F-1MEF 1 ea141128-f1mef_jiuzihold.htm REGISTRATION STATEMENT

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 2021.

Registration No. 333-      

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM F-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

Jiuzi Holdings Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Cayman Islands   4953   Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

 

4F No. 1 Building, Jinsha Lake Business Center

Economic Technology District

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311103

People’s Republic of China
+86-0571-82651956

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

Cogency Global Inc.

122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor

New York, NY 10168

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

With a Copy to:

 

William S. Rosenstadt, Esq.

Mengyi “Jason” Ye, Esq.

Yarona L. Yieh, Esq.

Ortoli Rosenstadt LLP
366 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10017
212-588-0022

Benjamin A. Tan

Sichenzia Ross Ference LLP

1185 6th Avenue, 37th Floor

New York, NY 10036

212-930-9700

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Promptly after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box. ☒

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☒ 333-248416

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933

 

Emerging growth company ☒

 

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

 

† The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012. 

 

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered   Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering
Price(1)
    Amount of
Registration
Fee(2)
 
Ordinary Shares, par value US$0.001 per share   US$ 1,000,000     US$ 109.10  
Underwriter’s Warrants(3)     -       -  
Ordinary Shares underlying Underwriter’s Warrants   US$ 62,500     US$ 6.82  
Total   US$ 1,062,500     US$ 115.92  

 

(1)   The registrant previously registered securities at an aggregate offering price not to exceed $26,562,500 on a Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-248416), which was declared effective on May 17, 2021 (the “Prior Registration Statement”). In accordance with Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act, an additional amount of securities having a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $1,062,500 is hereby registered, which does not include the securities that the registrant previously registered on the Prior Registration Statement.
(2)   Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act based on an estimate of the proposed maximum aggregate offering price.
(3)   We have agreed to issue to Boustead Securities, LLC, the Underwriter, warrants to purchase a number of ordinary shares equal to an aggregate of five percent (5%) of the ordinary shares sold in this offering. The warrants will be exercised at any time, and from time to time, in whole or in part, commencing from the closing of the offering and expiring five (5) years from the effectiveness of the offering. The warrants are exercisable at a per share price of 125% of the offering price of the ordinary shares offered hereby. The Underwriter Warrant shall not be callable or cancellable.

 

The registration statement shall become effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE AND

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE

 

This Registration Statement is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) and General Instruction V to Form F-1, both promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The contents of the Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-248416) initially filed by Jiuzi Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on August 26, 2020, which was declared effective by the Commission on May 17, 2021, including all amendments, supplements and exhibits thereto and each of the documents filed by the Company with the Commission and incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein, are incorporated herein by reference. The additional ordinary shares that are being registered for sale are in an amount and at a price that together represent no more than 20% of the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the Calculation of Registration Fee table contained in Prior Registration Statement. 

 

The required opinions and consents are listed on an Exhibit Index attached hereto.

 

 

 

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 8. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.

 

All exhibits filed with or incorporated by reference in the Prior Registration Statement are incorporated by reference herein, and shall be deemed to be a part of this Registration Statement, except for the following, which are filed herewith.

 

Exhibit
Number
  Description
   
5.1*   Opinion of Maples and Calder (Hong Kong) LLP
   
23.1*   Consent of WWC, P.C.
   
23.2*   Consent of Maples and Calder (Hong Kong) LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

 

* Filed herewith

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-1 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hangzhou, on May 17, 2021.

 

  Jiuzi Holdings Inc.
     
  By: /s/ Shuibo Zhang
    Shuibo Zhang
    Chief Executive Officer
    (Principal Executive Officer)

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature   Title   Date
     
/s/ Shuibo Zhang   Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Director   May 17, 2021
Name: Shuibo Zhang   (Principal Executive Officer)    
         
/s/ Francis Zhang   Chief Financial Officer   May 17, 2021
Name: Francis Zhang   (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)    
         
/s/ Qi Zhang   Chief Operating Officer   May 17, 2021
Name: Qi Zhang        
         
/s/ Kezhen Li   Director   May 17, 2021
Name: Kezhen Li        

 

SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

 

Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of America, has signed this registration statement thereto in New York, NY on May 17, 2021.

 

  Cogency Global Inc.
   
  By: /s/ Colleen A. De Vries
  Name: 
Title:
Colleen A. De Vries
Senior Vice President

 

 

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