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If you have sold or transferred all your shares in eSun Holdings Limited, you should at once hand this circular with the accompanying form of proxy to the purchaser(s) or the transferee(s), or to the licensed securities dealer, registered institution in securities, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser(s) or transferee(s).
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eSun Holdings Limited
(Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 571)
MAJOR DISPOSAL AND CONNECTED TRANSACTION
SALE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT IN RELATION TO
20% INTEREST IN A TARGET COMPANY
AND
NOTICE OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
Independent Financial Adviser to
the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders
Capitalised terms used in the lower portion of this cover page shall have the same respective meanings as those defined in the section headed "Definitions" in this circular.
A letter from the Board is set out on pages 8 to 19 of this circular. A letter from the Independent Board Committee is set out on page 20 of this circular. A letter from Red Sun Capital Limited, the Independent Financial Adviser, to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders, is set out on pages 21 to 46 of this circular.
A notice convening the SGM to be held at Grand Ballroom 5, Level B, Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel, 180 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong on Friday, 20 September 2019 at 9:00 a.m. is set out on pages 118 and 119 of this circular.
Shareholders are advised to read the Notice of SGM and if you are not able to attend the SGM or its adjournment (as the case may be) in person but wish to exercise your right as a Shareholder, please complete and sign the accompanying form of proxy in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and deposit the same with the Company's branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Tricor Tengis Limited, at Level 54, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong as soon as possible, but in any event not less than 48 hours before the time fixed for holding the SGM or any adjournment thereof (as the case may be). Completion and return of the form of proxy shall not preclude you from attending and voting in person at the SGM or any adjournment thereof (as the case may be) should you so wish and in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.
30 August 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS | |||
Page | |||
DEFINITIONS......................................................................................................................... | 1 | ||
LETTER FROM THE BOARD............................................................................................. | 8 | ||
LETTER FROM THE INDEPENDENT BOARD COMMITTEE.................................... | 20 | ||
LETTER FROM THE INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVISER.................................... | 21 | ||
APPENDIX I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP............................ | 47 | ||
APPENDIX II | - | MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION | |
AND ANALYSIS OF THE GROUP............................................. | 52 | ||
APPENDIX III | - | PROPERTY VALUATION REPORT | |
OF THE TARGET GROUP.......................................................... | 85 | ||
APPENDIX IV | - | BUSINESS VALUATION REPORT | |
OF THE TARGET GROUP.......................................................... | 97 | ||
APPENDIX V | - | GENERAL INFORMATION............................................................ | 107 |
NOTICE OF SGM................................................................................................................... | 118 | ||
ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENT: FORM OF PROXY |
This circular in both English and Chinese is available in printed form and published on the respective websites of the Company at www.esun.com and the Stock Exchange at www.hkexnews.hk.
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DEFINITIONS
In this circular, the following expressions shall have the following respective meanings unless the context otherwise requires:
"associate(s)" | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules; |
"Board" | the board of Directors; |
"business day" | a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a public holiday) |
on which licensed banks in Hong Kong are generally open for | |
normal banking business; | |
"chief executive" | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules; |
"Chinese Government" | the government of the PRC; |
"Company" | eSun Holdings Limited (豐德麗控股有限公司), an exempted |
company incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability, the | |
issued shares of which are listed and traded on the Main Board | |
of the Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 571); | |
"Completion" | completion of the sale and purchase of the Sale Shares in |
accordance with the provisions of the Sale and Purchase | |
Agreement; | |
"Conditions" | conditions precedent to the Sale and Purchase Agreement |
which must be fully satisfied in order for Completion to take | |
place; | |
"connected person(s)" | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules; |
