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(incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 8178) PLACING OF NEW SHARES UNDER GENERAL MANDATE PLACING AGENT
On 8 June 20 2 (after trading hours), the Company entered
into the Placing Agreement with the Placing Agent pursuant to
which the Placing Agent has agreed to place, on a best effort
basis, to independent Placees for up to ,000,000,000 new
Shares at a price of HK$0.027 per Placing Share.
The Placing is conditional upon the Listing Committee of the
Stock Exchange granting the listing of and permission to deal
in the Placing Shares. If such condition is not fulfilled,
the Placing will not proceed.
The maximum number of ,000,000,000 Placing Shares represents
approximately 5.40% of the entire issued share capital of the
Company of 6,494,906,368 Shares as at the date of this
announcement and approximately 3.34% of the Company's entire
issued share capital as enlarged by the Placing Shares. The
net proceeds from the Placing of approximately HK$26,000,000
(assuming the Placing Shares are fully placed and after all
relevant expenses) are intended to be applied for the
repayment of certain term loans and for the working capital
of the Group.
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THE PLACING AGREEMENT
Date: 8 June 20 2 (after trading hours)
Placing Agent: United Simsen Securities Limited. To the best
of the Company's knowledge, information and belief after
making reasonable enquiries, the Placing Agent and its
ultimate beneficial owners are Independent Third Parties.
Placee: The Placing Shares will be placed to not less than
six Placees (which will be independent individual, corporate
and/or institutional investors) and their ultimate beneficial
owners will be Independent Third Parties. It is expected that
no Placee will become a substantial Shareholder (as such term
is defined in the GEM Listing Rules) immediately following
completion of the Placing.
Number of Placing Shares: Up to ,000,000,000 new Shares, to
be placed by the Placing Agent on a best effort basis.
Assuming the Placing Shares are fully placed, the Placing
Shares represents approximately 5.40% of the entire issued
share capital of the Company of 6,494,906,368 Shares as at
the date of this announcement and approximately 3.34% of the
Company's entire issued share capital as enlarged by the
Placing Shares. The aggregate nominal value of the Placing
Shares is HK$ 0,000,000 as at the date of this
announcement.
Placing Price: HK$0.027 per Placing Share. The Placing Price
was agreed after arm's length negotiations between the
Company and the Placing Agent, with reference to, among other
things, the recent trading price of the Shares on the Stock
Exchange. The Placing Price represents:
(i) a discount of approximately 0% to the closing price
of
HK$0.030 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange on 8
June 20 2, being the date of the Placing Agreement;
(ii) a discount of approximately 3.46% to the average closing
price of approximately HK$0.03 2 per Share as quoted on the
Stock Exchange for the last five trading days of the Shares
immediately prior the date of the Placing Agreement; and
(iii) a premium of approximately 62.65% over the audited net
assets value per Share of approximately HK$0.0 66 as at 3
December
20 .
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The Company will bear the costs and expenses in connection
with the Placing and the net proceeds from the Placing is
estimated to be approximately HK$26,000,000 (assuming the
Placing Shares are fully placed). As a result, the net price
per Placing Share will be approximately HK$0.026.
Placing Commission: The Placing Agent will receive a placing
commission of 2.5% on the gross proceeds of the Placing.
General Mandate: The Placing Shares will be issued pursuant
to the general mandate to allot, issue and deal with the
Shares granted to the Directors by resolution of the
Shareholders passed at the Company's annual general meeting
held on 7 June 20 up to ,298,98 ,273 shares. As at the date
of this announcement, no Share has been issued pursuant to
the said general mandate.
Ranking of Placing Shares: The Placing Shares, when issued
and fully paid, will rank pari passu among themselves and
with Shares in issue at the time of issue and allotment of
the Placing Shares.
Conditions to the Placing: The Placing is conditional upon
the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange granting listing
of and permission to deal in the Placing Shares.
Application will be made to the Stock Exchange for approval
for the listing of and permission to deal in the Placing
Shares.
The Placing is not subject to the Shareholders' approval.
Completion of the Placing: Subject to the satisfaction of all
the conditions set out above, the
Placing is expected to be completed on or before 3 August 20
2 or
such later time and/or such other date as the Placing Agent
and the
Company may agree.
