to develop, manufacture, and deliver vehicles of high quality and appeal to customers; Li Auto’s ability to generate positive cash flow and profits; product defects or any other failure of vehicles to perform as expected; Li Auto’s ability to compete successfully; Li Auto’s ability to build its brand and withstand negative publicity; cancellation of orders for Li Auto’s vehicles; Li Auto’s ability to develop new vehicles; and changes in consumer demand and government incentives, subsidies, or other favorable government policies. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Li Auto’s filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and Li Auto does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
Li Auto Inc.
Investor Relations
Email: ir@lixiang.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Yang Song
Tel: +86-10-6508-0677
Email: Li@tpg-ir.com
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
Email: Li@tpg-ir.com
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Exhibit 99.2
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this notice, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this notice.
Li Auto Inc.
理 想 汽 車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015)
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
to be held on November 16, 2021
(or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an extraordinary general meeting (the “EGM”) of Li Auto Inc. (the “Company”) will be held at 11:00 a.m. Beijing time (or soon after the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting, both of which are defined below) on November 16, 2021 at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing each of the following resolutions (the “Proposed Resolutions”):
1. | as a special resolution, THAT subject to the passing of the Class-based Resolution (as defined below) at each of the class meeting of holders of the Class A ordinary shares of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class A Meeting”) and the class meeting of holders of Class B ordinary shares of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class B Meeting”) convened on the same date and at the same place as the EGM, the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association (the “Existing Articles”) be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part A of Appendix I to the circular of the Company dated October 19, 2021 (the “Circular”), by incorporating the following requirements under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Hong Kong Listing Rules”): paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 and Rules 8A.09, 8A.13 to 8A.19, and 8A.22 to 8A.24 (a resolution to incorporate these requirements, the “Class-based Resolution”) and by incorporating the Non-class-based Resolution (as defined in resolution 2 below); and |
2. | as a special resolution, THAT if the Class-based Resolution is not passed at either the Class A Meeting or the Class B Meeting, the Existing Articles be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part B of Appendix I to the Circular, by |
(a) | incorporating the following requirements under the Hong Kong Listing Rules: (i) paragraphs 1(1), 1(2), 2(1), 4(1)-(5), 5, 7(2), 8, 10(2), 11(1), and 14 of Appendix 3, (ii) paragraphs 1, 3(1)-(3), 4(1)-(2), and 5(1)-(4) of Part B of Appendix 13, and (iii) Rules 8A.26 to 8A.35, and 8A.37 to 8A.41; |
(b) | removing the right of Amp Lee Ltd. to appoint, remove, and replace at least one director of the Company as well as to appoint the chairman of the Board; |
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(c) | lowering the quorum of general meeting (which is not a class meeting) from one-third of all votes attaching to all Shares in issue and entitled to vote at such general meeting in the Company to 10% of all votes attaching to all Shares in issue and entitled to vote at such general meeting in the Company (on a one vote per share basis); |
(d) | incorporating the requirement that where a general meeting is postponed by the Company’s directors, such meeting shall be postponed to a specific date, time, and place; |
(e) | removing the directors’ discretion to, for the purpose of variation of rights attached to any class of shares, treat all the classes or any two or more classes as forming one class if they consider that all such classes would be affected in the same way by the proposals under consideration, as well as the directors’ powers to authorize the division of Shares into any number of classes and to determine the relative rights and obligations as between the different classes and to issue such shares with preferred or other rights that may be greater than the rights of the Class A Ordinary Shares as well as making the directors’ powers to issue preferred shares under the Existing Articles to be subject to the articles of association of the Company, compliance with the Hong Kong Listing Rules and the Code on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Buy-backs issued by the Securities and Futures Commission on Hong Kong, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Takeovers Code”), and the conditions that (x) no new class of shares with voting rights superior to those of Class A Ordinary Shares will be created and (y) any variations in the relative rights as between the different classes will not result in creating new class of shares with voting rights superior to those of Class A Ordinary Shares; |
(f) | changing the power to appoint the auditor of the Company and fix their remuneration from being that of the directors to that of the shareholders at annual general meetings unless such power is delegated to the directors by the shareholders at annual general meeting for that year; and |
(g) | clarifying that the Company, its shareholders, directors and officers agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong, to the exclusion of other jurisdictions, to hear, settle and/or determine any dispute, controversy or claim whether arising out of or in connection with the articles of association or otherwise |
(together, the “Non-class-based Resolution”);
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3. as an ordinary resolution, THAT:–
(a) | subject to paragraph (c) below, a general unconditional mandate be and is hereby given to the directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as defined in paragraph (d) below) to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot, issue, and deal with additional Class A Ordinary Shares or securities convertible into Class A Ordinary Shares, or options, warrants or similar rights to subscribe for Class A Ordinary Shares or such convertible securities of the Company (other than issuance of options, warrants or similar rights to subscribe for additional Class A Ordinary Shares or securities convertible into Class A Ordinary Shares for cash consideration) and to make or grant offers, agreements, or options (including any warrants, bonds, notes, and debentures conferring any rights to subscribe for or otherwise receive Class A Ordinary Shares) that would or might require the exercise of such powers; |
(b) | the mandate in paragraph (a) above shall be in addition to any other authorization given to the directors and shall authorize the directors to make or grant offers, agreements and/or options during the Relevant Period that would or might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period; |
(c) | the total number of Class A Ordinary Shares allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted and issued (whether pursuant to options or otherwise) in paragraph (a) above, otherwise than pursuant to: |
(i) | a Rights Issue (as defined in paragraph (d) below); |
(ii) | the grant or exercise of any options under any share option scheme of the Company or any other option, scheme or similar arrangements for the time being adopted for the grant or issue to the directors, officers and/or employee of the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries and/or other eligible participants specified thereunder of options to subscribe for Class A Ordinary Shares or rights to acquire Class A Ordinary Shares; |
(iii) | the vesting of restricted shares and restricted share units granted or to be granted pursuant to the 2019 Plan and the 2020 Plan of the Company; |
(iv) | any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment and issue of Shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on Shares of the Company in accordance with the articles of association of the Company; and |
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(v) | a specific authority granted by the Shareholders of the Company in general meeting, shall not exceed 20% of the total number of issued Shares of the Company as at the date of the passing of this resolution (such total number to be subject to adjustment in the case of any consolidation or subdivision of any of the Shares of the Company into a smaller or larger number of Shares of the Company respectively after the passing of this resolution) and the said mandate shall be limited accordingly. |
(d) for the purposes of this resolution:
“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until the earliest of:
(i) | the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; |
(ii) | the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required to be held by the Articles of Association of the Company or any applicable laws; and |
(iii) | the date on which the authority set out in this resolution is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders in general meeting. |
“Rights Issue” means an offer of Shares of the Company, or an offer or issue of warrants, options or other securities giving rights to subscribe for Shares of the Company, open for a period fixed by the directors to holders of Shares of the Company whose names appear on the register of members of the Company on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such Shares of the Company (subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the directors may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognized regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory applicable to the Company);
4. as an ordinary resolution, THAT:–
(a) | a general unconditional mandate be and is hereby given to the directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as defined in paragraph (b) below) to exercise all the powers of the Company to purchase its own Shares on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) or on any other stock exchange on which the securities of the Company may be listed and which is recognized by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, provided that the total number of Shares of the Company which may be purchased pursuant to this mandate shall not exceed 10% of the total number of issued Shares of the Company as at the |
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date of passing of this resolution (such total number to be subject to adjustment in the case of any consolidation or subdivision of any of the shares of the Company into a smaller or larger number of shares of the Company respectively after the passing of this resolution) and the said mandate shall be limited accordingly; and
(b) for the purposes of this resolution:
“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until the earliest of:
(i) | the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; |
(ii) | the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the articles of association of the Company or any applicable laws to be held; and |
(iii) | the date on which the authority set out in this resolution is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting; and |
5. | as an ordinary resolution, THAT conditional upon the passing of resolutions set out in items 3 and 4 of the Notice of EGM, the general mandate referred to in the resolution set out in item 3 of the Notice of EGM be and is hereby extended by the addition to the aggregate number of shares that may be allotted and issued or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted and issued by the directors pursuant to such general mandate of the number of shares repurchased by the Company pursuant to the mandate referred to in the resolution set out in item 4 of the Notice of EGM, provided that such amount shall not exceed 10% of the total number of issued Shares of the Company as at the date of the passing of this resolution (such total number to be subject to adjustment in the case of any consolidation or subdivision of any of the shares of the Company into a smaller or larger number of shares of the Company respectively after the passing of this resolution).” |
The passing of the above resolutions requires approval by the holders of the Class A and Class B ordinary shares of the Company in the following manner:
1. | Class-based Resolution: approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the members of the shares of that class who are present and voting in person or by proxy at the Class A Meeting or Class B Meeting and by not less than two-thirds of the votes cast by the members of the Company present and voting in person or by proxy at the EGM; |
2. | Non-class-based Resolution: approval by not less than two-thirds of the votes cast by the members of the Company present and voting in person or by proxy at the EGM; |
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3. | resolution 3 above for Granting of General Mandate to issue shares: approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the members of the Company present and voting in person or by proxy at the EGM; |
4. | resolution 4 above for Granting of General Mandate to repurchase shares: approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the members of the Company present and voting in person or by proxy at the EGM; and |
5. | resolution 5 above for Extension of General Mandate to issue shares: approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the members of the Company present and voting in person or by proxy at the EGM. |
The quorum of the EGM shall be one or more members holding in aggregate at least one-third of all votes attaching to all issued shares of the Company, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the EGM.
Upon the passing of the Class-based Resolution at each of the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting and the passing of the Class-based Resolution and the Non-class-based Resolution at the EGM, the Existing Articles shall be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part A of Appendix I to the Circular, which is marked to show the proposed changes that would be made.
SHARES RECORD DATE AND ADS RECORD DATE
The board of directors of the Company has fixed the close of business on October 13, 2021, Hong Kong time, as the record date (the “Share Record Date”) of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares. Holders of record of the Company’s Shares (as of the Share Record Date) are entitled to attend and vote at the EGM and any adjourned meeting thereof.
Holders of record of American depositary shares (the “ADSs”) as of the close of business on October 13, 2021, New York Time (the “ADS Record Date,” together with the Share Record Date, the “Record Dates”), who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying Class A Ordinary Shares must give voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of the ADSs.
ATTENDING THE EGM
Only holders of record of Shares as of the Share Record Date are entitled to attend and vote at the EGM. In order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and to safeguard the health and safety of shareholders, the Company may implement certain precautionary measures at the EGM. All officers and agents of the Company reserve the right to refuse any person entry to the EGM venue, or to instruct any person to leave the EGM venue, where such
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officer or agent reasonably considers that such refusal or instruction is or may be required for the Company or any other person to be able to comply with applicable laws and regulations. The exercise of such right to refuse entry or instruct to leave shall not invalidate the proceedings at the EGM.
PROXY FORMS AND ADS VOTING CARDS
A holder of Shares as of the Share Record Date may appoint a proxy to exercise his or her rights at the EGM. A holder of ADSs as of the ADS Record Date will need to instruct Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of the ADSs, as to how to vote the Class A Ordinary Shares represented by the ADSs. Please refer to the proxy form (for holders of Shares) or ADS voting card (for holders of ADSs), both of which are available on our website at http://ir.lixiang.com.
Holders of record of the Company’s Shares on the Company’s register of members as of the Share Record Date are cordially invited to attend the EGM in person. Your vote is important. You are urged to complete, sign, date, and return the accompanying proxy form to us (for holders of Shares) or your voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (for holders of the ADSs) as promptly as possible and before the prescribed deadline if you wish to exercise your voting rights. We must receive the proxy form by no later than 11:00 a.m., Hong Kong time, on November 14, 2021 at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong to ensure your representation at the EGM; and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas must receive your voting instructions by no later than 10:00 a.m., New York Time, on November 5, 2021 to enable the votes attaching to the Class A Ordinary Shares represented by your ADSs to be cast at the EGM.
By Order of the Board of Directors, | |
Li Auto Inc. | |
/s/Xiang Li | |
Xiang Li | |
Chairman of the Board |
Head Office: | Registered Office: | |
Li Auto R&D Headquarters | PO Box 309, Ugland House | |
11 Wenliang Street | Grand Cayman KY1-1104 | |
Shunyi District, Beijing 101399 | Cayman Islands | |
People’s Republic of China |
October 19, 2021
As of the date of this notice, the board of directors of the Company comprises Mr. Xiang Li, Mr. Yanan Shen, and Mr. Tie Li as executive directors, Mr. Xing Wang and Mr. Zheng Fan as non-executive directors, and Mr. Hongqiang Zhao, Mr. Zhenyu Jiang, and Prof. Xing Xiao as independent non-executive directors.
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this notice, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this notice.
Li Auto Inc.
理想汽車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(NASDAQ: LI and HKEX: 2015)
NOTICE OF CLASS A MEETING
to be held on November 16, 2021
(or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a class meeting of holders of Class A ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class A Meeting”) of Li Auto Inc. (the “Company”) will be held at 10:00 a.m. on November 16, 2021 at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following resolution (the “Class-based Resolution”):
1. | as an ordinary resolution, THAT subject to the passing of the Class-based Resolution at the class meeting of holders of the Class B ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each and the passing of a special resolution at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company convened on the same date and at the same place as the Class A Meeting, the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part A of Appendix I to the circular of the Company dated October 19, 2021, by incorporating the following requirements under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Hong Kong Listing Rules”): paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 and Rules 8A.09, 8A.13 to 8A.19 and 8A.22 to 8A.24. |
The passing of the above resolution requires approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the members of Class A ordinary shares who are present and voting in person or by proxy at the Class A Meeting. The quorum of the Class A Meeting shall be one or more members holding or representing by proxy at least one-third in nominal or par value amount of the issued Class A ordinary shares of the Company.
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SHARES RECORD DATE AND ADS RECORD DATE
The board of directors of the Company has fixed the close of business on October 13, 2021, Hong Kong time, as the record date (the “Shares Record Date”) of Class A ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”). Holders of record of the Class A Ordinary Shares (as of the Shares Record Date) are entitled to attend and vote at the Class A Ordinary Shares and any adjourned meeting thereof.
Holders of record of American Depositary Shares (the “ADSs”) as of the close of business on October 13, 2021, New York time (the “ADS Record Date”, together with the Shares Record Date, the “Record Dates”), who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying Class A Ordinary Shares must give voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of the ADSs.
ATTENDING THE CLASS A MEETING
Only holders of record of Class A Ordinary Shares as of the Shares Record Date are entitled to attend and vote at the Class A Meeting. In order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and to safeguard the health and safety of shareholders, the Company may implement certain precautionary measures at the Class A Meeting. All officers and agents of the Company reserve the right to refuse any person entry to the Class A Meeting venue, or to instruct any person to leave the Class A Meeting venue, where such officer or agent reasonably considers that such refusal or instruction is or may be required for the Company or any other person to be able to comply with applicable laws and regulations. The exercise of such right to refuse entry or instruct to leave shall not invalidate the proceedings at the Class A Meeting.
PROXY FORMS AND ADS VOTING CARDS
A holder of Class A Ordinary Shares as of the Shares Record Date may appoint a proxy to exercise his or her rights at the Class A Meeting. A holder of ADSs as of the ADS Record Date will need to instruct Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of the ADSs, as to how to vote the Class A Ordinary Shares represented by the ADSs. Please refer to the proxy form (for holders of Class A Ordinary Shares) or ADS voting card (for holders of ADSs), both of which are available on our website at http://ir.lixiang.com.
Holders of record of the Class A Ordinary Shares on the Company’s Register of Members as of the Shares Record Date are cordially invited to attend the Class A Meeting in person. Your vote is important. You are urged to complete, sign, date and return the accompanying proxy form to us (for holders of Class A Ordinary Shares) or your voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (for holders of the ADSs) as promptly as possible and before the prescribed deadline if you wish to exercise your voting rights. We must receive the proxy form by no later than 10:00 a.m., Hong Kong time, on November 14, 2021 at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong to ensure your representation
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at the Class A Meeting; and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas must receive your voting instructions by no later than 10:00 a.m., New York Time, on November 5, 2021 to enable the votes attaching to the Class A Ordinary Shares represented by your ADSs to be cast at the Class A Meeting.
By Order of the Board of Directors, | |
Li Auto Inc. | |
/s/Xiang Li | |
Xiang Li | |
Chairman of the Board | |
Head Office: | Registered Office: |
Li Auto R&D Headquarters | PO Box 309, Ugland House |
11 Wenliang Street | Grand Cayman KY1-1104 |
Shunyi District, Beijing 101399 | Cayman Islands |
People’s Republic of China |
October 19, 2021
As of the date of this notice, the board of directors of the Company comprises Mr. Xiang Li, Mr. Yanan Shen, and Mr. Tie Li as executive directors, Mr. Xing Wang and Mr. Zheng Fan as non-executive directors, and Mr. Hongqiang Zhao, Mr. Zhenyu Jiang, and Prof. Xing Xiao as independent non-executive directors.
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this notice, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this notice.
Li Auto Inc.
理想汽車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(NASDAQ: LI and HKEX: 2015)
NOTICE OF CLASS B MEETING
to be held on November 16, 2021
(or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a class meeting of holders of Class B ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class B Meeting”) of Li Auto Inc. (the “Company”) will be held at 10:30 a.m. (or soon after the class meeting of holders of the Class A ordinary shares of the Company convened on the same date and at the same place as the Class B Meeting), on November 16, 2021 at our offices located at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following resolution (the “Class-based Resolution”):
1. | as an ordinary resolution, THAT subject to the passing of the Class-based Resolution at the class meeting of holders of the Class A ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each and the passing of a special resolution at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company convened on the same date and at the same place as the Class B Meeting, the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part A of Appendix I to the circular of the Company dated October 19, by incorporating the following requirements under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Hong Kong Listing Rules”): paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 and Rules 8A.09, 8A.13 to 8A.19 and 8A.22 to 8A.24. |
The passing of the above resolution requires approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the members of Class B ordinary shares who are present and voting in person or by proxy at the Class B Meeting. The quorum of the Class B Meeting shall be one or more members or representing by proxy holding at least one-third in nominal or par value amount of the issued Class B ordinary shares of the Company.
SHARES RECORD DATE
The board of directors of the Company has fixed the close of business on October 13, 2021, Hong Kong time, as the record date (the “Shares Record Date”) of Class B ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class B Ordinary Shares”). Holders of record of the Class B Ordinary Shares (as of the Shares Record Date) are entitled to attend and vote at the Class B Ordinary Shares and any adjourned meeting thereof.
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ATTENDING THE CLASS B MEETING
Only holders of record of Class B Ordinary Shares as of the Shares Record Date are entitled to attend and vote at the Class B Meeting. In order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and to safeguard the health and safety of shareholders, the Company may implement certain precautionary measures at the Class B Meeting. All officers and agents of the Company reserve the right to refuse any person entry to the Class B Meeting venue, or to instruct any person to leave the Class B Meeting venue, where such officer or agent reasonably considers that such refusal or instruction is or may be required for the Company or any other person to be able to comply with applicable laws and regulations. The exercise of such right to refuse entry or instruct to leave shall not invalidate the proceedings at the Class B Meeting.
PROXY FORMS
A holder of Class B Ordinary Shares as of the Shares Record Date may appoint a proxy to exercise his or her rights at the Class B Meeting. Please refer to the proxy form (for holders of Class B Ordinary Shares), which is available on our website at http://ir.lixiang.com.
Holders of record of the Class B Ordinary Shares on the Company’s Register of Members as of the Shares Record Date are cordially invited to attend the Class B Meeting in person. Your vote is important. You are urged to complete, sign, date and return the accompanying proxy form to us (for holders of Class B Ordinary Shares) as promptly as possible and before the prescribed deadline if you wish to exercise your voting rights. We must receive the proxy form by no later than 10:30 a.m., Hong Kong Time, on November 14, 2021 at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong to ensure your representation at the Class B Meeting.
By Order of the Board of Directors, | |
Li Auto Inc. | |
/s/Xiang Li | |
Xiang Li | |
Chairman of the Board | |
Head Office: | Registered Office: |
Li Auto R&D Headquarters | PO Box 309, Ugland House |
11 Wenliang Street | Grand Cayman KY1-1104 |
Shunyi District, Beijing 101399 | Cayman Islands |
People’s Republic of China |
October 19, 2021
As of the date of this notice, the board of directors of the Company comprises Mr. Xiang Li, Mr. Yanan Shen, and Mr. Tie Li as executive directors, Mr. Xing Wang and Mr. Zheng Fan as non-executive directors, and Mr. Hongqiang Zhao, Mr. Zhenyu Jiang, and Prof. Xing Xiao as independent non-executive directors.
