Company: MEGL
Filing Date: 2025-06-09
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001641172-25-014301
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Company: Magic Empire Global Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-06-09
Form: F-1/A
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 Board during the transitional period of three years from February 15, 2018 to February 14, 2021.

The Listing Rules, the GEM Listing Rules, the Sponsor Guidelines and the Corporate Finance Adviser Code of Conduct (“CFA Code”) regulate sponsor’s obligations and responsibilities. The intermediary and its management (includes a sponsor’s board of directors, managing director, chief executive officer, Responsible Officers, executive officers and other senior management personnel) shall be responsible for ensuring that the firm satisfies all specific and ongoing eligibility criteria of the Sponsor Guidelines and paragraph 17 of the Code of Conduct, as well as complies with all other relevant codes, guidelines and regulations prescribed by the SFC.

In order to maintain the eligibility as sponsor, a sponsor should have at least two sponsor principals, who should be engaged by the sponsor for the purpose of conducting sponsor-related work on a full-time basis, at all times to discharge its role in supervising the transaction team. The GEM Listing Rules or the Listing Rules (as the case may be) require an issuer to appoint a compliance adviser during an initial period after being admitted to listing and the compliance adviser’s core role is to assist the issuer to comply with certain obligations under the Listing Rules or GEM Listing Rules (as the case may be) during such a period.

GCL was licensed to carry Type 6 (advising on corporate finance) regulated activity by the SFC in February 2017 and was admitted as a sponsor.

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Key ongoing obligations

Remaining fit and proper

Licensed corporations, licensed representatives, responsible officers and registered institutions must remain fit and proper as defined under the SFO at all times. They are required to comply with all applicable provisions of the SFO and its subsidiary legislations as well as the codes and guidelines issued by the SFC.

Section 116(3) of the SFO provides that the SFC shall refuse to grant a license to carry on a regulated activity unless the applicant for license satisfies the SFC that, inter alia, the applicant is a fit and proper person to be licensed for the regulated activity. The applicant must remain fit and proper at all times after the grant of such licenses by the SFC. In simple terms, a fit and proper person means one who is financially sound, competent, honest, reputable and reliable. Pursuant to section 129(1) of the SFO, in considering whether a person, an individual, corporation or institution, is fit and proper for the purpose of licensing or registration,