Exhibit 2.1
Description the Registrant’s Securities
Registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Green Circle Decarbonize Technology Limited (“we,” “our,” “our company,” or “us”) has one class of securities registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, our Class A ordinary shares, par value US$0.001 per share (“Class A Ordinary Shares”) listed and traded on the NYSE American. In addition, our authorized share capital includes Class B ordinary shares, par value US$0.001 per share (the “Class B Ordinary Shares,” and together with the Class A Ordinary Shares, the “Ordinary Shares”). The Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares carry equal rights and rank pari passu with one another, other than with respect to voting and conversion as described below.
Description of Ordinary Shares
The following is a summary of material provisions of our currently effective Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, as well as the Companies Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands (the “Cayman Companies Act”) insofar as they relate to the material terms of our Ordinary Shares. Notwithstanding this, because it is a summary, it may not contain all the information that you may otherwise deem important.
Type and Class of Securities (Item 9.A.5 of Form 20-F)
Each Class A Ordinary Share and each Class B Ordinary Share has a par value of US$0.001.
As at March 31, 2026, we had only one class of ordinary shares. The number of ordinary shares that had been issued as of the last day of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 is provided on the cover of the annual report on Form 20-F to which this exhibit is attached.
Our Class A Ordinary Shares may be held in either certificated or uncertificated form.
On August 10, 2026, at an extraordinary meeting of our shareholders, our shareholders approved, among other things, an increase in our authorized share capital, the adoption of a dual-class share structure and reclassification our then existing Ordinary Shares, and adoption of our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association. Pursuant to the shareholders’ resolutions, our share capital was changed from US$50,000 divided into 50,000,000 shares of a par value of US$0.001 each to US$5,000,000 divided into 5,000,000,000 ordinary shares of a par value of US$0.001 each, comprising of (i) 4,993,640,000 Class A Ordinary Shares and (ii) 6,360,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, with each Class A Ordinary Share entitling 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 entitling the holder thereof to fifty (50) votes on all matters subject to vote at general meetings of the Company.
In connection with the adoption of the dual-class share structure, our shareholders approved the redesignation of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares. As a result, immediately following the redesignation, (i) 5,280,000 Class A Ordinary Shares held by Joyful Star Limited were repurchased and cancelled by the Company and, in consideration, the Company allotted and issued to Joyful Star Limited, 5,280,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, credited as fully paid-up, (ii) 1,080,000 Class A Ordinary Shares held by Green Circle Limited were repurchased and cancelled by the Company and, in consideration, the Company allotted and issued to Green Circle Limited 1,080,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, credited as fully paid-up, and (iii) the remaining then-issued ordinary shares held by other shareholders were redesignated into Class A Ordinary Shares. Our shareholders also approved, with effect from October 7, 2026, a share consolidation whereby every six issued and unissued shares of all classes or series of a par value of US$0.001 each in the share capital of the Company shall be consolidated into one share of a par value of US$0.006 each, with fractional consolidated shares to be rounded up so that each shareholder will be entitled to receive one consolidated share in lieu of any fractional share that would have resulted from the share consolidation.
Pre-emptive Rights (Item 9.A.3 of Form 20-F)
Our Ordinary Shares are not subject to any pre-emptive or similar rights under the Cayman Companies Act or pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
Limitations or Qualifications (Item 9.A.6 of Form 20-F)
Not applicable.
Rights of Other Types of Securities (Item 9.A.7 of Form 20-F)
Not applicable.
Rights of Ordinary Shares (Item 10.B.3 of Form 20-F)
Ordinary Shares
Our authorized share capital is 5,000,000,000 ordinary shares of a par value of US$0.001 each, comprising of (i) 4,993,640,000 Class A Ordinary Shares and (ii) 6,360,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, with each Class A Ordinary Share entitling 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 entitling the holder thereof to fifty (50) votes on all matters subject to vote at general meetings of the Company. Other than with respect to voting and conversion as described below, the Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares carry equal rights and rank pari passu with one another.
Dividends
Our board of directors may from time to time declare dividends (including interim dividends) and distributions on shares of the Company issued and outstanding and authorize payment of the same out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefor.
Under Cayman Islands law, a Cayman Islands company may pay a dividend either out of profit or share premium account, provided that in no circumstances may a dividend be paid if the dividend payment would result in the company being unable to pay its debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business. Our board of directors may determine that a dividend shall be paid wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets (which may consist of the shares or securities of any other company) and may settle all questions concerning such distribution.
No dividend shall bear interest against the Company.
Conversion Rights
Each Class B Ordinary Share is convertible into one Class A Ordinary Share at any time by the holder thereof. In no event shall Class A Ordinary Shares be convertible into Class B Ordinary Shares.