Termination: Notwithstanding anything contained in the
Placing Agreement, if, at any time prior to 2:00 noon on the
Completion Date,
(A) ( ) there is any change or prospective change (whether or
not permanent) in the business or in the financial or trading
position or prospects of the Company or any other member of
the Group; or
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(2) any event or series of events resulting or representing
or likely to result in any change or development (whether or
not permanent) in local, national, regional or international
financial, political, industrial, economic, currency,
military, conflict-related, legal, fiscal, exchange control,
regulatory conditions or any monetary or trading settlement
system (including but not limited to a change in the system
under which the value of the Hong Kong currency or Renminbi
is linked to that of the currency of the United States),
equity or other financial market or other conditions,
circumstances or matters shall have occurred, happened or
come into effect; or
(3) any relevant new law, regulations, decree or change
(whether or not forming part of a series of changes) in
existing laws or any change in the interpretation or
application thereof by any court or Governmental Authority in
Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, the People's Republic of China
("PRC"), the United States, European Union or in other
jurisdiction which the Group operates or has or is deemed by
any applicable law to have a presence (by whatever name
called) or any other jurisdiction relevant to the Group shall
have been introduced or effected (each a "Relevant
Jurisdiction"); or
(4) a change or development occurs involving a prospective
change in taxation or exchange control (or in the
implementation of any exchange control) or foreign investment
regulations in Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, the PRC, the
United States, the European Union (or any member thereof), or
any Relevant Jurisdiction; or
(5) the imposition of economic or other sanctions, in
whatever form, directly or indirectly, by the United States,
the European Union (or any member thereof) or any other
country or organisation any Relevant Jurisdiction; or
(6) any event, or series of events, beyond the control of the
Placing Agent (including without limitation, any acts of God,
acts of government, large scale labour disputes, acts or
threats of war, riots, public disorder, civil commotion,
fire, flooding, explosion, outbreak of diseases or epidemic
(including but not limited to severe acute respiratory
syndrome and H5N , avian flu, influenza A (H Na)
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(swine flu) and such related or mutated forms), terrorism,
strikes or lockouts) or extensive interruption or delay in
transportation, economic sanction and any declaration of a
national or international emergency or war shall have
occurred, happened or come into effect in any Relevant
Jurisdiction; or
(7) any local, national, regional or international outbreak
or escalation of hostilities (whether or not war is or has
been declared) or other state of emergency or crisis
involving or affecting any Relevant Jurisdiction; or
(8) the imposition or declaration of (i) any suspension or
material limitation on dealings in shares or securities
generally on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Shanghai Stock
Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, New York Stock
Exchange, Inc., London Stock Exchange plc. or any other major
international stock exchange or (ii) any moratorium on
banking activities or disruption in commercial banking
activities or foreign exchange trading or securities
settlement or clearance services in or affecting Hong Kong,
the PRC, New York, London or any other jurisdiction; or
(9) any change or deterioration in the conditions of local,
national or international securities markets occurs; or
( 0) a demand by any creditor for repayment or payment of any
indebtedness of any member of the Group or in respect of
which any member of the Group is liable prior to its stated
maturity; or
( ) any litigation of claim of any third party being
instigated against any member of the Group; or
( 2) any loss or damage sustained by any member of the Group
(howsoever caused and whether or not the subject of any
insurance or claim against any person); or
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( 3) a petition is presented for the winding-up or
liquidation of any member of the Group or any member of the
Group makes any composition or arrangement with its creditors
or enters into a scheme of arrangement or any resolution is
passed for the winding-up of any member of the Group or a
provisional liquidator, receiver or manager is appointed over
all or part of the assets or undertaking of any member of the
Group or anything analogous thereto occurs in respect of any
member of the Group; or
( 4) approval by the Listing Committee of the listing of, and
permission to deal in, the Placing Shares to be issued or
sold under the Placing is refused or not granted, other than
