Exhibit 5.1
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Gridsum Holding Inc.
Harbour Place 2nd Floor
103 South Church Street
P.O. Box 472, George Town
Grand Cayman KY1-1106
Cayman Islands
As of 9 September 2016
Dear Sirs
Gridsum Holding Inc.
We have acted as Cayman Islands legal advisers to Gridsum Holding Inc. (the “Company”) in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1, including all amendments or supplements thereto, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”), as amended (the “Registration Statement”), related to the offering by the Company of American Depositary Shares representing certain ordinary shares, par value of US$0.001 per share (the “Shares”). This opinion is given in accordance with the terms of the Legal Matters section of the Registration Statement.
1 Documents Reviewed
For the purposes of this opinion we have reviewed originals, copies, drafts or conformed copies of the documents listed in Schedule 1 to this opinion, being all of the documents necessary to form our opinion. Defined terms shall have the meanings set out in Schedule 1 or in the Registration Statement.
2 Assumptions
The following opinions are given only as to and based on circumstances and matters of fact existing at the date hereof and as to the laws of the Cayman Islands as the same are in force at the date hereof. In giving this opinion, we have relied upon the completeness and accuracy (and assumed the continuing completeness and accuracy as at the date hereof) of the Certificate of Good Standing and the Director’s Certificate, as to matters of fact, without further verification and have assumed that copy documents or drafts of documents provided to us are true and complete copies of, or in the final forms of, the originals.
3 Opinions
Based upon, and subject to, the foregoing assumptions, and having regard to such legal considerations as we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that:
3.1 the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands;
3.2 the issue and allotment of the Shares have been duly authorised and when allotted, issued and paid for as contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Shares will be legally issued and allotted, fully paid and non-assessable. In this opinion the phrase “non-assessable” means, with respect to Shares in the Company, that a shareholder shall not, solely by virtue of its status as a shareholder, be liable for additional assessments or calls on the Shares by the Company or its creditors (except in exceptional circumstances, such as involving fraud, the establishment of an agency relationship or an illegal or improper purpose or other circumstances in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil). As a matter of Cayman law, a share is only issued when it has been entered in the register of members (shareholders); and
3.3 the statements under the caption “Taxation” in the prospectus forming part of the Registration Statement, to the extent that they constitute statements of Cayman Islands law, are accurate in all material respects and such statements constitute our opinion.
We hereby consent to the prospectus discussion of this opinion, to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm under the headings “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities” and “Legal Matters” and elsewhere in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement. In providing our consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the Rules and Regulations of the Commission thereunder.
This opinion is limited to the matters detailed herein and is not to be read as an opinion with respect to any other matter.
Yours faithfully
/s/ TRAVERS THORP ALBERGA
TRAVERS THORP ALBERGA
SCHEDULE 1
List of Documents Reviewed
1 the Certificate of Incorporation dated 21 July 2014;
2 the register of members of the Company;
3 the register of directors of the Company;
4 the Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company as adopted by Special Resolution as defined in the Pre-IPO M&A on 30 June 2015 and the amendment to the Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company as adopted by Special Resolution at an extraordinary general meeting of the Company held on 23 August 2016 (the “Pre-IPO M&A”);
5 the minutes of a meeting of the board of directors of the Company held on 2 February 2016 (the “IPO Board Resolutions”);
6 the minutes of a meeting of the shareholders of the Company held on 2 February 2016 (the “Shareholders’ Resolutions”, together with the IPO Board Resolutions are referred to as the “Resolutions”);
7 the certificate of good standing of the Company issued by the Registry of Companies, Cayman Islands on 6 September 2016 (the “Certificate of Good Standing”);
8 a certificate from a Director of the Company addressed to this firm, a copy of which is attached hereto (the “Director’s Certificate”); and
9 the Registration Statement.