Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-053057
Chunk: 158

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: 424B5
Chunk 158
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,336 Class B ordinary shares and 150,000 Series A convertible preferred shares issued, fully-paid and outstanding. All of our shares issued and outstanding prior to the completion of the offering are and will be fully paid, and all of our shares to be issued in the offering will be issued as fully paid.

The following are summaries of material provisions of our Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Companies Act insofar as they relate to the 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 Form 20-F, which is incorporated by reference in this prospectus.

#### Ordinary Shares

#### General
. All of our outstanding ordinary shares are fully paid and non-assessable (which means that no further sums are required to be paid by the holders thereof in connection with the issue thereof). 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.
Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares carry equal rights, generally rank pari passu with one another and are entitled