“Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any oral or written communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance on either Section 5(d) of, or Rule 163B under, the Securities Act. “Written Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any Testing-the-Waters Communication that is a written communication within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act. “Offering Documents” means the Hong Kong Prospectus, the green application form to be completed by the HK eIPO White Form Service Provider (the “Application Form”), the Disclosure Package, the Registration Statement, the Preliminary International Prospectus, the Final International Prospectus and any other documents issued, given or used in connection with the contemplated offering and sale of the Offer Shares or otherwise in connection with the Global Offering, including without limitation, any information, materials and documents issued, given or presented in any of the investor presentations and/or roadshow presentations conducted by or on behalf of the Company in connection with the Global Offering (the “Investor Presentation Materials”) relating to the Offer Shares, and in each case, all amendments or supplements thereto.
Capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Hong Kong Underwriting Agreement. The terms “herein”, “hereof”, “hereto”, “hereinafter” and similar terms, as used in this Agreement, shall in each case refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular section, paragraph, sentence or other subdivision of this Agreement. The term “or”, as used herein, is not exclusive, and the use of the term “including” shall be without limitation. The term “business day”, as used herein, shall mean a day (other than Saturday or Sunday) on which banking institutions in both Hong Kong and New York are open generally for normal banking business and on which the SEHK is open for business of dealing in securities.
As used herein, “Affiliate” has the meaning as defined in Rule 501(b) 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 the U.S., Hong Kong, Cayman Islands, the PRC 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, business tax, 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, fee, assessment, duty, impost, levy, rate, charge or any amount payable to taxing, revenue, customs or fiscal Authorities whether of the U.S., Hong Kong, Cayman Islands, the PRC 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.
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