EX-5.1 5 ea020038303ex5-1_eureka.htm OPINION OF OGIER, CAYMAN ISLANDS LEGAL COUNSEL TO THE REGISTRANT

Exhibit 5.1

 

 

 

Eureka Acquisition Corp

 

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  Reference: NMP/RYH/506131.00001
     
    26 April 2024

 

Eureka Acquisition Corp (Company number: 401107) (the Company)

 

We have been requested to provide you with an opinion on matters of Cayman Islands law in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form S-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, (including its exhibits, the Registration Statement) related to the offering and sale of:

 

(a)5,000,000 units (together, the Units), each Unit consisting of one class A ordinary share of the Company with a par value of US$0.0001 each (the Class A Ordinary Shares) and one right to acquire one-fifth of one Class A Ordinary Share (the Rights);

 

(b)up to 750,000 Units (the Over-Allotment Units) which several underwriters, for whom Maxim Group LLC is acting as representative (the Representative), will have a right to purchase from the Company to cover over-allotments, if any;

 

(c)200,000 Class A Ordinary Shares (or 230,000 Class A Ordinary Shares if the over-allotment option is exercised in full) (the Representative Shares) which the Company has agreed to issue to the Representative or its designees, pursuant to the Registration Statement; and

 

(d)all Class A Ordinary Shares and the Rights issued as part of the Units and the Over-Allotment Units; and

 

(e)all Class A Ordinary Shares that may be issued upon exercise of the Rights included in the Units and the Over-Allotment Units.

 

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Partners

Nicholas Plowman

Nathan Powell

Anthony Oakes

Oliver Payne

Kate Hodson

David Nelson

Justin Davis

Florence Chan*

Lin Han

Cecilia Li**

Rachel Huang**

Richard Bennett**‡

James Bergstrom

Marcus Leese

* admitted in New Zealand

admitted in New York

** admitted in England and Wales

not ordinarily resident in Hong Kong

 

 

 

 

Eureka Acquisition Corp

 

This opinion is given in accordance with the terms of the Legal Matters section of the Registration Statement.

 

A reference to a Schedule is a reference to a schedule to this opinion and the headings herein are for convenience only and do not affect the construction of this opinion.

 

1Documents examined

 

For the purposes of giving this opinion, we have examined the corporate and other documents and conducted the searches listed in Schedule 1. We have not made any searches or enquiries concerning, and have not examined any documents entered into by or affecting the Company or any other person, save for the searches, enquiries and examinations expressly referred to in Schedule 1.

 

2Assumptions

 

In giving this opinion we have relied upon the assumptions set forth in Schedule 2 without having carried out any independent investigation or verification in respect of those assumptions.

 

3Opinions

 

On the basis of the examinations and assumptions referred to above and subject to the qualifications set forth in Schedule 3 and the limitations set forth below, we are of the opinion that:

 

Corporate status

 

(a)The Company has been duly incorporated as an exempted company with limited liability and is validly existing and in good standing with the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands (the Registrar).

 

Corporate power

 

(b)The Company has all requisite power under its Memorandum and Articles of Association (each as defined in Schedule 1) to exercise its rights and perform its obligations under and as described in the Registration Statement.

 

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Shares

 

(c)The Class A Ordinary Shares included in the Units and Over-allotment Units, and the Representative Shares to be offered and issued by the Company as contemplated by the Registration Statement, have been duly authorised for issue and when issued by the Company upon:

 

(i)payment in full of the consideration as set out in the Registration Statement and in accordance with the terms set out in the Registration Statement (including , the terms in the underwriting agreement referred to within the Registration Statement) and in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association;

 

(ii)the entry of those Class A Ordinary Shares and Representative Shares as fully paid on the register of members of the Company, and

 

(iii)such issuance of Class A Ordinary Shares and Representative Shares have been duly registered in the Company's register of members,

 

will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

(d)Any Class A Ordinary Shares to be issued by the Company pursuant to the Rights, as contemplated by the Registration Statement, when the Rights are exercisable under the terms of the Rights Documents, have been duly authorised for issue and when issued by the Company upon:

 

(i)due exercise of the Rights comprised in the Units and Over-allotment Units as set out in the Registration Statement and in accordance with the terms set out in the Registration Statement, the Rights Documents and in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association;

 

(ii)payment in full of the exercise price therefor under the terms of the Rights;

 

(iii)the entry of those Class A Ordinary Shares as fully paid on the register of members of the Company, and

 

(iv)such issuance of Class A Ordinary Shares have been duly registered in the Company's register of members,

 

will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

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No litigation revealed

 

(e)Based solely on our investigation of the Register of Writs and Other Originating Process (Register of Writs), no litigation was pending in the Cayman Islands against the Company, nor had any petition been presented or order made for the winding up of the Company, as of the close of business on the day before our inspection.