Liquidation Rights
In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, holders of our Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares will be entitled to share ratably in all assets remaining for distribution after payment of all liabilities, on a pari passu basis and in proportion to the number of shares held, regardless of class.
Voting Rights
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 fifty (50) votes on all matters subject to vote at general meetings of the Company. At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided by poll.
An ordinary resolution means a resolution 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 our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (in computing the majority regard shall be had to the number of votes to which each shareholder is entitled by our memorandum and articles of association).
A special resolution means a special resolution of the Company passed in accordance with the Companies Act, being a resolution passed by not less than two-thirds 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 of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been duly given in accordance with our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
Any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or extraordinary general meetings of the Company may be taken only upon the vote of our shareholders at an annual or extraordinary general meeting duly noticed and convened in accordance with our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Companies Act and may not be taken by written resolution of shareholders without a meeting
Under Cayman Islands law, certain matters, such as amending the memorandum and articles of association, changing the name or resolving to be registered by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands, require the approval of shareholders by a special resolution.
Variation of Rights of Shares
Whenever the capital of our Company is divided into different classes the rights attached to any such class may, subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class, only be materially and adversely varied with the consent in writing of the holders of two-thirds of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to the shares of that class, be deemed to be materially and adversely varied by, inter alia, the creation, allotment or issue of further shares ranking pari passu with or subsequent to them or the redemption or purchase of any shares of any class by our Company.
Alteration of Share Capital
Subject to the Cayman Companies Act, the Company may, by ordinary resolution:
| (a) | increase its share capital by new shares of such amount as it thinks appropriate; |
| (b) | consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of a larger amount than its existing shares; |
| (c) | divide its shares into several classes and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares attach thereto respectively any preferential, deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges, conditions or such restrictions which in the absence of any such determination by the Company in general meeting, as board of directors may determine provided always that, for the avoidance of doubt, where a class of shares has been authorized by the company, no resolution of the Company in general meeting is required for the issuance of shares of that class and board of directors may issue shares of that class and determine such rights, privileges, conditions or restrictions attaching thereto as aforesaid, and further provided that where the company issues shares which do not carry voting rights, the words “non-voting” shall appear in the designation of such shares and where the equity capital includes shares with different voting rights, the designation of each class of shares, other than those with the most favorable voting rights, must include the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting”; |
| (d) | subdivide its shares, or any of them, into shares of an amount smaller than that fixed by our memorandum and articles of association, 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 |
| (e) | 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. |
Pre-emption Rights
Our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association do not contain any provisions relating to pre-emption rights and there are no statutory rights of pre-emption under Cayman Islands law.
Forfeiture or Surrender of Shares
Subject to the terms of the allotment, board of directors may from time to time make calls upon the shareholders in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares, and each shareholder shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen calendar days’ notice specifying the time or times of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times so specified the amount called on such shares. If a shareholder fails to pay any call or instalment of a call in respect of partly paid shares on the day appointed for payment, board of directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of such call or instalment remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued. The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen calendar days from the date of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made, and shall state that in the event of non-payment at or before the time appointed, the shares in respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as our board of directors think fit and at any time before a sale or disposition the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as board of directors think fit.
A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a shareholder in respect of the forfeited shares, but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay to the Company all monies which, at the date of forfeiture were payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares together with interest thereon, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all monies whenever payable in respect of the shares.
A certificate in writing under the hand of one Director or the secretary of the Company that a share in the Company has been duly forfeited on a date stated in the declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the fact therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the consideration given for the share on any sale or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favor of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of and he shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the share.
The provisions of our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
Our board of directors may accept the surrender for no consideration of any fully paid share.
Share Premium Account
Subject to the Companies Act, our board of directors may: (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, 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 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 our board of 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.
Redemption and Purchase of Own Shares
Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act and our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, we may by action of our board of directors: (a) issue shares that are to be redeemed or liable to be redeemed, at our option or the shareholder, in such manner and upon such terms as may be determined, before the issue of such shares, by our board of directors ; (b) purchase our own shares (including any redeemable shares) on such terms and in such manner and terms as have been approved by our board of directors , or are otherwise authorized by our memorandum and articles of association; and (c) make a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own shares in any manner permitted by the Companies Act, including out of capital. Under the Companies Act, the redemption or repurchase of any share may be paid out of our Company’s profits, share premium or out of the proceeds of a new issue of shares made for the purpose of such redemption or repurchase, or out of capital if our Company can, immediately following the date on which the payment out of capital is proposed to be made, pay its debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business. In addition, under the Companies Act no such share may be redeemed or repurchased (a) unless it is fully paid up, or (b) if such redemption or repurchase would result in there being no shares outstanding. In addition, our board of directors may accept the surrender of any fully paid share for no consideration.
