Company: CNTB
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001835268-25-000014
Chunk: 216

Company: Connect Biopharma Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 216
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 appropriate PRC governmental authorities is required where Renminbi is to be converted into non-PRC currency and remitted out of the PRC to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of loans denominated in non-PRC currencies. As a result, we need to obtain SAFE approval to use cash generated from the operations of our PRC subsidiaries to pay off their respective debt in a currency other than Renminbi owed to entities outside the PRC, or to make other capital expenditure payments outside the PRC in a currency other than Renminbi.

In light of the flood of capital outflows of the PRC in 2016 due to the weakening Renminbi, the PRC government has imposed more restrictive foreign exchange policies and stepped-up scrutiny of major outbound capital movement including direct investment outside the PRC. More restrictions and a substantial vetting process have been put in place by SAFE to regulate cross-border transactions falling under the capital account. If any of our shareholders regulated by such policies fails to satisfy the applicable direct investment outside the PRC filing or approval requirement timely or at all, it may be subject to penalties from the relevant PRC authorities. The PRC government may at its discretion further restrict access in the future to non-PRC currencies for current account transactions. If the foreign exchange control system prevents us from obtaining sufficient non-PRC currencies to satisfy our non-PRC currency demands, we may not be able to pay dividends in non-PRC currencies to our shareholders, including holders of our ADSs.

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PRC regulation of loans to, and direct investments in, PRC entities by offshore holding companies may restrict or prevent us from making loans or additional capital contributions to our PRC subsidiaries.

We are permitted under PRC laws and regulations to provide funding to our PRC subsidiaries, which are treated as “foreign-invested enterprises” under PRC laws, through loans or capital contributions. However, loans by us to our PRC subsidiaries to finance their activities cannot exceed statutory limits and must be registered with the local counterpart of SAFE and capital contributions to our PRC subsidiaries are subject to the requirement of making necessary registration with competent governmental authorities in the PRC.

SAFE promulgated the Notice by the SAFE of Further Deepening Reform and Promoting Cross-border Trade and Investment Facilitation, or Circular 28 in 2023, effective on December 4, 2023. According to Circular 28 in 2023, the capital funds and foreign exchange receipts under the account of foreign debts of a non