subject to customary conditions, on or before the Completion
Date, or if granted, the approval is subsequently withdrawn,
qualified (other than by customary conditions) or withheld,
which in the sole and absolute opinion of the Placing
Agent:
(i) is or will or may individually or in aggregate have a
material adverse effect on the business, financial, trading
or other condition or prospects of the Company taken alone or
the Group taken as a whole and/or, in the case of this clause
(a)(4), to any present or prospective shareholder in its
capacity as such; or
(ii) has or will or may have a material adverse effect on the
success of the Placing; or
(iii) is or will or may make it impracticable, inadvisable,
inexpedient or not commercially viable (a) for any material
part of the Placing Agreement and/ or the Placing to be
performed or implemented as envisaged; or (b) to proceed with
the Placing on the terms and in the manner contemplated under
the Placing Agreement; or
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(B) the Placing Agent shall become aware of the fact that, or
have cause to believe that:
( ) any of the warranties or undertakings given by the
Company is untrue, inaccurate, misleading or breached in any
respect when given or as repeated as determined by the
Placing Agent in its sole and absolute discretion;
(2) any statement contained in the this announcement and/or
the relevant circular issued by the Company in respect of the
Placing was or is untrue, incorrect or misleading in any
respect, or any matter arises or is discovered which would,
if this announcement and/or the relevant circular in respect
of the Placing were to be issued at that time, constitute a
material omission therefrom as determined by the Placing
Agent in its sole and absolute discretion; or
(3) there has been a breach in any material respect on the
part of any of the Company of any of the provisions of the
Placing Agreement as determined by the Placing Agent in its
sole and absolute discretion,
then and in any such case, the Placing Agent may terminate
the Placing Agreement without liability to the Company by
giving notice in writing to the Company, provided that such
notice is received by the Company prior to 2:00 noon on the
Completion Date.
For the purpose of the provisions of clause (A)( ) mentioned
above, a change in the system under which the value of the
Hong Kong currency is linked to that of the currency of the
United States or any change of the value of Hong Kong
currency under such system shall be taken as an event
resulting in a change in currency conditions; and any market
fluctuations, whether or not within the normal range
therefor, may be considered as a change of market conditions.
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EFFECT OF THE PLACING ON THE SHAREHOLDINGFor illustrative purpose only, the shareholdings in the Company as at the date of this announcement (as extracted from the Disclosure of Interests filed in the website of the Stock Exchange by the relevant Shareholders and the latest available public information) and immediately after completion of the Placing are and will be as follows:
Immediately after | |||
As at the date | completion | ||
Shareholders | of this announcement | of the Placing | |
Approximately | Approximately | ||
No. of Shares % | No. of Shares % | ||
Substantial Shareholders | |||
Prime Technology Group Limited (Note 1) | ,677,546,070 25.83 | ,677,546,070 22.38 | |
E-Tron Limited (Note 1) | 2 7,967,375 3.35 | 2 7,967,375 2.9 |
Sub-total ,895,5 3,445 29. 8 ,895,5 3,445 25.29
Carford Holdings Limited (Note 2) 647,000,000 9.96
647,000,000 8.63
Getwin Investment Limited (Note 2) 377,024,000 5.80
377,024,000 5.03
Sub-total ,024,024,000 5.76 ,024,024,000 3.66
Public Shareholders
Placee(s) - - ,000,000,000 3.34
Existing public Shareholders 3,575,368,923 55.06
3,575,368,923 47.7
Notes:
( ) Beijing Development (Hong Kong) Limited was deemed to be interested in the ,895,5 3,445 Shares by virtue of its controlling interests in its wholly owned subsidiaries, Prime Technology Group Limited and E-Tron Limited. Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited was deemed to be interested in the ,895,5 3,445
Shares by virtue of its controlling interests in Beijing Development (Hong Kong) Limited. Beijing Enterprises Group Company Limited was deemed to be interested in the ,895,5 3,445 Shares by virtue of its controlling interests in Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited.
(2) Mr. Xia Xiaoman was deemed to be interested in the ,024,024,000 Shares by virtue of his controlling interests in Carford Holdings Limited and Getwin Investment Limited.
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REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE PLACING AND USE OF THE PROCEEDS
The Group is principally engaged in the development and sale
of computer software and hardware, the provision of system
integration and related support services in mainland China,
the PRC.
According to the annual report of the Company for the year
ended 3 December 20 , the cash and cash equivalents of the
Group was approximately HK$ 33,82 ,000 as at 3 December 20 .