Transfer of Shares
Subject to any applicable requirements set forth in our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association and provided that a transfer of ordinary shares complies with applicable rules of the Nasdaq, any of our shareholders may transfer all or any of his or her ordinary shares by an instrument of transfer in the usual or common form or in a form prescribed by Nasdaq or in any other form approved by our board of directors, executed by or on behalf of the transferor and if in respect of a nil or partly paid up share, or if so required by our board of directors , shall also be executed on behalf of the transferee and shall be accompanied by the certificate (if any) of the shares to which it relates and such other evidence as our board of directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer.
The transferor shall be deemed to remain a shareholder until the name of the transferee is entered in the register of members in respect of the relevant shares.
If our board of directors refuse to register a transfer they shall, within two calendar months after the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged, send to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of such refusal.
The registration of transfers may, after compliance with any notice required by the applicable rules of the Nasdaq, be suspended and our register of members closed at such times and for such periods as our board of directors may in their absolute discretion, from time to time determine, provided always that such registration of transfer shall not be suspended nor the register of members closed for more than thirty calendar days in any calendar year.
Requirements to Change the Rights of Holders of Ordinary Shares (Item 10.B.4 of Form 20-F)
Variation of Rights of Shares
Under the Cayman Companies Act and our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, whenever the capital of the company is divided into different classes the rights attached to any such class may, subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class, only be materially and adversely varied with the consent in writing of the holders of two-thirds of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the shares of that class.
Limitations on the Rights to Own Ordinary Shares (Item 10.B.6 of Form 20-F)
There are no limitations under the laws of the Cayman Islands or under the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association that limit the right of non-resident or foreign owners to hold or vote Ordinary Shares.
Provisions Affecting Any Change of Control (Item 10.B.7 of Form 20-F)
Anti-Takeover Provisions
Some provisions of our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association may discourage, delay, or prevent a change in control of our company or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including provisions that authorize our board of directors to issue preferred shares in one or more series and to determine the terms and rights of such preferred shares without approval of our shareholders.
Under the Cayman Companies Act, our directors may only exercise the rights and powers granted to them under our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association for what they believe in good faith to be in the best interests of our company and for a proper purpose.
Ownership Threshold (Item 10.B.8 of Form 20-F)
There are no provisions under the Cayman Companies Act or under the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association that govern the ownership threshold above which shareholder ownership must be disclosed.
Differences Between the Law of Different Jurisdictions (Item 10.B.9 of Form 20-F)
The Cayman Companies Act is derived, to a large extent, from the older Companies Acts of England and Wales but does not follow recent United Kingdom statutory enactments, and accordingly there are significant differences between the Cayman Companies Act and the current Companies Act of England and Wales. In addition, the Cayman Companies Act differs from laws applicable to United States corporations and their shareholders.
Mergers and Similar Arrangements
The Cayman Companies Act permits mergers and consolidations between Cayman Islands companies and between Cayman Islands companies and non-Cayman Islands companies. For these purposes, (a) “merger” means the merging of two or more constituent companies and the vesting of their undertaking, property, and liabilities in one of such companies as the surviving company, and (b) a “consolidation” means the combination of two or more constituent companies into a consolidated company and the vesting of the undertaking, property and liabilities of such companies to the consolidated company. In order to effect such a merger or consolidation, the directors of each constituent company must approve a written plan of merger or consolidation, which must then be authorized by (a) a special resolution of the shareholders of each constituent company, and (b) such other authorization, if any, as may be specified in such constituent company’s articles of association. The plan must be filed with the Registrar of Companies together with a declaration as to the solvency of the consolidated or surviving company, a list of the assets and liabilities of each constituent company, and an undertaking that a copy of the certificate of merger or consolidation will be given to the shareholders and creditors of each constituent company and that notification of the merger or consolidation will be published in the Cayman Islands Gazette. Court approval is not required for a merger or consolidation which is effected in compliance with these statutory procedures.
A merger between a Cayman Islands parent company and its Cayman Islands subsidiary or subsidiaries does not require authorization by a resolution of shareholders. For this purpose, a subsidiary is a company of which at least 90% of the issued shares entitled to vote are owned by the parent company.
The consent of each holder of a fixed or floating security interest of a constituent company is required unless this requirement is waived by a court in the Cayman Islands.