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Exhibit 99.3
THIS CIRCULAR IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION |
If you are in any doubt as to any aspect of this circular or as to the action to be taken, you should consult a stockbroker or other registered dealer in securities, a bank manager, solicitor, professional accountant or other professional adviser.
If you have sold or transferred all your shares in Li Auto Inc., you should at once hand this circular, together with the enclosed form of proxy, to the purchaser or transferee or to the bank, licensed securities dealer or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this circular, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this circular.
Li Auto Inc.
理想汽車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; Stock Code: 2015)
(1) PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION;
(2) PROPOSED GRANT OF GENERAL MANDATE TO ISSUE SHARES;
AND
(3)
PROPOSED GRANT OF GENERAL MANDATE TO
REPURCHASE SHARES
A letter from the Board is set out on pages 6 to 16 of this circular.
Notices convening the Class A Meeting, the Class B Meeting and the EGM to be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing on November 16, 2021 at 10:00 A.M., 10:30 A.M., 11:00 A.M., respectively, are enclosed and are published on the websites of the Stock Exchange (www.hkexnews.hk) and the Company (https://ir.lixiang.com/). A form of proxy for use at each of the Class A Meeting, the Class B Meeting and the EGM is also enclosed and published on the websites of the Stock Exchange (www.hkexnews.hk) and the Company (https://ir.lixiang.com/).
Holders of record of the Company’s Shares on the Company’s register of members as of the close of business on the Share Record Date (Hong Kong time) are cordially invited to attend the EGM in person. Holders of the Company’s ADSs as of the close of business on the ADS Record Date (New York time) are cordially invited to submit your voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Whether or not you propose to attend and vote at the said meetings, please complete, sign, date, and return the accompanying proxy form to the Company’s share registrar in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited (for holders of Shares) or your voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (for holders of the ADSs) as promptly as possible and before the prescribed deadline if you wish to exercise your voting rights. Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited must receive the proxy form by no later than 11:00 a.m., Hong Kong time, on November 14, 2021 at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong to ensure your representation at the EGM; and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas must receive your voting instructions by no later than 10:00 a.m., New York Time, on November 5, 2021 to enable the votes attaching to the Class A Ordinary Shares represented by your ADSs to be cast at the EGM.
October 19, 2021
CONTENTS
Pages | ||
DEFINITIONS | 1 | |
LETTER FROM THE BOARD | 6 | |
1. | Introduction | 6 |
2. | Proposed Amendment of the Articles of Association | 7 |
3. | Proposed grant of General Mandate to Issue Shares | 14 |
4. | Proposed grant of General Mandate to Repurchase Shares | 14 |
5. | The EGM and the Class Meetings | 15 |
6. | Recommendations | 16 |
7. | Further information | 16 |
APPENDIX I | THE AMENDED ARTICLES | I-1 |
Part A. The Amended Articles if the Class-based Resolution and the Non-class-based Resolution are both approved | I-1 | |
Part B. The Amended Articles if the Class-based Resolution is not approved and the Non-class-based Resolution is approved | I-58 | |
APPENDIX II | EXPLANATORY STATEMENT ON THE REPURCHASE MANDATE | II-1 |
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DEFINITIONS
In this circular, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the following meanings:
“2021 Plan” | the share incentive plan our Company adopted on March 8, 2021, as amended from time to time |
“ADS(s)” | American Depositary Shares, each representing two Class A Ordinary Shares |
“ADS Record Date” | October 13, 2021 (New York time) |
“Amended Articles” | the proposed fifth amended and restated articles of association of the Company, the forms of which, marked to show the amendments proposed to be made to the Articles, are set out in Appendix I to this circular |
“Articles” or “Articles of Association” |
the fourth amended and restated articles of association of the Company adopted by a special resolutions of the shareholders of the Company on July 9, 2020 and effective on August 3, 2020 |
“associate(s)” | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules |
“Award Premium” | the premium payable by Mr. Li in respect of the CEO Award Shares, being US$14.63 per share, as described in the section headed “Directors and Senior Management – Directors’ remuneration – Grant of CEO Award” of the Prospectus |
“Board” | the board of Directors |
“business day” | any day (other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in Hong Kong) on which banks in Hong Kong or other relevant jurisdictions are generally open for normal banking business |
“CEO Award Shares” | the 108,557,400 Class A Ordinary Shares granted to Mr. Li pursuant to the 2021 Plan. For details please see section headed “Directors and Senior Management – Directors’ remuneration – Grant of CEO Award” of the Prospectus |
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DEFINITIONS
“China” or “PRC” | the People’s Republic of China, and for the purposes of this document only, except where the context requires otherwise, excluding Hong Kong, the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan |
“Class A Meeting” | the class meeting of the holders of the Class A Ordinary Shares to be convened on November 16, 2021 at 10:00 A.M. to consider and, if thought fit, approve, a number of proposed amendments to the Articles |
“Class A Ordinary Shares” | class A ordinary shares of the share capital of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 each, conferring a holder of a Class A Ordinary Share one vote per Share on any resolution tabled at the Company’s general meeting |
”Class-based Resolution” | a resolution to incorporate into the Articles paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 and Rules 8A.09, 8A.13 to 8A.19 and 8A.22 to 8A.24 of the Hong Kong Listing Rules |
“Class B Meeting” | the class meeting of the holders of the Class B Ordinary Shares to be convened on November 16, 2021 at 10:30 A.M. to consider and, if thought fit, approve, a number of proposed amendments to the Articles |
“Class B Ordinary Shares” | class B ordinary shares of the share capital of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 each, conferring weighted voting rights in the Company such that a holder of a Class B Ordinary Share is entitled to ten votes per Share on any resolution tabled at the Company’s general meeting, save for, under the Amended Articles, resolutions with respect to any Reserved Matters, in which case they shall be entitled to one vote per Share |
“Company” | Li Auto Inc. (理想汽車) (formerly known as “Leading Ideal Inc.” and “CHJ Technologies Inc.”), a company with limited liability incorporated in the Cayman Islands on April 28, 2017 |
“connected person(s)” | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules |
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DEFINITIONS
“Controlling Shareholder(s)” | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules and unless the context otherwise requires, refers to Mr. Li and the intermediary companies through which Mr. Li has an interest in the Company, namely, Amp Lee Ltd. and Cyric Point Enterprises Limited |
“Depositary” | Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of our ADSs |
“Directors” | the director(s) of the Company from time to time |
“EGM” | the extraordinary general meeting of the Company to be convened on November 16, 2021 at 11:00 A.M. to consider and, if thought fit, approve, among other things, the proposed amendment of the Articles, the Issuance Mandate and the Repurchase Mandate |
“Group” | the Company, its subsidiaries and its consolidated affiliated entities from time to time |
“HK$” | Hong Kong dollars, the lawful currency of Hong Kong |
“Hong Kong” | the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China |
“Latest Practicable Date” | October 10, 2021, being the latest practicable date prior to the printing of this circular for ascertaining certain information contained herein |
”Issuance Mandate” | a general mandate proposed to be granted to the Directors to allot, issue or deal with additional Class A Ordinary Shares not exceeding 20% of the total number of issued Shares as at the date of passing of the relevant ordinary resolution |
“Listing” | the listing of the Class A Ordinary Shares on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange on August 12, 2021 |
“Listing Rules” | the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited |
“Model Code” | the Model Code for Securities Transactions by Directors of Listed Issuers set out in Appendix 10 of the Listing Rules |
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DEFINITIONS
“Mr. Li” | Mr. Xiang Li, an executive Director, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the Founder of the Company |
”Non-class-based Resolution” | a resolution to incorporate into the Articles the Unmet Articles Requirements (as defined on page 9 of this circular) not covered by the Class-based Resolution and the Forum Selection Clarification (as defined on pages 8-9 of this circular) |
“Performance Condition(s)” | the performance condition in respect of each tranche of the CEO Award Shares as described in the section headed “Directors and Senior Management – Directors’ remuneration – Grant of CEO Award” of the Prospectus |
“Prospectus” | the prospectus of the Company dated August 3, 2021 in connection with the Listing |
”Repurchase Mandate” | a general mandate to the Directors to exercise the powers of the Company to repurchase Shares representing up to 10% of the total number of issued Shares as at the date of passing of the relevant ordinary resolution |
“Reserved Matters” | those matters resolutions with respect to which each Share is entitled to one vote at general meetings of the Company pursuant to the Amended Articles, being: (i) any amendment to the memorandum of association or articles of association of the Company, including the variation of the rights attached to any class of shares, (ii) the appointment, election or removal of any independent non-executive Director, (iii) the appointment or removal of the Company’s auditors, and (iv) the voluntary liquidation or winding-up of the Company |
“Shareholders” | holder(s) of the Share(s) |
“Shares” | the Class A Ordinary Shares and the Class B Ordinary Shares in the share capital of the Company, as the context so requires |
“Share Record Date” | October 13, 2021 (Hong Kong time) |
“Stock Exchange” | The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited |
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DEFINITIONS
“subsidiary(ies)” | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules |
“substantial shareholder(s)” | has the meaning ascribed to it in the Listing Rules |
“weighted voting right” | has the meaning ascribed to it in the Listing Rules |
“WVR Beneficiary” | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules and unless the context otherwise requires, refers to Mr. Li, being the beneficial owner of the Class B Ordinary Shares which carry weighted voting rights |
“WVR Structure” | has the meaning ascribed to it in the Listing Rules |
“%” | per cent |
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LETTER FROM THE BOARD |
Li Auto Inc.
理 想 汽 車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; Stock Code: 2015)
Executive Directors: | Registered Office: |
Mr. LI Xiang (Chairman) | PO Box 309 |
Mr. SHEN Yanan | Ugland House |
Mr. LI Tie | Grand Cayman KY1-1104 |
Cayman Islands | |
Non-executive Directors: | |
Mr. WANG Xing Mr. FAN Zheng |
Head Office and Principal Place of Business in China: |
11 Wenliang Street | |
Independent Non-executive Directors: | Shunyi District |
Mr. ZHAO Hongqiang | Beijing 101399 |
Mr. JIANG Zhenyu | the PRC |
Prof. XIAO Xing | |
Principal Place of Business in Hong Kong: | |
Level 54, Hopewell Centre | |
183 Queen’s Road East | |
Hong Kong |
October 19, 2021
To the Shareholders
Dear Sir or Madam,
(1) PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION;
(2) PROPOSED GRANT OF GENERAL MANDATE TO ISSUE SHARES;
(3) PROPOSED GRANT OF GENERAL MANDATE TO REPURCHASE SHARES
1. INTRODUCTION
On behalf of the Board, I would like to invite you to attend the Class A Meeting, the Class B Meeting and the EGM (as applicable to you) to be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing on November 16, 2021. The Class A Meeting will commence at 10:00 A.M. (Beijing time); the Class B Meeting will commence at 10:30 A.M. (Beijing time), or shortly after the Class A Meeting is concluded; and the EGM will commence at 11:00 A.M. (Beijing time), or shortly after the Class B Meeting is concluded.
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The purpose of this circular is to give you notice of the Class A Meeting, the Class B Meeting and the EGM, and to provide you with information regarding the following proposals to be put forward at the said meetings:
(a) | the proposed amendment of the Articles of Association; |
(b) | the proposed grant of a general mandate to issue Shares; and |
(c) | the proposed grant of a general mandate to repurchase Shares. |
2. PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
Reference is made to the section headed “Waivers and Exemptions – Requirement relating to the articles of association of the Company” of the Prospectus.
As disclosed in the Prospectus, in connection with the Listing, the Company applied for, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange granted, a waiver from strict compliance with the Unmet Articles Requirements (defined below), subject to a number of conditions (the “Waiver”). As a condition for the Waiver, the Company undertook to seek shareholders’ approval to amend its Articles to comply with the Unmet Articles Requirements at its first general meeting following the Listing, which should be convened in or before January 2022. Pursuant to the said undertaking, the Company hereby convenes the EGM, the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting.
Proposed amendments to the Articles
As the Company is dual primary listed on the Stock Exchange, its Articles are required to comply with Appendix 3 and Appendix 13, Part B, of the Listing Rules. Further, Rule 8A.44 of the Listing Rules requires issuers with WVR structures such as the Company to give force to the requirements of Rules 8A.07, 8A.09, 8A.10, 8A.13, 8A.14, 8A.15, 8A.16, 8A.17, 8A.18, 8A.19, 8A.21, 8A.22, 8A.23, 8A.24, 8A.26, 8A.27, 8A.28, 8A.29, 8A.30, 8A.31, 8A.32, 8A.33, 8A.34, 8A.35, 8A.37, 8A.38, 8A.39, 8A.40 and 8A.41 by incorporating them into their articles of association or equivalent document (together with the requirements under Appendix 3 and Appendix 13, Part B, to the Hong Kong Listing Rules, the “Listing Rules Articles Requirements”).
The Company’s Articles do not comply with some of the Listing Rules Articles Requirements, namely, (i) paragraphs 1(1), 1(2), 2(1), 4(1)-(5), 5, 7(2), 8, 10(2), 11(1) and 14 of Appendix 3 to the Hong Kong Listing Rules, (ii) paragraphs 1, 2(1), 3(1)-(3), 4(1)-(2) and 5(1)-(4) of Part B of Appendix 13 to the Hong Kong Listing Rules and (iii) Rules 8A.09, 8A.13 to 8A.19, 8A.22 to 8A.24, 8A.26 to 8A.35 and 8A.37 to 8A.41 of the Hong Kong Listing Rules (together, the “Unmet Listing Rules Articles Requirements”). Other than the said Unmet Listing Rules Articles Requirements, the remaining Listing Rules Articles Requirements are met by the Articles.
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Under articles 91(b) and (c) of the Articles, Amp Lee Ltd., an entity beneficially owned by Mr. Li, an executive Director and our Founder, is entitled to appoint, remove, and replace at least one director of the Company as well as to appoint the chairman of the Board, subject to certain conditions. To comply with Rule 2.03(4) of the Listing Rule, which requires that all holders of listed securities be treated fairly and equally, the Company will at the EGM seek the shareholders’ approval to remove such special rights of Amp Lee Ltd. from the Articles (“Termination of Founder Entity’s Special Rights”).
In addition, to further enhance its shareholder protection measures, the Company will at the EGM seek the shareholders’ approval to incorporate the following into its Articles: (a) lowering the quorum of general meeting (which is not a class meeting) from one-third of all votes attaching to all shares in issue and entitled to vote at such general meeting in the Company as currently provided for under article 67 in the Company’s Articles to 10% of all votes attaching to all shares in issue and entitled to vote at such general meeting in the Company (on a one vote per share basis) (the “Quorum Requirement”); (b) where a general meeting is postponed by the directors pursuant to article 74 of the existing Articles, requiring such meeting to be postponed to a specific date, time and place (the “GM Postponement Requirement”); (c) removing the Directors’ discretion to, for the purpose of variation of rights attached to any class of shares, treat all the Classes or any two or more Classes as forming one Class if they consider that all such Classes would be affected in the same way by the proposals under consideration under article 19 of the existing Articles, as well as the Directors’ powers to authorize the division of Shares into any number of classes and to determine the relative rights and obligations as between the different classes and to issue such shares with preferred or other rights that may be greater than the rights of the Class A Ordinary Shares under article 9 of the existing Articles as well as making the Directors’ powers to issue preferred shares under article 9 of the existing Articles to be subject to the Articles, compliance with the Listing Rules and the Takeovers Code and the conditions that (x) no new class of shares with voting rights superior to those of Class A Ordinary Shares will be created and (y) any variations in the relative rights as between the different classes will not result in creating new class of shares with voting rights superior to those of Class A Ordinary Shares (“Amendment of Directors’ Class Right Related Powers”); and (d) changing the power to appoint the auditor of the Company and fix their remuneration from being that of the Directors to that of the shareholders at annual general meetings unless such power is delegated to the Directors by the shareholders at annual general meeting for that year (the “Amendment of Auditor Appointment Powers”, together with the Amendment of Directors’ Class Right Related Powers, Unmet Listing Rules Articles Requirements, the Termination of Founder Entity’s Special Rights, the Quorum Requirement, and the GM Postponement Requirement, the “Unmet Articles Requirements”).
The Company will also propose amendments to the Articles at the EGM to clarify that the Company, its shareholders, directors and officers agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong, to the exclusion of other jurisdictions, to hear, settle and/or determine any dispute, controversy or claim whether arising out of or in connection with the Articles or otherwise. For the avoidance of doubt, the applicable rights of purchasers, holders, and sellers of the Company’s ADSs are not governed by the preceding sentence but are exclusively governed by the applicable deposit agreement pursuant to which
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the ADSs were issued, regardless of whether their dispute, controversy or claim arises out of or in connection with the Articles or otherwise (the “Forum Selection Clarification”). For completeness, the Company, the Depositary and holders and beneficial owners of the ADSs each agree that, with regard to any claim or dispute or difference of whatever nature between or involving the parties hereto arising directly or indirectly from the relationship created by the deposit agreement, the Depositary, in its sole discretion, shall be entitled to refer such dispute or difference for final settlement by arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association then in force. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrators may be enforced in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The seat and place of any reference to arbitration shall be New York City, New York, and the procedural law of such arbitration shall be New York law. For the avoidance of doubt this does not preclude holders and beneficial owners of the ADSs from pursuing claims under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act in federal courts. Holders and beneficial owners of the ADSs each irrevocably agree that any legal suit, action or proceeding against or involving the Company or the Depositary, arising out of or based upon the deposit agreement, ADSs, American Depositary Receipts or the transactions contemplated thereby or by virtue of ownership thereof, may only be instituted in a state or federal court in New York, New York and irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding.
As advised by the Company’s legal advisor as to Cayman Islands laws, the incorporation of the following Unmet Articles Requirements will require (a) approvals of both holders of Class B Ordinary Shares and holders of Class A Ordinary Shares in separate class meetings in accordance with the Company’s Articles because these requirements would materially adversely vary the rights attached to Class B Ordinary Shares and Class A Ordinary Shares respectively: (i) paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 to the Hong Kong Listing Rules; and (ii) Rules 8A.09, 8A.13, 8A.14, 8A.15, 8A.16, 8A.17, 8A.18(1), 8A.18(2), 8A.19, 8A.22, 8A.23 and 8A.24 of the Hong Kong Listing Rules. A resolution to incorporate these Unmet Articles Requirements (the “Class-based Resolution”) will therefore be proposed at each of the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting as well as the EGM.
A copy of the Amended Articles, marked to show all the above discussed amendments proposed to be made to the Articles (i.e. if the Class-based Resolution and the Non-class-based Resolution (defined below) are both approved), is set out in Part A of Appendix I to this circular.
Quorum and voting
The quorum for the Class B Meeting or Class A Meeting will be one-third of the nominal or par value amount of the respective issued Class B Ordinary Shares or Class A Ordinary Shares, respectively, in accordance with article 19 of the Company’s existing Articles. The Class-based Resolution requires approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the issued Class B Ordinary Shares and approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the issued Class A Ordinary Shares pursuant to article 19 of the Company’s existing Articles.
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If the Class-based Resolution is passed at both the Class B Meeting and Class A Meeting, at the EGM where all Shareholders may vote as a single class, the Shareholders will be asked to vote on (a) the Class-based Resolution and (b) another resolution to incorporate into the Company’s Articles (i) the Unmet Articles Requirements not covered by the Class-based Resolution and (ii) the Forum Selection Clarification (the “Non-class-based Resolution”). The quorum for the EGM will be members holding Shares which carry in aggregate (or representing by proxy) not less than one-third of all votes attaching to all Shares in issue and entitled to vote present in person or by proxy at the EGM pursuant to article 67 of the Company’s Articles. At the EGM, each of the Class-based Resolution and the Non-class-based Resolution will require approval by not less than two-thirds of the votes cast by such Shareholders as, being entitled to do so, voting in person or by proxy or, in the case of corporations, by their duly authorized representatives, at the EGM, in accordance with article 162 of the Company’s Articles.
If the Class-based Resolution is not approved at either the Class B Meeting or Class A Meeting, then the Shareholders at the EGM will only be asked to vote on the Non-class-based Resolution. A copy of the Amended Articles, marked to show the proposed amendments if the Class-based Resolution is not approved and only the Non-class-based Resolution is approved, is set out in Part B of Appendix I to this circular.