The Directors consider that the major portion of such cash
and cash equivalents is reserved for maintaining the
day-to-day operation cash-flow and for working capital of the
Group. In order to reduce the gearing level and strengthen
the financial position of the Group, the Directors consider
the Placing a good opportunity to raise capital for the
Company to repay certain term loans and achieve such
purposes. This also helps to reduce loan interest expense
outlay thus will improve future operation results of the
Group. In addition, the Placing Price represents a premium of
approximately 62.65% over the audited net assets value per
Share of approximately HK$0.0 66 as at 3 December 20 . In
view of above, the Directors consider the terms of the
Placing Agreement to be fair and reasonable and in the
interest of the Group and the Shareholders as a whole.
Subject to the Placing being completed, the Company will bear
all the costs and expenses of approximately HK$ ,000,000 in
connection with the Placing. As a result, the net price per
Placing Share will be approximately HK$0.026 and the net
proceeds of approximately HK$26,000,000 from the Placing are
intended to be applied for the said repayment of certain term
loans with a principal amount of approximately HK$ 8,324,000
and for working capital of the Group.
The Company does not have any equity fund raising activities for the 2 months immediately before the date of this announcement.
DEFINITIONS
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms
shall have the meaning set out below: "associate(s)" has the
meaning ascribed thereto under the GEM Listing Rules "Board"
board of Directors
"Business Day" any day (other than a Saturday or Sunday or
public holiday) on which banks in Hong Kong are generally
open for the transaction of normal business
"Company" China Information Technology Development Limited, a
company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited
liability, the Shares of which are listed on GEM
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"Completion Date" the date falling into two Business Day
after the date upon which the conditions shall have been
satisfied or such other time and/or date as the Company and
the Placing Agent may agree in writing
"connected person(s)" has the meaning ascribed to it under
the GEM Listing Rules
"Director(s)" the director(s) of the Company
"GEM" the Growth Enterprise Market operated by the Stock
Exchange
"GEM Listing Rules" the Rules Governing the Listing of
Securities on GEM "Group" the Company and its
subsidiaries
"Hong Kong" the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of
the PRC
"Independent Third Party(ies)" an independent third party, to
the best of the Directors' knowledge, information and belief
having made all reasonable enquiry, who is not connected with
the Company and its connected persons (as defined under the
GEM Listing Rules)
"Listing Committee" the listing sub-committee of the board of
The Stock Exchange of
Hong Kong Limited
"Placee(s)" any individual, institutional or other
professional investor procured by the Placing Agent to
purchase any of the Placing Shares pursuant to the Placing
Agreement
"Placing" the placing of the Placing Shares by the Company,
through the Placing
Agent, pursuant to the Placing Agreement
"Placing Agent" United Simsen Securities Limited, a licensed
corporation under the SFO to carry on types (dealing in
securities), 2 (dealing in future contracts), 4 (advising on
securities) and 6 (advising on corporate finance) regulated
activities under the SFO
"Placing Agreement" the placing agreement entered into
between the Company and the
Placing Agent dated 8 June 20 2 in relation to the
Placing
"Placing Price" HK$0.027 per Placing Share
"Placing Shares" a maximum of ,000,000,000 new Shares to be
placed pursuant to the Placing Agreement
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"PRC" The People's Republic of China
"SFO" the Securities and Futures Ordinance
"Share(s)" ordinary share(s) of HK$0.0 each in the share
capital of the
Company
"Shareholder(s)" holder(s) of the Share(s)
"Stock Exchange" The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited
"HK$" Hong Kong dollars, the lawful currency of Hong Kong
"%" per cent.
By order of the Board
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Hong Kong, 8 June 20 2
As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises Mr. Hu Zhuoer (Chief Executive Officer) and Mr. Tse Chi Wai as Executive Directors, Mr. Ng Kwok Fai, Dr. Sun Guofu and Mr. Chen Zhongfa as Independent Non-executive Directors.
This announcement, for which the Directors of the Company collectively and individually accept full responsibility, includes particulars given in compliance with the GEM Listing Rules for the purpose of giving information with regard to the Company. The Directors, having made all reasonable enquiries, confirm that to the best of their knowledge and belief the information contained in this announcement is accurate and complete in all material respects and not misleading or deceptive, and there are no other matters the omission of which would make any statement herein or this announcement misleading.
This announcement will be available on the Company's website http://www.chinainfotech.com.hk and will remain on the "Latest Company Announcement" page on the GEM website at http://www.hkgem.com for at least 7 days from the date of its posting.
In the case of inconsistency, the English text of this announcement shall prevail over the Chinese text.
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