Except in certain limited circumstances, a dissenting shareholder of a Cayman Islands constituent company is entitled to payment of the fair value of his or her shares upon dissenting from a merger or consolidation. The exercise of such dissenter rights will preclude the exercise by the dissenting shareholder of any other rights to which he or she might otherwise be entitled by virtue of holding shares, except for the right to seek relief on the grounds that the merger or consolidation is void or unlawful.
In addition, there are statutory provisions that facilitate the reconstruction and amalgamation of companies, provided that the arrangement is approved by a majority in number of each class of shareholders and creditors with whom the arrangement is to be made, and who must, in addition, represent three-fourths in value of each such class of shareholders or creditors, as the case may be, that are present and voting either in person or by proxy at a meeting, or meetings, convened for that purpose. The convening of the meetings and subsequently the arrangement must be sanctioned by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. While a dissenting shareholder has the right to express to the court the view that the transaction ought not to be approved, the court can be expected to approve the arrangement if it determines that:
| (a) | the statutory provisions as to the required majority vote have been met; |
| (b) | the shareholders have been fairly represented at the meeting in question and the statutory majority are acting bona fide without coercion of the minority to promote interests adverse to those of the class; |
| (c) | the arrangement is such that may be reasonably approved by an intelligent and honest man of that class acting in respect of his interest; and |
| (d) | the arrangement is not one that would more properly be sanctioned under some other provision of the Cayman Companies Act. |
When a takeover offer is made and accepted by holders of 90% of the shares affected within four months, the offeror may, within a two-month period commencing on the expiration of such four-month period, require the holders of the remaining shares to transfer such shares on the terms of the offer. An objection can be made to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands but this is unlikely to succeed in the case of an offer which has been so approved unless there is evidence of fraud, bad faith or collusion.
If an arrangement and reconstruction is thus approved, or if a takeover offer is made and accepted, a dissenting shareholder would have no rights comparable to appraisal rights, which would otherwise ordinarily be available to dissenting shareholders, providing rights to receive payment in cash for the judicially determined value of the shares.
Shareholders’ Suits
In principle, we will normally be the proper plaintiff to sue for a wrong done to us as a company, and as a general rule, a derivative action may not be brought by a minority shareholder. However, based on English law authorities, which would in all likelihood be of persuasive authority in the Cayman Islands, the Cayman Islands courts can be expected to follow and apply the common law principles (namely the rule in Foss v. Harbottle and the exceptions thereto) so that a non-controlling shareholder may be permitted to commence a class action against or derivative actions in the name of the company to challenge:
| (a) | an act which is illegal or ultra vires with respect to the company and is therefore incapable of ratification by the shareholders; |
| (b) | an act which, although not ultra vires, requires authorization by a qualified (or special) majority (that is, more than a simple majority) which has not been obtained; and |
| (c) | an act which constitutes a “fraud on the minority” where the wrongdoers are themselves in control of the company. |
Indemnification of Directors and Executive Officers and Limitation of Liability
The Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. Our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that every director (including any alternate director), secretary, assistant secretary, or other officer for the time being and from time to time of our company (but not including our company’s auditors) and the personal representatives of the same (each an “Indemnified Person”) shall be indemnified and secured harmless against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, expenses, losses, damages or liabilities incurred or sustained by such Indemnified Person, other than by reason of such Indemnified Person’s own dishonesty, willful default or fraud, in or about the conduct of our company’s business or affairs (including as a result of any mistake of judgment) or in the execution or discharge of his duties, powers, authorities or discretions, including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by such Indemnified Person in defending (whether successfully or otherwise) any civil proceedings concerning our company or its affairs in any court whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere.
Anti-Takeover Provisions in Our Articles
Some provisions of our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association may discourage, delay, or prevent a change in control of our company or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including provisions that authorize our board of directors to issue preferred shares in one or more series and to determine the terms and rights of such preferred shares without approval of our shareholders.
Under the Cayman Companies Act, our directors may only exercise the rights and powers granted to them under our memorandum and articles of association for what they believe in good faith to be in the best interests of our company and for a proper purpose.
Directors’ Fiduciary Duties
As a matter of Cayman Islands law, a director owes three types of duties to the company: (i) statutory duties, (ii) fiduciary duties, and (iii) common law duties. The Cayman Companies Act imposes a number of statutory duties on a director. A Cayman Islands director’s fiduciary duties are not codified, however the courts of the Cayman Islands have held that a director owes the following fiduciary duties (a) a duty to act in what the director bona fide considers to be in the best interests of the company, (b) a duty to exercise their powers for the purposes they were conferred, (c) a duty to avoid fettering his or her discretion in the future, and (d) a duty to avoid conflicts of interest and of duty. The common law duties owed by a director are those to act with skill, care, and diligence that may reasonably be expected of a person carrying out the same functions as are carried out by that director in relation to the company and, also, to act with the skill, care, and diligence in keeping with a standard of care commensurate with any particular skill they have which enables them to meet a higher standard than a director without those skills. In fulfilling their duty of care to us, our directors must ensure compliance with our memorandum and articles of association, as amended and restated from time to time. We have the right to seek damages if a duty owed by any of our directors is breached.