Conditions for the Waiver
The conditions for the Waiver, which have previously been disclosed in the section headed “Waivers and Exemptions – Requirement relating to the articles of association of the Company” of the Prospectus, are set out below in full for your reference:
(1) | at its first general meeting following the Listing (the “First GM”), the Company will put forth: (i) the Class-based Resolution at the Class B Meeting and the Class A Meeting; and (ii) the Class-based Resolution (if adopted at the Class B Meeting and Class A Meeting) and the Non-class-based Resolution at the EGM (together, the “Proposed Resolutions”) to amend its Articles to comply with the Unmet Articles Requirements; |
(2) | the WVR Beneficiary has irrevocably undertaken to the Company to be present at the First GM (whether in person or by proxy) and any general meeting that may be convened after the Listing and before the First GM, and to vote in favor of the Proposed Resolutions; |
(3) | if any of the Proposed Resolutions are not passed at the First GM, until they are all approved by the Shareholders, the Company has irrevocably undertaken to the Stock Exchange to put forth the Proposed Resolutions that have not been passed at each subsequent annual general meeting, and the WVR Beneficiary has irrevocably undertaken to the Company to continue to be present (whether in person or by proxy) and vote in favor of such Proposed Resolutions at each subsequent general meeting at which the Company puts forth such Proposed Resolutions until all Proposed Resolutions are approved by the Shareholders. The WVR Beneficiary has further undertaken to the Company to be present at any general meeting after the Listing until all Proposed Resolutions are approved by Shareholders; |
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(4) | each of Inspired Elite Investments Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meituan, a substantial shareholder of the Company), Mr. Yanan Shen, Mr. Tie Li and Mr. Zheng Fan and Mr. Xing Wang (together, the “Undertaking Shareholders”) has irrevocably undertaken to the Company to, and if any Class A Ordinary Share is held by intermediaries held or controlled by him, procure such intermediaries to be present at the Class A Meeting and the EGM (whether in person or by proxy) and to vote in favor of the Proposed Resolutions and that, if any of the Proposed Resolutions are not passed at the First GM, until they are all approved, it or he or the said intermediaries will continue to attend (whether in person or by proxy) each subsequent class meeting of the holders of the Class A Ordinary Shares and general meeting at which the Company puts forth the Proposed Resolutions and vote in favor of such Proposed Resolutions; |
(5) | the Company will issue a press release announcing its support publicly for the Proposed Resolutions each year after the Listing until all the Proposed Resolutions are adopted; |
(6) | the Company, the WVR Beneficiary and each of the other Directors in their individual capacity as a Director of the Company has irrevocably undertaken to the Stock Exchange that it will comply with the Unmet Listing Rules Articles Requirements, the Termination of Founder Entity’s Special Rights, the GM Postponement Requirement, the Amendment of Directors’ Class Right Related Powers, the Amendment of Auditor Appointment Powers and the Forum Selection Clarification in full (the “Undertaking for Interim Compliance”) upon the Listing and before the Articles are formally amended to incorporate the Unmet Articles Requirements, except for: |
• | paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 such that, prior to the Company’s Articles being amended, the threshold for passing a resolution in a separate class meeting will be approval by a simple majority of the votes cast by the issued shares of that class pursuant to article 19 of the Company’s existing Articles; |
• | Rules 8A.24(1) and (2) such that, prior to the Company’s Articles being amended, weighted voting rights will apply in connection with passing the Proposed Resolutions; and |
• | paragraph 1 of Part B of Appendix 13 such that, prior to the Company’s Articles being amended, the threshold for passing a special resolution for amendments to the Company’s Articles will be approval by members holding not less than two-thirds of the voting rights of those present and voting in person or by proxy at the general meeting in accordance with article 162 of the Company’s existing Articles. |
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For the avoidance of doubt, the above exceptions are only applicable to the passing of the Proposed Resolutions, and the Company has irrevocably undertaken to the Stock Exchange to comply with paragraphs 1 and 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 and Rules 8A.24(1) and (2) for passing any resolution at a separate class meeting and any special resolution after the Listing (other than the Proposed Resolutions) under the Undertaking for Interim Compliance, and if any of the Class-based Resolution is not passed at the First GM, the Undertaking for Interim Compliance will remain valid until the Class-based Resolution is passed;
(7) | the WVR Beneficiary has irrevocably undertaken to the Company and the Stock Exchange that: |
• | he will procure the Company to give effect to the Undertaking for Interim Compliance upon the Listing and before its existing Articles are formally amended; |
• | in the event any Class B Ordinary Share is to be transferred to an affiliate (as defined in the Articles) of the WVR Beneficiary that is not a director holding vehicle after the Listing but before the existing Articles are formally amended, he will convert such Class B Ordinary Shares into Class A Ordinary Shares by delivering a written notice to the Company in accordance with the Articles and only transfer the resultant Class A Ordinary Shares to such Affiliate; |
• | after the Listing but before the existing Articles are formally amended, he will not effect any change in his holding structure of any Class B Ordinary Shares unless and until the Stock Exchange has approved such change; and |
• | he will procure Amp Lee Ltd. to, prior to the Listing, deliver a written conversion notice to the Company in accordance with article 13 of the existing Articles that all of the Class B Ordinary Shares it holds shall be converted to Class A Ordinary Shares on a one-for-one basis immediately upon any event listed in Rule 8A.17 of the Listing Rules occurring after the Listing and before the Articles are formally amended; such conversion notice shall expire immediately upon the Articles are formally amended. |
A director holding vehicle, for the purpose of the above paragraph, means (a) a partnership of which the WVR Beneficiary is a partner and the terms of which must expressly specify that the voting rights attached to any and all of the Class B Ordinary Shares held by such partnership are solely dictated by the WVR Beneficiary; (b) a trust of which the WVR Beneficiary is a beneficiary and that meets the following conditions: (i) the WVR Beneficiary must in substance retain an element of control of the trust and any immediate holding companies of, or, if not permitted in the relevant tax jurisdiction, retain a beneficial interest in any and all of the Class B Ordinary Shares held by such trust; and (ii) the purpose of the trust must be for estate planning and/or tax planning purposes; or (c) a private company or other vehicle wholly-owned and wholly controlled by the WVR Beneficiary or by a trust referred to in paragraph (b) above;
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(8) | if any holders of any ADSs fail to give valid or timely voting instructions to the Depositary with respect of the Proposed Resolutions, the Company will exercise any discretionary proxy it may have under the deposit agreement for the ADSs to vote the underlying Class A Ordinary Shares represented by such ADSs in favor of the Proposed Resolutions at any general meetings; and |
(9) | the Company remains listed on the Nasdaq. |
The Company’s legal advisor as to the laws of the Cayman Islands confirms that the Undertaking for Interim Compliance will not violate the laws and regulations of the Cayman Islands, and the Company confirms that, having consulted its other legal advisors, the Undertaking for Interim Compliance will also not violate other laws and regulations applicable to the Company.
The WVR Beneficiary acknowledged and agreed that the Shareholders of the Company may rely on the WVR Beneficiary’s undertakings described in paragraphs (2), (3) and (7) above (the “WVR Beneficiary’s Articles Undertaking”) in acquiring and holding their Shares and that such undertakings are intended to confer a benefit on the Company and all existing and future Shareholders and may be enforced by the Company and/or any such Shareholder against the WVR Beneficiary.
The WVR Beneficiary’s Articles Undertaking shall automatically terminate upon the earliest of (i) the proposed amendments to the Articles described above have become effective, (ii) the date of delisting of the Company from the Stock Exchange; and (iii) the date on which the WVR Beneficiary ceases to be a beneficiary of weighted voting rights in the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, the termination of the WVR Beneficiary’s Articles Undertaking shall not affect any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities of the Company and/or any Shareholder and/or the WVR Beneficiary himself that have accrued up to the date of termination, including the right to claim damages and/or apply for any injunction in respect of any breach of the WVR Beneficiary’s Articles Undertaking which existed at or before the date of termination. The WVR Beneficiary’s Articles Undertaking shall be governed by the laws of the Hong Kong and all matters, claims or disputes arising out of the WVR Beneficiary’s Articles Undertaking shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.
For further details and context of the proposed amendment of the Articles and the Waiver, please refer to the section headed “Waivers and Exemptions – Requirement relating to the articles of association of the Company” of the Prospectus.
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3. PROPOSED GRANT OF GENERAL MANDATE TO ISSUE SHARES
In order to give the Company the flexibility to issue Class A Ordinary Shares if and when appropriate, without needing to convene a general meeting for each and every share issuance, an ordinary resolution will be proposed at the EMG to approve the granting of a general mandate to the Directors to allot, issue or deal with additional Class A Ordinary Shares not exceeding 20% of the total number of issued Shares as at the date of passing of such resolution (the “Issuance Mandate”).
As at the Latest Practicable Date, the issued share capital of the Company comprised 1,709,903,330 Class A Ordinary Shares and 355,812,080 Class B Ordinary Shares. Subject to the passing of the ordinary resolution 3 and on the basis that no further Shares are issued or repurchased after the Latest Practicable Date and up to the date of the EGM, the Company will be allowed to issue a maximum of 413,143,082 Class A Ordinary Shares. The Directors wish to state that they have no immediate plans to issue any new Shares pursuant to the Issuance Mandate.
In addition, subject to a separate approval of the ordinary resolution 5, the number of Shares purchased by the Company under ordinary resolution 4 will also be added to extend the Issuance Mandate as mentioned in ordinary resolution 3 provided that such additional amount shall represent up to 10% of the number of issued Shares as at the date of passing the resolutions in relation to the Issuance Mandate and Repurchase Mandate (as defined below).
4. PROPOSED GRANT OF GENERAL MANDATE TO REPURCHASE SHARES
In order to give the Company the flexibility to repurchase Shares if and when appropriate, without needing to convene a general meeting for each and every share repurchase, an ordinary resolution will be proposed at the EGM to approve the granting of a new general mandate to the Directors to exercise the powers of the Company to repurchase Shares representing up to 10% of the total number of issued Shares as at the date of passing of such resolution (the “Repurchase Mandate”).
As at the Latest Practicable Date, the issued share capital of the Company comprised 1,709,903,330 Class A Ordinary Shares and 355,812,080 Class B Ordinary Shares. Subject to the passing of the ordinary resolution 4 and on the basis that no further Shares are issued or repurchased after the Latest Practicable Date and up to the date of the EGM, the Company will be allowed to repurchase a maximum of 206,571,541 Class A Ordinary Shares. The Directors wish to state that they have no immediate plans to repurchase any Shares pursuant to the Repurchase Mandate.
An explanatory statement required by the Listing Rules to be sent to the Shareholders in connection with the proposed Repurchase Mandate is set out in Appendix II to this circular. This explanatory statement contains all information reasonably necessary to enable the Shareholders to make an informed decision on whether to vote for or against the relevant resolution at the EGM.
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The Issuance Mandate (including the extended Issuance Mandate) and the Repurchase Mandate, if granted, shall continue to be in force during the period from the date of passing of the resolutions for the approval of the Issuance Mandate (including the extended Issuance Mandate) and the Repurchase Mandate up to (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required to be held by the Articles of Association or any applicable laws; or (iii) the date on which the authority set out in the Issuance Mandate (including the extended Issuance Mandate) or the Repurchase Mandate (as the case may be) is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the Shareholders in general meeting, whichever occurs first.
5. THE EGM AND THE CLASS MEETINGS
The Board considers that the above-mentioned resolutions regarding the proposed amendment of the Articles, the proposed Issuance Mandate and the Repurchase Mandate are in the best interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole and accordingly the Directors recommend you to vote in favor of the said resolutions to be proposed at the EGM, the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting respectively.
The Class A Meeting, the Class B Meeting and the EGM will be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing on November 16, 2021. The Class A Meeting will commence at 10:00 A.M. (Beijing time); the Class B Meeting will commence at 10:30 A.M. (Beijing time), or shortly after the Class A Meeting is concluded; and the EGM will commence at 11:00 A.M. (Beijing time), or shortly after the Class B Meeting is conclude.
The Notice of the Extraordinary General Meeting, Notice of the Class A Meeting and Notice of the Class B Meeting are enclosed and are published on the websites of the Stock Exchange (www.hkexnews.hk) and the Company (https://ir.lixiang.com/). These notices serve as the notice of general meetings required under Rule 13.71 of the Listing Rules.
Holders of record of the Company’s Shares on the Company’s register of members as of the close of business on the Share Record Date (Hong Kong time) are cordially invited to attend the EGM in person. Holders of the Company’s ADSs as of the close of business on the ADS Record Date (New York time) are cordially invited to submit your voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Whether or not you propose to attend and vote at the said meetings, please complete, sign, date, and return the accompanying proxy form to the Company’s share registrar in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited (for holders of Shares) or your voting instructions to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (for holders of the ADSs) as promptly as possible and before the prescribed deadline if you wish to exercise your voting rights. Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited must receive the proxy form by no later than 11:00 a.m., Hong Kong time, on November 14, 2021 at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong to ensure your representation at the EGM; and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas must receive your voting instructions by no later than 10:00 a.m., New York Time, on November 5, 2021 to enable the votes attaching to the Class A Ordinary Shares represented by your ADSs to be cast at the EGM.
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Pursuant to Rule 13.39(4) of the Listing Rules, any vote by shareholders at a general meeting must be taken by poll except where the chairman, in good faith, decides to allow a resolution which relates purely to a procedural or administrative matter to be voted only by a show of hands. Therefore, the resolutions to be proposed at the EGM will be voted by way of poll. An announcement on the poll results will be published after the EGM in the manner prescribed under Rule 13.39(5) of the Listing Rules.
6. RECOMMENDATIONS
The Board considers that the above-mentioned resolutions regarding the proposed amendment of the Articles, the proposed Issuance Mandate and the Repurchase Mandate are in the best interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole and accordingly the Directors recommend you to vote in favor of the said resolutions to be proposed at the Class A Meeting, the Class B Meeting and the EGM, respectively.
7. FURTHER INFORMATION
Your attention is drawn to the information set out in the appendices to this circular.
By order of the Board | |
Li Auto Inc. | |
Xiang Li | |
Chairman |
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APPENDIX I | THE AMENDED ARTICLES |
Part A The Amended Articles if the Class-based Resolution and the Non-class-based Resolution are both approved
THE
COMPANIES LAW (2020 REVISIONACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
FOURTHFIFTH
AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
LI AUTO INC.
(Adopted
by special resolution passed on July 9, 2020[●] and effective immediately prior to the completion
of the initial public offering of the Company’s American Depositary Shares representing its Class A Ordinary Sharesonon
[●])
1. | The name of the Company is Li Auto Inc. |
2. | The Registered Office of the Company will be situated at the offices of Maples Corporate Services Limited, P.O. Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman KY1-1104, Cayman Islands, or at such other location within the Cayman Islands as the Directors may from time to time determine. |
3. | The objects for which the Company is established
are unrestricted and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object
not prohibited by the Companies |
4. | The Company shall have and be capable of exercising all the functions
of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question of corporate benefit as
provided by the Companies |
5. | The Company will not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except in furtherance of the business of the Company carried on outside the Cayman Islands; provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as to prevent the Company effecting and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands, and exercising in the Cayman Islands all of its powers necessary for the carrying on of its business outside the Cayman Islands. |
6. | The liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount, if any, unpaid on the Shares held by such Shareholder. |
7. | The authorized share capital
of the Company is US$500,000 divided into 5,000,000,000 shares comprising of (i) |
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board
of directors may determine. Subject to the Companies LawAct and the Articles, the Company shall have
power to redeem or purchase any of its Shares and to increase or reduce its authorized share capital and to sub-divide or consolidate
the said Shares or any of them and to issue all or any part of its capital whether original, redeemed, increased or reduced with or without
any preference, priority, special privilege or other rights or subject to any postponement of rights or to any conditions or restrictions
whatsoever and so that unless the conditions of issue shall otherwise expressly provide every issue of shares whether stated to be ordinary,
preference or otherwise shall be subject to the powers on the part of the Company hereinbefore provided.
8. | The
Company has the power contained in the Companies |
9. | Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Memorandum of Association bear the same meanings as those given in the Articles of Association of the Company. |
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APPENDIX I | THE AMENDED ARTICLES |
THE
COMPANIES LAW (2020 REVISIONACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
FOURTHFIFTH
AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
LI AUTO INC.
(Adopted
by special resolution passed on July 9, 2020[●] and effective immediately prior to the completion
of the initial public offering of the Company’s American Depositary Shares representing its Class A Ordinary Shareson
[●])
TABLE A
The
regulations contained or incorporated in Table ‘A’ in the First Schedule of the Companies LawAct
shall not apply to the Company and the following Articles shall comprise the Articles of Association of the Company.
