Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-053912
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Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: 424B5
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 that it is unable to inspect or investigate completely because of a position taken by an authority in the foreign jurisdiction, the SEC will identify us as a “covered issuer”, or SEC-identified issuer, shortly after we file with the SEC a report required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act (such as our annual report on Form 20-F) that includes an audit report issued by such accounting firm; and if we were to be identified as an SEC-identified issuer for two consecutive years, the SEC would prohibit our securities (including our shares or ADSs) from being traded on a national securities exchange or in the over-the-counter trading market in the United States.

In December 2021, the PCAOB made its determinations, or the 2021 determinations, pursuant to the HFCA Act that it was unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms headquartered in mainland China or Hong Kong including our auditor. After we filed our annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 on April 28, 2022, the SEC conclusively identified us as an SEC-identified issuer on May 26, 2022. As such, we were required to satisfy additional disclosure requirement for SEC-identified issuers that are also foreign issuers in our annual report as of December 31, 2022 and for the year then ended. See “Item 16I. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections” in our 2024 Annual Report.

Following the Statement of Protocol signed between the PCAOB and the CSRC and the Ministry of Finance of the PRC in August 2022 and the on-site inspections and investigations conducted by the PCAOB staff in Hong Kong from September to November 2022, the PCAOB Board voted in December 2022 to vacate the previous 2021 determinations, and as a result, our auditor is no longer a registered public accounting firm that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely as of the date of this prospectus supplement or at the time of issuance of the audit report incorporated herein by reference. As such, we were not identified as an SEC-identified issuer following the filing of our annual reports in 2023 and 2024 and we do not expect to be so identified following the filing of our annual report in 2025 either. However, the PCAOB may change its

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