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up
to an aggregate of 2,824,675 Earnout Shares will be issued if Plastec’s
2011 Net Income equals or exceeds HKD$130,700,000, which is the equivalent
of approximately US$16,756,410 based on the exchange rate of 7.8:1 on the
date the Merger Agreement was executed (the “Exchange
Rate”);
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up
to an aggregate of 3,389,610 Earnout Shares will be issued if Plastec’s
2012 Net Income equals or exceeds HKD$176,000,000, which is the equivalent
of approximately US$22,564,103 based on the Exchange Rate;
and
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up
to an aggregate of 3,389,612 Earnout Shares will be issued if Plastec’s
2013 Net Income equals or exceeds HKD$250,000,000, which is the equivalent
of approximately US$32,051,282 based on the Exchange
Rate.
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For
a period of 180 days after the Closing, Sun Yip and Tiger may not sell or
otherwise dispose of any of their Closing Shares or Earnout
Shares. Furthermore, until April 30, 2013, Sun Yip and Tiger
must hold a minimum of the lesser of (i) 20% of the outstanding GSME
Shares at the Closing (after taking into account conversions and purchases
of GSME Shares as described above), which amount will not exceed 4,349,610
shares or (ii) the number of GSME Shares actually delivered to Sun
Yip and Tiger under the Merger Agreement (including Earnout
Shares).
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For
a period of 180 days after the Closing, Cathay may not sell or otherwise
dispose of any of its Closing Shares. On the 181st
day after the Closing through and including the 300th
day after Closing, Cathay may sell or otherwise dispose of 50% of its
Closing Shares. On the date that is 301 days after the Closing,
Cathay shall have the right to sell 100% of its Closing
Shares. For a period of 420 days after the Closing, Cathay may
not sell or otherwise dispose of any of its Earnout
Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cathay may sell up to
25% of the Closing Shares and Earnout Shares if the average closing price
of the GSME Shares equals or exceeds $12.00 in any continuous 30 trading
day period, up to an additional 25% if the average closing price of the
GSME Shares equals or exceeds $14.00 in any such period, up to an
additional 25% if the average closing price of the GSME Shares equals or
exceeds $16.00 in any such period, and up to the final 25% if the average
closing price of the GSME Shares equals or exceeds $20.00 in any such
period.
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For
a period of 180 days after the Closing, Expert, Fine Colour and each
Investor may not sell or otherwise dispose of any of their Closing
Shares. Furthermore, for a period of 180 days after the
issuance of any Earnout Shares, Expert, Fine Colour and each Investor may
not sell the GSME Shares so issued.
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proper
organization and corporate matters;
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subsidiaries;
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capital
structure;
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the
authorization, performance and enforceability of the Merger
Agreement;
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required
consents and filings;
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compliance
with laws;
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financial
statements;
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absence
of undisclosed liabilities;
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absence
of certain changes and events;
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litigation;
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employee
benefit plans;
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labor
matters;
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restrictions
on business activities;
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real
property, capitalized leases, and all properties, assets and rights
required for the conduct of
business;
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taxes;
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environmental
matters;
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intellectual
property;
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contracts;
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insurance;
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government
actions and filings;
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interested
party transactions;
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absence
of any indebtedness owed by the Plastec Shareholders to
Plastec;
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absence
of any Plastec operations or assets in the United
States;
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ownership
of Plastec’s ordinary shares by the Plastec
Shareholders;
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trading
of GSME Shares; and
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the
trust fund established for the benefit of the holders of the GSME Shares
issued in GSME’s IPO.
