Company: ATMCW
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-004801
Chunk: 1780

Company: ALPHATIME ACQUISITION CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 1780
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 and acquisitions by foreign investors that raise “national defense and security” concerns and mergers
and acquisitions through which foreign investors may acquire de facto control over domestic enterprises that raise “national security”
concerns are subject to strict review by the MOFCOM, and the rules prohibit any activities attempting to bypass a security review, including
by structuring the transaction through a proxy or contractual control arrangement. In the future, we may acquire a complementary business.
Complying with the requirements of the above-mentioned regulations and other relevant rules to complete such transactions could be time-consuming,
and any required approval processes, including obtaining approval from the MOFCOM or its local counterparts may delay or inhibit our
ability to complete such transactions, which could affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.

Substantial
uncertainties exist with respect to the interpretation and implementation of the Foreign Investment Law and how it may impact our ability
to pursue an acquisition in China.

On
March 15, 2019, the PRC National People’s Congress approved the Foreign Investment Law, which came into effect on January 1, 2020
and replaces the trio of existing laws regulating foreign investment in the PRC, namely, the Sino-Foreign Equity Joint Venture Enterprise
Law, the Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Venture Enterprise Law and the Wholly Foreign-Invested Enterprise Law, together with their implementation
rules and ancillary regulations and become the legal foundation for foreign investment in the PRC. Meanwhile, the Implementation Regulation
of the Foreign Investment Law and the Measures for Reporting of Information on Foreign Investment came into effect as of January 1, 2020,
which clarified and elaborated the relevant provisions of the Foreign Investment Law.

The
Foreign Investment Law sets out the basic regulatory framework for foreign investments and proposes to implement a system of pre-entry
national treatment with a negative list for foreign investments, pursuant to which (i) foreign entities and individuals are prohibited
from investing in the areas that are not open to foreign investments, (ii) foreign investments in the restricted industries must satisfy
certain requirements under the law, and (iii) foreign investments in business sectors outside of the negative list will be treated equally
with domestic investments. The Foreign Investment Law also sets forth necessary mechanisms to facilitate, protect and manage foreign
investments and proposes to establish a foreign investment information reporting system, through which foreign investors or foreign-invested
enterprises are required to submit initial report, report of changes, report of deregistration and annual