INTERPRETATION
1. | In these Articles the following defined terms will have the meanings ascribed to them, if not inconsistent with the subject or context: |
“ADS” | means an American Depositary Share representing Class A Ordinary Shares; |
“Affiliate” | means
in respect of a Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, through one (1) or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled
by, or is under common control with, such Person, and (i) in the case of a natural person, any of such person’s Family Members,
a trust for the benefit of such person, or any of such person’s Family Members, and a corporation, partnership, or any other
entity wholly or jointly owned or controlled by such person and any of such person’s Family Members, and (ii) in the case of
an entity, a partnership, a corporation, or any other entity, or any natural person which directly, or indirectly through one or
more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such entity. The term “control” |
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“associate” | shall have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules; |
“Articles” | means these articles of association of the Company, as amended or substituted from time to time; |
“Board” and “Board of Directors” and “Directors” | means the directors of the Company for the time being, or as the case may be, the directors assembled as a board or as a committee thereof; |
“Chairman” | means the chairman of the Board of Directors; |
“close associate” | shall have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules; |
“Class” or “Classes” | means any class or classes of Shares as may from time to time be issued by the Company; |
“Class A Ordinary Share” | means an Ordinary Share of a par value of US$0.0001 in the capital of the Company, designated as a Class A Ordinary Shares and having the rights provided for in these Articles; |
“Class B Ordinary Share” | means an Ordinary Share of a par value of US$0.0001 in the capital of the Company, designated as a Class B Ordinary Share and having the rights provided for in these Articles; |
“Commission” | means the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America or any other federal agency for the time being administering the Securities Act; |
“Companies Ordinance” | means the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622 of the Laws of Hong Kong) as in force from time to time; |
“Company” | means Li Auto Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company; |
“Communication Facilities” | means video, video-conferencing, internet or online conferencing applications, telephone or tele- conferencing, and/or any other video-communications, internet or online conferencing application or telecommunications facilities by means of which all Persons participating in a meeting are capable of hearing and being heard by each other; |
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“Companies
|
means
the Companies |
“Company’s Website” | means the main corporate/investor relations website of the Company, the address or domain name of which has been disclosed in any registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission in connection with its initial public offering of ADSs, or which has otherwise been notified to Shareholders; |
“Compliance Adviser” | shall have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules; |
“Corporate Governance Committee” | means the corporate governance committee of the Board established in accordance with Article 121; |
“Corporate Governance Report” | means the corporate governance report to be included in the Company’s annual reports or summary financial reports, if any, in accordance with the Listing Rules; |
“Director” | means any director from time to time of the Company; |
“Director Holding Vehicle” | means: |
(a) | a partnership of which the Founder is a partner and the terms of which must expressly specify that the voting rights attached to any and all of the Class B Ordinary Shares held by such partnership are solely dictated by the Founder; | |
(b) | a trust of which the Founder is a beneficiary and that meets the following conditions: (i) the Founder must in substance retain an element of control of the trust and any immediate holding companies of, or, if not permitted in the relevant tax jurisdiction, retain a beneficial interest in any and all of the Class B Ordinary Shares held by such trust; and (ii) the purpose of the trust must be for estate planning and/or tax planning purposes; or | |
(c) | a private company or other vehicle wholly-owned and wholly controlled by the Founder or by a trust referred to in paragraph (b) above; |
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“Designated Stock Exchange” | means (i) the stock exchange in the United States on which any Shares or ADSs are listed for trading or (ii) The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited on which any Shares are listed for trading; |
“Designated Stock Exchange Rules” | means
the relevant code, rules and regulations, as amended, from time to time, applicable as a result of the original and continued listing
of any Shares or ADSs on |
“electronic” | has the
meaning given to it in the Electronic Transactions |
“electronic communication” | means electronic posting to the Company’s Website, transmission to any number, address or internet website or other electronic delivery methods as otherwise decided and approved by not less than two-thirds of the vote of the Board; |
“Electronic
Transactions |
means
the Electronic Transactions |
“Founder” | means Mr. Xiang Li (李想); |
“electronic record” | has the
meaning given to it in the Electronic Transactions |
“Family Member” | means a person’s spouse, parents, children, grandchildren or other lineal descendants, siblings, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brothers-in-law, and sisters-in-law; |
“ |
means
|
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means
| |
“Listing Rules” | means the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited as amended from time to time; |
“Memorandum of Association” | means the memorandum of association of the Company, as amended or substituted from time to time; |
“Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee” | shall have the meaning ascribed to it under Article 116; |
“Nomination Committee” | means the nomination committee of the Board established in accordance with Article 116; |
“Ordinary Resolution” | means a resolution: |
(a) | passed by a simple majority of the votes cast by such Shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy, or, in the case of corporations, by their duly authorized representatives, at a general meeting of the Company held in accordance with these Articles; or | |
(b) | approved in writing by all of the Shareholders entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company in one or more instruments each signed by one or more of the Shareholders and the effective date of the resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the instrument, or the last of such instruments, if more than one, is executed; | |
“Ordinary Share” | means a Class A Ordinary Share or a Class B Ordinary Share; |
“paid up” | means paid up as to the par value in respect of the issue of any Shares and includes credited as paid up; |
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“Person” | means any natural person, firm, company, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity (whether or not having a separate legal personality) or any of them as the context so requires; |
“Present” | means, in respect of any Person, such Person’s presence at a general meeting of Shareholders, which may be satisfied by means of such Person (or, in the case of any Shareholder, a proxy which has been validly appointed by such Shareholder in accordance with these Articles) being: (a) physically present at the meeting; or (b) in the case of any meeting at which Communications Facilities are permitted in accordance with these Articles, connected by means of the use of such Communication Facilities; |
“Register” | means
the register of Members of the Company maintained in accordance with the Companies |
“Registered Office” | means
the registered office of the Company as required by the Companies |
“Seal” | means the common seal of the Company (if adopted) including any facsimile thereof; |
“Secretary” | means any Person appointed by the Directors to perform any of the duties of the secretary of the Company; |
“Securities Act” | means the Securities Act of 1933 of the United States of America, as amended, or any similar federal statute and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time; |
“Share” | means a share in the share capital of the Company. All references to “Shares” herein shall be deemed to be Shares of any or all Classes as the context may require. For the avoidance of doubt in these Articles the expression “Share” shall include a fraction of a Share; |
“Shareholder” or “Member” | means a Person who is registered as the holder of one or more Shares in the Register; |
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“Share Premium Account” | means
the share premium account established in accordance with these Articles and the Companies |
“signed” | means bearing a signature or representation of a signature affixed by mechanical means or an electronic symbol or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic communication and executed or adopted by a Person with the intent to sign the electronic communication; |
“Special Resolution” |
means
| |
“United States” | means the United States of America, its territories, its possessions and all areas subject to its jurisdiction. |
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2. | In these Articles, save where the context requires otherwise: |
(a) | words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa; |
(b) | words importing the masculine gender only shall include the feminine gender and any Person as the context may require; |
(c) | the word “may” shall be construed as permissive and the word “shall” shall be construed as imperative; |
(d) | reference to a dollar or dollars (or US$) and to a cent or cents is reference to dollars and cents of the United States of America; |
(e) | reference to a statutory enactment shall include reference to any amendment or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force; |
(f) | reference to any determination by the Directors shall be construed as a determination by the Directors in their sole and absolute discretion and shall be applicable either generally or in any particular case; |
(g) | reference to “in writing” shall be construed as written or represented by any means reproducible in writing, including any form of print, lithograph, email, facsimile, photograph or telex or represented by any other substitute or format for storage or transmission for writing including in the form of an electronic record or partly one and partly another; |
(h) | any requirements as to delivery under the Articles include delivery in the form of an electronic record or an electronic communication; |
(i) | any requirements
as to execution or signature under the Articles, including the execution of the Articles
themselves, can be satisfied in the form of an electronic signature as defined in the Electronic
Transaction |
(j) | Sections 8 and 19(3)
of the Electronic Transactions |
3. | Subject to the last
two preceding Articles, any words defined in the Companies |
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PRELIMINARY
4. | The business of the Company may be conducted as the Directors see fit. |
5. | The Registered Office shall be at such address in the Cayman Islands as the Directors may from time to time determine. The Company may in addition establish and maintain such other offices and places of business and agencies in such places as the Directors may from time to time determine. |
6. | The expenses incurred in the formation of the Company and in connection with the offer for subscription and issue of Shares shall be paid by the Company. Such expenses may be amortized over such period as the Directors may determine and the amount so paid shall be charged against income and/or capital in the accounts of the Company as the Directors shall determine. |
7. | The Directors shall keep, or cause to be kept, the Register at such place as the Directors may from time to time determine and, in the absence of any such determination, the Register shall be kept at the Registered Office. |
SHARES
8. | Subject to these Articles, all Shares for the time being unissued shall be under the control of the Directors who may, in their absolute discretion and without the approval of the Members, cause the Company to: |
(a) | issue, allot, and dispose of Shares (including, without limitation, preferred shares) (whether in certificated form or non-certificated form) to such Persons, in such manner, on such terms and having such rights and being subject to such restrictions as they may from time to time determine; |
(b) | grant rights over Shares or other securities to be issued in one or more classes or series as they deem necessary or appropriate and determine the designations, powers, preferences, privileges, and other rights attaching to such Shares or securities, including dividend rights, voting rights, conversion rights, terms of redemption, and liquidation preferences, any or all of which may be greater than the powers, preferences, privileges and rights associated with the then issued and outstanding Shares, at such times and on such other terms as they think proper; and |
(c) | grant options with respect to Shares and issue warrants or similar instruments with respect thereto. |
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9. |
(a) | the designation of such series, the number of preferred shares to constitute such series, and the subscription price thereof if different from the par value thereof; |
(b) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall have voting rights, in addition to any voting rights provided by law, and, if so, the terms of such voting rights, which may be general or limited, and such voting rights will, in appropriate circumstances, be secured to the holders of the preferred shares; |
(c) | the dividends, if any, payable on such series, whether any such dividends shall be cumulative, and, if so, from what dates, the conditions and dates upon which such dividends shall be payable, and the preference or relation which such dividends shall bear to the dividends payable on any shares of any other class or any other series of shares; |
(d) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall be subject to redemption by the Company, and, if so, the times, prices and other conditions of such redemption; |
(e) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall have any rights to receive any part of the assets available for distribution amongst the Members upon the liquidation of the Company, and, if so, the terms of such liquidation preference, and the relation which such liquidation preference shall bear to the entitlements of the holders of shares of any other class or any other series of shares; |
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(f) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall be subject to the operation of a retirement or sinking fund and, if so, the extent to and manner in which any such retirement or sinking fund shall be applied to the purchase or redemption of the preferred shares of such series for retirement or other corporate purposes and the terms and provisions relative to the operation thereof; |
(g) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall be convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or any other series of preferred shares or any other securities and, if so, the price or prices or the rate or rates of conversion or exchange and the method, if any, of adjusting the same, and any other terms and conditions of conversion or exchange; |
(h) | the limitations and restrictions, if any, to be effective while any preferred shares of such series are outstanding upon the payment of dividends or the making of other distributions on, and upon the purchase, redemption or other acquisition by the Company of, the existing shares or shares of any other class of shares or any other series of preferred shares; |
(i) | the conditions or restrictions, if any, upon the creation of indebtedness of the Company or upon the issue of any additional shares, including additional shares of such series or of any other class of shares or any other series of preferred shares; and |
(j) | any other powers, preferences, and relative, participating, optional, and other special rights, and any qualifications, limitations, and restrictions thereof; |
and, for such purposes, the Directors may reserve an appropriate number of Shares for the time being unissued. The Company shall not issue Shares to bearer.
10. | The Company may insofar as may be permitted by law, pay a commission to any Person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe whether absolutely or conditionally for any Shares. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the lodgment of fully or partly paid-up Shares or partly in one way and partly in the other. The Company may also pay such brokerage as may be lawful on any issue of Shares. |
11. | The Directors may refuse to accept any application for Shares, and may accept any application in whole or in part, for any reason or for no reason. |
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CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES AND CLASS B ORDINARY SHARES
12. | Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares shall at all times vote together as a single class on all resolutions submitted to a vote by the Members. Each Class A Ordinary Share shall entitle the holder thereof to one (1) vote on all matters subject to vote at general meetings of the Company, and each Class B Ordinary Share shall entitle the holder thereof to ten (10) votes on all matters subject to vote at general meetings of the Company. |
13. | Where the share capital of the Company includes Shares with different voting rights, the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting” shall appear in the designation of each class of Shares other than the class of Shares with the most favourable voting rights. |
14. |
15. |
(a) | the death of the holder of such Class B Ordinary Share (or, where the holder is a Director Holding Vehicle, the death of the Founder); |
(b) | the holder of such Class B Ordinary Share ceasing to be a Director or a Director Holding Vehicle for any reason; |
(c) | the holder of such Class B Ordinary Share (or, where the holder is a Director Holding Vehicle, the Founder) being deemed by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited to be incapacitated for the purpose of performing his duties as a Director; |
(d) | the holder of such Class B Ordinary Share (or, where the holder is a Director Holding Vehicle, the Founder) being deemed by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited to no longer meet the requirements of a director set out in the Listing Rules; or |
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(e) |
for the avoidance
of doubt, the creation of any pledge, charge, encumbrance, or other third party right of whatever description on any of Class B Ordinary
Shares to secure contractual or legal obligations shall not be deemed as a sale, transfer, assignment, or disposition under this clause
(a)Article 15 unless and until any such pledge, charge, encumbrance, or other third party right is enforced and results
in a third party that is not an Affiliate ofthe Founder or the Director Holding Vehicle wholly-owned and wholly controlled
by the Founder holding directly or indirectly legal or beneficial ownership or voting power through voting proxy or otherwise to
the related Class B Ordinary Shares, in which case all the related Class B Ordinary Shares shall be automatically converted into the
same number of Class A Ordinary Shares; or.
for
the avoidance of doubt, the creation of any pledge, charge, encumbrance, or other third party right of whatever description on the issued
and outstanding voting securities or the assets of a holder of Class B Ordinary Shares to secure contractual or legal obligations shall
not be deemed as a sale, transfer, assignment, or disposition under this clause (b) unless and until any such pledge, charge, encumbrance
or other third party right is enforced and results in a third party that is not an Affiliate of the Founder holding directly or indirectly
legal or beneficial ownership or voting power through voting proxy or otherwise to the related issued and outstanding voting securities
or the assets.
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16. |
17. | All of the Class B Ordinary Shares in the authorised share capital shall be automatically re-designated into Class A Ordinary Shares in the event all of the Class B Ordinary Shares in issue are converted into Class A Ordinary Shares in accordance with Article 15 or Article 16, or that none of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares at the time of the Company’s initial listing on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited hold any Class B Ordinary Shares, and no further Class B Ordinary Shares shall be issued by the Company. |
18. |
19. |
20. | The Company shall not take any action (including the issue or repurchase of Shares of any class) that would result in (a) the aggregate number of votes entitled to be cast by all holders of Class A Ordinary Shares (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding those who are also holders of Class B Ordinary Shares) present at a general meeting to be less than 10% of the votes entitled to be cast by all members at a general meeting; or (b) an increase in the proportion of Class B Ordinary Shares to the total number of Shares in issue. |
21. | No further Class B Ordinary Shares shall be issued by the Company, except with the prior approval of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and pursuant to (i) an offer to subscribe for Shares made to all the Shareholder pro rata (apart from fractional entitlements) to their existing holdings; (ii) a pro rata issue of Shares to all the Shareholder by way of scrip dividends; or (iii) a Share subdivision or other similar capital reorganisation; provided that, each Shareholder shall be entitled to subscribe for (in a pro rata offer) or be issued (in an issue of Shares by way of scrip dividends) Shares in the same class as the Shares then held by him, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 24; and further provided that the proposed allotment or issuance will not result in an increase in the proportion of Class B Ordinary Shares in issue, so that: |
(a) | if, under a pro rata offer, any holder of Class B Ordinary Shares does not take up any part of the Class B Ordinary Shares or the rights thereto offered to him, such untaken Shares (or rights) shall only be transferred to another person on the basis that such transferred rights will only entitle the transferee to an equivalent number of Class A Ordinary Shares; and |
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(b) | to the extent that rights to Class A Ordinary Shares in a pro rata offer are not taken up in their entirety, the number of Class B Ordinary Shares that shall be allotted, issued or granted in such pro rata offer shall be reduced proportionately. |
22. | In the event the Company reduces the number of Class A Ordinary Shares in issue (e.g. through a purchase of its own shares), the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares shall reduce their voting rights in the Company proportionately, whether through a conversion of a portion of their Class B Ordinary Shares or otherwise, if the reduction in the number of Class A Ordinary Shares in issue would otherwise result in an increase in the proportion of Class B Ordinary Shares to the total number of shares in issue. |
23. | The Company shall not vary the rights of the Class B Ordinary Shares so as to increase the weighted voting rights attached to each Class B Ordinary Share. |
24. |
MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS
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26. |
CERTIFICATES
27. |
28. |
28A. | Every certificate for shares or debentures or representing any other form of security of the Company shall be issued under the seal of the Company, which shall only be affixed with the authority of the Board. |
29. |
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30. |
31. |
FRACTIONAL SHARES
32. |
LIEN
33. |
34. |
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35. |
36. |
CALLS ON SHARES
37. |
38. |
39. |
40. |
41. |
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42. |
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
43. |
44. |
45. |
46. |
47. |
48. |
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49. |
50. |
TRANSFER OF SHARES
51. |
52. | The Directors may in their absolute discretion decline to register any transfer of Shares which is not fully paid up or on which the Company has a lien. Fully paid shares shall be free from any restriction on the right of transfer (except when permitted by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited) and shall also be free from all lien. |
(b) | The Directors may also decline to register any transfer of any Share unless: |
(i) | the instrument of transfer is lodged with the Company, accompanied by the certificate for the Shares to which it relates and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer; |
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(ii) | the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one Class of Shares; |
(iii) | the instrument of transfer is properly stamped, if required; |
(iv) | in the case of a transfer to joint holders, the number of joint holders to whom the Share is to be transferred does not exceed four; and |
(v) | a fee of such
maximum sum as the Designated Stock Exchange may determine to be payable, |
53. |
54. |
TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
55. |
56. |
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57. |
REGISTRATION OF EMPOWERING INSTRUMENTS
58. |
ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL
59. |
60. |
(a) | increase its share capital by new Shares of such amount as it thinks expedient; |
(b) | consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into Shares of a larger amount than its existing Shares; |
(c) | subdivide its Shares, or any of them, into Shares of an amount smaller than that fixed by the Memorandum, provided that in the subdivision the proportion between the amount paid and the amount, if any, unpaid on each reduced Share shall be the same as it was in case of the Share from which the reduced Share is derived; and |
(d) | cancel any Shares that, at the date of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any Person and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the Shares so cancelled. |
61. |
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REDEMPTION, PURCHASE AND SURRENDER OF SHARES
62. |
(a) | issue Shares that are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Shareholder or the Company. The redemption of Shares shall be effected in such manner and upon such terms as may be determined, before the issue of such Shares, by either the Board or by the Shareholders by Special Resolution; |
(b) | purchase its
own Shares (including any redeemable Shares) on such terms and in such manner and terms as
have been approved by the Board or by the Members by Ordinary Resolution, or are otherwise
authorized by these Articles |
(c) | make a payment in
respect of the redemption or purchase of its own Shares in any manner permitted by the Companies
|
63. |
64. |
65. |
65A. Where the Company purchases or redeems any of its Shares, purchases or redemption not made through the market or by tender shall be limited to a maximum price, and if purchases are by tender, tenders shall be available to all Shareholders alike.
TREASURY
SHARES
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GENERAL MEETINGS
66. |
67. | The Company
|
(b) | At these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented. |
68. | The Chairman or the Directors (acting by a resolution of the Board) may call general meetings, and they shall on a Shareholders’ requisition forthwith proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company. |
(b) | A Shareholders’
requisition is a requisition of Members holding at the date of deposit of the requisition
Shares which carry in aggregate not less than |
(c) | The requisition must state the objects of the meeting and the resolutions to be added to the meeting agenda, and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the Registered Office, and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists. |
(d) | If there
are no Directors as at the date of the deposit of the Shareholders’ requisition, or
if the Directors do not within twenty-one (21) calendar days from the date of the deposit
of the requisition duly proceed to convene a general meeting to be held within a further
twenty-one (21) calendar days, the requisitionists, or any of them representing |
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(e) | A general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which general meetings are to be convened by Directors. |
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS
69. |
(a) | in the case of an annual general meeting, by all the Shareholders (or their proxies) entitled to attend and vote thereat; and |
(b) | in the case
of |
70. |
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
71. |
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72. |
73. |
74. |
75. |
76. |
(a) | The chairman of the meeting shall be deemed to be Present at the meeting; and |
(b) | If the Communication Facilities are interrupted or fail for any reason to enable the chairman of the meeting to hear and be heard by all other Persons participating in the meeting, then the other Directors Present at the meeting shall choose another Director Present to act as chairman of the meeting for the remainder of the meeting; provided that (i) if no other Director is Present at the meeting, or (ii) if all the Directors Present decline to take the chair, then the meeting shall be automatically adjourned to the same day in the next week and at such time and place as shall be decided by the board of Directors. |
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fourteen calendar days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
78. |
79. |
80. |
81. |
82. |
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VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS
83. |
84. | Notwithstanding any provisions in these Articles to the contrary, each Class A Ordinary Share and each Class B Ordinary Share shall entitle its holder to one vote on a poll at a general meeting in respect of a resolution on any of the following matters: |
(a) | any amendment to the Memorandum or these Articles, including the variation of the rights attached to any class of shares; |
(b) | the appointment, election or removal of any Independent Non-executive Director; |
(c) | the appointment or removal of the Auditors; or |
(d) | the voluntary liquidation or winding-up of the Company. |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, where a holder of Class B Ordinary Shares is permitted by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from time to time to exercise more than one vote per Share when voting on a resolution to amend the Memorandum or these Articles, any holder of Class B Ordinary Share may elect to exercise such number of votes per Share as is permitted by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, up to the maximum number of votes attached to each Class B Ordinary Share as set out in Article 83.
85. |
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86. |
87. |
88. |
89. |
90. |
91. |
(a) | not less than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote; or |
(b) | in the case of a poll taken more than 48 hours after it is demanded, be deposited as aforesaid after the poll has been demanded and not less than 24 hours before the time appointed for the taking of the poll; or |
(c) | where the poll is not taken forthwith but is taken not more than 48 hours after it was demanded be delivered at the meeting at which the poll was demanded to the chairman of the meeting or to the secretary or to any Director; |
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provided that the Directors may in the notice convening the meeting, or in an instrument of proxy sent out by the Company, direct that the instrument appointing a proxy may be deposited at such other time (no later than the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting) at the Registered Office or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting, or in any instrument of proxy sent out by the Company. The chairman of the meeting may in any event at his discretion direct that an instrument of proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited. An instrument of proxy that is not deposited in the manner permitted shall be invalid.
92. |
93. |
CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS
94. |
DEPOSITARY AND CLEARING HOUSES
95. |
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DIRECTORS
96. | Unless otherwise
determined by the Company |
(b) |
(c) |
(d) | Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in these Articles, at a general meeting convened at the request of or by requisitionists pursuant to Article 68, a person may be appointed or elected as a Director (other than an Independent Non-executive Director), or removed (with or without cause) as a Director (other than an Independent Non-executive Director), and the size of the Board may be increased by an ordinary resolution. For the purposes of this Article 96(d), an ordinary resolution means a resolution passed by Shareholders who, |
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being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of the Company and who together hold a simple majority of the votes carried by the issued Shares carrying the right to vote as at the record date of such general meeting. For the avoidance of doubt, a resolution in respect of the appointment, election or removal of any Independent Non-executive Director at a general meeting convened at the request of or by requisitionists pursuant to Article 68 shall be passed in accordance with Article 84.