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waive
any stock repurchase rights, accelerate, amend or (except as specifically
provided for in the Merger Agreement) change the period of exercisability
of options or restricted stock, or reprice options granted under any
employee, consultant, director or other stock plans or authorize cash
payments in exchange for any options granted under any of such
plans;
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grant
any severance or termination pay to any officer or employee except
pursuant to applicable law, written agreements outstanding, or policies
existing on the date of the Merger Agreement and as previously or
concurrently disclosed in writing or made available to the other parties
to the Merger Agreement, or adopt any new severance plan, or except as
required by applicable laws, amend or modify or alter in any manner any
severance plan, agreement or arrangement existing on the date of the
Merger Agreement;
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transfer
or license to any person or otherwise extend, amend or modify any material
rights to any intellectual property or enter into grants to transfer or
license to any person future patent rights, other than in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practices provided that in no
event will either party license on an exclusive basis or sell any of its
intellectual property;
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except
for special dividends issued, currently declared, declared prior to the
Closing or accrued or payable prior to the Closing by Plastec to the
Plastec Shareholders out of Plastec’s retained earnings of up to an
aggregate of HKD$50,000,000 (approximately US$6,410,256 based on the
Exchange Rate), declare, set aside or pay any dividends on or make any
other distributions (whether in cash, stock, equity securities or
property) in respect of any capital stock or split, combine or reclassify
any capital stock or issue or authorize the issuance of any other
securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution for any capital
stock;
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except
as contemplated in the Merger Agreement, purchase, redeem or otherwise
acquire, directly or indirectly, any shares of capital stock of Plastec or
GSME, including repurchases of unvested shares at cost in connection with
the termination of the relationship with any employee or consultant
pursuant to agreements in effect on the date of the Merger
Agreement;
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issue,
deliver, sell, authorize, pledge or otherwise encumber, or agree to any of
the foregoing with respect to, any shares of capital stock or any
securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock,
or subscriptions, rights, warrants or options to acquire any shares of
capital stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for
shares of capital stock, or enter into other agreements or commitments of
any character obligating it to issue any such shares or convertible or
exchangeable securities;
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except
in connection with the Merger, amend its charter
documents;
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acquire
or agree to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing any
equity interest in or a portion of the assets of, or by any other manner,
any business or any corporation, partnership, association or other
business organization or division thereof, or otherwise acquire or agree
to acquire any assets which are material, individually or in the
aggregate, to the business of either party, or enter into any joint
ventures, strategic partnerships or alliances or other arrangements that
provide for exclusivity of territory or otherwise restrict such party’s
ability to compete or to offer or sell any products or
services;
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sell,
lease, license, encumber or otherwise dispose of any properties or assets,
except (A) sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice, and (B) the sale, lease or disposition
(other than through licensing) of property or assets that are not
material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of such
party;
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except
as permitted by the Merger Agreement with respect to GSME or in the
ordinary course of business with respect to Plastec or its subsidiaries,
incur any indebtedness for borrowed money in excess of $2,000,000 in the
aggregate or bearing interest at a rate in excess of 10% per annum or
guarantee any such indebtedness of another person, issue or sell any debt
securities or options, warrants, calls or other rights to acquire any debt
securities of either party, enter into any “keep well” or other agreement
to maintain any financial statement condition or enter into any
arrangement having the economic effect of any of the
foregoing;
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except
as required by applicable law, adopt or amend any employee benefit plan,
policy or arrangement, any employee stock purchase or employee stock
option plan, or enter into any employment contract or collective
bargaining agreement (other than offer letters and letter agreements
entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice with employees who are terminable “at will”), pay any special
bonus or special remuneration to any director or employee, or increase the
salaries or wage rates or fringe benefits (including rights to severance
or indemnification) of its directors, officers, employees or consultants,
except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practices;
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pay,
discharge, settle or satisfy any claims, liabilities or obligations
(absolute, accrued, asserted or unasserted, contingent or otherwise), or
litigation (whether or not commenced prior to the date of the Merger
Agreement) other than the payment, discharge, settlement or satisfaction,
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices or in
accordance with their terms, or liabilities recognized or disclosed in the
most recent financial statements included in the reports filed with the
SEC by GSME prior to the date of the Merger Agreement or Plastec’s
financial statements provided to GSME prior to the date of the Merger
Agreement, as applicable, or incurred since the date of such financial
statements, as applicable, or waive the benefits of, agree to modify in
any manner, terminate, release any person from or knowingly fail to
enforce any confidentiality or similar agreement to which Plastec is a
party or of which Plastec is a beneficiary or to which GSME is a party or
of which GSME is a beneficiary, as
applicable;
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except
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices, modify,
amend or terminate any material contract, or waive, delay the exercise of,
release or assign any material rights or claims
thereunder;
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except
as required by the United States generally accepted accounting principles
or international financial reporting standards, as applicable, revalue any
of its assets or make any change in accounting methods, principles or
practices;
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except
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices or as
provided for in the Merger Agreement, incur or enter into, with respect to
Plastec, any agreement for financial advisory, investment banking or other
similar services, or, with respect to Plastec and GSME or GSME Sub, any
other agreement, contract or commitment requiring such party to pay in
excess of $50,000 in any 12-month
period;
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settle
any litigation to which any officer, director, shareholder or holder of
derivatives securities of Plastec is a
party;
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make
or rescind any tax elections that, individually or in the aggregate, would
be reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the tax
liability or tax attributes of such party, settle or compromise any
material income tax liability or, except as required by applicable legal
requirement, materially change any method of accounting for tax purposes
or prepare or file any return in a manner inconsistent with past
practice;
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form,
establish or acquire any subsidiary, except as contemplated by the Merger
Agreement or indicated in the disclosure schedules
thereto;
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permit
any person to exercise any of its discretionary rights under any employee
benefit plan to provide for the automatic acceleration of any outstanding
options, the termination of any outstanding repurchase rights or the
termination of any cancellation rights issued pursuant to such
plans;
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make
material capital expenditures except in accordance with prudent business
and operational practices consistent with past
practice;
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take
or omit to take any action which would be reasonably anticipated to have a
material adverse effect;
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enter
into any transaction with or distribute or advance any assets or property
to any of its officers, directors, partners, shareholders or other
affiliates other than the payment of salary and benefits in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past
practices;
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solely
as applied to GSME Sub, carry on a business or conduct any operations
other than in performance of its obligations under the Merger Agreement;
or
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agree
in writing or otherwise agree, commit or resolve to take any of the
foregoing actions.