"Consideration" | the amount payable under the Sale and Purchase Agreement as |
consideration for the Sale Shares in the amount of HK$557.25 | |
million; | |
"Cost-sharing Agreements" | collectively, the Laisun Creative Culture Cost-sharing Agreement, |
Novotown Creative Culture Cost-sharing Agreement, and | |
Novotown Entertainment Cost-sharing Agreement, of which the | |
details are set out in the announcement of Lai Fung dated 16 July | |
2019; | |
"Deed of Conditional Waiver" | the deed of conditional waiver dated 30 October 2012 and |
executed by Lai Fung in favour of LSG and LSD (as | |
supplemented by the supplemental deeds dated 19 November | |
2012 and 8 March 2019 executed by Lai Fung), details of | |
which are summarised in the Company's circulars dated 1 | |
December 2012 and 19 March 2019, respectively; |
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DEFINITIONS | |
"Deed of Ratification | the deed of ratification and accession to be executed by LSD |
and Accession" | (or its nominee) upon Completion under which LSD (or its |
nominee) agrees to be bound by the Shareholders' Agreement | |
as if it is an original party thereto in place of the Seller; | |
"Director(s)" | the director(s) of the Company; |
"Disposal" | the disposal of 20% equity interest in the Target Company |
pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Sale and Purchase | |
Agreement; | |
"Excluded Directors" | Mr. Lam Hau Yin, Lester, Mr. Chew Fook Aun (both executive |
Directors) and Madam U Po Chu (a non-executive Director), | |
who abstained from voting on the board resolutions approving | |
the Transaction to avoid any conflict of interests; | |
"GFA" | gross floor area; |
"Greater Bay Area" | the Guangdong-HongKong-Macao Greater Bay Area; |
"Group" | the Company and its subsidiaries; |
"Guarantees" | the guarantees provided by the Company in favour of the |
lending banks to guarantee the payment obligations of the | |
Target Group under the banking facilities granted; | |
"Head Lease Portion 1" | 108 rooms of Building 2, No. 2 Pinggong West Road, Nanping |
Science and Technology Industrial Park, Zhuhai City of the | |
PRC* (中國珠海市南屏科技工業園屏工西路2號第2棟樓); | |
"Head Lease Portion 2" | 186 rooms of Building 1, No. 2 Pinggong West Road, Nanping |
Science and Technology Industrial Park, Zhuhai City of the | |
PRC* (中國珠海市南屏科技工業園屏工西路2號第1棟樓); | |
"Head Lease Portion 3" | 52 rooms of Building 1, No. 2 Pinggong West Road, Nanping |
Science and Technology Industrial Park, Zhuhai City of the | |
PRC* (中國珠海市南屏科技工業園屏工西路2號第1棟樓); | |
"Head Lease Premises" | collectively, Head Lease Portion 1, Head Lease Portion 2, |
Head Lease Portion 3 and the Potential Head Lease Portions; | |
"HK$" | Hong Kong dollars, the lawful currency of Hong Kong; |
"Hong Kong" | the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the PRC; |
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DEFINITIONS | ||
"Independent Board Committee" | an independent committee of the Board comprising all | |
independent non-executive Directors, established to advise the | ||
Independent Shareholders in respect of the Transaction; | ||
"Independent Financial Adviser" | Red Sun Capital Limited, a corporation licensed to carry | |
out Type 1 (dealing in securities) and Type 6 (advising on | ||
corporate finance) regulated activities as defined under the | ||
SFO, being the independent financial adviser appointed to | ||
advise the Independent Board Committee and the Independent | ||
Shareholders in respect of the Transaction; | ||
"Independent Shareholders" | the Shareholders who do not have any material interest in the | |
Transaction and who are not required to abstain from voting on | ||
resolution(s) approving the Transaction at the SGM pursuant to | ||
the Listing Rules; | ||
"Lai Fung" | Lai Fung Holdings Limited (麗豐控股有限公司), an exempted | |
company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited | ||
liability, the issued shares of which are listed and traded on the | ||
Main Board of the Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 1125); | ||
"Lai Fung Announcements" | the announcements of Lai Fung dated 16 July 2019 and 23 July | |
2019 regarding the continuing connected transactions under the | ||
Property Management Services Agreements and Cost-sharing | ||
Agreements; | ||
"Lai Fung Board" | the board of directors of Lai Fung, consisting of the directors | |
of Lai Fung; | ||
"Lai Fung Group" | Lai Fung and its subsidiaries; | |
"Laisun Creative Culture" | 珠海橫琴麗新文創天地有限公司 (Zhuhai Hengqin Laisun | |
Creative Culture City Co., Ltd.*), a company established in | ||
the PRC with limited liability and an indirect wholly-owned | ||
subsidiary of the Target Company; | ||
"Laisun Creative Culture | the agreement entered into between Laisun Creative Culture | |
Cost-sharing Agreement" | and Novotown Business Management on 16 July 2019 in | |
relation to the cost-sharing arrangement, of which details are | ||
set out in the announcement of Lai Fung dated 16 July 2019; | ||
"Laisun Creative Culture | the agreement entered into between Laisun Creative Culture | |
Property Management | and Novotown Business Management on 23 July 2019 in | |
Services Agreement" | relation to the provision of property management services, | |
of which details are set out in the announcement of Lai Fung | ||
dated 23 July 2019; |
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