Company: LICN
Filing Date: 2025-01-03
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001213900-25-000801
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Company: Lichen International Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-01-03
Form: 6-K
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<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of January 2025

Commission File Number: 001-41493

LICHEN CHINA LIMITED

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

15th Floor, Xingang Square, Hubin North Road,

Siming District, Xiamen City,

Fujian Province, China, 361013

(Address of principal executive offices)</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

<div align='center'>Form 20-F ☒ Form 40-F ☐

INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT</div>

December 26, 2024 Registered Direct Offering

On December 26, 2024, Lichen China Limited (the “Company”) entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “First Closing Purchase Agreement”) with certain institutional investors named thereto (the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell, in a registered direct offering ( “December 26 Registered Direct Offering”): (i) 10,433,333 shares of Class A ordinary shares (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”) of the Company, par value $0.00004 per share (the “First Closing Shares”), at a purchase price of $0.14 per share; and (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 9,566,667 Class A Ordinary Shares (the “First Closing Pre-Funded Warrants”) at a purchase price of $0.139 per First Closing Pre-Funded Warrant.

December 26 Registered Direct Offering closed on December 27, 2024. The Company received approximately $2.8 million in gross proceeds from December 26 Registered Direct Offering, before deducting placement agent fees and estimated offering expenses. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from December 26 Registered Direct Offering for working capital and general corporate purposes.

The First Closing Pre-Funded Warrants were sold to the Purchasers, whose purchase of the First Closing Shares in December 26 Registered Direct Offering would otherwise have resulted in the Purchasers, together with its affiliates and certain related parties,