Company: VSA
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-001300
Chunk: 75

Company: VisionSys AI Inc
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 75
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&A Rules. The M&A Rules establish procedures and requirements that could make some acquisitions of mainland China companies by foreign investors more time-consuming and complex, including requirements in some instances that the Ministry of Commerce be notified in advance of any change-of-control transaction in which a foreign investor takes control of a mainland China domestic enterprise. In addition, national security review rules issued by the PRC governmental authorities in 2011 require acquisitions by foreign investors of domestic companies engaged in military-related or certain other industries that are crucial to national security to be subject to prior security review. Moreover, the Anti-Monopoly Law requires that the Ministry of Commerce be notified in advance of any concentration of undertaking if certain thresholds are triggered. We may expand our business in part by acquiring complementary businesses. Complying with the requirements of the M&A Rules, security review rules and other regulations of mainland China to complete such transactions could be time-consuming, and any required approval processes, including obtaining approval from the Ministry of Commerce, may delay or inhibit our ability to complete such transactions, which could affect our ability to expand our business or maintain our market share.

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In addition, in accordance with the M&A Rules, approval of the Ministry of Commerce is required for acquisitions of mainland China domestic enterprises by foreign companies that are established or controlled by mainland China domestic companies, enterprises or individuals related to the target mainland China domestic enterprises, or “Related Party Acquisitions,” and the parties are not allowed to evade such requirements through investment by foreign investment enterprises in mainland China or in other ways. Although M&A Rules have been effective since September 2006, we are not aware of any precedent of approval by the Ministry of Commerce of any Related Party Acquisition conducted by mainland China domestic individuals. Starting from the second half of 2012, we began to transfer the operations, including related assets and liabilities, of the variable interest entity to our former wholly owned subsidiary, Tarena Technologies Inc., or Tarena Tech, and its subsidiaries, either through transferring the companies that operate learning centers or that sponsor the schools, or through changing the schools’ sponsors. All of our learning center operations of the variable interest entity had been transferred to Tarena Tech and its subsidiaries and schools before 2018, while one of our learning centers was transferred back to Beijing Tarena for business operation purpose in 2018. In 2019, three of our learning centers which provide online education services were transferred back to Beijing Tarena for business operation purpose and one school was newly set up through Beijing Tarena. In 2021,