As used herein, “Affiliate” has the meaning as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; “Laws” means any and all national, central, federal, provincial, state, regional, municipal, local, domestic or foreign laws (including, without limitation, any common law or case law), statutes, ordinances, legal codes, regulations or rules (including, without limitation, any and all regulations, rules, orders, judgments, decrees, rulings, opinions, guidelines, measures, notices or circulars (in each case, whether formally published or not and to the extent mandatory or, if not complied with, the basis for legal, administrative, regulatory or judicial consequences) of any Authority (as defined below)); “Authority” means any administrative, governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency, or any stock exchange, self-regulatory organization or other non-governmental regulatory authority, or any court, tribunal or arbitrator, in each case whether national, central, federal, provincial, state, regional, municipal, local, domestic, foreign or supranational; and “Taxes” or “Taxation” means all forms of taxation whenever created, imposed or arising and whether of Hong Kong, the U.S. or of any other part of the world and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, includes all forms of taxation on or relating to profits, salaries, interest and other forms of income, taxation on capital gains, sales and value added taxation, estate duty, death duty, capital duty, stamp duty, payroll taxation, withholding taxation, rates and other taxes or charges relating to property, customs and other import and excise duties, and generally any taxation, duty, impost, levy, rate, charge or any amount payable to taxing, revenue, customs or fiscal Authorities whether of Hong Kong, the U.S. or of any other part of the world, whether by way of actual assessment, loss of allowance, withholding, deduction or credit available for relief or otherwise, and including all interest, additions to tax, penalties or similar liabilities arising in respect of any taxation.
For the purposes of this Agreement, whenever the terms or expressions “save as disclosed in each of the Hong Kong Prospectus, the Registration Statement and the Pricing Disclosure Package” or the equivalent are made herein, the Hong Kong Prospectus, the Registration Statement and the Pricing Disclosure Package referred under such terms or expressions mean such documents that exist as of the date of this Agreement. Notwithstanding that the Joint Representatives and the International Underwriters may have knowledge or may have conducted investigation or enquiry with respect to the information given under the relevant representation or warranty, the rights of the Joint Representatives and the International Underwriters under this Agreement shall not be prejudiced by such knowledge, investigation and/or enquiry, if any.
1. Sale and Purchase.
(a) Upon the basis of the representations and warranties and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell to the purchasers procured by the International Underwriters, or failing which, the several International Underwriters, and each of the International Underwriters, severally (and not jointly or jointly and severally), agrees to procure purchasers to purchase or, failing which, to purchase itself from the Company, the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of such International Underwriter in Schedule I-B hereto (subject to any reallocation by the Joint Representatives of Offer Shares between the International Offering and the Hong Kong Public Offering and subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 8 hereof), at the International Offering Price.
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