Company: FSHPU
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001829126-25-001450
Chunk: 244

Company: Flag Ship Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 244
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.S. investors. In a number of sectors in China, companies
are not allowed to have foreign ownership and cannot directly list on exchanges outside of China. To raise money on such exchanges, many
China-based operating companies are structured as Variable Interest Entities (“VIEs”). In such an arrangement, a China-based
operating company typically establishes an offshore shell company in another jurisdiction, such as the Cayman Islands, to issue stock
to public shareholders. For U.S. investors, this arrangement creates “exposure” to the China-based operating company, though
only through a series of service contracts and other contracts. To be clear, though, neither the investors in the shell company’s
stock, nor the offshore shell company itself, has stock ownership in the China-based operating company. We note that we have determined
not to conduct an initial business combination with any target which conducts its business in China through VIEs or any other similar
arrangement. As a result, this may limit the pool of acquisition candidates we may acquire in the PRC, in particular, relative to other
special purpose acquisition companies that are not subject to such restrictions, which could make it more difficult and costly for us
to consummate a business combination with a target business operating in the PRC relative to such other companies.

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On March 15, 2019, the National People’s Congress approved the Foreign Investment Law, which took effect on January 1, 2020 and replaced three existing laws on foreign investments in China, namely, the PRC Equity Joint Venture Law, the PRC Cooperative Joint Venture Law and the Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprise Law, together with their implementation rules and ancillary regulations. The Foreign Investment Law embodies an expected PRC regulatory trend to rationalize its foreign investment regulatory regime in line with prevailing international practice and the legislative efforts to unify the corporate legal requirements for both foreign and domestic invested enterprises in China. The Foreign Investment Law establishes the basic framework for the access to, and the promotion, protection and administration of foreign investments in view of investment protection and fair competition.

According to the China Foreign Investment Law, “foreign investment” refers to investment activities directly or indirectly conducted by one or more natural persons, business entities, or otherwise organizations of a foreign country (collectively referred to as “foreign investor”) within China, and the investment activities include the following situations: (i) a foreign investor, individually or collectively with other investors, establishes a foreign-invested enterprise within China; (ii) a foreign investor ac