(e) | At every annual general meeting of the Company the Independent Non- Executive Directors for the time being shall retire from office by rotation provided that every Independent Non-Executive Director (including those appointed for a specific term) shall be subject to retirement by rotation at least once every three years. A retiring Independent Non-Executive Director shall retain office until the close of the meeting at which he retires and shall be eligible for re-election thereat. |
(f) | The Board may,
by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the remaining Directors present and voting
at a Board meeting, appoint any person as a Director, to fill a vacancy on the Board arising
from the office of any other Director |
(g) | An appointment of a Director may be on terms that the Director shall automatically retire from office (unless he has sooner vacated office) at the next or a subsequent annual general meeting or upon any specified event or after any specified period in a written agreement between the Company and the Director, if any; but no such term shall be implied in the absence of express provision. Each Director whose term of office expires shall be eligible for re-election at a meeting of the Shareholders or re-appointment by the Board. |
(h) | No person shall be eligible for election to the office of Director at any general meeting unless during the period, which shall be at least ten days, commencing no earlier than the day after the despatch of the notice of the meeting appointed for such election and ending no later than ten days prior to the date of such meeting, there has been given to the Secretary notice in writing by a Shareholder (not being the person to be proposed), entitled to attend and vote at the meeting for which such notice is given, of his intention to propose such person for election and also notice in writing signed by the person to be proposed of his willingness to be elected. |
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97. |
98. |
99. |
100. |
101. |
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INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
102. | The role of an Independent Non-executive Director shall include, but is not limited to: |
(a) | participating in Board meetings to bring an independent judgment to bear on issues of strategy, policy, performance, accountability, resources, key appointments and standards of conduct; |
(b) | taking the lead where potential conflicts of interests arise; |
(c) | serving on the audit, remuneration, nomination and other governance committees, if invited; and |
(d) | scrutinising the Company’s performance in achieving agreed corporate goals and objectives, and monitoring performance reporting. |
103. | The Independent Non-executive Directors shall give the Board and any committees on which they serve the benefit of their skills, expertise and varied backgrounds and qualifications through regular attendance and active participation. They should also attend general meetings and develop a balanced understanding of the views of the members. |
104. | The Independent Non-executive Directors shall make a positive contribution to the development of the Company’s strategy and policies through independent,constructive and informed comments. |
ALTERNATE DIRECTOR OR PROXY
105. |
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106. |
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS
107. |
108. |
109. |
110. |
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111. |
112. |
113. |
114. |
115. |
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113A. | Except as would be permitted by the Companies Ordinance if the Company were a company incorporated in Hong Kong, the Company shall not directly or indirectly: |
(a) | make a loan to a Director or his close associates or a director of any holding company of the Company or a body corporate controlled by such a director or Director; |
(b) | enter into any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any person to a Director or such a director or a body corporate controlled by such a director or Director; or |
(c) | if any one or more of the Directors hold (jointly or severally or directly or indirectly) a controlling interest in another company, make a loan to that other company or enter into any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any person to that other company. |
NOMINATION COMMITTEE
116. | The Board shall establish a Nomination Committee (which may be combined with the Corporate Governance Committee to form a single nominating and corporate governance committee (the “Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee”), which shall perform the following duties: |
(a) | review the structure, size and composition (including the skills, knowledge and experience) of the Board at least annually and make recommendations on any proposed changes to the Board to complement the Company’s corporate strategy; |
(b) | identify individuals suitably qualified to become Directors and select or make recommendations to the Board on the selection of individuals nominated for directorships; |
(c) | assess the independence of Independent Non-executive Directors; and |
(d) | make recommendations to the Board on the appointment or re-appointment of Directors and succession planning for Directors, in particular the chairman and the chief executive officer of the Company. |
117. | The Nomination Committee shall comprise a majority of Independent Non- executive Directors, and the chairman of the Nomination Committee shall be an Independent Non-executive Director. |
118. | The Nomination Committee shall make available its terms of reference explaining its role and the authority delegated to it by the Board by publishing them on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited’s Website and the Company’s Website. |
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119. | The Company shall provide the Nomination Committee sufficient resources to perform its duties. Where necessary, the Nomination Committee shall seek independent professional advice, at the Company’s expense, to perform its responsibilities. |
120. | Where the Board proposes a resolution to elect an individual as an Independent Non-executive Director at a general meeting, the circular to the members and/or explanatory statement accompanying the notice of the relevant general meeting shall set out: |
(a) | the process used for identifying the individual and why the Board believes the individual should be elected and the reasons why it considers the individual to be independent; |
(b) | if the proposed Independent Non-executive Director will be holding their seventh (or more) listed company directorship, why the Board believes the individual would still be able to devote sufficient time to the board; |
(c) | the perspectives, skills and experience that the individual can bring to the Board; and |
(d) | how the individual contributes to diversity of the Board. |
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
121. | The Board shall establish a Corporate Governance Committee (which may be combined with the Nomination Committee to form a single Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee), which shall perform the following duties: |
(a) | develop and review the Company’s policies and practices on corporate governance and make recommendations to the Board; |
(b) | review and monitor the training and continuous professional development of Directors and senior management; |
(c) | review and monitor the Company’s policies and practices on compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; |
(d) | develop, review and monitor the code of conduct and compliance manual (if any) applicable to employees and Directors; |
(e) | review the Company’s compliance with the code and disclosure in the Corporate Governance Report; |
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(f) | review and monitor whether the Company is operated and managed for the benefit of all of its members; |
(g) | confirm, on an annual basis, that each holder of Class B Ordinary Shares (or where a holder is a Director Holding Vehicle, the person holding and controlling such vehicle) has been a Director throughout the year and that none of the events set out in Article 15 have occurred during the relevant financial year; |
(h) | confirm, on an annual basis, that each holder of Class B Ordinary Shares (or where a holder is a Director Holding Vehicle, the Director holding and controlling such vehicle) has complied with Articles 15, 21, 22 and 84 throughout the year; |
(i) | review and monitor the management of conflicts of interests and make a recommendation to the Board on any matter where there is a potential conflict of interest between the Company, a subsidiary of the Company and/or holders of Class A Ordinary Shares (considered as a group) on the one hand, and any holder of Class B Ordinary Shares on the other; |
(j) | review and monitor all risks related to the Company’s weighted voting rights structure, including connected transactions between the Company and/or a subsidiary of the Company on the one hand, and any holder of Class B Ordinary Shares on the other, and make a recommendation to the Board on any such transaction; |
(k) | make a recommendation to the Board as to the appointment or removal of the Compliance Adviser; |
(l) | seek to ensure effective and on-going communication between the Company and its members, particularly with regards to the requirements of Article 178; |
(m) | report on the work of the Corporate Governance Committee on at least a half-yearly and annual basis covering all areas of this Article 121; and |
(n) | disclose, on a comply or explain basis, its recommendations to the Board in respect of matters in Articles 121(i) to (k) in the report referred to in Article 121(m). |
122. | The Corporate Governance Committee shall comprise entirely of Independent Non-executive Directors, one of whom shall act as its chairman. |
123. | The Corporate Governance Report produced by the Company pursuant to the Listing Rules shall include a summary of the work of the Corporate Governance Committee, with regards to its duties set out in Article 121, for the accounting period covered by both the half-yearly and annual report and disclose any significant subsequent events for the period up to the date of publication of the half-yearly and annual report, to the extent possible. |
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COMPLIANCE ADVISER
124. | The Company shall appoint a Compliance Adviser on a permanent basis. The Board shall consult with and, if necessary, seek advice from the Compliance Adviser, on a timely and ongoing basis, in the following circumstances: |
(a) | before the publication of any regulatory announcement, circular or financial report by the Company; |
(b) | where a transaction, which might be a notifiable or connected transaction (as defined in the Listing Rules), is contemplated by the Company including share issues and share repurchases; |
(c) | where the Company proposes to use the proceeds of its initial public offering in a manner different from that detailed in the listing document in respect of such initial public offering, or where the business activities, developments or results of the Company deviate from any forecast, estimate or other information set out in such listing document; and |
(d) | where The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited makes an inquiry of the Company under the Listing Rules. |
125. | The Board shall also consult with, and if necessary, seek advice from the Compliance Adviser, on a timely and ongoing basis, on any matters related to: |
(a) | the weighted voting rights structure of the Company; |
(b) | transactions in which the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares have an interest; and |
(c) | where there is a potential conflict of interest between the Company, a subsidiary of the Company and/or holders of Class A Ordinary Shares (considered as a group) on the one hand, and any holder of Class B Ordinary Shares on the other. |
BORROWING POWERS OF DIRECTORS
126.
108. The Directors may from time to time at their discretion exercise all the powers of the Company to raise or borrow
money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital or any part thereof, to
issue debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or
obligation of the Company or of any third party.
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THE SEAL
127. |
128. |
129. |
DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS
130. |
(a) | becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors; |
(b) | dies or is found to be or becomes of unsound mind; |
(c) | resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company; |
(d) | without special leave of absence from the Board, is absent from meetings of the Board for three consecutive meetings and the Board resolves that his office be vacated; or |
(e) | is removed from office pursuant to any other provision of these Articles. |
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PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
131. |
132. |
133. |
134. |
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135. |
136. |
137. |
(a) | all appointments of officers made by the Directors; |
(b) | the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors; and |
(c) | all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company, and of the Directors and of committees of Directors. |
138. |
139. |
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140. |
141. |
142. |
143. |
PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT
144. |
DIVIDENDS
145. |
146. |
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147. |
148. |
149. |
150. |
151. |
152. |
153. |
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ACCOUNTS, AUDIT AND ANNUAL RETURN AND DECLARATION
136.
The books of account relating to the Company’s affairs shall be kept in such manner as may be determined from time to time by the
Directors.
154. | The Board shall cause to be kept such books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to show and explain its transactions and otherwise in accordance with the Companies Act. |
155. |
156. |
157. |
140.
The Directors may appoint an auditor of the Company who shall hold office until removed from office by a resolution of the Directors
and may fix his or their remuneration.
158. | The Company shall at every annual general meeting appoint an auditor or auditors of the Company who shall hold office until the next annual general meeting. The removal of an auditor before the expiration of his period of office shall require the approval of an Ordinary Resolution. The remuneration of the auditors shall be fixed by the Company at the annual general meeting at which they are appointed provided that in respect of any particular year the Company in general meeting may delegate the fixing of such remuneration to the Board. |
159. |
160. |
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161. |
162. | The Board shall cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Shareholders at every annual general meeting a profit and loss account for the period, in the case of the first account, since the incorporation of the Company and, in any other case, since the preceding account, together with a balance sheet as at the date to which the profit and loss account is made up and a Directors’ report with respect to the profit or loss of the Company for the period covered by the profit and loss account and the state of the Company’s affairs as at the end of such period, an auditors’ report on such accounts prepared pursuant to Article 160 and such other reports and accounts as may be required by law. |
163. | Copies of those documents to be laid before the Shareholders at an annual general meeting shall not less than 21 days before the date of the meeting be sent in the manner in which notices may be served by the Company as provided herein to every member and every holder of debentures of the Company, provided that the Company shall not be required to send copies of those documents to any person of whose address the Company is not aware or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures. |
CAPITALIZATION OF RESERVES
164. |
(a) | resolve to capitalize an amount standing to the credit of reserves (including a Share Premium Account, capital redemption reserve and profit and loss account), which is available for distribution; |
(b) | appropriate the sum resolved to be capitalized to the Shareholders in proportion to the nominal amount of Shares (whether or not fully paid) held by them respectively and apply that sum on their behalf in or towards: |
(i) | paying up the amounts (if any) for the time being unpaid on Shares held by them respectively, or |
(ii) | paying up in full unissued Shares or debentures of a nominal amount equal to that sum, |
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and allot the Shares or debentures, credited as fully paid, to the Shareholders (or as they may direct) in those proportions, or partly in one way and partly in the other, but the Share Premium Account, the capital redemption reserve and profits which are not available for distribution may, for the purposes of this Article, only be applied in paying up unissued Shares to be allotted to Shareholders credited as fully paid;
(c) | make any arrangements they think fit to resolve a difficulty arising in the distribution of a capitalized reserve and in particular, without limitation, where Shares or debentures become distributable in fractions the Directors may deal with the fractions as they think fit; |
(d) | authorize a Person to enter (on behalf of all the Shareholders concerned) into an agreement with the Company providing for either: |
(i) | the allotment to the Shareholders respectively, credited as fully paid, of Shares or debentures to which they may be entitled on the capitalization, or |
(ii) | the payment by the Company on behalf of the Shareholders (by the application of their respective proportions of the reserves resolved to be capitalized) of the amounts or part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing Shares, |
and any such agreement made under this authority being effective and binding on all those Shareholders; and
(e) | generally do all acts and things required to give effect to the resolution. |
165. |
(a) | employees (including Directors) or service providers of the Company or its Affiliates upon exercise or vesting of any options or awards granted under any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme or other arrangement which relates to such persons that has been adopted or approved by the Directors or the Members; |
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(b) | any trustee of any trust or administrator of any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme to whom shares are to be allotted and issued by the Company in connection with the operation of any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme or other arrangement which relates to such persons that has been adopted or approved by the Directors or Members; or |
(c) | any depositary of the Company for the purposes of the issue, allotment and delivery by the depositary of ADSs to employees (including Directors) or service providers of the Company or its Affiliates upon exercise or vesting of any options or awards granted under any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme or other arrangement which relates to such persons that has been adopted or approved by the Directors or the Members. |
SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT
166. |
167. |
NOTICES
168. |
169. |
170. | A Shareholder shall be entitled to have notice served on him at any address within Hong Kong. |
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171. |
172. |
(a) | post, shall be deemed to have been served five calendar days after the time when the letter containing the same is posted; |
(b) | facsimile, shall be deemed to have been served upon production by the transmitting facsimile machine of a report confirming transmission of the facsimile in full to the facsimile number of the recipient; |
(c) | recognized courier service, shall be deemed to have been served 48 hours after the time when the letter containing the same is delivered to the courier service; or |
(d) | electronic mail, shall be deemed to have been served immediately (i) upon the time of the transmission to the electronic mail address supplied by the Shareholder to the Company or (ii) upon the time of its placement on the Company’s Website. |
In proving service by post or courier service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice or documents was properly addressed and duly posted or delivered to the courier service.
173. |
174. |
(a) | all Shareholders holding Shares with the right to receive notice and who have supplied to the Company an address for the giving of notices to them; and |
(b) | every Person entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Shareholder, who but for his death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting. |
No other Person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.
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INFORMATION
175. |
176. |
177. | Any register held in Hong Kong shall during normal business hours (subject to such reasonable restrictions as the Board may impose) be open to inspection by a Shareholder without charge and any other person on payment of a fee of such amount not exceeding the maximum amount as may from time to time be permitted under the Listing Rules as the Board may determine for each inspection, provided that the Company may be permitted to close the register in terms equivalent to section 632 of the Companies Ordinance. |
COMMUNICATION WITH SHAREHOLDERS AND DISCLOSURE
178. | The Company shall comply with the provisions of Section F “Shareholders Engagement” in Part 2 of Appendix 14 of the Listing Rules regarding communication with Shareholders or Members of the Company. |
179. | The Company shall include the words “A company controlled through weighted voting rights” or such language as may be specified by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from time to time on the front page of all its listing documents, periodic financial reports, circulars, notifications and announcements required by the Listing Rules, and describe its weighted voting rights structure, the rationale of such structure and the associated risks for the members prominently in its listing documents and periodic financial reports. This statement shall inform prospective investors of the potential risks of investing in the Company and that they should make the decision to invest only after due and careful consideration. |
180. | The Company shall, in its listing documents and its interim and annual reports: |
(a) | identify the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares (and, where a holder is a Director Holding Vehicle, the Director holding and controlling such vehicle); |
(b) | disclose the impact of a potential conversion of Class B Ordinary Shares into Class A Ordinary Shares on its share capital; and |
(c) | disclose all circumstances in which the weighted voting rights attached to the Class B Ordinary Shares shall cease. |
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INDEMNITY
181. |
182. |
(a) | for the acts, receipts, neglects, defaults or omissions of any other Director or officer or agent of the Company; or |
(b) | for any loss on account of defect of title to any property of the Company; or |
(c) | on account of the insufficiency of any security in or upon which any money of the Company shall be invested; or |
(d) | for any loss incurred through any bank, broker or other similar Person; or |
(e) | for any loss occasioned by any negligence, default, breach of duty, breach of trust, error of judgement or oversight on such Indemnified Person’s part; or |
(f) | for any loss, damage or misfortune whatsoever which may happen in or arise from the execution or discharge of the duties, powers, authorities, or discretions of such Indemnified Person’s office or in relation thereto; |
unless the same shall happen through such Indemnified Person’s own dishonesty, willful default or fraud.
FINANCIAL YEAR
183. |
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NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS
184. |
WINDING UP
185. |
186. |
AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
187. |
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CLOSING OF REGISTER OR FIXING RECORD DATE
188. |
189. |
190. |
REGISTRATION BY WAY OF CONTINUATION
191. |
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DISCLOSURE
192. |
FORUM SELECTION
193. | The Company, its shareholders, directors and officers agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong, to the exclusion of other jurisdictions, to hear, settle and/or determine any dispute, controversy or claim whether arising out of or in connection with the Articles or otherwise. For the avoidance of doubt, the applicable rights of purchasers, holders, and sellers of the Company’s ADSs are not governed by the preceding sentence but are exclusively governed by the applicable Deposit Agreement pursuant to which the ADSs were issued, regardless of whether their dispute, controversy or claim arises out of or in connection with the Articles or otherwise. |
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Part B The Amended Articles if the Class-based Resolution is not approved and the Non-class-based Resolution is approved
THE COMPANIES
LAW (2020 REVISIONACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
FOURTHFIFTH
AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
LI AUTO INC.
(Adopted
by special resolution passed on July 9, 2020[●] and effective immediately prior to the completion
of the initial public offering of the Company’s American Depositary Shares representing its Class A Ordinary Sharesonon
[●])
1. | The name of the Company is Li Auto Inc. |
2. | The Registered Office of the Company will be situated at the offices of Maples Corporate Services Limited, P.O. Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman KY1-1104, Cayman Islands, or at such other location within the Cayman Islands as the Directors may from time to time determine. |
3. | The objects for which
the Company is established are unrestricted and the Company shall have full power and authority
to carry out any object not prohibited by the Companies |
4. | The Company shall have and be capable of
exercising all the functions of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question
of corporate benefit as provided by the Companies |
5. | The Company will not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except in furtherance of the business of the Company carried on outside the Cayman Islands; provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as to prevent the Company effecting and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands, and exercising in the Cayman Islands all of its powers necessary for the carrying on of its business outside the Cayman Islands. |
6. | The liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount, if any, unpaid on the Shares held by such Shareholder. |
7. | The authorized share capital
of the Company is US$500,000 divided into 5,000,000,000 shares comprising of (i) |
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8. | The Company has the power
contained in the Companies |
9. | Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Memorandum of Association bear the same meanings as those given in the Articles of Association of the Company. |
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THE COMPANIES
LAW (2020 REVISIONACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
FOURTHFIFTH
AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
LI AUTO INC.
(Adopted
by special resolution passed on July 9, 2020[●] and effective immediately prior to the completion
of the initial public offering of the Company’s American Depositary Shares representing its Class A Ordinary Shareson
[●])
TABLE A
The
regulations contained or incorporated in Table ‘A’ in the First Schedule of the Companies LawAct
shall not apply to the Company and the following Articles shall comprise the Articles of Association of the Company.