Shareholder Proposals
The Cayman Companies Act provides shareholders with only limited rights to requisition a general meeting, and does not provide shareholders with any right to put any proposal before a general meeting. However, these rights may be provided in a company’s memorandum and articles of association. Our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that any one or more shareholders holding not less than one-third (1/3) of all votes attaching to the total issued and paid up share capital of the Company at the date of deposit of the requisition shall at all times have the right, by written requisition to our board of directors or the Secretary of the Company, to require an extraordinary general meeting to be called by our board of directors for the transaction of any business specified in such requisition, and such meeting shall be held within two (2) months after the deposit of such requisition. If within twenty one (21) days of such deposit our board of directors fails to proceed to convene such meeting the requisitionist(s) himself/herself (themselves) may do so in the same manner, and all reasonable expenses incurred by the requisitionist(s) as a result of the failure of our board of directors shall be reimbursed to the requisitionist(s) by the Company.
Cumulative Voting
As permitted under the Cayman Companies Act, our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association do not provide for cumulative voting.
Removal of Directors
Subject to the provisions of our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, a director may be removed from office by ordinary resolution of shareholders, notwithstanding anything in our articles of association or in any agreement between the Company and such director (but without prejudice to any claim for damages under such agreement). A director’s office shall be vacated if the director (i) becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors; (ii) dies or is found to be or becomes of unsound mind; (iii) resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company; (iv) 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; (v) is prohibited by law from being a director; and (vi) is removed from office pursuant to any other provision of our articles of association.
Transactions with Interested Shareholders
Although the Cayman Companies Act does not regulate transactions between a company and its significant shareholders, under Cayman Islands law such transactions must be entered into bona fide in the best interests of the company and for a proper corporate purpose and not with the effect of constituting a fraud on the minority shareholders.
Dissolution; Winding Up
Under the Cayman Companies Act and our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Company may be wound up by a special resolution of our shareholders, or if the winding up is initiated by our board of directors, by either a special resolution of our members or, if our company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due, by an ordinary resolution of our members. In addition, a company may be wound up by an order of the courts of the Cayman Islands. The court has authority to order winding up in a number of specified circumstances including where it is, in the opinion of the court, just and equitable to do so.
Variation of Rights of Shares
Under the Cayman Companies Act and our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, whenever the capital of the company is divided into different classes the rights attached to any such class may, subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class, only be materially and adversely varied with the consent in writing of the holders of two-thirds of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the shares of that class.
Amendment of Governing Documents
Under the Cayman Companies Act, our memorandum and articles of association may only be amended by special resolution of our shareholders.
Changes in Capital (Item 10.B.10 of Form 20-F)
Subject to the Cayman Companies Act, the Company may, by ordinary resolution:
(a) increase its share capital by new shares of such amount as it thinks appropriate;
(b) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of a larger amount than its existing shares;
(c) divide its shares into several classes and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares attach thereto respectively any preferential, deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges, conditions or such restrictions which in the absence of any such determination by the Company in general meeting, as the directors may determine provided always that, for the avoidance of doubt, where a class of shares has been authorized by the company, no resolution of the Company in general meeting is required for the issuance of shares of that class and the directors may issue shares of that class and determine such rights, privileges, conditions or restrictions attaching thereto as aforesaid, and further provided that where the company issues shares which do not carry voting rights, the words “non-voting” shall appear in the designation of such shares and where the equity capital includes shares with different voting rights, the designation of each class of shares, other than those with the most favorable voting rights, must include the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting”;
(d) subdivide its shares, or any of them, into shares of an amount smaller than that fixed by our memorandum and articles of association, 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
(e) 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.
Subject to the Companies Act and to any rights for the time being conferred on the shareholders holding a particular class of shares, our shareholders may by special resolution, reduce our share capital in any manner authorized by the Companies Act.
Debt Securities (Item 12.A of Form 20-F)
Not applicable.
Warrants and Rights (Item 12.B of Form 20-F)
Not applicable.
Other Securities (Item 12.C of Form 20-F)
Not applicable.
Description of American Depositary Shares (Items 12.D.1 and 12.D.2 of Form 20-F)
Not applicable.