Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-053917
Chunk: 12

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: 424B5
Chunk 12
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 Region of the PRC;

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“Management HoldCo” are to Shanghai Xinwan Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., a limited liability company established in the PRC on October 16, 2019; as of March 31, 2025, the shareholders of Management HoldCo were Yilin Chen (former senior vice president, Southeast Asia business), Yan Liang (executive vice president, data center design, operation and delivery), Kejing Zhang (executive vice president, sales and service), Andy Wenfeng Li (general counsel, compliance officer, and company secretary) and Qi Wang (senior vice president, cloud and network business); such shareholders were designated by the board of directors of our company;

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“Memorandum” or “Memorandum of Association” are to our memorandum of association (as amended from time to time);

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“MIIT” are to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology;

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“MOFCOM” are to the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC;

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“move-in period” are to the period commencing when part of the area committed under a particular customer agreement becomes area utilized and ending when all of the area committed under such customer agreement becomes area utilized in accordance with the terms of such customer agreement remaining in effect;

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“Mr. Huang” are to Mr. William Wei Huang, the founder, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of our company and a Controlling Shareholder;

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“Nasdaq” are to the Nasdaq Global Market;

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“NDRC” are to the National Development and Reform Commission;

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“Negative List (2024)” are to the Special Management Measures (Negative List) for the Access of Foreign Investment, most recently jointly promulgated by the MOFCOM and the NDRC on September 6, 2024 and which became effective on November 1, 2024, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time;

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“net floor area” are to the total internal area of the computer rooms within each data center where customers can house, power and cool their computer systems and networking equipment;

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“ordinary shares” are to, collectively, our Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares, par value US$0.00005 per share;

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“PBOC” are to the People’s Bank of China;

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“PCAOB” are to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board;

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