INTERPRETATION
1. | In these Articles the following defined terms will have the meanings ascribed to them, if not inconsistent with the subject or context: |
“ADS” | means an American Depositary Share representing Class A Ordinary Shares; |
“Affiliate” | means
in respect of a Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, through one (1) or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled
by, or is under common control with, such Person, and (i) in the case of a natural person, any of such person’s Family Members,
a trust for the benefit of such person, or any of such person’s Family Members, and a corporation, partnership, or any other
entity wholly or jointly owned or controlled by such person and any of such person’s Family Members, and (ii) in the case of
an entity, a partnership, a corporation, or any other entity, or any natural person which directly, or indirectly through one or
more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such entity. The term “control” |
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“associate” | shall have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules; |
“Articles” | means these articles of association of the Company, as amended or substituted from time to time; |
“Board” and “Board of Directors” and “Directors” | means the directors of the Company for the time being, or as the case may be, the directors assembled as a board or as a committee thereof; |
“Chairman” | means the chairman of the Board of Directors; |
“close associate” | shall have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules; |
“Class” or “Classes” | means any class or classes of Shares as may from time to time be issued by the Company; |
“Class A Ordinary Share” | means an Ordinary Share of a par value of US$0.0001 in the capital of the Company, designated as a Class A Ordinary Shares and having the rights provided for in these Articles; |
“Class B Ordinary Share” | means an Ordinary Share of a par value of US$0.0001 in the capital of the Company, designated as a Class B Ordinary Share and having the rights provided for in these Articles; |
“Commission” | means the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America or any other federal agency for the time being administering the Securities Act; |
“Companies Ordinance” | means the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622 of the Laws of Hong Kong) as in force from time to time; |
“Company” | means Li Auto Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company; |
“Communication Facilities” | means video, video-conferencing, internet or online conferencing applications, telephone or tele- conferencing, and/or any other video-communications, internet or online conferencing application or telecommunications facilities by means of which all Persons participating in a meeting are capable of hearing and being heard by each other; |
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“Companies
|
means
the Companies |
“Company’s Website” | means the main corporate/investor relations website of the Company, the address or domain name of which has been disclosed in any registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission in connection with its initial public offering of ADSs, or which has otherwise been notified to Shareholders; |
“Compliance Adviser” | shall have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules; |
“Corporate Governance Committee” | means the corporate governance committee of the Board established in accordance with Article 117; |
“Corporate Governance Report” | means the corporate governance report to be included in the Company’s annual reports or summary financial reports, if any, in accordance with the Listing Rules; |
“Director” | means any director from time to time of the Company; |
“Designated Stock Exchange” | means (i) the stock exchange in the United States on which any Shares or ADSs are listed for trading or (ii) The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited on which any Shares are listed for trading; |
“Designated Stock Exchange Rules” | means
the relevant code, rules and regulations, as amended, from time to time, applicable as a result of the original and continued listing
of any Shares or ADSs on |
“electronic” | has
the meaning given to it in the Electronic Transactions |
“electronic communication” | means electronic posting to the Company’s Website, transmission to any number, address or internet website or other electronic delivery methods as otherwise decided and approved by not less than two-thirds of the vote of the Board; |
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“Electronic
Transactions |
means
the Electronic Transactions |
“Founder” | means Mr. Xiang Li (李想); |
“electronic record” | has
the meaning given to it in the Electronic Transactions |
“Family Member” | means a person’s spouse, parents, children, grandchildren or other lineal descendants, siblings, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brothers-in-law, and sisters-in-law; |
“ |
means
|
means
| |
“Listing Rules” | means the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited as amended from time to time; |
“Memorandum of Association” | means the memorandum of association of the Company, as amended or substituted from time to time; |
“Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee” | shall have the meaning ascribed to it under Article 112; |
“Nomination Committee” | means the nomination committee of the Board established in accordance with Article 112; |
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“Ordinary Resolution” | means a resolution: |
(a) | passed by a simple majority of the votes cast by such Shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy, or, in the case of corporations, by their duly authorized representatives, at a general meeting of the Company held in accordance with these Articles; or |
(b) | approved in writing by all of the Shareholders entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company in one or more instruments each signed by one or more of the Shareholders and the effective date of the resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the instrument, or the last of such instruments, if more than one, is executed; |
“Ordinary Share” | means a Class A Ordinary Share or a Class B Ordinary Share; |
“paid up” | means paid up as to the par value in respect of the issue of any Shares and includes credited as paid up; |
“Person” | means any natural person, firm, company, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity (whether or not having a separate legal personality) or any of them as the context so requires; |
“Present” | means, in respect of any Person, such Person’s presence at a general meeting of Shareholders, which may be satisfied by means of such Person (or, in the case of any Shareholder, a proxy which has been validly appointed by such Shareholder in accordance with these Articles) being: (a) physically present at the meeting; or (b) in the case of any meeting at which Communications Facilities are permitted in accordance with these Articles, connected by means of the use of such Communication Facilities; |
“Register” | means
the register of Members of the Company maintained in accordance with the Companies |
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“Registered Office” | means
the registered office of the Company as required by the Companies |
“Seal” | means the common seal of the Company (if adopted) including any facsimile thereof; |
“Secretary” | means any Person appointed by the Directors to perform any of the duties of the secretary of the Company; |
“Securities Act” | means the Securities Act of 1933 of the United States of America, as amended, or any similar federal statute and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time; |
“Share” | means a share in the share capital of the Company. All references to “Shares” herein shall be deemed to be Shares of any or all Classes as the context may require. For the avoidance of doubt in these Articles the expression “Share” shall include a fraction of a Share; |
“Shareholder” or “Member” | means a Person who is registered as the holder of one or more Shares in the Register; |
“Share Premium Account” | means the
share premium account established in accordance with these Articles and the Companies |
“signed” | means bearing a signature or representation of a signature affixed by mechanical means or an electronic symbol or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic communication and executed or adopted by a Person with the intent to sign the electronic communication; |
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“Special Resolution” |
means
| |
“United States” | means the United States of America, its territories, its possessions and all areas subject to its jurisdiction. |
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2. In these Articles, save where the context requires otherwise:
(a) | words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa; |
(b) | words importing the masculine gender only shall include the feminine gender and any Person as the context may require; |
(c) | the word “may” shall be construed as permissive and the word “shall” shall be construed as imperative; |
(d) | reference to a dollar or dollars (or US$) and to a cent or cents is reference to dollars and cents of the United States of America; |
(e) | reference to a statutory enactment shall include reference to any amendment or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force; |
(f) | reference to any determination by the Directors shall be construed as a determination by the Directors in their sole and absolute discretion and shall be applicable either generally or in any particular case; |
(g) | reference to “in writing” shall be construed as written or represented by any means reproducible in writing, including any form of print, lithograph, email, facsimile, photograph or telex or represented by any other substitute or format for storage or transmission for writing including in the form of an electronic record or partly one and partly another; |
(h) | any requirements as to delivery under the Articles include delivery in the form of an electronic record or an electronic communication; |
(i) | any requirements
as to execution or signature under the Articles, including the execution of the Articles
themselves, can be satisfied in the form of an electronic signature as defined in the Electronic
Transaction |
(j) Sections 8 and 19(3) of the Electronic
Transactions LawAct shall not apply.
3. | Subject to the last
two preceding Articles, any words defined in the Companies |
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PRELIMINARY
4. | The business of the Company may be conducted as the Directors see fit. |
5. | The Registered Office shall be at such address in the Cayman Islands as the Directors may from time to time determine. The Company may in addition establish and maintain such other offices and places of business and agencies in such places as the Directors may from time to time determine. |
6. | The expenses incurred in the formation of the Company and in connection with the offer for subscription and issue of Shares shall be paid by the Company. Such expenses may be amortized over such period as the Directors may determine and the amount so paid shall be charged against income and/or capital in the accounts of the Company as the Directors shall determine. |
7. | The Directors shall keep, or cause to be kept, the Register at such place as the Directors may from time to time determine and, in the absence of any such determination, the Register shall be kept at the Registered Office. |
SHARES
8. | Subject to these Articles, all Shares for the time being unissued shall be under the control of the Directors who may, in their absolute discretion and without the approval of the Members, cause the Company to: |
(a) | issue, allot, and dispose of Shares (including, without limitation, preferred shares) (whether in certificated form or non-certificated form) to such Persons, in such manner, on such terms and having such rights and being subject to such restrictions as they may from time to time determine; |
(b) | grant rights over Shares or other securities to be issued in one or more classes or series as they deem necessary or appropriate and determine the designations, powers, preferences, privileges, and other rights attaching to such Shares or securities, including dividend rights, voting rights, conversion rights, terms of redemption, and liquidation preferences, any or all of which may be greater than the powers, preferences, privileges and rights associated with the then issued and outstanding Shares, at such times and on such other terms as they think proper; and |
(c) | grant options with respect to Shares and issue warrants or similar instruments with respect thereto. |
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9. |
(a) | the designation of such series, the number of preferred shares to constitute such series, and the subscription price thereof if different from the par value thereof; |
(b) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall have voting rights, in addition to any voting rights provided by law, and, if so, the terms of such voting rights, which may be general or limited, and such voting rights will, in appropriate circumstances, be secured to the holders of the preferred shares; |
(c) | the dividends, if any, payable on such series, whether any such dividends shall be cumulative, and, if so, from what dates, the conditions and dates upon which such dividends shall be payable, and the preference or relation which such dividends shall bear to the dividends payable on any shares of any other class or any other series of shares; |
(d) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall be subject to redemption by the Company, and, if so, the times, prices and other conditions of such redemption; |
(e) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall have any rights to receive any part of the assets available for distribution amongst the Members upon the liquidation of the Company, and, if so, the terms of such liquidation preference, and the relation which such liquidation preference shall bear to the entitlements of the holders of shares of any other class or any other series of shares; |
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(f) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall be subject to the operation of a retirement or sinking fund and, if so, the extent to and manner in which any such retirement or sinking fund shall be applied to the purchase or redemption of the preferred shares of such series for retirement or other corporate purposes and the terms and provisions relative to the operation thereof; |
(g) | whether the preferred shares of such series shall be convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or any other series of preferred shares or any other securities and, if so, the price or prices or the rate or rates of conversion or exchange and the method, if any, of adjusting the same, and any other terms and conditions of conversion or exchange; |
(h) | the limitations and restrictions, if any, to be effective while any preferred shares of such series are outstanding upon the payment of dividends or the making of other distributions on, and upon the purchase, redemption or other acquisition by the Company of, the existing shares or shares of any other class of shares or any other series of preferred shares; |
(i) | the conditions or restrictions, if any, upon the creation of indebtedness of the Company or upon the issue of any additional shares, including additional shares of such series or of any other class of shares or any other series of preferred shares; and |
(j) | any other powers, preferences, and relative, participating, optional, and other special rights, and any qualifications, limitations, and restrictions thereof; |
and, for such purposes, the Directors may reserve an appropriate number of Shares for the time being unissued. The Company shall not issue Shares to bearer.
10. | The Company may insofar as may be permitted by law, pay a commission to any Person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe whether absolutely or conditionally for any Shares. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the lodgment of fully or partly paid-up Shares or partly in one way and partly in the other. The Company may also pay such brokerage as may be lawful on any issue of Shares. |
11. | The Directors may refuse to accept any application for Shares, and may accept any application in whole or in part, for any reason or for no reason. |
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CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES AND CLASS B ORDINARY SHARES
12. | Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares shall at all times vote together as a single class on all resolutions submitted to a vote by the Members. Each Class A Ordinary Share shall entitle the holder thereof to one (1) vote on all matters subject to vote at general meetings of the Company, and each Class B Ordinary Share shall entitle the holder thereof to ten (10) votes on all matters subject to vote at general meetings of the Company. |
13. | Where the share capital of the Company includes Shares with different voting rights, the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting” shall appear in the designation of each class of Shares other than the class of Shares with the most favourable voting rights. |
14. |
15. |
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(a) |
for the avoidance
of doubt, the creation of any pledge, charge, encumbrance, or other third party right of whatever description on any of Class B Ordinary
Shares to secure contractual or legal obligations shall not be deemed as a sale, transfer, assignment, or disposition under this clause
(a)Article 15 unless and until any such pledge, charge, encumbrance, or other third party right is enforced and
results in a third party that is not an Affiliate ofthe Founder or the Director Holding Vehicle
wholly-owned and wholly controlled by the Founder holding directly or indirectly legal or beneficial ownership or voting power
through voting proxy or otherwise to the related Class B Ordinary Shares, in which case all the related Class B Ordinary Shares shall
be automatically converted into the same number of Class A Ordinary Shares; or.
(b) | the direct or indirect sale, transfer, assignment, or disposition of a majority of the issued and outstanding voting securities of, or the direct or indirect transfer or assignment of the voting power attached to such voting securities through voting proxy or otherwise, or the direct or indirect sale, transfer, assignment, or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of, a holder of Class B Ordinary Shares that is an entity to any person that is not an Affiliate of the Founder; |
for the avoidance of doubt, the creation of any pledge, charge, encumbrance, or other third party right of whatever description on the issued and outstanding voting securities or the assets of a holder of Class B Ordinary Shares to secure contractual or legal obligations shall not be deemed as a sale, transfer, assignment, or disposition under this clause (b) unless and until any such pledge, charge, encumbrance or other third party right is enforced and results in a third party that is not an Affiliate of the Founder holding directly or indirectly legal or beneficial ownership or voting power through voting proxy or otherwise to the related issued and outstanding voting securities or the assets.
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16. |
17. |
18. |
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19. |
MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS
20. |
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21. |
CERTIFICATES
22. |
23. |
24. |
25. |
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26. |
27. |
FRACTIONAL SHARES
28. |
LIEN
29. |
30. |
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32. |
CALLS ON SHARES
33. |
34. |
35. |
36. |
37. |
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38. |
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
39. |
40. |
41. |
42. |
43. |
44. |
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45. |
46. |
TRANSFER OF SHARES
47. |
48. |
(b) | The Directors may also decline to register any transfer of any Share unless: |
(i) | the instrument of transfer is lodged with the Company, accompanied by the certificate for the Shares to which it relates and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer; |
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(ii) | the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one Class of Shares; |
(iii) | the instrument of transfer is properly stamped, if required; |
(iv) | in the case of a transfer to joint holders, the number of joint holders to whom the Share is to be transferred does not exceed four; and |
(v) | a fee of such
maximum sum as the Designated Stock Exchange may determine to be payable, |
49. |
50. |
TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
51. |
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53. |
REGISTRATION OF EMPOWERING INSTRUMENTS
54. |
ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL
55. |
56. |
(a) | increase its share capital by new Shares of such amount as it thinks expedient; |
(b) | consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into Shares of a larger amount than its existing Shares; |
(c) | subdivide its Shares, or any of them, into Shares of an amount smaller than that fixed by the Memorandum, provided that in the subdivision the proportion between the amount paid and the amount, if any, unpaid on each reduced Share shall be the same as it was in case of the Share from which the reduced Share is derived; and |
(d) | cancel any Shares that, at the date of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any Person and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the Shares so cancelled. |
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REDEMPTION, PURCHASE AND SURRENDER OF SHARES
58. |
(a) | issue Shares that are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Shareholder or the Company. The redemption of Shares shall be effected in such manner and upon such terms as may be determined, before the issue of such Shares, by either the Board or by the Shareholders by Special Resolution; |
(b) | purchase
its own Shares (including any redeemable Shares) on such terms and in such manner and terms
as have been approved by the Board or by the Members by Ordinary Resolution, or are otherwise
authorized by these Articles |
(c) | make
a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own Shares in any manner permitted
by the Companies |
59. |
60. |
61. |
62. | Where the Company purchases or redeems any of its Shares, purchases or redemption not made through the market or by tender shall be limited to a maximum price, and if purchases are by tender, tenders shall be available to all Shareholders alike. |
TREASURY
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GENERAL MEETINGS
63. |
64. | The Company |
(b) | At these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented. |
65. | The Chairman or the Directors (acting by a resolution of the Board) may call general meetings, and they shall on a Shareholders’ requisition forthwith proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company. |
(b) | A
Shareholders’ requisition is a requisition of Members holding at the date of deposit
of the requisition Shares which carry in aggregate not less than one-third (1/3) of all
votes attaching to all issued and outstanding Shares |
(c) | The
requisition must state the objects of the meeting and |
(d) | If
there are no Directors as at the date of the deposit of the Shareholders’ requisition,
or if the Directors do not within twenty-one (21) calendar days from the date of the deposit
of the requisition duly proceed to convene a general meeting to be held within a further
twenty-one (21) calendar days, the requisitionists, or any of them representing more
than one-half of the total voting rights of all of themn |
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(e) | A general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which general meetings are to be convened by Directors. |
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS
66. |
(a) | in the case of an annual general meeting, by all the Shareholders (or their proxies) entitled to attend and vote thereat; and |
(b) | in
the case of |
67. |
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
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69. |
70. |
71. |
72. |
73. |
(a) | The chairman of the meeting shall be deemed to be Present at the meeting; and |
(b) | If the Communication Facilities are interrupted or fail for any reason to enable the chairman of the meeting to hear and be heard by all other Persons participating in the meeting, then the other Directors Present at the meeting shall choose another Director Present to act as chairman of the meeting for the remainder of the meeting; provided that (i) if no other Director is Present at the meeting, or (ii) if all the Directors Present decline to take the chair, then the meeting shall be automatically adjourned to the same day in the next week and at such time and place as shall be decided by the board of Directors. |
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fourteen calendar days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
75. |
76. |
77. |
78. |
79. |
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VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS
80. |
84.
Notwithstanding any provisions in these Articles to the contrary, each Class A Ordinary Share and each Class B Ordinary Share shall entitle
its holder to one vote on a poll at a general meeting in respect of a resolution on any of the following matters:
the appointment, election or removal of any Independent Non-executive Director; |
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, where a holder of Class B Ordinary Shares is permitted by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from time to time to
exercise more than one vote per Share when voting on a resolution to amend the Memorandum or these Articles, any holder of Class B Ordinary
Share may elect to exercise such number of votes per Share as is permitted by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, up to the maximum
number of votes attached to each Class B Ordinary Share as set out in Article 83.
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82. |
83. |
84. |
85. |
86. |
87. |
(a) | not less than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote; or |
(b) | in the case of a poll taken more than 48 hours after it is demanded, be deposited as aforesaid after the poll has been demanded and not less than 24 hours before the time appointed for the taking of the poll; or |
(c) | where the poll is not taken forthwith but is taken not more than 48 hours after it was demanded be delivered at the meeting at which the poll was demanded to the chairman of the meeting or to the secretary or to any Director; |
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provided that the Directors may in the notice convening the meeting, or in an instrument of proxy sent out by the Company, direct that the instrument appointing a proxy may be deposited at such other time (no later than the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting) at the Registered Office or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting, or in any instrument of proxy sent out by the Company. The chairman of the meeting may in any event at his discretion direct that an instrument of proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited. An instrument of proxy that is not deposited in the manner permitted shall be invalid.
88. |
89. |
CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS
90. |
DEPOSITARY AND CLEARING HOUSES
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DIRECTORS
92. |
(b) |
(c) |
(d) | Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in these Articles, at a general meeting convened at the request of or by requisitionists pursuant to Article 65, a person may be appointed or elected as a Director (other than an Independent Non-executive Director), or removed (with or without cause) as a Director (other than an Independent Non-executive Director), and the size of the Board may be increased by an ordinary resolution. For the purposes of this Article 92(d), an ordinary resolution means a resolution passed by Shareholders who, |
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being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of the Company and who together hold a simple majority of the votes carried by the issued Shares carrying the right to vote as at the record date of such general meeting.