 

4Matters not covered

 

We offer no opinion:

 

(a)as to any laws other than the laws of the Cayman Islands, and we have not, for the purposes of this opinion, made any investigation of the laws of any other jurisdiction, and we express no opinion as to the meaning, validity, or effect of references in the Documents to statutes, rules, regulations, codes or judicial authority of any jurisdiction other than the Cayman Islands;

 

(b)except to the extent that this opinion expressly provides otherwise, as to the commercial terms of, or the validity, enforceability or effect of the documents reviewed (or as to how the commercial terms of such documents reflect the intentions of the parties), the accuracy of representations, the fulfilment of warranties or conditions, the occurrence of events of default or terminating events or the existence of any conflicts or inconsistencies among the documents and any other agreements into which the Company may have entered or any other documents; or

 

(c)as to whether the acceptance, execution or performance of the Company’s obligations under the documents reviewed by us will result in the breach of or infringe any other agreement, deed or document (other than the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association) entered into by or binding on the Company.

 

5Governing law of this opinion

 

5.1This opinion is:

 

(a)governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, the laws of the Cayman Islands;

 

(b)limited to the matters expressly stated in it; and

 

(c)confined to, and given on the basis of, the laws and practice in the Cayman Islands at the date of this opinion.

 

5.2Unless otherwise indicated, a reference to any specific Cayman Islands legislation is a reference to that legislation as amended to, and as in force at, the date of this opinion.

 

6Consent

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and also consent to the reference to this firm in the Registration Statement under the heading “Legal Matters". In the giving of 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.

 

Yours faithfully  
   
/s/ Ogier  
Ogier  

 

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Schedule 1

 

Documents examined

 

Corporate and other documents

 

1The Certificate of Incorporation of the Company dated 13 June 2023 issued by the Registrar.

 

2The amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company filed with the Registrar on 27 September 2023 (respectively, the Memorandum and the Articles).

 

3A Certificate of Good Standing dated 24 April 2024 (the Good Standing Certificate) issued by the Registrar in respect of the Company.

 

4The written resolutions of the sole director of the Company passed on 7 March 2024 (the Board Resolutions).

 

5A certificate dated on the date hereof as to certain matters of fact signed by the sole director of the Company in the form annexed hereto (the Director’s Certificate).

 

6The register of members of the Company provided to us on 24 April 2024 (the Register of Members).

 

7The register of directors and officers of the Company provided to us on 24 April 2024 (the Register of Directors, and together with the Register of Members, the Statutory Books).

 

8The Register of Writs at the office of the Clerk of Courts in the Cayman Islands as inspected by us on 26 April 2024 (the Register of Writs).

 

9The Registration Statement.

 

10A draft of the form of the unit certificate representing the Units and the Over-Allotment Units (the Unit Certificates).

 

11A draft specimen certificate for Class A Ordinary Shares (the Share Certificates).

 

12A draft of the form of the rights agreement and the rights certificate constituting the Rights (the Rights Documents and, together with the Unit Certificates and the Share Certificates, the Documents).

 

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Schedule 2

 

Assumptions

 

Assumptions of general application

 

1All original documents examined by us are authentic and complete.

 

2All copy documents examined by us (whether in facsimile, electronic or other form) conform to the originals and those originals are authentic and complete.

 

3All signatures, seals, dates, stamps and markings (whether on original or copy documents) are genuine.

 

4Each of the Good Standing Certificate, the Statutory Books and the Director’s Certificate is accurate and complete as at the date of this opinion.

 

5Where any Document has been provided to us in draft or undated form, that Document has been executed by all parties in materially the form provided to us and, where we have been provided with successive drafts of a Document marked to show changes from a previous draft, all such changes have been accurately marked.

 

6None of the opinions expressed herein will be adversely affected by the laws or public policies of any jurisdiction other than the Cayman Islands. In particular, but without limitation to the previous sentence:

 

(a)the laws or public policies of any jurisdiction other than the Cayman Islands will not adversely affect the capacity or authority of the Company; and

 

(b)neither the execution or delivery of the Documents nor the exercise by any party to the Documents of its rights or the performance of its obligations under them contravene those laws or public policies.