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GSME
to prepare a proxy statement, which will contain the information that
would have been required in a proxy statement pursuant to the rules of
regulations of the SEC if GSME were not a foreign private issuer, to
solicit proxies from the GSME shareholders to vote on the proposals that
will be presented for consideration at an extraordinary general meeting
called for the purpose of approving the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by the Merger Agreement and related
matters;
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the
protection of confidential information of the parties and, subject to the
confidentiality requirements, the provision of reasonable access to
information;
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the
parties to use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all necessary
approvals and consents from governmental agencies and other third parties
that are required for the consummation of the Merger
Agreement;
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Plastec
and the Plastec Shareholders to waive their rights to make claims against
GSME to collect from the trust fund for any monies that may be owed to
them by GSME;
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Plastec
Shareholders to waive all rights to damages arising from their status as
holders of the equity securities of
Plastec;
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Plastec
and GSME to use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the listing for
trading of GSME’s securities on the Nasdaq Stock Market, the NYSE Amex or
another United States national securities exchange mutually agreed upon by
the parties;
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GSME
to adopt, after the Closing, an equity incentive plan for granting equity
awards to employees, officers, directors and consultants of GSME and its
subsidiaries, including Plastec;
and
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GSME
to change its fiscal year end to April 30 on or prior to the
Closing.
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no
order, stay, judgment or decree being issued by any governmental authority
preventing, restraining or prohibiting in whole or in part, the
consummation of such transactions;
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the
delivery by each party to the other party of a certificate to the effect
that the representations and warranties of the certifying party are true
and correct in all material respects as of the closing, all covenants
contained in the Merger Agreement have been materially complied with by
each party and all necessary consents, waivers and approvals have been
obtained; and
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the
execution by and delivery to each party of each of the various transaction
documents, including the employment agreements and the registration rights
agreement.
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there
shall have been no material adverse change in the business of GSME or GSME
Sub since the date of the Merger
Agreement;
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Jing
Dong Gao shall have resigned from all his positions with GSME and GSME Sub
and GSME shall have taken all necessary action to set the size of its
board to seven and to appoint Kin Sun Sze-To, Chin Hien Tan, Ho Leung
Ning, J. David Selvia, Chung Wing Lai and Joseph Yiu Wah Chow, along with
Eli D. Scher who will continue as a director, as directors, effective as
of the Closing or the date on which the Merger is
effected;
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Plastec’s
Board of Directors shall have reconfirmed its approval of the consummation
by Plastec of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, such
reconfirmation to be based solely on (i) an evaluation of the funds
remaining in the GSME’s trust fund after taking into account all permitted
payments, and (ii) any pending litigation or other disputes involving
shareholders of GSME;
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GSME
shall have arranged for funds remaining in the trust account to be
disbursed to it upon the Closing;
and
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GSME
shall be in compliance with the reporting requirements under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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there
being no material adverse change in the business of Plastec since the date
of the Merger Agreement;
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the
Plastec Shareholders shall have repaid to Plastec, on or before the
Closing, all direct and indirect indebtedness and obligations owed by them
to Plastec;
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there
shall be no derivative securities or rights entitling the holders thereof
to acquire Plastec’s ordinary shares or other securities of Plastec;
and
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Plastec’s
Net Income in Plastec’s audited financial statements for 2010 shall not be
materially lower than the Net Income set forth in Plastec’s draft
financial statements, and the audited financial statements shall not
contain any material qualification not contained in the draft financial
statements or omit to contain any material qualification contained in the
draft financial statements.