(e) | At every annual general meeting of the Company the Independent Non- Executive Directors for the time being shall retire from office by rotation provided that every Independent Non-Executive Director (including those appointed for a specific term) shall be subject to retirement by rotation at least once every three years. A retiring Independent Non-Executive Director shall retain office until the close of the meeting at which he retires and shall be eligible for re-election thereat. |
(f) | The
Board may, by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the remaining Directors present
and voting at a Board meeting, appoint any person as a Director, to fill a vacancy on the
Board arising from the office of any other Director |
(g) | An appointment of a Director may be on terms that the Director shall automatically retire from office (unless he has sooner vacated office) at the next or a subsequent annual general meeting or upon any specified event or after any specified period in a written agreement between the Company and the Director, if any; but no such term shall be implied in the absence of express provision. Each Director whose term of office expires shall be eligible for re-election at a meeting of the Shareholders or re-appointment by the Board. |
(h) | No person shall be eligible for election to the office of Director at any general meeting unless during the period, which shall be at least ten days, commencing no earlier than the day after the despatch of the notice of the meeting appointed for such election and ending no later than ten days prior to the date of such meeting, there has been given to the Secretary notice in writing by a Shareholder (not being the person to be proposed), entitled to attend and vote at the meeting for which such notice is given, of his intention to propose such person for election and also notice in writing signed by the person to be proposed of his willingness to be elected. |
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93. |
94. |
95. |
96. |
97. |
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INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
98. | The role of an Independent Non-executive Director shall include, but is not limited to: |
(a) | participating in Board meetings to bring an independent judgment to bear on issues of strategy, policy, performance, accountability, resources, key appointments and standards of conduct; |
(b) | taking the lead where potential conflicts of interests arise; |
(c) | serving on the audit, remuneration, nomination and other governance committees, if invited; and |
(d) | scrutinising the Company’s performance in achieving agreed corporate goals and objectives, and monitoring performance reporting. |
99. | The Independent Non-executive Directors shall give the Board and any committees on which they serve the benefit of their skills, expertise and varied backgrounds and qualifications through regular attendance and active participation. They should also attend general meetings and develop a balanced understanding of the views of the members. |
100. | The Independent Non-executive Directors shall make a positive contribution to the development of the Company’s strategy and policies through independent, constructive and informed comments. |
ALTERNATE DIRECTOR OR PROXY
101. |
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102. |
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS
103. |
104. |
105. |
106. |
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107. |
108. |
109. |
110. |
111. |
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113A. | Except as would be permitted by the Companies Ordinance if the Company were a company incorporated in Hong Kong, the Company shall not directly or indirectly: |
(a) | make a loan to a Director or his close associates or a director of any holding company of the Company or a body corporate controlled by such a director or Director; |
(b) | enter into any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any person to a Director or such a director or a body corporate controlled by such a director or Director; or |
(c) | if any one or more of the Directors hold (jointly or severally or directly or indirectly) a controlling interest in another company, make a loan to that other company or enter into any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any person to that other company. |
NOMINATION COMMITTEE
112. | The Board shall establish a Nomination Committee (which may be combined with the Corporate Governance Committee to form a single nominating and corporate governance committee (the “Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee”), which shall perform the following duties: |
(a) | review the structure, size and composition (including the skills, knowledge and experience) of the Board at least annually and make recommendations on any proposed changes to the Board to complement the Company’s corporate strategy; |
(b) | identify individuals suitably qualified to become Directors and select or make recommendations to the Board on the selection of individuals nominated for directorships; |
(c) | assess the independence of Independent Non-executive Directors; and |
(d) | make recommendations to the Board on the appointment or re-appointment of Directors and succession planning for Directors, in particular the chairman and the chief executive officer of the Company. |
113. | The Nomination Committee shall comprise a majority of Independent Non- executive Directors, and the chairman of the Nomination Committee shall be an Independent Non-executive Director. |
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114. | The Nomination Committee shall make available its terms of reference explaining its role and the authority delegated to it by the Board by publishing them on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited’s Website and the Company’s Website. |
115. | The Company shall provide the Nomination Committee sufficient resources to perform its duties. Where necessary, the Nomination Committee shall seek independent professional advice, at the Company’s expense, to perform its responsibilities. |
116. | Where the Board proposes a resolution to elect an individual as an Independent Non-executive Director at a general meeting, the circular to the members and/or explanatory statement accompanying the notice of the relevant general meeting shall set out: |
(a) | the process used for identifying the individual and why the Board believes the individual should be elected and the reasons why it considers the individual to be independent; |
(b) | if the proposed Independent Non-executive Director will be holding their seventh (or more) listed company directorship, why the Board believes the individual would still be able to devote sufficient time to the board; |
(c) | the perspectives, skills and experience that the individual can bring to the Board; and |
(d) | how the individual contributes to diversity of the Board. |
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
117. | The Board shall establish a Corporate Governance Committee (which may be combined with the Nomination Committee to form a single Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee), which shall perform the following duties: |
(a) | develop and review the Company’s policies and practices on corporate governance and make recommendations to the Board; |
(b) | review and monitor the training and continuous professional development of Directors and senior management; |
(c) | review and monitor the Company’s policies and practices on compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; |
(d) | develop, review and monitor the code of conduct and compliance manual (if any) applicable to employees and Directors; |
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(e) | review the Company’s compliance with the code and disclosure in the Corporate Governance Report; |
(f) | review and monitor whether the Company is operated and managed for the benefit of all of its members; |
(g) | review and monitor the management of conflicts of interests and make a recommendation to the Board on any matter where there is a potential conflict of interest between the Company, a subsidiary of the Company and/or holders of Class A Ordinary Shares (considered as a group) on the one hand, and any holder of Class B Ordinary Shares on the other; |
(h) | review and monitor all risks related to the Company’s weighted voting rights structure, including connected transactions between the Company and/or a subsidiary of the Company on the one hand, and any holder of Class B Ordinary Shares on the other, and make a recommendation to the Board on any such transaction; |
(i) | make a recommendation to the Board as to the appointment or removal of the Compliance Adviser; |
(j) | seek to ensure effective and on-going communication between the Company and its members, particularly with regards to the requirements of Article 174; |
(k) | report on the work of the Corporate Governance Committee on at least a half-yearly and annual basis covering all areas of this Article 117; and |
(l) | disclose, on a comply or explain basis, its recommendations to the Board in respect of matters in Articles 117(g) to (i) in the report referred to in Article 117(k). |
118. | The Corporate Governance Committee shall comprise entirely of Independent Non-executive Directors, one of whom shall act as its chairman. |
119. | The Corporate Governance Report produced by the Company pursuant to the Listing Rules shall include a summary of the work of the Corporate Governance Committee, with regards to its duties set out in Article 117, for the accounting period covered by both the half-yearly and annual report and disclose any significant subsequent events for the period up to the date of publication of the half-yearly and annual report, to the extent possible. |
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COMPLIANCE ADVISER
120. | The Company shall appoint a Compliance Adviser on a permanent basis. The Board shall consult with and, if necessary, seek advice from the Compliance Adviser, on a timely and ongoing basis, in the following circumstances: |
(a) | before the publication of any regulatory announcement, circular or financial report by the Company; |
(b) | where a transaction, which might be a notifiable or connected transaction (as defined in the Listing Rules), is contemplated by the Company including share issues and share repurchases; |
(c) | where the Company proposes to use the proceeds of its initial public offering in a manner different from that detailed in the listing document in respect of such initial public offering, or where the business activities, developments or results of the Company deviate from any forecast, estimate or other information set out in such listing document; and |
(d) | where The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited makes an inquiry of the Company under the Listing Rules. |
121. | The Board shall also consult with, and if necessary, seek advice from the Compliance Adviser, on a timely and ongoing basis, on any matters related to: |
(a) | the weighted voting rights structure of the Company; |
(b) | transactions in which the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares have an interest; and |
(c) | where there is a potential conflict of interest between the Company, a subsidiary of the Company and/or holders of Class A Ordinary Shares (considered as a group) on the one hand, and any holder of Class B Ordinary Shares on the other. |
BORROWING POWERS OF DIRECTORS
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THE SEAL
123. |
124. |
125. |
DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS
126. |
(a) | becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors; |
(b) | dies or is found to be or becomes of unsound mind; |
(c) | resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company; |
(d) | without special leave of absence from the Board, is absent from meetings of the Board for three consecutive meetings and the Board resolves that his office be vacated; or |
(e) | is removed from office pursuant to any other provision of these Articles. |
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PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
127. |
128. |
129. |
130. |
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131. |
132. |
133. |
(a) | all appointments of officers made by the Directors; |
(b) | the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors; and |
(c) | all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company, and of the Directors and of committees of Directors. |
134. |
135. |
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136. |
137. |
138. |
139. |
PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT
140. |
DIVIDENDS
141. |
142. |
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143. |
144. |
145. |
146. |
147. |
148. |
149. |
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ACCOUNTS, AUDIT AND ANNUAL RETURN AND DECLARATION
150. | The Board shall cause to be kept such books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to show and explain its transactions and otherwise in accordance with the Companies Act. |
151. |
152. |
153. |
154. | The Company shall at every annual general meeting appoint an auditor or auditors of the Company who shall hold office until the next annual general meeting. The removal of an auditor before the expiration of his period of office shall require the approval of an Ordinary Resolution. The remuneration of the auditors shall be fixed by the Company at the annual general meeting at which they are appointed provided that in respect of any particular year the Company in general meeting may delegate the fixing of such remuneration to the Board. |
155. |
156. |
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157. |
|
158. | The Board shall cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Shareholders at every annual general meeting a profit and loss account for the period, in the case of the first account, since the incorporation of the Company and, in any other case, since the preceding account, together with a balance sheet as at the date to which the profit and loss account is made up and a Directors’ report with respect to the profit or loss of the Company for the period covered by the profit and loss account and the state of the Company’s affairs as at the end of such period, an auditors’ report on such accounts prepared pursuant to Article 156 and such other reports and accounts as may be required by law. |
159. | Copies of those documents to be laid before the Shareholders at an annual general meeting shall not less than 21 days before the date of the meeting be sent in the manner in which notices may be served by the Company as provided herein to every member and every holder of debentures of the Company, provided that the Company shall not be required to send copies of those documents to any person of whose address the Company is not aware or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures. |
CAPITALIZATION OF RESERVES
160. |
(a) | resolve to capitalize an amount standing to the credit of reserves (including a Share Premium Account, capital redemption reserve and profit and loss account), which is available for distribution; |
(b) | appropriate the sum resolved to be capitalized to the Shareholders in proportion to the nominal amount of Shares (whether or not fully paid) held by them respectively and apply that sum on their behalf in or towards: |
(i) | paying up the amounts (if any) for the time being unpaid on Shares held by them respectively, or |
(ii) | paying up in full unissued Shares or debentures of a nominal amount equal to that sum, |
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and allot the Shares or debentures, credited as fully paid, to the Shareholders (or as they may direct) in those proportions, or partly in one way and partly in the other, but the Share Premium Account, the capital redemption reserve and profits which are not available for distribution may, for the purposes of this Article, only be applied in paying up unissued Shares to be allotted to Shareholders credited as fully paid;
(c) | make any arrangements they think fit to resolve a difficulty arising in the distribution of a capitalized reserve and in particular, without limitation, where Shares or debentures become distributable in fractions the Directors may deal with the fractions as they think fit; |
(d) | authorize a Person to enter (on behalf of all the Shareholders concerned) into an agreement with the Company providing for either: |
(i) | the allotment to the Shareholders respectively, credited as fully paid, of Shares or debentures to which they may be entitled on the capitalization, or |
(ii) | the payment by the Company on behalf of the Shareholders (by the application of their respective proportions of the reserves resolved to be capitalized) of the amounts or part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing Shares, |
and any such agreement made under this authority being effective and binding on all those Shareholders; and
(e) | generally do all acts and things required to give effect to the resolution. |
161. |
(a) | employees (including Directors) or service providers of the Company or its Affiliates upon exercise or vesting of any options or awards granted under any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme or other arrangement which relates to such persons that has been adopted or approved by the Directors or the Members; |
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(b) | any trustee of any trust or administrator of any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme to whom shares are to be allotted and issued by the Company in connection with the operation of any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme or other arrangement which relates to such persons that has been adopted or approved by the Directors or Members; or |
(c) | any depositary of the Company for the purposes of the issue, allotment and delivery by the depositary of ADSs to employees (including Directors) or service providers of the Company or its Affiliates upon exercise or vesting of any options or awards granted under any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme or other arrangement which relates to such persons that has been adopted or approved by the Directors or the Members. |
SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT
162. |
163. |
|
NOTICES
164. |
165. |
166. | A Shareholder shall be entitled to have notice served on him at any address within Hong Kong. |
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167. |
168. |
(a) | post, shall be deemed to have been served five calendar days after the time when the letter containing the same is posted; |
(b) | facsimile, shall be deemed to have been served upon production by the transmitting facsimile machine of a report confirming transmission of the facsimile in full to the facsimile number of the recipient; |
(c) | recognized courier service, shall be deemed to have been served 48 hours after the time when the letter containing the same is delivered to the courier service; or |
(d) | electronic mail, shall be deemed to have been served immediately (i) upon the time of the transmission to the electronic mail address supplied by the Shareholder to the Company or (ii) upon the time of its placement on the Company’s Website. |
In proving service by post or courier service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice or documents was properly addressed and duly posted or delivered to the courier service.
169. |
170. |
(a) | all Shareholders holding Shares with the right to receive notice and who have supplied to the Company an address for the giving of notices to them; and |
(b) | every Person entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Shareholder, who but for his death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting. |
No other Person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.
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INFORMATION
171. |
172. |
173. | Any register held in Hong Kong shall during normal business hours (subject to such reasonable restrictions as the Board may impose) be open to inspection by a Shareholder without charge and any other person on payment of a fee of such amount not exceeding the maximum amount as may from time to time be permitted under the Listing Rules as the Board may determine for each inspection, provided that the Company may be permitted to close the register in terms equivalent to section 632 of the Companies Ordinance. |
COMMUNICATION WITH SHAREHOLDERS AND DISCLOSURE
174. | The Company shall comply with the provisions of Section F “Shareholders Engagement” in Part 2 of Appendix 14 of the Listing Rules regarding communication with Shareholders or Members of the Company. |
175. | The Company shall include the words “A company controlled through weighted voting rights” or such language as may be specified by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from time to time on the front page of all its listing documents, periodic financial reports, circulars, notifications and announcements required by the Listing Rules, and describe its weighted voting rights structure, the rationale of such structure and the associated risks for the members prominently in its listing documents and periodic financial reports. This statement shall inform prospective investors of the potential risks of investing in the Company and that they should make the decision to invest only after due and careful consideration. |
176. | The Company shall, in its listing documents and its interim and annual reports: |
(a) | identify the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares (and, where a holder is a Director Holding Vehicle, the Director holding and controlling such vehicle); |
(b) | disclose the impact of a potential conversion of Class B Ordinary Shares into Class A Ordinary Shares on its share capital; and |
(c) | disclose all circumstances in which the weighted voting rights attached to the Class B Ordinary Shares shall cease. |
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INDEMNITY
177. |
178. |
(a) | for the acts, receipts, neglects, defaults or omissions of any other Director or officer or agent of the Company; or |
(b) | for any loss on account of defect of title to any property of the Company; or |
(c) | on account of the insufficiency of any security in or upon which any money of the Company shall be invested; or |
(d) | for any loss incurred through any bank, broker or other similar Person; or |
(e) | for any loss occasioned by any negligence, default, breach of duty, breach of trust, error of judgement or oversight on such Indemnified Person’s part; or |
(f) | for any loss, damage or misfortune whatsoever which may happen in or arise from the execution or discharge of the duties, powers, authorities, or discretions of such Indemnified Person’s office or in relation thereto; |
unless the same shall happen through such Indemnified Person’s own dishonesty, willful default or fraud.
FINANCIAL YEAR
179. |
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NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS
180. |
WINDING UP
181. |
182. |
AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
183. |
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APPENDIX I | THE AMENDED ARTICLES |
CLOSING OF REGISTER OR FIXING RECORD DATE
184. |
185. |
186. |
REGISTRATION BY WAY OF CONTINUATION
187. |
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APPENDIX I | THE AMENDED ARTICLES |
DISCLOSURE
188. |
FORUM SELECTION
189. | The Company, its shareholders, directors and officers agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong, to the exclusion of other jurisdictions, to hear, settle and/or determine any dispute, controversy or claim whether arising out of or in connection with the Articles or otherwise. For the avoidance of doubt, the applicable rights of purchasers, holders, and sellers of the Company’s ADSs are not governed by the preceding sentence but are exclusively governed by the applicable Deposit Agreement pursuant to which the ADSs were issued, regardless of whether their dispute, controversy or claim arises out of or in connection with the Articles or otherwise. |
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APPENDIX II | EXPLANATORY STATEMENT ON THE REPURCHASE MANDATE |
The following is an explanatory statement required by the Listing Rules to be sent to the Shareholders to enable them to make an informed decision on whether to vote for or against the ordinary resolution to be proposed at the EGM in relation to the granting of the Repurchase Mandate.
1. REASONS FOR REPURCHASE OF SHARES
The Directors believe that the granting of the Repurchase Mandate is in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole.
Repurchases of Shares may, depending on the market conditions and funding arrangements at the time, lead to an enhancement of the net asset value per Share and/or earnings per Share. The Directors are seeking the granting of the Repurchase Mandate to give the Company the flexibility to do so if and when appropriate. The number of Shares to be repurchased on any occasion and the price and other terms upon which the same are repurchased will be decided by the Directors at the relevant time, having regard to the circumstances then pertaining.
The Directors have no present intention to cause the Company to repurchase any Shares and they would only exercise the power to repurchase in circumstances where they consider that the repurchase would be in the best interests of the Company and the Shareholders.
2. SHARE CAPITAL
As at the Latest Practicable Date, the issued share capital of the Company comprised 2,065,715,410 Shares, out of which 1,709,903,330 were Class A Ordinary Shares and 355,812,080 were Class B Ordinary Shares. Subject to the passing of the ordinary resolution set out in item 4 of the notice of the EGM in respect of the granting of the Repurchase Mandate and on the basis that the issued share capital of the Company remains unchanged as at the date of the EGM, i.e. being 2,065,715,410 Shares, the Directors would be authorized under the Repurchase Mandate to repurchase, during the period in which the Repurchase Mandate remains in force, up to a maximum of 206,571,541 Shares, representing 10% of the total number of issued Shares in issue as at the date of the EGM.
3. FUNDING OF REPURCHASES
Repurchases of Shares will be funded from the Company’s internal resources, which shall be funds legally available for such purpose in accordance with the articles of association of the Company in effect from time to time, the Listing Rules, the applicable laws of the Cayman Islands and/or any other applicable laws, as the case may be.
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APPENDIX II | EXPLANATORY STATEMENT ON THE REPURCHASE MANDATE |
4. IMPACT OF REPURCHASES
There might be a material adverse impact on the working capital or gearing position of the Company (as compared with the position disclosed in the audited accounts contained in the Prospectus of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2020 and for the three months ended March 31, 2021) in the event that the Repurchase Mandate was to be carried out in full at any time during the proposed repurchase period.
The Directors do not intend to exercise the Repurchase Mandate to such an extent as would, in the circumstances, have a material adverse effect on the working capital requirements of the Company or its gearing levels which, in the opinion of the Directors, are from time to time appropriate for the Company.
5. TAKEOVERS CODE
If, on the exercise of the power to repurchase Shares pursuant to the Repurchase Mandate, a Shareholder ’s proportionate interest in the voting rights of the Company increases, such increase will be treated as an acquisition of voting rights for the purposes of the Takeovers Code. Accordingly, a Shareholder or a group of Shareholders acting in concert (as defined under the Takeovers Code) could obtain or consolidate control of the Company and thereby become obliged to make a mandatory offer in accordance with Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code.
As at the Latest Practicable Date, to the best knowledge and belief of the Directors, the WVR Beneficiary was Mr. Li. Mr. Li beneficially owns 108,557,400 Class A Ordinary Shares and 355,812,080 Class B Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 68.96% of the voting rights in the Company (assuming none of the Performance Conditions is met and no Award Premium is paid in respect of any CEO Award Shares, so that Mr. Li must abstain from voting his CEO Award Shares in accordance with the undertakings and covenants he provided to the Company pursuant to the grant of the CEO Award Shares). Pursuant to Rule 8A.15 of the Listing Rules, in the event that the Directors exercise the Repurchase Mandate, the WVR Beneficiary must reduce his weighted voting rights in the Company proportionately through conversion of a proportion of their shareholding into Class A Ordinary Shares, if the reduction in the number of Shares in issue would otherwise result in an increase in the proportion of Class B Ordinary Shares. As such, to the best knowledge and belief of the Directors, the exercise of the Repurchase Mandate is not expected to give rise to an obligation of Mr. Li to make a mandatory offer under the Takeovers Code. The Directors have no present intention to repurchase the Shares to the extent that will trigger the obligations under the Takeovers Code to make a mandatory offer. The Directors are not aware of any other consequences which may arise under the Takeovers Code as a result of any purchase by the Company of its Shares.
In addition, the Directors do not propose to repurchase Shares which would result in less than the relevant prescribed minimum percentage of Shares in public hands as required by the Stock Exchange.
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APPENDIX II | EXPLANATORY STATEMENT ON THE REPURCHASE MANDATE |
6. GENERAL
None of the Directors or, to the best of their knowledge having made all reasonable enquiries, any of their respective close associates (as defined in the Listing Rules) have any present intention to sell any Shares to the Company in the event that the granting of the Repurchase Mandate is approved by the Shareholders.
The Company has not been notified by any core connected persons (as defined in the Listing Rules) of the Company that they have a present intention to sell any Shares to the Company, or that they have undertaken not to sell any Shares held by them to the Company in the event that the granting of the Repurchase Mandate is approved by the Shareholders.
The Directors have undertaken to the Stock Exchange to exercise the power of the Company to make repurchases of Shares pursuant to the Repurchase Mandate in accordance with the Listing Rules and the applicable laws of the Cayman Islands.
7. MARKET PRICES OF SHARES
As the Company has been listed on the Stock Exchange for less than 12 months, the highest and lowest prices per Share at which the Class A Ordinary Shares have been traded on the Stock Exchange since the Listing up to and including the Latest Practicable Date were as follows:
Month | Price per share | |
2021 | Highest | Lowest |
HK$ | HK$ | |
August (since the date of Listing) | 118.5 | 101.8 |
September | 121.6 | 99.0 |
October (up to Latest Practicable Date) | 112.2 | 98.05 |
8. REPURCHASES OF SHARES MADE BY THE COMPANY
The Company has been listed on the Stock Exchange for less than 6 months. During the period starting on the date of the Listing and up to the Latest Practicable Date, the Company has not repurchased any Class A Ordinary Shares on the Stock Exchange.
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Exhibit 99.4
Li Auto Inc.
理想汽車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015)
FORM OF PROXY FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
to be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2021
(or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof)
Introduction
This form of proxy is furnished in connection with the solicitation by the board of directors (the “Board”) of Li Auto Inc., a Cayman Islands company (the “Company”), of proxies from holders of the Class A ordinary shares of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 per share (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”) and the Class B ordinary shares of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 per share (the “Class B Ordinary Shares,” and together with the Class A Ordinary Shares, the “Ordinary Shares”) to be exercised at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company (the “Meeting”) to be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China on November 16, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Beijing time and at any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof for the purposes set forth in the Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting (the “Meeting Notice”).
Only the holders of record of Ordinary Shares on the Company’s register of members at the close of business on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, Hong Kong time (the “Record Date”) are entitled to receive notice of, to attend, and to vote at the Meeting. Each Class A Ordinary Share is entitled to one vote, and each Class B Ordinary Share is entitled to ten votes, on all matters to be voted on at the Meeting. The quorum of the Meeting is one or more shareholders holding in aggregate not less than one-third of all votes attaching to all issued shares of the Company, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting.
The Ordinary Shares represented by all properly executed proxies returned to the Company will be voted at the Meeting as indicated or, if no instruction is given, the proxy will vote the Ordinary Shares in his/her discretion, unless a reference to the holder of the proxy having such discretion has been deleted and initialed on this form of proxy. Where the chairman of the Meeting acts as proxy and is entitled to exercise his/her discretion, he/she is likely to vote the Ordinary Shares FOR the resolutions. As to any other business that may properly come before the Meeting, all properly executed proxies will be voted by the persons named therein in accordance with their discretion. The Company does not presently know of any other business which may come before the Meeting. However, if any other matter properly comes before the Meeting, or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, which may properly be acted upon, unless otherwise indicated the proxies solicited hereby will be voted on such matter in accordance with the discretion of the proxy holders named therein. Any person giving a proxy has the right to revoke it at any time before it is exercised by (i) submitting to the Company, at the address set forth below, a duly signed revocation or (ii) voting in person at the Meeting.