 

7There are no agreements, documents or arrangements (other than the documents expressly referred to in this opinion as having been examined by us) that materially affect or modify the Documents or the transactions contemplated by them or restrict the powers and authority of the Company in any way.

 

8None of the transactions contemplated by the Documents relate to any shares, voting rights or other rights that are subject to a restrictions notice issued pursuant to the Companies Act (Revised) (the Companies Act) of the Cayman Islands.

 

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Status, authorisation and execution

 

9Each of the parties to the Documents other than the Company is duly incorporated, formed or organised (as applicable), validly existing and in good standing under all relevant laws.

 

10Any individuals who are parties to a Document, or who sign or have signed documents or give information on which we rely, have the legal capacity under all relevant laws (including the laws of the Cayman Islands) to enter into and perform their obligations under such Document, sign such documents and give such information.

 

11Each of the Registration Statement and each Document has been duly authorised, executed and unconditionally delivered by or on behalf of all parties to it in accordance with all applicable laws (other than, in the case of the Company, the laws of the Cayman Islands).

 

12In authorising the execution and delivery of the Documents by the Company, the exercise of its rights and performance of its obligations under the Documents, each of the directors of the Company has acted in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company and has exercised the standard of care, diligence and skill that is required of him or her.

 

13Each Document has been or will be duly executed and unconditionally delivered by the Company in the manner authorised in the Board Resolutions.

 

No Cayman Islands establishment

 

14No party to a Document (other than the Company) will enter into that document or administer the transactions contemplated by it through a branch or office in the Cayman Islands.

 

Share Issuance

 

15The Class A Ordinary Shares shall be issued at an issue price in excess of the par value thereof and have been entered on the register of members of the Company as fully paid.

 

16The draft second amended and restated articles of association appended to the Registration Statement will be adopted by the Company in accordance with the Articles of Association prior to the date that any Units, Class A Ordinary Shares, Rights, or Over-Allotment Units are issued by the Company.

 

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Schedule 3

 

Qualifications

 

Good Standing

 

1Under the Companies Act annual returns in respect of the Company must be filed with the Registrar, together with payment of annual filing fees. A failure to file annual returns and pay annual filing fees may result in the Company being struck off the Register of Companies, following which its assets will vest in the Financial Secretary of the Cayman Islands and will be subject to disposition or retention for the benefit of the public of the Cayman Islands.

 

2In good standing means only that as of the date of the Good Standing Certificate the Company is up-to-date with the filing of its annual returns and payment of annual fees with the Registrar. We have made no enquiries into the Company's good standing with respect to any filings or payment of fees, or both, that it may be required to make under the laws of the Cayman Islands other than the Companies Act.

 

Limited liability

 

3We are not aware of any Cayman Islands authority as to when the courts would set aside the limited liability of a shareholder in a Cayman Islands company. Our opinion on the subject is based on the Companies Act and English common law authorities, the latter of which are persuasive but not binding in the courts of the Cayman Islands. Under English authorities, circumstances in which a court would attribute personal liability to a shareholder are very limited, and include: (a) such shareholder expressly assuming direct liability (such as a guarantee); (b) the company acting as the agent of such shareholder; (c) the company being incorporated by or at the behest of such shareholder for the purpose of committing or furthering such shareholder’s fraud, or for a sham transaction otherwise carried out by such shareholder. In the absence of these circumstances, we are of the opinion that a Cayman Islands’ court would have no grounds to set aside the limited liability of a shareholder.

 

Non-Assessable

 

4In this opinion, the phrase “non-assessable” means, with respect to the Class A Ordinary 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 Class A Ordinary 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 circumstance in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil).

 

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Register of Writs

 

5Our examination of the Register of Writs cannot conclusively reveal whether or not there is:

 

(a)any current or pending litigation in the Cayman Islands against the Company; or

 

(b)any application for the winding up or dissolution of the Company or the appointment of any liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy or restructuring officer in respect of the Company or any of its assets,

 

as notice of these matters might not be entered on the Register of Writs immediately or updated expeditiously or the court file associated with the matter or the matter itself may not be publicly available (for example, due to sealing orders having been made). Furthermore, we have not conducted a search of the summary court. Claims in the summary court are limited to a maximum of CI $20,000.

 

Stamp duty

 

6Cayman Islands stamp duty will be payable if a Document is executed in, or brought to, the Cayman Islands (including being produced to a court of the Cayman Islands).

 

Private Funds

 

7A company, unit trust or exempted limited partnership that is a "private fund", as such term is defined in the Private Funds Act, 2020, is prohibited from accepting capital contributions from investors in respect of investments until it is registered with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.

 

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