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by
mutual written agreement of GSME and
Plastec;
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by
either GSME or Plastec if the transactions contemplated by the Merger
Agreement are not consummated on or before May 25, 2011, provided that
such termination is not available to a party whose action or failure to
act has been a principal cause of or resulted in the failure of the
Closing to occur on or before such date and such action or failure to act
constitutes a breach of the Merger
Agreement;
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by
either GSME or Plastec if a governmental entity shall have issued an
order, decree, judgment or ruling or taken any other action, in any case
having the effect of permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise
prohibiting the transaction, which order, decree, judgment, ruling or
other action is final and
nonappealable;
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by
Plastec if GSME or GSME Sub has materially breached any of its covenants
or representations and warranties in any material respect and has not
cured its breach within thirty days of the notice of an intent to
terminate, provided that the terminating party is itself not in
breach;
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by
GSME if Plastec or any of the Plastec Shareholders have materially
breached any of their covenants or representations and warranties in any
material respect and has not cured their breach within thirty days of the
notice of an intent to terminate, provided that the terminating party is
itself not in breach;
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by
GSME or Plastec if, at the GSME shareholders’ meeting, the Merger
Agreement shall fail to be approved by the holders of the GSME Shares or
the holders of 81% or more of the number of the GSME Shares issued in
GSME’s IPO and outstanding as of the date of record of the special meeting
exercise their rights, as established by GSME’s governing documents, to
convert their shares into a pro rata share of the trust fund;
and
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by
Cathay if Plastec’s actual 2010 Net Income as set forth in its audited
financial statements is less than 95% of Plastec’s estimated 2010 Net
Income as set forth in its draft financial
statements.
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If
GSME does not consummate the merger or another business combination by
November 25, 2010 (or May 25, 2011 if GSME has executed a letter of
intent, memorandum of understanding or definitive agreement for a business
combination prior to November 25, 2010), GSME’s amended and restated
memorandum and articles of association provides that GSME will
automatically be liquidated. In such event, the 1,200,000 GSME shares held
by the GSME founders that were acquired before the IPO for an aggregate
purchase price of $25,000 would be worthless because the GSME founders are
not entitled to receive any of the liquidation proceeds with respect to
such shares.
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The
GSME founders and their affiliates hold an aggregate of 3,600,000 warrants
(“Insider
Warrants”) that were purchased for an aggregate purchase price of
$1,800,000 (or $0.50 per warrant). The Insider Warrants are identical to
the GSME public warrants except that (i) the Insider Warrants will not be
transferable or salable by the initial purchasers (except in certain
limited circumstances, provided the transferee agrees to be bound by the
transfer restrictions) until GSME completes a business combination, (ii)
they will be exercisable on a cashless basis and (iii) if GSME calls the
warrants for redemption, the Insider Warrants will not be redeemable so
long as such warrants are held by the initial purchasers or their
affiliates. All of the Insider Warrants will become worthless
if a business combination is not consummated and GSME is liquidated (as
will the public warrants).
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Eli
D. Scher will continue to serve as a director of GSME following the merger
and may receive compensation in connection therewith, including cash fees,
stock options or stock awards that GSME’s board of directors may determine
to pay its directors.
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If
GSME liquidates prior to the consummation of a business combination, Jing
Dong Gao and Eli D. Scher will be personally liable to ensure that the
proceeds in the trust account are not reduced below $10.00 per share by
the claims of target businesses or claims of vendors or other entities
that are owed money by GSME for services rendered or contracted for or
products sold to GSME, but only if such entities did not execute a valid
and enforceable waiver. There can be no assurance that they will be able
to satisfy their obligations if
required.
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If
GSME is required to be liquidated and there are no funds remaining to pay
the costs associated with the implementation and completion of such
liquidation, Messrs. Gao and Scher have agreed to advance GSME the funds
necessary to pay such costs and complete such liquidation (currently
anticipated to be no more than approximately $15,000) and not to seek
repayment for such expenses.
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Exhibit
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Description
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10.1
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Agreement
and Plan of Reorganization, dated August 6, 2010, by and among GSME
Acquisition Partners I, GSME Acquisition Partners I Sub, Plastec
International Holdings Limited, and each of Sun Yip Industrial Company
Limited (BVI), Tiger Power Industries Limited (BVI), Expert Rank Limited
(BVI), Fine Colour Limited (BVI), Cathay Plastic Limited (BVI), Greatest
Sino Holdings Limited (BVI), Colourful Asia International Limited (BVI)
and Top Universe Management Limited
(BVI).*
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99.1
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Press
release of GSME Acquisition Partners
I.
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99.2
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Investor
Presentation.
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99.3
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Unaudited
Financial Statements.
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GSME
ACQUISITION PARTNERS I
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By:
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/s/ Jing Dong Gao
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Name:
Jing Dong Gao
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Title:
Chairman
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By:
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/s/ Eli D. Scher
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Name:
Eli D. Scher
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Title:
Chief Executive Officer
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