Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-053057
Chunk: 96

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: 424B5
Chunk 96
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 material terms of our ordinary shares. The following summary is not complete, and you should read our Memorandum and Articles of Association, which were filed with the SEC as Exhibit 3.1 to our current report on the Form 6-K on June 5, 2023.

#### Registered Office, Entry Number and Objects
Our registered office in the Cayman Islands is located at the offices of Conyers Trust Company (Cayman) Limited, Cricket Square, Hutchins Drive, P.O. Box 2681, Grand Cayman, KY1-1111, Cayman Islands. We were incorporated as an exempted company under the laws of the Cayman Islands in 2006 and our incorporation number is 178332. The Memorandum of Association provides, inter alia , that the liability of each of the members of our company is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on such member’s shares. The objects for which our company is established are unrestricted, and we shall have full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited or limited by the Companies Act.

#### Board of Directors
See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — C. Board Practices — Duties of Directors” and “— Appointment, Nomination and Terms of Directors” in our 2024 Annual Report, which is incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement.

#### Ordinary Shares

#### General
. All of our outstanding ordinary shares are fully paid and non-assessable. Certificates representing the ordinary shares are issued in registered form. Our shareholders who are non-residents of the Cayman Islands may freely hold and vote their ordinary shares.

#### Dividends
. The holders of our ordinary shares are entitled to such dividends as may be declared by our board of directors subject to the Companies Act and to the Articles of Association.

#### Voting Rights
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Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares carry equal rights, generally rank pari passu with one another and are entitled to one vote per share at general meetings of shareholders, except for only the following matters at general meetings of shareholders, with respect to which Class B ordinary shares are entitled to 20 votes per share: (i) the election or removal of a simple majority, or six, of our directors; and (ii) any change to our Articles of Association that would adversely affect the rights of Class B shareholders. Class B ordinary shares are convertible into Class A ordinary shares, and will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares under certain circumstances. Any Class A ordinary