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Subsequent Events
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

16. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS


On April 1, 2021, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain purchasers identified on the signature page thereto (the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which the Company sold to the Purchasers in a registered direct offering, an aggregate of 5,737,706 shares (the “Shares”) of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) at a purchase price of $6.10 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $35 million, before deducting fees to the placement agent and other offering expenses payable by the Company. As of report day, the transaction has completed.


On April 9, 2021, the Company, Future FinTech (Hong Kong) Limited., a limited company organized under the laws of Hong Kong and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Buyer”), Nice Talent Asset Management Limited, a limited company organized under the laws of Hong Kong (“Nice”) and Joy Rich Enterprises Limited, a limited company organized under the laws of Hong Kong and 90% shareholder of Nice (“Joy Rich” or the “Seller”) entered into the First Amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Share Exchange Agreement (the “Agreement”), which was originally entered into by the parties on July 13, 2020. Pursuant to the Agreement, the Buyer agreed to acquire 90% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of Nice (the “Nice Shares”) from the Seller in exchange for the shares of common stock of the Company, as disclosed in the Form 8-K filed on July 16, 2020. Pursuant to the Amendment, the parties agree to amend the purchase price and certain earn-out terms as follows: (i) the aggregate purchase price for Nice Shares shall be HK$144,000,000 (the “Purchase Price”) and it shall be paid in the shares of common stock of the Company (the “Company Shares”); (ii) 60% of the Purchase Price or HK$86,400,000 shall be paid in the shares of common stock of the Company based on 95% of the closing price of the Company’s common stock listed on Nasdaq Stock Exchange on the date prior to the date of the Amendment and the foreign exchange rate between HK$ and US$ shall be 7.7:1; (iii) 20% of Purchase Price shall be paid in the shares of common stock of the Company if Nice achieves an Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (the “EBIT”) of HK$14,000,000 (the “2021 EBIT Goal”), as evidenced in its 2021 audited financial statements for fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 audited by the auditor of the Company (the “2021 Earn-Out Shares”); (iv) the final 20% of Purchase Price shall be paid in the shares of common stock of the Company if Nice achieves an EBIT of HK$20,000,000 (the “2022 EBIT Goal”), as evidenced in its 2022 audited financial statements for fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 audited by the auditor of the Company (the “2022 Earn-Out Shares”); (v) if Nice does not achieve the EBIT Goal for a given year, the shortfall between EBIT Goal and the actual EBIT for that year shall be the EBIT Shortfall (the “EBIT Shortfall”) and the amount of an EBIT Shortfall Fee that equals to 10 (ten) times of the EBIT Shortfall amount (the “EBIT Shortfall Fee”) shall be paid in cash by the Seller to the Buyer even though such year’s Earn-Out Shares shall still be issued in full to the Seller.


On April 16, 2021, the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary, Future Supply Chain Co., Ltd., completed its acquisition of 60% equity interest of Sichuan Ticode Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. (“Ticode”) from Sichuan Longma Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. (the “Seller”) in exchange for 7,789,882 shares of common stock of the Company (the “Company Shares”), pursuant to a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated February 26, 2021.


On April 25, 2021, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company dismissed BF Borgers CPA PC (“BF Borgers”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately.


On April 25, 2021, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company approved the engagement of Onestop Assurance PAC (“Onestop Assurance”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately. The Audit Committee also approved Onestop Assurance to act as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021.