Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-053058
Chunk: 52

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: 424B5
Chunk 52
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 and the sale of the Borrowed ADSs could have a negative effect on the market price of our ADSs. The existence of the ADS Lending Agreement, the short sales of our ADSs and related derivative transactions effected in connection with the sale of our convertible senior notes, or any unwind of such short sales or derivatives transactions, each as described under “Underwriting — The Delta Placement of Borrowed ADSs; Concurrent Notes Offerings,” could cause the market price of our ADSs to be lower over the term of the ADS Lending Agreement than it would have been had we not entered into that agreement. The market price of our ADSs could be further negatively affected by these or other short sales of our ADSs, including other sales by the purchasers of the convertible senior notes hedging their investment therein. The effect, if any, of these activities on the market price of our ADSs will depend on a variety of factors, including market conditions, and cannot be ascertained at this time. Any of these activities could, however, cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of our ADSs.

The number of Borrowed ADSs to be sold hereunder will depend on what portion of investors in the Concurrent Notes Offering desire to hedge their investment in the Notes through privately negotiated derivatives transactions with the ADS Borrower or its affiliates, and will be determined at the time of pricing of the Delta Placement of Borrowed ADSs and is expected to be no greater than commercially reasonable initial short positions of such convertible arbitrage investors. It is possible, however, that investors in the Notes in the Concurrent Notes Offering may short sell additional shares of our Class A ordinary shares shortly after the pricing of this offering. Such additional sales could have the effect of causing the market price of our shares of Class A ordinary shares to be lower than it would have been absent such selling.

The ADS Lending Agreement is intended to facilitate privately negotiated derivative transactions relating to the ADSs, including cash-settled swaps between the ADS Borrower and investors in the convertible senior notes, by which investors in our convertible senior notes in the Concurrent Notes Offering will hedge their market risk with respect to the convertible senior notes, concurrently with, or shortly after, the pricing of the convertible senior notes. After placement of the convertible senior notes and the Borrowed ADSs, neither we nor the ADS Borrower will control how such holders may use such hedging transactions. In addition, such holders may enter into other transactions in connection with such hedging transactions, including the purchase or sale