To be valid, this form of proxy must be completed, signed, and returned to Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong as soon as possible and no later than 48 hours before the Meeting, Hong Kong time, on November 14, 2021, to ensure your representation at the Meeting.
Li Auto Inc.
理想汽車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015)
Number
of shares to which this |
Class A Ordinary Shares | |
Class B Ordinary Shares |
FORM OF PROXY FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
to be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2021
(or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof)
I/We(Note2) of being the registered holder(s) of Class A Ordinary Shares/Class B Ordinary Shares(Note 3) in the issued share capital of Li Auto Inc. (“Company”) hereby appoint the Chairman of the meeting(Note 4) or of as my/our proxy to attend, act and vote for me/us and on my/our behalf as directed below at the extraordinary general meeting (“EGM”) of the Company to be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Beijing time (and at any adjournment thereof).
Please tick (“√”) the appropriate boxes to indicate how you wish your vote(s) to be cast(Note 5).
RESOLUTIONS(Note 6) | FOR | AGAINST | |
1. |
As a special resolution,
THAT subject to the passing of the Class-based Resolution (as defined below) at each of the class meeting of holders of the Class A ordinary shares of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class A Meeting”) and the class meeting of holders of Class B ordinary shares of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the “Class B Meeting”) convened on the same date and at the same place as the EGM, the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association (the“Existing Articles”) be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part A of Appendix I to the circular of the Company dated October 19, 2021 (the “Circular”), by incorporating the following requirements under the Hong Kong Listing Rules: paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 and Rules 8A.09, 8A.13 to 8A.19 and 8A.22 to 8A.24 (a resolution to incorporate these requirements, the “Class-based Resolution) and by incorporating the Non-class-based Resolution (as defined in resolution 2 below). |
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2. |
As a special resolution,
THAT if the Class-based Resolution is not passed at either the Class A Meeting or the Class B Meeting, the Existing Articles be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part B of Appendix I to the Circular, by (a) incorporating the following requirements under the Hong Kong Listing Rules: (i) paragraphs 1(1), 1(2), 2(1), 4(1)-(5), 5, 7(2), 8, 10(2), 11(1), and 14 of Appendix 3, (ii) paragraphs 1, 3(1)-(3), 4(1)-(2) and 5(1)-(4) of Part B of Appendix 13 and (iii) Rules 8A.26 to 8A.35, and 8A.37 to 8A.41; (b) removing the right of Amp Lee Ltd. to appoint, remove, and replace at least one director of the Company as well as to appoint the chairman of the Board; (c) lowering the quorum of general meeting (which is not a class meeting) from one-third of all votes attaching to all shares in issue and entitled to vote at such general meeting in the Company to 10% of all votes attaching to all shares in issue and entitled to vote at such general meeting in the Company (on a one vote per share basis); (d) incorporating the requirement that where a general meeting is postponed by the Company’s directors, such meeting shall be postponed to a specific date, time, and place; (e) removing the directors’ discretion to, for the purpose of variation of rights attached to any class of shares, treat all the classes or any two or more classes as forming one class if they consider that all such classes would be affected in the same way by the proposals under consideration, as well as the directors’ powers to authorize the division of Shares into any number of classes and to determine the relative rights and obligations as between the different classes and to issue such shares with preferred or other rights that may be greater than the rights of the Class A Ordinary Shares as well as making the directors’ powers to issue preferred shares under the Existing Articles to be subject to the articles of association of the Company, compliance with the Hong Kong Listing Rules and the Code on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Buy-backs issued by the Securities and Futures Commission on Hong Kong, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Takeovers Code”), and the conditions that (x) no new class of shares with voting rights superior to those of Class A Ordinary Shares will be created and (y) any variations in the relative rights as between the different classes will not result in creating new class of shares with voting rights superior to those of Class A Ordinary Shares; (f) changing the power to appoint the auditor of the Company and fix their remuneration from being that of the directors to that of the shareholders at annual general meetings unless such power is delegated to the directors by the shareholders at annual general meeting for that year; and (g) clarifying that the Company, its shareholders, directors and officers agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong, to the exclusion of other jurisdictions, to hear, settle and/or determine any dispute, controversy or claim whether arising out of or in connection with the articles of association or otherwise (together, the “Non-class-based Resolution”). |
RESOLUTIONS(Note 6) | FOR | AGAINST | |
3. |
As an ordinary resolution,
To grant a general mandate to the directors to issue, allot, and deal with additional Class A Ordinary shares of the Company not exceeding 20% of the total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this resolution. |
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4. |
As an ordinary resolution,
To grant a general mandate to the directors to repurchase shares of the Company not exceeding 10% of the total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this resolution. |
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5. |
As an ordinary resolution,
To extend the general mandate granted to the directors to issue, allot and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company by the aggregate number of the shares repurchased by the Company. |
Date: | 2021 | Signature(s)(Note 7) |
Notes:
1. | Please delete as appropriate and insert the number of shares to which this form of proxy relates. If no number is inserted, this form of proxy will be deemed to relate to all the shares of the Company registered in your name(s). If more than one proxy is appointed, the number of shares in respect of which each such proxy so appointed must be specified. |
2. | Full name(s) and address(es) to be inserted in BLOCK CAPITALS. |
3. | Please insert the number of shares of the Company registered in your name(s) and delete as appropriate. |
4. | If any proxy other than the Chairman of the meeting is preferred, please strike out the words “the Chairman of the meeting” and insert the name and address of the proxy desired in the space provided. Any shareholder of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the EGM is entitled to appoint any number of proxies (who must be individuals) to attend and vote instead of him. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. |
5. | IMPORTANT: IF YOU WISH TO VOTE FOR A RESOLUTION, PLEASE TICK (“√ ”) THE BOX MARKED “FOR”. IF YOU WISH TO VOTE AGAINST A RESOLUTION, PLEASE TICK (“ √ ”) THE BOX MARKED “AGAINST”. If no direction is given, your proxy will vote or abstain at his discretion. Your proxy will also be entitled to vote at his discretion on any resolution properly put to the EGM other than those referred to in the notice convening the EGM. |
6. | The description of the resolutions is by way of summary only. The full text appears in the notice of the EGM. |
7. | This form of proxy must be signed by you or your attorney duly authorized in writing. In case of a corporation, the same must be either under its common seal or under the hand of an officer, attorney or other person duly authorized. ANY ALTERATION MADE TO THIS FORM OF PROXY MUST BE INITIALLED BY THE PERSON WHO SIGNS IT. |
8. | Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at the meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders be present at the meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present being the most or, as the case may be, the more senior shall alone be entitled to vote in respect of the relevant joint holding and, for this purpose, seniority shall be determined by reference to the order in which the names of the joint holders stand on the Register of Members in respect of the relevant joint holding. |
9. | In order to be valid, this form of proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy thereof, must be deposited at the Company’s Hong Kong Share Registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited (for both holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and holders of Class B Ordinary Shares), at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting or the adjourned meeting (as the case may be). |
10. | Completion and delivery of the form of proxy will not preclude you from attending and voting at the EGM or any adjournment thereof if you so wish. |
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION STATEMENT
Your supply of your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) is on a voluntary basis for the purpose of processing your request for the appointment of a proxy (or proxies) and your voting instructions for the EGM of the Company (the ‘Purposes’). We may transfer your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) to our agent, contractor, or third party service provider who provides administrative, computer and other services to us for use in connection with the Purposes and to such parties who are authorized by law to request the information or are otherwise relevant for the Purposes and need to receive the information. Your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) will be retained for such period as may be necessary to fulfil the Purposes. Request for access to and/or correction of the relevant personal data can be made in accordance with the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and any such request should be in writing by mail to Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at the above address or by email to PrivacyOfficer@computershare.com.hk.
Exhibit 99.5
Li Auto Inc.
理想汽車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015)
FORM OF PROXY FOR THE CLASS A MEETING
to be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2021
(or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof)
Introduction
This form of proxy is furnished in connection with the solicitation by the board of directors (the “Board”) of Li Auto Inc., a Cayman Islands company (the “Company”), of proxies from holders of the Class A ordinary shares of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 per share (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”) to be exercised at the class meeting of holders of Class A Ordinary Shares (the “Meeting”) to be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China on November 16, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Beijing time and at any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, for the purposes set forth in the Notice of Class A Meeting (the “Meeting Notice”).
Only the holders of record of Class A Ordinary Shares on the Company’s register of members at the close of business on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, Hong Kong time (the “Record Date”) are entitled to receive notice of, to attend, and to vote at the Meeting. Each Class A Ordinary Share is entitled to one vote on all matters at the Meeting. The quorum of the Class A Meeting is one or more members holding at least one-third in nominal or par value of the issued Class A Ordinary Shares of the Company, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting.
The Class A Ordinary Shares represented by all properly executed proxies returned to the Company will be voted at the Meeting as indicated or, if no instruction is given, the proxy will vote the Class A Ordinary Shares in his/her discretion, unless a reference to the holder of the proxy having such discretion has been deleted and initialed on this form of proxy. Where the chairman of the Meeting acts as proxy and is entitled to exercise his/her discretion, he/she is likely to vote the Class A Ordinary Shares FOR the resolutions. As to any other business that may properly come before the Meeting, all properly executed proxies will be voted by the persons named therein in accordance with their discretion. The Company does not presently know of any other business which may come before the Meeting. However, if any other matter properly comes before the Meeting, or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, which may properly be acted upon, unless otherwise indicated the proxies solicited hereby will be voted on such matter in accordance with the discretion of the proxy holders named therein. Any person giving a proxy has the right to revoke it at any time before it is exercised by (i) submitting to the Company, at the address set forth below, a duly signed revocation or (ii) voting in person at the Meeting.
To be valid, this form of proxy must be completed, signed, and returned to Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong as soon as possible and no later than 48 hours before the Meeting, Hong Kong time, on November 14, 2021, to ensure your representation at the Meeting.
Li Auto Inc.
理想汽車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015)
Number of shares to which this form of proxy relates (Note 1) | Class A Ordinary Shares |
FORM OF PROXY FOR THE CLASS A MEETING
to be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2021
(or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof)
I/We (Note2) of being the registered holder(s) of Class A Ordinary Shares(Note 3), par value US$0.0001 per share, of Li Auto Inc. (“Company”) hereby appoint the Chairman of the Class A meeting(Note 4) or of as my/our proxy to attend, act and vote for me/us and on my/our behalf as directed below at the class meeting of holders of the Class A Ordinary Shares of the Company (the “Class A Meeting”) to be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. (and at any adjournment thereof).
Please tick (“√”) the appropriate boxes to indicate how you wish your vote(s) to be cast(Note 5).
RESOLUTION(Note 6) | FOR | AGAINST | |
1. | As an ordinary resolution,
THAT subject to the passing of the Class-based Resolution (as defined below) at the class meeting of holders of the Class B ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each and the passing of a special resolution at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company convened on the same date and at the same place as the Class A Meeting, the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part A of Appendix I to the circular of the Company dated October 19, 2021, by incorporating the following requirements under the Hong Kong Listing Rules: paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 and Rules 8A.09, 8A.13 to 8A.19 and 8A.22 to 8A.24 (a resolution to incorporate these resolutions, the “Class-based Resolution”). |
Date: 2021 | Signature(s)(Note 7) |
Notes:
1. | Please delete as appropriate and insert the number of shares to which this form of proxy relates. If no number is inserted, this form of proxy will be deemed to relate to all the shares of the Company registered in your name(s). If more than one proxy is appointed, the number of shares in respect of which each such proxy so appointed must be specified. |
2. | Full name(s) and address(es) to be inserted in BLOCK CAPITALS. |
3. | Please insert the number of shares of the Company registered in your name(s) and delete as appropriate. |
4. | If any proxy other than the Chairman of the meeting is preferred, please strike out the words “the Chairman of the Class A Meeting” and insert the name and address of the proxy desired in the space provided. Any shareholder of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the Class A Meeting is entitled to appoint any number of proxies (who must be individuals) to attend and vote instead of him. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. |
5. | IMPORTANT: IF YOU WISH TO VOTE FOR A RESOLUTION, PLEASE TICK (“ √ ”) THE BOX MARKED “FOR”. IF YOU WISH TO VOTE AGAINST A RESOLUTION, PLEASE TICK (“√ ”) THE BOX MARKED “AGAINST”. If no direction is given, your proxy will vote or abstain at his discretion. Your proxy will also be entitled to vote at his discretion on any resolution properly put to the Class A Meeting other than those referred to in the notice convening the Class A Meeting. |
6. | The description of the resolution is by way of summary only. The full text appears in the notice of the Class A Meeting. |
7. | This form of proxy must be signed by you or your attorney duly authorized in writing. In case of a corporation, the same must be either under its common seal or under the hand of an officer, attorney or other person duly authorized. ANY ALTERATION MADE TO THIS FORM OF PROXY MUST BE INITIALLED BY THE PERSON WHO SIGNS IT. |
8. | Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at the meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders be present at the meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present being the most or, as the case may be, the more senior shall alone be entitled to vote in respect of the relevant joint holding and, for this purpose, seniority shall be determined by reference to the order in which the names of the joint holders stand on the Register of Members in respect of the relevant joint holding. |
9. | In order to be valid, this form of proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy thereof, must be deposited at the Company’s Hong Kong Share Registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting or the adjourned meeting (as the case may be). |
10. | Completion and delivery of the form of proxy will not preclude you from attending and voting at the Class A Meeting or any adjournment thereof if you so wish. |
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION STATEMENT
Your supply of your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) is on a voluntary basis for the purpose of processing your request for the appointment of a proxy (or proxies) and your voting instructions for the Class A Meeting of the Company (the ‘Purposes’). We may transfer your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) to our agent, contractor, or third party service provider who provides administrative, computer and other services to us for use in connection with the Purposes and to such parties who are authorized by law to request the information or are otherwise relevant for the Purposes and need to receive the information. Your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) will be retained for such period as may be necessary to fulfil the Purposes. Request for access to and/or correction of the relevant personal data can be made in accordance with the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and any such request should be in writing by mail to Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at the above address or by email to PrivacyOfficer@computershare.com.hk.
Exhibit 99.6
Li Auto Inc.
理 想 汽 車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015)
FORM OF PROXY FOR THE CLASS B MEETING
to be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2021
(or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof)
Introduction
This form of proxy is furnished in connection with the solicitation by the board of directors (the “Board”) of Li Auto Inc., a Cayman Islands company (the “Company”), of proxies from holders of the Class B ordinary shares of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 per share (the “Class B Ordinary Shares”) to be exercised at the class meeting of holders of Class B Ordinary Shares (the “Meeting”) to be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China on November 16, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. Beijing time and at any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, for the purposes set forth in the Notice of Class B Meeting (the “Meeting Notice”).
Only the holders of record of Class B Ordinary Shares on the Company’s register of members at the close of business on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, Hong Kong time (the “Record Date”) are entitled to receive notice of, to attend, and to vote at the Meeting. Each Class B Ordinary Share is entitled to one vote on all matters at the Meeting. The quorum of the Class B Meeting is one or more members holding at least one-third in nominal or par value of the all issued Class B Ordinary Shares of the Company, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting.
The Class B Ordinary Shares represented by all properly executed proxies returned to the Company will be voted at the Meeting as indicated or, if no instruction is given, the proxy will vote the Class B Ordinary Shares in his/her discretion, unless a reference to the holder of the proxy having such discretion has been deleted and initialed on this form of proxy. Where the chairman of the Meeting acts as proxy and is entitled to exercise his/her discretion, he/she is likely to vote the Class B Ordinary Shares FOR the resolutions. As to any other business that may properly come before the Meeting, all properly executed proxies will be voted by the persons named therein in accordance with their discretion. The Company does not presently know of any other business which may come before the Meeting. However, if any other matter properly comes before the Meeting, or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, which may properly be acted upon, unless otherwise indicated the proxies solicited hereby will be voted on such matter in accordance with the discretion of the proxy holders named therein. Any person giving a proxy has the right to revoke it at any time before it is exercised by (i) submitting to the Company, at the address set forth below, a duly signed revocation or (ii) voting in person at the Meeting.
To be valid, this form of proxy must be completed, signed, and returned to Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East,Wanchai, Hong Kong as soon as possible and no later than 48 hours before the Meeting, Hong Kong time, on November 14, 2021, to ensure your representation at the Meeting.
Li Auto Inc.
理 想 汽 車
(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015)
Number of shares to which this form of proxy relates (Note 1) | Class B Ordinary Shares |
FORM OF PROXY FOR THE CLASS B MEETING
to be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2021
(or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof)
I/We(Note2) of being the registered holder(s) of Class B Ordinary Shares(Note 3), par value US$0.0001 per share, of Li Auto Inc. (“Company”) hereby appoint the Chairman of the Class B meeting(Note 4) or of as my/our proxy to attend, act and vote for me/us and on my/our behalf as directed below at the class meeting of holders of the Class B Ordinary Shares the Company (the “Class B Meeting”) to be held at Room 108, 339 Dongxindian, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. (and at any adjournment thereof).
Please tick (“√”) the appropriate boxes to indicate how you wish your vote(s) to be cast(Note 5).
RESOLUTION(Note 6) | FOR | AGAINST | |
1. |
As an ordinary resolution,
THAT subject to the passing of the Class-based Resolution (as defined below) at the class meeting of holders of the Class A ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each and the passing of a special resolution at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company convened on the same date and at the same place as the Class B Meeting, the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association be amended and restated by their deletion in their entirety and by the substitution in their place of the Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in the form as set out in Part A of Appendix I to the circular of the Company dated October 19, 2021, by incorporating the following requirements under the Hong Kong Listing Rules: paragraph 2(1) of Part B of Appendix 13 and Rules 8A.09, 8A.13 to 8A.19 and 8A.22 to 8A.24 (a resolution to incorporate these resolutions, the “Class-based Resolution”). |
Date: | 2021 | Signature(s)(Note 7) |
Notes:
1. | Please delete as appropriate and insert the number of shares to which this form of proxy relates. If no number is inserted, this form of proxy will be deemed to relate to all the shares of the Company registered in your name(s). If more than one proxy is appointed, the number of shares in respect of which each such proxy so appointed must be specified. |
2. | Full name(s) and address(es) to be inserted in BLOCK CAPITALS. |
3. | Please insert the number of shares of the Company registered in your name(s) and delete as appropriate. |
4. | If any proxy other than the Chairman of the meeting is preferred, please strike out the words “the Chairman of the Class B Meeting” and insert the name and address of the proxy desired in the space provided. Any shareholder of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the Class B Meeting is entitled to appoint any number of proxies (who must be individuals) to attend and vote instead of him. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. |
5. | IMPORTANT: IF YOU WISH TO VOTE FOR A RESOLUTION, PLEASE TICK (“√”) THE BOX MARKED “FOR”. IF YOU WISH TO VOTE AGAINST A RESOLUTION, PLEASE TICK (“ √ ”) THE BOX MARKED “AGAINST”. If no direction is given, your proxy will vote or abstain at his discretion. Your proxy will also be entitled to vote at his discretion on any resolution properly put to the Class B Meeting other than those referred to in the notice convening the Class B Meeting. |
6. | The description of the resolution is by way of summary only. The full text appears in the notice of the Class B Meeting. |
7. | This form of proxy must be signed by you or your attorney duly authorized in writing. In case of a corporation, the same must be either under its common seal or under the hand of an officer, attorney or other person duly authorized. ANY ALTERATION MADE TO THIS FORM OF PROXY MUST BE INITIALLED BY THE PERSON WHO SIGNS IT. |
8. | Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at the meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders be present at the meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present being the most or, as the case may be, the more senior shall alone be entitled to vote in respect of the relevant joint holding and, for this purpose, seniority shall be determined by reference to the order in which the names of the joint holders stand on the Register of Members in respect of the relevant joint holding. |
9. | In order to be valid, this form of proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy thereof, must be deposited at the Company’s Hong Kong Share Registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting or the adjourned meeting (as the case may be). |
10. | Completion and delivery of the form of proxy will not preclude you from attending and voting at the Class B Meeting or any adjournment thereof if you so wish. |
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION STATEMENT
Your supply of your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) is on a voluntary basis for the purpose of processing your request for the appointment of a proxy (or proxies) and your voting instructions for the Class B Meeting of the Company (the ‘Purposes’). We may transfer your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) to our agent, contractor, or third party service provider who provides administrative, computer and other services to us for use in connection with the Purposes and to such parties who are authorized by law to request the information or are otherwise relevant for the Purposes and need to receive the information. Your and your proxy’s (or proxies’) name(s) and address(es) will be retained for such period as may be necessary to fulfil the Purposes. Request for access to and/or correction of the relevant personal data can be made in accordance with the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and any such request should be in writing by mail to Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at the above address or by email to PrivacyOfficer@computershare.com.hk.